Chapter 10 – Episode 10
After she went out, there was a bustle of clattering outside her door for a long time. In the meantime.
– Jjaeng!
Flinch.
The sound of something breaking. My body reacted automatically and shrank. For a moment, I wondered, “What happened?” And listened to the sounds outside.
Dalgrak. Dalgrak.
All that is heard is the sound of dishes colliding. Maybe I missed the bowl and dropped it? When she thought it was nothing, the tension drained from her body.
Uh-.
A sigh escaped from his mouth. Do-kyun looked around, relying on the dim light from the nightstand. The room is still empty and you can’t find a single useful object. Where to find something.
‘The back of the bed.’
A while ago, I took out a bandage and disinfectant from there. Stand, bandage and antiseptic. Maybe that won’t be the end. At least, there will be a few more items that you can use yourself.
He had to find a way to move his body. He was thinking about that.
That buck that buck
Footsteps came closer. It seemed like she was coming back.
Click.
The door is open. A ray of light from outside the room crosses the dark room. After a short interval, her voice rang in my ears.
“Eh… You waited a long time…?”
“No, no.”
Her voice trembled. The moment I heard her voice, I felt the pain in her wrists run through my body in fear. As if he was forcing him to obey, as if he were told to preserve his life through obedience rather than rebellion, the painful pain pressed his reason.
“I… Should I… Brush my teeth…?”
“Yes Yes.”
He raised her head towards her. As before, there was a tray on her lap as she sat on the bed. On top of that, a bowl full of water and a small plate, next to it, a towel, cup, toothbrush and toothpaste. I have been preparing meticulously.
While Do-gyun was watching it. Eun-ah’s hand moved as she sat down and approached Do-gyun’s body.
“Suck!”
Reflex tremors. It was an unconscious reaction of the body that felt the grip strength of that hand. Eun-ah didn’t seem to pay much attention to it, and as she approached Do-gyun, untied the strap around her waist and opened her mouth.
“This… Get up now… Brush your teeth… Because I have to…”
After saying that, Eun-ah untied the straps around her waist, put her hands in Do-kyun’s armpits, and pulled him up, raising Do-kyun’s upper body upright.
Ok-.
The feeling of her hand touching her body was numb. Anxiety overtook me, thinking, ‘Could that fingertip just dig into my armpit and make a hole in it?’.
“Keep-tea! It’s okay… It’s done…!”
Fortunately, that didn’t happen until the moment her body was fully raised, and when her hand fell off her body, her anxiety disappeared as if it had never happened.
“Go… Thank you.”
“Lol…”
Did he even change his tone? With every word she uttered, she trembled as if she were imitating her. A faint sense of bewilderment. While Do-gyun felt that feeling and was sinking into depression, Eun-ah, who had finished preparing before she knew it, opened her mouth.
“That… Then… Ah~ do it~”
He seems very happy to see her giving orders to him with a toothpaste-covered toothbrush in her hand. I didn’t want to follow. The current situation in which he had to rely on even these things gave Do-gyun a stinging sense of despair.
“Ah-.”
Even in the midst of that, the body that had learned pain faithfully followed her words, as if the only important thing was that I didn’t get sick.
Suddenly, Do-gyun thought, ‘Isn’t my body grasping the situation better than my reason?’ And laughed out loud. Again, negative emotions soared. Do-gyun, not wanting to continue his thoughts any longer, cleared his head and closed his eyes.
A sensation of something entering the mouth. Eun-ah’s voice trembled lightly along with him.
“Now… Go… Stay still…”
Shuk-. Shuk-.
Very weak power. A toothbrush that starts brushing meticulously, as if handling a piece of art. As if she was doing her best, she began brushing Do-gyun’s mouth with care. Do-gyun’s eyes slowly opened and he turned to Eun-ah.
Whoa-. Whoa-.
The flushed cheeks, the rather rough breathing, the gaze staring into my mouth. As if she hadn’t noticed at all that she had opened her eyes, Eun-ah was just focusing her attention on her mouth.
That shady ego was filling up my satiety again. Do-gyun closed his eyes again. He didn’t want to face it. A sense of defeat engulfed his body. The feeling of brush brushing his mouth incited Do-gyun’s sense of contempt. The feeling of contempt that aroused his body seemed to say to Do-gyun, ‘You are in such a miserable state.’
After how much time had passed, the toothbrush passed both the lower and upper teeth, spat out the water once, and finished brushing the front teeth. Rinse your mouth out with water, then spit it out on a plate. A voice filled with pride reached my ears.
“Turn it off… It’s over…!”
He felt a hand drop down on his head.
“Now… Well done…! Bee-sama is…A good boy…!”
“You worked hard.”
I opened my eyes. She was staring at her own face. She stared at her for a while, then her hand came to Do-gyun’s cheek.
Her body reacted as if it were natural, but Eun-ah did not put any restrictions on it. She didn’t know if she didn’t know that she was afraid of her, or if she wanted to be afraid of herself.
While Do-gyun was thinking about that, Eun-ah’s hand, which had approached, brushed down Do-gyun’s cheek once, ran it down near her lips, and then fell again. I looked at the tips of her fingers and saw a little bit of her white foam. It was like foam that flowed down while brushing my teeth.
“Muh… It was buried…”
A trembling voice was heard. Dokyun looked at her. The tip of her finger that moved her foam moved in front of her lips, and the bright red tongue sticking out of her thin lips licked the foam and disappeared again. Her opposite eyes were folded finely in the shape of half moons, and her cheeks were burning red.
“Lol…”
A roar of laughter hit my ears. Then, her lips moved and a sentence came out.
“Then… Then, shall I… Wash my face…?”
“Ah yes…”
Wasn’t it the end Dokyun nodded his head, feeling helpless. At least today, I thought I wouldn’t feel miserable anymore, but things didn’t work out the way I thought.
“Then…Then go here… Go… Lower your head…”
Do-kyun quietly obeyed her words and lowered his head in front of the bowl full of water and closed his eyes.
Snap.
Eun-ah’s hand touched the water and made a clear noise.
“Here… Cha… Be nice…”
After finishing her request, Eun-ah poured water from the bowl with her hand and splashed it on Do-gyun’s face. I could feel the water on her hand and her soft touch.
For a moment, Do-gyun felt fortunate that he had his eyes closed. Perhaps she should have seen the marks of self-harm on that woman’s wrist if she had kept her eyes open, and if she had, she would have felt even more frightened than she is now.
After that, Eun-ah’s hand, which had been spreading water on her face for a while, moved away for a moment, then squeezed something out and wiped Do-gyun’s face. He was even soaping the forage. The soap foam hit the wound on his cheek, causing a sharp pain.
Clack clack.
By the time you rinse the soap that you spread on your face with water again, you can no longer hear the clicking sound. Eun-ah’s voice was heard.
“It’s… It’s done…”
Eun-ah’s hand fell from her face.
“Now… For a moment…”
It took a while for me to hear the rustling sound, but before I knew it, I could feel the cloth touching my face. It looked like a towel I had brought with me. His hands, pressing hard on his face and wiping the water, were sincere.
“This… Now look up…”
I raised my head and opened my eyes. I saw Eun-ah looking at me with a bright smile.
In an instant, Do-gyun had the idea that the emotions of two people in the same space could be so incompatible. All of these moments that made her feel humiliated and despaired must have been joyful and happy moments for that woman.
That made Do-gyun’s stomach sore. I hated it and hated it again. She took her self, who had been living well until yesterday, and drove her here, ruined her own life, and hated her assailant, that woman, who seemed so happy that she was so happy.
However, what I hated even more than that was my own fear that I could not suppress even with all the resentment and hatred. The fear that had grown to the point of devouring his entire body in one day was creating a smile on his lips even at this moment. Her vocal cords were shaking and her tongue was moving to make up her words.
“You are suffering so much because of me. Sorry.”
“Ah… No…! Because I… I really like it…!”
It was disgusting to see him respond hastily. The pain of a toy doll in a girl’s playhouse was not as important as narrow rice. The girl who fell in love with playing house opened her mouth once again.
“I… I’ll clean up and come back! Wait a minute…”
“Yes, please go slowly.”
Hurrying up, Eun-ah grabbed the things she had brought and left the room with brisk steps.
Thud.
The door closed, and the light from outside disappeared. In the room, only the faint light from the nightstand again lightened the surroundings.
Her-.
A sigh, a laugh broke out. The body lay down as if it were collapsing. A feeling of desolation and lethargy permeated her whole body.
“Fuck.”
A shallow curse leaked out and floated around the quiet room. Is there any way Is there really no way to escape? Contrary to the stretched body, the accident continued to find a way. The trouble deepened and deepened again.
Rustle-.
Her body turned sideways. It took on a crouching shape, as if sleeping on a shrimp. Then he rolled over again and assumed the shape of a face down on the bed.
“Yes?”
Do-gyun, who felt something strange, came out of Do-gyun’s mouth. His eyes widened, and energy flowed through his body. To confirm the identity of the awkwardness he felt, Do-gyun’s body moved.
When I gave strength to my body, my upper body stood up.
“…Reel?”
When he lay down, he fell again.
“Eh?”
When I gave it strength, it rose again.
“Early?”
Do-gyun’s gaze turned to his waist.
“World.”
The straps that restrained his waist had come loose. Do-gyun reflected on the situation before she left her room. Ashamed of her own words, she hurriedly walked out. She had gone without tying her own waist.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
My heart was beating fast. The hope that had been submerged at the bottom of despair poked out its head above the surface of the water. On the corner of her mouth, for the first time today, a sincere smile was tearing with momentum as it rode up to her ears. Breathing quickened.
Who- Ha- Who- Ha-.
Take a deep breath. I had to calm down. I had to think calmly and calmly. It was the first opportunity that came in about a day. What you can do now. You have to think about what it is.
‘Escape immediately.’
Not possible
The body is free, but the hands are still tied. You don’t know where you are, what lies outside this door, or anything else.
‘Do you subdue that woman?’
Number of gamblers.
If that woman even grabs her knife and runs at it, that’s it. She would be able to if she could run in and knock her down in one shot, but Do-gyun had never learned to subdue her opponent with her feet alone while her hands were tied.
‘I’m going to go to some fucking taekwondo.’
In an instant, when Do-kyun was in elementary school, he remembered a Taekwondo master who had advertised in front of the school that he would give 10,000 won in cultural gift certificates if he registered for the dojang.
‘Why…Why didn’t I go!’
My eyes were tight.
‘If he had registered for the dojo at that time, he would have learned self-defense and received cultural gift certificates!’
It was a feeling of bitter regret covering my whole body. In the past, he felt resentful of himself when he considered shooting card monsters on the field as his life’s work.
Do-gyun, who was lost in regret for a moment, shook his head and brushed off his thoughts.
‘No, this is not the time!’
He had no time to regret the past. He had to find something he could do right away, and there was one possibility that Do-gyun would try. His head turned back.
‘Behind the bed.’
Direction of the stand. Where that woman took things away.
Gulp.
The salivation passed. I had to check there. Something, a clue, should be over there.
Do-gyun’s nervous body moved to a corner of the room that had been unknown until now.
