Chapter 74 – Chapter 74
Another day passed.
Sitting side by side with Do-kyun on the sofa, Eun-seol was banging on her laptop all day, writing documents over and over again.
It’s been several hours since morning, and Do-gyun, wondering if he had a lot to do, glanced at it from the side of his eye. Countless numbers were lined up on the screen.
Numbers under numbers under numbers.
Do-gyun, who was more curious to see him, asked a question while tilting his body in the direction of Eun-seol, who had been a little away until the day before.
“What are you doing?”
“Year-end settlement.”
Ah, the year-end tax settlement.
Take a moment to nod your head at the neatly returned answer.
“But do you have that much to do?”
Even though I was writing at a fairly fast pace, there was no sign of the end, so when I asked that question, Eun-seol sighed and answered.
“Because I have to fix what the other kids have done.”
Saying that, I could feel the joys and sorrows of the head of the family in the way he frowned.
I wasn’t so haggard until yesterday, but I felt sorry for the dark circles that had come down all the way.
Do-gyun, who was looking at the tired Eun-seol, felt ashamed of the way he had been fiddling with his smartphone until then, and scratched the back of his head and offered words of comfort.
“Um… Do your best. Would you like some coffee?”
“Then thank you.”
“Please wait a moment.”
Do-gyun, who got up and headed to the kitchen, started making coffee with a familiar movement.
When I first came to this house, I was at best drinking mixed coffee, but as I moved to find something I could do little by little, I came to the point where I could handle the coffee machine before I knew it.
Take out coffee beans from a corner of the shelf and put them into the coffee machine. Then, after pouring the undiluted solution little by little along the filter paper into a cup, mix it with water and milk lightly.
After completing a series of processes, Do-gyun sliced the bread he had bought the day before, put it on a plate, and delivered it to Eun-seol along with the brewed coffee.
Eun-seol, who had been paying her bills until the day before yesterday, glanced at the coffee Do-gyun had brought, picked it up, and thanked him in small words.
“Thanks.”
“No. Well, suffer.”
Saying so, Do-kyun, who picked up his portion of coffee, started the smartphone again, and opened his mouth again to a question that suddenly popped up.
“Can I ask you a question?”
“Say.”
Do-kyun stared at Eun-seol for a while, then asked a question.
“Is all the money management done by Eun-seol?”
“Right.”
There was silence for a moment, and immediately after, Eun-seol diligently moved her hands without taking her eyes off the laptop and continued to speak.
“As you know, Go Eun-ah cannot face this realistic part, because she becomes aware of the existence of a different personality. But I can’t entrust it to others.”
Do-gyun, who had roughly understood, nodded, and Eun-seol continued.
“I’m doing it because there’s no one else to do it.”
It was a tone of deep fatigue.
Do-gyun seemed to understand a little why Eun-seol always looked so exhausted.
Eun-ah herself and other personalities of Eun-ah. All of them are formidable monsters, so dealing with them will never be an easy task.
I dare to predict that for more than ten years, the aftermath must have always been her share.
Recalling him, Do-gyun expressed his condolences again to the feelings that gradually filled him up.
“You are suffering a lot.”
Words of consolation conveyed.
Eun-seol, who had been staring at the laptop until the day before yesterday, turned to Do-gyun for a moment, and then a choking laugh escaped from her mouth.
“If you can’t speak.”
Short answer.
At that, Do-gyun quietly looked at her as she started to stare at her laptop again.
A man glaring at his laptop and playing with his fingers.
Even after sitting in the same position for hours, the speed did not slow down in the slightest.
If you’re tired, you don’t have to do it. Think about it for a while.
‘Every personality has a reason.’
What she said to me
It came to mind
A personality created by needing someone to endure the pain instead.
The pain she had to endure would not mean only physical things.
I could understand the annoyed attitude he always showed when he said he was an alternate personality.
Because no one in the world would want to live a life for the suffering of others.
Perhaps her most dangerous personality was her.
She, who has lived for her for a longer time than Eun-chae Ko, who has always endured her pain, may have been a really dangerous personality in her words, but even so, her Do-gyun did not develop her wariness toward her.
Maybe.
‘Because I don’t hate it.’
Because I don’t hate other personalities.
It’s because it’s closer to what I like. I thought that was the reason.
In the words and actions he has shown so far, there is affection that is revealed implicitly even though he is sticking to an attitude tinged with fatigue and annoyance.
When I think of the things I did when I thought of choosing Eun-ah’s clothes, asking Eun-ji to go out, showing an expression I had never seen before, or apologizing instead of seeing myself being tricked by Eun-sam into spending money, it seemed right.
She was still more of a person who didn’t know than she knew, but that might be why she let her guard against her little by little.
She didn’t know if it was an inclination built to bear her pain, or if she loved them by her own decision.
Her unconcealed love for her made me think that she would never try to get rid of her eunah.
He stared at her for a while while continuing to think about it.
Flash.
In an instant, the vision began to flicker.
‘Yes?’
Surprised by the sight that suddenly began to flicker, Do-gyun looked up at the ceiling and saw that the lamp that had been lighting up the living room was flickering.
Take a moment to look at it
“Oh, I had to change that too.”
When I moved my gaze to the voice I heard, I saw Eun-seol looking at the light with an annoyed expression.
Jin Do-gyun, feeling that he had something to do, raised her body and spoke to her.
“What am I going to do?”
“Ina, I will do it, so just help. It will be difficult because it is different from what you are used to seeing.”
Saying that, Eun-seol stood up and walked into the room, then came out with a light fixture that Do-gyun had never seen before and stood on the table.
“I’ll unscrew it, so take it and hold it.”
“Yep.”
When you don’t know, it’s best to stay still.
Thinking so, Do-kyun, who was standing next to her table, followed her words and saw her stretching her arms toward her lamp.
Her arms pointed to the ceiling, followed by a grunt.
‘I can’t reach it.’
Do-gyun glanced at her, turning her gaze away from the ceiling until the day before yesterday.
The ceiling that I can’t reach even if I stand on tiptoe.
Ear lobe slightly reddish.
Do-gyun, who was looking at him, spoke in a cautious tone.
“Do I?”
“Shut up.”
The answer that came back was harsh.
As I expected, there seemed to be a complex about height.
Do-gyun, who hesitated again at the glaring face, waited for a while to keep his mouth shut.
Afterwards, she groaned for a while longer and let out two of the four screws holding the light in place, but she felt her breathing become a little rough, perhaps as if her strength was starting to wane.
Do-gyun Jin, wanting to no longer be able to see her, moved the table she was standing on to the side of her and bent over her with her back showing.
“The table is too low. Better get up.”
It’s short, so I can’t use it as a table. When Do-gyun couldn’t bring himself to say the word, Eun-seol, who looked at him for a moment, bit her lip and climbed onto Do-gyun’s back.
After.
“Don’t say anything, I’ll kill you.”
With a cool whisper in her ear, she slipped her head away and began to loosen her screws again.
After unscrewing all four screws and then replacing the lamp, Do-gyun watched the process in case the same thing happened next time, and suddenly felt his mouth tingle.
Should I call it a frog mind?
Why do you want to do something you are told not to do?
‘I have to be patient…’
As I thought, I felt my lips twitching.
Probably right.
‘It might hurt a little.’
As I continued to think, a thought came to my mind.
‘Should I kill him?’
Won’t kill
The thoughts lead there.
“How is the air above?”
I handed over the question.
Baka-!
“Ah!”
At the same time as he spoke, an elbow slammed down on the top of his head.
As Do-gyun’s body bent over in pain, Eun-seol came down from Do-gyun’s back in the gap and spat out an apology in a non-trivial tone.
“Sorry. His arm is weak.”
After saying that, Do-gyun, who watched him turn around and take his laptop, tried to protest, but, at a loss for words, shut his mouth again.
It was very painful to have a tingling pain in the crown of my head.
‘Still, I said something.’
There were no regrets.
*
It was a few more hours later when Eun-seol finished all the work.
After finishing all the work, Do-gyun looked at Eun-seol, who stretched out with a ‘yeung’ sound, then stood up and opened his mouth.
“You worked hard. Shall we eat soon?”
“Yes.”
Nodded head.
“Please wait a moment.”
Do-gyun nodded her head in response to him, headed towards the kitchen and made her a rough meal and put it on her table. She came to her kitchen and sat down at her table.
The meal started, and Do-gyun, who was eating spoonfuls at a time, opened his mouth to talk to Eun-seol, who was sitting across from him.
“It’s over quite late.”
Let’s say that to the look that I barely finished my work after holding on all day.
“There’s a guy who’s been messing around.”
That answer came back.
Do-gyun, who had a person in his mind, opened his mouth again and asked a question.
“Are you Go Eun-sam?”
“No, the other kid.”
Stop.
Do-gyun’s hand stopped while cooking rice at the answer he heard.
“…The one who hasn’t come out yet?”
Let Dokyun say so.
“Yes.”
A cool answer came.
What is it, what kind of person is it?
What is it like to be a human being who has more serious accidents than Ko Eun-sam, who blocked the card?
If it is an accident that needs to be sorted out during year-end tax settlement, it must be an accident that has caused financial harm.
A person who caused greater financial harm than Ko Eun-sam.
‘A person worse than Go Eun-sam?’
Let’s think like that.
Creepy-!
I had goosebumps all over my body.
Your fingertips start to tremble. A cold sweat forms on your forehead.
“…Are you okay?”
Do-gyun with trembling eyes said that. Seeing him, Eun-seol pondered for a moment before nodding his head.
“The kid is good.”
No, it’s not good, but is it okay?
Do-gyun, who had thought of that, looked down at Eun-seol, but Eun-seol sighed at Do-gyun’s eyebrows and opened his mouth again.
“It doesn’t come out in winter, so there’s nothing to worry about right now.”
“Yeah?”
Doesn’t come out in winter. Do-gyun, not understanding the meaning, tilted his head for a moment, and Eun-seol added an explanation.
“I have nothing to do with you.”
It was still unknown.
Once again, his head tilted to the side, and questions filled his face.
“So stop talking about it and eat.”
Do-gyun, who watched Eun-seol continue to eat after saying that, tried to suppress his anxiety by controlling his mixed feelings of doubt and fear.
Because it was good
‘Wouldn’t it be better than Ko Eun-sam…?’
Saying, after a long time trying to calm her mind, she finished her meal before she knew it and opened her mouth.
“Hey.”
“Yeah.”
When Do-gyun answered the call, she put down her spoon and spoke to Do-gyun.
“The day after tomorrow is the day Eun-ah Go goes to the hospital.”
The sudden words contained unexpected contents.
“…Is it a mental hospital?”
Hospital is the first place that comes to mind.
In addition to her condition, it was something she could easily infer, considering her regular medications or going out every two weeks.
As Do-gyun said that and looked at her Eun-seol, she nodded her head and then spat out her words.
“Let’s go together this time.”
“Yeah?”
“Go with me. Go see a doctor.”
Watching her say that with a serious face, Do-gyun, unable to understand her intentions, stared at her silently, then opened her mouth.
“Will Eun-ah allow it?”
“It won’t be difficult until we go out together. I don’t know if I’m going to see a doctor alone.”
Do-gyun, thinking that there must be a reason for her saying this, nodded her head, and then she asked a question.
“What can I do when I go?”
“Tell me about Ko Eun-chae’s condition. Then I’ll give you a rough estimate.”
Was that the reason?
Well, the expert must have known a better way than the layman himself.
Do-gyun nodded her head, realized that she was about to enter, and asked a question.
“Is Eun-seol going back now?”
“Yes. It didn’t come out like the other times in the first place, and there’s no reason to stay out anymore.”
“Ah.”
Suddenly, her face lit up at her words.
“Kerham…”
When I cleared my throat with embarrassment, she put on an expression filled with her pathetic expression and spat out her words at me.
“Do it in moderation. It’s bone-breaking.”
“Yep…”
I was at a loss for words.
