Chapter 185 – Elena’s Dream
After successfully completing the test of the new drug, Purgatory, I sent Baek Ha-yoon back to her private quarters.
Now that we’ve confirmed that hypnosis with this drug actually works to alter memories, it’s time to apply it to Elena.
However, even if you use her medicine, you cannot just use it, you must use it after thoroughly investigating her. If I don’t, I won’t be able to build her image world the way I want, and I’ll have trouble changing her memory.
-Beep.
So I called Lee Ha-young and asked how much information she had collected.
To this, she replied that there was still a lot of useful information, but that there would be more decisive information in the next three days.
“Okay. Then please do your best.”
Next 3 days.
That was just the right amount of time.
Anyway, in order for hypnosis to work well, I have to build up an inner intimacy with Elena.
That’s how I gathered up my thoughts about this place and checked the data reported by Lee Hee-yeon. Prosecutor Cha Do-hyeon’s movements and the progress of pseudo-religion. And the information about Jang Min-hyeok was organized.
“Hmm.”
My body itches just reading the report.
In particular, it was interesting to see that Prosecutor Cha Do-yeon seemed to be quite upset about stopping Baek Ha-yoon’s search and seizure last time, and that he was doing things here and there.
It would be hard to see good things if you were so lazy.
“Cha Do-yeon…”
A woman whose family was ruined by the master like me.
She also lived for the past years dreaming of her revenge, but she is tied up under the guise of ‘justice’ and ‘law’.
After all, if you want to get true revenge, you have to get rid of the good things.
“I’ll have to help soon.”
I’m already looking forward to it.
How will you change to Cha Do-yeon?
Maybe she can change her values without having to use purgatory. She too has lost her family, and she considers revenge her highest priority.
It would be enough to make them realize how useless justice or law is.
***
3 days passed.
Lee Ha-young gave me good quality information as she promised, and I was satisfied with her data. At this level, it was meticulously well-organized to the extent that it could be said that it was almost everything about Elena.
“Great job. You say you have to go home right away?”
“Yes. I have to report… To the savior.”
“… Okay. See you in Korea.”
Officially, Lee Ha-young, the woman of the savior.
After saying hello with a firm expression, she went straight to the airport.
In any case, the justification for this expedition to Russia was to obtain cooperation from the mafia forces on the savior side, so a report should be made accordingly.
“Now there is only one thing left for me to do.”
Lee Ha-young, Ahn Ji-yeon, and Baek Ha-yoon all did a great job at what they had to do.
So now it’s my turn to repay them for their hard work.
I walked over to Elena, who was lying on the bed.
She has already received the new drug, and she will stay in a pure white space for now. The space of purgatory where she stays for a short while before she falls asleep.
-Suh…
Over the past three days, I’ve built up enough intimacy with Elena.
I coveted the 20-year-old young woman to my heart’s content, and she coveted me as much as I did.
It was like 3 days of fire.
“Elena.”
So I lay down next to her and called her name.
Before long, Elena began to respond to my words, wriggling between her brows.
“Jukseong…Min?”
***
A pure white space.
Elena was looking around at the all-white glowing scene.
I’m sure I was sharing a kiss with Jung Sung-min until just now, but when I open my eyes, I suddenly find myself in a strange place like this.
[Elena.]
At that time, Jung Sung-min’s voice pierced his ears.
It’s like hearing in a dream, but also a subtle voice that sounds like hearing in real life.
“Jeong Seong-min…?”
His voice was clear, but the feeling was different.
It was like a believer hearing the voice of God.
[Don’t panic. Because everything is in my control.]
It is under the control of Jung Sung-min.
Those words made Elena feel relieved.
[I will go to the distant past. Back then, when you were very young.]
In the distant past… When I was very young… ‘Then’.
To put it mildly, the ‘then’ of her childhood meant ‘that day’ to Elena.
The day her own aunt was murdered by another mafia faction.
-Koo-gu-gu-goo…
As I recalled the incident of ‘that day’, the pure white space collapsed and began to reproduce the scenery at that time. The sound of a boiling kettle, my cousin playing with me, the hum of my aunt humming, warm-colored lighting, colorful carpets on the floor,
“Heuuuuu ♬”
And me, lying on the carpet, drawing in my sketchbook while copying my aunt’s hum.
Even at this time, I was more like the beloved only daughter of an ordinary family, not the daughter of a mafia leader. At this time, it was not yet time for my father to jump into the ‘mafia war’ in earnest, and he was not interested in such a power struggle.
-Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
But tragedy always happens suddenly.
My uncle, who was my father’s subordinate, participated in the ‘Mafia War’, and the fire spread to this place.
“Daddy, hide here! Hurry!”
My aunt hid me and her cousin under the bed and went out of the door.
But soon, her aunt was caught by a group of assailants and brought back into the room. The assailants were coordinating her opinions on what to do with her aunt.
“I’ll hold you hostage. Might we negotiate later?”
“Yes. Save it for now Aren’t you the sister of Ivan Belin? There is no need to provoke Ivan Belin for declaring neutrality.”
“No! Brother! Husband of 2 years killed my wife! Whoa…Fuck, that bastard deserves the same!”
One man who appears to be the boss and three men who appear to be subordinates.
Two of his subordinates were proposing to save her aunt, while the other was running amok about killing her.
“Brother! If I don’t do anything here, I have no face with Natalia… I have to punish her in the same way. Please…”
My aunt shook her shoulders.
Looking at such an aunt, the head of the gangster continues to worry.
After a while, the boss said.
“Boris. Do as you please. We will remember Natalia’s death.”
In the end, the boss of the gangster who listened to the man named ‘Boris’.
Emotional at the death of his wife, Boris nodded her head and pointed his pistol at her aunt. And she muttered, looking at her aunt in a chewing voice.
“Everything…Everything your husband brought on himself. Andrei, you bastard…!”
-Bang!
A muzzle that emits flames for an instant.
The brain bursts out, and the body of the aunt collapses.
Her cousin, who had been hiding with me, jumped out of bed when she saw her collapsing.
“Mom!”
-Bang!
But the tragedy did not stop there.
Boris, in her excitement after shooting her aunt, is startled by her cousin, who suddenly jumps out of her and shoots her.
“Shit! Boris! What are you doing!”
“I-I’m surprised too…!”
“…”
Her cousin brother who was crying and bleeding.
She was crawling to her aunt, who died instantly.
The group of assailants looked at the cousin like that and made a complicated expression, but soon, as if making a decision, the head of the assailant aimed a gun at the cousin’s head.
-Bang!
– Fluffy.
An 8-year-old girl who died by her mother’s side.
The boss looked at the crying Boris and said,
“Boris. This is an accident It is not your fault.”
“Ha, but… This is me…”
“Don’t speak weakly. As long as you killed your children, you can’t avoid an all-out war anymore.”
“…”
Boris at a loss for words.
Eventually, the group of assailants turned on his feet and began to leave the house one by one.
But even though they were gone, I hid under the bed for a long time and looked at the bodies of my aunt and cousin. I’m afraid they’ll come back and kill me.
“Elena!! Elena!!!”
How much time has passed like that
My father’s voice, looking for me, began to resonate.
I hid under the bed and watched the situation, in case it was someone whose voice resembled me, but fortunately I was able to confirm that the voice looking for me was my real father.
It was because I checked my father’s face when he entered the bedroom where I was hiding.
“Ah…Anna…Anna!!”
But I was under the bed, so Dad first picked up my aunt’s body.
Dad started to cry when he checked the back of his aunt’s brain, where her brain had burst.
“Ah…Ah…Anna…Anna!”
A father sobbing while calling his aunt’s name.
While Dad was sobbing, I crawled out from under the bed and approached Dad.
“Eh, Elena…”
He confirmed that I was unscathed, but my father’s expression looked confused.
I held my father’s arm and conveyed what I had been thinking under the bed the whole time.
“Dad. Boris killed her aunt.”
“…What?”
“Her uncle killed Boris’s wife and Boris avenged her. But since my aunt is my dad’s younger sister, I have to prepare for an all-out war with her dad.”
“…”
“So we must prepare quickly. We shouldn’t be wasting our time here.”
Waste of time.
Hearing that, Dad’s expression twisted like a demon.
However, before I knew it, he had the saddest expression in the world and said while stroking my cheek.
“…Elena. Aren’t you… Sad? Your aunt… My Anna…”
I thought as I looked at my father who was talking behind his back.
…Am I sad? I don’t know. It was obviously sad, but now it’s nothing.
My aunt passed away anyway, and what’s important is the people who remain.
“Huh. Let’s get out of here sooner than that. Boris’ gang might attack again.”
In a moment of emotion, Boris killed her aunt.
Moreover, she accidentally shot and killed her cousin as she approached her aunt.
There is nothing good about being over-emotional like Boris.
“Elena. You…”
Then, Dad looked at me like a monster.
Why is dad like this
Dad was always nice to me.
“Dad. It’s okay to collect the body later. First of all, it’s dangerous here—”
“Elena!”
I wanted to give my dad some realistic advice, but this time he screamed and gave me strange eyes. Originally, when my dad said something like this, he said he was a smart princess and stroked my hair, but now my dad’s reaction was so unfamiliar.
“Please… Please stop talking… I get it… Stop… Shut up…”
“…”
Dad cried and muttered so.
… Well, yes. It’s because my aunt died.
I could have held my breath under the bed until Dad arrived, but Dad didn’t have time for that yet.
So I decided to make my dad understand.
