Chapter 15 – Nice to Meet You
“The mask… The owner…”
“…Did you say Lee Min-ji? Did you come to your senses? Hey…”
Min-ji, who whispers in a small voice as if exhaling, comes down from above me.
As she keeps mumbling the same words, she walks out towards the door, dressed in wet clothes from all sorts of bodily fluids, without even giving me a glance.
“Where are you going? Hold on, sleep…”
I hurriedly put on the pants I had taken off and follow Minji as she opens the door and pulls her wrist.
“…”
“What happened to you…?”
It was vaguely cut off, but in my vague memory, I violated Minji, who was a ‘dummy doll’.
Shortly thereafter, the ‘head’, which was in an unfinished form, returned to the same shape as before, the face of a woman named Minji Lee.
The eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and even hair all had a human shape, but in front of my eyes, ‘this’ is no longer human.
At least, the vitality that can be seen in the eyes of animals such as dogs and cats is not felt in Minji’s eyes.
Pale and deep eyes are dyed black and reflect the me facing each other without a single blur.
“A doll… Of ‘Lee Min-ji’… To imitate…”
“…”
A small, low voice that sounded like it was coming from a broken answering machine.
The thin, warm skin in my hand contrasted with that cold yet steady voice.
I let go of her wrist that was holding on to the sense of discord running through my veins and took a step back.
“Whoa…”
He forcibly raised her hand, which kept hesitating, and slowly and carefully placed it on Minji’s white cheek.
“I’m sorry…!”
Her beautiful skin, which was definitely less bloody than the others, was cold.
With a strange feeling, like caressing a cold, soft stone, she quickly removes her hand.
“…”
Min-ji doesn’t even blink at the man who violates herself in front of her, grabs her wrist, touches her cheek, and surprises her alone.
Her body certainly has human warmth, but the top of her neck is cold.
This is a ‘dummy doll’… A being created to erase a human from the world and replace that empty spot.
Perhaps even more pitiful than the saintess whose existence was reversed. Emotions that cannot be expressed in words soar.
Her chest is tight She can’t even take her anger out on her older sister Hyemi for making her this way.
My sister was also hurt by this woman, and it was the mask that she changed such a sister, and it was me who picked up that mask for no reason.
If you look closely, I am the cause of all this. The simple matter of picking up her mask while smoking a cigarette had multiplied to this extent.
I was the one who turned Hyemi noona and Yunsol into monsters called saints.
I was also the one who erased the person named Lee Min-ji from this world. My brain is jumbled up.
“…Fuck…”
He spat out a short but full of curse words and took out a blanket lying in the corner of the east.
“…This…”
Then she gets down on her knees and wraps it around Minji’s waist.
The pants are full of stains mixed with semen, love juice, and urine.
If you walk around the school like this, it’s obvious that there will be a big commotion even if you don’t see it…
Besides, this is all I can do right now.
“Go straight home and wash up. The house… You know?”
“…I know, ‘Lee Min-ji’…”
He stares at Minji, who nods at the short answer, then opens his mouth.
“…It’s my fault. I’m sorry. What happened today, and how things turned out that way.”
“…?”
Min-ji, who tilts her head with eyes that say ‘I don’t know the meaning’, stands there for a while,
Without saying hello to me, I turn around and walk down the hallway.
“…”
When Min-ji, who had already gone too far and went down the stairs, completely disappeared from sight,
I come back to the east and pull the zipper of my bag roughly.
A mask that greets me at the top of my luggage without having to look for it.
Grab the mask and narrow your eyes.
“… What the fuck did you do to me again…? Huh?”
I managed to suppress my trembling voice and spit out anger and questions, but no answer came back.
“Answer me!!”
A resounding shout reverberates in the empty room.
But the mask doesn’t answer. Yes, this is normal.
It’s only natural that masks and things can’t talk like people do…
“…The universe?”
A soft voice called me as I bowed my head with a mask in my hand.
“I came because I had something to do… I heard your voice a little loud in the hallway. What’s wrong?”
It was Hyemi’s older sister. She was looking at her older sister, who was wearing a light sweatshirt different from the one she saw in the morning, smiling awkwardly.
She quickly throws her mask on the sofa and faces Hye-mi with a smile.
“No, it’s nothing special. It’s just… Something annoying.”
“Ummm…”
Hye-mi noona, who makes a mischievous smile while shaking her neck a little, comes this way.
And my older sister, who bent her waist slightly and looked up at my face from under her.
“…Sister?”
“Shh…”
For a while, my older sister stared into my eyes—
“Oops! …What did you do all of a sudden?”
She raised her finger and pricked my side.
“Your expression is stiff, so I’m going to straighten it out a little~”
Hyemi noona laughed with a loud hehe’ sound and took off the hat she was wearing and put it on my head.
Wearing a hat with the faint smell of coffee along with sweet shampoo, she stands at a distance and looks at Hyemi noona.
“Um… I came here because I thought it would be ‘complete’ by now, but it seems that you took care of it well.”
Lifting her nose and sniffing, the older sister, who smelled the smell in her room, teased her while blushing.
“…I’ve been thinking a lot because of that. I told Yoon Sol-yi, but I’m sorry to my sister…”
“Ugh, I won’t accept an apology. Buy me a drink instead.”
Hyemi noona cuts out the words I want to say at the perfect timing.
Embarrassedly, when I looked up, my sister didn’t even look this way, and opened the window of her room to ventilate her.
“…Yes?”
“I heard everything on the road today, are you going to take a class? Besides, there are no schedules left for today.
So if you’re sorry, buy me a drink! Convenience store beer is fine.”
“…I’m sorry, but why are you drinking…”
“It’s because your expression is completely rotten. I’ll be your drinking companion, so you spend the money.”
Sister who taps my cheeks and often walks the east.
Leave alone in this spacious room and look at your hands on your face.
Is it a style that reveals emotions on my face? I think I was good at facial expressions.
…
It’s sudden, but it’s good. I finally had an alcohol, and
If you can talk about this story.
I feel sorry and grateful to Hye -mi’s sister, and turn off the dust that she put on my head and turns off the dust.
It is still heavy, but she removes her feet slightly lighter than before.
Already far away from the stairs, Hye -mi, who shakes her hand, goes down to her stairs.
“Too close, fall.”
“A! My sister is the first time in Korea?! So I’m definitely a guide …!”
In the stairs below ten columns, the silver feet on the stairs are shaken along with a girl who is lively.
Unlike an exotic appearance, a woman who talks with a girl in Korean in Korean.
The calm and warm atmosphere felt in the wall and silver feet, this feeling is at lunch …
“Best! What are you doing! I’m hungry !!”
“Okay, don’t scream like that!”
Looking back while moving her feet to the big rash from below.
The woman of the silver, who had just stood up, was disappearing somewhere.
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“It’s not something to come in already … It’s really okay?”
“What is it? Salty than that ~!”
Hye -mi’s sister, who forcibly grabs her beer cans and bumps her beer cans in her hands, immediately goes to her drink.
In front of her eyes, there are chickens made with snacks and small sweets from convenience stores, but they do not have their hands.
The place is Hye -mi’s own room. On the contrary, Hye -mi’s sister, who looks so comfortable even if she is comfortable, frowns on her refreshing feeling.
“Oh … I think I will live … Not the universe?”
“You have to drink, I’ll drink … That … I see.”
Her house was more uncomfortable because of her sister, who was changed to her comfortable clothes.
Her short dolphin pants showed her sister’s black bra on the armpits of the crop t -shirt that looked comfortable with her size.
I’m not going to be conscious, but I’m in front of her eyes, so I can’t open my legs from before.
“Huh? I’ve seen you don’t see you already.
“…”
“… Okay, don’t play with you. Please don’t have that eye.
What I’m wearing comfortably at my house is wrong … “
The smile, who is grumbled and wears, sips her beer again.
“Don’t drink a lot this time. Today I have to take it, but it’s hard to get my sister’s drinking …”
“Don’t worry ~ At that time, I drink quickly, so it’s usually about 3 cans.
By the way, why did you do that? I’m sorry for me and Yoonsol? “
The can on her mouth stops in the air.
“… Yes, even if you don’t think so, it’s because of my sister or Yunsol.
Because I picked up a mask … Today, I saw a girl named ‘Imminji’ and said that something was annoying in this situation.
Was I a piece of trash who couldn’t even control my own desires… I felt a little bit of a sense of shame, so… I did.”
“…Hmm…”
Hyemi noona, who gulps down her beer without saying anything, thinks for a moment before nodding her head.
“Yes, then let’s think so.”
“Yeah…? What…”
“No matter what I say to you, the universe, it won’t comfort you at all, right?
Then it’s enough to think that it’s not all your fault. I picked up the mask, but
Wasn’t it me who stole that mask from you and used it? Then maybe my fault is about 40%? Hi-Hi…”
The word ‘no’ unfortunately did not come out of my mouth.
My sister’s kind words, which tried to share the responsibility as she said, could not comfort her.
Because they didn’t become my understanding of their own will.
So sorry, guilt remained as it was… But thanks at least made me feel at ease.
“… Thank you, sister.”
“Okay, I won’t say anything else! I don’t even care about that… I’m rather happy with my new body…♡
I heard that you had a hard time mentally after seeing Minji Lee, so I will refrain from making ‘dummy dolls’ in the future. Sorry.”
“No, it’s not that I don’t understand why you’re angry… It’s her fault, but…”
“Ayy, stop talking about your slumps and drink! I already drank half and you’re still the same!”
“Oh, okay, don’t push me! I’m going to spill the prize!”
A lot of empty beer candles.
How many are this now? I was so burnt out that I forgot how much I drank.
My wandering head, I think I ate well over 4, seeing as I was completely drunk… Uh…
“Universe, are you okay? Did you drink a lot?”
“… Why are you fine …”
“I’m drunk, but you told me to restrain myself~ Anyway, it’s amazing!
I’m always the first to get drunk, I think this is the first time I’ve seen you drunk.”
There is only one empty can in front of my sister… How did I drink it so fast…?
Hyemi noona’s face is right in front of her nose as she crawls up next to me, excited to see me drunk.
The smell of her alcohol mixed with her older sister’s sweet body odor, it feels like her head is getting more hazy.
“…You are pretty…”
“Huh…? Ah, uh, uh?! Ah, haha… I’m suddenly embarrassed…”
I don’t even know what I’m talking about, what did I just say?
Why did she say that sister’s face turned bright red in an instant?
“… Thank you, sister … Really …”
“The universe becomes cute when drunk… What should I do… I have to put up with it because it’s time to come soon.”
My older sister rubbing her leg while drooling perhaps because of her mood.
She can’t hear what her sister is saying. More than that …
“Sister, use that bathroom…”
“Oh, that door by the front door over there is the bathroom.”
I stand up towards the door my sister’s fingertips are pointing at.
Tightly twisting eyes, legs moving arbitrarily. I definitely drinked a lot.
Instead of sitting there unnecessarily, I should go to a nearby motel and sleep…
Ding-dong-
“Eww…”
The sound of a doorbell suddenly ringing a goal.
Beyond the entrance hall standing tall right next to the bathroom door, you can feel the rustle of people.
“Ah, I guess I’m finally here. Universe! Open the door.”
“What is it, did you order more snacks…? I’m going to stop drinking now…”
Sitting in the middle of the room, I looked back at my older sister, who smiled broadly and raised her arms.
Without thinking, I unlocked the door and opened the door wide. The delivery man had to stand in front of me.
But-
“…Who…?”
“That’s what I’m going to say. Are you Hye-mi’s boyfriend?”
Standing in front of the door was a woman who looked exactly like Hye-mi, only with slightly longer hair and a slightly more temperament.
A war of nerves followed, not a war of nerves as they looked at each other for a while.
“Is mom here?”
“Oh, it’s me. But who is he?”
“I’m very sorry.”
The spirit returned at the same time as the alcohol was blown away.
When I opened my eyes, I was bending my waist at 90 degrees and bowing my head.
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