Chapter 64 – Realdoll(2)
Lee Beom-soo, president of 〈 Trauma Confectionery 〉, is a young man who has only worked. A small store left by my father… Even though it was only a little bigger than a local hole-in-the-wall store with about 20 employees.
Lee Beom-soo used it as a base to grow his business.
He learned nothing in his poor days, but he worked hard. 20’s… The 30s passed by without hesitation, and the name 〈 Trauma Confectionery 〉 has grown into a well-known company.
At the age of 40, Lee Beom-soo became the owner of a company with annual sales of tens of billions of won in exchange for his youth.
“I succeeded. It’s a reward for not wasting your youth.”
Of course he was proud of his success. But one day he collapsed from high blood pressure, and he thought as he went back and forth between life and death.
“If I die now… What will happen to my company?”
There is no way the company will break up.
He recalled the faces of the vice president and executives one by one. No one has a favorite character. No… There was no way I could hand over the company I had dedicated my life to to a subordinate!
“I must have my child. We need an heir to take over the company.”
He was 42 years old and he got married at a late age. The other person was a cultured and calm lady five years younger than herself. However, the successor he hoped for did not come easily.
After getting married, she got pregnant right away, but she had a miscarriage shortly thereafter, and finally gave birth to a son 3 years later, but after 7 months, she suffered from breathing difficulties and died suddenly.
Lee Beom-soo continued to grow the company even in despair.
When I was working hard, my sadness seemed to be forgotten.
“What if you don’t have children? It is not possible for the couple to live harmoniously. Haha.”
“Honey… “
Even so, his wife was fully aware of Lee Beom-soo’s desire for an heir. Soon, Lee Beom-soo turned 50, and the company succeeded in overseas expansion and achieved 1 trillion won in sales. However, she still did not have the child she longed for.
“I’m sorry, but my wife is elderly, so there is a risk of difficult labor if she gives birth to a child.”
To make matters worse, the doctor even hinted at recommending sterilization.
However, her wife wanted to make Lee Beom-soo’s wish come true.
She herself also came up with the idea that after losing her children twice due to her miscarriages and illnesses, she wanted to give birth and raise children.
So he ventured into pregnancy at the late age of his mid-40s, and was careful to give birth successfully, but his mother died due to hemorrhage and the effects of gestational hypertension.
“My child… Take good care of my child, honey. My daughter… Shia… “
In her will, she gave her daughter a name, and she died after looking at her daughter’s face for the last time, which she had longed to see with her teary eyes. Lee Beom-soo’s grief at the loss of his beloved wife was indescribable.
The child she had obtained so hard was Issia.
She was destined to be the successor to 〈 Trauma Confectionery 〉 from the time she was born.
“Sia. Your father will definitely protect you.”
Lee Beom-soo swore in front of his grave that he would love his daughter as much as his wife.
Isia grew up to be a healthy and smart child.
She was beautiful like her wife and intelligent like her father.
By the time she entered elementary school, everyone recognized her talent.
As she is the gold medal, Qinghua, Yi Xia even likes her sociability. She was always the leader among her friends and she was the center of the circle.
However… There was also a group of people who didn’t like Isia.
It was executives who would have naturally inherited the company after Lee Beom-soo’s death, especially Vice President Kim Wan-yong.
“How are you, Vice President? Are you just going to lose your company to a kid like that?”
“I will kill you. Not even a mouse knows… “
“For a moment. That way is too risky. Let’s do it legally.”
“Is there any way, Vice President?”
“The key is his right to inherit. Isn’t it enough just to cancel the right to inherit?”
“Is there any way?”
“I need to contact Black Stars. I have some connections there.”
“Black Stars… ?”
The most important thing in the 〈 Real Doll system 〉 is the reliability that women who are selected as Real Dolls are randomly selected.
If it’s not random… Because it becomes a terrifying law that converts any woman you want into a real doll.
However, in the back of this world, which is inaccessible to the naive common people, a dirty and filthy conspiracy lurked.
It was on her 20th birthday that the dark touch touched Isia.
Lee Jia was a college student enjoying her youth in America, the country of freedom. It was an ordinary day, walking down the street surrounded by her friends.
“Sia. Is it your birthday today? Are you having a party?”
“Um~ what should I do?”
“Of course we should party! If an insider like you doesn’t have a birthday party, who will do it? James and Lily are also clamoring to come!”
Isia’s charm that attracts people has already captivated foreigners. The women on either side of him were more like followers than friends. It was already a well-known gossip that Isia was the heiress of a conglomerate.
Even among friends who seem to be equal, there is actually a hierarchy.
And Isiah was always at the very top of the hierarchy, at the very top of the caste hierarchy.
“Still… Is it your 20th birthday?”
“Huh. Only 20 years old. Oh, although America is not ten thousand years old.”
“My 20th birthday is a bit… Aren’t you scared?”
“Are you scared?”
A friend made an ominous noise as he twisted her hair.
“That is… That’s the age designated as a real doll.”
“Real… Rock? Ah~ You mean the real doll system enforced by that big company called Black Stars? Hey~ That’s less than 10 people in the world, so what are you worried about? Rather worry about winning the lottery. Haha!”
“But my cousin was taken away from her house on her 20th birthday during her birthday party, and she came back converted into a real doll. My dad resisted and broke his bones.”
“Hey, did that happen?”
It was terrifying to hear a story I thought was an urban legend from a real person who experienced it.
“Being a real doll is really miserable. Her cousin’s engagement was broken, her ID was forfeited, she was kicked out of her house, but she was thrown out of a homeless shelter because she couldn’t find an owner because her price was too high. It seems that her recognition system broke down while being gangbanged, so she recognized each homeless person as her master and performed sex service.”
“It’s terrible… How could you do that?”
I had heard rumors, but I couldn’t understand that such a thing really existed in the world. Why would international law condone such a system?
“Hey, hey! What are you worried about! Unlike us, Sia is a lady from a large company. There’s no way such an upper class would be selected for the real doll system.”
“That’s right. Even if the machine is turned at random and Xia’s name comes out, ‘Huh? Isn’t this the daughter of the president of Trauma Confectionery? Switch to another child!’ Something like this?”
“The upper classes live while protecting each other. I envy you~”
As the friends trembled, the real doll system, which had nothing to do with them, quickly fell out of interest and the topic changed to envy of Lee Sia.
“Sia has a pretty face~ She has a lot of money~ Is life really unfair?”
“Ah~ why? What am I?”
“It is not wrong. It seems that winners and losers have been separated since birth. Know? James from the football team is going to confess to Sia at this birthday party!”
“Really? Isn’t James the famous quarterback who was confirmed to join the NFL?!”
“Ah~ the world we live in is different. I really envy you. I’m a high school student because of my credits to get a job~ I wish I had the president’s dad~”
“Really! Will you guys keep doing that? I’m just an ordinary person just like you guys!”
It was the moment when Isia burst into anger at her friends’ teasing mixed with envy. A black limousine pulled up on the road, and men in suits got out one by one and surrounded the female college students.
“What, what are you guys?”
“Right. This woman is right.”
He took out the photo and compared it with Isia in front of him, then nodded. Except for the girl who said that her cousin had become a real doll, the rest of her friends didn’t understand what was going on, so they hugged Sia tightly as if to protect her.
What was embarrassing was Sia herself as well.
“What are you trying to do to our Shia!”
“That’s right! Shiaya. Don’t worry. We’ll protect you! We are friends!”
“Not friends. She is a real doll.”
“… Yes?”
Her friend’s hand, which had been holding her, loosened. She is not only that. Her friends subtly began to distance themselves from Sia.
〈 Realdoll is not human, and human beings who advocate and treat Realdoll as a human being are treated as insane and take special protective measures〉 because of international law. The word was a special protection measure, which meant confinement in the end.
“Hey, guys over there? Are you our friend? Yes?”
“… “
“… “
The friends who had been arm in arm and talking excitedly about her birthday party averted their gaze. Isia could not accept the reality and rebelled.
〈 Real Doll System 〉 It was a common situation during execution, so no one was surprised, but Isia was desperate.
“Me, my father is the president of Trauma Confectionery. Uh, you have a lot of connections in the media and politics… Oh, will your father never stay still?”
“Perform Real Doll Lee Sia.”
“Leave this! Let go of this! What did I do wrong… ! I am human! I am human! Me, I’m like a real doll… !”
Isia struggled to escape somehow. It seemed to her that if only she could escape this position and meet her dad, she would be somehow. If she doesn’t get it right, she can hide in a basement or something. Dad will take care of me.
“Knapped!! This is kidnapping!! Save people!!”
“Realdoll has no human rights.”
“Town… !!”
Isia’s struggle weakened as someone behind her covered her mouth with a handkerchief. She was a handkerchief laced with an anesthetic designed for subdue.
“Poem, Shiaya… “
“Are you all friends of Isia?”
“Ah. Me, we… “
“This girl is a real doll now, so be smart with her. If you wrap around a real doll too much, even you guys can transform into a real doll.”
“Yes yes… “
After urging Isia’s friends, the employees of the mega-corporation Black Stars disappeared. Isia was loaded into a trunk like an object and transported to the Realdoll manufacturing room.
“… Eww… Ugh…”
When he opened his eyes, his limbs were mechanically connected and he could not move.
An iron hat pressed down on his head, and electrical circuits were plugged into every corner of his body.
“What, what! Where is this?! Please get me out! Let me meet my dad! Dad!! Dad!”
〈 If you go to America, be sure to take care of yourself. Dad, you know that he only believes in you, right? Because you are my daughter who will one day inherit the Trauma Bakery〉
Tears came to her mind as she remembered what her father had told her before leaving for America.
Affectionate father.
I felt sorry for even leaving him and going to study abroad for 4 years… Now, only the feeling of the cold machine touching my whole body was real.
“Bad guys… Bad guys. Kidnapping innocent people… Connecting a strange machine to your body… ! You guys are demons… Never. I will never forgive you!!”
〈 Real Doll No. 77. Remodeling starts 〉
Isia’s screams did not reach anyone. Remodeling surgery is performed by a machine, so it was useless to complain to the machine with tears.
〈From now on, I will remodel the body and mind of real doll number 77〉
