Chapter 4
– Thump… Thump..
– Thump… Thump..
My heart was pounding like crazy. I tried to calm my heart, but it was a futile effort. I rummaged through my head, fearing that my condition might be discovered.
No, maybe I had already been caught. Those eyes, which had been staring at me with a smile for a while before, gradually formed a distinct smile on her face, and at some point began pouring down toward me.
-Gulp.
Dry saliva went down to my throat.
‘What should I do?’
Goni…
The author of [The Bug-Catcher Girl], a I was working hard to make popular a month ago.
If what that woman said was true and she was the author of the I had been reading…
‘Fuck… If I’d known she was such a crazy bi*ch, I wouldn’t even have thought to touch it!’
But now it was a pointless assumption and a meaningless regret.
The fact was that it had happened. Who would have imagined that the author of the I had been reading would kidnap me?
‘Why… why me? What have I done? Why did she kidnap me?’
I could not understand why that woman kidnapped me.
‘Hate comments? That’s ridiculous.’
If I had ever written something that sucked the author out, I would believe it, but in fact, I had never had the experience of writing malicious comments.
‘Support? Was the donation insufficient?’
No, not this one either. If money was needed, there would have been many other good ways. At least the five things that popped into my mind right now were well over.
And on top of that, for the money, she must kidnap someone else with a lot of money, not me in the first place.
‘What the f*ck!’
It was a situation where nothing but curse words came out. I tried to find the answer in the that was my only connection with this woman, but I couldn’t come up with a reasonable answer.
As I struggled with my thoughts, Eun-ah, who had been staring at me and smiling quietly, opened her mouth.
“This… You know… I… I worked really hard…”
“yes…?”
“Really… I worked really hard…”
Tears began to well up in Eun-ah’s eyes as she raised her head slightly.
‘Why the f*ck! Why are you crying again!’
It was I who wanted to cry. I was the one who had been suddenly kidnapped to this unknown place and was now watching the inexplicable behavior of a woman who had lost her mind.
Aside from me screaming inwardly, Eun-ah’s words continued.
“I… I like that Bee-nim Chae… praised me… I gained strength… I worked hard every day… I… I wrote this…”
Even in the dark space, as if to announce that there was still light in it, the drops of water on Eunah’s pupils twinkled and emitted light.
“Um… er… I really didn’t want to do it… I wanted to stop… but I still want to be praised by the bee…”
– Drip, drip.
Again.
The water that filled Eun-ah’s eyes could not overcome the weight and flowed down the bridge of her nose.
“Th-this is… but, Mr. bee… was… somewhere else… on such garbage…”
Tears rolled down her cheeks, intertwining and falling onto my cheek.
“I… only me… I’m the only one… who you should praise…”
Eun-ah’s lips trembled and spat out words of resentment.
“This is all…because Mr. Bee is bad…”
Eun-ah’s expression twisted.
‘Mr… f*ck…!’
It seemed like I was about to have another attack. My cheeks, which had been pinched earlier, twitched.
“I’m sorry…”
“Ah… no!”
The moment when I was terrified and reflexively tried to say an apology. Eun-ah’s deathbed echoed in the room.
“Ugh… no.”
Her distorted expression suddenly softened, and a smile appeared on her lips.
“I… the bad ones are the bad bugs that lured Mr. bee…”
-Hee hee…
It was a creepy laugh.
“That, though. Still. It’s alright here…”
Eun-ah’s hand gently rubbed my ear lobe.
“Because I’m by your side…”
As she lifted her upper body slightly, the disheveled hair brushed over my body.
“Because I’ll get rid of all the bad bugs…”
Having said that, Eun-ah lay down on my chest and began rubbing her head.
I felt the creepy feeling of bugs crawling over my body as her warm breath tickled my chest.
“Ha ha…”
A groan filled with satisfaction came from her mouth, and it was horribly chilly, choking my throat.
Immediately after, Eun-ah, who had been rubbing her head on my chest, hurriedly raised her head as if she had remembered something.
“Ah… that’s right!”
‘Now what else!’
Scary.
It was downright scary and creepy. None of her behaviors make sense, and my heart skipped a beat every time that woman gestured to do something.
It was to the point where it seemed better if she did nothing and only rubbed her face against my own body like before than to do such a sudden action.
I looked at Eun-ah in bewilderment. She met my eyes and opened her mouth with a voice full of laughter.
“I. Whoa, hahaha, the manuscript…! I’ll show you the manuscript…!”
“…yes?”
“Eh… Because the comment cut off while running away from the queen beetle…”
Eun-ah muttered to herself and assumed a posture as if she was thinking of something in her mind.
“4… From episode 47 onwards, I will show you…!”
Eun-ah looked at me.
“I, ah…Actually, it hasn’t been serialized yet… There are some parts that haven’t been published… I’ll show you all of them!”
Having said that, Eun-ah seemed to be proud of something.
To put it in metaphor, I could only express her behavior as a child showing her parents the song she would sing at the school festival. I couldn’t find any trace of malice in her actions, tone, or expression.
That innocence made me even more scared.
I forcibly drew the corners of my mouth to draw a smile, then opened my mouth to Eun-ah.
“Uh… uh, that doesn’t sound like a good idea…”
The expression on Eun-ah’s face blurred. Surprised, I hurriedly continued.
“Because, wantn’t you be rude to other readers then? And isn’t that unfair?”
A clumsy defense without even thinking about it came out of my mouth.
After hearing what I said, Eun-ah looked like she had heard something useless. So she shook her head and opened her mouth.
“Eh… now that Mr. bee is here… everything is fine…”
Afterward, Eun-ah nodded her head as if she understood something.
“huh…! Now… everything is fine…”
Suddenly her cheeks burned red.
“That…then I’ll be back… calm down and be quiet.”
After saying that, Eun-ah stroked my hair, then got down from the top of my stomach.
Eventually, my body was completely free.
– Clap.
– Bang!
– Clap.
Outside my field of vision, the sound of the door opening and closing was heard, followed by the sound of the door locking again.
Haah… Left alone in a dark space, I calmed down my breathing while feeling the tension in my entire body being released.
‘Fuck… What did I just hear?’
If what I understand was correct, it means that the crazy woman imprisoned me for leaving her and in order to show her stockpile from the part that I left unread to the present.
“IS she crazy?”
It seemed to be like that.
The woman’s behavior was hardly what a normal person would have.
Somehow, I had to find a way to escape.
Left alone, I lifted my body as much as I could and looked around.
“No shit…”
Dark…
It was too dark. I hadn’t checked very well because I was paying all my attention to that woman, but when I came to my senses and looked around, the room was so dark that only the silhouettes of the objects in the room could be seen as whitish.
– Tsk.
‘Because she is living in a place like this, she is worthy of that appearance.’
I clicked my tongue lightly.
I roughly understood the context. I knew how that woman kidnapped me and her purpose.
I didn’t understand fully, but as long as I knew the purpose, I could say that I had a clue to escape.
‘However…’
What had not yet been revealed was…
‘How did she find me?’
Also, how did she kidnap me? The question about that part was still unresolved.
The only thing I did was comment on the , sponsored it, wrote a review in the community, and ordered and delivered the illustration.
The point of contact between the two of us existed only on the Internet.
I, who had thought that far, suddenly felt a surge of anger.
‘I treated her so well, but she kidnapped me?’
Even though I left in the end, the effort I had put in for a month was truly tearful.
Comments and recommendations were taken for granted, sponsorship was added separately, and additional money was added by breaking installment savings, and an A-level illustrator was hired to receive a top-priority reservation.
Truly. I was furious.
‘Bi*ch, bi*ch, bi*ch!!!’
I couldn’t call it out because I was afraid she might be listening, but my anger soared as if it would pierce the sky.
‘How did you do it! F*ck how good I was with you!’
‘I couldn’t come back with fried chicken as much as I want. ‘
‘Why are you kidnapping and confining me?’
My stomach churned, but nothing changed.
I was now imprisoned in a dark room with handcuffs, and there was no clue of her real name and residence in any of the actions she did, so my doubts only grew.
A breakthrough had to be found.
I shifted my gaze and looked around. I had to get my eyes used to the dark.
‘Roughly… is it of that size?’
It was a room that could not be called large. It was a small room where the bed I was lying on occupied a quarter of the space.
Opposite the bed was an empty bookshelf, and next to it was a closet that reached all the way to the ceiling.
I couldn’t see it because I couldn’t turn my head, but judging from the situation just before, there must be a door behind my head.
‘Fuck… Is there anything helpful…’
I was in vain. Could there be something I haven’t seen? I looked around once again, but I couldn’t see anything that could be a clue.
That moment.
– Click.
-Sigh.
The door opened with a sound.
My heart was pounding. I felt like it was sinking.
‘So fast?’
Eun-ah’s voice came through the open door.
“Hehe… I… You waited a long time, right?”
– Tap Tap Tap Tap Tap…
The sound of footsteps got closer and closer.
Before long, the sound of footsteps disappeared and there was a gasp right next to me and quick breathing was heard.
Something, like a black wave, hit my field of vision.
In a dark room that I had gotten used to by now. My vision darkened again, covered by her long black hair.
-Gulp.
I swallowed my dry saliva and slightly raised my head and…
“I-I’m here…!”
…saw a woman with a pale face smiling in my field of vision.