How to Fix a Psychopath

Chapter 21

 

How to Fix a Crazy Guy Episode 21

 

As I blankly stared at the boxes piled up to the point of blocking the front door, Lee Eun-woo made an embarrassed expression. The boxes, which were as many as my waist, were just as unsent as before. This meant that Lee Eun-woo had placed them there.

 

Since you entered the hall password without thinking, you must have brought it here yourself every time.

 

“Looking at it this way, there are so many. These are all yours, Soyoung.”

 

Although his face did not look like it was expecting for a praise from her, but his embarrassment was evident.

 

Eunwoo Lee, who couldn’t meet my eyes by himself, thought that I would be happy about the gift he gave me, let go of my hand and moved the box blocking the front door to another place, saying, “Just a moment.”

 

Why do you do that?

 

“Okay. Let’s go in, Soyoung.”

 

Eunwoo Lee wiped the blood flowing like sweat with the back of his hand and held out his blood-free hand to me.

 

Even if this is a steep path ahead, if this is the path we must take… … . You will smile like this, extend your hand to me, and act as if this path is a path of flowers. My stomach churned. I felt like if I swallowed my saliva, I would feel like vomiting right away.

 

“Soyoung-ah.”

 

When I didn’t move from my spot, Lee Eun-woo called me again. As I stood there blankly, looking at Lee Eun-woo as if I had no intention of leaving, Lee Eun-woo called me back coldly.

 

Lee Eun-woo is drenched in blood and excitement. You could almost believe he’s a messenger from hell.

 

“Shall we go? Can we hug and go home together?”

 

The speed at which Lee Eun-woo’s emotions changed was fast. The faster it was, the more she realized that Lee Eun-woo was getting anxious. As her hesitant feet slowly took a step toward Lee Eun-woo, his stiff face relaxed.

 

If we open this door, will we go to hell? Eunwoo Lee’s expression as he looked at me lovingly seemed like he was looking at his most beloved wife in the world at a wedding.

 

 

On the other hand, my expression reflected in Lee Eun-woo’s eyes… … is the face of a sacrifice to put to sleep a monster that might destroy this world, nothing more or less than that.

 

“Even your sneakers got dirty… … .”

 

Eunwoo Lee held my hand, which was getting closer, and spoke as if it was nothing.

 

“It’s okay, the new sneakers will be over there.”

 

Eunwoo Lee gave me a quick kiss on the forehead and lifted my studio password recognition device.

 

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

 

Eunwoo Lee entered the password I had set correctly and put the recognition device back down. There was a beeping sound of the lock being unlocked.

 

“Wait for a sec.”

 

My eyes followed Lee Eun-woo’s hand. His hand, soaked in blood, reached into his school uniform pants and quickly pulled them out. What he was holding was a key. The landlady’s words that she had warned people not to make copy keys were

 

meaningless, as a tiny silver key shone in Lee Eun-woo’s hand.

 

Clank-

 

The second locked guard was opened.

 

“Let’s go in.”

 

In the first place, this things had never protected me from Lee Eun-woo. When I actually saw it with my own eyes, I just laughed. There was nothing more to be surprised about.

 

The one-room front door was wide open.

 

It seemed like an endless abyss or an endless expanse of lava. But surprisingly, it was the interior of a studio apartment that I knew very well. Hmm, hmm, hmm – Lee Eun-woo hummed.

 

Could this be a dream?

 

There’s no way that Lee Eun-woo, who puts her suitcase in first and takes off his shoes and puts them away neatly in front of me, could be here. Yes, it must be a dream. The fact that I keep being so absent-minded, and the fact that I hit Lee Eun-woo. Me hitting Lee Eun-woo, that’s ridiculous.

 

“What are you doing instead of coming in?”

 

 

But the hand that grabbed me was definitely not a dream. As soon as I entered, the front door slammed shut behind me.

 

“Are you going to keep standing there? Come on, let me hold your heel, take your shoes off.”

 

The studio apartment, which was already small, felt even smaller after Lee Eun-woo moved in. Is it because Lee Eun-woo is so big?

 

First, Eunwoo Lee took off his shoes and went inside. He bent his knees in front of me and grabbed the heel of my shoe. He slowly put strength onto my foot and the shoe came off naturally.

 

“Good job.”

 

Eunwoo Lee looks up at me with a big smile. Is this the expression of a prince who found Cinderella who fits the glass slipper perfectly?

 

“Okay, the other side too.”

 

He put the shoe that had come off neatly aside and grabbed my other shoe heel. This time, the shoe came off quickly without any force. This was because Eunwoo Lee grabbed my ankle with his other hand and took the shoe off.

 

I felt like a child. A child who couldn’t do anything if he didn’t take care of everything from A to Z. That’s what Lee Eun-woo wanted to do for me, and he wanted to make me like that. So that I couldn’t do anything if I didn’t have him and lost my confidence.

 

“… … I can do it by myself.”

 

“huh?”

 

Eunwoo Lee neatly put her shoes away and got up. His body, which had been about as tall as my knees, quickly grew so big that I had to look up at him. He asked me affectionately if I had not heard him properly.

 

“I mean about the shoes.”

 

“Ah. I wanted to do that for you.”

 

Eunwoo Lee grabbed my messy hair and tucked it behind my ear.

 

“And… … . You look like you’re going to run away again. So I should at least take off your shoes. If you run away barefoot, your feet will hurt and you won’t be able to go very far.”

 

Creepy guy… … .

 

 

I thought to myself as I took off my backpack and placed it on the floor. Since I had put the heavy items in the carrier, the backpack fell relatively quietly.

 

I glanced at the shoes that Lee Eun-woo had organized. Sure enough, Lee Eun-woo’s shoes were organized in a direction that would allow him to quickly go out, and my shoes… were organized in a direction that would allow her to enter the studio. If I were to run away, I wouldn’t have time to put on shoes that were oriented like this, so I would just run out barefoot.

 

Why are you doing this? I took my eyes off my shoes and looked at Lee Eun-woo. Our eyes met right away. I don’t know how long he’s been looking at me, but he looks at me with an expression as if he’s watching me whether I would run away or stay, and then he smiles brightly.

 

Why do you do this?

 

“We.”

 

Suddenly I opened my mouth. Eunwoo Lee asked, “Huh?”

 

“Let’s make a bet.”

 

“……bet?”

 

 

Eunwoo Lee narrowed his eyes with a displeased expression.

 

“Okay.”

 

Eunwoo Lee’s gaze followed me persistently until I slowly went to the bed and sat down. A large child stood there, staring at me. I held out my hand.

 

“Come here.”

 

Eunwoo Lee looked at me with a slightly shocked expression. Then, thinking that my mind might change, he came forward and grabbed my hand.

 

“I’m not going to run away anymore. I’m not going to go. So… … I’m going to try to understand you.”

 

He looked down at the hand he was holding, then rolled his eyes and looked at me. It seemed like he was asking me what I was thinking.

 

“The feelings you have for me… … that is.”

 

That thing that you didn’t give up on me and stuck with me till the end. That thing I took for granted because it was a novel.

 

 

“If I feel the same way about you, you win. But on the other hand, if I continue to not understand and don’t understand your actions, I win.”

 

Eunwoo Lee slowly knelt down. My head also moved as my view lowered. He quietly kissed my exposed knee.

 

“What if I win?”

 

“I will never leave your side.”

 

That’s because I love you.

 

Eunwoo Lee smiled brightly at my words. His face looked like he had been proposed to by her.

 

“But if you lose, you have to give up on me. Don’t meet me anymore, and don’t look for me.”

 

Lee Eun-woo, while smiling like a flower, said.

 

“Soyoung, I don’t make bets where I lose.”

 

I laughed heartily at Lee Eun-woo.

 

“… … The deadline is before we graduate from high school.”

 

 

Until then.

 

I stared at the wallpaper with a blank expression. The pattern on the wallpaper now looked quite tacky.

 

Eunwoo Lee said that in response to the bet I suggested and went outside. He said it was to clean up the blood that had pooled outside. He washed his face in the bathroom, took out our first aid kit that I had never used before, put a bandage on himself, and hurriedly went out.

 

When I asked him, “Are you going to go out like that?” because his arms and sleeves were soaked with blood, he said, “I didn’t bring a change of clothes…”, embarrassedly.

 

I wondered why those words were something that Eunwoo Lee should be embarrassed about, but I had never been able to understand Eunwoo Lee in the first place, so I didn’t think much of it.

 

Whether Lee Eun-woo cleans up his own blood while covered in blood or not, or whether he gets caught by someone like that, is none of my business.

 

I just fell down on the bed. What on earth was she thinking when she suggested making a bet? I couldn’t forget the look on

 

Eunwoo Lee’s face, as if he had been given the opportunity of a lifetime that he couldn’t miss.

 

Unrequited love is definitely hard. Right now, I have one crazy guy who rushes at me like crazy even when I’m still, and there were other people who don’t have feelings for me but followed me around.

 

But when I was a student at Myungji University, I wonder if I ever had a successful one-sided love like any other ordinary woman.

 

“Was there… … .”

 

But definitely, my crush was more intense as a high school girl than as an adult woman.

 

At that time, female students were very sensitive and believed that if they had a crush, they would get something back. It was only when I became an adult that I started to be able to tell if the person I liked liked me or not, so it was easier to give up on a crush. But back then, when I was a student, why was it so hard and so long?

 

I wonder if Lee Eun-woo felt the same way as I did back then.

 

“No. This is going too far.”

 

 

The field of vision that had been staring at the ceiling narrowed. It seemed like she was staring at the ceiling a lot.

 

No. I shouldn’t try to understand Lee Eun-woo. If I do, I might become the same crazy person. I’m trying to fix Lee Eun-woo properly. If I become like him, it’ll all be over then.

 

I collected my thoughts once more and counted the patterns on the ceiling wallpaper.

 

But what if I really love Lee Eun-woo? My heart fluttered even though it wasn’t familiar to me.

 

When I first got into it, I thought it was natural. I thought that if I fixed or cared for Lee Eun-woo and comforted his wounds, then, as if it were a lie, Lee Eun-woo would become an ordinary person and be happy forever.

 

But… … But will Lee Eun-woo become ordinary?

 

As my head was spinning with complicated thoughts, I heard footsteps coming up the stairs beyond the one-room wall. It seemed like Eunwoo Lee had already finished cleaning up outside and was coming up. I got up from where I was lying. I lowered my skirt, which had been up to my thighs, to my knees.

 

I lowered my head and looked down at my skirt. Suddenly, my short hair fell down with a rustle.

 

In this situation, I should have a relationship with Lee Eun-woo… … as if it were a given.

 

Like the thick fog that gathers in the early morning, thoughts that drain my strength kept filling my head.

 

But if I’m going to do it with Lee Eun-woo, wouldn’t it be better for me to have a normal and gentle relationship rather than a forced one?

 

Rape is something that happens naturally in a novel, but when I actually think about it as me, my hands start to tremble.

 

Why did I feel excited watching such an abnormal relationship?

 

It was probably because it wasn’t happening with me and it wasn’t reality, it was just a novel. As various thoughts were floating around in my head, the sound of the front door password being dialed was heard again.