How to Fix a Psychopath

Chapter 28 (R18)

 

How to Fix a Psychopath Episode 28

 

Two days? The CSAT? I definitely fell asleep the day before the CSAT, but you’re saying I slept for two days straight? Why did I do that?

 

Oh, sleeping pills. Lee Eun-woo gave me sleeping pills. He lied and said they were vitamins, but he actually gave me two sleeping pills?

 

After finishing assessing my situation, I looked at Eunwoo Lee, and Eunwoo Lee smiled faintly.

 

“You have to go to high school, so if you suddenly stop going, your teacher will come looking for you. But you don’t have to do that once you become an adult. I’ll go crazy if you, Soyoung, would go to college normally.”

 

“crazy……?”

 

“What do you think?”

 

Eunwoo Lee asked plainly.

 

I was so shocked and dumbfounded that I couldn’t speak. I had

 

to say something, but the only words that came out of my mouth were, “Huh, ha,” and laughter that escaped me without me knowing it.

 

I closed my eyes and opened them.

 

“… … What are you going to do? What are you going to do, what on earth are you going to do!!”

 

I screamed like a madman. I was scared. Why did it turn out like this? Why?

 

Instead of speaking, Eunwoo put a strange and bizarre object on my ankle. The thing that clanked onto my ankle was definitely not an ankle bracelet. Aren’t these shackles used to tie up criminals?

 

At that strange sensation, I quickly pulled my ankle back. There was a clanking sound as it was pulled back, and the heavy iron chain dragged on the floor. At that sight, Eunwoo Lee laughed like a beast scratching its neck.

 

What is this…? What the heck is this?

 

I blinked. I looked at Eunwoo Lee and my ankles with an expression of incomprehension. I couldn’t quite process the situation. Was it because I just woke up?

 

 

It felt like someone had hit my head with a rock, which had been refreshing just a moment ago. Then my body sank to the floor. It felt like I was the only one being subjected to twice the gravity.

 

Otherwise, I don’t think it would be strange if the ground beneath my feet caved in at any moment. I thumped down on the bed.

 

At that time, Eunwoo Lee rested his forehead when she fell down weakly on her thigh and said.

 

“Let’s live like this together.”

 

Eunwoo Lee’s outer garment, still cold, touched her shins, and his cold hair touched her thighs.

 

Eunwoo Lee slowly rubbed his face against my thigh, then buried his lips into my thigh as if mashing them.

 

“… … I’ll do it well.”

 

“……how?”

 

“huh?”

 

I looked down at Lee Eun-woo coldly. Lee Eun-woo looked up at me with a gentle face. Lee Eun-woo reacted strangely to the

 

obvious temperature difference.

 

“How can you do this well? In this narrow place? With something like this?”

 

Because of this, reason quickly came to my mind. Rather than getting angry at Eunwoo Lee for acting so recklessly, I felt cold as if water had been poured over my whole body.

 

I lifted my shackled feet as if mocking Eunwoo Lee. The iron chains connected to the shackles clanked and cried.

 

Eunwoo Lee smiled brightly at my mocking words.

 

“What should I do for you?

 

Wow, that’s amazing.

 

The expression on his face as he asked back with delight was pure and innocent. He seemed so happy that he could do something for me.

 

Lee Eun-woo can make such a purely loving face. I couldn’t take my eyes off Lee Eun-woo’s face because of the new expression.

 

We met eyes for a while without saying a word. Lee Eun-woo’s eyes, which had been sparkling like the sparkling night sky I had

 

seen before falling asleep, began to sink. Lee Eun-woo, who had slowly closed his eyes, kissed me near my knees. It was like kissing a sublime statue that he couldn’t touch.

 

And then he opens his eyes again and looks up at me. His gentle face is acting again, trying to weaken my heart. I, too, bend my knees at the annoying and cunning Eunwoo Lee. As his vision slowly lowers, Eunwoo Lee’s head also lowers.

 

Just because I’m calm doesn’t mean I feel good. It’s not strange that I feel wronged, horrible, and full of hatred and disgust towards Lee Eun-woo.

 

But what stood out between those emotions was the ridiculous generosity of wanting to understand Lee Eun-woo.

 

As I squatted down, I could feel the cool iron feel of the chains Eunwoo Lee had put on me against the back of my thighs.

 

My mouth felt as dry as if it had been filled with desert sand.

 

“Eunwoo. … … I don’t want to live like this.”

 

“……why?”

 

Eunwoo Lee made a face as if he didn’t understand what I said with difficulty.

 

 

Like the day I picked up an abandoned puppy in the pouring rain this week, like the day I tried to help Seungchan Kim who was covered in blood from school violence, like the day I cried looking at the beautifully twinkling stars.

 

“… … I told you I’d do everything for you. I’ll make you live like a princess. Is this house too small? It’s okay. I’ll take you to a bigger place soon. … … I got my driver’s license while Soyoung was sleeping, and if it’s just the two of us, I can take Soyoung wherever she wants to go… … .”

 

“That’s what I don’t like.”

 

I cut off Eunwoo Lee’s words and spat them out. Eunwoo Lee looked at me, speechless at my clear and definite rejection.

 

He did anything for me, he seemed to think that condition would keep me. Is that really not the case with his good head, or is it just programmed that way?

 

“Then……?”

 

“I want to live freely.”

 

“I won’t lock you up all day.”

 

“That’s what I’m saying… …!!”

 

I bit my lip as I tried to resist.

 

“I studied hard to go to college. You know that because you’ve always been there for me. But that’s not all. I want to go abroad and have fun. I don’t want to stay cooped up in a corner of my room.”

 

“… … Aside from college, you can do everything with me. Come with me, Soyoung. I’ll take you. Overseas, and other places. Okay?”

 

At Eunwoo Lee’s words, I saw a horrible sight of myself walking around in chains, overseas, at the beach, in an amusement park, in a flower garden.

 

What was incomprehensible was that I would be smiling there.

 

I was brainwashed by Lee Eun-woo, and eventually I came to understand Lee Eun-woo’s way of loving, and I became the person who loved Lee Eun-woo like that.

 

The thought of such a terrifying thought gave me goosebumps.

 

“Why me?”

 

“huh?”

 

“Why do I have to go to a place like that with you?!”

 

“Then?”

 

Eunwoo Lee’s face turned fierce in an instant.

 

“Then, who are you going with besides me?”

 

The eyes that flashed with jealousy seemed like they would swallow me up at any moment. The rabbit mask that pretended to be weak looked like a wild beast that was chewing and gritting.

 

Then, Eunwoo Lee started to gently caress my instep while laughing without any reason. His palm was warm, as if he hadn’t been out for a moment.

 

“I knew this would happen. You already made friends with other people in college and even made plans to hang out with them. Right? Do you think I’ll just sit by and watch that happen?”

 

Eunwoo Lee growled fiercely and roughly.

 

The saliva was heavy and I swallowed slowly.

 

“It won’t work.”

 

Eunwoo Lee started to rummage through the heavy envelope next to me.

 

“Please, don’t do this.”

 

“What are you talking about, Soyoung? As if I did something bad.”

 

Eunwoo Lee was rummaging through the envelopes when he found what he was looking for and took out another strange device.

 

“You’re going to regret doing this.”

 

“The only regret I have is from middle school. I don’t want to repeat that. I still regret that the most, and it scares me.”

 

“I told you I wouldn’t run away. I’d stay by your side!”

 

Eunwoo Lee fiddled with the parts he had taken out and then chuckled at my words. It was a mocking laugh. At that moment, my whole body felt cold. Was it miserable? No, it was even more miserable than that.

 

Betrayal? Yeah, that might be a more appropriate word.

 

 

“… … Then why did you make the bet in the first place?”

 

“huh?”

 

Eunwoo Lee made an innocent face again, as if he knew nothing. Then, as if he remembered something, he let out an ‘ah’ sound and put the same shackle on my other foot. There was a click, the sound of metal interlocking.

 

“I’ve never done it before?”

 

“……what……?”

 

“I never did. How could Soyoung understand me? And that was such a disadvantageous condition for me. Soyoung could have just said no… … How could I live without seeing you, Soyoung? It’s the same as telling me to die. That’s ridiculous.”

 

Lee Eun-woo’s clear answer made me vaguely remember what he had said.

 

‘I don’t make bets that I can lose.’

 

In the first place, that wasn’t consent. It was a statement that he wouldn’t do it at all because it was a completely unfavorable condition for him. Lee Eun-woo pretended to consent, but

 

refused.

 

I literally didn’t do it.

 

“… … I really hate you.”

 

“Sorry…….”

 

Eunwoo Lee said this with a slightly bitter smile on his lips.

 

She felt all the strength drain from her body. Eunwoo Lee hurriedly put a short chain between the shackles on her ankles. A restraint designed to shorten her stride. If she were to run away, she wouldn’t be able to run because of these chains. No, they were so short that it would be difficult to even walk.

 

I stared blankly at the thing that restricted my movements, then he suddenly sat up from his squat. I hated the sight. I couldn’t believe that I had pitied this guy and felt sorry for him.

 

He did whatever he wanted, he had me in the palm of his hand. How can you pity him!

 

“It’s done. How are you, Soyoung?”

 

Eunwoo Lee smiled brightly as he looked at his girlfriend’s matching clothes.

 

“What?”

 

Instead, I became irritated and snapped at Eunwoo Lee.

 

“Your ankle. Doesn’t it hurt? Do you want me to lift your ankle?”

 

It felt like I had handcuffs around my ankles. I scrunched my face. How can you ask me what it’s like to wear something like this?

 

“Not really.”

 

I spoke stiffly to Eunwoo Lee without even lifting a foot, as he had asked.

 

“Really? I bought the most expensive one… … . Should I exchange it for leather?”

 

Lee Eun-woo, muttering to himself, really looked like a crazy person. It wasn’t normal for him to fill a person with such things, but he even had a satisfied expression on his face when he saw me wearing such things.

 

I clenched my fist again, feeling it deep in my bones.

 

Eunwoo Lee had already refused to talk to me. No matter how much I tried to persuade Eunwoo Lee until my mouth hurt, there

 

was no way it would work on someone who had turned a deaf ear. Ha, back to square one. I thought I had turned off the original and escaped, but I ended up back in the original.

 

I thought it was a train headed to a different station, but it just took a slightly different route and went a little further, and the destination didn’t change.

 

Should I run away?

 

Even such vague thoughts no longer have the strength. What if I run away? What if I run away? If I run away, I will be afraid of Eunwoo Lee coming back, and I will be so anxious that I will go crazy. And Eunwoo Lee will eventually find me, and he will become even crazier, suppressing, confining, and obsessing over me?

 

It was a pattern I knew all too well.