How to Fix a Psychopath

Chapter 32

 

How to Fix a Psychopath Episode 32

 

 

And there was nothing on my feet when the blanket was off. It was the complete opposite of what I had imagined. My ankles were bare.

 

Did she look embarrassed at the fact that she wasn’t chained up? Suddenly, Eunwoo Lee laughed so brightly that it made my heart ache a little.

 

Even though she knew Eunwoo Lee’s true identity, his smiling face still looked innocent.

 

“Why? Are you surprised that there’s no anklet?”

 

Anklet.

 

It was very Lee Eun-woo-like to use that horrible thing as an accessory term. No, it might really feel that way to Lee Eun-woo. How beautiful would those shackles that prevents her from breaking free would look!

 

I can’t even imagine it.

 

 

“……Yes.”

 

I answered honestly.

 

Then Eunwoo Lee sat closer to me.

 

“So, Soyoung.”

 

Eunwoo Lee grabbed my ankle with the hand that had been brushing my cheek. I knew how big Eunwoo Lee’s fingers were when he put the so called Anklet’s on me, but… …. Eunwoo Lee’s hands, now that of a fully grown man’s hand, seemed bigger than before.

 

So I was a little scared. I thought my ankle would suddenly snap like a tree branch. But I tried my best not to show my expression and looked at Eunwoo Lee.

 

“Let’s go to the hospital together.”

 

Hospital?

 

Lee Eun-woo was looking at my ankle and was stroking it. Where am I hurting? No. I wasn’t hurting. I had been avoiding hospitals for almost two years in an unfamiliar place to save on hospital fees, but fundamentally, I was quite healthy. I adapted to the

 

time difference without difficulty.

 

But a hospital out of nowhere? I couldn’t hide the doubts that were slowly rising in my mind and looked at Eunwoo Lee. Despite feeling my gaze, Eunwoo Lee only focused his gaze on my ankles. However, he didn’t seem to have any intention of hiding the corners of his lips that were going up.

 

“Why the hospital?”

 

Eunwoo Lee met my gaze, which he had been ignoring, at my low, cautious question. His dark, black eyes widened and he smiled.

 

“Can’t we just go?”

 

The soft tone was asking me, but the hand that was grabbing my ankle was firm. It was a warning. He had no intention of telling me why. The other foot that was not caught by Lee Eun-woo naturally shrank.

 

“No, I don’t like that.”

 

“Ah… … That’s why I had them perform the surgery right away while you were still asleep.”

 

Lee Eun-woo muttered to himself, smiling as if he was a little

 

annoyed. Surgery? What does that mean?

 

When I looked at Eunwoo Lee with a face that said I couldn’t understand, Eunwoo Lee just smiled like he was looking at a cute little child. At that sight, my heart suffocated more and more.

 

“What are you talking about?”

 

“Instead of an anklet. Soyoung, you ran away that day because of those legs, right? That’s why I was just going to poke a hole in it for a bit.”

 

I couldn’t understand what he was saying. But, as Eunwoo Lee’s thumb kept rubbing my Achilles tendon, I thought I could understand what he was saying.

 

“So what does that mean?”

 

I pulled the foot that he was touching away. It would have been better if she had not known anything. She should have just not kicked the blanket away.

 

Eunwoo Lee’s face hardened as the ankle in his hand disappeared.

 

“To keep you from running away I have to do that. The hospital said they wouldn’t perform surgery on someone who was already

 

asleep… … That’s why I tried to get Soyoung’s consent. But, should I have just pierced it myself?”

 

At Eunwoo Lee’s low and gloomy words, I felt the sticky blood flowing down my ankle. I could vividly imagine myself kicking and screaming in pain with my Achilles tendon pierced so miserably.

 

Ignoring the days when I struggle in pain, Eunwoo Lee will stick a large, thick awl into my Achilles tendon as if it will tear it.

 

A chill ran down the back of my neck.

 

Eunwoo Lee’s eyes, looking at me as if there was nothing he couldn’t do, seemed to glow red. Then, Eunwoo Lee suddenly laughed, went down under the bed, and bent his knees. Then, he lifted his knees and grabbed my hand that was wrapping around my ankles and kissed it.

 

“No, Soyoung. I’m sorry. There’s no way I would hurt you.”

 

The corners of his eyes looked up at me with a sad look on his face. He looked like a child who had done something wrong and was trying to play a trick to avoid getting scolded.

 

I looked down at Eunwoo Lee, who was looking only at me while holding my ankle on his hand as if it were my lifeline, and let out

 

a sigh. Eunwoo Lee put his cheek on my palm in a way that sounded like a sigh.

 

“So, let’s just go to the hospital and get it resolved.”

 

It won’t hurt, right?

 

Once again, as if urging or coaxing me, Eunwoo Lee asked for my opinion.

 

You’re so bright and intelligent that you can’t be outdone by anyone in the world, but why do you only know how to go to regret and destruction at times like this? Is it because the novelist made you that way? Are you a robot that was made to only move that way?

 

If you tell me that you’ll make me happy without even running away, then who would want to run away from you? Who?

 

I was stupid. I thought I only had to solve the urgent problems in front of me. I wish he had reflected on himself to some extent during the past two years when I ran away, and thought deeply about why I ran away. And I wished that he would just give up on me.

 

But the string of obsession towards me was never something that could be let gone just because I let it go. It wasn’t like a thin

 

fishing line that would break just because I ran away and Eunwoo pulled it back.

 

“No.”

 

Eunwoo Lee’s face hardened at my answer.

 

As if to say, “Why are you acting like a child?” Then he slowly got up. Eunwoo Lee, who had grown huge in an instant, looked down at me coldly.

 

“I can’t help it. I can’t do it myself. I’ll have to find a place that does it illegally.”

 

Eunwoo Lee smiled quietly, as if my opinion was no longer important. It was the moment when his deep love for me turned into bittersweetness.

 

Eunwoo Lee always smiled like this whenever we had different opinions and confrontations. His eyes were cold, but his mouth smiled in an incredibly kind way.

 

“Wait a minute, I’ll bring some sleeping pills right now.”

 

Eunwoo Lee turned his back coldly and let go of my hand that was acting like he shouldn’t let go. I watched Eunwoo Lee quietly moving away and then looked around the room I was in.

 

 

It’s a new house. I have no idea where it is, but the furniture, the wallpaper on the walls, and everything else is new. I don’t know if it’s a new building, but everything inside is new.

 

The room I was in was neither small nor large, but its shape was similar to the studio apartments I had lived in during my high school and middle school years. There was a bed pressed against the wall, an empty window next to the bed, and dark gray blinds and curtains that were drawn so I couldn’t see outside.

 

And the door in the direction that Lee Eun-woo was going. It wouldn’t be the bathroom, of course, but the door to the living room. There were doors on the other walls as well. A built-in closet, or a bathroom. That would probably be it. The rest was a closet. An electronic clock on the wall. That was the end.

 

The clock didn’t work because it hadn’t been wired up yet. I thought about lifting the curtains to look outside, but… … I didn’t want to provoke Eunwoo Lee by doing that.

 

I quickly figured out the layout of the room and opened my mouth while looking back at Eunwoo Lee.

 

“Don’t go.”

 

Suddenly, all of Eunwoo Lee’s actions stopped as he was about to open the door. And he immediately turned around. It was a quick reaction. Eunwoo Lee had a mysterious expression. Half trying to figure out what she was thinking, half moved.

 

The child who had been scolded by his parents to the point of tears seemed to always hesitate at his parents’ words to come closer to them. That was how he was reacting. Then, Eunwoo Lee, who ran towards me as if his fingers were twitching, knelt down in front of me like a knight risking his life.

 

“Don’t go?”

 

How pitiful is the expression on his face as he kneels on the floor and looks only at me.

 

“Should I not go? Okay?”

 

How much he wanted to hear that from her. He lay down like a dog obeying its master’s orders, pressed his cheek against the back of my hand on the bed, and looked up at me.

 

I opened my mouth, averting my gaze from the eyes that looked fragile.

 

“Yeah, better yet. It’s better to wear that anklet.”

 

Eunwoo Lee looked at me with a sad face and rolled his eyes. Then he got up again with an incomprehensible expression. Eunwoo Lee, with a calm and gloomy expression, tilted his head and asked, ‘Why?’

 

“I told you I didn’t like that.”

 

My lips felt dry as Lee Eun-woo asked if the worst was better than the second best.

 

She quickly stuck her tongue out, moistened her lips, and shook her head.

 

“It’s better than not being able to walk.”

 

Eunwoo Lee’s dark, deep eyes followed my tongue that was sticking out of my lips, then he smiled broadly.

 

“It’s not that you can’t walk, Soyoung. You just can’t run… … because it will hurt.”

 

Lee Eun-woo smiled brightly as if he thought it was funny. If a devil were to descend into the world, wouldn’t it be Lee Eun-woo? If he laughs like that after doing all sorts of bad things, you can’t help but think that Lee Eun-woo isn’t the culprit.

 

“Just thinking about it would be so good, Soyoung. Running

 

away, being too sick to do anything, waiting for me. Thinking you can’t run away, giving up, waiting for me to take you away again. I don’t want you to be able to walk, but then you can’t go to the bathroom when I’m not around… … so I’ll let you off for that.”

 

… … Look?

 

Even though I wasn’t paying attention at all to Lee Eun-woo’s words, I felt like I was going to lose my temper.

 

But the first thing that came to my mind when I heard Eunwoo Lee’s words was the location. There were many hints about where we would be in Eunwoo Lee’s words. It was definitely not a city where you could just grab a taxi when you ran away. Even if I left this building, I would have to walk or run for a long time. I don’t know how much that would cost.

 

Also, there is no one to help me.

 

The snowfield that day. Eunwoo Lee was more angry than I was at the fact that I was talking to someone else and clinging to that person. Like a roaring beast.

 

And secondly, Eunwoo Lee can leave this house whenever he wants. Also… … .

 

 

“What are you thinking about?”

 

I blinked at Lee Eun-woo’s words. His dangerously sparkling black eyes were searching my face earnestly as if they were trying to take out my brain.

 

“Thinking of running away?”

 

Eunwoo Lee looked at me with a pretty smile. Behind that relaxed smile, he must be biting his lips with indescribable anxiety.

 

“……If the.”

 

“huh?”

 

Eunwoo Lee looked at me as I opened my mouth obediently. No, it seemed like he was looking at the red tongue inside my mouth. The gaze that was on my tongue, it was so blatant and sinister that it would have stirred up my mouth.

 

“What if it was the other way around?”

 

“……the opposite?”

 

Eunwoo Lee followed my words well, making a hmm and nasal sound.

 

“If I… … want to run to you?”

 

“uh…….”

 

At my words, Eunwoo Lee made an expression as if he had been hit. Eunwoo Lee opened his mouth stupidly at the unexpected words, then shut it tightly.

 

And then he looked at me again. There was a slightly incomprehensible expression on his face. But he pulled my hand in his, with a face colored with overwhelming emotion.