"Alright, Miss Saebyul. Starting today, your name will be Kim Harin. Please sign the papers to ensure you fully accept your decision in changing your name." The employee handling Saebyul's issue said as she gave several papers to her.
"Once you've finished signing these paper, I advise you to immediately change your identity card. After that, you're good to go." She added on after receiving the papers from Saebyul. Saebyul nodded and thanked the employee before leaving the building with her mother who was sitting on one of the couches there.
—— "Come on, let's head back home now Saeb- I mean Harin." Her mother said, letting out a chuckle upon realising her mistake. "Guess I'll need to get use to calling you Harin." She added on before sipping on her drink.
Upon reaching their new house, Harin went to her room to change to a more comfortable outfit before going out to assist her mother in sorting out the furnitures. In between the family moving around their furnitures, the doorbell rang. Harin's mother went and grabbed their delivered food before thanking the delivery man.
After finishing their food, they head back to moving their furnitures. The routine continues for almost 2 days, and at some point they went out to buy some furnitures they need before their house was fully completed.
——jisung. It was almost 3 years after Saebyul's leave. By now, Jisung is now preparing for his exams in order to graduate to the next level of education.
"Jisung... I know you're still upset about her leaving but until when are you going to keep this way? Look, you're already making yourselves notorious with how you're behaving." Jaemin said.
"And? What do you want me to do? Forget the fact that I had to miss several weeks or months and left Saebyul alone, making her vulnerable to Hajin and Haru's bullying?" Jisung answered back, making Jaemin sigh in disappointment.
"Look, I don't know what else to say since you're still persistent in acting this way. All I want to say is just bear with the consequences for now. Just study and at least get a good grades to go to high school. Who knows, maybe you might meet her back again in your new high school. I need to go and handle some things." Jaemin said after a few minutes of silence, leaving Jisung in the cafeteria, eating his food.
'Meet her back? Is there a chance I could meet her again?' He thought for a while.
——harin. "Please, Haneul. She's too young to be exposed to these things. Let me do it, even if it is disgusting." Harin's mother plead.
"Another reason why I wanted my daughter to do these things, at least she'll take over my role as the leader of SH Corporation. Guards, take her away." Haneul said.
"Mom! Mom!" Harin screamed for her mother who was trying to get after her, only to be pulled back by the guards. Her mother slowly fade away from Harin's sight as she is dragged by the guards her father had called out.
The next thing she remembered was being pushed into a room and was locked from getting out, only having to stay in the complete dark. Thankfully, the light coming from the window gave her some sort of company.
—— "Look at him. Can you see how pitiful he looks?" Haneul said as he had his hands on both of Harin's shoulders. She nodded in fear, trying hard to close her eyes only for her father to forcefully open her eyes.
"No no. Do not shut your eyes, I want you to look at him and his families." Haneul said as he placed his hands on her cheeks, wiping away her tears in the process of cupping her cheeks.
Forcefully making his daughter face towards the family, Haneul took the pistol from the table and aimed it at the male, presumably the father of the family. Before the male could mutter a word, the bullet had gone through his heart. Harin screamed in shocked as she watched the man collapse after coughing out blood, while his wife cried at the sight of her husband dying.
"Saebyul... Saebyul..." The kid around her age cried as he watched his father lifeless on the ground. "No, don't kill Junyoung..." Harin said in between her sobs.
"That's not how it works, dear. You have to kill everyone, even though they're not the bad guys. Who knows? He might follow his father and become a bad guy too. Now, take this toy gun and play with your friend." Haneul said, hushing his daughter as he patted her back to calm her down. "Shoot him, for me." He added on as Harin hesitantly takes the pistol from his hand.
As much as she wanted to kill her father, she knew she'd be dead the moment her father dropped dead to the ground. His bodyguards are guarding the door. She teared up as she sees her best friend, Junyoung, crying.
"Shoot." Her father said as soft as he could, patting her shoulder in the process. Holding her tears, Harin pulled the trigger. Due to her inability to wield the pistol properly, she ended up shooting at Junyoung's arm when she had aimed it at the heart position, which her father had pointed out. Harin's hand flung back due to the force from the pistol and dropped it, Junyoung on the other hand crying in pain.
"Shoot again, dear." Haneul said again.
Harin took the pistol again and pulled the trigger, trying hard not to close her eyes knowing her father would tell her to shoot another victim. Junyoung's cries was silenced the moment she pulled the trigger. All she could hear in the silence was 'Sae...byul...' from Junyoung himself before closing his eyes shut.
The mother sobbed silently as she watched Haneul aimed the pistol to her forehead. Harin watched as the lady's forehead spilled out blood before collapsing to the ground. Haneul then place the pistol on the table and approached Harin who was crying in fear.
"There, there, Saebyul. You did well, dear. I'll treat you some chicken tender. Guards, you may sent her back to her room." Haneul called Harin's previous name, not knowing she had changed her name.
The guards nodded and helped lift Harin up. Harin dragged her feet with the help of one of the guard who, unexpectedly, was kind to her the moment she was kidnapped.
—— "I'm sorry, Harin." Harin's mother said in between her tears, as she looked out the window. Knowing what her husband's activity is like, there is no possibility she and Harin may escape from it once they are captured by the people associated with Haneul's activity.
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