Translator: Elisia
Editor/Proofreader: Wojo
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“Mmmpf!”
“Sara, it’s okay. Mommy will let you go soon.”
How can she say she’ll let me go, as if she knows exactly when and where we’re going?
Well, I suppose she will let me go eventually.
She can’t keep me tied up forever.
The problem is, what is she planning to do after she lets me go?
No, more like, what is she planning to do before letting me go?
That woman seems to be having all sorts of improper thoughts about Sara’s body right now.
What kind of mother is she?
If she truly thought of herself as Sara’s mother, she wouldn’t be doing these things.
No, she wouldn’t even be able to think about doing them.
I rolled my body with all my strength.
Thud, I fell onto the car floor.
A heavy pain surged in my stomach.
Right, I just remembered that many car backseats have a raised middle section.
It seemed like I had bumped my stomach against that part.
“Sara!”
Choi Na-kyung exclaimed in horror.
From the sound of her voice, it seemed like she was genuinely worried.
…That voice makes my skin crawl.
Choi Na-kyung had been after Sara’s body from the very beginning.
What had only been a suspicion until now solidified into certainty after seeing the current situation.
I still don’t know why.
Had Choi Na-kyung been a pedophile eyeing young Sara from the moment she saw her?
Or had she initially approached Sara with money in mind but ended up falling in love with her?
“Sara, are you okay?”
No, I’m not okay at all.
Especially not because of you.
But at least my body rolled half a turn, and now I was lying face down on the floor.
Since my stomach was perched on the raised part of the floor, it was possible for me to kneel and push myself up.
The problem was, I had no way to move from that position.
Both my legs and arms were tied up.
If I could at least move my knees, I could’ve tried to crawl forward, but in my current state, I was like an inchworm.
Thanks to Choi Na-kyung’s meticulous bindings, my movements were severely limited.
“Sara!”
Choi Na-kyung kept shouting my name, but I focused on keeping my mind clear and looked around.
What should I do now?
How can I escape this situation safely?
…Sara still hadn’t woken up.
She wasn’t responding.
Several possibilities crossed my mind, but all of them were horrific scenarios I didn’t even want to imagine.
I shook my head vigorously, trying to force those thoughts away.
…This body can’t get hurt.
And I absolutely cannot let Choi Na-kyung take it.
Because this is Sara’s body.
It’s the precious body of Sara, who means so much to me.
Because I want Sara to live a happy life.
That’s why I’ve been trying to sever this woman from her life all this time.
Thump.
I knocked my head against the driver’s seat.
“Sara!?”
Choi Na-kyung screamed again, probably because she couldn’t see me through the rearview mirror.
Ignoring her, I groaned and forced my body to twist.
After several attempts, I managed to turn toward the car door.
Next—
My mouth was gagged.
My mouth was stuffed with cloth, and of course, the cloth was soaked with my saliva.
Drool was dripping from under my lips, but I didn’t care.
More than that, I despaired over the fact that I couldn’t use my mouth.
Even without the gag, though, I wouldn’t have been able to do much with just my mouth.
If I opened the car door while it was moving, it would’ve been instant death.
Choi Na-kyung was driving as fast as she could.
The road was winding through the mountains, but there weren’t many cars.
There weren’t “many” cars.
But there definitely weren’t none.
I immediately lowered my head.
I spotted the button to lower the window.
Turning my head sideways and pressing as close to the door as possible, I dropped my head down.
After several tries, I managed to press the button with the gag in my mouth.
Whirring, the window began to roll down.
As the window lowered, I lifted my head, but before I could stick it out, the window started rolling back up.
“Sara, it’s dangerous! I’ll let you out soon, so stay calm!”
“Mmmph!”
I lowered my head and pressed the button again.
But once more, before I could raise my body, Choi Na-kyung hit the button and the window rolled up.
This time, the window didn’t even roll down all the way before going back up.
We repeated this several times.
Choi Na-kyung was now driving with her finger on the button to roll up the window, and I, with my body bound, had no chance against even one of her free hands.
Thud.
After all my attempts failed and I was trying to come up with another way, I slammed my head against the window.
Thud!
This time, harder.
Of course, I didn’t expect to break the window by hitting it with Sara’s head.
I didn’t think Sara had that kind of strength, and more importantly, I couldn’t risk injuring her.
If my friends were here, they’d be worried but would realize I wasn’t seriously hitting my head.
…But the person sitting in the front, Choi Na-kyung, wasn’t like that.
“Sara!?”
Her neck twisted toward me from the driver’s seat, but she quickly turned back to the front.
She looked like she didn’t know what to do.
Good.
Thud!
I slammed my head against the window again.
The sound was quite loud.
But I wasn’t hitting it with full force.
There was a chance it could actually break if I did that.
But Choi Na-kyung, who didn’t know… no, who didn’t know *Sara*, couldn’t tell that this was just an act.
“Sara! No! Don’t do that!”
Does she really care that much about this body?
Is she worried that after going through so much to get it, raising it so carefully, it might get damaged?
If it’s so precious to her,
If it’s so important to her,
She could have cared for it more.
Without having these twisted thoughts, she could have raised her like a real mother who loves her.
I still couldn’t understand this woman’s way of thinking.
I could understand the reasons behind her actions, the sequence of events, but I couldn’t grasp how she could do such things.
Thud!
Once again, I slammed my head into the car window.
The scenery passing outside seemed to slow down a bit.
Thud!
My head ached after hitting the window repeatedly.
Sara, I’m sorry.
If I had been a bit smarter, maybe I could’ve come up with a way that didn’t hurt.
I was about to swing my head back for another hard hit when—
Screeech—!
A dangerous sound came from the car.
“Mmph!”
Thud!
Instead of hitting the window, my head slammed into the back of the driver’s seat.
My body, which had been trying to push up, tilted and collapsed onto the car floor.
Thud, thud, my head banged against something several times.
Tears welled up.
It wasn’t just my head that hurt; as the car made a sudden stop, my body was thrown around, hitting various parts of the car.
By the time I regained my senses, I was kneeling with my head wedged between the back of the driver’s seat and the car door.
“…Why is everyone… why are they all doing this to me…”
I heard Choi Na-kyung mutter.
I groaned as I struggled to get up.
Sitting in the backseat of a car that had been speeding without a seatbelt, then coming to an abrupt stop, had caused my shoulders to slam hard into the car.
Just from the feeling, it seemed to hurt more than when I’d been banging my head against the window earlier.
“Why! Everyone! To me!”
I flinched at the ear-splitting scream.
Choi Na-kyung repeatedly slammed her hands on the steering wheel, as if she couldn’t contain her frustration.
“…”
And then, suddenly, she went quiet.
“…”
For a while, the only sounds in the car were Choi Na-kyung’s heavy breathing and my tense, shallow breaths.
…Right, I had underestimated Choi Na-kyung.
This was someone who saw her own daughter as a sexual object, knocked her out, and kidnapped her.
I had already known she wasn’t in her right mind.
The longer the silence dragged on, the more I began to tremble.
Right now, I couldn’t escape, nor could I protect myself.
“You said you loved me.”
“…”
Those words sent chills down my spine.
Yes, Sara had said “I love you” several times in the past.
She called Choi Na-kyung “Mother” and told her she was the only person important to her.
And Choi Na-kyung had smiled happily whenever she heard it.
But…
…That’s not what Sara meant.
She had isolated Sara from everyone around her, made her world devoid of life, and restricted all means of communication to herself.
She had controlled all information, like she didn’t even want Sara to be distracted by celebrities on TV or the internet.
She didn’t let her contact anyone freely.
She left no one for Sara to love but herself.
But Sara had already loved her, even before all of that.
“You said we’d be together forever!”
Choi Na-kyung slammed the steering wheel again, and I flinched.
“You said you loved me, that you wanted to see me, that you wanted to be with me forever, that you never wanted to leave me! You even stopped calling me ‘Mother’! So why, why now! Why now…”
“…”
“…Why are you trying to leave me?”
Choi Na-kyung’s voice, which had been screaming in rage, was now calm and quiet as she spoke the last words, and that calmness was utterly terrifying.