Hello, Marie

Hello, Marie. Episode 1

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“You’re here, Jeongguk…”

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“…….”

Jeongguk steps out of the car, holding a pretty marionette in one hand and other luggage in the other. He doesn't even glance at the other marionettes waiting to greet him, and enters the house without even closing the car door.

It has always been their role to close the door that is not closed.

After Jeongguk lays the weak, drooping doll down on the sofa, he takes off his suit and sits in front of the doll in a white shirt.

Jeongguk's expression was indifferent as he cut the doll's strings, lifted the clothes to reveal a little of the belly, and injected the purple drug he had received earlier into the syringe and stabbed the doll.

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“…….”

Suddenly-

"period,"

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“I told you not to let anyone in.”

“Oh, oh. Sorry.”

I had clearly told her earlier not to let anyone in, but Mardi, the skinny marionette Leo, disobeyed and entered the room without a second thought. Realizing her mistake, she tried to leave immediately, but

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“Stand there.”

At Jeongguk's single word, she had to stand by the door. She didn't show it on the outside, but inside, she was gripped by fear. She didn't know what Jeongguk would do to her.

Jungkook, who was staring at Rio, focused on giving him life again, but the purple medicine in the small bottle had already run out.

But the doll doesn't move.

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“…….Get up now.”

Despite being injected with all the drugs and even being told to speak, the marionette An-hyeong doesn't even move.

Since this has never happened before, Jeongguk puts his finger to the tip of her nose to check if she is breathing.

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“……. How presumptuous.”

After he finished speaking, he immediately grabbed the doll by the neck.

“Kkk ...

A girl who had been acting despite being awake from the beginning. Jungkook was intrigued by the doll's first reaction to him being treated this way.

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“…I like you.”

“Hehehehe… My, my… Hehehe….”

The girl's lips gradually turned blue as she held on so tightly, and her body, which had been straining to hold on, gradually sagged. Watching this, Rio was terrified that he too would end up like her.

Jungkook quickly released the hold he had on her neck and rang the bell once, summoning his maid to come over. Despite Rio being in the room,

But when no one comes, Jeongguk rings the bell again.

Ding-

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“…….. They are not in their right minds as a group.”

After leaving those words, Jeongguk walked towards the tightly closed door, then opened it wide and headed towards the stairs to the first floor.

As soon as he disappeared from sight, the marionette approached Rio, who was tense and nervous, without even a moment to look around. It seemed as if it was trying to escape.

“Excuse me, come out with me. Hurry up.”

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“Huh…yes…?”

“Hurry up. I don’t have time.”

I tried to persuade Rio, remembering not to raise my voice for fear of being caught. All I could think about was getting out of here quickly.

Before Rio could respond, who was dumbfounded by his own words, he grabbed his wrist and walked towards a random window in the room.

The height of the window didn't matter. Without a moment's hesitation, he carefully climbed up the window, step by step, trying not to be noticed. Only Rio fidgeted.

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“Uh, over there… this….”

“Yes. Why?”

The marionette puppet focused solely on climbing onto the window, ignoring Rio's conversation from behind. However, that didn't mean it wasn't listening to Rio.

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“If you escape like that and get caught… you’ll die….”

“Excuse me, what is your name?”

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“Yes…? R, Rio… yo.”

"Okay, Mr. Rio. If you're scared, you don't have to come with me. I'll go alone."

He turns around and smiles at Rio, saying that he will go alone.

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“Oh, no… that’s not what I meant….”

“Ugh-!”

As she sat down at the window, she heard Jeongguk descending the stairs to the first floor through the door behind her. The girl quickly prepared to jump down.

"Mr. Rio, you choose. I'll jump first, so if you want to go, jump with me. If you just want to stay here, stay."

At her words, Rio was speechless and watched the girl jump away. He had never experienced anything like this in his life.

And this girl jumps out of the window without a moment's hesitation.

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Something is strange.

The floor must have been hard, and falling would have been painful, but now it was warm and painless. The girl felt something strange and opened her eyes.

“Huh… Heh heh…!”

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“Were you trying to run away?”

After finishing his words, Jungkook drops the girl he had just caught with both arms from the air. The girl immediately falls back down.

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"evil!!!"

Falling from about 170 centimeters, her tailbone felt like it had been shattered. Jeongguk looked down at the girl in pain.

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“Catch it.”

Then, three men who looked like soldiers approached the girl, two of them grabbing her arms, and one of them covering her eyes with a cloth. The girl struggled. Who would have guessed that her vision would be obstructed?

Jeongguk, who was watching everything happen right before his eyes, just watched the girl struggling and resisting without any change in expression.

Jungkook immediately gestured to the person next to him and told him to do something. The person then slowly approached the marionette girl.

“Ah ...

He slowly injected the drug into the girl. The syringe, filled with an unknown red liquid, remained inserted into her body without stopping, and she writhed in pain.

“Ugh!!! Aaaah!! Ha… haa…, what did you put in it?, haa… haa….”

The moment the drug was fully injected into her body, any remaining strength left in the girl's body was released, and she returned to her previous state before she was first given life.

At that, Jeongguk snickers and approaches the girl, grabs her small chin with his big hand and lifts it up.

“Ugh….”

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“Really? What do you think they put in it?”

The girl lifted her chin, as if she'd been injected with a drug between her neck and shoulder, but the excruciating pain was making it impossible for her to regain consciousness. Was that what Jeongguk was after?

“Ugh, ugh. Take your hands off me.”

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“Oh, you’re so pretty.”

The girl couldn't hide the goosebumps that ran through her body upon hearing those words. It was as if she didn't care if he killed her right then and there. The obstruction of her vision only made her feel even more uneasy.

I apologize. As you can see from my work [Bossy Boy], I can't write anything right now, so I'll end here. What I've written now is what I wrote last time. For more details, please see the end of episode 15 of [Bossy Boy].