
The smartphone alarm jarred me awake every dawn. I spilled out like a tepid glass of water knocked off the nightstand. I would barely scrape myself off the floor, drag myself to the practice room, and start stretchingโonly then could I truly feel my human body with its arms and legs. Looking back on those days, my life amounted to nothing more than somehow collecting my spilt self, day after day.
*
I had attended a dance hagwon since I was thirteen. Girls like me, not pretty enough to be street-cast, enrolled in private dance schools around that age or earlier to prepare for auditions. I failed every open audition at the major entertainment companies, but after I turned fifteen, a small agency saw a clip of my dancing and asked me to audition in person. I traveled up to Seoul with my mom and passed. I signed a contract full of jargon. Cheongdam-dong, where my company was based at the time, seemed like an entirely different world from Dongjin, where I had grown up. The whole neighborhood felt like a department store: clean, gleaming, brimming with extravagance and incomprehensible foreign words. To become part of that world was enough for me.
From then on, the same pattern repeated: wake at dawn for morning practice, go to school, attend lessons at the company, practice until late at night, return to the dorm, and lull myself to sleep until the whole thing began all over again. The dorms had ten to fourteen trainees from outside Seoul living together. With a dozen long-haired girls sharing the space, hair shed onto the floor in unimaginable quantities. As I picked and picked at all those endless strands, I grew sick knowing that hair would not stop growing from our heads until we ceased to exist.
There in the dorm, every resource was scarce all the timeโeven things I had never imagined could be in short supply at my parentsโ home in Dongjin. The number of outlets in the bathroom, the size of the refrigerator, the closet, the bedโeven privacy. The only space where I could be truly alone was under the blanket on my narrow bunk bed. I would pull the blanket over my head every night and fell asleep with earbuds in. That dark and stuffy cocoon was my only place of comfort; slowly, I came to realize that the pristine department-store world had no place for me.
The agency, being small, had no proper training system and couldnโt provide decent care for trainees outside the pre-debut group. Young girls swarmed in and flocked out. Neglected like a pack of wild animals, we endured, suspecting and loathing each other one moment and clinging to each other the next. Most of us couldnโt last through the training. Old-timers relieved their anxiety by being territorial, and newcomers straggled away after long and unsuccessful attempts to get along. Every day brought conflicts, every day someone cried. When anyone could be sent home at any time, it was nearly impossible to form stable relationships or survive without growing to hate the others. I understand that now.
In my fourth year as a trainee, I finally made it into the pre-debut group. The privilege of living in a nicer dorm and dancing in a practice room that wasnโt some dingy basement excited me, but the thrill lasted only a week. All I remembered after that was the extreme, perpetual hunger.
The target weight the company set for us was our height in centimeters minus 120. So for me: 48 kilograms. My weight fluctuated between 47 and 50 kilograms depending on my menstrual cycle. For the twice-daily weigh-ins, I starved myself until I was so dizzy the sky turned yellow, but I gained weight without fail right before my period started. I was disgusted at myself for having a bodyโa living body that gained weight after eating and bloated during menstruation. Right before debut, I sweated it out at the sauna, like an athlete trying to make weight. I even chewed my food and spat it out since swallowing would turn it into fat. Some girls shoved their fingers down their throats to bring the food back up. I was expelled from the pre-debut group before I could try that.
It happened right before debut. We were already filming video logs about the debut process. The companyโs director said I didnโt โvisuallyโ fit the โconceptโ they had planned. I nodded even though I didnโt understand what that meant, exactly. I cried as I left the dorm with my belongings. Even that was filmed for the log. The girls who hadnโt been eliminated hugged me and cried with me. That was also filmed. One of the girls there always threw up everything she ate. That never was filmed. The times I had held back her long hair as she vomitedโthe acid smell, the heat rising from the toilet, the retching that was agonizing to hearโall of it remained only in my memory. I wondered if Iโd been cut because I had swallowed my food instead of throwing it up. Some pain qualified as entertainment, and some didnโt. If I had endured more pain behind the camera, could I have suffered less of it in front?
The agencyโs CEO promised me a spot as the eldest member in the next girl group. The eldest. I was already that old. On New Yearโs Day of the year I would turn nineteen, I buried myself in a long puffer jacket and walked across Seongsu Bridge, wailing, in minus-seventeen-degree cold, trembling in fear of getting old. The freezing wind slashed at my ears, and cars passed by sporadically. That day, for the first time, I considered jumping in front of one.
I survived my nineteenth year and made it to twenty, but no pre-debut group was formed. I was already a sixth-year trainee. I started to doubt myself. Would I get another chance? Wasnโt it too late already? What if certain possibilities Iโd had in life were already gone for good?
Dream, progress, challenge, courage, hope, futureโฆ My fellow trainees and the agency staff had often used these words to describe the stage of life we were supposedly in. But all that time, I had only ever thought of the end.
*
We had our end-of-month evaluation that day. Two days before my period was due. My stomach was empty, my body swollen. After the top six female trainees performed a short dance routine, we stood in a line at the center of the practice room, panting. About a dozen company staff, including the CEO, sat in a row of chairs with their arms crossed, disgruntled. After six years of this, the scene was all too familiar to me.
โSohee, you first,โ called Yeonji, the dance trainer. I took a step forward. My hair was disheveled, my breath still short.
โHow long has it been since you joined?โ she asked.
โSix years,โ I panted.
โDo you think youโve made progress during those years?โ
That was how the adults at the agency always put thingsโin a way that guaranteed a scolding no matter how I answered. If I replied โyes,โ it would seem like defiance; if I said โno,โ I would be criticized for having achieved nothing in six yearsโ time. Wouldnโt it have been more efficient to just insult me outright? Rather than giving me the pretense of a say?
I stared at the glossy wooden floor without answering. I was out of breath, my mouth dry, my head spinning, my vision dim. Yeonji asked again. Did I really think Iโd made progress in the past six years? How far did I think Iโd come?
As I kept silent, trying to wiggle out of the pressure to answer, I realized something: progress was always about going somewhere. Forward, or upward. To go is to leave; to leave is to leave something behind. I thought about those who had left me behind and raced far ahead; and about myself, suffocating under the dark, stifling blanket on my bunk bed, while everyone around me headed somewhere else, broadening their worlds.
Then I passed out.
It wasnโt a complete blackout, but consciousness went flick, flick, flick, like a fuse about to blow. The other trainees screamed, small hands grabbed and shook me, someone shouted to call 119โI staggered up only to fall again, hitting my head, setting off another burst of screamsโฆ By the time I could piece together the scenes in my memory, I was in an ambulance, with Hyerim from the Management Team staring at her phone beside me.
Still dazed, I was put through several tests before ending up on a hospital bed in the corner of a frantic emergency room, hooked up to an IV like a corpse. The cold liquid dripping into my body sent shivers through me. โItโs so coldโฆโ I murmured. โYouโre cold?โ Hyerim asked, then brought me a blue blanket from somewhere. I still trembled even with the blanket, but the fact that something covered me gave me a smallโso small it was almost patheticโsense of security. Tears suddenly spilled from my eyes, but I wasnโt sure why I was crying. I was cold, hungry, scared, and lonely, but those were not the definitive reasons. I wasnโt sure there was such a thing as a definitive reason.
โDonโt cry,โ said Hyerim. I nodded. Lying on my side, my cheek rustled against the pillowcase. โYouโve done well, youโre doing well,โ Hyerim continued. โConsider yourself dead and power through.โ I kept nodding, rubbing my face against the pillow.
Consider myself deadโฆ Once I debuted, would it be as if the time Iโd spent โdeadโ never happened? No way. The dead stayed dead. In a sense, I was already dead. The thought made my living body feel alien to me.
The tests showed no major abnormalities. The doctor said I simply had severe anemia and needed to eat proper meals. As I listened, I stole glances at Hyerim, trying to gauge her thoughts for some reason. After Iโd shuddered through the whole IV bag, we stepped out of the emergency room. The sun had already set. Hyerim handed me a 50,000 won bill and told me to take a cab back to the dorm, then left in one herself. I stood there, staring at the cars streaking down the night street, and felt the familiar urge to jump in front of them. Ever since that New Yearโs Day that Iโd turned nineteen, the impulse had never left me. I wanted somethingโanythingโto come and knock me over. To kill my living body that was already dead.
While waiting for the taxi app to load, I compulsively checked my KakaoTalk messages. There was a message from an unknown contact: โKim Minjeong.โ I couldnโt place the name.
Sohee, how are you doing? This is Minjeong, your classmate in the 7th and 8th grade! Not sure you remember me. Iโm in Seoul for college, and you just popped into my mind, so I decided to message you, hehe. Are you still in Seoul? I miss you. Why donโt we grab dinner sometime?
Seized by an inexplicable urge, I called this โKim Minjeong.โ How should I put it? I felt like I had nothing to lose. Maybe something strange had been slipped into my IV. More than anything, I was desperate. So desperate I could die.
โHello?โ
โHello. Minjeong?โ
โSohee? Is that you?โ
โIt is. Can I ask where you live?โ
โOh, Iโฆ How should I put it? In Mapo-gu?โ
โCould I crash at your place for the night, by any chance?โ
โToday? Right now?โ
โYeah.โ
Minjeong was silent for a moment. She must have been outside, judging from the noise in the background. I waited quietly for a rejection. If Minjeong turned me down, then I was really going toโฆ
โOkay. Are you taking the bus?โ
โWait, I can come?โ
โYeah. Iโll tell you the closest bus stop. Itโs right in front of my houseโฆโ
What was her deal? I was the one whoโd asked out of the blue to stay the night, yet now I found myself trying to figure out if Minjeong could be a cult member or an organ trader. I couldnโt tell for sure, but I preferred her to be a mystery; anyone who could knock me over and spill me out would do.
Steadying my uneven breaths, I asked for her address so that I could take a cab. In the taxi, I slowly searched my memories. Kim Minjeong, Kim Minjeongโฆ It was a common name. Her profile picture on KakaoTalk was blank, so I couldnโt check her face.
Outside the apartment building at the address, a girl was really standing there. As soon as I got out of the taxi, she walked up and called, โSohee?โ I had assumed I would remember something once I saw her, but I still couldnโt place her. Not only her name but her face was plainโa face impossible to describe, one with no defining features.
โHey, Minjeong, itโs me, Sohee.โ I gave her an awkward smile, and she stiffly waved. She smelled faintly of liquor. Or maybe antiseptic. Iโd always had trouble telling the two apart.
โHave you eaten yet?โ she asked. I hesitated, then shook my head. That was the first time I had said no that day.
Minjeong lived in an efficiency studio. It was the size of my pre-debut dorm room. A desk and a chair sat in one corner, a frameless mattress in the other. Above the yellowed curtain hung fairy lights, their glow rather sad. I could smell bleach from the open bathroom.
โI cleaned a bit since you were coming, but itโs still messy. Iโm sorryโฆ Should we order something for delivery? Do you like Yupdduk?โ
โSure,โ I mumbled.
Minjeong paused in the middle of taking off her coat and stared at my face, unblinking. โYou look pale, almost like a corpse. You okay?โ
โIt must be the cold.โ
Minjeong turned up the heat without another word.
We sat side by side, leaning against the mattress, and waited for the Yupdduk tteokbokki to arrive. For someone who had reached out first, Minjeong didnโt say much about herself. Instead, she stuck to superficial topicsโthe recent weather, preferred Yupdduk spiciness levels. And for someone who had so boldly barged in at night, I kept up a reserved front: โYeah, it suddenly got colder. My feet are freezing when I wake up in the morning.โ โItโs been over three years since I last had Yupdduk.โ We exchanged empty words. I had been dozing off without realizing it when the doorbell startled me awake. Minjeong giggled. Her laughter put my mind at ease, somehow.
We set up the folding table and dug in. We had ordered the mild flavor, but the tteokbokki was so spicy that I dripped with sweat. My stomach burned as if someone were scraping the walls of my insides with a toilet brush. As I fought the cramping pain, I felt a strange euphoria. I sat there gaping and panting while Minjeong poured me a glass of plum-flavored yogurt drink.
โYou donโt handle spicy food that well, do you? I didnโt know. I shouldโve ordered something else. Were you like this in middle school, too?โ Minjeong murmured, more to herself than to me.
I gulped down the yogurt. โI dunno. Donโt remember. But werenโt you drinking with your friends earlier? Did you have to leave because of me?โ
Minjeong looked surprised. โHow did you know?โ
โYou just looked like it.โ
โDo I smell? A lot?โ
Her flustered reaction made me laugh.
โNo, just a little. Itโs okay. I like the smell of liquor.โ I was talking nonsense, and I wasnโt even drunk.
โWe were just celebrating after wrapping up a group project, but it was boring,โ Minjeong said, wiping the table clean. โI should thank you for getting me out of there.โ
โGroup projectโฆโ I repeated. โYou sound like a proper college student.โ
Minjeong chuckled. But she didnโt ask if I was in college, too. Instead, she said:
โI re-took the college entrance exam.โ
I wasnโt sure how to react, so I just breathed ahh as I closed the lid on the Yupdduk container.
โShould I put the leftovers in the fridge?โ
โOh, let me.โ Minjeong took the container and put it in the refrigerator. Peering inside, she asked, โDo you want a beer?โ
โSure.โ I wasnโt worried about my weight anymore. It was as if the spice had half knocked sense out of me.
โThereโs no Yupdduk in Dongjin, you know,โ said Minjeong.
โYeah?โ I smiled weakly. โI came to Seoul so long ago, I donโt really rememberโฆโ
Minjeong nodded with sympathy. โI was in Dongjin until last year. I studied by myself to retake the college entrance exam. All my high school friends got into college and had Yupdduk and went clubbingโฆ But I stayed behind. Do you know what it feels like to be left alone in a town without Yupdduk?โ
Wouldnโt it feel similar to being left in an unlit practice room as a so-called โtrainee?โ I thought. Feeling like a nobody. Feeling abandoned, ashamed to still be alive, while everyone else moved forward, or upward, achieving something called โprogress.โ
Minjeong slurped her beer. โI like Seoul a lot. Thereโs the Han River, thereโs Seoul Forest, and I can get food delivered in the middle of the nightโฆ Should we order something else?โ
My stomach was on fire and ready to explode, but I nodded.
Before the fried chicken arrived, I threw up everything I had eaten. I hunched over the toilet as sour, spicy liquid poured out of me. Minjeong seemed shaken, but she soon rubbed my back and held my long hair away so the vomit wouldnโt get on itโjust like I had done for other girls.
โIโm sorryโฆโ I murmured between retches, and Minjeong replied, โYou have nothing to be sorry about, Iโm sorry.โ Undigested tteok and eomuk pieces jabbed my throat and brought me to tears. After Iโd puked it all up, I rinsed my mouth and washed my face. That was when the fried chicken arrived.
โDo you think you can eat?โ asked Minjeong, and I burst out laughing in disbelief.
We set out the chicken on the table and half-sprawled on the floor, utterly exhausted. The beer seemed to kick in only then, and silly giggles slipped out.
โI was so happy when we were in the same class two years in a row,โ said Minjeong suddenly.
โWhy?โ I blurted out.
โYou know, itโs just, you were famous for being pretty since the start of middle school,โ she chuckled.
โNo way.โ I waved her off, but Minjeong laughed even louder.
โYouโre blushing.โ
โItโs because I just threw up.โ
โSure, letโs go with that.โ
But I could feel my cheeks flushing. My face pulsed with my heart. Thump. Thump. Thump.
โSohee,โ Minjeong whispered.
โHmm?โ
โDid you have a crush on me back then?โ
Hahaha. The question was so ridiculous that I burst out laughing. Not just any laugh, but roaring fits of laughter. I couldnโt recall the last time Iโd cracked up like that. I laughed my head off for a long time, then asked, โWhat do you mean by that?โ
โYou couldโve just said no, you know,โ Minjeong pouted, though her words had no real bite. โNo need to laugh like that.โ
โSorry. But it was funny.โ
While I was blotting the tears from my eyes, Minjeong sipped her beer and grimaced, moping that it had gone lukewarm. She crawled to the fridge for a new one. โIโm out of beer,โ she muttered. Then she continued, in the same tone, โI liked you, you know.โ
โWhat?โ
โI used to have a crush on you. Wasnโt a big deal. I fell for all the pretty girls at least once.โ
My brain froze. I stared at Minjeong. Her expression was nonchalant, as if to say it really wasnโt a big deal.
After a short, awkward standoff, Minjeong spoke first, โIโm gonna get some more beer. Do you want anything?โ
I hesitated, then shook my head. She said okay, put on her coat, and went out.
I pulled myself upright and, this time, seriously tried to remember who Minjeong was. Absolutely nothing came back. She could have mistaken me for a different person, but she seemed to remember me clearly. How could that be? How could a person so thoroughly erase another from memory? How? I floundered under the weight of the question before slipping back into a shallow sleep.
In the fog of my drowsiness, I sensed cold air from outside rushing into the apartment. Minjeong must have come back. For some reason, I pretended to be asleep. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale; controlling my breathing made me actually sleepy again. The room was silentโsilent enough to distinguish my even breaths from Minjeongโs heavier ones. I felt her approach carefully and sit down next to me. The silence wrapped around us like a blanket. Minjeong was watching me; even with my eyes closed, I could feel that gaze with absolute clarity.
At that moment, a scene flashed in my mindโa small piece of memory I couldnโt date. Sometime in middle school, a lunchtime in early summer. I was slumped over my desk. I wasnโt asleep but hoped to look like I was. I was miserable and hungry because the friends who used to eat with me had shut me out. I was softer then than I was now, and that was enough to sent me into despair. I had been lying there face-down, thinking: Iโd rather die, am I allowed to drop out of middle school?โwhen I heard footsteps. Someone approached and plopped into the seat in front of me, then gazed at me for a long time. A warm breath fell on the crown of my head. The desk was warm against my cheek, while the cold draft from the air conditioner passed between my knees. The rustle of my uniform skirt. The texture of that overt, insistent gaze.
She stared at me for a very long time but didnโt touch me. Yet I had clearly been hauled up from an extremely shallow death, back to life. When someone holds you with a long stare at the moment your life has grown so thin and weak that it feels like it might snapโthe experience may fade but it does not vanish.
Was that you? I wanted to ask, but I had fallen into a deeper sleep than I thought, and all I could manage sounded something like, โUhh-uah.โ My eyelids were so heavily I couldnโt lift them. Minjeongโs breath smelled faintly of cigarettes. She whispered, โSohee, arenโt you uncomfortable sleeping here? Get on the bed.โ I wriggled up onto the mattress. And finally, blackout.
The next day, Minjeong said she had a morning class but I could stay as long as I wanted, and left. Sprawled on the mattress, half asleep, I might have murmured, โMmm, thank youโโor dreamed I did, and been asleep the whole time. Either way, the sun was high by the time I woke up, and Minjeong wasnโt home. I slowly cleaned up the mess from the night before, made the bed, and sat there for a while before I left. I ignored all my missed calls and texts and sent only a KakaoTalk message to Minjeong:
Thank you for letting me crash!
Her reply came while I was on the bus back to the company.
It was good to see you ๐ Come again sometime.
But in the back of my mind, I already knew I could never visit Minjeong again. I had been too desperate, too exhausted the night before. I thought about the people who couldnโt become a story but remained a scene, those who couldnโt develop into a relationship but stayed an encounter; about my life that numerous nobodies held onto and pieced together, like a string of forlorn fairy lights glimmering in a desolate studio apartment. I could sense that something had come looking for me overnight and had narrowly missed me. This time, I wanted to remember that the person who had gazed at me that day was Minjeongโbut the more I tried to recall her face, the more it faded away.
*
In the end, I didnโt get to debut. It wasnโt on my terms; I was cut again from the pre-debut group a year later. My failure was once again explained in vague terms like โconceptโ and โvisual.โ I didnโt want to try to understand those words anymore. I didnโt want to be desperate anymore.
During my trainee days, I was often told I was relentless. But now I know that I shouldnโt have been that way. A girl group member should be diligent but not unyielding, should be slim and pretty but not throw up her food to stay that way. Even submitting to such contradictions was a talent in itself, and perhaps I didnโt have it in me.
Not even a hollow promise for the future was made this time. I was too old; there was no next time, and certain possibilities in my life were extinguished at twenty-one. I had spent seven years preparing and practicing, but nothing had come of it. Yet all that time, I had been alive, and I still was. This was nothing like that one night when death had been closer than life. The things Iโd had to endure were not โthe stepping stones of progress.โ Pain was just pain, and insults were just insults.
As I cleaned out my dorm room and headed back to my family in Dongjin, I sent a KakaoTalk message to Minjeong for the first time since that morning.
Iโm going back to Dongjin. Iโve quit what Iโd been doing. Let me know if you ever come back to visit!
She didnโt reply. Was Minjeong disappointed in me? For leaving Seoul, where there was the Han River, Seoul Forest, and food delivered in the middle of the night? For failing to become a part of that glistening world after all?
I worked part-time jobs in Dongjin, at a franchise cafe and a cosmetics store. I would sob a little on the way home over rude customers, but a hearty dinner gave me the strength to go back to work the next day. I weighed 55 kilograms, and my vision didnโt black out during my period anymore, and my head didnโt throb whenever I stood up.
At the cafe where I worked, I ran into a classmate from middle school. Her name flashed in my mind while I was taking her order. โArenโt you Park Jiyoon from Dongjin Middle School?โ
Jiyoon was startled. โYang Sohee?โ
Dongjin had no college. Jiyoon was one of the girls who hadnโt left for university. She said she was looking after her mother who had cancer. โI donโt think she has much longer. Iโm gonna take the entrance exam and go to college after she passes away,โ she said calmly. I couldnโt find the right words and swallowed a mouthful of coffee instead.
โHow about you? Are you taking time off from school?โ Jiyoon asked. I shook my head.
โThe thing I was doing in Seoul didnโt work out, so I came back for now.โ
Much was omitted in my response, but Jiyoon didnโt press. We were sharing the sentiment of those left behind in Dongjin, those who didnโt belong in the glistening world: lethargy, or a faint sense of defeat.
โHey, do you happen to remember a girl named Minjeong? Kim Minjeong?โ I asked.
Jiyoon frowned, โI canโt say for sureโฆ Wait, wasnโt she a short girl with a long bob? Or, no, a short bob?โ
I tried to recall Minjeongโs height and hairstyle from back then, but nothing came to mind. Still, I nodded, โI think so.โ
โWell, I think I kinda remember her, but maybe notโฆโ Jiyoon mulled it over for a while before she finally asked, โWhy? Who is she?โ
โI think I might have had a crush on her back then.โ
Jiyoonโs jaw dropped. โBut sheโs a girl.โ
How was that the point here? I laughed out loud. How funny, and yet, how sad. Now I knew. That night when I had met up with Minjeong, I had wanted to live. I wished so fiercely to live that I could have died wishing. I went to see her thinking that I wanted to die, but in fact, I wanted to live. I thought I yearned to be spilled over, but in fact, Iโd longed to be held on to. And so my life continued on, and would continue on.
When a Yupdduk store opened in Dongjin, I thought of Minjeong for the first time in a while. I stared at her still-empty profile picture on KakaoTalk. I sent a message to the faceless girl.
Dongjin now has Yupdduk.
She never replied, and that was fine with me. Even if she was a nobody to me now, I was fine. I hoped the same for Minjeong.
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ํด๋ํฐ ์๋์ ์๋ฒฝ๋ง๋ค ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ณค๋ค. ๋๋ ๋ฏธ์ง๊ทผํด์ง ์๋ฆฌ๋ผ์ฒ๋ผ ์์ง๋ฌ์ก๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ์์์ง ๋๋ฅผ ๊ฒจ์ฐ๊ฒจ์ฐ ์ฃผ์ ๋ชจ์ ์ฐ์ต์ค๋ก ์ถ๊ทผํด์ ์คํธ๋ ์นญ์ ํ๋ฉด, ๊ทธ์ ์ผ ํ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋ฆฐ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ชธ์ ๊ฐ๊ฐํ ์ ์์๋ค. ํ์คํ, ๊ทธ ์์ ์ ๋๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์์ง๋ฌ์ง ๋๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ๋ ์์ตํ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ผ๋ก ์ด์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค.
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๋์ค ํ์์ ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ด๋ค ์ด ๋๋ถํฐ์๋ค. ๊ธธ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์บ์คํ ์ด ๋ ๋งํผ ๋ฐ์ด๋๊ฒ ์์์ง ์์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ค์ ๋๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋๋ถํฐ, ํน์ ๊ทธ์ ๋ถํฐ ํ์์ ๋ค๋๋ฉฐ ์ค๋์ ์ ์ค๋นํ๋ค. ๋ํ ๊ธฐํ์ฌ์ ๊ณต์ฑ ์ค๋์ ์์๋ ๋ฒ๋ฒ์ด ๋จ์ด์ก๊ณ , ์ด์ฌ์ฏ, ์ค3 ๋ ์ค์ํ ๊ธฐํ์ฌ ํ๋์์ ๋ด ์์์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋๋ฉด ์ค๋์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฌ ์ค๋ผ๋ ์ ์์ ํ๋ค. ์๋ง์ ํจ๊ป ์์ธ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ฉด ์ค๋์ ์ ๋ดค๊ณ , ํฉ๊ฒฉ ํต๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๋ค. ์์๋ค์ ์ ์๋ ๋ง๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ ๊ณ์ฝ์์ ์ฌ์ธ์ ํ๋ค. ๋น์ ์ฌ์ฅ์ด ์์นํด ์๋ ์ฒญ๋ด๋์ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ด๋ ๋์ง๊ณผ๋ ์์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ธ๊ณ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์๋ค. ๋๋ค ์ ์ฒด๊ฐ ๋ฐฑํ์ ๊ฐ์๋ค๊ณ ํ ๊น. ๊นจ๋ํ๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋ค๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋น์ผ ๊ฒ๋ค๊ณผ ์์๋ค์ ์ ์๋ ์ธ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ. ๊ทธ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด, ๋๋ ๊ธฐ๋ปค๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ค์๋ถํฐ๋ ์๋ฒฝ์ ์ผ์ด๋ ์์นจ ์ฐ์ต์ ํ๊ณ , ํ๊ต์ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ฐ ํ๊ต ํ์๋ ์ฐ์ต์ค์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ ์จ์ ๋ฐ๊ณ , ๋ ์จ์ด ๋๋๋ฉด ๋ฐค๊น์ง ์ฐ์ต์ ํ๋ค๊ฐ ์์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ์ฒญํ๊ณ ๋ค์ ํ๊ต์ ๊ฐ๋ ํจํด์ ๋ฐ๋ณต์ด์๋ค. ์ฐ์ต์ ์์์๋ ๋์ฒ๋ผ ์ง๋ฐฉ์์ ์ฌ๋ผ์จ ์ฐ์ต์๋ค์ด ๋์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ด ๋ช ์์ ์ด๋ค ๋ช ๊น์ง ๋ชจ์ฌ ์ด์๋ค. ์ด๊นจ์ ์ ๋๋ ๊ธด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ ์ฌ์์ ์ด๋ค ๋ช ์ด ํ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋ชจ์ฌ ์ด๋ฉด ์์์ ์ด์ํ ๋งํผ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ์ด ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ๋จ์ด์ง๋ค. ๋์์ด ์์ด๋ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ์ ์ค๊ณ , ์ค๊ณ , ๋ ์ค๋ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ฌธ๋ ์ธ๊ฐ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ์ด ๊ณ์ ์๋๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ด ์ง๊ธ์ง๊ธํด์ง๊ณค ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์ ์ธ์ ๋, ๋ชจ๋ ์์์ด, ๋ถ์กฑํ๋ค. ๋์ง์์ ๋ถ๋ชจ๋๊ณผ ์ด ๋๋ ๋ถ์กฑํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์์์กฐ์ฐจ ํด ๋ณด์ง ๋ชปํ ๊ฒ๋ค๊น์ง. ํ์ฅ์ค๊ณผ ์ฝ์ผํธ์ ๊ฐ์๋ ๋์ฅ๊ณ ์ ์ท์ฅ๊ณผ ์นจ๋์ ๋์ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ๋ผ์ด๋ฒ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ์จ์ ํ ํผ์ ์์ ์ ์๋ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ถ ์๋ฐ์ ์์๋ค. ๋๋ ์ข๋ค๋ ์ด์ธต ์นจ๋์์ ๋ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋๊น์ง ์ด๋ถ์ ๋ค์ง์ด์ฐ๊ณ ์ด์ดํฐ์ ๊ฝ์ ์ฑ ์ ๋ค์๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ด๋ก๊ณ ํ ํ ํ ๊ณต๊ฐ๋ง์ ํธ์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋๊ผ๋ค. ๋๋ ์ฒ์ฒํ, ๊นจ๋ํ๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋ค๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋น์ผ ๊ฒ๋ค๊ณผ ์์๋ค์ ์ ์๋ ์ธ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ ์ธ๊ณ์๋ ๋ด ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์ ๊ฐ๋ค.
ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ์์์์ธ์ง ์ ๋๋ก ๋ ํธ๋ ์ด๋ ์์คํ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์์ด์, ๋ฐ๋ท ์กฐ๊ฐ ์๋ ์ฐ์ต์๋ค์ ์ ๋๋ก ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค. ์ด๋ฆฐ์ ๋ค์ด ์ฐ๋ฅด๋ฅด ๋ค์ด์๋ค๊ฐ ๋ ์ฐ๋ฅด๋ฅด ๋๊ฐ๋ค. ๋ค์ง์น์ฒ๋ผ ๋ฐฉ์น๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ก๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณํ๊ณ ๋ฏธ์ํ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ ๋์ด์์๋ค๊ฐ ํ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฌ๋ ๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ฒฌ๋์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ์ ๋ค์ด ๋ ๋ง์๋ค. ๊ณ ์ฐธ๋ค์ ์กฐ๊ธํ๊ณ ๋ถ์ํ ๋ง์์ ํ ์ธ๋ก ํ์๊ณ , ์ ์ ๋ค์ ๋์น๋ง ๋ณด๋ค๊ฐ ๋๊ฐ๋จ์ด์ก๋ค. ๋งค์ผ ๊ฐ๋ฑ์ด ์์๊ณ ๋งค์ผ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ์ธ์๋ค. ๋๊ฐ ์ธ์ ์ง์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋ ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ ์ํฉ์์ ์์ ์ ์ธ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ๋ ์ด๋ ต๋ค๋ ๊ฒ. ๊ทธ ์ ๋์ ์คํธ๋ ์ค ์ํฉ์์ ๋จ์ ๋ฏธ์ํ์ง ์๊ณ ๋ฒํฐ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค๋ค๋ ๊ฒ. ์ด์ ๋ ์ดํดํ๋ค.
4๋ ์ฐจ, ์ด์ํ ์ด ๋ ์ฒ์ ๋ฐ๋ท ์กฐ์ ๋ค์๋ค. ์ง์ ์ฐ์ต์ค๊ณผ ๋ฐ๋ท ์กฐ ์์๋ฅผ ์ธ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ง์์ด ๋ค๋ฌ ๊ฑด ์ฒซ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ์ ๋์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ค์๋ถํฐ๋ ๊ทธ์ ์ง๋ ํ๊ฒ ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ๊ณ ํ ๋ค๋ ๊ธฐ์ต๋ฐ์ ๋์ง ์๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ์๊ตฌํ๋ ๋ชธ๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ํค์์ ๋ฐฑ์ด์ญ์ ๋บ ๋งํผ์ด์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๊น ๋ด ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์ฌ์ญํ ํฌ๋ก. ๊ทธ๋ ๋๋ ์ฌ์ญ์น ์์ ์ค์ญ ํฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ์ค๊ฐ๋ค. ๋๋ ์๋ฆฌ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ์ ๋ง์ถฐ ๋ชธ๋ฌด๊ฒ๊ฐ ํฐ ํญ์ผ๋ก ์ค๋ฅด๋ฝ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ฝํ๋ ํธ์ด์๋ค. ํ๋ฃจ์ ๋ ๋ฒ์ฉ ๋ชธ๋ฌด๊ฒ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฉฐ ํ๋์ด ๋ ธ๋์ง ๋๊น์ง ๊ตถ์์ง๋ง ์๋ฆฌ ์ง์ ์ด ๋๋ฉด ์ด๊น์์ด ๋ชธ๋ฌด๊ฒ๊ฐ ๋์๋ค. ๋ด๊ฒ ๋ชธ์ด ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ, ๋ฐฅ์ ๋จน์ผ๋ฉด ์ด์ด ์ฐ๊ณ ์๋ฆฌ ๋๋ฉด ๋ถํธ๋ ์ด์ ์๋ ๋ชธ์ด ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ฐํด์ก๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ท๊ฐ ์๋ฐํ์ ๋๋ ์ฒด๊ธ์ ๋ง์ถ๋ ค๋ ์ด๋์ ์์ฒ๋ผ ์ฌ์ฐ๋์์ ๋์ ๋นผ๋ค๊ฐ ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ํ ์ ๋ ์๊ณ , ๋ฐฅ์ ์ผํค๋ฉด ์ด์ด ์ฐ๋๊น ์น๋ค ๋ฑ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์จ ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋์ ์น์ด ์ผํจ ๋ฐฅ์ด ์ํ๋๊ธฐ ์ ๋ชฉ๊ตฌ๋ฉ์ ์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ ๋ฃ์ด ํ ํ๋ ์ ๋ค๋ ์์๋ค. ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ๊น์ง ํ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ท ์กฐ์์ ํ๋ฝํ๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ท ์ง์ ์ด์๋ค. ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฐ๋ท ๊ณผ์ ์ ๋ด์ ์์ฒด ์ฝํ ์ธ ๋ ์ดฌ์ ์ค์ด์๋ค. ์ด์ฌ๋์ ๋ด๊ฐ ํ์ฌ์์ ๊ธฐํํ โ์ฝ์ ํธโ์ โ๋น์ฃผ์ผ์ โ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์ง ์๋๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๋๋ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ ํํ ๋ฌด์จ ๋ง์ธ์ง๋ ์ดํดํ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ฑ๋ก ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ท ์กฐ ์์์์ ์ง์ ์ฑ๊ฒจ ๋์ค๋ฉด์ ์ธ์๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ชจ์ต๊น์ง ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ์ ๋ด๊ฒผ๋ค. ํ๋ฝํ์ง ์์ ๋ฐ๋ท ์กฐ ์ ๋ค์ด ๋๋ฅผ ๋์ด์๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์ธ์ด ์ฃผ์๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ชจ์ต๋ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ์ ๋ด๊ฒผ๋ค. ๊ทธ์ค์๋ ๋จน์ ๋ฐฅ์ ์ ๋ถ ํ ํ๋ ์ ๋ ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฑด ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ์ ๋ด๊ธฐ์ง ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ ๊ฐ ํ ํ ๋๋ง๋ค ๊ธด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ์ ์ก์ ์ค ์ผ, ๊ทธ๋์ ์ํผํ ๋์์ ๋ณ๊ธฐ์์ ์ฌ๋ผ์ค๋ ์ด๊ธฐ์ ๋ฃ๊ธฐ๋ง ํด๋ ๊ณ ํต์ค๋ฌ์ด ํ ํ๋ ์๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๋ด ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์๋ง ๋จ์๋ค. ๋๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ฐฅ์ ํ ํ๋ ๋์ ์น์ด ์ผ์ผฐ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋ฐ๋ท ์กฐ์์ ํ๋ฝํ ๊ฑธ๊น, ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋ค. ์ด๋ค ๊ณ ํต์ ์ฝํ ์ธ ์์ง๋ง ์ด๋ค ๊ณ ํต์ ์ฝํ ์ธ ๊ฐ ๋ ์ ์์๋ค. ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ ๋ค์์ ๋ ๊ณ ํต์ค๋ฌ์ ๋ค๋ฉด ๋๋ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ ์์์ ๋ ๊ณ ํต์ค๋ฌ์ธ ์ ์์์๊น.
๋ํ์ค์ ๋ถ๋ ค๊ฐ ๋ค์์ ๋์ฌ ๊ฑธ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ ์ฒซ์งธ๋ฅผ ์์ผ ์ฃผ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ์ฝ์์ ๋ฐ์๋ค. ๊ฑธ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ ์ฒซ์งธ. ๋๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ทธ ์ ๋๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ ๋ค์ด ์์๋ค. ์ค๋ฌด ์ด์ด ๋ ์ํด ์ฒซ๋ ์ ์๋ฒฝ์๋ ๋์ด๋ฅผ ๋จน๋ ๊ฒ ๋ฌด์์์ ๋กฑํจ๋ฉ์ ๋ค์ง์ด์ฐ๊ณ ์ํ ์ญ์น ๋์ ์ฑ์๋๊ต๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋๋ฉด์ ์ธ์๋ค. ๊ท๊ฐ ๋จ์ด์ง ๋ฏ ์๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ๋์ด ๋ถ์๊ณ ๋ด ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋๋ฌธ๋๋ฌธ ์ฐจ๋ค์ด ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐจ๋์ ๋ฐ์ด๋ค๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ ํ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์ค๋ฌด ์ด์ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ์ค๋ฌผํ ์ด์ ๋ง์ดํ ๋๊น์ง, ์๋ก ๋ฐ๋ท ์กฐ๋ ๊พธ๋ ค์ง์ง ์์๋ค. ๋๋ ์ด๋๋ง 6๋ ์ฐจ ์ฐ์ต์์ด ๋์ด ์์๋ค. ๋๋ ์์ฌํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ๋ด๊ฒ ๋ค์ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์๊น? ์ด์ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฆ์ ๊ฑด ์๋๊น? ๋ด ์ธ์์ ์ด๋ค ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์์ ํ ๋๋๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ ์๋๊น?
๊ฟ, ์ฑ์ฅ, ๋์ , ์ฉ๊ธฐ, ํฌ๋ง, ๋ฏธ๋ยทยทยทยทยทยท ๋๋ฃ ์ฐ์ต์๋ค๊ณผ ํ์ฌ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋จ์ด๋ค์ ์ฆ๊ฒจ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ค. ์ง๊ธ์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์๊ธฐ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ค ํ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ ๋๋ ๋งค์ผ ๋์ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
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๊ทธ๋ ์ ์๋ง ํ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์๋ ๋ ์ด์๋ค. ์๋ฆฌ ์ดํ ์ ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ๋๋ ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ๊ณ ํ ๊ณ , ๋ชธ์ ๋ถ์ด ์์๋ค. ์์๊ถ ์ฌ์ ์ฐ์ต์ ์ฌ์ฏ ๋ช ์ด์ ์ค๋นํ ์งง์ ํผํฌ๋จผ์ค๊ฐ ๋๋ ํ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์จ์ ๋ชฐ์์ฌ๋ฉฐ ์ฐ์ต์ค ํ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ์ ๋ชจ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ค. ๋ํ๋์ ํฌํจํ ์ด ๋ช ๊ฐ๋์ ํ์ฌ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๊ฑฐ์ธ ์์ ๋์ธ ์์์ ํ์งฑ์ ๋ผ๊ณ ์์ ํํ์ง ์์ ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์๋ค. 6๋ ์ฐจ์ธ ๋ด๊ฒ๋ ์ด๊ณจ์ด ๋ ๋งํผ ์ต์ํ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด์๋ค.
โ์ํฌ๋ถํฐ ๋์ ๋ด.โ ๋์ค ํธ๋ ์ด๋์ธ ์ฐ์ง ์์ด ๋งํ๋ค. ๋๋ ํ ๋ฐ์ง ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฑธ์ด๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ค. ์์ง ์๋ง์ผ๋ก ํํด์ด์ง ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฒ ์ฐฌ ์จ์ ๊ฐ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ฑ์๋ค.
โ๋ ์ฐ์ตํ ์ง ๋ช ๋ ๋์ด.โ ์ฐ์ง ์์ ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
โ6๋ ์ด์.โ ๋๋ ํ๋ก์ด๋ฉฐ ๋๋ตํ๋ค.
โ๋ค๊ฐ ์๊ฐํ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ค๊ฐ ์ฑ์ฅํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ?โ
ํ์ฌ ์ด๋ฅธ๋ค์ ๊ผญ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์์ผ๋ก ๋งํ๋ค. ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋ตํด๋ ํผ๋ ์๋ฐ์ ์๊ฒ. โ๋คโ๋ผ๊ณ ๋๋ตํ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ฐํญํ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , โ์๋์โ๋ผ๊ณ ๋๋ตํ๋ค๋ฉด 6๋ ๊ฐ ๋์ฒด ๋ญ ํ๋๋ ์์ ๋ง์ ๋ค์ด์ผ ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์ฒ์๋ถํฐ ๋ชจ์์ ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ด์ง ์์๊ฐ? ๊ตณ์ด ๋ด๊ฒ ์นผ์๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ฅ์ฌ ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค๋?
๋๋ ๋๋ตํ์ง ์๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ค๋ฐ๋คํ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฐ๋ฅ๋ง ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค. ์จ์ด ๊ฐ์๊ณ ์ ์ด ๋ง๋ฅด๊ณ ์ด์ง๋ฝ๊ณ ์์ผ๊ฐ ์บ์บํ๋ค. ์ฐ์ง ์์ด ๋ค์ ๋ฌผ์๋ค. ์ง๋ 6๋ ๊ฐ ๋ค๊ฐ ์ฑ์ฅํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ผ๋๊ณ . ์ด๋๊น์ง ์จ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ผ๋๊ณ . ์ฌ์ ํ ์ ์ ๋ค๋ฌธ ์ฑ ๋์น๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ ์ค ๋๋ ๋ฌธ๋ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ๋ ์ด๋๋ก ๊ฐ โ๊ฐ๋โ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ด์๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก. ๋๋ ์๋ก. ๊ฐ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ ๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ. ๋ ๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ญ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋จ๊ฒจ ๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ. ๋๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋จ๊ฒจ ๋๊ณ ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ์ด๊ฐ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ํด ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ๋ค๋ค ์ด๋๊ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ์๊ธฐ ์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ํ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ ๋์, ์ด์ธต ์นจ๋ ์์ ์ด๋ก๊ณ ํ ํ ํ ์ด๋ถ ์์์ ์ง์ํด ๊ฐ๋ ๋์ ๋ํด์๋.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋ ๊ธฐ์ ํ๋ค.
์์ ํ ๋ธ๋์์์ ์๋์๊ณ , ๋๊ธธ๋ ๋ง๋ ํ๋ ํจ์ฆ์ฒ๋ผ ์์์ด ๊น๋นก, ๊น๋นก, ๊น๋นก๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค. ๋ด ์์์ ์ ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฐ์ต์ ์ ๋ค์ด ๊บ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ง๋ฅด๊ณ , ์์ ์๋ค์ด ๋๋ฅผ ์ก๊ณ ํ๋ค๊ณ , 119๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ฅด๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์ฃผ์ถค์ฃผ์ถค ์ผ์ด์๋ ค๋ค๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋์ด์ง๋ฉด์ ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ณ , ๋ค์ ๋น๋ช ์ด ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ยทยทยทยทยทยท. ๋ง์นจ๋ด ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ณด๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด๋ค์ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์ด ์๊ธธ ๋งํผ ์์์ ํ๋ณตํ์ ๋์ ๋๋ ๊ตฌ๊ธ์ฐจ์ ํ๊ณ ์์๊ณ , ๋งค๋์ง๋จผํธ ํ์ ํ๋ฆผ ํ์ฅ๋์ด ๋ด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋งก์ ์์ ํธ๋ํฐ์ ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ณด๊ณ ์์๋ค.
๋ฉํ ์ํ๋ก ์ด๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ , ๋ถ์ฃผํ ์๊ธ์ค ํํธ์ ์นจ๋์ ์์ฒด์ฒ๋ผ ๋์ ๋ง๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง์๋ค. ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ์ก์ฒด๊ฐ ๋ค์ด์ค๊ณ ์์ด์์ธ์ง ๋ชธ์ด ๋ถ๋ค๋ถ๋ค ๋จ๋ฆด ๋งํผ ์ถ์ ๋ค. โ๋๋ฌด ์ถ์ยทยทยทยทยทยท.โ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ค์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํ๋ฆผ ํ์ฅ๋์ด ์ถ์? ํ๊ณ ๋ฌป๋๋ ์ด๋์์ ๊ฐ ํธ๋ฅธ์ ๋ด์ ํ ์ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ ธ๋ค์ฃผ์๋ค. ๋ด์๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์ด๋ ์ถ์ด ๊ฑด ๋๊ฐ์์ง๋ง, ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ ๋ด ์์ ๋ฎ์ฌ ์๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ด ์์ฃผ ์์, ์๋ค ๋ชปํด ๊ถ์ํ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌผ์ด ๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋๋ฐ ๋๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ ์ฐ๋์ง ์ ํํ๋ ์ ์ ์์๋ค. ์ถฅ๊ณ ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ๊ณ ํ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ญ๊ณ ์ธ๋ก์ ์ง๋ง ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ์ธ ์ด์ ๋ ์๋์๋ค. ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ์ธ ์ด์ ๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ ์๋์ง๋ ์ ์ ์ ์์๋ค. โ์ธ์ง ๋ง.โ ํ๋ฆผ ํ์ฅ๋์ด ๋งํ๋ค. ๋๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ก ๋์ด ์ฑ๋ผ ๋ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฒ ๊ฐฏ์์ ๋บจ์ด ๋ง๊ตฌ ๋น๋ฒผ์ก๋ค. โ์ํ์ด, ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑฐ์ผ. ์ฃฝ์๋ค ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ๋ ํ๊ฒ ํด์ผ ๋ผ.โ ํ๋ฆผ ํ์ฅ๋์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋งํ๋ค. ๋๋ ๊ณ์ํด์ ๋ฒ ๊ฐ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋น๋น๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค. ์ฃฝ์๋ค ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ยทยทยทยทยทยท ๋ฐ๋ทํ๊ณ ๋๋ฉด, โ์ฃฝ์ด ์๋โ ์๊ฐ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๋๋ ๊ฑธ๊น? ๊ทธ๋ด ๋ฆฌ ์์๋ค. ํ๋ฒ ์ฃฝ์ ์ฌ๋์ด ๋์ด์๋ ์๋ ์๋ค. ์ด๋ค ์๋ฏธ๋ก ๋๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฃฝ์ ์ฌ๋์ด์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ์ ์ด์ ์๋ ๋ด ๋ชธ์ด ๋ฌด์ฒ ์ด์ํ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ก๋ค.
๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋ณ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ด์ ์๊ฒฌ์ ์์๋ค. ์์ฌ๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋นํ์ด ์์ฃผ ์ฌํ๋ค๊ณ , ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๋๋ก ์ฑ๊ฒจ ๋จน์ผ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ง์ ๋ค์์ ๋ ์ ์ง ๋๋ ํ๋ฆผ ํ์ฅ๋์ ๋์น๋ฅผ ๋ดค๋ค. ๋๋ ๋จ๋ฉฐ ๋ง๊ฑฐ ํ ํต์ ๋ค ๋ง๊ณ ์๊ธ์ค์์ ๋์ค์ ํด๊ฐ ์ ธ ์์๋ค. ํ๋ฆผ ํ์ฅ๋์ด ์ค๋ง ์๊ถ ํ ์ฅ์ ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ ํ์๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ ๋ค, ๋จผ์ ํ์๋ฅผ ์ก์ํ๊ณ ๋ ๋ฌ๋ค. ์ด๋์ด ๋ฐค๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์ฝ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฐจ๋ค์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ์์ ๋ฐ์ด๋ค๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ ์ต์ํ ์ถฉ๋์ ๋๊ผ๋ค. ์ค๋ฌด ์ด์ ์ฒซ๋ ๋ถํฐ ๊ทธ ์ถฉ๋์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ ์ ์ด ์์๋ค. ๋ฌด์์ด๋ ๋๋ฅผ ์์ง๋ฌ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ. ์ฃฝ์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ๋์ ์ด์ ์๋ ๋ชธ์ ์ฃฝ์ฌ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ.
๋๋ ํธ๋ํฐ์ ์ผ๊ณ ํ์ ์ฑ์ด ์๋ํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ค๊ฐ ์ต๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก ์นด์นด์คํก์ ํ์ธํ๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ ์ด๋ฆ์๊ฒ์ ๋ฉ์์ง๊ฐ ํ๋ ์ ์์๋ค. โ๊น๋ฏผ์ .โ ๋๊ตฌ์ธ์ง ๋ ์ค๋ฅด์ง ์์๋ค.
โ์ํฌ์ผ ์ ์ง๋ด? ๋ ๋๋ ์ค 1, 2 ๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ด์๋ ๊น๋ฏผ์ ์ด์ผ! ๊ธฐ์ต๋ ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ค ใ ใ ๋ ์์ธ์์ ๋ํ ๋ค๋๋๋ฐ, ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ์๊ฐ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฝํด ๋ดค์ด ใ ใ ๊ณ์ ์์ธ์ ์์ด? ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ๋ค. ์ธ์ ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐฅ์ด๋ ๋จน์๋?โ
๋๋ ์ค๋ช ํ ์ ์๋ ์ถฉ๋์ ํฉ์ธ์ฌ โ๊น๋ฏผ์ โ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ทธ ์ ์๊ฒ ์ ํ๋ฅผ ๊ฑธ์๋ค. ๋ญ๋๊นยทยทยทยทยทยท ๋ฐ์ ธ์ผ ๋ณธ์ ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ง์์ด์๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ง์ ๋ง๊ฑฐ์ ๋ญ๊ฐ ์๋ชป๋ ์ฑ๋ถ์ด ๋ค์ด ์์๋์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๋๋ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ค. ์ฃฝ์ ๋งํผ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ค.
โยทยทยทยทยทยท์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์?โ
โ์ฌ๋ณด์ธ์. ๋ฏผ์ ์ด?โ
โ์ํฌ? ์ํฌ์ผ?โ
โ์, ๋ ํน์ ์ด๋์ ์ด์?โ
โ์ด? ๋ยทยทยทยทยทยท ์ด๋๋ผ๊ณ ํด์ผ ํ์ง? ๋งํฌ๊ตฌ?โ
โํน์ ๋ ์ข ์ฌ์ ์ค ์ ์์ด?โ
โ์ค๋? ์ง๊ธ?โ
โ์.โ
๋ฏผ์ ์ ์ ์ ๋ง์ด ์์๋ค. ๋ฐ์ธ์ง ์ฃผ์๊ฐ ์๋์๋ํ๋ค. ๋๋ ์์ ํ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋นํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ๋๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ ํ๋ค๋ฉด ๋๋ ์ ๋ง๋กยทยทยทยทยทยท.
โ๊ทธ๋. ๋ฒ์ค ํ๊ณ ์?โ
โ์ฌ์ ์ค๋ค๊ณ ?โ
โ์. ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ฒ์ค ์ ๋ฅ์ฅ ์๋ ค ์ค๊ฒ. ๋ฐ๋ก ์ง ์์ด๋ผยทยทยทยทยทยท.โ
์ ๋ญ์ง? ๋ค์ง๊ณ ์ง ์ฌ์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ ์ฃผ์ ์ ๋๋ ์ ์ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ์ฌ์ด๋น ์ข ๊ต์ ๋น ์ก๋ค๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ด ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋นผ๊ฐ ๋งํ ์ ์ธ์ง ์๊ฐํด ๋ณด์๋ค. ์ญ์, ์ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ค์๋ค. ๊ทธํธ์ด ์ข์๋ค. ๋๊ตฌ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ์์ง๋ฌ ์ค ์ ์๋ค๋ฉด. ๋๋ ๋จ๋ฆฌ๋ ํธํก์ ๊ฐ๋ค๋ฌ์ผ๋ฉฐ ํ์๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ ๋ ์์ทจ๋ฐฉ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ์๋ ค ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค. ํ์ ์์์ ๋๋ ์ฒ์ฒํ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋๋ฌ์ด ๋ณด์๋ค. ๊น๋ฏผ์ , ๊น๋ฏผ์ ยทยทยทยทยทยท. ํํ ์ด๋ฆ์ด์๋ค. ์นด์นด์คํก ํ๋กํ์ด ๋น์ด ์์ด ์ผ๊ตด์ ํ์ธํ ์๋ ์์๋ค.
๋ฏผ์ ์ด ์๋ ค ์ค ์คํผ์คํ ์์๋ ์ ๋ง๋ก ์ฌ์์ ํ๋๊ฐ ๋์ ์์๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ํ์์์ ๋ด๋ฆฌ์ ๊ทธ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๋๋ โ์ํฌ?โ ํ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ ๋ค. ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ญ๋ผ๋ ๋ ์ค๋ฅผ ์ค ์์๋๋ฐ, ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ทธ ์ ์ ์ ์ฒด๋ ์ค๋ฆฌ๋ฌด์ค์ด์๋ค. ์ด๋ฆ๋ง ํํ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ ์ผ๊ตด๋ ํํ๋ค. ๋ฌ์ฌํ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ค์ด ์ผ๊ตด. ํน์ง์ด ์๋ ์ผ๊ตด์ด์๋ค. โ์ด, ๋ฏผ์ ์. ๋ ์ํฌ์ผ.โ ๋๋ ์ด์ํ๊ฒ ๋งํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ ๋ ์ด์ํ๊ฒ ์์ ํ๋ค์๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์๊ฒ์๋ ํฌ๋ฏธํ๊ฒ ์ ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋ค. ์๋ ์๋ ์ฝ ๋์์ธ์ง๋. ์ฌ์ค ๋๋ ๊ทธ ๋์ ๊ตฌ๋ณํ๋ ๊ฒ ์ข ์ด๋ ค์ ๋ค. โ๋ฐฅ์ ๋จน์์ด?โ ๊ทธ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฌผ์๋ค. ๋๋ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ ์๋ค. ์ค๋ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ ์ด ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
๋ฏผ์ ์ ์ง์ ์๋ฃธ์ด์๋ค. ํฌ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ฐ๋ท ์กฐ ์์์ ๋ฐฉ ํ๋์ ๋น์ทํ๋ค. ๋ฐฉ์ ํ์ชฝ์๋ ์ฑ ์๊ณผ ์์๊ฐ, ๋ค๋ฅธ ํ์ชฝ์๋ ํ๋ ์ ์๋ ๋งคํธ๋ฆฌ์ค๊ฐ ๋ฉ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋์ฌ ์์๊ณ , ์ฐฝ์ ๊ฐ๋ฆฐ ๋๋ฅด์ค๋ฆํ ์ปคํผ ์๋ก๋ ์ต๋ ์ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ง์ด๊ณ ์์๋๋ฐ ๊ทธ ๋ชจ์ต์ด ์ด๋์ง ์ฒ๋ํ๋ค. ๋ฌธ์ด ์ด๋ฆฐ ํ์ฅ์ค์์๋ ๋ฝ์ค ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋ค.
โ๋ ์จ๋ค๊ณ ์น์ ๋๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ง์ ๋ถํ๋ค. ์ซ ๋ฏผ๋งํ๋คยทยทยทยทยทยท. ๋ญ ์์ผ ๋จน์๊น? ์ฝ๋ก ์ข์ํด?โ
โ์. ์ข์.โ ๋๋ ์ค์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ์ธํฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฒ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ง๊ณ ๋ด ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋นคํ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค.
โ๋ ์ผ๊ตด์ด ์ฐฝ๋ฐฑํด. ๊ผญ ์์ฒด ๊ฐ์ . ๊ด์ฐฎ์?โ
โ์ถ์์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ๊ฐ ๋ด.โ
๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋ง์์ด ๋ณด์ผ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ ธ๋ค.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋๋ํ ๋งคํธ๋ฆฌ์ค์ ๋ฑ์ ๊ธฐ๋๊ณ ์์ ์ฝ๋ก์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค. ๋จผ์ ์ฐ๋ฝํ ์ฌ๋์น๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ์์ ์ ๊ทผํฉ์ ๋ํด ๋ณ๋ง์ด ์์๋ค. ๋์ ๊ทธ ์ ๋ ์ต๊ทผ์ ๋ ์จ์ ์ ํธํ๋ ์ฝ๋ก์ ๋งต๊ธฐ ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ํผ์์ ์ธ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๋ํด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๋ค. ๋ ์ญ์ ๊ธฐ์ธ ์ข๊ฒ ์ณ๋ค์ด์จ ์ฌ๋์น๊ณ ์์ฌํ ํ๋๋ก ์ผ๊ดํ๋ค. โ์, ์์ ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ์ถ์์ก์ง. ์์นจ์ ์ผ์ด๋๋ฉด ๋ฐ์ด ์๋ฆฌ๋๋ผ๊ตฌ.โ โ๋ ์ฝ๋ก ์ ๋จน์ ์ง 3๋ ๋์์ด.โ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ๋ง๋ค์ด ์ค๊ฐ๋ค. ๋๋ ์ค์ค๋ก ์์ํ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ ๊พธ๋ฒ ๊พธ๋ฒ ์กธ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค๊ฐ ์ด์ธ์ข ์๋ฆฌ์ ์์ค๋ผ์น๊ฒ ๋๋ผ ๊นผ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ํค๋ํค๋ ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ ๊ฐ ์์ ์ ์ง ๋ง์์ด ๋์๋ค.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ ํด๊ณ ์์ ์ฝ๋ก์ ๋จน์๋ค. ๋ถ๋ช ์ํ ๋ง์ผ๋ก ์์ผฐ๋๋ฐ๋ ๋๋ฌด ๋งค์์ ๋์ด ์ค์ค ๋ฌ๋ค. ์์ด ๋ฌด์ฒ ์ฐ๋ ธ๋ค. ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ๋ณ๊ธฐ ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑธ๋ก ์๋ฒฝ์ ๋ง๊ตฌ ๊ธ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด์๋ค. ์์ฅ์ ์ฅ๊ฐ ๋ ๋ฏํ ๊ณ ํต ์์์ ๋๋ ๋ฌํ ์พ๊ฐ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ์ ์ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์จ์ ํ๋ก์ด์ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ์๋ ๋ง ์ฟจํผ์ค๋ฅผ ํ ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ฃผ์๋ค. โ๋ ๋งค์ด ๊ฑฐ ๋๊ฒ ๋ชป ๋จน๋๊ตฌ๋. ๋ชฐ๋์ด. ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑฐ ์ํฌ๊ฑธ. ์คํ๊ต ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋?โ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ํผ์ฃ๋ง์ฒ๋ผ ์ค์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค. ๋๋ ์ฟจํผ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฒ์ปฅ๋ฒ์ปฅ ๋ง์๊ณ ๋๋ตํ๋ค. โ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ด. ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ์ ๋. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ๋ ์ ๋ง์๋ค ์จ ๊ฑฐ ์๋? ๋ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋์จ ๊ฑฐ์ผ?โ
๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋๋ ์ผ๊ตด์ ํ๋ค. โ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์์ด?โ
โ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ณด์์ด.โ
โ๋ ์ ๋์ ๋? ๋ง์ด ๋?โ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ์ฐ์์ข์ํ์ ๊ดํ ์์์ด ๋ฌ๋ค.
โ์๋, ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ ๋นํ ๋. ๊ด์ฐฎ์. ๋ ์ ๋์ ์ข์ํด.โ ๋๋ ์ ์ ๋ง์์ง๋ ์์๋๋ฐ ํ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค.
โ๊ทธ๋ฅ ํํ ๋คํ์ด์๋๋ฐ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์์์ด. ๋ ๋๋ถ์ ๋น ์ ธ๋์์ ์ข์์ง ๋ญ.โ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ๋ฌผํฐ์๋ก ๋ฐฅ์์ ํ์น๋ฉฐ ๋งํ๋ค. โํํ ๋คํ์ดยทยทยทยทยทยท.โ ๋๋ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ํ๋ค. โ์ง์ง ๋ํ์ ๊ฐ๋ค.โ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ํํ ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด์๋ ๋ด๊ฒ ๋ํ์ ๋ค๋์ง ์๋ ๊ฑฐ๋๊ณ ๋ฌป์ง๋ ์์๋ค. ๋์ ,
โ๋ ์ฌ์๋ฅผ ํ์ด.โ
ํ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค. ๋๋ ์ด๋ค ๋ฐ์์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ผ ํ ์ง ๋ชฐ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ผ์, ํ๋ฉฐ ์ฝ๋ก ์ฉ๊ธฐ์ ๋๊ป์ ๋ซ์๋ค.
โ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋จ์ ๊ฑฐ ๋์ฅ๊ณ ์ ๋ฃ์๊น?โ
โ์ด, ๋ด๊ฐ ํ ๊ฒ.โ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ๋ด๊ฒ์ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด ๋์ฅ๊ณ ์์ ๋ฃ์๋ค. ๋์ฅ๊ณ ์์ ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ณด๋ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ๋ฌผ์๋ค. โ๋งฅ์ฃผ ๋ง์ค๋?โ
โ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง ๋ญ.โ ์ด ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑด ์ด์ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ๋์ง๋ ์์๋ค. ๋๋ฌด ๋งค์ด ๊ฑธ ๋จน์๋๋ ์ ์ ์ด ๋ฐ์ฏค ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
โ๋์ง์๋ ์ฝ๋ก์ด ์์์.โ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ๋งํ๋ค.
โ๊ทธ๋ฐ๊ฐ?โ ๋๋ ๋ฉ์ฉ๊ฒ ์์๋ค. โ๋๋ฌด ์๋ ์ ์์ธ๋ก ์์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ์ยทยทยทยทยทยท.โ
๋ฏผ์ ์ ์ดํดํ๋ค๋ ๋ฏ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค. โ๋ ์๋ ๊น์ง ๋์ง์ ์์๊ฑฐ๋ . ๋ ํ ์ฌ์ ํด๊ฐ์ง๊ณ . ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต ์น๊ตฌ๋ค ๋ค ๋ํ ๊ฐ์ ์ฝ๋ก๋ ๋จน๊ณ ํด๋ฝ๋ ๊ฐ๊ณ ํ๋๋ฐยทยทยทยทยทยท ๋๋ ๋์ง์ ๋จ์ ์์์ด. ํผ์ ์ฝ๋ก ์๋ ๋๋ค์ ๋จ๊ฒจ์ง๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ์ด๋ค์ง ์์?โ
์กฐ๋ช ์๋ ์ฐ์ต์ค์ โ์ฐ์ต์โ์ผ๋ก ๋จ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๋น์ทํ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ์๋๊น, ๋๋ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ์๋ ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ. ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ก, ์๋๋ฉด ์๋ก ๋์๊ฐ ๋, ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๊น โ์ฑ์ฅโ์ด๋ ๊ฑธ ํ ๋. ํผ์ ๋จ๊ฒจ์ง ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ. ์ด์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ์ผ์น์๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ. ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ํธ๋ก๋ก, ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผฐ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค. โ๋ ์์ธ์ด ์ฐธ ์ข์. ํ๊ฐ๋ ์๊ณ , ์์ธ์ฒ๋ ์๊ณ , ์๋ฒฝ์๋ ๋ญ ์์ผ ๋จน์ ์ ์๊ณ ยทยทยทยทยทยท ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ญ ๋ ์์ผ ๋จน์๋?โ ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ํฐ์ง ๋ฏ์ด ์์ด ์ฐ๋ ธ์ง๋ง ๋๋ ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค.
์๋ก ์ํจ ์นํจ์ด ์ค๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์ ๋๋ ๋จน์ ๊ฒ์ ์ฃ๋ค ํ ํ๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ณ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ์ฒ๋ฐ๊ณ ์ ๋งต๊ณ ์ํผํ ์ก์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ค์ค ๋ฑ์ด ๋ด์ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋ฌด์ฒ ๋นํฉํดํ๋ฉด์๋ ๋ด ๋ฑ์ ๋๋๋ ค ์ฃผ๊ณ ๊ธด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ์ ํ ์ฌ๋ฌผ์ด ๋ฌป์ง ์๋๋ก ๋ค์ด ์ฌ๋ ค ์ฃผ์๋ค. ์ธ์ ๊ฐ ๋ด๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ. โ๋ฏธ์ํดยทยทยทยทยทยท.โ ํ ํ๋ฉด์ ๋๋ ์ ์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ์ โ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ญ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ์ํด, ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ฏธ์ํ์งโ ํ๋ค. ์ ๋๋ก ์ํ๋์ง ์์ ๋ก๊ณผ ์ค๋ ์กฐ๊ฐ๋ค์ด ์ฌ์ ์์ด ๋ชฉ๊ตฌ๋ฉ์ ์ฐ๋ฌ ๋๋ฌผ์ด ์ฐ๋ ๋ฌ๋ค. ๋ค ํ ํ๊ณ ์ ์ ํน๊ตฌ๋ ๊น์ ์ธ์๋ฅผ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์นํจ์ด ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค. โ๋จน์ ์ ์๊ฒ ์ด?โ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ๋ฌผ์๊ณ ๋๋ ์ด์ด๊ฐ ์์ด์ ๊น๊น ์์๋ค.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ์์ ์นํจ์ ํผ์ณ ๋๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ง๋งฅ์งํ ์ฑ ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ๋ฐ์ฏค ๋์ ๋ค. ์ ๊ธฐ์ด์ด ๊ทธ์ ์ผ ์ฌ๋ผ์ค๋์ง ์ค์๋ ์์์ด ์๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ๋ฌธ๋ ๋งํ๋ค. โ๋ ๋๋ 2๋ ์ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ ๋ผ์ ์ง์ง ์ข์์ด.โ
โ์?โ ๋๋ ๋ฐ์ฌ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
โ๊ทธ๋ฅ, ๋ ์๋ป์ 1ํ๋ ๋๋ถํฐ ์ ๋ช ํ์์.โ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ํํ ์์๋ค.
โ๋ญ ์๋ฆฌ์ผ.โ ๋ด๊ฐ ํ์ฉ ๋ฐ์ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋ ํฌ๊ฒ ์์๋ค.
โ๋ ์ผ๊ตด ๋นจ๊ฐ์ก๋ค.โ
โ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ํ ํด์ ๊ทธ๋.โ
โ์์์ด. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ ์ณ.โ ์ ๋ง๋ก ๋บจ์ด ๋ฌ์์ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ก๋ค. ์ผ๊ตด์์ ๋งฅ๋ฐ์ด ๋ฐ๊ณ ์์๋ค. ์ฟต. ์ฟต. ์ฟต.
โ์ํฌ์ผ.โ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ์๊ฒ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ ๋ค.
โ์?โ
โ๋ ํน์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ข์ํ์ด?โ
ํํํ. ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ง ์ด์ด๊ฐ ์์ด์ ธ ์์์ ํฐ๋จ๋ ธ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์์ ๊ฒ๋ ์๋๊ณ ํญ์ํ๋ค. ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์์ด ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์ธ์ ์ธ์ง ๊ธฐ์ต๋ ๋์ง ์์๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ํ์ฐธ ๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ์ก๊ณ ์๋ค๊ฐ โ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฌด์จ ์๋ฆฌ์ผ?โ ํ๊ณ ๋ฌป์ ๋งคํธ๋ฆฌ์ค์ ํ์ ๊ดด๊ณ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ์ฑ์ ์์ด ํญ์ํ๋ค.
โ์๋๋ฉด ์๋ ๊ฑฐ์ง ๋ญ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ๊น์ง ์์ด?โ
โ๋ฏธ์. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์๊ธฐ์์.โ
๋ด๊ฐ ๋๊ฐ์ ๊ณ ์ธ ๋๋ฌผ์ ์ฐ์ด ๋ด๋ ๋์ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ ๋ง์๋๋ ์ด๊ฒ ๊ทธ์ ๋ฏธ์ง๊ทผํด์ก๋ค๋ฉฐ ์ธ์์ ์ง์ด ๋ณด์๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์ ์๊ธ์๊ธ ๊ธฐ์ด ์ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ด๋ฌ ๊ฐ๋ค. โ๋งฅ์ฃผ๊ฐ ๋ ์๋ค.โ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ์ค์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๊ฐ ์๋ค๊ณ ํ ๋์ ์กฐ๊ธ๋ ๋ค๋ฅด์ง ์์ ์ด์กฐ๋ก ๋งํ๋ค. โ๋๋ ๋ ์ข์ํ๊ฑฐ๋ .โ
โ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ ?โ
โ๋๋ ๋ ์ข์ํ๋ค๊ณ . ๋ณ๊ฑด ์๋์ผ. ์์ ์ ๋ค์ ํ ๋ฒ์ฉ ๋ค ์ข์ํ์ด.โ
์ ์ ์ฌ๊ณ ํ๋ก๊ฐ ๋ฉ์ท๋ค. ๋๋ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋นคํ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ ๋ ์ ๋ง๋ก ๋ณ์ผ์ด ์๋๋ผ๋ ๋ฏ ์ฌ์ํ ํ์ ์ ํ๊ณ ์์๋ค. ์ ์ ๋ฌํ ๋์น๊ฐ ์ด์ด์ง๋ ์ค, ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ๋งํ๋ค. โ๋ ์ ์ข ๋ ์ฌ ์์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค. ๋๋ ๋ญ ์ฌ๋ค ์ค?โ ๋๋ ๋ง์ค์ด๋ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ ์๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์ ์์์ด, ํ๊ณ ์ธํฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๋๋ ์ ๋ง ๋๊ฐ๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
๋๋ ๋ชธ์ ์ถ์ค๋ฅด๊ณ ์์, ์ด๋ฒ์์ผ๋ง๋ก ์ง์งํ๊ฒ, ๋ฏผ์ ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ตํด ๋ณด๋ ค ์ ์ผ๋ค. ์ ๋ง์ด์ง ๋ ์ค๋ฅด๋ ๊ฒ ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์์๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์ชฝ์์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ์ฐฉ๊ฐํ๋ค๊ธฐ์, ๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ๊ธฐ์ตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์๋ค. ์ด๋ด ์๊ฐ ์์๊น? ํ ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋์ ์ดํ ๋ก ์๋ฒฝํ ๊ธฐ์ต์์ ์ญ์ ํด๋ฒ๋ฆด ์๊ฐ, ์์๊น? ๋๋ ๋ฌต์งํ ์๋ฌธ ์์์ ํ์ฐ์ ๋๋ค ๋ ์ ์ ์ ๋ค์๋ค.
๋ชฝ๋กฑํ ์ค์๋ ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐ๊นฅ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํ ๋ฐ๋ ค ๋ค์ด์ค๋ ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ก๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ๋์์จ ๋ชจ์์ด์๋ค. ์ ์ง ๋๋ ๊ณ์ํด์ ์๋ ์ฒ์ ํ๋ค. ๋ค์จ, ๋ ์จ. ๋ค์จ, ๋ ์จ. ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋์ฒ๋ผ ์ฒ์ฒํ ์จ์ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ณ ์์๋ ์ ๋ง๋ก ๋ค์ ์ ์ด ์ค๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ์ง ์์ ๊ณ ์ํ๋ค. ๊ท์น์ ์ธ ๋ด ์จ์๋ฆฌ์ ๊ทธ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฐญ์ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ์จ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋ณํ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ. ๋๋ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ ๋ด ๊ณ์ ๋ค๊ฐ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐ์ฒ์ ๋๊ผ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ค์ ์ ๋ง์ด ์ด๋ถ์ฒ๋ผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์๋ค. ๋๋ ๋์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ์์ ๋ง์ ์์ฃผ ๋๋ ทํ๊ฒ ๋๋ ์ ์์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฌ์ ๋ฌธ๋ ๋ ์ค๋ฅด๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด์ด ์์๋ค. ์ ํํ ์ธ์ ์ธ์ง ์ง์ด ๋ผ ์ ์๋, ๊ทธ์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ํ ํธ๋ฆฐ. ์คํ์ ๋์๋ค. ์ด์ฌ๋ฆ์ ์ ์ฌ์๊ฐ. ๋๋ ์ฑ ์์ ์๋๋ ค ์์๋ค. ์๊ณ ์์ง ์์์ง๋ง ์๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ด๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ฉด์. ๋๋ ๋น์ฐธํ๊ณ ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ๊ณ ํ ๋๋ฐ, ํญ์ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐฅ์ ๋จน์ผ๋ฌ ๋ค๋๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ด ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋ ธ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋๋ ์ง๊ธ๋ณด๋ค ๋ง๋๋ง๋ํด์, ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ๊ฐ๋จํ ๋น์ฐธํด์ง ์ ์์๋ค. ์ฑ ์์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ฌป๊ณ ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์ฃฝ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค, ์คํ๊ต๋ ์ํดํ ์ ์์๊นยทยทยทยทยทยท ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋ ์ค, ๋๋ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค์๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๋ ์๋ฐ์๋ฐ ๋ค๊ฐ์ ๋ด ์์๋ฆฌ์ ํธ์ฉ ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ณ ๋ ํ์ฐธ์ด๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค. ์๋๋ฆฐ ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์๋ก ๋ฐ๋ํ ์ ๊น์ด ๋ฟ์๋ค. ๋บจ์ ๋ถ์ ์ฑ ์์ ์ฒด์จ์ ๋ฏธ์ง๊ทผํด์ ธ ์์๊ณ , ๋ ๋ฌด๋ฆ ์ฌ์ด๋ก๋ ์์ด์ปจ ๋ฐ๋์ด ๋ค์ด์๋ค. ๊ต๋ณต ์๋ฝ์ด ์ฌ๊ฐ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฆฌ. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ์์ , ๋์ง๊ธด ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์ด. ๊ทธ๋ ์์ฃผ ์ค๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์์ง๋ง ๋ง์ง์ง๋ ์์๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋๋ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ๋์ด์ฌ๋ ค์ก๋ค. ์์ฃผ ์์ ์ฃฝ์์์, ๋ค์ ์ถ์ผ๋ก. ์ถ์ด ๋๋ฌด๋ ๊ฐ๋๋ค๋๊ณ ์ฐ์ฝํด์ ๊ณง ๋์ด์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ์, ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์ ๊ธด ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ถ์กํ๋ ๊ฒฝํ. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฑด ์ํ๋๋ผ๋ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง์ง ์๋๋ค.
๋์๋? ๋ฌผ์ด๋ณด๋ ค ํ์ผ๋, ๋๋ ๋ด ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ๊น์ ์ ์ ๋น ์ ธ ์์๋์ง ์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋์ค๋ ๊ฑด โ์ด์ด์ฐ์โ ๋น์ทํ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฟ์ด์๋ค. ๋๊บผํ์ด ๋ฌด๊ฒ๊ฒ ์ ๊ฒจ ๋๋ฌด์ง ์ด๊ณ ์ผ์ด๋ ์๊ฐ ์์๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์ ์จ์์ ์ ๊ฒ ๋ด๋ฐฐ ๋์๊ฐ ํ๊ฒจ์๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ ๊ฐ ์์ญ์๋ค. โ์ํฌ์ผ, ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ถํธํ๊ฒ ์์ง ๋ง๊ณ ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ์ ์.โ ๋๋ ๊ฟํ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋งคํธ๋ฆฌ์ค ์๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง์นจ๋ด ๋ธ๋์์์ด์๋ค.
๋ค์ ๋ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ์ค์ ์์ ์ด ์๋ค๋ฉฐ, ์๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋งํผ ์๋ค ๊ฐ๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ ๋จ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค. ๋งคํธ๋ฆฌ์ค ์์ ์๋ฌด๋ ๊ฒ๋ ๋์ ๋ฐ์๋ฉด ์ํ๋ก ์, ๊ณ ๋ง์, ํ๊ณ ์ค์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฟ์ ๊ฟจ์ ๋ฟ ์ค๊ณง ์๊ณ ์์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ์ฌํํผ ์ผ์ด๋ ๋ณด๋ ํด๊ฐ ์ค์ฒ์ด์๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ์ง์ ์์๋ค. ๋๋ ์ฃผ์ฌ์ฃผ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฒ์ฌ ๋์ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์น์ฐ๊ณ , ์ด๋ถ์ ๊ฐ์ด ๋๊ณ ์ ์ ์์ ์๋ค๊ฐ ์ง์ ๋์๋ค. ์์ฌ ์๋ ๋ถ์ฌ์ค ์ ํ์ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ค์ ๋ค๋กํ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ์๊ฒ ์นด์นด์คํก ๋ฉ์์ง ํ๋๋ฅผ ๋จ๊ฒผ๋ค.
โ์ฌ์ ์ค์ ๊ณ ๋ง์!โ
๋ต์ฅ์ ํ์ฌ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฒ์ค ์์์ ๋ฐ์๋ค.
โ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ ๋คใ ใ ๋ ๋๋ฌ ์.โ
ํ์ง๋ง ๋๋ ์ด๋ ดํ์ด ์ ์ ์์๋ค. ์๋ง ๋ค์ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ์ง์ ๋๋ฌ ๊ฐ ์ผ์ ์๊ธฐ์ง ์์ ๊ฑฐ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ด์ ฏ๋ฐค์ ๋๋ ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ , ๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ง์ณ ์์์ผ๋๊น. ๋๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ง ๋ชปํ ์ฑ ์ด๋ค ์ฅ๋ฉด์ผ๋ก ๋จ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค, ๊ด๊ณ๋ก ๋ฐ์ ํ์ง ๋ชปํ๊ณ ์ด๋ค ๋ง์ฃผ์นจ์ผ๋ก ๋จ์ ์ธ์ฐ๋ค์ ๋ํด ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ๊ธฐ์ต์กฐ์ฐจ ๋์ง ์๋ ์๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ถ์ก๊ณ ์ด์ด ๋ธ, ํ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ํ ์์ทจ๋ฐฉ์ ์ต๋ ์ ๊ตฌ์ฒ๋ผ ์ด๋ผํ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ๋์ ์ถ์ ๋ํด ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ๊ฐ๋ฐค์ ์ฐพ์์จ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์์ฌ์์ฌํ๊ฒ ๋๋ฅผ ๋น์ผ ๊ฐ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์, ๋๋ ๋๋ ์ ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ด์ค ๊ฒ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์, ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ๊ผญ, ๊ธฐ์ตํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฏผ์ ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ค ํ ์๋ก ํ๋ ค์ง๊ธฐ๋ง ํ๋ค.
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๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋๋ ๋ฐ๋ทํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค. ๋ด ์์ง๋ก ๊ทธ๋ง๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๋์๊ณ , ์ผ ๋ ํ ๋ค์ ๊พธ๋ ค์ง ๋ฐ๋ท ์กฐ์์ ํ๋ฝํ๋ค. ๋์ ์คํจ๋ ์ด๋ฒ์๋ โ์ฝ์ ํธโ๋ โ๋น์ฃผ์ผโ์ด๋ ํ๋ ๋ชจํธํ ๋ง๋ค๋ก ์ค๋ช ๋์๋ค. ๋๋ ๋ ์ด์ ๊ทธ ๋ง๋ค์ ์ดํดํ๋ ค ์ ์ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ง ์์๋ค. ๋ ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ง ์์๋ค.
์ฐ์ต์ ์์ ๋๋ ๋ ํ๋ค๋ ๋ง์ ์์ฃผ ๋ค์๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ด์ ๋ ์๋ค. ๊ฑธ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ ์ฑ์คํด์ผ ํ์ผ๋ ๋ ํด์ ์ ๋๊ณ , ๋ง๋ฅด๊ณ ์๋ป์ผ ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ฌ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋จน์ ๊ฒ์ ํ ํด์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ชจ์์ ์์ํ๋ ๊ฒ์กฐ์ฐจ ํ๋์ ์์ง์ด์๋ค. ์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ๋ด๊ฒ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์์ง์ด ์์๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ๊ณตํํ ์ฝ์์กฐ์ฐจ ์์๋ค. ๋๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋์ด๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์๋ค. ๋ค์ ๊ธฐํ๋ ์์๊ณ , ๋ด ์ธ์์ ์ด๋ค ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ์ค๋ฌผ๋ ์ด์ ์์ ํ ๋๋ฌ๋ค. ๋๋ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ ์ฐ์ตํ๋ฉฐ 7๋ ์ ๋ณด๋์ผ๋ ๋ฌด์๋ ๋์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด๋ ๋์ ๋๋ ์ด์ ์์๊ณ , ์ง๊ธ๋ ์ด์ ์์๋ค. ์ถ๋ณด๋ค ์ฃฝ์์ด ๊ฐ๊น์ ๋ ์ด๋ ๋ฐค๊ณผ๋ ๋ฌ๋๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ๊ฒฌ๋์ผ ํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ โ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ฐํโ์ด ์๋์๋ค. ์ํ์ ์ํ์ผ ๋ฟ์ด์๊ณ , ๋ชจ์์ ๋ชจ์์ผ ๋ฟ์ด์๋ค.
์์์ ์ง์ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๊ณ ๋ณธ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์๋ ๋์ง์ผ๋ก ๋ด๋ ค๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ ๋ฏผ์ ์๊ฒ ์นด์นด์คํก ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ๋จ๊ฒผ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์์นจ ์ดํ ์ฒ์ ์ฐ๋ฝํ๋ ๊ฑฐ์๋ค.
โ๋ ์ด์ ๋ค์ ๋์ง์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ. ํ๋ ์ผ์ ๊ด๋๊ฒ ๋ผ์. ํน์ ๋์ง ์ฌ ์ผ ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฝ ์ค!โ
๋ต์ฅ์ ์์๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋ด๊ฒ ์ค๋งํ์๊น. ํ๊ฐ๋ ์๊ณ , ์์ธ์ฒ๋ ์๊ณ , ์๋ฒฝ์๋ ๋ญ ์์ผ ๋จน์ ์ ์๋ ์์ธ์ ๋ ๋ ๋ด๊ฒ. ๋๋ด ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ์์ด ๋์ง ๋ชปํ ๋ด๊ฒ.
๋์ง์์๋ ์๋ฅด๋ฐ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฉฐ ์ง๋๋ค. ํ๋์ฐจ์ด์ฆ ์นดํ์ ํ์ฅํ ํ๋งค์ ์์ ์ผํ๋ค. ์ง์์ ๋ง๋๋ฉด ํด๊ทผํ๋ ๊ธธ์ ์ข ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ง๋ง ๋ง์๋ ์ ๋ ์ ๋จน์ผ๋ฉด ๋ ์ถ๊ทผ์ ํ ํ์ด ๋ฌ๋ค. ๋ชธ๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์ค์ญ์ค ํฌ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ด ๋์๊ณ ์๋ฆฌ ์ค์ ๋์์ด ์บ์บํด์ง๊ฑฐ๋ ์์๋ค ์ผ์ด์ค ๋๋ง๋ค ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ตํด์ง๋ ์ฆ์์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค.
์ผํ๋ ์นดํ์์ ์ฐ์ฐํ ์คํ๊ต ๋์ฐฝ ํ ๋ช ์ ๋ง๋ฌ๋ค. ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฐ๋ค๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์ ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ณด์๋ง์ ๋ฒ์ฉ, ํ๊ณ ์ด๋ฆ์ด ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค. โํน์ ๋์ง์ค ๋ฐ์ง์ค?โ ์ง์ค์ด ๊น์ง ๋๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ฐ์์ณค๋ค. โ์์ํฌ?โ
๋์ง์๋ ๋ํ๊ต๊ฐ ์๋ค. ์ง์ค์ ๋ํ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์์ ์ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ ๋ ์์ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ ์ด๋จธ๋์ ๊ฐ๋ณ์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. โ์ผ๋ง ์ ๋จ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์. ์๋ง ์ฃฝ๊ณ ๋๋ฉด ์๋ฅ ๋ด์ ๋ํ ๊ฐ๋ ค๊ณ .โ ๊ทธ ์ ๋ ๋ด๋ดํ๊ฒ ๋งํ๊ณ , ๋๋ ๋๋ตํ ๋ง์ ์ฐพ์ง ๋ชปํด ์ปคํผ๋ก ๋ชฉ์ ์ถ์๋ค.
โ๋๋ ๋ญ, ํดํํ์ด?โ ์ง์ค์ด ๋ฌผ์๋ค. ๋๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ ์๋ค. โ์์ธ์์ ํ๋ ์ผ์ด ์ ์๋ผ์ ์ผ๋จ ๋ด๋ ค์์ด.โ ์๋ต๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์ ๋ต๋ณ์ด์์ง๋ง ์ง์ค์ ๋ ์บ๋ฌป์ง ์์๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋์ง์ ๋จ๊ฒจ์ง ์ฌ๋๋ค, ๋ฐ์ง์ด๋ ์ธ์์๋ ์๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ๊ณต์ ํ๊ณ ์์๋ค. ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ ฅ์ด๋์ง ํฌ๋๋ฌด๋ ํ ํจ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ.
โ๋ ํน์ ๋ฏผ์ ์ด ๊ธฐ์ตํด? ๊น๋ฏผ์ .โ ๋๋ ๋๋ธ ๋ฌผ์๋ค. ์ง์ค์ด ์ด๋ง์ด์ ์ฐํธ๋ ธ๋ค. โ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ๋ ๋ฏ ๋ง ๋ฏ ํ๋ฐยทยทยทยทยทยท ํน์ ํค ์์ ๋จ๋ฐ๋จธ๋ฆฌ? ์๋๊ฐ? ์ผํธ์ปคํธ?โ ๋๋ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ํค์ ํค์ด์คํ์ผ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ ค ๋ณด๋ ค ์ ์ผ์ง๋ง ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ๋์ง ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ผ๋จ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์๋ค. โ๋ง๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์.โ
์ง์ค์ โ๊ธ์, ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ๊ฐ๊ณ , ์๋ ๊ฒ๋ ๊ฐ๊ณ ยทยทยทยทยทยท.โ ํ๋ฉฐ ํ์ฐธ์ด๋ ๊ฐธ์๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋ค. โ์? ๊ฑ๊ฐ ๋๊ตฐ๋ฐ?โ ์ง์ค์ด ๋ฌผ์๋ค.
โ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฑ๋ฅผ ์ข์ํ๋ค?โ
์ง์ค์ ์ ์ ๋ก ๋ฒ๋ ธ๋ค.
โ์ฌ์์์?โ
์ง๊ธ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฌธ์ ์ธ๊ฐ. ๋๋ ํํ ์์๋ค. ์ฐ์ต๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ ์ฌํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ์ด์ ๋ ์์๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋ง๋ ๊ทธ ๋ฐค ๋๋ ์ด๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์. ์ฃฝ๋๋ก, ๋๋ ์ด๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค. ์ฃฝ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ ์ ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์๊ฐ์ง๋ง, ์ฌ์ค ๋๋ ์ด๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค. ์์ง๋ฌ์ง๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ง๋ง, ์ฌ์ค์ ๋ถ์กํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฏ๋ก ๋ด ์ถ์ ์ด์ด์ก๊ณ , ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ด์ด์ง ๊ฒ์ด์๋ค.
๋์ง์ ์ฝ๋ก์ด ์๊ฒผ์ ๋, ๋๋ ์ค๋๋ง์ ๋ฏผ์ ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ ธ๋ค. ์ฌ์ ํ ๋น์ด ์๋ ํ๋กํ ์ฌ์ง์ ํ์ฐธ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์๋ค. ์ด๋ชฉ๊ตฌ๋น๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ทธ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ๋จ๊ฒผ๋ค.
โ๋์ง์๋ ์ฝ๋ก์ด ์๊ฒผ์ด.โ
๋ต์ฅ์ ์์๊ณ , ๋๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ ๊ฐ ์๋ ์ฌ๋์ด์ด๋, ์ด์ ๋๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ ๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋ค.
LEE HYE-OH made her literary debut in 2022 with the novel When We Look at the Stars. Her short story “A Nobody” was selected for the ARKO Literature Creation Fund in 2023. Find her on Instagram at @hyeoh_lee.
JOHEUN (JO) LEE (she/her) is a Korean-to-English literary translator and writer from South Korea. With roots in K-pop fandom, she is drawn to stories of desire, relationships, and identity, particularly by women and queer writers. Her translations include Lee Heejoo’s Holy Boy and Amil’s The Forest Called You. She is also the author of the middle-grade K-Pop Spirit Academy series. Jo lives with her partner and four cats in Shanghai, China.
