Chapter 108: Chapter 108
「This is an experiment on isomer.
27-year-old health teacher Han Ye-won was found unconscious from heatstroke during her duties. At the time of discovery, her body temperature was close to 42.3 degrees, and multiple organ failures were observed.
After treatment, Han Ye-won survived but suffered severe damage to her brain cells, significantly impairing her memory. Currently, her mental age appears to be that of a toddler.
At this point, are the 27-year-old health teacher Han Ye-won and the 27-year-old legally incompetent Han Ye-won the same person?」
Gu Yu-na is best suited for mystery genres, but that doesn’t define her literature.
Originally, mysteries are merely a veil that naturally forms the twisted characters of ‘Gu Yu-na style novels’.
Gu Yu-na is a twisted person.
And there were two people there.
It was Moon In-seop and Gu Yu-na, writing a novel together.
In fact, PD Shim Yeon-ho was also hoping that Moon In-seop would write a novel during the shooting of the variety show.
Hadn’t greatly benefited from such a scenario?
It’s just that he felt awkward because this guy had suddenly summoned the three generals of the Korean literary world and hadn’t been able to say anything.
“Oh my! What are you two writing now?”
PD Shim Yeon-ho approached them, his face beaming with excitement.
And the moment he glanced at the messily scattered papers, he understood why Min Hyo-min was running away.
There was only deep darkness there…
「People always ask me if I believe in God because I’m a scientist. Whether believers or non-believers, they all seem to unconsciously worship science in how they plead for a scientist’s opinion. So, I told the truth to Han Ye-won’s parents, who could have been my in-laws. Han Ye-won wasn’t punished by the heavens; her brain was cooked because she collapsed under the blazing sun. So there’s no use praying by the bedside. But then, they were furiously angry, weren’t they? No matter what they claim, prayers cannot heal humans. Only medicine can do that. And medicine failed to completely heal Han Ye-won. So, now what needs to be done is to prove whether this human, who can’t even distinguish feces from urine and is on the level of an ape, is indeed the woman I loved…」
Study 1-1. On the medical health of humans.
Study 1-2. On the social existence of humans.
Study 1-3. On the cognitive age of humans.
Study 2-1. On the social definition of love.
Study 2-2. On the psychological origin of love.
Study 2-3. On the biological nature of love.
“What else could there be…”
Perched on the massage chair in a bizarre posture, Gu Yu-na frowned as she scribbled notes in her notebook. Her pose resembled more a cat than a human.
Gu Yubin’s cat, ‘Ori,’ approached and tried to push Gu Yu-na off the massage chair. It was an outburst over losing its usual spot.
But in the Gu Hak-jun family’s power hierarchy, Min Chae-won is ranked first, Gu Yu-na second, and Gu Yubin third. ‘Ori’, who is only 4th place, cannot possibly beat the 2nd place.
As Gu Yu-na wiggled her toes and poked ‘Ori’ in the ribs, the poor cat meowed and scampered off to complain to its owner.
After easily winning the skirmish with the cat, Gu Yu-na continued pondering, her lips twitching slightly on the massage chair that wasn’t even turned on.
Gu Yu-na was engrossed.
A psychopathic scientist observing his lover who has regressed to infancy.
The fact that the person I recognized has deteriorated to such an extent is endlessly displeasing.
This is closer to an animal than a human.
Just before killing his lover before seeing an even uglier sight, the question – what if this ape is indeed the lover I know – grabs his ankle.
From there, the experiment on ‘isomers’ begins.
If the subject is indeed the lover, the scientist will let her go, and if the subject is not the lover, the scientist will kill her.
But what, indeed, is the definition of a person, or of love?
The chilling analysis with life at stake only gets longer and longer…
But this is just an observation from a first-person perspective, and to a third-person outsider, it appears merely as the trial and error of a man caring for his lover who has become incompetent.
Gu Yu-na liked this part the best. The experiment is strictly conducted in the protagonist’s inner world. Thus, the novel’s conclusion also moves towards internal completeness.
Therefore, it’s philosophy disguised as science.
Gu Yu-na softly coughed in delight, her favorite author having hit the mark with a story that matched her tastes.
Even she was included in the writing, doubling her joy. How far can one deconstruct the elements that make up a human?
Thus, she had been diligently contemplating methods of ‘experimentation’, but…
It seems this is as far as it goes. No more usable ideas were coming to mind.
Gu Yu-na jumped off to cool her head and landed on the sofa, pushed aside the listless Gu Hak-jun who was watching TV.
Gu Yu-na , without even thinking of tidying her disheveled hair, watched her father move awkwardly.
After losing the sofa to his daughter, the unfortunate father headed towards a leather recliner worth about 11 million won instead.
Seeing this, Gu Yu-na suddenly looked around.
The house was really spacious.
Gu Yu-na was not the type of person who unconditionally enjoyed living in a large house. She knew how to find fault even with that.
Her thoughts continued endlessly.
Many people live in large houses, but not many live in a large house with a yard in the middle of Seoul.
And it wasn’t because Min Chae-won was a successful businesswoman, nor because Gu Hak-jun, despite being a novelist, earned as much as Min Chae-won, but because Min Chae-won’s father had made a fortune in real estate investments.
Yes, wealth becomes an insurmountable scale beyond a certain level, no longer just about personal effort.
Self-made billionaires certainly exist, but they represent less than 1% of cases, a percentage even smaller than the amount of lobster in lobster-flavored chips.
However, humans are collectively influenced by the scale of wealth.
Educational level, standard of living, family environment, etc.
The ‘environment’ provided from childhood influences a person’s nature and determines their life.
A psychopath born in a poor family might grow up to be a serial killer, while a psychopath born in a wealthy family might grow up to be a renowned neuroscientist.
Or the ‘inherited things’ are also a scale that constitutes a human, aren’t they?
Another line was added to Gu Yu-na’s notebook.
「Study 3-4. On the hereditary status of humans.」
Thus, Gu Yu-na thought of one more method to experiment on human elements.
However, she couldn’t conduct this research as she didn’t have children. Fortunately, an suitable assistant was nearby.
Gu Yu-na asked Gu Hak-jun, who was sitting on the 11 million won leather recliner.