Lost Memories | A Liskook Adaptation

Chapter 93: She Will Not Change

The night is hazy and the lamps by the lakeside are like bright shining pearls.

The three men stare at each other quietly. Yoongi finally speaks incompetently, " Kookah, if the woman we saw today is Lalisa......either you let her be punished by the law! Or......take her away and disappear forever! We'll pretend that we never met her today and we won't tell anyone!"

Monkey nods furiously. Their eyes are red as they stare at Jungkook.

But Jungkook lowers his head slightly. The subtle light from the lake surface reflects on his face. His voice is full of determination, "There's no need. She's not a serial killer. We'll unveil the truth about the incident back then."

Yoongi doesn't know what to say. Monkey blurts out, "What if she is one?"

"There's no if!" Jungkook jerks his head up. His eyes are dark like the pitch black sky behind him.

"If......a very minuscule possibility really exists?" Yoongi speaks again while staring directly at Jungkook, "You haven't recovered your memory fully, right? You can't remember what happened back then. If she really did make the wrong step, Jungkook, what should you do then?!"

He questions intensely making Jungkook quiet down.

The three of them are in awkward silence again.

"She will admit her wrongdoing then. I will wait for her," he says, turns around and leaves.

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Lalisa waits for another while before seeing Jungkook walking toward her in the shadows from the trees accompanied by sparse lighting from the streetlamps. And behind him, Monkey and Yoongi pause their footsteps, turn around and leave. The other unfamiliar people leave with them.

Only she and he are left by themselves again.

Lalisa watches him come near.

He seems calm and his eyes are dark. If it isn't for his slightly ruffled hair, she wouldn't be able to tell that he and his buddies just had a fierce argument. He stands beside her with one hand on the white railing and the other on her shoulder, "Cold?"

Lalisa shakes her head. She tugs on his arm and looks up at him, "Tell me. It looks like you got a very big problem."

Jungkook stares at her quietly for a moment.

"You've got sharp eyes. There is indeed a big problem."

He tells her about Lalisa's and Lisa's identities being switched in simple words. But it's the only thing that he tells her.

Lalisa remains quiet. This doesn't come as a surprise to her. It's just that when she thinks about the real Lisa, she has mixed feelings in her heart.

A girl who has undergone plastic surgery to look like her, a girl who she has taken the identity of; a girl who might have been controlled by the seven member organization. Did Lisa sacrifice herself because she did not have a choice? Or did she willingly allow the seven-member organization dictate her? There's no way to find out.

"But...... her eyebrows furrow, "if this was all arranged by the seven member organization, why didn't they kill me? Instead, why did they let me live, leaving behind danger? Furthermore, Yoongi and Monkey lied to you for these many years because they thought I died? Is there no other reason?"

She catches two key questionable points with her sensitivity, startling Jungkook a bit.

Out of an investigator's instinct, that possibility flashes across his mind If she had really let herself go and fall to the pits, the first question can be explained then- It's because the seven-member organization considered her as part of them, therefore, they didn't kill her. They even "hid" her away safely, giving her a new identity and life.