71 – 071. Beyond childishness

The love affair lasted until dawn. The two of us desperately coveted each other’s bodies. As if there is no follow, as if today is the last.

Desperate.

Passionate.

Very furiously.

Only when the twilight of dawn began to recede little by little, we dropped the sticky skin.

-Shoot aaa.

I sat quietly on the bed listening to the faint sound of the shower. The morning air gently entering through the open window cooled the sweat shed all night and aroused the strange, thick body odor.

Perhaps it was because of the intense love affair, the spirit of alcohol disappeared immediately. The spirit of alcohol goes away, the overflowing emotions subside, and cold reason begins to fill the place.

“Ha ha.”

I let out a sigh at the belatedly complicated emotions. I wanted to light a cigarette, but I gave up. It’s like leaving her washing her face and going outside alone to smoke, and that doesn’t mean you can’t fill her room with cigarette smoke when she comes out.

So I let out a thick sigh instead of thick cigarette smoke and lowered my head. With my head down, I look back at last night’s passionate love affair and the series of processes leading up to it.

I was confessed to by Yewon Ji yesterday. And shared her love with her.

It was really sudden. It was a sudden confession, and the love affair that followed was also sudden. The alcohol that filled both of us’ veins made us more emotional, more sentimental, more impulsive. She emotionally lashed out at me, I emotionally embraced her, and the two of us made love to her on a whim.

However, drunkenness was prevalent, but it was not solely a matter of drunkenness. For both I and she were governed by her emotions and impulses, but her reason was not paralyzed.

It must have been the result of sufficient thought and sufficient judgment. Her spirits subsided and morning came, but I do not regret accepting her foolishness, and perhaps she will not regret confessing her feelings to me either.

The only thing that bothers me is the river sky. She just felt sorry for her.

The end of the truth game that took place yesterday. Kang Ha-neul didn’t say it directly, but sent me a suggestion that was no different from a confession. And Ji Ye-Won and I clearly noticed the hint. Even though we found out, we made love. So sorry. Yewon Ji.

I regained my clear sense of reason, and my brain was full of regret and confusion. A deep sigh escaped his throat like smoke from a cigarette, as if to let out that emotion.

-Kik.

At that time, the bathroom door opened and Ji Ye-won appeared through the rising steam.

“… ….”

Ji Ye-won is looking at me with a shy expression while covering herself with a towel. When she saw her, the scenes of her last night came back vividly.

The image of her coveting my lips while clinging to me as if craving her affection.

The way she worked hard to please me with awkward gestures.

The figure of her twisting her waist while lying under me, moaning excitedly.

Her face continued to gasp for breath, but she met her lovely eyes with mine and smiled happily.

The first emotion that came to mind was, ironically, sorry. To some extent, he felt sorry for Ji Ye-won in front of him, and the rest was sorry for Kang Ha-neul, who was sleeping in the next room without knowing the world.

“… ….What are you so awkward about?”

She approached me as I looked away awkwardly. The scent of her fragrant shampoo tickled the tip of my nose.

“I told you yesterday. Think of it as playing with fire with a grown man and woman one night. Do you want to feel comfortable?”

She said it lightly, but she knew she didn’t mean it. Ji Ye-won’s voice actually trembled a little when she said that.

‘Playing with fire all night.’

It should be comfortable if you dismiss it like that. But since she was playing with fire one night, she was given too much emotion to fool herself.

‘… ……A piece of trash.’

And even knowing that, I felt ashamed of myself for lingering like an idiot. Do the right thing when you know it’s embarrassing. Take responsibility as a man. Don’t be fooled by her feelings. I kept repeating that to myself.

“Ji Ye-won. I am… …..”

After thinking it over and over again, he opened his mouth.

Make eye contact with her and her eyes, with a serious expression.

However.

“Stop.”

Ji Ye-won did not want to accept my sincere determination and determination.

“Ahn Soo-ho. Just answer comfortably.”

Her purple eyes, visible through her damp hair, gleamed faintly. Her soft voice gently whispers in my ear.

“Didn’t you like yesterday?”

“… ….No way.”

“It was good, right?”

“Yes. It was good.”

“Yes. Then it happened.”

I wonder what happened. I wanted to ask that question, but Ji Ye-won gently covered my lips with her index finger.

“You don’t have to force yourself to take responsibility for me. Yesterday’s work was my foolishness and selfishness. There are complicated circumstances like this and that. Being in a relationship where we bind and tie each other will do more harm than good. Is not it?”

Ji Ye-won who says that is no longer the girl of yesterday who puts her emotions first. She was the usual Ji Ye-won who pursued reason and rationality. Considering her own circumstances and her own circumstances, she successfully killed her own feelings.

‘The loss will outweigh the gain.’

That was something I didn’t want to understand. But it was an unavoidable statement. She had too many things to care about for me or her to share her love with peace of mind. If we became lovers, we would be able to lean on each other comfortably in difficult times, but at the same time, we could become each other’s burdens.

Yewon Ji seemed to think that way, and I didn’t think so either.

I became disillusioned with myself.

“And since I suddenly confessed to you, wouldn’t you need some time to think about this too? Besides, did you notice that Kang Ha-neul likes you?”

“… ….Okay.”

“Two pretty girls like you, so think about it slowly. No, there is nothing to worry about again. It’s much better to go out with a normal girl like him than with a criminal like me-“

“Stop it.”

Interrupting Ji Ye-won. Then she looked at me with a slightly surprised expression.

“Don’t speak so lowly of yourself.”

Yewon Ji must have said that she was considerate of me, but her words stuck in her heart like a cold dagger to me, who was disillusioned with herself. Seeing her caring about me even though she must be having a hard time and suffering, in return, I could clearly feel how shabby and trashy a man I was.

But at the same time, I was also relieved. Ji Ye-won is counting on my situation. If you lean on that consideration, you will be able to get over this uncomfortable situation.

I looked at Ji Ye-won with a complex expression of relief and self-reliance. As she said, I needed time to organize my thoughts. Also about Ji Ye Won. And about the river sky.

I was so sorry for myself that I couldn’t bear to make eye contact with Ji Ye-won. I bit my lip and turned my head slightly.

Now then.

-Kok.

A soft hand wrapped around the nape of my neck, gently holding my face in its arms.

A warm touch is transmitted to the cheeks. When I tried to raise her head to ask what she was doing, she hugged my head tightly and prevented me from moving.

It’s as if he’s trying not to make eye contact with himself.

“Thank you.”

She said softly while holding my head tightly like that.

“Thank you for listening to my confession yesterday. Thank you for accepting my childishness, for matching my selfishness. And thank you for telling me just now not to speak lowly of myself.”

I shook my head. It’s not something to be thankful for at all.

“Then it’s okay. I’ve already been loved beyond measure. That’s enough.”

It can’t be enough. I desperately shook my head.

“So, this is the end for today. It won’t be too late if you give me an answer after thinking through it and worrying enough.”

Even so, I buried her face in her arms without even making eye contact with her kindness in caring for me and saying things that I didn’t even mean.

How long has it been?

I gently pushed her away from a sudden thought of her and took out a small piece of her jewelry from her chest of drawers next to her bed.

An ice-clear cross studded with red jewels.

As I handed it over without saying a word, Yewon Ji looked at the cross with puzzled eyes.

“What is this?”

“This is the artifact I got from the double dungeon the other day.”

“Artifact?”

“Yes. When you wear it, once a day, it automatically detects a life-threatening attack and activates a shield made of ice. It’s an artifact from an overrank dungeon, so it should be able to block pretty much any attack.”

Its identity was the Cross of Cold Flame. In the original work, Ryu Tae-hyun should have had, an artifact of absolute defense that blocks any attack just once.

I handed over the artifact I originally intended to possess to Ji Ye-won without regret. It would be better for her to have than for me. She will soon have to go on a dangerous mission given by Min Chae-ryeong.

“Isn’t this very precious? Why did you do this to me-“

“Anyway, if I had it, I wouldn’t be able to use it, so what? You’d better keep it if you’re going to do something dangerous.”

“But-“

“Just take it. A little.”

I passed her cross to her as if I was halfway over her. It’s as if the artifact is trying to replace her indulgences for her.

She said softly, holding a thin cross slightly longer than her thumb.

“…… Thank you.”

Saying that, she held her cross of cold flame with her two hands as if it were precious. The morning sun shining through her window gave her face a slight red tint.

“From now on, I will always carry it with me. Either put it in her inner pocket or make it into her necklace……. Ah, but I can’t seem to drill a hole.”

“Mmm. Then I will do this.”

-Kidduck!

A purple blade began to emerge from Yewon Ji’s fingertips. No, can I call it a blade? The purple crystal she created slowly wrapped around her cross, changing its shape at will.

“It’s done.”

Eventually, when Yewon Ji took her hand away, her cross of cold flame took the shape of a beautiful earring. A purple crystal was holding the cross tightly around the red jewel in the middle, and a thin loop hung at the end of the chain that stretched over it. It was a very sophisticated use of ability.

-Click.

Yewon Ji kicked the cross of cold flame over her left ear, which was exposed by tossing her hair back. As if it were made that way from the beginning, the earrings she created swayed while showing off their beautiful figure.

“How is it? Can I do this?”

“Yes. Pretty.”

“Of course not. Who is the model?”

Ji Ye-won smiled mischievously and looked at the clock hanging on the wall. It was just past 7am by now.

“For now, I’ll go to the next room. If you stay with them until they wake up, they might get caught. Maybe you’ve already been caught, but…….”

At that, I smiled bitterly. She said, though, last night her moans were too loud.

“Anyway. I’ll go over and wake the kids up and make breakfast. If you wash up too and nothing happens, come over here and have breakfast.”

“Yes.”

“Why are you looking so sad? Why do you want to play again just because it’s morning?”

“Put on your clothes and go to the next room.”

“Chi. I can’t even joke.”

Ji Ye-won, who tried her best to pretend to be normal, spat out a vol-men sound, picked up her clothes scattered on the floor, and sighed with her exaggerated gestures.

“Ugh, the smell. If I wear this as it is, will I get noticed right away? Could you lend me some clothes?”

Ji Ye-won’s clothes were messed up with all the bodily fluids she spilled.

“Uh. Pick something roughly from the dresser there and put it on.”

“Thank you. I’ll go and change right away and come back to you.”

Searching through her drawer, Ji Ye-won pulled out a white running shirt and put it on. Perhaps because of the difference in her physique, her running hem gently came down to her mid-thigh.

“Hey wait. Would you like to leave?”

“How are you? It just needs to be covered.”

Cover only the areas to be covered. Ji Ye-won’s outfit matched the words exactly, but it really did fit.

Thin running clothes boldly revealed her outline with not a single thread on the inside. She says that she covers a little bit, but since her size itself is so large, her forehead and armpits are deeply dug, and even that, her shoulder straps often fall down, and looking at her from the side, she’s nervous for no reason. Did.

However, Yewon Ji didn’t even seem to care about her. She probably thinks that she doesn’t need to dress up as long as she goes to her room right next door.

-Kikiiik.

When Ji Ye-won opened the rusty front door, the bright morning sunlight fell into her room.

But the next moment, Ji Ye-won stopped still holding her half-open doorknob. The moment she was about to call her to find out what was going on, Ji Ye-won glanced at her.

Ji Ye-won and her eyes meet looking this way in the dazzling sunlight.

A complex and mysterious expression appeared on her face. A complex, ambiguous, profound, vague expression that looks happy, sad, lighthearted, or frustrated.

“…… Well then, see you in a bit.”

Suddenly, overwhelmed by that complicated expression, I couldn’t bear to answer her words.

-Kik. Thud.

Soon after she left, her rusty iron door closed with a dull sound.

“Ha ha.”

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Left alone, I let out a deep sigh. Ji Ye-won and Kang Ha-neul. My head contemplating between the two women was extremely complicated. I never thought that the day would come when I would be able to worry like this in my life.

‘It’s difficult for me to give up on either side right now.’

I wasn’t talking about emotional issues, such as that we both love each other or that we both have legs. Both women were ‘necessary’ to me when judged rationally and rationally.

Ji Ye-won. She was the main character set up by the system and one of the few companions I could trust in the world. I couldn’t be estranged from her like that.

On the other hand, Kang Haneul. She was an irregular with powerful skills and a person whom the system openly recommended to be friendly with. Likewise, I had to keep my relationship with her amicable.

Of course, apart from that rational aspect, it was difficult for me to give up on the two of them emotionally as well. Because in this goddamn world full of fabricated lies, both of them are starting to mean more than just fictional characters to me.

However, emotional problems are not something that can be solved by sitting still and thinking about them, so I was left alone and thought about the relationship between the three of us only from a rational point of view. How should I act in the future, what course should I take?

‘…… Okay.’

After long contemplation, we finally came to a conclusion. It wasn’t a big conclusion on how to organize the relationship between the two. I just want to do what I can do at this moment, what I have to do. It was such a small conclusion.

What I can do. And what i have to do

‘First of all, secure Ji Ye-won’s safety.’

I passed the cross of cold flame, but I can’t be relieved. So I called Min Chaeryeong.

-Turrr.

After a few beeps, it stops.

-Ahn Soo-ho? What’s going on in the morning

To that bewitching voice that I heard before long, I answered straight away.

“Team manager. Let’s talk about us.”

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