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    Shiwoo gets dressed, packs his bag, leaves the house, and heads to the academy.

    After exchanging messages with his sister, the heavy and confused feeling in his heart seemed to lighten a little.

    It wasn’t intentional, but Sehee became the only person who could share Shiwoo’s secrets and all the secrets of the family that Shiwoo would come to know.

    Just the fact that he had such a relationship with Sehee made Shiwoo feel like he had been rescued from an isolated island.

    Sehee seemed determined to force Shiwoo into a group blind date with her friends.

    -Judging by the fact that Sehee hasn’t said anything separately-

    Sehee seemed to be treating her special relationship with Shiwoo, as well as the relationships that Mom, Aunt Seonjoo, and Sehee herself had, as temporary secrets or blemishes that would eventually come to a natural end.

    Is that why she’s pretending not to notice and accepting Shiwoo’s unreasonable demands, as if trying to appease him?

    **

    Through Aunt Gyuri’s slave contract and the video sent by Aunt Seonjoo, Shiwoo was able to learn what kind of person his father was.

    Dad had been involved with Mom’s friend, Aunt Gyuri, his first daughter, Sejin, his sister-in-law, Aunt Seonjoo, and even his niece, Sua.

    It was shocking, but by now, the desire or orientation toward incest itself wasn’t that unfamiliar to Shiwoo.

    However, Shiwoo was feeling anxiety and fear about how his father’s extraordinary actions with his family, which had taken place in places he didn’t know about, would affect his and his family’s lives.

    Sehee seemed to be planning to move on without directly mentioning her father’s relationship with other family members or secrets.

    In some ways, the attitude Sehee is taking may be the most sensible way to maintain the superficial relationships and daily life between family members.

    **

    Did Mom know about the relationship between Dad and the other family members?

    At least, the mom Shiwoo knew wouldn’t have tolerated such a relationship between Dad and Aunt Seonjoo.

    -If it were the mom Shiwoo used to know…-

    But Shiwoo now knows the true nature of his mother that he didn’t know before.

    A female who can’t resist the ecstasy of being flogged and agonizes over it

    What Shiwoo is most concerned about right now is Seyoung.

    The video from the pension that Aunt sent and Sua’s picture

    The sign around Sua’s neck…

    Phrases related to sexual slavery…

    If Dad were still alive, would he have reached out to Sehee or Seyoung?

    Looking at the video of Aunt Seonjoo breastfeeding Seyoung, it didn’t seem like she was treating Seyoung like Sua yet.

    When Shiwoo touched Seyoung, Mom didn’t react immediately.

    Through the conversation he had with Mom afterwards, Shiwoo could clearly see the embarrassment and shame she felt, but…

    Mom clearly had a basic resistance to incestuous relationships

    What kind of attitude would such a mom have shown in front of Dad, who had a relationship of sexual domination and submission?

    At least now, he could no longer imagine Mom resisting or rebelling against Dad in the name of protecting her daughters with maternal love.

    Shiwoo smiles without realizing it in the midst of anxiety and futility

    **

    Shiwoo decided to send a text message to his mom.

    It wasn’t that he suddenly wanted to argue or confirm anything.

    Now that he had had sex with his aunt and shared family secrets with Sehee, he just suddenly felt like having a conversation with his mom.

    Shiwoo opened the smartphone chat window.

    He wrote ‘Mom’ and was about to send it, but hesitated for a moment.

    He scrolled up to look at the conversation they had the night before.

    The last conversation with Mom the night before last and the breast picture Mom had sent

    It was a picture of Mom’s breasts that she had taken and sent at Shiwoo’s request.

    And the conversation that ended with them exchanging the words ‘I love you’

    It was the same conversation with Mom that Sehee must have seen.

    Shiwoo stared at the chat window for a long time, then erased the letters he had just written, as if he had made up his mind, and sent his mom’s name in the chat window.

    ‘Seonmi~’

    Shiwoo sends the text and waits for a reply from his mom.

    Soon, he gets a reply from his mom.

    ‘Yes?”

    Mom doesn’t point out that Shiwoo called her by her name or show any displeasure, and simply answers.

    Mom seemed to remember the chat relationship she had with Shiwoo the day before yesterday.

    ‘What are you doing?’

    Shiwoo suppressed the slight excitement that was rising and continued the conversation with his mom.

    ‘I sent the kids to the academy and was taking a break’

    ‘Aren’t you working today?’

    ‘I guess I have to wait until I get a job. What are you doing, Shiwoo?’

    ‘I was just on my way to the academy and thought of you, so I sent you a text to see what you were doing~”

    A normal mother-son conversation, except that the son is calling his mother by her first name.

    ‘Aren’t you a little late for the academy?’

    ‘I had something to do this morning, haha’

    ‘What could you have had to do this morning? Shiwoo, did you sleep in again today?’

    ‘No~ I really had something to do this morning~’

    ‘If you lied about sleeping in and being late, you’re in trouble!! I’m going to check with Sehee~!’

    Mom seemed to be remembering her duty as a mom, even in the humiliating situation of being called by her name.

    That attitude of Mom’s strangely excites Shiwoo.

    ‘Really~ Can’t you trust me, Seonmi?’

    Shiwoo tries to slip in his mom’s name.

    ‘You can’t even get up without Seyoung waking you up~ What’s there to trust or not trust?!”

    Mom scolded Shiwoo, but accepted that he was calling her by her name in the chat without questioning it.

    ‘If you really can’t trust me, you can check with Sehee later! But if you check and it turns out I really was late because I had something to do, you’re in trouble!!’

    Shiwoo was a little annoyed by Mom’s attitude of suspecting him of sleeping in, but on the other hand, he felt proud that she was just brushing off the fact that he was calling her name.

    Shiwoo imitated his mom’s tone and replied.

    Mom took some time before sending a reply.

    ‘What are you going to do?’

    Mom was asking, as if to confirm, after seeing Shiwoo’s rude attitude.

    ‘You have to be punished!!’

    Shiwoo speaks to his mom again as if he’s talking down to her, just like the night before.

    ‘You have to go to the academy now~!!’

    Mom makes an excuse to avoid Shiwoo’s words.

    ‘Then at night…after Seyoung goes to bed?’

    Shiwoo proposes to his mom, as if coordinating the rules of the game.

    Mom didn’t reply for a while again.

    ‘Okay?’

    Shiwoo urges Mom to answer.

    ‘Okay~ Do whatever you want!’

    Mom reluctantly accepted Shiwoo’s proposal again.

    Mom seemed to have decided to carry out the game of obeying Shiwoo in the chat, as she had promised Shiwoo.

    After finishing the text message with Mom, Shiwoo had a satisfied expression on his face and headed to the academy triumphantly.

    **

    Shiwoo arrives at the academy and enters the classroom

    As soon as he enters the classroom, he hears a lively girl’s voice, as if she had been waiting for him

    “Shiwoo~ you’re a little late today? What were you doing?”

    The voice belonged to Seulgi.

    She was the one who surprised Shiwoo by making a surprise appearance at the magic academy yesterday.

    “Just…I had something to do this morning…”

    Shiwoo repeats the same answer he gave to his mom.

    Seulgi was wearing an orange witch cosplay costume at the magic academy yesterday.

    Shiwoo was flustered by Seulgi’s unfamiliar appearance and didn’t recognize her at first, but he remembers that she had a fairly seductive figure for an intermediate student.

    “With Sehee?”

    Seulgi was asking Shiwoo in a friendly tone, as if it was nothing.

    “Huh?~ Oh… uh…”

    Shiwoo remembers the conversations they had while looking at the correction points yesterday and answers, looking slightly embarrassed.

    Seulgi knows about the relationship between Shiwoo and Sehee.

    -And the relationship with other family members…-

    Whether she heard it directly from Shinbi or overheard them talking secretly, Shiwoo couldn’t help but think that.

    “Was there anything special last night~?”

    Seulgi is asking about last night’s events as if it were just a casual conversation.

    Seulgi’s question couldn’t help but make Shiwoo uncomfortable, as he had roughly figured out the circumstances surrounding the leak of his smartphone password and the information contained within.

    “What special thing? Same as always…”

    Shiwoo was very embarrassed by Seulgi’s question, but he pretends to be calm and answers.

    “Really? It’s very different from what I know?!”

    Seulgi frowns and smiles at Shiwoo, as if she’s a little disappointed.

    Shiwoo’s back seemed to be sweating as he thought of what happened with his aunt last night.

    Could it be that Sehee told Shinbi while Shiwoo was sleeping?

    “What?!”

    Shiwoo was going to pretend he didn’t know until the end.

    Shiwoo looks at Seulgi with his eyes wide open and pretends to be innocent, as if claiming innocence.

    Seulgi stared at Shiwoo for a while, then came close to Shiwoo and put her lips to his ear.

    “Your expression…is so annoying?! Should I spread the rumor?!”

    A small whisper that only Shiwoo could hear

    In that moment, Shiwoo got goosebumps all over his body and felt dizzy, as if he had been hit in the back of the head.

    Shiwoo takes a step back with a bewildered expression and looks at Seulgi warily.

    “Just kidding, just kidding~~ Kakaroo”

    Seulgi pats Shiwoo’s arm and smiles brightly.

    Just then, the class bell rings.

    “It was fun~ Shiwoo! See you later~~”

    Seulgi says goodbye like that, as if she’s having fun, and goes back to her classroom.

    Shiwoo sat down in his seat with a blank expression, trying to organize the scenes that had passed by in an instant in his head.

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