episode_0166

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Si-woo fiddles with the key in his pocket during class.

A small, brass-colored key handed to Si-woo by Hee-hee, his older sister, without any particular explanation.

That key felt distinctly different from the handcuff key that Cheol-jin gave him.

Does it hold some special meaning?

Is it perhaps an item to open something for the group meeting event?

Since it’s a key, it’s undoubtedly meant to open something.

But Si-woo had nothing specific come to mind immediately.

‘What is this in my pocket?’

After some thought, Si-woo texts Hee-hee, his older sister, during the break.

‘I don’t know! It’s yours now, so you figure it out~’

Hee-hee, his older sister, seems displeased and replies to Si-woo curtly.

It seems like Hee-hee, his older sister, has no intention of readily giving Si-woo an answer.

-Or perhaps she doesn’t know herself-

**

Sometimes, Cheol-jin looks back at Si-woo from his seat and smiles.

-As expected, a mysterious smile that one cannot read-

Si-woo found it increasingly awkward to look at Cheol-jin’s face after what happened with Aunt Gyuri yesterday.

Although he was told that Cheol-jin had obtained direct permission from her, Si-woo still doesn’t know how to treat his classmate friend, who is the son of the woman he has been intimate with.

How would he feel if his own mother was having sex with his classmate friend?

Could he smile and treat that friend even knowing that?

Even if there was a past and a mother who enjoyed such acts, Si-woo wouldn’t be able to accept the relationship between his friend and his mother.

-On top of that, Aunt Gyuri is currently a married woman with a husband-

Seul-gi’s name on the marriage vow

And Cheol-jin’s birthday, the same as Seul-gi’s

Does Cheol-jin know about the marriage vows of the mothers that he wrote in the past?

How is Cheol-jin feeling as he deals with Si-woo?

It was Cheol-jin who first told Si-woo about Seul-gi’s birthday.

‘If that’s the case, at least…’

The more he thinks deeply, the more uncomfortable Si-woo feels.

**

“Did you have a good conversation with our mom yesterday?”

During the break, Cheol-jin comes to Si-woo’s seat and speaks casually as usual.

“Huh? Uh… well… yes…”

Si-woo, avoiding eye contact because he felt embarrassed, answers.

“The camera was off, wasn’t it? I wonder if anything happened? Well, it probably went well~ Heh heh”

Cheol-jin says to Si-woo as if something is bothering him.

Cheol-jin was staring at Si-woo with an expression that suggested he didn’t care about anything.

The conversation with Aunt Gyuri, which was held with the camera off, was something that could not be revealed to Cheol-jin.

Talking about getting married…

Giving birth to a child…

Stimulating and obscene lines that Si-woo himself couldn’t distinguish whether it was play or reality…

Perhaps Aunt Gyuri might think it’s real.

“But… where did you go yesterday? Didn’t you say you had something urgent?”

Si-woo asks Cheol-jin, shifting the conversation uncomfortably.

Cheol-jin stares at Si-woo for a moment.

“Ah~ Thanks to you, Si-woo, I was able to go around here and there yesterday~”

Cheol-jin tells Si-woo with an expression that seems to have a story and a swaggering tone.

“You seemed to be chasing Seul-gi so desperately. Did you find someone you like more than Seul-gi? You should take it easy~ I don’t know what’s going on…”

Si-woo said to Cheol-jin, giving a slight distance.

“Ah~ that? I think I can stop that now~ More than that, did you know that Seul-gi has a break from magic class every Wednesday?”

Cheol-jin asks Si-woo, as if he is exposing a fact he alone knows to the world, with an air of triumph.

“Really? I didn’t know. But why should I know that? Why does Seul-gi have a break every Wednesday?”

Si-woo says as if he doesn’t like Cheol-jin’s attitude.

“Well, it doesn’t matter if you don’t know~ Still, it’s good to know, isn’t it? Between us~ Puhihit~!”

Cheol-jin laughs in an unpleasant way as he speaks.

Cheol-jin always seemed to be enjoying the situation with plenty of composure.

Even knowing his mother’s past…

Even knowing that the past continues to this day…

Even while being sure of the impact the mothers’ past, that continues to this day, will have on each of their futures…

Si-woo suppressed the urge to ask, ‘What kind of relationship do we have?’, and watched Cheol-jin return to his seat.

“Oh, that’s right! How are our younger siblings doing in magic class?”

Cheol-jin, as if he remembered, stops and asks Si-woo as he is about to return to his seat.

Is it a question to probe Si-woo?

Si-woo feels a dizzying sensation at the words ‘our younger siblings’, and cold sweat breaks out.

“They… they’re doing well… Why do you care?”

Si-woo answers, trying his best to not show it.

“Well, it doesn’t matter if they’re doing well… Are they okay…?”

Cheol-jin’s words, as if hinting at something, trails off.

“Why? What is it? What do you want to say?!”

Si-woo, with a sudden impatient feeling, glares and asks Cheol-jin.

To Si-woo, Cheol-jin’s words felt like a threat or intimidation towards Se-young and Su-ah.

It was no longer a matter that Si-woo could casually overlook after checking the name of the management organization written on the marriage vow.

The surge of emotion he felt when he discovered evidence of Hee-hee, his older sister, being stalked on Cheol-jin’s smartphone the previous day is felt in Si-woo’s chest.

But at the same time, a feeling of guilt for Cheol-jin and the uncle for committing and violating Aunt Gyuri seemed to rise.

“Remember the rumors I told you about the morning before the parents’ meeting at the magic academy?

Cheol-jin is looking over Si-woo’s shoulder into the air, as if avoiding Si-woo’s eyes, while speaking.

“What?!”

Si-woo, not knowing exactly what Cheol-jin is talking about, asks back nervously, trying to remember.

“Maybe one of those rumors was true… Yes… I think that’s probably the case…!”

Cheol-jin was saying, as if he didn’t care whether Si-woo remembered or not, muttering to himself and mulling it over.

Si-woo, with a serious expression, was trying to recall the rumors Cheol-jin had told that morning.

“But why are you so angry? We went to the parents’ meeting together, so you can ask that, right!? Do you know? Maybe I’ll have business there later and see it often? Puha ha!”

Cheol-jin is once again speaking nonchalantly and laughing, as if hinting at something.

Si-woo, while feeling uneasy, couldn’t respond to Cheol-jin’s words.

After that, Cheol-jin didn’t mention anything about the magic academy again.

“Didn’t you tie her up today?”

Si-woo asks Cheol-jin about Aunt Gyuri in passing at the student cafeteria during lunch.

“Ah~ Our mom? That only needs to be done once during the week.”

Cheol-jin says as if there’s some kind of agreement with Aunt Gyuri about bondage play.

Although he was curious about the details, Si-woo was also feeling fatigue from thinking about such things and decided to stop asking further questions.

Fortunately or unfortunately, Seul-gi was not seen until the end of the academy that day.

Si-woo seemed to be feeling an aversion, with the thought that he would be swayed if he met Seul-gi immediately.

**

On the way home after the academy ended.

A sense of defeat and melancholy…

Added to that, humiliation…

Si-woo was walking home with heavy steps.

Then, suddenly, a text message notification sound rings on Si-woo’s smartphone.

Si-woo takes out his smartphone and checks the sender.

It was Hee-hee, his older sister.

‘I’m going straight to Shin-bi’s house! Eat your meals well~! ‘

Hee-hee’s message that she’s going straight to Shin-bi’s house as she mentioned in the morning.

‘Are you sleeping over?’

Si-woo asks with the thought that it might be.

‘Yep~ I’ll just sleep over at Shin-bi’s tonight if nothing happens, so don’t wait!’

Hee-hee replies immediately.

There didn’t seem to be any change to Hee-hee’s plans to sleep over at Shin-bi’s house.

‘Can’t you just tell Shin-bi to come over to our house and sleep? Mom’s not even here.’

Si-woo was begging Hee-hee in a somehow abject mood.

‘I said I wanted to rest! I can’t rest comfortably with you!’

Hee-hee firmly rejects Si-woo’s suggestion.

‘Why can’t you rest? We can just come over to our house and rest comfortably together!’

Si-woo, with a final desperate heart, was saying something regretful to Hee-hee.

‘What are you saying? That’s not going to happen?! I have something to talk about with Shin-bi alone today, so sleep alone tonight!

Hee-hee was completely ignoring Si-woo’s desperate begging.

Si-woo, for some reason, walks on without replying out of resentment.

A moment later, another smartphone notification sound rings.

A photo was sent from Hee-hee.

A full-body photo of Shin-bi, wearing her uniform.

It was a photo of Shin-bi, making a V sign with her fingers, showing a charming pose with her signature warm eye smile.

‘Shin-bi says to meet tomorrow and have fun together’

Hee-hee’s added message.

Si-woo was staring blankly at the cute photo of Shin-bi for a moment.

Shin-bi, who is beautiful no matter how you look at her, was showing off her vivacity as a student of an elite academy to her fullest on the smartphone screen.

And then another photo that was sent.

A photo of Shin-bi’s cleavage with her uniform unbuttoned.

A red bruise is emphasized between her cleavage.

Si-woo, feeling bewildered for a moment, is staring intently at the photo.

‘This is a service! Don’t be so gloomy!’

Hee-hee’s last message, conveying Shin-bi’s comments.

Si-woo realizes that a deep kiss mark on Shin-bi’s chest was imprinted by Hee-hee just before she sent the photo.

Si-woo’s member rises as if it will pierce through his pants in an instant, as if he had never been gloomy.