Ch.207Side Story – I Became a Heroine with Only a Pure Love Ending (7)

“Um… Hamin noona?”

“Sniff… yes.”

Doyoung asked Hamin, who was sobbing while trying to hold back her tears.

How could he have possibly anticipated this?

That a friend he had only met twice would suddenly approach him naked after finishing a shower.

“Why… did you come to the living room naked? I think your closet was right next to the bathroom.”

“W-what are you saying now! You were the one who said you wanted to see me naked! Do you know how nervous I was coming out here!”

“What?! When did I say that?!”

“Just now!”

Seeing Doyoung’s surprised expression at this unknown request, Hamin squeezed her teary eyes shut and shouted at him.

It was a habit of hers when making assertive statements, as she was naturally someone who couldn’t speak harshly to others.

“You said it clearly earlier! Even with your mouth twisted from the cold, you asked for what you wanted right away, like hot chocolate. Do you think I couldn’t understand what you said?! I heard it clearly! You asked me to undress!”

“Whaaaat? I asked for your number!”

“So you definitely said undress while shivering… wait, number?”

Hamin’s eyes, which had been tightly shut, opened wide.

“…Yes. Your number.”

“Not undress… but number?”

“Yes. Not undress… but number.”

“…Really?”

“If something like today’s mistake happens again, or if you end up waiting in the rain and cold, that wouldn’t be good. Of course, I might also have questions about piano to ask you.”

“Ah… ah… hueeeyahaeung!”

Hamin’s face crumpled with shame.

“Uwahueohueoheung! W-what have I done…!”

Hamin curled up, covering her entire body with the shower towel she was holding.

“Are you okay, Hamin noona?”

“Hiiieek! Don’t come closer! Don’t look at me with those innocent eyes like you feel sorry for me!”

“Of course I feel sorry! You’re naked and panicking with tears in your eyes!”

“Eehiyaak! D-don’t come any closer, I said!”

Doyoung approached Hamin out of concern for her somewhat extreme reaction, but she panicked even more and distanced herself from him.

‘God, oh my goodness…! How could I have thought such things about this completely innocent brother…! Do Hamin, you hell-bound girl…!’

When she misunderstood Doyoung’s request earlier, Hamin had secretly felt disappointed somewhere inside.

She had thought he was a kind person who, though a bit peculiar, maintained a childlike innocence.

To think he would ask such a thing from a woman he was meeting for only the second time.

In her heart, she had unconsciously concluded that what Brother Seongryeong had said about Doyoung was true, and that her own impression of Doyoung was false.

No, perhaps she had expected it to some extent.

If she had truly believed that the Doyoung she knew wouldn’t make such a request,

she would have asked him to clarify exactly what he had said.

It was as if she herself had been doubting him.

Doubting that Doyoung’s true nature was, as Seongryeong had said, someone who would casually lie to seduce women.

Despite this disappointment, Hamin had approached Doyoung to fulfill what she thought was his inappropriate wish.

Even though she was disappointed, she believed that the feelings she had experienced from Doyoung until then were genuine.

And now.

When she realized that Doyoung had not harbored any such intentions toward her.

Her disappointment in Doyoung turned into disappointment in herself.

When she saw that there wasn’t a trace of impure thoughts on Doyoung’s face upon encountering her naked form.

Hamin couldn’t help but realize.

That the one who had been doing wrong wasn’t Doyoung, but her.

That the sinner was none other than herself.

“I understand, so please calm down first! If you fall…”

“Stop! Don’t come near me! If you do, it will truly be irrevers… hukkiyaak!”

As Hamin was backing away from Doyoung, overwhelmed with guilt, her foot slipped.

Severe nearsightedness.

Water left on the floor.

A body easily staggering from having skipped dinner for three days.

These three factors combined to create this situation.

“Are you okay? Did you hit anything?”

“D-Doyoung?”

Fortunately, Doyoung rushed over and caught Hamin’s head as she was falling, but…

“Ah… I’m sorry for grabbing your side and thigh. Especially places you probably don’t want to be touched.”

In the process, Hamin’s completely naked body ended up in Doyoung’s arms.

“…Hiccup. Sniff.”

Hamin’s reddened eyes looked up at Doyoung.

Even this close, face to face, even in this situation where he was holding her bare skin, there wasn’t the slightest hint on Doyoung’s face that he intended to do anything to her.

“Huaaang…”

The more she looked at Doyoung’s face, the more her own expression crumpled with guilt.

“Huh? Did you hit the table? I thought I caught you well, but maybe I missed the angle.”

“I wish I could hit my head on the table and forget this situation! I’m so embarrassed and pathetic…!”

“Anyone could mishear. That’s not strange at all.”

“No… that’s not it… *sigh*.”

This time, Hamin stopped trying to gloss over everything with tears.

They say tears are a woman’s weapon, but if asked who was the aggressor between herself and Doyoung right now, Hamin could only point to herself.

To try to use a weapon when she was the aggressor.

Could there be anything more cowardly?

“I… I’ve been thinking of you as a suspicious, lewd person with hidden intentions. Someone who deceives people with an innocent expression, but inside only thinks about seducing women…”

Hamin carefully began to confess her misunderstanding, putting down her weapon as a woman.

“Hamin noona. Couldn’t we have this conversation after you get off me and put some clothes on…”

“Just listen quietly!”

“Ah, yes.”

Doyoung nodded, intimidated by Hamin’s force.

“I happened to hear about your family background. That your father is Ban Junseok, the most famous pianist in Korea.”

“…Ah, so that’s what it was.”

“What’s with that reaction! As if you don’t even know your father’s profession!”

“…I’m sorry.”

Well, he really didn’t know.

‘I think Mom said Dad was away on business trips abroad… and I didn’t ask specifically what he did because it might seem strange.’

Since Junseok, who was Doyoung’s mother in the original world, also went abroad for work, this environment didn’t seem unusual to him.

He just thought it was something common in any family.

“So noona… you thought I was deceiving you? That I claimed not to know piano despite having a professional pianist father? Pretending to be innocent to seduce you?”

“…Yes, that’s right.”

“And so you misheard my request for your number as asking you to undress as soon as we got home…?”

“…Sniff. Yes.”

It was a misunderstanding anyone could make.

No, perhaps it wasn’t even a misunderstanding.

While the current Doyoung might have no connection to piano,

the original owner of this body might have been the person Hamin thought he was.

There was no way to confirm that now.

“I… I arbitrarily judged you as a bad person. Even though I saw your face playing piano like a child with pure joy right next to me… But in the end, you remained a person with innocence intact… and the bad person was me, who only doubted and was disappointed in you, condemning you in my heart.”

“…”

“It was… all my fault. Appearing before such an innocent person like you with this unsightly body… creating a situation that could lead to bad thoughts… I’m sorry, truly.”

After saying she was sorry, Hamin buried her tear-streaked face in Doyoung’s chest.

Though she had resolved not to use tears as a weapon, it seemed impossible to control what had already started flowing from her eyes.

“Don’t cry. And your body isn’t unsightly. If you called a body like yours unsightly or unattractive around other girls, they’d ask if you were trying to pick a fight and hit you.”

That was from Doyoung’s personal experience.

“Sniff… how do you know so well? Do you have extensive experience with women?”

“…At the very least, you’re the first I’ve held while naked.”

Could 17 years of living as a woman count as experience with women?

With that question in mind, Doyoung gently patted Hamin’s head as she cried in his arms.

‘Right, I’m a man now.’

Only when he felt the heat from Hamin’s bare skin transferring to his body did he remember the heavy responsibility hanging between his legs.

Since he didn’t need to act like the male Ban Doyoung in front of Hamin who didn’t know his secret,

he often forgot the position he was in.

Even though he was calling her “noona” with his mouth.

In his heart, he was just thinking of her as a close older sister he had met here.

No matter how much Doyoung tried to treat Hamin as a friend,

he hadn’t realized that those actions would be perceived differently through his male body.

He had unknowingly done something unfair to Hamin.

Just because he could feel comfortable with Hamin didn’t mean she could feel the same way about him.

Doyoung also felt a heaviness in his heart for creating this misunderstanding.

“Then let’s do this. Since I made you feel like a bad person, you should make me a bad person too! How about it, good idea, right?”

“…What? How does that work?”

“That way, at least you won’t need to feel burdened toward me. And I’ll feel lighter too.”

Though he had fallen into this world without knowing why,

to Doyoung, this was just a place he was staying temporarily.

A world he would eventually have to leave.

Though he didn’t know the details, if he were to return to his original world, he probably wouldn’t meet the people of this world again.

That’s why Doyoung didn’t want to be remembered as someone who had wronged Hamin.

After all, she was the first friend he had made in this world.

“Really… is it okay to do that?”

“Yes. Despite the misunderstanding, my desire to become friends with you hasn’t changed. That’s why I asked for your number.”

“…Doyoung.”

“Come on, tell me right away if you think of something. So that you won’t feel sorry at all for the feelings you had toward me today…”

*Thud*

Hamin’s arms pushed away Doyoung, who had been holding her.

“Uh, uhh…?”

Doyoung lost his balance and fell onto the sofa.

Before he could get up, Hamin’s entire body pressed down on him.

“H-Hamin noona…?”

“You gave me permission. So… everything that happens from now on is all your fault.”

“Um, Hamin noona. What are you trying to do right now?”

“I don’t know… it’s my first time too.”

Doyoung’s lower body, having just returned from military training through the rain,

was pinned down by Hamin’s limp bottom, unable to move.

Hamin instinctively realized.

That Doyoung couldn’t physically push her off right now.

“H-Hamin noona? The owner of this body just got fired, so I’m completely unemployed right now! And I’m a blockhead, so I don’t know when I’ll get a job again! Plus, I might suddenly disappear at any moment! Even if I don’t leave now, I might not remember anything that happened today later on…! So it’s better not to do anything too risky…!”

“That’s perfect. That kind of karma is necessary for you to definitely be the bad person…!”

“Eehiiiek!”

Responsible pleasure descended upon Doyoung.