Ch.230Side Story – I’ve Come to End This Virgin (1)

The chairman, or rather Sangmin, who had fallen neatly into Hami’s trap, was being dragged around by her as she gripped his necktie. It was no exaggeration to say he was essentially wearing his necktie as a leash.

“Student Hamin, is this… really okay?”

“Finding a taxi or an empty room would be harder at this hour. Just stay at our house tonight.”

“Even so, bringing an outsider into your home so casually…”

“Why are you an outsider when you’re my dad?”

“…”

Sangmin couldn’t respond to Hamin’s words. It was Hamin, not him, who was clearly stating the proper principles. He was simply afraid to face those principles.

“You promised to fulfill your family responsibilities that you couldn’t back then. So don’t just think about bearing responsibilities—exercise your rights as a family member too. That’s how it should be, right?”

“…”

“What are you doing! Hurry up and carry me to the bedroom in a princess hold! This is usually only my son’s privilege, but I’m specially allowing you to do it this time! If you don’t do it properly, you’ll be in big trouble!”

“W-well, Mom’s way of treating Dad is a bit different from mine…”

“It’s her old personality coming out. She was quite famous at school for being as aggressive as Miss Doyoung.”

“M-my mom was?”

The son was startled to hear about his mother’s past that only his father knew. In Hamin’s memories, his mother was a playful but loving and gentle mom.

“Hamin probably doesn’t know. If I were Hami, I would never have told or shown that side of myself to Hamin either.”

“Ugh! Who told you to talk about my high school days! And in front of our Hamin! Do you want to die?!”

“Isn’t ‘sharing my wife’s embarrassing past that only I know’ also… a right I can enjoy as family?”

“This… you were just a pathetic student teacher who only knew how to run your mouth with nothing but a big dick…!”

“That last descriptor is unnecessary right now! Hamin! Does a father’s rights include disciplining a mother who’s making fun of him?”

“Huh…? W-well, I wouldn’t know… since I’ve never had a father before…”

“If not, please add it to the list. I’ll teach her the manners I couldn’t finish teaching 20 years ago tonight!”

“Bring it on! You think I’m scared of you when you already fell for a student 20 years ago?”

Late at night.

Hami and Sangmin entered the first-floor entrance, raising their voices in a way that seemed likely to draw complaints from other residents.

“A marital fight right after reuniting after 20 years…”

For Hamin, this was the first marital fight he had ever witnessed.

However, there seemed no need to intervene out of concern that the situation might escalate.

Even as they glared fiercely at each other, grinding their teeth,

Neither showed any sign of letting go of their hold on each other.

Even while waiting for the elevator to come down from the top floor,

Sangmin was still carrying Hami in a princess hold.

“What are you doing, son! The elevator’s almost here!”

“Y-yes! I’ll just check the mailbox and come up!”

If catching up on a delayed marital fight was a right to enjoy as family, then perhaps it was.

Hamin checked the mailbox in the first-floor entrance on behalf of the two who were busy exercising their rights.

After all, whatever was in the mailbox probably wouldn’t have registered in their eyes right now.

“Let’s see, nothing special besides insurance payment notices… oh?”

Opening the mailbox and looking inside, Hamin discovered an envelope with an unfamiliar design, different from the usual maintenance fee statements or health insurance mail.

“This is addressed to me.”

Hamin was slightly puzzled seeing his own name written as the recipient.

Usually, most mail was addressed to the residents’ representative, in other words, his mother’s name, “Do Hami.”

For a moment he wondered if he had misread a consonant due to the dim lighting,

But even after checking several times, it was indeed mail addressed to Hamin.

Perhaps the school had changed their mail design?

Hamin looked up to see where it was sent from.

“…Military Manpower Administration?”

**

It was the day after the college entrance exam.

In a rare occurrence between me and Do Hamin, he was the one who asked me to come to his house first.

What could he be thinking?

Although we’re both 18 years old now,

There’s still time before the second condition—after high school graduation.

Maybe he got a perfect score on the exam and wants to claim his REWARD immediately, ignoring our previous agreement?

Well, if that’s the case, I’ll have to respond to our Lime’s daddy’s expectations.

With that thought, I quickly stopped by home to change into a sexy bra and came over, but…

“Here I am at Hamin’s house after so long! So where are we doing it? Your bedroom since it’s our first time? Or the living room sofa? Or maybe boldly at the entrance…”

“Waaaaaah! Doyoung! Our future daughter-in-law!”

“Sniff… Student Doyoung…! It’s terrible! An emergency, an emergency I tell you!”

“Huh…?”

As soon as I opened the front door and entered the living room, the first thing I saw was

Hami-chan and the chairman, my fu(cking) father-in-law,

Crying their eyes out until they were swollen red, with thick tears dripping down.

“Waaaaaah!”

“Sob sob… hic…”

“This is too much! Sending something like this to a kid who just finished his college entrance exam!”

“Sniff… I thought I could finally get closer to him after telling him I’m his father… why did things turn out like this…”

“What kind of law is this! What has this country ever done for me that it’s taking my son away!”

“So you’re both crying like this since morning because of a military examination notice?”

“Y-yes…”

No wonder. Both of their eyes were too red for people who had just cried briefly.

Their clothes and the floor around them were all damp.

“Mom, this is just a notice for a military service examination, not an immediate enlistment order.”

“But it means he’ll have to go eventually. And soon…!”

“Well, I suppose within 2-3 years.”

“Waaaaaah! See! Even 20 years passes quickly, so 2-3 years will pass in no time!”

“As you can see, they’re in this state. No matter what I say, they’re both too worried to listen properly.”

“So you called me to help reassure them?”

“Yeah… I thought if you also told them it’s okay like I did, they might feel a bit better.”

“Sigh… I really wore a pretty bra today.”

“Eh…?”

Is this how all families with only one son react when military service approaches?

It was a stark contrast to my family, where my brother Solyoung was already serving when I possessed this body.

‘Wait. But I was also from a family with only one son before my possession.’

Why didn’t I see scenes like this?

How little did my family care about their only son’s military service?

My father in my original world, Ban Junseok, was too busy with overseas performances and never visited once during the service period.

He would just brag that 21 months was nothing compared to what he went through.

“Right. What have you been doing all this time, fu(cking) father?”

“Sniff… Me?”

“Yes, you, the middle-aged man crying inappropriately. I can understand Hami-chan crying thinking about her son going to the military after raising him alone. But a father shouldn’t act like this. You should be reassuring Hami-chan at times like this.”

I could understand, with a hundred concessions, what Hami-chan was feeling right now.

How could worry not be part of the emotions when sending a son who’s been with you all your life to the military?

What’s needed at times like this is a father who comforts and soothes the mother.

The advice and consolation of a father who has already experienced what his son must go through is the most reliable reassurance.

“As a father, you should act like one and tell his mother and son there’s nothing to worry about, that it’s something all men go through. Why are you just crying there with Hami-chan? You’ve been to the military too, right, fu(cking) father?”

“Sob… I was exempt. I was a fourth-generation only son.”

“…What the fuck?”

He really was a fucking father.

“Put our Hamin in your family registry right now! Make our Hamin exempt as a fifth-generation only son!”

“They don’t give exemptions for that anymore these days.”

“That’s ridiculous! The birth rate is even lower now! Children are even more precious now!”

“Because the birth rate is so low, they’re trying to recruit as many as possible.”

It’s a world where even people who shouldn’t be in the military are being drafted.

Of course, our Hamin would be an ace in any unit he joins.

“I’m… surprised. Student Doyoung, you can maintain such a steadfast attitude even knowing that Hamin will have to go to the military.”

“If you’re going to say something, call it upright. ‘Steadfast’ pisses me off just hearing it.”

“H-how can you maintain such an upright attitude? Is it because you have a brother who’s been to the military?”

“T-that’s…”

“That’s…?”

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“O-of course it’s because I believe that even if Hamin goes to the military, he’ll come back just fine! Why are you asking something so obvious!”

“S-see? Even Doyoung trusts me and says this! Mom and Dad shouldn’t keep crying as if you don’t have faith in me!”

“S-Student Doyoung… to think you trusted Hamin that much…”

“Our future daughter-in-law… Mom is so touched! Waaah!”

“Ahaha…”

I couldn’t bring myself to say that I had served too.