Chapter 110: CUT. Love and Murderers (1)
by fnovelpia
CUT.
Movie theater.
Yuna shoved past the part-timer and grabbed Yeoreum’s shoulder.
“Gotcha!”
Trying to run away? Not a chance.
Yeoreum, eyes glued to his phone screen, didn’t react at all.
Usually, he’d get mad or let out a cute yelp.
Sensing something was off, Yuna shook his shoulder.
“Yeoreum… Yeoreum? What’s wrong with you?”
“……”
The phone clattered to the floor.
Yeoreum’s stumbling feet crushed the player.
Crack-
Even the videotape inside shattered.
Yeoreum’s eyes fluttered open groggily, as if just waking up.
“Huh? Where… am I?”
What’s going on? Is he acting?
Yuna took Yeoreum’s hand.
“Sneaking off to play with another girl, you naughty boy… But since you’re cute, I’ll let it slide. Let’s go home now.”
“…Who are you?”
Yeoreum pulled his hand away, eyeing Yuna suspiciously.
In that moment, it hit her. Yeoreum was terrible at acting.
He couldn’t pull off something this convincing.
If it wasn’t acting, then… surely not…
She spotted the fallen phone on the floor, connected to the broken player.
A bad feeling washed over her. One possibility that absolutely couldn’t happen flashed through her mind.
Yeoreum grabbed his chest and screamed.
“Kyaaaaaah!! My boobs… they’re gone!”
“So… you’re saying you’re Nancy Strode? You closed your eyes and when you opened them, you were in some random movie theater?”
Nancy Strode, in Yeoreum’s body, nodded at Yuna’s question.
Nancy had possessed Yeoreum’s body. Yeoreum was probably stuck in Nancy’s body back in the 1980s.
It was enough to make your head spin just hearing about it.
They were in Yuna’s apartment now.
She’d brought Nancy out of the theater and to this place. She gave the confused Nancy a quick rundown of what had happened.
It was a mess of a story, but Nancy, who’d lived through her fair share of weird stuff, caught on quickly.
“I thought Yeoreum was lying about being from Korea… but it was true.”
Nancy said, dazed.
From her perspective, she’d ended up in the original body of her boyfriend-to-be who had possessed a killer’s body.
“Yuna. Is there any way for me to go back?”
“We’ll have to figure something out. It’ll be a problem for me too if Yeoreum doesn’t come back…”
“What kind of relationship did you two have?”
“Yeoreum is… my fiancé.”
“Oh…”
To think she’d ended up in the fiancé’s body.
Nancy lowered her head, embarrassed.
Her gaze naturally fell on the unfamiliar body.
“…You know, this body looks pretty feminine, except for the flat chest.”
Even just her current sitting posture showed it.
Legs folded to the side of the hips. A flexible pose only women could pull off.
Maybe it was because the body was so small and the skin so soft. Even though she was a guy now, she didn’t feel any stronger at all.
“Um, Yuna… could I use the bathroom?”
“Sure. It’s over there.”
Nancy headed to the bathroom.
She looked in the mirror. A cute, young-looking boy stared back at her.
With longer hair, he could easily pass for a girl, his features were so pretty.
So his face matches his body…
It was hard to believe that Yeoreum, the manliest of men, used to look like this.
Nancy pulled down her pants without thinking before sitting on the toilet.
A scream erupted.
Disaster struck in the theater when Yeoreum’s foot crushed the video player. The videotape was completely destroyed.
The connection to 1980s America vanished, taking Yeoreum with it.
Yuna sighed. She had no clue how to send Nancy back and get Yeoreum back.
Nancy stared at the mangled videotape in Yuna’s hands.
“You’ve been watching Summer with that tape this whole time?”
“Yeah. Nancy and Ellen, and the Hyper sisters and Reiko too.”
Nancy’s expression turned slightly uneasy.
It wasn’t hard to guess what she was thinking. She’d basically been under surveillance by total strangers until now. Of course she’d feel weird about it.
“Nancy, are you upset? I’m sorry. But we didn’t have a choice. We needed to keep an eye on things to be ready for any creatures that might slip through.”
Nancy wasn’t petty enough to hold it against Yuna. She got it.
In this crazy situation of suddenly becoming a boy, Yuna was her only ally who might be able to send her back home.
“I’m not upset, Yuna. I would’ve done the same in your shoes.”
“I’m glad you understand… Looks like we have something in common, both falling for someone who’s been possessed.”
“What do you mean?”
“I like Yeoreum, and you like Summer.”
“W-what? I like Summer?”
“No need to play dumb. I saw everything.”
Nancy was taken aback by the pointed remark.
She knew Nancy liked Summer? How much does this woman know about me?
She tensed up. She worried if even her secret kinks, never revealed to anyone, had been exposed.
Yuna stared into Nancy’s eyes.
“Nancy, let’s put our heads together. How can we switch your soul and Yeoreum’s soul back? Any bright ideas?”
“Well, I don’t know. This all happened so suddenly…”
Summer had solved most of their tough situations in the past.
Maybe Summer would find a way to switch their souls this time too.
“Wouldn’t Summer solve it?”
“Maybe. But we can’t just sit around twiddling our thumbs.”
Yuna spoke in a serious tone.
“Picture this, Nancy. It’d be great if Summer solved it and you and Yeoreum went back where you belong. But there’s a catch.”
“A catch?”
“Summer and Yeoreum might want to go back to their original places too. What if Summer comes back here, and Yeoreum goes there?”
Yeoreum as a manly man.
Summer as a delicate boy.
If they each got their bodies back like that…
“If you go to that world and Summer comes back here, you’ll be separated from Summer forever.”
“Kyaaaaaaah! Nooooo!”
Nancy shook her head vigorously, whimpering.
She couldn’t bear the thought of being apart from Summer. No way.
She couldn’t even imagine a day without Summer.
“So we need to beat Summer and Yeoreum to the punch before they try anything like that. You’re with me, right Nancy?”
“Yes! I’m with you!”
With clear motivation, the goal became crystal clear.
Switch souls before Summer and Yeoreum.
Yuna took Nancy’s hand.
“We have to pull this off. Yeoreum and I promised to spend our lives together… We absolutely can’t be separated.”
“Yeah, I get how you feel, Yuna. We really do have something in common, huh?”
The problem was the ‘how’.
They had no clue how Yeoreum had switched souls with Nancy in the first place.
Neither Nancy nor Yuna had any info to go on.
Nancy looked down at the broken videotape, worry in her eyes.
“You said that videotape was the link to my world, right? But now it’s busted. What do we do?”
“There’s one way… We find Jung Joo-Yi.”
“Jung Joo-Yi? Who’s that?”
“She’s someone I used to know. She was a close senior of mine, but now she’s gone full-on crazy witch. Well, she was always nuts, so I guess it’s more accurate to say she became a witch.”
“A witch? Like, rides broomsticks and all that?”
“Joo-Yi will definitely know a way. We need to catch her and make her talk.”
Yuna dug through her memories.
In the basement of an old video rental store, there’s W’s studio. That’s where they nabbed the narrator.
Maybe this time they could snag Joo-Yi.
Yuna glanced at the clock on the wall.
“Wow, it’s already 3 AM… That should work out fine. The wee hours are perfect for a sneak attack.”
She stood up. The plan was to kick off the operation right away.
But Nancy’s eyes were drooping as she sat. She started nodding off.
“Nancy?”
“Ah… sorry. I was up all night…”
Nancy yawned.
Last night, she’d been in an all-out brawl with the Gingerbread Girl. Swinging a chainsaw, jumping out a second-floor window, shredding cookies with a lawnmower… It had been one hell of a fight.
Though her body had changed, her mind remembered the exhaustion. Her energy was totally drained, leaving her unable to budge.
Yuna tweaked the plan.
“Alright, let’s catch some Z’s and tackle this tomorrow.”
Nancy nodded.
Thank goodness Yuna was such a sweetheart.
At first, Nancy had been a bit spooked because Yuna was so tall and had this gloomy vibe, but now she saw that wasn’t the case at all.
Her long bangs covered her face, but her features were actually quite beautiful.
Yuna and Nancy lay side by side on the bed.
Nancy thought back to old times. She used to crash like this with Olivia, her bestie.
Time to drift off to dreamland.
Though she thought she’d pass out immediately from exhaustion, sleep surprisingly eluded her.
For some reason, she felt a little on edge.
Her back touching Yuna’s. She could feel the soft skin through their clothes.
A sweet scent tickled her nose. It was the smell of a woman, something she’d never noticed when she had a woman’s body herself.
Nancy, fidgeting under the covers, was startled.
‘…Why is it suddenly getting hard?’
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