Chapter 159

Chapter 159

Their story didn’t end there. “By the way, why are you wearing that?” “Ah, this? It’s a long story…” There were plenty of stories to tell, more than they had expected. For example, about the martial arts she had learned. “…I never thought there was a way like that.” “Pretty amazing, right?” “It is amazing… but it’s so idiotic. I’m speechless.” “It’s okay. It’s all good as long as I become a victorious idiot.” The stories they had accumulated were as numerous as the years they had lived, and the time was too short to share everything they held in their hearts. Emily and Aiden marveled and were astonished by each other’s backgrounds, walking down the alleyway for what felt like forever. “…Herbs. Layla found one and sent it to me before… Ah.” Was it a coincidence that the end of their walk was a familiar place for Emily? Emily, who had been happily talking, stopped and looked up at the building in front of her. A familiar street and a familiar building. The sign on it read ‘Night Fairy’ in large letters. “Huh? Why…” Aiden also tilted his head, then stopped speaking as he realized the surroundings. It was an unfamiliar street and scenery to him, but he could understand the subtle atmosphere emanating from the phrase ‘Night Fairy’. “….” “….” A strange current flowed between the two for a moment. She was trying to forget, but Emily was wearing a red scarf. Aiden wasn’t naive enough not to understand its meaning, and he was also a man in his prime. Even if Emily was a friend from a past life, her appearance was clearly that of an attractive woman. Harboring secret lust for her was an unavoidable thing for Aiden. And Emily wasn’t stupid enough not to know that. “….” She wouldn’t have known before, but after experiencing so many men, she was able to see men’s habits from a woman’s point of view. With just a slight change in Aiden’s expression, Emily could sense what he was thinking. Knowing that, Emily asked Aiden. “Want to go in?” “…Are you serious?” Aiden asked back in an absurd tone. Secretly hoping that she might refuse, yet at the same time hoping that she wouldn’t, he struggled to bury his contradictory feelings in his heart. However, Emily’s subsequent answer had its own logic. “Honestly, I’m not sure.” “….” “But if you want to, I won’t refuse.” “…Why?” “Let me ask you something else. Do you think it’s fair that I sell my body to other men, but refuse only you?” It’s not fair. But just because it’s fair doesn’t necessarily mean it’s right. Could it be said to be right? Aiden didn’t know. To others, Emily might be just a prostitute, but not to Aiden. But if he were to have Emily… could he still think of her as a friend then? Perhaps, even he would think of her as a lewd prostitute. As he was thinking that, Emily continued. “Layla once said that we can be held by someone, but we can’t be loved. That it’s too heavy for us to bear, and if we hold it even out of pity, we’ll only sink. So I’m asking. If you’re confident that you won’t love me, you can hug me as much as you want.” Aiden felt something vague at the sudden change in his friend’s appearance. He didn’t know what she had given up for power, but even if he didn’t know what it was, he felt like he could understand her heart a little. “…You’ve grown up quite a bit, haven’t you? As much as your chest.” “If a dog attends a village school for three years, it can recite poetry, right?” “No, scratch that about being smart.” Aiden tried to brush off the atmosphere that had flown away in an instant, and cleared his throat a couple of times. It wasn’t that he didn’t feel uncomfortable, but on the other hand, he definitely had a desire for Emily’s body. “But you know, I’m actually a virgin…” That was because he was still a virgin. “….What?” When Aiden carefully confessed that fact, Emily tilted her head. As someone who was used to having sex twice a day, she couldn’t readily understand what he meant by ‘first time’. However, after hearing Aiden’s precise explanation, she understood what he meant by ‘first time’. “I’m a virgin.” “Wow… you’re more abstinent than I thought.” “No, you bitch. It’s not that I didn’t do it, I couldn’t.” “…Is that possible?” “Have you ever seen such a bastard?” When Aiden cursed, Emily was able to understand more accurately. It wasn’t that he hadn’t done it, but that he couldn’t. In addition, she realized anew that there were people like that in the world. “Sorry, I don’t think I can do it with you.” The moment she realized that, Emily shook her head. “What?” “They say if a man is still a virgin after thirty, there’s definitely something wrong with him.” Who said such nonsense? Aiden was still an eighteen-year-old youth, but it was a clear truth that he had lived as a solo for a combined 35 years in his past and present lives. He suppressed his rising anger and asked Emily in a low voice. “….Did that Layla say that too?” “No, I saw it on the internet.” “….” While remaining silent at the fresh bullshit, Aiden thought. If he were to pounce on Emily in front of him, it would be because of anger, not desire. // Of course, that was Aiden’s delusion. “….” It was only a moment after he grabbed her hand in a fit of anger and entered the brothel that he realized what he had done and froze. However, instead of the frozen Aiden, Emily, who had been dragged along, led him to her room.

-Creak.

Thus, they headed to Emily’s room. “This is my room. I use it to receive guests.” “…Is that so?” “There’s a separate dormitory, but I usually sleep here. The bed is better here. The other girls don’t like it because they have nightmares, but I’ve never had one, so I don’t know.” “…I feel like you wouldn’t.” Aiden forced the words out. Emily, who was unfamiliar at first, and then became a little familiar, now had a strange atmosphere again. Aiden felt a strange pity and a subtle lust for her, who casually mentioned her work. “….” Perhaps it was because of the atmosphere of the room she had introduced. The room where she had moaned erotically every day while accepting other men might be confusing his mind. “….” Looking at such Aiden, Emily smiled bitterly. She, who was a man in her past life but a woman in her current life, could understand Aiden’s conflict. Emily herself had become so depraved that she could mix bodies with him, who was once a friend of the same sex, without any hesitation, but Aiden was not yet. He still had an innocent side. “You don’t want to? If you want to leave…” “I don’t know.” But, on the contrary, that might be why she couldn’t let him go like this. “…I see. Then let’s just say I wanted to.” Emily readily answered and tried to take off the clothes she was wearing. However, before she could even take off all her clothes, Aiden’s hesitant voice echoed in her ears. “….Do you want to do it with me?” To that question, Emily answered in her heart. I don’t know either. However, what she actually said was different. “…Yes.” “Why?” Should I say this honestly? Emily hesitated for a moment, but in the end, the answer that came out was the same as always, that hesitation didn’t suit her. She honestly revealed her thoughts. “Either way, when I meet Layla, we’ll end up doing it together.” And the thought she revealed was a little off Aiden’s expectations. “…Huh?” “When we go to Lakers together, it’ll be boring during the trip. I’d feel bad looking for another man when I have you, so I’ll probably end up doing it with you. If we’re going to do it anyway, I don’t think it matters if we do it now.” Do people usually have sex because they’re bored? That wasn’t the case according to Aiden’s common sense. However, the common sense that people usually talk about is subtle and changes depending on the environment. Perhaps that Layla had lived in a completely different reality from him. Aiden recalled the image of Seo Hyun that remained faintly in his memory. ‘….What did he look like?’ It was impossible. He seemed to have a pretty face, but he couldn’t remember anything more than that. And while he was having such distractions,

-Rustle.

The sound of something like cloth being peeled off rang in his ears. “….Huh?” When he inadvertently turned his head towards that place, there was Emily covering her chest with one arm. Whether she had already taken off her clothes, she was not wearing anything on her upper body. “Hey, you… why?” There was something more beautiful there than he had vaguely imagined. Aiden stammered, unable to take his eyes off Emily’s fair breasts. Then Emily clapped her hands as if she had noticed something and asked back. “Huh? Oh, should we do it with clothes on?” Her breasts heaved once between her arms, which were raised without hesitation. Aiden couldn’t take his eyes off the beautiful teardrop-shaped breasts and the pink nipples in the center, but he tried to open his mouth. “Ah, no. That’s not it….” However, he didn’t know what he wanted to say. He couldn’t refuse or accept, and just kept repeating that it wasn’t. “….” Emily smiled slightly as she looked at such Aiden. That smile was not the pure one she usually wore, but resembled that of a prostitute who seduced men. Forgetting what to say at the sight of his friend’s appearance changing in an instant, Aiden soon heard Emily’s words whispering in his ear, and felt something rising from his heart. “You’re… kind of cute.” // Was that word the trigger? Or was it Emily’s tongue, which approached as if embracing him and licked his neck, that drove him crazy? Whatever the case, when Aiden came to his senses, he had already pushed Emily onto the bed. “….” “…I can’t even leave now.” At Emily’s words, Aiden nodded silently. He could no longer lie to himself. His lower body was already stiff. The murky desire swirling from his heart was making him think of the friend under him as nothing more than an object of lust. “Damn it….” Aiden didn’t like his feelings. Emily is Lee Seong-cheol, his friend from the past. No matter what her appearance is, the essence does not change. To feel lust for that friend just because her appearance has changed and he has learned about the environment she has lived in… it was as if he was treating her not as a person, but as an object to satisfy his desires. “….” Emily couldn’t fully understand Aiden’s feelings. There were hardly any men who had shown the same attitude as Aiden to her. However, she felt like she could understand what emotions he was feeling. “You’re regretting it, aren’t you?” At a distance close enough for their foreheads to touch, Emily whispered to him. Their bodies, already half overlapping, were clashing with hot heat on their skin. There’s no turning back. Either way, he will hold her. While vaguely feeling that, Aiden nodded. “…I think so.” At his words, Emily smiled bitterly once again. Perhaps she was regretting it like Aiden. Perhaps her thoughts were wrong, and perhaps she didn’t have to do this. ‘….’

However, it was already too late to turn back. He and she would make love without loving each other. Because desire had already stolen their reason. And the experience would change Aiden. “It’s okay. The first time is always the hardest.” Emily knew. That his hesitation would only be this once. The next time he mingled his body with hers, he would no longer hesitate. Like other innocents who had once passed through her. Perhaps, next time, he would take her body without hesitation. Other men had. ‘…I feel a little sorry for him.’ Emily felt a small pang of regret at that fact and pulled Aiden’s body closer. Then, she whispered in his ear. “Just…enjoy me for this moment.” // ———= Author’s Note ———= I’m sorry. I just started writing this yesterday, so I don’t have any backlog. I will work hard to write and build it up in the future…