Love Spelled L-O-V-E, Pronounced S-E-X.

It was the third day since my reunion with Ye-rin.

After school at a café.

The three of us—me, Seo Jin-hyuk, and Yoon Do-hyun—were gathered together.

The reason why we three guys were meeting like this, when I should be spending every possible minute with Ye-rin, was because…

“Hey guys. You know what…?”

Yoon Do-hyun said he had something important to discuss today.

“…What is it?”

Seeing Yoon Do-hyun’s uncharacteristically serious expression, I unconsciously tensed up.

Yoon Do-hyun slowly opened his mouth.

“Actually, love… love is spelled L-O-V-E but pronounced S-E-X…”

“Ah, shit.”

Fooled again, damn it.

I couldn’t believe I postponed my date with Ye-rin to hear this idiotic nonsense.

Barely restraining myself from flipping the table, I stood up from my seat.

Glancing to the side, I saw Jin-hyuk resting his chin on the table, not moving a muscle.

“Hey, Seo Jin-hyuk. What are you doing? Let’s go.”

“……”

“…? What are you doing, I said?”

“…I think it might be worth hearing him out once.”

“……?”

“…………”

“You fucking bastard, what the hell are you saying right now!!! You, you couldn’t possibly…???”

“Ca-calm down. I haven’t done anything yet, you idiot!”

“Yet? YEEEET????????????”

Shocked at what I just heard, I grabbed Jin-hyuk’s collar and shook him vigorously. He tried to shake my hands off, calling for a referee as if begging for his life, but…

I just couldn’t contain myself.

“Hey, hey, Han Woo-jin, you crazy bastard! Try to calm down.”

“Do I look like I can calm down? The guy dating my little sister says he wants to hear about how ‘love is sex’???”

“……Sigh, this is pretty intense. Hey, but eventually someday…”

“SOMEDAY???”

“Ah, you crazy siscon bastard. Look at your eyes, they’re rolling back. I can’t even talk properly. Hey! Was I the only one who wanted to talk about this?”

The culprit himself, Yoon Do-hyun, who made my eyes roll back in their sockets, cried out as if he was the one being wronged.

“Hey, honestly. Isn’t it about time we had this kind of talk!? What’s wrong with guys talking among themselves?”

Sure. Guys with girlfriends gathering to talk about their partners once in a while is normal.

I didn’t misunderstand what Yoon Do-hyun was saying.

However.

— Seo Jin-hyuk is my little sister’s boyfriend, damn it.

I knew that someday, just like me, Se-ah would hold hands with her boyfriend, kiss, and beyond… ugh. That day would come.

But I really, really don’t want to know who she’s doing it with or when.

Especially if that boyfriend is my close friend?

Fuuuck.

Yoon Do-hyun, that only child, couldn’t understand the feelings of siblings at all.

Until now, we’ve all had firm stances on our love lives, so we didn’t interfere with or make a topic out of each other’s relationships.

But basically, the biggest problem was that…

For both me and Jin-hyuk…

Anything either of us said would be a critical hit for the other.

[I held hands! -> With my sister?]

With an algorithm like that, what were we supposed to talk about?

I…!

I really don’t want to know even the tiniest, tiiiniest bit about what my little sister did with my friend…!!!!!

“…But why do you want to talk about this with us anyway? You have plenty of friends, don’t you?”

“This bastard Han Woo-jin thinks everyone has a girlfriend just because he does. Hey, do you know how rare it is for guys our age to have girlfriends?”

…That’s true.

I realized this made sense—in a different timeline where I wasn’t picked up by Ye-rin, I might still be single.

“…Don’t you feel bad toward your girlfriend? Is she okay with you talking about s… these things?”

“Hey, no matter what you think of me, I’ve been dating my current girlfriend for years now. Do you think I’d just talk about these things without any thought? I got permission, you idiot.”

“She gave you permission for that?”

“Yep. She said spreading this information around means I wouldn’t dare think about breaking up with her.”

“Wow…”

So that’s the mindset needed to maintain a tenth relationship this long.

I couldn’t help but be impressed.

I thought Yoon Do-hyun had been enjoying a free-spirited romance, but I realized he was actually very firmly caught.

“Hey, no matter how I look at it, your girlfriend seems much scarier than Ye-rin?”

“Nah, that’s not true.”

I was dumbfounded by Yoon Do-hyun’s expression that seemed to say “What a joke~”.

But I figured, whatever makes each person happy, right?

“Anyway! I’m not the important one here, you guys should talk too. I’ve already shared everything—that I had my first experience with my current girlfriend.”

“…And after that?”

“Isn’t the first time the hardest?”

When Jin-hyuk, who had been quiet until now, asked curiously, Yoon Do-hyun grinned smugly and said:

“That expression really makes me want to kill you…”

“No, what exactly do you want us to talk about?”

“Progress.”

Yoon Do-hyun said bluntly, his eyes half-open.

“How far have you guys gone?”

At those words, I unconsciously glanced at Jin-hyuk, and he must have looked at me too, because our eyes met midway.

…Shit.

As much as I hated to admit it…

— I’m curious, really fucking curious.

I really, really, really don’t want to know anything about my little sister’s love life…!

But at the same time, I was dying to know how far they had gone.

It’s not like dating is some kind of race, but…

— I still have my pride.

We’re kind of like senior couples compared to them, so falling behind would be… would be a bit embarrassing…!

I could accept it from Yoon Do-hyun, who’s practically an animal having dated 10 times, but I didn’t want to fall behind this guy whose only worth is his face.

That’s why a whirlwind of chaos was raging in my mind, mixing the desire to know with the desire not to know.

Jin-hyuk probably felt the same way.

He pretended not to care, but I could see the conflict in his eyes.

A suffocating psychological battle ensued.

Watching each other carefully.

“Hey, you speak first.”

“Get lost, you speak first.”

This silent war of wills continued until Yoon Do-hyun, unable to stand it any longer, spoke up.

“Hey, can’t you just speak honestly? Chop off your dicks if you’re going to be like this!”

“Look at this bastard talking so easily because it’s not his business. Hey, imagine you have a little sister. It’s really not easy.”

“I don’t have a little sister, so I wouldn’t know, idiot.”

“Then your mom…”

“That’s crossing the line, Seo Jin-hyuk, you fucker.”

“……Fair enough. Sorry.”

“No, I think that was quite appropriate.”

“Han Woo-jin is really a crazy bastard too.”

But still.

This was an issue that couldn’t be understood unless compared to blood relations.

It’s not that Jin-hyuk’s sudden fiery personal attack was right, but I couldn’t help but empathize.

“…Hah. So. You’re not going to talk?”

“……I’ll talk if Jin-hyuk talks.”

“……I’ll talk if Woo-jin talks too.”

“You first.”

“Yes, you first.”

“Just get lost, fuck.”

Yoon Do-hyun made an exasperated expression at our sophisticated conversation that could hardly be considered appropriate for high school seniors.

“Ha… I was hoping we’d eventually have this kind of talk when we got together, but all I see are a bunch of eunuchs.”

“Sorry for being eunuchs, so why don’t you tell us more about yourself?”

“Fair enough. How did you do it? No, how did the mood get to… that point?”

“Seo Jin-hyuk, you fucking bastard. What good would knowing that do for you?”

“No, let’s just hear the story, Han Woo-jin, you dog.”

As Jin-hyuk and I bickered, Yoon Do-hyun ignored us as if he was used to it and began speaking.

“……Honestly, even I didn’t know we were going to do it that day. But you know what’s clever about this big brother?”

As we both looked at him, urging him to continue, Yoon Do-hyun grinned and continued.

“I always carried a condom in my wallet. Preparation prevents poor performance. You know what I mean, you idiots?”

“……You always carried that around?”

“Of course. When do you think it’s going to happen? If you have a girlfriend, you should always carry one, dummy. Do you want to be in that situation and say, ‘Oh, I don’t have one. Can I run to the convenience store real quick? Hehe’ Like that? If you leave and come back, good luck trying to continue.”

……………Sigh.

This time… I thought Yoon Do-hyun might actually be right.

“That day, like usual, my girlfriend invited me over because no one was at her house. We were hanging out like normal, but somehow, somehow the atmosphere was different from usual?”

“……The atmosphere? How was it?”

Before I knew it, both Jin-hyuk and I were gulping and listening intently to Yoon Do-hyun’s words.

“Well…”

“Well?”

“From here on~ is premium content, you virgins. If you want to hear more, you have to share too.”

My fist trembled at the sight of Yoon Do-hyun giggling after cutting off at the most important part.

But I couldn’t say anything in response.

Which made me even angrier.

“…Fine. If you can do it, why couldn’t we?”

“Agreed. When the time comes, we’ll do it too.”

“You’ll do it, you bastard?”

“Ah, Han Woo-jin, this crazy bastard goes wild even when I’m on his side.”

“…Tough guys. For all your big talk, you’ll still be stopping by the convenience store on your way home, but your mouths are so tight.”

“…………”

“…………”

Both Jin-hyuk and I kept our mouths shut as if we’d agreed to.

Our eyes met, as if to say “You too?”

“But I saw in a survey somewhere that the most memorable thing is the first kiss.”

“…True. I think I’ll never forget it either. That moment, that expression…”

“……………?”

“…………….”

“……………???”

“……………………”

“Hey, Seo Jin-hyuk. Stop that. Wh-what did you just say…?”

“I, I just remembered something urgent, so I’ll head out first. See you guys latER, AAAAAACK…!!! Yoon Do-hyun, help me…!”

“Pfft, HAHAHA! Ah~ Jin-hyuk is seriously hilarious. I was just fishing, but I didn’t expect to actually catch something.”

That day…

I found out about my one and only little sister’s relationship progress, which I was curious about but didn’t want to know…