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For some reason, I woke up because my stomach felt ticklish.

I slowly opened my eyes as I felt something poking me and spinning around, and when I looked down, Yeonseo was drawing something on my stomach with her finger.

Oh, I’m tired.

I laid down with my neck relaxed and stroked Yeonseo’s head, and she noticed that I was awake.

“Are you up?”

“Yeah….”

He answered with his eyes closed and his mouth wide open.

My eyelids felt extremely heavy.

I’ve never been this sleepy before, so it felt strange.

“You must have been really tired. Jinhyeon was snoring?”

“Me?”

When I raised my head and asked about her snoring, Yeonseo nodded slightly.

“Did you score a lot?”

“No, just a little? Just enough for me to hear.”

That’s weird.

I didn’t feel particularly tired until I lay down.

“It could be that you were just mentally exhausted from stress. You had a headache because of the store work.”

“Is that so… .”

I want to lie down more, but I can’t stand the heat of the sauna any longer.

Jjimbokdo was soaked in sweat and clammy, and Yeonseo also raised her upper body and stretched.

“Ahhh~ Hot…?!”

Yeonseo, who had been stretching her upper body as far as possible, felt the gaze of the people gathered around her chest and hurriedly bowed down.

It was difficult to just pass by the extraordinary presence that was visible even though her back was slightly bent back.

I also jumped up and covered my letter.

“Shall we go out?”

“Yeah….”

“Take care of your head.”

Yeonseo, who quickly followed me, lowered her head and followed me out of the amethyst room.

Just opening the door and coming out made the air feel cooler.

“No, I can’t. I’ll wear a bra. If it’s too much trouble, I can take it off when I go into the sauna.”

“Yeah, that’s better. If you keep bending over, it’ll be hard for you too.”

“I’ll go and come back soon.”

After seeing Yeonseo walking briskly in front of the women’s bathhouse entrance, I went to the store in the lobby and bought some shikhye and boiled eggs.

After sweating, replenishing moisture is essential.

And seeing as she seemed to know a lot about jjimjilbangs, it seemed like Yeonseo was also secretly looking forward to this classic course that starts with a jjimjilbang and ends with a snack.

After receiving the snack, I wandered around for a while and finally found an empty seat in the lobby and lay down.

It’s amazing that all jjimjilbangs, regardless of region, always have a large log in their lobby.

As I sat leaning against the log and took a sip of shikhye, Yeonseo, who looked much more relaxed, came out of the women’s bath and approached me.

“Oh, it took a while because I was wiping off the sweat.”

Yeonseo followed me and leaned against the log, snatching the sikhye container away.

“One straw?”

Oh, I just brought one without thinking.

Before I could even say that I would bring it back, Yeonseo put her lips to the straw I was using and drank the shikhye.

“Huh? Why?”

“That’s… what I was using…?”

As I stammered in embarrassment, Yeonseo stared into my eyes.

In the meantime, Yeonseo’s stomach continued to gurgle without stopping.

The corners of Yeonseo’s mouth slowly rose.

While I was wondering why this was happening, I suddenly discovered that the sikhye container was almost empty.

“Hey hey hey hey! Are you eating all this by yourself?”

“Ah! Sweet!”

I quickly snatched the can, but it was already too late.

All that was left on the floor were puffy rice, and they had sucked it all up without a drop of moisture.

No, this much at once…

“Moisture replenishment, moisture replenishment~.”

I was so shocked that I was about to say something, but when I saw Yeonseo’s cheeks turn red, I just sighed quietly.

Well then, that’s right. I put the straw in my mouth without realizing it, and then I panicked and just drank the shikhye.

“Are you upset?”

Yeonseo is acting cute, naturally leaning her head on his shoulder.

Oh my god, that’s cute.

There’s never been anything like this in Ascraia.

At some point, I started actively using women’s weapons on myself.

Instead of saying anything to her, he put the back of his hand on her forehead and asked.

“If you drink it suddenly because it’s cold, your head will hurt. Is that okay?”

“Hehehe, I’m a little dizzy.”

Then he held the back of my hand tightly.

“Jinhyun’s hands are still warm.”

“My hands and feet are always hot.”

“They say that kind of person is cold-hearted.”

It was a common saying I had heard somewhere, but I didn’t really deny it.

“But Jinhyeon has a warm heart, so I guess that’s a lie?”

“Not that warm.”

“Lies, you’re taking care of me like this.”

Suddenly, in the middle of the sauna, he said something embarrassing.

“I’m always grateful.”

Yeonseo was truly a warm-hearted person.

He was a shy child who would twitch and twitch, but at the same time, he was also worried that the other person might get hurt.

“Want some eggs?”

“No, I’m more sleepy.”

“You can lie down here and sleep.”

“Ugh… I don’t like it if I just sleep here, people will only look at my chest.”

Yeonseo’s chest was definitely very violent and different from others, to be called hyper-self-conscious.

Normally, he looks thin when he wears clothes, but for some reason, he stands out especially when he wears a jjimbokgwa.

I have no idea why.

“Then go back to the sauna?”

“No, I just came out wearing a bra and I don’t like that….”

Yeonseo trailed off and pointed to a corner with her finger.

“I think it would be okay there?”

The place Yeonseo pointed out was the cave room.

A place where you can sleep in a small, one-person cave.

“There’s only one left? Yeonseo, do you want to go in and cut it? I’ll stay here.”

“I don’t like that.”

Yeonseo shook her head firmly and grabbed my sleeve.

“Let’s go in together.”

“Huh? That’s a single room.”

“Well, I see that there are many places where two people go in at a time.”

It wasn’t a wrong answer. As Yeonseo had pointed out, half of the caves were filled with people who appeared to be a couple.

But above the cave room there was a sign like this.

[For one person only, use by two or more people and obscene conduct are prohibited]

“I searched the internet and it said that sexual harassment happens secretly when a woman is alone. There were also incidents between men and men.”

That’s true, but it was surprising to me that the old-fashioned Yeonseo would ignore such rules and ask to go in with me.

If it were normal, I would have tried to persuade her and refused, but after sleeping in the amethyst room, my body felt strangely heavy.

And when Yeonseo mentioned sexual harassment, I felt uneasy for no reason.

“Okay.”

I stood up, taking the basket of eggs with me.

“Yeonseo, you go in first and I’ll follow you.”

Yeonseo reluctantly gave her permission and ran straight to the cave room.

That’s really fast.

As I sneaked in while keeping an eye out, Yeonseo’s face appeared right in front of me.

But it was a bit cramped for two people.

There wasn’t even a space where the two of them could lie down comfortably and use their arms as pillows like they usually do.

We had no choice but to face each other.

But Yeonseo looked at me with a worried expression on her face.

“Jinhyun, your face doesn’t look so good.”

“I feel really weird today. Is it because I’ve been in a hot place for too long? My head feels a little dizzy.”

“Go to sleep, okay? Today is your day off. Let’s just get some sleep.”

“That’s a good idea, but how do I sleep? There’s no space to lie down.”

Then Yeonseo immediately hugged me.

“You can sleep like this.”

Their chests were pressed together and they naturally hugged each other.

In a panic, I hugged her back, and we put our arms around each other’s necks, which is something only a couple can do.

Furthermore, Yeonseo even placed her leg on top of my thigh.

“…?!”

I don’t know what to say.

It was the most intense skinship we’ve ever had.

I was completely frozen by Yeonseo’s aggressive approach, her body pressed against mine and she clung to me like a snake.

A really good feeling, but also an impulse and anxiety that lingers in one corner of the heart.

I wanted to just slam the confession shut, but no woman would accept a confession made in a cave in a sauna.

Even the most insensitive country would not want to act like that.

And I still had fears about love and married life.

When we fall in love, we will definitely want to color each other with our own colors.

They want to follow their rules even in the smallest detail and feel loved for it.

Even if you know it with your head now, your heart still feels sad and aggrieved, and reason cannot suppress the irrationality.

Having experienced what that coercion does to two people in love and what it does to their children, I am afraid of what lies ahead.

Yeonseo buried her face in my chest and whispered, not knowing whether she knew my feelings or not.

“Look, Jinhyeon has a warm heart too.”

Lately, Yeonseo has been expressing her affection more often.

The changes that happened in just a week, in just a week.

Or maybe it was a change that started the moment we met again.

I need to know now.

What on earth happened in Askria, and what happened that caused Yeonseo to change after coming from there?

Let’s set a separate date and ask him seriously.

“Um… .”

Feeling the warmth of my chest, Yeonseo quickly fell into a deep sleep.

I tried to close my eyes while caressing her back as she hugged me, curled up like a squirrel, but I couldn’t fall asleep.

All I could do was pat Yeonseo on the back until she woke up.