episode_0113

“Have sex with me too.”

“……”

I leaned my back against the wall and froze for a moment.

For a moment, I almost couldn’t believe my ears.

“Is what I heard right now correct?” I sent a glance, conveying that meaning, and Rachel nodded in affirmation. Baek Ayun, meanwhile, twitched the corners of her lips.

“……No, wait. Wait, wait.”

For a moment, I felt my head spin and clutched my forehead.

Then I reached out and stopped Rachel.

I had expected some kind of demand to emerge. After all, there had to be a reason for her to cause all this trouble.

She must have been glaring at me for the past few days because she wanted something from me.

But surely there’s a reasonable limit, isn’t there? Before even considering whether I could accept it, something that a person would ‘normally request’ should have come out.

When words like that are blurted out so suddenly, without any context, I couldn’t help but be flustered.

I tried to ignore the sensation of growing dizzy and looked at Rachel once more. And I asked, just to confirm.

“……Did I hear correctly—”

“Let’s sleep together.”

Fuck.

I had heard it correctly. In fact, I’d heard it *too* correctly.

Unable to hide my confusion, my eyes trembled as I looked ahead.

But it was Rachel who, instead, looked puzzled. She tilted her head as if she didn’t quite understand and asked me in return.

“Hyunjin, aren’t you used to this kind of thing? Why are you making such a surprised face?”

“……”

“I’m sure you’ve engaged in unspeakable, obscene acts every night, not just with Soyul, but also with Ayun, who’s right beside you now…”

I couldn’t hear any more, and I forcibly clamped a hand over Rachel’s mouth.

A soft sensation met my hand, and Rachel’s cheeks flushed slightly. A deep blush.

“……I guess there are relationships that start with this kind of treatment. Yes. I think I like it.”

The level of nonsense, its caliber, was entirely different. Even though I prided myself on having met many crazy women and heard a lot of crazy talk until now…

This was a new type altogether. Are women truly like this? Do they just keep revealing new facets, no matter how many layers you peel back, like an onion?

“……”

But such confusion didn’t last very long.

At least compared to before.

I had grown. Even if I didn’t have the courage to confidently say that this growth was beneficial, at the very least, the me of now was undeniably different from the me before.

First, let’s briefly summarize the situation.

First, I removed the hand covering Rachel’s mouth and thought.

This girl has been strange ever since she encountered me in the last ranking match…

Even then, I had an uncannily strange feeling, but looking back now, it seems it was a prelude to this entire mess.

And for a while, for about a week or so, she had been following me and sending me glances.

By today, she was openly trying to create contact by following me.

If she had wanted to tail me perfectly from the start, she wouldn’t have followed me so overtly.

In any case, it meant she had clear demands. And now, the exact outline of those demands had been revealed.

I don’t know why, but she wants to spend a night with me…!

Then at this point, the central issue becomes clear.

Is there any reason for me to agonize over this?

In other words… was there really a need to ponder and agonize over whether to accept it, or how to politely decline?

If it were before, perhaps. But the me of now could definitively answer ‘no’ to that question.

‘……Hmm, hmm.’

A bead of cold sweat trickled down. Although I had a clear fiancée, hadn’t I already come too far to uphold that ‘fidelity’?

I’d crossed that perilous river long ago.

The concept of chastity, similarly, I estimated was probably quite open-minded in this academy.

In that situation, all that remained was to consider the fundamental question.

“……”

“Ahaha……?”

I ended my brief reverie and rolled my eyes to look at Rachel in front of me. She wore a subtle smile, meeting my scrutinizing gaze.

She was a captivating girl. Both in terms of her outward appearance and her inner qualities.

……It was entirely possible I might be murdered by the other girls in Class A if I wasn’t careful, but I wasn’t foolish enough to agonize over that now that it had come to this.

So, to summarize, yes.

My deliberation wasn’t very long.

And the decision was quick.

‘……I don’t know.’

Despite having made a decision in my mind, I first casually turned my head to glance at the actual person involved in today’s meeting.

Baek Ayun, with pigtails, who was a classmate, a sex friend, and also a ‘younger sister’ (?).

First of all, the person I had decided to spend my day with was not Rachel. Obviously.

Therefore, I had intended to postpone this occasion, even just out of consideration for Baek Ayun’s feelings—

“Oh, I’m fine.”

“Huh?”

As if she had read my thoughts again, Baek Ayun blinked, cutting me off before I could even open my mouth.

“It doesn’t matter much if I go in first. I still enjoyed the date, and today isn’t the only day. Hehe.”

And then, she added a playful laugh.

Baek Ayun winked at me.

“You’re an excellent specimen of trash today too, Oppa!”

“……”

If she hadn’t added that, my heart would have felt much lighter.

My younger sister’s brief, incisive jab deeply stabbed my heart…

*****

“Mmm~.”

After parting ways with Rachel and Lee Hyunjin, Baek Ayun stretched and blinked her eyes.

The sun was slowly setting, and it was time to head back. Her destination was the dormitory building.

Due to the sudden intrusion of a third party, today’s date didn’t lead to an intense night of passion, but as she said, it was fine.

After all, she’d had enough sex with him, and from the perspective of having been sufficiently ‘bedded,’ giving up one night to someone else wasn’t really a big deal, was it?

It wasn’t something to worry much about.

Well, it wasn’t like he didn’t have an official partner anyway.

“Hmph.”

Baek Ayun let out a small, pointless laugh at the sudden thought of ‘someone.’

It wasn’t surprising, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t curious.

That is, when Lee Hyunjin seduced yet another female student and engaged in sticky ‘fire play,’ she was curious about Cheon Soyul’s usual reaction.

It was the same anger every time, yet it always felt new. Enough to be thoroughly enjoyable to watch.

With that thought, Baek Ayun let out a somewhat detached, wistful smile, wondering if she should head to her dormitory today.

“……Ah.”

Her murmured words were brief.

“It’s a pity.”

One word.

And.

“Today was a really, truly dangerous day.”

……Two words.

Baek Ayun softly smiled and stroked her lower belly.

It was a gentle touch mixed with affection.

*****

An unstaffed hotel located on the outskirts of the academy.

Lee Hyunjin visited this place again today.

He very naturally reserved a room, rode the elevator, scanned his card key, entered the room, and turned on the lights.

He then thought.

‘……At this point, I’m really no different from a regular customer, am I?’

At the same time, another thought occurred to him every time he came here: What on earth was the academy’s intention and purpose in providing such a facility?

The stated justification was accommodation for occasional external guests.

Considering that the actual users were all students, and considering that the academy couldn’t possibly not know that…

As expected, it always led to some rather subtle imaginings. Accompanied by a small fantasy.

In any case, it wasn’t a particularly important thought.

Lee Hyunjin turned his head, pretending to be slightly indifferent.

“……Hmm, hmm.”

There stood a blonde beauty, pretending to be nonchalant, yet unable to keep her pupils from darting around nervously.

She stood stiffly, unable to take another step forward from the entrance.

And the moment her eyes met Lee Hyunjin’s, the girl, Rachel, showed an awkward smile.

“……I didn’t actually think you’d bring me here.”

The words she then blurted out were just that.

Lee Hyunjin made a dumbfounded expression.

“You’re the one who asked to be brought here, aren’t you?”

“……No, that’s true, but…”

“If you want to back out now……”

“N-no, not that! I’m just nervous, so you don’t have to worry about it, okay?”

Rachel denied it even before Lee Hyunjin’s indifferent question had finished.

She waved her hand once and then slightly raised her eyebrows.

Then she looked.

At the bed in the center.

“……Well.”

“……”

“Sh-should I just lie down?”

Lee Hyunjin didn’t reply, but Rachel, as if she hadn’t spoken to receive an answer, simply moved forward stiffly on her own.

Literally, a creaking movement. It was as awkward as an unoiled machine moving.

Nevertheless, with such difficulty, when Rachel Brehelton finally reached the front of the bed—

“—Gah?!”

Lee Hyunjin immediately reached out his hand without giving her time to take a deep breath.

He grabbed her arm, pulled, and immediately brought her sprawling onto the bed.

Rachel’s already large eyes widened even further.

“Y-you surprised me.”

Even as she said that, she didn’t resist or refuse. As if it wasn’t a completely unwelcome coercion, she merely lowered her voice slightly.

“……So we’re really doing this, aren’t we?”

It was a remark that left Lee Hyunjin no choice but to wear a subtle expression.

He wanted to say.

You’re the one who seduced me, and you’re the one who brought me here, aren’t you? Why do you keep reacting as if you’re scared, making me concerned?

But he stopped himself from uttering those words. Because he had eyes, and he saw.

“……”

Rachel was clearly nervous, but…

There was no fear in her eyes.

It was tension, not aversion. Though similar in expression, these were two entirely different feelings, so Lee Hyunjin added nothing more.

Just like how he usually treated ‘classmate’ Rachel Brehelton—

“Don’t regret it.”

Smiling gently and playfully.

“Because you might not be able to walk out properly tomorrow.”

“……Hmph, okay.”

And Rachel, in turn, welcomed Lee Hyunjin’s rather typical demeanor.

Since things had already come to this, she, too, wanted to embrace a sense of normalcy.

She shivered once at Lee Hyunjin’s low, subdued voice, and at the same time, she tried hard to pull up the corners of her lips into a smile.

“Try it.”

It was her own timid, yet charming, act of rebellion.

Her blue eyes shone rather sharply.

“I just hope Hyunjin isn’t all talk, h-huh?! Nngh…?!”

Soon, that rebellious momentum was immediately broken.

Like, yes.

A flower blooming high on a cliff, very beautiful but…

And at the same time, very fragile and easy to break.

Like a single flower.

The color of that flower was golden.