episode_0153

‘… You throw others into this hell hole and then you fall asleep yourself? Is that it?’

She rose silently and headed to the side of the bed.

The man’s regular breathing resonates faintly in the room.

Jin Ye-seo, who sensed this, stuck out her lips.

‘You seem to be used to this kind of atmosphere. Does that mean you have a lot of experience? How many women have you touched so far?’

It was a reasonable guess in its own way.

Even she, who was a noble young lady, fell into his grasp in the blink of an eye.

Jin Ye-seo looked at him blankly.

Left alone in the dark of the night, past thoughts naturally come back to the surface.

A man whose face is as vicious as his dirty personality. A troublemaker who has been ruining his plans since the beginning of the semester and blocking his path at every turn.

Perhaps when we return to the cradle, we will have to compete in the rankings again.

And whoever her opponent is, she now has only one chance left.

If you lose there, you will be sold to the Yongyeong family.

Jin Ye-seo’s gaze becomes even more fierce as she thinks of him.

If you think about it, that crisis also originated from this man.

After all, it was he who had brutally beaten her to the floor time and time again.

The one who completely broke not only his body but also his mind, so that he could never fly again.

“… ”

She opened her eyes wide and glared at the man.

With all the hate, with all the resentment in my heart.

But soon, Jin Ye-seo let out a silent sigh.

“Sigh… ”

I hated it. I hated it so much that I wanted to kill it. But…

Right now, I couldn’t think of any negative feelings other than a little resentment.

Jin Ye-seo looked at the man again with considerably softened eyes.

She also knew that the man was actually quite tolerant of her circumstances, and that perhaps he wasn’t as evil as she thought.

It was a feeling that came naturally while spending close daily life with him.

It’s just that I couldn’t readily admit it because of my modest pride.

Even in the midst of his hellish academic schedule, he made time every day to spend time with me and listened to my insistence on accompanying me on assignments.

Considering their situation, it is an overly kind consideration.

The man could have treated her more harshly if he wanted to.

He could have demanded complete obedience and imposed even more severe humiliations.

And yesterday was the perfect opportunity that will never come again.

Because they were staying in the same room, even she, the person involved, had given up to a certain extent.

But the man didn’t pay any attention to Jin Ye-seo.

‘… Now that I think about it, that’s kind of annoying.’

Jin Ye-seo, who had been lost in thought, frowned.

‘You don’t even see me as that kind of person? Of all people, me?’

It’s just that she doesn’t want men, but she is objectively aware of her own attractiveness.

Outstanding beauty with an exotic scent, derived from Western bloodlines.

A magical talent that would be sad to come in second.

A friendly and sociable personality.

She was the most talented of all talents, with nothing lacking.

There is no need to say more, as from the beginning of her admission, she has been compared to Baek Seo-yeon and Yeon Min-ha and has been talked about by people.

Although it may be a bit presumptuous, she actually agrees with that assessment to some extent.

The man was treating himself, such a desirable prey, as if he were a stone rolling on the street.

“Who are you… Even though you’re ugly… Ha… ”

Jin Ye-seo, who had been expressing her anger to the fullest, slumped her shoulders.

‘What am I saying… If you don’t care, then it’s obviously a good thing, right?’

She turned back to the window chair.

I was thinking of getting some sleep when I could hear no more vulgar groans.

“Ugh, ugh… ”

In the meantime.

The man’s moans reached her ears more clearly than before.

“… Hiyat.”

Jin Ye-seo instinctively straightened her back and shuddered. It seemed as if the beastly mating had begun again in the next room.

“Ugh… ”

But Jin Ye-seo soon felt that something was strange.

The moans were rather coming from the room where she was staying.

Moreover, unlike before, when he was completely immersed in pleasure, his voice was filled with obvious pain and suffering.

At this, Jin Ye-seo turns to the bed in a hurry.

“Ugh… Ugh… ”

The man who had been sleeping comfortably until just a moment ago was twisting and turning.

***

“Hey, hey… Why are you suddenly like this… ”

Jin Ye-seo, flustered by the unexpected situation, called him.

But there was no answer. The man was shaking as if he was being tortured and was sweating profusely.

Jin Ye-seo ran to the man and shook him urgently.

“No… No… ”

He kept mumbling something in a small voice.

“What, what did you say…?”

“I’m… holding… a monster… ”

“Hey, hey… !”

“Quickly… Run… Away… ”

“Hey… Come on…! Huh?”

Jin Ye-seo was frantically trying to wake him up.

“Ugh… ”

“Hey, hey… are you awake?”

At some point, the convulsions stop, and the man with his eyes wide open stares straight into her face.

“Oh my… What kind of nightmare was that… Gyaak!”

And at that moment, Jin Ye-seo took a deep breath and relaxed.

Suddenly, the man stretches out his arm and pulls her down onto the bed.

“Ah… Ahh… Ah… ”

He was so flustered that he didn’t even have time to respond properly. Jin Ye-seo was trapped in his arms.

He just opened his mouth and couldn’t speak properly. Jin Ye-seo raised her trembling hand and barely managed to pat the man’s chest.

“Oh, oh… ”

But the more she resisted, the stronger the arms that held her became.

‘What, what, what, what, what… ‘

This was my first time in my life having such a long-term contact with the opposite sex. In sparring, we only exchanged words for a split second.

Jin Ye-seo thought.

What I said earlier is cancelled.

It’s not that the man wasn’t interested in her. He was just waiting for his chance, like a lion stalking its prey.

‘Did your body start to heat up…? Because of that noise from the next room…?’

There was no other monkey in heat than the one who pounced as soon as he saw the opportunity.

A firm chest buried deep inside, a foreign body emanating from the opposite sex, a lukewarm body temperature enveloping the whole body, and the pressure of tight arms.

Each and every stimulus that messed with my head was interfering with my rational thinking.

‘Oh, so this is the end…’

Jin Ye-seo tightly closed her eyes.

Before I knew it, small tears were welling up in the corners of my eyes.

And the next moment.

The sensation of some large hand resting on her head.

“… Hehe.”

At this, Jin Ye-seo let out a new groan.

Because I thought he was going to grab my hair and force me to kiss him right away.

“… ”

Jin Ye-seo, who had her toes curled tightly, was trembling.

The loss that was about to come. She flinched involuntarily. She prayed that the pain would just pass quickly. She prayed that he would be a little more gentle with her, thinking of the affection they had for each other.

“Huh… ?”

But Jin Ye-seo opens her eyes again.

No matter how much time passed, none of the things she had imagined came true.

“You came again… ”

“Uh, uh… ?”

Then a man’s soft voice is heard.

At first I thought he was talking to himself, but soon I realized it was just a joke.

He thought he had opened his eyes, but he was still in a dream.

“I’m sorry… It’s all my fault… I’m so weak… ”

A voice as soft as silk, as if it were soothing and comforting the most delicate thing in the world.

“Because of me… Because of me, you… ”

He never committed any violent acts against Jin Ye-seo.

Just gently stroke her head.

Mistaking her for someone else.

“It’s okay… I’ll protect you now… Never again… That kind of thing… ”

“… ”

A man’s voice that is so sorrowful and filled with affection for someone, but also filled with a terrible sense of guilt.

I never thought he had such a kind side.

I could guess what kind of story was hidden without having to ask.

When I came to my senses again, I felt a feeling similar to sadness.

On the one hand, she was struggling to figure out how to get out of her current situation.

A man who cries and appeals to others while embracing himself and mistaking them for someone else.

then…

“… ”

Jin Ye-seo hesitated for a moment, then pulled out her arm and placed it on the man’s head.

“Okay, are you okay… ?”

And then, patting him gently, she opened her mouth with a slightly awkward and trembling voice.

“I… am here… ”

“… ”

“Don’t worry… I won’t go anywhere now… I’ll just stay by your side… ”

As time passed, there was no answer.

Only the sound of comfortable, colorful breathing gradually spreads.

Additionally, the man’s arms that had been tightly tightening around her waist also loosen.

But for some reason, Jin Ye-seo was still lying in that position.

The sound of someone’s heart beating loudly fills my ears.

It was only after a long time that Jinye realized that it was her own heart.

***

-Flash

The eyes that had been tightly shut opened. Lee Hyeon, who was lying on the bed, suddenly raised his upper body.

He lifted both his trembling hands and looked at them alternately. Then he turned his head around to check his surroundings.

“Sigh… ”

After staring blankly for a while, Lee Hyeon finally let out a deep breath.

City 1. A room in a cheap motel in a back alley.

It was his and Jin Ye-seo’s temporary residence.

“Oh, what a surprise…!”

Someone’s shrill scream is heard right after.

Lee Hyun turned his head.

Jin Ye-seo, who had just come out of the bathroom, looked at him with a disgusted expression.

“If it happened, you should say it happened…!”

“… What time is it now?”

“It’s exactly 9:17 AM.”

Jin Ye-seo, who had been talking nonsense, sat down at the dressing table.

“You’re really lazy, huh? How did you get out of the cradle and start training at dawn… ”

“9 o’clock… you say… ?”

Lee Hyeon asked back, as if he couldn’t believe that he had overslept.

He turned his head to Jin Ye-seo, who was sitting on a chair and combing her hair.

The face reflected in the mirror had an unusually cool air about it today.

“Your face doesn’t look good at all.”

“Why are you asking that… Don’t worry about it… ”

Jin Ye-seo’s hand holding the comb twitched for a moment.

“Did you lose any sleep? That’s because I said I sleep in a chair.”

“Oh my… If you can’t even speak… ”

Then Jin Ye-seo glared at him through the mirror with a venomous expression.

Perhaps because she had just come out of the bathroom, her pale skin was covered in a deep flush.

“What happened last night. Don’t you remember?”

“What happened last night?”

“Oh, okay… ”

Jin Ye-seo let out a sigh. Her attitude was somehow filled with relief.

She soon calmed down and asked Lee Hyeon.

“… I was tossing and turning a lot yesterday.”

“… Huh?”

“This is the first time I’ve seen someone sleepwalk so harshly… ”

“… So you couldn’t sleep because of me?”

“… ”

Jin Ye-seo answered with silence. After all, it wasn’t a wrong answer.

And taking advantage of Lee Hyun’s awkwardness, he asked a question to relieve his curiosity.

“… Did you have a dream?”

After some hesitation, Lee Hyeon opened his mouth.

“Just…a nightmare.”

***

I finished getting ready and immediately went out into the street.

All the way to Area B, my head was clouded with distracting thoughts.

Why did I have to come today and have that dream?

Actually, it’s hard to say that it was a dream at that time.

Unlike the bitter reality of the past, in my dream, that child came back to me.

“… ”

I opened my palm and looked down. The soft feeling was still vivid. It was as if I had held the child in my arms.

But can this really be called a happy dream? The memories of last night have long since crumbled like a mirage.

Now, only emptiness remains.

It was clearly a nightmare that was so happy that I never wanted to wake up again… but that is why it is an even more disgusting and horrifying nightmare.

Trying to deceive people with illusions that have not occurred and cannot occur.

“Oh! That monster from yesterday… ”

“Hey! Sister told me not to talk to people like that…!”

Suddenly, I heard a familiar voice and turned my head, and the children from yesterday were welcoming me again.

I followed the children who were chattering among themselves.

Beyond the open door, a woman with her whole body covered was waiting for me.

“… ”

Yesterday, this woman said that I was sure I would have good dreams.

I thought it was just a simple greeting, or a missionary act in disguise, but after that experience, I couldn’t help but change my mind.

He dazzles people with honeyed words and uses his enchanting skills to make them more persuasive…

Of course, there is no clear evidence yet, but the circumstances so far seem enough to raise suspicions.

To be honest… isn’t this the epitome of heresy?

“… You came.”

As soon as she sees me, she lets out a gentle voice.

Are you using some kind of forbidden interference magic? But just holding hands…?

There was no particle array, and I didn’t feel any hint of magic.

It was the same yesterday, and it is the same today.

“Did you have a good dream?”

“… Yes.”

For now, I agreed with what she said.

The way he never thought I would find him suspicious.

That confident attitude still bothers me.

There seems to be something, something more…

“It was such a happy dream. I never want to wake up again.”

“Thank goodness. Sometimes there are people who can’t stand it. Whenever I meet people like that, I feel so sorry for them. But… ”

The woman who heard me nodded as if she was truly glad. Then she looked up slightly to check my complexion.

“You look so sad. I guess you’re afraid that your sweet happiness will melt away in one night.”

“… ”

“Don’t worry. That won’t happen. You’ll be able to enjoy that happiness forever.”

The woman spoke in a comforting voice. Then she rummaged through her bosom, took something out, and handed it to me.

“Okay, take this… ”

He raised his hand and received it.

A metallic material with a slightly heavy feel.

“… ”

I lowered my head and checked it.

And I couldn’t continue speaking.

A cross-shaped decoration engraved within a circle.

If you guess the direction of the ring, it is clearly a shape that appears longer at the top.

An item given by the widow who was the subject of the request. A symbol of the heresy that Jin Ye-seo spoke of, the ‘Gate of Heaven’.

“… Welcome to join us.”

It was a moment when suspicion became complete certainty.