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    Until the baby was born, we had sex once a day without fail. But if you ask her if she was satisfied with just once, she said no.

    At first, they wanted to have a child, but then the meaning changed and they started looking for pleasure again.

    I think it’s impossible not to find pleasure in something that touches the senses in the first place.

    I let out a deep sigh. My shoulders slumped involuntarily, and I stared at what Minhee had prepared for me, feeling like I had to eat to live.

    Minhee prepared it for me. It’s just food in a plastic container, but I’m still grateful.

    I’ve always gotten used to this, but I’m always trying not to get used to it.

    Because it’s not good to get used to receiving.

    I just wish I could do something myself. That was all I could think about.

    I ran my hands over it, then slowly picked up the chopsticks.

    There was a rattling sound and I knocked on the table to adjust the height.

    While I was wondering what to eat first, Minhee’s voice came closer.

    “Jimin, Jimin!”

    I glanced at the direction of Min-hee’s voice, wondering why she was calling me so urgently when she said she was going to the bathroom after putting the food on the table.

    Then I saw her quickly closing the bathroom door and coming out.

    “… What’s going on?”

    “Look at this.”

    A crackling sound was heard in Minhee’s voice.

    A smile that seemed like a snicker also appeared.

    As I looked at it quietly, I could tell that it was something she had bought yesterday because she said she would like it there.

    A pregnancy test. I felt my heart pounding when I saw this because it was so insistent that I have to have sex at least once a day until it shows two lines.

    Did two lines appear? If not, will I be bored today too?

    When I was so anxious, I noticed a clear line drawn on her face, as if her reaction was telling me that my worries were in vain.

    Oh, and my breath came out.

    At first, I couldn’t help but smile at the thought that today wouldn’t be the day.

    But after that, I started down a path of fear and hesitation, wondering if I would become a father again.

    It was really funny. We were a couple with someone we loved, but in the meantime, we had registered our marriage and became a couple. And then, not long after that, we became a father and a mother, which was hard to believe.

    My heart was pounding. And it seemed like it was going to keep pounding and pounding without stopping.

    Ah, I groaned and stared at it quietly, and I felt Minhee looking at me with a smile.

    I was dumbfounded, swallowed a sigh, and put down my chopsticks.

    I slowly brought my empty hand to the tester and slowly held it in my hand.

    I guess that’s what you were thinking when you did it. So you won’t regret it.

    But even though I had no regrets, my worries didn’t go away, so I smiled bitterly.

    Now, I thought to myself, there are going to be a lot of things to worry about from now on.

    If there’s one thing I don’t have to worry about, it’s that she won’t leave me.

    And the fact that I had a bond with her that wouldn’t let me go.

    The couple were not related by blood, but the sight of their child holding onto that string made me smile.

    His expression became complicated as he thought about something.

    As the smile slowly formed, I felt my expression strangely crumpled.

    “How is it? Jimin is going to be a father now.”

    “… That’s amazing.”

    “What?”

    “I just… I guess this is what they mean when they say they can’t believe something even after seeing it with their own eyes.”

    Something felt cold. Not that it was a bad thing.

    So I just forgot that I was eating and just stared at it. I stared at it endlessly.

    As I was blankly staring at it, a pure white hand approached the hand holding it.

    In fact, my hands are just as pale as mine, even though they are pure white, but hers felt different somehow.

    Mine were pale hands that had not received light, while hers were neat hands that had not been taken care of and had not been subjected to rough work.

    The difference was showing each other’s lives.

    That appearance showed the lives they had each lived.

    Two hands wrapped around my cold hands and grabbed me.

    Behind the warmly wrapped hands, the voice came softly.

    “… What a proper couple.”

    Minhee said so.

    We were already a couple after submitting our documents a few days ago, but we didn’t really feel like a couple.

    Perhaps the shock was so strong that they didn’t even think about being a couple.

    Minhee was a warrior named Kaylon, and I was a saint named Veronica.

    It was a memory that seemed like it would pass like a dream and fade away.

    But even though it had faded, it was not forgotten. Because that was Kylon, my first meeting with her.

    It was he and she who had told me time and time again that they would never abandon me and that they would only care for me.

    So I reached out as if grabbing a rope to escape that painful memory.

    And this is what it looked like.

    I escaped from that hellish house, met Min-hee, and became a couple.

    Finally, I got to have a child, and it was a really strange feeling.

    “Okay.”

    I said calmly.

    But I couldn’t be calm in my heart, so I kept crying loudly.

    As my hands were shaking, Minhee smiled and slowly took my hand away.

    I put the tester down and smiled.

    I never knew there was such a word in my life.

    So, I kept thinking about whether it was appropriate to use this phrase in this situation.

    At the end, my mouth slowly opened.

    “… I’m happy.”

    I have such a subtle feeling about the word happiness.

    I wondered over and over again if someone like me could be happy, and in the end, I couldn’t help but smile as I realized that this was what happiness was all about.

    “Are you happy? Oh, let’s eat quickly.”

    Minhee raised the corners of her lips as if she liked those words, and sat up properly in her chair.

    And then, she started humming and picking up her chopsticks. I just watched her quietly and then we started eating together.

    *

    A day filled with happiness was passing by.

    I could see the sun, which had been high in the sky, slowly setting below the horizon.

    I stared blankly at the world dyed red before turning my head away.

    Then, what caught my eye was Minhee greeting me in the living room.

    “쨘.”

    “What are you doing?”

    I tilted my head when I saw Minhee striking a strange pose in her pajamas.

    Well, as the days went by, my tension rose and I had nothing to say, but I just couldn’t keep up with that intense joy.

    As I was standing still and watching the scene, a hand suddenly flew towards me.

    And at the same time, he grabbed my waist and lifted me up.

    “Huh?”

    I knew that my body was light. It was a body that had suffered from malnutrition. Also, even though I had been eating delicious food since coming here, I had gained weight because I was squeezing myself every day, but it never turned into fat or weight.

    I just gained some muscle and became a little healthier.

    Maybe that’s why Minhee was able to lift me easily, and my body was lifted lightly in her hands without any resistance.

    My feet were lifted into the air, and as Minhee spun around, my vision turned 360 degrees.

    I felt like I was getting dizzy.

    “Oh, I’m dizzy… ”

    “Oh my, it’s still light. Eat more.”

    It’s strange. I feel like I’ve been eating the same thing as Minhee for the past few months.

    There were a lot of things I wanted to complain about, but I just kept quiet.

    Minhee put me down after another lap. I stumbled to the floor with unsteady steps and collapsed onto the sofa.

    I felt dizzy and my vision was spinning. I closed my eyes tightly, and my head lost its balance and fell back onto the sofa.

    I lay down with a thud and groaned.

    Then Minhee laughed and ran to the sofa where I was lying.

    There was a shock that came with a “Koo-Woong”.

    No matter how wide the sofa was, it was a narrow space when two people lay down on it.

    Even more so if you lie down on top of each other rather than lying apart.

    Minhee seemed to be lying down on me, and then he lifted me up and placed me on top of him.

    I ended up moving around in a shaky manner and ended up lying down on top of Minhee’s body.

    “… Isn’t it heavy?”

    “Is it light?”

    “… … ?”

    Minhee’s breasts are indeed big. While I was just staring blankly with my chest cut off, Minhee touched my cheek with her hand.

    My cheeks were being moved around here and there, but I don’t know if it was because it felt so good.

    I accepted it expressionlessly, then groaned and slightly raised my head to look at Minhee.

    Because the chest was cut, the angle was so sharp that I couldn’t see anything properly.

    “Ah, Jimin.”

    “Huh?”

    Minhee, who was playing with my cheek, cautiously called out to me.

    “What do you want to name your child?”

    “Hmm, well.”

    My head felt frozen as if I was being asked something like that out of the blue.

    It was just two lines, so it was something I could think about slowly and seriously.

    “Wouldn’t it be better to think about it slowly?”

    As he said that, Minhee gently caressed my cheek.

    “Yeah, by the way.”

    “?”

    “Tonight’s dinner is abalone grilled food.”

    “… … Isn’t that what you ate the other day?”

    “I think it would be a bit weird if I only ate eel every day.”

    “No no, why don’t you get out of there…?”

    “Well, I can’t do it now that I’m full.”

    “… Uh.”

    “We can’t do it until the stability period comes, so let’s do it in advance while we can.”

    Hey, weren’t you supposed to quit when you had a child?

    I wanted to say that, but as if I couldn’t tolerate that, I finished the order and hugged myself back to cover my mouth with my own.

    I thought I would probably continue to live like this.

    So I decided to just accept it.

    But I wish you’d be a little more lenient today.

    My small wish continued to come true, and I continued to act until the day when I began to feel like it was no longer possible.

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