episode_0571

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And most recently…

The fact that all the participants who attended the meeting, including himself and his sister Se-hee, were related to the slave contract was subtly revealed at the police station….

One question I have is, why is Cheol-jin so desperate to reveal the information he found out with such difficulty?

I think it’s fortunate that I was able to stop Se-hee noona and her friends from doing the sex diet…

But if he was going to borrow the power of the police from the beginning in that situation, couldn’t Cheol-jin have solved Se-hee noona’s sex diet problem alone after all?

Why did Cheol-jin try to share with me the information that the mothers of the participants who attended the meeting that day were all slaves who had signed slave contracts?

Perhaps Cheol-jin is simply enjoying the reaction of the confused person, regardless of the outcome.

**

Si-woo was fiddling with the screen of the vibrator operation app that he had put in his pocket throughout the 4th period of class.

Si-woo strongly stirred his fingers as if to relieve his anxiety, organizing the questions and methods he should ask Cheol-jin, who was clearly hiding something behind him, in his head.

Si-woo was curious about how Cheol-jin came to participate in the meeting organized by his sisters…

And how he knew that all the people who attended the meeting were related to slave contracts.

If he knew that information, he thought he could at least grasp the purpose of Cheol-jin’s actions and the overall flow of things.

But the more frustrated Si-woo became… the more interest he showed…

It was obvious that Cheol-jin would try to turn Si-woo inside out by teasing him with an even more playful attitude, rather than giving him an answer.

Si-woo is thinking about how to appropriately elicit answers from Cheol-jin about the questions he is curious about, while appearing to be uninterested.

Si-woo, who had been racking his brains for a while, shook his head heavily, feeling like he was blocked by a wall with no exit.

Because he didn’t think he could expect a direct answer from Cheol-jin in the first place, no matter how much he worried about it now…

Again, the image of himself being unilaterally swayed by Cheol-jin’s pace is vividly drawn in front of him.

Through such processes, Si-woo has strongly felt like he was constantly being controlled or tested by Cheol-jin.

Cheol-jin, who always makes perverted and nonsensical jokes in front of people without any shame…

Cheol-jin’s actions, which had seemed unsatisfactory in the past, suddenly came to his mind, and Si-woo felt more displeased and resentful for no reason.

In the midst of confusion and anger that he couldn’t grasp, at the moment when he felt that he could no longer find an answer, an idea suddenly flashed in Si-woo’s mind like a spark.

In the uncertain circumstances related to the mothers’ slave contracts, Si-woo clearly had something that he could think of as being one step ahead of Cheol-jin.

That was the ‘slave contract ledger’ he received from Se-jin noona.

If he subtly passed on some of the information that strongly stimulated curiosity to Cheol-jin, just like Cheol-jin did to Si-woo, and then nonchalantly avoided answering…

Si-woo imagined Cheol-jin’s anxious interest and his concerned facial expression.

Just imagining and drawing Cheol-jin’s facial expression in front of his eyes, Si-woo felt a refreshing coolness spread through his chest for the first time in a long time.

For a moment, a triumphant smile filled with superiority spread across Si-woo’s face.

The smile was naturally changing into an arrogant expression, as if it had been modeled after Cheol-jin.

Perhaps Si-woo thought that he might be able to get answers from Cheol-jin today about the things he had been curious about.

Even if he couldn’t hear the answers directly, Si-woo’s conviction that he could at least draw Cheol-jin’s attention and create an opportunity to reverse the situation and position he had been in so far was gradually solidifying in his mind.

**

Near the end of the 4th period of class, Si-woo took out his smartphone from his pocket, secretly watching the teacher who was teaching in front of him.

The touch screen of the vibrator app, which he had been touching since before the class started, was still active and responding.

Si-woo turned the vibration of the vibrator app to the strongest state, held it, and switched the smartphone screen to the image gallery app.

Si-woo is looking through the contract photos of the slave contract ledger that he found in Se-jin noona’s room drawer and took pictures of last time.

Si-woo took pictures of the front page of each slave contract in the ledger early that morning with his smartphone.

A slave contract ledger containing a number of people, including Mom, Aunt Seon-joo, and teacher Yoo Ye-na.

Si-woo doesn’t know exactly how the people are mixed and saved on his smartphone because he didn’t take pictures while checking each person in detail.

However, it was clear that the photos attached to the slave contracts in the ledger included several people Si-woo knew.

Neighbors who lived nearby and whose faces he only knew, teachers and office staff from his elementary school days…

The mother of a classmate from the same class who he vaguely remembers…

And perhaps even Si-woo’s current intermediate school teachers and parents…

On the day he first discovered the ledger, his attention was focused on teacher Yoo Ye-na and the mothers of the meeting participants, so he just passed by without even thinking about those people again or looking back at the ledger.

However, there were quite a few people inside who he thought were really unexpected.

Si-woo hasn’t been able to bring himself to check the slave ledger or the slave contract photos saved on his smartphone again.

No, it might be more accurate to say that he was unconsciously avoiding checking the ledger and the slave contract again.

Is it because Si-woo’s mind has not yet been completely organized about how to deal with them and what attitude to show when he happens to run into them after clearly identifying the people recorded in the ledger?

No, more than anything else, the ominous feeling that something irreversible might take hold in Si-woo’s mind like an internal rule at the moment he looked closely at the ledger was pressing down on Si-woo, making him even more reluctant to check the slave ledger.

The ledger and the slave contract were not just records.

It actually had a huge impact on the lives of the women who signed the slave contracts and their families, and it acts like an invisible rule that governs their actions every moment.

Like an unbreakable chain, it is deeply intertwined with their relationships, actions, and even all aspects of their lives, and it even feels like it is strangling their very existence.

In the past few weeks, Si-woo has been having perverted sexual relations with many women, including his family, and has been trying to sexually dominate and completely conquer them.

However, the rules surrounding the slave contract and the attitude of the women towards the slave contract feel like an area of mystery and taboo that even Si-woo cannot understand.

It was as if the despair and fear that the balance he had barely maintained until now would collapse the moment he dug into the secret overwhelmed Si-woo.

The heavy despair and fear were weighing down on Si-woo, pressing down on him like a heavy shadow in the face of the reality that he could no longer ignore the ledger.

Si-woo is looking for a person in the photos he took with his smartphone who seems to be far away from his family or neighbors.

Si-woo chose the slave contract of a cute and pretty middle-aged woman who he was somewhat familiar with but couldn’t exactly recall.

Si-woo glanced at the slave contract photo that included the person’s photo for a moment, and then immediately uploaded it to his 1:1 chat room with Cheol-jin.

After sending the text message, Si-woo switched the smartphone screen to the vibrator app screen and carefully put it into his pants pocket.

Then, pretending not to know, he straightened his posture and looked ahead, waiting for the class bell to ring.

Si-woo tried to relieve his nervous feelings by touching the screen of the smartphone he put in his pocket.

At some point, Si-woo felt a stinging gaze next to his ear.

Reacting to the uncomfortable feeling, Si-woo slowly turned his head with a feeling of anticipation and glanced at the seat where Cheol-jin was sitting.

At that moment, Cheol-jin’s eyes met Si-woo’s, and Cheol-jin’s curious expression, staring intently at him with wide eyes, came into Si-woo’s view as it was.

Cheol-jin was making a complex expression that seemed to be a mixture of curiosity, suspicion, and surprise.