episode_0579

579

“…Seulgi?”

Siwoo answers Cheoljin as if he had already come to a conclusion in his head.

“That’s right! Shin Seulgi! Someone with the same birthday as me was right around me. After finding Seulgi that way, I observed her carefully for a while.”

Cheoljin continues to speak as if he is slightly excited after hearing Siwoo’s answer.

“I threw out a lot of high-level jokes related to twin incest or SM play, as if trying to see if she knew anything…Have you ever seen me make such harsh jokes to other girls like I did to Seulgi?”

Cheoljin begins to explain how he carefully observed and approached Seulgi.

“It felt strangely like there was something behind it, but even then, I could hardly find anything out from Seulgi.”

“To the point where I wondered if I was just grabbing a random person and suspecting her…”

Cheoljin smiles lightly as if recalling his inner conflict and confusing past days, and continues the story.

“So, I decided to keep an eye on Seulgi for a while longer, and then I started to focus on you, Siwoo.”

“Either way, your dad was the one who leased the place when my mom was pregnant, right?”

“It’s been a while since your dad passed away, and the inheritance details are included in Mom’s contract, so…”

“I thought there was a high possibility that you, Siwoo, had already formed a master-slave relationship with your family. If the contract details are true…”

“But there was no way to confirm it…I couldn’t just suddenly ask you if you knew about slave contracts, could I?”

“And even if I made lewd jokes like I did to Seulgi, would you react in any way? We used to play around like that normally…”

“I spent some time worrying like that, and in the meantime, I found the SM tools and dog collar that Mom had.”

“It was around that time that Dad was spanking Mom in the kitchen while I was in the living room…”

“A few days after that happened, I pretended to be crazy and spanked our mom’s butt. I told you about this, right?”

“And then a few days later, I showed it to you…me spanking our mom…”

“But you were so flustered…like you were seeing a sight for the first time…”

“At least if you knew about the slave contract, you would have thought about that kind of play to some extent…”

“So, at that time, I thought you didn’t know anything about slave contracts or inheritance at all…”

“I had no choice but to change my target to another person…”

“But that didn’t mean I stopped paying attention to Seulgi or you, Siwoo. Because you never know…you never know what might happen later…”

Cheoljin adds to the story, with an expression that reveals his complicated feelings, as if recalling the situation at that time.

“Even though I was able to spank Mom’s butt at that time, the relationship wasn’t settled enough to directly ask about the slave contract, right?”

“There was a confidentiality clause in the meeting, so even if I asked, they wouldn’t have given me a proper answer…it’s the same now…”

“After that, I worried for a long time about what to do, and then I decided to tail Dad once he came back from his business trip…after all, he’s the person whose name is on the contract, right?”

“That’s how I eventually found out…that Dad was going to a place that didn’t suit him at all, the event cafe ‘The Witch and the Cat’ in the basement of the magic academy building…”

“It was an astrology event cafe run by the magic academy, and I also found out that the director of the magic academy was a teacher named Yoo Yena.”

“After that, I investigated the magic academy for a long time… rumors and articles about Yoo Yena or that cafe…”

“It’s not that there’s no information about the academy, but most of it is absurd rumors or unreliable stories…like human trafficking…or government stories…”

“Among the people who go there, there are many whose children attend that magic academy…? Now that I think about it, it’s obvious, but I also saw the faces of a few people whose names were on the lease contract…”

“So, I started to think that maybe that academy and cafe were where that meeting or education that I was thinking about was taking place…”

Cheoljin continued to speak to Siwoo, his eyes shining with a determined tone.

**

“While I was finding out about that, you sent me that text message….”

Cheoljin continues to talk, then stretches out his arm and points to Siwoo’s chest with his finger.

“What? Me?!”

Siwoo makes a bewildered expression, looks down at Cheoljin’s finger pointing at him, and asks again.

“Yes, you, Siwoo!”

Cheoljin talks while stretching out his finger again as if emphasizing it one more time…

“What came from me?”

Siwoo looks at Cheoljin with a still confused expression.

“You know? The one you got from Shinbi!”

Cheoljin raised his voice as if he was slightly excited.

“The one I got from Shinbi? What is it?”

Siwoo tilts his head and asks again with a puzzled look.

“0135!”

Cheoljin said as if shouting out the voice with strength.

Siwoo paused as if his thoughts had stopped for a moment after hearing Cheoljin’s words.

Siwoo’s face slightly flushes as the memory of the number comes to mind from Cheoljin’s story.

“0135… Why?”

Siwoo looked at Cheoljin and asked, with an expression that he still didn’t fully understand the situation.

“Didn’t I solve that a little too quickly back then? How could I have gotten the right answer right away after receiving such a question from you, Siwoo?”

There was a strange certainty and composure in Cheoljin’s voice.

“H-how did you get it right?”

Siwoo asked with a curious look while wondering.

Cheoljin stops talking for a moment as if adjusting the tempo and closes his mouth.

Then, he looks down at the floor as if he is thinking about something, and soon looks up at Siwoo again.

“That’s… a quiz question that Seulgi made and gave to me before! Seulgi and I, we usually make a lot of lewd jokes…Sometimes we make 19+ questions and play games to guess them, you know?”

Cheoljin says to Siwoo as if revealing his shy hobby with Seulgi.

Siwoo stares at Cheoljin with a blank expression as if his brain is temporarily overloaded.

“I started tailing Sehee from then on. I took pictures of all the people Sehee met…You never know what might happen if I just leave it alone!”

“Well… it ended up like that because you caught me that day, Siwoo…”

Cheoljin smiles bitterly, touching the cheek where his broken molar is…

“Anyway, that day, I thought you, Siwoo, should know roughly what was going on, so I sent you our mom’s slave contract on the way back from the academy! So that you, Siwoo, would be a little more alert!”

“And then was it during the weekend? I gathered information like crazy, using SNS, the internet, and even my acquaintances to figure out the identities of the people Sehee met…”

“Based on the photos I had taken, I was able to figure out the identities of the people participating in the meeting to some extent. Sora, Saerom, and Semi…”

“I also looked into meetings for the purpose of sex dieting and such…”

“I was able to find a few rumors about orgies or sex parties that were spreading among the academy students.”

“Mainly stories about dating potions or sharing secret videos…”

“I just passed them by without thinking anything at the time, but later I realized they were pretty serious…”

“Well anyway, even if I gathered information like that, there’s nothing I can do separately right away.”

“But it’s almost certain that the slave contract, the magic academy, and the Shinbi and Seulgi sisters are related, right?”

“So I decided to poke at it once! I was wondering how Seulgi or people related to that would react if I was spreading strange rumors about the magic academy at the academy…Do you remember how I was acting at the academy that day?”

Cheoljin was reminding Siwoo of the time when he spread the profile pictures and performance photos of teacher Yoo Yena on the desk and gathered his classmates to talk about strange rumors.

Siwoo could only nod at Cheoljin’s story and listen quietly so that the next story would continue naturally.

Cheoljin looks at Siwoo nodding, stops talking for a moment, and stares at Siwoo quietly.

Then, Cheoljin slowly opens his mouth again…

“But then, you, Siwoo, said that you were going to have an interview as a guardian at the magic academy that Seyoung attends…That’s what you said when you came to the academy that day.”

“The story about the sex diet that Sehee is doing and the story about the consultation at the magic academy that Seyoung attends were heard around the same time, right?”

“Both are related to the Shinbi Seulgi sisters. Right?”

“And if you add the story about the slave contract that I told, what are the chances that such things would happen all at once by coincidence?”

Cheoljin speaks, lifting the corners of his mouth as if scooping up the truth in the quiet silence.