F-Grade Collective Residential Area
"You were a real animal today."
Su-jeong laughed.
"What kind of animal?"
"Why were you licking me like a damn dog?"
"Because you taste so good."
"Hahaha."
Su-jeong's laughter had grown a lot lately.
"The subscriber count must've exploded again today. Aren't you becoming a real star?"
Me, a star.
Barely twenty days ago I'd just been an ordinary twenty-year-old who jerked off alone.
Su-jeong turned on the TV.
National Team Sperm (392,125) × Crazy Bitch (229,269)
Realtime Viewers: 2,499,999
Realtime Viewers: 2,500,001
The belt...
That bastard. I have to catch him.
"Anyone know Kim Do-hun?"
"A-grade. Head of the Secure Intelligence Development Lab. If anyone knows where that fucker is right now, DM me."
Su-jeong grabbed my arm.
"I don't want you putting yourself in danger."
"Su-jeong. Just stay behind me. I'll handle it."
"Okay."
I opened the DMs on my phone.
I'm True3YearFan.
I've been watching over Su-jeong for three years.
It was heartbreaking and frustrating, but there was nothing I could do to help.
Funny enough, I work at the Birth Control Bureau.
The Birth Control Bureau can't get involved in anything beyond couple assignments, pregnancy, and childbirth.
And as you already know, wife-beating barely carries any real punishment.
So for three years all I could do was watch.
The Birth Control Bureau is currently investigating Kim Do-hun.
Right now Kim Do-hun is infertile himself, but he's been using other highly fertile men to attempt illegal pregnancies countless times.
That's how he climbed so fast to A-grade recently.
He steals pregnancy-probability data from the Birth Control Bureau and either sells it or assigns those men as his own spouses.
Then he engineers sexual contact between them and his wife.
As you know, Kim Do-hun is a big shot.
He's already got hooks into the power elite.
You have to catch him fast.
He's dangerous, so don't go charging in recklessly.
You'll put yourself at risk too.
I like Su-jeong.
I... was Su-jeong's nineteenth husband.
But I couldn't do a single thing for her.
I'm so glad you showed up.
If I hear anything else I'll DM you again.
True3YearFan had been Su-jeong's husband.
I read the screen over and over.
A man who had watched over Su-jeong for three years, who had eventually married her, and who still hadn't been able to help her at all.
"Su-jeong. Do you know this guy?"
I handed her the phone.
Su-jeong's eyes went wide.
"I know him... He really was my nineteenth husband."
Ah...
So that was it...
Thank god.
At least one good person had been in her life...
"He was a good person. A kind person."
"Yeah..."
"But he was gay."
"Huh?"
"He treated me like a human being."
"Ah..."
Fuck.
I laughed.
In a situation like this.
"He always said he was sorry. For not being able to do anything for me."
Su-jeong handed the phone back.
Her face was blank.
She stood up.
Tied on an apron.
Completely naked underneath.
"Let's eat some meat."
"Yeah."
The induction burner clicked on.
Sizzle.
I sat on the sofa and watched Su-jeong's back.
The waist revealed beneath the apron strings.
That plump ass.
My cum was probably still inside her.
I hoped she was pregnant.
Su-jeong grilled the meat.
Wrapped a ssam.
Three pieces of meat, garlic, and doenjang paste.
"Open up."
She fed it into my mouth.
"Mm."
"Good?"
"Yeah."
"Gotta refill the cum. Eat a lot."
"Hahaha."
"Don't laugh. I'm serious."
Su-jeong wrapped another one.
Three pieces again.
"One more."
"That's too much. My mouth's gonna split."
"Idiot. Sucking your dick is what really splits a mouth open."
"Hahahaha."
"You try sucking your own dick sometime. Your jaw fucking kills."
"Me suck my own dick?"
Su-jeong was doing the dishes.
Something I'd forgotten came back to me.
So-eun...
She was D-grade now, but she was still living as an F-grade carer without knowing a thing.
Urgency hit me.
I dialed So-eun's number.
No answer.
I opened the birth information system on my laptop.
Master account.
Lee So-eun 013052004.
Current address.
Seoul, Nowon-gu, Junggye-dong, F-grade Collective Residential Area, Building 14, Unit 302.
The sound of Su-jeong washing dishes continued behind me.
"Su-jeong. I'm heading out for a bit."
"Where?"
"So-eun."
Su-jeong turned her head.
I took the bus.
The moment the bus entered the F-grade neighborhood, the atmosphere outside the window changed.
The buildings were older, the alleys narrower.
Even the streetlights were dimmer.
The first time in my life I'd set foot in the F-grade Collective Residential Area.
I got off the bus.
Middle-aged men sitting on the street drinking soju.
Women in skimpy clothes loitering along the roadside.
Every single face was empty.
A world I'd never seen before.
Even D-grade neighborhoods had been rough.
This place was something else entirely.
It just smelled like everything had already been given up on.
Building 14, Unit 302.
I knocked.
"So-eun."
No answer.
I knocked again.
A moment later the door opened.
Wet brown hair.
She was wrapped in a towel.
"Taeo."
"So-eun, why didn't you pick up?"
"I was in the shower..."
"Ah."
So-eun let me in.
It was tiny.
A studio with two bunk beds.
One small window.
A single battered, narrow sink that barely counted as a kitchen.
Not even a TV.
"How many people live here?"
"Four including me."
Just then a woman came out from the back.
"Ah, this is Ji-hyeon. She lives with us. She's a carer too."
Ji-hyeon looked at me.
"I'm gonna run to the convenience store for a bit."
The door closed, and it was just the two of us.
"So-eun."
"Yeah?"
"You're fertile."
So-eun froze.
"What?"
"Your grade was manipulated. Someone deliberately changed it to F."
"What are you talking about..."
"I know it's hard to believe..."
So-eun was trembling.
"You're D-grade now. If you don't believe me, go to the Birth Control Bureau and ask them anonymously to just check whether you're fertile. They'll do it."
So-eun's eyes wavered.
"Did you change it back?"
"Don't ask."
A brief silence settled between us.
"Aren't you in danger?"
"We're ball-buddies, right? If something happened to me, you'd help me too."
So-eun looked at me.
For a long time.
"Don't go to work starting tomorrow."
"Huh?"
"Even if they call asking why you didn't show up, don't answer."
"Won't I get punished?"
"You showing up to work right now is actually a system error. Once the system cycles, it'll sort itself out."
"..."
"Just wait until the first of next month. You'll get a marriage assignment like nothing ever happened."
So-eun's lips trembled.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
Tears fell.
Without a sound.
So-eun clenched her knees tight.
"I might seem like a dirty girl to you."
"What the hell are you talking about."
"Sex is illegal for carers. We only do the stuff that gets people worked up."
"..."
"So I'm still a virgin."
Her voice got smaller.
"..."
"D-grade? Honestly I'm happy. It feels like a dream. Better than this hell of a life..."
"But me... I don't want my first time to be with some meaningless guy I get assigned to marry."
I couldn't say a word.
"Not today..."
So-eun looked at me.
"The first of next month. Before the marriage assignment."
"..."
"Can you make a little time for me?"
The kind kid who always used to giggle at my side.
The one who had always been on my side.
The girl who, back in middle school, had cried while sticking a bandage on my knee.
Above all, my ball-buddy.
Having sex with my ball-buddy.
I'd never even imagined it.
"So-eun..."
"It's okay if you don't want to... for someone like me..."
So-eun was completely curled in on herself.
I wanted to lighten the mood at least a little.
"My dick's huge though. Think you can handle it? Hahaha."
"When we were kids and you peed in the mountains, I stood lookout for you. I snuck a look back then so I already know everything haha."
"..."
"Please."
I left the house after watching her smile.
A kid who used to laugh so easily and cry so easily...
It left a bitter taste.
The Master Key USB pressed against my pocket.
I looked at the memo again.
Handing the Master Key over just because that bastard told me to was out of the question.
The two people most precious to me, both ruined by this fucker.
I still didn't understand what the hell this USB was supposed to be worth all this chaos, but if it mattered to him, that was all the more reason for me to keep it.
That night, back home...
"Fuck... why won't your dick get hard?"
"Hey... we already did it three times."
"Hurry up and get it up. I wanna go again."
"It won't stand."
Su-jeong looked restless.
This was already the fourth time today. The tip of my dick hurt.
"Taeo-ssi. Su-jeong wants Taeo-ssi's cock inside her.
Please cum in Su-jeong's pussy."
Su-jeong whispered against my ear with a crazy-bitch expression, sticking out her tongue to suck on my earlobe.
"Hey... that line worked great the first three times, but it's not landing now."
"You fucking picky bastard."
"Su-jeong, let's sleep. It's three in the morning."
"No. Hurry up and get hard and cum in my pussy."
"Then get hard again and cum again."
"Cum until you can't cum anymore."
I pulled Su-jeong into my arms.
She panted against my chest.
Poor thing.
Su-jeong, using my arm as a pillow, gave it a light tap.
"If your arm's uncomfortable, just say so. I'll move right away."
Instead I wrapped my arm more firmly around her head.
Su-jeong stayed still.
Our bodies were pressed tight together.
She used my arm as a pillow, held my cock in her hand, fidgeted with it a little, and then fell asleep.
Her soft, even breathing tickled my ear.
Of course I knew.
Why she was this anxious...