Chapter 439: Tournament in the Dawn
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 439: Tournament in the Dawn
The moment Oh Yun-ji’s fingertip pointed at me, I felt a sharp tingle run all the way down my spine.
“Exactly. You’re the one who needs to put in the effort.”
Oh Yun-ji was demanding effort from me.
At first, I wondered what kind of effort she was talking about, but as I sat there and thought about it, I realized she wasn't entirely wrong.
As my thoughts deepened, a chilling sense of crisis began to wash over me.
“You’re… right.”
When I nodded in agreement without even realizing it, a sly smirk spread across Oh Yun-ji’s lips.
As if she had expected me to be reasonable, she immediately launched into a barrage of complaints.
“Right? See? If you think about it, I was always the one preparing the events! I did the cosplay! I did the animal acting! I even wore the leash! What was that all about?!”
“Wait a minute! Stop talking about the past!”
Startled, Seo Ye-rin hurriedly pulled away from Oh Yun-ji and threw her arms around me. It was a gesture of pure possessiveness, as if she refused to let anyone take what was hers.
I hugged her back, feeling her warmth.
“No, I just got caught up in the moment unintentionally,” Oh Yun-ji said, waving her hand dismissively.
I thought we had a good relationship back when we were dating, but it seemed she had been harboring her own set of grievances.
“Didn’t you say you guys did roleplays and stuff too?”
Senior Ju-hee seemed strangely interested. When she glanced at Oh Yun-ji and asked, the girl snapped her fingers and nodded.
“Exactly. He’d be weirdly reluctant to do the roleplays I wanted, but he’d push the ones he wanted really aggressively.”
“For example?”
“Hmm, for example—”
“Don’t you dare say it!”
I hurriedly shook off Seo Ye-rin and lunged at Oh Yun-ji. As I tried to cover her mouth with my hand, she extended her leg to push against my stomach, and we ended up in a power struggle, our fingers interlocked.
“Why are you bringing up the past?!”
“What, are you nervous? Is there something I shouldn’t say?”
“His current girlfriend is right here!”
“I’m just giving advice. As someone who’s been through it before.”
This little brat.
I wanted to subdue Oh Yun-ji somehow, but Seo Ye-rin was nodding with a look of genuine curiosity.
“Now that I think about it, we’ve never actually tried roleplaying!”
That was true.
We usually just jumped straight from kissing to sex. Since we were basically two people constantly in heat, we never felt the need for that kind of slow-burn, atmosphere-building stuff.
We were always turned on.
And we always loved each other.
However, I had to admit that a time had come where we had fallen into a bit of a rut.
Accepting change was probably important.
“Then… what do you want to do, Ye-rin?”
When I asked for her honest opinion, Seo Ye-rin began to ponder. She made a vague expression and tilted her head.
“Hmm, it’s a bit hard to think of something right on the spot. Does anyone have any good ideas?”
“Ahem, it’s time for yours truly to step up again!”
Oh Yun-ji grinned, pushed me aside, and hopped up from the sofa.
I immediately tackled her and pinned her back down.
“Ugh!”
“Stay still, please!”
“You jerk! You should use the things I taught you!”
“That’s exactly why I didn’t want to do it! Why did you make me act?!”
“I mimicked all sorts of things because of you! I seriously wanted to die when I had to act like a cat!”
“Hmm, molding Woo-jini to my own taste…”
Seo Ye-rin ignored our bickering and lost herself in thought.
“Unni, should we order chicken?”
“…What’s your weight right now?”
“It—it’s a secret!”
Choi Jin-ah tried to order chicken since it looked like this would take a while, and Senior Ju-hee half-forced her toward the scale to check her weight.
Anyway.
Unintentionally, a long night had just begun.
* * *
Seo Ye-rin sat on the sofa with her legs crossed, eating chicken.
She chewed on a drumstick and gestured with her chin.
“Alright, the Roleplay Contest begins now—oh, this chicken is delicious!”
At that, Choi Jin-ah poked her head out from the room.
“Right?! That’s a hidden gem I found. Unlike brand-name chicken, it’s—”
She tried to say more but was dragged back inside.
“Ahem. Now then, I will give a very special prize to the person who performs the roleplay that turns me on the most.”
“What on earth is this?”
I looked at Seo Ye-rin with an absurd expression, and she clicked her tongue while waving a clean drumstick bone.
“Woo-jina, if we’re going to do roleplay sex, we have to do it right. I’m an actress, remember? It’s common sense to receive a script and lines and review them thoroughly.”
“…….”
Why did that sound strangely persuasive?
It felt even more so because she actually was an actress.
But the surprising thing was that the other three had stepped up to participate.
“Now, first contestant. Come on out.”
The one who stepped out was Choi Jin-ah.
“She definitely went first just so she could hurry up and eat the chicken.”
“Gah!”
She wanted to argue, but since I had hit the nail on the head, she couldn't say a word.
With her lips pouting slightly, she stood in front of the TV.
It seemed she was a bit nervous now that she was actually standing in front of us.
Seo Ye-rin rested her chin on the armrest and encouraged her in a director-like tone.
“Relax, relax. Just think of it as being in your own home.”
“It… it is my home.”
Well, she had a point.
“But are you really doing this, Jin-ah? You don’t have to go along with what she says.”
Yun-ji obviously wanted to say something since she was the one who suggested it.
Senior Ju-hee had quietly joined in while gauging the atmosphere.
But I wondered why Choi Jin-ah was doing this.
Even though she confessed to me last time…
Hadn't that just fizzled out as if it never happened? Since she hadn't made any particular moves after that, I thought she had just given up.
Then, Oh Yun-ji and Senior Ju-hee, who were peeking out from the doorway, answered for her.
“Jin-ah said it sounded fun and she wanted to try.”
“Yeah, she insisted on being included.”
“Oh? A highly motivated participant?”
Seo Ye-rin adjusted her posture, looking intrigued, while I watched her with skeptical eyes.
“U-Woo-jin, come over here.”
“…….”
“We need a co-star, don't we?”
It felt like this had turned from a solution for sexual stagnation into just playing make-believe.
As I stood beside her as instructed, she hesitantly raised her hand.
“I-I am contestant number one, Choi Jin-ah. Special note: I-I am the owner of this house.”
“Yes, and what have you prepared?”
“I’ve prepared a school setting—the Bully and the Outcast!”
Seo Ye-rin smirked and nodded.
“A common trope. Can you pull it off well?”
“Yes! I can! T-Then, I’ll begin.”
Begin what?
I thought I was supposed to be the one bullying Choi Jin-ah.
Suddenly, she turned toward me and kicked me square in the shin.
“Agh!”
This girl kicked me for real!
Startled, I bent over and clutched my leg, only for Choi Jin-ah to step on my shoulder and shove me to the floor.
“Hey, U-jjin! I clearly told you to buy chocolate milk! So what is this?!”
“Wh-what?!”
As I stammered in confusion, Choi Jin-ah immediately started stomping on me.
“Straw! Berry! Milk! Strawberry! Huh?! You bought strawberry milk?! I! Huh?! I clearly told you! To buy chocolate?!”
“Agh! Ow! Hey! Wait a second! Agh! That really hurts!”
Choi Jin-ah began to stomp on me relentlessly.
By now, Oh Yun-ji and Senior Ju-hee had come out of the room to watch, and Seo Ye-rin was nodding as if she found it convincing while eating her chicken.
This time, she crouched down, grabbed me by the hair, and poked my cheek hard with her finger.
“Hey, U-jjin. You’ve been acting up too much lately. You need to know your place. Got it?”
“No, what did I even—”
“No? You didn’t? You still haven't learned your lesson!”
Choi Jin-ah started stomping on me again.
At this rate, I was worried the neighbors downstairs would come knocking.
“Ugh! Argh! W-wait! You’re actually hitting me!”
“Of course it’s real, you think it’s fake?! Huh! You piece of—! Die! Die! You just brushed off what I said last time like it was a joke! Die! Just die!”
“She’s crazy! Someone stop her!”
“Crazy? Crazy? I’ll show you what real crazy looks like. U-jjin, you’re dead meat today.”
She even rolled up her sleeves and began to pummel me as if she were in a frenzy.
After being beaten for about five minutes…
“Phew, I’m finished.”
Choi Jin-ah wiped her sweat with a refreshed smile.
“She’s a lunatic.”
I muttered, sprawled on the floor like a defeated Yamcha.
But my voice didn't seem to reach Seo Ye-rin, who had already begun scoring.
“Hmm, it seems to have a bit of an excessively sadistic streak. Does the story continue with you making the loser take off his pants and being surprised by his size?”
“……Pardon?”
Choi Jin-ah asked back with a blank expression.
Then she clapped her hands in realization.
“Ah, right. That’s how it was supposed to go….”
This girl?
“Ye-yes! That’s right! After this, I was going to do all sorts of things to U-jjin!”
“I liked how you used the nickname ‘U-jjin’ and subtly hinted in your lines that he hadn't given you an answer. Thanks to that, it felt like watching a romantic comedy that started with a misunderstanding but ended in pure love.”
“……Really?”
Choi Jin-ah looked even more surprised than I was.
But honestly, I was shocked too.
“Isn't that just making things up to fit the narrative?”
To me, it just felt like Choi Jin-ah wanted to vent her usual frustrations, so she picked this concept and had a blast beating me up.
“I’ll give you 91 out of 100. The fact that it ends in pure love was a bonus. The acting was very realistic too.”
“Th-thank you.”
Choi Jin-ah scurried over to sit next to Seo Ye-rin and started eating chicken.
When I glared at her accusingly, she intentionally avoided my gaze.
“Now, next participant?”
“Ow, I think something’s broken.”
As I groaned and made my way to the sofa, Senior Ju-hee stepped forward.
“Participant number two, Min Ju-hee. Special note… I’m pretty good at fighting.”
She wasn't just "pretty good"; she was an expert.
“What have you prepared?”
I tried to grab some chicken, but Senior Ju-hee pulled me over and stood me up next to her.
“What I’ve prepared is a chaebol being semi-forcefully molested by a bodyguard.”
“Is this a freaking prank?!”
I seriously couldn't take this anymore!