Chapter 92: Good Restaurant
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 92: Good Restaurant
"Whoa, what is all this?"
"Ugh. Gross."
In the afternoon sun filtering into the room, a group of female college students stood around, looking over a spread of adult toys that looked like they were laid out for a children's bazaar.
Watching them, I felt a strange sensation.
I wondered if this was how adult shop owners felt every single day.
I was the one who suggested going, I was the one who told them to buy whatever they wanted, and I was the one who swiped the card—yet, for some reason, I felt incredibly wronged.
"Wow, waaah. It’s my first time seeing the real things."
Among them, Seo Ye-rin was the one whose eyes sparkled the most as she examined the items.
She picked them up one by one, her eyes bright with curiosity as if she were conducting a scientific study. A sudden worry flashed through my mind: Is she going to ask me to go to an adult shop with her later?
"What is... this?"
On the other hand, Choi I-seo, who seemingly lacked knowledge in this department, pointed at a Tenga with a puzzled expression.
Seeing that, Yoo Ah-rin picked up two Tengas—one red and one blue—and plopped them onto her head.
"Are they horns?"
Yoo Ah-rin looked at me with a mischievous grin. Knowing she was joking, Choi I-seo pouted and stole a glance at me.
As if waiting to see how I’d respond, Yoo Ah-rin kept the Tengas pressed to her head, insisting they were horns.
"Those are covers."
I decided to be shameless.
"Covers?"
"Yeah, dick covers."
"..."
"I bought them to wear in the winter when it gets cold."
"Ugh, what the hell are you talking about, you psycho?"
Yoo Ah-rin snapped and threw the Tengas at me. If she was going to react like that, she should have explained it herself instead of dumping it on me.
"Men use them for self-pleasure."
"I-I heard they feel amazing! Like, way better than using your hand!"
Seo Ye-rin chimed in, excited to finally know something. She was also holding a Tenga; it felt like these things were multiplying.
"Are they disposable?"
As Choi I-seo muttered the question while turning a Tenga over in her hands, Yoo Ah-rin shrugged.
"Probably not? Don't they last for a few months?"
"...And you bought four?"
Shit.
I had no idea how to talk my way out of this one.
Seo Ye-rin looked intrigued.
Choi I-seo looked disgusted.
And Yoo Ah-rin was looking at me as if daring me to make an excuse.
Staring at the four multi-colored Tengas, I let out a sigh and answered.
"If you rotate through them, it feels like you're with a different person every da—Guh-hurk?!"
Before I could finish, Yoo Ah-rin and Choi I-seo’s fists connected with my body, sending me collapsing to the floor on my knees.
"Ugh, seriously."
"You crazy bastard."
I thought it was a pretty solid reason, but I guess it didn't fly.
Leaving me collapsed on the floor, they went back to browsing.
Starting from the erotic lingerie...
"T-This doesn't look like it would function as underwear at all?"
"So Woo-jin likes this kind of stuff."
"No, I don't, damn it."
Then they moved on to the vibrators designed for women.
"Wow, Kim Woo-jin, you even bought stuff like this."
Bzzzzzzzzzt!
"Gah?!"
"I-It looks like it would hurt."
While Yoo Ah-rin started pulverizing my back with the massager as I lay there, Choi I-seo and Seo Ye-rin moved on to the next items.
"Guaaaaaargh!"
"Hmm, is this how it feels to make someone squeal with a toy?"
She must have set it to max power because it felt like my spine was shattering. The vibration was rattling my brain; that thing's output was definitely not normal.
"A-A whole box of condoms."
"Sigh, he really is something..."
Seo Ye-rin’s face turned beet red as she held the box with both hands, while Choi I-seo slapped her forehead, likely remembering the previous night.
Did he buy all these because he couldn't do it last night for lack of one? It was a terrifying level of persistence.
"Hehe, that was fun."
Yoo Ah-rin, leaving me limp on the floor, rejoined the bazaar. After looking through various things, the last item Seo Ye-rin pulled out was...
"W-Whoa."
"That's a bit..."
"Why the hell did a guy buy this?"
It was a dildo, glowing with a brilliant purple hue.
Seeing the blatant phallic shape, the three of them had very different reactions.
First, Choi I-seo immediately looked away.
Yoo Ah-rin grabbed the dildo and started poking my cheek with it as I lay defeated.
And finally, Seo Ye-rin...
"Whew, compared to this, Woo-jin is..."
In the middle of blurting out something insane, she instinctively clamped her hands over her mouth.
But of course, everyone’s eyes were already fixed on her.
* * *
Leaving the "corpse" of Kim Woo-jin at home, the three girls headed to a makgeolli bar.
A strange atmosphere hung between Seo Ye-rin, Choi I-seo, and Yoo Ah-rin.
After Ye-rin’s bombshell earlier, they had all agreed they needed a drink, leading to this girls-only outing.
However, now that they were here, they just sat there awkwardly, glancing at each other as time ticked by.
"S-Should we order first?"
When Choi I-seo cautiously opened the menu and asked, the other two quickly leaned in to look.
"W-Wow. There are so many types of makgeolli."
"It’s my first time too. This is cool."
Choi I-seo smiled softly at their cute reactions and began giving recommendations.
As the Department Representative, she had attended many school gatherings and had been to places like this before.
"They have them categorized by levels here, so we can pick what fits. The sweeter ones are actually pretty good."
"Really?"
"The names of the drinks are pretty."
For snacks, they naturally ordered chive pancakes and kimchi pancakes. There were versions with cheese, but they decided to try the basics first.
The problem came after that.
Once the order was placed, they ran out of things to say again.
Seo Ye-rin and Yoo Ah-rin had been friends since high school.
Choi I-seo and Seo Ye-rin had also become quite close recently.
While Choi I-seo and Yoo Ah-rin were still a bit uncomfortable with each other...
Normally, with Seo Ye-rin acting as the social lubricant, there shouldn't have been an issue.
But because of her bombshell comment, Ye-rin was keeping her mouth shut, making the atmosphere incredibly awkward.
Funny enough.
People think alike in similar situations.
Just like the "dick party" the guys had the night before.
To break the awkwardness, the three of them began diligently gulping down the alcohol as soon as it arrived.
Before long, the mood began to mellow out.
"I was on the phone with Woo-jin yesterday, and he asked if I was a chicken shop!"
As Seo Ye-rin, who had been drinking heavily because the makgeolli was tasty, laughed and explained what happened yesterday, the other two immediately related.
"Yeah, he asked me if I was a sashimi place."
"Shit, I had to deal with some weirdos he handed the phone to."
"When I told him I was Seo Ye-rin, he told them to 'deliver Seo Ye-rin' because she was 'delicious' last time."
Actually, he had said the chicken at that place was delicious, but Ye-rin chose to ignore the "chicken" part of that sentence.
"..."
"...Isn't that sexual harassment?"
Choi I-seo and Yoo Ah-rin looked at Seo Ye-rin with complicated expressions, but whether she was just drunk or that was just her personality...
She just giggled and waved it off.
"He was just drunk."
She said that, but...
"So I was delicious, heehee."
Seeing her mumbling to herself, Choi I-seo felt a prick of jealousy and chimed in.
"He has a whole box of condoms at his place anyway."
If she weren't drunk, she never would have said such a thing.
Of course, it wasn't just the alcohol that made her lose her filter.
Between Ye-rin’s provocation and the fact that those two had already "done it," Choi I-seo was feeling petty.
"Last time, with me..."
As she brought up the condom incident from when she stayed over at Woo-jin’s, the expressions on Ye-rin and Ah-rin’s faces shifted.
"A-As for me!"
The fire was lit between the two of them.
As the makgeolli bottles piled up, Yoo Ah-rin—stuck between two girls who apparently had a lot to talk about while she only had memories of sharing chocolate milk and having her chest felt—stepped outside to get some fresh air.
Thanks to the convenience store right next door, she bought a Chocomong and crouched down to drink it.
To a passerby, it might have looked like she was smoking, but she was just sipping chocolate milk through a straw.
She usually had a high tolerance, but maybe because it was makgeolli, the intoxication was hitting her hard all of a sudden.
Sipping her Chocomong, she couldn't stand it anymore and dialed a number.
— ...Hello?
Hearing Kim Woo-jin’s voice on the other end made her feel strangely at ease, but her tone came out sharp.
"You jerk."
— Are you drunk?
"I am druuuunk!"
— Didn't I teach you a lesson about drinking yesterday?
"Shut up! You psycho! You think I'm like you?!"
— ...Stop drinking before you make a bigger mistake.
"Come pick me up!"
— Bullshit. I'm in the middle of a game.
"I'm getting hit on!"
— You're a better fighter than me. Even if I go, I can't do anything, so if they get pushy, just call the cops.
What kind of guy was this?
— Hey, more importantly, a few things are missing from my house...
"Shut up!"
Hanging up the phone, Yoo Ah-rin huffed and shoved it into her pocket before heading back inside.
Just a moment ago, she thought it was best to stop drinking, but now she wanted to chug everything in sight.
However, that impulse vanished the moment she returned to the table. The scene was absolute chaos.
"Heek? There are this many inside?"
Choi I-seo had somehow brought the box of condoms and was counting them one by one.
"So, Woo-jin-ah..."
Seo Ye-rin was having a conversation with the purple dildo sitting in the seat next to her, calling it Woo-jin.
Should she have called him?
Should she have insisted he come pick them up?
She picked up her phone again, but just then, one of the men from a nearby table approached with a smile.
"Excuse me, I think my wireless earbuds connected to one of your phones."
"..."
"So, if you don't mind, could you check for me?"
"Do you really want to hit on us after seeing this scene?"
One girl was counting condoms and the other was talking to a dildo.
"Haha, you guys certainly have personality."
"...Get lost."
"Hey, don't be like that."
Did they look easy?
Actually, looking at this scene, who wouldn't think they were easy?
Yoo Ah-rin quickly shoved the condom box and the dildo into her bag and dialed her phone.
"Your friends look a bit lonely tonight, though?"
"I said get lost! Why would your earbuds connect to us, you freak! If you're gonna hit on someone, at least use your brain!"
"..."
"Scram! We all have boyfriends!"
"Y-Yes, ma'am! Sorry!"
After shaking off the persistent guy, Yoo Ah-rin fumed until Kim Woo-jin finally picked up.
— In a team fight.
He said that and hung up immediately.
"...Phew."
Furious to the point of exploding, Yoo Ah-rin chugged the rest of the makgeolli straight from the bottle.
"Bring us three more bottles of makgeolli!"
* * *
After a crushing defeat in the team fight.
Since I’d spent the money, I couldn't just let them sit there. I was in the middle of a deep search for today's "lady" to test out the Tengas when...
Knock, knock.
I frowned at the sound of knocking on my door.
"Ah, seriously."
Annoyed that my concentration was broken, I got up since I hadn't actually started anything yet.
"Who is it?"
When I asked through the door, Yoo Ah-rin’s heavily slurred voice answered.
"Borth! Three orders of pollack thoup!"
"...What?"
"Thith ith! A famouth pollack thoup rethtaurant!"
"It lookth deliciouth! It'th my firtht time!"
Seo Ye-rin was reacting enthusiastically to the slurring Yoo Ah-rin, and...
"Thippp, I don't think it'th gonna tathte good?"
Choi I-seo, whose pronunciation was fine but was talking nonsense about the soup she supposedly "cooked" being bad, rounded out the group.
The moment I heard them, my head began to ache in more ways than one.