Chapter 271
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 271
Se-jin Noona’s room on the first floor.
Si-woo was about to cautiously step into the room, hoping to find what he was looking for.
He turned the doorknob, opened the door, and stepped inside, flicking on the light.
Si-woo stood in the center of the room and slowly looked around.
Directly ahead were the bed and the window. Along the left wall stood a wardrobe, a desk, a vanity, a storage cabinet, and stacks of books.
The furniture, mostly in shades of green and pink, was neatly arranged. It was the typical room of a female college student.
This seemed to be the first time Si-woo had entered Se-jin’s room since she stopped coming home.
Despite her long absence, the room was impeccably tidy. It seemed Mom came in often to clean, even if not every day.
Se-jin Noona had been living on her own in a studio apartment near her university. After their father passed away, she stopped coming home entirely.
At the time, Si-woo hadn't known why, but it seemed Se-jin had even declared to Mom that she would no longer accept any financial support from the family.
Later, he heard from her that she was working part-time to cover her living expenses and had even taken a leave of absence from school because she was so busy.
Though they exchanged messages occasionally, it had been a long time since they had seen each other in person.
Through the video he received from Aunt Seon-ju, Si-woo had learned of the illicit relationship between his father and Se-jin Noona.
It was a short video, barely fifteen seconds long, featuring Se-jin Noona, Aunt Seon-ju, and Su-a.
At the time, Si-woo had been too overwhelmed to know how to process it. He had left his smartphone on the dining table and fled to his room, burying himself under his covers.
Back then, he felt he could do nothing but entrust his phone to Se-hee Noona and hide under the blanket.
The next morning, Se-hee Noona had woken him up under the pretext of a dawn jog and given him a blowjob. Then, while they were out, she explained her plan to force him into a blind date.
That was Se-hee Noona’s answer to the video Si-woo had tried to show her.
Perhaps Se-hee Noona had intended to bury the other family members' secrets and end her relationship with Si-woo as well.
But then came the sex with Se-hee Noona while Mom was away.
Because Si-woo had ended up creampieing her, Se-hee Noona had gone out with Aunt Seon-ju to get a morning-after pill.
The day after that, Se-hee Noona had handed Si-woo a key like a question, without any explanation.
It seemed Se-hee Noona had undergone a massive change of heart after that outing with Aunt Seon-ju.
As he found out later, the person she had met during that outing was a pregnant Se-jin Noona.
If things had gone according to Se-hee Noona’s original plan, Si-woo should have cracked the password on her smartphone and seen the photos of the pregnant Se-jin Noona before the group date.
Then, using the key she gave him, he was supposed to find a certain object related to Se-jin Noona.
Just as Se-hee Noona had given him an answer, it was now Si-woo’s turn to give her one.
Though he had taken a long, roundabout way to get here, Si-woo had finally arrived at the place where the answer to Se-hee Noona’s riddle likely lay.
Si-woo opened his hand and looked down at the key resting on his palm.
He felt he knew exactly where this tiny key belonged.
It was the drawer of Se-jin Noona’s desk.
Si-woo slowly approached the desk.
He inserted the key Se-hee Noona had given him into the keyhole of the bottom drawer.
The small piece of metal slid smoothly into the slot. It was a perfect fit.
Si-woo turned the key counter-clockwise.
With a click, the drawer unlocked.
He wondered what could possibly be inside.
Si-woo was half-expecting to find Mom’s or Se-jin Noona’s Slave Contracts. Or perhaps something related to his father’s past that would explain the current situation.
Si-woo gripped the handle of the unlocked drawer and slowly pulled it toward him.
* * *
The items inside the drawer were document binders in black, gray, and purple.
Si-woo reached out and picked up the purple binder first. It felt heavy in his hands.
With a racing heart, he flipped the binder open to the middle.
Inside the binder were indeed Slave Contracts.
They were undoubtedly the exact same format of Slave Contract he was familiar with.
The only difference from Aunt Gyu-ri’s contract was that a business-card-sized photo of the woman was attached to the front of each one.
The file seemed to contain a significant stack of documents, front and back.
As he scanned the papers, a sense of confusion washed over him. On a whim, he began flipping through the pages at random.
"Wait..."
Familiar faces and names he recognized began to catch his eye at the beginning of the Slave Contracts.
Wasn't this the woman who lived in the neighborhood? She used to come over to the house sometimes...
Just finding the name and lewd photos of a neighbor he might run into tomorrow made Si-woo’s heart pound violently.
Could that neighbor have also participated in the orgy rituals like Mom and Aunt Gyu-ri?
Si-woo examined that woman’s Slave Contract in detail.
Aside from the photo attached to the front, the contract looked no different from Aunt Gyu-ri’s.
However, there was one peculiar thing: a separate pledge was attached to the back of the contract, something Si-woo had never seen before.
The pledge contained the person's name, resident registration number, and phone number, as well as detailed information about their family relations.
'I, the undersigned, hereby pledge the following. In the event of a breach, I shall accept all consequences and hold no one liable, even if videos or other materials recorded during activities are leaked to family, acquaintances, or the internet.'
Below the pledge were the terms to be followed:
I shall faithfully fulfill the above conditions and declare that this pledge was written of my own free will and judgment, not under duress.
The document was followed by a date, the pledger’s name, and a signature.
A pledge written entirely from the perspective of a slave was attached to the back of the contract.
Si-woo recalled Cheol-jin’s words about how there should be two copies of a Slave Contract since it was a mutual agreement.
Perhaps the Slave Contract for Aunt Gyu-ri that Cheol-jin had found wasn't her copy, but the master's copy.
Since slaves have no rights, were their copies confiscated as soon as they were signed?
Si-woo began searching through the other pages.
As he scanned the front pages of other contracts, he found the photo and name of a woman who had been his homeroom teacher back at the Beginner Academy.
She was a teacher with such a bright and healthy image that he could never have imagined her signing a Slave Contract.
With her pretty looks and cool personality, she had been quite popular with the kids in class. Si-woo remembered her as a cheerful married woman in her early thirties with children of her own.
He saw other names he recognized here and there.
Then, he found a familiar face.
The moms he had seen at the police station...
Beautiful faces, seemingly from their younger years, were pinned right to the front of the Slave Contracts.
Realizing something, Si-woo flipped to the very first page of the binder.
There, he found a multi-page list summarizing names, personal details, and sale prices in a table.
No matter how he looked at it, this was a Slave Ledger of the people surrounding Si-woo’s family.
Si-woo’s cock throbbed with a dull ache of arousal.
* * *
Why was such material in Se-jin Noona’s room?
Even if Se-jin Noona had received this from Dad, why did Dad have the Slave Contracts of so many other people?
And why did Se-jin Noona give Si-woo the key to the drawer where such sensitive information was kept?
Questions raced through Si-woo’s mind, one after another.
Si-woo skimmed the list at the front and found Aunt Gyu-ri’s name.
Feeling a strange sense of familiarity, he placed his finger over Aunt Gyu-ri’s name.
Tracing his finger up the list, he soon found the names he had been looking for.
Aunt Seon-ju and Mom.
And right above them, another familiar name appeared.
It was the name of the director of Se-young’s magic academy: 'Yoo Ye-na.'