Chapter 339 (Se-young, Su-a)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 339 (Se-young, Su-a)
"And Se-jin Unnie, too!! How could you forget Se-jin Unnie!?"
Se-young continued, her tone sounding as if she couldn't believe her brother had overlooked Se-jin Noona.
"Ah... Se... Se-jin Noona's, too..."
Si-woo stammered his reply, appearing a bit flustered that Se-young had brought her up.
"If Se-jin Noona finds out later, she's going to be so disappointed~ Hehe."
Se-young teased him, her voice laced with a hint of playfulness.
Did Se-young already know to some extent about the relationship between Se-jin Noona and their father?
Perhaps through Aunt Seon-ju or Teacher Yoo Ye-na, Se-young already knew more secrets than Si-woo did.
Clearly, Se-jin Noona was also one of the people who shared the family's past and secrets.
However, since she had left the house after their father passed away, there hadn't been any significant conversation or interaction between her and Si-woo regarding those matters.
—Though she did use Se-hee Noona to let me know she was pregnant and sent the key to the drawer where the Slave Contracts are kept...—
If he were to suddenly shove a dog collar at Se-jin Noona after not seeing her for so long, without any prior explanation, how would she react?
No matter how much he knew about her relationship with their father or the reason she left home, it seemed inevitable that he would feel a sense of awkwardness toward Se-jin Noona that he didn't feel with the other family members.
"Then... do you want to pick something out for Se-jin Noona and Se-a, too?"
Si-woo suggested that Se-young choose the design and color of the dog collars for Se-jin Noona and Se-a.
"Okay, I will! I'll pick Se-a's first!"
After answering Si-woo, Se-young slowly scanned the display stand where the dog collars were lined up.
Soon, her index finger pointed to a teal-colored collar in the middle.
"How about that one? The green-ish one in the center!"
Se-young spoke as she looked up at Si-woo with bright, clear eyes.
"You mean this one?"
Si-woo picked up the dog collar Se-young pointed to and looked at her.
"Yeah, that one! I really like that color~"
Se-young confirmed with both her expression and words that the teal dog collar Si-woo held was indeed the one she had chosen.
Si-woo placed the teal dog collar into the basket along with its matching leash.
"And for Se-jin Unnie..."
Se-young continued, her voice sounding slightly excited as she picked out a dog collar for Se-jin Noona to wear.
"This one would be good!!"
Se-young pulled a collar from the display right in front of her and handed it to Si-woo.
It was a thick, heavy-looking chain collar.
It was the kind of dog collar that had protrusions sticking out to press against the inside of the neck.
Si-woo had heard somewhere that there were special collars used for taming large, fierce dogs.
The unusually shaped metal collar Se-young had handed him seemed to be exactly that kind of specialized collar.
A training collar designed to make the neck more painful the harder it was pulled.
The chain collar with inward-facing prongs came as a set with a matching chain leash.
"Uh... this one?"
Si-woo took the chain dog collar, looking slightly taken down as he asked Se-young for confirmation.
"Yep! I think something like this would suit Se-jin Unnie perfectly. Hehe~"
Se-young spoke to Si-woo with an innocent smile.
She definitely knew the details of Se-jin Noona's situation.
The fact that Se-jin Noona had an affair with their father, got pregnant, and had fled the house, never to return...
For a moment, Si-woo felt a chilling sensation, as if something were crawling up his spine.
Pretending everything was fine, Si-woo placed the chain dog collar he received from Se-young into the basket.
"Then I guess all that's left is to pick ones for Seon-ju and Se-hee? I'll pick Se-hee's, so Su-a, why don't you pick one for Seon-ju?"
Si-woo spoke to Su-a, as if trying to change the mood.
"Okay..."
Su-a replied with a shy nod.
After looking over the display for a moment, Su-a chose a black leather collar.
It was a leather collar with a double buckle that looked like a belt.
Somehow, it seemed like it would suit Aunt Seon-ju, who had a unique sense of style and sophisticated taste in clothes.
For the collar Se-hee Noona would wear, Si-woo chose a purple leather one.
It had a casual design and color that would look good on a woman in Se-hee Noona's age group.
"That one will look really good, too~"
Se-young said, her face lit up with satisfaction.
"Oppa! Oppa! Look at this! The thing that was at Su-a's house!"
Then, Se-young called out to Si-woo, pointing at something a few paces away.
What Se-young was pointing at was a large iron cage, similar to the one he had seen at Aunt Seon-ju's house.
It was an iron cage large enough to fit several large dogs.
Its length and width were enough for an adult man to lie down in...
The height of the cage looked to be about the same as Se-young's height.
Just like at Aunt Seon-ju's house, blackout curtains were installed on the outside.
Blackout curtains intended to hide the interior from view...
Si-woo momentarily imagined his family members inside that iron cage.
A sharp jolt of electricity seemed to course through his spine and across his entire body.
"It would be great if we installed one of these in our living room, too."
Se-young spoke with a beaming smile, as if she had read Si-woo's imagination.
"Should we?! This is too big, so we'll have to have it delivered."
Si-woo replied, now feeling completely unbothered by the fact that Se-young was catching onto his delusions.
Click! Click! Click!
Si-woo took photos of the overall appearance of the iron cage Se-young had chosen, along with the price tag that listed the model name.
Se-young then hopped forward and also picked out a portable cage that was displayed near the iron cage.
—A portable cage intended for carrying small puppies.—
Having finished their shopping, Si-woo and his sisters moved toward the counter.
Si-woo carried the basket filled with the items they had chosen together to the counter to pay.
* * *
As soon as they reached the counter, Se-young began picking something out from a display right next to it, holding the items in her palm.
"What are those?"
Si-woo asked, curious about what Se-young was choosing.
"ID tags for the puppies~ We need these, too."
Se-young spoke boastfully as she showed Si-woo the name tags in her palm.
Si-woo picked up a design he liked from the name tags Se-young had chosen to examine it.
It was a stainless steel name tag in the shape of a black heart.
It had a ring attached like a keychain, so it could be hung from the ring on a dog collar where the leash connects.
It appeared that names or phrases could be laser-engraved onto them.
Turning it over, there was even a separate space to engrave the owner's name and information.
However, it seemed like the engraving would take some time.
Si-woo picked up the name tags Se-young had chosen, including one for his mom.
He took the seven name tags to the clerk at the counter and checked if it was possible to engrave the text immediately and how long it would take.
The clerk said it would take about ten minutes to engrave all seven name tags.
Si-woo paid for everything—the items he had picked with his sisters, the name tags, and the iron cage from the photo—using his mom's card.
He requested delivery for the bulkier items.
After the payment was processed, the clerk handed him a number of slips of paper corresponding to the number of name tags.
Seon-mi, Seon-ju, Se-young, Su-a, Se-hee, Se-jin, Se-a.
Si-woo first wrote the names to be engraved on the front across the seven slips of paper.
In the owner information section to be engraved on the back, he wrote his initials, SWY, on all of them.
Si-woo submitted the completed slips to the clerk.
The clerk took the slips and the name tags and began engraving the names of the slaves and the initials of their master on the front and back using a laser engraver that looked like a microwave behind the counter.
Si-woo felt like he could finally, even if just a little, realize the feeling of officially becoming the master of the house and taking his family as slaves.
Even though they were just simple dog collars and ID tags...
As Si-woo stared at the name tags visible through the glass door of the laser engraver, he suddenly thought of the Slave Contracts in the desk drawer of Se-jin Noona's room.
Scraps of paper that, like the dog collars he bought today, had no legal force or validity...
Did the people who wrote them and those involved really believe that a master-slave relationship had been established between them?
At least some of the people Si-woo knew seemed to take that relationship for granted, living their lives trying to follow the terms of the contracts.
—Even looking at Aunt Seon-ju and Aunt Gyu-ri...—
Si-woo momentarily imagined a scene where he signed Slave Contracts with all his family members.
His family members, lined up on their knees with his semen in their mouths, writing out the contracts.
They wore nothing on their bodies except for the dog collars and leashes he had bought today.
Without realizing it, Si-woo felt a surge of heat and tension in his groin.