Chapter 9 0135 (Mom, Se-hee, Se-young)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 9 0135 (Mom, Se-hee, Se-young)
Shin-bi Noona had left.
Afterward, Se-hee Noona went into the bathroom, saying she was going to shower first.
Si-woo sat on the living room sofa and brooded over the answer to the riddle Shin-bi Noona had left behind.
'0135'
Nothing came to mind immediately.
Shin-bi Noona had said that if she told him, Se-hee Noona would get angry. No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't figure it out.
Si-woo was certain that this number was related to the diet.
Just then, he heard the front door open, and Mom and Se-young returned.
"Oppa, we're home~"
Se-young announced their arrival as soon as she saw Si-woo.
"Si-woo, nothing happened today, right?"
Mom also greeted him with a question.
Looking at the clock, it was well past 8:00 PM.
"Yeah, nothing much happened. Mom, you and Se-young are a bit late today."
After answering, Si-woo thought back on the things that could actually be considered "something happening."
Spanking Aunt Gyu-ri’s butt for the first time.
Witnessing his sister smoking and acting like a delinquent.
Finding out his sister got a tattoo on her inner thigh.
Aside from those "special events" that he absolutely could not mention, nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
"Is Se-hee showering right now?"
Mom’s questions continued as soon as she stepped inside.
"Yeah."
Si-woo answered faithfully.
"Did you eat?"
"I had ramen with Noona."
"I told Se-hee to take care of her brother's meals, and she just boils ramen? Honestly, I made rice in the cooker and there are side dishes in the fridge that only need to be heated up. I don't know what's so hard about that. I'll have to have a word with her when she comes out."
Even when the target wasn't present, Mom’s nagging was endless.
"It’s fine. It’s been a while since I had ramen, and it was good. Sometimes you just crave it."
"Still, you should eat a proper meal when you can."
Mom was always strict about making sure the children were well-fed.
"But Mom, where did you go with Se-young today?"
Curious, Si-woo asked.
It was rare for Mom to take one of the family members out and stay out this late.
"I took our Se-young out for a full-day date today~"
Mom looked at Se-young and spoke with a playful smile.
"A date? What’s that about?"
"Mom and I are deeply in love, you know~ Hehe."
Se-young hugged Mom tightly around the waist, playing along with the joke.
Mom looked at Se-young with a satisfied expression.
"Sure, go ahead and get married later, have lots of kids, and live happily ever after."
Si-woo played along with Se-young’s joke.
"We can't have kids because we're the same gender. Instead, I'll take in you and the other sisters and raise you well."
Se-young fired back with a mischievous retort.
"A young stepmother? That’s creepy."
He engaged in some mindless banter with Se-young, who seemed slightly excited.
"Hehehe~"
Se-young laughed as if she enjoyed this playful conversation with her brother.
"But Mom, did you eat out with Se-young?"
Si-woo asked.
"Yes, we did!"
Mom’s answer was concise.
"Dinner is a basic part of a date course! Ahem!!"
Se-young seemed to want to keep the playful conversation going.
"Right. Did you have a good time at Gyu-ri’s today?"
Mom stroked Se-young’s hair as if she were adorable and then asked Si-woo.
"Yeah, it was fine! The blindfold is in my room, so I'll go get it for you right now."
Ever since Si-woo received the thank-you text from Aunt Gyu-ri, he hadn't been too worried about getting in trouble with Mom over that incident.
Because of that, he could answer calmly now.
"Oh, okay. Could you bring it to me in a bit?"
At Mom’s request, Si-woo went straight to his room and grabbed the shopping bag.
Looking inside, the lilac silk blindfold was still there, exactly as he had received it from Aunt Gyu-ri.
It was an item that could be used as an SM tool, but it was hard to imagine it being used that way.
Holding the shopping bag, he headed back down to the master bedroom on the first floor.
* * *
As Si-woo approached the master bedroom, he heard Se-young and Mom talking inside.
"I want to do it now, Mom~"
It was the sound of Se-young pestering Mom for something.
"No. Oppa will be down any minute."
"It'll only take a second, Mom. Please? Mom~"
Se-young whined.
"Now, didn't you promise the teacher that we'd do it at a set time? And we both just got home and haven't showered yet. Let's do it after we wash up, okay?"
Mom was persuading Se-young in a firm but gentle tone.
"Okay, fine."
He heard Se-young’s disappointed reply.
He had no idea what they were going to do or what kind of promise they had made with what teacher, but Si-woo thought it would be best to just pretend he hadn't heard.
"Ahem."
Si-woo made his presence known and entered the master bedroom.
Se-young was clinging to Mom, her arms wrapped around Mom’s waist and her face buried against the side of Mom’s breast like a three-year-old child.
Thinking her usual spoiled behavior was just worse than usual today, he handed the blindfold to Mom.
"Mom, here. Aunt Gyu-ri told me to tell you to use it well."
"Right, thanks. Good job, Si-woo. Oh... and you didn't forget what I asked you yesterday, right?"
Last night, when Si-woo was just in his panties, Mom had asked him to take charge of moving the sleeping Se-young from the master bedroom to her own room from now on.
There was no way Si-woo would forget that request. In fact, he was waiting for it, thinking it was a stroke of luck.
"Yeah, I didn't forget. Mom, you can sleep comfortably now. I'll come down later and take care of everything."
"Thanks, Si-woo. Thanks to you, I'll be able to get some deep sleep now. I'll leave it to you, then~"
* * *
Si-woo left the master bedroom and was heading back to his room.
On his way, he ran into Se-hee Noona, who had just finished her shower.
She was wearing the same pink hot pants he had seen yesterday morning.
"Did you hear from Mom?"
Noona asked him out of the blue.
"Hear what?"
Si-woo asked back, confused.
"About Se-young."
"What about Se-young?"
"She didn't tell you?"
"Tell me what?"
Since Si-woo hadn't heard any details from Mom, he kept asking in hopes that he might hear the story from his sister instead.
"Hmm~~ Never mind... it's nothing..."
Noona made a sound as if she understood something and went up to the second floor.
He could see her firm hamstrings and calves stretching out elegantly.
Her provocative buttocks, encased in the pink hot pants, jiggled as she moved.
"What is it, seriously?!"
Si-woo felt a strange, lingering discomfort at his sister's odd reaction, which wasn't quite ignoring him but wasn't quite looking down on him either.
Between the situation with Mom and Se-young and the suspicious thing she was doing with Shin-bi Noona, he felt resentful that his sister wouldn't just come out and tell him the secrets.
* * *
Back in his room, Si-woo vowed to uncover his sister's secret no matter what.
'0135'
He wrote the strange numbers he had heard from Shin-bi Noona on a piece of paper and stared at them for a long time.
"Forever Love?"
"Or is it an area code?"
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.
He racked his brain and thought of everything, but he couldn't figure it out.
He felt like his insides were burning with frustration.
This wasn't the time to worry about his pride.
Si-woo wanted to resolve this frustration and unease somehow.
So, without much expectation, he sent a message to Cheol-jin.
[What do you think 0135 means?]
A reply came immediately.
[What are you talking about all of a sudden?]
Si-woo explained in detail. From meeting his sister's friends in front of the house to the secret conversation the girls had while eating ramen.
[So Shin-bi Noona wrote that on your back?]
[Yeah!!]
Cheol-jin seemed to understand the situation.
[Wait a sec.]
About ten seconds after Cheol-jin sent that last message, the phone rang.
As soon as he pressed the answer button, Cheol-jin’s excited voice burst through the smartphone speaker.
"Hey, holy shit, is this for real?"
"What is it? What's wrong?"
"If you find out, you probably won't be able to sleep tonight."
"Don't keep me in suspense, just tell me. What is it?"
Cheol-jin explained slowly.
"First, change those into digital numbers."
"Yeah."
"And then flip them all at once."
"The flipped number 3 becomes the letter E."
"If you flip 0135, you get 5E10, right?"
"If the 5 turns into an S, it's SE10."
"And since 10 is X in Roman numerals..."
"Now, what do you see when you put it together?"
"Gasp...!!"
Si-woo was so shocked he forgot to speak for a moment.
'S E X'
"Is this for real?"
Si-woo asked Cheol-jin, stunned.
"Fuck, I'm the one who wants to ask that! Did Shin-bi Noona really write that on your back?"
"I'm telling you, she did."
"Then can I jerk off today while imagining Shin-bi Noona and your sister?"
"You crazy bastard, don't do it! Your mom is right there!! And why are you asking me for permission to do that anyway?"
After bickering with Cheol-jin for a while, Si-woo hung up and thought to himself.
'It's a world made of sex anyway. What's the big deal if they use sex to diet a little?'
Today was the first time he had seen the delinquent side of Se-hee Noona and Shin-bi Noona.
Until now, they were nothing more and nothing less than his beautiful, provocative older sister and her close friend.
But from now on, it felt like he would be looking at them through a different lens than before.