Chapter 151: Side Story - Bunker (9)
Chapter 151: Side Story - Bunker (9)
Sharing a bed wasn't that difficult. We had already slept together the night before, and I’d realized the experience wasn't all that bad.
After all, we were family, and family members are naturally close to one another.
Having learned that offering an arm as a pillow and relying on each other's warmth to fall asleep was actually quite pleasant, I felt confident I could do it again without much trouble.
However, there was a problem this time.
I was naked, and Kang Yu-min was naked too. Our clothes were still drying, so they weren't in a state to be worn yet.
Of course, I could have forced them on if I really wanted to, but…
It would be miserable. The discomfort would skyrocket, making the fact that we’d just washed and eaten chicken completely pointless. Furthermore, the few bedsheets we had would end up soaking wet.
So, the common-sense solution was to just sleep together without overthinking it, since we were family anyway.
But still, we were naked. And we were both adults.
Above all, I couldn't shake a certain ominous possibility.
This shelter lacked stimulation, and a lack of stimulation inevitably had to be resolved in a specific way.
I often relieved my pent-up sexual frustration in the bathroom or the shower, almost like disposing of waste.
Today was an exception. I couldn't exactly head to the shower to masturbate while washing with Kang Yu-min, nor could I secretly pleasure myself.
Therefore, my libido was still very much present.
And that wasn't all. After eating good food and enjoying some stimulation, my body was acting as if it were starving for desire.
The possibility of sharing a bed—the thought of one of the few remaining female bodies in this world lying naked beside me to sleep—sent a momentary, dizzying jolt through my lower half.
No matter the circumstances, I couldn't get hard looking at my sister. She was my Noona, even if only by age; she was still family.
To harbor such thoughts about family? It was something I shouldn't even imagine.
So, I tried to catch my breath, played the national anthem in my head, and attempted to steady my heart.
Kang Yu-min frowned slightly and looked back at me.
"What are you going to do?"
She asked with her head turned, her hips still pushed back in that same posture. I tried my best not to avoid her gaze, but I couldn't help but hesitate.
What exactly should I do?
Normally, I would have just accepted it. Our bunker was severely lacking in bedding, and the fact that it was a couple's set meant we had to share it—that was a secondary concern I could live with.
But the current situation was highly problematic.
I was naked, and Kang Yu-min was naked. Even if I was fine with it, there was no guarantee she would be.
Moreover, I knew that a woman's sexual desire could be just as intense as a man's.
And it was obvious that Kang Yu-min was likely even more frustrated than I was.
A man and a woman sleeping together alone like this was quite dangerous. Especially after their bodies had been warmed up by a good meal and a half-body bath.
I wondered if perhaps there was an ulterior motive behind these instructions. Even the name was a bit suspicious.
A Family-Friendly Shelter. I didn't know in what sense it was "friendly," but hadn't the instructions so far been different from the typical image of "family-friendly"?
If anything… the "friendliness" in that phrase felt like it was being interpreted in a slightly different way.
So, it was only natural that I felt burdened and worried about carrying this out. Stimulation and entertainment were especially scarce in this bunker.
It wasn't strange that Kang Yu-min spent all day focused on exercise. By the same token… if we were to get our hands on a new form of entertainment…
"Hey."
"Uh, yeah."
"I asked what you're going to do."
Hmm, maybe I was overthinking it.
I looked at Yu-min as she called out to me. Since her face was close and I couldn't see her body, I felt a bit more composed. As my thoughts deepened, my mind grew calm and still.
"We have to do it."
"Right?"
Yu-min seemed to have reached a similar conclusion, and the reason wasn't hard to find.
It was duck down bedding.
The fact that it was a couple's set was a bit bothersome, but we were family.
Sleeping together was no big deal, and if absolutely necessary, we could just sleep apart.
Besides, the bedding would be useful in various ways even if we didn't use it for sleeping. It was the same reason I tried to preserve the folding bathtub, considering the materials.
Fabric and duck down were the kinds of resources that could never be found again in this bunker.
I nodded.
There were plenty of anxieties, but still.
To show those anxieties here would be to admit that I viewed her as a member of the opposite sex and an object of desire.
I didn't want to admit that I might have felt even a glimmer of such a thought toward Kang Yu-min. Not that anyone would want to.
"Then… in my room?"
"Mmm, we could. Does it really matter?"
Yu-min didn't seem to care. In fact, she stood there defiantly, tilting her pelvis slightly as she rested her weight on one leg while looking at me.
If we had chosen to sleep with clothes on, I would have insisted on sleeping in our own beds, but both Yu-min and I were reluctant to even voice the anxieties that had crossed our minds.
Without any apparent fear, Yu-min and I crossed the hallway naked and headed to my room.
The same bedroom where we had already slept the night before. I wasn't sure if I could fall asleep since I hadn't been awake for long, but…
The bed quest suggested "co-sleeping," not necessarily "sleeping."
In plain terms, it meant the achievement rate would go up just by lying there.
When I pointed that out, Yu-min let out an "Oho."
"That's true. I guess we could just take a nap anyway."
"We just woke up, though."
"Hey, but… honestly, don't you think so?"
Yu-min gave a rare smirk.
"We ate well, washed well. Our bodies are warm… Honestly, wouldn't a nap right now be the best?"
She wasn't wrong. I nodded in stoic agreement, but I wondered if that was all there was to it.
Desire breeds desire. A satisfied appetite leads to a desire for sleep, and simultaneously, sexual desire.
There was no way Yu-min didn't know that. I was inwardly worried, but…
It would be fine. Both Yu-min and I knew we were family, and we were too close to see each other as objects of desire.
With that thought, I entered the bedroom and threw myself onto the bed.
"Heave-ho."
"Ah, this brat has no manners."
"Whatever. You were going to do the same thing."
"True."
Yu-min climbed onto the bed with a giggle. The way she crawled was a bit strange, and for a moment I almost became conscious of it, but I tried to endure it. Yu-min lay down on the bed with that same smirking face.
She didn't just lie down; she lay face down.
I glanced at her protruding buttocks and thought it was at least better than her exposing her breasts and pubic hair.
"So, about that duck down bedding."
"Yeah."
"What are you going to do once we get it?"
"I don't know… use it, I guess."
"No, not that. I saw earlier… they said it was a couple's set?"
I wondered if she was bringing this up because she was conscious of the word "couple," but that wasn't it.
"If it's a couple's set, it'll be for two people—meaning one big blanket that doesn't separate. There might be two pillows, but… what are you going to do?"
That was something I had been thinking about as well.
If it were a normal blanket or a space blanket, we could have cut it, but the problem was that it was a duck down bedding set.
"Right? If we cut it, the feathers will fly everywhere. We don't have a needle to sew it back up, either. The more we use it, the more feathers will leak out."
"We don't have tools to cut it, either."
"Ah, right. That's a problem too. Then…"
Yu-min looked at me with a strange expression. I blinked, lying flat and staring up at the ceiling.
"We'll just… have to use it."
"No, I mean."
"We'll use it together. Why, does it bother you?"
"Wh-what? No? It doesn't bother me at all. It's basically like sleeping next to a rock, isn't it?"
Yu-min forced herself to act tough, and I was much the same.
We were family; we both had too much pride and were too much like friends for any sexual desire or accidents to happen.
Just as one doesn't feel sexual desire for a friend, I thought there wouldn't be any problems.
To be precise, it was more like I wanted to think that way.
"Then, which bedroom should we use? Your room? Or mine?"
"Honestly, I don't care either way, but isn't my room better?"
"Why?"
"It's closer to the bathroom."
Ah, I had to concede that. I nodded in agreement, and Yu-min smirked.
"Good, then let's do that."
Giggling, Yu-min flipped over from her face-down position to face the ceiling like me.
The boring ceiling was filled with the inorganic feel of concrete, without even a pattern to count.
So, Yu-min and I stared up blankly, gradually becoming sentimental. Humans naturally become sentimental when they are idle and have peace of mind.
"Still, it's not bad."
"Huh?"
"Just living distantly in this bunker… honestly, it felt a bit suffocating."
Yu-min glanced over at me. Using her arms and hands as a pillow, she locked her fingers behind her head, exposing her armpits as she met my eyes.
"Really?"
"Yeah. We're family, after all. Since things turned out like this… I thought we should at least try to get along well with each other."
"That's true."
It was still unclear what had happened to the world. But at the very least, it didn't seem like the number of survivors would increase beyond the two of us.
Therefore, our family inevitably had to join forces. I nodded at the self-evident truth.
"But bathing together and talking like this… it's actually kind of nice."
Yu-min, smiling softly, looked like she was in a pretty good mood.
I felt the same way. The irritation that had built up from eating nothing but nutritional porridge had subsided. Instead, my heart had softened considerably thanks to the wonderful bath, the meal, the cola, and our small conversation.
I felt like it wouldn't be bad to just take a nap like this. I usually couldn't sleep for seven hours straight, but that was probably due to stress.
If I slept now, I’d probably be out for seven hours easily. It was just as I closed my eyes with that thought.
"Hey, you're sleeping already?"
"Yeah."
"Aw, don't be boring. Talk to me a bit more before you sleep. Hmm?"
She shook my arm and then linked hers with mine. The intertwined skin was soft yet firm. Perhaps because she exercised so much, her slender arm felt solid yet pleasant to the touch, and the faint sweat on her skin blended in a sticky harmony.
It wasn't an unpleasant feeling; it was a sensation that reminded me of the half-body bath from earlier.
Only then did I realize my mistake.
I shouldn't have recalled the moment of the bath.
Despite my efforts, memories are like being told not to think of an elephant—the image of the bath naturally filled my vision behind my closed eyes.
The curves of that physique. A body well-honed through constant exercise, beautiful to look at.
And the masturbation I’d practiced in this bunker, which, without even a single piece of common pornography, had been focused purely on imagination and the act itself.
The sexual desire that had built up to the limit because of that now collided with our physical contact.
No.
Even as I thought this and tried to suppress it by force, I realized it was too late.
I felt Yu-min, who had been clinging to me and acting cute, suddenly freeze.
When I slowly opened my eyes, Yu-min was stiff, staring at my lower half.
I didn't even need to roll my eyes to look. I could feel a massive amount of blood rushing to my lower half, so much that it felt tight and painful.
I closed my eyes tight, feeling a certain sensation coursing through me, and beside me, Yu-min whispered.
"…You pervert."