Chapter 254: Unsatisfied Desire (1)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 254: Unsatisfied Desire (1)
Kim Ga-eul, the Demon King Girl.
Lately, even she could feel that luck was finally on her side.
It was as if the world was interpreting everything she did in the most positive light possible.
However, life is a cruel mistress.
There was no telling when this sudden golden age would come to an abrupt end.
What if this miraculous streak of luck ended today, and starting tomorrow, she went back to being the same old Ga-eul who always got screwed over by the world?
After much agonizing, she decided to strike while the iron was hot. Using the wish he had promised to grant her, she resolved to make her move tonight.
“Um, Ga-eul. It’s getting really late…”
“What are you talking about? You don’t do things like this in broad daylight!”
“Calling it ‘things like this’ is a bit…”
She had worried he might play completely dumb, but fortunately, So-hyun wasn’t quite that thick-skinned. He attempted to steer the conversation away with a vague deflection.
His actions likely stemmed from his own brand of kindness and concern rather than a genuine desire to reject her, but she had already made up her mind not to listen.
After all, she was fairly certain of one thing.
If she backed down now with her usual goofy grin, another opportunity like this wouldn’t come around for at least several months!
“Ga-eul. You need to be careful with choices like this. To be honest, even I think I’m sounding crazy right now, but I’m an indecisive guy who can’t bring himself to choose just one person.”
“Don’t talk bad about the person I like…!”
“…That’s me. No, wait. Ga-eul, I think you’re just too excited right now, okay? Actually, I already…”
“I never planned on having you all to myself anyway! I told you I was fine with being second! Fine, I’ll even take third!”
“If we start ranking them, I really start feeling like a piece of trash…”
She had to keep pushing.
If he managed to snap out of his confusion and regain his composure, he would start overthinking everything, and her chance of victory would vanish.
To be honest, even before the issue of persuasion came up, her mental fortitude was so weak that a single kiss on the forehead would probably make her cave. To win this, she had to finish him off before she reached her own limit!
In truth, Kim Ga-eul was fully prepared to be deeply hurt. She was ready to cling to him even if he rejected her.
In the worst-case scenario, she was prepared to get down on her knees in the middle of the street.
Yet, surprisingly, he couldn’t bring himself to flatly refuse.
Did he look resigned? Or was that a subtly worried look in his eyes?
“Are you really sure about this?”
Huh? He’s saying yes this easily? This wasn’t in the plan.
“Yeah! Of course! I’ve practiced a lot and studied a ton!”
However, Kim Ga-eul was an opportunist who would never let a chance slip through her fingers.
Fearing he might change his mind, she nodded as vigorously as possible. He looked at her with a faint, soft smile.
“What is it about me that makes you all…”
“Uh-uh, stop slandering the man I love…!”
With the battle ending much faster than expected, Kim Ga-eul allowed herself a smile.
If she had made it this far, the victory was hers.
She’d read it in a book—if a woman can get him as far as the bed, she’s already won!
* * *
And so, Kim Ga-eul mentally reviewed the techniques she had researched in books, achieving the feat of entering a hotel without encountering a single soul to get in her way.
Setting aside the lack of interference, she hadn’t expected him to grant her wish so compliantly.
The moment they entered the room they had rented, a warmth slightly larger than her own approached from behind.
Since it was summer, she thought it might be unpleasant, but the person embracing her from behind smelled faintly of flowers, leaving no room for discomfort.
In fact, far from being unpleasant, she wanted to stay like this forever.
Back at the start of the semester, he had only been slightly taller than her, but he must have grown; his embrace felt far more cozy than she remembered…
“Listen, Ga-eul. This is the last chance I’m giving you.”
“Huh?”
“If you want to run away from me, you have to go now. I think I can still let you go right now. It’s okay if we just hug like this and then go back, you know?”
Hehe, our So-hyun still has that dorky charm.
His delicate concern for her was wonderful, but since they had come this far, she wished he would just go for it.
“I’m definitely not going anywhere. I’m going all the way. Is our So-hyun being a dork again?”
“…Is that so?”
When she turned around to face him, his handsome face was much closer than she expected.
Oh? Is he going to kiss me? So suddenly? Well, not really suddenly. I was the one who kept asking for it.
Being on the receiving end of the first strike wasn’t part of her plan, but if she could just endure this once, it would be her turn next.
As she closed her eyes, a soft sensation touched her forehead first. Just as she thought she’d been tricked, the same sensation pressed against her lips.
So this is a kiss.
Wow, I’m actually kissing So-hyun.
Just as she began to feel a lingering regret as his lips pulled away after a brief, light contact, a second kiss began. This time, it felt different from the light peck just a moment ago.
Something wetter and hotter entered her mouth.
Wait? A tongue? Is this a tongue? It’s moving. Whoa, whoa! I’ve only seen this in manga, but people really put it in.
It was embarrassing and a bit ticklish, but the sensation wasn’t unpleasant, so she found herself surrendering to it.
Their saliva mingled, and she felt herself growing lightheaded, unable to resist as he drank her in.
Her body, naturally losing its strength, tilted back until she was lying on the bed. She felt his hand, which had been lightly supporting the back of her head, begin to gently stroke her hair.
This was truly wonderful.
Wait, I can’t just keep letting him have his way, can I?
First, I’ll wait for the kiss to end, and then I’ll get my act together while we’re taking off our clothes.
The kiss, which felt both long and short, finally ended. When he pulled away, a strange sense of longing remained, but she steeled herself, knowing they weren’t just going to kiss forever.
Now it’s my turn to do something for him.
With that thought, Kim Ga-eul went to take off her clothes, only to realize something.
…Where did my clothes go?
A bizarre incident had occurred: not only her outer clothes but even her underwear had completely vanished.
Judging by how they were all neatly piled next to the bed, had they been teleported…?
Of course not. He had taken them off. In that brief moment while they were kissing.
Who? The man right in front of her, obviously.
As he finished the kiss and licked his own finger, he looked, for the first time, a little bit scary.
“So… hyun?”
“Yes?”
He was smiling. He was still smiling with that incredibly beautiful, kind, and gentle face.
So why was she so terrified?
On this day, Kim Ga-eul realized something.
Everyone has a plan.
Until they get absolutely, utterly wrecked.
* * *
After spending a rather intense night, a certain thought occurred to my now somewhat cooled-down head.
It was a strange thing.
It was like a wolf warning, “My teeth and claws are dangerous, so don’t come too close,” only for the sheep to ignore him, making a racket and tempting him to just take a bite already.
Is this right?
They weren’t just approaching; they were even trimming their wool beforehand so it would be easier to eat, making sure he could bite right into the meat.
There’s a limit to being careless.
As the one who couldn’t hold back and laid hands on them, I didn’t really have the right to say this, but I wished they would value themselves a little more.
“Hehe… ugh… hieee?”
Physically, I mean, not just mentally.
It was good that, alongside the desire to cherish her, I had come to want to answer her love and be connected to her.
Actually, it wasn’t exactly “good,” but since she wanted it and I wanted it, let’s just say it couldn’t be helped.
The bigger problem was that after tempting the wolf so much, she would lose consciousness before the wolf even got a chance to really start biting.
Fortunately, I was still maintaining my reason and holding back before things got truly dangerous, but I wondered what she planned to do if I went any further.
“Ga-eul?”
“Heuuu… ugh?”
…I washed her up since we had to sleep, but she still hasn’t snapped out of it.
“Ga-eul. Answer me. Is there anything you want to eat?”
“Abuu…?”
“Are you that tired? Are you going straight to sleep?”
“Ubu-ah…?”
“Is it okay if we do more?”
“No!? Save me!”
…I feel a bit hurt when she hates it that much. Even though she kept saying how much she liked it at first.
I stopped before she actually burst into tears, so I feel a bit wronged.
“I mean, it’s not that I hate it? I don’t hate it, but it’s just that it’s so… the opposite…”
“I get it. Calm down, Ga-eul. I won’t eat you. I was just joking.”
If she had said it was okay, I wouldn’t have declined, but since I was planning to stop anyway, let’s just call it a joke.
Relief washed over Ga-eul’s face at my words, and she collapsed back onto the bed. As soon as I stroked her hair, she fell fast asleep.
* * *
After waking up and thinking about it for a moment, wasn’t this a bit much?
No matter how much I had changed internally and resolved to get as close as possible to the people who wanted me, I worried that sleeping with three women in such a short period was a bit irresponsible.
I mean, it’s not like dating multiple people becomes “responsible” just because you leave a long gap between them, but this felt like I was going a bit too far.
“Hehe.”
And yet, one of the culprits making me have these thoughts was currently clinging to my back, rubbing her cheek against me as if she couldn’t be happier.
I wondered if it was stupid to worry about this when the parties involved were happy.
“Ga-eul, we’re here.”
“Already…? Can’t we go around one more time?”
Whether she knew my worries or not, when we arrived at the dormitory and I tried to let her down, Ga-eul acted cute and pressed her body closer to mine.
Normally, I would have made a joke and told her to get down quickly, but strangely, the scent coming from her and the sensation of her body against my back made me hesitate to answer.
The impulses I could usually just endure and brush off were becoming strangely difficult to resist.
…Wait? What’s going on? This is a bit weird.
“So-hyun?”
“If you don’t get down quickly, I might finish what we were doing yesterday.”
“Hmph…”
Thinking I was joking, Ga-eul laughed and hopped off my back.
“I hate that the male and female dorms are separate at times like this. I want to stay with you longer.”
“You’d be mixed in with a bunch of other guys besides me, though.”
“Ah, that’s a bit much.”
Uh, um. Something really is strange.
I was somehow managing to act the way I usually would, but my head was strangely dizzy.
I felt a desire to grab the beaming Ga-eul and stop her from leaving, and I found myself wanting to satisfy the lingering, unsatisfied desires that had built up.
Uh, um. I wasn’t sure why, but…
“Then, So-hyun, I’m going up!”
“Ah, yeah. Bye, Ga-eul. Don’t overexert yourself.”
My body felt a little hot.