A Chance Encounter
“Ahh… ahhh…”
Watching Yumi writhing beneath me, I moved without even feeling tired, carried on a rush of dopamine and adrenaline. I kept driving upward, chopping into her with the relentless rhythm of a woodsman swinging his axe without pause until the great tree in front of him finally fell.
With every thrust, Yumi’s body jolted against mine. Before long, she was clinging to me with both arms and both legs, locked against me so tightly she might as well have been fused to my body.
Our faces were pressed together, our tongues winding around one another, tangling as if they were trying to become one.
The bodies of the man and woman, having finally achieved complete union, were now racing toward their ending.
Thump-thump-thump-thump.
The movement, which had been growing faster and faster, stopped with one last deep thrust. At that moment, Yumi’s whole body went rigid with a final, dying moan.
My cock, which had been twitching over and over as if determined to squeeze out one more seed, finally expelled the very last drop and went slack at last.
Yumi’s body, frozen from the excitement that had run all the way to her toes, trembled for a moment before going limp.
From the loosened place where we were joined, the combined mass of our released desire began to leak out in a pale, milky flow.
The two of us stayed locked together, catching our breath, while the heat between us still lingered.
“So you didn’t come to the salon to get your hair done after all… you came here for this, huh, Shin-woo.”
“Haha….”
When I gave an awkward laugh, Yumi stroked my cheek and then kissed me lightly.
“That was good for me too. When did you get this big, anyway? I guess that means I’m getting older too.”
Her expression darkened at the sudden realization of reality, and I shook my head with all my might.
“No. You’re still beautiful, noona. If you weren’t, there’s no way I’d want to fuck you.”
I clapped a hand over my mouth in a panic, horrified at the honest words that had slipped out.
Fortunately, Yumi burst out laughing and brushed my sweaty hair back from my forehead.
“Hahaha, right. Thanks. You’re making me feel more confident too. So I guess I’m still attractive to men.”
She gave me a reassuring pat, then sat up and leaned close to my ear.
“You already got eaten by me, though. And if you want another bite, you’re welcome anytime.”
My face heated instantly at her scorching line.
For this one moment, it wasn’t the soul of a thirty-year-old man that controlled me, but the body of a twenty-year-old.
When I got back home, I started thinking about what came next.
“Things with Yumi noona are going smoothly for now, and… Ha-young is….”
That side of things looked like it would take time. I’d have to go at her slowly and carefully.
I lifted my head and called into empty air.
“Grim Reaper-nim, Grim Reaper-nim?”
Somewhere nearby, the Grim Reaper appeared with a face full of irritation.
“What? What is it? You and I are bound by a contract, so when one of us is needed, the other is supposed to show up. It’s an obligation.”
“Ah… so that’s how it works. I just called you on a whim.”
At my dim-witted reaction, her face crumpled even more.
“Could you please stop summoning me so casually from now on? Fine. What do you want?”
The Grim Reaper sat in a chair with a bored look and crossed her legs.
Her skirt, slit open along the side, rode up over her thigh and revealed legs that looked so pale they seemed almost transparent.
My eyes drifted there on instinct, and the Grim Reaper looked flustered and hurriedly tugged her skirt down.
“A-ahem. What I wanted was… could you show me that list from before, just once more?”
In the sudden rush of the moment, a few faces that had made an impression on me came to mind, but if I was going to plan ahead, I needed to identify everyone properly.
“That? Sure, no problem.”
As before, a tablet appeared in the Grim Reaper’s hand, and after a few familiar swipes across the screen, she handed it to me.
There are more of them than I thought…?
Truthfully, I was more popular than I had realized.
It was only because I valued premarital chastity myself and the women around me hadn’t been aggressive about showing their feelings that I hadn’t noticed.
If I had really wanted to, there were a great many women I could have taken down. The screen in front of me was crowded with faces.
As I stared at it, I noticed something strange.
“But there are people here I don’t know.”
On a screen that should have held only the women I had some kind of connection with, there were quite a few faces I couldn’t place no matter how hard I tried.
The Grim Reaper glanced at the screen and answered casually.
“Ah, that. Those are possibilities you didn’t choose.”
Seeing that I still didn’t understand, she let out a sigh and explained.
“You make countless choices in life, right? Well, if you’d made different choices, there would’ve been different women you could have met there too. Those are the ones shown on that screen.”
“Multiverse… or something like that?”
“Yeah. Put simply, something like that.”
My head started to spin.
So that means, depending on what I do from now on, I can end up involved with even more women.
I focused as hard as I could, staring at the screen with all my might, trying to memorize as many people as possible.
“All right, then I’ve done what I came for. I’m going.”
I didn’t want to let go of the tablet, but despite her slight frame, the Grim Reaper’s strength was considerable.
Leaving behind my disappointed expression, her blurred figure said, “I’ll be watching, so do your best.”
“Huh? Watching what, exactly…?”
In the blink of an eye, she was gone.
What exactly is she watching…? Wait. No way. Nah, that can’t be it.
What I didn’t know was that, all day today, she had been unable to meet my eyes directly and her face had been faintly flushed the entire time.
“Still, this makes planning a lot harder.”
Frustrated, I decided to go out for a bit, change my mood, and take a walk in something light.
“Maybe I’ll just go for a quick run.”
When I was worried about something, running had always been my way of clearing my head.
After following a familiar route, I felt my thoughts sharpen a little on the way home.
That was when I noticed a woman ahead of me, struggling along with both hands full of bags.
Should I help her?
I quickened my pace and came up beside her, only to see that the face was familiar.
“Ma’am?”
“Oh my, Student Shin-woo.”
She was my landlord.
“Here, let me take those. I’ll help.”
Without hesitation, I practically snatched the bags from her hands.
“No, it’s fine, really….”
She said that, but the moment I took the load from her, she let out a relieved breath.
“What is all this?”
Just from a quick glance, I could tell there was an absurd amount of groceries, so I asked.
“Ah, well… my husband is coming back from overseas for a little while this time. So I may have gotten a bit carried away, but I think I bought too much.”
She smiled awkwardly, clearly embarrassed, but the happiness in her expression was impossible to hide.
Come to think of it, she said her husband had been overseas for years now.
And on top of that…
One thing among the groceries stood out in particular: eel. Not just one or two, either.
Well, she must have been lonely for a long time….
That part made sense.
I figured her bright expression wasn’t just because she was about to see her husband’s face again.
My studio apartment was in a multi-unit villa with a number of one-room apartments clustered together.
And, as fate would have it, my room was right next to the landlord’s unit.
It was on the very top floor of a building with no elevator, but I had chosen it because the rent was cheaper than the other rooms and the space was larger.
“Give it here. I’ll carry it from here.”
At the foot of the stairs, there was a brief struggle between the landlord and me over the bags.
“Oh, really… what am I going to do? I’m so grateful.”
In the end, unable to win against my stubbornness, she started up the stairs first.
Following behind her, my eyes were met by a big, full backside swaying left and right.
I wasn’t aiming for it, but that’s a pretty nice view.
Whether she knew it or not, the landlord climbed one step at a time, slowly swaying her hips.
Her clothes for a quick trip to the nearby market were light and casual.
A comfortable dress with a cardigan thrown over it. The kind of outfit people called an X-tan look.
Now I get why this was so popular.
The faint outline of her panties showing through the fitted skirt was exactly the sort of detail that made a man want to reach out and grab, if only I hadn’t had both hands full of groceries.
Without even realizing how tired I was, I found myself indulging in the useless fantasy that this staircase could have gone on forever.
By the time we reached her place, I had already forgotten my fatigue.
Reluctantly handing back the bags, I was told to wait a moment. She hurried inside and came back out with something in her hands.
A cold can of drink was pressed into my palm.
“This is all I’ve got to give you. Thank you, student.”
“It’s nothing, really… thank you.”
After bowing my head, I went back home and peeled off my sweat-soaked shirt, thinking.
Then I guess my next target is the landlord, huh.
Ever since I ran into her, one thought had filled my mind.
The face of the landlord from the list of women I could have had.
I swallowed hard.
But she’s married… can I really do it?
Still, when I thought about what had happened with Yumi, I figured there wasn’t anything impossible about it.
Right. I never thought things would go that way with Yumi noona either… I’ll just wait for my chance.
And that chance came quickly.
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