Chapter 15
Chapter 15
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Translator: Ebonarch
Chapter: 15
Chapter Title: A Friend's Hidden Desires
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Maybe it was because it had been so long since I'd eaten lunch with someone instead of alone by myself.
The pasta was delicious.
Honestly, I wasn't a big fan of pasta either.
Still, eating with someone seemed to hold some kind of magic that made even dishes outside your taste buds taste good.
"Mmm! So good!"
Maybe it was because Choi Ye-won looked so cute every time she ate the pasta and exclaimed how delicious it was?
She'd had this habit since before of stomping her feet excitedly whenever she ate something tasty, and even now as a grad student, it hadn't changed.
'Reminds me of when Ye-won came to visit me in the army.'
We'd eaten alone together back then too.
Memories surfaced of tearing into the chicken she'd brought or chugging pizza and cola while chatting about this and that.
Nothing had changed from back then.
Except that she was now a grad student, and I'd gone from soldier to returning student.
It was while walking alongside the excited, chattering Ye-won.
A system message popped up out of nowhere.
A recommended follower?
An ID and profile pic that looked familiar.
I glanced at Ye-won standing next to me.
That's right.
It was Ye-won's ID.
I remembered because I'd followed her account and she was my follower back before college started.
She was the only friend who'd mutually followed me.
I'd even started Stargram because she'd shown me her account and told me to follow along with her workouts.
-It's like a workout diary for me. I just log what exercises I did and for how long.
She had 3,000 followers because of a few photos she'd posted of herself right after finishing a gym session.
-I took them to check my form, but that's what brought in all the weird followers. So I stopped posting them.
I'd seen them too.
Mirror selfies with her face hidden behind a mask and cap. In her sweat-soaked workout clothes, holding her phone in front of the mirror, Ye-won's curvaceous figure was on full display. No wonder her male followers exploded.
She had an amazing body, after all.
When we first met during her repeater year, her figure was exactly the perfect body I'd always wanted.
I'd even started working out because of her.
That's why she got those creepy DMs.
-I got some really pervy ones. After that, I just posted sky photos after workouts.
Her voice complaining about it was still vivid in my mind.
'What kind of lunatic follows a friend's ID on Sexgram?'
I decided to delete her from the recommended followers list.
But then.
What nonsense.
Choi Ye-won, full of desire?
She was the person furthest from desire.
She'd even stopped posting anything but sky photos because she hated the pervy DMs.
She'd practically quit her active account because of that.
If that's why they recommended her, wasn't it the total opposite?
She was exactly the kind of user Sexgram shouldn't recommend.
Saying it like that made me curious, though.
What part of her did they see as full of desire?
I looked at Choi Ye-won, who was still chattering beside me about her pasta review and the woes of grad school life.
Her excited, nonstop talking was just so damn cute.
Honestly, her toned body, slim waist, and perfectly plump hips suited "sexy" more than "cute."
But maybe because we were such old friends.
Her chattering image overshadowed any sexual vibes.
'Looking at her like this, Ye-won's body really is a bundle of desire.'
A perfect figure honed by years of patience and workouts.
The kind of body any guy would want to hold at least once.
She had an alluring figure for reasons different from Han Chae-ah's.
Han Chae-ah's glamour came from her busty chest and tiny waist, but Ye-won was defined by those perfectly sculpted hips.
She'd dressed up more today, so my eyes kept drifting there.
'Not entirely wrong, maybe.'
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious.
Ye-won didn't dress up much at school, but she was undeniably stunning.
After firmly rejecting a confession from me in our first year, hardly anyone dared approach her anymore, but I still heard she got hit on by guys from other departments now and then.
-I don't wanna tell you. Why would I give out numbers to people I'm not interested in?
She'd shown a strong aversion to that stuff ever since getting burned by a Stargram DM once.
And now Sexgram said she was full of desire?
Her account and follower count floated above her head.
Her feed was hidden since I wasn't following her yet.
I was curious.
A sleazy urge welled up to peek into what my close friend was thinking right now.
'Still, this isn't right.'
I turned my head away.
Don't think about it.
Spying on a friend's account is never okay, no matter what.
That was when it happened.
What?
I definitely didn't...
'Fuck.'
Against my will, my hand had hit follow.
I'd screwed up.
Damn this body.
Unable to hold back desire and groping at a friend's account—what the hell?
Oblivious to it all, Ye-won kept chattering excitedly.
What desires did the newly followed account hold?
I was honestly curious, so I decided to take a quick peek.
[New follower increase adds a condition to today's quest.]
📍 Target:Praise Figure 0/1 fixed to 'Choi Ye-won'
⏰ Time Limit: 1 hour
What?
Such bullshit.
Is this why you recommended her?
Like that helps.
Failure means death.
I couldn't hear Ye-won's words anymore.
She was excitedly talking about something, but the crisis right in front of my eyes had blocked my ears.
I checked out Ye-won's desires.
To understand what desires she had that made Sexgram recommend her.
At the very least, to praise her figure without dying, I needed to know what she craved.
But then.
I could see all her feed posts from when we met up until now.
Shouldn't feeds before following be inaccessible?
The notification popped up right on cue.
Her account, once only about workouts, was now full of posts about me.
Unexpected.
I'd thought it'd be empty.
Excluding posts about me, they were all about her ass.
Black text on a dark background, no photos.
Packed with a desire for validation from me, who'd worked out with her.
Validation desire, huh.
Yeah.
She wants me to check out her ass.
'Is this why they say she's full of desire?'
Not lewd or creepy enough to recommend, though.
There was some mildly spicy stuff, but compared to Han Chae-ah, it was tame.
Maybe I'd been desensitized just by Chae-ah.
I decided to poke at her validation kink.
No other choice anyway.
So I went for it.
A vulgar compliment emphasizing her ass.
But then.
"Ow ow."
"Ah, s-sorry."
My cheek stung hard from the slap.
It burned.
If this was the price for a vulgar figure compliment, it was a bargain.
Ye-won approached me with a flustered face, looking shocked that she'd actually hit me.
Her body had moved before her brain caught up.
"You okay?"
"Just a bit stinging, nothing else."
Her face beet red, she checked the spot she'd slapped.
"My hand stings a lot... Been working out hard, huh?"
"W-what the hell, saying that outta nowhere. J-jokes have standards, you know."
"Just praising how good your ass looked today."
"Th-that's what it was...?"
She looked kinda disappointed?
My imagination?
"Y-you're letting it slide 'cause it's me. Anyone else, and it'd be a crime. You'd get arrested on the spot, no question."
She stammered as she stroked my cheek.
"Jail might be better."
It was a strike I didn't want to take twice.
Tasted faintly like blood.
"Hey, h-how hard did I even hit?!"
"Pretty damn hard."
"...S-sorry."
The one who'd gotten the compliment was apologizing instead.
The situation felt off, but I accepted it.
"Go easier next time."
"Y-you psycho, that's on you..."
"Didn't like it?"
"Huh?"
"If you didn't, I won't do it again."
Kim Jinwoo, are you insane?
Turning the tables like that.
Even I wondered what the hell I'd just said.
Honestly, I should be the one apologizing.
I'd dropped a blatantly sexual line.
No, it was so crude it was embarrassing.
The mood froze in an instant.
Not cold, exactly.
But definitely not the usual comfy, bubbly vibe.
I was the one who'd made it awkward.
As I opened my mouth to take it back.
"I-it wasn't bad..."
"Huh? What?"
Did I hear wrong?
"I-it wasn't bad!"
"Oh..."
She liked it?
Sexgram really wasn't wrong?
"...Felt kinda good to have my efforts acknowledged, you know."
No?
Sounded like a hasty excuse.
Nah, no way.
Ye-won, who'd completely revamped her Stargram after one round of pervy DMs from weirdos, couldn't like something that crude...
"You'll do more, right?"
She does?
"More? For real?"
"W-well, it's like... motivating me to keep up the workouts, right? B-better than nothing. Might even motivate me more... You never compliment my body usually, so this feels like special stimulus..."
Ye-won's face was as red as it could get.
Using workouts as an excuse, but it was obvious.
Right now, she was straight-up asking me to regularly compliment her figure.
To the guy who'd just borderline harassed her.
Dude, you really...
Like this stuff?