Worse Than Not Doing It at All
I picked up an extra place to stay.
The owner of Neo Gym was, without question, petty to the core.
He’d ordered us not to let everyone into the lodging he’d arranged.
Even though he must have paid his own share.
It probably hadn’t even occurred to him. He really did seem furious enough to burst a vein.
That wasn’t my problem.
The biggest, nicest lodging of the lot.
That was the one Yujin and I went into alone.
I had no intention of letting anyone else anywhere near us.
“Do you want to shower first, noona?”
“...Yeah.”
Even after what happened earlier, she still seemed embarrassed.
She gave a shy little nod.
Come to think of it, I’d done this a few times already, so maybe I’d gotten used to it. Instead of nerves, anticipation had settled in.
After a while, I could hear water running.
How thoroughly was she washing herself? Even though she was my noona, I still found it cute.
Was this what people called being lewd by day, sweet by night?
By day she was my older sister, but at night, when I was the one relaxed...
Before long, she came out wrapped in a large towel.
It didn’t even cover everything.
Before heading in myself, I hugged my noona, who smelled clean and nice.
“Eek.”
“What’s wrong? We’re both going to be naked once I’m done showering, anyway.”
“E-even so.”
“Why are you so cute?”
“Wh-what are you talking about...”
Noona climbed into the blankets.
I hurried through my shower and lay down next to her.
Under the blanket, I reached for her naked body.
Unlike before, she seemed a little less embarrassed.
Maybe because she’d washed up, she thought it was a little better.
I pulled the blanket away.
“...”
She covered herself with both hands.
As if that would do anything.
I moved her hands aside and touched her breasts. An awkward expression crossed her face.
I brought my face to her chest. About a C cup, maybe? Luckily, they seemed natural.
Just as I’d thought earlier, now I was sure of it.
I sucked on her nipple. It grew firmer in my mouth. Probably because she worked out, her body had a nice bounce to it.
A sweet moan escaped her.
My tongue moved from her breasts to her navel.
Her waist jolted once.
“Ah.”
After lingering at her navel for quite some time, my tongue slid past it and down to the inside of her thighs.
She twitched and trembled.
Juice was already leaking from her pussy.
My embarrassed noona slowly moved her body, guiding her pussy closer to my tongue.
It was such a natural movement.
As she wanted, I placed my tongue against her slit.
A louder moan followed. Starting at her clit, I flattened my tongue thickly and licked all the way inside her pussy.
Then I went lower still.
“N-no! Not there! It’s dirty!”
She blocked me with both hands. I shoved them away. Since she’d just washed, it wasn’t dirty at all.
And yet, even if she said otherwise, she clearly liked this even more than when I licked her pussy.
“Ahh... th-there... hah...”
Even more fluid was flowing out now. Enough to soak my face.
There was plenty of moisture.
I lifted my face and adjusted my position.
I brought my cock to her pussy. She shuddered.
She covered her face with both hands. She must’ve been embarrassed.
After grinding against her for a while...
Once her juices had thoroughly wet my cock...
I slowly pushed inside.
Her whole body tensed. Unlike before, a painful moan escaped her.
So the part about her being a virgin really hadn’t been a lie.
I buried myself all the way in.
“Aaah... it, it hurts so much. Hic...”
“I’ll be gentle.”
“...Mm. Please do.”
I moved slowly, letting her get used to the pain.
Since it was her first time, the pain wouldn’t disappear quickly.
Noona laced her fingers through mine.
She squeezed hard.
Trying to endure it.
How many times did I move my hips?
Blood began to seep from her pussy.
Gradually, the blood mixed with the moisture and thinned out.
The painful moans slowly turned to pleasure.
Then, when her body finally went taut...
“Ugh.”
I couldn’t hold back and came.
“Haaah...”
“...”
Was it because she worked out...
When she clenched down, her pussy was no joke.
It was impossible to endure.
We stayed together until morning.
In the end, we missed the morning schedule.
We spent three days like that in a row.
It was an excellent vacation.
***
I went back to Seoul.
The three-day break had been so enjoyable it felt like it had passed in an instant.
There had been an obstruction at the beginning, sure...
But in the end, that fool had only become the link that connected me to noona.
Thanks for that.
Because of him, noona came all the way to Jeju Island on vacation, and we ended up in such a wonderful relationship.
First, I received a report on the investment.
“In my opinion, we can realize the gains after about another week.”
“I agree with the chairman.”
The profits were still holding. In fact, they were even larger than before I left Jeju Island.
It looked like the market might keep falling for another two weeks or so...
But if I waited too long to lock in profits, I might miss the right window.
So I decided to cash out in a week.
After the report was over, I headed to Uto Gym.
“Welcome, boss.”
“How’s the renovation going?”
“We should be able to finish the interior as quickly as possible. I think we’ll have all the equipment replaced by next week.”
“Then we can restart as early as next week. We can keep operating the upstairs and downstairs floors while the work continues.”
“I think so too.”
The interior work was almost finished.
“How’s the hiring going?”
“We’ve got several interviews scheduled. Since the conditions you offered are so much better than the industry average... applications just keep coming in.”
“That’s a relief. Has Neo Gym changed at all? The last time we ran into each other, they were glaring like they wanted to kill us.”
“Well... they hired a small number of trainers as fast as they could, and apparently they’re planning some aggressive discounts too. It looks like they’re trying to start a chicken game.”
“Oh...”
“Since our gym is expanding and expenses are rising right now... I think they saw that as our most vulnerable point.”
Once again, I was reminded that the owner of Neo Gym was very good at drinking his own Kool-Aid.
“Then let’s run a discount too.”
“...Pardon?”
“Advertise the gym next door as offering a flat 30 percent discount. On PT and memberships alike. We’ll cover the losses the trainers take.”
“...T-that would make it hard to stay afloat. We’d definitely be in the red.”
“That’s what competition is. If they’re the ones charging in first, willing to bleed, are we supposed to just sit back and watch?”
I’d already accepted the losses.
And what kind of losses were we even talking about? There was no way they’d exceed one billion won.
After fooling around in Jeju Island for ages and coming back, I was making hundreds of billions in extra profit.
My fortune hadn’t even taken a scratch.
With time, it would only keep growing larger.
“If I may be a bit presumptuous and give you some advice, the losses could easily run into the tens of millions...”
“Manager.”
“Yes, boss.”
“You don’t need to worry. This isn’t my main job.”
“...Pardon?”
“This is a hobby. I didn’t acquire this place to make money.”
“...”
“If you need anything, say the word. Even if it’s just a hobby, I have no intention of losing to any other business. Especially not Neo Gym.”
“...Yes, boss.”
The competition had begun.
“A little healthy competition is a good thing, isn’t it?”
“...”
Of course, only the consumers were happy about it.
Or maybe not.
Maybe the trainers would be happy too.
There’d be so many customers they wouldn’t know what to do with them.
***
Lee Deokhwa, the owner of Neo Gym, had returned from Jeju Island without using up his full schedule.
He called the manager over immediately.
He had left the entire gym in the manager’s hands while he was away, so he was someone worth trusting.
“Yes, boss.”
“This time, I’m going to bury those Uto Gym bastards for good.”
“Uto Gym...? As far as I know, the competition there is already over.”
“It’s not over. That bastard who bought it wants to come at me one more time.”
“...That doesn’t sound economically viable.”
“The boss is some green kid. He’s too stupid to calculate that kind of thing. He’s an absolute dumbass, top to bottom.”
He was a complete fool who didn’t know a thing about the world.
When he bought the gym, he must have thought he was on top of the world.
Not even realizing he’d overpaid for a failing business.
Whether it was Neo Gym or Uto Gym...
Once you factored in rent, maintenance, and labor costs, it was the kind of place where it was nearly impossible to make a satisfying profit unless one of the two gyms went under.
In other words, as long as Neo Gym was still standing, Uto Gym would have a hard time turning a profit through normal operations.
What an idiot.
And yet he’d gone off on vacation, spending money like crazy as if nothing in the world mattered.
He’d find out soon enough.
What exactly he’d taken on.
“Let’s lower our prices by 20 percent. On memberships and PT alike. And since all the trainers who went on vacation have been fired, send those members over to the remaining trainers. As long as we coordinate the schedules, we can handle it. We’re hiring additional trainers too.”
“...Understood.”
“Let’s see how long they can keep smiling. When he comes back from vacation, reality will hit him. He’ll realize exactly who he picked a fight with. Even if he cries and begs, I won’t show him a shred of mercy.”
“...”
Before the week was over, Uto Gym immediately dropped its prices by 20 percent.
The data showed it clearly too. Customer traffic was rising.
Which meant Neo Gym’s customers were dropping.
“Hahaha. What a loser. Maybe he’s finally starting to get it.”
With enough time, he’d come crawling back with his head bowed.
When that happened, I’d laugh at him to my heart’s content.
The week passed.
It was Thursday.
“B-boss!”
“What.”
“Th-they... Uto Gym has started discounting too.”
“Hah. So they’re trying to go head-to-head, are they? Don’t they realize that just means losing even more money? No matter how much they discount, doing it halfway is worse than not doing it at all. Then again, there’s no way some idiot who doesn’t know the first thing about the real world would understand that. How much are they discounting?”
“T-they said it’s a flat 30 percent off compared to our gym...”
“...That’s practically half price, isn’t it?”
“...Yes.”
Those bastards...
They were really going all the way to the end.