From Childhood Friends
"For real! I really wanted to come here!"
Lee Yoo-na's bright smile was the complete opposite of how I felt. I scratched my cheek awkwardly. "Really?"
"Yeah. Coming here alone feels kinda embarrassing."
We had arrived at an arcade.
"Why? You can come by yourself just fine."
I asked out of genuine curiosity.
"Nooo… It's a little embarrassing for a grown adult to play games alone… Hehe."
Her reasoning was actually pretty cute. Fair enough.
"Alright, alright. Let's play then."
As I spoke, I gave her butt a light pat.
"Thanks, Do-yun~. Let's start with this one."
She reacted to the pat like it was completely normal. On the surface we were just childhood friends, but everything we did felt exactly like what lovers would do. That strange gap excited me.
Ding-dong!
Even while feeding coins into the machine, I casually groped her butt, but she didn't mind at all.
"Aww~. I always think it's so cool when someone’s really good at games."
"Same here."
I gave her the usual half-hearted reactions while my mind raced, trying to figure out how to make everything feel natural.
"Do you like rhythm games?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah, I’m not very good at them though."
"Let’s try anyway!"
Without waiting for an answer, she grabbed my hand and pulled me along.
It was one of those old rhythm games where you step on the arrows in time with the beat. New K-pop songs were even on the list.
"Wow… I haven’t seen this in ages…"
While I was still marveling at the song selection, Lee Yoo-na stepped onto the platform.
"Hehe, time to show off my skills."
I just watched her fondly as she displayed an odd sense of pride.
Thump! Thump! Clap!
Her footwork on the hardest difficulty was impressive.
"You’ve played this a lot, haven’t you?"
"Hm? Yeah~. It’s fun. Helps with stress too."
She even took off her padding and got serious.
"Whoa…"
I was genuinely surprised. She hit a full combo without a single miss. That wasn’t beginner’s luck.
"Haaah~. How was it?"
She turned to me, face already glistening with sweat.
"Uh, good. Really good."
I gave her a thumbs-up and she beamed with an innocent smile.
"Then you try, Do-yun."
"Huh? Me? I, uh…"
She forced me onto the platform. The result was disastrous.
"……Do-yun, you’re really bad at this."
"I-it’s my first time."
At some point the lewd intentions had faded and I was just enjoying playing with a friend. We tried so many other games that time flew by.
"Huuu~, I feel so refreshed."
"How did you hold it in all this time?"
"Hm? I went with my Seoul friends after I moved there. Coming here alone felt embarrassing……"
I kind of understood. Being a new town, the arcade was mostly filled with teenagers.
"Hehe, my ranking still hasn’t been beaten."
Lee Yoo-na grinned proudly as we passed the rhythm game’s leaderboard. She was human too, after all. It was only natural that her work self and her private self were different.
"Oh, Do-yun! Let’s take a photo to commemorate the day~!"
She waved me over as she headed into the photo booth.
"Coming, coming. How are you still so energetic?"
"Geez, you should really quit smoking."
She scolded me while her eyes wandered over the props. I placed my hand on her butt.
"Do-yun, how about this one?"
She held up a pair of bunny ears.
"Looks good. I’ll take these."
I grabbed a pair of bear ears and we stood side by side in front of the camera.
"What pose should we do?"
Watching her seriously ponder the question, a mischievous idea popped into my head.
"Since we came out to have fun, we should take funny pictures, right?"
I threw out the suggestion and she immediately brightened.
"Ooh! I like that~!"
The moment she answered, I reached out and rested my hand just below her breasts.
"Eheh…?"
The curtain hid us from outside view. Through her clothes I could feel the soft, full shape of her bra and what lay beneath.
"It’ll make your chest look bigger. How’s that?"
"Eek… Hey~!"
Click!
The photo captured her flustered expression perfectly.
"Ah! I wasn’t ready!"
The part-timer’s voice called out. We quickly prepared the next pose. This time I slipped my hand under her clothes and gripped her waist tightly.
"Hah…! D-Do-yun…"
I could feel her stomach muscles tense under my fingers.
Click!
My lower half was already swelling painfully. I pressed my erection firmly against her butt. The hard sensation transmitted even through our clothes, and she genuinely panicked.
"This’ll look funny, right?"
"Eek… B-but still……"
Click!
Even with this kind of prank, she never got angry or looked disgusted. Because the suggestion had been planted properly, my teasing was perceived as "light" and "not unpleasant."
"Hey, Yoo-na. Last one. Like this."
"Huh? H-how?"
While she was still flustered, I lifted her top. The camera captured her slim waist in full view.
"Haaah?!"
Click!
I patted her head as she glared at me with a flushed face.
"Oh! The pictures came out really cute."
"……"
Every single photo was lewd—either me supporting her breasts or us in suggestive positions.
"Ugh……"
"What? You don’t like them?"
"Nooo, it’s not that I hate them. It’s just… embarrassing…"
She was surprisingly weak to this kind of thing.
"If you really don’t want to, we don’t have to."
I put on a sulky expression and she quickly waved her hands.
"N-no, it’s fine. We can take them. We’re friends, after all… But still… You won’t do this once you get a girlfriend, right? You know that?"
She was pretty conservative. That only made it more fun.
[Please select the photos you like!]
"Let’s pick the photos first."
I immediately chose the ones where I was cupping her breasts and lifting her clothes.
"……Do we really have to pick those?"
"Yeah. I like them."
"Jeez."
In every picture, Lee Yoo-na’s face was flustered.
"Then I’ll take these two."
She hurriedly hid the two prints like someone might see them. It was oddly cute and endearing.
"D-don’t ever show these to anyone else."
"Of course not. I’m not crazy."
"R-right? You’re not crazy, are you?"
She whispered to me, looking relieved that the photos were funny but still acceptable.
"They’re kind of special though~. I feel like they’ll become good memories later."
"Right?"
She simply saw these photos as normal childhood-friend pranks.
§
Lee Yoo-na.
She came to the restroom for a moment and took out the photos. Sitting on the toilet so no one would see, she looked at them and let out a small laugh.
"They really are funny…"
If we weren’t friends, who would pull this kind of prank?
"Hmm… Should I lose a little more weight?"
The slight belly fat visible in the photos made her a tiny bit self-conscious.
§
On the way back after eating, my hand naturally rested between her thighs. Even when I brushed against her crotch, she just smiled and kept talking about the day.
"I’ve never played games here before~. Today was so refreshing~. Thanks, friend~."
"Anytime. Just call me whenever."
"Ooh, so reliable."
When the car stopped at a red light, I casually undid the button of her jeans.
"What are you doing?"
"Just putting my hand inside your panties."
Please. Treat this as a joke too.
"You can be pretty bold with your pranks sometimes."
This was technically the first time I’d done this. The memories from our childhood must have been automatically filling in. It was strange how the past could be rewritten based on my current actions.
"Or maybe…? Was this not how it used to be? Why don’t I remember……"
Still, it was a close call.
"Spread your legs a bit."
Lee Yoo-na leaned back comfortably and opened her legs.
"Do-yun. You know, right?"
"Yeah, yeah. I’ll only do this with my girlfriend once I get one."
"I’ll stop too once I get a boyfriend."
"Of course."
Even though we had set up skinship and dirty jokes as “pranks,” common sense hadn’t completely changed. Lee Yoo-na clearly understood that this was wrong. She was only allowing it because neither of us had a partner yet. But that was enough.
My fingertips brushed against her pubic hair.
"……Hey, Yoo-na."
"Yeah?"
"I’m hard. Can I put it in?"
I asked boldly and directly. Her expression turned complicated.
"So… that’s not really a joke anymore, is it?"
Okay. There was still a line. Touching and dirty talk were fine, but anything beyond that was not. I could erase that line with the next suggestion though.
"The light changed! Take your hand out now! Drive safely!"
She pulled my hand out of her panties and spoke firmly, like scolding a little brother.
"Aah~, I really want to shove my dick into Yoo-na’s pussy~."
"Nope~, not happening~."
She accepted even the vulgar words lightly.
"I want to fill your womb with my cum~."
"Nope~, no way~."
While driving, I asked her several more questions to figure out exactly where the line was. Sex was off-limits for now. So how far could I go?
"Touch me with your hand."
"Nooo~. Friends can touch each other, but me touching you feels weird~."
Got it. I had never included the condition “only with me” when planting the suggestion. Because we were childhood friends, mutual touching was allowed. Yet she still wouldn’t touch me herself for a very normal, common-sense reason. I was starting to get a feel for it. Now I knew what suggestion to plant next.
Before that, there was something I wanted to ask.
"Yoo-na, why did you break up with your ex-boyfriends?"
Since I didn’t know her personal history, I probed carefully.
"Huh? Ex-boyfriends…? I’ve only had one."
"Oh, right. Then why did you break up?"
Lee Yoo-na let out a small sigh before answering.
"You already know. He was secretly DM’ing other girls… and when I found out, he said they were just friends……"
"Even though he had someone as pretty as you?"
"Really? Thanks for calling me pretty~."
It was true. Whenever male colleagues talked about their ideal types at work, they all mentioned her.
I asked a few more questions after that. That was enough.
I reached over again.
"Yoo-na, stop zipping up. It’s easier if I can touch your pubic hair while we drive."
"……Seriously."
She pouted but still let me touch her. My cock was already screaming to be let out of my pants. Just wait a little longer. I had come up with a groundbreaking idea.
I glanced at her. We hadn’t had a single private conversation outside of work for an entire year. Yet everything had changed in just a few days. Her pink, moist lips, coated with lip balm and lipstick, caught my eye. The most charming flower at our Sae-tteul-myeon office was now in my hands. I had no intention of plucking it and letting it wither. I planned to take it safely, roots and all. Just without anyone knowing.
"We’re here~. Thanks for driving! Today was really fun~."
"Same here."
As she unbuckled her seatbelt to get out, I called her name.
"Yoo-na, wait a second."
"Yeah?"
The greatest advantage of hypnosis was that the first time was difficult, but everything after became very easy.
"This is what I use when I space out sometimes. Take a look. Just stare for three seconds."
She wouldn’t remember being hypnotized. That meant I could use the same method as many times as I wanted.
Flick!
One second. Two seconds. Three seconds.
Her clear eyes grew hazy. She leaned weakly against the seat, staring at the flame as if her consciousness had flown somewhere far away. Even her doll-like, unresisting appearance was beautiful.
"Lee Yoo-na, twenty-seven years old, one hundred sixty-three centimeters, fifty-two kilograms. Correct?"
"……Yes……"
I had developed a routine for confirmation.
The wounds you’ve carried until now will disappear.
"How many people have you had sex with so far?"
"……One person……"
"Who was that?"
"……My ex-boyfriend……"
It was surprising that a twenty-seven-year-old had only been with one person. And that was an opportunity I couldn’t let slip away.
"No, your memory is incorrect."
I changed her memory.
"The man you had sex with in your memories is your childhood friend, Maeng Do-yun."
"……Memory……childhood……Maeng…Do-yun……"
I erased the ex-boyfriend who had left scars in her memory.
"The person you went to the amusement park with is also your childhood friend Maeng Do-yun."
"……Went……amusement……Maeng…Do-yun……"
"The man who was at the motel was also only your childhood friend Maeng Do-yun."
"……Man……childhood…Maeng…one person……"
"Those weren’t dates with a boyfriend. They were fun memories of playing with your childhood friend Maeng Do-yun."
"……Not dates…Do-yun……"
This was why I had asked her those questions earlier. Through suggestion, I replaced every man in her memories with myself. I had no intention of turning myself into her boyfriend. Everything had simply been her playing with me.
"Who was the man you’ve been with until now?"
"……Do-yun……"
"Even though he’s just a friend, why did you have sex with him?"
"……While playing…ah…why…exactly…"
Lee Yoo-na hesitated. But her answer already told me that the ex-boyfriend in her mind had completely disappeared. I smiled silently, baring my teeth.
<00:55>
Time was running out. It had taken her a long time to recite the suggestions out loud. So I planted a clear reason.
"The sex you’ve had until now was just your childhood friend’s mischievous pranks."
"……Until now……sex……mischievous…prank……"
"It’s not difficult. Think of it lightly."
"……Lightly……"
Only repetition remained. Suggestions had to be as simple as possible. I replaced the memories of her boyfriend with me and filled in the context of sex with “mischievous pranks.”
<00:13>
And finally, one last line—different from the repeated suggestions. Just like the pride suggestion last time.
"You feel very grateful to have received those mischievous pranks."
"……Pranks……thank you……"
The pride suggestion had only been one line, yet she still found me admirable. So this time I would give her satisfaction.
<00:00>
Whoosh!