Chapter 152
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 152
By now, I was certain.
They were having some kind of bizarre misunderstanding.
It started with Eun-seol.
The woman who was usually indifferent to everything had, at some point, started overreacting to my every word.
For instance, if I said I was stepping out for a bit, she would start trembling and narrow her eyes. Or she would needlessly ask about my relationship with Eun-ah.
Fine, I could let that much slide.
This was Eun-seol, after all, who worried about Eun-ah day and night. It was understandable that she’d ask such questions. But… after hearing what the other personalities had to say, her words no longer felt so innocent.
Eun-sam had said:
“Tsk… So you’re just another male in heat, dude?”
The moment she appeared, she clicked her tongue and hit me with that line. I felt a surge of anger, but I wasn’t sure what was going on yet, so I let it go.
Eun-byeol had said:
“Th-that, um… We-well…! Uh… um… Never mind!”
Her eyes darted around as her words trailed off. It was around then that I felt with certainty that something was wrong.
And then came Eun-ah’s decisive words.
“Y-You… whore dick…!”
She’d repeated the phrase “whore dick” over and over, her face caked in a sense of betrayal. And that wasn’t all.
“L-Liar…”
“S-Stud pig…”
“Y-You… slutty dick…!”
She spent the entire day berating me, wearing an expression that said she’d suffered every injustice in the world and was about to die from sheer frustration.
If I didn’t sense something was off by this point, I’d have to be an idiot.
At some point… to be precise, it was right after the day I met Ji-woo. So I had a good idea what kind of misunderstanding they were having.
They probably thought I was cheating on them. That must be it.
And yet, there was one thing I just couldn’t understand.
…But why the hell did it escalate like this?
The only reason I met her was for work. And if I’d really intended to cheat, wouldn’t I have tried to hide it somehow?
I needed to know the full story.
I needed to know what exactly was said to produce this result.
Fortunately, Dokyun had a way of finding out.
“It’s an emergency.”
It was Eun-chae. Seeing her rush into my arms and say that, Dokyun put on a gentle smile and posed a question.
“Hm?”
“It’s an emergency.”
The moment she appeared, she shook me awake, repeating the word “emergency.”
Dokyun looked at Eun-chae’s somewhat excited face and continued his train of thought.
…I have my ways, too.
All I had to do was coax it out of Eun-chae.
It might not work with the other personalities, but I was confident I could wheedle it out of Eun-chae one way or another.
And why wouldn’t I be? No matter how much Eun-chae had started communicating with the others, I was the one who shared the deepest connection with her.
It meant that no matter how hard they tried to keep it a secret, as long as Eun-chae knew, there was no way they could hide it from me.
Sorry, but…!
Eun-chae was on my side.
“What’s the emergency?”
“It’s a secret.”
Eun-chae covered her mouth with both hands as she spoke.
“Is it a secret from me, too?”
“Yeah. The emergency is a secret.”
At her words, Dokyun smiled and gently stroked her hair.
Eun-chae’s eyes narrowed at his touch, her expression growing languid before she snuggled deeper into his embrace.
“That’s a shame.”
“Huh?”
“Today’s a day off, you know. I was thinking of cooking up some beef…”
Flinch. Eun-chae’s body trembled.
Dokyun watched her with narrowed eyes, then finished his sentence with a crooked smile.
“…But I’m so curious that I don’t think I have the energy to grill any meat.”
At the edge of my vision, I could see Eun-chae begin to whimper, her panic rising.
Realizing that with just a little more prodding, he could get a clue out of her, Dokyun’s smile deepened.
“Uuuu…”
Eun-chae’s brow furrowed. Her gaze darted back and forth between the refrigerator and me.
“Hm? If you tell me, I’ll grill you some beef and toast some bread today.”
“Hk…!”
Again, Eun-chae’s body shuddered. Her pupils shook violently.
Come on, say it!
Holding it in is bad for you!
I held her gaze for a long moment, thinking just that. Then, squeezing her eyes shut, Eun-chae broke free from my arms, scurried out of the room, and returned with a notebook.
The notebook for communication between the personalities. That was it.
A villainous smile spread across Dokyun’s lips as he looked at the notebook.
“Meat.”
Dokyun’s face brightened as he saw Eun-chae hand him the notebook with sparkling eyes, and he nodded.
“Alright, can you wait just a little bit?”
“Yeah.”
Dokyun nodded, patting Eun-chae as she burrowed back into his arms, and opened the notebook he’d received.
=
- Emergency. Chae Dokyun met his ex-girlfriend. <- Witch
└ …What?
└ LMAO the ex-gf has entered the chat, dude hahaha
└ Oh my?
└ That’s not true. I’m Honeybee’s first.
└ You really believe that, girl?
└ You shut up for a second, you idiot. Can’t you read the room?
└ Nope~ Don’t wanna~ Not my problem~ As long as it’s not me~ lololol~
└ But it’s not true….
└ Yeah, right~ You know the saying, right? You can wash a whore, but she’s still a whore, and you can re-wrap something used, but it’s still used~
└ Ugh, that fucking idiot.
└ Let’s all calm down and think. Assessing the situation is the priority. <- Witch
=
Just looking at it made my head spin.
Dokyun was reading through the notebook when he felt a sharp pain shoot up the back of his neck.
Now I finally understood why things had gotten so out of hand.
Eun-seol was the cause.
How could you…!
I trusted you! I believed Go Eun-seol would be different!
I never had any expectations for Go Eun-sam, but I believed you would be different!
I believed you would laugh it off, that you’d dismiss it as a simple incident, but how could you just blurt it out like that?
Dokyun’s whole body trembled with the thick sense of betrayal welling up inside him, and he squeezed his eyes shut.
They say there’s no one in the world you can trust…!
That saying was spot on.
Dokyun trembled for a long time with a piercing sense of betrayal, then ground his teeth and let his anger burn.
So this is how you’re going to play!
There would surely come a day for revenge.
A deep-seated grudge was carved into the depths of Dokyun’s heart.
And Dokyun was a man who never forgot a grudge once it was carved.
After grinding his teeth for a good while, Dokyun took a deep breath and collected himself.
…First things first.
Resolve the incident. I had to do that first.
“Honeybee. Meat.”
…But first, food.
*
Eun-ah crossed her arms and stared at Dokyun, putting on her angriest possible face.
“Why, why did you lie and say I was your first…?”
At the end of her gaze, she saw Honeybee kneeling on the floor.
The moment she had returned, he had immediately dropped to his knees, so she had seized the opportunity to put on this furious expression.
Wasn’t this a golden opportunity? They couldn’t live like this forever, so it was best to resolve conflicts like this as quickly as possible.
“I’m sorry…”
His body flinched as he bowed his head low.
Eun-ah felt an unidentifiable guilt bloom deep inside her and let out a heavy sigh.
To be honest, she wasn’t even that angry, so acting like this felt awkward.
And why wouldn’t it? She, too, fully understood why Honeybee had lied.
It was obvious how she would have reacted if she’d learned about his past back when her condition was at its worst.
That lie had been necessary for Honeybee’s safety, as well as for her own mental health at the time.
If she were to nitpick, the only real issue was that he had continued the lie until now, but by that logic, the other personalities who already knew he had dating experience were also at fault, making the point moot.
So, she could have just let it go. But the reason she couldn’t was that even if she rationally understood, she found it hard to accept emotionally.
One sentence kept echoing in her head.
- Yeah, right~ You know the saying, right? You can wash a whore, but she’s still a whore, and you can re-wrap something used, but it’s still used~
What Eun-sam had said. It kept circling in her mind, making images of Honeybee sleeping with another woman flash through her head, and it made her stomach churn.
Her fists clenched again at the thought, and Honeybee’s body flinched in response.
“I’m sorry…”
A dejected face.
Feeling a pang of pity for him, Eun-ah felt her resolve waver again. She forced her expression to harden and glared at Dokyun.
I-I have to make it clear…!
It was surely impossible. There was no way Honeybee would go back to that woman, but! It was best to nail this down when she had the chance.
With that thought, Eun-ah shot up, walked over to Dokyun, met his eyes, and spat out the words.
“Y-You faithless, whore dick…!”
“I’m sorry…”
“Y-You… slutty dick!”
Dokyun’s lips pressed into a firm line. Eun-ah fought back her weakening resolve, then reached out and grabbed his cock with a ‘thwack,’ her face hardening.
“L-Listen carefully…!”
“Yes, ma’am!”
Dokyun’s voice was laced with military discipline.
Having no way of knowing Eun-ah’s inner thoughts, he had been struck by the fear that she was about to rip his dick off.
Satisfied by his sharp, disciplined tone, Eun-ah nodded and continued.
“H-Honeybee is mine. H-Honeybee’s body, h-his heart…! H-His dick, too…! S-So…”
What should she say?
Now that she was trying to lash out, no particular words came to mind. She furrowed her brow, thinking hard, when she felt Dokyun’s cock hardening and had another thought.
C-Come to think of it…
It had been a while since they’d slept together.
She had left her body to the other personalities so often lately that they hadn’t had many chances to sleep together, had they?
Eun-ah’s eyes narrowed.
Y-Yeah…! T-Teaching with the body is more effective than with words…!
It was a self-justification born of desire, but to Eun-ah, that wasn’t important.
There was a hard cock in her hand, and Honeybee was currently in a state where he would obediently follow her words.
Wasn’t that what was important?
Breathing heavily, a smirk twitching at the corners of her lips, Eun-ah added.
“I-I’ll have to ed-educate your faithless dick…!”
Pounce. Eun-ah pushed Dokyun over.
She had to conduct some ‘education’ for the sake of a harmonious relationship.
With that thought, Eun-ah threw off her clothes and lunged at Dokyun… but as always, the one who ended up being educated was Eun-ah.
“Kkhiiiiiiiik?!”
*
Dokyun looked at Eun-ah, who was sprawled out on the bed with a satisfied expression.
…Did that go well?
He had been incredibly tense, expecting some major disaster to erupt, but the situation had ended with surprisingly little trouble. Dokyun felt an unwarranted anxiety rise within him.
Just then.
“H-Honeybee…”
“Ah, yes.”
Eun-ah’s lips parted.
Startled by her call, Dokyun looked at her. Eun-ah, looking somewhat shy yet also proud, posed a small question.
“I-I’m much better, right…?”
What did that mean?
After a moment of thought, Dokyun realized she meant, ‘I’m better than your ex-girlfriend, right?’ He plastered an awkward smile on his face and answered.
“O-Of course…. There’s no comparison.”
“Hehe…”
A bright laugh followed. As he watched Eun-ah ask her question, Dokyun felt the image of the pathetic losers you only hear about in stories overlapping with hers.