Outdoor Play (1) (Illustration Warning)
The place I walked to with Min Ye-won was a walking trail on the sparsely visited hillside of a back mountain.
The path itself was decently maintained, but since it sat halfway up the mountain, hardly anyone came through—and with a far better-kept park at the summit, even the locals who liked to climb the neighborhood hill rarely bothered to make the trip down here.
Which also made it a pretty ideal spot for a young couple looking for a little privacy.
"So? Not bad, right?"
"Uh, yeah. It's my first time here too… I didn't even know a place like this existed so close by."
Min Ye-won kept glancing my way, doing her best to suppress any sign of displeasure as she walked the night trail beside me.
Sure, she was only playing nice because she was terrified I'd drag her off to a hotel if she didn't—but watching her put on a good front, even just on the surface, wasn't entirely unpleasant.
Doesn't look like there's anyone else around, at least.
Not that I expected anyone else to be wandering a vaguely located park like this at this hour besides me and Min Ye-won.
There was always the possibility that Jo Jin-hyun, trying to keep tabs on our movements, was lurking somewhere nearby watching us—but honestly, I'd never planned on going out of my way to stop that in the first place.
If I were out here with an actual heroine, I might have been more careful. But with a girl I only kept around as a convenient stress and lust outlet? I had no intention of putting in that kind of effort. Not for someone like her.
Let him watch if he wants. He's probably holed up far away with a pair of binoculars or something anyway.
I had no desire to be that careful around a man who would be dead in less than a year.
Whether or not a low-tier villain destined to bite it in the early chapters of the story watched me dump my stress and libido into girls I only met for that purpose—it made no difference to me.
As long as it stayed out of my sight, that was all that mattered. I circled the park once with that thought, confirming that there was no one 'conspicuous' anywhere in view.
Yeah, this should be good enough to start.
A gentle snowfall that only came once February was nearly over, and a sharp drop in temperature.
Being naked in this weather might be a little chilly. Not that it was any concern of mine.
I led Min Ye-won to a covered rest shelter somewhere on one side of the park, and without so much as a by-your-leave, reached out and gave her chest a squeeze.
—Squish.
"Hnk?!"
Startled by my sudden groping, Min Ye-won shot up from her seat and scrambled away from me.
Her eyes were more flustered than anything, but she actually had the nerve to look straight at me and voice her displeasure.
"Wh-what was…?"
"What's the problem? Why'd you suddenly jump away?"
"…Wh-why? Because you just grabbed my—"
"Your chest isn't a big deal, is it? I'm your boyfriend. We're outside, sure, but that much should be fair game, no?"
"………"
"We've already spent a whole night together. Don't tell me you think we're not even at that stage?"
Confusion in her eyes. And rising alongside it, fear.
Min Ye-won had already been prepped and programmed: the moment she refused once, the Master Director would automatically assign a role and force her to perform it.
She knew better than anyone that pushing my buttons would get her nowhere good.
"…N-no. It's just… I was worried someone might see us, that's all…."
"There's nobody here but us, Ye-won. Stop worrying and come here."
"………"
"Just sit down quietly and let's talk. Once the academy semester starts we'll barely get to see each other except for late weekends, so days like today are when we should talk our fill before parting, right?"
"…O-okay."
Still holding up decently, I see. If she'd tried to run, I was fully prepared to force a role onto her on the spot.
Her face twisting as she was made to play my girlfriend against her will was an unavoidable side effect. Besides, leaving a sliver of her own will intact was far more entertaining than erasing her personality outright.
With a complicated look on her face, Min Ye-won sat back down beside me. I draped my arm over her shoulder and, with my other hand, grabbed her chest hard once again.
—Squish!
"Hngh…!"
"It's been a while since I got to feel these. They were seriously hot when I got my hands on them at the hotel last time, too."
"Hnn, h-hn…."
"You missed it too, didn't you, Ye-won? That was the first time a man ever touched you like this. Compared to doing it alone, how does it feel?"
"Haah… I-I d-don't… know…."
Judging by her reactions, feeling my hands on her body apparently wasn't much of a problem for her.
Probably lingering residue from the girlfriend setting I'd forcibly written into her last time.
No matter how much her emotions had been manipulated, in the end she'd wrapped herself around me in that hotel bed of her own volition. And above all, the memories of being controlled would still be fully intact inside Min Ye-won's head.
Somewhere in a corner of her mind, the memory of Lee Seonho as her boyfriend had to remain, no matter how thoroughly her mind had been played with or how many sex videos had been recorded of her.
—Squish, squish.
"Nnngh, hnn… h-haah…."
Maybe she'd decided that having her chest groped in an empty park was something she could tolerate, because at some point she'd gone quiet, simply exhaling softly while stealing glances at my face.
Obviously, I had no intention of stopping at just this much. If all I wanted was to grope her tits, I could have done it openly back at Meeting Square with no consequences whatsoever.
I spent about ten minutes kneading her breasts from where we sat, warming her up. Once I decided that was more than enough, I rose from the bench, pulling her up with me.
"Alright then. Shall we get started? Doesn't look like anyone's coming."
"…S-started? What do you mean, started…?"
"What do you think? Why do you suppose I skipped all the nice parks and dragged you out to a place with no people around?"
"……………Huh?"
Wow, she catches on fast. With that much awareness, no wonder she got used by scum like Jo Jin-hyun in the original story.
Even after hearing my words, it took her a good three beats to put on a flustered expression and start backing away from me again.
"Take it off. Right here, right now."
"………"
That expression, dyed in despair and shock—that was the reason I'd met with her today. The whole point.
"Take it off. Right here, right now."
Wait. Did I hear that right?
The moment Lee Seonho's voice reached her ears, Min Ye-won's face went blank for an instant—but regrettably, his words did not get retracted.
"Hurry up and take them off. Or would you like me to strip you myself?"
"…Wh-what are you even saying?! Take them off? H-here?!"
"What's the issue? I'm the only one who can see you anyway."
A demand so flustered and absurd that no sane person would have believed it was real.
Yet the sheer composure on Lee Seonho's face made it clear he wasn't speaking a single word of it in jest, and Min Ye-won's chest tightened with rising panic.
He's insane. H-how does he expect me to undress HERE of all places?!
So that's why. She'd actually felt relieved when he said they wouldn't be going to a hotel, and had gone along with whatever he wanted so obediently. There was a reason for it after all.
From the very beginning, the location had never mattered to him. As long as he could play with her body, it made no difference whether it was a hotel room or the wide-open outdoors.
Min Ye-won had absolutely no intention of complying with his ridiculous demand—but Lee Seonho, as if her resistance were the strange thing, simply began piling up his warped logic.
"You're the one who said you hated hotels, Ye-won, so I went out of my way to come all this way. It's just a park with nobody else around. What's the complaint?"
"C-complaint? None of this makes any sense…! H-how can you tell me to undress outside?! And in a place this wide open, of all…"
"Then you should have refused when I suggested the park. Why change your story now?"
"I-I didn't know you meant THIS! If I had, I would've rather gone to the hotel!"
"You're supposed to read between the lines. Two people in a relationship meeting for the first time in ages—you really thought we'd part ways without even sleeping together? You're so naive, Min Ye-won."
"Wh-who's in a relation—"
"That's an order. 'Shut your mouth.'"
"Mmph…?!"
Lee Seonho hurriedly cut off her voice before an agitated Min Ye-won could start shouting something inconvenient.
He couldn't be certain, but he was keeping Jo Jin-hyun in mind—somewhere out there, possibly observing him and Min Ye-won right now.
"We're lovers, Ye-won. Hmm? Seems like your 'acting' is slipping again."
"H-hnngh?!"
"Honestly, I think I've already been more than generous. Keep this up, and you'll leave me no choice but to stop liking you, Ye-won. I'll have to call back the version of you from last time—the one who genuinely loved me and adored me."
"Mmph!! Mmmph…!!"
—Whump! Whump-whump!
The thought of that being brought back was unbearable enough that Min Ye-won shook her head violently in refusal.
It was a rather comical sight, admittedly—but at the same time it drew far too much attention, so Lee Seonho quietly stopped her with a lowered voice.
"Stay still. I'm not finished talking."
"Mmph…!"
"It's not that I particularly want to forcibly control your emotions, Ye-won. Honestly, someone who acts exactly as I say without a shred of doubt isn't really my type either.
That's precisely why I've let you keep your original feelings all this time. But I need you to understand—if you keep pulling this kind of stunt, I'll be left with only one option."
"H-hngh…."
—Nod, nod.
"And besides, this is also meant to make it perfectly clear to Jo Jin-hyun that you're playing the role of my lover."
"Mmph…?"
Min Ye-won looked at him with genuine puzzlement—this man who had sealed her own mouth shut and was now calmly spouting his bizarre logic solo.
Lee Seonho carried on with her, weaving yet another thread of near-nonsense.
"The way I see it, Jo Jin-hyun might still be suspicious of you. Can you blame him? This is a date that only happened after nearly two weeks since the last one. Right?"
"H-hnn…."
"He might even reach the conclusion that you and I are staging this—that we only ever meet on a fixed schedule, conspiring together. Either way, the man belongs to a terrorist organization, so he's got at least enough brain for that."
"Mmph…."
"So the best way to prove beyond doubt that you and I are in a relationship is sex—but to deceive a terrorist, ordinary sex isn't a convincing enough cover. Which is why we're trying it this way."
"H-hnn…?"
"If we go all the way to outdoor sex on a winter day like this, with snow coming down in sheets, even a man like Jo Jin-hyun won't be able to doubt it. He'll probably assume I've fallen head over heels for you—which means he won't send you any of those nagging texts for a while, either."
"………"
"There's nothing to make a weird face about. This is just an extension of the acting we're doing to deceive Jo Jin-hyun. The sex is basically a bonus. We've already done it once, so no reason to be precious about your body, right?"
"H-hngh…."
She wanted to argue back, but no words would come. She had, after all, tried to raise her voice in haste and had her lips quite literally sealed for it.
Reduced to communicating only yes or no through the movement of her head, she'd long since lost any means of raising even the most obvious objection—'If I have to report to him anyway, couldn't he just be told directly?'
And before long, Lee Seonho delivered what amounted to an ultimatum, leaving Min Ye-won with, in effect, no choice at all.
"If you can't understand, then fine—I'll just hand you a 'role' and you can act it out. Doesn't matter to me either way."
"H-hnngh! Mmph!"
—Shake, shake.
"Then you do understand?"
"Mmph, mmph…."
—Nod, nod.
"Start with your pants and panties. If you behave, I might even finish this up quickly for you."
"Hnnngh…."
A situation where she had no choice but to choose the lesser of two evils between the worst and the worse.
And so, standing before that unreasonable demand, Min Ye-won began, with no other recourse, to undress.
