Extra 33. An Old Friend Shows Up Looking Prettier
Ever since he got a girlfriend, every day had passed like a dream. This past week had felt heavier, more precious, than any other stretch of his life.
Which is why I really didn't want to come out today...
Today was the day he'd agreed to meet an old classmate he hadn't seen in a while, together with Lee Hyunwoo. Dinner with Jo Eunwoo, specifically.
Eunyul said she couldn't see me today anyway...
Male friends barely even registered in his field of vision anymore. But his girlfriend was busy, which meant he actually had some free time—and it really had been a long while. So he'd willingly dragged himself out of the house.
The hell? These assholes are twenty minutes late...
He'd actually come out for them, and not a single one had shown up on time. Of course, Kim Minjun himself had been ten minutes late...
The second they get here I'm putting a flying knee through their faces...
"Minjun. Hi."
"Jesus—give a guy a turn signal before you sneak up, Hyunwoo, you piece of shit."
"That's on you for letting your guard down. If this were the wild, you'd be dead, bro. Yeah."
"The hell are you talking about... If this were the wild I'd have counterpunched you the second you jumped me from behind."
Same as always, they cracked the conversation open with a round of worthless noise.
"Anyway, where's Eunwoo?"
"Dunno~ He said he's on his way... How does this guy never change~"
While they were plotting how to mess with the last member to arrive...
"Oh? Speak of the devil."
From far off, a familiar silhouette began to take shape. Barely five-three. A slender, delicate frame that could pass for a girl's. And honestly... even another guy had to concede it: that pretty-boy face belonged on a courtesan.
"Yooo~ Jo Eunwoo~"
They waved him over, all welcome and warmth—
"Long time... no see...?"
A strange unease radiated off the friend they hadn't seen in so long.
...Huh?
Familiar, if anything. And yet that very familiarity made the dissonance sharper.
"Man, it's really been forever. You guys been good? Haha."
The whole vibe coming off him felt alien.
"You... look different somehow?"
"Do I? I haven't really changed anything."
And it wasn't just Kim Minjun picking up on it.
"Bro, this guy suddenly got insanely handsome."
More accurately, it wasn't that he'd gotten handsome...
"...Hssss... Not handsome. He got prettier?"
He'd become strikingly beautiful. His face had always been slender, but it looked even smaller now, like he'd been getting contour massages. His body seemed frailer, more delicate.
"Yeah? I've been getting styled with my sisters' help lately. Maybe that's it?"
He had on an inoffensive cardigan, dressed in a way that suited his image well enough—but the atmosphere he gave off was distinctly androgynous.
"No, no. It's not the clothes. It's like your gender suddenly flipped?"
"What are you on about~ We haven't seen each other in ages and you're already picking a fight? Lmao."
Lee Hyunwoo and Kim Minjun had been teasing Eunwoo about being a femboy for years. Until now it had always been their own private WWE. Now it was starting to feel more like UFC.
"Holy shit, you femboy bastard. You still got a dick? What, you just decided to show up as a girl? Lmaooo."
That's what he said. And yet...
Gulp.
For some reason, the back of his neck felt hot.
"The hell are you retards talking about~ Hyung here's actually had sex, you know? Hahaha."
"W-what?!"
The sudden bombshell left both of them stunned.
"How long are you two planning to stay virgins? Time to start taking care of yourselves and climb the stairs to adulthood, lol."
A smile overflowing with composure. His looks had definitely been upgraded. (More precisely, his femaleness had gone up...) Instinct was screaming.
This bastard... he's telling the truth!
Ah, no wonder he was acting so damn smug!
Only their reason was still denying the situation.
"D-don't lie..."
"Pics... show us the pics, man."
They couldn't believe it until they saw it with their own eyes.
"Haha, sure~"
But Eunwoo pulled out his phone with complete confidence...
Swipe...
"...!"
He showed them a photo taken with his girlfriend.
"T-t-t-that's seriously your girlfriend?!"
In the photo, a peerless beauty sat next to Eunwoo with her arm linked through his. Sharp, catlike eyes. Taller than Jo Eunwoo, with a slender body carrying what looked like soft, yielding breasts and thighs. Glossy, swinging bob-cut hair. A woman with the classic delinquent-girl face that every loser boy secretly wanted—and she was glued right to their friend.
"N-no way...! Where the hell did you even meet a girl like this?!"
"Childhood friend, lol."
"Childhood friend?!"
A peerless beauty, a delinquent-girl type—that was already enough to make their stomachs twist. And now she was a childhood friend on top of it?
"She's the chairman's daughter at the company my dad works for. We've hung out now and then since we were kids."
And a chaebol family's only daughter?!
Right... this guy's family was loaded as hell...
Watching their friend pull so far ahead...
Gurgle...
Both of their stomachs started to ache. Well—Kim Minjun, who actually had a girlfriend right now, was in a relatively better position.
Y-yeah... what's there to be jealous of? Eunyul is insanely pretty too...
The truly pathetic one was...
No, fucking seriously...! Why am I the only one left behind?!
Lee Hyunwoo, whose side was ice-cold and empty.
Well... I did what Master told me to, at least...
Jo Eunwoo was satisfied with their reactions, but...
Ugh... Raon's going to torment me so much later...
The aftermath was terrifying. The couple photo with Lee Raon had only been possible with Master's permission—more precisely, Master's order. Being able to pose like a sweet, lovey-dovey couple had been thanks to that command too. Before and after the shoot, he'd had no choice but to endure a considerable amount of contempt from Lee Raon.
Of course...
I-I wonder how she's going to bully me... ♡
Eunwoo, who had already degenerated into a severe masochist, felt his cock twitch just from fantasizing about it...
B-but, well... the sex part is actually true...
Lee Raon was Master's property to begin with. How she got used was entirely up to him.
I don't know what Master was thinking, telling me to show them this...
But looking at his friends' faces as they died of envy right in front of him, a slow, creeping sense of superiority welled up.
The way they're dying of jealousy is hilarious, lmao.
Even through the envy, there was a strange admiration in their eyes. It wasn't a bad feeling at all.
"Y-you've gotta admit that's impressive... you bastard..."
For guys who'd only just become adults, the opposite sex was one of the most important topics there was.
"Holy shit... so that means you actually had sex with this girl?!"
"Don't say that so loud, you idiot..."
It had been a long time since they'd met, sure—but once the existence of that insane girlfriend was confirmed, the center of conversation swung entirely toward Jo Eunwoo.
No... this isn't how it was supposed to go...? I was supposed to brag the hell out of my girlfriend and mess with Hyunwoo and Eunwoo...
His own girlfriend was definitely close to a ten. But...
How did this bastard suddenly become an alpha male...!
The girlfriend in the photo was a genuine, unadulterated ten. He felt like he'd... lost somehow.
"Ah, Hyunwoo told me. You got a girlfriend too, Minjun?"
A thick sense of defeat wrapped around him. And yet...
"Y-yeah..."
He had a feeling it wasn't just simple defeat...
"Mind showing me a picture?"
"...Here."
More precisely... an ominous sensation.
"Oh~ She's pretty. You two... uh... look good together..."
"...Thanks."
Why...? Why do I keep getting this fucked-up chill...
Every time he looked at Jo Eunwoo... why did the girlfriend on his own phone screen keep coming to mind...
Somehow...
And Lee Hyunwoo was feeling the same thing.
They look a lot alike, don't they...?
The woman in the photo... and the woman he knew...
Come to think of it, Eunyul, Eunwoo... even their names are similar?
The friend actually sitting next to him, talking, looked remarkably similar.
But Eunwoo's sisters are supposed to be tall... and Eunyul's last name is Kim to begin with... there's no way they're family...
They just looked alike. That so what? thought was what kept him from grasping the reason for this fucked-up feeling.
The true identity of that fucked-up feeling—the origin of that emotion—only Jo Eunwoo knew.
No but seriously...
Jo Eunwoo was having a hell of a time holding back the laughter trying to burst out of him.
They really don't recognize me? For real?
All he'd done was take off the wig and wipe off the makeup, and they couldn't recognize him at all.
Well... it's not like they don't recognize me at all?
If he leaned in close...
"Hold on... I can't see it well..."
Twitch!
They flinched for no reason...
"H-hey... back off a l—"
"Hm? What?"
He leaned in—
They recoiled—
If he pushed his face in, they put a weird amount of distance between them. Through his friends' reactions, he could feel it clearly: they were awkward around him. Almost like the way guys who couldn't handle women reacted.
But I really am pretty, huh...
His own image in the photo was thick with dissonance... but he didn't entirely hate it.
"Haven't had sex with your girlfriend yet?"
"H-hey... what are you... are you still in middle school? Who asks a friend that...?"
"What's the big deal~ It's us. I told you mine, didn't I? Guess you're treating your girl real precious, huh? Lmao."
A pretty arrogant attitude.
This Jo Eunwoo guy... he's changed a lot since we last saw him...
"I-I haven't yet..."
"Yeah? How long have you been dating?"
"Just... a week...?"
"Dude, how long are you gonna put it off? You'll just stay like that forever. With girls, you've gotta push when you have the chance, right at the start."
"...Your smug act is pissing me off."
"I'm smugger than you, that's why. Lmao."
"Urgh..."
It was a fact. There was nothing he could say back.
"Don't just talk a big game. Eunwoo, tell us about your sex properly, man."
Meanwhile, Lee Hyunwoo steered things back toward manly talk, trying to get away from the powdery, feminine scent coming off his friend. Truth was, he'd been dying of curiosity this whole time.
"Let's see... about a month? Nothing that special, really..."
Suddenly Eunwoo's eyes changed.
"It's just... fucking incredible..."
"...Well, yeah, obviously."
"No, no. Not 'obviously'—I mean it's actually insane. The soft pussy walls wrapping around your cock... that squishy ass against your thighs every time you thrust... and those fat, bouncing tits at the same time..."
Gulp.
At Eunwoo's raw, explicit description, both friends swallowed hard.
"Just her breathing and her body heat make you feel like you're gonna cum. And then the look on her face when you look down at her like that is so fucking hot..."
At the same time, inside their heads...
"Hahh... fuck... I'm so jealous..."
They summoned the woman from Jo Eunwoo's photo and, using the cutting-edge graphics cards that were their brains, played a high-definition porn video.
"It's a whole different league from jerking off. A different dimension, period. Just holding each other and sharing body heat is actually insane, lmao."
Jo Eunwoo, puffed up in front of friends he hadn't seen in ages. For that sex, he'd offered up his entire family... sold even himself—his very soul—and here he was, thoroughly delighted. Well, becoming Master's slave was something to be that happy about, after all...
Thump.
Finished showing off, Eunwoo clapped Kim Minjun on the shoulder.
"So you do it the second you get the chance, man. If you don't hurry up, you'll regret it."
"Y-yeah..."
The way his energy keeps climbing is pissing me off...
But it wasn't just Kim Minjun's head that was heating up.
Yeah... sex... I'll have it soon enough too...!
After hearing Eunwoo's heroic tale, inferiority washed over him—but at the same time it became a massive source of motivation. So Kim Minjun could accept the situation relatively stably.
The one whose ass was really on fire...
F-fuck... just hearing about it got me hard...
...was Lee Hyunwoo.
Ha... fuck...! Why is it really just me...!
To be the only one left single in the friend group... A massive inferiority complex had started to explode. If only he'd used that inferiority as seasoning for self-improvement...
Something's wrong... it wasn't supposed to turn out like this...
Lee Hyunwoo was a person very far from a productive life.
Maybe because he was the only single one among his friends, and the only one facing the crisis of remaining a virgin...
"Huff... huff..."
Lee Hyunwoo ultimately discarded the option of looking for another girl, and started hanging himself on the ideal type he'd fallen for.
T-that look in Eunyul's eyes... at the PC bang...!
That gaze, burned deep into his brain, made him cling to a vain hope and wouldn't let him go.
There's definitely a chance for me... she likes me more...!
Once the self-justification and delusion started, they combined with his inferiority and began to run wild...
Maybe back then... when she first talked to us... she actually had a thing for me?
His fully erect cock wrecked his rational judgment and cranked up his impulsiveness.
But that oblivious guy-friend of hers stupidly talked to Kim Minjun instead... and soft-hearted Eunyul couldn't even say no!
Lee Hyunwoo was starting to write a whole novel.
Come to think of it, she seemed really flustered back then! Like she'd picked the wrong person and couldn't say so, so she just panicked!
The reason Eunwoo had been flustered then was that his friends had caught him in drag.
Yeah... now everything's starting to click into place...
He was barking completely up the wrong tree.
Yeah... the one who suits that girl... isn't some Kim Minjun. It's me...
Once again, Lee Hyunwoo had secretly followed his friend and his friend's girlfriend on their date.
I understand Eunyul's charm better...
He, with his taste for slender girls, could love her more than Kim Minjun, who was into thick, curvy types... He cultivated a twisted affection in the most disgusting way imaginable.
"Get home safe, Minjun~ Hehe."
"Y-yeah...!"
Before he knew it, their date was over.
What... Kim Minjun isn't even walking his girlfriend home?
From Lee Hyunwoo's perspective—he'd been trying to find out where Eunyul lived—this made it even easier to tail her more safely.
Not very manly of him... that's all his own karma...
Justifying his own stalking, he followed the woman he adored.
G-good... once I find out where she lives... uh... then... hang around the area a bit more, pretend it's a coincidence... see her more...
While Lee Hyunwoo was sketching out this absurd criminal plan in his head...
H-huh...?
A familiar silhouette he'd seen somewhere approached Eunyul.
T-that bastard...!
The guy-friend of Eunyul's he'd seen when they first met...
W-why is she with that asshole...!
Right after a date with her boyfriend... immediately meeting her alpha male friend. It looked pretty damn shady, but...
C-calm down, Hyunwoo... friends can meet each other, right? So this is...
But then...
Squeeze-♡
...Huh...?
Hyunwoo could only watch as, with an expression he'd never seen before, she melted into that alpha male's arms...
"Y-yes... ♡"
...and walked into a motel.
A-ah...!
He blanked out for a second, then his brain started spinning fast.
R-right now...! I have to take a picture of those two and tell that bastard Kim Minjun!
Lee Hyunwoo recovered from the shock more easily than expected. Of course, inside his heart...
I-if Kim Minjun and Eunyul break up like that... t-then I'll have... a chance too...!
If he split them apart, maybe he'd have a shot... That irrational thought was blooming. Even after seeing with his own two eyes an opponent he could never possibly beat.