Chapter 261: Bastard (3)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 261: Bastard (3)
Shin Yu-jeong, who had been captivated by the secret story, suddenly snapped back to her senses.
“Hey… I told you, it’s not about me.”
“Oh, right. You said it was about your friend.”
Jo Yun-kyung laughed sheepishly and leaned back from her forward-leaning posture.
She pretended it wasn’t, but it was clearly intentional.
All to make Yu-jeong feel more immersed.
And it seemed her ploy had worked quite well.
“Haaah.”
Her expression had darkened after hearing the story, but she would soon realize.
‘Even you won’t be able to help it.’
That she, too, couldn't escape Kim Do-jin's embrace.
Burdened with even deeper worries, she downed several shots of soju and shot up from her seat.
“Hey, I'm leaving.”
As she started walking, her body swayed slightly.
It seemed the alcohol was hitting her fast since she'd been drinking soju quickly without any food.
“You don’t need me to walk you home?”
“Walk me home? No… I'm fine.”
Hearing her clear pronunciation, Jo Yun-kyung felt a little relieved.
She seemed quite drunk, but not to the point of blacking out.
‘Ah.’
As she watched Yu-jeong’s trudging figure disappear, a good idea popped into her head.
‘This is a great way to score some points.’
Smiling, she took out her smartphone and sent a message to Kim Do-jin.
《Fucktoy: Yu-jeong's drunk and on her way home now.》
Just this much would be enough for the quick-witted Kim Do-jin to understand her intentions.
“Huhu…”
As she was smiling seductively in anticipation of her reward…
“Excuse me… if you don't mind, could I get your number?”
A man had confidently walked up, holding out his smartphone to ask for her number.
He was good-looking, with expensive-looking clothes and shoes.
She replied with a bright smile.
“I do mind.”
Nothing about him appealed to her.
* * *
The walk home after getting off at the bus stop near her house.
She walked down an endlessly dark and dangerous alley, the streetlights unlit.
Her stomach felt bloated from drinking so quickly without food, and her mind was a mess.
“Hah…”
With every step or two, a sigh escaped her lips, flowing into the thick darkness.
Then, she stopped dead in her tracks and shook her head.
Even in this state, she felt like an idiot for wondering what Kim Do-jin was doing.
“I'm such a fucking idiot.”
A sudden wave of self-loathing consumed her.
The target of her disgust was none other than herself.
The loathing that filled her chest stripped away her self-love, allowing for a cold, rational judgment.
“…Do I even have the right to tell him what to do?”
When she thought about it, nothing about her relationship with Kim Do-jin was normal.
Not friends, not lovers.
If not that, then just sex partners.
A worn-out relationship, like a chipped and broken piece that couldn't fit anywhere.
And she was the one who had started this relationship.
‘I shouldn't have done that.’
Now that she truly liked him, she understood.
That her entire approach toward him had been wrong.
Did it start back in high school?
Or… was it when she first saw him working out at the gym?
Maybe it was all of it.
And each time, there must have been a chance to fix this twisted relationship.
Thinking like that flipped her perspective.
‘Should I be grateful instead…?’
She remembered what Jo Yun-kyung had said earlier.
That if Kim Do-jin wanted to, he could have a threesome without telling her.
Those words, which had been so hard to accept because they made sense, were now starting to become a little understandable.
Because if he really set his mind to it, she would be nothing to him.
The thought suddenly made her feel ashamed.
She remembered the time she'd made that pathetic threat about leaving a suicide note written for her own convenience and dying.
“Ah… I'm really something else.”
In a different sense, her heart felt a little lighter.
Her mind was still full of anguish, but when she considered that her worries might not have any real effect on his choices, everything felt futile.
‘It would be nice if he'd stop just because I told him to…’
But Kim Do-jin didn't seem to have any intention of doing that.
Honestly, something else had become more urgent now.
She wanted to properly define the relationship she had been deliberately ignoring.
She headed for Kim Do-jin's rooftop apartment in the distance.
“…I wonder if he's sleeping.”
It was that time of night when it was hard to say if someone would be asleep or awake.
‘I don't want to disturb his sleep…’
Just as she was about to resume her trudging steps…
“Yu-jeong.”
Startled by the familiar voice coming from beyond the darkness, she looked up to see Kim Do-jin walking toward her from the opposite direction.
* * *
I was relaxing after coming up from dinner downstairs.
The message from Jo Yun-kyung made my head spin.
《Fucktoy: Yu-jeong's drunk and on her way home now.》
“……”
I'd been wondering what she was doing out so late after school, and it turns out she met up with Jo Yun-kyung.
I could pretty much guess what they talked about.
She probably went to get some advice about me wanting a threesome.
“That's the only reason.”
After all, Jo Yun-kyung is the friend Shin Yu-jeong knows who understands men the best.
But it seems she picked the wrong person for advice, by a long shot.
That girl is already my fucktoy; she's only going to give biased advice.
I was curious about what they discussed and was about to ask.
《Fucktoy: I steered the conversation in the direction you wanted. So I'll be expecting my reward ♥♥》
She scratched the itch for me before I even had to ask.
“So that's how it is…”
Jo Yun-kyung is a woman who thinks on a completely different level than Shin Yu-jeong.
They were already very different, and meeting me changed her even more.
So it's obvious she wouldn't have easily accepted that girl's advice and is probably just more confused.
“This is the perfect opportunity.”
A harem isn't something you can achieve with normal thinking.
Especially when the women are successful.
I threw on a light windbreaker and immediately left my room.
As I walked down the dark alley, a familiar silhouette soon came into view.
“Yu-jeong.”
She responded as soon as I called her name.
Staggering out of the darkness, she looked up at me with wide eyes.
“What are you doing here…?”
“Hm, just because.”
“You weren't waiting for me, were you?”
The expression on her face as she asked was quite interesting.
While she was mocking herself for the thought, a glimmer of hope that it might be true was visible.
Just as I expected, she looked like her mind was a complete mess.
In that case…
“I wasn't exactly waiting… but you weren't around during dinner.”
“…So?”
“I just thought you'd be coming home around now, so I came out for a bit.”
She gave a faint smile at my answer, which was neither a complete confirmation nor a denial.
Then, as if she had something to say, she struggled to part her lips.
“Hey, that…”
Then she pressed them shut again, shook her head lightly, and changed her words.
“Never mind. Let's… let's go home first. I have something to say, but I don't think this is the place for it.”
“Alright.”
What on earth is she trying to say with that expression?
As we walked slowly home, Shin Yu-jeong's steps beside me were very unsteady.
I had no choice but to grab her arm to keep her from stumbling and asked chidingly.
“Just how much did you drink?”
“I don't think I drank that much… maybe it's because I drank it too fast.”
It was obvious.
She must have felt frustrated and started chugging soju like water as soon as she sat down.
Even people with a high tolerance get drunk quickly if they drink a lot in a hurry. What more for her?
“Hehe…”
Shin Yu-jeong was so happy that I was holding her arm that she started rubbing her head against it.
Seeing her do that with a face that should be cold created a rather refreshing contrast.
We finally reached the rooftop.
She plopped down on the wooden bench, tilted her head back toward the sky, and took a deep breath.
“Haaah… maybe because it's a little higher up. Don't you think the air is better here?”
“Is it…?”
Isn't that just a placebo effect?
Maybe if we were at the top of a Magic Tower.
How much better can the air get on a building's rooftop?
“So, what did you want to say?”
I asked her directly, as she was stalling with pointless chatter.
If she sobers up any more, she'll come to her senses.
At that, she glanced at me cautiously and asked.
“Hey, about the… threesome… you can't live without doing it, can you?”
A weak question.
I answered her sincerely.
“What I really want… is to live my life doing whatever I want. I don't want to be suppressed or tied down by what others think anymore. I want to live doing everything I think I can do.”
Hearing my rather sincere words, her face clouded over as she asked back.
“…And the threesome is part of that?”
“That's right.”
At my firm answer, Shin Yu-jeong wiped a hand over her face.
Then, with a slightly worried expression, she looked at me and threw another question.
“On that list… am I on it too?”
A question that seemed to be missing a lot.
But it wasn't hard to understand what she meant.
She's asking if she's included on my list of things I want, right?
“Of course.”
Her face seemed a little relieved at my quick answer, which I gave without even thinking.
“Really…?”
She got up from the bench and approached me with tense steps.
Standing close enough to caress each other's faces, she parted her lips.
“Let's do it. The threesome.”
“…Really?”
She's agreeing this easily?
I thought it would take at least a few more days.
Just then.
“But, I have two conditions.”
She held up two fingers and started to negotiate.
Conditions…
“…What are they?”
I can probably agree to most things.
“First… I'll be the one to find the other woman.”
“……”
The first condition was pretty strong.
And very unexpected.
“You're going to bring her yourself, Yu-jeong?”
I was suddenly getting nervous.
What if she brings some woman who'll completely kill my mood and insists we have a threesome?
Did she read the anxiety on my face?
“…I'll bring her, and we'll only do it if you're okay with her too.”
I was dumbfounded by the compromise she offered in an instant.
What's with her today?
She's not the type to back down from her own opinions easily…
Did she have some kind of epiphany, or did Jo Yun-kyung work some magic with that mouth of hers?
“If that's the case… I'm more than happy with that.”
In fact, I'm curious.
Who Shin Yu-jeong will try to bring for the threesome.
It won't be easy to find someone like that.
If you asked me to find someone right now, I can't think of anyone other than Jo Yun-kyung or Im Na-eun, who already have experience.
Or maybe our cute little fucktoy subtly pitched herself.
Well, that doesn't matter.
“Then what's the second condition?”
This second one was the important one.
Conditions usually get tougher as you go down the list.
I was staring intently at her mouth with a slightly tense face when another unexpected condition came out.
“Our relationship… make it more definite than it is now.”
“…Relationship?”
“Yeah, relationship.”
This was also completely unexpected.
She wants to end the ambiguous relationship that she started and I later took the lead in.
I wasn't sure when everything was still up in the air, but now, I don't really mind.
“What do you want it to be?”
When I asked out of curiosity, she answered with an even darker expression.
“…Starting with tying up the loose ends.”
“Loose ends?”
Tying up loose ends… isn't that usually what you say when you're ending something?
While I was puzzled, unable to grasp her exact meaning, she did something bizarre again.
Thud!
She suddenly dropped to her knees in front of me.
What the hell is wrong with her?
I suddenly got scared.
“Hey… what are you doing all of a sudden?”
She's not about to say she's 'gathering momentum' and throw an uppercut, is she…?
As I tensed up, a million thoughts running through my head…
She looked up at me, her eyes red-rimmed as if they were heated iron, and said.
“I'm sorry.”
“……”
What is this?
Is this a hidden camera prank…?