Chapter 63: Damn Alcohol (2)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 63: Damn Alcohol (2)
By the time I’d sobered up a little and returned, the seating arrangement at the table had changed.
Im Na-eun, who had been making the rounds answering calls from her seniors, was now sitting with a flushed face. Jo Ye-jin had moved to another table and was busy exchanging drinks with the other special admission students.
“Oh, Do-jin~!”
Spotting me as I walked over, Im Na-eun smiled brightly and waved.
Wow, she must be really drunk.
She was already a bubbly person, but with alcohol in her system, she’d become almost unbearably so.
“Where’d you gooo?”
“Just went to get some air.”
“Heheheh, I seeee.”
It seemed a side effect of her excessive drinking was that her tongue had folded in half.
“Huh? I haven’t had a drink with you yet, have I? Let’s have a toast! A toast!”
“…”
Why is her memory so sharp when it comes to useless things?
“Let’s have a toooast~ Huh? Toast, toast!”
“S-Sure.”
I had no choice.
If I left her like this, she’d just keep pestering me to drink. The only way out was to let her drink more until she passed out completely.
“Yu-jeong, you too!”
“…Tsk.”
Shin Yu-jeong, who was sitting next to her with her legs crossed, frowned before picking up her beer mug.
I figured she was probably thinking the same thing I was.
“Alright, cheers~!”
After clinking our glasses with gusto, she downed the remaining half of her 500cc mug in one go.
Thud!
“…”
And then, she finally collapsed.
With one unbearably energetic drunk out of the picture, I could finally breathe a sigh of relief…
“…How are we supposed to get her home?”
I’d forgotten.
None of us knew where she lived.
“Hey.”
“Huh?”
Shin Yu-jeong, who had been sitting next to Im Na-eun, suddenly stood up and sat down in the empty seat beside me.
“This sister will take care of Na-eun, so let’s just drink some more.”
“…All of a sudden?”
What was this?
Just a moment ago, she was nagging me about drinking so much, and now she was encouraging me to drink more.
“I’m pretty drunk right now, if I drink any more… Oof!”
“Oh? You drank with Ye-jin sunbae and Im Na-eun, but you won’t drink with me?”
Shin Yu-jeong covered my mouth with her hand, her tone feigning disappointment.
You were there the whole time too, you brat.
She pressed a beer mug to my lips.
What is this?
“This isn’t my beer mug… Glk!”
“Here, drink up, okay? All the way, that’s a good boy.”
Gulp! Gulp!
The beer she shoved at me mid-sentence rushed down my throat.
Beneath the refreshing taste of the beer, I could taste a strong, sweet flavor.
It wasn’t just beer; it was a somaek [a mix of soju and beer].
And a very potent one at that, with an insane amount of soju.
“Phew!”
Wow, how much soju did she pour in here?
I’d only taken a few sips, but my head, which had just started to clear, was spinning again.
Wondering what she was up to, I struggled to look up at her face.
“You’re going to drink more, right?”
Her eyes were gleaming with desire.
A pinkish mist swirled around them.
It was the mist of mana I had seen from the Ajumma several times.
But why was it spreading around her eyes?
I thought that only appeared when someone felt immense satisfaction from sex…?
Her hand, holding the beer mug, drew closer.
So did my sense of danger.
“Yu-jeong, I think I’m really going to pass out if I drink any more… Mmph!”
“It’s fine, it’s fine. This sister will take you home, so you can drink as much as you want.”
As the alcohol flowed helplessly down my throat, her voice seeped into my ears.
“You trust your sister, right?”
If you were me, would you…
Thud!
*
“Hoo!”
Shin Yu-jeong let out a short breath as she looked at the man and woman who had passed out, their heads slumped on the table.
The corners of her mouth curled up naturally.
“Ahem!”
Suppressing a smile, she stood up and hoisted both of them onto her shoulders.
As a Tanker, their combined weight was more than manageable for her.
“Sunbaenims, my friends are drunk, so we’ll be leaving first!”
The seniors saw her off.
An easygoing personality and an excellent Tanker.
These two traits had earned her a good reputation among the upperclassmen, making her quite popular.
Before leaving the pub, her eyes met with someone’s.
Son Seo-yeon.
After giving a taunting smile to Seo-yeon, who was staring blankly in her direction, Shin Yu-jeong went straight outside and hailed a cab.
Once inside, she immediately went through Im Na-eun’s smartphone to find her address.
The method was simple.
She used Na-eun’s finger to unlock the phone, opened a delivery app, and found the address listed inside.
The address on the app was near Gongdeok Station.
Seeing this, her brow furrowed slightly.
“Tsk… it’s in the opposite direction.”
But that lasted only for a moment.
As if it had never happened, Shin Yu-jeong’s face brightened.
It was a hassle, but in her current mood, she didn’t mind dropping her off just this once.
“Heehee.”
She giggled, looking down at Kim Do-jin, who was sleeping soundly while clutching her right arm.
He was completely knocked out from the alcohol, so he should be out for at least a few hours.
“Sir, to Gongdeok Station, please.”
The distance was quite short, so the taxi arrived at the address in no time.
It was a new building with a clean exterior.
“Hoh, so she’s living on her own here.”
Considering how Seoul’s housing prices were skyrocketing every year, her family must be very well-off.
For a twenty-year-old to be living alone in a newly constructed building in the middle of Seoul, it was quite telling.
She took the key card from Im Na-eun’s wallet, opened the front door, and practically threw her onto the bed in the master bedroom.
“Ugh…!”
The impact must have been significant, as Im Na-eun began to stir. Shin Yu-jeong simply raised her middle finger at her.
“You should be glad I’m holding back from smacking you upside the head. Who do you think you’re trying to seduce, you foxy bitch.”
She slammed the door shut, went back to the waiting taxi, and gave the driver her own address.
“Phew…!”
Shin Yu-jeong pulled the head of Kim Do-jin, who was sleeping against the window, into her lap.
“Bastard…”
She barely resisted the urge to flick him on the head.
She couldn’t count how many times he had made her heart race with anxiety today.
“What kind of magic did you use, you son of a bitch.”
Shin Yu-jeong pinched his hollowed cheek between her thumb and forefinger, stretching it before letting go.
His skin snapped back into place with elasticity.
Rapid weight loss could often lead to a loss of skin elasticity, but he had none of that.
No, if anything, his skin was incomparably better than before.
“Well, at least he’s better to look at…”
Honestly, it wasn’t a bad thing for her.
She had never been interested in men before, but she still had her preferences.
And Kim Do-jin’s current appearance hit her preferences dead on.
The problem was that his face wasn’t some niche look that appealed only to her.
Today was a perfect example.
Kim Do-jin didn’t know it, but while he was away from the table, several seniors had approached her.
They’d asked her to help them get closer to him.
And was that all?
This spineless idiot was staring blankly at Son Seo-yeon one moment, then grinning like a fool with that foxy bitch the next.
Today had been nothing but one heart-pounding, nerve-wracking moment after another.
So she had made a decision.
Taming him slowly was already a lost cause. She decided to skip a few steps and get right to it.
“Sir, could you please stop at that convenience store for a moment?”
“Sure.”
She went straight into the store and wandered around until she finally found what she was looking for.
Condoms.
Even for someone as brazen as her, buying condoms required more courage than she’d expected.
She wanted to just grab them, pay, and get out.
“…Why are there so many different kinds?”
She’d hit a snag.
What was regular type, what was dotted type, and what the hell was ultra-thin?
“Ah, shit. Those girls said something was good…”
She tried to recall the chatter of the girls she used to hang out with in high school.
Fragments of conversations she’d paid no mind to began to play back in her head.
And finally, she found the answer.
“This is it.”
Ultra-thin condoms.
It was good for the woman’s satisfaction, but the man liked it too because it was thin, or something like that.
But that wasn’t the only thing she had to consider.
“Fuck… why are there different sizes?”
Weren’t all men’s dicks more or less the same? What was the point of sizes?
“Ah, whatever.”
Coolly, she grabbed one of each size and placed them on the counter.
“I’d like to pay for these.”
“Y-Yes.”
She could feel the part-time worker’s strange gaze on her as he scanned the barcodes.
She deliberately looked away, finished the payment quickly, and returned to the taxi.
“Hah…”
Suddenly overwhelmed, Shin Yu-jeong pinched the sleeping Kim Do-jin’s cheek, quite hard this time.
“Because of you…!”
She never thought the day would come when she’d be buying condoms herself.
An indescribable emotion crept through her entire body.
When the taxi arrived at her building, she carried Kim Do-jin on her back and climbed the stairs.
She went up to the roof, retrieved the key hidden under a flowerpot, opened the door to his room, and laid him down on the mattress that was always on the floor.
“Hoo.”
The distinct, musky scent that always seemed to linger in a man’s room tickled her nose.
“…It’s pretty clean.”
It used to be a pigsty, but it seemed he’d cleaned up his room just as he’d cleaned up his body.
She tossed the plastic bag with the condoms onto the floor and plopped down.
“Ha, fuck… is this really the right thing to do?”
Half in anger, half from the alcohol.
Fueled by the two greatest catalysts for impulsive decisions, she had made it this far, but now she hesitated.
Was tonight really the night to do the deed?
Considering Kim Do-jin’s timid personality, maybe she could just continue to coax him along slowly like she had been.
“No, that’s not right.”
She shook her head vigorously.
Kim Do-jin was changing.
And it wasn’t just his body.
His personality was gradually changing too, and it was noticeable.
If his body could transform in an instant, there was no guarantee his personality wouldn’t do the same.
“Yes, today is my chance.”
A chance to tie Kim Do-jin down.
Her resolve hardened, she immediately stood up and walked over to the sleeping man.
She began to unbutton his dress shirt, one by one.
As the shirt opened, his muscular, well-defined body was revealed.
“Wow, fuck…”
Gulp!
She swore under her breath and swallowed hard without realizing it.
Until now, whenever she saw a muscular man, her only thought was about what his strength stat might be.
This was the first time.
The first time she had ever looked at a man’s body and thought it was sexy.
Gazing at his sculpted physique, which she found impossible to look away from, she had a thought.
Maybe doing the deed wouldn’t be so difficult after all.