You Made a Mistake
In the middle of that reconciliatory hug, Eunseo appeared in the distance, calling me puppy as she started running toward us.
"Puppyyyyy!!!"
The moment she shouted it at the top of her lungs, people nearby turned to stare at us. Hayun noona, who had been holding me tight, looked over at Eunseo as well.
"What... Junhi, do you know her?"
"Uh, uh... yes..."
"If you know her, why is she calling our Junhi a puppy?"
"That's... I don't really..."
I had no idea why Eunseo was calling me that. She had locked me up and tried to rape me once, and I'd barely managed to escape — and now here she was, right in front of me, staring as if she wanted me dead as she slowly closed the distance.
"Puppy, why aren't you coming over right now?? Your owner is right here, so why are you wagging your tail at some other woman?? Do you like girls that much? Are you in heat??"
Eunseo kept coming closer. Hayun noona, still holding me snugly, stroked my face once with a gentle expression — then released her arms and pulled me behind her back.
"Puppy, what are you doing??? Why aren't you coming?? I'm right here. Your owner's right here, so why are you hiding behind some other woman?"
"I don't know who you are, but would you please not call our Junhi that way?"
Hayun noona stopped Eunseo, who had come right up to us, in a truly calm voice. There was enough of a height difference that Eunseo had to look up at her, but she still glared past her at me, furious.
"I don't have business with you, so get lost."
"We've never met before, and speaking to me so casually is a little rude, don't you think?"
"So what? None of your business, so get lost, lady. I came here for the puppy behind you."
Hayun noona kept blocking Eunseo's approach as politely as she could — then her body went slightly rigid, and in an instant the atmosphere shifted.
"...A-a... lady..."
"Old lady, stop sticking your nose into young people's love and get lost! I only came to see my puppy!!!"
"......"
Eunseo shoved the frozen Hayun noona aside and stepped right up to me.
"Puppy."
"E-Eunseo..."
"Puppy, let's go home now."
Eunseo grabbed my hand and tried to drag me out, but Hayun noona, who had been standing still, caught hold of her.
"Ah, fuck!!! Why the hell are you interfering, you fucking bitch!!! Did you want to seduce our puppy that badly with that loose old cunt of yours?"
"......"
A chill ran through my entire body. I could read the expression on Hayun noona's face as she looked at Eunseo with no expression at all and eyes like ice. This went past anger. Eunseo had said something she should never have said.
"Junhi."
"Y-yes!"
"Close your eyes for a moment, will you?"
"Yes!!"
At the sound of Hayun noona's voice in that state, I squeezed my eyes shut right where I stood.
Our Junhi is so adorable that women flocking around him is inevitable. I can understand all of that.
This woman, on the other hand, had just said something in front of me that she absolutely must never say.
"You fucking bitch!! Let go!! Let go of me!!!"
I didn't care who the woman in my grip was. Whether she was some girl Junhi used to date, or an obsessive stalker — none of it mattered. Junhi was already in my hands now. All that was left was for us to live happily together. And yet she had the nerve to walk up like this, throw my age in my face, and try to take him away?
The hand around her wrist tightened, bit by bit.
"You fu...cking bitch!! What, you gonna hit me??"
"......"
We were inside a supermarket. I could feel the stares of people watching us, and farther off, employees were whispering among themselves. Part of me wanted to beat her to the floor right then and there, but there were far too many eyes.
"Hit me!! Go ahead and hit me!! You fucking loose cunt that can fit a pumpkin, you whore!!!!"
"...That's enough...."
"What do you mean enough, you fucking bitch!! With that wide-open cunt that can fit a pumpkin — that old, loose, gaping pussy — you seduced a young guy with money!!"
Insulting me wasn't enough. She had to bring up my age and rant about how wide my cunt was. I was deciding how to kill this piece of trash. Bury her in the ground, or chop the body into pieces and dump it in the sea.
"U-uugh..."
While she kept ranting, I put more force into my grip. A thin, pained whimper slipped out of her.
"Junhi."
"Yes?"
"Come to my side. Now."
"Y-yes..."
Junhi, who had been keeping his eyes shut as I'd told him, shook free of the woman's hand and came to stand beside me. The look on her face when she saw him move at a single word from me was pure despair.
"P-puppy... u-ugh!! Why? Why?? Why??? I-I'm right heeere ugh!!"
"Listen carefully. Whatever you call our Junhi, whatever your relationship is — I have absolutely no interest in Junhi's past."
"Aaaah... aaaagh!!"
I began slowly twisting the wrist I held in a direction it was never meant to go.
"I simply look at Junhi as he is right now."
"Gyaaaaaah!!! You fu-fucking bitch aaaagh!!!!"
"But you come here like this, try to take Junhi, and on top of that you bring up my age???"
I meant to break the arm for real. Junhi, standing beside me, grabbed my arm.
"No-noona... th-that's enough..."
"Let go, Junhi."
No matter how much he begged, this woman had crossed the line I had drawn. Weeds like her had to be crushed early, or they grew back later.
I shook off Junhi's arm and twisted the woman's arm again, in the direction that would break it, fully intending to snap it.
"Gyaaaaaah!! You... fu-fucking bitch!! M-my arm!! Arm!! It's... going to break!!"
"I know."
I'll carve into your body exactly who you decided to touch.
Right in front of me, Eunseo's arm was caught in Hayun noona's hand, twisted to the edge of the direction it was never meant to go.
"Ha... Hayun noona, please... st-stop..."
"......"
"G-guuuuh... aaaaagh!!"
Eunseo's arm bent farther and farther in that grotesque direction until she collapsed onto the floor. Tears welled in her eyes — it must have truly hurt — and she kept screaming.
"Pl... please, noona... stop..."
"......"
"Please, Hayun noona, please st-stop..."
I kept trying to stop her, but she showed no sign of quitting. She only twisted harder. No amount of begging worked, so I grabbed Hayun noona's arm myself and held on.
"Pl-please... stop... please..."
"Let go, Junhi. I don't want to use force on you too."
"Please... I'm begging you like this... y-you're really going to kill someone..."
"I know. That's the plan. So Junhi, will you let go already? What if this woman runs away?"
Hayun noona spoke in a truly cold voice. She really meant to kill Eunseo.
"Hayun noona... please, p-people are watching..."
"......"
At the mention of the crowd, Hayun noona finally looked around. People had gathered, drawn by Eunseo's screams, and in the middle of it all I could see someone calling the police.
"F-for now... let's go home... pl-please..."
"...Tsk. Get up, you fucking bitch."
Apparently she didn't want to make this any bigger. I took hold of Eunseo, who was crumpled on the floor clutching her arm and sobbing, and pulled her to her feet.
"......"
When I helped Eunseo up, Hayun noona looked at me with eyes like ice.
I supported Eunseo while Hayun noona, as if nothing had happened, packed the items from the cart into boxes and arranged for them to be delivered home the next day. The moment we followed her out of the supermarket, Eunseo finally let out the sobs she had been holding back.
"U... uugh... waaaaah..."
"......"
"It hurts... i-it huuurts... hnnngh... it huuurts..."
Watching Eunseo cry as if her throat would tear, I felt I should comfort her — but with Hayun noona right ahead of us, something told me I absolutely should not.
"Junhi, come here."
"Ah, no..."
"Should I come over there?"
"Y-yes..."
Hayun noona called for me, so I had no choice but to leave Eunseo and go to her side. Without my support, Eunseo dropped straight back onto the ground.
"Hey. Stop faking it and get up."
"It hurts, I said... it hurts, you fucking bitch..."
Even then, Eunseo clutched her injured arm and kept cursing at Hayun noona.
"Does it hurt?"
"Yeah... it huuurts... you lo-loose cunt bitch..."
"Still haven't learned your lesson?"
Hayun noona grabbed a fistful of Eunseo's hair where she sat and spoke.
"If you'd just quietly gone your own way, none of this would have happened. But you made a mistake today."
"Either leave as a half-cripple, or I'll shatter your mind so thoroughly that you give up on Junhi for good — and I'll show you hell."