Episode 24: Ji Eun-hwi Cannot Understand
Episode 24: Ji Eun-hwi Cannot Understand
24 Ji Eunhwi Cannot Understand
As I helped the still-unsteady Eunhwi out of the bathroom, a familiar voice called out.
"Did you have fun?"
"What the—Sieun Nuna?"
"Yeah, it's Nuna."
"When did you get here?"
"When did I get here? Around the time Eunhwi asked you, 'Shall we feed our baby?' I'd say. Been about forty minutes."
Which meant she had heard practically everything from the very beginning.
"Sorry."
"You've got nothing to be sorry for. But take it easy. You're going to kill Eunhwi at this rate."
"Hehe, I'd be fine with dying."
"Listen to this childish nonsense. The thought that a girl like this gets called pure and elegant out in the world—it turns my stomach."
As if genuinely frustrated, Sieun Nuna tapped her palm against her chest.
And then Eunhwi's next words truly flipped Sieun Nuna's stomach.
"Well... it's just that Sijun hasn't done it much with anyone, so he lets it all out on me... so I did it until my waist almost snapped, tee-hee!"
"Hey!!! Ji Eunhwi!!!"
I had no choice but to hold Sieun Nuna back without even having my clothes on.
I calmed Sieun Nuna down, and now I was drying Eunhwi's hair with Nuna's help.
"You need to cut your hair."
"Why? Too long?"
"No, look right here. It's splitting. The nutrients must not be reaching the ends."
"Hmm... I do use treatments and stuff... but I guess it really is just too long."
I could stare forever and never notice things like that, but Sieun Nuna spotted it at a glance.
"Come with me next time I go."
"Do you have time?"
"I'm jobless, so we just have to match your schedule."
"Alright, let's go."
Their conversation shifted further and further into territory I could not understand, so I just sat there listening.
"Sijun, do you want to come too?"
Eunhwi poked me as I sat there blankly, mechanically drying her hair.
"Huh? Me?"
"Yeah, you."
"Well..."
"Come on. Cut your hair too and get some proper grooming done."
With Sieun Nuna's final word on the matter, I ended up getting dragged along to the salon.
"What's with that face? You don't want to go with us?"
"Yeah."
"Yeah? You don't want to go?"
"No, no, no, no, no. Sure, let's go."
"Hey, your inner thoughts just popped out."
Eunhwi looked at me, laughing, while Sieun Nuna glared. I'd already blurted it out, so I had no choice but to confess what I actually thought.
"I mean, if I go with you two, it's a minimum of four hours."
I know that shopping and beauty appointments for women take a long time. But unlike shopping, where you can at least browse around and find something interesting, at a salon you just have to sit there completely spaced out.
"Then just sleep."
My concern was dismissed with a single sentence from Sieun Nuna.
"Uh..."
Sure, it takes a long time, but they talk to the stylist and take care of everything without me having to pay attention, and they even cover the cost for me, so I don't have much to complain about. Salon expenses are no joke, it turns out.
Even after we dried our hair and got into bed, the two of them kept talking.
"Hey, but Eunhwi."
"Hmm? What?"
Because she had a face mask on, Eunhwi's pronunciation was slightly slurred.
"What have you been reading lately?"
"What do you mean, what have I been reading?"
"I mean, the way you talk lately... it's a little... like you've been reading those internet novels that were popular when we were young."
"That's right."
That was something I was curious about too. Eunhwi's word choices hadn't been normal. Had she gotten a little looser, somehow? Sometimes she even came across as downright coarse.
"Ah~ web novels."
"Huh?"
"What?"
Sieun Nuna and I both sat up in surprise.
Eunhwi gets praised as pure and elegant based on her looks alone, but her behavior also contributes to that image.
She carries around books on the humanities, literature, and other things I barely managed to read back in college, almost every day. Clips of her reading between takes sometimes show up in behind-the-scenes videos or news articles.
The idea of a woman like that reading comparatively light and somewhat provocative web novels was unthinkable to me.
"I got offered a drama based on a web novel."
"So? That's a drama, right?"
"It's kind of... slice-of-life? So I guess I don't really get that sensibility?"
"No, even so... the way you talk is kind of... it feels like you've been reading web novels from the dark corners of the internet?"
"Why? I'm almost forty, too. I can read stuff like that sometimes."
She was so unnecessarily logical about it that Sieun Nuna and I were left speechless.
---
"What's this, Unnie?"
"What?"
Ji Eunhwi, who had been sitting quietly while getting her makeup done, slowly opened her eyes at the coordinator's words.
"No, it's just, your skin is taking makeup really well today."
"Oh really?"
"'Oh really?' isn't enough... Unnie! Come look at this for a sec."
The coordinator doing her makeup called someone else over.
"What?"
"I mean, isn't Eunhwi Unnie's skin insane today?"
"Uh... huh? Unnie, you're clearly in bad condition in the summer... and it's hot today?"
Even the veteran manager who had been with Ji Eunhwi for nearly ten years stared at her strangely.
"Is it that much?"
Ji Eunhwi couldn't understand the coordinator, who had stopped working in surprise while looking at her, or the manager, who was checking a weather app on her phone.
"Must be my imagination. I did sleep pretty deeply last night."
"Is that it...?"
"No, it's more than that, though..."
The coordinator kept tilting her head and muttering that she couldn't understand.
"No... this is... this, this is..."
"What's wrong, Director?"
"No, Director Kim, come look at this."
The camera director who was monitoring the scene just shot called the PD over.
"Is something off? Is the light too harsh? The sun's a bit overly strong today... huh?"
The PD also worried that the sudden harsh sunlight might have caused too much glare, but as he looked at the screen, he froze.
"Strange, right?"
"Yeah... well... it really is strange."
As the two directors stood there for a while, other people gradually gathered around.
"What's going on? What's the matter?"
When Ji Eunhwi, who had come back after fixing her makeup, approached the crowd, everyone turned to look at her.
"What... did I do something wrong?"
Seeing everyone staring only at her, Ji Eunhwi also grew flustered and stepped back.
"Eunhwi, come look at this."
"Yes..."
Ji Eunhwi tilted her head as she watched the scene she was in.
"I don't see anything odd?"
"You don't see anything odd?"
The actress appearing alongside Ji Eunhwi tapped her and looked at her as if she found the whole thing absurd.
"No..."
"Do you seriously not know?"
Ji Eunhwi looked around as if she genuinely had no idea.
"Looking closely, it's a little awkward, but..."
It honestly was a bit awkward. On-set footage is just that: raw footage.
It's unprocessed, with no background music, no corrections, no editing of any kind, so a degree of awkwardness is natural.
"No, you're the only one drawn in a completely different art style!!"
"Excuse me?"
"You're pretty. Everyone here knows that. But today, you're just too pretty."
After that, the entire day's filming schedule was overturned because Ji Eunhwi's condition had suddenly become so good.
"Let's shoot that one first today! We have to capture it while you look your most beautiful!"
It was the kind of statement everyone on set would normally hate, but not a single person objected.
"What's supposed to be different?"
Ji Eunhwi was the only one still tilting her head.
---
"What's up, Nuna?"
I stared blankly at Sieun Nuna, who had suddenly barged into my office.
"Oh, I had an appointment nearby, came by, and now I'm tired, but going home feels like a hassle. I've got another thing this evening."
"Uh... this isn't a hotel."
"I'll just rest a bit and then go."
"What the—how did you pull that out?"
She casually folded out the sofa bed, then lowered the blinds to darken the room.
Lately, the sofa hadn't been serving its intended purpose and just functioned as a bed, so I felt a little sorry for it.
"Unbelievable..."
She'd never once visited my office before, but she pulled my clothes out of the closet, changed into them, and lay down on the sofa as if she'd been doing it forever.
I wondered if she'd heard about it from Eunhwi, but just hearing about it didn't seem sufficient to act this naturally, so I was puzzled.
"What the? How are you so natural at this?"
Nuna gave no reply at all.
Her silence bothered me, but I made an effort to ignore it and focused on the monitor.
"Sijun-ah."
Sieun Nuna had come up right beside me before I knew it.
A feeling of déjà vu washed over me. I felt like something similar had happened not long ago... but what followed was slightly different.
"No... why... why are you doing this? At home, do this at home."
"Can't. Urgent."
She tried to unbuckle and pull off my pants, so I grabbed her hands to stop her.
"Seriously, why are you being like this, Nuna?"
The office does have some soundproofing for privacy and security reasons, and unless someone deliberately tries to look through the lowered blinds, you can't see inside the office.
Even so, this is a workplace. It's not that I don't have fantasies about it, but that's for when there are fewer people around and the timing is right. This isn't it.
And today, there are a ton of people outside because of some event.
Shaking off my hands, Sieun Nuna had already stripped off my pants and slowly began stroking my dick.
"Hoo~ hoo~"
She gently blew with her mouth, stimulating me, and this clueless bastard of mine started rising, pleased as always.
"No... Nuna..."
"Feel good?"
Sieun Nuna asked, looking up at me.
I should stop her, but I didn't want to. It felt like the angel and devil on my shoulders in some cartoon were fighting it out.
"Come here."
She took my hand and led me to the sofa. My half-removed pants and boxers hindered my steps.
My legs wanted to walk, but the pants and boxers tangled around them seemed to scream at me to grab hold of my reason.
But in the end, the devil won.
Nuna sat on the sofa, laid me down on her lap, and slowly moved her hand.
"Uhgh... Nuna..."
"Does our baby want to suck on Nuna's tits?"
She lifted her top and shook her breasts softly, tempting me. Already having lost to the devil, I raised my head towards Nuna's chest without any particular hesitation.
"Slurp..."
"Our baby, eat a lot."
Getting a handjob while sucking on Nuna's tits. It wasn't something I was inexperienced with, but I had never had an experience like this outside of home, especially in the office while I was supposed to be working.