Did Nothing Happen?
Squatting on the floor, Ji-su glanced over her shoulder at me and shouted,
“Just a second!”
The woman who had entered the warehouse before me was fiddling with something inside. Then, after a moment, she turned toward me with a bright smile and the sound of something clicking shut. “All done!”
Standing in front of the object she had been playing with, Ji-su hid it carefully. I tilted my head, growing curious about what it could be. ‘What did she do…?’
The moment I leaned forward, she suddenly popped up right in front of me, waving her arms to block my view. “Ahh! Don’t look! You mustn’t see, Uncle!”
“Why, what is that?”
“Never mind! You really mustn’t look!”
‘She’s making me super curious.’
But since she asked me not to look, I decided it was proper not to. I forced my eyes away from the object and spoke while looking at her face. “So, Ji-su, I was about to ask something…”
In an instant, her face filled my entire field of vision. A few strands of black hair flew right in front of my eyes, and the sweet lavender scent brushed against my nose. By the time I realized what was happening…
‘She… what is she doing right now!’
The girl in front of me had closed her eyes and was pushing her tongue deep into my mouth. “Mmmph!”
I tried to pull her away the second I understood the situation, but she had clearly seen it coming and gripped my head tightly with both hands, refusing to let go. The kiss continued until the front of my pants bulged, almost touching her stomach. ‘I can’t do this anymore. I have to forcibly separate them even if it’s rough.’
Normally I would avoid using force, but seeing how she wouldn’t let go, I had to be a bit coercive. I slid both hands into her armpits and lifted her straight up, forcing the connection apart. She dangled in mid-air with her tongue sticking out, waving her arms. “Eeeh… Uncle…”
“You… you you you… you! Ji-su! What on earth are you doing!”
‘Did I not actually touch her body?’
When I finally pulled her away, the erection in my pants had touched something, so I wasn’t sure. ‘Clothes… it must be clothes, right?’
Ignoring the heat rising in my face, I turned away and left the convenience store in a clumsy hurry. From behind, Ji-su called out with a grateful voice. “Thank you for helping, Uncle!”
‘What exactly did I help with?’
Confused by the situation I couldn’t understand, I couldn’t even answer her greeting and rushed home.
***
After the convenience-store incident with Ji-su.
I showered when I got home but suddenly felt something strange. “What? Why isn’t my dick reacting today?”
‘If there had been that kind of stimulating situation earlier…’
Normally, by now it would be rock-hard and ready to finish three times before calming down. But today it was perfectly still. It had barely even gotten hard. I glanced at my dick, which I had just pulled out as usual, and thought, “Hmm… what’s the cause?”
I tried to recall anything special that happened yesterday or today. ‘The only thing I can think of…’
Wiping my daughter’s sweat while holding back my lust until I passed out. Besides that…
‘Huh? Wait.’
Passing out?
‘Wait a second. I did pass out yesterday, right?’
The events of yesterday were hazy, just like when I first woke up. As I tried to remember, a strange feeling crept in. After showering quickly, I sat on the edge of the bed. Then the vague unease that had been nagging in my head suddenly cleared. ‘Yeah. Why did I pass out yesterday?’
I looked back step by step. ‘Yesterday I took A-yeong to the emergency room, came home, and fell asleep.’
And right before I was about to fall asleep, I heard a loud noise from my daughter’s room and rushed over. ‘After that… after that…’
The memories from this point were blurry. “Uuuuum…”
Wiping sweat… I tried to leave but A-yeong grabbed me…
‘Then… after that…’
Everything clicked into place. I remembered exactly what I had done before passing out yesterday and why I had fainted. When I recalled the behavior I would exhibit when my lust took over, my heart dropped. ‘No way.’
After passing out, I had no memory. Yet my body felt strangely refreshed. So…
A horrifying image flashed before my eyes. ‘Did… did I actually cover my daughter?’
Instead of the usual stiffness in my waist when I woke up, my body felt light and refreshed. ‘But… it suddenly makes sense. The dick that should have been painfully hard every morning was unusually calm.’
Comparing my current state with the one who had passed out right before lust fully took over…
‘No. No. No.’
I grabbed my head and desperately tried to recall yesterday’s events. ‘What did I do after I passed out? Why did I wake up in bed? Why is there no memory?’
And…
‘Why did I pass out at that time?’
I dug deeper. ‘I definitely caught the sweet scent… then I felt intense dizziness. I strongly rejected the voice coming from inside me and passed out.’
‘No. Think carefully, Park Seong-chan.’
If I had actually covered my daughter while unconscious, I shouldn’t have woken up in this room…
‘It should be A-yeong’s room.’
I had to. I absolutely had to. The thought that I might have done something terrible to the daughter I loved and cherished made my legs tremble as I sat on the edge of the bed. ‘It can’t be. Yes. It can’t be.’
My heart pounded wildly. I was terrified. What if I had gone into my daughter’s room to check on her and found her unable to stand, in a terrible state? What if I had cruelly violated a daughter who couldn’t even properly take medicine for the flu? I wouldn’t be able to hold on. It was frightening. I didn’t want to lose my family. ‘But… what if… what if it really happened?’
That thought kept me pacing in front of my daughter’s door for ten full minutes. I made a decision. ‘I have to check.’
No matter what, I would take responsibility. I carefully opened the door in front of me. ‘Fortunately it wasn’t locked…’
But the strange, unfamiliar scent coming through the gap made my body freeze. The daughter’s room should normally smell like fragrant flowers. Instead, the heavy scent I always caught when dealing with lust in the bathroom was pouring out. ‘W-what…?’
My legs weakened and I nearly collapsed. Since I was curious, I stepped inside and took a deep breath. The scent made my brows furrow. It was my own semen smell. Terrified, I first checked on A-yeong. ‘A… A-yeong…’
When I looked away and back at her, what would her state be like? ‘Please let it not be the worst situation I’m imagining.’
My heart raced like crazy and ringing started in my ears. I had to check on my daughter and prepare to act, but fear kept me frozen. ‘What now? Really, what now?’
I felt like I was about to hyperventilate, so I took slow breaths. ‘What can I do? Somehow… somehow…’
What could I do? Even if I claimed I had no memory, was this something I could be forgiven for? There was a limit to forgiveness. Was touching an ill daughter something that could be forgiven? I sat on the floor, staring blankly for a while. As I breathed like I was dead, my breathing finally calmed. Thanks to that, the ringing in my ears subsided and an unfamiliar sound began. “Khh… khhh…”
My daughter’s snoring. The familiar sound gave me hope. Carefully, I raised my head and saw my daughter’s peaceful expression. ‘Her condition… she’s fine?’
Just like usual, A-yeong was kicking off the blanket because of her bad sleeping habit, wearing only underwear. It was embarrassing, but I had to check something. I slowly lowered my gaze to make sure there were no bruises. The only thing I saw was a single mark on the inside of her thigh. ‘Could it be a scar… nothing?’
At least no visible bruises or red marks. A ray of hope appeared in my mind, which had been stuck in negative thoughts because of panic. ‘Maybe I somehow entered the room and slept.’
But then, why the lightened body? ‘Even if the semen smell was from yesterday’s discharge…’
But in this situation, I decided to cling to the small possibility that looked like a lifeline in front of my eyes. ‘First, ventilate.’
I quietly opened the window halfway to let in fresh air. Then I approached my daughter and looked at her face to check her condition. ‘Her complexion… looks fine.’
I was glad the worst situation I had imagined hadn’t happened. Letting out a sigh of relief, my breathing finally returned to normal. “Haah… thank goodness.”
Unlike yesterday, when her face had flushed red from the flu, today it was back to its usual fair skin. Carefully placing my hand on her forehead, I felt a little heat but she was much better. I brushed her hair once and covered her with the fallen blanket. As I turned to leave, something stuck to A-yeong’s lips caught my eye. Near her parted lips, a dried white mark.
‘Drool mark?’
Her sleeping habit was really bad, so I wasn’t surprised. But was it just my imagination, or did it look like something else? ‘It can’t be.’
I carefully wiped it with the nearby wet towel and turned to leave, when A-yeong’s eyelids started to flutter. The lids slowly opened and I saw her sparkling eyes move around for a moment before they focused on me. Her lips curved into a gentle smile. “Dad… good night.”
The usual response. And that response completely wiped away my worry and fear, allowing me to relax as usual. ‘Thank goodness. If she had just looked at me without saying anything…’
‘It really was nothing.’
“Did you sleep well, A-yeong?”
“Yes…”
“Wait a second, A-yeong. Your lips look a little sticky with drool, so Dad will wipe them for you.”
When A-yeong heard me, she touched her lips with her hand, stared at the saliva on her fingers, froze for a moment, then suddenly jumped in panic and started rubbing frantically. ‘Eh…?’
Seeing her like that, I couldn’t even hand her the wet towel. “A… A-yeong?”
“Huh?! Dad?! Why?!”
Gazing at me with wide eyes, A-yeong received the wet towel I had been unable to hand her a moment ago. “A… here, for wiping your mouth…”
“Th… thank you, Dad.”
Watching A-yeong wipe her mouth with the towel I gave her, I thought, ‘At least it doesn’t seem like I did anything bad, so I can ask.’
Yesterday’s events, the time I passed out. I carefully spoke. “By the way, A-yeong, did Dad pass out yesterday? I can’t remember well.”
“Huh?!”
“Did A-yeong help me after Dad passed out?”
When I asked, A-yeong suddenly avoided my gaze and stared at something far away. After rolling her eyes for a long time, she finally opened her mouth. “Th… so. Yeah.”
She looked a bit flustered. ‘Was it? What did I do?’
A chill ran down my spine again. “A-yeong, after Dad passed out, what did you do?”
I started thinking of excuses for the worst possible situation. “Huh?! Ah! No! Why!”
Fortunately, the reaction from my daughter was panic, not disgust or anger, which cleared the worst situation I had imagined and let me sigh in relief inside. ‘Hmm… at least it doesn’t seem like I did anything bad…’
The heart that had dropped returned. How many times had my heart dropped and been replaced today? At least one worry was gone, which was good, but then A-yeong’s flustered reaction came into play. ‘But why is she so panicked?’
“Um… what did Dad do?”
I spoke with worry. ‘Could it be because I got hard?’
Since I had been lying on the bed, if A-yeong had moved me, she must have seen it. That thought made me blush. “Huh? Dad did what? Um… no? Dad didn’t do anything?”
A-yeong looked at me, then glanced at my lower body. Seeing her like that, I became even more certain. ‘It’s true.’
But after that, a story came out that was different from what I had thought. “I… I thought Dad was having a hard time, so I helped him sleep.”
“Huh? What?”
“Um… I helped Dad sleep…”
Helped Dad sleep?
“Dad was having a hard time…”
“Yeah… I helped because he seemed uncomfortable, but even after I put him to bed, he kept jumping up several times…”
Hearing those words, I finally understood. ‘No way… I…’
Insomnia?
‘Then every time I woke up, my waist was stiff because I kept jumping while sleeping, and this time A-yeong kept putting me back to bed every time I woke up?’
Once that thought connected, all misunderstandings cleared. And I felt incredibly relieved. “Haah… I…”
At the same time, guilt toward my daughter appeared. ‘I passed out from lust and received help from an ill daughter…’
Sighing, I spoke. “Daughter, thank you. Thanks to you, I slept really well. My stiff waist improved a lot too. And I’m sorry. It’s your body that’s sick, not mine.”
“Huh? No, Dad!”
A-yeong looked at me with gentle eyes and said quietly, “I am your loving daughter. If something like that happens, I will help anytime.”
My daughter’s words of concern touched me deeply, and I hugged her tightly. “Daughter…”
After the hug ended, I asked about her condition. “Is that so? By the way, how is your condition, daughter?”
“Huh? What condition?”
“The flu.”
“Ahh. Yeah. Yesterday the world was in chaos, but today I feel energetic. Maybe I took a good medicine.”
“Good medicine?”
“Yeah… good medicine.”
‘It must have worked well.’
Thankfully, the flu injection seemed to have a strong effect. I had spent about one percent of my salary, but it was fine. I had been saving for A-yeong’s big accident. “Thank goodness. Our A-yeong isn’t sick.”
“Hehe…”
Sitting on the bed, I stroked her hair when A-yeong spoke to me. “Dad.”
“Hm?”
“Are you off work today?”
“Eh?”
A-yeong glanced at her phone and showed me the screen. “It’s already 8:40.”
“Eh?”
“…Dad.”
Looking blankly at the phone screen, I saw it change from 40 to 41 minutes and jumped up. “A… A-yeong! I’ll go to work!”
“Yeah! Don’t get hurt!”
“Yeah! Okay! Eat your meal and medicine well! I love you, daughter! I’ll go!”
“Me too! Take care, Dad!”
After seeing A-yeong off to work, I rushed out the front door. And as I ran to the car, one thought suddenly hit me. ‘But why is my dick so calm?’
It was what it was. Good was good. I went to work.
***
“Puff… puff…”
Late…?
Late checks started at 9 a.m. and there were various penalties. ‘If I’m late just one more time…’
This year I had already been late twice. The third time, the men in our research lab would be the “Employee of the Month for Tardiness” for a week…
‘That can never happen.’
I looked at the electronic attendance stamp in front of me.
