Who Are You Trying to Send, Sis?!
With both hands raised in a suspicious, all-too-obvious shape, Woojin suddenly lurched backward and waved them frantically.
“N-no, I don’t think that’s possible! This is wrong!”
Catherine immediately glared at him and shouted, “Why?! You said you would! What happened to a man’s word?!”
“No, this is a trap card. Even if I keep this secret, there’s a 100 percent chance I’ll get caught.”
“…….”
Woojin snapped back with a sharp, accusing look. “You’re the one who’s going to blurt it out, aren’t you, Sis?!”
“I-I’ll keep it secret!”
“As if! If Chulsoo-hyung asks later how your chest got like this, what am I supposed to say? That I just happened to run into some world-class breast augmentation expert in the jungle? No way. I can’t do it!”
“Th-that actually sounds like a good idea! You can say that!”
“Seriously! Why are smart people like this?!”
The mere possibility that her breasts might get bigger had completely short-circuited Catherine’s reason.
The cool, precise secretary who could analyze any situation at a glance was nowhere to be found.
“I need permission….”
“What?”
“There’s still such a thing as propriety! How can you just lay hands on your future sister-in-law’s body?! Call Chulsoo-hyung right now. If I don’t get his permission, I’m not doing this, even if it kills me!”
Catherine flinched, looking faintly flustered.
“……Really? Do we really have to tell him?”
“Yeah, because this is better for you too, Sis! Even if this is just an enhancement, what do you think happens if Chulsoo-hyung finds out later? If he thinks some guy was secretly groping his girlfriend’s chest, even Buddha would come after me with a kitchen knife!!”
“I-is that so? Well… that man does seem mild, but he can be pretty jealous.”
“And you know that, but you still want to keep it secret?! If some other bastard were pinching Jihyun’s or Aileen’s chest, I’d feel blood rush to my head just imagining it! This has to be told to him! If not, I can’t do it!”
Woojin’s stance was unyielding. Thinking about it, it did make sense.
Even Catherine could only nod at that point.
If things went wrong, she might lose both her love and her breasts.
“Sigh… fine. You’re impossible. Wait here a moment.”
Catherine stepped off to the side and pulled out her phone.
After a murmur of conversation and about five minutes passing, Catherine came back with an oddly flushed face and held the phone out to Woojin.
“He says to switch over.”
“……Pardon?”
Woojin swallowed hard and took the phone as carefully as if someone were handing him a bomb.
“Hello? Chulsoo-hyung?”
[Woojin-nim, is that true?]
Chulsoo’s voice from the other end was far lower and more solemn than usual. It carried the weight of someone discussing the fate of the world.
Dammit… why is he so serious again…?
“Uh, hyung. Why are you suddenly so intense? You heard the story, right? The more I thought about it, the more I felt like this wasn’t something I should do to you. And Sis agreed. So I’m not doing it unless I get your permission.”
[I see……]
“So what’ll it be? Do it? Don’t do it? If you say no, I absolutely won’t.”
Chulsoo fell silent for a long time. Woojin could hear the roughness of his breathing and the sound of a heavy, troubled sigh on the other end.
[……Woojin. You know I care about you like my own little brother, don’t you? This is a request from me as your hyung……]
After Catherine, Kim Chulsoo also deployed his ultimate move: the I’m-your-close-hyung technique.
Dammit, this couple is messed up… both of them at once.
Woojin felt a bad premonition creeping up his spine.
[Is Catherine-ssi listening right now?]
Woojin adjusted his grip on the phone and edged away from Catherine, moving toward a corner.
“You can’t hear her now. I moved. Feel free to speak.”
[Ahem… first of all, tell Catherine-ssi that I’ve been trying my best to stop this and that I love her just as she is, that looks don’t matter and all that nonsense, but if that’s truly what she wants, then I’ll have no choice but to let it happen. Say I objected until the end. That way I survive.]
“……You want me to do it? Really?”
[Yeah, do it. If you don’t, she’ll just go back to Korea and have some random doctor in Gangnam do it anyway. If that’s the case, you’re still the better option, since I can trust you.]
“Sigh… I’m really… in trouble here, hyung…….”
[I’m asking you. For everyone’s happiness.]
“Everyone’s happiness… meaning your happiness, hyung…. Fine, I get it for now. Then I’ll hang u—”
Just as Woojin tried to end the call, Chulsoo hurriedly cut in.
[Wait! Don’t hang up! More importantly… is it true you can make any part of the body bigger…?]
Woojin frowned, sensing exactly what was coming.
“Ah, don’t ask. Seriously.”
[Woojin. This is the wish of my lifetime. I’m confident about everything else in my life, but if you could just do that one thing……]
“Ah! You crazy bastard! What the hell are you asking me for?! I’m an Augmentor, not a urologist!!”
But by then, Kim Chulsoo had already fallen into the temptation he could no longer escape.
[Woojin…… my beloved little brother. In all of Kim Chulsoo’s life, I’ve never once knelt before anyone and begged like this. I’ll take responsibility for you and Miss Jihyun for the rest of my life. Make me your butler. If you want a slave, I’ll be a slave. Don’t you feel sorry for your hyung? When I was a kid, my nickname was “Caterpillar.” Visiting a bathhouse was my lifelong dream.]
Woojin got goosebumps and rubbed both arms raw. Kim Chulsoo? A caterpillar? He really didn’t need that kind of TMI.
“No, that’s not it… didn’t you hear what Sis just said? I have to touch it directly to enhance it!”
Then Kim Chulsoo said, with grave determination,
[……Your hyung is ready.]
“Fuck, I’m hanging up!!”
Woojin slammed the end button without even waiting for a reply.
***
Woojin let out a deep sigh and came back over.
Catherine was staring at him with sparkling eyes, her hands clasped together as if in prayer.
Still fuming, Woojin relayed every word Chulsoo had said.
“Hyung pleaded with me not to do it, but if you really want it, he said to let it slide and pretend to agree. He said he likes you as you are, but he respects your wishes or something like that.”
Catherine snorted and crossed her arms.
“Hmph!? See! I knew it!! What was he doing, gaining monk-like powers or something?! If anything, he’s got even more obsession in his head now than before awakening!”
“So… do I do it or not…?”
“Do it! I’m doing it! Even if I dump Kim Chulsoo and marry some other man, I’m doing it!”
“Ha… I don’t know. I’ve done all I’m going to do. No taking it back later.”
He was a little tense now. No matter how much he tried to self-hypnotize himself into thinking this was a medical procedure, touching the body of a woman he knew so well was on an entirely different level.
“For now… I’ll only take it up to guaranteed +3. Anything beyond that is dangerous.”
Catherine looked at herself in a full-length mirror and let her greed show.
“Couldn’t you do +5? If we’re doing this, I want them ridiculously full, like they’re about to burst.”
“And what if they really do burst?”
Catherine shuddered.
“Burst…?”
“Once it falls under the enhancement category, there’s a chance of erosion starting at +4, Sis.”
Only then did Catherine seem to get scared and quiet down. Erosion of the chest? She couldn’t even begin to imagine what that would look like.
“...All right. +3 is enough. I won’t be greedy.”
Catherine took a deep breath as if making up her mind, then immediately started undoing the buttons on her shirt.
Woojin nearly had a heart attack and quickly turned his head away, covering his eyes.
“Hey! Why are you taking everything off, Sis?! Have you lost your mind?!”
But Catherine’s gaze was serious.
“If I leave my clothes on and let you do it by feel, and your hand slips so I end up uneven, are you going to take responsibility? You have to inject mana into the exact point. Precision matters!”
“Even so…….”
“This is the right way! I absolutely do not want uneven breasts.”
Woojin carefully parted his fingers and peeked through them.
Once the padding was removed, Catherine’s chest was indeed modest.
But her skin had that pale, luminous quality unique to Caucasians, and her shape was pretty as a teardrop.
“All right! Start! I’m ready!”
Woojin swallowed and reached out with trembling fingers.
“...Then I’ll begin. Stay still. If you move, it’ll be a disaster.”
The moment Woojin’s fingertips touched Catherine’s soft flesh, a short gasp burst from her lips.
“Ahh……!”
Woojin yelped and snatched his hand back.
“Dammit! Don’t make those weird sounds!!!”
“S-sorry… your hand was just so cold.”
“I’m so blood-starved from dealing with you people in this hot country that my hands are freezing! Do you have any idea what I’m going through?!”
“O-okay…… I’ll behave…….”
Catherine bit her lip hard and squeezed her eyes shut. Woojin placed his hand back on her and activated his power again.
The target was the enlargement of the mammary tissue and fat cells.
“Body Enhancement.”
Golden mana poured from his palm and seeped into Catherine’s chest. And then—
“Haaah!?♡”
Woojin finally snapped and yelled, “I’m not doing this! Who are you trying to send, sis?!”
Catherine’s face turned bright red. She hurriedly grabbed Woojin’s arm.
“Sorry! I’m really sorry! I didn’t mean to make a sound! I’ll shut up! I’ll shut up, okay?!”
“If you make another weird noise, I’m reversing the enhancement and turning you into a cliff.”
“Okay… I’ll be quiet, really quiet… hngh.”
Catherine actually held her breath after that. Woojin, sweating buckets, pushed through the successive enhancements.
[+1 enhancement successful!]
[+2 enhancement successful!]
[+3 enhancement successful!]
Within Woojin’s grasp, a heavy sense of fullness began to grow.
The meager empty space filled out, and a resilient firmness emerged, pressing back against his palm.
Three times by ten percent. Even at a glance, the compounded increase in volume was obvious.
“……Done.”
The second Woojin let go, Catherine raced to the mirror as if under a spell.
“My God…… this is my chest?”
In the mirror, she saw a pair of breasts that looked far more natural and far more supple than anything achieved by shoving in four pads and stuffing them to the limit—perfect, teardrop-shaped, and bouncing with life.
Catherine lifted them with both hands, unable to contain her emotion.
“Woojin!! I love you!! You’re seriously the best!! I’ll serve you and Lady Aileen for the rest of my life!! I’ll die and be buried with you!!”
She had completely forgotten she was topless and rushed at Woojin as if to hug him, but Woojin staggered backward in horror.
“Put your clothes back on! Sis!! You’re touching me!!”