Side Story - Married Man Kangcheol (4)
Side Story - Married Man Gangcheol (Part 4)
It was one fragment of a precious memory.
"Daddy, Daddy~! Look at this~!"
It was a sunny spring day.
The occasional spring breeze gently caressed and passed by the flowers that had stubbornly persevered and bloomed through the frozen winter ground, as if praising them, and the sky was particularly bright that day.
This was when I was still in my 30s.
And the children still had their baby fat, showing off their adorable, angelic appearances.
"Oh, is this a flower ring? Did our Rina make this~?"
I patted Rina's head with a bright smile, looking at the crude flower ring that her small, delicate hands must have fumbled to make.
"This is our wedding ring, Daddy and Rina's!"
An innocent line only a young child could say.
My smile deepens at the sight of Rina wearing a similar flower ring on her own finger, in addition to the one she handed to me on my palm.
She'll grow up like that and ignore the parents who raised her so preciously, clinging to some random man instead.
"Aigoo~ Does Rina want to marry Daddy when she grows up?"
"Yes, yes!! Rina will marry Daddy when she grows up!"
So in response to that innocent line, I put the flower ring Rina made on my finger and show it to her, waving it.
And at my actions, Rina smiles brighter than ever before...
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"What is this crude flower ring...?"
Rina takes out the flower ring from the box where I keep items more precious to me than any treasure—though others might see them as junk—and makes a displeased expression.
"That's something you made for me when you were little..."
"I know."
Crunch!
A fragment of my precious memory shatters.
Since it was originally a flower ring, its durability was poor, and though I had kept it carefully, the ring that had barely maintained its shape over time is brutally destroyed in Rina's indifferent grasp.
"Y-you?! What are you doing...!"
Blood rushes to my head at this unexpected, horrifying scene, and my body moves instantly.
Slap!
My palm swings out, and Rina's head jerks to the side as her cheek is struck unexpectedly.
Though I've scolded my children severely while raising them, I had never once laid a hand on them—but this time, I couldn't hold back.
How could you, Rina, the one who made that flower ring for me, do such a thing...!
"Haa...?"
Rina touches her reddened cheek, which hasn't swollen thanks to her FFF-class Attention Soldier-level physical specs.
I feel the boiling blood subsiding at the sight, but I deliberately don't calm my anger and snap at her.
"Rina! Why have you been acting like this lately?! Not content with assaulting Daddy, you're deliberately sabotaging what your mothers are doing! Is that how a daughter should behave?! Reflect on yourself right now and get out of this room!"
A one-sided order to leave.
I couldn't be dragged around by Rina's whims any longer.
It's true that I'm angry about the destruction of the precious flower ring, but it wasn't something to get this angry about.
I'm just using this as an excuse to stop Rina's wicked behavior.
And since Rina knows my personality well—that I don't get angry easily, but once I do, even Selena can't stop me—I thought she would obediently leave the room, but...
"Daring to lay a hand on your wife...?"
"What do you mean 'wife' when neither Selena nor Ye-rim are here..."
Grab!
"Ugh?!"
Rina suddenly reaches out and pulls my left hand toward her.
"Do you know why I broke 'our wedding ring'?"
"Eek! What do you mean 'our wedding ring'?! Let go of this hand right now, Rina?!"
Her blue eyes, burning with intensity, stare directly at me.
As if she were truly my wife, her gaze is both angry and glinting with sadism.
I struggle to free my left hand, caught in this unexpected situation, but it doesn't budge, as if fixed in a press.
"First, the rings of other women..."
Rina's mouth opens, paying no attention to my struggles, and moves toward my left hand.
My left hand, specifically the ring finger where Ye-rim and Selena's wedding rings are worn.
Her mouth approaches and swallows the ring finger, then bites the ring with her teeth and pulls sharply.
Like a hyena stealing prey from a predator.
She takes away the wedding ring filled with precious meaning, the one that achieved a happy ending after overcoming all hardships.
"Rina, what are you doing...?!"
A wedding ring that every married couple has at least one of.
To some, it might be a common ring that could be lost while drunk and wasted, but not to me.
Ye-rim, Selena, and me.
In this gender-reversed world, the wedding ring was a precious result of the bizarre events and accidents involving two women and one man coming together!
Rina takes out that precious wedding ring from between her teeth as if showing it off and transfers it to her other hand.
At first, I wondered what she was doing, but...
"Haah~"
She puts her mouth to the ring finger again.
And then.
Crunch!
She bit it!
"Aaaah!!!"
I scream out at the horrific pain, as if my finger is being severed.
What's happening right now?
Did she bite my finger?!
Drip, drip...
Blood flowing from my finger runs down Rina's lips.
Like the red blood flowing from the wound symbolizing a woman's first time, breaking the barrier.
And I feel a chilling terror at Rina's action of sucking on the blood as if it's precious.
"Paha~"
When Rina lifts her head, I see the ring finger with a clear circular band-shaped tooth mark.
The position and shape of that wound is exactly like...
"Huhu~ It's properly engraved, isn't it? Our 'new wedding ring'~"
Yes, it closely resembled a wedding ring...
"Rina, you! Do you think your mothers will stand for this?! Even I alone..."
As I clutch my painful finger and yell, Rina smiles leisurely as if telling me to try harder.
At her shameless and bold attitude, I'm left speechless and flustered, and the smile on Rina's lips deepens.
"Even you alone, what? If you're going to say something, finish it~ Shouldn't you have told Mommy long ago if you were going to?"
"Th-that...!"
Rina is right.
If I had wanted to tell my wives, I could have done so long ago, and I could have even done it during the phone call this morning.
But the reason I couldn't was...
"Because our family would fall apart if I did!... That's what you thought, right~?"
"You knew that and still...!"
She's smart.
No, cunning.
As if she can see right through my thoughts.
I grit my teeth tightly at Rina's composed recitation of my thoughts.
"But I also considered Daddy's position to some extent..."
Grab!
"Ah, it hurts..."
As Rina grabs my left hand again and lifts it to eye level, I complain of the pain, but she sticks out her tongue, licks the wound she just made, and then puts my wives' ring back on.
"...Didn't I make the wedding ring invisible like this?"
As the ring is put on, the tooth marks are precisely concealed.
"Of course, my ring has taken up residence in the deepest part of Daddy. Huhu~♡"
It was clear she had planned this from the beginning.
As if to confirm once more, she slightly pulls the wedding ring up my finger.
The tooth marks embedded beneath are clearly revealed.
"From now on, I'll check every evening to make sure 'our wedding ring' is intact, Daddy. And when the ring fades..."
Stab!
"Huuuh..."
Her sharp canine tooth touches the tooth marks.
A moan escapes me at that chilling and inexplicably thrilling sensation.
That day, I lost a precious flower ring that couldn't be replaced by anything...
"I'll engrave it again. For. Ev. Er.~♡"
And gained a ring that can never be erased...
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Since that day, one more task has been added to my daily routine.
"It's only been two days since I re-engraved it, and it's already this faint. Did I bite too lightly that time?"
"Huuuk... Please stop! Stop it now! It hurts, I said it hurts!"
Rina's wedding ring inspection.
Once or twice a day, when my sons aren't looking, she forcibly takes the precious 'real' wedding rings of my wives from my finger and checks the tooth marks she made inside.
And at the sight of Rina licking her lips and opening her mouth after confirming that the tooth marks have faded again in just two days, I scream.
Crunch!
"Aaaah!!!"
Her white teeth, piercing and digging into living flesh, were like the sharp fangs of a beast, and her bright red tongue licking up the flowing blood was downright greedy.
It hurts.
The pain from the wound on my finger is one thing, but the sensation of having my wives' rings—the true owners of my love—taken away and having a brand engraved there feels like my heart is being torn apart.
I might understand if it were some unknown woman of unknown age doing this.
But the woman before me is my beloved daughter, Rina.
Though of course, the love I speak of and the love Rina speaks of exist in different realms.
"Huu... Huuuk..."
"Haa~♡ Daddy with teary eyes is so adorable too~ Lick♡"
As if even my flowing tears are too precious to waste.
Rina's tongue, which is now starting to show sadism, licks my tear-streaked face, wiping away the tears.
And after sadism appears on her expression...
"Take off your clothes right now...!"
She pounced on me...