Chapter 53
No matter how much of an idol I am, I can't bring some strange man into an idol's home…,
so I chose to have an idol enter a strange man's home.
I brought Jia along under my arm, too.
“Why didn't you call the manager back and have him keep watch?”
“…What kind of thing is that for a person to do?”
“Just kidding, just kidding.”
While that busty couple went to buy alcohol, I got on the elevator first and chatted with Jia.
Naturally, this kind yet frightening woman was also one of the drinking party members.
There was no way Jia would leave someone like me, who could go off in any direction, alone,
and since she loved pretending to be kind so very, very much, there was no way she'd call back the manager who had just gotten off work.
It wasn't difficult to coax her into acting as a chaperone somehow.
“Haa…, what were you thinking, bringing something like that up?”
“Come on, I had a plan.”
Naturally, it wasn't difficult at all to coax Ha-eun unni and Ju-hyeok oppa, either.
Ju-hyeok oppa wasn't stupid enough to turn down an idol asking him to have a drink,
and Ha-eun-chan was a slave who went around outside wearing a dog collar anyway, right?
As long as her boyfriend didn't refuse, she had no right to reject it on her own.
Sure enough, when Ju-hyeok oppa asked if it was okay, she only nodded her head.
“What plan?”
“You said you wanted to kick that person out anyway.”
“Why bring that up?”
“Feed him alcohol until he's drunk, then find some excuse and kick him out. You said women…relationships? Those were bad, right? Wouldn't a woman at your level try to make a move on him?”
Maybe her boyfriend had her leash pulled so tight that she couldn't even complain if he blatantly cheated on her.
Otherwise, I couldn't understand why he'd subtly made a move on me earlier.
What could he possibly be lacking when he lived with such a beautiful woman?
Of course, I'm pretty and sexy too….
But even so, if you were dating a tall, voluptuous girlfriend like that, wouldn't it be normal not to be interested in a little kid like me?
“…Ha, seriously.”
…Of course, someone like Jia might be worth subtly going after.
Didn't he have a record of going after sisters simultaneously, too?
Maybe he went after Ha-eun-chan first because he wanted to target Jia.
If you ignored her breasts, Jia was honestly much prettier, too….
They say men like younger women more, right?
I was most popular exactly two years after my debut, too.
“Why? …Haven't you rejected more than a hundred male idols by now?”
“Not that many. Don't talk nonsense.”
“Still, it's in the double digits, isn't it?”
“…So what? They were all rejected.”
…She was definitely a minor back then, too.
Ahaha, perverted bastards.
“Right, right, if you've been rejected, you pass the idol test~ …Then do you fail if you date someone without rejecting them?”
“…Those unnis are giving me such a headache that I'm going to die, so don't think weird thoughts either and just quietly drink.”
“Come on, am I crazy? I care a lot about looks too, you know?”
“Don't look at faces or bodies, and don't even think about dating a man. …Unless you want to watch the group blow up.”
Of course, I'm an extreme pervert among perverts too, but I still think I'm better than my lewd fans,
or the third-oldest member of our group, who is filming her own Animal Kingdom.
Two men attached to one woman is a bit….
Disgusting.
Maybe if it were the other way around.
“Okay, okay. …And I lured you because I'm interested in your sister.”
“…What a pathetic person.”
“Come on, pathetic is pathetic, but what exactly does your sister do?”
“I told you she's unemployed.”
“Unemployed with that body? Doesn't she stream or something? She'd rake in money.”
“I don't know beyond that. …I don't plan to make her, either. If she causes trouble, I'm the one who suffers.”
“Come on, someone like your sister could make more money than you just by cam-streaming….”
“Stop talking nonsense and get off. We're here.”
I adjusted the choker around my neck and followed Jia, who was clutching her forehead, into the strange man's home.
Ah, Jia said the place was in her name, so technically it wasn't any different from yesterday.
But the moment I stepped inside, an obscene scent wafted over me and assaulted my sensitive nose.
…It wasn't the same after all.
Mm.
“It's surprisingly tidy.”
“Is it usually dirty?”
“Not exactly a disaster…. …It just doesn't meet my standards.”
The room was much tidier than expected, clean enough for Jia, who was practically a clean freak, to like it,
…and the body-wash smell suited it perfectly.
A faint scent of baby powder drifted through the air, making the place seem incredibly cozy.
…But when I thought about the people living there, I realized it was an incredibly lewd smell.
A man and woman living together wouldn't wash separately, right?
They'd gone out dressed casually this late at night, then come back and wash before going out again?
Hehehe….
They must have enjoyed themselves thoroughly.
“Hinami, what are you doing?”
“Try digging through the trash can.”
“…Why?”
“Something like this…. …Ah.”
…That was what I casually thought.
“…Jia, do you stop by your sister's place often?”
“No.”
Jia and I sometimes took them to coordinate our schedules,
while our older members diligently took them for their proper purpose,
…and contraceptive-pill packaging was lying in the trash can.
“…Wow, this is insane, seriously….”
“What is it, anyway?”
“Ah, you shouldn't see this. Respect your sister's privacy.”
“…Are there condoms or something?”
“No…, …Ah. Yes. Right.”
“…Wash your hands. It's dirty.”
“…The bathroom is in the same place, right?”
“Yeah.”
…They were a couple far beyond my imagination.
What an incredible couple.
Pfft-hehehe….
***
A pumpkin had rolled right in, vine and all.
No, was it a watermelon?
At least the one sitting beside me was definitely a giant watermelon.
“I'm only saying this just in case, but you mustn't tell anyone about this, Mr. Kang Ju-hyeok.”
“I know, of course.”
Across from me was a watermelon a little smaller than that, but it looked like it would be especially sweet.
“You really can't tell anyone! We'll get kicked out of the group, seriously!”
“Really?”
“Ehehe, I'm kidding~ They won't kick us out over something like this.”
“Oh, you were joking.”
Of course, one of them was a zucchini, though….
But that looked tasty in its own way.
Though I couldn't harvest it right away, anyway.
“Ah, but are you sure? If you two had something to do, am I interrupting….”
“No. It's not like that. We were just planning to go to sleep anyway.”
Originally, I had planned to take Ha-eun for a walk without her leash and then go to sleep, but the arrival of such precious guests canceled those plans.
One was the homeowner.
One was an outsider.
Of course, I could have refused…
But why would I?
She might have been a little short, but an idol had been the one to suggest having a drink first.
Why turn her down?
“Ah…, oh. I see. That's a relief.”
Both of them were dressed in all black.
Black shirts and black skirts.
Their masks were white, but they'd just taken them off, leaving their bare faces exposed.
Unfortunately, they weren't wearing stockings, but…
perhaps because they were idols, even their bare feet had been carefully maintained, making them subtly sexy.
Ha-eun's feet were quite pretty too, but should I have spent even more money on them?
“Then let's toast first! Cheers~ Clink~”
“Yes, cheers~”
“….”
In an atmosphere so awkward it had gone completely silent, the Japanese idol and I were the only ones chattering to keep things from becoming awkward.
The two sisters who should have been closest to each other silently drained their canned beers.
Considering how incredibly bad their relationship was, I could understand why they kept their mouths shut.
“Kyaa~ How long has it been since I had a drink!”
…Why was this woman so excited?
No, hearing that she hadn't had a break in ages after finishing an overseas shoot, I could understand why she was excited….
“Do you like drinking?”
“Yes, yes! I love it, but Jia keeps stopping me, so I can't drink!”
Why on earth was she pretending to be friendly with me?
Judging from her eyes, she definitely wasn't attracted to me.
“You don't live together, so couldn't you just drink secretly?”
“…I do drink secretly, actually, but I've been busy lately….”
I couldn't even figure out the reason this gathering had been put together in the first place.
I wondered whether he might be into Ha-eun, but he didn't particularly seem that way.
As I said earlier, he didn't seem especially interested in me romantically, either.
Still, if I had to guess at a reason….
“…Hinami.”
“Ehehe, just kidding, just kidding.”
…Was she simply a woman who liked messing with people?
She had done the same thing earlier.
When that manager bastard peeked at Ha-eun's cleavage, she had openly given him shit and turned him into a laughingstock.
Seeing this woman's face relax every time Seo Jia furrowed her brows made that a fairly reasonable theory.
I couldn't be certain, though.
“…Kang Ju-hyeok.”
“Yeah, why?”
“…Bring me just one of those jellies over there.”
“You need that? Don't you want a snack?”
“Just give it to me, please….”
From that perspective, it made sense that she was so excited thanks to our Ha-eun, whose mood had completely sunk.
Come to think of it, she had openly mocked Ha-eun the first time we'd met at the waxing salon, too, hadn't she?
Maybe, just as Ha-eun had badmouthed her younger sister to me and her friends, Seo Jia had been badmouthing her own sister to this woman.
Well, after her sister had called her over and a man with his dick hanging out had greeted her, she couldn't exactly complain about being badmouthed.
How much public humiliation must poor Ha-eun have endured?
I was the one who had eaten her, but I was starting to feel weirdly sorry for her.
…Of course, if I went back to that moment, I'd eat her right in front of the entrance.
“Oh…. …Ahem.”
“Why?”
“Ah, no, no. Just. I've never had a chance to drink with a couple before, so it's fascinating….”
“Oh, I see.”
“Yes, yes. All our members are single too, and our company dinners are always with adults….”
“Ah-ha.”
Perhaps because we'd put on a fairly convincing display of being lovers, Miss Nakawhatever Hinami watched us with extremely curious eyes.
Receiving a guest in the very place where we'd had a messy creampie just an hour ago was subtly arousing, but no matter what, I couldn't get hard in front of the homeowner, so I restrained myself as much as possible.
…Of course, seeing the way those two were dressed was making that increasingly difficult.
Somehow.
“Kang Ju-hyeok.”
“What, again?”
“…Just one slice of cheese for me.”
“Earlier…, ah. Okay. Open your mouth.”
“Huh…? Mmph…, no….”
“You said you wanted it.”
“….”
Somehow, while pretending to be an ordinary couple,
“….”
…I fooled the homeowner's daughter, who silently glared at us with terrifying eyes.
Even if that screw-loose Japanese friend had just tagged along because she was bored,
our landlady seemed seriously dangerous.
Joining the drinking party just to suck on konjac jelly as a snack
wasn't normal no matter how you looked at it, was it?
“Jia-chan, don't just eat that tasteless stuff. Have some snacks. Snacks.”
“I'll gain weight. No.”
“Come on, that won't make you gain weight~ There's chocolate too; won't you eat it?”
“I don't like sweet things.”
“Honestly, I've lived with you for years, and you're telling me that lie~”
“If I don't manage my weight during promotions, the fans will scold me.”
“Fans like you better when you've gained weight~ Don't they?”
“….”
Common sense told me she hadn't tagged along just to drink with a friend who kept needling her like that.
She probably didn't like some rootless man like me imposing himself on her home.
Actually,
“Ah, Ju-hyeok oppa, do you like chubby women or skinny women?”
“I like a figure like Ha-eun's, I suppose.”
“….”
“Oooooh…, I see.”
Hinami, who openly seemed pleased by that, was the strange one.
The reason is,
I genuinely have no idea—not as a joke.