Chapter 10
‘Does she think I'm an idiot?’
I stared pointedly at Baek Seol-ah with an incredulous expression.
What kind of favor is it if I'm the one taking the loss?
As if I didn't know Baek Seol-ah: her personality, her relationship with me, her feelings toward Lee Hyunseong…….
It wasn't merely because I knew the original story that I was so confident.
As I said, I had already lived in this world for a year, and even while putting on the act of a run-of-the-mill delinquent, I had quietly kept a close eye on the original's characters.
As a result, I had discovered both the exact similarities between the Baek Seol-ah of the original and the current Baek Seol-ah, and unexpected sides of her I hadn't anticipated.
The point was that I knew the girl named Baek Seol-ah better than she thought.
And the Baek Seol-ah I knew was not someone who would ever try to turn the tables on me in this situation.
Even if the debt she owed me bothered her and made her unhappy, she would diligently repay it if that was what it took.
Without some third factor, she would never in a million years have thought of sleeping with me of her own accord.
That was why her behavior at this moment—clutching a condom in her hand with a rigid expression—was proof that the ‘third factor’ was at work.
More precisely, there was a high probability that she was deliberately hiding it from me.
“Is it Lee Hyunseong?”
“…….”
I asked indifferently, and Baek Seol-ah fell silent like someone who had been struck right where it hurt.
But keeping her mouth shut didn't mean she could invoke her right to remain silent.
Baek Seol-ah was a girl whose emotions showed quite transparently, and she was even worse at hiding her true thoughts. Reading her was incredibly easy.
Her lips were tightly closed, but the fine tremor in her eyes and the other conspicuous signs of agitation gave her away.
I snickered and continued.
“What, did he pick a fight with you over not going all the way last time? Saying the deal was different or something like that.”
“……H-How…….”
“How do I know? You'd have to be an idiot not to.”
A truly insane bastard who had voluntarily chosen to offer his own girlfriend to another man. That was Lee Hyunseong.
Considering his twisted proclivities, there was no way he would want to let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity pass him by.
He wouldn't be satisfied with just one handjob and a little oral.
Wouldn't he only be satisfied after seeing Baek Seol-ah get penetrated by another man's cock?
Anyway, the point was that seeing through his intentions had been child's play. Naturally, Baek Seol-ah's own intentions were perfectly clear to me as well.
‘Amateurish, so amateurish.’
I clicked my tongue and looked at Baek Seol-ah with contempt, while her face reddened slightly from the shame of having her intentions exposed.
Anyway……. Judging by that answer, it was confirmed.
Lee Hyunseong had probably pestered her once again, and Baek Seol-ah had reluctantly agreed.
That didn't mean she could feel comfortable coming at me with it, given her personality.
So she had probably thought that, since she had to do it anyway, she might as well repay her debt at the same time.
Well, not a chance.
“I have no reason to make allowances for what you're doing at that bastard Lee Hyunseong's request. Obviously, I'll count that separately from this.”
“……Ugh.”
“Making that pitiful face won't change anything. No means no.”
Baek Seol-ah looked up at me with a faintly tearful, miserable gaze, but I drew a firm line.
She should consider herself lucky that she wasn't getting a rap on the head for trying such a ridiculous trick.
“C-can't you make some kind of exception? Having to do it five times is honestly too cruel…….”
“Nope. It's not cruel.”
If she thought an emotional appeal would work, she was mistaken about that, too.
I wasn't Baek Seol-ah's boyfriend, after all.
“Don't you even feel sorry for me? You could at least pity my plight, having to do something I don't even want to because of a perverted boyfriend.”
“You're the one who still likes that perverted boyfriend and can't let go, so why should I?”
“……Urk, but……”
Perhaps she couldn't find any way to argue with my slightly mocking reply.
Baek Seol-ah groaned, yet couldn't seem to come up with anything else to say.
Whatever my true feelings might have been, at this point I was going along with the one-sided game between Baek Seol-ah and Lee Hyunseong, which meant I unquestionably held the upper hand.
She had shamelessly tried to trick me, but Baek Seol-ah wasn't completely without scruples.
In the end, at the very last moment, she squeezed her eyes shut and seemed to resign herself to it.
The fist that had been trembling as though she might strike someone soon also went limp─.
“……Ah, fine. I'll do it, okay? I'll do it.”
She irritably swept back her bangs, as if forcing down the negative emotions welling up inside her.
Then, narrowing her golden eyes and hesitating for a moment, she approached me.
Grab-
“?”
I caught Baek Seol-ah, who had sat down beside me on the sofa and was reaching for my waistband.
I stopped her by reaching out without thinking, mussing her white hair and pressing my palm to her forehead.
Swallowing my discomfort, I watched Baek Seol-ah, who seemed to have forced herself to decide to service me, blink blankly and raise her head.
Her face was filled with question marks, and her eyes seemed to ask what the hell I was doing.
“No, I mean, think about it.”
I said with a laugh in my voice, her dazed reaction so absurd that it nearly made me chuckle.
“Come to think of it, I feel a little offended. It makes me wonder if I have any reason to go along with this obediently.”
“……W-What?”
“Coming at me with such a reluctant expression doesn't exactly put me in the mood either.”
Baek Seol-ah's eyes widened dramatically, as if she had just heard something unbelievable.
After seeming to suffer a momentary brain freeze, she opened her mouth haltingly a beat later.
“What do you mean? Are you kidding me right now?”
“I'm serious.”
When I answered in the most bored tone imaginable, Baek Seol-ah's round eyes soon blazed with anger.
If her reaction until just moments ago had been one of bewilderment and disbelief, she was now openly furious.
“……Don't be ridiculous, Han Taeyang. You think I'll believe that? You were obsessed with the number of times until yesterday. And now you're saying you're not in the mood?”
“Yeah. I'm not.”
“…….”
Baek Seol-ah had been about to say something more, but my calm reply made her close her mouth.
She was still holding her forehead in my hand, too.
Her eyes narrowed and trembled slightly, as though she was trying to gauge my intentions.
‘Not a chance.’
I struggled to suppress the smile trying to break through and kept my expression under control.
In other words, I put on an expression that looked displeased at a glance.
Not exactly so unpleasant that I was disgusted, but I didn't look eager to accept it, either.
Maintaining precisely that middle ground, I gave Baek Seol-ah an indifferent sidelong glance, and she took the bait.
“……Han Taeyang, are you angry? Because I tried to trick you?”
‘Got her.’
Ah, I nearly burst out laughing again. I had to work to control the corner of my mouth before it twitched.
Instead of answering Baek Seol-ah's question right away, I left a brief pause and turned my head.
I turned my eyes completely away from hers, which I had still been meeting until a moment ago.
From my perspective, I had only turned my gaze aside to keep from laughing, but how did it look from the outside?
Baek Seol-ah seemed to become slightly self-conscious only then, and her shoulders hunched ever so faintly.
I acted as though I were suppressing my emotions and tossed out a single remark.
“I wasn't particularly angry.”
“……You are angry. Why are you lying?”
“Good grief, I told you I'm not.”
A hint of irritation crept into my consistent replies, and Baek Seol-ah grew even more flustered. Her restlessness was plain to see.
This was what was so amusing about her. Whenever she thought she had made a mistake, she sincerely became flustered and apologetic, even if the person she had wronged was me.
Perhaps those multifaceted qualities were what made me so drawn to Baek Seol-ah.
It was just as that thought crossed my mind.
“……?”
I blinked at the sudden weight I felt around my waist—or, more precisely, in the collar of my clothes nearby.
When I lowered my gaze, I saw Baek Seol-ah's delicate hand awkwardly gripping my collar.
When I raised my head, Baek Seol-ah's golden eyes, glowing faintly, entered my field of vision.
At least toward me, it was the first time I had seen such an unusual gaze and expression—one so desperate and anxious.
She murmured in a small voice tinged with faint guilt.
“……I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you angry.”
“…….”
“I didn't mean any harm. I just thought I'd try to get something, anything, and, uh.”
She let her voice trail off, then seemed to change her mind and fell silent without continuing.
I sucked in a breath at the expression and attitude that packed even more punch than I had expected.
“I'll apologize, so stop being angry…….”
Baek Seol-ah cast me a timid sidelong glance, then slid down from the sofa and lowered herself.
That is,
She crouched down in a ‘W’ in front of me—or rather, below me, while I remained seated on the sofa.
Put another way, she was looking up at me from below.
Baek Seol-ah awkwardly extended both hands, grabbed my waistband, and muttered.
Her face was flushed as red as it could possibly be─.
“……I'll give you a blowjob just once.”
“…….”
“I'm making a special exception for this, so……. Once you accept, you have to stop looking so upset, okay……?”
Baek Seol-ah shyly licked her lips. They gleamed with silvery saliva.
……This development was completely unexpected. Naturally, I had never imagined Baek Seol-ah would react this way.
‘Oh, fuck.’
It was the moment my reason flew away as if it had evaporated.