Chapter 41
‘……What a strange feeling.’
By the time the movie was well underway, Baek Seol-ah stole a sidelong glance at Han Taeyang beside her and thought to herself.
Just a little while ago, she had definitely been feeling very uncomfortable, and somehow even stifled.
Why was that? All she'd done was exchange silly banter with Han Taeyang and trade a few words.
Before she knew it, her heart had calmed down to an astonishing degree.
Beyond that, her heart was even fluttering for some reason. Baek Seol-ah knew the name of this emotion.
‘……Ugh, mm.’
Whenever she became aware of it, her face flushed before she knew it.
Once, she had surely felt this way toward Lee Hyeonseong─.
The most innocent of girlish feelings.
In other words, a flutter of excitement.
She didn't want to admit it, and it was hard to believe, but this was unmistakably something she felt as a girl.
And if she'd told her former self a few months ago, it would have been a momentous statement she'd have scoffed at.
‘……Me, Han Taeyang……?’
Of course, it still didn't seem deep enough to clearly call this feeling ‘romantic love.’
But there was a fairly obvious difference between not even standing at the starting line and having somehow passed it.
Baek Seol-ah felt an immensely complicated and subtle mix of emotions at this unbelievable fact.
On one hand, it gave her a headache because things seemed to be going terribly wrong, but on the other, she didn't entirely dislike the peculiar atmosphere itself.
She didn't dislike sitting beside Han Taeyang and watching a movie alone with him, even without any physical contact.
Though she bit her lips rather hard, Baek Seol-ah ultimately couldn't make any clear decision.
She couldn't ignore Han Taeyang now, not if she wanted to avoid doing something contrary to her loyalty.
Yet neither was she shameless enough to disregard her pangs of conscience entirely and give him even more attention.
‘F-focus. Focus.’
Desperately praying that Han Taeyang wouldn't notice her face already flushed red, Baek Seol-ah widened her eyes and immersed herself in the movie.
Fortunately, the timing was such that the movie's plot seemed to be approaching an important point.
[…...No, you can't die. I won't let that happen. How dare you try to leave me behind?]
Against the backdrop of a mansion engulfed in flames, the heroine muttered to herself with a pained expression.
The light-blue-haired girl wiped the blood from her forehead and took a step forward.
The male protagonist was unconscious after defeating the enemy presumed to be the villain from the beginning of the movie.
This must be the heroine rescuing him after awakening a new power.
Baek Seol-ah didn't spare even a glance at the cheese-rosé-whatever popcorn she'd foisted on Han Taeyang; she merely sucked on her soda and blinked.
Fortunately, for an obscure movie with little fame, it was a surprisingly compelling piece of work.
‘Wasn't this……. a romance movie?’
Baek Seol-ah merely tilted her head for a different reason.
She had definitely understood the genre itself to be romance.
And yet, the action scenes were strangely spectacular, while the atmosphere of the world itself also had a distinctly heavy edge that made it far from simply sweet.
It wasn't exactly bad, so it wasn't that she disliked it, but she couldn't deny feeling puzzled.
Just as she'd hoped, without even realizing it, she found herself able to sweep away her other thoughts.
She didn't agonize over Han Taeyang or Lee Hyeonseong; for now, she focused solely on the movie.
If things continued like this, she might even be able to finish their movie-theater date without incident─.
And so, around the time Baek Seol-ah felt relieved inside and took a somewhat more relaxed sip of her drink...
[Let's get married, Oppa.]
“Pfft.”
The plot's sudden lurch forward nearly made her spit out her drink.
Fortunately, she didn't actually spray it, and it ended with her coughing a little instead.
‘W-what?’
That wasn't the problem. Feeling her throat sting and her eyes water slightly, Baek Seol-ah's lashes fluttered in profound bewilderment.
Marriage? Had she just said marriage?
No, of course, since that light-blue-haired girl was presumably the heroine, it wasn't a particularly strange line.
The problem lay in the form of address appended to the end of it, which possessed devastating force.
Oppa? Had she just called the protagonist that?
Their relationship……? Were they siblings?
‘N-no. Maybe she just calls him Oppa. Yeah, Chae-eun calls Jeong Jaeha Oppa too, after all. It’s not all that strange between lovers──.’
[What are you talking about all of a sudden? Rottie. Marriage? You, who never even joke around. Haha……. ]
[Ah, did the steward say something useless? What, that with Father suddenly dead and the estate in chaos, you and I need to get married to stabilize the family, or something like that.]
“……”
The other possibility she'd quickly thought up was immediately denied by the protagonist's next line.
There was no longer any room for doubt. Sure enough, the two leads in the story were unmistakably family—brother and sister……
‘……Crazy…….’
Who would have thought the genre would go beyond an ordinary romance and turn outright into an incest romance pairing an older brother with his younger sister?
After all, it was a genre one could occasionally encounter in fiction, so it wasn't shocking enough to be a huge surprise.
Unlike several hundred years ago, modern-day South Korea even legally permitted marriage between cousins.
Still, the difference between watching something while clearly knowing its genre and not knowing it was quite significant.
[Shut up and take your clothes off, Oppa.]
[Or should I take them off for you?]
‘H-hwet.’
Worse yet, was the movie's plot actually trying to go beyond simple romance and cross into outright 19+ territory?
From that point on, it was a completely different matter.
Baek Seol-ah blushed as she watched the heroine make an exceedingly bold advance on her own older brother.
By then, both hands had clapped over her eyes, as if displaying her model-student propriety while blocking her view.
Of course, through the gaps between her fingers, her greatly widened golden eyes were still taking in every bit of the movie with tremendous interest.
Regardless, the movie's quality continued to pull her in, and Baek Seol-ah swallowed nervously.
“……Sorry. I didn't know it was going to be like this, either.”
“……Huh?”
Startled by the small whisper that suddenly reached her from beside her, Baek Seol-ah turned toward Han Taeyang.
His brow was furrowed in an awkward expression, apparently because he too was deeply flustered by the situation.
“You know I picked it after barely looking at the poster. I absolutely didn't intend this, so don't get the wrong idea…….”
“……”
As his earnest eyes made clear, Han Taeyang apparently hadn't known things would go this far, either.
Still unable to restrain her curiosity, Baek Seol-ah glanced at the screen before looking back at Han Taeyang.
‘He looks pretty flustered.’
……For once, he was honestly showing his embarrassment, and he even gave an awkward cough as though the situation itself made him uncomfortable.
That attitude of Han Taeyang's was certainly rare enough that even Baek Seol-ah didn't often get to see it.
“……Hmm.”
“?”
Baek Seol-ah removed the now-useless hands covering her eyes, placed both hands demurely on her thighs, and gave Han Taeyang a meaningful little giggle.
At that faint, coquettish giggle, a question mark appeared above Han Taeyang's head.
“What, did you suddenly get shy? You and I have already seen everything there is to see in bed.”
“……What?”
“You're cute, Han Taeyang.”
With a blatantly condescending snicker, Baek Seol-ah spoke, and a cross-shaped vein stood out on his forehead.
But today, or at least inside this theater, he couldn't get the better of Baek Seol-ah.
[Haa, hyaak, ngh, Oppa, Oppaaa……. ]
“……Oh, it's gotten bigger.”
“……”
“Did that heroine turn you on that much?”
By then, the characters in the movie had begun a ferocious bout of physical combat on the bed.
Baek Seol-ah knew her own underwear was a little damp, but she hid it perfectly and taunted him with a smirk.
Then she cast an affectionate sidelong glance at the uncomfortable-looking Han Taeyang and reached out.
Where?
Obviously, toward the bulge in his trousers.
Squish─
To begin with, it wasn't at a full 100% erection yet; rather than being as hard as usual, it still had some softness to it.
The unfamiliar state and satisfyingly yielding feel made Baek Seol-ah let out an impressed “Oh.”
“……What are you doing, Baek Seolgi…….”
“Hmm……? You can tell just by looking.”
Han Taeyang asked with considerable distaste, wearing what one might call an expression like he'd bitten into something sour.
But Baek Seol-ah didn't care in the slightest and stubbornly pressed on with what she wanted to do.
A mischievous smile touched her lips, and a faint blush spread across both cheeks.
“How should I put it? You did show me consideration in a few ways today……. Should I call this repayment for that favor? Well, you can understand it roughly that way.”
“……?”
Han Taeyang, by contrast, couldn't immediately understand her words. They were rather out of the blue.
‘Repayment for a favor……?’
Still wearing the same sour expression, he couldn't bring himself to stop Baek Seol-ah now that she was being so forward, so he stared into empty space and thought.
Consideration? Had he done something for her today? At first, he looked back over the day that way.
‘Ah.’
Before long, he realized what Baek Seol-ah was talking about.
So that's what she meant. He'd wondered what she was talking about.
Han Taeyang smacked his lips as he figured she'd realized she had been uncharacteristically pouty a few times today.
“……That was just something I did of my own accord, so you don't have to repay me or anything.”
“No, I do. Just sit still and take your handjob.”
“……”
Baek Seol-ah casually uttered such a lewd line, the corners of her lips twisting faintly.
At that moment, her eyes also held the excitement arising from the situation itself.
She seemed to have lost her usual aversion to outdoor sex at some point.
Both Baek Seol-ah and Han Taeyang felt that fact in exactly the same way, however.
“……If you're planning to repay me, why don't you serve me a little more properly?”
“Mmm?”
Without addressing that particular point, Han Taeyang simply brought up another matter.
When Baek Seol-ah raised her head with a puzzled look, he made a counterproposal to her.
He said it in the hope that, if he took things this far, she might retreat out of embarrassment at least─.
“Not some boring handjob—use your mouth.”
“……”
“Why don't you suck me properly?”
Han Taeyang pretended to make a lecherous move as he curled a strand of Baek Seol-ah's white hair around his fingertip.
And he prepared to pull her head down, as if to say he was ready whenever she was.
“Well, if that’s what you want.”
“?”
Unfortunately, Baek Seol-ah's response differed somewhat from what Han Taeyang had expected.
He had thought she might get embarrassed or wave her hands, saying, How can we do that here?
But Baek Seol-ah showed no reaction even remotely like that and spoke languidly.
She leaned her upper body toward Han Taeyang and tucked her fallen hair behind her ear.
“Beee……”
“……”
She deliberately spat a silvery strand of saliva into her left palm, giving it a slick wetness.
Then, ready to bury her face in Han Taeyang's groin at any moment, she gave him a meaningful look.
“What are you doing? Han Taeyang.”
“……”
“Take off your pants.”
As luck would have it, she uttered a line resembling the one the heroine had spoken in the movie only a few minutes earlier.
Her mind brimming with thoughts of taking Han Taeyang's manhood into her mouth any moment now─.
Baek Seol-ah gave him a suggestive smile with her eyes, much like a succubus sucking a man's vitality.