Chapter 52
Sliiide-
When I cracked open Hyeonwoo's bedroom door and peeked inside, I saw him diligently working on his assignment.
Hyeonwoo, diligently working on his assignment as he tapped away at the keyboard-
I guess he just forgot all about it and got completely absorbed in his assignment…?
“Phew….”
First, I decided to push down my frustration at losing to the assignment and observe Hyeonwoo carefully.
Hyeonwoo continued working on his assignment while drinking the iced tea beside him.
It seemed he hadn't noticed the door was slightly open because he was so focused on his assignment.
Then what kind of prank should I play….
“...Huh?”
“...Eek!”
Just as I was wondering what prank to play, Hyeonwoo suddenly turned his head, and our eyes met.
The moment our eyes met, I was so startled that I immediately slammed the door shut!
“That startled me….”
Making eye contact with Hyeonwoo gave me a fright much like being discovered by a murderer in a horror game.
Pranks are scarier than I thought….
“That aside…. Did he not notice?”
We had definitely made eye contact, but Hyeonwoo didn't come out of the room.
...Could it be that he didn't notice?
Come to think of it, Hyeonwoo was surprisingly oblivious.
Despite being a worrier, he was so oblivious that he sometimes got himself into trouble…. But this time, his oblivious nature saved me.
“Phew….”
I took a deep breath to calm myself down after the fright, then carefully opened the door once more and watched Hyeonwoo-
“..Huh?”
Hyeonwoo had vanished from his seat.
Hyeonwoo, who had definitely been working on his assignment at his desk moments ago, had disappeared without a trace.
What? What happened?
"Boo!"
“Eek?!”
While I was wondering where Hyeonwoo had vanished to,
someone suddenly shouted above my head, apparently trying to scare me-
I was so incredibly startled by the sound that I reflexively fired ice in that direction!
“Whoa!”
Naturally, the person who had shouted was Hyeonwoo, and he dodged the ice with quick reflexes, so fortunately he wasn't hurt, but….
As it happened, Hyeonwoo was holding his iced tea in his hand,
and at that exact moment, Hyeonwoo was extremely startled by the ice that had been fired,
Startled, Hyeonwoo dropped the iced tea from his hand, and the iced tea went straight-
Splaash-
“Eek?!”
It spilled all over me.
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“S-sorry…. I didn't know you'd drop the iced tea….”
“No…. It was my fault for trying to prank you….”
Hyeonwoo hurriedly began drying me with a towel after I'd been drenched in iced tea and looked like a drowned rat.
I'd developed a slight trauma around people touching my head because of my brother, so I was wary, but fortunately, Hyeonwoo, unlike my brother, gently dried my body with his characteristic touch-
“Ngh….”
“...Huh? What's wrong?”
“...No, it's nothing.”
Somehow, it felt less like Hyeonwoo was simply drying me with a towel and more like he was lightly groping my body….
Hmm…. It must just be my imagination.
“Speaking of which….”
As Hyeonwoo dried my hair, he spoke awkwardly.
“Your clothes are completely soaked; what should we do….”
Unlike a body that could simply be wiped dry, clothes had to go in the washing machine.
It wouldn't have been a problem under normal circumstances, but right now….
“All my clothes are at my studio apartment….”
I never dreamed I'd need to change clothes when I was only staying for one night.
Sigh…. I should have brought at least one change of clothes….
“Still, the good thing is that I won't catch a cold….”
Since I was a Snow Woman, getting doused with water wouldn't make me catch a cold. However….
“I feel so gross….”
Since Hyeonwoo had been drinking iced tea rather than plain water, my clothes weren't merely damp but unpleasantly sticky as well—the worst possible state.
Ugh…. I want to take them off right now…. But Hyeonwoo is here….
“Hmm….”
Hearing me, Hyeonwoo thought for a moment, then said,
"Would you like to wear my clothes for now?"
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“Heave-ho….”
I took the clothes Hyeonwoo gave me and went into the room I'd been using.
Then I spread all the clothes I'd received across the floor and took off all my wet clothes, leaving myself naked.
“Aaah…. I finally got out of those gross clothes….”
Once I took off the sticky clothes, I felt a strange sense of liberation.
This must be what it feels like to be freed from stickiness…!
Well, that was a joke. Since the sticky clothes had left a bit of stickiness on my body, I still had to wipe myself down with the towel again.
“Now, then….”
After wiping away the remaining stickiness with the towel, I began looking over the clothes Hyeonwoo had given me.
The clothes Hyeonwoo had handed me to wear in a pinch.
“They're all so big that there's nothing I can wear….”
Compared to my tiny body, they were all far too large.
Looking at it this way, I guess the size difference between our bodies is more serious than I thought….
“The bottoms are pointless, too….”
Hyeonwoo had given me several pairs of bottoms as well, but since the legs of his pants were naturally much wider than mine, unlike the tops that I could simply drape over myself, I couldn't even attempt to put on the bottoms.
“But I can't just go without wearing anything…. Ah!”
After thinking it over, I had an idea, so I walked over to the closet and carefully looked inside.
"Somewhere in here…. Found it!"
What I pulled out was the dolphin shorts I'd bought last time.
I guess Hyeonwoo hadn't noticed them when gathering the clothes because I'd sealed them away deep inside.
"They're awfully short, but…. I guess I have no choice…."
The only problem—if it could be called a problem—was that these dolphin shorts were incredibly short.
Since they exposed so much thigh, they were also embarrassingly revealing.
“Well…. At this point, does it really matter?”
Still, this time, I didn't feel nearly as reluctant as I had last time.
I wonder why.
Was it because this was the only thing I could wear anyway?
Or was it because I'd recently begun feeling less resistant to women's clothing?
“Sigh….”
I knew perfectly well. I shouldn't get used to this sort of thing.
But what could I do? I was getting used to it without realizing it….
Seeing my resistance gradually fade made me feel as if I were being toyed with by the masterminds.
“It can't be helped….”
This was the only pair of bottoms I could properly wear right now, anyway.
I resigned myself to it and began fumbling into the dolphin shorts.
“Phew….”
Just as I'd expected, most of my thighs were left exposed.
I was definitely wearing clothes, but I had the odd feeling that I looked hardly any different from before putting them on.
“...It's better than I thought.”
Contrary to my worries, it didn't feel all that bad.
If anything, unlike a skirt, it wasn't completely open underneath, and the good ventilation made it cool and comfortable.
So there really was a reason women liked these….
“...Still, it would be a little much to go outside wearing these, right?”
Still, not being bad was one thing.
Going outside in them like everyone else did would be pretty embarrassing.
Yeah, that's right…. Let's keep these for around the house.
I'm not ready to go outside in these yet….
It was a little embarrassing to wear them even in front of Hyeonwoo, but this was an emergency, so it couldn't be helped.
"Then…. What should I wear on top…."
Suppressing my embarrassment, I once again looked over the pile of clothes Hyeonwoo had given me.
Unlike the dolphin shorts, the clothes were all extremely long and oversized.
Still, since all the clothes were so big, any of them would at least cover some of my thighs, which was one advantage….
"If it's too big, it'll slide down again…. Huh?"
While looking for something wearable, a white, rustling piece of clothing caught my eye.
I pulled it from the pile and realized what it was.
It was an enormous dress shirt.
It was a dress shirt Hyeonwoo wore occasionally when he went somewhere important.
“......”
For some reason, seeing it stirred up my mischievous side, and I tried on the oversized dress shirt as if drawn to it.
"Ooh…."
On my small frame, the dress shirt reached my knees and covered me, while my arms were too short for the sleeves, leaving them hanging limply.
I was wearing dolphin shorts underneath, but the shirt covered them, making it look as though I wasn't wearing anything underneath.
This is the complete package of a man's fantasy…!
The boyfriend shirt, the shirt-only, no-bottoms look…!
...Though it lacks sex appeal.
I twirled the drooping sleeves around, but even this cheat code failed to produce any sex appeal, so I gave a hollow laugh….
When I'd seen a tall, busty older-sister type dressed like this in a picture, she'd radiated incredible sex appeal,
but on me, it just felt like a daughter secretly wearing her dad's dress shirt.
“...Not that I necessarily need that sort of thing!”
Then I suddenly came to my senses and began muttering excuses to no one in particular.
S-sex appeal? Why would I need that…. It's not like I'm trying to seduce anyone….
“Ahem... Enough fooling around, then. Now I need to put on some proper clothes….“
Since I felt like my mind would grow hazy if I stayed in this any longer, I was just about to take it off when-
"...Sniff sniff."
When I suddenly caught a strangely comforting scent from the dress shirt I was wearing, I unconsciously brought a sleeve to my nose and smelled it.
The scent was so comforting and pleasant…. It was just….
“...Aaaah! This isn't right!!”
I almost got addicted to the pleasant scent, but then came to my senses and shouted.
I'd been feeling a little strange lately, but feeling good just from smelling it…? Wasn't that completely perverted…?
I had even buried my face in the dress shirt and sniffed it to get a better whiff.
That made me a bona fide pervert….
“Ugh….”
Realizing I'd done something incredibly embarrassing, my face reddened, and steam began rising from the top of my head.
What was I thinking…. All because of a little curiosity….
This dress shirt is the problem.
I need to take it off quickly…. I absolutely can't let him catch me looking like this….
“Seolhwa! What happened….”
“Ngh…?!”
At that very inopportune moment.
Hyeonwoo heard my scream and threw the door open.
When our eyes met, we both stood there in a daze for about five seconds, doing nothing but staring at each other, as if time in the room had stopped.
And when those five seconds were up-
“Eek…?!”
I couldn't have been any more embarrassed: my face turned as red as a tomato, and, uncharacteristically for a Snow Woman, my body began radiating tremendous heat.
"G-go! Get out!!"
“S-sorry!!”
Then, on the verge of tears, I fired icicles at Hyeonwoo to chase him out, immediately shut the door, and sank to the floor.
"I can't believe I did that…."