‘Crazy. What! What is this!’
Why suddenly gay behavior? You came in with a woman today!
I felt even more fear than before and stammered.
“Why, why are you doing this? Just do the water torture, man. Don’t do weird things.”
“Are you a masochist? You keep telling me to do weird things, it’s annoying.”
Perhaps because my wits disappeared at Baek Sahyun’s pretending to be normal, all the strength drained from my body.
“You’d be the sadist.”
When I barely managed to spit out one sentence, Baek Sahyun tilted his head and corrected me.
“Sadists enjoy hitting people. I’m not like that.”
“Not like that, my ass…”
“It’s different from punishing someone who did something deserving of punishment.”
I wanted to demand what was different, but unable to counter his sophistry, I just flailed my legs. I tried to knee him in the groin, but Baek Sahyun lowered one hand to lift up under my knee.
And reprimanded innocent me.
“Stop resisting. Even I feel burdened when we’re in this position.”
“You’re the one who made this position! Get off me, it’s disgusting!”
When I threw out a rough voice, bursting with fury, Baek Sahyun asked with an innocent-looking face.
“Are you doing this on purpose to provoke me?”
“Get off…”
“To make me do dirty things to you in the heat of the moment?”
“Get off, please.”
I’d lived my whole life as a heterosexual, and even after possessing into this novel, I often forgot. The fact that this was inside a gay novel that had horrified me with its serious rating and makjang melodrama.
“Must be a virgin ghost. Who likes men.”
After spouting a statement that seemed to designate me as gay, Baek Sahyun clicked his tongue with a “tsk.”
“Even a masochist virgin ghost at that… shocking.”
At the sight of him muttering as if flabbergasted, I finally let go of the string of reason. I slammed my forehead hard into Baek Sahyun’s smooth-looking forehead.
With a thud and the dull sound that rang out, Baek Sahyun gently parted his lips. Perhaps because his skin was so white, I could see at a glance the scene of his skin swelling up red.
‘Does it hurt, you bastard?’
But the time I felt proud of succeeding with my critical hit was only brief.
‘…This bastard looks like he’s about to kill me.’
A terrifying chill emanated from Baek Sahyun as he caressed his forehead with his hand. Although it was an action I’d committed prepared for death, when I actually tried to endure this fierce oppressive feeling, my throat throbbed with pain.
Baek Sahyun glanced down at my pale face and said.
“It’s hard to humor you. You must have a lot of grudges.”
The sensation of my heart sinking was something I never got used to no matter how many times I experienced it.
Baek Sahyun finally raised his arm high, and I squeezed my eyes tightly shut. When I was screaming Haesu’s name about a million times inside, anticipating the great pain that would soon embroider my cheek.
But strangely, I felt no sensation at all. When I dubiously cracked open my closed eyes, not missing that timing, Baek Sahyun reached his hand toward my face.
I held my breath with a gasp.
“Ah, j-just wait, fuck.”
But a situation very different from my guess arrived. Because an absurd pain arose on my right cheek. It was only a stinging pain at most, like getting a shot, but crazy.
Baek Sahyun was pinching one of my cheeks and pulling it taut.
“Ow…”
But the grip strength didn’t go anywhere, so when I shed a little tear, Baek Sahyun let go like snapping a rubber band. I grabbed my swollen cheek and looked up at Baek Sahyun.
He dropped his cold gaze vertically.
“For a ghost, you’re quite a crybaby.”
“……”
“And you worry about useless things too.”
When I just blinked, unable to grasp the meaning, Baek Sahyun tapped near my temple with his index finger.
“Even your head is bad… fascinating.”
It was unclear whether he was talking about Nam Heejae or the ghost inside this body. If the latter, it would be referring to me. Our persistent gazes seemed to tangle, but Baek Sahyun changed the atmosphere with a deflating smile.
“If we were going to play in the water, we should have done it outside, not here. There’s even the Han River, why would we play inside? How boring.”
As if telling me to use my head first, he smacked the center of my forehead.
My pride was hurt to be treated this way by a guy five years younger, but as expected, my alcohol-soaked body couldn’t show an adult-like attitude. I was just completely pinned under him, that’s all.
Instead, I grumbled with my mouth with all my might.
“Then throw me in the river water, you bastard.”
I didn’t even have time to care about my voice gradually submerging in accumulated fatigue. My vision kept blurring, making me furrow my brows. Baek Sahyun, who massaged my furrowed brow with his fingers as if smoothing it out, opened his mouth.
“I hate squabbling with drunk people. I also hate people who smell.”
“Yeah. I hate you too.”
“But you still need to wash before sleeping. Got it? Because I can’t wash you.”
It was when Baek Sahyun suddenly sat my upper body up.
Ding-dong!
Ding-dong! Ding-dong!
A cheerful chime sound suddenly began ringing inside the guest room. Baek Sahyun tilted his head slightly, then looked at me with a reproachful gaze.
“Did you call someone?”
“…Huh? No?”
“Who?”
When I protested asking who I would have called when I don’t even know anyone, Baek Sahyun said “hmm” and stood up from the bed. Thanks to that, freed, I grabbed the blanket that had been rolling around under the bed and made a defensive wall.
When Baek Sahyun walked toward the door, someone who sensed the presence revealed their identity.
“It’s me, Eunwoo. Chae Eunwoo. Are you two together?”
The moment the fresh and cheerful tone came over the door, the atmosphere that had seemed to soften slightly froze rapidly. Baek Sahyun, who exclaimed “wow,” slowly turned around.
His gloomy eyes focused on me.
“If you bring an omega.”
One corner of his mouth rose crookedly with an even more ominous air.
“I said we’d go on a trip, right?”
“……”
“Just the two of us.”
At the word “trip” that Baek Sahyun spat out, I felt like the world was collapsing with a crash.
I was ㅈㅏㄹ wrong.
The mysterious text I’d found while searching Nam Heejae’s phone. That text quickly flashed through my mind. Perhaps at that time, Nam Heejae must have been enjoying a trip with Baek Sahyun.
It was unclear exactly what had happened on that trip with just the two of them, but I could be certain of one thing. That if I went on a trip with Baek Sahyun, I too would end up sending him a typo-filled apology text.
And that I would experience water play—written as water play and read as water torture—which was Baek Sahyun’s exclusive property. Ah, I hate it even if I die. I wanted to prevent that somehow. I raised both hands high as if to show I was innocent.
“Hey. I refused, really. I truly don’t know about this. Huh? Why would I call Eunwoo?”
“Really?”
Then Baek Sahyun nodded his head lightly. It didn’t seem to be a sign of tolerance, so I broke out in a cold sweat. That bastard… looking at his rolled-back eyes, he seems to have already reached a conclusion.
Perhaps he’s planning to impose severe punishment on me for ignoring his warning?
Fuck. My vision turned completely white as fear struck. I could sense that what was before me wasn’t a journey but the road to the afterlife.
I awkwardly got up and picked up my abandoned phone. Then I trudged toward Baek Sahyun. But he didn’t even give me a glance, just staring intently at the entrance.
“Calm down, Sahyun-ah. Look over here.”
I hurriedly blocked Baek Sahyun’s front and thrust my phone at him. The screen light flashed in front of Baek Sahyun’s nose bridge.
“If you look at the text content, I clearly refused. I said it seems I can’t go together.”
Although I ended up in the unseemly position of tattling on Chae Eunwoo, I had no choice for the sake of my safety. I could only hope that the hotel’s soundproofing would function properly. If Eunwoo standing outside the door heard… my dignity would be thoroughly crushed.
“Anyway, I’m saying I’m innocent. Man.”
Baek Sahyun, who scanned the text I confidently showed him with a chilling gaze, finally raised the corners of his mouth. He asked while smiling with crescent moon-like eyes.
“So what, you want praise?”
That wasn’t my intention, but the atmosphere was fierce, making me hesitate to answer. At that moment, Baek Sahyun roughly grabbed and lowered my wrist holding the phone. A voice tinged with laughter rang out like a warning.
“You don’t know because you’re a ghost, Heejae. Originally, results are more important than the process. Eunwoo is behind that door right now. Isn’t that right?”
“I suppose…”
Judging from the chill emanating from his expression, it seemed he had no intention of leniency at all. So I just stamped my feet and looked back and forth between Baek Sahyun and the entrance.
No. If you hate Chae Eunwoo that much, can’t you just endure without opening it, pretending no one’s there?
‘Why the hell are you having such a fit?’
Honestly, I didn’t understand at all why Baek Sahyun was gnashing his teeth this much. Strictly speaking, wasn’t Baek Sahyun a character who should bicker with Chae Eunwoo, gradually seep in, and eventually even feel lust?
Of course, it was all just original story settings… but anyway, I’m saying he should have been that kind of guy.
Baek Sahyun was even a character set up to hover around Chae Eunwoo while attaching all sorts of justifications, like how it wasn’t his taste but he wanted to mess with him, or how his pleading appearance was appetizing.
‘Should I just ask outright? Why are you like this toward him?’
I understand that some change occurred because I possessed into this novel, but I was continuously losing confidence in how to navigate this difficulty. Why is he treating so coldly the omega who will even bear his child?
‘It can’t be because Chae Eunwoo’s personality changed slightly, could it?’
Like Haesu advised, because ‘the most normal character’ awakened in a ‘not normal direction’? Haah. No. Even if that’s the case, Chae Eunwoo still seems to be on the normal side right now…
Feeling like even my innocent hair would fall out in clumps if I continued worrying, I protected my hair volume by shaking my head from side to side. However, I couldn’t stop the doubts that kept rising.
Chae Eunwoo is a character set to have a very mature and calm personality. When I actually possessed here and met him face-to-face, he did seem cheerful and uninhibited, but even so, his characteristic friendliness and warmth still existed.
‘Could it be!’
In the midst of my anguish, a sparkling intuition pierced through my lower back.
