Chapter 15: You Should Have Come Shopping With Me Then

As the surging emotions subsided somewhat...

I realized I was sitting on the sofa, hugged by Jin-wook, sniveling like a baby. My face burned red.

Being in my underwear didn't bother me, but the fact that I had been bawling my eyes out made me feel an immense sense of shame.

"L-Let me go now..."

"Uh, okay."

"I know what you're worried about."

So, to hide those emotions, I brought up the topic we had roughly finished discussing earlier.

I felt like I had to say something—anything—to hide my current feelings.

"If our parents find out, we're both truly fucked. Not to mention if I get pregnant."

"..."

"But pay some attention to me. Even if I make dirty jokes all the time, my body is physically female."

"You are aware of that, huh."

"Hey, it's been almost five years since I've lived as a woman. Did you think I was still saying, 'I'm going to turn back into a man soon'?"

As I said that, catching the clothes flying through the air, Jin-wook showed a slightly disappointed expression.

I wondered if he was disappointed that he couldn't see me in my underwear anymore.

"I guess so..."

"W-What. Did you get turned on seeing me in my underwear? Wanted to see more?"

"Is she crazy..."

"If not, then what."

"Just, men and women have fundamentally different bodies, so there are things guys can do together that we can't anymore."

Is there such a thing?

When I tilted my head, Jin-wook sighed softly and continued.

"Like talking about girls while cracking open a cold one, stuff like that."

"What. Were you planning to talk about other girls right in front of me?"

"Is she crazy..."

"But wait, come to think of it, fuck, I'm pissed. There were good things for you because I'm a woman, right?"

Saying that, I roughly grabbed his junk.

Jin-wook panicked, shouting, "Hey, hey, wait!"

But I didn't care. Holding onto him, I spoke my mind.

"Fuck, you popped my cherry. You took my virginity. You finished inside without a condom, and I even took birth control pills so you wouldn't have to take responsibility. If it weren't for me, do you think an uptight prude (Sip-seonbi) like you could have ever done that? Huh?"

"O-Okay, I get it, so let go of this!"

"Phew, thinking about it pisses me off."

Ha.

Thinking about having to go to school tomorrow and sit in the same class as Kang Tae-woo made my future look bleak.

After hearing all that, I wonder if he can even look me in the eye properly.

...Should I just skip school tomorrow?

"Anyway, you better treat me well. I just suggested going to a motel because it would be messy to drink at home that night, but you took advantage of me and ate me up."

"Ugh."

"If I didn't mean it, would I have asked someone who knows I used to be a man to 'please eat me' and go to a motel? It's just annoying to clean up the house."

Having said my piece, I stood up from the sofa, unhooked my bra, and took it off.

I put on the clothes I brought.

Using telekinesis, I tossed the underwear I took off into the laundry basket, turned on my phone, and asked him, "What do you want for dinner?"

"Delivery today?"

"Yeah. Thanks to someone, I'm too annoyed to cook."

"Then Haejang-guk (Hangover soup) for me."

"Acting like a total old man, eating stuff exactly like himself."

Saying that, I lay down on the sofa using Jin-wook's leg as a pillow.

I ordered the same Haejang-guk for myself on my phone and opened a web novel app.

As expected, lying down and reading a novel before dinner after the day ends is the golden rule...

"Hiiik! Where are you touching right now?"

Golden rule, my ass.

Startled by Jin-wook suddenly touching near my lower belly, I dropped my phone.

Lying there, I looked up at his face and asked if he was a pervert, but Jin-wook answered nonchalantly, not caring about my reaction.

"Come to think of it, it means my seed is still inside here. That's kinda fascinating."

"You rapist bastard, seriously! Do you think I'm your girlfriend?!"

In the end, I had to hit Jin-wook one more time.

After the day ended like that.

When the sun rose and it was time to go to school, I fell into a deep dilemma.

"What are you doing, Eun-ha?"

"W-Wouldn't you like to go first?"

"You're going to skip school if I leave you, aren't you?"

"Hey, seriously, how am I supposed to face Kang Tae-woo? He heard everything about birth control pills and stuff yesterday."

Jin-wook sighed softly at those words, grabbed my shoulders, and pushed my back, saying, "Let's just go together for now."

Of course, it makes no sense for a former S-Class Hunter to be pushed around by a civilian physically, but...

"Uh, ugh."

I thought about playing around for a moment, but I ended up being pushed out the door and pressing the elevator button as he wanted.

While waiting for it to come up, Jin-wook called my name. "Eun-ha."

I turned my head.

"You said Kang Tae-woo promised not to tell anyone else."

"Yeah."

"It'll be fine. And you said he's a good guy. The problem was just him being annoying."

"Well, I guess..."

"Hearing you say that gives me a bit of strength."

Stepping out of the apartment building, I felt a chill in the air, signaling that winter was approaching.

Soon, with the end of finals, my freshman year and his sophomore year would end.

The school would welcome winter break.

"It's getting a bit cold now."

"That's why I told you to buy clothes in advance."

Up until this point, I thought I could maintain a friendship with Jin-wook forever.

Because here, right now, he was the only person with whom I shared the memories of 'me' from when I was a man.

"If you're going to say that, you should have come with me when I went to buy clothes..."

But, going shopping for women's clothes with him?

Normally, even if Jin-wook got annoyed saying, "Hey, buy some clothes. Do you know how much your mother nags me?" I wouldn't have gone.

It was clear that since that day, my mind had gone a bit crazy.

"Hey, that's the most welcome news I've heard in a while."

"Crazy..."

"Since we're talking about it, I should take a few photos to send to your mother this time. Okay?"

"You really say whatever you want, don't you? If you were going to take photos, you should have taken them when I was naked back then. My parents would have been so happy they would have come up immediately to kill you."

"The one saying whatever they want seems to be you, or am I mistaken?"

As we walked while bickering like that.

When we arrived at the bus stop, two young men greeted him enthusiastically, "Oh, Jin-wook!"

I wondered briefly why anyone would recognize him, but a thought flashed through my mind.

"What the? Why are you guys here?"

"Just had some business nearby?"

"Remembered you live here, so we came all the way here on purpose."

Ah, that's right.

If you take a bus from here for about 10 minutes, that place is there.

These bastards who are only twenty-four know everything.

"But who is next to you?"

"...My father's friend's daughter."

"Ah? That Hwang Eun-ha? Hi. Since I'm your senior (Sunbae), I can speak comfortably, right?"

"Yes, hello."

But seeing them treat me as just an ordinary junior at school, the thoughts I harbored quickly flew away.

Ah, is my campus life finally starting in earnest from the end of my freshman year?

Speaking comfortably with seniors, going to department events together... that kind of 'King-Civilian' (Normie) life...

While I harbored such Otaku-like thoughts for a moment.

"Wow, this uptight-seonbi bastard. You still haven't watched that?"

"What, fuck."

"It's the end of the world, seriously. You live without seeing that masterpiece?"

Thought so.

Their momentary interest in me vanished quickly, and they immediately dove into their own conversation topic.

As expected, for a homebody-loner (Hiki-Assa) like me, gaming in the corner of my room and watching internet streams fits best...

"Hey, what are you doing? Not getting on the bus?"

Lost in my delusions, I snapped back to reality at Jin-wook's words and hurriedly moved my feet.

Hwang Eun-ha looks incredibly strong on the outside, but inside, she is a very precarious woman.

I don't know what she's thinking right now—probably lost in some strange delusion—but...

Last night, seeing her come out in her underwear asking if she was a man or a woman, and bursting into tears saying I was the only one who could help her... that made me feel quite dizzy.

Of course, unlike her precariousness, paradoxically, she was also a very strong person.

Looking at her broken state due to my mistake, feeling like I had to hug her...

"W-Wouldn't you like to go first?"

But seeing her recovered like that again, honestly, I couldn't help but think she was amazing.

Actually, that's all bullshit.

I definitely blacked out.

But while lying in bed yesterday, suddenly remembering memories from that day, I couldn't view her just as a friend anymore, so I was close to thinking just about anything to distract myself.

'Ha, you crazy bastard, she is...'

Honestly, earlier when she said, "If you were going to take photos, you should have taken them when I was naked back then,"...

The image of Hwang Eun-ha, completely naked, kneeling in front of me, flashed in my mind. I almost committed social suicide right there.

The moment I met two of my department peers at the bus stop, I instinctively almost ran away.

That day, Hwang Eun-ha didn't speak any words of consent to me.

Yet, with the ridiculous bullshit excuse that she seduced me, I plundered Eun-ha's virginity.

In other words, if she opens her mouth the wrong way, my life is practically over.

'Shit. Ah, I am never drinking with her again, seriously.'

To the point where I naturally had these thoughts.

Hwang Eun-ha was essentially a ticking time bomb to me.

Perhaps because she wasn't a "native" woman, she luckily let it slide vaguely as an accident the next day without reporting me, which was a huge relief for me, but...

"Hey, Jung Jin-wook."

That was why I deliberately changed the subject the moment my peers greeted Hwang Eun-ha.

Just in case she said something weird.

The Eun-ha I know wouldn't say anything strange, but I couldn't help being anxious.

"So, are you going to go with me later or not?"

"Ooh, are you two in that kind of relationship?"

"It's not like that, so shut up. If my dad and her dad find out, I might get beaten to death."

"True, if I had a daughter like that, I would never give her to this bastard."

But does she not know the anxiety I'm feeling right now?

Hwang Eun-ha poked my side with her finger inside the bus and asked me.

"When is your lecture free?"

"Uh... after 3 PM?"

"Then let's go tomorrow, not today. I have full lectures all afternoon today."

"Ah, my afternoon is just electives, but you're bouncing (rejecting) me hard."

She knows every fucking thing.

I sighed softly and threw out a vague confirmation, "Then maybe see you at lunchtime."

Hopefully, she'll be quiet now.

"So, has Eun-ha lived in the same neighborhood as Jung Jin-wook all her life?"

"Yes? Ah, well, I guess so...?"

...But thanks to these wolf-like bastards, the time for peace hadn't arrived yet.

I spent the time on the bus anxiously, worrying that Hwang Eun-ha might say something wrong.

"Then see you later!"

Because Hwang Eun-ha possessed looks that would make passing men turn their heads even with just a little effort, as well as matching charm...

The horny wolves next to me wouldn't leave her alone.

"Hey, Jin-wook-ah. From today on, we're best friends with you, got it?"

"Why are these bastards like this."

"Wow, how could you keep a girl like that all to yourself? You deceiver bastard."

"I'm not in that kind of relationship with her, so cut it out. And if you mess with her wrongly, you guys will really die."

After getting off the bus.

To the point where I was tormented by my two peers for a while.