Chapter 20: What Kind of Dreams Are You Having About Your Friend?

"Uh, come to think of it, I suddenly have an appointment..."

"Ah, Oppaaaa!"

"Hey, driving there and back takes two and a half hours. Isn't that too much?"

"Oppa, you can just sleep over at the main house for a day and come back up!"

I used telekinesis to grab Jin-seong Hyung, who was trying to flee, immobilizing him. I grabbed his arm and started whining like a brat.

Ah, so what?

I want to throw a tantrum, what's he gonna do about it!

"Yes?"

"This is a crime, you know. Using abilities on a civilian is a crim..."

"What kind of bullshit is that? I am the civilian here. Anyway, are you going to take me, or are you just going to abandon me and run?"

"You can just take the bus tomorrow!"

"But stiiiiiill..."

Actually, I know I'm being a nuisance.

But going in Jin-seong Hyung's car is much more comfortable and faster than the bus.

Why should I bother transferring buses, getting annoyed by delays, and potentially ending up running there using telekinesis?

"If you don't give me a ride, I might not release you from there..."

"Fine! I'll take you, so release this!"

"Yaaay!"

"Instead, you owe me a favor later."

"Yes?"

I was slightly happy at Jin-seong Hyung's words that he would take me, but I paused at the word "favor."

"What favor?" I asked. Jin-seong Hyung looked down at his body and said it was a secret.

"Don't tell me it's something perverted?"

"Do you really want to get hit?"

"If not, then it's fine."

Saying that, I released the telekinesis applied to Jin-seong Hyung's body.

Jin-seong Hyung must have felt quite a bit of pressure in that short moment because he complained, "Ow, my whole body aches from just that short time."

Well, naturally, if I perceive a threat, I subconsciously lift buildings too, so...

"Are we going now?"

"Yeah."

"Then I'll go change clothes, please wait a moment."

"Hey, are you going too?"

After saying that to Jin-seong Hyung (referring to Jin-wook), I quickly entered the room and thought about what to wear.

I hated going down to the area where my parents' house was, but I did want to visit home after a long time. The latter won over the former.

'Hmm, what should I wear so Jin-wook gets less annoyed?'

Jin-wook being less annoyed is a shortcut to me being less annoyed.

I picked a combination from the clothes hanging in the room and the ones I hadn't hung up yet, then came out.

"Let's go."

"...Hey, did she always dress that well?"

"I don't? Know."

I looked at the mirror in the hallway for a moment.

A beige long coat, a pure white knit sweater, and appropriately fitting jeans.

I just wore it because I wanted to wear the clothes I bought for the first time today, but hearing their banter, I had a slight doubt.

"Is this dressing well? Looks just normal to me."

"Hmm... seeing him say that, I guess the hanger (body) is just too good."

"Sigh, a dirty world where the face does all the work."

Honestly, he didn't think the clothes she wore had an exceptionally outstanding design.

After all, it was just a combination of clothes bought at Rodeo Street because she liked them, and clothes brought from home to wear casually.

But was it because the "hanger" was good?

Or was it because he had feelings for her without realizing it?

"Sigh, a dirty world where the face does all the work."

At his brother's words, Jin-wook found himself inwardly agreeing.

If it were anyone else, he would have dismissed it as just a mood swing or nonsense.

But she looked much more beautiful and charming than the idol singers he had seen once when he went to a music program recording.

Even though she was definitely a man in the past.

Because she was now a woman named Hwang Eun-ha, he agreed.

The darkened streets.

Jin-seong Hyung's vehicle cut through them, moving forward.

I sat in the back seat, looking at my phone and giggling to myself.

'Ah, I should have killed that Choco bastard more.'

One of the brothers sitting in front was sleeping, and the other was focused on driving, so the car was quiet.

I had a wireless earphone in one ear and was snickering alone.

However, since Jin-seong Hyung's music was playing in the car, he didn't seem to notice my giggling.

"Hey, Jung Jin-wook. You sleeping?"

Jin-seong Hyung's voice came from the front.

Along with a small complaint, "If you're gonna sleep, go to the back."

On the other hand, for once, I wasn't dozing off while riding in Hyung's car.

"I'm not sleeping."

"You're looking at your phone."

"Yeah."

Thanks to that, I'm spending the precious travel time enjoyably instead of wasting it on sleep.

How long has it been since I spent time awake like this?

Thanks to that, I could have a fun time thinking about what prank to pull next.

'I didn't think he'd go as far as taking off my clothes.'

I was worried because I was flustered when he pulled down my sleeveless top and exposed my bare chest, but...

Up to what line should I tease him next time for it to be fun?

Since I get a bit flustered if Jin-wook rushes ahead and strips me, I pondered how to tease him without going that far—a useless worry in the eyes of others.

"Uugh, Eun-ha-ya..."

Jin-wook's sleep talking came from the front again. Hearing my name, I looked up.

This rascal, what kind of dream is he having to make sounds like that?

It had been a while since I heard him sleep talk, so I moved my head closer to the front seat headrest.

"N-No..."

"What kind of dream is this bastard having about his friend?"

It seems that prank earlier was too stimulating for Jin-wook, who is a man after all.

For some reason, hearing Jin-wook's sleep talk that sounded like he was having a wet dream about me, heat rose to my face.

But still, curious about the content, I found myself focusing on his mumbling.

"Vir... Mmph mmph." (Note: He tried to say Virginity/First time)

And realizing what event he was dreaming about, I hurriedly blocked his mouth with telekinesis.

Roughly speaking, the dream this bastard was having seemed to be about that incident.

'C-Crazy bastard...'

Does he want to rumor to the whole neighborhood that we had sex?

From the side, Hyung expressed strangeness, saying, "Why is he suddenly like that?"

But recalling that incident, my face turned red, and I couldn't possibly answer Hyung's question.

"I-I don't know."

Still, blocking his mouth for a moment made him quiet down, and he started sleeping peacefully again.

Relieved inwardly that it didn't leak out, I tried to focus on my phone again.

'...?'

Somewhere.

Until I felt a gaze looking at me as we were slowly passing through a village in the middle of the road.

"Oppa, don't you feel someone watching us?"

"Don't spout nonsense while I'm driving."

"No really, am I weird?"

"You must be tired. Go to sleep."

I'm not.

Even if I usually walk around absentmindedly, I pride myself on sensing hostile gazes aimed at me better than anyone else.

Because the time I've lived through was a time where failure to react led to severe injury, even with telekinesis protecting me.

'I really feel someone's gaze...'

The moment I thought that.

I flinched in shock, seeing an existence that shouldn't be seen in this world through the clouds.

'How are you...'

Blonde hair. And as if refusing to hide her charm, wearing clothes that clung tight to her body, covering only what was necessary—clothes that could be described as truly provocative.

And eyes with pupils slit vertically, like a cat.

An existence I could never forget.

A Demon (Mazoku).

I will come to find you before long, can you wait for me?

Her lips moved in the moonlight.

Showing me a mouth shape whose meaning I could clearly read, she spoke to me like that.

VROOOOOOOOOM!

And as if what I saw in the moonlight was an illusion.

The roar of a large truck was heard from afar.

Startled, Jin-seong Hyung and I turned our heads. A truck was rushing madly toward our vehicle.

Uh, uh? Why is this doing this?

At that moment, as if the world was flowing in slow motion.

My senses, which specialize in perceiving the world much faster than others, began to accept a massive amount of information, perceiving the flow of time more than others.

Enough to read the panicked lips of the truck driver.

Immediately after, everything happened in an instant.

I slightly lifted Jin-seong Hyung's running car to stop it completely, pulling it toward me.

At the same time, I opened the door of the car that was stopping rapidly due to my telekinesis, jumped out, and lifted the truck rushing toward us.

"W-What..."

"Eun-ha-ya, are you okay?"

We were definitely driving fine.

Suddenly, the car stopped as if pulled back by a force.

Then the friend's daughter (me) opened the door, jumped out, and lifted the truck rushing from behind.

Jin-seong Hyung and Jin-wook, shocked, ran to me and asked questions, but I couldn't answer immediately.

'Was what I saw really a hallucination?'

I needed time to judge whether her coming to this world to find me was a hallucination created by me.

But I couldn't let my friend and his brother worry.

"I'm fine."

"What is this all of a sudden..."

Controlling my expression and forcing a smile so they wouldn't notice what I just thought.

I slightly crushed something that was spinning furiously underneath the truck to forcibly stop the engine's operation.

Then I lowered it carefully to the ground so the driver inside wouldn't get hurt.

"That person must be more surprised than me."

In fact, the truck driver was so shocked he looked almost out of his mind.

When Jin-seong Hyung knocked on the door asking, "Excuse me, are you okay?", he opened the door, got out slowly, and asked me first, "A-Are you okay?"

"Are you hurt anywhere?"

"You don't need to worry about me."

"The car suddenly went crazy and accelerated on its own... What should I do... The brakes didn't work either."

"I'm really fine, I tell you."

The driver seemed quite shocked, but looked at his stopped car and started cursing, "This damn shit car."

Then, suddenly, a thought crossed my mind, and cold sweat began to flow down my back.

Wait, how did I stop that again?

"Um, Jin-seong Oppa."

"Why, do you hurt somewhere?"

"That car's wheels wouldn't stop even when I lifted it, so I kinda broke something to force it to stop... What do I do about that?"

When I spoke cautiously, Jin-seong Hyung turned his gaze to the truck.

Me, Hyung, and Jin-wook looked at the truck while sweating cold bullets as the driver said, "Why is this like this?"

"Where did you break it?"

Hyung asked me with a trembling voice.

"Th-That... just the part underneath that seemed to be spinning furiously..."

Hearing my words, Jin-seong Hyung sighed.

He made a serious expression as if he were going to scold me, then took his phone out of his pocket.

Then, making a call somewhere, he spoke with a drained voice.

"Looks like we need to call a tow truck..."