Chapter 572 – Part 2 11. Angels and Demons (7)
Part 2 11. Angels and Demons (7)
For a long time after that, no one said anything. Lee Yul sat quietly and drank a glass of alcohol, and Gahye also gulped down soju as if she really couldn’t bear it without drinking. Chae-kyung seemed to have lost strength in her legs and sat down behind me, and I could only hear her faint breathing.
“… Junhyung.”
Is this a reaction to hearing something so shocking? Chae-kyung speaks to me in a calm voice, unlike before.
“Give me a glass of soju, too.”
“… Yes.”
I poured half a glass of soju into my glass, turned her body slightly, and handed it to Chaekyung behind me. Her appearance at the end of my vision was unclear, so I couldn’t tell what kind of expression she was making.
“… Me too.”
“Huh?”
“I’ve done it with my uncle too.”
“Huh…?”
Everyone’s attention is drawn to the sudden revelation heard from behind. I was so shocked that I tried to turn my head to look at Chae-kyung, but she gently put her hand on my back and stopped me.
“Don’t look.”
“…”
Those words weren’t just directed at me. He turned his head to look at Lee Yul, Ga Hye, and Chae Kyung and turned back to face himself, but his eyes seemed lost and shaking.
“Gahye will know. Regardless of whether we are relatives or not, all men look at our bodies like that. There are also people who secretly try to sexually harass people among family members. At least, I was there.”
As for Chae-kyung, it is understandable that she has accumulated a lot so far. Her development has been extraordinary since she was in her upper grades of elementary school, and she must have been receiving such attention from men for a long time. There is no way Chae-kyung herself would have wanted that kind of attention. Big breasts, attractive body, beautiful features. They are certainly good things, but they bring about many bad things.
“The last time I went there… My uncle called me… In the car…”
“S-stop. You can stop talking.”
Ga-hye stops Chae-kyung. You don’t want to hear any more of that. However, some questions remain. What did they do in the car? She said she had done it, so we can guess what it was, but maybe it was just sexual harassment, or in serious cases, it could be raped with violence.
But I couldn’t ask any more questions. Chae-kyung covers her mouth, and she comes next to her because Hye won’t allow it. When Chae-kyung told me about what happened to her uncle, she probably wanted me to know that she wasn’t that different from me, but she was actually very different. I wanted her mother for myself, and wasn’t Chaekyung’s story of being semi-forced by her uncle?
She doesn’t even point out that fact and remains silent. A story that has nothing to gain from telling. There is no reason for Chae-kyung to dig into the ground in front of her when she is on the same floor as me. Instead, she picks up a bottle of soju and takes another sip from the bottle. Awkward silence. There is an uncomfortable atmosphere here that is different from before.
“I…”
“?”
An unexpected person opened his mouth. Ga-hye opens her mouth as if her turn has come, as if they are playing a game of truth where each person reveals their concerns one by one.
“I… Have… Been with strangers…”
People who don’t know. That means I have participated in an orgy. When I think about it, there are so many things I don’t know about Gahye. We know what she likes, what her personality is like, and how she has lived her life so far, but we don’t know anything about her sexual experiences. Is she still dating her junior who confessed to her? Did she have the orgy she was talking about while she was dating him, or did it happen before that? When did Gahye lose her virginity, and who was her first man? Things I don’t know and things I’m curious about come to mind.
“Lee Junhyung, do you remember that time? “When asked to find a suspicious person in the swimming pool.”
“Ah…”
Last summer, Gahye said that she thought a man had been going in and out of the women’s locker room while she was at the swimming pool. She remembers that she went together to see if there was such a man, but she found nothing, and she was done.
“I was forced by that bastard and then continuously threatened. And it was just… A bit… Like that.”
It was like that. What else does that mean? She’s done it with people she doesn’t know, and I have some idea what she’s been through if she’s been threatened. It may seem like a typical pornographic plot, but I never thought it would happen in real life. I couldn’t even imagine that it would happen to my best female friend. Moreover, isn’t it Choi Ga-hye? I thought that even if Ga-hye threatened her like that, she would fight it off with force and report it to the police. Just like a stupid woman said that a man would subdue a knife-wielding gunman by ‘slapping’ his arm, maybe I also had a ridiculous idea.
“What I’m trying to say is… I don’t think we’re all that clean. Lee Yul talked about Yeongmo’s brother earlier. I also went with you at that time. Lee Yul, that person, me, and Chae-kyung… We did that while switching partners.”
“…”
“Obviously, Jun-hyung, what you did with that lady… Is absolutely, absolutely not right. But… It may sound too irresponsible, but I think such a mistake can happen once in a while. That’s not why we should all be sinners… I just think so.”
It may be a convenience thing, but I think so too. We are all broken, and that doesn’t make us all sinners. I will not express it in light terms such as deviation. But it is not a mortal sin.
Now we knew that we were all in the same pit, covered in mud. Lee Yul did not reveal his dishonesty, but it doesn’t matter because he is a man whose very existence is in fact a dishonesty. I don’t know, but this guy has probably committed everything from adultery to incest. Here, he is the most twisted human being, so he can’t be any cleaner than us.
“So what should I do?”
He says it bluntly, as if he knows that too. He continued talking in a slightly angry voice, as if he didn’t like the way we were trying to comfort each other and lick our wounds.
“So, are you going to have a nice love affair between incestuous people? Do you think that will work?”
“Why not?”
“You just…”
“What are we? What does it matter what we did, or what was done to us? I… I don’t care about that. Even if Chae-kyung spent several days and nights with a man I don’t know, I don’t care one bit.”
He says this while looking straight into Lee Yul’s eyes. I felt Chae-kyung’s gaze behind me, but I didn’t turn around. Here I wanted to show my back. For your sake, I wanted to let you know that it will stop people from saying bad things to you.
“Really?”
“Really.”
Lee Yul laughs as if it is absurd.
“Chae-kyung is not satisfied with you, idiot.”
“I guess so. It doesn’t matter.”
It really doesn’t matter. To be honest, I gave up.
“Do you mind too, Jeong Chae-kyung? You won’t be satisfied with this guy anyway and will find another man.”
“…”
“And this guy, you’re going to keep cheating on me?”
“… Yeah, it doesn’t matter.”
She thought so. Because Chaekyung and I have already accepted that we can’t just be with each other. We want each other, and at the same time we want other physical relationships. They chose the path of being together while having fun with different partners.
“You’re crazy. Are you a pong-pong guy and a pong-pong girl? “Are you serious?”
“I’m serious. And what does it have to do with you in the first place?”
“Who cares, kid. “Chaekyung’s boyfriend now is me.”
It was like that. At least formally, the person Chae-kyung is currently dating is Lee Yool. She had forgotten that fact, and just like before, she thought of Lee Yul as an outsider who came between us.
“… Jeong Chae-kyung.”
“Why?”
“Do you want to break up with me?”
“Uh.”
Chaekyung answers without the slightest hesitation.
“Are you going to break up with me and date this guy again?”
“Huh. “I’m going to date you.”
“And yet you’re going to have sex with other men and let Lee Jun-hyung have sex with other women?”
“It would be best if I didn’t do that, but even if that were the case, I would still love Junhyung.”
Shameless. But I was also shameless. Chaekyung and I are both shameless. There was something like this in a Japanese cartoon I watched in middle school. The main character gradually grows as she dates one woman after another in search of her true love. However, what impressed me the most was not the protagonist, but his friends. A friend who has been close to the protagonist for a long time has also been dating a girlfriend for a long time, and the two do not care if each other has sex with other people. My friend’s girlfriend even had a close relationship with the main character when they didn’t know each other yet.
I didn’t understand it at the time. It was natural for a man to create a harem, but he thought that there would be no man in the world who would leave his woman alone while she was playing around with other men and casually say he loved her. He never dreamed of switching men and women.
I understand now. Of course, this is not the best I had hoped for. But I can accept this level of lesser evil. We can accept that this kind of relationship exists and affirm it. Chaekyung probably feels the same way. What we have left now is not a burning love for each other. It is a relationship like a strong bridge that will no longer collapse. As I said before, it doesn’t matter anymore who passes by.
“Do you think you can date like that? “You’re okay with your boyfriend having sex with another woman right in front of you and another man sticking his dick into her girlfriend?”
“… It’s okay.”
I couldn’t bear to answer that blatant question, but Chae-kyung answered calmly. Lee Yul must have felt quite offended by this ‘current girlfriend’ attitude and took the bottle from me and gulped it down.
“Hehe. Okay. Then prove it. If you prove it, I’ll break up with you. If you want, I won’t even approach you again.”
Lee Yul glares at Chae Kyung. Although I was blocking the space between them, I couldn’t even block the glare she was giving me. Proof. What kind of proof is he asking for?
