Chapter 84 – Sister, Younger Sister, They’Re Awesome, Right? (5)
Early autumn had arrived before we knew it.
Under the clear, lukewarm sunlight, I quietly observed the conversation between the two sisters.
“So, Jinhyun is buying lottery tickets for you?”
“Yeah.”
“Every Thursday and Saturday?”
“Yeah.”
Dajeong nodded at Yujeong’s question.
She hadn’t done anything particularly wrong, but Dajeong nodded as if she were being interrogated. Well, buying lottery tickets on someone else’s behalf isn’t exactly an honorable act…
“But, Unnie, did you really work part-time with Jinhyun Oppa? You said you were seeing someone you worked with today.”
“Yeah. Jinhyun quit now, but until about a month ago, Jinhyun was my next shift. The night shift.”
At Yujeong’s words, Dajeong immediately turned her head towards me.
“Oppa, is that true?”
“Yeah. We worked together for a few months.”
“Wow. That’s amazing…”
Yujeong nodded in agreement with Dajeong’s admiring expression.
“I know, right? I never imagined you’d know Jinhyun. And a lottery first-prize winner, wow…”
Dajeong explained how she and I met.
From the accidental request to buy lottery tickets to exchanging contact information.
In the process, she even mentioned that I had won the lottery first prize, and when they didn’t believe her, she showed them my bank balance.
Even though a considerable amount had been withdrawn for the house deposit, there was still more than enough money.
Well… winning the lottery first prize isn’t something to hide, and they would find out eventually. Besides, winning first prize proves that I have the ability to pay Yujeong for her work.
“Jinhyun, you didn’t know either?”
“No. I thought Dajeong and Unnie had similar names, but I never imagined they were sisters.”
Through the Fortune Tracker, I knew that Dajeong and Yujeong were sisters, but outwardly, I also acted like I didn’t know about their relationship.
‘I didn’t expect it to be revealed today, though.’
I wasn’t really planning to hide it in the first place.
After all, to enjoy a delicious sister sandwich, they both had to like me at the same time.
That’s why I didn’t really care about the chat and talked to both Dajeong and Yujeong at the same time.
But, I didn’t expect the day of revelation to be today.
I was just planning to meet Yujeong today and raise her favorability a bit…
Hmm.
But now that it’s like this…!
‘This is even better.’
I smiled inwardly.
Hehe. Yeah.
This is even better.
Come to think of it, it was truly fortunate that the three of us met naturally like this today.
If I had gotten closer to one of them and then it was revealed that I was seeing both of them, it could have led to a slightly awkward situation.
It was much more convenient that it was revealed like this in advance.
It was impossible to forcibly raise Dajeong’s favorability with coins like I did with Sujeong, and Yujeong wasn’t registered as a heroine yet.
To register Yujeong as a heroine, I had to have pure, lovey-dovey sex with her.
“But Oppa, you keep calling my Unnie ‘Nuna,’ are you younger than her?”
What a natural question. At Dajeong’s question, Yujeong and I made eye contact.
“Yeah. I’m younger.”
“That’s right. Jinhyun, you’re twenty-two, right?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Heol…”
Dajeong makes a face as if to say, ‘No way.’
This girl?
“What’s with that face? Do I look that old?”
“Ah~ no, it’s not that… umm. Mature? Yeah, you look mature. Hehe.”
“That’s the same thing… I told you, we’re not that far apart in age. Honestly, ‘Ahjussi’ was a bit much.”
“Hehe. That’s why I call you ‘Oppa’ now. Oppaaa~.”
Dajeong acts cute and flirts.
Why is she suddenly like this?
She didn’t even act like this when we talked on chat. Yujeong opened her mouth slightly, seemingly shocked by Dajeong’s behavior.
“But today… why, why did you two meet? Is it a date…?”
Dajeong finally got to the point.
‘A date?’
That’s right.
A man and a woman meeting for a meal, what else would it be if not a date!
“It’s not a date, I called Nuna because I had something to tell her.”
“Something to tell her?”
“Yeah.”
At my words, Dajeong’s eyes filled with curiosity. I looked at Yujeong.
“Let’s not talk about it here. Let’s talk while we eat.”
“Ah, okay. Let’s do that.”
“Dajeong, do you want to eat with us? Oppa will buy.”
“Oh, really?”
Dajeong’s face brightened.
Of course, of course. I can buy it all.
“Yeah. Since we met like this.”
But suddenly, Yujeong cleared her throat and said to Dajeong.
“But Dajeong, didn’t you say you had a lot to draw today?”
“Ah, ahh~ that… I can draw it when I get back tonight!”
“Oh, really?”
“Yeah.”
Yujeong sighed faintly and said to me.
“I’ll pay for Dajeong’s meal, Jinhyun.”
“It’s okay. It’s nothing. Just think of it as payment for listening to my story. We were supposed to go by 1:30, so if we walk slowly now, we’ll be right on time.”
And so, we headed to the restaurant.
******
A luxurious Japanese restaurant room decorated in red.
On the table, on luxurious plates that wouldn’t be out of place next to the splendid paintings on the walls, were platters full of sashimi, sushi, and tempura.
Food that I would never normally have the chance to eat, costing tens of thousands of won per person.
But Yoon Yujeong picked up a piece of sashimi and chewed it as if it were rubber.
‘Ugh… what is this.’
She couldn’t taste it properly.
It wasn’t because the sashimi wasn’t fresh, but because the disappointing feeling she was experiencing was overwhelming the taste of the sashimi.
Still, it was worth the high price, the texture was good.
Munch munch…
‘I was so happy thinking it would be just the two of us…’
Yoon Yujeong frowned slightly.
She had dressed up so nicely, but suddenly her younger sister had barged into the appointment for two.
‘Ugh. I shouldn’t have asked if she wanted to come along.’
She regretted it belatedly.
She never imagined, not even 1mg, that Dajeong and Jinhyun knew each other.
Dajeong was chatting with Jinhyun with a bright smile.
“So, do you know what happened? The male lead to the female lead…”
“Hahaha. That’s funny. What happened next?”
Chatter chatter.
Jinhyun listened to all of Dajeong’s stories with a smile. Dajeong endlessly shared stories about school or the comics she usually read.
‘They met like this twice a week…?’
Yoon Yujeong ate the squid tempura as if she were taking out her anger on it.
Crunch crunch.
Tch. It’s delicious.
‘He rejected my confession.’
While he hadn’t even sent her a single message since they last met, Jinhyun was meeting with her younger sister, Dajeong.
“Haa…”
“Nuna, what’s wrong? Is the food not good?”
“Ah, uh? Nooo~. It’s delicious, delicious.”
“Haha. That’s a relief.”
Seeing his smiling face, oblivious to everything, made her sigh.
No, since Jinhyun had rejected her confession, was it not that he was oblivious, but that he simply had no feelings for her?
If that was the case, it was even sadder.
Yoon Yujeong looked at Jinhyun’s face.
Her heart beat faster.
There was definitely a flutter.
The last time they met.
That is, the very strong flutter she felt at the movie theater… it wasn’t as strong, but ever since she saw Jinhyun in person today, Yoon Yujeong felt a strange charm about him.
To put it simply, yes.
Like that tingling feeling she had when Jinhyun was late on their first meeting and they made plans to eat together?
Since Jinhyun was the first person to give her that feeling in the first place, she thought it was a good thing that they met.
But…
‘Am I jealous?’
Seeing Jinhyun talking so intimately with her younger sister made her feel bad.
And the problem wasn’t just that.
‘She looks happy.’
Dajeong looked happy talking to Jinhyun.
That was the biggest problem.
That face she had been smiling with while chatting, she had been showing that face ever since she met Jinhyun.
‘Dajeong likes Jinhyun.’
That made sense.
The days when Dajeong started smiling while looking at her chat messages started after she brought home the third-place lottery winnings. That day was exactly the day she exchanged contact information with Jinhyun.
‘Yesterday, she said they met and he showed her the house he was moving into, right?’
The scenes of the comic Dajeong had drawn yesterday and today flashed through her mind.
The male lead inviting the female lead to his house.
And the male lead’s recently changed style.
If she applied it to her meeting with Jinhyun, everything fit perfectly.
If Dajeong confessed to Jinhyun, would Jinhyun accept her?
If he accepted her…
Ugh. Her heart ached again.
‘I should check it out first.’
Let’s ask directly.
To Dajeong.
What would she do if she answered that she really liked him?
Then, would she have to just give up Jinhyun, the only person who made her heart flutter, and hand him over to Dajeong?
She had already handed over her dream of drawing to Dajeong…
“I’m going to the restroom for a bit.”
“Ah, go ahead. I saw that it’s straight to the left when you go out.”
“Dajeong, let’s go together.”
“Huh? I’m okay…”
A sharp glare signaled her to come, and Dajeong nodded.
“Ah, okay.”
“Please watch my bag for a bit.”
“Yes, don’t worry and go.”
Yoon Yujeong nodded and headed to the restroom with Yoon Dajeong.
******
‘As expected.’
I thought.
This is even better.
