## Chapter 82 – My Own Collection? (6)
“Um… student, won’t you please sit down…? Please.”
Anyone who has lived in this city for a long time might not know exactly about Hwan, but they couldn’t possibly be unaware of their influence. The balding math teacher spoke with excessive politeness for someone addressing a student so much younger.
But perhaps even that was all the courage the math teacher could muster.
However, Sua, the one he addressed, didn’t respond at all. She didn’t even bother to pay attention to someone like the math teacher. Sua didn’t even look at the math teacher standing in front of the podium. She only looked at me.
Being the center of attention for a beautiful woman like Sua would be a pleasant experience for any man, but for me, it was deeply unpleasant. The unpleasantness outweighed even the anxiety that she might have found out what I had been secretly doing to Yujin and Yujeong.
But I still wore a blank expression. If this were shortly after my regression, I would have felt resistance to playing the fool in front of Sua, but now I didn’t feel anything in particular. I was acutely aware that I didn’t have the time to engage in a battle of wits with Sua when I hadn’t even managed to win over Yujin yet.
Fortunately, Sua sat down without saying anything. There was no way she had any evidence. And she probably wasn’t strongly suspicious of me either. If she had a suspicion strong enough to be certain, she wouldn’t have just stared at me like that; she would have taken action immediately.
Still, I couldn’t let my guard down. Even if Sua had stopped paying attention to me, her two underlings in the same class would still be watching me.
Just like yesterday, I pretended to sleep, lying down on my desk. Since I was an unwelcome presence in the class, no one spoke to me, even though I showed up late and didn’t actively participate in class.
Yujin was a celebrity not only in our class but in the entire school, so it didn’t take long for news of her to spread. Even though class was in session, the boys and girls were all talking about Yujin.
But most of what they said wasn’t helpful. No one knew where Yujin was or what she was doing.
Minhee also seemed to be unaware, as I heard her asking Sua and Jiyeong why Yujin hadn’t come to school.
“I don’t know, she’s not answering her phone,” Jiyeong replied, indicating that Yujin hadn’t told her friends anything and had simply skipped school without notice.
“Why don’t you call her? She might answer if you do.”
Minhee asked Sua.
“Her phone is turned off.”
“Yujin’s?”
Sua stared intently at Minhee’s surprised face.
“What’s wrong? She could have overslept, or she could be sick, or she could have just not wanted to come to school for no reason. …Do you have any idea what’s going on?”
“…No, nothing. Just… nothing.”
Their conversation ended there. Since I had expected that if Yujin were to ask someone for help, it would be Minhee, Minhee probably knew a little more about Yujin’s current situation than others.
However, given Yujin’s personality and the fact that I had blackmail material that could ruin both of their lives, including Yujin’s only weakness, her mother Yujeong, it was highly unlikely that she had completely confided in Minhee.
If she had, there was no way I would have been able to walk to school on my own two feet. Minhee’s thugs would have come to pick me up first, in a heavily tinted van.
So, I could rest assured for now. But it wouldn’t last long. The fact that Sua suspected me was already a bad situation. I needed to proceed with my plan more quickly.
To do that, the priority right now was to replenish at least some of the energy that had been squeezed out of me by Yujeong the day before yesterday, Yujin last night, and Yujeong again today, through sleep…
Because of Yujin, who I couldn’t predict what she was up to, I had a restless night.
The scene of Yujeong and Yujin, mother and daughter, dressed as bunny girls, barging into my house and lying side by side on my bed, each reaching out a hand to me, remained vivid in my mind even after I woke up.
It was a terrible nightmare.
Of course, I had an erection.
After waiting for the erection to subside, I got out of bed. It was lunchtime, so everyone had left the classroom before me, but only Sua’s two underlings, who were known as a couple, were still in the classroom.
As soon as I left the classroom, they followed me. I knew it.
I was planning to go into the janitor’s dormitory room to see if the principal was up to anything, but that was a bust. Going into the chairman’s office to violate Yujeong, or rather, to comfort her, was also a bust.
But they couldn’t openly tail me, so I might be able to take advantage of a brief opening.
So, I pretended to take a walk, deliberately looking around aimlessly for a long time. On a whim, I went into the cafeteria, which was deserted today because the menu wasn’t very good, took a tray of food, ate a bite or two, and then left the tray on the table as it was and went outside.
Even though it was deserted, the cafeteria was still crowded with people, and the two were still getting their food on their trays, so I was able to shake them off.
I walked quickly and, when I reached a place where no one was around, I ran to the dormitory room. The principal was either more thoughtful than the janitor, or he was less starved for women and had more leeway, because the defenses were better than the last time I had checked.
He had put up a “Under Construction” sign at the entrance to the dormitory to prevent unsuspecting students from entering, and he had put curtains on every window of the container used as a dormitory so that no one could see inside from the outside.
I stopped and looked carefully, and I could feel the container shaking slightly. I could hear sounds too.
I had been running around the whole school trying to find a chance to shake off Sua’s underlings, but I hadn’t seen Eunji’s face, so I could assume that Eunbi was inside with the janitor and the principal.
Hmm… not bad progress.
Eunji wasn’t a particularly great female, but that was probably because my standards had been raised too high by Yujeong and Yujin, mother and daughter, and there would be plenty of people who wanted to possess Eunji just because she was a student at this prestigious private school, so finding a buyer wouldn’t be difficult.
She wasn’t very loyal, but she was highly trainable, and the principal said that she had the [Lewd] trait, so she enjoyed having sex itself.
She also preferred orgies, so I could sell her off as a sex toy at some sex party.
The distribution of sales revenue was 2 to 3 to 5.
The cult got 2, the trainer got 3, and the prostitute got 5.
It seemed almost too generous for a pseudo-religious cult to be running, but this was right. It was rational.
When I only knew the information that women were being trained and sold to a pseudo-religious cult, I thought of bizarre stories that only floated around as urban legends, but the reality of “most” cases was nothing like that.
In most cases, the trained women would do a little prostitution at a moderate level or run errands for Hwan. Even then, most of them didn’t even know what they were doing. They were just doing a little work that they were repeatedly ordered to do by the trainer who was ordered by Hwan, and the henchman who was ordered by the trainer.
For example, hiding a very small plastic bag containing drugs in a secluded corner and returning home.
The chances of getting caught were so low that they were almost non-existent, and even if they were caught, they wouldn’t be imprisoned because they were students and first-time offenders.
All they had to do was keep their mouths shut and mumble vaguely, and the trainer would take care of it, so they didn’t have to go through any trouble.
No, if they went through some trouble, they would be given money legally through scholarships or lottery-like things managed by Hwan, in addition to the business expenses, so there were even females who deliberately did their work sloppily, hoping to get caught, so the principal had written in his collection that they had to be careful.
They would live their school lives while having fun (?) having sex and making money, and when the time was right, they would go through a process called ‘graduation’ according to the cult, enter Hwan’s private property, peek at the cult leader’s self-proclaimed ‘miracle’, and participate in an orgy called ‘purification ritual’ so that they could not sue him later, and a video would be taken of them.
Even though the police in this city had been bought off for a long time, and Hwan’s influence was spreading like tree roots throughout this city, there was a reason why a pseudo-organization like Hwan had been able to survive until now.
They were taking care of themselves.
Of course, the above case was a lucky one. If they tried to reveal Hwan’s secrets to the world, or if Hwan decided that they were too valuable to let go, or if they had nowhere else to turn and relied on Hwan, it would be much more terrible than that.
There was even a legend that a human ranch existed in the depths of a cave in the mountains, on the private property of Hwan’s cult leader.
Of course, that was nonsense. Even if he was a crazy cult leader, he wouldn’t do that.
That’s enough observation. If I take any more time, I’ll be caught by Sua’s underlings.
I finished my walk outside and went back inside the school. Even though I showed myself openly, the two didn’t follow me.
Wondering what they were doing, I went looking for them and found them cuddling together under a secluded wall that students often used as a smoking area.
Were they a real couple, not just pretending? Or did they become a couple while pretending? Anyway, it was good news for me.
If I showed Sua that scene, she would try to tear them apart with her bare hands, but I was willing to tolerate their laziness.
Still, it was impossible to go into the chairman’s office again without thinking. This was inside the school during lunchtime, when it was crowded with students.
I was worried about the eyes of others. No, more than the eyes of others, I didn’t want to walk into Yujeong’s arms, who was waiting for me with a spider web set up, and have my body fluids sucked out.
Yujeong’s lust was enough to make even me feel fear…
Anyway, I had to contact her, so I called Yujeong. As if she had been waiting for my call, Yujeong answered the phone right away. And I was startled by Yujeong’s voice that followed.
I thought she would scold me for not coming yet, even though she told me to come at lunchtime, and subtly pressure me to come and lick her pussy, but instead, Yujeong was just crying.
“What’s wrong, Noona?”
“She didn’t come…”
“Huh? What?”
“Our daughter didn’t come to school. She went out to meet you without telling me, but she didn’t come home. She didn’t come to school either.”
That was something that not only Yujeong and I knew, but now most of the students at the school knew, so it was nothing surprising. But the fact that even Yujeong didn’t know where Yujin was or what she was doing was shocking.
I was already feeling anxious and uneasy because I couldn’t see her, but now I was starting to get angry.
What the hell is that bitch up to?
This wouldn’t do. I was originally planning to send my mother to another province next month for a good reason, but now I had to separate from my mother even if I had to force it.
Even if my relationship with my mother, whom I had barely reunited with, deteriorated, it couldn’t be helped now…
“Don’t just cry, call her.”
“She’s not answering.”
“Call her again.”
“Do you know?”
“Huh? What?”
“You’re Yujin’s boyfriend! So you must know where Yujin is. She won’t tell her mom, but she’ll tell her boyfriend. Yujin is that kind of age!”
Were you confessing your marriage to someone the same age as ‘that kind of age’? I desperately wanted to be sarcastic, but I couldn’t argue with her because Yujeong was crying so sadly.
Still, it was good news to know that Yujeong now half-believed the lie that I was dating Yujin.
“Where is she, Yujin? Where’s my daughter? Why isn’t she coming to school?”
Was that something to cry about so sadly? Just skipping school for one day? But since Yujeong had been managing Yujin’s daily schedule very strongly, it was probably shocking that her grown-up daughter was now rebelling. Also, skipping school after staying out overnight was practically the same as running away from home.
Yujeong’s crying continued, and then suddenly the call was cut off. Then, after a while, another call came in. It was Yujeong without a doubt.
“She’s not answering my phone. She keeps not answering. She turned off her phone.”
Her whimpering voice was no different from that of a child.
While I was spending all of the remaining lunchtime comforting the whining Yujeong, the students listened with respect and admiration to the chairman Yujeong’s exhortation announcing the end of lunchtime…
After school.
I went home. It was too risky to stop by the chairman’s office again and go to a motel with the chairman. And there was a lot of work that I had to take care of right away at home without worrying about the eyes of those around me.
I couldn’t just live my life worrying about Yujeong and Yujin forever. There were many things I had to prepare step by step for my future plans.
In doing so, I was abandoning Yujeong again, whom I had promised to meet after school, but it couldn’t be helped. First, I was going to go into my room and make a bold all-in investment with the seed money I had saved up, and then I was going to go straight to sleep. I had replenished some of the sleep I had lost at school, but I was already worried about being harassed by Yujeong.
Before I even opened the door and went inside, my mother’s voice greeted me. It sounded like she was on the phone.
I smiled and went inside. I turned around to close the front door, took off my shoes, and looked up.
And then, no, only then did I see it.
Yujin, who was already inside my house.
The knife in Yujin’s hand.
The unidentified red liquid on the blade.
The very bright and madness-filled smile on Yujin’s face as she approached me barefoot, as if telling me to come in.
“Welcome home. I’ve been waiting.”
As if she were a newlywed waiting for her husband to come home from work, Yujin said.
