Chapter 503 – The Ugly Truth (2)
I return to my room, lie down on the bed, and get lost in thought.
I know very well what I felt while watching Jooyeon and Morgan Paul a moment ago.
“Jealousy…”
It’s not such an unfamiliar feeling.
Since Son Si-woo, I have been very jealous.
I don’t like it when my woman talks to other men in a friendly atmosphere.
To be precise, I don’t like being with guys who are clearly drooling over my woman, but whatever.
I don’t think jealousy is a bad emotion.
On the contrary, couldn’t it be used as an indicator to know how much a man and a woman love each other?
However, I don’t think I can accept this jealousy in a good way.
“… It’s dirty and ugly.”
It was different from other jealousy.
It’s so dark, gloomy, and ugly that you don’t want to show it to anyone.
I want to get rid of it, but even that is not easy.
It sticks like the bottom of a charred frying pan and no matter how hard you try, it stays the same.
What should I do?
How can I erase this feeling?
The answer is fixed.
You have to face it before erasing it.
Why is this type of jealousy that only Juyeon feels?
What on earth did it come from?
And in order to do this, I had to bring out the truth that I had been trying so hard to hide.
The relationship between her and me as I see it.
“… “I thought the line had already been crossed.”
The day we mixed our hot bodies.
I thought I had finally crossed the line and ended my stale relationship with Jooyeon.
But it wasn’t.
I didn’t cross the line, I just stepped on it and stood on the border.
Normally, we still think of them as sisters-in-law, and only forget that when our bodies get hot.
A relationship that is considered dishonest has even influenced jealousy.
“Whoa.”
I learned the cause through an abyss I didn’t want to look into.
And naturally, I found the answer.
You can end this relationship right now.
Once the bodies are mixed, it is impossible to go back to the way it was before.
That means in the end, the only answer is to move on…
“That’s easier said than done.”
There are too many memories in my head to forget and get rid of.
From the moment when you were the only one who welcomed me warmly amid the cold treatment.
The days we spent together with her, considering her as her true family.
It has piled up layer by layer, layer by layer, and is now becoming more than just a memory and becoming a component of human beings.
That’s why I ask.
Can I completely erase the memories of that time and be faithful to my current relationship?
It was a time when I was worrying over and over while embracing the frustration that felt like my heart was about to explode.
Knock!
Someone knocked on the door.
* * *
“Hmph, huh,~♬”
I take one step at a time while humming a refreshing song.
This is a path that someone has already passed before.
With her shoulders slumped.
With ugly feelings that can’t be seen by anyone.
I follow the path that I had always wheezed, but with a brisk step.
We arrived in front of his room.
I slowly extend my hand and knock on the door.
Knock!
“…”
A reaction that does not return.
If you stay in the room and don’t answer, it probably means you don’t want anyone to see you.
But she did not back down.
Knock!
“Dojin, I know everything that’s inside.”
In a soft voice, I call the name of the person who is locked in his room and does not move.
Still no response.
It looks like he really doesn’t want to meet you.
“I can’t help it.”
Han Joo-yeon takes out a thin pin from her curled hair and holds it in her hand.
Every building in the Vatican has a long history.
The same goes for the accommodations they stay in.
Since this is a place where only those who are permitted to stay as guests of the Orthodox Church stay, the security inside this place was more lax than expected.
Enough to easily unlock the door with a hairpin.
“Eight.”
Clap!
As she entered the door that had been opened in an instant, what she saw was Kim Do-jin with his body half raised and his eyes wide open in complete embarrassment.
“Why did you pretend you weren’t there when you were inside?”
The most embarrassing situation.
“Well, I dozed off for a moment…”
“Lie.”
“…”
An excuse that was blocked before it was even finished.
Kim Do-jin, who was annoyed by everything, lay down on the bed and covered himself with the blanket.
“… “I don’t know what’s going on, but I don’t feel like talking about it today, so I’ll do it later.”
I didn’t think I could talk to her easily with her messed up brain.
So she firmly issued an order to banish guests.
Instead, she walked deep in and sat down on the bed he was lying on.
“Why don’t I feel like talking?”
“… “I’m just not feeling well.”
“Hmm…, I see.”
Han Joo-yeon looks down at Kim Do-jin, who is covered in a blanket, and licks her lips with her tongue.
“Are you jealous?”
“…”
She continues her words to him who remains silent.
“It probably wasn’t normal jealousy. “Didn’t you feel like there was a very unpleasant feeling clinging to her whole body, like sweat on a humid summer day?”
Kim Do-jin’s eyes widened as if they were torn out from under the blanket.
She was that surprised.
How on earth can you penetrate my heart so accurately?
Her words did not end there.
“You probably didn’t want to show it to others. So she left the banquet hall and hid under the blanket.”
“…”
“I must have been worried about how I could erase that feeling.”
“… !”
“After much thought, I came up with a method, but I must have been frustrated because it was a method I couldn’t try.”
That was all.
Full luck!
Kim Do-jin, who could no longer listen to the words that seemed to see clearly into his heart, threw off the blanket and stood up.
And he immediately reaches out his hand and pulls Han Ju-yeon by the shoulder.
Slurp!
Han Joo-yeon was dragged helplessly and collapsed on the bed.
Kim Do-jin climbed on top of her and asked in a harsher tone than usual.
“You know it well, right?”
A dizzying thought passes through her head.
How did she see through my heart so accurately?
Maybe.
“As if someone had experienced it firsthand.”
Could it be that she has experienced this whirlwind of emotions before her?
Regardless of her heavy mood, she nodded with her smiling face.
“Yes, that’s right.”
“…”
“So I wanted to let you know. It’s not just jealousy, it’s ugly jealousy…, How heavy that makes a person’s heart.”
“Ugly jealousy…”
The ominous thoughts that came out of nowhere gradually turn into confidence.
However, she was too quick to open her mouth.
‘No disclosure’ is one of the restrictions imposed when the bodies are swapped.
Because what was left was still a lock on his mouth.
So when you are looking for a different way to ask.
She opened her mouth first
“Do you know why I wanted to become a hunter?”
“… No.”
“It was because of my sister and brother-in-law.”
“…”
“I am more popular than most celebrities, make a lot of money, and receive people’s respect. It was difficult for me, a young person, to find a better job than that.”
So when her family gathered together, she spoke in a somewhat solemn manner.
She wants to follow in her older sister and brother-in-law’s footsteps and become a hunter.
Thanks to this, the family was turned upside down.
“My parents were vehemently opposed. “I must have been very upset to hear that my two daughters, who grew up beautifully, were sacrificing their lives to work.”
Her older sister also expressed opposition.
“Although not as much as her parents, her older sister was also against it. Knowing how difficult Hunter’s life is, she probably hoped that her beloved younger brother would not go down that path.”
There are five people sitting around a richly prepared table.
Three of them have already opposed it.
There is only one person left.
“But my brother-in-law wasn’t against it. Of course, I didn’t agree with it either.”
It is said that sometimes one action is more important than a thousand words.
So her brother-in-law placed the young girl in the back row of her party and set out to conquer her dungeon.
And showed it.
A fight against monsters.
The sight of being hit by a palm that covers the sky, being thrown off, getting stuck in the wall, having flesh torn by sharp nails, and bleeding profusely, is very graphic.
The battle ended only when one of her arms was broken and half of her face was covered in blood.
Her brother-in-law, who had barely won, came limping over with his whole body intact and asked his frozen young sister-in-law.
-“Has your desire to become a hunter still the same?”
I couldn’t answer hastily.
It was because I changed my mind.
The life of the hunter she saw before her eyes was so different from what she thought.
Facing not a brilliant fiction but a cruel reality, she answered with a trembling voice.
“Yes, I should become a hunter.”
Nevertheless, I decided to become a hunter.
The popularity and money she hoped to gain by becoming a hunter suddenly disappeared.
Instead, a strong desire arose in its place.
She became a hunter.
“I want to protect her brother-in-law.”
Forever.
By your side.
All the way.
I want to protect him who can’t take care of himself because he’s fighting to protect someone.
She stretched out her hand and lightly brushed Kim Do-jin’s cheek and confessed in a trembling voice.
From then until now, she had kept it in her heart and never dared to say it.
Take courage and say it out.
“I’ve liked you ever since, brother-in-law.”
Kim Do-jin’s face was cruelly distorted by her shy confession.
