Chapter 20 – Episode (2)
“Um… where do you usually go grocery shopping, Jinhyun?”
Kang Sujeong asked at the entrance of the villa.
“I was planning to go to V Mart. It’s close and big. Do you go somewhere else, Sujeong?”
“Ah~ No! I was thinking of going to V Mart too.”
As expected, the keyword was convenient. Her intentions were perfectly reflected.
There were three fairly large supermarkets near the house, and V Mart was the biggest of them. It was about a 5-6 minute walk from the house, so I had been there a few times.
I looked at her.
She was wearing a slightly baggy t-shirt. Despite that, she was showing off her ample chest. Looking at her, I naturally remembered her moaning beneath me.
‘That felt so good.’
Just imagining it made my lower body swell.
“Jinhyun?”
She asked as I was staring at her. I met her eyes.
“Ah. You just looked tired. Are you very tired?”
“…I am a little tired. Sorry.”
“No, don’t feel pressured. When else would I get to walk with such a beauty?”
“A b-beauty… Yes, thank you.”
She said in a small voice. Still, she didn’t seem displeased, as a slight smile appeared on her face.
She was walking down the street holding my arm. It wasn’t exactly an arm-in-arm, but it was very close.
It seemed she was feeling pain in her lower abdomen every time she walked. She could walk on her own, but I understood.
“We’re almost there. Just tell me what to buy and I’ll put it in the basket.”
“Ah, no. You don’t have to do that…”
“It’s okay. Think of me as your jungler and feel free to use me.”
“Pfft.”
I thought she liked League of Legends, so I made a joke, and the reaction was better than I expected.
We chatted casually as we shopped.
She put things like milk, eggs, meat, vegetables, and rice in the basket, and I put in instant rice, eggs, spam, drinks, and snacks. It was a very typical bachelor’s pick.
She glanced at my basket and said,
“Hmm… do you usually shop like this?”
“No. Actually, this is my first time. I used to order delivery every day, but I quit my part-time job, so I’m trying to save money by eating simple meals for a while.”
“Ah. Part-time job… at that convenience store?”
Come to think of it, I had told her about it.
‘Ugh…’
Thinking about that time made my face flush. When my stress was at its peak, I went to her and yelled that I had deliberately switched to the night shift because of her. Ugh… It was a few months ago, but we were both so worked up that we raised our voices.
“Yeah. My biorhythm was messed up from working nights. So I’m just looking for another job.”
“That’s a good idea.”
She said that while continuing to glance at my basket.
‘What is it? It seems like she wants to say something…’
But she didn’t open her mouth, and we finished paying and went outside. I carried both her and my groceries.
“You could have had it delivered…”
She said, looking at me. Indeed, if you bought over 30,000 won, you could use the delivery service. But I shook my head.
“Then you’d get the groceries late. And there would be unnecessary boxes… It’s only a 5-minute walk, so don’t worry about it.”
“Okay…”
‘It is heavy.’
It was a bit heavy to carry both bags, especially with the 3kg of rice.
‘If I master that Thousand Mile Qi Gong, will I be able to carry this as lightly as air?’
Thinking that, I walked and soon arrived at the villa with her.
I dissuaded her from refusing and deliberately went up one more floor to drop off the groceries in front of her door.
“Here you go.”
“Yes, thank you.”
“Go in and get some rest. And they say this drink is good for fatigue recovery, so try it.”
“Ah…”
She made surprised rabbit eyes when I took out one of the drinks I bought and put it in her hand. Then she smiled.
“Jinhyun… you’re a kind person. Honestly, I didn’t know, but I see you in a new light.”
She said with a slightly embarrassed expression.
Kindness.
The word kindness and I were like opposite poles, like N and S. However, I could always act kind on the outside.
I smiled shyly at her compliment.
“It’s normal. I was just too inconsiderate before. Let’s get along well from now on, Sujeong.”
“…Yes, of course.”
‘Got it.’
After a warm farewell with her, I went home and immediately launched the Heroine app.
[You have completed the event.]
[100 coins have been awarded as a reward. (Coins held: 2117)]
I cleared the message and immediately checked her status.
◆ Current Status
– [Favorability: 37]
– [Affinity: 16]
– [Lust: 30] [Appetite: 69] [Fatigue: 71]
“Oh.”
Jackpot.
With one event, her affinity, which was 12, went up by 4 to 16, and her favorability jumped from 30 to 37.
‘It costs 5 coins to raise single-digit favorability by 1, 10 coins to raise 10-range favorability by 1, and 20 coins to raise 20-range favorability by 1…’
I guessed that it would probably cost 40 coins per favorability point in the 30s. If that was the case, I had earned 280 coins this time.
‘I should do events whenever they come up.’
If I could raise favorability and affinity through events, and then raise favorability with coins again, I could use coins to raise favorability even more.
‘There aren’t any more today…’
Just in case, I checked the events, but there were no more left for today.
Then what should I do now?
‘Just because I can’t raise favorability with coins right now doesn’t mean I won’t collect coins.’
The more coins, the better.
No matter how tired she was, I planned to summon and violate her every day.
‘But maybe I should let her rest for now.’
It was just 12 o’clock, so I could summon her around 4 o’clock.
‘Then what should I do in the meantime… Ah!’
I thought about doing the other daily quests, but then I remembered the ‘Thousand Mile Qi Gong’ that came out of the box this morning.
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“What is it…”
Kang Sujeong rolled the drink she received from Jinhyun in her hand, thinking.
If you had to sum up her original relationship with Jinhyun in one word, it would be ‘enemy.’ Someone who made her feel a little annoyed just by looking at their face. Someone she didn’t want to talk to.
But today, she even felt a sense of comfort. The emotion she felt when she accidentally met his eyes was not annoyance, but rather a sense of welcome.
Especially holding his arm while walking was a big deal. It was something she couldn’t have imagined just the day before yesterday.
“And he was so kind…”
Could it be that he hit his head after dropping something while working at the convenience store?
His condition was strange.
Even when she went down with Ye-hwa because of the red thread, he was his usual self, easily getting annoyed at her. But today, he was like a different person.
Especially when he first asked if she wanted to go together, she was really surprised.
He carried her groceries, and at the end, he even gave her a drink, thinking of her. It might have been a small gesture, but it made her feel warm.
When she woke up at home yesterday after being raped by an unidentified man, she wished it was all a dream.
Tears poured out.
She hated losing her virginity, and she hated the fact that she had felt pleasure in the process. Moreover, the pleasure was only felt at the time, and she had been in severe pain ever since she got home.
Since she was young, she had received lewd gazes from men because of her large breasts and figure, so she honestly didn’t like men very much. She hated the way they looked at her.
She didn’t particularly like outdoor activities, and she wasn’t very sociable. Although it didn’t seem like it, she was a bit introverted, so she only showed her true self in front of her close friends.
After graduating from an all-girls middle and high school, she started live streaming on the advice of a friend.
At first, it was a bit awkward, and she felt repulsed because most of the viewers were men, whom she didn’t like, but it got better because she didn’t feel the gazes of those around her. She could do it well enough just by playing games and talking to herself.
Even then, there were constant sexual harassment comments in the chat, so she still didn’t have a very good feeling about men.
‘But…’
But, as someone who read romance fantasy novels when she was bored, she still thought in her heart that there would be a destined person somewhere who would think of her.
She believed that one day she would have a fateful encounter.
But.
That belief was shattered yesterday when she was raped.
Her virginity was taken by force.
Rough hands.
She thought that men were all beasts.
Yes. She thought it was all shattered…
‘Is it Chun Jinhyun?’
It seemed like it might be okay to put that thought on hold for now.
It wasn’t love. But at least, she felt a liking for him. Even this feeling was a first for her.
“If I go out at the same time tomorrow… will he be there?”
Who would go grocery shopping every single day, but she thought she should go out at the same time tomorrow. Then she sipped the drink he had given her.
