Chapter 8 – Animals in Heat
I look down at the mask, leaving Go-eun, who is blinking as if there is something wrong.
A pure white mask with the word ‘slave’ engraved on the front completely erased.
The word erased from the mask is engraved on Go-eun’s forehead like a tattoo.
I thought I’d finally figured out a little bit about the mask,
A bizarre mask that creates new problems as if mocking my small accomplishments.
I put it in my bag while holding back from wanting to throw it on the floor right now.
“…Seed…”
The unknown headache that came back to my head or the time left for the lecture to start is pressing on my shoulder, but now, the priority is Go-eun.
I brush off my dusty pants and reach out to Go-eun, who fell behind as the mask came off.
“Oh, thank you. But what was that? Did you apply glue or something?”
Ignoring Goeun’s hand pointing at the bag containing the mask while scratching the side of her head, she turns the bag around and puts it on.
“Is it better than that? Well, dizzy… Or hearing a strange voice in your head…”
“Huh? Uh, there’s no such thing? What is it, are you watching strange cartoons again these days? Hey, when I was in middle school, Choi Woo-joo was no joke…”
“Shut up! Why are you talking about that all of a sudden!”
Go-eun is flirting with me by mentioning my dark history as a child.
Just looking at it like this right now, Hyemi noona, and Yunsol and Goeun were clearly in a different state.
Unlike Hyemi noona and Yunsol’s masks, which never came off no matter how hard they tried, the mask came off easily.
Compared to the two people who did not say or do anything while maintaining an empty smile even if the mask was removed somehow, Go-eun was definitely different.
Even though the character meaning ‘slave’ was engraved on her forehead and her eyes were shining with the familiar color of jade, the Ko Eun I knew remained the same.
But I can’t be relieved. Earlier, Go Eun called me ‘Master’.
Did the words tattooed on her forehead affect her…?
“…Hey, Choi Choi. But I’m the owner?”
“Yeah, why are you asking that? Of course you are my master.”
“Why do you think so? Think carefully.”
Rather, it was a question I could ask because Goeun was in the same state as usual.
Hye-mi noona, who has been twisted and changed from the very beginning, if you ask this question to Yoon Sol-i, it is obvious that she will only answer, ‘The mask taught me’.
I had hoped that Go-eun, who had known me since childhood, would be able to understand the contradictions that had arisen in her head.
“Think about it, what the hell did you say… Huh? Come to think of it, since when did I become your slave…?
I’m sure they fought when they were young, but it doesn’t make sense for a slave to fight against his master, doesn’t it?”
Go-eun, who squinted her eyes for a moment and patted her on the head, was realizing her contradiction based on her old memories.
“Uh, um… Yes, yes? Something’s weird, right? There’s no way I could—!”
Right before Go-eun’s eyes came back and came out through a small gap in her memory,
The black letters engraved on her forehead shimmered faintly.
Booung-
“…Ah…”
“What, hey, the best, hey!”
Goeun, who instantly softened his frowning expression, dropped both of his arms into the air.
Saliva flowed out from the corner of his slightly open mouth and drooped, and the eyes that returned were blurred again.
The moment I put my hand on Go-eun’s shoulder and shake her body,
The letters that had been shining softly on the forehead returned to their original black color. And a sick moan that could be heard.
“Uh, ah… Chuup… Sorry, I was in a daze. What were you talking about…?”
“…Are you okay?”
Shaking her head and wiping the saliva from her mouth with her sleeve, Goeun looked up at me with her sleepy eyes.
“It’s okay, it’s okay… Oh, yes, I don’t remember exactly when… I’m your slave, right?
There was nothing strange about it! People care… Anyway, if you have something to order, call me anytime. I’ll do anything.
Oh, and am I taking this? Hee hee, I really will buy two packs and return them!”
“What? Hey, wait…!”
Go-eun, who has already gone so far that she can’t hear me, takes my cigarette pack and runs down the hallway.
…
Just now, Go Eun must have had a sense of incongruity with the information stuck in her head due to her drowsiness.
And in the process of transforming that doubt into certainty, the letters engraved on Go Eun’s forehead shone.
He seemed to lose consciousness for a moment, but when he came back to his senses, he spread the same twisted common sense as the first time.
“…Ha…”
When she sighs and turns on her cell phone, the lecture is already about to start.
I had a truant a while ago, so I don’t think I can skip it this time.
Once the lecture was over, I decided to call Go Eun.
We should meet and talk, and buy two packs of cigarettes.
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“Hey, I’m here… Why are you sitting like that?”
“…Be quiet and give me a cigarette.”
A bench in the smoking area properly shaded from the daylight.
While she was holding her bag and bending her waist, Go-eun, who had come running clear of the sun, handed her a cigarette.
I light a cigarette over Ko-eun, who looks at me strangely.
“…”
Sitting like this reminds me of what happened that night.
The meeting I went to because I was told that I would buy you a drink if I came out, the mask I picked up when I came out to smoke.
The memory that I couldn’t even laugh because I couldn’t stand up because of my pepper that suddenly stood tall.
It was deja vu for that day.
Even now, I can’t get up because of the guy who put the big tent under my bag.
“Haa, it was so cheap in the morning, but again…”
“What? What are you packing?”
“No, nothing…”
I dumped the shortened cigarette into the ashtray and leaned back on the bench.
I didn’t even notice it while listening to Professor Chang’s lecture.
After the lecture, when I got up to pack my things, I could barely notice that my pants were puffy.
I sweared a little and sat back down and waited for everyone to leave, and I even sang the national anthem up to the 4th verse.
Looking at my crotch, which did not sink despite such efforts, I just realized that it was the same as it was three days ago.
I didn’t have time to think about it then, but now that I think about it, is this also the effect of the mask?
Headaches, dizziness, and a strange recovery.
Certainly this morning, I think back to that strange headache I felt in the hallway earlier.
A headache accompanied by blood rushing to the head, shortness of breath, and palpitations. The symptoms of the headache that I recalled were exactly the same as ‘excitement’.
It’s not an ordinary excitement … ‘Sexual excitement’ …? That means that my condition is ‘estrus’ …
“Ha, fuck …”
“What, why, tell me why and swear. I’m curious.”
“Is this the mood of an animal who has a estrus for breeding …”
“…What is he saying now.”
Even if you try to rationalize your own rationalization, you can see that you will never sink.
I wanted to deny, but I’m excited now. It’s crazy because I want to have sex.
I didn’t know that it would be like a dog that I couldn’t control my own needs.
“… You’re really strange today?
“If it would have been like that … I’ll just go in today. Dizzy, it’s a bit strange …”
As long as I was absent, I tried to refrain from the disease, but the condition is not.
Even though it’s not enough to walk like before, it’s still a little bit of his head.
You can’t walk properly without standing in the lower part.
I can’t help it, but he goes back home, solves it, and then goes to the hospital to ring or fit.
If you only break the medical certificate, you will understand.
“Yes, go in. Can you take me to the taxi stop?”
“No, it’s okay … I’m going.”
Twar your bags and walk with your back.
Originally, the house is close enough to take a bus, but now it’s better to take a taxi.
Jureuk.
The warmth felt from the inside of my nose, something warm from my nose and fell to my shirt.
“…Blood…?”
Surprised by the red mark on the white shirt, he grabbed his nose with his hands.
And when he removed it again, the intense blood of his hand was soaked in his eyes.
He huely stops a lot of nosebleeds that flow down on his nose and chin.
However…
“Uh … ─ ─?!”
Visitors start to turn again. The sky is overturned and the earth fluctuates.
Naturally, the legs of the legs fell on the hard stones.
“Well, hey, the best! Why are you okay?! Are you okay?
Koeun, who was standing behind me, jumps in a hurry and takes out a wet wipes out of the bag to block my nose.
I have to say thank you, but no voice comes out.
It is more dizzy and nausea than it has been now. Why…
Booung-
At that time, the sound of the vibration. I’ve only heard it once, but the remaining vibration in my head sounds again.
In my bag. I heard a voice like a voice, but a little child.
‘Sperm, if you don’t give me something else.’
The groan of sputum is spent on an unpleasant experience of sounding directly in the head.
My semen? Why do you need that? And it’s definitely going to take it instead …
Only one sentence was just one sentence passing through the skull and the brain.
For some reason, I recalled what to do right now.
“I can’t do it, just put up with the best! Now 119 …!”
“… No, take me to Hye -mi.”
“Are you crazy?! No! You’re so bloody now !!
“Take him to Hye-mi noona. It’s an order.”
“What?!”
Go-eun responds to my voice so low that I doubt if it is the right one.
The word ‘slave’ that was still engraved on her forehead radiated a soft light again—
“…All right…”
She lost her self-consciousness and opened her eyes wide. Go-eun offered me a shoulder.
Then, he starts walking to Hye-mi’s lecture hall where her sister will be.
It doesn’t matter if it’s Yunsol, but Hyemi noona is closer right now.
I have to ‘write’ Hyemi noona soon, quickly.
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