Chapter 123 – Chapter 4: One Step
“Uh-cha! “Huuuk-huuuk-.”
Posao brought a ladder.
Chimney cleaning work began in the morning.
A heavy body climbs the ladder awkwardly. That alone took quite a long time.
I barely managed to keep my balance and even succeeded in lifting the stick and putting it into the chimney.
Square! Square!
No matter how hard I tried, only a little bit of ash fell out, and it didn’t break through.
Even after working for half a day, there was no progress at all.
If Tia, who is skilled, had done it, the work would have been completed quickly, but she was still weak and could not help.
Posao was fat and too slow to do dirty work.
“Whoa, what should I do?”
There was no way.
Originally, I was planning to call a technician to clean it.
However, since Tia was wanted as a murderer in Taildon, it became difficult to call someone.
In the end, Posao had to solve it alone.
“Huuuk-huuuk-.”
Pick the stick again.
Posao’s clothes were soaked with sweat.
His back and chest turned pitch black and gave off a sour smell of sweat.
“Joe, just a little more…”
It was the moment when he stretched out his arm and inserted the stick.
Come closer!
The ladder stumbled.
“Neaa-?!!!”
With an ugly scream, Posao grabbed the chimney.
“Mister?”
Tia heard the scream and came down from the second floor.
“What’s going on?”
“Rice, it’s no big deal. Hee hee…”
Posao pretended nothing was wrong and laughed it off, but he couldn’t fool Tia, who was quick-witted.
As soon as he saw his legs shaking on the ladder, he seemed to realize that Posao was having a hard time.
Tia, who was quietly watching from below, said.
“Mister.”
“Huh?”
“That… Do I really have to fix it?”
“If I can’t turn on the furnace, I, I… It’s so cold that I can’t sleep…”
“… “You can sleep on the second floor like yesterday.”
“Is that so?”
Tia pointed outside.
“Just… Let’s take a walk.”
“Walk?”
“Yes. The weather is nice.”
The weather was really nice.
A day with bright sunlight and clear air.
There is no need to go through such trouble to open a chimney.
Tia just smiles, as if enjoying this nice weather is more important right now.
Rattling. Clutter.
Posao came down the ladder.
“Well, then… Shall we go?”
Even though she held out her hand, which was all wet with sweat, Tia held on to it without hesitation.
“Yes.”
Sabak. Sabak.
The two started walking in the garden.
One lap. Two wheels.
Slowly, but keeping pace. Take a leisurely walk through the narrow but spacious garden of the general store.
What are you talking about? It looks happy.
The sight of two people laughing while talking about various things… They looked like father and daughter.
At the same time, they seemed like a couple enjoying extremely peaceful days.
After finishing their walk, the two went into the kitchen together.
“I will help you.”
Tia presented the dish to Posao.
Posao, who had lived alone all his life and had never cooked delicious food, was just amazed.
A man could not easily imitate the skillful touch of a woman.
Sprinkle a handful of spices and gently close your eyelids.
My chest shakes a little every time I cut the meat.
The outline of a thin waist held tightly by an apron.
Buttocks exposed every time I bend over to see the intensity of the fire.
Even the gesture of looking at the liver and tucking a strand of hair behind the ear.
All actions are graceful and full of elegance, as if dancing.
It was the same meat stew as yesterday, but a much more delicious scent than yesterday filled the kitchen.
Tia put her soup on her plate and offered it to Po Sao.
“How do you feel?”
“Wow, it’s delicious!”
“Uhm-.”
Tia, who tasted her soup, tilted her head.
“Um, no. I need to season it a little stronger. Now, I tried adding more salt. How do you feel?”
“Wow, it’s delicious… !”
“What. “All you can say is that it’s delicious?”
“Yes! As I said before, anything Tia cooks is delicious!”
“… Lol. “I’ll listen to you saying it’s okay.”
The two people shared the plate where their lips touched each other several times.
Taste until the seasoning is right, then prepare a simple meal and eat together.
After finishing the meal, Tia started cleaning up.
She said she felt energized somehow and that she wanted to move her body a lot at times like this.
Sseukseu-.
Wiped down her shelves with her duster.
All of her hair that had fallen on the floor was swept out.
Thanks to Tia’s meticulous hands, her cleaning was finished early.
Now only one place was waiting for cleaning.
“…”
A stern-faced Tia opened the door.
Kkeikik-.
A space connected to the bathroom facing the first floor furnace, extending from the kitchen to the warehouse.
This place… This was where Tia treated me.
Originally, miscellaneous medicinal herbs, books, glass bottles, and stills were to be scattered around.
Since they buried me in the mountains, Tia has never come here.
But surprisingly, the room was neatly cleaned.
There was no doubt that it had been cleaned up by Posao.
Just then, Posao passed behind Tia.
“Uh, uhh. “Oh, you don’t have to do that.”
“Here… “Did you clean it?”
“Uh, huh. Why… Ha, can’t I do it?”
“…”
Dim eyes looked at the empty bed.
“… No. Thank you.”
Tia said quietly.
“If it were me, for the rest of my life… “I wouldn’t have been able to clean this place.”
“Tia…”
Her large hand gently grasped her small shoulder.
Was he drawn to the warmth of her body against his own? Tia placed her own hand on the back of her po sao’s hand.
Anyway, she must have felt the heat.
She must have been much warmer than touching my pale body, whether dead or alive.
Tia, who missed her living touch, continued to caress the rough, wrinkled, hairy back of Po Sao’s hand.
Posao pushed the door.
“Let’s go back.”
Clutter.
Her bed disappeared from Tia’s sight.
* * *
It’s bath time.
Squeak.
Tia sat in the warm bathtub and washed off her old sweat and dust.
“Ha…”
A puff of steam mixed with sighs rose.
Tia was leisurely taking a bath when an unfamiliar object suddenly caught her eye.
Thumping.
Reaching out her hand, she picked it up.
It was similar in shape to a comb, but had a blade at the end.
It’s a razor.
It was so sharp that it seemed like it could easily cut skin.
“…”
Tia looked down at her razor blankly.
What on earth is she thinking?
A blade flashed in the red eyes.
Putting her finger on the blade
Fit.
She only touched it slightly, but she felt a stinging pain and blood dripped.
Bright red liquid scatters in the transparent bath water.
If it hurts, you have to let it go.
She would know not to play with a sharp blade like that.
Tia didn’t let go of her razor with an expressionless face.
It was that time.
“Hmm~♩ Hmm~♬”
Suddenly, I heard Posao humming from outside the bathroom.
“… !”
Tia’s eyes returned.
The guy who came to his senses quickly put down her razor.
“Ha… Ha…”
Her blocked breath is released and her wet chest rises and falls steeply.
Sigh!
As if to erase any remaining thoughts, Tia scooped up water with both hands and washed her face.
Under the dripping water. Her own disheveled face was reflected in her sleep.
“…”
I can’t tell if this bright red water reflects the color of Tia’s hair, or if it’s the blood seeping from the wound on her finger.
Wow!
Tia got up from the red bathtub on her own.
“Because it’s a promise…”
After that, Tia wiped her body with a dry towel.
Her wet feet leave transparent footprints as she ascends to the second floor bedroom.
Squeak-.
When I opened the bedroom door, I saw Posao sitting in front of the fireplace.
“Uh, uh… Is Tia here? What about fire? Ta, is it warm?”
“Yes. “Good.”
“Then shall we sleep now?”
“Yes…”
Sreuk-.
The two entered the bed and sleeping bags as if they had made a promise.
Posao said while looking at the ceiling.
“In the end, I couldn’t drill the chimney…”
“I see.”
“If I can’t make it tomorrow, we’ll have to sleep together like this. Tia is a dog, are you okay?”
“It’s okay.”
“Then ah, we can continue to sleep together from now on. Right?”
“…”
There was no reply.
Posao asked again, looking at Tia’s back as she was lying on her back.
“Tia?”
“Mister.”
Suddenly the languid voice returned.
“Uncle… “You won’t leave me alone, will you?”
“… Ugh.”
Posao made a bewildered sound at the sudden question.
But soon he spoke in a serious voice.
“Well, of course. Me, I don’t joke. “Wherever Tia is, I will be with you.”
“Her mother’s will is to ‘stay alive’… “I have to protect you for the rest of my life.”
“… Ugh.”
“Don’t die. Because I’ll be alive too… Therefore…”
Tia took a deep breath and let it out.
“We… We live together.”
Let’s live together.
I didn’t know.
What did that mean?
Could this have been the resolve of a middle-aged man and girl, abandoned by everyone, to somehow ignite their will to live together in this harsh world?
Or was it meant to start living together as one man and one woman in this general store?
… No, maybe it has both meanings.
It seemed that Posao was also unable to properly understand the meaning of the words.
His face looked like he was thinking about what he had just heard while rolling his wide eyes.
But it was okay for her not to understand.
Because what Tia wanted now was not such a vague explanation.
“Mister… “Can I ask you a favor?”
“… Ugh.”
The guy asked in a whispering voice.
“Please give me a massage. Warmly…”
There was silence.
Until now, Tia has never asked for a massage from her.
When she hurt her leg in Tsar Lakh, she had no choice but to ask, and she didn’t feel like this.
What do you mean by asking for a ‘warm’ massage? …
It sounded like her request to touch her body, her permission to touch her.
Seueuugh-.
In a dark bedroom, a black shadow slowly arose.
And then he stomped towards Tia’s back.
“Ah Okay…”
Sarak-.
A large hand rested on Tia’s shoulder.
Although her face was buried in her pillow, I could see her little cheeks and ears getting redder.
Posao smiled sinisterly.
I asked into Tia’s ear.
“Woman, can I lie down next to you?”
“…”
Her body was tired from taking a bath, and her eyelids were squinted in the gentle heat.
Tia squeezed her hand.
Until now, there was only one massage that Posao had done while lying side by side with Tia.
Even though I know what that means.
Nod.
Posao swallowed his saliva after seeing the girl’s shy nod.
Swoosh-.
Her hand slowly crawls inside the white shirt.
It was a hand that had been rejected for a long time, ever since the last night of Deseo.
At that time, I was worried about Posao, who had never touched a woman before. Also, he only gave permission once out of gratitude for helping him save Dien Booth.
Now Tia herself wanted it.
The hand that will touch her own heart and share her warmth.
The warmth of another man that will refill this empty and empty heart.
And I was hoping that it would give me meaning to live on.
In Po Sao’s grasp, which went under his shirt, his small chest was held tightly.
There was no resistance. Tia quietly accepted her every gesture.
“… Ha. Haha.”
A heavy breath escaped.
Tia, with her beautiful and noble body… I gave permission to this old, fat man.
Letting her touch her own breasts at will, she exhaled.
“Whoop-! Whoop-!”
Posao took off Tia’s shirt.
Her bare breasts were completely exposed.
Chin.
Then she grabbed the girl’s shoulder and made her turn around.
The two people’s eyes met.
In his suffocating silence, Posao held on to the hem of his blanket.
Sreuk-.
The blanket goes down helplessly.
The upper body of a girl wearing nothing, not a single piece of cloth.
In the dim light of the furnace, the curve of the waist shines beautifully in golden color.
Posao took a deep breath.
“Whoa… Phew… !”
He slowly brought his face to Tia’s chest.
And he bit the shameful protrusion in the center of his chest with his lips.
Tia, crushed under the large body, moaned.
“Ugh… !”
The lips of the pig, which had been eating everything, begin to suck on the breast ravenously.
As if you were tasting every soft texture. It wrapped around Tia’s bulging breasts like a snake’s tongue.
Every time that happened, the little girl wriggled in the pig’s big arms.
“Ugh… !”
Tia’s chest was soaked with Posao’s sticky saliva.
In the light of the fireplace, my wet breasts sparkle like stars.
“Sigh. Ha… !”
Every time I bit her nipple with my teeth, I made a painful sound.
Tia only squeezed Posao’s shoulder and did not push him away.
…
She could see why.
It was because I was feeling it too.
This was Tia’s memory as I watched.
This feeling of being filled with maddening emptiness and pain…
It wasn’t mine from the beginning, it was Tia’s.
While touching skin to skin with Posao.
Every time the sensitive area of her breasts is licked with her thick tongue.
This feeling of heat gradually rising from the lower abdomen.
Ah.
Tia knew what Posao wanted.
“Ha… Sigh…”
Even though it has nothing to do with her massage and is only being done to satisfy her own desires.
Nevertheless, Tia closed her eyes and accepted in silence.
Even if it is an ugly desire.
If only she had a reason to live with Po Sao… She was prepared to accept it all.
“Ahhhhh-! Ha… !”
“Huuuk-huuuk-. How is it. Tia. Joe, are you okay?”
Tia’s red hair was wet with sweat and stuck to her forehead.
The guy said in a dazed voice.
“Great…”
“Shall we do more…” ?”
“…”
Tia lightly cupped Posao’s plump cheek.
Dedication.
If you could describe a person in one word.
Tia was dedication itself.
She was a devoted woman who would give anything just for me.
And I was such a fool that I didn’t even notice her undeserved devotion.
… Because.
“Yes… Do whatever you want… Please…”
When I saw Tia deciding to devote herself to a man other than me.
Because she was finally able to realize the price.
