Chapter 18 – Episode 18- Suggestion (4)
Kim Cha-ryeok and I drank Western liquor like madmen.
Both I and Kim Cha-ryeok had been drinking for the first time, so I had no idea where the right level was.
In the past, I think I saw in a science magazine that muscles have the effect of breaking down alcohol, so people who exercise are more resistant to alcohol than others.
Whether that was true, Kim Cha-ryeok drank several bottles of liquor by himself and was fine.
So I thought his alcohol consumption was normal, and I followed his tempo and at some point I lost my mind.
When I came to my senses, it was time for him to drink his last glass of wine.
“… Um, Hanjun. Did you wake up?”
My head is pounding and shaking.
My heart was pounding, and my eyes were blurred.
I get a headache and try to get myself up.
Kim Cha-ryeok said not to do that, and he got up with all the wine he had eaten in his arms.
“I think I’m a bit drunk now. I’ll take care of the aftermath, so just rest.”
I heard Kim Cha-ryeok walking around my house.
Judging by the clinking sound, it seemed that the guy was kindly even sorting out the garbage.
Charyeok Kim cleaned the house for a while, then came up to the floor where I was lying face down and waved his hand.
“I’m coming, Hanjun.”
“… Monster… Water bastard.”
Before drinking, he said that out of the 1,000,000 won he received from Miho, he bought 800,000 won for liquor.
Even after drinking that much wine, the guy who didn’t seem drunk at all really felt like a monster.
“… Hmm! It feels really good…! A different world…! A different world!”
But when I saw Kim Cha-ryeok leave my house muttering, I realized that I was mistaken.
The guy was completely screwed up.
Because the guy leaving my house was wearing only his underpants, his muscles twitching.
“… Hey… Hey…!”
If you go out like this, you will definitely be reported. I shouted to stop it somehow.
My throat was dry after the alcohol had passed through it, so my voice couldn’t come out well.
In the end, Kim Cha-ryeok left the house with a pair of panties on, like athletes participating in a bodybuilding competition.
“… Damn it, I don’t know.”
I headed for the washbasin, holding onto my throbbing hair.
After roughly washing my face and teeth, I took water from the refrigerator and poured it into my stomach.
As the cold water entered the body, it felt like the hot body was sinking to some extent.
I stumbled on my legs and, as usual, grabbed my phone and fell on the bed.
When I looked at the screen of my phone in a hazy mood, the time was 12:00.
I started drinking with Kim Cha-ryeok at 7 o’clock, so I drank with him for 5 hours.
“…?”
While I was staring at my cell phone like that, I confirmed that an icon that was not normally there appeared.
A missed call and text icon that never came to me before.
When I touched the icon that seemed to be piled up quite densely, a person’s name came to mind.
It was Miho.
Miho had been texting me since 8:00.
‘What are you doing, Hanjun? I’ve contacted my parents now, and I’ve somewhat finished the preparations for today.’
‘Jun Han… Are you doing something else? If you’re busy, can you leave me a simple text message?’
‘Han Jun-ah…? What are you doing?’
‘Han Jun-ah.’
Seeing that Miho’s last text message was marked with a full stop instead of a question mark, I don’t know why, but my conversation went cold.
Looking at the number of missed calls, I realized that Miho had called eight times.
Should I call right now? I thought, but the time was 12 o’clock, so the burden went.
As I was groaning like that, I suddenly got a call on my cell phone.
-Miho.
Seeing the recipient’s name, I swallowed and slowly pressed the call button.
-Hello.
Miho’s sweet voice is heard over the phone.
Perhaps it was because she had been drinking, her voice sounded sweeter than usual.
I tried my best to stay awake, and answered Miho.
“Uh… Yes, Miho.”
However, a cracked voice came out of my mouth, as if the drinking up until now hadn’t been resolved in an instant.
Miho must have noticed such a change in me, so she quietly kept her silence.
“Han Jun-ah, have you been drinking?”
“… Uh.”
Just because he lied anyway, it wasn’t a fact that could be hidden.
Miho asked me as I confided and grabbed her head.
“With who…?”
In an instant, my mind flashed.
Miho’s voice was the same as usual, but she instinctively realized that there was something in it.
I groaned and answered Miho.
“Charyeok… Charyeok also entered the school this time… To celebrate… Let’s have a drink together…”
Her head was dizzy.
Thoughts were interrupted infrequently.
While she was talking, I unknowingly buried her face in her pillow.
Then Miho over the phone called me over and over again.
“Han Jun-ah…? Han Jun-ah?”
Miho’s voice I had just heard was an illusion, but this time I heard Miho’s voice much sweeter than usual.
When I put the phone to my ear in a hazy mind, Miho told me if he had heard the sound.
“Han Jun-ah, are you drunk…? Is it possible to have a video call?”
“Yes.”
I stretched out his arm and pressed the video call button.
Wanting to see Miho’s face, I dropped his cell phone lightly.
On the screen of the phone, Miho with her fox ears pricked up.
It was a face I wasn’t used to seeing.
Charmingly slightly raised eyes and a raised nose.
When I saw the bright red lips and big eyes, a smile leaked out without me knowing.
“Han Jun-ah, why are you laughing?”
Miho asked me if my smile was cute, laughing along.
I smiled and said to Miho.
“Because you are so pretty.”
Miho’s pricked ears go up.
Miho opened his eyes wide, and he smiled dangerously.
Hehe..Hehe…”
The same expression as when I took off the necklace before.
He shook his head, wondering if he had misunderstood Miho’s bright red eyes and licking his lips.
It was also true that I saw it wrong because I was drunk.
It was because Miho on the other side of the screen was making a very kind expression as if she was worried about me.
“Han Jun-ah, then… Where am I pretty…?”
Miho speaks to me in a tickling voice.
When I saw Miho’s smiling face on the other side of the screen and the gentle voice that pierced my ears, the answer came out without my knowledge.
“All.”
“……”
I can’t hear Miho’s words.
Let me groan and look at the screen with blurry vision.
Miho was trying to take a closer look at me, changing his posture with his hand resting on his chin.
Hehe..Hehe…”
Miho smiles innocently.
Without realizing it, I laughed along with that laugh.
Miho pricked up her ears and looked at me with her bright red eyes.
“Han Jun-ah, then you know… What are you doing tomorrow…?”
“Tomorrow…?”
Didn’t Kim Ji-hye say that she would teach Charyeok with me tomorrow?
It’s a story I’ve heard, but without knowing it, I had a question.
“Huh…? What are you doing, Han Jun-ah…?”
Miho urges me on with a warm voice.
For some reason, I felt like I had to answer Miho.
Faced with that sweet voice and that kind smile, I sparsely replied like a man possessed by a nine-tailed fox.
I don’t know what I said, but Miho on the other side of the screen kept saying ‘Yeah. “Yeah,” He said, arguing.
I laughed like an idiot once more at the sight of him looking only at me and acting cute just for me.
“… Oh, that’s dangerous.”
Miho on the other side of the screen muttered something.
I don’t know what Miho is doing on the other side of the screen because of my blurry vision and hazy mind.
I could feel as much as Miho’s red eyes staring at me.
“Recording… I have to record this unconditionally… Later… Use it later.”
Miho rustles and moves his body.
When I asked Miho, ‘what are you doing?’ To the wavering red eyes, Miho whispered to me in a sweet voice across the screen.
“Uh… Uh huh? Han Jun-ah, it’s nothing. Just, just… Anyway, Han Jun-ah, what are you doing tomorrow?”
Didn’t I tell you?
When Miho asked the same question again, I was puzzled.
However, Miho’s charming voice prompted me to speak up once more.
“… Wisdom… And energy…”
“Yes.”
Miho always agrees with my words.
I forcibly lifted my eyelids, which were gradually closing, and somehow let out the thoughts running through my head.
Later, my voice in my ears was like babbling, but miho curiously asked me a question again in a friendly voice, as if he understood my words.
Once, twice, three times.
After answering Miho’s questions over and over again, at one point, I hung my head.
“Han Jun-ah… Han Jun-ah, now…?”
Miho quietly whispers to me.
It seems to straddle the boundary between sleep and reason.
With a hazy mind, I somehow gave Miho an answer.
“Ugh… Ugh.”
“Are you sleeping…?”
“Yes.”
The sound of Miho swallowing saliva is heard.
Miho asked me a question in a friendly voice like before.
“Han Jun-ah, you know. They’re a famous family among the monsters in my family… So… I’ll do my best to help you… Will you stay with me for the rest of your life…?”
“Yes.”
I didn’t know what to say, but somehow I spat out an answer.
Miho on the other side of the screen asked me the next question in an enthusiastic voice, as if she was happy with my answer.
“Dating… Kissing like a lover… Hey… Doing plenty of erotic things… Getting married, even making children…?”
“… Yes”
“I… Did you record me, Han Jun-ah…? Foxes don’t let go when they first decide on a groom, so you said you were responsible for me…?”
“Yes.”
Hehe..Hehe… Hey… Hey, Han Jun-ah.”
Even after that, Miho asked me various questions over the phone.
I somehow finished the answer in a hazy state, and then I lost my mind and fell into sleep.
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Booung-. Boo Woo-.
The cell phone rings noisily.
I grabbed my slightly throbbing hair and reflexively grabbed my phone.
“…Come out.”
Let’s wake up and answer the incoming call.
I heard Kim Ji-hye’s voice over the phone.
“… Yep.”
Only then did I realize that I had passed out because I was drunk yesterday.
“… It could have been a big deal.”
Looking at the time, it was 12 o’clock.
As I got up to go to the bathroom to wash up in a hurry, the memories of yesterday were played in my head, intermittently interrupted.
Apparently yesterday I washed my face, lay down on the bed… And talked to Miho on the phone.
“…Is it a big deal…?”
I couldn’t remember all the conversations I had with Miho.
Just as I was wondering if I had made a mistake, a text message came to my cell phone.
‘Han Jun-ah, get well trained by Ji-hye today. I’ll call you again in the evening.’
-Miho.
Judging from Miho’s text message, it seemed that he hadn’t made a mistake.
I sighed in relief and prepared to go outside.
