Chapter 223 - Chapter 219: IF Side Story - Still Getting Devoured (21)
After spending a lovely time with my family in the living room,
Yu-rin took me to my room, saying she had a video to show me.
"This is my room?..."
However, as I opened the door, the scene that greeted me made me wonder if I'd walked into the wrong house.
"What... what is this bed with ruffles? Pink... even the desk and the chair... what is all this? I'm going crazy..."
"Hm? Don't most men prefer these colors? Haven't you heard that pink is the color of men?"
It was a shock, like being hit in the head with a hammer.
I really don't know how pink could be considered a man's color.
But what's important right now isn't the ruffles on my bed or the color of the furniture.
If my memories return, I might understand why I covered everything in these decorations, so for now, it seemed best to just ask Yu-rin to show me the video.
"Can you show me the video first? Come to think of it, why did you say the family shouldn't see it?"
"Hmm... you'll know once you see it... It might be a bit embarrassing to show the family..."
Yu-rin opened the laptop she'd brought and sat on the bed.
I sat down next to her and stared intently at the screen of the booted-up laptop.
"I'll start with the reaction highlight reel. Watch closely."
As Yu-rin opened the video, a man with my face started appearing, performing various reactions.
"Seon-ah-nyang!"
"Hee-eung, noona... do it for me."
"Give me a mission~ Hee-eung."
Are you kidding me... is that me?...
A grown man was rolling around, twisting his body, acting like a cat, and making weird "hee-eung" noises while cutely begging for someone to "do it" for him.
If it were just the reactions, it wouldn't matter, but because of the bed and the furniture colors behind me, I found my own image even more repulsive.
'Ugh... shit... are you insane? A grown-ass man doing that kind of crap... It's true my face is prettier than most women's, but isn't this too much? But that's me? I'm seriously going to lose my mind...'
I was seriously contemplating if it wouldn't be better to stay as I am now rather than returning to that kind of personality after regaining my memories.
'What does Yu-rin think when she sees this... She doesn't despise me as disgusting, does she?...'
As that thought crossed my mind, my head turned toward Yu-rin's face on its own.
However, Yu-rin was laughing as if she found the video amusing.
Ah... could it be that she edited only these parts to play a malicious prank on me?
I started to suspect that Yu-rin might have prepared a surprise event to celebrate my return.
"Yu-rin... seriously... did I really do that?..."
"Yeah. Isn't it really cute? Most of the viewers in your room liked that reaction, so I wanted to show you that first."
'If I had played this in the living room with the whole family there, it would have been a total disaster... Thank you, Yu-rin... sob...'
Seeing Yu-rin speak with a natural smile, as if it were obvious, I started to realize that my behavior in the video was truly my old self.
"I... I did that kind of thing...? A man... at twenty years old?..."
"Aren't men usually full of aegyo? Wasn't that why you acted like that?"
'What is this... did I run a gay male cam stream or something?...'
"Yu... Yu-rin, when I was streaming... were the viewers... mostly men?"
"No, they were mostly women? My guess is that 99 percent were women."
Then why... why did I do this kind of thing... Was my stream concept to act like a woman or something?...
"Then what was my stream concept?... Was acting cute the concept..."
"No, Seon-ah. You were a skill-based streamer, and you even reached rank 1 in the Canyon for the first time as a man. How could your concept be acting cute like a cam boy? Right?"
"Th... then what was I doing in that clip?..."
"Isn't that basic for a man?... It's not even considered aegyo?... As I thought... since you lost your memories, your values have changed too, huh?"
This is seriously dizzying...
I can't believe I did such crazy things.
However, this video was proof of my abnormal behavior, and Yu-rin's words were calm and natural.
If so, it seems certain that there is something wrong with me.
Maybe I hit my head hard before losing my memory, and I can't distinguish things for myself.
"Phew... no... I don't know... I'll watch the next video for now..."
"There are over 1,400 videos left, so let's watch them slowly... Let me know if you feel like your memory is coming back."
Yu-rin and I watched up to thirty clips, each a few minutes long, and every time I showed abnormal behavior in the videos, my face would flush, and I'd roll around on the bed, kicking the neatly folded blanket.
"I'm going to lose my mind!"
"It is a bit embarrassing for someone not used to internet broadcasting to watch..."
'The problem isn't the broadcasting, it's that I actually did that myself...'
Looking out the window, it was already getting dark, as quite a bit of time had passed.
Perhaps because it was late autumn heading into winter, the sun seemed to set early.
"It's gotten too late... I'll put the rest on a USB, so watch them slowly in front of the computer when you have time."
"Thank you... Anyway... if I ever regain my memories... I'll contact you first."
At that, Yu-rin had a slightly dark expression and hesitated to speak.
'What is it... why is she making that face?... There must have been something between me and Yu-rin. Were we in a 'some' relationship...'
"No, Seon-ah... I'll cheer for you to regain your memories."
"Ah... right. Yu-rin, did I... like having my hair stroked before I lost my memory?"
"Stroking your hair?..."
Yu-rin looked at me with a strange expression.
"Seon-ah, do you have even a little bit of memory?"
"That... it's a bit vague to call it a memory... but I had a dream where someone was stroking my hair..."
"A dream?... Won't you tell me in detail?"
"I don't remember exactly what it was... but it was a dream where some woman was stroking my hair... Strangely, every time my hair was touched, I felt very... happy. It was like a nostalgic feeling, as if I had forgotten something?... It's not for me to say, having lost all my memories, but... if I think about that dream, it felt like someone like my lover was stroking my hair..."
"Hair, huh..."
Hearing that, Yu-rin started to sink into deep thought.
"Is there... something you know, Yu-rin?..."
"Hmm... would you like me to try stroking it?... Maybe something will come to mind?..."
Yu-rin seemed to take it quite seriously, even though it was just something from a dream.
To repay her for taking my absurd story seriously, I bowed my head and offered it to her.
"Here, stroke it as much as you want."
Then Yu-rin slowly raised her hand and began to touch my hair.
At first, she didn't know how to stroke it, so she just brushed my bangs, but she seemed to get into it; as time went on, her stroking became faster, starting from my bangs to the back of my head, from the crown, stroking here and there.
'It feels... kind of nice... maybe it's similar to the sensation I felt in the dream?... I think I'll know if she strokes it a bit more...'
After stroking my hair for a while, Yu-rin swept her hand down toward my face.
"Ah!..."
I was enjoying the pleasant stroking, but when Yu-rin's warm and soft touch reached my face, I was startled and let out a shout.
Then, the hand that was touching me was withdrawn.
"Ah... I'm sorry, Seon-ah... It felt so soft that I got carried away without realizing it..."
"Ah... no, it's okay... I was just a little surprised."
The atmosphere became awkward.
I felt embarrassed that I had asked her to touch me, only to shout when she touched my face.
"Th... there... then... I'll be going now, Seon-ah..."
Unable to stand this awkward atmosphere, Yu-rin hurriedly got up from the bed, as if she had remembered she was supposed to leave.
It was a shame that she was leaving just as I was starting to feel good, but it was even more regrettable because I felt like I would have remembered something if she had stroked me a little more.
'Ah... I think I would have known if she had stayed just a little longer...'
As she stood up and turned to leave, my hand reached for her sleeve without me realizing it.
"Yu-rin... I'm sorry, but... could you stroke it a little more?... I feel like I'm about to remember something... I won't shout this time no matter where you touch... Please."
"Seon-ah... when a man and a woman are alone in a room... you shouldn't say things like that. Even if you've lost your memories, if you say things like that in front of other women... something big could happen."
However, Yu-rin shook off my hand without showing her face and went out of the room.
Leaving in such a hurry without even meeting my eyes, it seemed she had thought of some urgent business.
"She isn't angry at me, is she?... Well, it's not like I'm a dog or a cat... It was a strange thing to say, that I feel good when stroked... just like the videos I appeared in..."
Recalling the things I had asked of Yu-rin and my behavior, I felt heat rising to my face.
Thinking about it again, I rolled around on the bed and kicked the blanket with my feet.
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"Um, Mother... Father... I have some urgent business, so I'll be going now."
"Why don't you stay for dinner before you go?"
"I'm sorry! It's just... something urgent came up. Th... then I'll be going."
As Yu-rin hurriedly opened the door and left, Min-ah and Hyeon-tae watched her and smiled contentedly.
"Seeing her face flushed... she must have had a good time with Seon-ah... She's such a reliable child... I wonder if Seon-ah likes Yu-rin too?"
"He will, dear. Before Seon-ah lost his memories, it was hard for him to even look you in the face because of his gynophobia... but he met with Yu-rin often."
Watching Yu-rin's retreating back, the couple cheered for the feelings that had grown between the two in their hearts.
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The blonde-haired, sheep-horned succubus, covered in wounds, was gasping for breath, as if she were quite exhausted.
However, her eyes, which couldn't afford to lose even a moment of tension, were fixed on the enemy in front of her.
"Bianca... didn't we make a contract... in exchange for erasing your husband's memories..."
"Huu... nooo. I don't remember?... If you wanted to do it, the condition was that you had to find where Seon-ah is, right? Isn't that so?"
"Yeah... that was the condition... Then tell me where you've hidden your husband!"
At the same time, the vampire's sword poured down toward Bianca.
Bianca barely deflected the sword with her long fingernails and threw her body to the side.
"You'll never find him?... Well... even if you did, I wouldn't tell you where Seon-ah is."
"Kick... kick-kick-kick! This bitch is completely insane, isn't she?"
"What's so funny?"
"It's funny because you were trading your husband's body for money, and now you're acting like this. Isn't it? There are dozens of bitches who have climbed on top of your husband. If your husband found out what you're doing now, would he do anything but curse you?"
"... Is that all you have to say?"
Bianca, who had hesitated for a moment, glared at the enemy in front of her with sharp eyes as if she had made up her mind after hearing the vampire's words.
In that look, there was a resolve as if she would settle things with the next attack.
"So you're just going to throw your life away?... I wish your husband knew. The wife who sold his body has now sacrificed her body for her husband. But what to do? After you die, your husband will be pinned under me and ravished forever... It's a shame I can't let you hear his moans."
As the vampire provoked her, Bianca rushed toward the vampire and swung her nails.
Every time the sword was swung from top to bottom and bottom to top, she deflected it and desperately swung back, resisting the vampire's attacks, but the vampire's face was full of composure.
"It's really dull... and boring... I'd rather be shaking my hips on top of your husband than having a fight like this... but first, I need to know where your husband is, right?"
When the vampire grabbed the sword with both hands and attacked with force, Bianca was knocked back.
The vampire's sword loomed over Bianca's neck as she rolled on the floor and fell, and then it was swung heavily from top to bottom.
Thwack!
The sword, which seemed like it would slice Bianca's neck with its blade, struck Bianca's head with the flat of the blade, and her body collapsed.
"Even if you don't want to say where your husband is, I'll make you say it... I'll pull out your fingernails and toenails first, rub salt in them, and then burn you with fire, and you'll talk... I'm really looking forward to seeing how long you can hold out... kick-kick-kick."
The vampire carried the unconscious Bianca away, and only a chilling cold remained in the house where Seon-ah had spent happy times.
By the time the vampire had left the house and was out of sight, a succubus, smaller than Bianca but similar in appearance, poked her head out.
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"My... hideout became Bianca eonni's newlywed house... so I came to see... and this happened..."
Because of the repeated bullying from her eonni and mother, she had created a space where she could rest comfortably apart from the mansion, but it was frustrating that it had been forcibly taken away by her mother and handed over to her second eonni.
Still, thinking that it couldn't be helped since it had already happened, she had come to take out the items she had left in the basement of the hideout, but she ended up watching her second eonni, Bianca, being kidnapped by the vampire right in front of her eyes.
"But... asking where the husband is... did something happen?... Well... it's none of my business, though..."
To be honest, it wasn't a very interesting story.
Her second eonni had never had a good relationship with their mother, so she didn't join in on bullying her, but she wasn't someone who took her side or was helpful either.
To her, Bianca eonni was just a stranger.
"But... I've never seen the husband's face... what on earth does Bianca eonni's husband look like? Mother didn't even show him to the other sisters. I am curious, though."
Chattering to herself, the youngest succubus of the Arandel family entered Bianca's house.
"Ke-hek... cough-cough! What is this?... Is it true that people lived here?... Why is there so much dust piled up?..."
Since the owner was gone anyway, she thought it would be better to take Bianca eonni's belongings, so as she tried to open the drawers to look for this and that, the unusually thick dust pierced her lungs and went deep inside, making her itch.
"Take this too... and take that too..."
She was loading items into her sack one by one, but honestly, there didn't seem to be many valuable items.
She had even taken all the items she had collected in the basement, but the sack wasn't even half full.
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"Sigh... they said she got a husband, so I thought there would be a lot of jewelry... but she was penniless..."
Having taken all the items, she opened the door to go outside.
Whoosh... shhh...
Then the wind blew and seeped into the room, and she heard the sound of something like paper moving from behind.
The sound, as if paper had been moved by the wind, came from right under the bed.
When she got closer, a palm-sized pendant was rolling on the ground under the bed.
"Oh-oh... so... lucky♡"
When she reached her hand under the bed and pulled it out, a quite heavy and cold metal came out in her hand.
"A pendant... rare metal? I hit the jackpot. I know this is a pretty valuable metal... She should have sold this and bought things for the house... Did Bianca eonni become lazy after getting married?... When she was competing with the eldest eonni for the successor position, she went to the gate every day... Marriage really does change people."
As she spun the pendant around, she heard a clicking sound.
"So this was something that opened?... Shall I see what's inside?"
When she opened the pendant to check, she saw a photo of a man's face inside.
"Is this... Bianca eonni's husband?... Should I call him brother-in-law?..."
The succubus's eyes couldn't leave the pendant.
Not only was he prettier than any man she had ever seen, but he was also exactly her type.
"Drool... I wish I could find a husband like this too... It's such a shame."
The succubus, who had been staring at the pendant for a long time, drooled, then came to her senses and quickly put the pendant into her sack in case anyone saw.
"Ha... I have to go on an expedition outside the gate soon... I wish a nice man like this would just drop into my lap... Then I would cherish him every day..."
Leaving her regrets behind, the succubus opened the door and stepped out of the house.
With her heart full of hope, thinking she would like to get such a nice man in the first expedition that would start before long...
Like that, Miel took out all sorts of things from her sack and headed to her room in the mansion.