Creating Hidden Endings - Chapter 37

“Let’s do that! Let’s sleep together! I can’t believe I’m sleeping at Hunter Lee Jehee’s house. It’s like a dream! Hahaha.”

I looked around the house to escape Lee Jehee’s persistent gaze. Then, I was briefly mesmerized by the disastrous appearance of the guest room.

There was only a hole left with the remnants of the tattered door in the place where the door was. And between them was a bed split in two. No matter how you look at it, it was not in a state that they could use immediately.

“But where do I sleep?”

“With me, in my room.”

…What? 

I almost said, ‘Are you crazy?’ to Lee Jehee’s answer, who was calm. I have to be calm.

“Uh, if you give me a blanket, I can sleep in the living room.”

“Then I don’t know what the difference is between Yeon Seonwoo taking him home.”

“….”

Now that I hear it, it’s like that.

Lee Jehee was with Ddari to keep an eye on him. There was no way he could keep it out of his sight till he could believe Ddari’s words that he wouldn’t run away.

As I got to that point, I lowered my gaze. Ddari, in my arms, was looking at me with sorrowful eyes. He looked like he was about to burst into tears if I said I would go because I had nowhere to sleep. 

“…Okay. We’re both men anyway, well, do we even need to keep our distance? Haha.” 

I smiled awkwardly and sighed for a long time. Seeing myself, Lee Jehee looked suspicious as if he didn’t know why I was doing that for the monster.

Ignoring Lee Jehee, I walked to the door opposite the guest room. Judging by his eyes, this place seemed to be his room. As I carefully opened the door, I found a cozy bedroom with a soft light on.

It was different from the monotone cold atmosphere of the living room and the gloomy bathroom. In the bedroom, which uses ivory and beige as basic tones to create a warm atmosphere, the warmth of a person is felt.

I felt a presence right behind me while looking at the room with an unexpected mind. When I turned my head, Lee Jehee, who stood close to me without knowing when he came, was looking down at me.

“C, can’t you show your presence? You surprised me!” 

“Does it seem like your wishes keep increasing?”

“…Does asking for presence is part of what you want?”

“If not, never mind.”

The man who finished answering indifferently went into the room first, picked up the brightly colored blanket, and climbed onto the bed. I frowned as I watched him lean back on the head of the bed and slowly close his eyes.

The atmosphere is a little… strange, isn’t it? Is this world a bit generous of homosexuality—?

That’s why I remember being able to attack regardless of gender. It was a world with a social atmosphere that was tolerant of homosexuality compared to the real world, although it was a little more than a relationship with the opposite sex.

I walked towards the bed with hesitating steps. Ddari, who felt such a sign of me, stroked my arm, trying to figure out what I was thinking.

“Don’t worry, Seonwoo, I will protect Seonwoo.”

Please, take good care of yourself.

I endured what I wanted to say and crawled carefully onto the bed. And I sat as far away as possible from Lee Jehee.

A person with a lot of money would bring in a bigger bed, but his bed only had enough space for two people to sleep.

I lay on the edge of the bed and slowly turned around. As soon as I took place, Ddari, digging into my lower abdomen, curled up in a circle and was ready to sleep. Then it was amazing how he slept since he fell asleep with a calm breathing sound.

Do you protect me? Whom are you protecting when you fall asleep first?

Looking at Ddari with a pathetic gaze, I tossed and turned without realizing it. And I hardened myself to the presence that I felt right next to me. When I rolled my eyes and looked around, I saw Lee Jehee sitting with his eyes closed.

“Are you sleeping?”

“No.”

When I asked a small question just in case, the answer came back immediately. If he had been an easy sleeper, he had no reason to sign a contract with me.

After rolling my eyes awkwardly for a while, I glanced again.

“Do you want me to use the skill?”

“…No.” 

“Why?” 

Doesn’t he always call me to put him to sleep? There’s no way he had a conscience that he didn’t have now.

As I narrowed my eyes suspiciously, the hand that was on his stomach slowly turned towards me. Surprised by his hand approaching my face, I blinked and hurriedly swallowed my breath. The tip of his finger lightly fell on my eyelids and touched my eyelashes.

A, are you trying to poke my eyes because you don’t like them? You looked at me like that in the dungeon too? 

As I closed my eyes without saying anything in embarrassment, I felt a slight warmth on my eyelids. As I rolled my eyeballs under my closed eyes, my trembling eyelids touched his fingertips, which pressed gently. Each time, he gently stroked my eyelashes as if playing a joke.

W, what is this? 

“You must be tired. Go to sleep, Yeon Seonwoo-ssi.”

“Ah… That… Yes..” 

In the meantime, I quickly turned my back on him, pretending to toss and turn. The hand that touched my eye also naturally fell off.

This atmosphere… What is it? I just got goosebumps.

Goosebumps on the nape of my neck still hadn’t subsided even when I turned my back, what’s more. I am a sensitive person to sleep, so I can sleep easily when someone is next to me—.

“Yeon Seonwoo-ssi?”

“….”

I am… a very, very sensitive person—.

“Are you already asleep?”

“…”

…Hyung, not yet… Not yet…

I was a very sensitive person to sleep. I felt uncomfortable when the bedding I always used changed or the place changed, and I couldn’t fall asleep easily when I felt someone else’s footsteps due to the long period of living alone.

So, I thought I was that kind of person until now.

However, it seems that I wasn’t in a position to consider the bed due to the fatigue accumulated by going back and forth from the dungeon twice. Even though everything was unfamiliar, that was the case when I tried to excuse the situation where I woke up feeling refreshed.

“Oh, I slept…”

I didn’t do anything in the dungeon, but until I fell asleep, my whole body felt like I had been beaten up. I was always tense around Lee Jehee’s shoulder, so I had slight muscle pain when I released the tension.

Fortunately, I smiled pleasantly in a refreshed state, maybe due to a good night’s sleep. I wanted to enjoy this laziness a little more. So I changed my posture by tossing and turning to sleep again. No, I tried to change it, but it was correct that my body didn’t follow it, and it failed.

Did I get sleep paralysis even after waking up? When I open my eyes, there’s a ghost in front of me—.

I opened my eyes thinly, recalling a scary story that I couldn’t even remember who told me. I could see a hard wall in front of me.

What is this warm wall?

I felt the wall with my palm to understand the situation properly. Strangely, the warm walls move weakly. At the same time, I could hear someone else’s breath above my head, and the hair all over my body stood up all at once.

“….!”

What? Why is this bastard right in front of me?

Since I left the dungeon at dawn and fell asleep in the morning, it must have been afternoon. As if to prove that the prediction was correct, sunlight that couldn’t be blocked even by the thick curtains covering the window was leaking in.

The problem was that the view was clear because of that. When I raised my head, I could see who was lying next to me.

Ung?…Huh? Oh? 

The face that came in through the gap of bewilderment was very familiar. The first thing I saw was a graceful jawline. The bridge of the nose rising over the perfectly closed lips was as sharp as a sword, and the forehead line from the bridge of the nose was similarly neat, so my eyes moved naturally. I almost reached out to see how long and abundant the eyelashes were, and the shade underneath them was amazing. 

Were his eyelashes always this long? I knew for a long time that the bridge of the nose was high, but I didn’t realize that it would look pretty even if I looked at it little by little.

Every time I saw him, I thought he was handsome, but I looked for his flaws out of ugly jealousy and tried to downplay them. But the face that was sleeping softly couldn’t be taken down.

I’m just spacing out and watching.

“Whoaa!” 

As soon as I came to my senses, my hand, which was resting on his chest, removed the arm around the waist.

It wasn’t just his face that was close. A strong arm rested above my waist for some reason. Because of that, I was embarrassed because my body was too attached to his chest to bury my face.

When I was surprised and pushed his shoulders and chest away, Lee Jehee slowly opened his eyes with a frown. The same was true for Ddari, who was sleeping between the two of us.

“Seonwoo… it’s noisy.”

Ddari who just woke up rubbing his eyes out of commotion and acted as if I were admonishing an impolite child, but I couldn’t afford to pay attention to it. This is because I was busy pointing my finger at Lee Jehee, who was lying still and blinking as if enjoying his sleep.

“You, you, you!”

“…You?” 

I guess I was out of my mind because I was so surprised. When he woke up, his dazed expression quickly turned ugly. The voice that asked, as if in questioning whether I was really saying ‘you,’ was also low and harsh.

But can’t I say it’s ‘you’? I think he’s younger than me—.