Chapter 32

Translator: mangoes

“Are you crazy?”

It was clear that if I was going to do as he said, it was obvious that I would be worked so much I wouldn’t be able to sleep for more than 4 hours a day.To me who worked at a company, it was something impossible.

Disgusted, I shook my head.

“I can’t. I have to work.”

“Before, you were able to hit max level while going to work.“

“I almost kicked the bucket that time, so I decided not to do it again.”

Looking at me showing my stubborn intentions, Shin Heejae clicked his tongue. I thought that maybe it was something he said as a bit of a joke, but seeing him wearing such an irritating expression, it seemed that he must have been thinking of running [Arcadia] dungeons with me all day.

To that kind of guy, I suddenly spoke.

“That……. The one who just called, was it Yoona. You can go with her and it’ll be done.”

“…….”

As soon as I took out Yoona’s name, Shin Heejae’s expression hardened a little. Looking at that expression I wondered if I had said something unnecessary, but strangely my mouth moved on its’ own.

“It seemed like she also wanted to go with you. You’re already going to do it, wouldn’t it be good to go with someone you want to go with t…….”

“I’m saying I’m going to do it with Kim Seyoung.”

Shin Heejae cut off my words and decided,then stared at me. It was a very cheeky yet also a definitely upset voice.

Only then did I close my mouth,but in the end I had to receive Shin Heejae’s nervousness throughout the evening.

* * *

“Shit, that childish bastard…….”

While under the shower faucet and washing away the foam from the body wash, I mumbled.

The first game I caught in a while was truly a nightmare.

Shin Heejae always found fault with me, and if I stuttered even a little he would nag at me like a military senior. I got goosebumps because the tone of this bastard that didn’t even go to the military when nagging was the exact same as a senior.

And eventually he couldn’t win against his grilling and made another alt. The funny thing was Shin Heejae’s eccentric behavior where he deleted a character he had wanted to raise together with me,without any lingering feelings.

Like a ranker his character slots were all full, but because of that when he couldn’t make a new character he deleted a character that wasn’t max level.

I tried to dissuade him because I thought it wasn’t necessary to go to that point, but in the end I left him to do what he wanted. It was because if I stopped him a bit, he nitpicked at whatever I did and yelled at me,so I also didn’t have the energy to quarrel anymore.

In addition, Shin Heejae childishly forced me to change my alt’s nickname to [Senyangie].Just by looking at it, it was plain that he was trying to set his alt’s and the nickname to be similar, so I tried to ignore it with a snort but…….

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‘Then do you want to do [Heejae’swifeseyoungie]?’

‘…….’

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Additionally, Shin Heejae’s nickname made after erasing a character was [Seyoungshusband].

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Unable to stand it anymore, I grabbed and threw my mouse saying I wasn’t going to raise the character anymore, but as if he was waiting for it, he made a fuss saying he was going to the center while holding the car key. In the end, I levelled up with [Seyoungshusband] in a state of desperation.

Instead, I also placed a condition on him. I asked him to not join the [Rolling] clan with these alts. This was because I didn’t want to recieve the clan members’ cold eyes anymore. I was at least able to play the game quietly because Shin Heejae accepted that.

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Beep, beep beep beep. Click―.

But while I was taking a shower, I heard the front door open. Then the sound of pressing without forgetting the password I had taught him. Without thinking, I turned off the water.

But…….

Slam―.

Suddenly, I heard thumping sounds and the bathroom door opened wide.

In anger at the trash manners of opening the bathroom door without a word, I looked back, and Shin Heejae’s frowing expression entered my eyes. Before I could even curse, he suddenly let out a deep sigh.

“I thought you ran away.”

“Are you insane?”

“…….”

I attempted to leave while glancing at Shin Heejae, but it bothered me how he was constantly looking at me. With a towel I had prepared beforehand I covered my waist and spoke to him in an annoyed voice.

“What are you looking at?”

At that moment, it was just for an instant but I noticed Shin Heejae’s ears turned red. It was the first time I had seen him so embarrassed so even I who was looking at him oddly felt a strange feeling.

The atmosphere which had almost become strange, broke down with his nonsense.

“At what. I can’t even see it.”

“Do you want to die, you bastard?!”

I immediately ran and tried to grab the back of Shin Heejae’s hair, but he narrowly avoided it cheekily. And in this room that wasn’t even that wide, after quickly dodging, he took out a towel from the drawer containing them and threw it at me.

“At least put on your clothes.”

And in the middle of my hesitation, he escaped to the bathroom. Instead of knocking on the bathroom door in revenge, which was definitely locked, I turned off the power of the water boiler.

‘Let’s see you get baptized with cold water while taking a warm shower.’

But Shin Heejae didn’t come out easily after entering. There wasn’t even any fuss like ‘Ah, cold!” like I had anticipated.

Like that a few minutes later, radiating cold air that you could see just by looking at it,he returned to the room. Shin Heejae looked at me with his pale face and his expression crumpled.

“It’s really annoying. It’s not like you’re evenpretty…….”

“What?”

“……Nevermind.”

Muttering strange words,he grumbled and turned on the dryer. While drying his hair he kept glaring at me so I gave him glares back, but anyways, Shin Heejae didn’t really bother me until he was falling asleep.

But the problem was when I laid down on my blanket.

“Noona.”

I switched off the light and turned around with my back to the bed, but Shin Heejae called me from behind.

I got a little annoyed by this title of ‘noona’ that I had gotten used to before I knew it. I felt this even more because of what that bastard said while looking over me.

So I just tried to ignore it by pretending I was asleep, but Shin Heejae didn’t leave me, who was doing that, alone.

Puk―.

I realized that his feet touched my sides and turned to look back. It wasn’t difficult to find his pupils in the darkness that my eyes had gotten accustomed to.

As I thought he would, Shin Heejae stretched out his legs and was prodding me. I immediately threw a warning at him.

“If I wake up, I’ll kill you.”

Not caring about my hysterical reaction, Shin Heejae said something out of the blue.

“Do you want to come up to the bed and sleep?”

“What?”

“I’m cold.”

That voice seemed to be mixed with a strangely stuffy, nasal sound, so it didn’t seem like he was joking. Should I say, it was a feeling like he was about to sniffle.

‘Well, he did shower a long time even though I turned off the hot water…….’

Of all things, it was the change of seasons, so I had a habit of only turning on the boiler in the house and didn’t even have theelectric padI usually laid down. So right now it was an instance where on top of the bed, he was covering his cold body with only one thinblanket.

So his words meant the boilerfloorand the bed. That is, I understood them to mean to change positions, so I accepted. To be honest, because I was more used to sleeping in bed, I was inwardly glad to hear his words.

I accepted Shin Heejae’s words without much thought.

“Okay.”

“…….”

However, Shin Heejae had no response even though he said he would change positions. It was too dark so I couldn’t see his expression well, but it also seemed a bit stiff.

So I got up from my position first and approached close to Shin Heejae. As I approached, Shin Heejae backed off and stuck to the wall.

I frowned a bit at the behavior of the guy who avoided me, but Shin Heejae remained still in that state and didn’t move more. Unable to understand, after squinting at him I said with a nod.

“What are you doing?”

“……Yes?”

“―? Get down.”

“…….”

Shin Heejae stayed still for a while and then stood up from the bed. And I sat down at the spot Shin Heejae had moved away from. Although it was cheap, it felt like my aches automatically flew away from the spring’s elasticity that I was feeling for the first time in a while.

‘As expected, I have to sleep in a bed…….’

It’s good that we changed positions, it was when I stretched out thinking that sort of stuff.

Squeak―.

Shin Heejae, who should have gone down from the bed, sat where he was and laid next to me. Not only that, but on the way, even the blankets rolled and were all collected to his side.

Surprised, I turned and looked to the side.

“Hey! What are you doing?”

Shin Heejae peeped only his eyes out from inside the blanket and played innocent.

“I can’t sleep on the floor.”

“Then why did you ask to switch?!”

“I never asked to switch? I meant to sleep together.”

“What?”

Of course I didn’t want to.

Although he wasn’t like a pig, his body was honestly huge, and it was very dirty and uncomfortable for two adult men to sleep in a double bed. No matter how much it was under the pretext of dating, sleeping in bed together was an act that really went over the line.

‘This is really gay!’

So I jumped up and tried to push him down from the bed. But as if expecting that, Shin Heejae immediately grabbed my thigh and pressed it firmly between his legs.

It was when, flustered by the weight of his actions.I looked up at him.

Shin Heejae suddenly lifted up the bottom of my T-shirt. And unable to bear the cold he touched my stomach with his hands that were like ice sticks. Right, it was like melting a frozen hand.

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