NOVEL NEXT Chapter 20: Making erotic sounds with my aunt?
"I don't understand." It feels like she is speaking gibberish. "I wasn't supposed to be born? A special pawn? If we go by the original timeline, my brother was also not supposed to be born."
She tears off a paper from the notebook and starts writing with a brush. "In the original timeline, everyone except me died in the accident. The only reason why I lived because I was time-traveling for fun."
She draws the second line. "When I found out, I changed the future. A new timeline was created. where my family lived. In that timeline, your father only had one son. Then, I wanted to change more things because I knew that I could. I traveled to the future and the past many times. I might have changed history too. I attracted the attention of the timekeepers. You know about them, right? Special police for bad time-travelers? Anyway, I kept running from them. I traveled too far back in time."
The lamp is getting dimmer. I don't know how to accept this information.
"A time-traveler with perfect control and a time-traveler with no control?" She eyes me intently. "You were born to fix things. In a way, you are special. I am guessing that keepers will find a way to erase you when your job is done."
I recall Kang Si An and the rusty knife. "I am in a situation."
***
My aunt listens to me solemnly.
"That person is a timekeeper who isn't awake yet." She shakes her head at me. "Why would you try to get close to your future murderer? That's the trick of time. He is the timekeeper chosen to deal with you. If you are close to him all the time, he will be awakened. Then, he can kill you easily."
I rest my head in my hand. A special pawn of time? Rectifying my aunt's mistakes? A timekeeper who will be my murderer? Damn! I have been digging my grave.
"Timekeepers are the only one who knows how the original timeline was." She takes a bite of the meat. She is eating like a lost soldier in nowhere. "Soon, he will start having dreams. He will be able to see where you will end up when you travel in time. If things become worse, he will become your anchor. Timekeepers sort of lose sanity and become uncontrollable. You were perfectly controlled by time."
"Aunt, can I stay with you here?" I ask her with a tiny voice.
"I don't mind." She tilts her head and smile. "But, can you? You don't know when you will be moved back to the future by time."
She's so right. She is burned out because she used her ability on her own. I, on the other hand, is tossed here for unknown reasons. If all of my time-travels had a purpose that I don't know about, then this one also has one. My aunt must have changed something here that wasn't supposed to happen.
Why I am cleaning up after her poop?
"By the way, I am pretending to be a general. Everyone thinks that I am a man. My name is Yu Chen. Currently, I am appointed at the border to deal with invaders and die. I have chosen you to become my temporary woman because I don't know when you will go back in time." She starts undoing her clothes. "Pretend to be dumb and scared until you figured out the language. Stay here. Don't talk to other soldiers... and... "
She looks at me hesitantly. "Can you make lewd sounds at night like we are doing it? We have to make it believable."
"Making erotic sounds with my aunt?" I chuckle at the thought. "Why not?"
***
Loud erotic sounds emerge from the tent. The soldiers grin among themselves. So, General Yu is not asexual. They laugh and joke about General Yu's energy in bed.
Inside the tent,
"Oh my god!" Kyuri frowns at her aunt. "Your voice sounds womanly. You have to groan like a man."
"Ha!" Yu Chen, Aka Kwon Yoori, scowls at her. "You are going to teach me how to be a man? Were you the one who fooled even the ruthless emperor of the foreign country?"
"But, Aunt..."
"Don't call me aunt. I am your age." Yoori makes a face. "I am too young to be called aunt."
"General Yu." Kyuri smiles at her. "I think that we have done it enough. Can I sleep now?"
"What are you saying?" Yoori sits on the bed. "We have to make it all night. I want to dismiss any doubt regarding my masculinity. Tomorrow, you should act tired and... act like your lady parts hurt."
Kyuri gives her a tight-lipped smile. "General Yu, making noises and pretending to lose my virginity to my aunt? Isn't it bit too much?"
"Both of our lives depend on it."
They continue their farce whole night.