NOVEL NEXT Chapter 148 - Aftermath.
TN: Thank James Baily for the chapter.
“So bright…”
I thought I drew the curtains…
I frowned at the direct sunlight that seemed to be piercing my eyelids.
Is it morning already…?
I felt strangely tired and wanted to sleep more, but even with my eyes closed, my waking mind couldn’t go back to sleep.
I tossed and turned, but it only made me more uncomfortable.
I tried to sleep for a while longer but to no avail.
I’m annoyed.
I would just pull the covers over my eyes and sleep, and that would be that, but…
The problem was more than a few things were keeping me awake.
“Ugh, water…”
A crackly voice escaped my throat as I reached for the water.
It felt like I’d been singing karaoke for five hours the night before.
I wonder if this is what a sore throat feels like.
I reached for the water, desperate to relieve the burning sensation in my throat, but the sticky bedspread felt unpleasant against my hand.
“Hah…”
For some reason, I thought my body was a little cold.
The sheet was soaked with a mixture of sweat and bodily fluids.
I was a little chilly and wanted to get dressed, but that would be impossible in this state.
I gingerly ran my hand over my stomach to see if it felt any different.
I’m covered in a sticky mess of unidentifiable bodily fluids.
I’ll have to wash it off first.
Turning my head to look at Siwoo, I saw his sleeping face.
He was sleeping as if he were harmless.
He was so violent…
My face flushed red at the memory of the night before.
I never imagined that I would let out such a moan.
I guess I don’t understand people.
As I stared at Siwoo’s face, I suddenly remembered a scene from a novel or movie.
The scene where the first person to wake up after a big night kisses their lover in their sleep.
I thought I might wake him up if I kissed her, so I kissed him lightly on the forehead and got out of bed.
And I regretted it.
I had gone to the gym once, thinking I would lose weight.
Back then, I fought a daily battle with muscle pain.
…The pain was so intense that I thought it was many times worse than that.
“Ah, my back…”
My back felt like it was going to snap.
No, was it snapped in half?
Well, it didn’t matter what happened to it.
It hurt like hell.
I tried to stand up.
My legs were wobbly like a newborn fawn, and my arms were limp and in pain.
I didn’t want to move. I wanted to crawl back into bed and snuggle up to Siwoo.
…But I need to move to drink water.
I wasn’t sure I could hold off my thirst until Siwoo woke up.
Eventually, I forced myself to get up and move my legs.
Like an earthworm crawling. Little by little, inch by inch.
I cursed the pitcher of water in the middle of the living room.
Why is it there?
Muttering all sorts of complaints, I somehow moved to the center of the living room and picked it up.
“Gulp, gulp…”
I gulped down water to quench my burning thirst.
When the water in the bottle reached the bottom, I looked around and gasped.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa. What the hell is this?”
Siwoo’s room was covered in bodily fluids.
But it wasn’t just Siwoo’s room.
The living room was just as messy, a tangle of dried liquids, lingering liquids, and my threads.
Everything was covered in sticky bodily fluids.
I could smell Siwoo’s scent everywhere and had a vague idea of what had caused it.
Had we done it here…?
I couldn’t remember.
“How much did we do it…? This is going to be a real mess to clean up.”
“Yeah.”
“Ahhh, y-you were awake?!”
Suddenly startled by the tired voice behind me, I quickly turned around and immediately regretted it.
Unable to fight off the excruciating muscle pain, I fell down and grunted for a long time, trying to soothe the pain.
“I, I’m sorry… I didn’t expect you to be so surprised…”
“…Hug me.”
“Huh?”
“I’ll forgive you if you hug me.”
Since when did I become like this?
Was it when I kissed him?
Or when I was drinking water? When I was crawling to get a drink of water?
It didn’t matter.
It didn’t matter that Siwoo and I were in a very embarrassing state for everyone else to see.
“Mmm…”
Siwoo’s body was also sticky, but that didn’t bother me at all.
What did it matter when I was in the arms of the one I loved?
Feeling good in Siwoo’s firm body, I ordered him like a child.
“Come on, rush to the bathroom. Let’s take a bath first!”
“Okay.”
“It’s hard for me to move around now, thanks to some beast, so I need you to wash me well.”
“…”
Oops.
I made a grave error.
Looking at Siwoo’s burning eyes, I realized it.
But I’m already in Siwoo’s arms.
I didn’t have the strength to run away, and my muscles were too sore to move.
…Nor did I want to.
The fact that we ended up making out in the bath, well.
It was so obvious that it didn’t need to be said.
“I’m dying…”
“Are you okay?”
“That is not what the perpetrator should say.”
“I’m sorry…”
“No, there’s nothing to be sorry about…”
In the end, removing all the sticky liquid from our bodies took a very long time.
Not to mention the muscle aches I suffered during that time.
“I’m going to need a lot of strength to deal with all that… Hah…”
To be honest, I didn’t remember all of my time with Siwoo.
There were times when I felt so good that I passed out.
There were times when we were just mindlessly lusting after each other.
We hadn’t thought about cleaning up after ourselves, so we had left traces of our actions all over the house.
Liquid was stained everywhere I looked.
Siwoo and I were wondering what the heck we were going to do with it.
My cell phone on the living room desk suddenly lit up.
“Oh, it’s a call.”
“I’ll get it.”
“There’s no…”
Siwoo, who thought I was suffering from muscle pain because of him, rushed over and grabbed my phone.
Well, no. He’s not exactly wrong.
Feeling that I couldn’t say anything, I gave up trying to say anything.
Whatever happens, happens, I guess.
It was hard to move, so it was probably for the best.
“…Hello?”
– She finally picked up. Where are you?!
“…Hello?”
– You’re okay, right?! If you can’t speak, I’ll take a long moan as yes and a short moan as no. Are you okay?!
“????”
The sudden voice on the other end of the phone made Siwoo and I look at each other.
… What’s going on?
“… What’s going on all of a sudden?”
– What, you. You didn’t get kidnapped or something?
“What?”
– …You sound fine. We thought you were kidnapped or something…
Amelia sighed deeply, as if relieved, and then suddenly became angry.
-Then you should have answered the phone. What the hell have you been doing all this time?!
“What?”
– Do you have any idea how many times I called you?!
…She called me? When?
I checked my phone records at Amelia’s urging and was stunned.
I checked my phone records and was stunned to see that Amelia had called me repeatedly every few hours.
“What the hell?”
– You haven’t called me in three days! I was really thinking about calling the police!
“Huh? …Three days?”
True to Amelia’s word, the time on my phone had been three days since our date.
…So we’ve been going on for three days?
Are we crazy?
…I guess I understood why I couldn’t stand.
***
[Oh, can I ask about your Reader?]
“Don’t tell me… I miss her so much… Reader-nim, I miss you…”
[Here we go again.]
The Transcendents sighed.
Having been forcibly removed from what seemed like a fun place, the girl had been crying for a long time.
It was ugly to see her get depressed whenever the subject of that world came up.
[No, I’m just really curious.]
“What is it?”
[She doesn’t get her period, can she have kids?]
“Huh? …Ah, that?”
[All human women get their periods. They say that’s the only way to have children.]
“I blocked it on purpose.”
[…What?]
“Yes.”
The pathetic transcendent who had been thrown out by the world she had created replied coolly.
It was intentionally blocked.
“Well, their soul was a human male, and I thought it would be annoying for her to go through that. It would only distract me from watching the main character.”
[…So she can’t get pregnant? How does that…]
“Oh, she will.”
The girl said smugly, as if proud of herself.
“I am 100% sure she’ll get pregnant the moment she gets semen in her uterus or something!”
[Oh…]
“Alas, dear Reader, you must have had a good time with the Protagonist by now… Alas, I wanted to see it firsthand… I didn’t want it to be spoiled…”
Translator’s Corner
T-three days… th-that’s too much… so vulgar…
Rate my shark impression.
-Ruminas