By Zephyria The problem was elsewhere. Ryu Jeong slightly parted his knees, which he had been drawing up, and put his hands behind him. As expected, his buttocks were also soaked. It was a wonder his pants weren’t wet in this state.
“I think I need to get it out…”
He had never done it before, so he had no idea how. Ryu Jeong hesitated several times before bringing the tip of his middle finger to the entrance. He could feel that it was swollen, even though he had never touched it before.
“Ugh…”
As he gently inserted it, the semen that had been pooling inside flowed out. Fortunately, it was only slightly uncomfortable and not painful. He wondered if he was doing it right and pushed it in a little further. At that moment, his toes curled inward, and a ticklish moan escaped his lips.
Startled, Ryu Jeong bit down hard on his lower lip. He had no intention of doing that at all, and he felt strange doing something so weird. Should he stop? Wouldn’t it just come out on its own if he left it alone? He thought he had done something unnecessary, but it was better than working in wet underwear. Besides, two knuckles were already inside the hole. There was no choice. Ryu Jeong squeezed his eyes shut and rotated his finger.
“Ugh, ugh…”
When he scraped the inner wall with his finger, more semen flowed out. The clotted semen ran down his finger and seemed to pool in his palm. He felt strange, and he wanted to take his finger out, but if he had to do it anyway, it was better to do it all at once.
Ryu Jeong moved his finger around haphazardly. With his eyes closed, the squelching sound seemed even louder, so he had no choice but to open his eyes. His mouth kept opening and making strange noises, so he had to bite his lips hard enough to turn them white. After doing that a few times, it seemed like most of it had come out, so he quickly pulled his finger out and jumped up.
His hand was a mess. There was so much that he couldn’t tell if it was all the semen he had released overnight, or just the last time. Lee Do-hyeon had said he wiped him down while he was asleep, but he worried about whether he had wiped him down all the way there. He was too ashamed to ask. If he had taken care of him that much, he would be too embarrassed to face him.
With not much time left for his part-time job, Ryu Jeong tried to think of other things as he splashed water on his lower body. Water alone wasn’t enough to wash it all away, so he lathered up with soap to wash away the discomfort.
Ryu Jeong moved quickly. He tried to save it as much as possible, but he washed and dried the hot chocolate cup he had drunk on the way home, and he also gathered up the bedding, which wasn’t wet but somehow felt uncomfortable, and put it in a large basin. He didn’t have time to do it right away, but he planned to wash it after his cafe job and before going to the convenience store.
As he calculated the remaining time in his head, he noticed something sticking out of the pocket of his discarded jacket. One was an envelope containing the diagnosis, and the other was a medicine packet.
“The pill…”
It was the emergency contraception pill.
He hadn’t told Lee Do-hyeon, but when he had a one-on-one consultation with Professor Kim to get a prescription, Professor Kim had very cautiously, paying more attention to Lee Do-hyeon waiting outside than to him, asked if there had been any coercion. Not understanding what he meant by the question that omitted the context, Professor Kim sighed deeply and lowered his voice even more. He had very reluctantly asked if Lee Do-hyeon had forced insertion while intoxicated by pheromones.
Instead of answering, his face turned bright red, and he shook his head. He had worried about what would happen if he asked in detail, but fortunately, Professor Kim didn’t ask any further and gave him a prescription for the pill. He explained what symptoms might appear after taking the pill and what the side effects were, but the last thing he added still bothered him.
‘Taking the pill doesn’t mean that the possibility of pregnancy is completely zero. In rare cases, pregnancy is maintained despite the very slim chance. If your body feels different than usual, I recommend that you come in for a checkup. If it’s an unwanted pregnancy, there are many ways we can help. Don’t feel burdened and contact us here, at this number. Your guardian… Ah, I’ve already spoken to the President separately, so you must come with your guardian.’
The doctor who had examined him when he first manifested had said that he was extreme heat and a mutation, so it would be difficult for him to get pregnant. Now that he thought about it again, it meant that it was difficult, but not impossible.
Ryu Jeong lowered his head and stared at his stomach, which was hidden by his clothes. He tentatively raised his hand and touched his flat stomach. He blankly stroked his stomach before startlingly taking his hand away. The President knew too. He remembered the reminder to take the pill within 24 hours, saying not to forget. He felt sorry again for causing him unnecessary worry.
Ryu Jeong stared blankly at the round pill before going to the kitchen and getting a glass of water. He swallowed the pill, which was too small to hold properly in his hand, with a sip of water. He couldn’t even taste the bitterness, but he wondered if it was just his imagination that his mouth felt bitter.
After finishing his work at the chicken rib restaurant and the cafe, Ryu Jeong staggered back to Wolhyeon-dong. Fortunately, the Shop Owner of the chicken rib restaurant and the CEO of the cafe understood Ryu Jeong’s situation. The CEO of the cafe looked at him with worried eyes, asking if he shouldn’t rest a little more, but Ryu Jeong just smiled quietly. Lee Do-hyeon had said that he could rest without worry if he showed them the diagnosis, but he was worried about not getting paid for the day, so he couldn’t even take it out, even though he had brought it with him.
He couldn’t focus on his work, thinking about what would happen to his convenience store job. It wasn’t just that he wasn’t feeling well, but he kept getting lost in thought and couldn’t do his job properly. He would blankly stare into space without realizing that a customer had come, or he would make a different menu than the customer had ordered, so he had to apologize several times. The place he really needed to apologize was somewhere else.
Ryu Jeong struggled to get home and was finally able to massage his throbbing waist after entering the cold room. Ryu Jeong, who had been patting his lower back with his fist, wondered if he should just take a nap, but he got up and headed to the kitchen. He was hungry, probably because he had been working all day with his nerves on edge. Knowing that he would be even more tired when he went to work at the convenience store later that night, he decided to fill his stomach with the leftover meat.
His ungrateful mouth devoured the meat, saying it was delicious. Regardless of how delicious it was, his worries about his future didn’t go away, so Ryu Jeong put a piece of meat in his mouth and spaced out, then put another piece of meat in his mouth and chewed it before slumping his shoulders. He wished time would slow down. But that miracle didn’t happen.
“Haa…”
Ryu Jeong stared blankly at the convenience store, which was shining brightly alone in the dark alley, and sighed, he didn’t know how many times. The diagnosis was in his padding pocket. The corners of the paper were stained with fingerprints because he had been touching it dozens of times for half a day.
What if he tears it up without even looking at it? Ryu Jeong bit his parched lips and turned back again. Aren’t you going to get fired anyway? Why bother going in and getting yelled at?
“No…”
Still, I have to apologize for my mistake. I have to ask for forgiveness, even if I get fired. How can I pretend not to know him when we live in the same neighborhood…?
Ryu Jeong hesitated for a long time on the street where the convenience store was visible, but he had no choice but to push open the glass door as his work time was approaching.
“Welcome!”
As he cautiously went inside, he heard the Shop Owner’s voice from the walk-in. He must have been doing something inside. Normally, he would have greeted him even if he couldn’t see him, but he couldn’t make a sound, as if something was stuck in his throat. So, thinking he was a customer, the Shop Owner walked out with a beaming smile. Of course, that smile didn’t last long.
“Ah, hello…”
He couldn’t bring himself to get any closer and just stood there, hesitatingly greeting him. He couldn’t make eye contact and lowered his gaze, clasping his hands tightly together. Sure enough, the Shop Owner’s roar flew and struck the top of Ryu Jeong’s head, who was very nervous.
“Hello? Did you say hello, now?”