Chapter 13
“Let me see. Now.”
“What? Ah, no! I wasn’t looking at that.”
Yi-seo hurriedly lowered her gaze.
“……That?”
Tae-heon’s voice became even lower.
Yi-seo’s face turned bright red at the risk of being branded a pervert in an instant.
“It’s not that……”
Haah.
Tae-heon sighed as if he was troubled and hurried his steps again.
That damn ghost!
Even though she tried not to look, she couldn’t stop thinking about it, so she cautiously lowered her gaze again. By then, the ghost’s shape had reached his groin.
Isn’t this crazy?
The things clinging to his legs were the most persistent and vicious, so she had wondered what exactly they were.
Now she knew.
No matter how she looked at it, that was a virgin ghost!
A virgin ghost was one of the most vicious types of ghosts.
They died at a young age without ever experiencing romance, and out of resentment, they clung persistently to young men.
They were famous for trying to have physical relations with men somehow and sucking out their yang energy.
If someone was tormented by a ghost every night, their yang energy would weaken, and they would inevitably become sick and frail.
But then—
There were two virgin ghosts.
Two virgin ghosts, one clinging happily to each of his legs.
Even a man with a Yang Pal Tong destiny, overflowing with yang energy, would be helpless against something like this.
They seemed to be targeting the place where his yang energy was most concentrated, but perhaps this could be called a blessing in disguise.
Since the two ghosts were fighting over who would get him, neither of them seemed able to take him.
Though that probably wouldn’t last much longer.
I was raised so preciously, yet I’m seeing all kinds of things.
“Ahem.”
Yi-seo could see that Tae-heon was trying not to show it, but he was clearly suffering.
Unable to watch any longer, she tightly held a talisman in one hand and gently grabbed the end of his sleeve with the other.
Though the effect was weaker than direct skin contact, her grandmother’s talisman was still strong enough to affect those things.
The moment she grabbed him, the ghosts that had climbed upward suddenly dropped down to his knees.
“……!”
Good. It works.
Yi-seo smiled brightly.
Should I try something stronger this time?
It would probably work better if I grabbed his pants instead of his sleeve, right?
Yi-seo quietly let go of his sleeve and reached toward the edge of Tae-heon’s pants.
The things that had been above his knees immediately dropped all the way down to his ankles.
Great!
You little things!
However, because she was only lightly holding the edge, whenever he moved his legs, his pants moved away from her hand.
Every time that happened, the ghosts hurriedly crawled back up.
You things!
A silent battle of nerves continued, as if they were watching each other carefully.
Because she was so focused on it, she failed to notice.
In her desperate attempt to drive away the ghosts, she had gradually ended up clinging tightly to him.
“Ha……”
Tae-heon also let out a deep sigh as he looked at her with a troubled expression.
“Ah!”
It happened then.
While walking absentmindedly and watching only the ghosts, she failed to see the raised part of the floor and tripped badly.
She instantly lost her balance and felt her body falling forward.
Just as she tightly closed her eyes, something firmly supported her stomach.
“Was ‘hold on tightly’ supposed to mean this? So I should hold you so you don’t fall, Beom Yi-seo?”
Tae-heon’s large hand was firmly supporting Yi-seo’s lower stomach.
Feeling his hand through her clothes made her feel embarrassed.
Thanks to Tae-heon, Yi-seo avoided falling and awkwardly smiled as she thanked him.
“Haha, that was an accident. Thank you…… Ah!”
Before she could regain her balance, he suddenly let go, causing her legs to wobble again.
This time, Tae-heon grabbed her arm and pulled her toward him.
“If I save you two more times, we’ll both end up falling onto the floor.”
“Hahahaha……”
Since she had nothing else to say besides laughing, she laughed even louder.
I was trying my best to protect him.
She felt a little upset that he didn’t know that, but still, it wasn’t bad.
How should she put it?
It felt like being a hero who hid her powers.
She felt proud of her ability to protect him from danger.
Besides, because he had completely grabbed her body, the things clinging to his legs had fallen away too.
In any case, it was a happy ending.
While she was lost in her own self-satisfaction, Tae-heon suddenly held out his arm.
“……?”
When she looked at him curiously, Tae-heon sighed and spoke.
“I’m worried about you too, so hold my arm and walk.”
“Uh, should I? Then?”
Her face immediately brightened.
It had been quite difficult to secretly grab him while walking.
If she held onto him like this, it would be much easier, and the ghosts wouldn’t be able to cling to him either.
Yi-seo happily grabbed Tae-heon’s arm.
One hand didn’t feel like enough, so she held his arm tightly with both hands.
Just as expected, the things clinging to him recoiled in disgust and fell away.
You little things! Beom Yi-seo tears ghosts apart!
She was so excited that she smiled brightly.
She even started humming.
“Everything is sparkling brightly~ I’m the best~”
Pfft.
Tae-heon subtly smiled as he watched Yi-seo happily holding his arm tightly with both hands, as if she had been waiting for this.
Does she really like it that much?
That morning, when he had parted from Yi-seo, he had intended not to create any more points of contact with her.
It made no sense to keep someone beside him when he couldn’t even take care of his own body.
So, as usual, he had nodded when his fellow students asked him to buy them drinks.
He had planned to tell Yi-seo that he had made plans to drink with them, so he wouldn’t be able to go home with her.
It would be better to tell her in person rather than through a message.
But then.
Before he could even do that, Yi-seo had come looking for him in front of the building and called out to him, ruining all his plans.
Before he knew it, his own footsteps had already been heading toward Yi-seo.
Since things have turned out like this, I’ll talk to her while we walk.
That was what he decided as he walked.
But throughout the entire walk, she couldn’t stay still for even a moment, struggling desperately to touch him.
Then, when he told her to hold his arm, she immediately clung to him as if she had been waiting for it and even started singing.
How can I tell her not to come when she’s that happy?
How can I coldly refuse when that little thing is making excuses about bringing me home because it’s dangerous, just so she can stay with me somehow?
Tae-heon looked at Yi-seo, who was walking happily while tightly holding his arm, and smiled.
It’s strange.
Why does everything feel so simple whenever you’re beside me?
I can’t think about the pain or suffering. Nothing at all.
For the first time, Tae-heon didn’t hate the road back home.
“We’re here. This is it.”
At Tae-heon’s words, Yi-seo raised her head and looked at the luxurious, magnificent villa.
Then her mouth fell open.
It wasn’t because the villa was big and beautiful.
It was because there were so many ghosts gathered around it that they were swarming outside the building.
“Senior, is your house…… on the fifth floor?”
“How did you know?”
Tae-heon was startled, but his reaction wasn’t important right now.
“I just guessed. It looked the…… nicest.”
She managed to smile as she answered, then raised her head again.
There were countless black figures clinging tightly outside the fifth-floor windows in particular, and Yi-seo couldn’t close her mouth.
She had never seen a place with this many ghosts gathered together, no matter where she went.
Isn’t this basically a ghost den?
How is this possible?
What on earth is inside that house?
Has he been living in a house like this all this time?
Her breathing became rough at the horrifying sight.
When she thought about Tae-heon having endured all of this alone without being able to tell anyone, her eyes became moist.
“Senior, do you live here alone?”
“Yeah.”
“Then, can I go inside your house for a little while?”
Yi-seo held his arm even more tightly and gently rubbed it as if comforting him.
“……What? Is this why you said you’d bring me home? Was that what you meant when you were looking at me earlier?”
Tae-heon roughly pulled his hand away from her grasp and narrowed his eyes.
Huh?
She had been so horrified by the countless ghosts that all she could think about was getting inside quickly.
But when she saw Tae-heon looking at her with a deeply guarded expression, she began wondering what was wrong with what she had just said.
However, no matter how much she thought about it, she couldn’t figure out what she had said wrong.
“What are you planning to do after coming inside? You seem a little excited right now.”
“What?”
It was Yi-seo who became even more flustered at the way he looked at her as if she were some kind of beast.
What’s wrong with him?
“No, I was wondering if the doll is doing well…… And I also heard this house is really expensive, so I wanted to see what the inside looks like…… Is that not okay?”
Maybe he doesn’t like letting people into his house.
Tae-heon had agreed to most of her requests until now, so she naturally thought he would allow this one too.
I have to go inside.
How can I just leave after seeing this?
“Is it really not okay? I won’t touch anything. I’ll just go inside and look around. Please?”
