Chapter 51: Underground Labyrinth (1) (1/2)
It was midnight when he returned to the dormitory. In a distance, he could see a pair of green eyes sitting on the windowsill of the veranda. Gyeoul was sitting on top of Bom’s legs, and was leaning on Bom’s body, seemingly in deep sleep.
Bom had the same indifferent expression as usual but her gaze from a distance stayed on Ha Saetbyul for a long time. She appeared curious.
After walking into the house, Yu Jitae laid the injured Ha Saetbyul down on the sofa and was about to enter his room, but that was when Bom quietly approached him. Stopping his feet, he looked back at Bom who appeared hesitant.
“Why.”
“…”
“Is there something you need to say?”
“Yes. You see actually…”
Staring at the floor, she hesitated on what to say. Wondering what it was about, Yu Jitae decided to wait for her to finish thinking first.
“Actually…”
She then stopped her words again. With her bangs covering half of her eyes, she opened and closed her lips. She thought about something, pondered and decided.
“Un…”
“Un?”
When she raised her head back up, she had returned to her usual expression.
“Actually, Yeorum entered ahjussi’s room while you weren’t here.”
“What?”
Those were some unexpected words, but now that heard that, he realised that he could sense the aura of the dragons from inside his room.
“She was happy that there were six bottles of alcohol remaining. Of course, I told her that she shouldn’t drink them, you know?”
“…Okay.”
“But as you know, Yeorum doesn’t listen to me. She kept on saying that she would just have a little taste.”
Kwang!
That was when someone kicked his room’s door open. It was supported by a tremendous strength that could break the door and in fact, one of the hinges were broken and was dangling.
Yeorum was standing there. Her crimson bob hair was messy while her cheeks were deeply flushed. Her unfocused eyes were each staring at different places as they rolled around.
In an instant, he looked past Yeorum, at the floor of his room. From the ten bottles of whiskey he had bought two days ago, he had only drunk four, but currently all the bottles were scattered on the floor.
So much for a ‘little taste’.
Her unfocused pair of eyes wandered around before being fixated on Yu Jitae, and despite her hiccups, the two did not share a single conversation for a long time.
Within that odd state of tension,
After the silence passed,
Yeorum giggled, “Hihi” and slowly opened her mouth.
“Oppaa.”
Oh no.
“Oppaaa… why were you so late?”
Yeorum mumbled with a loosened tongue. Because he did not know how to deal with a drunk dragon, Yu Jitae looked back at Bom.
“Yeorum. You should go back to your room now.”
“Whyy? I’m going to sleep with my oppa…”
“You’re drunk.”
“What do you mean? I’m not drunk… hicc.”
Bom facepalmed.
“You, come here. Uh? Uh?”
Yeorum fell powerlessly and Bom walked up to support her. That was when she rubbed her head inside Bom’s embrace and muttered.
“Hngg… so soft…”
That wasn’t the end of the whole ordeal and in the first place, there had been two presences that could be felt from inside the room. While Bom was dealing with the drunkard, Yu Jitae walked into his room.
“…”
From the floor on the other side of the bed, Kaeul barely raised her body up while shaking. Maybe Yeorum had forced her to drink, but the drunk baby chicken slovenly waved her hand after seeing Yu Jitae.
“Yooo, Mister Yu~”
She then fully showcased her drunkenness.
“How many days has it been? Hard to see your damn mug~”
“…”
“You can’t do thatt. Dear mother said that a man wandering outside should be slapped on their butt…”
“…”
“Do you know what that kind of guy is…?”
After murmuring to herself, she faced her blank stare at the wall and gave a frown. Soon, tears started forming on her eyes.
“Dear. Who’s that bitch?”
What’s happening.
“I knew it… How come you never mature up after all those damn years…? Whaat? You met her just thenn? Don’t freakin’ lie through your sharp teeth…”
“…”
“You said you would treat me well forever. Oh my, I was deceived like a fool. Do you think I’m into old dotards like you–? Back in my dayss, I carried around twenty carriages of younger and more handsome men–”
“…”
“It’s in the blood, ey? One thousand years ago when your father was drooling over me, I should have known it…”
Listening to her speak, it became apparent that she had a strange household history. In the middle of her speech, Kaeul suddenly flicked her head to the side and formed a ferocious look on her face.
“Wh, what do you think you’re looking at? Is it interesting? Can you not read the mood at all…? Come here. Oi, did you not hear me speak…!”
She reached her hand out mid-air as if she was grabbing onto someone’s hair. Her extreme immersion was as if she had been possessed by something. Yu Jitae felt as if he could clearly see Kaeul’s mother dragon, whom he had never seen before, pulling at someone’s hair.
Left with no other choice, Yu Jitae straightened his hand and struck the back of her neck.
[Knifehand Strike (D)]
“Kuang!”
The baby chicken fainted.
***
Early next morning.
“…”
“…”
“…”
Pairs of eyes, each coloured in olive, red and gold, gathered at Yu Jitae. Without a word, they quietly stared at him.
“…”
Gyeoul was glaring at Ha Saetbyul, who fell on the floor from the sofa after rolling in her sleep. Her small arms were in a cross. [Displeased] – that word seemed to be hanging on her face.
He had been thinking of telling them to refrain from drinking when they woke up in the morning, but the atmosphere was for some reason like an interview with himself as the interviewee.
Staring at Yu Jitae, their eyes seemed to be requesting an explanation. Who is that woman? What relationship do you have with her? Why did you bring her here? Those were what their gazes appeared to be asking.
The Regressor contemplated for a bit from several options.
Choice 1. Ex-girlfriend.
This most likely wouldn’t be a good explanation. Although Ha Saetbyul had been covered with Yu Jitae’s coat, she had been naked until this morning when Bom put clothes on her, and the signs of battle were still on her body.
Choice 2. An ex-demon soldier.
With this explanation, the reason for him bringing her here would be unclear. The children were currently undertaking a high-level education, and therefore held animosity against demons. Thus, Yeorum might run up and kick her head if he said that.
Choice 3. Hostility flying here from the other side of the Horizon of Providence and entering the body of an ex-lover blah blah blah…
…Of course, this was dismissed.
“Who is that person?”
Bom asked with the same expression as always, and her tone as well as expression seemed to be suggesting that this wasn’t anything significant.
“I saw her during the night, and she was naked.”
Yeorum started her sentence.
“Hehh, I didn’t think you were that type of person but… even you are nothing but a male, huh? Un? It’s that, right? The…”
She repeatedly smacked her fist into her palm, before letting out a snigger.
“My mum said to not let unfamiliar women into the house…”
Kaeul’s voice was filled with worry.
That’s probably because your father…