Chapter 149: Resting Place of Rusted Swords (5) (2/2)
The Regressor wasn’t that satisfied with the current situation. He found it slightly troubling for his hand to touch her’s.
He thus tried to pull it away but she somehow knew what he was up to, and suddenly grabbed his finger.
“Where are you running.”
She giggled.
Therefore, he closed his senses as well.
At this point, his body felt quite awkward. In order to get drunk, he lowered his metabolism rate, closed his senses to decrease the vividness of the hand touching his skin, and killed his false presence since she wanted honesty.
The Regressor became the same as a normal person for the first time ever since the start of the seventh iteration.
“But why did you suddenly want to drink.”
“Ah, I actually wanted to drink from a while back.”
“From a while back?”
“Yes. I can’t remember it properly, but I think my mother used to drink a lot. Something red like blood…”
Bom stared at the mandrake wine and reminisced in her memories, as if the red colour was similar to the past.
“I wanted to drink by myself later, but I didn’t have the chance to…”
“And you’re saying right now is the chance?”
“It is. I’m also curious about how you are when you’re drunk, ahjussi.”
She then laughed, ‘Huhu…’, and seemed drunk indeed. It was his first time seeing the slanted eyes and the blank smile on her face.
“Do you do something special when you’re drunk?”
“I do.”
“What is it?”
“Becoming calm.”
“That’s so like you, ahjussi…”
Tap- The seed cups clinked.
“Huu… Why do you become calm?”
“I don’t really remember why. Probably because I made a mistake when I was drunk before. I think it’s ever since that happened.”
“Do people make mistakes when drunk?”
“They do.”
Tap-
“Ah. I spilled some…”
“What a waste.”
Bom placed her lips near the alcohol spilled on top of the wooden table. She then slurped it.
“What are you doing.”
“Didn’t you say it was a waste…?”
“But even then.”
“Hmm… Now that I think about it, it is a bit dirty… Why did I do that…?”
She gave another foolish smile.
Tap–
“Uuhh… this is a really strong alcohol right…?”
“It is.”
“I think I know what getting drunk means… it feels good.”
“Don’t drink too much, and get rid of the intoxication before the kids come back.”
“Okay…”
Tap–
“Huuh… Oh right. Let me give you the sides. Here. Ahh–”
“…”
“Good boy.”
After pouring strong alcohol down his throat over and over again, it seemed that he had also become quite drunk. While eating the fruit Bom gave him, he asked something which he usually wouldn’t have asked.
“Why are you trying to make me eat every time.”
“But if I don’t, you don’t eat…”
“I don’t have to eat.”
“That makes me want to feed you even more, you know…?”
Tap-
Tap-
Tap-
“Look. You’re not eating them now…”
“…”
Hnn hnn hnn. She laughed like a fool.
The alcohol was close to being emptied and he was quite drunk himself as well. Bom’s face and her eyes that had become normal ever since it had become a part of his daily life, stayed in his vision longer than usual.
And Bom found out about it.
“Am I pretty…?”
The green-haired girl who knew she was pretty, pouted her lips out when his gaze remained on her face for a long time. She soon gave an awkward smile, before smiling like a fox again while poking her cheeks with her fingers. She was acting cute.
As if he was watching TV, he blankly stared at her face. He gradually started feeling more perplexed as Bom was still holding his finger.
He could see her fingers and her nails. The veins contrasting against her white skin entered his sight.
He decided that he had to stop the drinking session here.
“Let’s make this the last cup.”
“Okay…”
But there was a problem. Bom, who was heavily drunk, had trouble holding the cup properly. It was slightly different from how a human got drunk, and it was her synchronisation with the polymorphed body that was being affected.
She thought she grabbed it but it was just her hand that came up. After missing the cup several times on repeat, she frowned and glared at the innocent cup.
“Whhy, can’t I grab it…”
“…”
So Yu Jitae grabbed the cup for her and poured alcohol into it, and she somehow received it with both hands.
The last drop of alcohol went down her throat. Gulp, gulp. After slowly finishing it, she heaved a powerless sigh, which spread the flowery scent of the alcohol across.
Blankly, Bom stared at the remaining last piece of fruit, before opening her mouth.
“This. I want to eat this…”
“Huh?”
“But I can’t grab it…”
The Regressor pondered for a second, thinking that it might be her asking him to feed her.
“I want to eat it… but I can’t pick it up…”
Reaching her hand forward, she seemingly grabbed the fruit, but it remained on the spot when she lifted her hand back up. She became even more depressed.
“I want to eat it… I want to but….”
“…”
Her loosened gaze blankly turned towards Yu Jitae, so he gave a sigh before grabbing the fruit and handing it over to her. Bom gazed up at him with the same gloomy expression and soon opened her mouth.
The fruit entered her mouth.
But because she was drunk, she couldn’t control her mouth and chin.
So,
She ended up biting on Yu Jitae’s fingers along with the fruit.
“…?”
Her vacant gaze slowly went back and forth between his eyes and hand.
After feeling the warmth inside her mouth, he pulled his finger out. His hazy senses ignored his command and vividly returned to him.
For an instant, an extremely large sense of perplexity rose up from a corner of his heart.
“What are you doing.”
That was when Bom bursted into laughter ever so slowly. Ahaha, she laughed as she waved her hand.
“No… I wasn’t trying to do that…”
“…”
“It was an accident. An accident…”
***
“…”
Kaeul blankly stared through the window.
She had found a beautiful baby chicken in the middle of the mountain. She had to take a picture to show Chirpy, but realised that she had left the watch behind.
That was why she had come back for a bit.
But when she came near the house, there was a strong scent of flowers surrounding the area. Curious about the source of the smell, she sneaked to the window and stole a glance inside.
Her unni and ahjussi were drinking inside.
Uwah, they’re drinking…! She thought.
That’s what she thought, until she saw Bom’s expression.
“…”
Yu Jitae had his back towards the window, and she couldn’t see his face. Bom suddenly laughed out loud, saying it was an accident, but Kaeul couldn’t see what the accident was either.
But what she did see clearly, were Bom’s eyes that were staring at Yu Jitae.
“…”
From the expression and gaze of the drunk Bom, Kaeul felt something mysterious and wondrous that made her feel dizzy.
Her heart started racing.
“…”
Unlike usual where she had trouble focusing on something for a long time, Kaeul couldn’t look away from the two for a long period of time.
Around the time they started packing up, she came back to her senses and quickly escaped but even after she went back to the mountain, her heart didn’t stop racing.
Thump thump…
Kaeul finally asked herself.
What did I just see…?