< Ending Maker SS #14 To Earth (7) >
Ending Maker SS #14 To Earth (7)
Kang Jin-ho opened the door.
The sound of the electronic door unlocking was unusually loud today.
Boom boom boom.
My heart is pounding.
It’s not even heart-pounding, it’s just beating loudly.
My mouth is dry.
I swallowed my saliva without realizing it and a loud gulp sounded.
‘What am I doing now?’
Bring the girl next door, the old man, home.
Soaking wet, so when you bring her home, you have to lend her your bathroom so she can shower first, and then you have to prepare clothes for her to change into, and of course you have to wash all the clothes she’s wearing right now, including her underwear, bringing that, that, that kind of person into your home, in your room, at this late hour, not even a man, but a woman, a pervert, a girl next door, Yoo Hee.
‘Alexey. Alexey. Tell me. Alexey.’
What should I do?
I never felt this way when I was isolated alone in enemy territory.
What should I say now?
It was like going out to fight a fully armed battalion alone.
No, it seemed like it would be closer to the correct answer to infiltrate the base naked, full of booby traps.
‘Cheer up, Kang Jin-ho.’
Think about your victory conditions.
What are the victory conditions for this battle?
I couldn’t think of anything.
The Gangjinhos in my head were all gathered together and holding a military meeting, but they couldn’t even clearly define the operational objective.
“Fall! Hong Yu-hee falls!”
One of the Kang Jin-hos in the head shouted, and the leader Kang Jin-ho who was presiding over the meeting shouted.
“Get that kid out!”
“Eww! Eww!”
Kang Jin-ho, who had been talking nonsense, was dragged out with his mouth gagged by other Kang Jin-hos.
Now that I look at it, it seems like Kang Jin-ho was the one imagining Natasha naked.
“Captain, may I say something?”
Just then, Kang Jin-ho, wearing glasses, raised his hand and said.
As the attention of the Kang Jin-hos focused on them, Captain Kang Jin-ho gave them the right to speak.
“Speak.”
“Let’s think objectively. Why did you invite the target to your home in the first place? It’s just too inhumane to leave the target soaking wet on the street.”
Most of the Kang Jin-hos nodded.
Kang Jin-ho, who had gained strength from that, spoke again wearing glasses.
“Bring them home, wash them, change their clothes, and discuss future plans! I think we should set this as our initial operational goal.”
“Ohhh.”
This time, Kang Jin-ho and his colleagues agreed.
But one of the Kang Jin-hos who was listening to the story, specifically the housewife in charge of household management, Kang Jin-ho, raised her hand and spoke.
“What do you mean by follow-up measures?”
Future measures.
What are we going to do once we bring Hong Yu-hee into the house?
“That’s dirty- uh-uh!”
“Get that kid out too!”
Kang Jin-ho, who had been making strange noises, was caught by other Kang Jin-hos and dragged out of the barracks once again.
Captain Kang Jin-ho coughed in vain and then said.
“First of all, the cause of this situation is that Hong Yu-hee’s house door is locked. Go into the house, wash it, and either dismantle the door yourself or call a contractor to remove the cause.”
“Then it would be better to call a contractor. In case of an emergency, the electronic door would have to be broken, and there are no replacements in the warehouse.”
“Yeah, I’ll consider that.”
Captain Kang Jin-ho, who answered the bespectacled Kang Jin-ho, looked back at everyone and spoke.
“Don’t be too scared. Don’t be nervous. It’s nothing. Your neighbor is in trouble, so you’re helping him as a neighbor. That’s all. Don’t be nervous at all. Do you understand?”
“Yes, Sir!”
Kang Jin-ho and all of his group answered loudly, and Captain Kang Jin-ho was satisfied.
but.
“Hey, do you want to wash up?”
“yes······?!”
porch.
Hong Yu-hee blushed bright red in embarrassment at Kang Jin-ho’s question.
Kang Jin-ho, who was embarrassed along with that, spoke flusteredly.
“Oh, no! That, that’s right! I, I’m wet?”
It was a listing of objective facts.
But Kang Jin-ho was even more embarrassed, and so was Hong Yu-hee.
A bright red face.
It’s hot.
It’s too hot.
But Kang Jin-ho tried to take a deep breath. Thinking about the battlefield where bullets were flying, he somehow managed to continue talking.
“Because it’s wet. Uh, well. I have a washer and dryer at home. It’s only a small amount, so it’ll dry quickly. Two hours from washing to drying? So, uh, well. Since it’s wet, I’ll take a shower and······.”
“Sha, are you taking a shower?”
A new look of shock spread across Hong Yu-hee’s face, and so did Kang Jin-ho.
shower.
shower.
shower.
‘No, why the shower!’
It’s just normal, right?
If you get wet, you should take a shower.
Oh, shower.
Showering naked.
‘Get that kid out!’
At the moment when Captain Kang Jin-ho in his head chased away Kang Jin-ho who was possessed by the devil of lewdness again, Kang Jin-ho opened his mouth and spoke.
“No, that. Uh. Okay. I have to wash up first. I might catch a cold.”
cold.
For good reason.
Rationality has finally returned.
While Kang Jin-ho was sweating profusely and satisfied with his own logic, urgent voices were going around in Hong Yu-hee’s head.
“Oh, what should I do?”
“Can I take a shower?”
“But it really did get wet.”
“If you keep doing this, you might catch a cold.”
“That’s right, I feel cold after saying that.”
“I feel uneasy too.”
While the Hong Yu-hees were all raising their voices, Hong Yu-hee, dressed in a hanbok, opened her eyes wide and spoke.
“What are they talking about now! This is someone else’s house right now? All men are wolves! Wolf! Wolf- woof, woof!”
“Get that bitch out!”
The Hong Yu-hees who agreed with the declaration of the leader Hong Yu-hee kicked out ‘Confucian Hong Yu-hee’, who was dressed in a hanbok, out of the guild house.
But that was just then.
“Chief, we have a serious problem!”
When ‘Soldier Hong Yu-hee’, who was always active whenever she went to the engineering school, raised her hand and shouted, everyone’s attention was focused on her.
“What’s the problem? Huh?”
In this day and age where you come to the house of the guy next door soaking wet and have to decide whether or not to shower, what on earth is this?
The Hong Yu-hees looked at the soldier Hong Yu-hee with tense faces, and the soldier Hong Yu-hee spoke with a solemn face.
“Sergeant, today my underwear is mismatched. I failed to match it!”
“uh?!”
A pair of pants?
The top and bottom are different?
“What, what does that have to do with anything!”
When the red-faced platoon leader Hong Yu-hee shouted, the soldier Hong Yu-hee spoke again with a stern face.
“It doesn’t matter! Do the laundry! Turn on the dryer! Soon! You’ll be exposing your underwear to the other person!”
“Whoa!”
Hong Yu-hee and the others screamed in unison.
But that wasn’t all there was to the problem.
“Come on, Captain, you’re wearing some underwear today.”
The bottom is just plain, but the top is black with a lot of lace. It also has a bit of a mesh feel.
At the omitted explanation, the company commander Hong Yu-hee panicked and shouted.
“No! Why do I have sexy underwear!”
“That’s out of curiosity······ hehehe.”
When Hong Yu-hee, a curious high school girl, scratched the back of her head and spoke, the head of the engineering department, Hong Yu-hee, became angry.
“Get that bitch out!”
“It’s unfair! It’s unfair!”
However, high school girl Hong Yu-hee, like Confucianist Hong Yu-hee, was kicked out of the guild house.
“Haa··· ha······.”
Hong Yu-hee, the commander of the engineering department, let out a ragged breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
And Hong Yu-hee, a soldier who had been watching this entire process, raised his hand again.
“Commander, there is one more serious problem.”
“also?!”
“Yes, it is a very, very important issue.”
As Soldier Hong Yu-hee repeatedly emphasized, Sergeant Hong Yu-hee looked like he was about to burst into tears at any moment, and the other Hong Yu-hees were the same.
Soldier Hong Yu-hee felt a heavy sense of responsibility and explained in a low voice.
“Aboki… So, according to what the guy next door said, it takes about two hours to wash and dry. Two hours. It’s not a short time at all.”
That’s right.
Two hours was not a short time.
But what does that mean?
Hong Yu-hee, the commander of the company, and the other Hong Yu-hees, whose minds were already frozen due to excessive embarrassment, could not remember, so soldier Hong Yu-hee sighed.
He nodded once, then narrowed his eyes and said.
“Two hours. What on earth am I supposed to wear for those two hours?”
“Whoa!”
A scream erupted.
And then one of the Hong Yu-hees blinked and said absentmindedly.
“Oh, naked?”
“Get that bitch out!”
“Oh, that’s unfair!”
But this time, excuses didn’t work.
As the slightly lewd Hong Yu-hee was dragged away, Hong Yu-hee, who was wearing glasses, raised her hand and spoke.
“There’s no way she’s naked. If you think about it logically, she’d be wearing something else. Maybe······the clothes of the guy next door?”
“Hey, the clothes of the guy next door?”
“Large white dress shirts······ and the missing bottoms fashion······.”
The moment Hong Yu-hee, who was wearing glasses – that is, the fangirl Hong Yu-hee – spoke with a mheheheh laugh, screams erupted from the Hong Yu-hees once again.
“Gyaaaah!”
“No way! I’ve seen too many dirty comics!”
“That’s right, that’s right! That’s right!”
At the strong opposition of the Hong Yu-hees, the female fangirl Hong Yu-hee laughed and snorted, and the soldier Hong Yu-hee frowned even more and said.
“Anyway, Captain, changing clothes is a serious matter.”
Because it really was like that, Commander Hong Yu-hee nodded, and the real Hong Yu-hee cautiously opened her mouth.
“Hey, hey, oppa.”
“uh?”
“Mr.. Mr.. What are you going to do while your clothes dry after you wash…”
“Huh? Huh. Huh. That······.”
Kang Jin-ho was embarrassed.
He was the type of person who could think rationally even on a battlefield where bullets were flying, but this time he couldn’t do that.
After struggling for a while, I finally managed to move my frozen brain and form words.
“T-shirt… Oh, right. T-shirt. Do you have a new one? Underwear, too. For now… That one?”
“New, new thing?”
“Oh, new ones. They’re all new. They’re packaged. The shorts aren’t new, though······.”
“Well, then maybe it’ll be okay······.”
Because it’s new.
Because I wasn’t wearing it.
And the t-shirt is also plain.
Since the underwear is new, I guess I can wear it even if it’s men’s.
Shorts are worn over underwear, so they’re pants.
‘Yeah, it’s okay. It’ll be okay!’
There was a time when Hong Yu-hee thought like that.
‘What’s okay? What’s okay?’
Bathroom.
To be exact, it’s a toilet attached to the living room.
The structure itself was familiar.
Because it was exactly like my bathroom at home.
But that alone didn’t give me peace of mind.
Because the structure was the same, but the appearance was different.
First of all, the color of the light was different.
‘That’s not the point!’
Something really, really important.
The t-shirt was brand new, and the shorts had elastic so they looked fine to wear.
The real problem was the underwear.
‘Hey, is this called a drawer?’
Men’s underwear that clings tightly.
These days, they say it’s unisex, so I think they’re also coming out for women.
Anyway, that’s it.
“Euuuu······.”
Have you ever looked at men’s underwear this closely?
Hong Yu-hee looked around the drawers with a red face, and soon, even though she didn’t want to, she couldn’t help but imagine one thing.
The sight of my neighbor standing there wearing only a dress.
‘Aww······.’
Well, this is kind of cool. Well, rather than cool, what should I call this?
Should I say that it’s mouth-watering?
‘Are you crazy? Why is my mouth watering!’
It was the moment when Hong Yu-hee shouted at herself.
“Well, I’ll be somewhere else for a bit, so leave the laundry outside the door.”
Hong Yu-hee suddenly raised her head and shouted at the voice heard from outside the bathroom door.
“yes yes!”
Put your clothes outside.
That is, to do that, you first take off your clothes.
Someone else’s house.
So, in the bathroom of the guy next door.
‘Eww.’
Hong Yu-hee grabbed her head again and took a deep breath.
The more I thought about it, the more strange it felt.
If you take a step back, calm down and think about it –
‘But it’s still weird!’
Ugh.
I hate mom. I hate dad.
Why did you go on a trip?
Why is the front door broken?
Hong Yu-hee, who had become sad, took off her clothes while sobbing, then twisted her body again in pain before leaving the clothes outside the door.
‘They’re all married. They’re all married!’
Hong Yu-hee, who had been giggling, slowly began to wash her body.
And then again 20 minutes later.
In reality, it didn’t even take 10 minutes to wash up, but it took another 10 minutes to put on the clothes that Kang Jin-ho had prepared and go out.
A large, oversized white shirt and cropped shorts.
Inside are men’s drawers.
Hong Yu-hee stood awkwardly and faced Kang Jin-ho, who looked around and then coughed again.
“Ahem, hm. That… uh… Yuhee? Did you talk about it at home?”
Actually, I didn’t have time to do anything. As soon as I brought her home, I finished explaining it to her and sent her to the bathroom.
But it was an important matter anyway, and Hong Yu-hee, who came to her senses at Kang Jin-ho’s words, quickly picked up her cell phone.
“Okay, I’ll do it now!”
Hong Yu-hee, who was about to make a phone call, suddenly saw Kang Jin-ho and changed her mind through KakaoTalk.
I went into the family chatroom and told them about the current situation – that is, I didn’t tell them about how I came to my brother’s house next door soaking wet, took a shower, and put on my brother’s full set – but rather that the door to the house was broken and I couldn’t get in. My mom’s response was concise.
[It’s too late, so call the locksmith tomorrow morning. Don’t go to the PC room, go to the sauna. Got it?]
Hong Yu-hee, who has spent several nights at PC rooms, was a laid-back mother even when her daughter had to stay out overnight.
‘Well, it’s a neighborhood.’
Because it wasn’t some other neighborhood, it was our neighborhood where we had lived for over 10 years.
Of course, if my mother knew where I was and what was happening, her reaction would have been completely different.
‘Tsk, let’s not talk about useless things.’
And take a deep breath.
Hong Yu-hee took another deep breath and raised her head as she spoke.
“Oh, Mom said to call the locksmith tomorrow morning.”
“Oh, really? Then today······.”
Silence flowed between Kang Jin-ho and Hong Yu-hee again.
But that silence was never a peaceful silence.
This is because a heated discussion between Kang Jin-ho and Hong Yu-hee began while a red alert was ringing in their heads.
Dozens of seconds like that.
No, after a few minutes.
“That… is it Yoohee?”
“yes?”
Hong Yu-hee looked at Kang Jin-ho with a red face and an expectation she couldn’t explain.
And at that gaze, Kang Jin-ho swallowed dry saliva and ended up saying something completely different from what he had originally intended to say.
“Want to play a game?”
“Oh, is it a game?”
“Uh… yeah. A game. Uh, a game.”
game.
Fun game.
Hong Yu-hee blinked at Kang Jin-ho’s suggestion, then nodded as if in a trance.
to be continued
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