I Became a Villainous Character with a Limited Lifespan - Episode 84

Episode 84

“Tell me what wish you would have made if you had won the bet, Jae-young.”

“Is that a wish?”

A trivial question that didn’t need to be called a wish. Jae-young, who was rather surprised, asked back. Seung-hyun nodded.

“Nothing else comes to mind, and I’m most curious about that right now.”

“Still, is that really a wish?”

“Yes. Really.”

The person who urged him to say it before today was over was himself, but it was Jae-young who had a face asking why he was wasting it like that.

“Why? Were you thinking of something strange?”

“No, not that, but…”

Jae-young sat up straight in surprise. From the beginning, it wasn’t a suggestion made because he had something he wanted from Seung-hyun or to get a wish out of him.

It was just something he said because he wanted to spend a day leisurely. He had no intention of winning, and just seeing his eyes sparkle as if he had more fun even though he was burning with desire to make it a special day was enough, so he was already satisfied with that.

So he was quite flustered when asked about his own wish.

“I didn’t have anything specific in mind…”

“Think about it. Until before going to sleep.”

Jae-young, who received back the words he had said, made a slightly troubled face. Seung-hyun, who liked that a bit, smiled.

“I might feel like granting it, you know.”

If it’s not a big deal, it wouldn’t be bad to grant it. It seemed like only he was at a disadvantage, but he didn’t want to nitpick.

If it was anyone else, he might nitpick, but with Jae-young, he just wanted to do what he could rather than argue.

“If it’s a wish to ask of you, Seung-hyun…”

Jae-young was also someone who had no attachment to material things. He had things he wanted to give, but no things he wanted to receive.

‘Actually, if I wish for something, it’s to properly define our relationship.’

Not a sex partner or anything like that, not a title to push away or hurt each other, but to call each other by the name we want to call.

I wanted to know what he was so afraid of, why he was so scared. But if I demanded that as the price of a light bet, he would surely distance himself even more.

There was too much risk of losing Seung-hyun, who seemed to have finally become comfortable with him and started smiling often. Jae-young thought of something else.

Something he wanted from Seung-hyun. Something he could grant while grumbling a bit even if he disliked it a little.

“…When the treatment is over, will you really go to the villa in the US with me then?”

A wish to go together to a place he likes, and after the treatment is over. It was a wish that also included not leaving him during that time, whether long or short.

He thought it wasn’t that difficult, but Seung-hyun couldn’t answer easily.

‘On the surface, it seems like a reasonable request. But…’

“And what’s the second one?”

“What?”

“Wasn’t the condition that I could refuse up to two? So I have to hear all three wishes.”

For Seung-hyun, it was a request that was too difficult to grant even if he wanted to. So he made an excuse and changed the subject.

“Hmm, then…”

Jae-young was lost in thought again. What he wished for next. What kind of wish could he demand as the price of a playful bet?

“When we go back to Korea, meet me often to make up for the time we were busy.”

“The one who was busy was you, not me.”

“That’s true, but it’s also true that we couldn’t meet because we were busy, right?”

This time, the difficulty was lower than a little while ago. Right, we should spend as much time together as possible. Seung-hyun nodded.

“Then if that’s also rejected, what’s the third one?”

It was an excuse he made to change the subject, but Seung-hyun decided to hear the last third request as well. After both wishes are rejected, what would be next? He was curious about an easier and more trivial desire.

“If that’s rejected too…”

Jae-young made a slightly hurt face as if he had really been rejected. This time, the contemplation wasn’t very long.

“First, will you kiss me?”

He soon made eye contact with Seung-hyun and said. It was a wish that was easy if easy and difficult if difficult.

It wasn’t like they had never kissed before, but it was always a kiss led by Jae-young. Seung-hyun had never demanded or acted on anything first.

Just because he had never said it out loud didn’t mean he doubted Seung-hyun’s heart, but it was a little, just a little bit sad. So if he could make a trivial wish, he wanted Seung-hyun to approach him first at least once.

“…”

Seung-hyun stared at Jae-young for a long time without answering. Had he never approached first?

‘Right. I only ran away, never…’

He had always only pushed him away and ran away, never approaching first. The one who always approached him and held him firmly was Jae-young. It wouldn’t be that he had never been hurt by Seung-hyun, who didn’t easily reach out his hand.

Even though he knew it was better to push him away before his feelings deepened, he liked him enough to want to stay by his side with a flimsy excuse, but Seung-hyun still did that.

Seung-hyun, who had been hesitating for a moment, got up from his seat. At the quiet movement without an answer, Jae-young thought Seung-hyun would pretend he didn’t hear and head to the bed.

But Seung-hyun’s steps were heading somewhere else. Seung-hyun, who passed the table and approached next to Jae-young, placed his hand on his shoulder.

Seung-hyun slowly lowered his head over the lips of Jae-young, who raised his head. The handsome face he saw every day was slightly frozen as if surprised.

Feeling somehow embarrassed to make eye contact, Seung-hyun slowly closed his eyes and lowered his head deeper.

On the soft and warm lips, his slightly chapped lips from the dry weather settled. The trembling of his lips as if nervous was felt through the connected lips.

“…”

The long kiss was carefully broken off. Although it wasn’t that he didn’t know how much courage this took for Seung-hyun, Jae-young mumbled with a bit of disappointment.

“This… isn’t a kiss, it’s just a peck.”

Although the time they were touching was long, it was literally just lips touching, an innocent skinship. At Jae-young’s point, Seung-hyun’s neck flushed red.

“That’s…!”

Jae-young grinned. Just approaching first was good, but he wanted to tease him for no reason.

“You’re so innocent.”

Fortunately, Seung-hyun, who was flustered, didn’t notice his ears that had also turned red. Jae-young got up from his seat.

“Even though I lost the bet, you granted my wish, so it feels like I received an unexpected gift. A memorable day…!”

But he couldn’t finish his words. Because Seung-hyun, who had grabbed his collar as if pulling him, had crashed his lips against him.

Through the lips that parted in surprise, a soft and hot tongue entered. It was an extremely clumsy and awkward movement, but it felt like he was doing his best in his own way.

The face with tightly closed eyes and reddened cheeks was cute. Jae-young, who didn’t want to miss that sight even a little, wrapped his arms around Seung-hyun’s waist with his eyes open.

“…!!”

Surprised by the movement rummaging through his mouth, Seung-hyun unknowingly tried to pull back his waist but couldn’t escape due to the firm hand supporting his back and opened his eyes.

As soon as he raised his gaze, he felt more embarrassed meeting those eyes. Before he knew it, Seung-hyun’s movement had stopped and Jae-young was leading the kiss.

But it didn’t matter at all. What mattered was that Seung-hyun was the one who approached first. His clumsy movements were good too, but he didn’t have the composure to savor it.

Seung-hyun, who was out of breath from the slightly stickier and deeper kiss, lightly tapped Jae-young’s chest. Jae-young, seeing Seung-hyun’s face that had turned too red to be from excitement, took a step back from him, saying “oops.”

“Haa, ha…”

Seung-hyun inhaled urgently. It wasn’t that he disliked kissing, but he almost died from suffocation.

It wasn’t the first time he had done it, but Seung-hyun found it a bit unfamiliar how he clung on strongly as if something big would happen if they parted.

“Are you going to eat me up or something?”

At the words thrown like a joke, Jae-young made a deliberately serious face. Eat him up, huh. He probably didn’t mean it that way… but his lower half, which was already starting to get desperate from not being able to show its presence, became a little more conscious.

“I’m tired from walking around for two days. I should go to sleep now.”

Seung-hyun, who could step back without hesitation even with a face that looked like it would explode, was enviable. But Jae-young didn’t want to torment him to the point of forcing him, so he just smiled lightly without showing it.

“Good night.”

Fortunately, Seung-hyun, who was out of it, didn’t notice the state of Jae-young’s lower body. The light in the room turned off, and Seung-hyun pulled the blanket over and went to sleep.

On a night when it seemed difficult to fall asleep easily, snow of an unusual thickness began to flutter beyond the curtain.