NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 10.1
Chapter 10
Women. Here’s the thing. They show their true colors to someone who seems weak or insignificant in their life.
But if the person might be useful to them, is good-looking, has social status, or is connected to mutual acquaintances? Then suddenly, it’s a whole different story.
If none of those conditions apply, they’ll act as tough as they want.
Trust me, I know this all too well.
Like right now.
“You crazy bastards! Sex-crazed animals! Just spending the whole night screwing like rabid beasts!”
The lady downstairs… Honestly, calling her a “lady” feels suffocating at this point.
She’s screaming at the top of her lungs, hurling every curse in the book at me.
“Excuse me.”
“‘Excuse me’? What time do you think it is, you son of a b*tch?!”
Her voice reaches a fever pitch. Even with the door barely open, her yelling was grating on my ears.
“Actually, you’re the one being louder…”
“What?! What the hell did you just say? Get out here! Right now! Are you coming out or not?!”
Wow. What is even going through her head?
What would she do if I actually stepped outside? Does she think she can take me in a fight?
Even if she showed up wielding a knife, I don’t think she’d win.
Why don’t women ever consider they might be on the losing end?
Not that I’d ever actually hit her. That’s not happening.
I shook my head in disbelief at the absurdity of it all.
Then, I felt someone move behind me.
“Hmm? Sunbae?”
A casual remark from behind.
It was Jung Sein.
“Isn’t that Sunbae Mi-ryeong?”
Creeak.
Sein nudged the door open a little more.
And the look of shock on the downstairs woman’s face became crystal clear.
“Ah… ah…”
Her expression looked as if she had seen a ghost while staring at Sein.
“Hey, why’d you open the door? I’m not even dressed.”
I covered myself with one hand, trying to shield my dangling condom-covered lower half, and reached out with the other to close the door.
But Sein blocked me.
“Hold on.”
Wow. Now that I’m looking properly, she’s also undressed.
Does she have no shame? Isn’t she embarrassed? Her confidence and mine clearly don’t operate on the same level.
“Se-Sein, Sein-ssi…”
“Sunbae. Why the formalities? Just call me Sein like a proper senior to junior.”
Sein flashed a bright smile, while the downstairs woman froze like a wooden puppet.
The fiery woman who had been yelling curses moments ago was nowhere to be found.
“Wait… why are you even here, Sein-ssi?”
“Why? Because I’m the sex-crazed animal you were yelling about, of course.”
“Oh… that… uh…”
From just a few lines of their conversation, the hierarchy between them was painfully obvious.
See? This is what I’m saying. She was all bark and no bite with me, but the moment someone she couldn’t mess with showed up, she folded immediately.
And yet, they’ll turn around and claim they have anger management issues or depression.
They’re great at coming up with excuses. Tsk, tsk.
“Hey, why are you keeping our Sunbae standing outside? Hurry up and invite her in!”
“What?”
Invite her in? We’re both naked in here!
Before I could even voice my objections, Sein flung the door wide open.
Wow! This crazy girl!
“Sunbae, come in. What if someone sees you out here like this?”
Then she wrapped an arm around Sunbae’s shoulders, guiding her inside like some gangster extorting protection money.
And Sunbae… she didn’t even resist. She just let herself get pulled in.
…Is this for real?
What the hell is even happening right now?
“Hey, hey.”
“Shut up and stay out of this.”
When I tried to ask, Sein cut me off completely.
What the hell. This is my house!
What is going on here?!
And why am I still standing here, butt-naked?
I couldn’t get dressed either, since there was still a glimmer of hope for round two.
“Uh, no, Sein-ssi. I mean, Sein. I think there’s been some misunderstanding…”
“Misunderstanding? I don’t think so, Sunbae.”
She led her straight into my bedroom.
The same bedroom where Sein and I had been rolling around like animals just moments earlier.
Ugh! The smell here is intense!
Stepping back in, I could sense it strongly now.
The room was filled with the scent of a man and a woman. Evidence of what we’d been doing.
“By the way, Sunbae, didn’t you mention you had a boyfriend?”
“Well… I…”
“Hmm? You don’t? Or are you just not telling me?”
Strangely enough, even though she said it with a smile, it somehow felt like a threat.
“No…”
Sunbae hesitated, nervously biting her lip.
Then she finally confessed.
“…We broke up today.”
“Huh? What happened?”
“That bastard… that jerk… My friend sent me a picture of him hugging another woman.”
“Oh no. That’s terrible. What a scumbag.”
The most half-hearted reaction ever.
But somehow, Sunbae seemed comforted by it, nodding along tearfully.
“So that’s why you were upset?”
“Yeah… sorry.”
“It’s fine. I’m the one who should apologize. I was being loud, screwing this guy all over the place, completely oblivious to the fact that you’d just broken up.”
“N-no! It’s really not like that!”
“It’s okay, Sunbae. I’m not that petty.”
“You seem pretty petty.”
“Shut up for a second.”