Chapter 19 – I Had a Crazy Night With Jiheon Yesterday!

“Jiheon-ah, why are you in a single room?”

The person who came was Yuri. Wearing black slacks and a larger-than-normal beige knit, the outfit looked like it was decorated at the same time as not being decorated. She slung the bag I had bought her on her shoulder, and in her other hand she was holding a white plastic bag, perhaps a present for her illness.

When Yuri opened the door, she was looking towards the hallway, so she didn’t see the demon king inside her. However, before the door fully opened and she could move her steps, she found the demon lord.

“Uh?”

Yuri’s smiling face hardened.

“Oh! Isn’t that glass!”

The demon king, who turned her head and saw the door, shouted brightly. Contrary to her surprise, the Demon King seemed pleased.

“Come in. Is it Jiheon’s hospital visit?”

Saying that, the Demon King headed towards the door. It was hard to see because it was covered by her black sweatpants, but Yuri heard a panicked voice.

“Senpai, why are you here?”

“Of course not! He’s the hero who saved Jim, so shouldn’t we take care of the last way!”

“Wait for a sec! Why are you killing me at will!”

I shouted at the demon lord who uttered nonsense. Then she turned to me and answered confidently.

“When did Jim say you were dead! He just said he had a few days left!”

“Why can’t I stay… Ah!”

Yuri came and she remembered an important fact she had forgotten. It was the fact that the demon king’s parents knew me as a woman. I said I wasn’t going to die, but from what I just said, my death was certain.

While I was in despair, the demon king brought Yuri into her hospital room.

“Don’t stand there, come in.”

“Yes? Yes.”

While answering weakly, Yuri entered the hospital room. The demon king grabbed her hand and snatched the white envelope in her hand.

“What did you buy? It’s okay to come bare-handed.”

As if she had been hospitalized, she rummaged through the hospitality gift she had bought for me.

“Oh, what is this?”

The demon king let out a delighted voice and took out a pack of strawberries from the envelope.

“How did you know that Jim likes strawberries and bought them? Wait a little bit Your luggage will be washed soon.”

I went to the bathroom inside the hospital room with a plastic pack of strawberries. Yuri, who was alone with me for a while, looked at the place where the Demon King was for a while, and then she said to me.

“Jiheon-ah, are you seriously hurt? Are you okay?”

It felt a little awkward to hear her young words of concern to Yuri. Even when she had a cold, she worried, but it didn’t feel like this.

Although she thought it was strange, she replied that she was fine.

“Uh, uh. Are you okay. He wasn’t seriously hurt.”

“Isn’t it dangerous enough to be hospitalized?”

“Because it’s okay. You didn’t even wear ringer. Look.”

I spread both hands out. As I said, it was so minor that the hospital said it was okay not to wear an intravenous drip. I asked if I wanted to wear it, but I didn’t want to put a needle in my arm on purpose, even though I didn’t have to.
Seeing my bare arms, Yuri gave a small smile.

“I’m glad. But why were you hospitalized? And why is it a single room?”

“That? It’s a bit complicated.”

I organized what I was going to say in my head.

“So, um… He, no, my senior father must have heard my story. So I asked the hospital to take good care of me, but the hospital gave me this.”

“Really?”

“Besides, he said he pays for all the treatment and hospitalization costs.”

“Wow, you must be rich.”

“I know. I thought I was just a building owner? But you must be a worse person.”

Yuri, who was listening to me, suddenly frowned.

“By the way, how do you know he’s the owner of the building?”

“What?”

“How do you know that your father is the owner of the building?”

I was speechless for a moment. If you want to talk about how you found out he is the owner of the building, you have to tell him you went to the kendo hall, and if you want to talk about how you went to the kendo hall, you have to tell him why you went. No matter how ignorant I was, I knew that I shouldn’t tell Yuri about this.

The person who saved me at this time was the Demon King. It’s a bit off-putting, though.

“Well, you waited a long time!”

The demon king came out of the bathroom holding a dripping plastic bucket. As she rolled up her sleeves to reveal her white forearms, she said to Yuri, who was still standing.

“Have you been standing still? Sit on the bed.”

“… “

Yuri looked at me without saying a word, then she sat down on the bed as the demon king said. Right next to me too.

The Demon King must have been surprised to see that as well, so she stared at it with her eyes wide open. Then she left her pack of strawberries in a chest of drawers by her bed, and she made her way to the bed she was talking about: the caregiver’s bed. She dragged the caretaker’s bed between the TV and the patient’s bed and sat facing me.

“Come on, let’s eat.”

She grabbed the strawberry pack she had left on the dresser and held it out. Freshly washed strawberries with water droplets glistened in the fluorescent light.

The demon king picked up the strawberry with his other hand and bit it off, leaving only the stem.

“Hmm!”

As if they were filming an advertisement, they expressed the freshness of strawberries with their eyes tightly closed. As she chewed on the strawberry, she looked around to see where the remaining stems might be. The place the demon king abandoned was the caregiver’s bed. Since it is made of artificial leather, it seemed that it would be no problem to throw it away.

Placing the stem of her strawberry beside him, the demon king smiled and said to Yuri.

“It’s not strawberry season right now, but it’s so delicious!”

“Yes yes?”

“This guy, no, senior thinks house strawberries are more delicious. So yes. Just don’t think too hard. That’s comfortable.”

I gave Yuri the instruction manual for the demon king, and I also picked up a strawberry. She picked up her strawberry with her unscathed right hand and took a bite. Then, the crunchy strawberry pulp was crushed and fresh juice flowed out.

“Mm, it’s delicious. Yuri, where did you buy this?”

“It is delicious. Her grandmother sold it at the crossroads in front of me, so I bought it there.”

It was a polite statement, but Yuri began to tell me in detail.

“It’s still chilly in the morning, but they do business there.

“Uh, yes?”

“Huh!”

Her eyes twinkled and she looked at me. She was like a child asking for praise for her actions.

“Well done.”

“Yes?”

Hearing my compliment, Yuri smiled. And then, as if she were asking him to look at him, she secretly looked at the demon king. Despite that gaze, the demon king focused only on strawberries.

“Am nom nom, um nom nom, um nom nom, um nom nom!”

“Hey! Eat it up!”

I didn’t say anything and just looked at it, and I saw that I had eaten a third of it by myself.

After hearing my words, the demon king spoke with his mouth full of strawberries.

“What does it mean to eat a lady!”

“The lady is talking while eating!”

“Don’t try to bind Jim to such a frame! Yum yum yum!”

“No, don’t eat it! Let’s have some glass with me!”

When I mentioned myself, Yuri opened her mouth in a benevolent tone.

“It’s okay, Jiheon. You can buy it again.”

“No, but you bought it.”

“Are you okay? Senior must be very hungry. When I see you eat like that.”

It seemed like she was benevolent just by hearing her words, but she seemed to be acting somewhere, and the way she emphasized ‘that way’ felt strange.

Even though I didn’t know why, I answered Yuri.

“No, you stole my breakfast and ate it. How hungry are you?”

“Jiheon-ah, it could be.”

“Right! Could it be!”

“You stop doing that!”

I shouted at the demon king and took her strawberry pack. Having eaten almost half, she pouted her lips.

“Aren’t you eating yet?”

“You will give it too. Don’t worry.”

As she said that, she opened the chest of drawers next to the bed. From there, I took out the knife that had been there since I entered this hospital room. I took off the green plastic scabbard and checked the blade. There was no rust, no dust. I thought I could write this.

I cut out the stem with a knife and put the strawberry pulp only in the pack.

“Yuri, eat.”

“Thank you, Jiheon.”

Yuri laughed and took her strawberry. But there seemed to be something in that smile. It was a look mixed with ‘I knew you would do that’.

As I continued to pick strawberries, I thought of what Mr. Gwadae said yesterday. Yuri knew that I liked her, and she told me that.

Why the hell did you say that? At the same time, I had the urge to listen to what I recorded last night.

From now on, Yuri was an unnecessary existence in the plans that the Demon King and I would implement. Listening to her recordings only hurt her. But even if it was such a meaningless act, she had a meaning in Yuri being hurt.

She abandoned me and chose a handsome man, but what would happen if such a handsome man found out that she only thought of him as an existence to quench her sexual desire? Won’t she look at me as she regrets her own choices?

“It’s Jiheon.”

It was the demon king who brought me out of my dark thoughts. She held out her hand to me and said.

“Give it to Jim.”

“What?”

“Tell me too much. Burden.”

By picking strawberries, she meant that she would do it herself. I forcibly cracked a joke, not wanting to find out what I was thinking a moment ago.

“And you will eat it all.”

“No. I’ve eaten enough Come on, give it to me.”

“While eating.”

Jokingly, he grabbed her blade and pointed her handle at the demon lord. At this time, the glass intervened.

“No, old man. I will do it.”

I thought as I watched Yuri’s hand move toward the handle of her knife. Demon King holding a sword, Yuri holding a sword. I wondered which of the two would have a better future. But what came out was

“No, I will.”

It was me holding the knife.

“Didn’t Jim say he did it?”

“Am I doing it? Jiheon.”

She went on to explain what she was trying to do.

“Actually, after the cut yesterday, it was kind of hard to see a knife in someone else’s hand. And the one I’m holding is fine, so I’ll do it.”

“… Kut!”

“Okay, okay. You do it.”

While Yuri smiled and agreed, the Demon King turned his head away from Yuri. It seemed that no one could see her tears, but I could see the corners of her mouth lifted.

Well, what kind of PTSD is it to a guy who runs after his arm is cut off? It would be funny

As she was almost done eating her strawberries, Yuri asked, glancing her demon king up and down her.

“Senior. Senior, did you go to sleep here?”

It was natural for her to have such doubts. Because the demon lord, wearing the same outfit as yesterday, was in the hospital room with slightly messy hair.

By the way, I’m glad I had a knife.

“Hmm?”

In response to Yuri’s question, the Demon King looked at her while chewing on her strawberry. And having eaten everything in her mouth, she said:

“Hmm! I had a crazy night with Jiheon yesterday!”

… I was really glad I had a knife. Really.

Yuri hardened her face as soon as she heard that. But it was different from the last time I was in my room. With her eyes wide open, she looked at the demon king with even the slightest desire to live.

Just in case, she put the fruit into the drawer and immediately closed it. Right after that, she asked the Demon King.

“Don’t talk like that, please.”

“Jiheon.”

She called me with the coldest tone she had ever heard from Yuri.

“Is that true?”

Her life was heading towards me. Seeing that, I hurriedly told the truth.

“No, it was a game, a game. He always talks strangely.”

“He?”

“No senior.”

“Senior, are you for real?”

While accepting Yuri’s murderous intent, the Demon King spoke naturally.

“That’s right. Look around.”

At that, she turned her head and looked around her. I slept right after playing the game yesterday, so the switch dock was installed in the drawer under the TV. In addition, game packages and switches were strewn about on the caregiver’s bed and the patient’s bed.

“Jiheon-ah, is it real?”

“Of course. I know what you’re thinking, but that’s absolutely not the case.”

My pride was hurt to see the demon king as a member of the opposite sex in the first place.

“… Okay?”

Yuri, who thought for a moment, returned with a benevolent expression like before. I even thought that it would have been better if she hadn’t come.