Chapter 26 – Episode 26- Preparing for the Academy (4)

“It’s okay?”

Looking at Miho, who had drawn on his face, I asked anxiously.

Even after Miho came out of the movie theater, he was holding onto my collar as if he was uneasy.

“Uuuuu, sorry, Han Jun-ah.”

I stroked Miho’s head, worried that the triangular ears would pop out again.

Fortunately, Miho seemed to be gradually regaining his stability at my touch, and moved his head in line with my touch.

His soft hair runs through his fingers.

As I rubbed my black silky hair, a sweet scent hit my nose.

The addictive touch and scent naturally kept me stroking my hair.

Miho also blushed as if my touch was pleasant, and shook his head softly.

“……”

Then, at the entrance of the cinema, I realized that Alba was staring at us.

Let’s look at Alba’s empty eyes, as if envious or despondent.

Me and Miho distanced themselves for a while.

Hehe….”

Miho smirked at what makes him feel so good, and his fingers have been entangled in my fingers.

Looking at Miho, who seemed happy and happy, I laughed too.

I was drawn to Miho and moved on to the next date.

* *

The place where Miho led me was not particularly special like a movie theater.

A cafe, a comic book store, and an ordinary chicken restaurant.

Miho spent time with me at a popular shopping mall that any student of my age would have visited at least once.

Just like the day she lightly walked across the desk barefoot alone, Miho seemed to be enjoying this moment with me, expressing her feelings with her whole body.

Even sniffing his nose, forcing the surrounding air into his lungs.

The action of bobbing his hair and singing a humming song was me who had seen Miho so far, so I could tell how much Miho enjoyed it.

As I gazed at the sight, a thought suddenly popped into my heart.

What Miho said in the previous art room.

‘I’m going to muster up the courage to go over to the other world with you, Hanjun.’

When Miho, who likes this world like this, is going to go to the other world, something makes me feel confused.

Then Miho stopped walking and looked back at me, though he didn’t know how he noticed my feelings.

“Han Jun-ah, what’s wrong?”

The sun is setting, and only the street lamps are flickering at Lake Park.

Under the white light of the street lamp, Miho stared at me.

“No, I’m just thinking about something else.”

Let me turn, scratching my head.

Miho snorted as if in doubt, then grinned.

“You know what. Han Jun-ah?”

“What?”

“Hanjun, do you always blink when you’re flustered or something weird happens?”

Miho blinks her eyes as if showing off.

Miho’s twinkling brown eyes were cute, but the thought of me acting like that was terrifying.

Seeing that I was making an awkward face, Miho chuckled as if he were pretending.

“Look, I’m still blinking.”

“… I managed to figure it out.”

“I’ll know if you keep watching.”

Miho stares at me.

Seeing that, I realized that not only I but also Miho had been looking at me all this time.

As I smiled awkwardly, Miho asked me while acting cute.

“So? What were you thinking about just now?”

“It’s just that Miho seems to like this world so much, I wonder if you’re going over there for nothing.”

I gave Miho an answer honestly.

Then, Miho put on a complex and delicate expression and then stopped talking.

“Han Jun-ah, there you are.”

Miho whispered, holding my hand with her own.

“We, the Tailed Fox clan, are a clan that gets a lot of attention from others, right?”

“Because you’re pretty?”

At my question, Miho laughedhehe’.

“By the way, our family is basically born with charm.”

I knew roughly what it meant.

It was because he felt an unknown and strange charm to Miho.

I nodded as if I understood, and Miho continued.

“Did I tell you? That I was flawed in that world.”

“Yes.”

Miho, who could only handle three tails, was thought to be a stain on the clan.

He didn’t know the pain Miho had been through so far, but he was looking at Miho with a sad smile on his face.

My heart ached at the same time.

“At first, I tried my best somehow? But when I felt the other eyes watching me trying, it was kind of scary.”

“……”

“Wherever I went, the eyes followed me, and every time I felt like my lacking side was revealed, so I cringed even more. In the end, I even hated my appearance, which is one of the strengths of our clan. But you know…”

Miho said, holding my hand tightly.

“I ran away and met a man… He told me that I was attracted to my personality, not my looks.”

Miho’s brown eyes captured me.

Miho, who was staring at me, took a step closer to me.

“It was the first time someone said that, so I was very excited.

Miho, who had approached my chest before I knew it, raised her head from under my chin.

“You know, Han Jun-ah. For the first time, did you think I was lucky that I was attractive?”

The white light of the street lamp.

Looking at Miho’s face shining brighter than the densely pouring light, I gulped down my saliva.

“When you’re staring at my face. Sometimes when you turn your head away in embarrassment. Every time I’m so happy that I’m being recognized by you.”

Miho grabbed my collar by the chest.

“The reason I came here was that the human world looked interesting too. No one knew who I was, so I wanted people to see me as Lee Mi-ho, a human, not Lee Mi-ho of the fox clan, but…”

Miho pulled me by the collar and stepped back.

I spontaneously took a step forward and met Miho with a smile on his face.

“It doesn’t matter now. Whether it’s Lee Mi-ho from the fox family or Lee Mi-ho as a human, because you’re Hanjun who takes care of me properly.”

Miho laughed mischievously and stepped back.

Before I knew it, Miho was halfway away from the white light of the street lamp.

Half in darkness, half in light, Miho proudly raised her triangular ears on the other side of the darkness.

“So, whether it’s this way or that way, I don’t care where I am, Hanjun, as long as you look at me.”

Slowly, Miho stepped out of the street lamp.

His whole body was sucked into the darkness, and Miho’s brown eyes had changed to red eyes before he knew it.

“Han Jun-ah, you said you would keep your promise, right?”

“Yes.”

As if hypnotizing me in the past, Miho stares at me with bright red eyes.

“I have many promises… Just one of them is this. Until I have nine tails, stay with me.”

Three tails rustled behind Miho’s back.

Being wrapped in darkness, I couldn’t see Miho’s expression.

The eyes of Miho, who slightly bent his eyes, were very bewitching.

I slowly moved away from the street lamp, following Miho’s lead.

Eventually, when I got away from the light of the street lamp and was wrapped in darkness.

Miho grabbed my face and raised her toes.

Miho’s sweet lips touched mine.

Miho, who put my lips together, first gently coveted my lips, then sucked my lips more and more violently.

Tsuup. Chew.

A strange sound leaked out of the darkness.

I quietly felt Miho’s kiss, then reached out and wrapped his hand around Miho’s waist.

Miho’s wagging tail patted the back of my hand cutely, but I didn’t care and hugged Miho further into my arms.

Hypnosis, necklace.

Never before have I ever moved voluntarily.

But at this moment.

I held Miho in my arms and felt Miho in the dark.

Churup, Churup.

Sweet breath and bodily fluids.

The tryst divided in the dark lasted quite a long time.

* *

“… Quite a lot.”

I scratched my head and looked at the bag I had packed.

Today is the day to cross over to the other world.

An hour before Kim Ji-hye came to pick me up, I checked the things I was going to take to the other side one last time.

Underwear, toiletries, notes.

Unexpectedly, it was difficult because there were so many things to bring.

Jihye Kim said that there is a mart over there too, and she said that she could buy daily necessities.

I couldn’t leave it because it was such a waste for me, who had lived quite tightly up until now.

How can I throw away half of the remaining toothpaste?

How can you throw away panties that you’ve only worn three times?

It was something that I couldn’t do because I lived faithfully while writing a livelihood book.

To think I was rummaging through my bag.

Suddenly, a dull voice came from beside me.

“What are you doing?”

“…?!”

Surprised, I hurriedly looked behind me and saw Kim Ji-hye.

Kim Ji-hye, who looked tired as she smoked her cigarette today, stared at my bag.

I said to Kim Ji-hye as I tucked her underpants inside.

“An hour ago, what are you doing?”

I looked up at Kim Ji-hye, who moved in space without a word, as if protesting.

Kim Ji-hye seemed to have nothing to do with my gaze. She approached my bag and unpacked my things.

“What are you doing?”

I’m scared, let’s stop Kim Ji-hye.

Kim Ji-hye fiddled with my underwear and clothes and then clicked her tongue.

“I told you, buy all the necessities over there.”

“These are clothes.”

“I just buy clothes over there. Why are you wearing something like this?”

“How can I buy it because it’s a waste?”

At my words, Kim Ji-hye sighed.

“Damn it, the old man abandoned him. Really…”

Jihye Kim munched her cigarette as if something annoyed her, then put her hand in her suit and handed something to me.

Black card.

Accepting a black card with nothing written on it, looking at Kim Ji-hye.

Jihye Kim said bluntly.

“It’s your legacy that your grandmother couldn’t give you until now, preventing you from getting involved with witchcraft.”

“My legacy?”

“Yes, the legacy of your mother and father.”

A black card with nothing written on it.

As she fiddled with the card, which looked cool, she asked Kim Ji-hye a question.

“How much do you have?”

“Even if you spend it until you die, it’s an amount that’s left over. Use it with confidence.”

“Really?”

At my suspicious question, Kim Ji-hye smiled.

“Yes, you can use whatever you want, and even if you use it over and over again, don’t worry.”

“…Something is scary.”

Her hand holding her black card trembled.

As I pushed the Koi black card into my arms, Kim Ji-hye told me.

“Oh, and if you go to school, there’s a yōkai that you need to take a girl with first.”

“Who are you?”

He sighs and replies to the fact that I have put off until now.

Jihye Kim responded by snapping her fingers.

“Snow woman.”

She said it again as if Kim Ji-hye was telling me to keep that in mind.

“If you take the virgin of the snow woman, who is a polar negative limb, your yang energy will be greatly stabilized, so eat the snow woman.”

Feeling guilty about Miho, whom I had a tryst with last night, I slowly engraved that name into my head.