115 – Before the Storm (2)
Grid started shuffling the cards.
“What kind of games?”
“It’s a thief catch.”
“What is thief catch?”
Responding to Yuna’s question, Grid explained that it was a game in which pairs of cards were discarded until the last person holding a joker came out.
“Ah~ Joker drawing?”
Yuna said she knew and nodded her head.
Grid glanced at Yuna and then twitched the corner of her mouth.
She noticed something quite confident.
Seeing that the author also had a similar expression to Grid, it seemed that he was more confident than he thought.
“Would you like to make a bet?”
Grid, who was casually shuffling the cards, suddenly said that.
A bet?
“What is that… ?”
The author looked at Grid with an expression as if he was planning something.
Grid put his hand back into his chest and pulled out something.
The stack of cards on the table was something very familiar to me.
When did you prepare something like this again?
I looked at the grid with that intention in mind.
Grid answered my gaze with a slight snort.
“….”
The author looked at the stack of cards laid out on the table with a puzzled expression.
“What is this?”
Saying that, Yuna picked up the top card of her deck.
“Give the person next to you a lap pillow… huh?”
The card that Grid took out was a penalty game card that was tucked away somewhere in my room.
That is also a penalty game card to create a slightly erotic atmosphere at a drinking party.
… It’s not that I really enjoy doing this.
I brought things that Junghyuk or Taeil threw at the house I lived in before and brought them with me when I moved, but Grid seems to have found them.
Yuna looked at the card carefully, then she twitched and put on a confident expression.
“Let’s do it!”
The author glanced at Yuna, then she let out a small sigh and nodded her head.
“heheheuhuh.”
Grid started handing out cards to us as if they were anticipating what would happen next.
52 Paired cards and 1 joker were dealt.
The grid had 14 cards and the rest had 13 cards.
We started diligently drawing out cards in search of pairs of cards in our hands.
Ah, the Joker came to me.
I started glancing around and checking my eyes.
“The order will be clockwise, starting with me.”
Greed and I were facing each other, the author was sitting on my left, and Yuna was sitting on my right.
Grid draws her card to Yuna and she puts her card down to see if the pair are right.
Next, Yuna drew her card from my deck of cards, and that way she went around 2 laps.
Then again came the moment when Yuna drew her card from her deck of cards.
“….”
After choosing the joker, Yuna’s eyebrows furrowed.
At that moment, Grid and the author looked closely at Yuna’s expression and showed a fishy smile on her lips.
Ah, this is wrong.
When Yuna raised her head, the two returned with a calm expression as if nothing had happened.
I pulled out the card from the author and it went round again.
“I’m number one.”
Grid shook off all the cards and put on a happy expression.
Currently, Yuna had 3 cards, the author had 2 cards, and I had 2 cards.
The next turn was for Yuna to draw a card from me.
Yuna carefully pulled out my card as her hand trembled.
The pair matched, so Yuna discarded 2 of her cards.
I drew one of the cards that the author gave her.
Ah, not a pair.
That’s how it turned once again.
I finished the game in 2nd place, and only Yuna and Jieun were left.
There are 2 cards in Yuna’s hand and 1 card for the author.
The game ends when the author draws a pair from Yuna’s hand this turn.
It didn’t seem too difficult.
Because Yuna opened her eyes and looked at her card when the author’s hand turned to the Joker.
She probably doesn’t know herself.
Is this Yuna, who once played a talented career woman?
To borrow Grid’s expression, it felt like her breasts were getting bigger.
The author’s hand pulled out Yuna’s joker.
Huh?
Yuna’s face brightened noticeably and Yuna drew her card with a feeling of great prudence.
“Okay!”
Yuna put down her pair and jumped up from her seat.
I glanced at Yuna and then glanced at the author.
The author is smiling.
She is acting expressionless, but the corners of her mouth twitch.
“Since I lost, I will draw a card.”
The author said that and drew a card from her.
“Ah, massage the shoulder of the person on the right~”
After saying that, the author got up and moved behind my back.
Then he started rubbing my shoulders… Uh, well
“Ji, what are you doing?!”
“A penalty game?”
That part of the author is pressing the back of my head.
There may be such a thing as the size is large, but this is unconditionally intentional.
I couldn’t see the author’s expression, but Yuna’s expression as she looked up at the author’s face was crumpling in real time.
I was embarrassed to see Yuna’s face in this situation, so I turned her head to her side and her eyes met Grid’s.
Grid was enjoying the current situation with his mouth twitching.
I felt like if I asked if it was fun, they would reply with ‘Fun.Fun!’.
This worm….
“Enough!”
When Yuna shouted that 30 seconds had passed, Ji-eun ran her fingers through the nape of her neck one last time and then moved away.
Ah, this feels a bit dangerous….
Cards were dealt once more, and again the grid finished the game in first place.
2Nd place was me, as promised.
This time again, it was a top-notch showdown between Jieun and Yuna.
The author took Yuna’s Joker as if it were natural, and Yuna’s expression darkened noticeably.
In the end, this game also ended with the defeat of the author.
“Give the person on the right a lap pillow~”
The author read her card out loud, and she tapped her thigh.
This is a bit….
“You did it last time~”
The author mentioned the time when he dug out her ears, perhaps feeling my hesitation.
“Me, last time?”
Yuna froze with her mouth slightly open, and Ji-eun kept tapping her thighs and calling me to finish her quickly.
And Grid just enjoyed seeing us like that.
***
After Ji-eun lost three times in a row, Yuna seemed to get a lot of heat in her head and started chewing on her card as if she were going to eat it, sticking her mouth out with her foot.
“Ah.”
After taking the joker from me, Yuna began shuffling the cards while hiding her arms behind her back.
Then he laid the card out of sight on the table.
Yes, then it becomes a game of pure luck.
Actually, Yuna’s strategy worked, and it was Yuna herself who lost this time.
The author watched as Yuna pulled out her card, pretending to be calm, but judging from the wrinkled clothes she held in her hands with her arms crossed, it seemed that her hands were quite strong.
Grid was also covering her mouth with her hand, probably noticing the author’s feelings.
If you lower her hand, she’ll be tearing it apart.
“hehehehe~”
Yuna reached for her penalty card pile with her confident expression on her face.
Then, he vigorously pulled out her card.
“Hug the right person….”
Yuna put her card down and glanced at me before she turned her head to the right.
Grid is sitting to the right of Yuna.
“….”
“Kuhup!”
Yuna’s face was stained with despair.
The author seemed to find it so funny that she started laughing while covering her mouth.
“Uh, um….”
Grid softly hugged Yuna, who was frozen as it was.
After about 10 seconds passed, Grid opened her distance from Yuna, twitching her lips.
Yuna’s face is now puffy like a bun.
“Again!”
Yuna started shuffling the cards on the table again.
To be honest, she’s a bit fed up with it now, and it’s also burdensome, but she couldn’t bring up the idea of quitting.
If you see that desperate look and tell me to stop, you’re the devil.
“I think I’m getting a little tired now….”
Ah, the author wasn’t Mamang, but she was the devil, right?
Yuna looked at Ji-eun with an expression like an abandoned puppy on a rainy day.
“Ugh….”
A corrugated cardboard box was soaked in the rain and hypothermia, a puppy with damp fur shivering.
It seems I wasn’t the only one who came up with the image of a dog like that.
The author participated in Yuna’s next game without muttering.
“I lost.”
“….”
However, it was the grid that lost this time.
Yuna froze again with her mouth open blankly.
Grid felt as though she was desperately holding back the urge to laugh out loud as she held onto her stomach.
“Now then… Sit on the legs of the person in second position from the right.”
As Grid read the card, he walked towards me and calmly sat on my leg.
It was enough just to sit down, but it was a spectacle to sit down with legs crossed.
Because it’s really like this, I feel like a woman….
Grid crossed her legs and put her arms around my shoulders as if it was difficult to balance.
Then Yuna, who had been looking down at the floor until she had just had her dead eyes, looked at us.
Seeing her biting her lips, I felt pitiful for some reason.
Since the author knows the identity of the grid, it must be similar, right?
She thought so and turned her head away, but Jieun’s expression was not that different from Yuna’s.
No, rather, it was more wary than when he was looking at Yuna.
“Come on, 30 seconds!”
When Yuna shouted as if she was screaming, Grid got up on my leg without any regrets and went to sit across from her again.
It was strange to see Yuna and the author being wary of the grid.
Yuna can be like that, but why does Ji-eun do that?
“Then I will mix it up.”
The grid shuffled and dealt cards again as if nothing had happened,
“Win! No, I lost!”
Yuna looked happy even though she lost.
As the author saw Yuna like that, she only let out a short sigh.
It was as if she was looking at her younger brother, who was a little involved with her.
Yuna pulled out the penalty card with a very careful expression, like a gambler with her house documents at stake.
She then stared blankly into space and took a deep breath before slowly starting to check her card.
“The person on the left and Pepero….”
Is it pepero eating?
It was a common punishment because it was a penalty game made for that purpose.
But Pepero….
“Here it is.”
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With trembling hands, Yuna took out her pepero and ripped off the vinyl.
A few of the peperos were broken and the vinyl was ripped off in a strange way because she applied too much force, but Yuna didn’t seem to have time to care about that.
With her pepero in her hand, Yuna cautiously approached me.
I put that Pepero in my mouth and that’s how the distance between the two of us started to get closer little by little.
The more she did, the more Yuna opened her eyes wide and her face started to blush….
Took.
I was so excited that Pepero broke just like that.
“….”
I put the remaining pepero into her mouth, and Yuna looked relieved and despaired.
“Now, time is also time, so let’s stop here.”
The author gently tapped Yuna on the shoulder and brought up such a story, feeling as if she was seeing a sad life somewhere.
Yuna looked like she had something to say, but she actually nodded her head quietly as she had been out for quite some time.
It felt like something had gone crazy.
After that, we had dinner together, talked for a while, and went to sleep a little earlier.
Before coming here, everyone was soaked in tiredness, perhaps because they had exhausted their energy imagining the sight of the hotel being blown up by bombs and bullets raining down.
My first day in China ended without anything happening.