ALL NOVEL Chapter 108 - "Why don't you kiss Alice?"
Chapter 108 “Why don’t you kiss Alice?”
After kissing Yujin, Shia secretly started dating him.
Thanks to that, Shia enjoyed the dark pleasure of mingling tongues with him every day…
But that pleasure lasted only for a day or two.
Over three weeks passed, and a suspicion began to arise in Shia’s mind.
The suspicion was about what the other girls were doing.
“Yujin. Did something happen with that vixen or Ninomiya-san? Like kissing or something?”
“No?”
“…Hmm.”
‘What is it? Why are they so quiet?’
The reason she suspected the other two, Alice and Aika, was simple.
The inexplicable memory that came after the kiss.
Although it hadn’t been complete since the first year of admission…
Even fragments of the memory made it clear.
She, Alice, and Ninomiya Aika.
They all loved Yujin deeply.
‘If my hypothesis is correct, their situation would be similar to mine.’
Based on that memory, Shia formulated a hypothesis.
The familiarity, delight, and longing she felt from the first moment she saw Yujin. The inexplicable emotions.
She thought others shared those feelings too.
———The fragments of memories she recalled, she believed they had them too.
‘I thought they would kiss soon. That’s why I deliberately let it slide.’
Moreover, according to her memories, those two were quite perverted.
Aren’t they sexual desire monsters desperate to devour Yujin?
But over the past three weeks, they did nothing.
While she dated Yujin, kissed him, and talked all night, they did absolutely nothing.
‘In that memory…’
“Hmph. Yujin, your first kiss… Hey. Why are you looking away? Did that vixen do it first?”
“…In the third week of admission, she said this much was normal in England.”
“Is she crazy!?”
‘If this is true, there’s no way Alice, that vixen, would be this quiet.’
It made no sense.
If the memories she recalled were true, Alice kissed Yujin in the third week.
By now, in the seventh week, they should have kissed dozens of times.
But they haven’t kissed even once?
That vixen who gave her first kiss in just three weeks?
‘…Is this memory fake too?’
It was why Shia hesitated over the past three weeks.
She was afraid the things she recalled were just her delusions.
Afraid she’d be treated as mentally unstable if she spoke carelessly.
‘I can’t wait any longer. I need to poke directly. At the easily manageable Alice.’
Of course, she didn’t just sit idly.
Like a snake waiting for its prey, she waited for the right moment…
‘…Now!’
“Hey. Do you like Yujin?”
A perfect timing jab.
Do you like Yujin?
Alice, exhausted from a ten-hour battle, couldn’t evade it.
“Well, as a fellow Pine Needle member…”
– Heh.
‘Still in the denial stage. Just like I was a few weeks ago.’
Shia’s lips curled into a smile.
What? You like him, but don’t love him? If Yujin confesses, you’ll date him?
Just like my thoughts during the amusement park date.
Ridiculous. So ridiculous.
‘I can push deeper without any problem.’
“So, do you love him….”
“Yeah. I love him. As a man.”
A merciless pressure followed.
Summoning the declaration card that she loved Yujin, sacrificing the useless pride.
‘I confessed first’ attack on Alice.
The exhausted magician tried to dodge hastily,
“Ahaha. Shia, really. We haven’t even been here two months since admission….”
“Two months is enough time to fall in love. He’s handsome, capable, and has great personality.”
“So, you fell in love in just two months? Like an easy girl?!”
“That’s insulting. I’m only easy for Yujin.”
Alice’s magic card. Scratching pride was all nullified.
An easy girl who fell in love in two months?
So what if I’m easy? Thanks to that, I had a romantic first kiss.
Just like you did in that memory, vixen.
Against Shia, armed like this, a virgin who hasn’t even had her first kiss couldn’t stand a chance.
“Shia…”
“Then, I’m dating Yujin now?”
“No, you can’t!!”
“Who are you to say yes or no? You don’t like Yujin, right? But I love him.”
“Urgh…”
Even a counterattack followed.
Alice’s eyes wandered in the air.
Shia dating Yujin?
No. I can’t intervene, but no, I don’t want that.
– Grit.
“…I have to date Yujin.”
In the end, Alice’s true feelings slipped out.
The true feelings that it should be her who dates Yujin.
“Really? You have to date him. Do you have a reason?”
“Of course I do! Everyone in England is rooting for Yujin and me, so if I date him….”
“For the sake of the country? Oh, come on.”
“…There are reasons I can’t tell you, Shia! This is for Yujin’s sake!”
However, Alice hid her true feelings with excuses.
She claimed it was for England. For Yujin’s treatment.
So, she had no choice but to date him—an excuse.
And Shia, watching her?
“Sigh.”
‘She’s just like I was a few weeks ago. If I hadn’t kissed him back then, I’d still be like this now.’
She felt nothing but pity.
It was clear that Alice liked Yujin. Making excuses was pathetic.
Seeing it from a third-party perspective was truly frustrating.
It reminded her of herself a few weeks ago, so she couldn’t even laugh at it.
Her brown eyes filled with sympathy.
“Forget all that. What about your feelings?”
“…What?”
“Forget about Yujin or anything else. What do you truly want?”
A slightly gentler question.
Alice blinked rapidly.
Her mind became a whirlwind of thoughts.
‘What do I want with Yujin….’
-Slightly.
“What about the entrance exam? Even though it was the first time you saw him, didn’t you feel like you knew him for decades? Didn’t you keep thinking about Yujin?”
Shia didn’t miss the opportunity.
The main purpose of bringing this up.
To confirm if Alice felt the same way she did.
Interrogation began.
“……!!? How do you know that, Shia?”
“After that, he kept nagging at you. You kept feeling déjà vu when you were with him. Your actions became strange around him.”
“Exactly what you said!!”
Alice answered without hesitation.
Normally, she would have responded evasively…
But her body was exhausted, and her mind was confused by Shia’s confession.
She didn’t have the energy to dodge as usual.
Shia’s lips curled into a smile.
‘The inexplicable attraction felt from the first meeting. Just like me.’
The sense of déjà vu felt on the entrance ceremony day.
The attraction to a man she had never seen before.
That vixen felt it too?
There were two possibilities.
She, like Shia, had some inexplicable memories hidden.
Or Yujin had secretly hypnotized them.
‘That unnecessarily sincere guy wouldn’t do that, so it’s probably the former. Then why hasn’t she kissed him yet?’
There was only one curious part.
If so, she should have acted much bolder like Shia.
Why hadn’t she kissed him even once?
That girl who kissed within three weeks without inexplicable attraction?
“Then what about kissing? Isn’t kissing a greeting in England? Didn’t you want to kiss Yujin?”
Shia probed deeper to resolve her doubts.
Alice, why haven’t you kissed him?
And Alice…
-Explosion.
“K-K-K-K-Kissing!? Pervert!! What do you think of England!!!”
Her face flushed as she shook her head.
As if she had heard something extremely embarrassing.
‘Yujin’s flesh entering me, violently stirring my pink mucous membranes. It’s too obscene…!!!’
…The burning ‘eye’ circuit was a bonus.
The reason Alice hadn’t even attempted a kiss.
Unlike her innocent days, where a kiss ended with just a peck.
To her now, a kiss was foreplay before the act.
Bluntly, it was a prelude to sexual intercourse.
Of course, she knew that not all kisses were like that…
No. If I do that, I can never see Yujin as just a friend again.
I’ll have to see him as a man who tried to do such things to me.
Thinking this, Alice’s cheeks burned.
Her reaction was so innocent that it seemed rather naïve.
“……?”
‘Why is she like this? Even if you brought someone from the Joseon Dynasty, they wouldn’t be this embarrassed about a kiss.’
However. Shia never imagined Alice would react like this.
She thought seeing Alice’s reaction.
This girl gets embarrassed over trivial things.
Unlike that memory- she thought.
‘Is this memory fake? No. There are too many matching points for it to be fake.’
Her well-organized mind got tangled for a moment.
Everything matched her hypothesis except for one thing, one crucial clue contradicted it.
Why was she so embarrassed about a kiss?
Now, I’m confused whether these memories are real or not.
‘Well. Whether it’s real or not, I only have one thing to do.’
-Slide.
“Well. If that’s the case.”
“Shia…?”
After a short contemplation, Shia brushed off and stood up.
Blue eyes, filled with moisture, looked up,
“Do whatever you want. I’ll do what I want.”
‘Regardless of the suspicious memory, I won’t let a girl who can’t even admit her feelings have Yujin’s lips.’
Half sympathy, half sneer filled her brown eyes looking down.
Their gaze exchange lasted almost 30 seconds.
‘Think about it thoroughly. Slow vixen.’
-Hesitation.
‘Kissing Yujin. No. S-S-Sex… Even if we’re Pine Needle comrades, this is too much.’
‘Wait. They say there’s such a casual relationship. Isn’t a sex friend still a friend?’
‘But I haven’t had my first kiss yet. How could I….’
There was almost a 1,538-degree difference in their thoughts.
Shia couldn’t even dream of it.
* * *
While Alice and Shia were having a strange conversation.
“…Is it true, Kkong?”
“Yes. There’s a monster ahead.”
Deep in the gate.
In front of the dungeon master’s room, the so-called boss room.
“———A monster that will kill me.”
The one who glimpsed into the future spoke of their death.