F-Rank Secretly Becomes Stronger - Chapter 63
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63
“Seong Jia.”
“….”
She didn’t respond even when called.
Jung Juhyeok looked at the scene before him and asked with tightly pressed lips.
“Why is there only one bed?”
The hotel they had arrived at after traveling together by car late at night.
After roughly finishing check-in as guided and entering the room, what greeted them was a small room with an ocean view.
To exaggerate slightly, in a cramped room too small for two people, there was one small bed that matched its size.
“Wait a moment.”
Jia pressed her temple while contacting someone.
She turned on the phone call to palm size and it connected shortly after the dial tone.
Jia immediately asked the person who answered the phone how this had happened.
[What would happen if you slept in different beds and fell more than 10 meters apart?]
The answer to that was quite simple.
A consideration to prevent falling more than 10 meters apart.
It was a statement with no room for argument.
If the room were spacious, they might accidentally exceed 10 meters.
‘Still, couldn’t they have provided two beds?’
No matter how cramped it was, if they managed the space well, that much should be possible.
Had they not thought about it, or had they pretended not to know even after considering it?
Either way, there wasn’t time to nitpick over such problems now.
“Let’s just sleep.”
“I can’t sleep in the same bed.”
“Then sleep on the ground.”
If the temple doesn’t suit you, the monk should leave – what else can you do.
“My body is my livelihood, so I need to properly relieve fatigue.”
“…Ugh.”
Her face boiling like a kettle at his indifferent reaction.
He wondered if she didn’t get tired from repeatedly turning red like that.
Getting tired of reacting to it every time, he pretended not to notice and headed to the shower room, saying casually.
“I’m showering first.”
“Do whatever you want!”
Her voice grew loud enough to reach the adjacent room, showing just how displeased she was.
She had already anticipated everything, but now that it was actually happening, was it even harder to endure?
‘This is my first time sleeping with a woman too.’
He didn’t particularly feel nervous or anything like that.
In Jung Juhyeok’s mind, he was worried about accidentally making a mistake and ending up falling outside the 10-meter range.
With all his attention focused on that concern, he didn’t have time to feel embarrassed about being alone with her.
The sound of the shower and the scent of hotel shampoo.
He changed into clothes he brought from home inside the shower room and came out with wet hair.
“Go in.”
“….”
Jia hesitated for a moment, then grabbed her towel and change of clothes and scurried over.
She closed the door, then immediately opened it slightly again and said.
“Just in case, I’m telling you.”
“I won’t peek.”
“….”
The shower room door closing.
The sound of bathroom slippers brushing past a few times, followed by the sound of fabric rustling.
Those kinds of everyday sounds that would feel stimulating one by one if heard by a man coming to a hotel for the first time.
Thud―!
…naturally didn’t reach Jung Juhyeok’s ears.
With a peaceful mind, he loosened his muscles with pre-sleep stretching.
Lost in time, just as he finished stretching everything from his toes to his neck, she came out.
“…What are you doing?”
“Stretching. I’m finishing up now.”
After finishing the last neck stretch, Jung Juhyeok immediately lay down in place.
He slipped into the heavy hotel blanket and settled on one side.
Then he put on the sleep mask he brought from home and said.
“You should hurry up and get ready for bed too.”
“….”
Despite sharing a bed with a woman, he showed no signs of nervousness at all.
At such an innocent reaction, Jia asked.
“Have you been to places like this with women often?”
“This is my first time.”
“Then why is a guy like you so calm?”
Her pride was slightly hurt that a guy younger than her was showing an even more composed attitude.
Jung Juhyeok calmly responded to her somewhat displeased tone.
“Then should I get excited for you?”
“Wh-what are you saying!”
“It’s a joke, so lower your voice.”
Even if this hotel has good soundproofing, still.
Every time she gets flustered, her voice gets louder, and it’s so severe that the clock on his wrist might even send a hearing loss warning.
“Just hurry up and sleep.”
“…Damn it.”
Jia reluctantly got into the bed.
Sleeping alone with a man she didn’t even like in the same bed made her anxious, but seeing Jung Juhyeok treat it so casually made her reluctant to back down here.
Was it simply because she didn’t want to lose?
Or was it because of curiosity that even she herself couldn’t recognize?
Jia carefully entered the bed without knowing exactly what emotions were filling up inside her.
But as far away from Jung Juhyeok as possible.
She went as far as the edge, lying down in a precarious spot where she was about to fall off at any moment.
Jung Juhyeok, unaware of her inner thoughts, casually informed her before going to sleep.
“I’m going straight to training tomorrow morning, so sleep early.”
“Training?”
“Yeah, since I rested well today, I need to do it all day tomorrow.”
Jung Juhyeok couldn’t stand it when his body felt restless if he didn’t train even for a day.
Recently, he had been following advice from Hyeonsu and other Hunters that rest was also part of training, gradually incorporating rest days, but he still felt uneasy on days off.
“You can’t even get 10 meters away right now, and you’re going to training?”
“There are ways around that too.”
He had already finished planning everything while eating bread with her.
Jung Juhyeok briefly lifted his sleep mask up and asked her.
“You, how much do you weigh.”
“Why do you need my weight.”
“Because it’s necessary for training.”
A weight question asked directly to a woman.
Though his casual rudeness was enough to make her eyes twitch slightly, Jia wasn’t the type of person sensitive enough about her weight to care about such things.
“Forty.”
“That’s reasonable.”
“What is.”
“Perfect for training.”
“….”
She couldn’t understand what he meant at all.
Suddenly worried, she asked Jung Juhyeok.
“Don’t tell me I have to train too?”
“No, just help me out.”
“…I don’t want to go outside.”
She naturally disliked going outside.
Her daily routine consisted of occasionally going to the smoking cafe to slack off or just lounging around in the office.
She would sometimes go out when there was work to do, but even that was usually left to other staff members.
Because of this lifestyle, she couldn’t fall asleep easily at night, which was why she had such dark circles under her eyes.
She was literally living a life not much different from a Reclusive Loner.
For someone like her, going outside the door to train.
Just thinking about it already made her whole body feel lazy, and she didn’t even want to lift a finger.
“What’s the point of just staying inside with me.”
“I can just laze around inside.”
Lazily rolling around and ordering all meals for delivery.
Since she couldn’t work due to the contract with Mephisto, this was time she could legally slack off.
During such precious time, she had absolutely no intention of cooperating with training—
‘Wait, then doesn’t that mean I’d have to stay inside with him the whole time?’
Because of the 10-meter rule, as long as one person couldn’t go out, the others couldn’t leave either.
In that situation, if she remained only in the room, naturally Jung Juhyeok would also have to stay only in the room.
Then his friends, who would be watching the entire situation, would receive this report from the hotel.
[The two of you haven’t come out of the room even once and keep staying inside…]
A man and woman staying in a room without ever coming out.
What would his friends think if they heard that?
His imagination ran wild for a moment.
Then he remembered Yeonho, who had been looking at him with a sly smile when he left with Jung Juhyeok.
‘That bastard will definitely spread it around everywhere, won’t he?’
Even if he didn’t want to spread it around, there was the reason he’d have to give for taking vacation.
Since it was obvious that all his friends would look into that, everyone would know what he was doing right now.
[Jia~ You said you weren’t interested in men, so what were you doing that kept you from coming out of your room for a whole week?]
“No, I’m just going out.”
“Huh?”
“I said I’m going out.”
Thinking of that grinning expression made her desire to stay only in the hotel completely disappear.
Jung Juhyeok nodded slightly, not knowing how she had changed her mind when she had seemed so stubborn.
“…Well, good thinking.”
He didn’t know what had caused the change in her feelings, but it wasn’t his business to know.
Jung Juhyeok was about to put his sleep mask back on, thinking he’d just let it slide since good was good.
Then he suddenly noticed her sitting far away on the other side of the bed.
“What are you doing over there?”
“What.”
“Are you going to fall off while sleeping?”
She was crouched at the very edge of the bed.
When Jung Juhyeok spoke about her precarious position, Jia glanced back and answered.
“…Then you can sleep on the ground.”
“What a tiresome way to live.”
Jung Juhyeok spoke as if soothing a whining child.
“Don’t fall off for no reason, come to the middle.”
“…You’re definitely planning to do something weird.”
“Even thinking about you causes trouble.”
How long would he have to listen to that whining sound?
Now tired of it, he pulled down his sleep mask again and said.
“Fine. Handle it yourself.”
“….”
The room became quiet after his words ended.
Not long after, he heard the sound of her moving beside him.
Jung Juhyeok fell asleep listening to the sound of tossing and turning closer than before.
*
“So how are you going to train?”
A refreshing morning.
Outside with Jia, who didn’t seem to have gotten a very refreshing sleep.
She showed an unpleasant expression, as if she couldn’t adapt to the changed sleeping arrangement.
“Just so you know, I absolutely won’t run.”
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t run.”
Jung Juhyeok tied his sneakers securely.
He warmed up his body with light stretching while speaking.
“You said you weigh 40 kilos.”
“It’s exactly 41… why do you ask?”
“Right, that’s enough.”
Walking up in front of Jia and turning his back to her.
He crouched down and stretched his arms back as he spoke.
“Get on.”
“….”
Jia was so dumbfounded she couldn’t even speak properly.
She asked Jung Juhyeok who was crouched down.
“What?”
“I said get on.”
She thought she had misheard, but apparently not.
While she was clearing up her doubts about her own hearing, Jung Juhyeok spoke.
“I’m going to carry you on my back and run a few laps.”
“No way.”
“Then run together with me.”
“I’d rather die than do that.”
Being carried on a man’s back around the neighborhood.
She absolutely didn’t want to do such humiliating play even if Mephisto held a gun barrel to her head.
It was already the weekend so there were many people passing by, and doing piggyback rides among such crowds – did that even make sense?
Of course, running was one thing, but she had even less desire to run together with him.
Jia took a firm stance and declared her absolute opposition.
She was also the stubborn type who wouldn’t back down anywhere.
“Then die.”
But her opponent was Jung Juhyeok.
Usually he would make concessions, but when it came to training, he absolutely never compromised.
Jung Juhyeok instantly scooped her up and held her in his arms.
“Wh-hey!”
Jia could only shout in confusion.
Jung Juhyeok didn’t even look at Jia as he gripped her tightly to prevent her from escaping and began to run.
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