Instead of My Beloved Sister, I Married a Monster - Chapter 74

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Chapter 74

Her touch naturally drew him toward her.

He awkwardly bent his upper body and kissed her.

At that moment, a familiar wind blew across his lips. She had once again soothed his wounds as she always did.

Unfortunately, that longed-for sensation reminded him of slightly different memories today.

The refreshing breeze that brushed his lips, the tongue that naturally licked his wounds first, even the face he had met before their lips touched.

Ram unconsciously rewound the previous events and hesitated, stepping back.

No, to be precise, he thought he wanted to do that.

In this place, he was in a state where he couldn’t move his body freely.

Then the young him opened his eyes that had been closed. The face that came into view was completely different from the past.

‘What the hell, why is this happening.’

Ram momentarily doubted his own eyes.

Since this was a world within his unconscious, strictly speaking, he should doubt his mental strength rather than his eyesight.

Ram thought the device he had locked away in the basement for so long was the most suspicious.

Unless this old thing had finally broken down, why had Nina, who had been standing in front of him just moments ago, suddenly been replaced by Evnia?

And at such an inappropriate moment, no less.

‘No, stop!’

Ram desperately pulled his consciousness to the surface and hurriedly reached toward his bedside.

As he searched for the lamp using only the sensation in his hands.

His fingertips brushing the nightstand suddenly caught on something. Then it immediately fell before he could catch it.

Crash!

The sharp sound of shattering rang in his ears as Ram’s eyes snapped open.

He immediately raised his head to look under the bed and saw his precious lamp, now difficult to replace, shattered miserably.

But the broken object wasn’t what disturbed him most.

Instead of picking up the lamp’s remains, he collapsed back onto the bed. Then, covering his eyes with both hands, he let out a despairing groan.

“This is a dream…”

Indeed, even though he had just opened his eyes, he desperately wanted to wake up from this dream again.

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‘Did I see wrong?’

Seven doubted his own eyes as he slammed the door shut.

A moment later, just to be sure, he pulled the door handle again, and this time too, the same scene met his eyes.

‘No, I must have seen wrong.’

His friend, who slept so much he once had a record of sleeping for over 10 years, couldn’t possibly have come to his room at dawn when the sun hadn’t even risen.

Especially looking like a corpse that had fallen into a vat of alcohol.

Seven was about to close the door again, having concluded he had seen an illusion in his drowsiness.

The corpse moved.

Ram quickly reached out to grab the door and asked with an incredulous expression.

“Isn’t it a bit harsh to close the door twice in someone’s face?”

“Is this a dream…?”

“Don’t say that. I’ve developed trauma from that word since last night.”

After spouting such nonsense, Ram brazenly barged into Seven’s room.

Hidden by the wall, Seven hadn’t noticed that Ram was not only drunk but had actually brought alcohol all the way here.

Not just one bottle, but four bottles stuck between his fingers.

Whether he was bragging about his strong body or what, an ordinary person’s fingers would have hurt from the bottle necks and couldn’t have lasted even a few seconds, but he alone remained calm.

Ram naturally went to sit on the sofa inside, arranging the alcohol he brought on the table as he spoke.

“If you need snacks, just bring that jerky you always eat.”

“You crazy bastard… It’s 5 AM right now…”

“That’s why I waited and came now, so just come sit down.”

So that was the reason he had been drinking alone until now?

Seven looked into his friend’s shadowed eyes and soon let out a small sigh.

He approached Ram and kicked the leg of the coffee table as he spoke.

“If you have something to say, say it quickly and get lost.”

“First, drink a bottle of alcohol. I want you to be a bit drunk too.”

Telling him to down an entire bottle on an empty stomach this morning, not just a glass.

If it was something he could only talk about after making the listener unconscious, why did he bother coming to find someone?

He should just confess to some passing dog instead.

Seven was about to turn away, mercilessly ignoring Ram’s earnest gaze.

Sensing the cold atmosphere, Ram hastily opened his mouth.

“Don’t misunderstand for no reason and listen. I did it to save someone. It was part of a rescue operation, I really had no other feelings. Right? If Giyermo hadn’t caused that strange accident, why would I have touched her?”

“Stop bullshitting and just fucking tell me.”

“I kissed her.”

A brief silence followed the appearance of a word that had become unfamiliar after being kept unspoken for so long.

Seven, recalling the preamble Ram had laid out, asked in a disbelieving voice.

“…With Giyermo?”

“Are you joking?”

“You didn’t mention the subject, so it was confusing. Then who did you do it with?”

Though he asked back, Seven soon reached his own conclusion. There weren’t that many candidates to begin with.

“With Evnia?”

Whether his guess was correct, as soon as he mentioned Evnia’s name, Ram flinched and trembled.

It had been a long time since he’d seen his friend this shaken.

Seven, now feeling inclined to listen to Ram’s story more seriously, quietly went to sit across from him.

He was curious about what exactly had happened to make Ram, who had only treated Evnia as a disadvantaged child who needed good care, end up putting his lips on her. Though it was obviously an accident.

“Was it good?”

Ram still couldn’t give any answer.

Like someone searching for the right words to express his feelings, Ram grasped at the air several times before withdrawing his hand to rest his chin on it.

After torturing his flushed face for a while in self-punishment, he finally opened his mouth.

“So, that, the feeling was, strangely…”

“…”

“Would you think I’m trash if I said it felt like Nina?”

That was it.

Seven had considered various types of answers like ‘It was better than I thought’, ‘Kissing after so long still made my heart flutter’, or even ‘I don’t think it would work with her’.

Even Seven, who had prepared for various responses, hadn’t expected such a trashy statement.

Seven shot Ram a look of contempt as he spoke.

“Yeah, you seem like a crazy perverted bastard who wants to do something with a woman 400 years younger and sells out his dead wife.”

“You, you… Even so, isn’t that going too far?”

“What’s going too far? I haven’t even brought up what I really want to say yet. If it felt good, just honestly say it felt good, you disgusting old man! Using Nina as an excuse because you want to kiss a young woman – are you even human?!”

“That’s not what I meant!”

“Oh my, we have the god of kisses, the expert of kisses, the judge of kisses here. Pressing lips together and sucking tongues is all the same, so what exactly was so similar to Nina? I’m really curious, would you care to enlighten me?”

At Seven’s sharp sarcasm, Ram grabbed his hair with an expression of frustrated desperation.

His friend was treating him like a hopeless pervert, which was unfair, but he couldn’t seem to find the right words to defend himself.

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