Chapter 80 : A Loving Family

Some time after, Jinwoo parted ways with Minji.

He had placed his palm on Minji’s butt and carefully observed her physical reaction…

Even though his sister was younger, the actions Jinwoo was engaging in were not commonly tolerated within normal sibling relationships.

-Both fully conscious…-

A sentence that seemed to remind him of guilt, ‘Is it really okay to do this to Minji?’ kept floating around in Jinwoo’s mind.

Yet, Jinwoo didn’t want to give up the pleasant feel of Minji’s butt on his palm.

Of course, Jinwoo had long discarded any ethical guilt concerning incestuous relationships.

And he no longer felt any discomfort or restraint about such taboos concerning Minji.

What Jinwoo worried about, ‘Is it really okay?’ seemed to be related to the emotional issues Minji had been experiencing lately.

Since their father passed away, Minji had been showing excessive emotional attachment towards her mother and family members.

Sometimes, the sexual provocations and suggestive whispers Minji tried on Jinwoo…

Despite Minji starting to show more feminine aspects, she was still a fifth grader in elementary school.

The actions Minji was showing towards Jinwoo might just be an extension of a pure emotional attachment similar to a baby sucking its mother’s breast.

Guilty sentences continually filled Jinwoo’s mind.

At the same time, a different kind of taboo pleasure, akin to the pleasure of incest, seemed to wrap around Jinwoo’s entire body.

**

Jinwoo opened the glass door, lifted the thick blackout curtain slightly to make a path, and then entered the room.

The light from outside was blocked, darkening the room.

A dim light.

In the middle of the narrow room, there was a chair and a table.

A shining crystal ball was visible on the table.

And across the table, someone was sitting.

Wearing a wide-brimmed orange pointed hat and a hooded dress…

Seulgi, who seemed to have been moved there at some point, was sitting dressed in a complete Halloween costume set.

“Come here and sit down~!”

Seulgi pointed to the chair across from her and spoke to Jinwoo.

“Huh? Seulgi, are you watching over this?”

Jinwoo awkwardly smiled and sat down in the designated chair.

“Do you know about crystal gazing?”

Seulgi asked Jinwoo as he took his seat.

“No, it’s my first time. How do you do it?”

Jinwoo was quite interested in this unusual experience.

“Um! Hmm!!”

Clearing her throat, Seulgi began to speak.

“Crystal gazing is a form of divination that uses the images reflected in the crystal to review past overlooked events or predict future incidents.

It can also reveal the inner thoughts of a particular person or interpret the meaning of supernatural phenomena.

It’s commonly known as a form of divination that utilizes spiritual energy or powers, and here it’s treated as a type of counseling based on mind reading. Got it?”

Seulgi gave Jinwoo a brief introduction to crystal gazing.

Jinwoo, though lightly, had been somewhat interested in the field of mind reading before.

Nodding his head, Jinwoo.

“Now, from this moment on, everything we talk about in this room will remain a secret here!”

Seulgi recited the scripted lines as if she was about to formally start the crystal gazing.

“Huh? Are we starting right now?”

“Shh~!! This is a room where destinies are divined, a secluded space cut off from the world! The time we can stay here is very short, so no unnecessary talk!!!”

Seulgi, seeming to create a solemn atmosphere as if warning that their allocated time was running over, spoke to Jinwoo.

“Ah, okay~”

Jinwoo felt awkward at Seulgi’s solemn mantra but internally thought it wasn’t a bad atmosphere setup.

Listening to Seulgi, it felt like he had really entered a temporarily isolated space.

Sitting alone in a dark room with a middle school girl dressed as a witch, having a heart-to-heart as if in a play…

It’s the kind of service most healthy men would pay to experience at least once.

**

“Seems like you had fun all day long~?!”

Staring intently at the crystal ball, Seulgi spoke as if she saw something.

“Ah well… since we went out to have fun~”

Seulgi’s phrase ‘Seems like you had fun’ slightly bothered Jinwoo, but he didn’t react much and let it slide.

“The department store is really big, huh? Heh~ Did you also go there?”

Seulgi talked as if she had truly seen yesterday’s scene right before Jinwoo.

“Wow~ You gave this as a gift?”

Seulgi continued speaking.

Jinwoo startled as the word ‘gift’ came out of Seulgi’s mouth.

Minji’s pajamas, Sohee noona’s lingerie underwear, and a black mesh tee suddenly flashed through his mind.

-And also mom’s dog collar and sexy underwear…-

“Wait! Did I write about the gifts on the survey?”

Jinwoo, realizing he hadn’t written anything about gifts on the survey, asked Seulgi in confusion.

“It doesn’t matter if you didn’t write it, I can see everything~!! This is the real deal~!!”

Seulgi, grinning playfully, seemed satisfied with Jinwoo’s reaction.

“Wow~ It’s big… But did you really do this in front of Minji?”

Seulgi’s monologue continued.

It was as if she was really seeing what happened yesterday through the crystal, talking about the event.

The size of the item was something Seulgi might know about if she had heard from Jinwoo’s friends.

‘Did you really do this in front of Minji?’ could apply to anything Jinwoo might have done in her presence.

Jinwoo had heard about ‘microexpressions’ before.

Observing minute facial expressions or gestures to read someone’s mind, a psychological trick where one throws out any keyword and observes the reaction to fit it into the conversation.

Up to this point, Jinwoo had been amazed by the experience of this kind of magic, yet also sure of Seulgi’s feigned act.

Matching keywords was merely a probabilistic coincidence, he thought.

“My gosh~ Where do you find such videos? Did you get it from Daeho?”

“Huh?”

As the word ‘video’ came up, Jinwoo’s mind went blank.

Keywords that a third party couldn’t possibly know were continuing to come from Seulgi’s mouth.

It was too precise to be a coincidence, Seulgi explaining events that happened yesterday.

“This is too extreme, isn’t it? It must have been really tough for Sohee noona if it was her first time.”

Seulgi’s next words accelerated Jinwoo’s heartbeat, causing sweat to trickle down his back.