The Main Character is Obsessed With a Foreign Substance

“Welcome back.”

“…Yes.”

An awkward atmosphere enveloped the two of them. After the brief greeting, only silence lingered. Once again, unable to bear the awkwardness, Suhwan was the first to speak. He pointed his finger toward the refrigerator and said,

“There’s nothing in the refrigerator.”

Seunghyun’s eyes then turned to the large refrigerator. That big refrigerator had never contained anything besides water and beer. At least not during the month or so he had been there.

“Yes, that’s right.”

His tone was indifferent, as if it had nothing to do with him. Confused, Suhwan managed to ask,

“Then what do you eat?”

“I eat outside.”

“Ah, I see.”

And so the conversation broke off again. Well, considering the original story, just being able to have such a normal conversation with Seunghyun was something to be grateful for. Despite answering every question, Seunghyun also seemed not to believe it. He kept observing Suhwan as if looking at a stranger.

“Then I’ll manage my own meals.”

Suhwan, avoiding that gaze, left the kitchen and went to the living room. He’d just have to order delivery food. Fortunately, the hotel where he occasionally ordered delivery food was nearby, so he could just change the address and order.

After watching Suhwan sitting on the living room sofa ordering delivery for a while, Seunghyun went to his room. When the sound of the door closing was heard, Suhwan finally released the breath he had been holding.

I guess we won’t be able to eat together from now on. Quietly repeating this to himself, he ate the delivered food alone.

Once his stomach was full, Suhwan started nodding off again. Strangely, since coming to this house, he kept feeling sleepy. Perhaps this body was unconsciously uncomfortable at the hotel? Suhwan closed his increasingly drowsy eyes and leaned back on the living room sofa.

“Mmm.”

Shortly after waking up, Suhwan groaned and opened his eyes. His throat felt dry, and he needed to drink some water. However, when Suhwan tried to get up from the sofa, his body wouldn’t move as he expected, causing him to frown.

Clink.

“…?”

A cold sound of metal colliding was heard. In an awkward position, half-raised, Suhwan looked down at his body.

His two hands were bound with handcuffs.

“Huh? Why is this…”

Suhwan muttered while looking at the handcuffs with half-open eyes. The silver handcuffs reflecting cold light under the illumination somehow didn’t feel real, even though he was seeing them with his own eyes.

As he was staring blankly at his handcuffed wrists, a low voice was heard from above his head.

“You’re awake.”

“…!”

At that voice, Suhwan’s drowsiness completely disappeared. Surprised, he raised his head to find Seunghyun looking down at him with an expressionless face.

“S-Seunghyun… why?”

Perhaps due to the shock, his words came out incoherently. His mind was a tangled mess. Since there were only the two of them in this house, the only one who could have handcuffed him was Seunghyun standing in front of him. But why? He couldn’t understand why the main character would do this to him.

“Why? That’s what I want to ask.”

“Ha… stop joking around and take these off.”

Despite Suhwan’s words, Seunghyun continued to stare at him blankly. It was a persistent gaze, as if observing what kind of action Suhwan would take.

Suhwan inwardly sighed and extended his hands. He looked up at Seunghyun while slightly shaking his outstretched hands as if asking him to remove the handcuffs quickly. Seunghyun’s golden-brown eyes gazed steadily at Suhwan’s hands.

Seunghyun reached out and pressed firmly on the short metal chain connecting the handcuffs with his finger. Suhwan’s hands, which weren’t exerting much force, drooped down when he pressed them. Suhwan looked up at Seunghyun with confused eyes.

“These, you were planning to use them on me, weren’t you?”

“What?”

“Weren’t you? They were in this house.”

At those words, Suhwan became wide awake again. And with trembling eyes, he stared at the silver handcuffs.

It was definitely an object he had never seen before. Of course. He wouldn’t have bought such a thing with his own money. The same went for Seunghyun. It was an item that the innocent main character of an R-rated tragic BL novel would never possess. These were clearly things that the damned Jin Suhwan had bought intending to use on Seunghyun.

“No, this is…”

He opened his mouth to make an excuse but couldn’t think of anything appropriate to say. To claim they weren’t his would be difficult since this was Jin Suhwan’s house, and he was Jin Suhwan. Although he hadn’t bought them, they had already become his.

Jin Suhwan probably intended to restrain Seunghyun with these. Unnecessarily, at this moment, the content of the novel flashed in his mind. Although it was a written story, for some reason, the image of Seunghyun blindfolded, tied to the bed, and wearing handcuffs was vivid before his eyes.

“Ugh.”

Even knowing that Seunghyun would find it strange if he suddenly blushed in this situation, he couldn’t help it. Jin Suhwan, that crazy bastard. While cursing in his mind at a character who no longer existed in this world, Suhwan bit his innocent lips.

“What were you planning to do to me with these?”

“That’s, a misunderstanding.”

“A misunderstanding?”

Tilting his head and looking down at him obliquely, Seunghyun’s face was breathtakingly beautiful. His expression was frozen as if coated with thin ice, but his beauty remained. Even while sweating profusely from embarrassment, Suhwan thought that even the main character’s cold face was beautiful.

“Besides the handcuffs, there were more things.”

“Ah.”

“You know about them, right?”

Shit…

Suhwan knew exactly what Seunghyun was talking about. Apart from the items he had seen in the image of Seunghyun that had flashed through his mind, Jin Suhwan’s house would be filled with various mind-blowing adult toys. Around this time, Jin Suhwan had met an omega sex friend and was deeply into BDSM. And that experience significantly influenced how he would later torment the imprisoned Seunghyun.

“So you do know.”

“No, wait, it’s not like that.”

At the quietly muttered words, Suhwan desperately shook his head. The one with such tastes was Jin Suhwan, not him. The current him would never want to do such things to Seunghyun. Just seeing these handcuffs restraining his hands made his body tremble; how could he possibly do anything?

However, that was Suhwan’s perspective, and it was different for Seunghyun, who had experienced Jin Suhwan’s doggish behavior. Rather, that desperate attempt to make excuses was extremely disgusting to him. How long did he plan to continue this unpleasant act? Seunghyun’s beautiful face frowned deeply. He glared at Suhwan without hiding his contempt.

“You perverted bastard.”

“…!”

Faced with the main character’s anger, Suhwan was at a loss for what to do. Although it was unfair to be misunderstood, Seunghyun had good reason. He had already suffered enough from Jin Suhwan before Suhwan had manifested in his body.

Suhwan didn’t know exactly where the novel had begun. What he clearly remembered was from the point where Seunghyun was forcibly engaged to Jin Suhwan and imprisoned in his house.

But Seunghyun’s perspective would have started much earlier. Seunghyun and Jin Suhwan were in different departments but the same club. He could guess that Seunghyun had been suffering ever since he first encountered Jin Suhwan there. Jin Suhwan was certainly that kind of person.

“…I’m sorry.”

So Suhwan could only bow his head and apologize. Jin Suhwan was currently a senior in his fourth year, and Seunghyun had just finished his first semester as a freshman. During the roughly half a year, Seunghyun had undoubtedly experienced many unpleasant incidents that Suhwan was unaware of. Right now, Suhwan felt more pity for Seunghyun than indignation at his own unfair situation.

“But, those things weren’t really bought to use on you. I acquired them by chance, and I find them unpleasant too, so I’ll throw them all away.”

However, that didn’t mean he wanted to continue being misunderstood by Seunghyun. He couldn’t live together while constantly being misunderstood that he intended to use various tools, including handcuffs, on Seunghyun. So when he said he would throw them away, Seunghyun’s expression became ambiguous again.

“You acquired them by chance?”

“Yes.”

Suhwan habitually nodded. For some reason, Seunghyun’s gaze became sharper.

“From whom?”

“Huh? From whom, you ask?”

Suhwan was taken aback. In the novel, when Jin Suhwan used tools on Seunghyun, there was only a brief mention that he had an omega sex friend who had sparked his interest in BDSM play. Naturally, Suhwan didn’t know who this person was.

“Um, just… someone I know?”

So a rather poor answer came out. And there was no way Seunghyun would believe such a flimsy statement. As his skeptical gaze became fiercer, Suhwan became even more uncertain about what to do.

At that moment, a vibrating sound reached the hesitating Suhwan’s ears.

“…!”

Both of their gazes turned to the side table. On it was the phone Suhwan had placed there before dozing off. Whether it was a phone call or not, the fierce vibration continued to sound.

“Phone…”

But he wondered if it was okay to answer at such a timing. Suhwan needlessly looked to Seunghyun for cues.

“Answer it.”

Seunghyun picked up the phone from the side table and handed it to Suhwan. Suhwan’s hands were still handcuffed. He was supposed to answer the phone like this? He thought for a moment but took the phone without comment. It might be a call from the company or family elders, so it seemed better to answer it for now.

However, an unfamiliar name was displayed on the phone screen.

[Kim Heemin]

It was a name he had never seen before. During the month or so he had been living as Jin Suhwan, all kinds of calls had come in. When only numbers appeared, they were mostly spam calls, and when names like this appeared, there was a high probability that it would be someone who could help him understand the situation.