Chapter 240: Various Stories
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 240: Various Stories
In an instant, our tongues were entangled. It’s a funny way to put it, but this wasn’t our first or second time, so it felt incredibly natural. As if I had found a perfect match, I found myself completely lost in Choi Seulgi.
Honestly, whether she was a virgin or not didn’t matter much to me. If I were the type to care about such things, I never would have fallen for her in the first place. But I had no idea why the words she had just said were so stimulating.
She had been saving it. We had talked about it in our past life, and it seemed she had taken it to heart.
Of course, Choi Seulgi knew me very well. As her hand slowly, slyly caressed my thigh, a shiver ran down my spine.
“Hah… hah…”
The sound of ragged breathing began to fill the quiet meeting room. Saliva was exchanged, and just as I thought I couldn’t hold back any longer and reached for her clothes, she suddenly pushed me away with her hand.
“That’s it for now. Hah…”
“What? You can’t just do that!”
It was only natural that my voice came out a little loud. She was still leaning against me, yet she was suddenly declaring that we were stopping here. Of course I was annoyed.
“I told you it’s my first time. I don’t want to do it here.”
“…”
I looked around. The meeting room was bare, with only a desk and chairs. It wasn’t that I’d never had relations in a place like this before, but this was our first time in this life, and it seemed she wanted to cherish it. Besides, doing it here would be a great discourtesy to Jang Ye Ri and the people of Garia. Her face was flushed red as she panted, looking even more aroused than I was. I could tell just how long she had been holding back.
“You’re right.”
Seeing her like that, a playful urge took over. I slyly lifted my tail, wrapped it around her thigh, and then slid it up toward her chest. I felt her body tremble. When the tip of my tail touched the center of her chest, she let out another ragged breath.
“Hah… Hey… fuck, don’t…”
“Hmm?”
“I said don’t! Ah, just stop… hah… Ah!”
“I can’t hear you…”
“Hah… don’t… I’m going to get really angry.”
“You can pull away…”
“No! I told you to stop, you bastard! You damn bastard! Stop touching me!”
In a flash, Choi Seulgi moved behind me and smacked my back with her palm. Startled, I turned around to see her, face flushed, still breathing heavily.
“Do you really think I don’t want to… You bastard, you might have been with this woman and that woman, but this is my absolute first time… Understand? I haven’t even touched myself! Are you messing with me or what… Hah… hah… It might not suit us, but let’s try to set a mood from now on. Okay?”
Seeing her chug the cold water on the table as if her throat was parched, I couldn’t help but laugh. Thinking I was mocking her, she aimed a light kick at me. I once again caught her leg with my tail and began to tease her, slowly advancing its tip.
“Pervert.”
I didn’t have a good comeback for that. More than anything, I just wanted to play around, so I began to stroke her private parts with the tip of my tail. Whether she had given up or decided this much was okay, Choi Seulgi closed her eyes and slowly savored the feeling of my tail. There was no direct touch, but seeing her body tremble, it seemed she had reached a small climax.
“Hah… hah… fuck… hngh…”
She didn’t usually get this worked up. Seeing how quickly she was aroused, it seemed she really had been holding back for a long time.
I smiled as I watched her. With a look that was both satisfied and somehow full of complaint, she wiped herself with a tissue.
“Pervert. It was my mistake to expect romance from a guy like this.”
“Why? It was good, wasn’t it?”
“Yeah! It was good, you bastard! But still, fuck… no… never mind. Let’s just not talk about it.”
“This doesn’t count, right?”
“Right. It doesn’t count… right…”
The glare she shot me sent a slight chill down my spine, but from her expression, it didn’t seem like she was truly upset. Perhaps she thought this was just how we were. I was thinking the same thing, after all.
“By the way, the tail is nice. I like it.”
“Pffft.”
Because she said it with a blush on her face, I burst out laughing. She, too, seemed to find her own words absurd, as the corners of her mouth turned up.
Once the commotion died down, we had a lot to catch up on. Choi Seulgi and I started talking about our current lives. I already knew how she had lived, but she had no information about me, so she listened to my story with great interest.
“So, you’re not a monster but a race called Green Skins, you passed the Great Tribe Leader’s exam, and now you’re the master of one of the most prominent settlements in the entire Green Skin race?”
“Well, if you summarize it, that’s about right.”
“Wow… Kim Taesung, you’ve really made it…”
“I’m telling you, it’s a relief I wasn’t born human. In my case… well… I was lucky. I was also that desperate, and I made a lot of trustworthy comrades. It might sound a little absurd, but I like this life more than when I was human. It wouldn’t be a bad idea for you to come visit the settlement sometime.”
“Of course I’m going. No, I want to move in and never leave…”
“Is the North okay?”
“Well… So-hye might be a little lonely, but what can you do? She’s a capable woman, so won’t she manage just fine on her own?”
Come to think of it, I knew she had followed the Queen of the North, but hearing her speak so casually, it seemed they had gotten quite close. There were many rumors that the Queen of the North, Han So-Hye, and Choi Seulgi trusted each other deeply, and it seemed those rumors weren’t wrong.
It occurred to me that I hadn’t told her about my own history with the Queen of the North. I carefully opened my mouth.
“How is the Queen of the North? Is she strong?”
“Hmm… You seem to have gotten stronger too, but I wonder… She was strong in our past life, but I helped her grow quite a bit… To be honest, all I did was reveal the locations of dungeons I already knew about or had heard rumors of, but her talent is terrifying. She’s probably stronger than the Queen of the North was back then. It makes you realize, ‘So this is what a genius is.’”
I slowly began to release my magic. I wanted her to at least be able to gauge the difference between me and the Queen of the North. Seeing this, Choi Seulgi laughed.
“That kind of show of force is meaningless. Your physical specs seem better. But if you two were to fight, I’d bet on So-hye.”
“I figured as much.”
It was the same during our first fight. I was clearly physically superior, but at some point, the tables were suddenly turned. The Queen of the North was walking a similar path to Gark, but she was a martial artist so strong that the two couldn’t even be compared. Pushing her with pure physical specs would be difficult. As I thoughtfully recalled the Queen of the North, Choi Seulgi spoke, looking amused.
“By the way, that Orc So-hye was always talking about was you, wasn’t it?”
“…”
It seemed she had talked about me. And from the sounds of it, she knew in quite some detail.
“She’d sometimes talk about the Tutorial… things like, ‘Kids these days have no grit, they’re too soft. That Orc from back then was much better than the humans now… There are no men worth the name. There’s no one worth fighting…’”
“Hmm…”
“And something along the lines of, ‘I want to fight him again’…”
I couldn’t just brush off Choi Seulgi’s last words. I felt my eyes turn a little red. It seemed I wasn’t the only one who wanted to fight again. I couldn’t help but feel good. It was like being acknowledged by someone I considered a true powerhouse. Although I had been defeated in an absurd way, it seemed I had left a strange impression on her.
“Interesting.”
“You’ve really changed, haven’t you? It goes without saying that you’re stronger, but it feels like you’ve changed as a person.”
My reaction seemed incredibly amusing to Choi Seulgi. Considering the Kim Taesung of the past, that kind of reaction was only natural. Back then, I was definitely more the type to accept things rather than resist, so it was no wonder she thought that way.
“I think becoming a monster had an effect. A fighting spirit, you could call it. It’s like an instinct. You don’t like it?”
“No. I like it. This Kim Taesung isn’t bad either. In fact, should I say he’s a little sexy? Heh.”
“More importantly, are you really thinking of coming to the settlement?”
“What? You don’t want me to? Is that what you have to say?”
“That’s not what I mean.”
As I shook my head, Choi Seulgi looked at me with a strange expression, as if she knew what I meant.
“You’re talking about the Sword Saint, aren’t you?”
“Right.”
“Yeah, we can’t let that bitch live.”
Choi Seulgi’s lips curled into a somewhat sinister smile. It felt like the grudge she held against the Sword Saint was even stronger than mine.
Before heading to the North, Choi Seulgi had taken revenge on all the murderers who killed us and the bastards who ruined her life. All that was left was the Sword Saint, Ha Yuri. No, to be precise, the entire West. Unlike me, who had little hope from the start, Choi Seulgi had been a rather promising summoner. I was well aware that she had designated the entire West as her enemy.
Choi Seulgi swallowed once before speaking.
“It was an act from the start.”
“…”
“The Sword Saint, that bitch, it was an act from the very beginning. You had a rough idea too, didn’t you, Kim Taesung?”
I had heard various pieces of information, but probably not as much as Choi Seulgi. At most, I knew she had a hand in the illegal businesses that Jang Gi Young used to run. I gave a slight nod, and Choi Seulgi continued.
“It’s true that the Sword Saint’s master died a little earlier than we knew, and it was her fault. I couldn’t investigate properly at the time, but the rumors I heard through the grapevine… said it was because of ‘reform.’ Can you guess what that was about?”
“I thought that might be the case…”
“How could scum like us ever know? All we felt was that life was hard. That the city was safe. That this was a dangerous place, so it was right for a strong guild to protect us. In that sense, the Sword Saint was a hero who looked after the poor and cared for the city’s lower class, a leader worth following. Let’s pay our taxes and enrich the city. Then we’ll be safe.”
That was what Choi Seulgi and I used to think.
“She had a pretty face and acted like an angel. Everyone’s idol. You fell for it once too… right? But you know… if that bitch was really an angel… would she have let us live like that? Would she have just left us alone, scraping by in the gutters and sewers, earning pennies from dog-like bastards in the back alleys? I was stupid back then, but now that I’m in the same position as a city administrator, I know… I know just how much that bitch was skimming off the top. Fucking bitch. Even the North, where the situation is much worse than the West, was never as bad as Aia was back then.”
Choi Seulgi continued speaking in a calm voice.