177. Seo A-jeong
The setting of this story is Earth in a parallel universe.
I loaded the luggage into the trunk and climbed into the driver’s seat. A-jeong was still looking around the car with open curiosity, her nose twitching as if she had caught a scent. I hadn’t released any body fragrance, so it had to be the smell of semen from a few hours earlier. Come to think of it, the whole car was filled with the scent of peaches.
“Ian-ssi. Is this… your car?”
“Ah… my mother-in-law gave it to me after I got married.”
Married mother-in-law. I deliberately said something that made no sense, but she seemed to take it as a car bought by my mother-in-law and simply nodded. She smiled brightly, as if relieved.
“So Hye-yun’s parents love you that much, huh?”
“Of course they do.”
“I’m sorry. I don’t think I could manage that.”
“Don’t be. I don’t know about your father, but I’ll try with your mother. I’m pretty good with women, after all.”
Sorry… A-jeong…
I snorted. She laughed and lightly punched my shoulder. I leaned over, pulled her seatbelt across, and buckled it for her.
“Thanks.”
“No problem.”
“But… did I ever tell you Hye-yun’s name?”
“Heh… Unnie called. Ever since about three days after I met you, she’s been calling every single day.”
“Really? First I’ve heard of it.”
“She’s so pretty and so pure. Enough that I’d gladly serve her as an older sister…”
“Ah… you’re not upset? Technically you met me first.”
The car pulled out of the parking garage. I glanced at A-jeong’s expression, then returned my eyes to the road ahead. The hierarchy among the women… of course our harem ran smoothly on rank, but A-jeong still hadn’t had sex with me, so a little anxiety was natural.
“It’s fine. If we’re going by that logic, little sister Emily came first, so just being made second is already a huge privilege.”
“Huh? You know about Emily too? How much do you know?”
“Hoho. Only up to Emily. I heard there are more women besides her, but… well, since I’ve already accepted the harem, I don’t really mind.”
She was smiling radiantly. Up close, though, it was clear she had lost a little weight over the past few days. Dark circles showed under her eyes; she must have been sleeping poorly.
“But are you okay? If you’re tired, close your eyes for a bit.”
“I’m fine. Where are we going, though?”
“I was going to take you on a proper date, but looking at your condition, let’s just head home first. Somewhere… hmm, Suseo-dong.”
Given A-jeong’s state, introducing her to the other women right away felt premature. So I decided to check the house the Constellation had granted me and spend the night there.
“Honey. You touched Jumi too, didn’t you?”
“Poppy? Ah… yeah. Sorry.”
“Poppy?”
Park Jumi. The moment A-jeong’s friend Jumi came up, I panicked and blurted out “Poppy.”
“That… haah. Yeah. I took her and her mother in as revenge… and made them… bitches.”
“Mm… so Unnie was right. You divide them into Wife, Concubine, and Bitch. Jumi’s a Bitch?”
Thank god. She seemed to be accepting even something as perverted as the Bitch rank without flinching.
“Yeah. How did you know?”
“Jumi suddenly started acting awkward around me. I got suspicious, asked her, and she wouldn’t answer. So of course I thought of you.”
“I see… Sorry for taking your friend without asking.”
“Don’t be. Now that we’re all one family, it’s actually better. But… aren’t I a target of revenge too? Does that make me a Bitch as well?”
Pfft.
She said it with a bashful little smile. I stared at her for a moment, speechless, then shook my head.
“No. No matter what anyone says, you’re a Wife. My second Wife.”
“Woof!!!”
She leaned in and barked cutely right next to my ear. I couldn’t help laughing, then tightly clasped her hand and rested it on the gearshift.
“Enough. And Wives are foxes. Concubines are tigers.”
“Huh? How does a fox bark?”
“No idea. Aren’t they canines? Come to think of it… you’d have to have seen a fox first. Don’t they go ‘kyeng-kyeng’ or something?”
I genuinely had no idea how a fox barked. She snorted with laughter and leaned back against the seat.
“But why are Concubines tigers and Wives foxes? Isn’t a tiger higher?”
I was curious about that myself. Even if it was a nine-tailed fox, a tiger still seemed superior.
Though few in number, the Multi-Tailed Fox Tribe are the kings of the Beastkin. The White Tiger Tribe are formidable in their own right, yet they cannot match the foxes in sorcery. Together with the Red Eagle Tribe, these two stand at the absolute apex.
Ah…
“Not just any fox. A Nine-tailed Fox.”
“Haha. A Nine-tailed Fox? Well, if it’s that, then yeah. Honey, don’t laugh for a second.”
“Hm?”
Her face flushed as she looked out the window. Then she murmured quietly.
“I, Seo A-jeong, am Kim Ian’s slave.”
Ah… Hye-yun put her up to this.
In that instant, time stopped. The cars passing by froze mid-motion, and my own car came to a complete halt.
Seo A-jeong will be registered as a Wife. Equipment has already been issued; proceed with the body modification. There is one point of caution, however. The Constellation has also granted a special benefit.
“A point of caution?”
Configure Seo A-jeong so that she feels pleasure when struck, exactly as you did with Han Ju-ae. This costs zero points.
Make her feel pleasure when hit? Was that even a real instruction or just nonsense?
Still, it wouldn’t harm me, so I nodded. There had to be a reason.
“Is that all the special benefit is?”
After you ejaculate into Seo A-jeong and bring her to climax, elixir pills will be transferred into your Subspace. They have been sorted by Wife, Slave, and Concubine, each labeled with a name. Distribute one to each assigned person. Anyone outside the designated recipients will find them nothing more than lumps of plastic, so do not be greedy. There are also three Special Elixir Pills; give those to Jeong Hye-yun, Seo A-jeong… and the woman who most captivates you among those you will meet later in America.
“What? Why?”
No answer came. I sat there blankly for several minutes, calling for Jini without performing the body modification, but she remained silent. In the end I simply replayed what I had heard and began the modification.
Being in a car made it awkward, yet my gaze locked onto the naked form of A-jeong that materialized before my eyes. Her breasts were a somewhat disappointing C-cup, her hips thirty-five inches, but all of that was overshadowed by a pure, snow-white pussy. When I slipped a finger inside, the walls chewed and suckled at it—definitely a myeong-gi, though not quite on Hyeon-ju’s level.
I set her to D-cup breasts and forty-one-inch hips, then meticulously installed every enhancement. I also added the same setting I had given Han Ju-ae: pleasure from being struck.
I stared blankly at that clean, virginal-looking pussy until I felt time begin to flow again.
“Hye-yun told you to do that?”
“Yeah. She said anyone who wants to join your harem has to say it at least once. But it was so embarrassing.”
“Alright. I’ll let it slide for you. Normally you’re supposed to bow while you say it.”
“Pfft. You’ve changed a lot.”
She looked straight at me and smiled prettily. Even though I was driving and shouldn’t keep glancing over, that beautiful expression kept stealing my eyes.
“What? How so…”
“The first time I saw you sitting pitifully on that little scooter, I fell for you. Protective instinct, maybe? A handsome guy looking so forlorn… I just wanted to protect him.”
“Ah… so that’s why you sat down next to me and started talking.”
It was right around the start of second year of high school. I had been sitting on my scooter, spacing out, when someone approached, held a warm cup of coffee in front of my eyes, and sat down beside me. The beauty I had only known as Hyeong-cheol’s older sister.
—You’re Ian, right? Here, drink this.
It had even been snowing that day; I still couldn’t forget it. That warm smile… and the sudden surge of possessiveness, the thought that if this woman were mine…
“You remember?”
“Of course. It was White Day, too. Even though you bought it at a convenience store, you still gave me chocolate.”
“Hehe. I remember too. Your shy smile… and the way your eyes looked at me like you wanted me so badly.”
“Weren’t you scared?”
“No. I liked it.”
She leaned against my arm. A fragrant scent tickled my nose.
“But I like this too. Because I was struggling, the confident you of right now is even better. I can rely on you.”
“Yeah.”
For a while we said nothing. Did she still remember those days when we had dated with pure hearts for a whole year? The year flashed by like a lantern show. Back then every evening had been something to look forward to; we were always together. Of course, we never had sex.
“Ian. Am I allowed to be this happy? Hyeong-cheol is going crazy…”
“Well… I connected him with Master Hwa-ryun, so he’ll get better. That monk can peel off something like an Aegwi pretty easily.”
“Huh? Ah… Master Hwa-ryun? Right, that was the name. You were the one who introduced him?”
“Yeah. I was worried you’d be upset, so I called him to the funeral hall. He came gladly, but said there was another monk in Seoul and told Hyeong-cheol to go up there. I gave him the phone number.”
“Ah… so that’s why… Then all those guys had Aegwi attached to them?”
“Yeah. Do you know Yeong-ho?”
I nodded and asked her. She shook her head. Come to think of it, she had been overseas all last year, so it made sense she wouldn’t know him. I nodded again.
“No.”
“Hyeong-cheol’s gang took turns raping a kid named Yeong-ho. They even threatened him into bringing his mother, and she hanged herself… became a ghost. She’s the one who called the Aegwi.”
“Ah!!! …So Hyeong-cheol is into guys too?”
“Don’t know about that. Looking at what they did to Yeong-ho, he can’t be completely without that taste.”
Build-up. I carefully laid the groundwork so she would accept Hyeong-cheol turning gay.
“Ah… poor Yeong-ho.”
“I heard he was safely sent off and reincarnated. Don’t worry.”
“But Master Hwa-ryun will remove Hyeong-cheol’s ghost, right?”
“Yeah. I just got a text that he was heading to Seoul. He’ll probably strip the Aegwi off Hyeong-cheol right away.”
I felt a little bad for Master Hwa-ryun. He seemed to perform exorcisms without taking money, going wherever a ghost was.
“Thank you. You must have hated helping Hyeong-cheol.”
“It’s nothing. He’s your little brother. As long as I don’t have to see him, it’s fine.”
A look of relief settled over her face; the anxiety drained away. Still, something else seemed to be weighing on her; she wasn’t completely bright yet.
“If there’s anything else worrying you, tell me.”
“It’s… my parents are getting divorced. While I was on Jeju Island, Mom called and said she’d filed for divorce. Dad shouted that he’d settle out of court instead of going through litigation.”
“Ah…”
Sorry… damn it. Maybe I should have held back a little longer.
“Is that why you looked so dark?”
“No. My parents divorcing is fine. I think Dad hit Mom on Jeju. But I’m worried about Mom. She’s secretly a weak person… so… never mind. I’ll tell you later.”
Ju-ae doesn’t seem like the weak type…
If she had been suffering, it was probably because she couldn’t control her own temper. A-jeong looked like she wanted to ask something, then shook her head. I had been wondering whether to bring it up first, so I opened my mouth.
“A-jeong, I have something to say too.”
“Hm?”
“About your mother.”
“Oh. Why? Are you going to take her in? Like Hye-yun Unnie?”
“Huh? What did Hye-yun say?”
“She said you’d take Mom in together. That you like mother-daughter rice-bowl sets. The car you got secondhand was from Jeong-mi, right?”
“Holy— you know about Jeong-mi too? …Yeah. So about that…”
“You’re really going to take Mom in? After she treated you so cruelly?”
A-jeong beamed. She kept glancing at me, clearly nervous, and squeezed my hand tightly; her palm felt a little sweaty.
“A-jeong… let me start by saying I was wrong first. I’m sorry, A-jeong.”
“Ah… so not even Mom…”
“No… it’s not that. The day you asked me, I got drunk with your mother and… we had an accident.”
I glanced at her, then confessed after dressing it up a little. My heart pounded; I couldn’t bring myself to look at her properly.
Then a soft laugh reached my ears.
Pfft.
“Really? Ah!!! Thank goodness. According to Hye-yun Unnie, once a woman is in your arms she’s happier than she’s ever been as a woman. Now Mom can live happily too.”
I stared blankly at the radiant smile on A-jeong’s face, then forced my eyes back to the road. That was her entire reaction. It was nothing like what I had expected.
Seo A-jeong is the one who personally persuaded Han Ju-ae and brought her into the harem. She is the sort of person who will do anything if it is something you like. There were other reasons as well, of course…
Ah… A-jeong…
“Wait a second. Then let’s call Mom too. Or should I call her Ju-ae now?”
“Uh… Ju-ae is a Bitch-rank, sorry. Call her Ppo-ae.”
“What… hohoho. Okay, Ppo-ae? Ah… so that’s what that meant. When Unnie told me a Bitch had been assigned… it was Ppo-ae?”
“…Hye-yun told you that far? Yeah. Your personal Bitch… and also a womb that will carry our child.”
“Holy… I can’t believe it. Is that even possible? I thought Hye-yun Unnie was just teasing…”
I pulled something out of thin air. A fox-ear headband, a fox tail, and a PB—Penis Band—and handed them to her.
“Don’t use the last one in front of me. Put that on, insert it into Ju-ae today, and when she climaxes, our child will probably transfer straight over there.”
A-jeong stared blankly into empty space. An unbelievable sight. After watching objects appear out of thin air, she accepted them and looked back and forth between me and the empty air in a daze.
“Ah… it’s real. My honey really does have a lot of strange things. Since when?”
“Since the day I met you—when my maternal grandfather appeared in a dream. That’s when this started. I’ll explain everything properly later when Hye-yun is with us.”
“Okay…”
She put the tail and the PB into the glove box for now, then slipped the headband on. Instantly the band vanished, leaving only a pair of cute white fox ears that twitched. She poked and prodded them, marveling.
“Wow… they really feel like ears…”
“Yeah. They’re cute… too cute.”
Watching A-jeong fiddle with the ears in a daze, I decided to spill everything while I was at it.
“And A-jeong. About Yeong-ho’s mother earlier…”
“Hm? …Ah… yeah. Why?”
“She wants to come under you. As a Concubine. She even told Ju-ae she wants to be a pillow for me and our child.”
“What? Hohoho. Honey, you didn’t have to struggle so hard to say that.”
“Huh? You’re okay with it?”
“Well… just accepting Mom is already more than enough. Okay… I feel so sorry for that kid Yeong-ho. If this is a way to atone even a little… I’ll do it.”