Chapter 273 The Crown Prince's Intention
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 273
Chapter Title: The Crown Prince's Intention
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Jeong Yoo-shin poked the heavy breast that was sticking out through the wooden window.
Flinch.
A delicate tremor ran up his finger.
The reaction was fun, so he repeated it a few more times.
Squeeze.
Poke.
The black lace bra crumpled, and Mion's sticky breast also sank in.
It was soft and warm, like a chunk of freshly melted cheese.
'This is Mion's heart.'
His troubled mood settled down.
Why did a man's heart feel at ease when he touched a woman's breast?
Didn't every man live with a 'baby' in his heart?
The question was brief, and his head went blank.
'What was I going to ask?'
It didn't matter.
Just for this moment, he wanted to act like a 'baby.'
He raised his hand and played with Mion's breast, kneading it.
He pressed it firmly with his palm, and he also tickled it.
He gently massaged it along the nipple.
Finally, he lifted her underboob and sniffed it.
The heavy breast was pressed and stroked, and its shape changed, but it was still beautiful.
As time passed, Mion's trembling grew more pronounced.
Mion hurriedly covered her mouth.
'S-Skar-nim! The way you touch it is too lewd!'
She didn't know the reason, but Skar-nim's touch today was persistent and yet mischievous.
Moreover, he had become so skillful that he was now unrecognizable to her.
When her nipple, which had been quietly sleeping inside her underwear, noticed the touch of the person she liked and stealthily began to raise its head…
Mion's embarrassment reached its peak.
"S-Skar-nim!"
Jeong Yoo-shin heard Mion's urgent voice from beyond the small window.
"Ah."
And so, he finally came to his senses.
Because Mion had been fondled for quite a long time, a suffocating heat and a savory smell of milk wafted from her breast.
The outline of her stiffly erect nipple was unabashedly revealed over the lace bra.
'How lewd.'
"Priestess Mion-nim."
"Yeeeees."
"Do you think Cian likes me a lot?"
"..."
The awkward silence was brief. Mion's sunken voice then leaked out of the wooden window.
"Skar-nim."
"Yes."
"Are you bringing up another woman just after fondling my breast?"
Oops.
Come to think of it, that was too trashy of a move.
"S-Sorry."
"By any chance, have you held anyone else besides me and Karin-nim?"
Suddenly, the atmosphere in the confessional turned into an interrogation room.
How had she found out that he had sex with Karin?
"Uh... that is…"
Jeong Yoo-shin hesitated and racked his brain for a while.
Mion's voice went up slightly.
"N-No way, you've held so many women that you have to think about it… Eek!"
Jeong Yoo-shin's expression hardened.
A crisis.
The way to get through this was…
To strike first.
Squeeeeze.
He put strength into his hand and gently squeezed Mion's breast.
"Mion."
"Y-Yes, yes."
"I'm not that much of a piece of trash."
"A-Alright. Please relax your hand..."
"I slept with Vivian."
"..."
Mion, who had been silent for a while, opened her mouth.
"A-As expected, is that so?"
"I slept with Cian too."
"...Skar-nim."
"Yes."
"Skar-nim, are you a playboy by any chance?"
"..."
Jeong Yoo-shin kept his mouth shut.
Maybe so. Because he had slept with several women.
But come to think of it, he felt that it was a bit unfair.
Except for Cian, he had never directly seduced anyone.
'In fact, I'm the victim here.'
Weren't they the women who had driven him into a corner using aphrodisiacs, spells, and hypnosis?
Although he had barely managed to turn the situation around and correct them…
The sense of unfairness still remained in his heart.
Jeong Yoo-shin lightly pinched Mion's bulging nipple with his fingers.
"Eek!"
Mion's body trembled. Mion, who had been letting out hot breaths for a while now, barely managed to open her mouth.
"S-Skar-nim?"
"Mion, I’ve never seduced anyone."
Except for Cian.
"..."
Mion had no answer to that.
He grabbed the stretched lace bra and pulled it to the side.
Squish.
Mion’s pure white breast, glistening with sweat, shone obscenely.
Her pink areola and stiffly erect nipple protruded sharply, revealing a lewd figure.
He grabbed the tip of Mion's nipple with his index finger and thumb and gently scratched it.
"Nghit!"
Mion let out a cute moan.
"Karin used an aphrodisiac on me. And Mion used hypnosis on me, didn't you? And yet I'm a playboy?"
"S-Sorryyyy."
Mion's voice, which sounded weak, trembled pitifully.
It was insolent, yet cute and lovely.
Jeong Yoo-shin stopped his hand.
He should stop tormenting her.
He had to get back to the main point.
"Priestess Mion-nim, I'm not trying to do anything to Cian. Just..."
Jeong Yoo-shin talked all about Gibson.
From the evil deeds that guy had committed before joining the hero's party to the slave trade business scheme he had recently joined.
"...That's why I'm asking. If Cian had to choose between me and that Gibson guy, I was wondering who she would choose."
"W-Wait a minute! Then the woman you mentioned earlier...?"
"Yes, it's Cian. I wanted to know how much she likes me..."
Mion's face turned bright red.
The topic wasn’t her breast, but Cian's breast.
'To think that I vulgarly offered my breast without even knowing that.'
She wanted to die of embarrassment.
"S-Sorry. I didn't even know that, and my b-breast...! I'll put it away right now."
Mion tried to stealthily pull back her breast that was sticking out through the window.
However…
Jeong Yoo-shin pressed her breast firmly with his palm to prevent her from pulling it back.
The flustered Mion stiffened.
And she heard a firm voice.
"No. You can't do that. Just leave it where it is for now."
"Y... Yes."
"Mion, please tell me. How much do you think Cian likes me?"
"..."
Mion was silent for a while.
Jeong Yoo-shin, having nothing else to do, played with Mion's bare breast again.
It was cute how it trembled every time he poked her plumply rising nipple.
"So, Skar-nim, you're trying to judge Cian-nim’s favorability based on whether she lets you suck her breast or not?"
Nevertheless, Mion's voice was calm. The sight of her suppressing her pleasure and trying to grasp the situation…
She was so lovely that he unconsciously wanted to torment her more, but he held back and answered.
"Yes."
"...I don't think Cian-nim would choose someone just because she likes them more."
"You mean...?"
"Skar-nim, you have to understand the situation of Cian-nim, who came from the Empire. To Cian-nim, this place is no different from the heart of an enemy country. Moreover, she has a heavy mission. Even if she knows of Gibson's evil deeds, I don't think anything will change 'right now'."
"Is that so?"
"Yes. Because there’ll be no one to take over the role of a guide afterwards. Even if there were, wouldn't it be hard for her to trust them? Of course, if time passes and she socializes with various people in Labyrinth City and recruits a skilled talent, I think she’ll naturally expel Gibson from the party."
"..."
Jeong Yoo-shin stroked his chin with one hand.
'As expected, right?'
Mion's words were persuasive.
Suddenly, he remembered the first time he had entered the labyrinth.
He had really suffered because of Karl's party, who didn't listen to him at all.
Because he had seen all sorts of flaws in their party, he had wanted to abandon them several times, but he had endured and cooperated with them instead.
It was the right choice at the time. Because they had joined forces, they were able to survive even in an extreme situation.
Perhaps…
To Cian…
This city might be an extension of the labyrinth.
"Skar-nim, are you definitely going to kill Gibson?"
At Mion's question, Jeong Yoo-shin nodded.
"Yes. That guy has to die. Honestly, I don't know if I'll be able to kill him, though."
Even if the man lived out of his mind with alcohol and gambling, his combat ability was the most outstanding among the guides he had seen so far.
In the end, the problem boiled down to one thing again.
That he couldn't know Cian's true heart.
"Skar-nim."
"Yes."
"It's also a good idea to clash your hearts directly."
"..."
"Because a person's heart is a labyrinth, it's meaningless to make predictions from an outside’s perspective. How about taking some time to have a frank conversation with Cian-nim?"
Jeong Yoo-shin smiled.
It was the most Mion-like solution. His heart felt much more at ease.
"I understand."
Jeong Yoo-shin gently stroked Mion's breast and kissed it.
Smooch.
"Hmph♥"
"Thank you, Mion. My heart feels much more at ease. Then I'll see you later!"
Jeong Yoo-shin quickly greeted her, shot up from his seat, and left the confessional.
"Y-You're just going to leave like this?! Haaaaaa."
In the empty confessional, only Mion's heated voice echoed quietly.
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Jeong Yoo-shin left the temple and returned to the inn.
Because he had rubbed Mion's soft and plump breast to his heart's content and had also poured out his inner thoughts to her, his head had cleared up.
'I might be a happy person.'
In the dark Labyrinth City…
Mion's holy breast was a ray of light to him.
As he was tidying up the inn and about to sit in the counter chair and close his eyes.
The door opened, and someone came.
It was Aldein's subordinate, the boar beast-person, Snout.
"Skar-nim!"
"Snout?"
"I heard that you killed an executive of the Vaisis Clan this time!"
"Yeah? Who did you hear it from?"
"Aldein-nim told me. As expected, you're amazing!"
Jeong Yoo-shin waved his hand with a tired expression.
"It wasn't a big deal. By the way, what did you come here for?"
"Ah! Aldein-nim is calling for you."
"Alright."
Jeong Yoo-shin headed for the monster dismantler shop with Snout.
Aldein was sitting between the monster corpses, resting, as if he had just finished dismantling.
"Hoo. Skar, you're here? I saw the fight. Was it that Johannes guy? It couldn't have been easy, you worked hard."
"Were you there?"
"I saw it while coming and going. Here, take this."
Aldein handed him two pieces of parchment sealed with wax from his pocket.
"What’s this?"
"The history of the hero party's priest and mage."
Jeong Yoo-shin broke the seal, unfolded the parchment, and read it.
Priest Luther Bernstein.
Belongs to the Central Inquisition Office.
Senior Inquisitor.
Fundamentalist.
Openly claims that the hero Cian, who has received the divinity of Lux Aeterna, has a higher status than the Emperor of the Empire.
Jeong Yoo-shin frowned and unfolded the next parchment.
Sebastian Terbine.
The 3rd son of the Terbine family, a high-ranking noble of the Empire.
One of the disciples of the Imperial Mage Tower Master.
Has outstanding talent, but due to his arrogant personality, he has caused several major conflicts within the Mage Tower.
Some conflicts have caused irreversible and severe damage to the Imperial Mage Tower.
Suspected of murdering another disciple of the Mage Tower Master.
"What the fuck…?"
Riiiiiiip!!!
Jeong Yoo-shin spat out a curse and tore the parchment into shreds.
They had skills, but the Empire had sent out guys who deserved to die.
The only sane person was Cian.
Jeong Yoo-shin rubbed his forehead and sighed.
Only then did the crown prince's intention become clear to him.
"It was really a garbage disposal."
Killing two birds with one stone.
No.
Killing three birds with one stone.
Getting rid of Cian, a potential political opponent who had received more blessings than the Emperor.
Taking care of the Empire's impure elements and troublemakers, and at the same time, taking credit with the Eastern Alliance.
If these guys were killed clumsily…
The crown prince would bring up a justification, putting forward the deaths of the hero's party members.
He would have something to condemn when he accused the Eastern Alliance for outrageously ignoring the Empire's goodwill.
It seemed as if he could hear the crown prince's whisper from far away.
'Are you going to kill Gibson or not?'
A poisoned apple.
A building with a missing pillar.
A party that would collapse even if left alone.
The crown prince had put him in this party to use him as a catalyst for chaos.
"That crown prince bastard, his skill in passing the buck has become an artform. It seems like not just anyone can become a crown prince."
At Jeong Yoo-shin's words, Aldein chuckled.
"Skar, in fact, you're a formidable guy too."
"Where else would you find a pure person like me?"
"..."
Aldein blinked and looked at Jeong Yoo-shin.
This Skar bastard, who had grasped the crown prince's dark ulterior motive at once, was pure?
"Skar, don't suddenly spout bullshit. My heart skipped a beat just now. So, what’re you going to do?"
"What do you mean by ‘What am I going to do?' Gibson will die one way or another."
Whether he was swept away by pleasure and died in ruin…
Or whether he died while being used by the Eastern District underworld guys…
Death was waiting for him regardless.
"I have to kill him before he commits any more dog shit."
"What about the rest of the party members?"
"I'll think about that when the time comes. Thank you for the information."
Jeong Yoo-shin left the dismantler shop, returned to the inn, and began preparing for the exploration.
He packed exploration supplies…
And he bought plenty of potions.
He also sent Eru and Armin back.
The two were quite disappointed, but it was an unavoidable decision.
Because the Eastern District guys were after him, the inn wasn’t a safe place to be in.
Instead, Snout decided to manage the inn for him.
A week later, in the evening.
The day of the labyrinth exploration arrived.
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T/N - Damn, quite clever of the crown prince. Truly, killing 3 birds with one stone. If they’re going to die, they have to die in such a way that it shows their incompetence, that way the Eastern Alliance has a counter argument.
Also, well, credit to the MC, he really wasn’t seducing anyone other than Cian. His corruption and incubus imprints did all the work for him. 😂