15.
"Ha, refreshing."
After washing herself clean, Lina had returned to her former clear and bold self.
"What do we do with this pervert?"
Lina frowned as she looked at Tony hyung, who was deep asleep after passing out.
"Ha ha, he worked so hard for us. Let's just let him sleep soundly, what's the harm."
"Heh, Louis. You mustn't be influenced by a pervert like that...!"
"What do I..."
"Louis, if you ever follow him to some weird place, you'll die, you know."
"Absolutely, absolutely not! I have only Lina, you know?"
Tony hyung's grand ambition to make me the world's greatest 'Trainer'.
His sincere heart, wanting to achieve through me the dream he couldn't fulfill himself, was genuine.
Lina still felt chills from the way Tony hyung had looked at me, and she kept scolding and re-scolding me.
Then she suddenly recalled something and said.
"But, Louis."
"Yeah, what?"
"My memory is a bit hazy, but..."
"What is it?"
"Didn't we call Igor ahjussi 'Master'?"
"Uh... I think I might have heard that too."
Lina's face turned serious in an instant.
If Igor ahjussi really is Tony hyung's revered master?
If he's a truly incredible 'Trainer'?
Then, right now, Liz noona, who is working as an actress in the theater troop run by Igor ahjussi...
Could it be?
Come to think of it, when we returned after finishing our four-year pilgrimage journey, the thing that surprised us most was Liz noona's completely transformed 180-degree changed appearance.
Lina's own sister, Liz noona.
Three years older than us, she was always kind and beautiful.
Unlike Lina, whose beauty had recently blossomed dramatically, Liz noona had been beautiful since childhood.
Unlike Lina, who had once seemed like a holy image, Liz noona had been ever demure and elegant since she was young.
Since childhood, Liz noona had displayed such astonishing divine power that people said, 'Could she be the Goddess incarnate?'.
Having received abundant blessings of the Goddess and often performing amazing miracles, naturally she had been undergoing rigorous training under the High Priest's guidance since a young age.
She, who had been certain to become the next High Priest...
When we returned after the four-year pilgrimage,
She had laid down the priesthood and become an actress in a theater troop.
Even her lovely long hair had been chopped short into a bob.
Even the light in her eyes seemed somewhat different.
Ha... How surprised we were back then....
Now, because she is a sister who is satisfied and happy with her work, we didn't ask deeply,
but strangely, Liz noona had never invited us to her performances.
She said she was embarrassed, and wouldn't let family come.
Could it be...
That being an actress in the theater troop...
If Igor ahjussi is that Trainer whom Tony hyung serves as his master...
Then being an actress in a theater run by such an ahjussi...
Could it be...
"Puhahaha! No way...!!"
For a long moment we were seized by ominous thoughts, then we burst into hollow laughter, holding our bellies and cackling merrily.
"Nah, we must have misheard, right? Like, Igor ahjussi?"
"That's right, Lina. Igor ahjussi is probably the most harmless person in the world."
"Puht, yeah. Louis, an ahjussi who's even more airheaded than you could be a Trainer?"
"Wait, what!? Why am I airheaded...!"
"Heheheheh. I must say, it's really funny that I worried even this airheaded Louis would say he'd become a Trainer. Right?"
I pulled Lina, who was teasing me for being airheaded, manfully into my arms and held her close.
I was showing manly bravado.
Hehehehehe.
Even though it was an enormous ejaculation that erupted due to the Demonic Energy,
it was a body that had completely subdued Lina anyway.
"Wh-hat...?"
"Stay still a moment!"
"Tch, even a fool like Louis."
Was it that my bold behavior was so ridiculous she stayed still...?
Or was it that the intense memory from yesterday still remained in her body...?
For some reason, Lina was snugly nestled in my arms.
I smelled the fragrant soap and her distinctive pleasant body scent.
Nowhere to be found was the scent of a female in heat from last night.
Feeling each other's warmth within my embrace, soaking in a small happiness, Lina had already returned to my pure wife.
Of course, at the same time she had also returned to being 'Glutton Lina'.
Growl..
Lina's stomach let out a loud hunger alarm.
"Ha, Lina. Are you hungry?"
"That's why I say you're airheaded! When a lady's stomach growls, it's polite to pretend you didn't notice!"
Glutton Lina went straight down to the inn's first-floor dining area.
The inn ran smoothly even without us.
The one who made that possible, a benefactor-like fellow, was waiting for us with an anxious expression at the bottom of the stairs.
He quickly examined my eyes, then sighed with relief as if assured and said.
"Louis-nim, you're alright now, right?"
"This sly spy guy's here to snoop again?"
A mischievous smile tugged at Lina's lips.
Then she darted at the guy who was staring at me worriedly, put him in a headlock, and began tormenting him.
"Ow! Uggh, that hurts!"
"You sly spy guy! Were you going to scurry off and tattle again?"
"Ouch...! Lina-nim, please let me go..!"
Lina, with an uncle-like face, kneaded his chest and said incredulously.
"Really, it's strange.
Adel, this guy looks clearly like a girl to me...
Yet he has no chest, and he keeps insisting that he's a man to the death..."
A deep playfulness was on Lina's face.
She kneaded her hands and stared at Adel's pants waist and said.
"Should I just check directly, then?
He was a guy who hid his identity to get in, could he not fake his gender too? Hehehehe."
"Hieek... Lina-nim, I-I'm really a man..!!"
At Lina's lewd joke, Adel was startled, both hands blocking his pants.
His tear-choked face was that of a girl so dazzlingly beautiful you could believe she was a noble young lady.
Of course, the guy really was a man.
I had seen it clearly when we bathed together.
That enormous size of his weapon, utterly unfitting his delicate appearances...
But aside from that,
both his appearance and personality were completely like a delicate, soft girl.
Teasing him was one of Lina's daily amusements.
The guy's name is Adel.
He is now twenty years old, a year younger than us.
An incredibly competent manager who practically runs our inn.
If we didn't have him.
Ha, just thinking about it was terrifying.
The inn, started simply with the purpose of providing travelers warm meals and lodging.
But my expectations as a novice owner were completely off.
The four-year pilgrimage journey of me and Lina, who saved the world.
Those who wanted to imitate us by following our footsteps grew more and more, and it began to spread like a fad.
The pilgrimage course, which only required walking the path, could be finished in about six months.
The pilgrimage path, now well-developed like a tourist route, was a course that began and ended at our inn.
Thanks to that, despite its not-very-large scale, it became an inn always bustling with people.
That was impossible for me, a novice owner, and Lina to manage.
In the early days, no matter how many staff we hired, the inn couldn't run properly and we were always struggling.
It was then that Adel appeared like a savior.
He is so good at work that he placed staff in the right spots and built a systematic system.
Lina and I basically were just playing inn, and the actual operation was entirely in his hands.
He was practically a benefactor to us,
and we trusted him boundlessly and treated him like a dear younger brother, because he was so kind and pretty and cute...
Ha...
To think he was a spy who hid his identity.
He was an apprentice priest dispatched by the High Priest to monitor and keep close watch on my condition.
Although he was incredibly smart,
the innocent and for-some-reason clumsy guy got caught by us red-handed a few months ago.
Because it was a grave matter concerning the world's fate, the High Priest had had no choice but to deceive us.
Knowing well the heart of that person who truly cares for us...
And because we had grown fond of Adel, we generously forgave and let it pass.
But from then on, Lina started tormenting him.
For the reason that 'the more I tease him, the funnier his reactions are,' Lina harassed Adel around like a middle-aged uncle who habitually sexually harasses.
He would get teary-eyed and sniffle at just a little prank.
To Lina, Adel had become a very fun toy.
"Lina-nim, please stop. Sniff... Hwaaaang."
Of course, there is a sense of punishment for the guy who had deceived us with an innocent face and infiltrated the inn under false pretenses,
but still, seeing Adel being tormented by Lina was really pitiful.
Tomboy gangster Lina.
When we were children, she used to torment me like that too...
Back then, I used to run away from Lina to escape...
Sigh, really.
Years passed and we became adults, but Lina had't changed one bit.
"Hehehehehe, Adel, you sly spy. Go ahead and tattle...!"
"Ouch! Lina-nim, ha... I'm really busy, it's lunchtime!"
Sway, sway.
Lina, who had Adel in a headlock while wrapping around his neck,
shook him vigorously without even aware that her ample chest was pressing against his face.
" How is it, Adel...!! Does it hurt? Hehehe"
If she thought of him as a man, it was an act too embarrassing to do, but Adel's girlish appearance was enough to erase that wariness.
And since Lina had't confirmed with her own eyes that the guy had a pennis, she was still suspicious.
She was still half-doubtful that Adel might be a girl.
The Lina who had been tormenting him like a thug released the headlock and said.
"Adel, your unnie here is hungry, so go prepare lunch quickly!"
"Ha, Lina-nim is the owner of the inn. Aren't you being too irresponsible?"
Adel, barely freed from Lina's headlock attack, backed away far behind him.
Once he felt safe distance was secured, he scratched his head and pointed around the dining area with a finger.
"At lunchtime, which is like a battlefield swarming with people. Lina-nim, you should at least watch the counter!"
He turned his gaze and stared pointedly even at me and added.
Though he might look delicate and innocent on the surface, when it came to work, he was a competent manager without a single flaw.
"Louis-nim, you should go into the kitchen and cook, too! Right now, with the flood of orders, the staff alone is insufficient!"
But to Lina, he was completely ripe for the plucking.
Like a bully girl tormented a nerdy boy, she grabbed him again and began tormenting.
"Shut up. Your unnie said she's hungry, didn't she? First feed me, then put me to work!"
"Ouch! Ha... No, Lina-nim is the owner of the inn, isn't she?"
Lina, who should be a responsible owner, was childishly throwing a tantrum at an employee. Her bulldozing behavior made me feel embarrassed for a moment.
At that moment, Adel, who was caught and unable to move, his face suddenly turn red.
His reaction was't because of Lina.
It was because of Lina's older sister, Liz noona.
"Lina, are you tormenting Adel again?"
The reason Adel, even after being exposed as a spy, couldn't leave this inn and remained in the village.
It was because of Liz noona.
The guy was hopelessly in one-sided love.
A priest who was supposed to serve the Goddess and preserve his chastity, fallen in love and now walking the path of apostasy.
At Liz noona's appearance, Adel momentarily lost his senses and was grinning dazedly.
To him, it seemed the Goddess was now Liz noona.
Adel, who had become a fallen apostate.
It didn't look like they were dating, and it seemed to be a one-sided crush from Adel...
But they gave off an unknowable atmosphere.
"Louis-ya~~~."
Liz noona, her ample chest swaying, rushed toward me with joy.
With her affectionate disposition, she was always so gentle and benevolent that I'd never once seen her angry in my life.
Her kind nature, unable to refuse other's requests, resembled me more than the greedy and wild Lina.
Such a noona threw her arms around me with an innocent face.
Her fragrant and comforting distinctive scent wafted out.
At that sight, Lina and Adel—
Sparks of subtle jealousy glinted in both of their eyes.
"Ha, noona. It's been a while. Is theater work going well?"
"Well, so-so."
"Can't we go see your performance too? Invite us sometime."
"N-no! It's embarrassing."
"Tch, what kind of professional actress says that."
"I can't show my family."
Liz noona shook her head with a slightly flush face.
Just how someone who was excessively shy from the start became an actress was still a mystery.
Thump, thump—.
At that moment, together with other theater members, Igor ahjussi entered the dining area.
"Louis-ya~~ Hurry and warmly fill this ahjussi's starving belly!"
Defying his past-middle-age,
Igor ahjussi came in with an innocent face like a child who had't been soiled by the world.
Thump, thump—.
He tapped his belly which swayed adorably.
He had a fool-like strange charisma that disarmed people's wariness, just like a panda.
Lina and I were once again realizing how absurd the suspicions we'd briefly harbored earlier in the room were.
'Heheh... There's no way such an adorably fool-like ahjussi could be a Trainer.'
'Igor ahjussi corrupting Liz unni? Hehe. That makes no sense.'
But...