Chapter 56
Chapter 56
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 56
Chapter Title: Make a Boyfriend and Wait Quietly. Then I'll Come Steal You Away.
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Returning to the dormitory, Lena.
She turned off the room's lights and spread out her notebook in the darkness.
Scritch-scratch-
Stitching each letter with care, her handwriting meticulous.
It wasn't reviewing class notes or handling her duties as student council secretary.
This was a 'ritual' to infuse curses with her will.
Click-
Lena switched the color of her ballpoint pen.
'Black is the color of malice and negativity.'
The three-color ballpoint pen she always carried with her.
At a glance, it seemed like an ordinary writing tool, but it was a Constellation.
A Constellation harboring different types of curses in each color.
'Red is the color of bloodshed.'
The pen clicked once more.
'And blue is...'
Lena's hand paused as she tried to write.
'The color I can't use.'
Even as a chosen hero, she dared not touch blue.
Hecate hadn't granted permission.
She didn't mind much.
Black and red alone were enough to craft powerful curses.
As she wrote diligently, the pen's ink ran dry.
The Constellation was being capricious.
The pen floated up into the air—whoosh—and spoke to her.
"Lena Erandel. Your will is thicker than usual today."
"Lady Hecate."
"Who is this curse for?"
"Kim Taeyang... the guy who tormented me."
"Tormented you? Now that's intriguing."
It was a past she didn't want to revisit.
But she couldn't defy the Constellation's words.
Lena cautiously dredged up the memory.
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Lena hailed from a backwater village in Eastern Europe.
The tiny hamlet had barely twenty residents.
There were no kids her age.
As the neighborhood's only child, she should have been doted on by the neighbors...
But even that was denied to Lena.
Her father's temperament was too vicious.
He was always drunk, beating her mother and threatening the neighbors.
Back then, she thought it was just how things were.
Lena's world had been that small.
Then one day.
A boy she'd never seen appeared in the village.
"Whoa~ Found a snow-white European sow☆"
"?"
His speech was strangely off-putting and dangerous, but since he was the first kid her age she'd met, she only felt intrigued.
"Hey, you live around here?"
"Yeah... Who are you, big bro?"
"This body's name is Kim Taeyang. Came to play at my dad's new villa."
"Villa?"
"Ugh! Cut the boring questions and give me a tour!!"
Kim Taeyang, the Asian boy.
He was bigger and more muscled than Lena.
She naturally assumed he was a year or two older.
"I play by the stream, catching fish or frogs."
"Hah? That's lame as hell. Figures for a country bumpkin."
"It's fun though... Wanna smash a fish with a rock?"
"Smash it with a rock?"
"Like this."
Splat!
Lena's idea of play was pretty twisted back then.
Maybe it was inevitable.
Her entire world was steeped in violence.
"This girl's got a total delinquent vibe—hilarious! You bully animals like this every day?"
"Yeah. Their reactions are funny. You try it, big bro. I'll catch one for you."
"Nah, that's gross."
"Wanna kick a puppy instead? They yelp and cry when you do—super fun."
"Not interested."
Kim Taeyang didn't seem thrilled about tormenting animals.
But he took a liking to bullying something else.
"Ugh! Sow handle time!"
"Eek!"
Yanking Lena's hair,
"Sow-exclusive nuke noogie!"
"Ow!!"
giving her noogies,
"Sow, that smartphone of yours from the Middle Ages or what? Looks like a relic—hilarious. Hand it over!"
"Ah...!"
snatching her stuff,
"Hold your piss till I say so?"
"Okay......"
even controlling her bladder.
Lena ended up wetting herself at home during dinner without permission.
She got a huge scolding that day.
Still, Lena didn't hate Kim Taeyang.
'Gotta wake up super early tomorrow to play with big bro Taeyang!'
If anything, she grew more attached to him.
After all, home felt way more like hell.
At least with him around, something new and fun had entered her life.
Besides, with no friends, she had no clue what a healthy relationship looked like.
"This is how friends are supposed to be?"
"Duh, don't ask stupid questions? Treating your friend like a sow, and the sow obeying her master—that's common in the city."
"Oh..."
City.
That single word hypnotized Lena.
"I wanna go to the city too."
"Dream on, you country pig. Unless you Awaken, no chance. Heh heh."
"Yeah..."
Days passed like that.
Kim Taeyang bullied Lena often, and she grinned through it awkwardly.
To her young self, those were just happy days.
One rainy day, pitter-patter...
The day she lost her umbrella to him after losing rock-paper-scissors.
The day he walked ahead, hogging it all.
Soaked to the bone, Lena gazed at his broad back and confessed.
"I wanna marry you when I grow up."
Even for an eight-year-old, proposing took guts.
Kim Taeyang was nonchalant.
"Oh yeah?"
"I'd love to be your bride."
"Dream on. You're not my type."
"Why...?"
"'Cause you don't have a boyfriend. And you're not the type loved at home."
"?"
She didn't get it at first.
But after his explanation, it kinda clicked.
"I like stealing girls from other guys."
"Makes sense. You've stolen tons of my stuff already..."
"This body here's destined for Ark Academy, y'know?"
"Ark...?"
"The world's top hero school. You wouldn't know, country girl... Anyway, if you make it to Ark too, I'll put you on my bride list."
"Really?"
"Yeah. But make a boyfriend and wait quietly. No skinship with him—love him in your heart only. Then I'll come steal you away. Got it?"
"Yeah! I'll try!"
"Idiot! You think trying's enough?! Gotta Awaken to get into Ark! No way a backwater sow like you Awakens! Ugh! Eat this sow noogie and snap out of it!!"
"Eek! Sorry!!"
A hazy memory of that conversation lingered.
The next day.
Kim Taeyang left without a goodbye.
"Big bro Taeyang..."
Crying didn't help.
No way to contact him anymore.
Then, like a fairy tale, Lena Awakened.
Her parents divorced, and she moved to the city with her mom.
Adapting was tough at first.
Everyone saw her as weird and mean—no friends for a while.
Only in middle school did she learn city life and relationships.
As she grew wiser, memories of Kim Taeyang hit differently.
Her first love, who seemed so reliable—
'Was a total fucking bastard!!!'
A real son of a bitch.
Thinking how his influence got her ostracized in the city made her blood boil even more.
'If I ever see him again, I'll pay him back ten—no, a hundredfold!!'
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"This Kim Taeyang fellow... I rather like him."
"You're joking, right...?"
"Hm. I'm looking forward to an entertaining revenge drama."
The pen returned to her hand.
Lena wrote the curse calmly, forcefully.
- Kim Taeyang will strip naked and piss himself.
- Kim Taeyang will strip naked and piss himself.
- Kim Taeyang will strip naked and piss himself.
The most crucial moment.
Like when Kim Taeyang steps onto a stage or goes live nationwide.
That's when she'd chant the curse.
'I'll get revenge! Way worse than what he did to me!! I'll make him strip naked for everyone to see and piss himself!!!'
Kim Taeyang, pissing himself naked before the world.
This was the revenge she'd fantasized about for so long.
Not imagining it'd rebound on her completely.
*
After all classes ended, post-school hours.
I ignored the hotel-level cafeteria food and came to fill up on convenience store grub.
By now, I should qualify as a VVVIP regular...
"You damn fly bastard! Business tanks every time that shit fly shows up!"
But the store owner (mid-20s cool beauty S+ rank hottie. Big tits. Virgin.) treated me like this.
"Hah? No flies here?!"
"Hm. My mistake...? That'll be eighteen thousand eight hundred won, sir."
The woman rang me up indifferently.
I get it.
If I were her, I wouldn't welcome me either.
"I-it's Kim Taeyang."
"Don't make eye contact."
"Ice cream next time..."
Students spot me and bolt.
Soon, rumors spread: 'Kim Taeyang's at the store'—and that day's sales halve...!
What the hell did I do to deserve being avoided?!
"You look so wronged."
"Wouldn't you feel wronged?"
"I'm dying of injustice here too. Can't even put up 'No Delinquents Allowed' signs... Ugh."
"That's harsh, sis!!!"
"Sales are harsher!!!"
The convenience store owner with the beauty mark under her eye.
Her guts, unfazed by me, are no joke.
She's no ordinary person, after all.
'Succubus in disguise for a cover job, Yi Jeomsun.'
The villain who turns Ark into a 'sex academy' in the second semester.
A pitch-black heart hides behind that stunning face.
"Hey, Jeomsun sis. Don't underestimate me? Might snatch this store right up."
"Please, someone take it off my hands. You know how bad I wanna jump in the Han River, stuck with this money-losing headache...?"
No need to escalate now.
Things get fun when the real event kicks off.
As I headed out, someone fearlessly opened the door and entered.
"Taeyang, out wandering alone without your sows?"
"Hah? None of your business, bitch?"
Seol Harin and Cloé were off on their own time.
Cloé for a friend thing,
Seol Harin got called by a prof.
Wait... Did Seol Ha-jeong pull some scheme?
"Hey! You deliberately separate my sows?! Huh?! If you did, I'll kill you right here!!!"
"Such rough talk. To someone who might be your future wife?"
"Who'd marry a vicious bitch like you?!!"
The store owner butted into our spat.
"Shoo shoo. Take your fight outside, shit flies."
"Taeyang, wanna walk? I'm alone too."
"Tch."
No choice, I left with Seol Ha-jeong.
"Don't worry about Harin and Cloé. Just wanted some alone time with you."
"Got nothing to say to you."
"Really? Thought you'd wanna talk about Kuma."
Kuma, who declared herself a sow.
But that's our secret.
Publicly, she's still the dutiful vice student council president.
Essential for her spying gig.
Yet sharp-eyed Seol Ha-jeong already sniffed it out.
"Kuma defected to you, right?"
Her face said denying it wouldn't fly.
"So what're you gonna do about it?"
"Knew it! I may seem sloppy, but my instincts are sharp. Impressive, huh?"
Seol Ha-jeong, heir to the corporate throne.
Trained as chairman from childhood—instincts and cunning in spades.
Sneakier than she looks.
"What's impressive about losing a loyal subordinate? Total failure as a leader."
"Touché. But from now on, I'm going all out... Heard everything from Lena. About your relationship too."
"Hah? What relationship do I have with that bitch Lena?"
"Wasn't fishing for confirmation."
No, I really don't know...
Tell me? Please?
Instead of answering, Seol Ha-jeong said something random.
"Know what's most important in running a company?"
"Pfft—stamina."
"Wrong. Controlling emotions. Decisions must be rational, not swayed by feelings. I've been trained since childhood not to let emotions rule. If I show them, it's just strategy."
"What're you yapping about, nuisance sow? Forgot summoning that Bond Dragon in a rage last time?"
"That's how I learned your bravado's not all talk. Can't crush you with a Bond Dragon."
It was bravado though...?
Misunderstanding something, Seol Ha-jeong smugly continued, like she knew it all.
"Even I have limits. Seol Harin. My cute little sister..."
"You get off on tormenting your sow sister?"
Seol Ha-jeong's face froze cold.
Grit-
She clenched her teeth.
Jaw muscles twitched, forehead veins bulged.
Her madness-consumed eyes looked bloodshot.
She turned into a dangerous psycho vibe...
"I don't torment Harin. I've dreamed of school life with her by my side—not yours. Planned to steal you away, then win her heart... But you're tougher than expected."
She snapped her fingers.
Skeleton soldiers rose from the ground.
"Kyaaah-!"
"W-what the hell?!"
"Let go!!"
Screams echoed everywhere.
Skeletons restraining students, dragging them off.
"So this time, I'm being honest with my emotions."
Three skeletons latched onto me too, but
"Hey hey! Dare touch this body, you male skeleton scum?!!"
Crack-!
I smashed their skulls with my fists.
Clatter...!
Still, the skeletons clung stubbornly.
"Gate anomaly detected in Ark. By student council president authority, I declare special martial law."
Purple killing intent swirled around Seol Ha-jeong.
Her eyes gleamed with mystical intensity.
"From now on, all Ark students are under student council control outside class hours. No exceptions for livestock either."
Clank!
Bone handcuffs clamped on my wrists.
The skeletons' doing.
"Hah? You a dictator now, bitch?!!"
"Yes. An elected dictator. And—"
Seol Ha-jeong strode toward me.
The psycho face vanished, replaced by a beaming smile.
"A tyrant swayed by emotions."
Ark martial law...
Didn't expect this bold move.
Originally a second-semester event.
Student council fakes a gate to flush out hidden villains... something like that.
But the real meat isn't the infiltrating villains.
Hidden event.
The must-get reward for clearing the game is the main draw.
So.
"Hey. Thanks, yeah?"
"...What?"
A whole semester early for that scam item!
"You keep setting the stage for me—I'm fucking thrilled!!! Martial law? This is prime pussy!!!!"
"Taeyang, you know what martial law means?"
"Haaaa?!! Think I'm dumb, you psycho siscon sow?!!!"
Martial law? Big deal?
Just tying up students under safety pretexts.
Clear the hidden event: boost rep, screw the council, snag that second-semester hottie reward!
At least three birds, one stone...!
If this ain't prime pussy, what is?!