Chapter 70
Chapter 70
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 70
Chapter Title: Hey Bitch! Pay Back 300 Million Per Pregnancy! Give Birth 11 Times Non-Stop for Freedom!
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Constellations do not die.
Even when they fight each other, the loser merely ends up on the brink of death.
Just like when Hecate caused a mana depletion on that uninhabited island.
Anyway, Constellations do feel pain.
And naturally, they experience emotions like "fear" as well.
"Nameless Constellation. I am Sebek, the Hunter of the Nile River. Declare which star realm you belong to. We could make a fine deal..."
Pomi ignored her words.
She simply planted her four paws on the ground and lowered her stance.
It looked less like a human action and more like that of a dog.
"Grrrrrr."
Her lush tail fur swayed gently.
A tail that would normally seem adorable now appeared as a highly aggressive signal.
The moment Sebek reached for the axe at her waist...
Pomi kicked off the ground and charged.
Pwoosh-!
Wasn't she faster than the speed of sound?
The wind that blew a beat later announced her charge.
Pomi closed the distance to Sebek in an instant.
She swung her long claws.
Sebek barely managed to dodge.
However, the deified Pomi's claws were far more powerful than they appeared.
Crack!
Ice froze along the trajectory of her claws.
Those razor-sharp blades like knife edges flew toward Sebek's cheek and embedded themselves.
"Ugh!?"
It must have been excruciatingly painful.
Her body stiffened for a moment from that single blow.
That split-second hesitation decided the fight.
Pomi clamped down hard on Sebek's throat.
Splatter-!
A sharp arc of blue blood sprayed into the air.
Sebek collapsed on the spot.
Immediately after, she reverted to her pre-deification form: a small, cute crocodile doll.
"Eek...?!"
The shrunken Sebek crawled away clumsily into the shadows.
"Master. That was too easy."
Pomi looked at me and wiped the blood from her mouth.
Her tail was still swishing.
"Hey! Are you some kind of hunting genius or what?!"
Pomi approached me.
The click of her high heels echoed through the warehouse.
Click-
Pomi slowly licked the nape of my neck, still covered in blood.
"Sounds good. Want to praise me more?"
She was still acting cute, but the deified Pomi somehow seemed more seductive...
Actually, this was my first time seeing Pomi deified.
I'd only seen her female form after possession, so there was no way I could've witnessed deification before.
Pomi's voice and actions had turned sexy...
I'm losing my mind...!
"Pomi. Hold on a sec. It's not over yet."
Sebek had lost her power.
But Crocodile was still fine.
"Want me to hunt that one too?"
"Nah, I'm good. I wanted to loosen up a bit myself. Mind lending me your stigma?"
The stronger the Constellation, the stronger the hero.
That was thanks to the stigma.
Zzzzt-!
Ice gauntlets formed on both my hands.
Pomi's stigma, Ice Armaments.
It was a stigma that created weapons imbued with powerful ice-attribute magic.
The deified Pomi's Ice Armaments were several times more potent than her female form's.
"Hmph!"
I slammed the ground, and massive ice spikes surged toward Crocodile.
"Gah...!"
The guy couldn't dodge in time and got pierced straight through.
I charged at him and smashed my fist into his face.
Frozen Punch!
"S-Stop...! I surrender...!"
"Hey. Forgot what I said already?"
"...?"
"I said I'd beat you to death!"
Boom──! Boom────!
I hammered fist after fist into him.
Yet Crocodile didn't lose consciousness.
This guy wasn't the type to go down that easily.
Crocodile had two phases.
Splashhhhh-!
Suddenly, a torrent of mana raged.
Centered on Crocodile, it swirled like a raging flood.
"Master?"
Crunch-
From within the waves, the mouths of massive crocodiles emerged.
Of course, knowing the pattern, I'd already retreated.
A brilliant light flashed from the water, revealing the deified Sebek.
"I am Sebek, Hunter of the Nile River... I shall hunt you all in the river's waters!"
Crocodile was originally a mid-boss level villain.
Deification was part of the event.
However, as the first Constellation to deify in the story, she wasn't that strong.
She just served to introduce the deification concept.
In the game, she had pathetic attack power but absurdly high health.
You know the type.
Not very threatening, but you wonder, "When the hell is this health bar gonna end?" Those health sponge enemies.
But even that wasn't the player's job.
Tomo-tan would show up and handle it if you beat on it enough.
So now, all I had to do was pretend to fight moderately.
—Or at least, that was the meta strategy.
Something seemed off.
A flash of light hit like thunder against my eardrums.
Kaboom───────!
"?!"
When I came to, a massive lightning bolt had struck between me and Crocodile.
A classic, symbolic Z-shaped bolt.
It had pierced the abandoned factory's ceiling, crackling and discharging electricity.
Could this be...?
"Master! Get back!"
Pomi pulled me away.
Crocodile tried to flee with his Constellation too, but lightning struck ahead of him, blocking his path.
The factory ceiling was half destroyed.
Rain poured through the hole, turning to steam.
"Follower! Escape route quick-"
Sebek's desperate cry.
It became her final scream.
Kabooooom─────!!!
A massive thunderbolt fell from the sky.
The impact was enough to cause a huge explosion.
"Cough... You...! You okay?!"
"I'm fine. What about you, lady?"
"I-I'm okay too."
No one was hurt.
As the smoke cleared, two silhouettes emerged.
One was the fallen deified Sebek.
The other was a hulking man.
A middle-aged man with bronze skin.
Piercings that defied age and tattoos covering from his jaw down.
Muscles bulging in an all-black suit, exuding high-class style.
"Hey! Son!!!"
"Hah...?"
Kim Tae-gun stood before me.
"Good job! Finding this deadbeat debtor?!!"
Kim Tae-gun gripped Crocodile by the hair.
"K-Kim boss...! How did you...?"
"Hah? To collect money, obviously! Hmph!! Spit out my cash! Spit it out!!!"
Kim Tae-gun slapped Crocodile's cheeks.
Meanwhile, Sebek rose and aimed for Kim Tae-gun's back.
"Hey Dad! Watch your back!!"
"?"
But Sebek's attack never landed.
Thanks to the lightning that struck her crown.
"Grah...!"
Sebek turned back into a crocodile doll.
"Hey electric bitch. Finish it quick? My son got startled."
"Hehe. Gotta make it dramatic for fun."
Finally, Kim Tae-gun's Constellation revealed herself.
Tall stature, flowing blonde hair.
With massive assets on her chest and hips that screamed violence... It was definitely...
"Zeus?"
The god of the sky, Zeus.
Kim Tae-gun, obsessed with stealing women.
Zeus, whose hobby was sowing his seed through rape.
It somehow made sense, yet it was absurd...
I'd always had questions about Academia.
While game Constellations had unique characters, many were drawn from myths.
Yet I'd never seen the famous named one, Zeus.
And now Zeus was Kim Tae-gun's Constellation?
Kim Tae-gun really wasn't human...
"Hey, hey. Got the money or not? Huh?!"
"I-I do! So please, just not that...!"
"Hah?! I knew you were broke!! Your debt's exceeded the principal—there's no way you can pay!!!"
This obvious villain as Zeus's hero.
Was he some hidden boss or something?
Like the final boss's mastermind...?
"You're an orphan with no girlfriend to steal anyway!! So you know how you'll pay, right?!!"
"Please...! Just one month...!!"
Terror-stricken Crocodile rubbed his hands like a fly.
But Kim Tae-gun had no intention of mercy.
"Hey Zeus. Stigma time."
"This is my favorite part♡"
Crackle-!
Lightning gathered in Kim Tae-gun's hand.
Unlike normal bolts, it was pink.
Was this what I thought...?
"Hmph!!! TS Lightning!!!"
"Gaaaaah-!!"
Kabooooom-!
Pink smoke blanketed the area.
When visibility cleared,
Crocodile was gone.
Only a sexy female in his oversized clothes sat slumped...
"Hmph."
Kim Tae-gun collared the former Crocodile and approached Jeong Yun-ah.
She backed away, a bit scared.
"W-What are you?"
Unexpectedly, Kim Tae-gun handed her a business card gentlemanly.
"Hello? I'm Kim Tae-gun, CEO of Money Mountain."
"H-Hello..."
"Are you a widow by any chance?"
"Pardon? No...?"
His eyebrow twitched.
He cheered like an excited kid.
"Woo-hoo~ Found a hot married woman with a hubby~☆ Lucky!!! Super lucky!!!"
Kim Tae-gun, who liked them more if they had a husband!
Truly insane...!
"Hey old man! What're you getting at?!"
"Oh- Did my son claim her first? Too bad. Heh."
So he doesn't touch women his son claimed?
Don't let my guard down.
He's more horrific than any villain I've met...
"Hey! Don't you know me? Jeong Yun-ah, chairwoman of Samgeon Group!"
"Oh? Hey! Didn't recognize a big shot!! Hahaha! My apologies!! Son! You're amazing!! Screwing around with Korea's top company's chairwoman?!!"
"What the hell are you talking about?!"
"Oh- Haven't done it yet? My son takes after me—insanely good at it! Huge size, great shape too! And his head's full of nothing but sex like a monkey! I'm good, but my son's unbeatable! So he might've snuck in already?"
"T-That's..."
"Hahaha! Kidding! Son! Good luck!"
Kim Tae-gun patted my shoulder once and picked up Crocodile.
"Hey Dad. Shouldn't you punish that criminal?"
"Hah? I'll punish him my way."
"?"
"Hey bitch! 300 million payback per pregnancy! Give birth 11 times non-stop and you're free!"
"P-Please send me to jail...!"
"Woo-hoo~ Voice got sexy? Heh. Hmph! From today, you're a baby-making machine!!"
"N-No......"
Now I get it.
Why villains trembled at Kim Tae-gun's name...
"Alright son! I'm off!! Stay pumped!!!"
Fwiiiish!!!!
Kim Tae-gun vanished in a flash like he'd appeared.
"......"
Only a quiet stillness remained, like after a storm.
Dizzying...
But Kim Tae-gun aside.
Let's finish what we started properly.
"Hey lady. You okay?"
"...Thanks to you, I survived. Thank you."
My goal was to win over Jeong Yun-ah.
Having saved her life, her wariness should be down a bit.
⚙ NTR SOLUTION ⚙ ◆ Jeong Yun-ah [Intimate Relations: Seol Ha-jeong / Seol Harin / Seol Woo-won] [Traits: Maternal Love / Passionate Woman / Chronic Fatigue / Sexual Frustration] ◆ Solution
+ Hatred toward you has greatly decreased! + However, still wary. + Fulfill her remaining needs to steal her heart! + Rape is still the best method! + There are more moderate ways too! + Use Drug Chance skill to resolve chronic fatigue, and affinity will rise slightly! Indeed, I had a drug skill that could improve fatigue.
But as the solution noted, it would only slightly boost affinity...
I couldn't just brute-force sex either.
So I decided on a little trick.
A way to exploit both her sexual frustration and chronic fatigue traits at once...!
Two birds, one stone...!!!
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ Kim Chief handled all the complicated stuff.
Thanks to him, Jeong Yun-ah could take her daughter and head home quickly.
"Friends all got back safe?"
"Yeah. Just checked."
Kim Taeyang and his daughter's friends returned to Ark.
Seol Harin decided to spend the weekend with her mom.
At Jeong Yun-ah's request.
"Harin. Let's talk a bit..."
Mother and daughter sat facing each other on the sofa.
Despite the ordeal, Jeong Yun-ah's mind was still full of thoughts about Kim Taeyang.
"That Taeyang kid. I'll admit he's better than I thought."
She decided major company matters with cold reason daily.
Separate from hating Kim Taeyang, she could acknowledge his heroism.
A situation even S-rank hunters couldn't handle.
Only Kim Taeyang broke through the barrier to save mother and daughter.
"But I can't accept you living as his sow."
That didn't mean she'd hand over her daughter.
"You're my precious daughter. I want you to meet a man who treats you even more preciously."
She spoke gently.
But her heart was hard as rock.
If her daughter didn't listen, she planned to send her back to Ark.
Unexpectedly, Seol Harin nodded.
"Got it. I'll properly break up with Master."
"...Really?"
"Really. I already told him. No more sow stuff."
"Good job, Harin. Thank you."
She hugged her daughter.
Suddenly realizing it had been ages since she last did.
"You know Mom loves you, right?"
"Yeah."
Seol Harin hugged back.
A warm family moment after so long.
Then the doorbell rang.
"Oh? He's here!"
Seol Harin bolted out like she'd been waiting.
"Harin? Dad's on a business trip."
"Yeah! I know!"
"?"
No one else would come besides her husband.
"Waiting for a delivery...?"
Jeong Yun-ah followed, puzzled.
Seol Harin unlocked the gate and hummed at the entrance.
"Who's that?"
"Someone I invited."
A bad feeling crept in.
"No way...?"
The door opened.
Bad premonitions never miss.
Before the mother-daughter duo stood the hulking face she despised.
"Pardon the intrusion—gonna impose a bit—"
"K-Kim Taeyang...? Why are you here...?"
Kim Taeyang.
He'd brought a suitcase.
Like he was staying a few days.
"Hah? Sow. Didn't tell her?"
"Nope. Wanted it to be a surprise."
"S-Surprise? Harin? You said you were cutting ties with Kim Taeyang!"
Seol Harin clung to Kim Taeyang's arm and replied.
"Yeah. So for our breakup celebration, he came to hang out. Last time, so weekend catch-up...♡"
"???"
Jeong Yun-ah blocked Kim Taeyang trying to barge in.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"Got business in Seoul, no place to crash, so...?"
"N-No... Why my house...?"
"Hah? Not gonna give a room to your lifesaver? Pretty stingy for a top company's chairwoman."
"......"
Her eyes met her daughter's.
"Mom. You'll let him, right? Just two days."
If she kicked him out, her daughter would go too.
"Better to keep him where I can see... He wouldn't do anything crazy with me here..."
"...Come in."
Jeong Yun-ah let Kim Taeyang in.
Thus crossing the river of no return.