Chapter 50
Chapter 50
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 50
Chapter Title: The Truth Revealed
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The air in the entrance hall seemed to freeze for a moment.
Min Seola stared at me blankly, her eyes wide open.
"...Huh?"
She echoed back in a foolish voice.
"A lie? What do you mean? So it doesn't hurt? And my lifespan isn't being shaved away?"
"Yes.... It was all a lie."
I confessed calmly, but with all sincerity.
"Truth be told, at first I was really scared. The moment I revealed my ability, you came at me so aggressively. I was afraid I'd end up locked away forever, just serving as a battery, so I made it all up."
Actually, this was a lie.
I hadn't been scared of being imprisoned from the start—it was more that I feared my fake ability would look too flashy.
'Lying even in this moment.'
But after she learned my ability was somewhat real, the reason I just gave had indeed become true.
The anxiety of not knowing how she'd act, based on the way she approached me at first.
"But as we spent time together, I realized you're not the type to harm me. If anything, you've just been worrying yourself sick because of me...."
I gently grasped Min Seola's shoulders.
"So I didn't want to keep deceiving you anymore. I'm sorry."
I was afraid of her reaction.
Would she get angry? Or tremble with betrayal?
But my expectations missed the mark spectacularly.
"Ah...."
Tears welled up in Min Seola's eyes in an instant.
Her legs gave out beneath her, and she collapsed right there.
"I'm so glad...."
She covered her face with both hands and sobbed.
"Really, I'm so glad.... I thought I was killing you, Seonghwa-ssi... Every day felt like hell...."
"Seola...."
"Even holding your hand scared me, and I wanted to hug you but felt like I couldn't... I felt like a monster devouring the person I love because of my own greed...."
Min Seola's tear-choked voice tore at my heart.
'I can kind of see why Seo Jubin was so worried.'
The weight of the guilt she carried was beyond anything I'd imagined.
I crouched down and pulled her crying form into my arms.
"I'm sorry. It was all my fault. So don't cry."
"Hic... You're really too much...."
She pounded on my chest in a childish tantrum, but her arms around my waist tightened firmly.
How long did we stay like that?
Her sobs gradually quieted.
"...Um, Seonghwa-ssi."
Min Seola lifted her head while still in my embrace.
Her eyes were red-rimmed, but her tear-streaked gaze was strangely clear and transparent.
'No, more than transparent...'
It went beyond transparency—something dangerously gleaming lurked there.
"Hold on. Let me sort this out."
She sniffled and asked,
"So now doing it with you won't shave off your lifespan?"
"Yeah, th-that's right...?"
"Can we do it every day? Stay stuck together all day? Inside is okay too?"
The intensity of her questions escalated rapidly.
I nodded in bewilderment.
"Well, in theory, yeah. As long as my stamina holds out."
At that moment.
Min Seola's expression changed completely.
All traces of relief, sadness, and guilt from moments ago vanished.
In their place surged the No.1 Hero's possessive desire and long-suppressed lust, like a dam bursting.
"What...."
The corners of her mouth curved up slyly.
Her smile was angelic yet chillingly seductive.
"So... I don't have to hold back anymore."
Thud.
Min Seola grabbed my shoulders.
And shoved me back with tremendous force.
"Wha—hey?!"
Bam!
My body slammed into the entrance wall.
She'd pushed hard, but she cushioned the back of my head with her hand, so I didn't get hurt.
'Well, even without that, I wouldn't have...'
Even knowing I wouldn't be injured, her intensity overwhelmed me.
"Seola?"
"I've been through hell."
Min Seola pinned my body against the wall and whispered.
Her eyes blazed.
'Like a beast with its limiter off.'
That was exactly the vibe.
"Holding back, holding back... Trembling even to hold your hand, going insane wanting to kiss you."
Her hand seized my shirt.
"No mercy now. You lied, Seonghwa-ssi... Time for punishment."
Riiip—!
Min Seola tore my shirt open without even bothering to unbutton it.
Buttons scattered across the floor, but she ignored them.
'She'll buy me a new one, right? She's loaded.'
As that thought crossed my mind, my bare chest was exposed.
Min Seola placed her hand on it and devoured my lips like a starving beast.
"Mmph! Mmmph!"
This wasn't a kiss—it was predation.
Rough suction on my lips, her tongue thrusting wildly to scour the inside of my mouth.
Smack—slurp—
We'd only kissed a little.
Yet static crackled from Min Seola's body, blue mana sparks flying.
"Haa...! So gooood...! This is it...!"
She moaned, crushing my neck in a tight embrace.
At the same time, her thigh wedged between my legs, grinding against me.
Her dress hem rode up, hot skin touching mine.
'Damn... Her strength is no joke.'
I gasped for breath.
I was experiencing firsthand how terrifying a pure love could turn explosive.
'Sure, this is what I wanted... Definitely...'
Yet for some reason, that primal human instinct—the sharp sense of danger, the feeling of "this is bad"—kicked in.
Why?
'Because I only revealed the overload part and kept everything else hidden?'
If that was it.
"Wait, Seola! Calm down!"
I barely pried my lips free and grabbed her shoulders.
"Calm down? How? When such delicious prey is right in front of me."
Her eyes half-lidded, she groped my body.
"Overload was a lie anyway. I've held back so much. If I don't do it now, I'll die. So let's just get it over with quick. Okay?"
"No, listen to me first! We need to put out the urgent fire!"
I shouted desperately.
'Yeah. If I'm confessing anyway, might as well do it right.'
If I was going to get swept up, better make it count.
"Urgent fire?"
"Yupia! You know Yupia? That villain bitch!"
Mentioning the villain's name halted Min Seola's movements.
Her eyes sharpened.
"Why that bitch?"
"She stole some of my power."
I put on my most serious face, delivering only the essentials.
Of course, omitting the part about living together and sharing it willingly.
'Sorry, but this is partly your fault for blabbing about it everywhere from the start.'
If I pushed the blame fully, she'd spiral back into guilt mode, so this was just right.
"So now she's a monster. Even with your current strength, Seola, it could be dangerous."
"......"
"That's why I came. To make you stronger. To stop Yupia, you need all my power. Way more than that villain took. Properly."
Min Seola's face hardened coldly.
"...That bitch touched you?"
Her fists cracked audibly.
I could feel the monstrous strength there—even I might not know what it'd do if she grabbed me.
'With this, she could've lightly crushed Yupia without me spilling all this...?'
The thought flashed, but it was too late.
"How dare she... Mine... I hadn't even touched it yet because I wanted to savor it...."
Min Seola muttered.
Then she looked up at me.
Her gaze burned with even deeper greed than before.
"Got it. To catch that bitch and lock her up, I need to get much stronger. Stronger than her."
Min Seola seized my wrist.
"Seonghwa-ssi, I'll milk you for everything. Not a drop left. I'll suck it all out until what she took feels like scraps."
"Huh?"
"Come on."
Without waiting for my reply, she dragged me inside.
'Wait... Why's the vibe like this... Scarier than Yupia... Should've told Seo Jubin...'
Meanwhile, my body flew past the living room into the firmly shut master bedroom.
Soon.
Click.
The bedroom door shut and locked.
*
At the same time.
Seo Jubin sat on the sofa, anxiously staring at her phone.
Her body ached all over from the aftermath of their dawn tryst, but sleep eluded her.
'He wouldn't say something weird on his own, right?'
Over an hour had passed since Kim Seonghwa left.
She'd earnestly warned him to only say the overload had improved, but the unease lingered.
Seola-nim was mostly innocently naive, but sometimes her instincts were sharper than anyone's.
If Seonghwa-ssi slipped up or Seola-nim grew suspicious...
Bzzz—
Her phone buzzed right on cue.
Seo Jubin hurriedly checked the screen.
'Seonghwa-ssi?'
The message was short.
-Told her everything. The overload lie.
-But kinda scared now. Was this a mistake?
"......!"
Seo Jubin nearly dropped her phone.
"Ha... This is driving me crazy."
She rubbed her dry face in exasperation.
"That idiot..."
He'd done it.
The worst-case scenario she'd feared.
"I told him not to."
Seo Jubin closed her eyes.
A simulation played in her mind.
The No.1 Hero, freed from the sole chain of guilt.
'How Seola-nim will treat Seonghwa-ssi now is obvious without seeing it...'
The pent-up frustration would explode with immense force.
The penthouse was probably melting from the heat by now.
Kim Seonghwa might not even leave bones behind.
'Worse, has Kim Seonghwa been completely taken now?'
Her grip tightened on the phone.
'Seola-nim....'
Her plan had failed.
All that was left was to watch the rampaging Min Seola and handle the aftermath.