Chapter 145: Don't Fight, Everyone. Let's All Be Friends!
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 145: Don't Fight, Everyone. Let's All Be Friends!
I thought this was just a party to celebrate my mom’s promotion, but when I heard it was also a celebration for Lee Ji-yeon being selected as a scholarship student, I couldn't help but react with skepticism.
I could understand her becoming a scholarship officer, but a scholarship student?
“Surprisingly, I am attending university while working,” Lee Ji-yeon said, a suspicious smile playing on her lips.
“Aren't civil servants prohibited from holding concurrent positions?”
“It’s for education. Since it’s a foreign university, the procedures were a bit tight, but Alicia helped me out, so I was able to enroll without much trouble.”
Perhaps Lee Ji-yeon was a bit tipsy, as she was using formal honorifics with me in front of everyone. No one seemed to care that my homeroom teacher was suddenly speaking formally to me.
To the members of this cancer-on-society cartel, such sights probably seemed commonplace.
“Ahem...!”
“Why of all places... the Imperial University?”
Alicia puffed out her chest as if asking for praise, but I ignored her and asked my question.
“When I thought about where I could receive a proper education after work, considering the time difference, there were a few good ones among the Empire's universities. I needed a recommendation letter, and Alicia happened to provide one, so I got in.”
“Well, her entrance exam scores were good. All I had to do was provide a character reference, so it wasn't difficult,” Alicia said nonchalantly, but the way she kept glancing at me suggested she desperately wanted me to acknowledge her.
So, I ignored her.
“We can cover the mandatory military training hours by sending you on a dispatch mission from our side, but... are you really planning to graduate?”
“Yes. I’ll undergo the six-month training course at Alicia’s department whenever I have time.”
“Forget it, forget it. More than a few people end up as cripples doing that. I’ll just fill in the hours for you. Just focus on taking good care of Yong-hwan.”
It seemed Lee Ji-yeon, having begun her integration into the social cartel, was already enjoying various perks.
Since it didn't seem to involve me, I just brushed it off.
“By the way, where’s Hindel? I haven't even seen a glimpse of her at the fitness center lately.”
Everyone at the table, except for Lee Ji-yeon, focused their gaze on me. It felt like I had asked something I shouldn't have.
“It’s because she got caught hiding that Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Carp Inner Core. She’s currently in the middle of a fight with the Empress over it.”
Camel let out a long sigh and shook her head.
“Did Hindel get it illegally from some Gate?”
“The Hachen Gate. You don't need to know, brat. Anyway, it’s not like that. It’s just that the Empress is sulking. Sulking.”
Every time I heard about the Empress of the Empire, I felt like I was hearing about a very strange person.
Apparently, she was a bizarre woman who was actively recruiting a boyfriend or husband and constantly pestered Camel because she still hadn't found one. She was also the type to dump annoying colonial matters onto Hindel and get all huffy and sensitive over the smallest things.
“Is the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Carp Inner Core something even Her Majesty the Empress can't get?”
“Yeah, because it only comes from that specific Gate. No matter how much money or power you have, you can't just get it. Something like that...”
Camel licked her lips and looked at me.
“Isn't it an item fit for an SSS-Rank Male?”
“...Well, I suppose it went to its rightful owner.”
When I furrowed my brows and glared at Camel, the King Milk Cow bitch knew her place and averted her eyes as she answered.
“Why would you say that to a child?”
Morian hugged me even tighter and glared at Camel. It seemed the Snow Woman Sister, who had once run wild claiming she’d take responsibility while performing a naked dogeza, had completely lost her sense of conscience.
“It’s just a cold, objective evaluation. I only said it because he was curious...”
Her purple eyes flickered toward me, checking my mood. After I gave her a lesson with a naked stroll, the cow sister knew her place well.
“Wasn't that based on the Empress's standards?”
Cassia asked back, sounding flustered.
“It’s my standard, okay? The Empress just hired him because she liked him.”
The cow sister grumbled, and the silver-haired witch sister stared intently at me, only to quickly turn her head away when our eyes met.
To think she’d act like that just because I did a little 'cute-sy finger-rolling' in the bathroom followed by a (short) squirting course... how pathetic.
“If she’s fighting with the Empress, won't Hindel get arrested or something?”
“It happens all the time, so don't worry. Besides, Hindel is the Empress's teacher. And the East Continent Gate won't function without Hindel, so don't give it a second thought.”
The East Continent Gate seemed to refer to that chaotic, anarchic place where the world of martial arts was still alive. I figured asking more wouldn't be interesting, so I just let it slide.
For now, while Mom wasn't around, I had to quickly do what I wanted to do.
An orgy?
Since that was something I could do with Mom included, having such lewd thoughts was a capital offense.
“I want to go to a colony. Is there anyone who can take me?”
Rather than approaching them individually, it was better to start an auction among these sisters who were full of affection for me.
The basic principle of this market was that once they started eyeing each other and one person opened her mouth, the price would naturally drop.
“....”
The problem was that everyone was just gauging the room, and not a single bitch was making an offer.
“Aren't you all influential people in society? You can't even take me to one place?”
“It’s not that it’s difficult, but...”
Cassia trailed off, crossing her arms as if to support her breasts.
“It’s not hard at all.”
“Hmm... it’s just that bad habits are picked up there. I don't want to send you. It seems everyone feels the same.”
The witch sister started twisting the conversation in a strange direction. When she squirted, the stream seemed to lean to the right; this woman was definitely a right-winger.
“What 'bad habits'?”
“...I don't think it matters. I'll take him.”
Alicia smiled as if it were no big deal and reached out as if to hug me.
“I have to go there for business around the end of the year anyway. I’ll just take him then.”
Morian hugged me tight, protecting me from Alicia’s touch as if to say 'not a chance.' Perhaps because her breasts were so large, I couldn't lean back properly, and my neck was bent at an angle that felt like it would give me a herniated disk.
Cassia had tried to pull some nonsense, but things seemed to be flowing exactly as I wanted.
“What are you all thinking, taking a child to a colony?”
However, the soldier sister, perhaps having some pride left, started nitpicking again. Alicia and Morian looked at the silver-haired witch as if asking what the problem was.
“The men in the colonies don't know their place and are completely reckless. You all know that. Do you want to make this child like them?”
“No, well, Yong-hwan is smart... and I suppose you could call that his charm...”
Cassia seemed worried about my moral education, but the vampire sister, who had already completed her female training, scratched her cheek, seemingly thinking it wouldn't be much different from how I was now.
“I-I think it would be fine, though!”
The Snow Woman Sister, who had gone so far as to wet herself while coming uncontrollably just because I showed her some affection, seemed to feel the same way.
“Are you all on drugs or something?”
“How can you say that? Our Yong-hwan is different from those common men. The reason men are annoying is that they crawl all over you without knowing their place and act however they want. This boy is...”
Alicia glanced down at me and clamped her mouth shut.
She probably couldn't bring herself to say that I had fucked her and that gray wolf sister—a former underground fighting arena champion—like dogs with my 20cm-plus Neo Armstrong Cannon.
“It’s only because they didn't receive proper education. Our Yong-hwan is so kind. Even if other men act strangely, he won't be tainted; he’ll grow up kind and cool just like this.”
I don't know what kind of rose-colored glasses our Snow Woman Sister was wearing, but she was spewing nonsense regardless.
I finally managed to lock eyes with Yuseoha, who was just watching the situation from the corner.
I recalled the story of 'women's selfishness' she had told me in the depths of the sea where no one else was around.
The story that while men and women are equal in the colonies, women here were forcibly establishing superiority.
Of course, the reason they held that superiority was due to the one-sided favoritism of that bastard called the Goddess.
Only then did the situation become clear.
Alicia, whose training I had already finished, seemed to think it was an unstoppable trend for a male like me—not just a 'man'—to act as I pleased.
“I’m against it. The colony guys are weird. I can't understand how those bastards, who don't have a lick of talent, think they can stand on equal footing with women.”
In Cassia Cortin’s case, the thought of the kid she had her eye on going to a colony felt like seeing someone go on a working holiday without a penny to their name.
“Our Yong-hwan has incredible abilities, you know? What do you know to speak like that, Cassia Cortin?”
Naturally, from the perspective of Morian, who saw her precious future husband as nothing but adorable, there was no problem with her taking him; it probably felt like going on a fun date trip.
It seemed the conversation was getting tangled because I had swung my dick around too much. No, because I had done too much 'finger exercise.'
“Then how about Cassia Noona, Morian Noona, and I all go together?”
I could see Cassia’s silver eyes trembling violently. Seeing as she couldn't bring herself to say no, she clearly hadn't forgotten the experience of having her clitoris worked over like a dog back at the camp.
“W-Wasn't it supposed to be just the two of us?”
Morian spoke as if flustered, but...
“Let’s all have fun together~!”
I had no choice but to smile innocently, putting on a front that looked completely harmless.