Chapter 69: No Such Thing as a Free Service.
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 69: No Such Thing as a Free Service.
After having lunch with Mom and killing time floating in the large pool while being held by Yuseoha, the airship had already departed by the time dinner rolled around.
“Mom, when did the airship leave!?”
“While you were sleeping with Aunt Seoha…?”
“I hate you, Mom! I’m going to eat dinner by myself!”
“Yo-Yong-hwan…!”
Leaving Mom behind, I stomped up the stairs to the dining floor. Since Alicia said she’d buy me food, I felt happy thinking about ordering just one bite of everything and making her pay the full price for each.
This was all Mom’s fault.
I missed the scene where the ship performed that ridiculous acceleration—the mechanical fusion of the mana engine and the jet-fuel engine, pivoting directions using mana repulsion.
“This is delicious! Five stars!”
“I’m so glad~!”
The cafeteria sister beamed, trying to give me extra servings.
“But this isn’t the kind of food you’d eat twice.”
The cafeteria sister’s shoulders slumped.
“It’s the kind of food that stays in your memory after just one taste.”
“Oh…!”
Her reaction was top-tier. I felt like I could play with her a few more times and was about to say something else, but then—
“I’ll have one too.”
I heard a strangely familiar voice from beside me. A tall stature I had to look up at. Impressive rabbit ears. It was someone I didn't know.
“Have you been well?”
“Who are you…?”
None of Mom’s friends looked like this. No matter how hard I thought, I didn't recognize her. And yet, she felt somewhat familiar.
Long brown hair reaching down to her hips, blue eyes.
“Iris Noona?”
“Yeah.”
I couldn't help but be shocked seeing Iris, who had somehow become a full-grown adult in just six months. I mean, where did the cute rabbit-eared noona who was only slightly taller than me go? Standing there was a rabbit-eared beauty who looked like she’d stepped out of a martial arts manga.
“Noona~!!!”
Good, the Iris Coin hasn't crashed yet. Her chest was small compared to Mom’s friends, but a full C-cup was well within my acceptable range. And she still had plenty of room to grow!
However.
“Don’t cling to me.”
“…?”
Iris dodged my hug.
“Noona…?”
“Yeah, right.”
I looked at the rabbit-eared beauty. She looked like Iris, but she didn't feel like Iris. She wasn't the beautiful girl with a brother complex who suffered from the 'I love my little brother so much I might die' disease.
“Why are you avoiding me?”
“…Forget it. You seem to be doing well.”
On top of that, she even tried to leave. This was a major crisis. It was like a super rollercoaster where a coin I thought was delisted suddenly skyrocketed, only for me to check in and find it on the verge of being delisted again.
“Noona?”
Iris turned around and started walking away on her own.
“Noona!”
When I tried to follow, her pace quickened.
“Nunaaaaa!”
Iris started running. It reminded me of when Yuseoha played with me.
“Noona, where are you going!!! Nunaaa!!! Nunaaaaa!!!”
I used a bit of mana to reinforce my legs and followed, but since the original body was so weak, the efficiency wasn't great. Just when I thought I was catching up, she grabbed a railing, hopped up to the 'upper floor' across from us, and disappeared to the floor above that, and the floor above that, and the floor above that in the same fashion.
“…Yong-hwan, why are you so low on energy?”
Morian, lacking any sense of timing, grabbed my armpits and shook me up and down slightly.
“He says Iris left him behind.”
“Iris? Why?”
“Well, she’s at that age, isn't she?”
Whether she was at that age or not, I couldn't overcome my sorrow over the fact that the Noona Coin had failed. After all the effort I put into nurturing that coin, she abandons me just because she got into a prestigious academy?
I raised her with all my heart and soul, and to be betrayed like this was unbearable.
Perhaps this is how a 'devoted spouse who supported their partner only to be dumped as soon as they succeeded' feels. I didn't specify the gender because if I used the standards of my old world, people here wouldn't understand, and if I used the standards of this world, I’d get unusual questions like, "Why would a man provide support?"
Anyway.
“Oh, my little cutie. Noona is just at a sensitive age, okay? Hmm?”
“…I want to sleep.”
“Want to take a nap? Want to go night-night with Noona? Hmm? Hmm? Noona’s body is cold, so it’ll feel good, you know? I’m super popular among the other girls.”
The Snow Woman sister’s self-promotion was solid. However, after giving me that amazing item called the Thousand-Year Ice Essence, she had only offered trivial, toy-like things. It seemed there was nothing left to squeeze out of this Snow Woman noona whose utility had run dry.
“She is popular. Only in the summer, though.”
The King Milk Cow, who was sipping a cocktail nearby, added. I was only staying still because Morian’s hands, arms, and chest were cold; if it were hot, I would have mercilessly delivered a tit-spank and returned to my mom’s warm embrace.
—Slap!
“Eek?! Why, why are you hitting me?”
Camel looked pathetic as she retreated, clutching the massive breasts that her slender arms and hands could never hope to cover. Her face was flushed, and the area around her chest looked slightly damp.
The King Milk Cow was the worst kind of pervert.
“I hate Aunt Camel for saying mean things to Aunt Morian!”
“You got angry for my sake~? Want to sleep with Noona? Hmm? Let’s sleep together tonight~!”
It felt like Morian was aiming for my virginity. Honestly, considering the delisted Iris Coin, it felt like it was time to accept reality and find someone among Mom’s friends who was kind, obedient, and would forgive me even if I cheated.
“I’m going to sleep with Mom~!”
“Sleep with me~ If you sleep with Noona, I’ll buy you that Brachio-whatever!”
“It’s the Green Brachiosaurus Beta XII!!!”
I couldn't forgive such an atrocity. I pummeled Morian’s chest. The Snow Woman sister’s breasts, already beginning to seep with sweat, started making lewd sounds as they collided with my hands.
I saw the King Milk Cow swallowing hard nearby, but I ignored her.
“Ah, ah, ah…! Nu-Noona… ugh…!”
As my hands, which were breaking these pet-like noonas, delivered a 'chest-pang-pang' centered around the areolas, Morian couldn't hold out any longer and let me go.
I don't know if the people I meet are the problem or if the women in this neighborhood just have deep masochistic tendencies, but having secured my freedom, I ran toward where Mom was. She was talking to someone.
Wait…?
“…?”
I bumped into something. It was hard. When I looked up, the Pink Head was looking down at me.
“I’m being kidnapped!”
“…!”
Yuseoha’s eyes went wide. She looked like she wanted to shake her head frantically to deny that it was a kidnapping.
I found this Pink Bitch spiteful for being so tight-lipped around her friends when she talked so well when it was just the two of us.
“Ame, Yuseoha says she’s kidnapping Yong-hwan!”
Alicia, unable to abandon her dog-like personality, snitched to Mom, who was with the other noona in the distance.
Yuseoha’s pink eyes grew even wider. I had a lot to say about Alicia’s personality, but I couldn't forgive Yuseoha for hijacking me as I was passing by.
“Seoha Noona is doing something bad!!!! No!!! I don’t like it!!! Stop it!!!!”
Suddenly, something appeared before my eyes. Fluttering brown hair and long rabbit ears.
—Pow!
The sound of air tearing apart echoed. Iris swung a fist at Yuseoha, and Yuseoha raised a hand to catch it.
Iris was grabbing my collar and pulling, while the Pink Bitch’s arm was wrapped around my waist.
It all happened in a span of time I couldn't even perceive.
“It’s a joke, a joke, Iris.”
“Aunt Alicia. This isn't funny. You too, Aunt Seoha.”
Iris glared at the two of them with a fierce expression. Alicia looked at Iris with a look of disdain, while Yuseoha let out a long sigh and lightly patted my back.
I wasn't even that startled, but these people’s overprotectiveness was a bit much.
“Noona, did you come to help me?”
“…Forget it.”
Iris turned her back, grabbed the railing again, and disappeared to the upper floor.
“Camel, our daughter isn't causing trouble at the academy, is she?”
“She’s doing well at the academy. Maybe I shouldn't have brought her here.”
Mom and the King Milk Cow began to chat idly.
“Mom! I think Iris Noona hates me!”
“It’s because she’s shy, just shy. Iris Noona is an adult now, after all.”
I gave the King Milk Cow’s breast a light pat and then snuggled into Mom’s chest. Honestly, I was glad the Iris Coin hadn't completely shattered.
“Why is she shy?”
“…Girls that age are shy about being around boys. It’s cute. We were like that too. Remember, Ame?”
Morian reached out toward my armpits, trying to pull me out of Mom’s embrace.
“Everyone except that Tiria girl was like that.”
“Sigh, I wonder what that man-crazy bitch is up to these days.”
“She’s still a virgin.”
“I need to graduate before that bitch does.”
Iris stared at me intently while cursing the Sweet Simp Angel Prosecutor. Since Morian’s allocated service for today was over, I hugged Mom tightly.
“Play with Noona a little more~! It’s been so long since we’ve seen each other~!”
“No!”
Morian tried hard to get my attention, but perhaps because I’d been floating in the water with Yuseoha for too long, I was tired. Mom didn't seem inclined to stop her, so just as I was thinking I might have to provide an extra free service—
“Stop bothering my son.”
The Commie Dragon appeared out of thin air, cloak fluttering, and grabbed Morian’s wrist.
“You’re early. I thought you’d be here around dawn.”
“The Empress has been very interested in the academy lately, so it ended early. Camel, she said that not even having a B-Rank is a form of self-deception.”
“That bastard’s standards for faces are too high!!!!”
The King Milk Cow shrieked, clearly harboring a lot of resentment.