Chapter 259: Bastard (1)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 259: Bastard (1)
I knew something was strange the moment she stepped out for the evening.
I should have realized it when she said she was just running an errand, dressed far too casually to be meeting a friend.
No wonder she’d been so quiet all evening. She’d kept her mouth shut because she was planning this from the start.
Shin Yu-jeong, sitting on the outdoor bench, patted the spot next to her and gestured for me to come over.
“Sit down. We need to talk.”
“Alright.”
It was about time we sorted this out.
I went over and sat down in the spot she’d patted, so close that our arms weren’t just touching but pressing against each other.
“Hey… what are you doing?”
As our skin touched, she shot me an incredulous look.
“I sat where you told me to.”
“No, ugh… Forget it.”
She was much easier to read than other women.
If she disliked something, she showed it with her actions, not her words.
Even now, though she was trying to act like our arms touching was nothing, there was a high chance she was enjoying it.
“So, what did you want to talk about?” I asked in the friendliest tone I could manage. She showed me her smartphone screen.
“Explain this first.”
Displayed on the screen was the scandal article about Ju-yeon and me.
This wasn't even something that needed explaining.
“There was a follow-up article right after this one. Didn’t you see it?”
There was no way she could have missed it; it went up the moment I posted my rebuttal on social media.
“I saw it.”
“Then what more is there to explain?”
“How am I supposed to know if this article is real or fake?”
She always had to be sharp about the most useless things.
Since it had come to this, I figured it would be best to tell her at least some of the truth.
Fighting over the same issue again and again is the surest way to ruin a relationship.
“I swear, we’re not dating. But…”
“But what?”
Her expression, fluctuating between heaven and hell at that single word, was quite amusing.
She’d be even more surprised when she heard the rest.
“I do think Hunter Han Ju-yeon likes me.”
“…What?”
Wow.
Look at her face scrunch up the moment she heard that.
After glaring at me with a frown for a moment, Yu-jeong let out a scoff and asked me.
“Hey, aren’t you getting a little full of yourself?”
Can you believe her?
“Full of myself?”
“Does it even make sense for an S-rank Hunter to like you?”
“And why shouldn’t she?”
“Well…”
As if at a loss for words, Shin Yu-jeong clamped her mouth shut.
She knew it herself.
She knew it wasn’t an entirely impossible story.
We weren’t complete strangers; she even had a history of asking me to be her escort during a disaster-class monster subjugation.
For her to ask a B-rank Hunter, someone weaker than her, for such a favor—the situation could only be interpreted as personal feelings being involved.
“Shit…”
Muttering a curse under her breath, she glared at me with a menacing look.
“So.”
“…‘So’ what?”
“Are you going to date that wo—… her?”
She was about to say ‘bitch’ but quickly changed it to ‘woman’.
It seemed that even for Shin Yu-jeong, it wasn’t easy to call an S-rank Hunter ‘this bitch’ or ‘that bitch’.
I was about to placate her by saying something like, ‘I have no intention of dating her for now,’ but then…
A thought suddenly struck me.
“What would you do if I said I was going to date her?”
I wanted to see how she would react to that.
“I’ll kill you.”
A murderous reply.
But I found it laughable.
“Hunter Han Ju-yeon? She’s an S-rank Hunter, you know.”
“Not her.”
“Then me?”
I pointed to myself with my index finger as I asked. She nodded, her expression still murderous.
It was a little scary, but it was just as laughable.
“Yu-jeong.”
“What.”
“I’m stronger than you. How are you going to kill me?”
“That… is…”
Shin Yu-jeong was speechless in an instant.
She had tasted the bitterness of failure at the qualification exam, while I had made a spectacular debut in the industry as a B-rank.
That alone made the difference in our skills obvious.
With a resentful expression, biting her lower lip as she glared at me, she spat out a single phrase.
“I’ll kill myself.”
“……?”
Wait, suddenly suicide…?
Her unexpected answer made my mind go blank for a moment.
“I’ll write in my suicide note that you took my virginity, played with my heart, and then threw me away, so I killed myself.”
“Uh, um.”
Is this what they call a blind squirrel finding a nut?
I’d been cornered in a completely unexpected way.
The thought of her actually doing it was absolutely horrifying.
Putting aside what the public would say, how would Jeong-hee look at me?
As if she were actually picturing that future in her head, she began to fume. I patted her on the back.
“Calm down, first. I said ‘if,’ remember? ‘If’.”
People seem hard to kill, and yet, they also die so easily.
There are those who sing about wanting to die but live to a ripe old age, and there are also those who throw their lives away without hesitation on a single, passing impulse of ‘Should I just die?’
That’s why I became curious.
Just what was this emotion that had surged up so high as to make her talk about dying?
“Yu-jeong, tell me honestly.”
“…What.”
“You like me, don’t you?”
At that, her expression crumpled into a fierce scowl.
“Do you even have to ask?”
“Oh, I guess not.”
The question was a bit off the mark, I suppose.
If she didn’t have feelings for me, our relationship wouldn’t have gotten this… sticky.
Changing the direction of my question slightly…
“How much do you like me?”
At that, she blushed slightly and answered.
“A fucking lot.”
“……”
That was an answer truly worthy of Shin Yu-jeong.
Seeing my awkward expression, she looked up at the sky and let out a deep sigh.
“Ha… shit, I don’t know how I ended up like this either.”
As if trying to sort out her thoughts, Shin Yu-jeong stared at the sky in silence for a while.
Then, her gaze shifted back to me, and she opened her mouth.
“I definitely approached you at first to use you, but now, I like you so much I feel like I’d die without you. I don’t even know when it happened.”
That’s just how love is.
Sometimes it burns silently, and other times it smolders like wet firewood before suddenly bursting into flames.
It can start as a tiny spark and, before you know it, become a blaze big enough to burn down the whole house.
The self-deprecating smile on her face vanished, and for the first time today, she gave a bright, genuine smile.
“Is this that ‘affection from fucking’ I’ve only heard about?”
“Could be.”
The body and mind are one.
Even if they occasionally point in different directions, they eventually turn toward what they’re more drawn to.
Affection born from sex followed a similar principle.
It might have started as a purely physical relationship, but it was entirely possible for it to develop into one that was mentally fulfilling as well. That was a precious piece of wisdom I’d gained in this body.
Or not.
“Yu-jeong.”
“…What.”
I was starting to get a feel for it now.
How much she liked me, and just how much she was willing to accept.
Of course, what I was about to say was still a huge gamble, but the difference from before was that it no longer seemed completely hopeless.
“I think I might be more of a pervert than I thought.”
I threw out the confession with a serious tone, but she just looked at me with a question mark on her face and asked back.
“You’re only just realizing that?”
Ah.
So you already knew?
“No… I mean, uh… all men are perverts, but I think I’ve surpassed the normal level.”
Then she asked.
“So what exactly is it you want to do?”
Hmm.
There were many things I wanted to do.
“I want to do it in the back, too.”
“The back…? You mean doggy style? We do that plenty.”
“No, not the position.”
“Then what do you mean by ‘the back’…?”
As if something had dawned on her, Shin Yu-jeong clamped her mouth shut and glared at me.
“By ‘the back’… are you talking about the ass?”
“Yeah.”
“…You crazy bastard.”
A look full of contempt was directed my way.
But this might actually go better than I thought.
She glared at me for a moment with an expression that screamed, I have a lot to say, but I won’t.
“So, is that the only thing you want to do?”
“No.”
“Ha.”
She laughed, a hollow sound.
“Go on, spit it all out. Let’s just hear it.”
“I want to try slave play. With me as the master, of course.”
“The other way around?”
“Not really interested.”
“You selfish bastard. Next?”
“Some light SM play wouldn’t be bad either.”
“And you’d be the one doing the hitting, obviously?”
“Of course.”
“Uniquely selfish bastard. Next?”
One by one, I listed the sexual fantasies I had pictured in my head.
Role play, bondage play, outdoor play, and so on.
I spat them all out excitedly, even as I saw the contempt in her eyes deepening.
Ah, but I did have the conscience to leave out ‘mother-daughter threesome’ and ‘infidelity’.
Mentioning those might really lead to a catastrophe.
After hearing all this, she asked me in a tone of disbelief.
“How the hell do you even use magic? When your head is filled with nothing but thoughts like that.”
“Hehe, right?”
That’s probably the driving force behind my magic, I thought.
“So… that’s everything now, right?”
After listening to all my sex fantasies, her expression didn’t look too bad.
In fact, she looked like she thought it might be worth a try.
And it was true.
Everything I had mentioned so far were things Shin Yu-jeong could do for me all by herself.
Which is why…
“No, there’s still more…”
“What else.”
What I said now was the most important part.
“I want to try… a threesome, too.”
“……”
This was a fantasy she could never fulfill on her own, not even if she died and came back to life.
Shin Yu-jeong froze, shocked by the most stunning fantasy yet.
With a blank expression, she thought hard about something and then asked me.
“…It would be one man and two women, obviously, right?”
“Yeah.”
It was a question with an obvious answer, so I replied as if it were a matter of course. Her jaw dropped.
“Hey.”
“What?”
“You.”
Wasn’t she trying to call me?
“Son of a bitch!”
Ah, what the hell.
She was calling me after all.