Chapter 28
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 28
Chapter Title: How Can Someone's Charm Be 999?
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How could a person's charm stat possibly be 999?
"We need to talk alone. Wait outside."
After sending Sanghyeok out, Isabella was left alone with Seridwen and gradually regained her composure.
"Teacher. Put this on."
"Thanks."
Seridwen draped the Student Council President's jacket over her shoulders and curled up in the chair.
It was partly from the shame of showing such an embarrassing sight to a junior from her alma mater,
but her body, heated up from sex, still wouldn't calm down. Her cheeks were still flushed, her heart racing, and Seridwen—who had been a virgin with men just two hours ago—
felt a strange lingering sensation, as if it was still inside her.
"Seridwen Teacher. I got your call and came right over. Are you okay?"
"...Did I call?"
"To be precise, I called you. You were on silent the whole time, so I got worried and came."
Come to think of it, she'd desperately tried to get near her smartphone.
But in the end, she couldn't manage something as complex as pressing a number. The call that reached Isabella hadn't even been her intention.
She just happened to slide the 'accept call' button while rolling around in the jelly.
Seridwen had been thoroughly neutralized. Without someone coming to save her, there was no hope at all.
Then, a saving hand enveloped her.
She felt like she'd never forget that warmth for the rest of her life. She even thought she could stay like that forever. It was a touch so warm it filled the void of losing her limbs.
The texture of those fiddling fingers was etched into her heart even now, making it flutter.
"Do you know who that student is?"
"Yes. Kim Sanghyeok. Etsol Academy, Class 2-F. His younger siblings are outstanding, but he's been a perennial D-rank."
"He said the same thing himself."
I'm Kim Sanghyeok. Etsol Academy, Class 2-F, D-rank cadet.
In that situation, it was ridiculously honest self-introduction.
As if he was on a blind date.
And then, he moved his hips in the most lascivious way... so... so...
Eut...
It flashed vividly in her mind.
Remembering that incredible sex made Seridwen squirm restlessly.
Because of him, things turned out like this. Even his guilt-ridden expression was sexy...
...She was going crazy. She wanted to kiss him all over.
She wanted to hug him tight and beg him not to feel guilty because of her.
Up until now, fellow hunters had teased her about how she showed zero interest in men, so she'd thought she just wasn't into guys. Far from it.
Her standards were sky-high!!
Now, she felt like no one but someone who looked like Sanghyeok would even register as a man.
"He also said he'd heal you."
"Seridwen Teacher. No matter how good the outcome, this isn't something we can just let slide. We have to follow protocol."
Even if Seridwen, who could be called the victim, had ended up developing feelings for Sanghyeok as a result,
that didn't erase the fact of the crime.
Especially Isabella's idea of 'protocol'—isolating those with dangerous talents from society, up to and including summary execution for non-cooperation.
It was based on Korea's Villain Punishment Act. If the enforcer was the head of the Villain Rehabilitation Bureau, making Kim Sanghyeok vanish tomorrow would be child's play.
"...Hoo."
"Are you thinking of covering for him just because he's a cadet?"
"Why do you hate him so much?"
"That's..."
"What was his ability? Did you hear?"
Isabella spilled everything.
The mechanism of Personality Excretion.
Everything, including Sanghyeok's deduction that he'd hit the scarecrow and ended up excreting Seridwen.
"But the scarecrow story is probably a lie to lighten his own guilt."
"Why do you think that?"
"It's what villains always do. Plus, Kim Sanghyeok racked up over 100 demerit points for bad attitude, sexual harassment, and such—his punishment was suspended, and that's when he did this."
Isabella had plenty of justification to paint Kim Sanghyeok as an evil that needed to be dealt with.
Seridwen, in contrast to the heated Isabella, grew colder.
"Well. If it was to lighten his own guilt, staying out of it would've been the best move, no?"
"..."
Seridwen knew several spells and useful magics off by heart that she could deploy instantly even against a sudden attack.
But this time, none of them had worked.
"Embarrassing as it is, even I failed completely to identify the culprit. No one would know it was Kim Sanghyeok."
"It's not an ability he can hide forever. Eventually, he'd commit another crime with that vicious skill and end up on a suspect list, right?"
"Thinking 'he'd get caught eventually for some later crime anyway' is a huge leap. Looking at it plainly, Kim Sanghyeok stepped up to save me in a situation where he didn't have to."
If he'd only cared about his own safety, he wouldn't have blabbed about his ability to the Student Council President.
Above all, it showed he'd prioritized rescuing Seridwen.
So she wanted to help him.
"If you intend to cover for the teacher, I'll make it public. A skill like that is too dangerous to leave among academy cadets."
"Calm down. Isabella."
"Has your judgment gotten cloudy because you like him?"
"Aren't you the one whose judgment is clouded because you hate him?"
Isabella clamped her mouth shut.
There was no reason to like a sex criminal. Especially...
"I have no reason to look kindly on the criminal who raped my respected teacher... No matter what you say, I'll handle it by the book."
Hmm.
Convincing Isabella wouldn't be easy.
She wasn't the type to yield to evil...
Of all people, it had to be Isabella who showed up... She's a bit rigid.
But on the other hand, she understood.
She was keeping the possibility open that she was the one whose normal judgment was impaired.
Seridwen pressed further.
"What if it really was a situation Sanghyeok-kun didn't want? Could you still call him a simple criminal?"
"That's flimsy evidence."
"There's a clue to think about. That Personality Excretion thing—it's not a skill, it's an Authority."
"An Authority? No way, from a D-rank cadet..."
Authority.
A power distinctly separate from skills. Even among SS-rank hunters, only a rare few wield what are called 'Authorities' thanks to the favor of an outer god.
Skills can sometimes be 'granted' by transcendent beings too,
but the distinction is whether you're using your own power or borrowing from an outer god.
"He must've gotten it recently. If he could handle an Authority strong enough to neutralize me from childhood, things would've been way worse by now."
"Is that your judgment as an SS-rank hunter?"
"Isabella. You seem to have some inkling too?"
Isabella fell into thought for a moment.
The Kim Sanghyeok she remembered was definitely a trashy guy who went around with petty sexual harassment,
but lately he'd been acting like a different person. He'd even claimed himself that he'd lost his memories.
She'd let him loose to figure out what tricks he was up to, and now he'd gotten an Authority?
The timing was too perfect.
Yes. It made sense to assume they were connected somehow.
"Circumstantially, that power does seem like an Authority."
Isabella's tone softened a bit.
"Then it might really have been an accident. If an outer god just played a prank and gave him power beyond his station, we could cut him a little slack."
"..."
Since Authorities come from outer gods,
they're not always granted after meticulous checks on the user's qualifications.
Cases where a normal life gets ruined by a suddenly bestowed Authority weren't entirely unheard of...
"Seridwen Teacher."
"Yeah?"
"You think what happened in this room just now was clearly a rescue."
"..."
Seridwen nodded.
Whether you saw what happened in this room as rape or rescue changed your entire perspective.
"I was the one begging for more. It couldn't be helped."
"What if it wasn't your full consent?"
"No way to check that now... I'm already a different person than I was a second ago."
Silence.
Isabella let out a deep sigh. Her blue eyes welled up with moisture.
"In the end, I couldn't do anything. For Teacher's crisis... All I did was stand at the door."
"It's okay. Isabella. I'm so glad it was you who came to help me."
"Teacher..."
"I'm not claiming Sanghyeok-kun is innocent from A to Z either. He does have a dangerous power we can't just leave be."
Sanghyeok's fellow cadets didn't grasp the gravity,
but Personality Excretion was a power that could rock society.
And not in a good way...
"What will you do?"
"I need time to sort my thoughts. Can you give me a bit?"
"...Sure."
"Don't grill that guy too hard. He saved my life, after all. You get that, right?"
Nod...
Isabella nodded, looking deflated.
"It's a complicated feeling. Hard to just be grateful as is."
"Could you thank him for me instead? I don't think I can face him and talk today..."
"Got it."
He'd understand, right?
Too much had happened today, and Seridwen needed time.
Who knew what crazy thing she'd blurt out otherwise. Like 'hold me all night.'
She'd taken creampies until her womb was stuffed full...
I need to take a morning-after pill...
The academy, which was supposed to feel like 'home,' had become an unbearable den of sticky lust, so Seridwen fled to a hotel for the time being.
She swallowed her pill and took a hot shower.
Looking at her reflection in the mirror, she felt a bit proud.
Even stripping away titles like SS-rank hunter or Master, I'm still pretty hot, right?
Wasn't she lacking as a partner for him?
Wasn't she a burdensome older woman? She simulated it over and over in her head.
But for now, it seemed fine. She'd always thought she was pretty anyway.
But still...
The moans she'd gasped out in ecstasy, the eyes rolling back as she writhed in pleasure from his cock.
The more she thought about what her face must've looked like, the more embarrassed she got...
If I were a guy, I'd have busted instantly...
Seridwen had wanted to make cute, pretty ahn, ahn sounds with a refined expression if possible.
But what could she do? It just wasn't her.
This was the first time she'd realized sex could be that amazing.
Did everyone experience this?
Ung, no...
It was because that man was special.
Suddenly, Seridwen was overcome by a sense of deprivation she'd never felt before.
She'd escaped the jelly state.
But she wanted him to touch her again with those hands.
This is bad. Have I been brainwashed...?
And yet, she didn't hate this sense of lack.
She swelled with anticipation at the thought of seeing him again...
"Haa, hut..."
This time facing the mirror,
she fingered out the cum from the creampie while practicing the pretty writhing expressions she'd wanted to show Kim Sanghyeok.
Thick semen kept flowing out...
...If I don't take the pill, I'd definitely get pregnant...
No matter how much she scooped, more kept coming.
To an almost ridiculous degree...