Chapter 73
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 73
Chapter Title: A Man Stays Hard to the Bitter End
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“S-Seohyun… no, Laura has a fiancé now?!”
“Fiancé my ass. Truth is, he’s just some bastard worming his way in to force a marriage and rape her.”
The air in the one-room apartment twisted oddly at my icy words.
While Laura was out on magical girl duty.
This cramped one-room where she and Taeyang usually lived now held some unexpected guests.
Zeke, the orc chieftain I’d brought to test him, and his wife Yellow Bella.
And on top of that, the Absorbing Witch, Laura’s older sister.
A total of five.
The stifling tension in the tiny space mingled with untold stories leaking out.
Right there, I shared info on the “Werewolf Branyu” currently targeting Laura with Taeyang.
The moment I did, his face crumbled.
Golden Taeyang’s always bright and sloppy features drained of blood in an instant.
His expression turned grim and desperate, laced with raw urgency.
“N-No way…! Then we can’t just sit here—we gotta go help her! Right now!”
Thud—
He shot up from his seat and lunged for the door without a second thought.
But then, a sigh from behind him.
After a long, heavy exhale, the Absorbing Witch hurled a cold dose of reality.
“And what exactly are you gonna do if you go?”
“...Huh?”
“Do you even know what a werewolf is? It’s an upper-class monster. The kind that rips humans apart like toys. And you think… some quick-on-the-draw romantic who’s ‘kinda fit’ charging in will change a damn thing?”
Her words were frigid.
But at the same time, an undeniable… brutally painful truth.
“What if you rush in and get caught? Then because of you, our Laura gets beast-fucked by some animal she doesn’t even like.”
“Ah…!”
Taeyang’s face went sheet-white.
“Absorbing Witch. Calm down first.”
I stepped in, but she’d already lost any room to hold back her emotions.
“Calm down? …Fuck, how am I supposed to calm down when my family’s in danger? This is about our Laura right now…! My little sister!”
It was a side of the Absorbing Witch I’d never seen.
She’d been my subordinate for over ten years, but I’d never witnessed her lose control like this.
Zeke started to say something but wisely shut his mouth.
I couldn’t stop her either—
Because I agreed.
...If this were happening to our Sora?
I’d lose my shit the same way.
“How the hell did this even happen…!”
The Absorbing Witch spewed her emotions raw.
Then her trembling finger pointed at Taeyang.
“From now on, you stay put.”
“Stay put….”
“Quiet as a dead mouse. Like you don’t even exist. We’ll hide you somehow. Until Branyu can’t find you no matter what. But in exchange, you cut ties with my little sister today. Don’t ever show your face to her again. That’s the last help you can give. Got it?”
In that instant, the air flipped.
The whole room froze solid.
Cracks spiderwebbed across the window like thin ice, and the floor hummed with vibration.
Skin prickled, and Bella stifled a shriek—“Eek?!”—clinging to Zeke’s arm for cover.
It was… killing intent no one dared interrupt.
In that heavy silence, Taeyang’s lips quivered under the weight as he spoke.
“...I understand.”
But his next words turned the room’s atmosphere upside down.
“But… sorry, I can’t do that!”
“......What?”
“Even if… even if it kills me, I want to protect Seohyun… no, Laura, and die trying!”
That one line halted the air in the room.
A young man’s cry, fearless of death.
Innocence ignorant of how cheap life can be.
Yet the rock-solid resolve within it echoed with real weight.
In that moment, color returned to the Absorbing Witch’s eyes.
Anger? Panic? Sorrow…? A turbulent mix of emotions in her shaking gaze.
But separate from that, Zeke and I exchanged a glance, and we couldn’t hold back the laughter bursting out.
It wasn’t mockery or ridicule.
Just awe as “men” for that flash of youthful grit.
Because that was the “prime” of a guy born with a dick hanging between his legs.
“W-What kind of lunatic is this? I was even treating you with respect as Laura’s first love, and you kick my goodwill to the curb?”
“I’m truly sorry, ma’am! But I’m not afraid to die! What scares me more is not being by Laura’s side when she’s in danger!”
“F-Fuck, who’s your ‘ma’am’?! Ugh… damn it, no. I gotta chop off an arm or a leg right here!”
As she jumped up to muster her mana, I raised my palm to stop her.
“Whoa, whoa, Absorbing Witch. Enough.”
“......!”
“Botch your magic on a human and it won’t be amputation—it’ll be instant death. You think Laura won’t resent you more than that wolf bastard if that happens?”
She froze at my words.
Taeyang seized the gap, dropping to his knees.
But he didn’t bow his head.
A posture baring his heart instead of his back, pride unbent.
“Please. Even if it costs my life… let me protect Laura.”
The Absorbing Witch bit her lip in flustered dismay.
And Zeke and I held her back amid the storm of her feelings.
Honestly, at this point… everyone passed but her.
I stretched leisurely and turned to Taeyang.
“Taeyang, come to think of it… I never told you my real identity, huh?”
“Oh, right. Back then you said you were an inspector from the government….”
“Yeah. That was… bullshit.”
I slowly smiled and extended my hand.
“Let me reintroduce myself. I’m Kim Taegon, one of the Villain Alliance executives. And for the record, my kink is tormenting my adorable wife’s pussy.”
“...???”
Taeyang stared at me in utter confusion.
I laughed and clapped his shoulder.
“No need for long talks. Taeyang. Do you want to protect Laura?”
“Yes! No matter… no matter the cost, I want to protect her!”
In that instant, my eyes narrowed.
I leaned in close and whispered low.
“Good. Then how about you….”
Gulp—
“...become a ‘demon’?”
Laura was patrolling her usual sector as always.
Maybe because two of the Prismatic Eight had recently fallen to demon attacks in a row.
With that shock still lingering, the remaining six now shouldered their share of the workload too.
Laura was no exception.
Coming in earlier than usual, finishing late-night patrols before finally heading home—those days dragged on.
She looked visibly exhausted, but she didn’t complain.
After all, it was just a cover identity to blend into human society.
The magical girl title… she’d stumbled into it somehow.
But.
Even so, the humans smiling at her, asking for autographs, cheering her on.
The sense of duty in protecting them from demons… it kinda… no, pretty much grew on her.
‘...Feels weird, but not bad.’
“Wow! Laura, autograph please!”
“Can we take a selfie together?!”
“Of course. But like I always say—no touching my body. Got it?”
A bright smile backed by a firm line in the sand.
Even with fans, boundaries clear!
That’s why the public called her the “Iron-Walled Beauty Magical Girl.”
And today too, she diligently served this world where her boyfriend, master, and favorite dildo “Taeyang” lived.
At least….
“So, how about some sex with me then? I’m a fan too.”
“...What?”
...Until that “monster” appeared.
“Kyaaah!!”
“D-Demon!!”
“That size… no way!”
“It’s a werewolf! That’s a werewolf!”
Screams blanketed the streets.
At the center loomed a massive shadow.
A werewolf standing with the sun at his back.
The man straddling the line between human and beast slowly curled his lips and stepped toward Laura.
“Green Laura… way hotter in person than photos! And in magical girl outfit too… heh heh, once I drag you to my den, I can play with you in all sorts of positions!”
Vulgar trash talk echoing through downtown in broad daylight.
For a split second, Laura’s brow twitched.
—Werewolf. An upper-class one at that.
Caught off guard by the surprise appearance, she quickly regained her magical girl smile.
In times like these, evacuate civilians first.
“It’s dangerous here! Everyone inside the buildings!”
Laura swiftly directed the crowd.
This was downtown.
Not some dark alley— the heart of a metropolis thick with CCTV and drones.
Magical Girl support team would arrive in under five minutes.
Hold out five minutes, and this psycho wolf gets pulverized.
‘The hell does this horny mutt think he is… I’ll just beat his ass and ship him to containment today.’
But—
As if mocking her thoughts, Bogard opened his mouth.
“Hey, you lot. You know what you’re running from?!”
He turned his back to Laura and yelled at the evacuating civilians.
“This green magical girl you love getting autographs from, snapping pics with, following—you really thought she was human?!”
“......What?”
“What’s that guy on about?”
Feet halted.
Some hesitated, others turned back.
Bogard slowly stretched his grin ear to ear.
“Idiots. You’ve all been played. By this ‘succubus bitch’!”
Silence.
In an instant, the word “succubus bitch” stabbed into Laura’s ears like a dagger.
She alone here knew its true meaning, but the raw insult in that voice was all too blatant.