Chapter 56
Chapter 56
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 56
Chapter Title: At the Study Group (3)
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Choi Si-hyeok lost in a daze.
'...'
Staring blankly at Cynthia's legs, he let out a hollow chuckle.
Embarrassment and futility.
Helplessness and deprivation.
Despair and hopelessness.
Such emotions began to flood through Choi Si-hyeok's entire body.
'...This can't be real!'
The body of the woman he'd longed for was fitted with a cold metal device.
And in such an intimate spot, no less.
What that meant went without saying.
"Who the hell did this...!"
Gritting his teeth, Choi Si-hyeok shouted.
Cynthia wouldn't have put a chastity belt on herself.
She was clearly no longer pure, already touched by another man's hands. Choi Si-hyeok's eyes flashed with rage at having his prize stolen.
His mind, filled with thoughts of ravaging Cynthia, went blank for a moment, his vision turning bright yellow.
With his pride utterly shattered, he stared at her vacantly, like a dying man or someone who'd lost the world—until he snapped back to his senses.
"Fuck!"
As the ancient sages said, frustration forges a man.
Emerging from the intense shock, Choi Si-hyeok refused to give up and reached for Cynthia once more.
Even if it was tainted by another man's grime, he couldn't let her go like this.
Swoosh!
Indeed, even upon seeing the chastity belt, Choi Si-hyeok displayed extraordinary tenacity. He wasn't ordinary, to say the least.
More precisely, he wasn't an ordinary pervert.
But.
"...!"
Choi Si-hyeok was shocked once again.
Thud!
His attempt to grab Cynthia's ass ended in failure.
Because of the chastity belt that enveloped an even larger area than expected, complete with ridges.
'You thought you could take her ass since the pussy was off-limits? Foolish bastard!'
Sneering at him like that, Kang Woojin—who was using Presence Concealment—filmed every pathetic moment of Choi Si-hyeok on video.
With the chastity belt protecting her pussy and her entire ass like panties, all Choi Si-hyeok could feel was the hard grip of metal.
"F-Fucking insane..."
Letting out a disbelieving scoff, Choi Si-hyeok muttered in astonishment.
Cynthia hung her head silently, trembling as tears streamed down her face.
Shiver—.
Ignoring her shame entirely, Choi Si-hyeok immediately moved his hand to her chest.
"...!"
But there too, instead of soft, yielding flesh, he only felt rigid hardness.
'Falling for it again! Si-hyeok!'
Kang Woojin had always known Choi Si-hyeok inside and out.
The guy was no pushover himself.
He could easily predict that Choi Si-hyeok wouldn't back off just because of a chastity belt on her pussy.
Playing right at the top of Choi Si-hyeok's head and foreseeing a step ahead, Kang Woojin had long since fitted Cynthia's chest with a chastity bra as well.
The matching set up top and bottom was made of a steel-hard yet softly lined dual material for comfortable wear.
Not infused with mana, but the incredibly convenient chastity gear could rightly be called an artifact.
"Ha, haha..."
With all three sexual assaults failing in succession, Choi Si-hyeok backed away step by step, escaping the unbelievable reality.
'No wonder her chest looked bigger than usual...'
Cynthia's lewdly enhanced body was paradoxically an impregnable fortress.
In other words, wrapped head to toe, no one could violate her.
Except for Kang Woojin, the sole holder of the chastity key.
"Cynthia, you..."
A couple steps away from Cynthia, Choi Si-hyeok trailed off, staring at her.
Her pussy, ass, and even chest.
With every hole sealed, sexual conquest was impossible. Even from the one opening left—her mouth—came an unexpected harsh outburst.
"Y-You fucking perverted bastard!"
Having endured as much as she could, Cynthia screamed at the top of her lungs.
Her prior shame and fear had crossed the limit, overtaken by rage.
She shed her foolishly kind nature, revealing a side unlike her usual self.
Whoosh!
And it wasn't just cursing.
Smack!
Cynthia slapped Choi Si-hyeok across the face crisply, swinging her arm as she glared at him with tear-filled eyes.
"You trash!"
Her eyes burned with murderous intent.
But perhaps because of the tears.
Her look was strangely sexy, stirring a man's sadism.
In fact, Kang Woojin was genuinely impressed.
"Oh..."
He couldn't help but clap, deeply moved by this transformed Cynthia.
Cynthia and Choi Si-hyeok's gazes snapped toward Kang Woojin, who had let out the sound absentmindedly.
"...">
"...">
Sudden silence descended.
The unexpected third party's presence drew opposite reactions from the pair.
'Woojin...!'
Cynthia's eyes widened, her face lighting up with a bright, hopeful smile as if her rage had never been.
'No, it's Woojin...'
Tears seemed ready to burst from her at any moment.
Choi Si-hyeok, naturally, was the opposite.
"...Kang Woojin?"
Choi Si-hyeok broke the silence with a quiet mutter.
Staring up at Kang Woojin like a complete fool, his mind went blank, thoughts evaporating in an instant.
And exactly five seconds passed.
1 second to confirm Kang Woojin.
1 second to spot the phone in his hand.
1 second to piece together the situation.
The remaining 2 seconds were spent imagining his future. Faced with a hopeless outlook, Choi Si-hyeok's expression sank darkly as he suddenly surged with mana.
Roar!
Igniting flames, he expressionlessly kicked off the floor like a soulless puppet.
Bang!
With a powerful stomp, he leaped over a dozen stairs, thrusting a blazing red fist at Kang Woojin up close.
But.
"Can't even say hello first, and you're already this impatient."
Channeling mana in turn, Kang Woojin instinctively twisted his body, spinning half a turn in an acrobatic maneuver.
Whirl!
Easily dodging Choi Si-hyeok's fist, Kang Woojin tossed his smartphone down to Cynthia below.
"Catch, Sia."
Completing the final half-turn to circle behind Choi Si-hyeok, he counterpunched.
Thwack!
His fluid motions flowed seamlessly in one breath, without a single hitch.
With senses heightened to superhuman levels, his animalistic reflexes made him seem born for battle.
Cynthia, fumbling to catch the smartphone with both hands, gazed at his back with utter gratitude.
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Even I had to admit it was a damn fine counter.
Choi Si-hyeok, struck squarely, crashed into the glass outer wall of the building and burst right through.
Crash!
He'd punched a nice hole in the emergency stairwell.
Without hesitation, I followed him out of the building.
"Woojin-ah!"
Bidding farewell to Cynthia's cry from behind.
Whoosh!
I plummeted vertically in the cool air.
The six-story building was about 30 meters tall.
With high ceilings per floor, it felt like nine stories.
But for an Awakened, it wasn't a lethal drop.
Unless you landed headfirst at full speed.
Cleaving through the cold wind, I grabbed and released signs on the wall to brake, landing lightly on the ground.
"It was you..."
Choi Si-hyeok, who had landed first, moved his lips with a cold expression.
"Kang Woojin, this was all your doing."
I shrugged at his self-assured nod.
"What're you talking about? I've set up so many schemes, I get confused sometimes."
While I joked, Choi Si-hyeok furrowed his brow deeper.
"Since when? When did you Awaken, and when did you start plotting all this?"
He pointed to today's events.
Fitting Cynthia with the chastity belt.
Filming it all like he'd been waiting.
A chain of impossibilities without prior planning. Choi Si-hyeok openly showed his disgust.
Having toyed with him thoroughly, I grinned meaningfully.
"From the very beginning."
At that moment, crimson flames erupted from Choi Si-hyeok's body.
"You fucking loser dare toy with me?!"
Exploding his internal mana, he seemed blind to hunter laws or anything else.
"You're really going all out. You sure that's fine? That much mana output, and surveillance hunters will swarm in under three minutes."
"Shut up! Three minutes is plenty!"
Like the saying, a cornered rat bites the cat.
Half out of his mind, he was a rat with nowhere to run.
Shing!
I nodded curtly and drew my familiar knife from my thigh holster.
"Yeah, that's plenty of time."
Late to mention, but daggers synergized perfectly with my abilities.
Thrusting both hands forward, Choi Si-hyeok hurled massive fireballs at me.
Roar!
Standing firm, I calmly swung the dagger horizontally, slicing the fireball clean.
"...!"
Choi Si-hyeok's eyes bulged.
We were leagues apart in level, but for this ignorant fool, I'd ramp up gradually.
Splat! Thud!
I shattered another fireball and advanced slowly.
Step.
Choi Si-hyeok's panicked face unleashed endless flames.
Firing small sparks from his fingertips like bullets to keep me at bay.
Figuring close range was hopeless.
Bang! Bang—!
Swinging the dagger left and right, I deflected the fire bullets in succession.
Choi Si-hyeok unleashed various flames too.
Cross-shaped flames flew like skewers.
Clang!
Pillars of fire shot high, crashing down on my head.
'Not bad sense in handling his power.'
Even twisting flames into whirlwinds.
Step.
But crushing it all with mana, I finally reached Choi Si-hyeok.
"F-Fuck..."
I slammed the dagger into his foot.
Clang!
The sharp tip burying deep into the ground.
"Gaaahhh!"
Seeming to experience such pain for the first time, Choi Si-hyeok screamed gutturally.
Even without amplifying his pain senses like before.
Shaking my head at his surprising wimpiness, I grabbed his arms and snapped them.
"...!"
Choked by unimaginable agony, Choi Si-hyeok gaped silently at me with wide eyes.
"Can't cry 'careless' now, right?"
Chuckling dryly, I muttered flatly and released his broken arms.
Whoosh!
His eyes rolled back white as if mana rampaged, a massive blaze erupting from his back.
"...">
Staring at it, I activated Sensory Manipulation anew.
Shhh!
Steam-like mana extended, enveloping him and amplifying his heat perception.
"Aaaahhh!"
Waking his senses like that.
As a flame handler, he had natural fire resistance, but as tested at the prior party, there was a limit to his tolerance.
Sizzle—!
Smoke soon rose from Choi Si-hyeok's writhing back.
Thud.
Opposite the rising smoke, he dropped to his knees.
I could have ended it from the start by cranking his senses to max.
He lacked the mana or experience to resist my abilities.
But after taking his full power to drive home the gap, I naturally turned toward the approaching presences.
"Perfect timing. Three minutes."
Surveillance hunters swarmed the scene, surrounding us.
Ignoring their orders, I approached the barely conscious Choi Si-hyeok.
"Y'know, Si-hyeok."
Switching to a playful tone, heavy expression gone.
"Sia and Harin? Both are smoking hot."