Scouter
Scouter
"...Haa~. Understood. I will no longer ask about the full-body suit. I will also tell others not to do so."
While I was looking at Seul-bi with utmost reassurance, Teacher Choi, who had been in a fierce battle of wills with her, finally raised the white flag.
Well, that's how it had to be.
If, in an attempt to secure full-body suits for people's safety, we were to get offended and leave the school in the process, there would be no greater loss.
We were strong enough to easily drive out the thugs, could freely move outside the school to procure supplies, and behaved quietly without trying to dominate the school like the thugs.
If he were to lose us, who are like this, due to a bit of greed, Teacher Choi would not be qualified as a leader.
Fortunately, Teacher Choi, like a good leader, did not make such a mistake.
"Instead, please tell me just one thing truthfully. Seul-bi-ssi, what is your real special ability? Is it perhaps related to healing wounds?"
Teacher Choi, as if to say let's talk frankly, loosened his neatly tied necktie halfway and asked.
Unlike his casual demeanor, a firm resolve not to back down easily this time was palpable.
'Come to think of it, people have been flocking to the school lately, haven't they? Is the medical staff that short-handed?'
Realizing the situation roughly, I sighed inwardly.
A normal doctor would have succumbed to professional ethics and told the truth, but unfortunately, Seul-bi...
"No, it's not."
was not such a normal doctor.
Her skills as a doctor might be top-notch, but given her personality, she had almost no professional ethics as a doctor.
"...It's not? Then is your psychic ability really..."
"Yes, my psychic ability is Full-body Suit Creation. Not healing wounds."
While Teacher Choi was flustered by Seul-bi's unexpected answer, Seul-bi, as if to prove it, took off her helmet and met Teacher Choi's eyes directly.
Glancing from beside Teacher Choi, I saw Seul-bi's eyes, completely unwavering.
They were so unwavering that even I, who already knew her psychic ability, was momentarily fooled, thinking, "Is that so?"
"H-Honestly, I find that hard to believe. The System said that psychic abilities are determined by one's usual conduct. But for Seul-bi-ssi, a doctor, to acquire such an ability, not one for healing wounds..."
Perhaps Seul-bi's radiant beauty was too much for him, Teacher Choi blushed and subtly averted his gaze.
However, even while doing so, he did not stop questioning Seul-bi.
Honestly, I respected him a little.
If it were me, wouldn't I have been completely captivated by Seul-bi's appearance and fallen for her lie without any suspicion?
"Are you perhaps still lying..."
"It's my husband's fetish."
"...Huh? What did you just say?"
"I said it's my husband's fetish. The full-body suit. He loves how I look in this suit so much that he begs me to wear it whenever he gets the chance."
While I was looking at Teacher Choi with respect, Seul-bi, utterly fed up with Teacher Choi, dropped an enormous bombshell.
Having unintentionally had my fetish exposed in front of countless people, I raised both hands to cover my flushed red face.
Teacher Choi, perhaps feeling guilty, asked me.
"M-Minsu-ssi. Are you alright?"
"Do you think I'd be alright, Teacher Choi? With my sexual preference exposed for all the world to see?"
"Of course you wouldn't be alright. But don't be too embarrassed. I can understand why you'd have such a preference."
"Teacher Choi is right."
"If I had a wife with a body like that, I'd..."
"Oh my. Is she even human? That body and that face."
Teacher Choi patted my shoulder as if he understood, and the people watching the situation (mostly men) also chimed in to comfort me.
But even so, my mood hardly improved.
Because over Teacher Choi's shoulder, I could see Seul-bi, smirking at me as if to say, 'Serves you right.'
I was too indignant, but since Teacher Choi had completely fallen for the revelation, I couldn't bring myself to deny it.
"Ah! That woman!"
"It's her!"
"Now that you mention it!"
Did the heavens punish her on my behalf?
Several people, horrified, began pointing at Seul-bi.
People next to them, puzzled, asked them.
"Why? Do you know her?"
"Not exactly, but she's the woman I told you about earlier!"
"I told you I saw her a few days before coming here, didn't I? The woman who forcibly raped her unwilling companion on a building rooftop!"
"That woman is *that* woman!"
'Ah, those people, surely not.'
Before coming to the school, Seul-bi and I, who were busy jumping between buildings and scavenging for supplies, had once had public sex in front of people asking us for help.
Listening to their conversation, it seemed they were the witnesses to that public sex.
The Outer God's second attack began that night, and I thought everyone had died, but it seems they miraculously survived and made it this far.
"That lewd woman is *that* woman?"
"To forcibly rape her own husband. Isn't she crazy?"
"Perhaps the full-body suit fetish isn't her husband's fetish, but her own."
Anyway, thanks to their testimonies, I received even more comfort than before, while Seul-bi, conversely, received looks of contempt and as if she were a lewd woman.
"N-No! It's not true!"
Seul-bi belatedly cried out that it wasn't true, but perhaps because of how she had been smirking at me, or perhaps because of her overly voluptuous body, no one believed her words.
The truth was that it wasn't true, but I didn't bother to correct that fact.
Serves you right, you bitch.
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Thanks to Seul-bi's revelation and the people's testimonies, Teacher Choi, who had completely believed Seul-bi's lie that her special ability was Full-body Suit Creation, let us go without hesitation.
Well, right before letting us go, a ridiculous incident occurred where he secretly called me and asked if he should isolate Seul-bi, but since Lala wasn't discovered, it was a good outcome overall.
"What do you mean 'a good outcome overall'! Can't you see how people are looking at me right now?!"
As the saying goes, 'rumors have wings.'
In the meantime, perhaps the testimonies that Seul-bi had raped me had spread, as everyone we encountered in the hallway looked at Seul-bi with either contempt or lust in their eyes.
Naturally, Seul-bi, who had much to feel wronged about, couldn't endure those stares for long and took out her frustration on me, the root cause.
"It's all your fault! Take responsibility! Take responsibilityyy!"
Pat! Pat!
"Ouch. Now you're not just raping your husband, but hitting him too? Don't worry, Seul-bi-ya. Even so, I will love you to the very end."
Ooooh!!!
What a man! A true man!
Now that I see it, it's not the woman who's too good for him, but the man who's too good for her!
Hey, you bitch! Stop tormenting your husband!
"I didn't torment him! What do you guys even know! Hmph!"
As I magnanimously accepted Seul-bi's outburst, applause and praise for me poured in from all sides.
Conversely, insults and condemnation were heaped upon Seul-bi.
Feeling that Seul-bi would burst into tears if I left her alone, I hugged her tightly and gestured to the people for their understanding.
The people, as if saying I had it tough, patted my shoulder and back, and only then began to go their own ways.
Once the surroundings quieted down, Seul-bi, with her face buried in my chest, asked.
"How are you really going to take responsibility? I've been completely branded as a bad bitch, you know. If I walk around alone, I'll definitely get cursed at."
"Then just don't walk around alone. From now on, no matter what happens, don't leave my side."
"...Until when?"
"Until death do us part."
A cheesy line I would never utter under normal circumstances.
My resistance to cheesiness was low, and my hands and feet curled up like squid, but it was worth enduring that and saying it aloud.
"...Pfft. What was that? It doesn't suit you."
Seul-bi, her face tinged with a lovely pink, looked up at me.
Indeed, for a lonely married woman, nothing was better than a line so cheesy it would rot your teeth.
"...Look at them, playing around."
At that moment, a voice full of dissatisfaction was heard.
Turning my head towards where the sound came from, I saw Ye-rin, who looked as if all the complaints in the world had gathered in her.
"Until death do us part? Ugh! Did you butter your mouth, or what? Su-bin-a, doesn't it sound cheesy to you too? Right?"
"W-Well, it is a little cheesy, but I think it's very romantic. Until death do us part. Yeah, I think it's really good."
As our eyes met, Ye-rin mimicked my words as if teasing me and sought Su-bin's agreement.
But the person she sought agreement from was completely the wrong choice.
That clueless fellow, not understanding Ye-rin's intention, praised my words.
He even mumbled as if trying to remember my words and glanced at Ye-rin, which made it seem like he planned to use them on her later.
If he were to actually use those words later and die by Ye-rin's hand, would that be murder? Or natural causes?