Chapter 4
Chapter 4
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 4
Chapter Title: Five Wishes
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In the pitch-black darkness where nothing was visible, Junho opened his eyes.
'Ugh... did I survive? Where is this place... underground? Yuri!! If I'm alive, maybe Yuri is too?'
Junho shot to his feet and wandered around searching for Yuri and her two daughters, shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Yuri! Hyemi! Hyeon! If you're alive, please answer me! Yuri!"
But something felt off. No matter how loudly he yelled, there was no response, and he couldn't escape the thick darkness that stretched on endlessly no matter how far he walked.
"Aaaah... if Yuri's dead, then I..."
In the end, despair overwhelmed Junho, and he collapsed into the darkness, tears streaming down his face.
"Yuri..."
At that moment, a mystical white light appeared before Junho's eyes. A voice emanated from within the light.
"Shin Junho. Age 28 at time of death. Died after falling into a sinkhole caused by an earthquake, correct?"
Startled by the voice, Junho jumped to his feet.
"Wh... who are you? I am Shin Junho, but... I'm not dead yet!! I'm perfectly fine and alive right now, so why are you saying I'm dead!! Please send a rescue team quick!! The people I love might be dying!!!"
Despite Junho's desperate cries, the white light responded coldly.
"No, you're dead. Doesn't something feel off? Before you died, your legs were badly injured, but now they're fine, aren't they?"
Only then did Junho look down at his legs. Seeing them completely unharmed, he finally realized he was truly dead.
"I... I'm dead? You are... who exactly... and where is this place?"
"I am the Absolute One who oversees the entire universe. Well... in your terms, you could call me a god. This is a place where the souls of the dead pass through. Normally, all memories are erased, and existence is terminated immediately, but your pitiful life piqued my interest."
As it spoke, the light took on a form. It soon shifted into the shape of a young boy, and as the dazzling light faded, a handsome boy stood alone before Junho.
No longer a mystical voice, it now teased Junho in a snide, obnoxious tone.
"Man~~ You really lived a pathetic life, huh? Born into poverty, ugly as sin so no friends... got abused by the boss's wife at work too, pffft hahaha!"
Junho was so furious he felt his blood boiling. He wanted to punch the boy right in the face, but the memory of that mystical light when it claimed to be a god made him grit his teeth and hold back his anger.
"Who are you mocking right now?"
"You! I'm mocking you, you pathetic loser!"
"What? You bastard!!"
"How lame do you have to live to end up this pitiful? With that sturdy build, if you'd bullied kids, extorted money, and gone into the underworld, you could've lived pretty well, right?"
Junho took deep breaths to calm himself. It was true—he'd gotten offers to work under gangsters, even suggestions that his tough looks would make him a good enforcer. But Junho hadn't wanted that life, so he'd pushed through the hardships and lived honestly.
"Th... that doesn't make it right! There's things humans should and shouldn't do—I always thought that."
"But for someone with those principles, you lived way too pitifully? Wow~ So ugly you stayed a virgin till 27 without a single girlfriend, then the day you finally connect with your crush and become lovers... you die right before sex.... Pffft hahaha, that's just tragically human, hehehehe!"
Hit by such brutal facts, Junho's face flushed red and pale by turns. But since everything the god said was true, he had nothing to say.
"Ugh... yeah, can't argue with facts. God, I don't care that I'm dead, but could you tell me what happened to Yuri and the two girls? Please... if you're a god, just tell me that much."
At Junho's plea, the god in the form of a boy tossed him a newspaper.
"It's a paper being published in your country right now, so read it."
Junho read the newspaper and collapsed in shock, unable to control his body as he burst into sobs.
"Waaahhh Yuri... waaahhh I'm sorry.... I should've saved you somehow, waaahhh I can't believe I missed that falling ceiling, waaahhh!"
"Hey!! Stop crying, you idiot! What's a grown man bawling about! Tsk tsk tsk."
But Junho's sobs didn't stop, and the god started getting annoyed.
"Hey, shut up! Keep crying and I'll erase the souls of those who died with you! I'm only keeping them around because you interest me... damn it!!"
At the god's intense threat, Junho clamped his hand over his mouth to stifle his cries. Once he fully calmed his heaving chest and stopped crying completely, he asked the god,
"If... if you haven't erased their souls yet, does that mean you have some kind of proposal for me?"
"Not really a proposal... I just decided to give you a chance to live again. You're the funniest and most pitiful human I've ever seen. Hehehe."
"A chance to live again... you mean reincarnating me into the past? Then I could meet Yuri!!"
When Junho asked the god with a spark of hope, the god crushed it mercilessly.
"No, that's probably impossible. Even gods can't turn back time. Instead, I'll send you to another world while keeping your memories! And I'll reincarnate these five souls here with you. Of course, they won't remember you. I already turned them into soul orbs."
"Thank you!! Thank you so much! I don't care about memories! Just being able to meet them is enough! I'll find a way to meet Yuri again and become her lover no matter what!"
The god ignored Junho's thanks, picking at his ear and flicking away earwax as it spoke.
"Yeah, whatever... For your next life, I'll let you live comfortably, so I'll grant you five wishes. Obviously, no 'make me a god' or 'give me 100 wishes' crap, or I'll erase you right now."
Junho pondered deeply for a while. Since the god had already promised to reincarnate Yuri as top priority, he started thinking about ways to meet her.
"Um... can I ask one thing first? What kind of world will I be reincarnated into?"
"Sure, I'll throw that in as service. It's what you call a fantasy world. Seven countries, magic and mana exist, various races live there. Civilization level is high enough that food, clothing, and shelter won't be an issue. But no electricity or gunpowder inventions allowed. Oh wait, you never learned anything anyway, so you wouldn't know how. Kahahah!"
The god laughed mockingly, clapping its hands, but Junho truly knew nothing, so he had no retort.
"I'll make my first wish. Please let Yuri remember her past life."
"Ah! That's impossible, sorry. I can do it for you since your soul orb isn't made yet, but once it's an orb, no dice. Still, they haven't bathed in the River Lethe yet, so with strong will, she might remember you. How about... making it a wish that she doesn't bathe in the River Lethe?"
Junho looked dejected but gratefully accepted it as his first wish.
"Alright, first wish approved! Second?"
"Make my body the absolute best human body possible!"
"Hmm... best body how?"
"Make every part of my body the pinnacle of humanity!! Muscles that never tire no matter how much I move, like that!!"
"Easy enough, got it! The body you'll be born into will be the strongest human from head to toe in every part! And... the important parts... hehehe, never mind! Look forward to it later~. Oh right! I can't mess with brains, so intelligence is up to you to study and improve! Same for learning skills and techniques."
Junho grumbled inwardly about how the god couldn't do so much, but shut his mouth at the threat of losing all remaining wishes if he kept babbling.
"Alright! Third wish?"
"Um... make it so women who have sex with me feel the ultimate pleasure... and after sex with me, a special mark like a tattoo appears, showing how much pleasure they felt..."
Even Junho found it embarrassing as he blushed bright red and made the wish. Having been a virgin in his past life, he'd been so anxious during foreplay with Yuri for their first time, unsure if she was enjoying it, that he'd ended up wishing for this.
"Ha... this guy's a closet perv, huh? Kekeke, jerking off every day, how'd you even survive? Hehehe, approved anyway!"
The god placed a hand on Junho's head, closed its eyes for a long moment, then opened them and shot him a lecherous grin.
"Oh ho ho, you dirty bastard!! Peeking into your memories, I see what kind of mark you want... that womb tattoo from the hentai you jerked off to? The one that glows bright red on her pussy mound?"
His inner thoughts exposed, Junho blushed again but nodded since it was exactly right.
"Fine, I'll make it just like that, and as service, add a function where women with that mark only get pregnant when you want them to. So creampie all you want, no worries. Man, I'm being generous today!"
Junho was deeply grateful for that feature and bowed deeply to the god before making his next wish.
"Make me born into the richest nation in the world, with a status where I can live idly and carefree!!"
"Hmm... alright! Prince level sound good?"
"Yes!! Perfect!! But I don't want to get involved in running the country, so... not crown prince."
"Sheesh~ so many demands... Fine! Last wish?"
"...Please make the souls reincarnating with me born into statuses easy for me to meet."
At Junho's final wish, the god grinned slyly and approved it readily.
"Alright, all five wishes granted! Go live well!! When you die, I'll call you back here with those five who died with you, so tell me your thoughts~"
With that, the god vanished, and Junho felt his vision darkening. At the same time, his consciousness faded away.