Chapter 15: Gift
Seomun Ye-jin stood before me, proudly displaying her freshly changed outfit.
Wearing a pristine white sleeveless one-piece dress, she looked even more pure and innocent. However, because the dress exposed her shoulders, her delicately pale shoulders and the line of her collarbone were fully on display.
Furthermore, due to her ample breasts, her cleavage was visible, and the hem of the skirt reached just above her knees, revealing her thighs. It was an outfit that was pure yet subtly drew the eye.
“Are you asking for a short explanation or a long one?”
“Give me the short one first.”
At Seomun Ye-jin’s request, Baek Seo-jun nodded.
“Got it. Pretty.”
“...Is that all?”
Seomun Ye-jin glared at him and puffed out her cheeks slightly. “I’m full of complaints,” her expression seemed to say. Baek Seo-jun chuckled softly.
“I said short explanation.”
“But it’s too short. Fine, then what’s the long one?”
“It feels like a charm that is pure yet subtly draws the gaze. No matter what the young lady wears, she would be pretty because of her figure, but this suits her well.”
With a slightly soft smile, Baek Seo-jun praised her, causing Seomun Ye-jin’s face to turn red.
“Huh, eee...”
Seomun Ye-jin froze with a strange groan. Baek Seo-jun approached her, placed his hand gently on her shoulder, and said while keeping a soft smile.
“Please take care of me today, young lady.”
“Yes, yes...”
- How amusing.
Lamia, who was left behind at home, let out a strange complaint, but Baek Seo-jun neatly ignored her words.
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Seomun Ye-jin eating ice cream with a spoon on the opposite side looked incredibly happy.
Watching her smile happily at the sweet taste in her mouth, I had no complaints about coming here.
But I had complaints about the ice cream I was eating.
I wish there were fewer chocolate chips.
I had complaints about the chocolate chips in the mint chocolate.
Why not just leave the pure mint flavor? Why add chocolate to ruin the mint’s aroma? I couldn’t understand it sincerely.
On the other hand, Seomun Ye-jin, eating cherry-flavored ice cream, kept saying “delicious~” repeatedly, so I guess it was fine.
I don’t think she’s that fond of ice cream to seek it out.
In times like this, wouldn’t a hot black coffee be better?
While spending time with such trivial thoughts, after finishing the ice cream, Seomun Ye-jin and I came out of the store.
“Se... no, Ho-jun-ssi, how is this?”
She almost called me by my real name but switched to the alias, pointing to a clothing store with various clothes.
It was a place with clothes for awakened ones, but they weren’t drastically different from regular clothes, though they had special treatments.
For example, clothes treated with mana to not tear easily even during intense movements of awakened or attacks from monsters.
Of course, the price was high because of that, so even as a famous model like Seomun Ye-jin, she couldn’t easily choose clothes.
“Eh? Isn’t that Seomun Ye-jin?”
“It’s really her.”
People around the mana-awakened clothing store started recognizing Seomun Ye-jin.
Villains will be more entangled.
Since mana awakened guards were protecting the interior of the department store, villains couldn’t just cause trouble inside.
To be safe, I spread my senses around and monitored those suspected to be villains, but they weren’t visible inside the department store.
The gazes around can’t be helped.
As a model, Seomun Ye-jin attracting attention was unavoidable.
Of course, since she wasn’t doing entertainment activities, she didn’t seem to mind being seen publicly with me.
“Who is that girl?”
“Is she a friend?”
“Wow, already has a boyfriend.”
“With that face...”
She seemed to think that even though Seomun Ye-jin was only 15, she was in a relationship.
Not a good gaze toward me.
But I didn’t care about the gazes she sent toward me. In fact, I wouldn’t mind if they cursed me from behind.
I just don’t want them to curse at the young lady.
Thinking that, I soon sensed an unpleasant feeling.
There was a guy sending lewd gazes toward Seomun Ye-jin. He was subtly sending a message somewhere, and when I checked what he wrote on his phone, it was interesting.
[Seomun Ye-jin discovered. Currently at XX Department Store. Will track movement route. Appears to have received help from a strong enough to kill Park Ji-hoon who was SS-class. But the one who helped doesn’t seem to be visible now. For securing, thorough preparation seems necessary.]
The sender was clearly from a villain group, but he looked like an ordinary person.
The karma from committing evil deeds wasn’t much for a villain, and he didn’t seem like someone who had killed a lot.
It’s a guy who sells information to villains.
It seemed like one of those who provide information to villains while living normal lives rather than actively participating in crimes.
But even so, since he cooperates with villains in crimes, he was a villain.
And most importantly, his gaze toward Seomun Ye-jin was not ordinary, and his muttered words irritated my nerves.
“Hah, you damn bitch... wearing short skirts and hanging around men. Damn slut, I want to eat you up.”
Even if he said that, he wouldn’t have the courage to touch Seomun Ye-jin freely.
Villains wanted to auction Seomun Ye-jin while she was still a virgin, so no one like this information source could touch her.
Moreover, Seomun Ye-jin was a very talented mana awakened compared to her peers, and even at 15, her skills could easily suppress thousands of such information sources rushing at her.
It was just a guy lacking courage and ability who was just daydreaming.
But he’s someone I have to kill anyway.
I spread my mana slightly without others noticing.
Then, I subtly infused mana into that information source’s body.
It wouldn’t show now, but when he went to a place with little people, its true effect would appear.
I will erase it so no traces remain.
Since he was acting as a villain’s information source, he was the kind of guy who wouldn’t be unjustly killed.
“Ho-jun-ssi, what kind of clothes should I wear here?”
Seomun Ye-jin, who didn’t notice that I had eliminated another villain, was pondering which clothes to wear from the ones here.
“If you want to wear something, choose.”
“Yes! I’ll show you!”
Seomun Ye-jin immediately went to the fitting room, changed, and came out.
Because her breasts and hips developed so well, it took a bit of time to choose clothes, but since there were clothes prepared for women of similar body sizes, she changed and came out quickly.
“How is it?”
Seomun Ye-jin wearing a tank top that exposed the chest and revealed the navel with hot pants looked at me with a slightly playful smile.
Unlike the pure one-piece from earlier, she was in a revealing sexy outfit, and when she said it confidently to me, I swept around and shrugged my shoulders.
“If we rate here, won’t the young lady be in trouble? I don’t care what people around say, but does it bother you? If it’s okay, shall I do like before?”
“Ah, no!”
The confident smile disappeared immediately, filled with confusion and embarrassment.
It seemed she was embarrassed to have heard the earlier praise from outside.
“You’re wearing that?”
“Yes? Ah, can I choose more?”
“Anytime.”
We came out to buy necessary things, but there was plenty of time anyway.
Seomun Ye-jin, this young lady, seemed happy, so it wasn’t bad to send her like this.
After that, I watched Seomun Ye-jin in various outfits and came out of the clothing store with her.
To the ones she chose as liked clothes, I said.
“There are many hot pants series?”
“Yes. Anyway, it’s not good to wear skirt clothes in combat situations, right?”
It was indeed true.
There are times when intense movements require the skirt to flip up, and hesitating because the underwear might show is dangerous.
In a fight where life and death are decided in a second, trying not to show underwear might cause you to lose your own life instead.
In that sense, since she’s in a one-piece dress now, it means she didn’t come out to fight.
Just came out to buy things together.
I also needed to open a phone for my exclusive use, issue an ID as a mana awakened, and handle several other things.
As for the power of a mana awakened...
It seemed fine to hide it as SSS-class and reveal it.
After all, I was registering as Kim Ho-jun, not Baek Seo-jun.