Chapter 166. Looks Like They Forgot My Temper
Chapter 166. Looks Like They Forgot My Temper
※※※Mature Content Warning※※※
The world had truly become a wonderful place.
In the old days, people had to go out and get videos to watch... or so they say.
Nowadays, with a single 'click,' you could instantly find videos to suit your taste.
"Ahem..."
Right hand on the mouse, left hand...
And a box of tissues sitting on the desk, easy to pull out and use.
"Ooh..."
With absolute dedication, he meticulously inspected(?) the video.
When a man gets some free time, most of it was spent on the video selection.
'If you object, you're gay...'
Like a master potter checking for cracks.
After selecting the video, he settled into the real Happy Time.
Then, the finale approached.
"Ah, the tissues..."
Just then, a pale, elegant hand suddenly extended from the side.
Holding the tissues...
'...'
He absolutely must not look that way.
Alarm bells rang loudly in his head.
At this very moment, he prayed to God that it was a ghost.
A ghost offering the choice between blue toilet paper and red toilet paper.
'...God.'
If it was a human, there was only one person it could be.
Someone who knew our door code and could come and go freely.
"Hero, don't you need some tissues?"
It seemed to be not a toilet ghost but a Jangsan tiger.
Its voice was so identical to my girlfriend's that even I was fooled.
"Oh my, why are you sweating?"
Nowadays, ghosts even wipe your sweat for you.
I simply wanted to close my eyes and pass out.
But my formidable mental fortitude had no intention of letting that happen.
"Hmm~ Or shall I wipe it for you instead?"
A hand suddenly popped up from the left.
And when I carefully turned my head to the side, I saw Laila, a cold smile on her lips.
"Hero~?"
'Amen...'
He closed his eyes.
---
"?"
Laila approached even more silently than before.
And there was Song Hoon, completely engrossed in some video, exercising his abductor pollicis longus, adductor pollicis, forearm muscles, biceps brachii, and triceps brachii.
.........
Laila tilted her posture and crossed her arms.
With the thought of seeing just how far he would go...
Before long, as if Song Hoon's Happy Time was about to end, he began fumbling for a tissue.
Laila cautiously walked over, picked up the tissues, and held them out to Song Hoon.
Then Song Hoon froze, as if struck by lightning.
"Oh my, why are you sweating so much?"
Laila casually plucked out some tissues and gently wiped the sweat from Song Hoon's forehead.
Then Song Hoon turned his head, and their eyes met.
"Hero~?"
Then Song Hoon quietly closed his trembling eyelids.
Laila felt a bit offended.
She was well aware that she was quite pretty.
And yet he left a super beauty like her alone for this kind of video...?
'Hmph...'
Leaving the petrified Song Hoon behind, she grabbed the mouse.
Then she roughly skimmed through the videos Song Hoon had been watching.
'Their faces aren't even that pretty compared to me! Their bodies aren't all that either!'
─ Click... Click...
'This kind of outfit...'
'Gasp... So this was your taste...'
'Ugh... That one's way too embarrassing...!'
Before she knew it, Laila, who had gotten absorbed in the videos, shook her head.
Then she looked at the offending Song Hoon and her cheeks puffed out.
Laila bent down and crawled right under the desk.
Then she stroked Song Hoon's lower body with her hands.
At her cold, soft touch, Song Hoon opened his eyes.
"L-Laila!?"
"Hmph. Hoon, keep watching what you were watching. I'll take care of things myself."
"W-Wait...!!!"
"Meh..."
---
...
Dragon bone soup or whatever, I was just tossed around mercilessly.
Moving from the room to the bedroom—could you believe I was drained three times?
"Hoon."
"...Yeah?"
With a dewy glow on her face, Laila put on a fake angry expression.
Her eyebrows drooped, and her cheeks puffed out.
'Even if you pretend to be angry with that face...'
"This kind of thing is now forbidden!"
"...."
"I-It's not that I don't understand men watching these videos and doing... that by themselves, but...!"
"Ehh..."
When I made a slightly disappointed noise, Laila, still lying down, gently pinched my cheek.
Even so, she seemed embarrassed and averted her gaze slightly as she spoke.
"I-I'll take care of... all that stuff that comes out... so don't watch those anymore..."
"...!"
"Answer me...!"
"Y-Yeah..."
Lately, Laila's cosplay play had become a bit less frequent.
Her reason was that 'if you do it too often, it loses its effect.'
"Hehe..."
"Why?"
"No~ It's just... somehow today, Hoon felt a little more... pumped?"
'...Definitely, something was different today.'
I let out a sigh and told Laila about the dragon bone soup.
Then I told her about other streamers' news: Lucia's upcoming(?) pregnancy announcement, Nudungji's second child story, and so on.
Laila seemed interested and focused on the story.
"Then should I try some too?"
My eyes trembled uncontrollably.
Laila consuming dragon bones?
Her libido increasing even further from her current state?
'Yep, I'd die.'
I shook my head as if to say absolutely not.
The superficial reason was that I was the one eating the bones, so who knew what would happen to you—an excuse.
Laila nodded, accepting it more quickly than expected.
"Well, there's a way to confirm it for sure, isn't there?"
"Huh?"
"Just commission a lab or something?"
"Where would we find a lab like that..."
"There's Nova Group, you know~"
There was no need to go abroad.
And it was a place with reliable security.
"Let's go now."
I got up from the bed, finished showering, and opened the closet door.
"Urk..."
While changing, I involuntarily stumbled once.
---
Inside the quiet laboratory, graphs floating on the screen moved minutely.
"H-How is this possible...?"
His voice was a mixture of surprise and excitement.
"This is insane. The physiological response is too perfect."
"It's perfection itself. With numbers like this... the response is incredibly stable too..."
While the excited researchers whispered and exchanged glances,
Laila and I looked at each other with puzzled faces.
'I needed an explanation...'
That was when.
The lead researcher standing to one side quietly adjusted his glasses.
He, who had been sparing with his words, slowly opened his mouth.
"In the case of the male, the Leydig cells in the testes significantly increased testosterone production."
I nodded.
'Okay. I understood up to here.'
The lead researcher continued.
"So the male appears to exhibit strong vitality and increased stamina. And..."
He looked back and forth between me and Laila once each and carefully added.
"Did you know... that women also have a small amount of testosterone?"
I'd heard of it.
"When women consume it, their testosterone levels also increase. So in the case of women, libido increases as well."
I tilted my head slightly at his words.
If a hormone needed for men increases in women, wouldn't that cause problems?
"Not only that, estrogen and progesterone levels rose simultaneously. Perhaps because of that, it's very natural and stable."
"Proges... what?"
"It's a very important hormone that helps with implantation and maintaining pregnancy."
"Ah, I see..."
To sum it up, in men, vitality and stamina increased, along with libido.
And in women, libido also increased due to testosterone, and the rise in progesterone aided implantation and pregnancy.
At my summary, the researcher nodded with a bright smile.
"Exactly."
"...Anyway, it's a good thing, right?"
At this question, all the researchers nodded in unison.
"Yes. Long-term confirmation is still difficult, but it's very positive. No side effects have been observed either."
One researcher muttered quietly.
"If this could be commercialized... it might be usable for infertility treatment..."
A silence fell.
I thought for a moment and tilted my head.
"...But why are you being evasive?"
At my words, the lead researcher shrugged and replied.
"Because it's not just anything—it's a decoction of dragon bones."
...
"A hair-loss drug? That's valuable, but at least it's supplied. But dragons... no one knows when another one will appear."
The researchers nodded at his words.
"It's a limited resource. Eventually, it'll all be used up. And the price... will be beyond imagination."
"So we should keep it hidden?"
"Yes... If word gets out for nothing, society will become noisy."
I nodded at his words.
Because of the enormous price, there would be people who needlessly feel a sense of deprivation.
The solution to this was simple.
"I need to sell it off quickly..."
Get it out of my hands fast.
'Still, just in case... I should brew as much bone soup as possible.'
If I freeze it and put it inside the ring, the shelf life was practically unlimited.
---
With the thought that I had to sell it off fast, I moved immediately.
"Laila, shall we go with an auction again like last time?"
"That would be the cleanest, right?"
Rather than giving each person a quota and selling, I'll step up and sell it myself and share the money.
I shared the situation with the streamers.
Then, it turned out there was already a streamer who had signed a contract.
"What, there's a streamer who already signed a contract?"
Anyway, it was money that would go to them, so I didn't care at all.
In fact, some streamers had contacted me asking if it was okay if they signed a contract first.
I always told them the same thing.
'If you think it's fine, feel free to trade wherever you want!'...
But then a lengthy email arrived from that streamer.
[ Hero, I'm sorry... In a moment of greed, I hastily signed the contract, and because of it, I'm in a difficult situation. I know how shameless it is to ask for help when I signed the contract without checking it properly, blinded by money... ]
The content was far from ordinary.
When I forwarded the email to the foundation's legal director, Attorney Kim Tae-hyun, a reply came back in less than an hour.
- This is very malicious...
"Why?"
- They identified that the streamer is inexperienced with contracts and the law and inserted malicious clauses. Instead of the usual penalty for breach of contract, they put in a punitive penalty clause.
"?"
You really want to die?
looked like you've forgotten my personality.
- However, there's no legal problem. Probably considering friction with you, Chairman, they set it strictly within legal limits.
...
- Of course, considering the value of an S-rank monster corpse... even within legal limits... that streamer...
would have to pay a staggering amount of money.
An amount they couldn't repay even if they worked for a lifetime.
"Hoo..."
It's been a while since I took off my watch. Time to cut loose.