Chapter 17. Protection or Infatuation?
Chapter 17. Protection or Infatuation?
"......Haneul-ah. You are a national treasure of humanity right now. If Sungnyemun burns down, we can just rebuild it, but if your chastity burns down, the national prestige collapses."
7:00 AM.
Sia, who kicked open my isolation room door first thing in the morning, declared with a solemn expression.
In her hand was a stack of documents so thick you could believe it was a weapon.
No, it's absurd enough that she's making my chastity a national treasure on her own whim first thing in the morning, but what's with that stack of documents?
As I squinted at it with blurry vision, having just woken up......
Titled [Special Management Subject 24-Hour Close Protection Manual: Park Haneul Exclusive Edition].
"What is this? Why is my name on it?"
"It's a guideline I wrote all night under the special orders of the Association President-nim. Now, read from Article 4, Section 2."
All night, you wrote that thick stack of documents by hand......?
It's only been one day since I got here?!
I flipped through the documents with trembling hands.
[Article 4, Section 2: Zero Blind Spot Principle]
When the subject needs to take care of physiological phenomena (defecation, etc.), the bodyguard must keep the door open at least 15cm to visually and audibly confirm the subject's safety.
When the subject takes a shower, to prevent breathing difficulties and slipping accidents caused by high-concentration mana steam, the bodyguard must enter the room together to scrub the subject's back and perform close-contact defense.
'......Let's stop reading.'
Sia's effort to stay up all night to make a manual thicker than an encyclopedia for me?
Yeah, I know you worked hard, I know you tried.
But...... but this is......!
"Sia-yah, are you crazy?! Why would you leave the bathroom door open! And why would you shower together! I'm not an elementary school student!"
This is just your desire manual, Sia~?!
"Haneul-ah, you have amnesia right now. What if you step on soap and fall and hit your head again? You might not just forget who you are, you might become unable to function as a human being. I'll stick right behind you, wash your hair, and act as a 'human airbag' in case of any danger. This is a mission I've staked my honor as a Hunter on."
Sia's eyes were already glistening with greed, not honor.
'It's not a Hunter's honor, it's a Hunter's selfish desire! Human airbag, my foot, you're just creatively saying you want to hug me from behind?!'
"A mission, you say, Sia-yang. That is a very vulgar and coercive method."
Then, Seraphina elegantly barged in, accompanied by the scent of lilies that filled the room.
She was holding a mysterious bottle of oil along with a state-of-the-art mana diagnostic device from the United States.
No, Saintess-nim.
What is that in your hand, too......?
"Haneul-gun, amnesia is not just a brain issue, but due to the 'traces of the villain' engraved on your mana circuits. This requires [Holistic Sensory Sharing Purification], a cutting-edge medical technology from the United States."
Holistic...... what? The name alone sounds suspicious?
"Simply put, it's 'skinship of the soul.' I will get on Haneul-gun's bed, apply Holy Oil to your entire body, then press our skin together and inject my high-purity holy power directly. It's about overwriting the memories contaminated by the villain with 'large-capacity holy stimulation from the U.S.'"
Seraphina was already unbuttoning her nun's habit one by one and sitting on the edge of the bed.
"Is that how the Saintess treats people in the U.S.......?!"
"Of course. It's a very 'Deep' and 'Hot' treatment. Now, hurry and lie down. I'll take your clothes off for you."
Kki-eek! Did the U.S. elect a porn star instead of a Saintess?!
What kind of treatment is that, it's just legal abuse!
"Wait a moment! I will also participate as a bodyguard assistant and record-keeper!"
So-hee Noona, who knows when she snuck in, popped out like a ninja from the corner, holding a DSLR camera.
She was already taking off the lens cap and adjusting the focus.
"Haneul-ah, to regain your memory, 'visual shock therapy' is the best. I'll film the scene of Sia and the Saintess ntr-ing you...... no, 'purifying' you, in 4K 60fps ultra-high definition and show it to you every night. If you repeatedly learn your resentful and erotic...... no, painful expression in the photos, your brain will react and go, 'Ah, that's my body!'"
So-hee Noona had already started firing the shutter in burst mode.
The chalkak-chalkak sounds filled the isolation room.
More importantly, So-hee Noona, didn't you just try to say ntr......?
"That's a good idea! We need to keep evidence."
"It will be excellent clinical data to report to the U.S. Department of Defense."
"Are you all out of your minds?! Don't! Don't come any closer!!"
Just as the three of them rushed toward my bed like hyenas, trying to grab my shirt collar, the intercom sound, like a salvation, rang from the speaker on the wall.
[Chiiik. Park Haneul-gun, come to the Association President's office immediately. There is a matter for a private consultation, so other bodyguards should wait.]
It was Association President Park Da-hee's stern voice.
I'm saved......!
"I'm going! The nation is calling, I have no choice!"
I desperately shook off the hyenas' grip and bolted out into the hallway.
Behind me, insane screams of "I haven't even smelled your shampoo yet!", "The Holy Oil is getting cold!" echoed through the hallway, but I didn't even look back.
'Stop it! You sex-crazed women!'
I barely managed to shake off the hyenas and arrived at Association President Park Da-hee's office, where calm classical music was playing.
She adjusted her glasses and handed me a warm cup of black tea.
"You've had a hard time, Haneul-gun. Those immature kids are a bit rough, aren't they?"
Unlike them, who openly radiate their desires, perhaps it's because she is mature and carries the weight of being the Hunter Association President.
As I moistened my lips with the warm black tea she offered, peace came to my heart.
"Yes...... I thought they were a state-certified criminal group. Association President-nim, please, can't you change my bodyguards? If they keep this up, I'm really going to wither away and die."
Yeah, you called them immature kids yourself, so as an adult, can't you do something......
Seu-euk.
Then, Park Da-hee approached and sat down next to me on the sofa with a strangely bitter yet seductive smile.
Her fingers brushed my hair softly, and the touch was strangely sticky.
W-what kind of situation is this......?
"That's why I called you. You, as a 'resource,' are too precious to be left to kids like that. Haneul-gun, how about you come under me instead? Under the guise of a 'Special Aide' directly under the Association President, you'd live only inside my office."
She leaned her lips close to my ear, whispering with the scent of an adult.
"If you listen to me well, I'll make sure those women can't even touch a hair on your head. If you're scared at night, you're welcome to come to my bedroom. I'll make sure to teach you what 'experienced' protection really is......."
Kki-eek~! This lady was the final boss all along!
I escaped the hyenas and came to a safe zone, but there was a python lurking here!
'Adult protection, my foot! Adult predator, more like!'
Just then, a tremendous roar and the sound of a megaphone shook the ground from outside the window.
"Freedom for Park Haneul!! The Korea Hunter Association must release Haneul immediately!!"
"We will protect our Haneul's chastity!! Association President Park Da-hee must resign!!"
Thousands of female fan club members, the 'Sky Protection Squad,' were gathered in front of the Association's main gate, holding a 'Park Haneul Human Rights Protection Protest'.
'This is it! If I hide among the masses during that chaos......!'
I shook off Park Da-hee's seductive touch, and while she was flustered, I opened the window, climbed down the drainpipe, and desperately escaped.
Aha! This is the result of K-Army guerrilla training!
"Ah! It's Haneul! Park Haneul has appeared on the rooftop railing at 3 o'clock!!"
The protesters discovered me and rushed toward me like a wave.
I tried to ask them for salvation.
Yeah, the masses...... they'd be better than the hyenas or the python!
But the look in their eyes when I saw them up close was...... far more dangerous than Sia or the Saintess.
"Wow, he's insane in person! Hey, get the tranquilizer gun ready! No, bring a wrapping cloth! Let's kidnap him!!"
"Haneul-ah, don't worry! Noona has already contracted a basement with full options where only you can be locked up!! It's fully equipped with Grade 1 soundproofing!!"
Hundreds of hands grabbing my limbs, trying to drag me to their own basements.
It felt like I was being collected, not protected.
No, damn it! You said your name was the 'Protection Squad'!!
Why are you the first ones trying to kidnap me!! Is there really no one on my side in this world?!
I shed tears and began to climb back up the Association building wall.
I reached the desperate conclusion that the four hyenas and the python were better than the masses.
Above my head, the cold gazes of Sia, Seraphina, So-hee Noona, and Park Da-hee, standing in a row on the Association rooftop railing, pierced my neck.
They were smiling benevolently (which made it even scarier), like owners watching a runaway puppy get bitten by wild dogs and return.
"How is it, Haneul-ah. I told you it was dangerous outside, didn't I? Come on in. It's time to start the 'Intensive Protection'♡"
I, Park Haneul.
I was crawling into the safest prison and the most dangerous paradise in South Korea of my own volition.
'Please, stop tormenting me~!!!'