Chapter 26
Chapter 26
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 26
Chapter Title: The Reclaimed Sun
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Staring at the three veiled skills, she pondered before settling on one.
"I'll tackle the strategic key point that can move in both directions."
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Nose]: The shape of the nose becomes beautiful. Repeated purchases increase the skill level. [Price: 100,000 won] Her fingers danced gorgeously through the air.
Her fingers had reached the point in just a few days where they could rival a sewing machine.
"Time for some drugs!"
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Ding!][Ding!][Ding!][Ding!][Ding!] "Fuck, 3.1 million won gone in one second."
⚔ STATUS ⚔ [Nose Lv.5] The shape of the nose becomes beautifully suited to the body. [Max Lv] This time too, the description had shifted from "becomes beautiful" to "becomes beautifully suited to the body."
Touching her nose, she felt something different and bolted to the bathroom to check the mirror.
"Whoa, fuck... this really is drugs."
The changed nose was truly pretty and cute.
It wasn't burdened by being too high, nor unappealingly low.
It had the perfect straight height and shape.
A nose perfectly suited to an ideal beauty.
Still lost in admiration of her pretty nose, she glanced away from the strategic point to look above and below: the top was filled with grime in her eyes, and the bottom looked like it had been split open by a direct hit from a Taepodong missile.
"Fuck... this is seriously fucked up."
"What's next? Eyes? Lips? Which first?"
Looking at her face, wrecked on both sides despite the pretty nose, she fell into thought.
"Oh, right. Fucking status window!"
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Ding!] [Remaining Funds: 17,690,000 won] Adding her existing 1.74 million won to the 19.05 million from donations made 20.79 million, minus the 3.1 million for the nose level-up left 17.69 million.
"I could buy both. I'm loaded."
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Lips]: The lips become beautiful. Repeated purchases increase the skill level. [Price: 200,000 won] "Drugs, go!"
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Ding!][Ding!][Ding!][Ding!][Ding!] Her fingers danced once more.
As her fingers moved, smoke leaked from the cracked lips reflected in the mirror.
Finally, with the resounding system chime, a glowing pale pink light scattered like flower petals.
The wildly fluttering light petals soon began to emit a sweet fragrance.
The scent spread instantly throughout the room like an overflow, then gathered back together, forming into fruit shapes before slipping straight into her mouth and vanishing.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Peach pulp melts into the lips and tongue] ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Ding!] [The Fallen Fruit Piece reacts to the peach pulp-infused lips and tongue, beginning digestion] [Peach scent infuses the lips and tongue] [Lips and tongue become even sweeter] ─Your lips imprint a sweet mark on Heavenly Peach─ ⚔ STATUS ⚔ [Peach Pulp-Infused Lips] The lips and tongue, melted with sweet peach pulp, transform even your exhaling breath into fruity sweetness. [Price: Conditional Transcendence] The lips in the mirror weren't too large, giving them a cute vibe, yet the lower lip was plump enough to exude sensuality.
They glistened moistly like they'd been tinted, with a transparent sheen like honey.
The fine lines were barely visible, making them look like pretty peach fruit in shades of pink and red, preserved in honey.
Lips that no makeup artist could perfect even after hours of work.
"Whoa, fuck, what is this..."
"Looks so damn suckable."
Puckering and pursing her irresistibly tempting lips while staring in the mirror, she noticed a strange taste.
Rolling her tongue in her mouth revealed a tangy-sweet flavor.
"Huh...?"
Recalling the message that popped up after leveling the skill, she licked her lips just in case—and it confirmed it.
"Crazy. They're dead set on turning me into a peach."
Every exhale leaked a tangy-sweet fragrance from her mouth.
Panicking that this was bad, she grabbed cigarettes from her room and dashed to the yard.
─Click,
Her hands moved frantically to put a cigarette between her lips and light it.
"Suck... whoosh─..."
The cigarette smoke swirled in her mouth before passing her pretty lips and dissipating into the air.
"Oh! Good thing."
"Thought I couldn't have sex anymore."
At that moment, the lingering cigarette scent in her mouth vanished completely.
"Fuck... so damn refreshing. Auto-cleaner or what?"
The more she smoked, the more peach smoke seemed to flow back into her mouth from the filter against her lips.
"Oh right. I switched to fruit cigarettes."
"Whew, almost forgot."
Facing the risk of becoming a eunuch, her mind automatically kicked into self-hypnosis mode.
"Hoo─ endlessly refreshing cigarettes are nice too. Fucking great."
She extinguished the cigarette that had burned down to the filter and headed back inside.
Passing the kitchen that divided the room and bathroom on the way, instant ramen crossed her mind.
"Oh yeah, now I can chow down on refreshing peach ramen."
"...Fuck, anything but that."
Eating peach ramen would probably mess with her head, so she filled a pot with water and set it on the gas stove.
While the water boiled, she stared blankly at the pot and prayed.
"My body's turning into a peach, but the food too? No way."
Once boiling, she poured the water into the prepared cup ramen and took it to her room.
Unable to wait for it to cook on the desk, she grabbed a chopstick of undercooked noodles.
─Slurp, slurrrp
Wanting the flavor even stronger seemed to drive her actions, as the slurping echoed loudly through the room.
"Phew... fuck, at least that's okay."
Putting the noodles in her mouth and blowing on the broth before slurping, she tasted the ramen's rich flavor.
After swallowing, her mouth buzzed with peach scent for a bit, but stronger food flavors lingered longer.
Feeling hungry as she ate, she decided it was fine and slurped up all the broth too.
"Puha... feels like eating a bite of ramen then a piece of peach, repeat."
After cleaning up the empty cup ramen, she headed to the bathroom.
Staring at her eyes in the bathroom mirror, they looked like rotten pollock eyes.
Like gazing at a sky packed with pitch-black thunderclouds.
"Everything but the eyes is inhumanly pretty, but this one thing ruins it all."
Like a single drop of Vantablack ink on pristine white paper—not just ruining it, but twisting everything.
Fierce, rugged eyes that screamed someone who'd drifted alone on a deserted island for ten years and lost their mind.
"Hmm..."
She hesitated long while staring at her nearly dead eyes.
"Is it okay to keep buying shit like this...?"
She gently closed her eyes and thought.
"I'd scream and shout for the status window again."
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Ding!] The system chime rang in her imagination.
"And find another skill with a shitty description."
An unnamed skill floated in her mind.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Skill] "Like a drug addict, I wouldn't hold back and flail my fingers like crazy."
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Ding!] [Ding!] ... "Fuck, then the cost would be..."
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Your asshole becomes sweet] "Aaaah, you fucking shit! Truly fucked."
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Your anus becomes sweet] "Fuck, won't you clear it?"
"Ha..."
Looking in the mirror, she saw her ping-pong ball eyes blinking, still clouded with dark clouds, impossible to tell if blue or grime.
Staring blankly at the crazy-looking eyes in the mirror, she figured even a peach pit stuck in her eyeball would be better and decided to proceed.
"Fucking status window!"
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Ding!] "Ding is fucking annoying."
The last remaining skill she'd chosen appeared before her eyes.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Eyes]: The eyes become beautiful. Repeated purchases increase the skill level. [Price: 200,000 won] [Remaining Funds: 11,490,000 won] Without hesitation, she swung her hand toward the purchase button.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Ding!] [The dark clouds over the eyes begin to lift] "What the fuck."
This was the first time a message like this appeared from the level 1 purchase of any skill, leaving her flustered.
Looking in the mirror, she saw the dark cloud-like veil over her eyes had slightly lifted.
She started moving her hand again.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [The dark clouds begin to lift] Seeing the message again as the skill leveled, she moved her hand faster.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Ding!] [Ding!] [Ding!] Behind the message of the clouds lifting before her eyes, light burst forth.
The light scattered.
Clear pale pink light beams exploded into the air, swirling madly around the room before gradually gathering in one spot as time passed.
The beams coalesced, shining brightly like the sun.
It was so blinding she squeezed her eyes shut.
The blazing mass of light surged toward her eyes and seeped in instantly, vanishing.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [The Saintess's eyes reclaim the sun] ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Ding!] [The Fallen Fruit Piece reacts to the reclaimed sun, beginning digestion] [Peach scent infuses the Saintess's sun] [The Saintess's sun becomes even sweeter] ─Your sun clears the dark clouds of Heavenly Peach─ ⚔ STATUS ⚔ [Saintess's Eyes Holding the Sun] Reclaiming its warmth, the Saintess's sun shines brightly upon Heavenly Peach. [Price: Conditional Transcendence] Slowly opening her eyes, still stinging from the blazing light mass, she looked.
The woman in the mirror blinked her large eyes back at her.
Pupils like jewels named "sun," formed from clustered radiant pale pink light.
The large eyes and aegyo-sal boasted cuteness and beauty, but the translucent, softly glowing light in her pupils exuded a bewitching sensuality.
The epitome of beauty that anyone would stare at slack-jawed, drooling.
Her pretty pale pink hair tried desperately to sprinkle cuteness, but her vulgarly jiggling large breasts and demonically shining gaze got in the way.
Even after staring dazedly at the mirror for a long time, she didn't tire of it.
Having stared at the mirror too long, fatigue hit her, and in her dazed state, she entered her room and fell into a deep sleep.