The City of Peach Fire - (2)
The moment I clicked the buttons one after another with a trembling heart, bright light poured over my body as if the heavens were showering me with blessings.
“Heh heh heh… Damn, awakening sure is easy.”
I was glancing around, wondering when the sixth awakening would pop up, when a slightly different message appeared.
From the 6th awakening onward, it can only be achieved by completing an ‘Event.’
I see. In that case, shall I take a look at my job’s traits…?
***
“Shit… ugh, sob.”
I should have known from the moment my first job turned out to be the ridiculous title of ‘Local Pretty Boy.’
Come to think of it, it was the same job as the heroine in the original story. That meant I was doomed to suffer the same fate.
So the only thing that could happen to me was… this.
Job: Mythic Beauty
Job Awakening Stage: ‘Beauty’ lineage, 5th awakening
Job Unique Skill: Mythic Seduction
⟨ Description ⟩
All races will see you as their ideal type. Therefore, no matter which race you encounter, you will absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely never die！！ Because every single being will fall for you and desperately try to prevent your death！
In short, I wasn’t an immortal in the physical sense… but I had become an immortal in the mental sense.
Fuck!
As a side effect, every race’s flies would swarm around me like crazy, and… huh?!
Come to think of it. I was completely naked…?!
Only then did I understand why the collapsed crowd had all fainted regardless of gender. It finally made sense!
‘They must have suffered a serious crisis of sexual identity…!’
Whether my appearance points were one billion or four billion, it didn’t disappear just because I acquired a job. In other words, it was one of my Unchangeable Stats.
Unlike variable stats such as ‘Stat Points’ or ‘Trait Points,’ no matter whether I went through a 6th job change or a 16th job change in the future, this would never change.
Which was precisely why it had become such a huge problem. A seriously huge problem!
“Fuck, even the kind-looking aunties who seem like they’d ask if I know the Way have passed out…”
Everyone who had fainted from shock was bleeding from both nostrils as if they might die from excessive blood loss. With their mouths wide open and the entire area turned into a sea of blood… it almost looked like the Five Great Peaks erupting…?!
Sigh. Anyway.
The person who had actually fallen into this absurd situation was me.
I was so beautiful that I could even make women fall for me!! So beautiful that it didn’t matter what race, gender, age, or sexual preference they had!
“Haa… How the hell am I supposed to get clothes?”
The only thing I had on me was my face.
“Goodness, how can a grown girl be lying there completely naked? Tsk tsk tsk.”
At that moment, from the other side of the building—while all the villagers had already fainted—a single woman who had somehow endured without passing out appeared.
Blood was trickling from only one of her nostrils. She narrowed her eyes, then quickly draped the cloak she had been wearing over my trembling, embarrassed body.
‘Ahh. The warm texture of this blanket…! Is this… a mother’s… love?’
She was none other than the ‘Female Village Chief of Puran Village,’ Puyor, who had warmly embraced the original protagonist on the very first day after she had been thoroughly beaten and sent down the misery route.
And she was the village chief whom Seira had always followed like a mother.
‘Phew, thank goodness… I met Puyor before getting beaten up.’
“Hehe—?”
I smiled warmly and grabbed Puyor’s hand, which clearly showed the traces of her years.
Then, with the protagonist’s signature innocent, childlike smile, I said…
“Mommy…!”
Whoosh—!!!!
Shit… I’m screwed!!!!
The only person in this village who wouldn’t lay a hand on Seira and was supposed to take care of her using her position as village chief had just collapsed with a double nosebleed!
Who the hell was going to look after ‘Seira’ now?!!!
With no other choice, I grabbed Puyor by the ankle and dragged her all the way to the village chief’s house.
“Please, stay alive! I’ll find a skilled healer for you.”
At that moment.
The 6th Job Awakening message has appeared.
“What is this… the lyrics to some song?”
<Hidden Scenario — I’m a Queenka>
Spotlight pouring down, look at me! The world is watching me, but you flow away with a double nosebleed. When I bloom in this dazzling world, you pour out nosebleeds. You’re trapped inside my shadow. You were never there from the beginning. You flowed away and disappeared along with the double nosebleed.
Clear Condition: ？？
< 1 / 2 >
Reward: 6th Job Awakening!
The clear condition was marked with ‘？？’ so I couldn’t tell what it was. But the only thing I had done since arriving here was knock out all the villagers with my beauty.
The fact that one condition was already filled meant…
‘Fuck, does this mean I have to do this shit one more time?!’
***
Puyor’s house was located on a small hill. It was built with old red bricks and wood. The roof was covered with faded tiles, and a small vegetable garden had been cultivated around the house.
When I opened the door, a cozy living room appeared. Beneath the wall where a wooden frame hung were a leather chair and a small wooden coffee table.
Passing through the living room and entering the bedroom, there was an old wooden bed. On the wall opposite the living room entrance to the bedroom was a fireplace that somehow reminded me of an ondol.
“Heh heh, so this is Village Chief Puyor’s house.”
To be honest, Puyor’s impression was quite likable. Even though I had worked as a translator and never had a girlfriend… if I did have one and she grew old, I’d want her to look like this. She was a total gold miss.
‘Haa, living as Seira like this wouldn’t be so bad.’
A peaceful rural village, a kind-hearted, rather pretty woman with tremendous strength (?) becoming my mother. A life where I could live out the rest of my days!
“Excellent! This kind of life isn’t bad at all!”
I could simply become a hikikomori like I had been in my previous life!
That way I could protect my virginity completely and wouldn’t have to get pregnant or give birth! Because in this world condoms were ridiculously expensive, so hardly anyone used them properly. The moment you had sex, it immediately led to conceiving new life.
“Uhu hu hu, Village Chief Puyor! You’ll have to quietly become my spine breaker!”
***
But I decided I should behave politely toward Puyor. Even though I was making an innocent, childlike expression, I absolutely must not cross the line.
Because in one corner of her room, the weight of the ‘dumbbells’ and the aura of the exercise equipment gave off anything but an ordinary atmosphere.
Just like the saying that even a gangster’s wife has a pretty face, after dragging her by the ankle and seeing the macho silhouette revealed all over her body, I realized something.
Although she was never mentioned in the original story, she was actually incredibly strong.
Otherwise, there was no way a woman could have subdued all the men, taken the position of ‘village chief’—which came with an annual salary from the nation—and protected ‘Seira’ so easily.
I concluded that she was a terrifying ‘macho woman.’
“I shouldn’t provoke her…”
At least until she fully recognized me as her daughter… Wait a second!
I walked over to the wall where the frame had been hanging earlier and looked at the girl inside it.
She was pretty. Although she couldn’t even compare to the dirt under Seira’s toenails, she was still beautiful enough that I’d want to make her my girlfriend right away.
‘Should I pretend to be this daughter…?’
In the original story, there was one line that said Puyor had taken in ‘Seira’ as her adopted daughter while mourning her own deceased daughter.
“U-um…?!”
A little later, Puyor, who had been glaring at the ceiling with a fierce expression, sat up and looked at me with startled eyes.
“Ugh… my head hurts. Did you drag me all the way here?”
I’m sorry for dragging you by the hair. I apologized inwardly.
Puyor brushed the dirt off her head, then frowned as she stared at me. I responded with my usual bright, childlike smile.
“Yeah. Mommy fell on the roadside and looked like she was in pain, so I brought you here~”
This was my first time communicating with someone from another world—would it even work?!
Just as I was wondering, a message appeared.
You have acquired the ‘Auto Translation’ skill.
‘Auto Translation’ Skill Grade: A-rank, Life Skill
I wish it had given me S-rank instead of A. Ah, maybe there is no S-rank for translation-related skills? Anyway, even this was a blessing in the current situation.
“Heh heh heh, heh heh heh heh heh…”
The moment Puyor, who had been making strange noises with her lips, saw me, she pulled me into a tight embrace.
“Oh my, how wonderful to see you! Where did you come from? Is this your first time in Puran Village?”
***
“Ugh… mmm…”
After eating dinner with Puyor, I couldn’t shake my old habits from my previous life… so the moment I lay down I rolled around on the bed and fell fast asleep. But when I opened my eyes, an unfamiliar stone ceiling filled my vision.