Ch.136136 – Long Night 2

# 136 – Long Night # 2

I was tired, so I was getting drowsy.

Under the cold air conditioning, Yang Juhui’s hot body temperature digging into my side created a perfect harmony that made my eyes start to close.

The problem was that whenever I tried to fall asleep, Yang Juhui would pry my eyes open with her hands to wake me up.

“…You can’t sleep!”

“……”

I was really exhausted, but I had no choice.

Yang Juhui got up from her seat completely.

“There’s a mosquito! We need to catch the mosquito!”

“…You want to catch mosquitoes at five in the morning?”

I had to get up at five in the morning to catch mosquitoes.

I was incredibly sleepy and my energy was drained, but I had no choice.

It was largely my responsibility that Yang Juhui had become like this.

“I can’t sleep unless I catch the mosquito!”

“…Mosquito….”

I looked around to find the mosquito.

Since it’s summer, there should be one or two mosquitoes around.

But no matter how hard I looked, there were no mosquitoes.

“Juhui, there are no mosquitoes. Let’s just lie down and sleep now.”

“…Heeng….”

To be honest, lying under the same blanket with a pretty girl like Yang Juhui was thrilling enough to make my heart jump in many ways.

Especially if we were sticking close enough for our skin to touch.

But right now, I didn’t have the luxury to care about such things.

“Spider! There’s a spider!”

Whenever I tried to fall asleep even a little, Yang Juhui would have a fit.

This had already happened several times, and I was getting a bit tired and exhausted.

“Where is the spider?”

But I couldn’t just say, “Let’s just sleep!” to Yang Juhui.

I had enough decency for that.

In my opinion, Yang Juhui was now like a scared child.

If I had a five-year-old female cousin, would she be exactly like this?

“A spider went into my clothes! A spider went into my clothes!”

Yang Juhui started taking off her clothes.

I was flustered, but Yang Juhui seemed to be in a panic, sweating profusely.

“Catch the spider! Spider!”

I opened my eyes very narrowly.

So narrowly that my vision was blurry and hazy.

This was my own way of being considerate.

“There’s no spider.”

“No! There is! There’s a spider! Look properly!”

If it’s like this, I have no choice…

I opened my eyes and looked at Yang Juhui.

Checking every corner for the spider.

Of course, there was no spider, and Yang Juhui was still struggling.

“There’s a spider! I need to catch the spider!”

How do I catch a spider that doesn’t exist?

In this truly perplexing moment, a good idea came to mind.

Swoosh-

I got up, opened the window, and pretended to clap my hands.

Then I told Yang Juhui.

“I caught the spider and let it out.”

“Really?”

“Really. It was a tiny spider, as small as a pinky nail. Now that the spider is gone, you won’t feel itchy anymore.”

“Liar! I know you’re pretending to catch the spider to fool me! Because I’m annoying you!”

…Is this for real?

She seems completely out of her mind, yet her intuition is remarkably sharp.

Yang Juhui was now crying profusely and getting angry at me.

“Liar! Ha Yeongwon, you’re a liar!”

“No, what lie did I tell?”

“On April Fool’s Day too! You lied! I hate lies more than anything in the world!”

April Fool’s Day-

She’s bringing that up now?

Yes, that was definitely my fault.

But I thought I had paid dearly for that lie since then.

“You’ve been bullying me since then. Taking my things! Hitting me! Making me run errands!”

“I didn’t!”

“What do you mean you didn’t!”

“I didn’t do that!”

Yang Juhui clenched her fists and lunged at me.

Then she started hitting me repeatedly, and it really hurt a lot.

“Ack! Hey! Wait! You hit my bone! Aack! Ack!”

If this continued, I might get beaten to death by Yang Juhui.

Should I call Jeongseok?

I tried to subdue Yang Juhui somehow, thinking I needed to survive.

Grab-!

The best method was to hug Yang Juhui so she couldn’t move.

I hugged Yang Juhui tightly.

Despite the situation, a high school girl’s body was softer and smelled better than I expected.

And it was surprising.

Yang Juhui’s body had many delicate parts, like thin grass or a swan’s neck, unlike my shoulders or arms that I’d touched plenty of times.

I hadn’t noticed because she always took the lead and seemed so dependable.

But maybe Yang Juhui was actually afraid of many things?

“I didn’t bully you!”

Yang Juhui was still struggling, insisting she hadn’t bullied me.

Whether she bullied me or not—that wasn’t important to me anymore.

“Okay. You’re right. I was the one who lied.”

I decided to admit my fault readily.

Then Yang Juhui, who had been struggling, became very docile.

“I think there’s a spider after all. In my ear!”

The problem was that the spider talk started again.

Solve one problem, and another pops up somewhere else.

Swoosh-

I looked into the ear of Yang Juhui, who was lying with her head on my lap.

It was too dark to see anything.

“Is there a spider?”

“No.”

“Look carefully!”

Is this how men feel when dealing with their girlfriends’ tantrums?

I had vaguely longed for romance, but this moment made me realize that dating is actually quite difficult and challenging.

I wondered if this was how Yang Juhui usually looked at me.

Still, I didn’t dislike or resent Yang Juhui.

“You know what? You give me the courage to believe I can do it.”

Yang Juhui made me feel secure.

A lot had happened, but the reason I had been able to come this far was because Yang Juhui had been there supporting me firmly. When I looked at Yang Juhui, I felt like I could do anything too.

Seeing her struggling like this made me a bit sad.

“Status Window.”

“No! If you turn back time… I can endure this…”

Yang Juhui was trying to fight herself.

Watching her, I thought that I should fight myself too.

This was the path I had chosen.

「Do you want to spend 100 points to enhance the common-grade trait 《Virgin Sacrifice》?」

「Enhancement success rate: 10%」

「Upon success, trait will change to 《???》」

Yang Juhui was suffering because of the trait 《Virgin Sacrifice》.

It wasn’t a quirk, so it couldn’t be treated, but with my newly acquired trait enhancement, I could change it.

The success rate was 10%.

Each enhancement costs 100P.

It was a big gamble, but… I decided to fight the odds against myself.

Could I do it?

In movies, gamblers sometimes touch women for luck before gambling.

I gently massaged Yang Juhui’s side as she struggled.

“Eek! Spider! There’s a five-legged spider on my side!”

「Do you want to spend 100 points to enhance the common-grade trait 《Virgin Sacrifice》?」

「Enhancement success rate: 10%」

「Upon success, trait will change to 《???》」

# # #

To put it simply, I spent 500P and succeeded on the fifth try.

I was lucky.

Massaging Yang Juhui’s side must have worked.

From now on, I should massage Yang Juhui’s side when enhancing or drawing gacha.

That’s how I obtained Yang Juhui’s new trait.

《Virgin Sacrifice》 changed to 《Surviving Virgin》.

The description of 《Surviving Virgin》 is as follows:

『《Surviving Virgin》: The fear of sacrifice no longer binds the virgin. The virgin always survives. Over the corpses of the fool, the thug, the harlot, and the know-it-all….』

I don’t know exactly what it means, but it said the virgin survived.

Yang Juhui’s condition also improved noticeably.

“I’m sleepy.”

Yang Juhui, who had been making a fuss until just now, closed her eyes as if she had calmed down.

She didn’t mind when I closed the office door, and she didn’t even care when I turned off the lights.

Snore-

Yang Juhui fell asleep as if everything that happened earlier that dawn was a lie.

The problem was that the thrilling excitement of probability enhancement had driven away my sleep.

“I’m screwed.”

With that feeling, the next day.

We all gathered at the secret base.

Yang Juhui was still snoring away.

Ms. Hong Miri looked at her drawer and narrowed her eyes.

“Why did you take out my underwear? Yeongwon, did you put it on Juhui?”

“Don’t tell me you two!”

Kwon Sua’s face turned bright red.

Soon Bong Jiyeon also made a fuss, saying, “Oh, what’s this, what’s this-.”

I was extremely embarrassed, but fortunately, Dahui took my side.

“There’s no way Yeongwon would do something so shameless to a girl who was out of her mind.”

Indeed, Dahui’s trust in me was impressive.

On the other hand, that trust also weighed heavily on my shoulders.

After all, Dahui had trusted me enough to commit suicide.

“This is what happened.”

Chatter chatter sea anemone-

I used my hidden trait 《Situation Summarizing》, which I had been training, to explain what happened last night.

Of course, I left out embarrassing stories like the bath and other things, and only gave a brief summary.

“So you spent 500P to enhance a trait.”

Jeongseok, who was the quickest to understand among us, nodded as if he comprehended.

I felt a bit guilty about spending 500P, but Jeongseok surprisingly praised it.

“To succeed with a 10% probability on the fifth try, you were lucky. And it’s fortunate that Juhui’s condition has improved. Juhui is our core personnel, so she needs to maintain her condition at all times.”

As expected of our pirate crew’s vice-captain.

Our hearts are in sync.

Then Kwon Sua, who had been listening to the story, asked.

“But what about 《Surviving Virgin》? Why such a trait? What does it mean to survive over the corpses of the fool, the thug, the harlot, and the know-it-all? It’s creepy.”

She seemed concerned about the description of the new trait.

I was concerned too, but Jeongseok, who knows a lot about these things, explained.

“It seems to be referring to foreign horror movie clichés? In foreign horror movies, young men and women always go to a countryside villa for fun. They meet frowning old men at a gas station they happen to visit who ask, ‘You’re going to that villa?’ In the end, they all die after encountering a killer or monster at the villa.”

With Jeongseok’s explanation, a whole foreign horror movie played out in my head.

“The harlot usually refers to the woman who handles the suggestive developments in the early part of horror movies. The fool is literally someone who dies doing something stupid. The thug is someone who’s strong but eventually dies.”

“And the know-it-all is the role that seems like they’ll solve the problem but eventually dies, right? In the end, only one woman survives!”

Kwon Sua, who likes games and knows about various content, nodded as if she understood.

Soon, Kwon Sua looked at the sleeping Yang Juhui and said.

“So Juhui is playing the virgin role. Then Jeongseok seems like the know-it-all role. The thug would be… Ms. Jiyeon? If the fool is… Mr. Yeongwon… then the har… only Ms. Dahui and I are left for the woman.”

Did she really want to match everyone to those roles?

In fact, the service scene-showing blonde woman didn’t fit Dahui’s position.

If you think about it, isn’t Kwon Sua, being an idol, closer to that role?

In terms of charm.

Everyone seemed to think so and looked at Kwon Sua, who blushed as if she realized something.

“…I’ve never even had a boyfriend…!”

That seems to be the case.

Anyway, I was glad things worked out well.

I was a bit tired from not sleeping at all last night, but I could manage somehow.

Looking back on last night, I had many thoughts.

Before those thoughts evaporated due to drowsiness, I said to everyone.

“Guys. Let’s all survive together. Don’t think about dying for someone else. For all of us, let’s all survive together. Definitely!”

I didn’t make the selfish request of asking them to die for me.

We all survive together.

That was truly collective selfishness.