Ch.259Chapter 10. I Don’t Know About Chaos, But We’re Taking It Easy (3)

After taking the boat through Sejong Island to Ulleungdo.

“Yeah, I’m fine. Don’t worry about anything. Any injuries? None at all. …Wow, I didn’t expect Seol-hee to worry about not just my body but my mind too. I’m touched. Next time we meet, I’ll comfort you twice as much for the comfort you’re giving me now. Yeah. Look forward to it.”

“Yeah, Ymir. Oh, me? I’m actually more worried about you. The Laplace incident. Oh, thanks for saying I did well. Thanks for worrying from afar, and sorry for causing concern. No, no. I’m doing ‘this kind’ of work right now, so I’ll contact you when I’m free after my business trip ends. You don’t need to come. Yeah. Thanks for worrying.”

I sent greetings to both Baek Seol-hee and Ymir.

Since I was still keeping an eye on the Syndicate’s business, especially the Goblin’s affairs, even while in Korea, I had to contact them both.

“…Sigh.”

A three-minute phone call.

Thanks to Cheonrian, sometimes it helps that I have to say everything within three minutes as quickly as possible.

We continued texting, but when I mentioned I was going in to “wash up,” they stopped sending messages.

“Oppa, are you done with your calls?”

“Yeah. …What about your swimsuit?”

“Why would we need swimsuits between us?”

Yoon Hye-ra immersed herself in the hot spring.

And not just anywhere—she sat right in front of me, pressing her backside against me.

“Why are you pushing that thing against an inappropriate place? What if someone sees us?”

“Who’s going to see us recovering mana here?”

“Well, that’s true.”

Ulleungdo.

Secretly observing or watching others is a serious crime here.

Voyeurism is considered an act that hinders patriotism, disrupts Ulleung, and negatively affects national security and world peace.

“Hmm, hmm-hmm, hmm.”

“Are you that happy?”

“Of course. In Thailand, we never knew when something might happen or when we’d have to leave.”

As Yoon Hye-ra said, we always had to maintain a state of tension in Thailand.

We never knew when someone might cause trouble, and after Hyangdan was identified, we had to move even faster.

Ulleungdo is different.

It’s not that incidents don’t happen here, but at least here we can put aside all worries for a while.

“Oppa. Will you massage me?”

“Sure. Where should I start?”

“My mana pouch.”

“…You’re being quite direct.”

“But you’ll do it anyway, right?”

“Of course.”

As Yoon Hye-ra requested, I grabbed her mana pouch and pressed it firmly.

“Ahhh…. Your hands are the best, Oppa. Every time you touch me like this, I feel alive.”

“……”

There weren’t any muscle knots, but it had definitely shrunk a bit compared to when we left Korea.

“You really used a lot of mana.”

“Yeah. Even if I recover here, I might need to rest without fighting for at least two months.”

“Did I call on you too much?”

“Well, it’s not that. It’s more because I’ve been mainly active in Korea.”

I’ve received quite a lot of help from Qiongqi lately.

“I’ve been using Qiongqi as a partner since the Doji Rider days. I did get help from Taowu during the Dueoksini incident, but thinking about it, I really did work with you a lot this time.”

Considering how many times she’s used mana since April, and how she’s recently been using techniques that consume a lot of mana, like spatial movement, she needs quite a long period of rest.

“I think I should report to the chairman and say I need to recuperate here for a month or two.”

“In Ulleungdo?”

“Yeah. It’s convenient for you to have someone here too, right? Of course, I won’t disturb you when you’re being patriotic with others. I’ll just organize the house and recover my mana here.”

“And then you’ll jump in if something happens.”

“If I think you’ll have trouble with a Goblin raid alone, I’ll step in as support.”

“And then provide support just long enough to buy time before retiring right away?”

“Oppa, I’m still one of the four executives.”

Yoon Hye-ra pouted and pushed me with her body.

“You seem to think I’m some kind of mob character, but I’m not.”

It didn’t hurt much because we were in the hot spring, but Yoon Hye-ra continued to push back against me, expressing her dissatisfaction.

“You’re just strong, I’m not incompetent. Understand? I’m pretty average for what I am.”

“That’s true. Every time you leave like that and spew out mana, I sometimes get confused whether I’m looking at Qiongqi or Taotie. …Ugh.”

“Which mouth is saying such strange things? Hm? What are you saying?”

“Not fire type but water type… Okay. Sorry.”

I patted Yoon Hye-ra’s shoulder as she reached back, then embraced her from behind and held her hands.

“I thought you’d like it if I did my best to use my body for you, but I guess that’s not always the case.”

“That’s not it. It’s just that you have too much energy. Really, if you weren’t a villain, what would you have done?”

“Well. Maybe lived up to my name? Maybe working at a host club in Busan.”

The name Do Chang-nam is not just for show.

I built up my body and took care of myself to get to where I am now; before that, things were a mess in many ways.

Others might call me skinny or whatever, but this is the result of my hard work all these years.

I’m a dexterity build, not a strength build, and I only need enough strength to lift a woman with both hands and repeat lifting her up and down.

Besides, with the aid of mana, strength doesn’t matter much anyway.

“Like the succubi in Thailand, I might have become an incubus in Busan, spreading pleasure to various women.”

“Well. Then you might have been dragged to some island to become a breeder. No, actually, there might have been an even more definite ending.”

Yoon Hye-ra squeezed my hand tightly and turned her head back.

“While living up to the name Do Chang-nam, you might have had a collar put on you by some S-class ability user woman, and then been trapped in her house, unable to escape, being raised like a pet for the rest of your life. How about that? Scary, isn’t it?”

“Why would that woman imprison me?”

“Well… Um, because she loves you?”

“If that’s the case, she wouldn’t need to tie me up.”

I buried my face in Yoon Hye-ra’s shoulder, then pulled her body tightly against mine so she couldn’t escape.

“If there’s a woman who would risk rumors about imprisoning a man because she loves him, if there’s a woman who loves me that much, I’d just continue living in her house.”

“…Really? Even if you couldn’t go outside?”

“I’d like the house to be spacious. If it’s about an 80-pyeong penthouse, I could walk around and exercise inside without needing to go out.”

If someone feeds me, gives me a place to sleep, gives me money, and lets me do whatever I want, I might not need to go outside.

“And if I give her confidence that I’ll never run away, she’ll eventually take me out on dates. Then I can think of it as breathing outside air while we go around together.”

“Oppa, you’re really not an ordinary person. How can you think like that?”

“I’m an indoor person. As you know, I don’t really like going out.”

“Didn’t you go out a lot?”

“That was just because there were many things I wanted to try.”

I just wanted to experience various cultures from another world, from the Earth in novels.

If I return to my original world, there will be many things I can’t do, whether due to financial or ability issues.

“You know what I like the most.”

“Reading novels?”

“That’s right.”

All four executives and the chairman know my hobby.

“Do you know what I like best about joining the Syndicate?”

“What?”

“That the chairman knows my hobby, understands it, and is now whipping writers.”

They say creation comes from pain.

Then, does giving pain produce creative works?

-Write more! Write more! Write more!!

Somewhere, an ability user with suspiciously purple hair and lots of money is probably cracking a red whip, urging captured writers.

“Thanks to that, there’s been a humanities boom in this world since the beginning of this year. Although it started more in Europe than Korea… I just hope it becomes more active in Korea than it is now.”

That red whip is being wielded in the name of countless money, and writers who are creating worlds with just a keyboard in some basement are writing new stories today as well.

“I just hope that literature targeting children now will gradually evolve into stories for adults.”

“…Is this about the reformed succubus, Big Mother story?”

“For now.”

Perhaps because my mana has recovered a bit, I’m starting to think about reality again.

“What would Big Mothers do? They take care of children. So they should also create fairy tales for children.”

While the chairman is squeezing web novelists for my hobby, what she’s ‘sincerely’ squeezing out is fairy tales for infants and children.

She’s focusing on creating fairy tales that future generations, children yet to be born, can read.

To prevent young children from becoming demons, and to create media that can have the greatest influence on children’s emotional development.

After all, fairy tale books that can give children dreams and hope without special variables are more effective than video media where strange videos might suddenly appear.

“When the Syndicate rules the world, I’ll also… huh?”

A message came in.

“…What?”

Someone completely unexpected suddenly sent a message.

“Who is it?”

“…A ghost.”

I pressed my Taegeuk Watch to call the person who sent the message.

[Hello? Ah, hyung. I….]

“Hyung is being patriotic in Ulleungdo. Hang up.”

[…..]

Click.

“…Oppa. That voice just now.”

“Yeah. That’s right. Lord of Radiant Wings.”

Korea’s number one.

“How dare he.”

How dare that man call during sacred patriotic time in Ulleung.

“Oppa. If it had been a woman, you would have kept talking.”

“……”