Chapter 16 : Its way past the line

Oath of Impotence.

It was a naming that made your heart swell, like something you’d heard a lot before, but its effect was anything but grand.

The effect of this artifact was very simple. 

All it did was render the target impotent.

That’s right. 

It was the Oath of Impotence, making the target impotent.

Due to its simple and clear effect, many superhumans in the past bought and used this artifact to bind their lovers.

However, after the artifact’s creator died and the supply was cut off, a situation arose where demand increased while supply disappeared. 

In modern times, a single one-time-use artifact costs billions.

I never imagined they would buy such an ultra-expensive, disposable artifact and use it on their own child, so I was caught off guard.

And the result was this: impotence.

“…Damn it.”

Seeing the brand of Impotence engraved on my lower abdomen like some kind of vulva, curses burst out of me involuntarily.

To knock someone unconscious and then forcibly inflict the Oath of Impotence, making them unable to have sexual relations… anyone could see it was a serious crime, but in the superhuman society, this atrocity wasn’t considered a crime.

Because the person who committed this act was the head of a prestigious family, a noble of the world.

“Haa.”

Therefore, even if my reproductive ability was forcibly sealed, all I could do now was sigh.

“I need to revise my plans, a lot.”

All I could do was revise my future life plans.

Originally, the most important goal in my life plan was escape.

To completely escape the Yang family’s pursuit and live a free life—that was the starting point of my new life.

But now that I had been forcibly subjected to the Oath of Impotence, I had to revise that plan.

Even if I escaped, as long as I was bound by the Oath of Impotence, I would be forever trapped by the Yang family.

The escape from the family that I dreamed of was to gain complete freedom, so to achieve that, I had to first break this curse. 

“There are only two ways to break the curse…”

One was for the user of the artifact to voluntarily cancel the ability, and the other was for the user to die.

Whether I chose the former or the latter, I had to screw over the Yang family to achieve what I wanted.

To do that, I had to become much stronger than I had planned.

And even if there was no such reason, I wanted to become stronger by my own will.

“They’ve crossed the line way too much. That bitch Yang Gajeong.”

Because if someone crossed the line, it was the destiny of any human to screw them over.

Being tied to the family for 20 years, from the moment I was born until I turned 20, and never being able to go outside even once?

That’s okay.

Being forced to sit in a seat for 18 hours every day for 20 years and learn things I didn’t even want to learn?

I could bear it.

Never being treated like a child from the day I was born until now, and only being regarded as a product?

This really didn’t matter at all.

But I couldn’t forgive them for inflicting the Oath of Impotence on me.

To forcibly castrate someone, to make them impotent, to try to limit even the most primal and instinctive desires of a living being.

This was crossing the line way too much.

I had endured it until now because I could bear it, but I couldn’t bear this.

Mom, main family, bloodline, whatever—there was no family affection in this damned house in the first place, so I was confident that I could punch that robotic face right now.

But I didn’t have the strength to do such a thing, so I decided to postpone that day to the future.

“I’ll make you feel deep in your bones what happens when a veteran gets pissed off.”

From now on, my only goal in life is to destroy Yang Gajeong and the Yang family and regain my rightful reproductive ability.

I will live only for that.

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A day passed, and morning arrived.

The day of my academy entrance, the only heir of the family, had finally arrived.

I had waited for 20 years, and I had been waiting even more eagerly since yesterday, but my heart was calmer than I had expected, even though that very moment had arrived.

This was because, as of yesterday, I had made it my life’s goal to avenge this family instead of enjoying this world.

For someone who holds revenge in their heart, excitement is nothing but a luxury.

I went out of the room with the carrier I had packed in both hands.

“Young Master Woobin, have you woken up?”

“Butler Yoo.”

“Hehe, judging by the look in your eyes, it seems the head of the family completed her task well yesterday.”

So he knew.

For a long time, no, for my entire life, I had been with Butler Yoo, but this man was just a henchman of the Yang family who regarded me only as a product of the Yang family.

I had never forgotten that fact even once, so I wasn’t shocked at all by his words that seemed to imply he knew about the Oath of Impotence.

It just made me even more determined to destroy the Yang family once again.

“Hah.”

Anyway, the way he was saying that it was a good thing that I had been subjected to the Oath of Impotence made me laugh in disbelief, as if he were a ranch worker who had neutered livestock.

“Please don’t make that expression. How surprised would your fiancée be if she saw it?”

“Would you not make this expression if you were in my pos… Wait, what did you say?”

“Your fiancée, I mean. She heard the story that you were subjected to the Oath of Impotence yesterday and decided to get engaged right away. 

After all, guaranteed virginity increases a man’s value!”

Fiancée?

What the hell is that nonsense?

I thought I wouldn’t be shocked by anything anymore because I had experienced so many terrible things, but this crazy family always exceeded my expectations several times over.

I was already boiling with anger since yesterday, as if my chest would explode, but now that I heard that I suddenly had a fiancée, I was about to lose my mind.

But I couldn’t do that, so I barely calmed myself down and asked Butler Yoo.

“Who is my fiancée?”

“You wouldn’t know because your information from the outside world has been blocked, but she’s a very famous person. 

She’s the heir to a really great family. If you marry her in the future, the Yang family will surely be able to make a great leap forward!”

“So who is it!”

“The heir to the Ma family. 

Ms. Ma Yeon.”

“…Ma Yeon.”

Ma Yeon, a name I knew very well.

A very important character who appears in the main story of “Chronicles of a Reversed Hero,” a boss monster better known to users as the Four Walls of Lamentation.

The “Disaster Witch,” the final boss who controls the “Special Monster – Great Disaster” with the “Solar Body” trait that I possess, was none other than Ma Yeon.

“Ms. Ma Yeon has already graduated from the academy, so you won’t be able to meet her at the academy, but it’ll be okay since we’ve taken measures with the Oath of Impotence. Hehe!”

While my head went blank at the name of the suddenly appearing enormous figure, Butler Yoo didn’t even try to read my expression and kept spouting nonsense.

No, he probably wasn’t bothering to read my expression because there was no reason to.

To Butler Yoo, to Yang Gajeong, or to anyone in this family, I was just a product that had to be sold at a high price.

I thought I only had to screw over Yang Gajeong and the Yang family, but suddenly a Wall of Lamentation popped up and blocked my path.

Actually, I had been expecting it a little bit since the moment I checked the Solar Body in my status window, but even if I had expected it, there was nothing I could prepare for within this Yang family, so I had just been denying it.

But like this, my worries that maybe it would happen came back as the correct result, and I was placed in a destiny where I had to catch both the Yang family and the Disaster Witch.

This is going to be tough to do alone.”

“Chronicles of a Reversed Hero” was basically a team game.

The basic framework was to form a party with the protagonist at the forefront and overcome trials, so it would be difficult for superhuman with restrictions on getting stronger, to overcome all those trials alone.

Me,a male.

“Well, it can’t be helped, can it? You’ve never been outside since you were born, so I guess that’s understandable. 

But there’s nothing I can do about it, Young Master. The head of the family hasn’t ordered me to assist you. So, please have a good time on your own.”

What is this guy talking about?

Ignoring Butler Yoo’s words, which misunderstood what I said, I headed to the Yang family’s entrance with the carrier in both hands.

With each step closer to the entrance, my head, a veteran of “Chronicles of a Reversed Hero,” quickly formulated a plan for the future.

Squeak!

And as the door opened and I took my first step outside for the first time in my life, I had a perfect plan in place to achieve everything I wanted. “Hmm, good. That should do it.”

If things go according to plan, it will be impossible to have a happy academy life, but I will still be able to carry out my revenge perfectly.

“First, I’ll live as a delinquent who makes all the students, professors, and staff stick out their tongues, and then I’ll start by thoroughly tarnishing the family’s reputation.”

That’s how I chose to live as a delinquent hoodlum and tarnish the family’s reputation as the first method for revenge.

This was the historical first step of Yang Woobin, the human… no, Yang Woobin, the worst delinquent in the academy.