Chapter 17

Chapter 17

I Installed a Dating App and Girls from Another World Became Obsessed with Me.

Episode 17: Reunion.

With a brilliant mind, handsome looks, and a father who was a congressman and former prosecutor, and a mother who accumulated immense wealth based on enormous real estate.

He grew up without lacking anything.

When he entered elementary school, all the kids in his class were eager to befriend him, probably because of the parents who had heard rumors about him.

It was the same in middle and high school, and even the teachers fawned over him from middle school onwards. When he got into a fight, the teachers always sided with him.

Even if he unilaterally bullied or assaulted someone, the teachers collectively hushed up the incident and only cautiously asked about his parents’ well-being.

He didn’t remember the incident well, but he thought he had laughed.

Was life allowed to be this easy?

As long as he made an effort to maintain decent grades, he didn’t have to do anything else.

Friends? Romance?

His surroundings were always filled with idiots eager to buy his favor.

The women were just empty-headed girls who easily spread their legs for his looks and money.

The school bullies who used to swagger around? He framed them and left evidence to send them all to juvenile detention or threatened them to use them.

When he was bored, he picked on a nerdy guy in class.

First, he spread rumors that the guy liked the school bully’s girlfriend, and then he secretly stole the girls’ gym clothes and put them in the guy’s locker.

His joy peaked when a bunch of gym clothes came out of the guy’s locker while the boys’ lockers were being searched during the culprit’s search.

The sight of him crying and shouting that he didn’t do it was so funny that he almost openly laughed.

However, he was extremely disappointed when he heard that the guy had dropped out. It was annoying to have a toy break while playing with it, but it was absurd for it to run away on its own.

But getting a new toy wasn’t difficult.

And it was the same in college.

In the department he entered thinking he would flirt with empty-headed girls, there were a few guys who didn’t know their place.

He heard there were no male freshmen last year, but why was it like this when he came?

So, this time, he didn’t just play with them, but he set up a situation where they would give up and leave on their own.

As he did in high school, he looked for a guy who was nerdy and wouldn’t squirm when he stepped on him.

And while gradually excluding him from the group, he talked about him when he was with other guys. He smelled bad, his eyes were too dirty when looking at girls, he saw weird girl pictures on his phone and was smiling, etc. Of course, they were just made up, but who cared?

What was important to people wasn’t the truth.

What mattered most was what looked plausible.

Men were just as empty-headed.

He paid for a few meals and drinks, and they acted like dogs, volunteering to be his subordinates.

Most of the freshmen guys wagged their tails at him, hoping they wouldn’t be the target of his bullying.

Then, a guy who was strangely annoying appeared.

Kang Hyeon-u, a classmate who was tall and had an average face. No, he had a rather fierce face when he frowned.

In fact, he didn’t intend to mess with Kang Hyeon-u from the start.

It wasn’t that he had a bad first impression, and he thought he could use him to create a sense of intimidation if he took him around.

But he kept giving him disapproving looks and skipping the drinking parties he paid for, so he decided to make an example of him.

He didn’t care who that bastard liked, but a nerd who went to a drinking party without him told him about the girl Kang Hyeon-u liked.

At that moment, a plan came to mind, and the result was successful.

The sight of his distorted face at the MT still made him laugh.

But he was punched by that guy.

Who?

Him?

Bang!

The flowerpot hit the wall, scattering its pieces everywhere.

“Damn it!”

Jeon Hye-seong vented his anger by smashing and throwing things around the house with a golf club.

“That orphan bastard…!!! How dare he, how dare he…!!!”

Crunch-

A voice filled with anger echoed throughout the house.

No matter how much he smashed, he couldn’t relieve his anger.

“…Kang Hyeon-u.”

Jeon Hye-seong, staring somewhere with a chilling gaze, even showed a strange madness.

For Jeon Hye-seong, who had always been above others, today’s incident was a fatal humiliation he could neither forget nor tolerate.

“Just you wait, I’ll bully you until you drop out next semester.”

First, he would find a suitable freshman girl and create a situation where she was alone with Kang Hyeon-u.

Then, if he succeeded in leaving Kang Hyeon-u’s fingerprints on the girl’s body, he could report him for sexual assault.

What kind of country was this?

It was a country where the victim’s tears were evidence. Fingerprints left on a woman’s clothes and the victim’s tears were enough evidence for a guilty verdict.

That would be enough to get him expelled, let alone drop out.

Of course, it didn’t matter if he was acquitted due to insufficient evidence. False accusation? That was the girl’s problem, not his.

Even if Kang Hyeon-u returned to school safely, rumors of him being a sexual predator would have spread throughout the school.

He wouldn’t be able to continue school in that situation.

Thinking about that, his bad mood seemed to improve a little.

“Who should I call today?”

He scrolled through his DM filled with numerous contacts and contacted a junior he hadn’t tried yet.

Around this time, women easily fell for a few pictures of expensive hotels.

For him, women were nothing more than toys to play with.

Jeon Hye-seong had no doubt that it would continue to be so.

Foolishly.

Bang bang!

“What the hell?”

Jeon Hye-seong reflexively frowned at the sound of someone banging on the front door.

Did they come to complain about the noise from him smashing things earlier?

‘Tch, there are so many people who don’t know their place.’

He would either talk them out of it or beat them with a golf club.

If they understood, he could choose the former, but if not.

‘The manager will have to work hard today.’

He would just give them some settlement money and hush it up as usual.

But contrary to his optimistic thoughts, things far exceeded his expectations.

Squeak-

“Who the hell is banging on someone else’s door…”

Pow!

“Ugh!”

As soon as he opened the door, Jeon Hye-seong rolled into the shoe rack after being punched in the face.

“You, you bastard… Father…?!”

The culprit who punched him was not the crazy neighbor he thought was eager to eat jail food, but his father, whom he feared the most.

“Jeon Hye-seong!”

Congressman Jeon Jin-muk, who stormed in through the door with a flushed face, had a more ferocious expression than ever.

Jeon Hye-seong, only stroked his red cheeks like a blushing teenager, unable to do anything else.

“What kind of crap are you doing outside?!!”

“Yes, yes…? What are you talking about…”

He gritted his teeth, relieved that his father didn’t have a golf club in his hand.

Slap! Slap!

“Because of you! Things went to hell!!”

“Ugh, ugh, ugh…!!”

Jeon Jin-muk slapped his son’s cheeks mercilessly and familiarly.

“Do you think I gave you a monthly allowance and pay for your apartment deposit and rent for you to do this?!!”

Jeon Jin-muk hit his son, recalling the call he received from the Magic Tower during the day.

-Ma, magician, what are you talking about?! You’re giving up on cooperation now?!

-I’m sorry. One of our magicians had an unpleasant incident with your son. As you know, we don’t do things without considering the feelings of our fellow magicians. We’ve already received permission from the Magic Tower Master.

-Yes, yes?! My son?!! That, that can’t be!

-I have nothing more to say.

-I’ll take care of it! So please reconsider… Magician?! Magician!!

It was a collaboration that had been painstakingly secured by sucking up to the Magic Tower for years.

Thanks to that, his re-election was almost certain, but the sudden notification from the Magic Tower drastically changed the situation.

At this rate, his re-election was as good as gone.

‘This won’t do… I need to find a way…’

-Breaking news.

Jeon Jin-muk’s gaze turned to the TV.

-Evidence of bribery, election fraud, and massive real estate speculation by former congressman Jeon Jin-muk, who is running in this election, has been revealed, causing shock.

Beep beep-

Beep beep-

The phone rang.

-It appears to have originated from his wife, Lee Hyeon-suk’s, maternal side, and evidence of profits in the thousands of billions has been additionally revealed, causing controversy.

-The evidence is so clear that even his fellow party members are calling for a strict investigation.

Thump-

Jeon Jin-muk slumped into his seat and couldn’t get up for a long time.

The day he submitted his withdrawal application to the university, he bought a bunch of food and bottled water from the convenience store and returned home.

He had something to tell the magician Choi Yeong-ok, and more than anything, he would reunite with Iris in a week.

He wanted to see her surprised face.

He sat cross-legged on the floor and closed his eyes.

What was important to him now was endless concentration.

He had to reach the core of the mana circle, which had no substance, deep within his heart.

[Acquisition rate of all knowledge about basic magic +1000%]

[Mana sensitivity increase +1000%]

[Mana self-organization speed increase +10000%]

These were the buffs he was receiving from the app.

The knowledge acquisition rate wasn’t necessary now.

What he needed was the mana sensitivity and self-organization speed increase buffs. Thanks to these, it was no exaggeration to say that he was constantly loved by mana.

Of course, he usually blocked mana from being absorbed into his body.

Just like how a moderate amount of blood transfusion is treatment, but exceeding a certain amount can cause complications.

Similarly, trying to absorb an excessive amount of mana could cause the circle to collapse and kill him.

Nevertheless, he opened his entire body and absorbed the massive mana of nature.

‘Ugh…’

Mana rushed in as soon as the door opened, making him feel like his blood was flowing backward.

If he lost his mind here, he was guaranteed to be half-crippled at best.

Amidst the immense pain, he forced himself to hold on and guided the flow of mana.

Hands, feet, neck, legs. It didn’t matter where the mana came from. He made it all flow to his heart.

Of course, accepting all this mana was tantamount to suicide.

He filtered out a certain amount just before it reached his heart.

If he were a high-level wizard, he wouldn’t have to go through this tedious process. He could have filtered it out when the mana was absorbed into his body.

But unfortunately, he was inexperienced.

So, he used his survival instinct to filter it out near his heart, one of the most important vital points in his body.

‘Hey, filter out the mana if you don’t want to die?’

‘…What kind of crazy person are you? This is your body!’

‘Who cares?’

He compressed the mana that he had filtered and gathered.

As if pressing a car with a press machine to make a thin steel plate 1cm thick.

He knew it was crazy.

That was how hard it was to increase the mana circle.

Ordinary wizards wouldn’t be doing this.

The process of advancing to a higher level for ordinary wizards, as he heard from Iris, was to use an enlightenment gained at some point to replace the role of the press machine on the mana accumulated in their bodies over the years.

But what about him?

There was no enlightenment. He was just forcibly compressing mana with a single technique.

Of course, this was a shortcut, and it was probably a method that wouldn’t work as he advanced to higher levels.

Not to mention the risk of losing his life.

Yet, there was only one reason he persisted.

‘…It’s doable.’

The extremely compressed mana took the form of an infinitely rotating ring.

And it took its place in the heart, where the wizards’ mana circles gathered.

“Phew…”

When he opened his eyes again, a week had passed.

Damn, he said he would make it in three days, but now he had lied.

As expected, his phone was filled with numerous missed calls from Choi Yeong-ok.

He felt sorry, but his priority now wasn’t her.

[Name: Iris Remeria Bayart Pelledia

Age: 524

Species: High Elf

Affiliation: EB-17

Occupation: Archmage

Disposition: Benevolent Ruler, Pacifist, Devoted, Vegetarian······]

[Rematch?]

[Y/N]

“Of course.”

It was a week that passed in the blink of an eye, but he missed Iris.

“…Ah, wait.”

Before going to see Iris, he remembered something he needed to quickly prepare, so he went here and there.

Perhaps because his body was overflowing with mana after becoming a 2nd circle mage, his running speed seemed to be 30km/h. He wasn’t even running at full speed.

Who said wizards were backline jobs?

Anyway, after finishing his errands, he returned home, shoved them into his inventory, and turned on the app again.

[Rematch with Iris Remeria Bayart Pelledia?]

[Y/N]

[Y]

As soon as he accepted, a white light enveloped him, just like last time.

He closed his eyes, and when he felt the air change and opened them again,

“In, instead, next time, I’ll go all the way…!”

Iris, who was blushing as if she was about to explode, was standing there.

“Iris.”

“I’ll do it…!! Huh? Hyeon-u?”

Iris, who was speaking with her eyes closed as if she was talking to herself, raised her head in surprise at the voice she heard right in front of her.

Did she think he wouldn’t hear her?

In front of the flustered Iris, he opened his inventory.

And he took out the magic red box he had bought from the convenience store before coming here.

“I’m back, so let’s go all the way this time, shall we?”

It was a 0.001mm condom made with magic engineering.