Chapter 17: Her Name

Even in this world of abundant breasts and female superiority, where women are powerful, those with the Harmonious Physique held a special position that even female masters couldn’t easily disregard.

However, most of those with the Harmonious Physique abused their abilities.

For them, treating female warriors was just a means to satisfy their desires.

And I, too… was one with the Harmonious Physique.

And now, in front of me lay a woman I secretly admired.

My sister chose me.

Was it because she believed I wouldn’t harbor bad intentions like other Harmonious Physique holders?

But my sister didn’t know.

That I, too, harbored bad intentions.

My sister lay on the bed.

Her combat uniform was already stained with blood, and I felt my fingertips trembling.

“I will begin the treatment.”

Looking at her on the bed, I tried to calm my breathing.

The white nape of her neck revealed between the black combat uniform, and the sharp jawline caught my gaze.

And below that… the full breasts wrapped in a compression bandage.

This is purely for treatment.

It was an excuse for myself.

But I knew in one corner of my heart.

That I had been secretly looking forward to this moment.

The fact that I could touch her body under the pretext of treatment stirred my heart with a mixture of guilt and anticipation.

“Hee… hold my hand.”

I was startled by the faint voice.

I hesitated about where to put my hands, how to hold them.

The shock of when she fell in the duel arena was still vivid.

In that moment when red blood stained her combat uniform, it seemed like my soul also collapsed.

And now, she chose me among the many with the Harmonious Physique.

This is perhaps… perhaps…

Has my sister already opened her heart to me?

Like Master Gu-hyeong and Madam Woo-hee, will our relationship also be like that?

This is a green light… right?

But this delusion didn’t last long.

“Although I am still young, I cannot show my private parts to a strange man.”

My face flushed at her words.

She drew a firm line.

A sense of chastity that is hard to find in female martial artists these days.

Since the healing method of the Harmonious Physique is mostly done through skin contact, you usually have to put your hand directly on the wound, but she… refused that.

“Yes, Sister No. 17… no, Sister No. 12…”

I took her cold hand with trembling hands.

I stuttered without realizing it.

She smiled slightly at my awkward appearance.

Even with her pale complexion, that smile was beautiful.

“Call me Nam Yuha.”

I was surprised by the unexpected words and looked at her.

“Yes?”

When I showed a bewildered reaction, she tilted her head slightly with a pale face and said.

“My real name. Yuha sister would be enough.”

My heart pounded at her words.

Her real name, which I had only called by a number until now.

Nam Yuha.

I held her hand, trying to hide the turmoil inside me.

Her cold hand was trembling slightly in my hand.

My heart continued to beat.

I bit my lip slightly and whispered the name.

“Yuha… Sister…”

I took a deep breath and began to circulate my inner energy as my master had taught me.

I tried to convey my energy to her through my palms.

Slowly, but surely.

But that’s when it happened.

Heogeogs!

What I tried on the day I first met her.

And that which I had forgotten in the meantime.

In an instant, I was out of breath without realizing it.

I was so startled that I almost dropped her hand as I tried to step back.

I barely managed to regain my balance, but my face must have been pale.

This is… could it be…

[Name: Kim Junho]
[Age: 15]
[Talent Grade: A]
[Realm: Early 2nd Class (3%)]
[State: Yin-Yang Harmonious Unity Body, Beauty of the Country Virgin]
[Stats: Strength: 11 Agility: 13 Inner Strength: 20 Combat Skill: 13 Endurance: 15]
[Connected Female Martial Artist: 1 person]
[Nam Yuha]

What the heck is this… My mind went blank.

Why now, of all times, did the status window, which I hadn’t seen since being sucked into the game world, appear…?

Let’s think about why this happened.

Humans are thinking animals.

Abundant Breast Martial Arts Mode.

A mode where women are stronger than men.

First of all, there was a lot of inner strength. That alone gives you 80% to start with.

Even after eating this world’s Jjambap, it seemed like women were strangely stronger in average strength and stamina.

So it’s easy to think of it as a female superiority mode.

I thought so too, but the online community clearly said that there were more male character contents.

What if the Harmonious Physique trait is the core of that content?

Then…. it wasn’t strange that the status window was revealed only now.

“Why are you suddenly like that? Is there anything uncomfortable?”

Yuha sister’s voice was filled with worry.

“Ah, ah, ah, it’s nothing.”

I manipulated the status window back and forth with my mind.

I was able to enter the status window of the connected female martial artist.

Yuha sister’s status window was as detailed as my status window.

[Connected Female Martial Artist: Nam Yuha]
[Age: 21]
[Talent Grade: S]
[Realm: Early Transcendent (51%)]
[State: Nine Yin Severed Meridians, Qi and Blood Damage (Minor), Sword Wound (Medium), Beauty of the Country, Virgin, G Cup]
[Stats: Strength: 110 Agility: 132 Inner Strength: 239 Combat Skill: 175 Endurance: 108]

“Se, severed meridians? Nine Yin Severed Meridians, too?”

The muttered words leaked out.

Her hand hardened at that moment.

Only then did I realize that I had made a mistake.

This must be a secret she wanted to hide…

“So you can even know that? Is it because you are a Harmonious Physique and a disciple of the Great Master.”

Yuha sister’s voice was surprisingly calm.

I was embarrassed by that appearance.

Usually, everyone wants to hide it when it comes to severed meridians.

Especially the Nine Yin Severed Meridians…

In Pungun Martial Arts, severed meridians were nothing short of a curse.

Because they can’t stop inner energy from leaking, their health deteriorates to the point where it’s hard to live long.

But the game system was a little different.

Nine Yin Severed Meridians was a trait that required additional points rather than reducing points when creating a character.

In particular, the fact that genius intelligence followed and that you could use more inner energy at once was a big advantage.

Especially in terms of intelligence related to combat, it was second only to Celestial Martial Body.

Depending on the play style, there were many experts who preferred Nine Yin Severed Meridians to Celestial Martial Body.

Even the Demonic God is said to have suffered from Nine Yin Severed Meridians.

Is that why my sister’s combat skill stats and inner strength stats are so high…?

But it was also a dangerous path as much as that. If you can’t find a solution like the Demonic God, someday…

I held my sister’s hand even tighter.

This must be fate. That I am Harmonious Physique and have knowledge of this world.

Perhaps I was meant to help my sister.

“It would have been difficult to pass twenty years old in the old days. But these days, the world has gotten better, so… there are many good medicines.”

Yuha sister’s voice was calm, but I could feel the loneliness in it.

There are many good medicines, but it will be difficult to cure completely.

I could feel her pulse, transmitted through my hand, trembling slightly.

I held her hand even tighter.

“I’ll treat that too, so don’t worry.”

The embarrassing feeling I had a moment ago, when I tried to covet her under the pretext of treatment, was long gone.

Logically speaking, if I treat even severed meridians….

Wouldn’t this be a green light?

“You shouldn’t say such things carelessly.”

Sister’s voice became serious.

She took a breath and carefully continued.

“Harmonious Physique can alleviate the symptoms of severed meridians, even if it’s not a complete cure, but…”

She hesitated for a moment.

I just held her hand and waited.

“To do so, we must have a marital relationship.”

Sister’s face turned slightly red.

I pondered the meaning of those words.

In an instant, my face flushed too.

Only by becoming husband and wife with Harmonious Physique… can the symptoms be alleviated?

I, whose body is 15 years old but whose mental age is an adult, understood the meaning.

No….

If you’re 15 years old, you know everything. Whether it’s that world or this world.

“W-wouldn’t it be okay if we became husband and wife?”

Only after speaking in a trembling voice did I realize what I had said.

My face flushed.

But my sister smiled bitterly.

“I am already engaged.”

It was a bolt from the blue.

My mind went blank.

I felt like my heart was sinking.

I know. That I am beautiful.

That’s why she chose Junho, this young child.

His innocent-looking eyes, and his expression that seemed untainted. He seemed different from other Harmonious Physique.

But in the end, even that child coveted me.

At first, I pretended not to notice.

Even when he tried to touch my body under the pretense of treatment, I just thought it was a clumsy mistake of a young child.

But now, I could feel everything from his trembling voice, from the gaze he was trying to hide. The way he was trying to hide his feelings in front of me revealed his heart even more clearly.

“Is that person also Harmonious Physique?”

The expectation hidden in that voice hurt one corner of my heart.

“I don’t know, I’ve never met them.”

The child’s eyes sparkled at my words.

As if he had discovered new hope.

“Then why… Sister too, Sister would like a Harmonious Physique husband.”

In fact, it might not be a bad choice.

No, it would be a good choice.

It would be a hundred, thousand, ten thousand times better to take the hand of a young Harmonious Physique who confidently says he likes me than to lose everything and wait for a fiance whose life and death are unknown.

“It’s a marriage arrangement set by my father.”

“Is that… is that the only reason?”

How can I explain the deep wounds inside me to this child?

I could only remain silent.

Engagement.

If I give that up, it seemed like I would never be able to go back to that time again.

The warm touch of my father’s hands embracing me.

The voice that sternly urged me while teaching me swordsmanship.

Back then, when my father was alive, when everything was perfect.

Even though I know that I have to move forward, I wanted to protect this engagement.

Because it’s the last remaining trace of that time.

This warm hand holding my hand.

This child looking at me with clear eyes.

Perhaps this child can make me happy.

But I cannot choose.

I, who am holding on to the happiness of the past, am not qualified to choose new happiness.

“I’m sorry.”

I looked up at the sky.

It was a particularly blue sky.

“Why are you sighing so much, young master?”

At Nanpa’s words, I stared at him blankly.

“There are things like that.”

The words ‘You’re still young, you wouldn’t know…’ were stuck in my throat, but I swallowed them.

Including my past life, I lived twice as long as Nanpa, but here, he was my older brother.

Looking at him, I felt bitter.

Nanpa was popular.

His taste in women was almost at the level of Master Guhyeong.

His charm points seemed to be his appearance, which scored over 75 out of 100, and his muscular body in the style of a country bumpkin.

I looked at Nanpa and said.

“It must be nice, being popular with women…”

I couldn’t hide the bitterness in my voice.

Yuha sister’s words were still lingering in my ears.

“If it’s about popularity, young master is more popular.”

I smiled bitterly at those words.

I had just been rejected.

“For something like that, no woman is coming to me.”

“It’s because you’re an unscalable mountain, an uncrossable river.”

…

Hmm…”

I coughed a couple of times at the metaphor.

That kind of metaphor is used to praise the might of a supreme master like Cheonma… Usually, they say it’s a tree that can’t be climbed, right?

Nanpa saw my expression and quickly continued.

“However, things will be different once you enter the Gwiyoungdang. There are quite a few young ladies with backgrounds there.”

“In other words, an unscalable mountain becomes a mountain that can be climbed?”

“That’s right! If it’s the young ladies of Gwiyoungdang… there will be many who have backgrounds suitable for the young master.”

“Really? But I don’t know if there will be a woman who catches my eye.”

Nanpa became even more excited at my words.

“There are quite a few beauties too! Even Number 3 and Number 12 are all graduates of Gwiyoungdang’s top students, aren’t they?”

My heart wavered slightly at the word Number 12.

Nanpa continued to speak without knowing that.

“There will definitely be a lot of great beauties!”