Chapter 5

Chapter 5

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

Episode 5: Iris.

Kang Hyeon-u didn’t notice, but Iris had been constantly anxious and unable to bear it since she met him.

She tried to pretend to be cheerful by looking at the cell phone, but the growing anxiety in her heart was not something she could control.

It had been a full 200 years.

Even for a high elf who lived eternally, spending that long period of time alone in a dark prison without any interaction with others was an unimaginably lonely and painful experience.

Living for a long time didn’t make them indifferent to emotions.

Rather, they were pitiful beings who mourned the deaths of their acquaintances more than anyone else and longed for the traces of time that passed in the blink of an eye.

Those who suffered in endless time either castrated their emotions or somehow reached a state of transcendence and became detached.

Even elves, who were praised as descendants of gods, were ultimately part of humanity. And humanity was nothing more than a collection of social animals that couldn’t live alone.

Why would high elves, created directly by the World Tree, live together with elves, building villages and running cities?

Why did people live among people, marry, and have children?

No matter how hard it was to live in society, it was not easy to isolate oneself in the mountains.

Loneliness deaths, where people died alone in their rooms without any contact or connection with anyone, were considered one of the worst deaths in modern times.

For Iris, who had grown up receiving love and attention from many people, the past 200 years had been too cruel.

Kang Hyeon-u appeared before her, who was driven to the point of considering the extreme choice of suicide.

It was warmth, conversation, and a meeting after 200 years.

It was her first time being alone with an unfamiliar man, so she was wary at first, but that didn’t last long once she realized he was very weak.

What remained was curiosity and a slight liking.

She had been so happy that she had committed the shameless act of grabbing his hand first, but fortunately, he didn’t seem to mind much.

The man’s hand she held for the first time was rough, but on the other hand, it felt warm and reassuring.

‘Could it be because I unconsciously relaxed my guard…?’

She had even told a person she had just met about her past, which she shouldn’t have.

She knew she should stop talking, but the more she revealed her past and let go of her emotions, the more relieved she felt, and she couldn’t stop talking.

Moreover, even though it could have been annoying, he listened to her story to the end. The story of a boring and foolish woman’s end.

She felt really refreshed after telling him about her past.

-Don’t you want revenge?

She couldn’t answer easily.

There were definitely moments when she wanted revenge on Resilia and those behind her.

But perhaps because her emotions had faded over the 200 years, the burning emotions like revenge had long since turned to ashes and died out.

The remaining dregs had made her unable to harbor any desire to do anything or any hope that she could.

She even doubted whether she could get out of here in the first place.

She looked at the stone door that would never open even if she killed herself.

Even if she could get out, would there be a place for her in the kingdom?

-Who can I blame now? Seeing through the essence of others is also a virtue of a monarch… I just had no eye for people.

Even if it was an injustice, Resilia’s ascension was clearly done under the approval of the World Tree.

As a mere creation, she couldn’t be allowed to go against the will of the World Tree.

-But you don’t want to stay here forever, do you?

The days had been unchanging for 200 years.

-Hey, things are different now than they were then.

-I’m here now.

He, who had come to this place where no one had visited, was unusually kind to her.

She was wary of an unfamiliar man, a human at that, but as she talked to him, her questions about him only increased.

‘Why is he so kind to me? I have nothing. Why to me, who has nothing to give you?’

In her long life of hundreds of years, Iris knew that there was no such thing as kindness without a price in this world.

The people, the court ladies, and the officials respected and loved her because she was the queen chosen by the World Tree, not because she was a criminal abandoned and deposed by the World Tree.

Without the premise of being chosen by the World Tree, she had no value.

Realizing this, Iris was both unable to understand and very happy with Kang Hyeon-u’s unconditional kindness.

From a certain point on, her heart pounded whenever she looked at him.

Iris, who was called a great mage with her excellent intelligence, was confused by the unfamiliar feeling she felt for the first time in her life.

But she was sure of one thing.

It wasn’t a bad feeling.

-I came from another world called Earth.

It was hard to believe.

But the evidence he showed was enough to quickly dispel any slight disbelief.

‘I’ve never seen a magical tool of this level even in Magnolia.’

The more she looked at the magical tool called a cell phone, the more she was amazed.

It was amazing that this small magical tool could be used for communication, maps, location tracking, entertainment, photography, and recording, but it was also unbelievably amazing that anyone could access knowledge by connecting to a huge library called the internet.

It was a shame that she couldn’t do it now, but how long would it take for the magic engineering of this world to develop to this level?

Elves weren’t a race that was friendly to magic engineering, but Iris was different.

She had been researching magic engineering for a long time because she strongly believed that magic engineering was the field that would lead the future of the world more than anyone else among the elves.

Of course, research support at the national level was difficult due to the opposition of some high-ranking noble elders, but if you only counted the time she had researched alone, there were few people on the continent who were as knowledgeable about magic engineering as her.

That was why Iris knew.

The development of civilization didn’t happen just because hundreds of years passed. Civilization could only develop rapidly when the birth of a genius who would change the times and the flow of the world coincided.

In that sense, this cell phone was truly revolutionary.

‘You really came from another world…’

Apart from the cell phone, the combination of dark black hair and dark black eyes was a sight rarely seen on the Aquilon continent.

Like a fairy tale she read when she was a child.

Once upon a time, there was a princess in a kingdom who was loved by everyone. A princess with a kind heart and gentle nature who always grieved for the hard lives of her people and didn’t hesitate to help them.

One day, when peaceful days continued, a witch who envied the beautiful princess loved by everyone cast a very vicious curse on her.

-You will not be loved by anyone.

The princess was hated by everyone due to the curse and was eventually banished from the kingdom.

The attention and love she had received throughout her life turned into hatred and contempt, and even in the last moment of leaving the kingdom, she was pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes, not tears and pity.

In deep despair, the princess, with empty eyes, wandered aimlessly and reached a deserted forest.

In the dark forest, where even sunlight couldn’t reach, only the fierce cries of beasts were heard.

The princess had a premonition.

-This is… my grave.

Contrary to her calm words, her whole body trembled slightly.

As fear dominated her body, tears like pearls flowed from her jewel-like eyes without stopping.

The beasts, sensing prey that clearly couldn’t resist, gathered one by one, and the quickly surrounded princess turned pale and couldn’t escape.

Soon, the beasts rushed towards the princess.

-Aaaah!!

A sorrowful scream echoed through the forest.

The princess, trembling at the impending death, cautiously opened her tightly closed eyes, wondering why she felt no pain even after some time had passed.

And there stood a man.

A man with dark black hair and obsidian-like eyes.

He had defeated all the beasts with a single sword.

As the princess stared blankly at the scene, he knelt before her and said:

-Are you hurt anywhere?

The princess, who was hated by everyone due to the curse, was saved by meeting a black-haired hero from another world in a forest she happened to visit.

Perhaps because he was from another world, the hero was unaffected by the witch’s curse and eventually fell in love with the princess.

With the sole intention of helping the princess, the hero engaged in a life-threatening battle with the witch. After a grueling battle that blurred his vision with blood, the hero finally succeeded in defeating the witch, and the princess was able to break free from the terrible curse.

The princess was able to return to the kingdom and reclaim her position, but ironically, the fairy tale ended with the hero looking at the princess loved by everyone and then returning to his own world.

The story ended with the princess longing for the hero who disappeared without a word, shedding tears every night.

The princess looked up at the darkened night sky, agonizing and grieving.

-Why did you leave me and go back?

-Did you not like me?

-Was all the love you whispered in my ear a lie?

The pain without anyone to answer her became another curse that would last forever.

The ending was sad and unsettling for innocent children to watch with a smile, so it wasn’t a very popular fairy tale, but Iris couldn’t help but see her current situation overlapping with the ending of the fairy tale.

Sir Kang Hyeon-u, like the hero in the fairy tale, came from another world, and his words that no one knew when he would return were not much different.

What if he, like the hero, returned to his world without a word?

What about her?

Did she have to be trapped here alone forever again?

The end of the past 200 years, which were so painful that words couldn’t express, was an attempt at suicide.

It was a very painful and scary moment.

Could the hand that trembled more than ever have succeeded in stabbing a stone into her neck?

The answer was unknown.

She couldn’t be sure, but she couldn’t deny it either.

That was how much the past 200 years were days she never wanted to experience again.

That was why she finally hoped he wouldn’t return to his world.

She wanted him to stay by her side forever.

But how?

She had nothing.

She had nothing to offer him to make him abandon his own world and stay by her side.

Iris, who pretended to be looking at the cell phone, was actually driven to the point where her whole body was soaked with cold sweat.

Just imagining him disappearing and her being left alone here again made her throat tighten and tears well up.

Iris vowed. She would give anything if he would just stay here, no matter what means she had to use.

And then, a light of hope that shouldn’t have existed seemed to descend upon her. She went into an app called Gallery, and there were several pictures there.

As she expected, they were photos. There were quite a few magical tools in this world that functioned as cameras.

When he explained the cell phone, he said it had a photography function, so she thought it was a kind of storage for saved photos. Indeed, even the same photos had an unusual quality. She was amazed by the high quality of the photos when…

‘Th, this…??’

As she looked at the photos and swiped to the side, what appeared before her was a photo of a naked woman. And they were women in very suggestive poses.

It was shocking beyond words to see them wearing underwear that barely functioned as clothes, exposing their breasts and spreading their legs wide open.

Moreover, some of them even had photos exposing their intimate areas, which should be cherished by women, without any hesitation.

The moment Iris saw the photos, her brain went into temporary overload.

Born as the daughter of a high-ranking noble, she had instinctively learned various etiquettes and the chastity and dignity that a woman should possess. Purity was a woman’s treasure to be kept for her beloved, and exposing skin more than necessary was no different from a sin.

The clothes she was wearing now were also attire that adhered to such customs.

Thanks to the magic power she had used to repair and keep them clean every day for the past 200 years, the clothes Iris was wearing were always neat, elegant, and tidy, like new clothes.

Of course, Kang Hyeon-u had decided to help her without any hesitation because Iris was a voluptuous woman whose body pierced even the characteristics of such clothes.

‘Th, this shamelessness…!’

Women, in general, should not do this.

Regardless of status or position, women! There was a line that must be kept.

Iris, doubting her own eyes, swiped the photos as if she didn’t want to see them anymore.

But what awaited her were even more breathtakingly explicit pictures. At that sight, Iris felt her mind go blank.

‘Wh, why… does Sir Hyeon-u have these…!’

She couldn’t believe it.

She definitely thought he was a good person, and still did. But the more she saw the photos in the place called Gallery, the more she had to doubt her own judgment.

The budding suspicion was gradually blooming, but on the other hand, an unknown joy was sprouting inside her at the fact that such photos were in his cell phone.

‘They’re all… women with very large breasts…’

There were short women and tall women.

Some were of average appearance, and some were outstanding.

But none of them had small breasts.

And she also had very large breasts. She had seen her own breasts for hundreds of years, but they were so big that she often thought they were unnecessarily large.

It was not uncommon for her to have trouble and discomfort when tightening her corset, and when she took it off, she looked fat in anything she wore.

She had thought that it would be nice to be able to make her body parts smaller with magic because her shoulders were often stiff and they felt unnecessarily heavy.

‘…Sir Hyeon-u must like big breasts, right?’

But now, she could do anything to keep him from leaving. She wanted him to stay here without returning to his world.

It was a thought she would never have had in the past, or even a choice she wouldn’t have considered a year ago.

“If… if it’s okay, would you… like to touch my breasts…?”

She could do anything if it meant keeping him here.