Chapter 54

Chapter 54

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

Episode 54: Responsibility

“You really forgot everything?”

Choi Hye-na closed the distance in an instant.

There was no need to reach out, her breath was almost touching me. Choi Hye-na’s face, seen from that close, was truly red.

Even though her cheeks were flushed, Choi Hye-na was too beautiful to look away.

I knew she was all dressed up when we first met, but seeing her from this close, almost nose-to-nose, made me feel breathless.

No matter how many top-tier beauties like Iris, Cheon Yeo-hwa, and Han Ra-el I had met, enjoying my peak moments, it didn’t mean I could act casually when I locked eyes with a woman like her.

‘Come to think of it, the dojo master was also incredibly beautiful.’

Although she was smaller than other beastkin, her overall proportions were perfect, enough to make any model envious.

Moreover, her pure white fur and golden eyes were so captivating that I still think of them often.

“Hey.”

Lost in my thoughts, a chilling voice pierced my ears.

My spine tingled as if I had fallen into a winter valley.

“Are you thinking about another woman right now?”

Choi Hye-na, who was grabbing my collar, suddenly pulled my face with both hands.

“…No way.”

I had to lie to survive.

“Really?”

“Would I be crazy enough to do that in this situation?”

I still had too many things I wanted to do in life, so I tried to ignore her murderous eyes.

I wanted to finish the first night with Iris, which was interrupted by some strange interference, and I wanted to get her out of that stuffy prison as soon as possible.

If I had the chance, I thought it would be nice to travel the fantasy world together.

Moreover, Cheon Yeo-hwa, who often gave me the impression of being a good wife and mother, contrary to my first impression, had become one of my goals to find a nice house and live together peacefully.

I had a clear conviction that my relationships with Iris and Cheon Yeo-hwa were close to or beyond that of lovers, but my relationship with Choi Hye-na was somewhat ambiguous.

“…Then answer me. Did you really forget everything?”

“Yeah.”

“…”

Choi Hye-na seemed quite shocked.

“You told me to forget.”

“Yeah, but still… how could you…”

I understood her reaction.

Strictly speaking, it was Choi Hye-na’s first time, and even if it was unavoidable, I took her first time.

We spent the night together, mixing bodies not just once, but multiple times.

As a man, I should have taken responsibility, but Choi Hye-na clearly told me to forget everything that happened in the gate.

If I said I remembered everything, it would be no different from saying I would take responsibility for her.

‘It doesn’t matter since I’ve already decided to build a harem…’

Choi Hye-na’s background was the problem.

The Seongbuk Choi clan was famous for producing women with exceptional magical talent through their maternal lineage.

While Choi Hye-na, along with her grandmother Choi Yeong-ok, possessed extraordinary talent, reaching the 3rd circle at the young age of 21, her grandfather was an ordinary person.

It wasn’t hard to guess how the Seongbuk Choi clan would react if she, the only granddaughter and heir of the clan, where women held a much higher position than men, was to be included in my harem.

-Kill that bastard.

Of course, they wouldn’t try to assassinate the benefactor who saved their granddaughter’s life, but if the person she had even gone on a blind date with now revealed his ambition to build a harem, it would be no different from tarnishing the reputation of the Seongbuk Choi clan.

The reason I accepted the blind date, even though I expected things to turn out this way, was simple.

I was intrigued by Choi Hye-na’s picture, but would such a beautiful, rich daughter really accept me as a husband?

The answer was NO.

Would a super-rich, super-beautiful woman suddenly ask a poor man she just met to marry her? There would be no after, let alone marriage.

I was sure that Choi Hye-na wouldn’t accept me.

So, I thought it would be more beneficial in the long run to accept Choi Yeong-ok’s request and incur a debt.

Huh? But what was this?

On the day of the blind date, I was trapped in an isolated gate, and after some twists and turns, I ended up sleeping with Choi Hye-na and even saving her life.

As a result, the Seongbuk Choi clan owed me an unpayable debt.

Looking at it this way, I could have been happy to have achieved my initial goal, but the real trouble happened afterward.

I had felt that Choi Hye-na’s gaze and attitude towards me were strange since I was hospitalized, but I never expected her to express her feelings so blatantly, saying, ‘I’m in love with you!’

But I couldn’t accept those feelings because I already had two lovely partners to take responsibility for.

And there would be more in the future.

Of course, it wasn’t that I was ignoring Iris and Cheon Yeo-hwa by trying to add them to my harem without their consent.

I was planning to tell them everything and ask for their understanding soon.

Naturally, it was uncertain whether they would both agree to the harem just because I asked for their understanding.

If they refused, I was willing to grant them any request except asking me to give up the other, but that didn’t apply to Choi Hye-na.

In the first place, Choi Hye-na wasn’t my woman. That night, we mixed bodies only as a process to save Choi Hye-na’s life.

At least for now.

“Really…”

I had two choices here.

“You really forgot…?”

To confess like a man and ask for her acceptance of the harem.

Or to push her away.

“…Do you remember what I said before? That I have two girlfriends.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Choi Hye-na’s eyes trembled pitifully.

“That, that wasn’t just a bluff…?”

When I looked at Choi Hye-na with a heavy gaze without any response, she finally realized that I was serious, and her expression quickly turned sour.

“…I’ll tell you in advance, I have no intention of giving up on them. No, I’ll have more in the future.”

In fact, Choi Hye-na was quite familiar with polygamy.

Some of her relatives had multiple wives, and among the upper class, there were fewer people with only one wife.

Nevertheless, as soon as she heard that Kang Hyeon-u had two more women she didn’t know about, her heart seemed to drop with a thud.

If she relaxed even a little, tears would have fallen immediately.

Her heart ached.

She felt suffocated, like she couldn’t breathe.

She hadn’t even confessed her feelings yet, but it felt like she was already rejected.

Of all people, Kang Hyeon-u.

Of all people, a pauper.

‘Who does he think he is, rejecting me…?’

Just as her resentment was about to explode, Choi Hye-na gritted her teeth and steeled her resolve.

Instead of crying pathetically, it was a hundred times better to think rationally, like a mage.

Should she just let Kang Hyeon-u go, who was shamelessly talking about having two other women and wanting to add more?

Choi Hye-na’s answer was NO.

“…Take responsibility.”

“What?”

Choi Hye-na decided to throw the biggest bluff of her life.

If it could hold Kang Hyeon-u, she didn’t care about the consequences.

“I’m pregnant, so take responsibility.”

“…?”

The bluff was successful.

Kang Hyeon-u complained of a severe headache, as if he was about to collapse.

‘Me, a father…?’

In fact, logically, Choi Hye-na couldn’t get pregnant. It wasn’t because she was infertile, but because upper-class individuals received a church blessing from birth, ensuring permanent contraception.

No matter how carefully managed, children were never entirely at their parents’ whim, so to prevent the misfortune of a child suddenly appearing, a permanent contraception blessing was placed when the child was just born, by paying a donation to the church.

The blessing was of the type that was automatically lifted when a wedding was held in the church.

This was such an old tradition in high society that everyone knew about it, but who was Kang Hyeon-u?

He was a commoner, a nobody who almost froze to death in a market corner on a winter day.

He had no idea about the ways of the upper class.

The only thing that flashed through Kang Hyeon-u’s mind was the thick semen he had deposited inside her without a condom.

‘…How many times did I…?’

Did anyone remember the number of rice grains they had eaten in their life?

Of course not.

Kang Hyeon-u also had no way of remembering how many times he had irresponsibly ejaculated.

That irresponsibility was about to come back to him as a heavy burden.

Kang Hyeon-u suddenly remembered the advice his high school language teacher had given him.

-You monkey bastards! Listen up! Since ancient times, men! If you can’t control your mouth and your lower body, your life is over! Got it?!

‘Ah, I miss you, teacher…’

While all sorts of thoughts were swirling in Kang Hyeon-u’s head, Choi Hye-na was smiling.

All the worries she had felt were rewarded by Kang Hyeon-u’s flustered expression.

Choi Hye-na quickly formulated a plan.

Of course, the pregnancy was just a bluff, but nothing was ever true from the beginning.

Just like magic was once a lie of swindlers, she could make her bluff come true in the future.

The period when pregnancy became visible was about 16 weeks.

Adding magic as an excuse, she could maintain the bluff for up to 5 months.

‘…If I lift the church blessing in the meantime.’

It could be pregnancy day 1, not month 5.

In fact, Choi Hye-na didn’t intend to play it this way at first.

She planned to continue meeting him step by step, confirm their feelings for each other, and then have him confess to her.

But knowing he had two other women, she couldn’t sit still any longer.

She remembered her grandmother’s advice from childhood: a man with no sense of self-control in his lower body had to be firmly grasped from the start.

‘I can earn money myself.’

Kang Hyeon-u’s eyes trembled violently, as if an earthquake had struck, now that he was suddenly responsible for a woman with a phantom pregnancy.

The faces of Iris and Cheon Yeo-hwa, whom he had temporarily left in another world, flashed through his mind, and at that moment, a small salvation arrived.

Knock knock-

-Lady, the mistress has called for you.

“Tch.”

At the maid’s voice from beyond the door, Choi Hye-na clicked her tongue and stepped back.

Only then could I breathe a sigh of relief.

“Lucky you?”

“…”

Choi Hye-na had a faint smile on her lips as she said that, but her eyes were colder than ever.

Was this how the neighbor’s dog, about to be neutered, felt?

I kept my miserable feelings deep inside and followed Choi Hye-na to what looked like a reception room.

“Oh my, did Hye-na give you a tour of the mansion?”

Unlike Choi Yeong-ok, who looked at us entering with a pleased expression, I was in agony.

What would she say if I told her I got her only granddaughter pregnant?

Would she be furious and try to kill me, or would she have us married tonight? No one knew.

“Sorry to interrupt your good time.”

“…It’s nothing.”

Poke- Choi Hye-na, sitting next to me, poked my side with her finger.

What answer did she want that she was expressing her dissatisfaction again?

“It’s not that, I called you to repay you for saving our granddaughter this time.”

“Ah, about that…”

“The orphanage, right? I heard about it from Hye-na in advance, and we’ve already taken care of it.”

“…Yes?”

Surprised by the unexpected words, I glanced at Choi Hye-na.

Choi Hye-na was smiling and mouthing something.

‘My… own…?’

At that moment, I almost burst out laughing.

How could a person’s personality change so drastically? Or maybe this was her original personality.

“You can hear the details from Hye-na later.”

“Thank you.”

I bowed my head sincerely.

“You don’t have to thank us. This isn’t the reward we promised. Besides, we owe you an unpayable debt. A very big debt that can’t be repaid with anything.”

Choi Yeong-ok’s gaze briefly turned to Choi Hye-na.

The gaze was so gentle that it momentarily reminded me of the orphanage’s nun.

“Even if we give you a huge reward, you shouldn’t thank us. We should be the ones saying thank you. And we have no intention of just compensating you with a building and the safety of the orphanage people?”

Choi Yeong-ok snapped her fingers, and a maid who entered through the door placed a rather large box on the table.

“You said to Hye-na that you needed magical equipment, right?”

At Choi Yeong-ok’s gentle invitation to open the box, I didn’t refuse and carefully opened it.

I couldn’t believe what I saw inside the box.

“This is our sincerity and expression of gratitude.”