Chapter 78 : Ah, I want to be a hero (2)

“By the way, Janghoon, don’t you have something to say to me?”

“…? Me?”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

Now fully recovered, Carmilla said she could be discharged tomorrow.

So, with a joyful heart, I was making plans to grab a meal together once she’s discharged, when the suspicious-eyed Miss Hoshino intervened between us.

“Are you going to keep pretending you don’t know?”

“Pretend I don’t know?”

“I’m talking about Carmilla’s ‘sidekick’! Janghoon, I hear you’re introducing yourself that way based on the rumors going around!”

“?!”

“Aha! So that’s what this is about?”

Ah, right.

Now that I think about it, I’ve been telling a lot of ‘lies’ recently.

There have been so many big incidents that I forgot about it.

But Miss Hoshino, who seemed to know all about it, made eye contact with me and looked extremely sensitive with her eyes wide open like a beast.

“The rumors… are they false?”

“Oh, of course…”

“No, they are not false.”

As a civilian, I couldn’t freely enter places only accessible to heroes.

I had only borrowed the name for curiosity’s sake.

I tried to calm down the growing tension by explaining this to Miss Hoshino.

However, before I could speak further, Carmilla interrupted, agreeing with me on her own.

“!!”

She didn’t stop there. She slid her arm through mine between her ample breasts hidden by the qipao.

She deliberately crossed her arms and openly provoked Miss Hoshino.

“Hehe. I don’t think you knew, but the story’s almost over now.”

“Story…
It’s over?”

“Yes! Janghoon, remember when we went on a date in G City last time? You even said you’d consider becoming my sidekick after graduating from university!”

“No, I just said I was thinking about it…”

“You shouldn’t even be thinking about it!”

I realized that I shouldn’t have spoken carelessly.

If I had stayed silent, half of it would have been over.

I could clearly understand the true meaning of that proverb now.

I had been talking so much that I was now in a 5-to-5 situation where I was about to be torn apart.

Unable to hold herself back, Miss Hoshino crossed her arms on my other side, the arm Carmilla hadn’t grabbed.

She shoved my left arm between her soft breasts and, looking furious, bared her fangs.

“Besides, G City?! Isn’t that a tourist spot? Why would you go there with him?”

“Exactly, I told you, we ‘went on a date.’”

“Ahhhhh! Hey, Janghoon! Is that true? You went on a date with someone like that without my permission?”

“Yeah, it was so ‘moist’ that it was worth it, feeding them abalone and eel for once.”

“Wh-what?! W-what? Wait, did you just say ‘moist’?”

Hmm, it really was moist.

The place we went to find monsters for a week was an aquarium.

We ate a lot of abalone and eel.

We had to survive on fish all day long, from morning to night, in an underground place.

Anyone who knows a little bit about our situation could quickly tell that these were just empty words.

But Miss Hoshino, who had no clue about our situation, couldn’t tell.

“You, you two… How far did you go?”

“Want to know? Then, choose whether you want to hear about the front or the back first.”

“?!!?!?! Oh, oh no, both front and back…?”

“No! Miss Hoshino, it’s a misunderstanding! Carmilla, stop lying!”

“Ohhohoho!”

When her nerves were on edge, Miss Hoshino, now in a state of complete despair, began crying, her face streaked with tears and snot.

Meanwhile, Carmilla, who was on the other side, just laughed gleefully.

“Janghoon’s bad! He’s a very bad man!”

“No, it’s a misunderstanding, Miss Hoshino…”

“When I was in heat, you only allowed me to do ‘just kissing,’ right?! But why with him, you allowed everything?!”

“…?! W-what? Wait… just kissing?”

Did she lose her composure?

Oh, right.

I had asked her to keep that a secret because I was embarrassed.

But now, she was spilling everything, including the embarrassing moments, and if I said more, this might end up as my black history.

I carefully pulled my arm out of Carmilla’s grip and gently rubbed Miss Hoshino’s face with both hands, trying to calm her down.

But…

“Ugh… Sniff!”

“?!”
Why are you crying again?

“Janghoon, you said I was the only one at the food stall, right?”

“Uh, yeah?”

“And with Miss Hoshino… wasn’t it just a close business relationship?!”

“Ah, well, yes, it was… a business relationship.”

It was a business… relationship.

Since I was hired, it was technically a business relationship, right?

It was just a business relationship, but we were so close that, once we became adults, we ended up playing with fire a little.

But I didn’t expect it to go this far, and now Miss Hoshino was outing herself, as she smiled victoriously.

Carmilla was also a loser now.

“Y-yeah! It was definitely forced, right? Right? You did it because they paid you, didn’t you?!”

“Hmm? Well, it wasn’t forced, but yes, I was paid…”

“?! Hey, Janghoon! Then, what are we to each other? And didn’t you say it was okay as long as we didn’t do the actual thing?!”

“No, but honestly, I barely remember that time.”

Why did that silly thing start in the first place?
Going back to the beginning, it was when Miss Hoshino and I celebrated becoming adults by drinking heavily.

In a ‘sealed space’ within the Okami family, she kept pouring expensive liquor worth millions of dollars into my mouth.

Of course, I liked alcohol, so I kept drinking.

Then, Miss Hoshino took the golden toad and began undressing without letting me stop her.

“Ugh… Not that… Not the insertion… Ugh…”

“Tch! You still have your wits about you after eating that much?”

I squeezed out my last bit of strength to make sure I didn’t cross the ‘final line.’

Conclusion.

“No, wasn’t that completely one-sided assault?!”

Well, I didn’t mind since we were both feeling good, but Carmilla kept going as if she very much did.

“It was sexual assault! And an S-class hero at that, getting a drunken guy with money and then pouncing on him. That’s inappropriate!”

“Hey! …Even if I did pounce, all I did was suck, so it’s not that bad, right?”

“That’s! …Uh, is it?”

At that point… what do you mean “is it”? Hey.

That Carmilla. She’s always had a weird tendency to be persuaded by Miss Hoshino.

Then, as if she snapped out of it, she returned with a confident smile.

“Hehe. Anyway, I got it now.”

“Got what?”

“I think I was trying to approach this too ‘purely.’ If the other side crossed the line first, then I don’t need to be scared anymore.”

“…! Don’t tell me you’re thinking of sneaking into Yongchan’s dorm too?!”

“I’m not that reckless, okay?!”

Yeah, Carmilla.

Say what you want, just don’t barge into my dorm room.

Because I live there with my ‘trusted aide,’ who often wears nothing but an oversized shirt and no underwear.

“Still, if Janghoon invites me… I’d love to sleep with him in the same bed.”

“Hey! I haven’t even done that! Who do you think you are, trying to sleep with Janghoon?! The bed’s small!”

“Then you can sleep somewhere else!”

Even if they argue like that, my bed is already claimed by Siljong.

Maybe because we sleep together every night…

There’s something oddly warm and cozy about it, and lately, I can’t sleep properly without her.

“At this rate, you’re going to say you want to shower together too!”

“Hmph! Of course! Because we’ve already been on a date!”

“I’ve done more than that!”

“If I had gotten him drunk, I could’ve done that too!”

I’m already sharing the bathroom with Siljong anyway.

As I watched from a distance, the two of them started a catfight, grabbing each other’s hair.

“Die!”

“You die!”

“Struggle all you want! I’ve already marked Janghoon’s lower half with my spit!”

“Then I’ll just cover it up with my own saliva!”

“Argh?! Do you have no sense of honor?!”

“Honor?! You seduced a man with booze and money! You don’t get to talk about honor! Besides, Janghoon said he’d become my sidekick once he graduates!”

“Oh right. Sidekick! I should’ve stopped that first!”

“Who said you could?!”

“His master said so!”

“You can’t even do anything without being drunk!”

“And you! Have you even tried sucking?!”

Clang clang clang.

Bang! Bang!

Crashhh.

Hair-pulling was just the beginning.

Eventually, they both pulled out their gear and entered full combat mode.

Throwing sparks at each other, the two S-class heroes instantly turned the VIP hospital room into a war zone.

“Janghoon! If you become my sidekick, I’ll take great care of you, so you better become my partner! Got it?”

“Shut up! Janghoon, don’t follow a woman like her! And if you want to be a sidekick or whatever, I’ll teach you myself! For the record, I’m ranked 11th among S-class heroes, and Carmilla is only 14th!”

“That ranking is thanks to your prestigious family!” Ugh.

“Shut it! Then you should’ve been born with a silver spoon too!”

This is insane.

At this rate, the other patients and doctors in the hospital would be affected too.

So I turned to the two ladies fighting over me and said,

“By the way, I had something to say about the whole hero thing.”

“Huh?”

“Huh?”

Originally, I was going to say this more carefully in a better setting.

But with things like this, I decided to drop a ‘shock therapy’ announcement to calm down both Miss Hoshino and Carmilla.

“I’m planning to take the upcoming hero exam.”

“…Huh?”

“…What?!”

“So I’ve decided to walk my own path. You both don’t need to help me~.”

So let’s all go our separate ways.