Episode 132. Festival (3)

“Uh, uh… magic?”

“Yeah. You suddenly got incredibly strong yesterday, remember?”

I don’t plan on scolding you now about why that happened. Between us, what’s there to say?

I’m just curious about the magic that had enough power to break free from the contract.

“To be honest, um….”

Liliana put the takoyaki she picked up with a toothpick back into the bowl and scratched her cheek.

“I don’t really know either.”

“You don’t know?”

“It’s just that at some point… I couldn’t control my lust. So I was suffering, and then you came in, and I instinctively just went for it….”

“Hmm… you don’t remember the horns and wings that grew then, either?”

“I grew horns and wings?”

“Yeah. They were incredibly cool.”

“Huk. I should’ve taken a picture.”

Since Liliana doesn’t know either… what should I do? I can’t exactly take her to Professor Im Sol for an examination.

Of course, it’s something I could just let slide, but the problem is I’m worried she might cause trouble in a situation I can’t cover for.

“Now that I think about it, Mom always told me to be careful around men.”

“Tell me more about that.”

Liliana just dropped what looked like a major plot hook.

A story about her hidden origins would probably come out now.

I prepared myself to listen intently.

“Um… she actually said a lot of things, but I was playing a game and wasn’t really listening, so that’s all I remember.”

“Wow.”

What a degenerate bitch.

Come to think of it, Liliana had quite a high score in the heroine system.

There’s definitely something more to her. I should investigate if I get the chance.

Of course, I don’t know how. I mean, if the opportunity arises.

“Forget it. Let’s just eat takoyaki.”

“Aight.”

Nom.

Liliana herself, seemingly unaware of her actions, was eating takoyaki without a second thought.

I ignored Liliana eating takoyaki next to me and surveyed the other students enjoying the festival.

Night was slowly falling.

The first-year students, having recovered from the survival exam, were also gradually coming out to enjoy the festival.

Even if they were eliminated early, being cooped up in cramped dorm rooms for days must have been quite tough.

‘Peaceful.’

The current ‘Mind’ group, Pandemic, is quiet.

They’ll probably start their next terror attack soon, but there’s no sign of it.

Of course, terror attacks happen suddenly without warning.

In the original work, depending on the route, terror attacks often occur around the third or fourth day of the festival.

So I need to keep a close eye on the festival starting from the third day.

“Liliana. Is there anything else you want to eat? I’ll be busy starting tomorrow, so you’ll have to wait a bit if you want me to hang out. Let’s do everything you want to do today.”

“Um, then… should we go back to the dorm?”

“Why? Already?”

Of course, more first-year students are coming out, so if we go back early, I’m all for it.

“… Just because?”

Liliana mumbled, poking at her takoyaki, and lowered her head.

“… Okay, let’s go.”

I could tell just by looking at her face now.

Sigh, alright. Let’s see who wins tonight.

*

“Aagh….”

I’m in pain right from the morning.

My back seriously fucking hurts.

On top of that, I overdid it yesterday after having my vital energy drained.

As soon as the survival exam ended, Liliana grabbed me, and we had sex all night. Of course, I took the lead later on, but it was still exhausting.

After that, I sparred with the vice president, collapsed into bed when I got back to the dorm, and as soon as I woke up, I played with Liliana before giving her another taste of my cock.

Liliana seemed to have enjoyed last night; she was sleeping next to me with a smile on her face.

I playfully poked her flattened chest before stretching and getting out of bed.

“No matter how I think about it, that warning was definitely meant for men.”

Liliana’s mother must have sensed that lust beforehand.

Maybe she wasn’t telling Liliana to be careful around men, but telling the men who meet Liliana to be careful?

Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense.

“Tsk. Let’s just wash my face.”

It was already lunchtime.

Soon, it would be time to meet the Lucy and Lumi twins.

I splashed water on my face, shaking off my stiff body.

I was glad I ate the elf’s essence. Otherwise, I don’t think I could have even woken up today.

Leaving the sleeping Liliana behind, I went outside.

We agreed to meet at the central fountain, so I should take my time walking there.

It was still noisy outside.

Since it’s a festival to relieve the stress of the exam, the atmosphere will be like this all week.

“Tomorrow I have to see Professor Im Sol… and I need to see Ahyoung-ssi too. Surin noona as well, and maybe Alice will contact me… Aagh. My head hurts.”

I don’t know why I have so much to do.

To focus on today’s tasks, I headed quickly towards the central fountain.

The clubs had set up booths to sell things, but nothing looked particularly appetizing.

“Hi hi.”

When I arrived at the central fountain, the Lucy and Lumi twins were already there.

“Hello, Hoyeon-ssi.”

“… Hi.”

I greeted the Lucy and Lumi twins energetically, hoping to lift my spirits, but Lucy’s reaction was less than enthusiastic.

Why is she acting like this?

★ Heroine Status Window

[Lucy]

• [ Affection: 88 ]

• [ Lust: 40 ]

• [ Appetite: 60 ]

• [ Fatigue: 55 ]

Current State: Are we perhaps a bother to Hoyeon….

‘…?’

Why is she acting like this now?

It would be nice if the status window showed entire thoughts, but since I can only see the immediate thought, it’s quite inconvenient.

“What should we do today?”

I wish they had come up with some fun ideas, but I was too busy enjoying sex with Liliana to prepare anything.

“I, I’d like to go to the arcade.”

“Arcade sounds good.”

I saw earlier that the game club or something had set up a lot, so we can go there.

“….”

Lucy still had a sour look on her face.

She seems a little sulky.

“Lucy, is something wrong? You seem down.”

“… Is it okay to hang out with us? What if your girlfriend finds out.”

“…?”

“Hic!”

At Lucy’s bombshell statement, Lumi covered her mouth with her hand.

She looked at me with wide eyes, clearly shocked.

And I was even more surprised. What the hell is she talking about?

“No, what are you talking about? I don’t have a girlfriend?”

I quickly racked my brain, wondering what she could possibly be referring to.

Thinking hard, there was only one possibility.

She wasn’t acting like this during the survival exam. That means she must have seen me with Liliana last night.

Seriously, aren’t you tired? Couldn’t you have taken a day off?

Still, it wasn’t true, so I decided to stand my ground.

“B-but yesterday….”

“The person you saw yesterday is a senior related to the student council. They went through a lot because of me yesterday, so I bought them some food.”

It was a lie I made up on the spot, but it’s fine.

Since I mentioned they were a senior related to the student council just in case, I have an excuse if they come looking for me at the student council office.

“Oh, aha… I misunderstood… Sorry.”

Lucy blushed and lowered her head.

She seemed relieved that I didn’t have a girlfriend, judging by her slight smile.

“Hic… I, I didn’t believe it from the start. Hic.”

Lumi was so shocked that she couldn’t stop hiccuping.

“I was surprised too. Hey. You should have asked first.”

“Sorry….”

Lucy apologized to me for misunderstanding the situation on her own.

“No, it’s okay.”

‘What should I do about her….’

Her sudden statement caught me off guard.

Lucy is in a rather awkward situation.

It would be fine if I made her completely mine like Liliana, but it’s hard to manage relationships with other girls while the conquest isn’t finished.

Given Lucy’s personality, she moves around a lot and talks to her friends frequently, so I suspect misunderstandings like this will happen again.

Although, it’s not really a misunderstanding.

‘I need to keep looking for opportunities.’

Lucy will definitely get her chance for conquest too.

It would be best if I could do it with Lumi too, but let’s not get too greedy.

“So, shall we head to the game club? It looked fun.”

“Let’s go, let’s go!”

“Sounds good.”

Today, I’ll enjoy the festival with the Lucy and Lumi twins.

*

“Tsk, Kkhh. Kekeke.”

A spacious room within a huge mansion.

A man sat at a luxurious desk, tearing at his hair.

“The disgrace of the third years? Fine. Let’s see who this disgrace is.”

Shin Dongmin, reading hateful comments about himself on his smartwatch, scattered all the books on his desk onto the floor with his disheveled hair.

“I’ll kill them all. Everyone….”

“You worthless piece of shit.”

But suddenly, a middle-aged man stood behind the now-bowed Shin Dongmin.

“Ah, Father….”

“Are you saying you’re not only tarnishing the Shinyoung Guild’s reputation by losing to a first-year, but you’re also crumbling over something like this?”

It was Shin Dongmin’s father, the strongest member of the Shinyoung Guild, who had come in person.

The Shinyoung Guild Master looked down at his son with cold eyes.

“I’m sorry… Father.”

Thump. Thump.

The middle-aged man approached Shin Dongmin, grabbed his face with his hand, and forced it up.

His hollow eyes were dirty and wretched, but a burning flame remained.

The flame of ‘desire’.

“Everyone fails. It’s certainly hard when it’s your first failure in life. But get up. Shinyoung is behind you.”

Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.

“Father, this is…?”

Shin Dongmin looked through the documents his father gave him one by one.

“These are all people who will become your strength. You must restore the guild’s status that you dropped.”

“Father…!”

“Never collapse… You are my son. You can succeed no matter what.”

“Yes, somehow. By any means necessary… I will get my revenge…!”

Shin Dongmin clenched his fist while looking at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man nodded and left the room.

Returning to his room after walking down the hallway, the Shinyoung Guild Master sat at his desk and bowed his head.

“Sigh… How did he turn into that kind of child?”

Where did the bright child he once was go, replaced by such a wretched monster?

But as a father, he couldn’t give up on his child. He knew he was going down the wrong path, but he had no choice but to embrace him.

“Dongmin-ah… Please get up again.”

The Shinyoung Guild Master clasped his hands and prayed to God, wherever He might be.

Meanwhile, Shin Dongmin smirked as he examined the documents his father had given him.

“I will never collapse like this….”

Shin Dongmin, his anger slightly subsided, slowly reviewed the situation.

Then he recalled what Lee Hoyeon had said at the end.

[If I win, you said you’d do anything for me, right? Don’t ever approach the Chairman again. If I catch you next time, I’ll really kill you.]

“Tsk. Right. That’s what happened. From the beginning… it was planned from the beginning! You ignored my feelings and gave your body to that bastard? You slut!”

CRASH!

A magic-infused fist slammed down on the desk, splitting it in two.

Shin Dongmin panted heavily, biting his lip.

“It’s all her fault… Moon Surin.”

This whole situation happened because of Moon Surin in the first place. If that woman had just accepted my feelings, none of this would have happened.

I wouldn’t have had to fight Lee Hoyeon. Actually, Lee Hoyeon wouldn’t even have joined the student council. He was brought in because of her recommendation.

‘I’ll make you feel the pain I’ve endured.’

Blinded by ugly jealousy, Shin Dongmin, still unable to regain his senses, planned his revenge with his father’s power.