episode_0166

Lee Seo-ssi knelt with her head bowed, and Cheon Soyul stood dumbfounded.

It wasn’t that I hadn’t expected such a situation.

I had explained the situation thoroughly, and Cheon Soyul did understand the reasons why Lee Seo-ssi and I had no other choice, but…

Could that truly lead to emotional forgiveness? I thought it wouldn’t be easy.

Anyway, Cheon Soyul was generally tolerant… for instance, Baek Ayun or Ryu Seeun.

Or rather, wasn’t she a completely new person, not even a case like Hong Yeonhwa?

I thought her mood might have improved somewhat from the passionate night before, but if Lee Seo-ssi was going to be this direct, then things would be different.

I subtly glanced at Cheon Soyul’s profile, filled with worry and anxiety, wondering if she might show an extremely cold reaction.

‘…Hm?’

Soon, I was flustered by how ordinary her expression was, completely different from what I’d expected.

She wasn’t angry, nor was she suppressing her emotions, nor even displaying any complexity.

“Hmm…?”

She merely twirled a strand of her hair gently with one hand and tilted her head meaningfully.

Soon, Cheon Soyul smiled faintly, as if she had no intention of being angry at Lee Seo-ssi.

Was it a final smile before erupting with agitated emotions? No, it wasn’t. Cheon Soyul grunted and squatted down in place.

She tightly clasped Lee Seo-ssi’s hand, who was still kneeling like a sinner.

“So-Soyul-yang?”

At that touch, Lee Seo-ssi hunched her shoulders, seemingly quite tense.

Cheon Soyul, however, simply exerted strength as if trying to help her up.

“Hmph.”

“…”

“Huuuup…!”

The problem, however, was a lack of strength. Cheon Soyul, hitting the limits of her physical strength, seemed to try her best, pulling her arms straight, but…

“Ah, oh, um.”

It was impossible to lift Lee Seo-ssi. Lee Seo-ssi herself was a melee combatant, and she was genuinely kneeling very seriously.

But she was also someone who could read the mood… Lee Seo-ssi glanced around cautiously and slowly stood up. By herself, of course.

“Ah.”

At her rising, Cheon Soyul stumbled for a moment, but then breathed out a “whoosh.” And wiping away sweat, she seemed to have exerted herself quite a bit.

As expected, a magic-user was still a magic-user.

‘Useless.’

It was around then that I thought to myself, ‘Did I really lose to someone like her?’

“Ahem…!”

Cheon Soyul cleared her throat, her face flushed as if slightly embarrassed.

And then she looked at Lee Seo-ssi.

“I’m fine, Lee Seo-ssi.”

Not a trace of hostility was visible in her eyes. As if genuinely unconcerned, Cheon Soyul offered a broad smile.

“It was a unique situation, wasn’t it? I know you had no other choice…”

It felt quite playful, almost revealing a sense of leisure.

With such a smile on her face, Cheon Soyul calmly continued speaking.

“Anyway, Lee Hyunjin, this bastard, is a playboy by nature. Even if something like this happened now, I really don’t care.”

Saying so, Cheon Soyul poked my side with her fingertip.

I flinched slightly, then had to endure her mischievous gaze.

“Isn’t that right, Hyunjin-ah?”

“…”

What was she expecting me to answer? It just felt like neither ‘yes’ nor ‘no’ would be a good response.

Anyway, as if my answer wasn’t important, Cheon Soyul turned her head back.

Lee Seo-ssi still seemed to carry a considerable amount of guilt and indebtedness.

As if Cheon Soyul also noticed this, she waved her hand again.

“I’m really fine, truly. You don’t need to think of my relationship with this guy as similar to other fiancées.”

It is quite abnormal… Lee Seo-ssi’s gaze, as she looked at me who was thinking such thoughts, was truly difficult to describe.

It was a look that seemed to ask, ‘Just how awful has his track record with women been to make his fiancée adopt such a mindset?’

Though I felt wronged inside, I couldn’t actually feel wronged.

Because it was the truth.

‘Even I think I’m a scoundrel.’

If I hadn’t possessed awakened abilities comparable to S-rank, I might have been dragged to some back mountain somewhere and chopped into pieces long ago.

Even optimistically, I would have been caught by multiple women and faced a terrifying fate.

Overcoming all those adverse conditions and maintaining such a precarious relationship with the opposite sex, perhaps I, this guy, am quite remarkable from a certain perspective?

It was a thought I couldn’t possibly voice, for fear of being stoned.

“Hmm, mm. But…”

In any case, Lee Seo-ssi still seemed unable to let go of her burden, even after Cheon Soyul’s words.

Perhaps it was because her personality itself was very meticulous and thorough in such matters.

“I’m telling you, I’m really fine.”

Cheon Soyul, for her part, repeatedly said the same words with an awkward expression.

I’m fine, no problem, I don’t care.

“…I’m sorry.”

However, Lee Seo-ssi remained consistent. She kept bowing repeatedly towards Cheon Soyul, wearing a downcast expression like a small dog.

Cheon Soyul waved her hand frantically, looking utterly flustered.

“No, you don’t need to apologize…?”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

“Ah, um.”

Finally, Cheon Soyul put a hand to her forehead. Wearing an expression that clearly showed she had misjudged Lee Seo-ssi’s unbending personality, she scratched her cheek and fell silent.

“Ah.”

Soon, a lightbulb-shaped effect appeared above her head as she pondered.

And with a bright expression, she grabbed Lee Seo-ssi’s wrist.

“Come here, Lee Seo-ssi.”

“Yes, yes?”

Soon, she shot me a look telling me not to follow, then dragged Lee Seo-ssi away somewhere far off.

It wasn’t impossible to eavesdrop if I enhanced my hearing with mana, but…

I decided not to go that far and waited for a moment.

“…”

“…”

“…!?”

“…!”

“…!!?”

Far off, Cheon Soyul whispered something to Lee Seo-ssi, and Lee Seo-ssi’s face turned beet red in horror. What kind of conversation are they having?

I was dumbfounded but somehow curious, and just as I was about to consider eavesdropping again…

“…!!!”

Lee Seo-ssi covered her face with both hands and fled.

Her reaction was as if she had heard something utterly unspeakable.

At that, Cheon Soyul wore a slightly surprised expression, then soon smacked her lips as if saying, ‘Well, can’t be helped~’ and put her hands on her hips.

‘…What was it? What did she say?’

It was the moment I couldn’t genuinely contain my curiosity and opened and closed my lips. Cheon Soyul turned her head, chuckled, and returned.

“Curious about what we talked about?”

“A little, maybe?”

I nodded and replied, and Cheon Soyul gestured to me.

At that gesture, indicating me to come closer, I leaned my ear towards her.

“…I told her I’m truly fine, so since things are this way, why don’t we just include Seeun-hubae-nim and have a 4P? Then she suddenly ran away.”

“?”

A response that far exceeded my imagination came back. For a moment, I blinked stupidly, then soon tapped my own temple. Tap tap.

It was because I wondered if I had heard correctly. What, what kind of play?

“…Soyul-ssi?”

“You heard right.”

“Huh?”

Cheon Soyul smiled refreshingly. In that smile, an additional ’emotion’ resided, quite different from before.

Her cheeks were subtly flushed, her pupils held a feverish glow, and her gaze upon me was strangely alluring.

Cheon Soyul continued speaking.

“You know what? Honestly, I’ve been really anxious lately… since you’ve been seducing so many women, well.”

“…”

“But now it’s fine. Because I confirmed it clearly yesterday.”

I swallowed dryly and asked back.

“Confirmed what…?”

And then came her immediate reply.

Cheon Soyul grinned.

“In the end, the ‘first time’ never changes, right?”

“…Huh?”

“The first woman you had sex with was me.”

“…”

“The first woman you confessed to was me. The first woman you got engaged to was me. The one who finished the family meeting with you was me…”

“…”

“…And the first woman you should impregnate is me.”

I couldn’t quite process my mind, which had gone blank, and wore a dazed expression, but Cheon Soyul didn’t care and punched my stomach.

Thump.

And what she said was this.

“Remember this. As long as you marry me, even if you seduce a hundred women, I can gladly accept that too.”

“…Huh?”

“Shall I bring Ayun next time? It’s fine if you two do it in front of me. Kissing, penetration… I think everything’s okay now. Oh, and of course, I’ll be satisfied with masturbating in the corner.”

I felt my vision rapidly spin.

Is this what extreme motion sickness feels like?

It was an unfathomable situation. As I watched Cheon Soyul lovingly caress her own stomach, which I had thoroughly ‘dirtied’ last night…

‘I’m screwed.’

I simply looked up at the sky with a look of despair.

My wife-nim is a bit too strange.