episode_0178

Knock knock knock!

“What is this? Why is the room like this?”

“Um… …I think it’s because I didn’t clean it?”

Shigure, who had been coughing continuously due to inhaling a lot of dust, looked at Doyujin with a look of disbelief and said.

“Same place… … Isn’t this your room?”

“Is that right?”

“But what’s your reaction? You’re the owner.”

“That’s true, but… …I don’t live here either,”

Do Yu-jin said, wiping away the dust on the desk with her fingers.

“To be honest, it’s been a really long time since I’ve been in this room.”

“Huh? If you don’t use the dorm room, where do you usually stay?”

“Are you staying in the dormitory that Erio received? It’s almost as big as a mansion.”

When Shigure heard those words, he flinched and blushed.

“You, you two are already living together? Of course, I thought you weren’t normal people when I saw you from the side… … ”

“If we live together, we live together, but it’s quite different from what you think of as living together… … ”

Do Yu-jin’s words gradually became vague.

In the past, there was a clear line between men and women, but recently, that is no longer the case. I realized this while talking.

To be honest, these days, she didn’t really care if Erio licked her cheek or had his fingers in her mouth.

“What, why did you stop talking?”

“Nothing.”

“No, no matter how I look at it, it’s not an expression of nothing… … ”

“I said it was nothing.”

Do Yu-jin said, wiping the dust off her fingers.

“Now that you’re done, bring some cleaning supplies from outside. I think I’ll be coming here quite often from now on, so do some light cleaning while I recover my magic power. ”

“Tsk, lethally.”

Shigure grumbled like that, but he obediently went outside and brought something like a broom.

Fortunately, the cleaning was done fairly quickly as the only problem was dust build-up.

“Then my face will be pierced.”

“What, what are you talking about? I wasn’t looking?!”

Kkomjirag-

“No, I think I was looking at it a little bit… … ?”

Well, it would have ended sooner if Shigure hadn’t been distracted by Doyujin’s face.

‘But that part can’t be helped. Whether it’s a man or a woman, it’s natural to look at a handsome person.’

Do Yu-jin asked quietly, thinking that if someone else heard it, it would be unlucky and the story would turn upside down.

“So what? Have you thought about the suggestion I made yesterday?”

“Yeah.”

Shigure, who had been covering her face with a mask like a shy girl, spoke in a firm voice as if nothing had happened.

“I’ll accept it.”

Doyujin stared into Shigure’s eyes, which were filled with a firm determination, and then quietly took out a piece of paper and a pen from inside her arms.

The pen was an ordinary pen, but the paper was not.

Because most of the points I earned from dealing with Demon Shards in Japan were invested into the Oath Contract, the Geas Roll.

“As I explained yesterday, I can’t trust you.”

It’s not like Do Yu-jin only had a small talk with Shigure yesterday.

Rather, it was just a facade, and the truth was behind it.

“By the way, it’s not that you did anything wrong. It’s just that my personality is a bit twisted to begin with.”

“Yeah, that’s what I’ve been feeling so far.”

“So if you plan on staying under me, you should write your name here… … Wait!”

Do Yu-jin stopped what she was saying and grabbed Shigure.

Even before Doyujin had finished speaking, Shigure was already writing his name on the Gears roll.

“Hey, are you out of your mind? What if I wrote a slave contract here… … !”

“Well, I guess I’ll just have to accept it.”

“What?”

Do Yu-jin felt speechless for the first time in a long time at Shigure’s incomparably calm answer.

“I know what you’re thinking, but I don’t care,”

Ps …

“No, I’ve already said it several times, right?”

Shigure looked straight into Doyujin’s eyes and said.

“I will be your subordinate, your tool, your slave, to help you and follow you around.”

Shhh-

“If you think about it that way, isn’t it actually an advantage? The treatment doesn’t really change, but I can gain your trust by just using your name once.”

“I said it yesterday, but this isn’t that light… … ”

“No, it’s light for me. There… … ”

Shigure said with a broad smile and a hint of playfulness in his voice.

“From what I’ve seen so far, I feel like you’re not such a bad guy.”

Do Yu-jin said in disbelief when she heard that.

“No, how many times have you seen me before you say something like that?”

“It doesn’t necessarily take a long time to understand people.”

As he said that, Shigure looked a little awkward and turned his gaze elsewhere.

Do Yu-jin silently watched her mischievous appearance and then, as if tired, fell down on the bed and laid his butt on it.

Gulp-

Shigure swallowed without realizing it because his appearance was so erotic, like a woman sitting on the bed tempting him to sleep.

“Then tell me honestly before signing the contract.”

Do Yu-jin rested her chin on her palm and said.

“Why on earth are you sticking to me like a leech and not letting go?”

“Leech, that’s harsh.”

Shigure grumbled slightly, but did not avoid answering.

She knew that this moment would come someday.

“There’s someone I value more than my life, and I feel like you’re the one with the best chance of saving him.”

“What, are you sick or something?”

“I don’t know either.”

Shigure said quietly, hugging his knees with both arms.

“I don’t know if I’m sick or cursed.”

“But you want me to save that kid?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

The moment he heard her foolish answer, Do Yu-jin unconsciously raised his head and looked up at the ceiling.

How much time has passed like that?

Do Yu-jin opened her mouth quietly and said.

“Are you serious about everything you said a moment ago?”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

“It means that you can sign without looking at the contract.”

Bam-

“To be exact, I meant that you would become my subordinate, my tool, my slave, and do whatever I ask of you.”

Shigure couldn’t understand why Doyujin was looking at him now and bringing up that story.

But still, I could know one thing.

This is the moment when the man who had been avoiding and running away from me for the first time looks back at me.

“Of course.”

So Shigure quickly shouted in a firm voice.

“Sigh… … ”

Do Yu-jin sighed lightly as she looked at the sight, as she always did.

After that short Q&A.

Swish-

Do Yu-jin quietly retrieved the Gears Roll that was on the table.

Shigure looked puzzled as he saw that sight.

However, Do Yu-jin ignored him and activated the [Production] function of the [Shop], then invested all the points he had and began to raise the performance of the Gears Role by layering on the restrictions that limited the targets who could use it to those two, but raised the performance by one level.

As meticulously and thoroughly as if laying the foundation of a large building.

After a long time if it’s long or a short time if it’s short, it’s time has passed.

Swish-

Doyujin once again offered Shigure a gear roll.

“This is your last chance. If the determination I mentioned earlier… … ”

“Is it okay to write the name anywhere?”

Do Yu-jin sighed as if she had expected Shigure to ask a question before he could finish speaking, and nodded.

Ss …

“Is this okay?”

After finishing signing, Shigure looked around.

“It doesn’t seem like anything has changed… … Huh?!”

Shigure, who was speaking, suddenly touched his neck.

“Why all of a sudden?”

“No… …I feel like something is filling my throat right now… … ”

Shigure tilted his head as he kept touching his neck but couldn’t feel anything.

But Do Yu-jin knew very well that it wasn’t just a feeling.

That would be the case, because Do Yu-jin could see it just now.

Crackle-

The long iron chain connecting Shigure’s neck and his wrist.

Now, no matter how much he wanted to, Shigure was unable to do anything that could cause physical or mental harm to Doyujin.

Literally becoming a living tool and subordinate to Do Yu-jin.

‘So I should be happy that I have a reliable and useful power in my hands… … but somehow I don’t feel like that.’

Do Yu-jin looked back and forth between Shigure’s neck and her own hands for a moment before looking away.

Actually, this isn’t what’s important right now.

“Now that you’re done touching my neck, focus.”

Shigure looked puzzled by the sudden order, but quietly closed his eyes.

Do Yu-jin quietly looked at her like that.

Gears is an absolute oath that even the gods cannot break, and Gears Rolls are oath-paper containing fragments of that Gears.

Of course, since it was only a fragment, the power and performance of the Gears Roll were incomparably weaker than the original Gears.

But just a moment ago, Doyujin raised the power of the Gears Roll to a similar level as the original Gears by adding numerous conditions and restrictions.

So what is the difference between Gears and Gears Role?

It was simple.

The strength of the contract.

The oath made with Gears, unlike the oath made with Gears Role, connected the relationship between the two very, very strongly and closely.

Yes, for example, the power of Doyujin in the upper position can be transmitted to Shigure in the lower position by using the chain as a passage.

In other words, Shigure didn’t know it, but what she had just entered into wasn’t some kind of slave contract.

The world’s most fair and yet unfair contract, where you can borrow everything from the other party by giving everything you have.

“Huh? What is it? I feel like something hazy is flowing inside my body… … ”

“Hmm, it looks like there’s only one I can use right now. Well, I guess it’ll get better with time.”

“Huh? What does that mean?”

“What are you talking about?”

The Apostolic Covenant was the very identity of the contract she had just entered into.