〈 Episode 153 〉 Where Should We Go?
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We didn’t answer and just chewed on our snacks while silently staring at Jeong Bia.
Lifting her head, Jeong Bia immediately began to explain to us.
“Ayeon was in a forced engagement before entering the Academy.”
We listened without saying anything.
Jeong Bia clenched her fists on her knees and spoke slowly.
“The condition to break the engagement was to beat us in this tournament.”
“You and that… fake chest? Was her name Spencer?”
“……The original promise was that if you beat Spencer, the daughter of the fiancé’s family, the engagement would be annulled.”
Jeong Bia suddenly showed anger.
“But those bastards broke the promise first! They were supposed to let Ayeon go!”
“So they came here to ask for our help.”
“Right.”
To sum up the situation roughly:
Mamma D. Spencer’s family had forcibly engaged Jeong Ayeon.
Jeong Ayeon set the condition of beating Spencer to break the engagement and actually won the tournament.
So, the engagement should have been nullified, but the other party broke that and forcibly took Jeong Ayeon away.
A bit of a question arose here.
“Who are they to be so reckless about marriage in this day and age?”
That’s right.
In this day and age, trying to force a marriage could get your head blown off by a shotgun.
[You should worry not! You wouldn’t die even if something hits your head!]
‘F*ck you.’
Then Jeong Bia spoke as if feeling a bit empty.
“They’re renowned wizards from another dimension.”
“Magic is bullshit. The real wizard is our Hyeji.”
Overwhelming destruction can be called magic.
Thus, a bunker buster also falls under magic (physical).
Suddenly feeling cheerful, Hyeji jumped up from her seat and shouted:
“It’s magic, so no dodging!”
“…How are you going to dodge a bunker buster?”
Meanwhile, Jeong Bia held her head and spoke somewhat seriously.
“First, if we just hold the wedding, they can recognize us as a real couple when they take us back to their dimension.”
“But hey, let me ask one thing.”
I suddenly changed the atmosphere and growled at Jeong Bia.
“You clearly said it was okay to fight Ayeon during that engagement, right?”
“……Yeah.”
“And this is the result? F*ck you?”
“I didn’t know they would go this far! Besides, they were said to be a good family!”
“Just because you didn’t know doesn’t mean it’s all fine, you piece of shit? Your younger sibling hated that so much?”
“……”
Jeong Bia hung her head in shame.
Without a doubt, Jeong Ayeon had struggled desperately to break this engagement.
Jeong Bia kept trying to break it down.
Anyway, since I couldn’t step in further on this part, I wrapped it up.
“You better apologize directly to Ayeon later. If not, I’ll kill you.”
“……Got it.”
It’s ultimately Jeong Bia’s responsibility.
With nothing more to touch, I returned to the main topic.
“So, before the wedding, you want us to rescue Ayeon?”
“That’s right.”
Jeong Bia looked at us with tearful eyes and earnestly said.
“Please. If this goes on, Ayeon will have to marry against her will.”
“Hey, but that guy flew away earlier. Do you know where he is?”
“I know the location.”
“Tell me.”
Jeong Bia suddenly stopped speaking.
After hesitating a bit, she brought up a slightly different story.
“I might be asking suddenly, but do you know about succubus?”
Succubus.
A kind of female demon that seduces men, a symbol of lust.
These days, it’s a common theme appearing in fantasy and web novels.
I calmly replied while looking at Jeong Bia.
“That’s f*cking stupid?”
“…….”
Jeong Bia’s eyes dimmed slightly.
The others also shared their thoughts on succubus.
“Master! If I see that bat bastard, I’ll kill him!”
“Those f*ckers with big tits.”
“Profane demons or what?”
Jeong Bia’s gaze grew darker.
“Hey, so why are we talking about succubus?”
“H…”
Jeong Bia sighed and continued speaking.
“It might be sudden, but Ayeon and I are the children of a succubus.”
“Really?”
“……No one seems that surprised?”
I made what I thought was a shocking declaration after some deliberation, but our indifferent reaction surprised Jeong Bia.
But there was no reason to be so shocked.
“I’m here, and there’s also a furry around, so adding a succubus is no big deal!”
“I’m a cat-eared girl!”
“Shinwoo, isn’t it weird to have such things in the first place?”
“……Please don’t keep touching our story’s identity.”
Our group had already crossed the line of normality.
A walking asymmetrical weapon. A coin-obsessed elf. A suspiciously wealthy cat beastman.
[In the end, you are the one who has strayed the most from normality.]
‘Shut up.’
Jeong Bia continued.
“The place where the succubi have settled is centered around my mother. That’s where it is.”
“So they’re having the wedding there?”
“Yeah. This time, unusually, the wedding is being held at the bride’s house.”
Ultimately, the destination was set.
To the place where the succubi stayed.
Then suddenly, I thought of Jeong Ayeon’s name.
“Hey, then does Ayeon’s name also mean she’s a child of a succubus, like Ayeon (Zinc)?”
“……That’s right.”
The name being an aphrodisiac was indeed a succubus-like naming choice.
[Then what would be the name of Jeong Bia?]
‘Not Gravia… that won’t do.’
Jeong Bia’s body looks quite feeble compared to Ayeon’s.
Of course, she was better off than Hyeji or Caressy.
“Die.”
“Go die, huh.”
Still, she lacked the qualifications to use the name Gravia.
Hyeji and Caressy’s intense stare pierced both sides of my neck.
Holding my shaky brain, I asked Jeong Bia.
“Then, what’s your real name? It doesn’t seem like Jeong Bia.”
“…….”
Jeong Bia pondered for a moment and then showed a face of determination.
Then she slowly opened her mouth and muttered painfully.
“Jeong Biagra (Viagra)…”
“What?”
‘This bastard is playing with names?’
[You truly look at yourself as an idiot.]
No way could such a name belong to a person.
Even a hundred times, I could accept the name being ‘Ayeon (Zinc),’ but ‘Biagra (Viagra)’ crossed way too many lines.
“Quit screwing around. So, the names of the other siblings would be like Sperm and Semen, huh? Keep the nonsense for moderation.”
“That’s right.”
“…….I’m going crazy.”
[…….]
Jeong Biagra, shortened to Jeong Bia.
Her family must have no boundaries.
No, the only lines there were probably the two lines floating on a pregnancy test.
This time, a bit of shock hit.
Regardless, Jeong Bia looked at me with earnest eyes.
“I’m sorry, it’s my fault. But I want to fix it now.”
“I’ve said it multiple times, but if you’re going to apologize, do it to Ayeon.”
“Got it……So can you help me?”
Honestly, the task at hand was to crash someone else’s wedding as an outsider.
Though I was close with Jeong Ayeon, compared to her fiancé, our relationship was pretty weak.
Given our positions, we didn’t have enough closeness to tear apart someone else’s wedding.
But.
“Let’s go crush everything. Wedding and all that nonsense.”
Marriage is when two pairs come together to build a new life.
In that process, there should be trust, understanding, and love for one another.
Not all marriages are like that in this world, but at least that’s how I see it.
Moreover, if someone I know is suffering from an unwanted marriage, I’m fully willing to destroy everything.
Plus, that guy from earlier who was pursuing me didn’t sit well with me.
That son of a bitch immediately started causing trouble instead of handing over money, so I was thinking of giving him a hefty dose of his own medicine.
I reached out my hand to Jeong Bia and said,
“You’re a piece of shit, but I’m doing this for my friend Jeong Ayeon.”
Jeong Bia looked surprised, as if she did not expect me to help her so willingly.
Then she smiled slightly and shook my hand in a handshake.
“Thank you; then I will now be your friend.”
It was the first time someone proposed friendship to me before I did.
Looking at Jeong Bia, I tenderly replied,
“No, I don’t need that.”
“Do you want to die from the curse of a real succubus?”
Anyway, what we had to do was decided.
Breaking the wedding.
Let the games begin.
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We were currently waiting for a taxi at the Academy.
Jeong Bia said she would somehow handle the outing.
If things didn’t go well, I was going to do the ‘I’ll use Hyeji here.’ tactic, but fortunately, Jeong Bia secured an outing permission from the professor.
“I got all permissions. Did you pack everything?”
Jeong Bia managed to get an exceedingly long outing duration.
Basically, we could leave and come back around the time the vacation ends.
Since the tournament was over anyway, the Academy was pretty flexible.
So we each packed our bags from the dormitory and headed out.
[Thank goodness. We don’t have to go back to that ruin.]
‘The rest will be fixed by themselves.’
After all, it’s no longer my home.
I waited for the taxi with a vague belief that the Academy would fix it.
Before long, the taxi arrived.
The passengers were me, Hyeji, Elcia, Caressy, and Jeong Bia, totaling five people.
“Oh, I should have called one more.”
There was a miscalculation on the number of people.
Just as Jeong Bia sighed, the taxi driver casually asked us for our destination.
“Where can I take you?”
I recalled where we needed to go.
The place where the succubi resided.
That was where Jeong Ayeon was.
I steeled myself to rescue Jeong Ayeon.
Then I spoke sternly to the taxi driver.
“Take us to the brothel.”
The taxi driver glanced at me and then smirked a bit.
“Ha, that’s the kind of customer I like.”
He responded as if approving my choice.
Of course, the reactions from the others were a bit different.
“Don’t insult the succubus, you dog bastard!!!”
“Hang that bastard.”
“It’s reflection time!”
“Just go die, huh.”
Ultimately, we all managed to pile onto one taxi.
I found myself strapped to the front of the taxi’s hood like a cross.
“F*ck.”
[……You’re a blood bag, huh.]
‘I miss you, Max hyung.’
And so, the taxi cut through the chilly night air and sped on.
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