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Chapter 220
Chapter 220
Yujin’s desperate plea for help.
Shia watched him with a quiet smile, lost in a nostalgic memory.
His first life. A pathetic one, but he had been a genuinely kind person, which was why she couldn’t hate him.
It was that thought that brought him to her mind.
[Sorry... I, sniff, used hypnosis and manipulated your hearts…]
‘Ugh. What did I say? You were destined to be under us even without that.’
The more she thought about it, the more she smiled.
The thought that he had connected with them, even without using hypnosis.
The man she loved, who was truly admirable.
With a smile, she stood up from her seat.
‘Honestly, I’d love to just keep watching, but... our little fool has worked hard since the regression. Maybe I should help him out.’
-Suddenly.
"Hey, you two. Stop for a second."
She stepped in between them.
The two were ready to pounce on Yujin at any moment.
Yet, unlike her, they still hadn’t regained their memories, but they were being unusually proactive.
‘No wonder the Constellation released me first. They wouldn’t be satisfied with just one, unlike me who stopped after one round.’
Though there was a hint of disbelief in her gaze toward the two women, she nonetheless began her slow persuasion.
Her experience as the former leader of the Cheonhwa Clan shone through.
"Aika. Are you sure this is really okay?"
"...Eh? I don’t mind."
"Are you confident? If we do it all together, there’s no way Yujin won’t compare us."
"Uh, yeah?"
"If after doing it, he thinks, 'Ah, Shia was better than that woman over thirty,' well, then... what would you think?"
"That’s not okay!!!"
First, Aika.
She summed it up in one line.
If they did it together, Yujin would inevitably compare the three of them.
Her confidence was shaken by that comment.
Even after a dozen eggs, it was a deadly blow for a forty-year-old woman who had never married.
"And what about you, Alice?"
"I-I’m confident! Above all, this is for world peace."
"You’ve never tried it, right? Do you think there won’t be sweat after sex? You’re confident you won’t smell?"
"……!!! I-I don’t smell, but... I’m sure it’ll be a little hot?"
Alice, too.
It was easy to dispel her naïve mindset with one simple statement.
The reality that didn’t show up in the 'eyes'.
One round would cause so much sweat that everything, including the bed, would be soaked.
Just reminding her of this was enough.
For Alice, being a Westerner, it was a critical blow.
"But... but..."
"For the world’s sake, you should give up on this much..."
"...Tch."
‘She’s really persistent.’
Yet, even after receiving a direct hit, Aika and Alice didn’t back down.
They were determined.
Despite everything, they just couldn’t give up on a night with Yujin.
Watching from the sidelines, Yujin was stunned by their immense determination.
Of course, Shia didn’t flinch at all.
"Forget that, Aika. If it’s for the world, isn’t Seol Hayeon’s mission the priority?"
"No, for that..."
"Shut up and listen. Even if we all have a threesome with Yujin right now, there’s no guarantee you’ll evolve. Even if you do, the credit will go to all of us."
"......Okay."
"But, if you succeed in evolving alone? Then you’ll be the MVP of this mission. All the credit will be yours."
Her persuasion continued calmly.
If they all did it together, the credit would be divided four ways, but if Aika did it alone, the credit would be entirely hers.
And then...
"———You could have sex with Yujin before that woman even does. Even she won’t stop you."
"……!!!!?"
Divide and conquer.
Her strategy, honed from being the heir of a chaebol family and the former clan leader, struck hard.
The effect was immediate.
"Wait!! What are you saying, Shia?"
"I took the first one, but wouldn’t the second one be better than the third?"
"Huh, huh…?"
"Why is Ninomiya-san the one who’s interested!?"
Aika showed interest.
Alice, sensing the crisis, belatedly began to counter.
The two who had been trying to dominate Yujin now split into two sides.
It was Shia who divided them with her sharp words.
"So, let’s just try it. If it really works and Yujin evolves, maybe you can ask him to make a baby with you as a reward?"
"......!!! Yes! I’ll do it!"
Aika accepted Shia’s suggestion willingly.
Her simple mind didn’t understand the high-level political maneuver of divide and conquer.
But even if she had understood, she would have likely just thought, "Anyway, I can make a baby with my disciple one-on-one, so it’s fine!"
"Iiiik!? Didn’t you hear me? We have no choice but to have sex! Why go around the easy path?"
[You’re there, reading dirty comics with your eyes. You pervert.]
[......?! How did Shia know about that site... Y-yes, it’s the sex that triggered the memory!!]
[I’ve known from the start. I heard you mumbling about Onaholes and stuff earlier. Did you think I didn’t know?]
[Ugh, ugh... Please keep it a secret from Yujin....]
[Only if you stop doing stupid stuff.]
[Yes.......]
And Alice was defeated.
She lost her will and slumped down.
It was the moment Yujin was freed from his endless ordeal.
[Shia...! Thank you. You saved me!]
[Pfft. I’ll repay you later, with my body. After we solve the EX-Class Gate. You’ll take me for a whole day, just me and you.]
[Okay!!]
‘As expected, Shia. Our Shia is the best….’
-Heh.
‘You’re doomed. You’ll have to suck it all day without a condom?’
A far worse fate awaited the future Yujin.
But for now, the 'mating uncle' still had no clue what was coming.
***
After the chaos passed, the four of them entered a special operation again.
The mission assigned by Seol Hayeon: Evolve Aika like Yujin.
A mission that would decide the fate of humanity.
- Whoosh, whoosh.
"First, I can move faster than my limits, you know? My stats have gone over 10, maybe?"
"Hmm. Hmm."
Even though it was called an operation, there wasn’t much to it.
Yujin would show his evolved abilities.
Aika would watch and imitate him.
That was it.
A simple plan where everything relied on the skills of the strongest swordsman.
It was a plan proposed by Shia herself.
Sigh...
‘The Constellation said it was possible... but she also said it could take weeks.’
Shia sighed deeply.
She knew well how foolish this task was.
‘Breaking through the transcendence barrier is extremely difficult, isn’t it?’
Shia knew exactly the state Yujin was in now.
A transcendent. Someone who had surpassed the mortal limits and earned the right to reach for the divine.
In other words, Yujin had transcended humanity.
So, Seol Hayeon’s real mission was Aika’s transcendence.
Shia knew well how hard that was, hearing it countless times from the Constellation.
‘The Constellation took thousands of years, and that genius, Erengart, only managed it at forty.’
There were concrete examples to back up how difficult it was.
That’s why Shia felt indifferent to the scene before her.
She couldn’t help but yawn.
Unlike Alice, who was praying, "Please let it fail!!", Shia’s attitude was completely the opposite.
———What Shia didn’t know.
- Staring.
‘Hmm. I think I’m starting to get a sense of it…’
In terms of swordsmanship, Aika was a natural talent.
If she had been born in the medieval era, she’d be Richard the First; in the Sengoku period, she'd be Honda Tadakatsu; in Goryeo, she’d be Cheok Jun-gyeong.
She had been considered a prodigy even before awakening, easily beating C-class awakened under the rules of Kendo.
And now, in front of her, Yujin, the best example, was right there.
It was a fortune not afforded to the Constellation or other transcendent beings.
Usually, one in a thousand years might be able to reach transcendence, so it was miraculous for a transcendent and someone on the verge of transcendence to exist in the same era.
Aika wasn’t about to miss this miracle.
- Flinch.
‘Is this how it works? Or should I move like this?’
While Shia’s eyes drifted elsewhere, Aika’s body instinctively flinched.
Yujin’s movements. His muscles. The trajectory of his sword.
All of it, she began to reflexively imitate.
[Through repeated experience, strength, agility, and magical power stats increase by 0.01...]
[Error. Stats have reached their limit...]
‘I feel like just a little more...’
- Flinch, flinch.
[‘À¯Ã¼È’ failed to cast. The skill is impossible at the current caster’s level.]
Countless status windows appeared before her, repeatedly appearing and disappearing.
Her stats had already reached their maximum, 10.
The status windows were constantly bumping into the system’s limit.
But Aika didn’t care.
Her so-called "gorilla strength" was actually her ultimate focus, concentrating on just one thing.
The status windows, trying to stop her, were ignored.
Right now, she was in the state of a "moha"—a state of deep concentration.
‘Is this it? No, maybe it’s this way?’
[Stats have reached their limit...]
- Crack.
[———A critical error occurred.]
[The stats (strength, agility, magic power) parameters are undefined.]
[Memory allocation failed.]
The status windows cracked, as she relentlessly pushed past the limits of a mortal.
The system, originally designed for mortals, screamed out an error.
But Aika didn’t even glance at it.
‘...Ah, so this is how it works?’
- Whoosh.
Her hand moved as if unconsciously.
A motion mimicking Yujin’s movements in front of her.
Her hand moved faster than sound, at a speed that would normally cause a sonic boom and destroy the room.
But nothing happened.
It was as if her hand ignored all air resistance.
Her hand sliced through the air like a phantom.
The only change she caused was...
[Critical error - parameter range exceeded.]
- Strength: 14.8/10.0 (CRITICAL_OVERFLOW)
- Agility: 13.3/10.0 (CRITICAL_OVERFLOW)
- Magic: 10.1/10.0 (OVERFLOW)
[ERROR 999 - Request Denied]
[Message: If this is a bug, please contact lead developer Leaf. If not, transcendence is…]
- Clink!!
The sound of the system shattering echoed.
The status window, which had been helping mortals get used to mana, now shattered in Aika’s hand.
It was a true transcendence, different from Yujin’s.
- Pause.
‘What... what’s this feeling... no way?’
"……Crazy."
The reactions of those who knew what was happening showed just how extraordinary it was.
Shia, who had been pretending not to care, couldn’t hold back and cursed—no, she gave a wholehearted compliment.
- Surprised.
[‘???’ looks shocked, eyes wide open!]
"I mean, I took thousands of years... but she did it in just a few hours?"
"No matter how much Yujin’s here, this doesn’t make sense..."
Even the Saintess, who had been using Yujin as a pillow, was stunned.
"Eh!? She broke through this too!? It’s okay if my mom’s already broken it, but she’s just human!!"
- Rub, rub.
"How did you do that!?"
Hypnosis-chan, who had been tinkering with the status windows inside Yujin’s soul, also gasped.
She squished her cheeks with her palm.
"S-Sensei!! You did it..."
"So now, we can make babies, right? Before that little brat Alice!!"
"......"
‘I mean, your intentions are way too transparent.’
If everyone understood the reason behind her hard work, they’d sigh in exasperation...
But Aika had no idea.
She was simply happy that she could be with her disciple.
- Huff.
"Disciple~ no, Oppa!! I did it!!!"
"S-Sensei, maybe wipe off the sweat... huh!?"
"Hehe, hehe? Disciple~?"
This all happened 12 hours before the EX-Class Gate operation began.
***
However, after that, Aika never seriously tried to make babies.
It was because Yujin was too busy.
"Hmph, hmph!! Huuuuh!! Huuuuh!!"
‘Foolish disciple, absolute fool! No matter how busy you are, a quick one wouldn’t hurt…’
She sulked and threw a tantrum, but...
In a way, it was a blessing.
"Are you serious, Shia?"
"Yeah. With this method, we can increase our forces, not just Aika."
"No, even so, this is a bit much."
"It’s fine, really. Since none of them are involved with men, they won’t notice the scent of night blooms coming from their weapons..."
If Yujin knew how busy he was, this wouldn’t have ended with a tantrum.