The Tough Guy Hides the Villainess - Chapter 109
109 – Mongrel #2
109 – Mongrel #2
Yoo Yeoreum was lying on the sofa.
As if she had become one with the sofa.
“Hey, Yeoreum─.”
“Don’t speak to me privately, mongrel. Don’t you know that men and women over the age of seven should be distinguished?”
Since being crushed under me during the escape from the Great Labyrinth, Yoo Yeoreum had been acting like this. She was extremely prickly, and you could say she had adopted a very peculiar concept.
The problem wasn’t just Yoo Yeoreum.
“This thing called a faucet, look at this…! Clear water gushes out…! No nymphs have ever seen a faucet that gushes water like this…!”
“This Inonoi finds the food in the refrigerator fascinating…! It’s very cold…! And this house gives off a somewhat nostalgic feeling….”
The nymphs who had escaped from the Great Labyrinth were running around our house.
Even for me, this was a bit too much!
At times like this, turning on the TV is the best.
“Why don’t you all watch this for a while.”
“Hoho, is the picture moving wildly…? This is freaking awesome…!”
“They call it the magic box I’ve only heard about…!”
The nymphs sat quietly in front of the TV.
But only for a moment.
They soon started fighting over the remote in front of the old TV.
“This remote belongs to this Baonoi…!”
“This Inonoi saw it first…!”
“Why are you disturbing this Baonoi…? Inonoi, who left Baonoi behind, now even dares to interfere, such a bad nymph…! This is why I hate royalist nymphs…!”
“This Inonoi had a mission to protect this core…! It was Baonoi who didn’t come to meet Inonoi…!”
Dududududu-.
The nymphs punched each other wildly.
Their punches perfectly canceled each other out, so they never actually hit, but they seemed to have a bad relationship and looked quite foolish.
In the midst of this fierce fight, I recalled that Baonoi had missed his friend Inonoi. Since they had reunited after a long time, wouldn’t it be nice if they were a bit more affectionate?
Whatever the case, it was purely joyful to return home.
I was surprised to see so many flowers on the way back.
Did they think I was dead and were trying to mourn me?
How surprised will everyone be when I go to school tomorrow morning?
It would be like coming back to life!
Just thinking about everyone’s reactions made my tailbone tingle with excitement.
But then Yuyeoreum, as if annoyed, grabbed my ear with her hand.
“Are you ignoring me? I told you to send me back to the Great Labyrinth immediately. I don’t belong here. I must protect the throne of the Great Labyrinth.”
Yoo Yeoreum spoke as if she had a duty to protect the throne of the Great Labyrinth. What on earth happened?
Her personality had changed strangely too.
Could it be that something happened when she was surrounded by the swarm of rats earlier?
As I felt puzzled, Baonoi, who had lost the remote control fight, spoke.
“Have you fallen victim to the Red King’s curse…? The Red King’s curse is a ruthless technique that turns its target into a servant…! It also draws out the darkness lurking within a person’s heart…!”
Everyone has a dark part in their heart.
Even Yoo Yeoreum, who possessed the concept of “light,” had darkness in her heart.
“I want to laze around. I’m doing nothing, but I want to do nothing even more intensely.”
The darkness in Yoo Yeoreum’s heart.
It was actually a desire to laze around and do nothing.
Even though she was already lying lazily on the sofa, she craved even greater laziness.
“Indeed, the Red King’s curse has the power to corrupt even someone like Kore, who possesses the power of ‘light,’ into such a lazy woman…! It’s terrifying…!”
Conversely, it could be said that Yoo Yeoreum, who had little darkness in her heart, only ended up like this.
What if Seo Ga-eul or Baek Yeoul, who had more darkness, had fallen victim to it?
“Hey, mutt. Don’t just stand there, fetch me some water.”
Yoo Yeoreum Alter pinched my thigh with her hand.
She was incredibly self-centered.
“I can get you water, but I have one question. Why do you call me a mutt?”
“Don’t you know? All humans are mutts.”
“What does ‘mongrel’ mean? Do you know what ‘mongrel’ is in English?”
“……”
Yoo Yeoreum’s expression suddenly crumpled.
Then she spoke to me.
“Do you think I wouldn’t know that? There’s a limit to underestimating people. ‘Mongrel’ in English is… Hurry up and get some water.”
Even the reversed Yoo Yeoreum didn’t seem to know English well.
In fact, not knowing what ‘mongrel’ is in English doesn’t hinder living at all.
As I fetched the water, the nymphs had already entered the room, curled up on the floor, and fallen asleep.
“Mmm, cool and warm floor….”
“This idiot says he’s going to find this outside the Great Labyrinth….”
Seeing them huddled together and sleeping peacefully after fighting so fiercely over the remote control, they looked like squirrels snuggled up in a rock crevice.
Not wanting to wake them, I went out to the living room, where Yoo Yeoreum was still lying on the bed.
“Here, water. You don’t expect me to feed you this too, do you?”
“Ah─.”
“Are you a baby? You wouldn’t even know if you choked.”
Gulp, gulp-.
Yoo Yeoreum took the water from me and drank. Pouring water into her open mouth required more effort than I thought.
It’s hard to pour without spilling.
‘It’s like watering a plant.’
Come to think of it, the seed I received from Bbangdaengi seemed to have sprouted.
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I can’t believe I brought something to life.
Even for me, it’s the first time, so I’m honestly happy!
Swoosh, swoosh.
At that moment, Yeo-reum, who had roughly wiped the moisture from her lips with the back of her hand, stood up from the sofa and said,
“You’re quite nice to me. You must have some ulterior motive. People always have a reason when they show kindness. My adoptive parents were like that, and so were the researchers.”
There’s no such thing as a favor without a reason. Quite a sharp observation, isn’t it?
Although she hadn’t said it before, it seems Yeo-reum had been thinking deeply in her own way.
It must be because of the Red King’s curse that she no longer hides those thoughts.
“Kidnapping me, being nice to me, it’s all for the same reason, right? You want my body. Am I wrong? You pervert.”
“And if I am? Will you give me a kiss?”
“Sure. Go brush your teeth. I’ll give you five minutes.”
What? I was just saying it, but she really said she’d kiss me.
Yeo-reum’s alter ego had quite the guts.
I dashed into the bathroom and brushed my teeth so hard I worried they might wear down.
Brushing before a kiss is basic manners!
So, I hurriedly finished and came out to the living room, where Yeo-reum was breathing heavily.
“Huff, huff.”
This girl! She must be nervous thinking about kissing me.
I placed my hand on Yeo-reum’s shoulder.
“Don’t be nervous. A kiss is just a moment.”
Whoosh-.
Yoo Yeoreum’s face turned red.
“…A kiss? Forget everything I said earlier. That wasn’t me. We’re not even dating, so we can’t just kiss each other.”
“What?”
What was she saying? Of course, it was a perfectly reasonable and sensible thing to say, but it wasn’t something Yoo Yeoreum, who had just told me to brush my teeth for a kiss, should be saying.
“…You liar!”
She flipped her attitude like turning over a palm.
It seemed that Yoo Yeoreum’s personality, which had been engulfed by “darkness,” had returned to normal.
“It’s a scary feeling. It’s me, but it’s not me… It’s like there’s another person inside my body. Split personality. That wasn’t me. So, there was no kiss. Got it?”
It was disappointing, but there was no choice.
On the other hand, it was impressive that Yoo Yeoreum had reclaimed her personality from the curse of the Red King.
# # #
The next day.
I was sleeping, expecting the media to be buzzing.
I felt a strange weight on my body as I lay on the floor, and when I opened my eyes, Yoo Yeoreum was sitting on my thigh.
And then she said,
“I promised to kiss you, right? There were interruptions, but a promise is a promise.”
What time could it be?
Even though it was a long summer morning, it was still deep night, with no sign of dawn.
Yoo Yeoreum’s candy-scented lips came closer to me, just for a moment-.
“…This girl, don’t interfere!”
The face stopped right in front of my nose.
“What are you doing with my body!”
And then, with one lip, it said something else, like watching a strange ventriloquist play.
Swoosh-. Thud thud-!
In the end, Yeo-reum Yu even raised her fist and hit her own face.
“Keep hitting! Only your face hurts! Does my face hurt! Ah! You! You really hit me! How could you hit my pretty nose so mercilessly!”
“Get out of my body!”
What the hell is this.
At this point, even I’m scared.
So who will win?
Two souls fighting in one body.
After a rough breath, one voice quieted down.
The winner is─.
“Stubborn girl, you should have obeyed earlier. Now that the intruder is gone, shall we continue what we were doing earlier? A kiss.”
It seemed that the dark Yeo-reum Yu won the fateful duel fought over the body.
The light Yeo-reum Yu is so weak!
“By the way, if you kiss me, you have to support me for the rest of your life. You seem to be the president’s grandson, so if I stick with you, I can live without worries, right? This is a vow of such a promise.”
“What?”
So it wasn’t just a kiss!
The fact that the dark Yuyeoreum came out like this means that deep down, the usual Yuyeoreum also wanted to live comfortably.
Growing up in an orphanage and having suffered since childhood, it wasn’t strange to think that she wanted to live like others, enjoying the sweet life.
“Then from today, we are a couple. By the way, if you date me, you have to prepare dinner and do the dishes. You also have to earn money. Laundry, cleaning, everything must be done by you, the hybrid.”
“No, that’s too much!”
If we kiss like this, my life will be mortgaged to Yuyeoreum.
A man of the world doing housework?
Absolutely unacceptable!
“Argh!”
“It’s a futile resistance.”
I tried to muster all my strength, but even I couldn’t overcome Yuyeoreum’s physical strength. Only the software was different; the physical strength of dark Yuyeoreum and light Yuyeoreum was the same.
Smooch-.
Yuyeoreum’s lips touched my cheek.
I thought it would be on the lips, but it was surprising that it was on the cheek.
“You insolent fellow…! Are you going to hinder me until the end…? Why don’t you understand that if you surrender to me, you will also be more comfortable? Don’t deny your desires! Be honest with yourself!”
“Hanamjin! Light! Shine light on me! Even the light from a phone will do!”
Light?
I reached out with a hopeful heart and shone the light from my phone on Yuyeoreum.
“Wait! Hybrid! Stop! Argh!”
Then dark Yuyeoreum screamed as if being exorcised.
Soon, Yuyeoreum was panting heavily.
“It… it worked. I barely managed to take control of my body…”
Yoo Yeoreum frowned as she looked at me, pinned beneath her.
Then she rubbed the lip mark on my cheek with her fingers.
“That strange promise just now, it didn’t happen. It wasn’t me. To put it simply, my body was hacked…”
“Darn. So, is the dark Yoo Yeoreum gone forever?”
“No, just asleep for a while. But if there’s a lack of light, she’ll come out again. Do I have to live like this forever? Afraid that my body will be taken over by another personality…”
That’s kind of cool.
Two personalities in one body.
The girl Yoo Yeoreum, who possesses both the soul of light and darkness.
It sounds like the setting for the ultimate duelist!
“You, you just had a weird thought, didn’t you?”
“How did you know? I was thinking I’m jealous of you.”
“Have you ever been scared of what you might do? Like, seeing an oncoming train and feeling like you might jump in front of it without meaning to. That’s what this feels like. It’s not something to be jealous of.”
I don’t get it.
I’ve often thought about wanting to run like a train.
Even so, I roughly understood what Yoo Yeoreum was trying to say.
“I can’t live like this for long. Han Namjin, I’ll stop accusing you. Instead, help me defeat the Red King. If we defeat him, I’ll return to normal.”
Just like when we defeated the zombie mine and resolved the zombie crisis.
She was saying that if we defeat the Red King who controls the darkness, the darkness within Yoo Yeoreum might disappear too.
If that could stop Yoo Yeoreum from accusing me of kidnapping, it wouldn’t be a bad thing for me either.
Honestly, I didn’t think Yu Yeoreum and I could take down the Red King on our own.
“If you grant my request, I’ll tell you what Seo Ga-eul means by ‘soft and squishy.’ I heard it from Seo Ga-eul myself.”
Soft and squishy-.
The word seemed to fry my brain!
Just like Pavlov’s dogs salivated at the sound of a bell, every time I, Han Nam-jin, heard the word ‘soft and squishy,’ my brain would fry and turn into mush!
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