Chapter 23 – Rather Good

One.

“…A familiar ceiling.”

It wasn’t true. Because the ceiling I am familiar with has become a star in the sky.
If I just open my eyes like this, I wonder if what happened yesterday will turn out to be a dream…
And again, it wasn’t a dream that my house was blown up. Because the place I opened my eyes was not a spacious penthouse, but a small studio that was less than 5 pyeong.

“Fuck…”

I grabbed my throbbing head and got out of bed. It was a very sad advantage that there was a refrigerator right in front of the bed, so I could drink bottled water right away without walking.
My headache went away when I drank cold water. It felt like my mind was clear. While it became clearer, I decided to look back on what happened yesterday.

First of all, I took Ia Reese home and offered to have dinner together, and I got away with the excuse that I had to send Scar home and that I had to go before work to go to the guild quarters.
I knew where Scar’s house was, so I just went right down the rabbit hole and put him on the bed, and I went back to the guild and asked the guild leader for an empty room.

Even though I am an F-level Awakener, the reason I can come and go to the guild manager’s room like my own is because he asked me to do so.

To be precise, when I had a problem, I asked if it was something that the guild leader could solve. Except for the woman problem.

The guild leader was extremely afraid of getting into trouble with me. It was probably because of the experience of having the guild office burn down due to runaway scars when I was forcibly kicked out two years ago.
As compensation from the Leight family, a larger and stronger company building was built, but even so, the site of the destruction remained in the head and heart of the guild leader and became a trauma.
Because of that, he is the head of the world’s best guild, the Liar’s Trap, and he is ridiculously in trouble with me, an F-class Awakener.

In the past, when I consulted with the guild leader, he implicitly said that he wanted to leave, and he asked me to reconsider and went to the point of kneeling down…

It was very sad to see a middle-aged man kneeling down on me, so I immediately stopped him and said I would not leave.
If you say this, me and the guild leader may seem like a one-sided relationship, but I also do a dog-like job of taking care of Scar from time to time so that Scar doesn’t run out of control again, so I had to see it as an equal relationship.

And I don’t even want to be rude with something like that.

Ever since I was young, I have been abused by Scar a lot, and since entering this guild, I have come to hate abuse because I have been abused by all S-class Awakeners except for Ia Reese.

On the other hand, I would say a teacher.

When I asked the guild leader like that, the good accommodations were already full and the only thing left was the smallest accommodation for interns, so I just came here.
It could have been made to leave the room with the authority of the guild leader, but as I said before, the abuse of power was extremely abhorrent.
Anyway, after I registered for temporary residence at the dorm, it was midnight.
It was a day when a lot of very dense things happened, so as soon as I threw myself on the bed, I passed out, and it happened now.

“… Fuck.”

It was a situation where I couldn’t come out without cursing.

Scar, a self-proclaimed crazy bitch, loves me infinitely, and Ia Reese is actually a crazy bitch and wants me. Is this a fucking word?

“Whoa… It must have actually happened since it makes sense. Stop wasting time escaping from reality and start thinking about what to do next.”

There was no more time to waste. As long as I knew that the two of them had unusual feelings for me, I shouldn’t have acted the way I did before.

I really don’t know what will happen if I further stimulate the bitches who lightly blow up their multi-billion dollar house just because they didn’t know their feelings.

However, even when I started thinking about it, I couldn’t come up with a suitable method. Considering the nature of Ia Lisna Scar, Operation Crocodile Bird was only a stopgap.
They weren’t two people who would continue to satisfy each other with childlike touches like hugs and strokes.

Maybe two or three times is the limit. From then on, you’ll want a closer, sticky, skinship that you can’t do unless you’re in a relationship.

I even thought of making them fall in love with me by deliberately showing rudeness, but they were crazy bitches. I had no idea what he would really do if he was caught trying to distance himself halfway.

But I didn’t want to be in a relationship with one of them. They were bitches who melted down and destroyed the house even though they weren’t in a relationship yet. My body trembled just imagining how much they would try to bind me if they became lovers here.

Scar will probably lock me up in his house and never let me out, and Iaris will put me on a shelf like her luxuries he bought.

Considering that the many luxurious items Ia Reese bought had never been revealed to the world, it was quite possible.

“…In the end, I’m saying that I can live only when I satisfy the endless greed of the two of you and at the same time maintain a sense of distance that won’t develop into a romantic relationship…”

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with a way to satisfy these two conditions.

“No, is this possible in the first place? Absolutely impossible unless you have a hypnosis application… Ah?”

Hypnosis app?

The moment the name came to mind, she immediately turned on her cell phone and launched the hypnosis application. Familiar purple and pink hearts alternately lit up, and vulgar phrases caught the eye.
After knowing that it was fake, this app that made me angry just looking at it seemed like a rope of salvation for now.

“…If I use this well, I might be able to keep my life safe while satisfying both of them.”

This hypnosis app was obviously fake. It had no effect, and seeing it did not hypnotize me. However, between me and the female S-class Awakeners of Liar’s Trap, this was no different from a real hypnosis app.
After knowing that two of the S-class liked me, I roughly expected what this hypnosis app was made for.

“Perhaps it made me voluntarily remain in the liars trap and at the same time try to shorten the distance with me through the hypnosis app. At that time, I always said that I wanted to leave the company.”

It was half a year ago that I received the hypnosis application from the doctor, when I was in the most difficult time.
Since I didn’t hide my troubles, Scar and Iaris would have noticed, and they would have asked the doctor to make a means to capture me.

The doctor who received the request knew that the main cause of my stress was female S-class Awakeners.
So, at the same time as solving the problem, he created a hypnosis application as a way to satisfy the desires of Scar and Iaris.

“I just thought about it once, but the adari fits perfectly. Could I be a genius?”

Then, the fact that the female S-class Awakeners acted in a fake hypnosis app was explained.

…No, wait a minute. No matter how many S-class Awakeners unite, can they recruit all female S-Class Awakeners in our guild?

In addition to Scar Rate, Ia Reese, and Lapis Julie, there is one more female S-class Awakener in the Liars Trap.
Even if Ia Reese and Scar Rate came to an agreement, there is no reason for the remaining two to quietly follow the suggestion that I pretend to be hypnotized so that I do not leave the company.

S-class Awakeners had the ability to do anything they wanted. So the other two had no reason to be hypnotized and do shameful things because of an F-Class Awakener like me.

It’s not lack of money or lack of honor. Why pretend to be hypnotized? Unless you’re obsessed with me with some kind of feeling like Ia Lis or Scar…

When you think about it. In an instant, goose bumps all over my body.
I wanted to deny that it was ridiculous, but now that I know that both Scar and Iaris are obsessed with me, the one speculation I came up with was absolutely nonsensical.

“Sir, no way…They’re obsessed with me too?”

In the past, after receiving a fake hypnosis application, the first order to the S-class except Ia Reese was to do the best service he knew.
At that time, those two people served me wholeheartedly as if they were really happy.
That happy expression, like a dream come true, was so real that you could never think of it as acting.

“But was it really real? Did he make that face because he really liked serving me and getting closer to me?”

Fuck this These are real fucking pants.

I’ve said it several times, but all S-class Awakeners except for Iaris knew me as a dick and treated me like a dick. I mean, I acted like a dick to the point where I wondered if I had lost an enemy to me.

But those bitches obsessed with me? Pretending to be hypnotized and harboring emotions strong enough to happily obey my orders?

“Haa… This is really nonsense. You can’t run away right now.”

A multibillion-dollar house was blown away, and the loan on the house was not paid off. Ia Reese said she would pay for the repairs, but it was clear that all the debt would come back to me if I disappeared.
All of my assets will be seized, and the only thing left in my bank account will be negative.

In that state, four S-class Awakeners are chasing me? In addition, the awakening people specializing in loan repayment belonging to the bank join forces? This was impossible no matter how much he tried to escape through the rabbit hole.
I can escape to the other side of the world using a rabbit hole, but my stamina isn’t infinite.

“At least… After the house is repaired. I have no choice but to stay in the guild until I pay off everything I borrowed.”

Fortunately, three months later, if you participate in the raid on the S-class dungeon, you can repay the loan.

“As long as I hold on until then… I can somehow survive. With money, I could go down the rabbit hole and get away from them.”

I looked at the hypnosis application running on my cell phone.
I know that this hypnosis app is fake, and I, the doctor, and all the S-class bitches know, but they still don’t know that I know that this app is fake.
The difference in this information will be a great weapon for me. A weapon that will make me last for three months.

For the next three months, use this app to satisfy the needs of S-class girls… Let’s run away as soon as the reward money comes in after raiding the dungeon.

The moment I made that decision, my phone rang shortly after I said Jiying. It was a text notification.

‘You said you moved to the guild accommodation and didn’t even report it to the team leader. Are you insane? Get down on her knees and raise your hand, I’m going there now.’

It was a text from Lapis Julie. As soon as I checked the message, a smart and elegant knock knocked on the door.

No, you’re coming right away like this? Are you not ready yet?

My body froze in embarrassment for a moment, but soon I put a smile on my lips.

…No, I rather like it. You can practice in advance how to get through the fake hypnotic life in the future.

I opened her door to greet her, holding her smartphone tightly in her right hand.