Chapter 14 – Episode 14- The Secret of Birth (2)
After hearing the shocking stories, I was pretty dizzy, but I quickly regained my composure.
It was like that before.
Even when her grandmother passed away, she came up to Seoul with what little money she had left.
Even when I was stuck in loneliness and shut myself in a corner of my room.
I quickly got myself up.
No matter what situation came, I was confident in my ability to adapt.
So, even in this situation, I organized my thoughts step by step by somehow combining the given information.
“So what?”
I looked at Kim Ji-hye and asked.
Jihye Kim munched her cigarette and stopped at my question.
The way she looked down at me seemed to be asking what the intent of my question was.
“You still have more to say.”
All I have told you so far is simply the secret of my birth.
About who I am and what curse I have.
He gave a lot of explanations about me, but didn’t mention a word about ‘purpose’.
As I quietly looked at Kim Ji-hye, Kim Ji-hye smiled.
“… Baby, this is the same.”
Kim Ji-hye puffed her cigarette out of her mouth, took out a picture of her, and pulled out her white envelope from the pocket of her suit.
“Okay, take it.”
After receiving her white envelope and asking her permission to open it, Kim Ji-hye nodded her head willingly.
Inside her envelope was an ornately embroidered brown paper.
“…?”
On the upper part of the brown paper, there was a letter that said ‘Notice of Enrollment to Witchcraft and Yokai Academy’ written in an elegant manner.
As I was perplexed by the sudden notice of admission, Kim Ji-hye told me.
“This is the academy you will be going to in a week. It’s convenient to think of it as something like a school.”
“…Next week?”
She asked Kim Ji-hye, who was announcing her admission, what did I mean?
“Yes, Kang Kang-jun. You have already entered this world, so you cannot go back to your daily life.”
Jihye Kim flicks her hand.
Then, at some point, the cigarette that had fallen on her sofa was in her hand.
Kim Ji-hye chewed her cigarette once, then she said to me.
“Until now, we have left you unattended because of your grandmother’s position and bluff, but now that your necklace is undone, we have no choice but to take care of you.”
Kim Ji-hye flicks her hand again.
Then, the cigarette in her mouth crumpled, shrunk my body, and completely disappeared into the air.
As she stared blankly at the magical scene, Kim Ji-hye continued her explanation as if nothing had happened.
“You are much more important than you think. In the sense that you are the son of the greatest shaman and youkai, who achieved the harmony between yokai and sorcerers, and also in that you are a walking bomb with an unbelievable energy.”
“That… Is Yang Ki a bomb?”
Wasn’t Yang Qi just like stamina?
I cut off Kim Ji-hye and asked a question, and Kim Ji-hye once frowned at her and answered me.
“I’ll explain it in detail later, but just know that today it’s simply a vehicle for witchcraft, and if it falls into the hands of the damned youkai, you’ll be in big trouble.”
“So,” Said Kim Ji-hye.
“After a week, you will go to this sorcery, youkai academy, learn how to control your yang energy, and at the same time, you will enter the association’s management.”
“Where is that academy…?”
Jihye Kim laughed.
“Somewhere, the world your mother and father created. It’s an academy that exists on the other side of the world.”
“Okay…”
Apparently, I didn’t have a choice.
After hearing Kim Ji-hye’s words, it was because I was a person who would never let go of the association in the other world.
She is moving to Seoul, and the thought of transferring another school makes her mind confused.
Even just hearing the name of the sorcery and ghost academy written on this admission notice, it doesn’t seem normal, so I was worried about whether I would be able to adapt to it as a transfer student.
Let me groan and ponder.
Kim Ji-hye let out an ‘Ah’ as if she had forgotten, and gestured toward me.
“Wait, come over here. I have something to do.”
She seemed to be acting wildly up until now, but it was all Kim Ji-hye who gave me help and explanations, so I approached her.
Kim Ji-hye looked at me blankly, and she put her hand on my neck.
“… Why… Why?!”
Kim Ji-hye tries to snatch the necklace.
When I was frightened and surprised by that action, Kim Ji-hye said to me with a calm expression.
“Your necklace broke once, so there’s a gap. I can’t fix it perfectly, but I still have to block it with magic as a temporary measure until I go to magic academy, so give it to me quickly.”
“… That… Are you okay?”
I glanced at Kim Ji-hye’s face.
Kim Ji-hye frowned at her as if it was annoying.
“Why do you think I’m going to go into heat because of your sheep? I’m protecting you with witchcraft, so shut up and give it to me.”
“Yep.”
She is the one who teleports from the underground parking lot to our house in one fell swoop, and makes her cigarette just disappear in an instant.
She holds a position that seems high even if she pretends to be the general shaman of the Seoul branch, so I hesitantly untied her necklace.
“You’re really okay, right?”
“Give it to me, you blue guy.”
Kim Ji-hye snatched the necklace I had loosened in an instant.
Seeing me unfastening her necklace, Kim Ji-hye turned her head and looked at me through the inside of her necklace in her hand.
“Tsk… I put all sorts of curses…”
Jihye Kim touched her necklace and handed it to me.
“Okay, it’s over. It’s a temporary measure, but unless you’re very close, most youkai won’t notice.”
“Thank you.”
She quickly put the necklace Kim Ji-hye gave her around her neck.
Kim Ji-hye quietly looked at me like that, and then she blurted out another word.
“Ah, that’s right. There was something I forgot to say. Kang Kang-joon, sorcery, after entering the ghost academy, you’re going to fuck the female ghosts in that academy.”
“… Yes?”
For a moment, I wondered if I had heard it wrong.
But as if I hadn’t heard wrong, Kim Ji-hye notified me once more.
“A monster with strong negative energy, so… Steal the maiden of a female monster who looks strong at first glance.”
“What… Nonsense…”
“Your body is in a mess now, as the positive energy that the necklace suppressed until now bursts out. So, you must infuse your body with negative energy.”
Kim Ji-hye jumped up from her seat.
I’m startled by the act of leaving, and let’s ask for more explanation.
Kim Ji-hye shook her head in annoyance, and she spat out a few more words.
“There’s no way to infuse yin energy into your body more efficiently than taking a female youkai with strong yin energy and stealing the maiden of that monster. And if you don’t do this, your body will explode with yang qi and die naturally.”
“Hey… Wait…?! Can you explain a bit more…”
Kim Ji-hye kept her own pace despite my question and continued to speak to her unilaterally.
“Don’t worry too much, thanks to your peculiar constitution, other youkai will usually have a good feeling. Perhaps even if you have sex, they will be supplied with nutrients, so you will be more welcome there.”
And Kim Ji-hye glanced at the watch on her wrist, and she waved her hand at me.
“Then, you’re so busy right now. See you next time.”
“… Yes?”
More than anything I said before, the declaration I just handed me was more shocking than anything else, so I tried to hold on to Kim Ji-hye somehow…
Jihye Kim flicked her two fingers, and she disappeared from my room in an instant.
In the room where I was left alone, looking at the notice of admission left on the desk, I muttered blankly.
“This is… The hell… What is it?”
No matter how much I thought about it, it didn’t seem to make sense, so I stood there blankly for a long time.
* *
Next morning, morning.
As usual, I moved logistics from Café Yuu.
I keep thinking about yesterday’s events, and I’m sitting at the table resting after moving all the logistics in a daze.
The store manager quietly approached me.
“Eight.”
The store manager pokes my cheek with a slender finger.
I blink and look at the store manager
The manager looked at me and smiled.
“Jun Han, you are worried right now.”
“Ah… Yes.”
I had a lot of trouble. There were too many, too many.
I involuntarily let out a sigh.
Then the store manager let go of his nose as if he was interested, and he naturally sat down in front of me.
“Han Joon.”
“Yes Yes?”
I was startled, and when I replied, the store manager smiled and told me.
“Is it a woman’s problem? It seems to be a woman’s problem, right?”
“……”
It’s a woman’s problem, so in a way it could be called a woman’s problem.
As I was groaning and unable to speak, the store manager let out an even more coquettish snort.
“Huh~? That’s right?”
“… I can’t say no.”
When I declared that it was correct to some extent, the store manager grabbed my cheek with both hands and let out a shrill scream.
“Oh my God? Look at that. Han Jun, if you’re a girl of the same age as Han Jun, you can’t help but be interested in Han Jun?”
The store manager pokes my forearm with my sleeves rolled up.
“I’m fine…”
The store manager rolled her eyes and looked at me.
“You have a good-looking face, but why aren’t you popular? Tell me quickly, what kind of problem?”
“Okay…”
I couldn’t possibly bring this up.
It was because it was obvious that he would be treated like a madman if he said, ‘I have to go to another world and eat the virgins of the female monsters there.’
As I groaned without saying anything, the store manager smirked.
“Whoa… Is it because I’m in love? Today, Han Jun-ssi looks more handsome.”
“… I can’t believe it.”
“Really? Men are the sexiest when they’re thinking about it, right?”
I looked at the manager, who was staring at me with his large breasts on the table.
His gaze moved to his chest, which exudes an adult charm.
Let’s clear our throat and quickly take our eyes off the chest.
The store manager gave a strange smile and stood up.
“A man with a lot of secrets is also attractive, so it’s okay if you don’t tell me, Mr. Hanjun.”
Behind the counter.
Looking at the back of the manager who was making a cafe latte just for me today, I asked the manager involuntarily.
“Does the boss have any secrets?”
“Hmm… Why? Am I attractive?”
The store manager turns his head and smiles like an adult.
I nodded my head at that kind, yet mature-looking smile.
The store manager told me with his snort that he was in a good mood.
“Of course. Adults usually have one or two more deep secrets that they can’t tell others.”
The boss slowly put his finger in my mouth.
“A very deep secret.”
The boss, who looks infinitely kind, but for some reason, smiles like a bewitching smile and disappears behind the counter.
And after some time passed, the boss came out with a cup of steaming caffe latte.
A strange blush appeared on the face of the boss who handed me a cafe latte full of milk and flowing with white foam.
“Sleep, do your best today.”
“Yeah…! We have to do our best today.”
I gulped down the cafe latte that was handed to me.
The boss swallowed his saliva and watched me closely.