You Shouldn’t Have Said That (1)

There have been countless men whom Kang Juhee has seduced so far.

Dozens? Hundreds? Counting beyond that is meaningless.

Most of those targets were hunters of the Sura guild.

There was even a man who tried to assassinate her, but he couldn’t resist her temptation and fell head over heels for her.

Anyone would agree that this was a truly useful ability.

But Kang Juhee herself didn’t obtain it because she wanted to.

The Sura guild stopped at nothing to create Sura.

They kidnapped women who could become potential vessels, experimented on them, or modified them.

They even made them fight like gladiators to raise the talents of these vessels.

Now that Sura has been created, this no longer happens, but countless victims were left in its wake.

‘But there were those who survived in that hell.’

Women who survived, though they didn’t become Sura.

Kang Juhee, who had particularly good looks among them, was summoned by the guildmaster.

Jay Hoon, the Sura guildmaster. He recognized Kang Juhee’s talent and bestowed a special ability on her.

This ability paired well with Kang Juhee, a succubus.

‘Am I chosen?’

Anyone who looked at Kang Juhee’s face would immediately be captivated.

Even the guild members who used to harass her fell for her with a single use of that ability.

For a nobody like her to gain such an ability was pure fortune.

She was even grateful to Jay Hoon for gifting her such power.

‘Yes, if I just have this ability…!’

She could live her whole life surrounded by men.

She might even be able to take the entire Sura guild for herself.

‘For that purpose… hehehe.’

She would remove Sura.

In fact, Kang Juhee herself was once a candidate for Sura.

That means the position rightfully belonged to her.

It made more sense for Sura to be her—a mature, superior woman—rather than some kid not even nineteen years old.

Surely most guild members felt the same.

With so many guild members already smitten with her, her position was secure.

‘Heaven and Earth Society is perfect to use for that.’

A group that was part of the Sura guild but didn’t follow the guild’s ideology.

It hadn’t been difficult for Kang Juhee to get in.

Her charm was a big factor, but there were legitimate grounds for her to join.

A desire for revenge against the guild that had made her endure such a harsh life for being a Sura candidate.

When she explained that, the other members all accepted her.

‘Hehehe! Such simple fools!’

Of course, she couldn’t just kill Sura.

If Sura died without certain procedures, the ‘origin of Sura’ would vanish from this world forever.

That special procedure was Sura’s despair.

To trigger that despair, Kang Juhee brought along a boy who seemed to be Sura’s friend.

Ma Seongjin. This boy might even know Sura’s face.

Once he succumbed to temptation, the boy would give her the answer.

‘Then I’ll approach Sura and…’

—cut off the boy’s head right in front of her.

Seeing her friend’s head fall to the ground, Sura would be thrown into despair.

At that moment, when Sura lost her qualification, she would be killed too.

‘That girl… I never liked her from the start!’

The fact that she was chosen over Kang Juhee to be Sura was infuriating.

The one who should truly have been chosen was Kang Juhee herself.

How could a mere child outshine her?

Kang Juhee wasn’t the only one who felt that way.

― That little brat holds the same rank as the guildmaster?

― It’s hard enough to even become an ordinary executive, so what did she do to just sit there?

― My own oppa struggles day and night to enter the Sura guild, but she walks around next to the guildmaster on a free pass.

― One divine revelation and she just gets the position?

― So what was all our hard work, our blood and sweat, for? Wow, amazing, lady Sura.

Outwardly, they praised Sura, but in reality, most of them felt inferior.

Countless people, Kang Juhee included, harbored a sense of deprivation.

If she could just get rid of Sura, how happy would everyone be?

And it wouldn’t be long now.

But then…

“What do you mean, ‘excited’?”

When Seongjin said this, Kang Juhee was at a complete loss.

What does he mean, ‘excited’? Does she have to explain this in words?

“Seongjin, is there anything that comes to your mind when you look at this nuna?”

She released her ability to the maximum.

After reading all the thoughts that appeared on his face, she released matching pheromones.

The moment anyone was touched by her pheromones even once, they could never think negatively of her.

No matter how unpleasant her own smell might be, disguising it was easy.

Thanks to that, there were hundreds of men waiting for her at any time.

So…

“What are you reminded of?”

“Huh…?”

“It’s not about what comes to mind. It’s almost sunset now…”

Kang Juhee’s pupils trembled.

Looking closely, Seongjin’s eyes were not clouded with infatuation.

Seeing him completely unaffected by her pheromones, Kang Juhee was horrified.

This had never happened before.

‘What is this…! What?! What is he?!’

She had just released her pheromones at maximum strength.

With this power, she once captivated over a hundred men at once.

She concentrated that overwhelming power on just this one boy.

Children are supposed to be simpler than adults.

If a child was targeted, they would usually forget things like their own mom and cling to her like she was their mother.

But instead…

“I think that’s enough talking. Is there anything else you want to say?”

“….”

Over an hour had passed. Seongjin asked as if it was about time to wrap up.

Faced with such a mundane reaction, Kang Juhee let her hands drop in defeat.

This boy was the first man who hadn’t fallen for her temptation.

At the same time, she felt an unidentifiable aura from him.

It was like encountering an alien in a stranded spaceship—

An energy from an ecosystem-disturbing species, where common sense doesn’t apply.

“Then, may I ask one last thing?”

The boy suddenly stood up as he said this.

At the same time, he looked down at her as if she was an insect.

“Whose side are you on—the Sura guild, or Heaven and Earth Society?”

“Huh…?”

At that moment, thunder crashed in Kang Juhee’s mind.

Her already tense heart pounded even harder.

“Student… what do you mean by that…?”

“Don’t play dumb. You’re already caught, so just tell me the truth?”

“….”

She was so on edge that she couldn’t move her lips.

His name was Ma Seongjin. 16 years old. Second year in Hand’s middle school division.

His family consisted of father, mother, and a younger sister.

That was all the information she had on this boy.

She’d tried to dig further, but nothing else surfaced.

So, feeling out of place was inevitable in this situation.

How could an average boy, other than being an awakened, act like this?

“Aunt. How long are you going to just sit there?”

“What? Aunt…?”

“At first, I did guess wrong. Since Ah-rin didn’t smell anything unusual, I decided to trust you at first.”

She had really brought Seongjin there and hadn’t harmed him at all.

Apart from questioning about the incident, she’d done nothing.

Up until then, he’d really thought she was a Qiongqi member.

“But is it okay for you to release that much pheromone?”

But after Kang Juhee unleashed her pheromones at maximum, Seongjin figured it out.

At the same time, he realized how Ah-rin hadn’t detected it by scent.

“You… who are you? How… how can my temptation not work on you?”

Kang Juhee urgently stood up.

Backing away slowly as she retreated, Seongjin spoke.

“That, you see…”

Rumble-!

At that moment, a huge vibration shook the whole building.

****

“Huff… huff… is that all?”

“Probably…”

The moment Ah-rin and Sang-ah charged into the building, a slew of gangsters attacked them.

All of them were awakeners, and fighting off all 50 of them left the girls utterly exhausted.

For middle school students, their performance was truly impressive.

“They even used weapons, so cowardly…!”

Outwardly, they carried things like steel pipes, but upon touching them, they turned out to be hunter gear.

Digging through their pockets, they even found things like stamina-boosting potions.

Ah-rin took out one and handed it to Sang-ah.

“Want to drink it?”

“Forget it.”

Drinking it would heal wounds right away.

Just as she was wondering why Sang-ah refused it—

“There’s no need to drink it.”

As Sang-ah’s wounds healed rapidly, Ah-rin’s eyes widened.

Then she let out a wry smile.

“Well, yeah, me too.”

Their wounds healed rapidly, but it wasn’t because of recovery magic or potions.

It was simply their own biological regenerative power.

“Mon… monstrous brats…!”

One fallen awakened cursed at the two as they healed.

Sang-ah could sense the emotion in his voice.

She stomped on his face, knocking him out for good.

“Are you really that jealous?”

She could tell it was relative deprivation—a resentment towards those who had something others could never have even with repeated reincarnation.

Their regeneration, their keen sense of smell and hearing.

Ordinary awakeners—those who weren’t Mutamit—could only dream of such abilities.

“No need to get angry. Guys like them are just like that.”

“Do you know them?”

“My nose can’t be fooled.”

Ah-rin could smell their unpleasant scent, even as they lay defeated.

They looked like they admired her outwardly, but inwardly, they were jealous.

The lowest grunts of the Sura guild had almost the identical scent.

But these guys also had another scent: they were Heaven and Earth Society members.

“And I can’t understand why they’re wearing these clothes.”

Ah-rin tore a uniform off one of the fallen awakeners.

It was none other than the national special task force Qiongqi’s uniform.

No less than four of them were wearing it.

“Thankfully, I don’t think they’re A-rank or higher. I got nervous the moment I saw this uniform.”

“Qiongqi isn’t an easy unit to get into. If they snuck people in, these guys must be the limit.”

“You know quite a bit?”

“Yeah. There’s a reason I dreamed of being a hunter.”

The first time Ah-rin saw a Qiongqi member was during the incident at the playground that day.

Ah-rin thought there might be hope for herself, since there was a Mutamit among them.

It made her sick to see these guys dirtying the uniform of a squad that once inspired her dreams.

“Let’s go.”

“Okay!”

Seongjin’s scent was getting closer.

At the same time, an unknown female’s scent began wafting in.

It was a sweet scent that could almost knock you out at a sniff.

If either of them had been male, they would have already lost all reason.

At last, the two stood before the door where the scent was strongest.

Clack—

“Kyaaaa!! Stay away! I said, stay away!!”

Before they could even touch the door, it opened on its own.

A woman inside, completely frantic, came dashing out.

“Huh?”

“… Huh?”

“….”

Ah-rin and Sang-ah met Kang Juhee’s panicked gaze.

A stunned silence hung for a few seconds as they processed this bizarre situation.

“Who are you two…?”

To Kang Juhee’s question, Ah-rin narrowed her eyes sharply.

She recognized Kang Juhee as the woman from the car.

“Wait… are you…?!”

Kang Juhee also belatedly recognized Ah-rin, her surprise showing.

Sang-ah looked at Ah-rin and asked about Kang Juhee.

“Is it her?”

“That’s her.”

What happened to Seongjin, who had been with this woman?

For a moment, Ah-rin worried that Seongjin might have been seduced by her mature charms.

“Hmm? How did you two find this place?”

Just then, Seongjin walked out from inside too.

Seeing that he was unharmed, the girls finally felt relieved.

“Seongjin! Are you okay?”

“You’re not hurt, are you? You didn’t fall for her temptation or anything unusual, did you?”

“Temptation? As if. Would I ever fall for someone like that aunt?”

At Seongjin’s words, their faces brightened.

Knowing he hadn’t gone over to another woman was enough to make them feel like they were in paradise.

“Aunt…? Did you just call me aunt again?!”

Collapsing to the floor, Kang Juhee shouted in frustration.

“Then what’s wrong with me! What do I lack that you won’t fall for this nuna!”

“I told you, there’s nothing for me to fall for.”

That boy was definitely not normal.

If he was a living, breathing male, he should have fallen for her!

“I’m going insane! And you call yourself a man?”

“Of course I’m a man. What do I look like to you?”

Seongjin was baffled—what on earth was this aunt talking about all this time?

She couldn’t even tell the difference between genders.

“Give me a break! It’s not like you’re impotent…!”

Fwooooosh—

“Huh…?”

Kang Juhee’s right hand suddenly burst into flames.

“Kyaaaaaaaaa!”

Her arm instantly engulfed in black fire, Kang Juhee let out a piercing scream.

Then, in a moment, Seongjin transformed into someone else.

“What the hell did you just say?”

An Demon God that should never have awakened… was now awakened.

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