Chapter 92 – Olivier's Romance (1)

“Ah, I’m exhausted…”

Without even washing up, Olivier sprawled out on the sofa.

“Is it because all my clones are working? I’m so tired.”

She was currently using three clones.

Kim Min-jung, the secretary to the Bureau Director.

Kim Min-ah, the aide to the Hanul Guild President.

And Kim Min-ju, a researcher at the Hunter Research Institute.

The Bureau had recently suffered a terrorist attack, which had led to calls for the Director’s impeachment.

Thanks to that, she, his aide, had become incredibly busy as well.

“There’s just too much work.”

Humans were busy fighting amongst themselves.

The position of Bureau Director for Disaster Management had always been a coveted one.

Ever since the age of Gates began, any position that could exert influence over hunters was at the core of power.

Now that the Bureau had been attacked, calls for the Director’s impeachment were pouring in, blaming his incompetence for the tragedy.

Of course, the Director’s allies were working to block these efforts, but the fallout seemed to be greater than expected.

“Humans, I swear.”

In a situation where they should all be uniting their strength, they were busy being divided and fighting each other.

All to protect their own interests.

At least the Demon King hadn’t been like that.

That was also the reason she had come to follow him.

The Demon King didn’t discriminate by race; he bound everyone together in the name of freedom.

When he became the king of monsters with his absolute charisma, no one could stop him.

The Demon King sought to reign as the supreme ruler of the continent.

That was when the Hero was summoned.

The Hero who wielded the Holy Sword.

The appearance of a man who embodied the system’s miracles.

In just one year, the Hero and the Seven Kingdoms Alliance subjugated the Demon King’s army.

The bitterness of that time was indescribable.

All because of a sudden outsider, the Demon King had died.

Having lost their focal point, the Demon King, the legions scattered.

After that, the war of the Seven Kingdoms for hegemony over the continent began.

The Hero, sacrificed for the sake of power, took up his sword to protect his beliefs.

Normally, the Hero would have been defeated. But with the Ten-Year War, the Hero brought the Seven Kingdoms to their knees.

“The Hero…”

It was a word originally filled with enmity.

But now, it felt a bit more complicated.

A powerful enemy. It was a strange feeling to have such a person on her side.

When she met the Hero again, she had once asked the Demon King, Im Jae-joon.

If he held a grudge against the Hero.

She wasn’t questioning the Demon King’s magnanimity. But it was also strange to think he held no grudge against the one who had thwarted his grand ambition.

-If I had failed, I might have held a grudge.

That was the Demon King’s answer.

In the end, the continent the Hero had created was the world the Demon King had desired.

Only their methods had been different.

*Beep, click.*

Just then, the door opened and a woman in an office suit walked in.

It was the clone ‘Kim Min-ah,’ returning from her work at the Hanul Guild.

As soon as the clone entered the house, she naturally dissolved into fragments of data and vanished.

The clone was absorbed into Olivier’s main body.

At that moment, Olivier furrowed her brow.

Here we go again. That lunatic.

* * *

“Good morning, ma’am.”

“It’s hot today. Have a good day.”

The security guard at the desk stared blankly at the woman who walked past after offering a kind greeting.

She was a flower on a cliff, seemingly unreachable even if one stretched out a hand.

She was beautiful, excellent at her job, and said to have a brilliant career.

As the president’s direct aide, she was a career woman who stirred the hearts of many men.

*Click, clack.*

Walking down the hallway, Kim Min-ah, or rather Olivier, was heading not to the aide’s office today, but to Team 3.

She had urgent business with Lee Hyunbin.

*Screeeak.*

As she opened the door to Team 3’s training room, she was met with a wave of sweltering heat.

Some people were lifting weights, and in one corner, a blond-haired man lay collapsed like a corpse.

At the tip of the blond man’s finger was a dying message written in blood.

*Ssk-*

The letters, spelling out ‘Lee Hyun-b,’ were erased by Olivier’s foot as she walked past.

Perhaps in the past, but now, the Hero was family, in the same boat as her.

Any harm to him would directly affect her as well.

“Team Leader Lee?”

“Ah, what’s up?”

The obnoxious man had just finished a sparring match and was climbing down from the ring with a refreshed look on his face.

On the ring, the three foreign brothers who had recently joined were splayed out.

Lean, practical muscle, not apparent when he was clothed.

Her eyes were drawn to him before she knew it, and Olivier flinched, quickly averting her gaze.

Lee Hyunbin, who was wiping sweat with a towel, arched his eyebrows. Then, as if he were in a bodybuilding competition, he struck a pose and asked.

“How’s this? Looking good?”

“Hmph… I’m not interested in scrawny muscles like that.”

“I’m not interested in your scrawny…”

Olivier threw a surprise punch at Lee Hyunbin’s jaw.

“What? Why’d you hit me? Huh? Huh?”

“You don’t know how scary the world is these days.”

With a frown, Olivier gestured with her eyes for him to come to the office for a moment.

With a disgruntled look, Lee Hyunbin followed her inside, rubbing his jaw.

“What? What is it?”

“I have something to ask of you, Hero.”

“Help? What kind of help? D-Don’t tell me…”

At Olivier’s words, Lee Hyunbin slightly covered his body. Seeing this, Olivier scoffed in disbelief.

“I’m not interested in your body, so please…”

“Ah, right…”

Truthfully, being a succubus, she wasn’t entirely uninterested. But if she gave this man even the slightest opening, he would surely torment her endlessly.

“The thing is, for a while now…”

Olivier hesitated for a moment before speaking.

Lee Hyunbin tilted his head, wondering what could make her so reluctant to speak.

“What, what is it?”

“Ahem, I’ve been getting stalked recently…”

“Hmm…”

At first, she thought she might be mistaken. That it might just be her ego.

Of course, when she walked down the street, she did receive the attention of many men.

Wondering if she was just imagining things, she used a detection skill on her way home from work and found someone was indeed following her the entire way.

It had already been a week.

The stalker was persistently following her, monitoring her every move.

“Hmm, what kind of jobless loser would… Isn’t it just your ego?”

“What did you say?”

“I mean, can’t you just catch him yourself? A former Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King’s army is asking the Hero for help because you can’t catch one measly pervert?”

“Well…”

Olivier’s voice trailed off at Lee Hyunbin’s words. He had a point.

But unfortunately.

“I haven’t recovered my synchronization rate yet, so I haven’t gotten my strength back, you see?”

“You should at least have some attack skills, right? Just enough not to kill him…”

“I don’t…”

“You don’t?”

“My synchronization rate is only at 1% right now…”

At Olivier’s words, Lee Hyunbin looked dumbfounded.

“W-Well, I can’t help it! For an Elder Succubus to recover her synchronization rate, she has to, you know…”

“You know what?”

“That…”

“Ah, absorb essence?”

Olivier’s fine brow furrowed.

Lee Hyunbin started to chuckle, thoroughly amused.

“1%? Isn’t that like, you’ve only flirted a little? What have you been doing all this time? You had such an aura back in the other world, so why are you like this here?”

“Hmph… It’s not like I did anything special over there either, you know? Just being near people was enough for it to be absorbed naturally.”

“Ah, is that so.”

Olivier let out a low sigh.

“Why don’t you just try meeting the stalker? You never know, he could be a pure-hearted man who genuinely loves you.”

“Hmph… Following me all the way to my house and rummaging through my mailbox is disgusting. You think that’s a pure-hearted man?”

“Huh? He’s a psycho, then?”

Lee Hyunbin blinked at Olivier’s words.

That was definitely not the level of someone just following her because he liked her. That was a crime.

“So you just need me to get rid of him, right?”

Olivier pressed her lips together and nodded her head.

* * *

It’s been a while.

The soft touch of spandex against my skin.

The crimson full-body suit that revealed my muscles. The gloves and boots fitted to my hands and feet.

The perfectly placed belt at my waist and the brilliantly shining helmet.

After a very long time, I was once again Justice Man, striding through the streets.

I activated the Justice Armor’s camouflage function.

My vision turned to grayscale, and I felt a sense of solitude, as if I were the only one left in the world.

Olivier sent a signal. I received it and began to follow her.

A stalker. What a pointless thing to do.

If you truly like someone, you should either confess to them head-on, or give up cleanly.

Just trailing after someone is not manly.

Olivier’s route home from work.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

Along the way, she saw a chicken skewer stand and I could see her practically drooling.

After some hesitation, she bought a chicken skewer and began munching on it as she walked.

After throwing the skewer stick in a trash can, she entered a movie theater.

A movie theater?

What the hell is she doing?

She said there was a stalker. She asked me to catch the stalker, so what is this?

No, wait.

Olivier might seem thoughtless, but she did serve as a strategist in the Demon King’s army.

She would never do something without a reason.

Indeed.

Thinking about it again, a movie theater is a special place where everyone just watches the screen. But what would a stalker watch?

He would only watch the person he’s following.

In other words, the man not watching the screen is the culprit.

I stroked my chin.

As expected of Olivier, that’s quite clever.

I looked around to find the culprit who was about to fall into the trap she had set.

-Are you having fun?

A sudden message from Olivier startled me.

Was this girl watching me instead of looking for the stalker?

Ahem. Anyway, there was no one suspicious in the theater.

But the movie is really good.

-They say this is the number one box office hit right now.

It was based on a famous fantasy novel, and the CG was great, and the camaraderie was well-portrayed.

Watching it really gets you pumped up.

After the movie ended, Olivier went outside.

I quietly followed her.

The next place Olivier went was a department store.

What are you doing?

The girl who said she was worried about a stalker is just wandering around aimlessly.

After trying on a new outfit, Olivier struck a few poses in front of a full-length mirror.

-Is this outfit too flashy?

No, your outfits back in the other world were the flashy ones.

Honestly, think about it. She used to walk around in fishnets and garter belts all the time.

Ah, though I did see her blush in shame sometimes.

Being a succubus must be tough in its own way. They have a reputation to maintain in their circle, so I guess clothes like that are like a uniform to them.

The tedious shopping continued.

Trying on clothes, picking out a few she liked.

Sigh…

Thanks to her three jobs, she gets three times the salary.

Amazing. She has no hesitation when it comes to shopping.

A single bag easily costs between 3 to 5 million won.

-These little ones are what give me the energy to live.

“Ah, I see.”

-Should I buy one for you too, Hero?

“Why me?”

-A reward for helping me today?

Considering that a busy person like me is following her around just to catch one stalker.

-Don’t you know the three pillars of a man’s pride are his wallet, belt, and watch? I can at least buy you a wallet. As payment for granting my request.

“Pride, my ass.”

But the men’s wallet Olivier picked up looked like it was made of good material.

She’s going to buy me an expensive wallet just for following her once?

-You don’t know if it’ll be once, or twice, do you?

This was the first time I’d ever wished for a stalker to show up quickly.

Olivier received the wrapped wallet and paid for it in a single payment. After that, she shopped for another three hours.

Wow, this is driving me crazy.

By the time we were done, the night had grown dark.

Of course, even in the city at night, there were plenty of people.

-Hero.

Yeah, I know who it is too.

He’s just blatantly suspicious.

At first, I thought Olivier was overreacting.

But someone really did start following her.

A trench coat, hat, and sunglasses in the early summer weather.

This wasn’t the three pillars of a man’s pride, but something more like the holy trinity of a pervert’s setup.

I began to tail the stalker who was tailing Olivier.