Heroine App 19

Chapter 19 – Episode (1)

[Congratulations! ‘Clean Unpacking’ has been activated!]
[Acquire an item one grade higher than the box’s grade.]
[Congratulations! You have acquired the item, ‘Heavenly Flame Qi Gong’.]

“Huh?”

One box disappeared, and in its place, a book-shaped icon like a textbook appeared.

‘Clean unpacking, huh….’

Is it like a critical success in other games?
Anyway, getting an item one grade higher was good news, so I happily clicked the icon to check the information of the item I obtained.

[Heavenly Flame Qi Gong]
◆ Grade: 9th Grade
◆ Category: Book
◆ Description: A self-made item by the Heroine App to learn the basic mind method of the One Flame Divine Style, Heavenly Flame Qi Gong. It comes with one ‘Qi Pill’.
◆ Option: None

“Heavenly… Flame Qi Gong?”

It’s a word I’ve never heard before. It sounds like something out of a martial arts novel…

Is it really something like martial arts? Suddenly, out of the blue, Qi Gong?

I was doubtful, but I nodded anyway.

Well, there are magical items that seem like they’re from a fantasy world, so it wouldn’t be strange to have something like martial arts. Since there’s no mention of a romance support option, I guess this kind of thing can come out of a box too.

“Let’s open the other remaining box.”

This time, I used a box with a romance support option.

[Using item, ‘Random Romance Support Option Item Box (Grade: 10)’.]
[Congratulations! You have acquired the item, ‘Virginity Detection Glasses’.]

“Virginity Detection Glasses?”

Unfortunately, it seems like the clean unpacking thing didn’t trigger this time.

But, detecting virginity?

…What is this?
I clicked the glasses-shaped icon to see the information.

[Virginity Detection Glasses]
◆ Grade: 10th Grade
◆ Category: Accessory
◆ Description: A self-made item by the Heroine App, modeled after magical glasses created by a 47-year-old virgin wizard who, filled with resentment for his life, decided to become a famous virgin hunter of the kingdom… When you wear the glasses and look at a woman, you can tell if she is a virgin or not.
◆ Option [-]
1. Virginity Detection
– When you look at a woman while wearing the glasses, you can tell if she is a virgin or not.

“……”

I thought there were a lot of strange items.

By the way, a 47-year-old virgin wizard. He’s much more serious than me.

Being a virgin for 47 years, he was capable of making such an item.

‘Should I try it out right away?’

It’s early morning now, and I’m sitting in a corner seat on the bus, so I won’t get caught summoning the item.

I carefully materialized the glasses and put them on my face. It was a bit uncomfortable since I don’t usually wear glasses.

‘Okay….’

Looking out the window, I could see women walking on the street. When I looked at them with the glasses on, messages floated above them.

[Virgin: X] [Virgin: X] [Virgin: O] [Virgin: X]

“……”

It was really just a pair of glasses that simply told you whether someone was a virgin or not.

‘What am I supposed to do with this?’

I thought, but well, I figured I’d use it someday, so I put the glasses back into my inventory.

‘Next is the Heavenly Flame Qi Gong….’

I got off the bus and went inside my house. And I immediately materialized the Heavenly Flame Qi Gong item.

– Thud

A neat book and a small wooden box fell to the floor.

First, I picked up the book and quickly skimmed through it.

“Oh.”

The book was about the thickness of an average high school textbook, and when I flipped through it, the explanations were very detailed.

It wasn’t just text; there were also pictures of people, and it seemed to clearly show the postures and incantations to take.

“If I learn this, can I use something like internal energy?”

The item description clearly stated that this Heavenly Flame Qi Gong was the basic mind method of something called the One Flame Divine Style. In martial arts novels, a mind method usually refers to a breathing technique for gathering internal energy, so if my guess is right, that’s probably it.

“But it looks like I have to study this myself.”

The items I’ve obtained so far, like the candy generator, laser stick, desire water converter, and virginity detection glasses, had magical effects on their own. But this book was different.

I had to learn the contents of the book myself.

I secretly hoped that the information in the book would enter my head as soon as I picked it up, but that didn’t happen.

Maybe that’s why the other items have options, but this item doesn’t.

‘The pill is….’

I put the book down and opened the wooden box that had fallen with it. Inside the box was a round, reddish, large pill. It was about the size of a thumb joint, and I instinctively felt that it contained a strange energy.

‘I don’t think I should eat it now.’

Looking at the pill, I had an ominous feeling that I shouldn’t just eat it. And just skimming through the book, I couldn’t understand anything.

‘Let’s read it in detail later.’

I decided to read it when I had time, and I slowly decided to use the coins.

‘First, should I raise Kang Su-jeong’s favorability a bit?’

I checked Kang Su-jeong’s current status on the Heroine App.

◆ Current Status
– [Favorability: 19]
– [Affinity: 12]
– [Lust: 29] [Appetite: 67] [Fatigue: 82]

‘Her favorability hasn’t changed.’

Her favorability was still at 19.

I had raised her favorability from 8 to 19, and then summoned her and forcibly violated her.

It’s a situation where her favorability should have dropped to a negative number, but the fact that it hasn’t changed means that she didn’t recognize my transformed appearance as me.

‘In other words, favorability only applies to what she perceives.’

I expected it, but it’s a good thing.
I tapped on her favorability.

[Would you like to sponsor coins to the heroine, ‘Kang Su-jeong’, to raise her current status, ‘Favorability’?]
[Favorability stat change: 19 -〉 20]
[Coin change: 2227 -〉 2217]
[(Yes / No)]

[Congratulations! The heroine, ‘Kang Su-jeong’s’ favorability has increased to ‘20’.]

[The heroine’s favorability has reached ‘20’ or higher!]
[An ‘Event’ item will be added to the heroine, Kang Su-jeong’s information.]

I was planning to raise her favorability to 50, but a message appeared before that.

“Event?”

Before I could even question it, an event item was newly created below Kang Su-jeong’s current status.

◆ Event
[Target: Kang Su-jeong]
[Time and Place: Today 11:32 AM, In front of Yellow Villa Room 401]
[Keywords: Grocery Shopping, V Mart]

“Hmm. 11:32 AM today, that’s in 4 hours.”

Yellow Villa was the name of the studio apartment building I was currently living in. I was living in room 401.

‘If it’s an event… does that mean I can meet Kang Su-jeong if I’m in front of my door in 4 hours?’

I didn’t know exactly what an event was, but I had a feeling that was it.

I was going to go find Kang Su-jeong anyway to check her changed favorability, so this was perfect. A natural meeting is always better.

“Let’s raise her favorability more for now.”

I raised her favorability even more. I had a lot of coins, so I could spend them freely.

[Would you like to sponsor coins to the heroine, ‘Kang Su-jeong’, to raise her current status, ‘Favorability’?]
[Favorability stat change: 29 -〉 30]
[Coin change: 2037 -〉 2017]
[(Yes / No)]

[Congratulations! The heroine, ‘Kang Su-jeong’s’ favorability has increased to ‘30’.]

But I couldn’t raise her favorability any higher after it reached 30.

[The current affinity is low. You must raise the affinity further to sponsor coins for favorability.]

‘Damn it.’

I knew it was too easy.

‘To raise favorability further, do I have to build affinity through events?’

I clicked my tongue in disappointment and closed the app.
I felt like I had to meet her first.

******

4 hours later.

“Alright.”

During the 4 hours until the event, I took a shower and closed my eyes for a while to get rid of my fatigue. After getting ready to go out, I stood in front of the front door with my ear pressed against it.

The current time was 11:31:30.

I waited quietly in front of the door a little before the event time, and finally, I heard the sound of someone opening the door upstairs and coming down the stairs.

– Thump, thump

‘She’s here.’

The sound of footsteps slowly approached. The speed of coming down the stairs was quite slow.

I waited patiently, and finally, the sound of footsteps almost reached the door.

Then, I naturally opened the door.

– Click

“Ah….”
“Oh. Hello?”

As expected, Kang Su-jeong was standing in front of the door.

Her eyes widened when I suddenly opened the door and came out. She looked at me for a moment and then greeted me back.

“Yes, hello….”

‘Oh, jackpot.’

It wasn’t a sharp, aggressive tone, but a polite and courteous greeting.

It was definitely different from her previous attitude, which was full of blatant aggression, probably because I had reached a favorability of 30.

‘But something feels off?’

Even though the aggression was gone, there was no strength in her voice.

‘Oh.’

I looked at her with a sense of unease, and when I looked at her closely, her eyes were swollen, and she looked extremely tired, as if she hadn’t slept well.

Moreover, she was leaning against the handrail of the stairs, as if she couldn’t even stand properly.

I asked her, as if worried.

“Um, is something wrong?”
“Ah, no, nothing’s wrong.”

She flinched at my question and momentarily made a sad face. But she quickly changed her expression and forced a smile.

‘Hmm. I guess I was a bit harsh yesterday.’

When I violated her, she might have felt physical pleasure, but it was her first time, and it was rape. She must have been going through a lot mentally.

Moreover, the cream that turned pain into pleasure only lasted for 3 hours.

While under the effect of the cream, the pain might have felt like pleasure, but after the effect wore off, it must have been really hard. It must have felt like the pain all came at once after the anesthesia wore off.

‘Ugh.’

Seeing her like that made me feel a little sorry. But I quickly shook my head.

‘I can’t regret it.’

I’ve already walked down the path of trash.

Once I’ve decided to walk down the path of trash, I have to walk it to the end, and thoroughly walk the path of trash.

Regretting it now would only make things more ambiguous.

‘But I don’t want my heroine to have trauma.’

If that’s the case, then the only thing I can do is give her even more intense pleasure that will cover up even that pain.

In my transformed form, I’ll give her extreme pleasure. In this form, I’ll be kind to her and approach her.

I made a truly worried expression.

“You don’t look like nothing’s wrong at all. Did you perhaps fight with your friend?”
“Ah. Ye-hwa… that’s definitely not it!”
“But something is wrong. Is it because of that red string or something?”
“Red string? Ah!”

She tilted her head for a moment and then spoke as if she had remembered.

“That’s not it either. And… I’m really sorry about that time. I guess I was a bit sensitive.”

She apologized to me. Something that was unthinkable when her favorability was in the single digits.

“No, I’m the one who’s sorry. I think I was too harsh back then.”

I apologized back to her, as asking any more questions would be rude, and then I remained silent.

“……”
“……”

We stood there silently for 10 seconds.

She fidgeted with her fingers, as if the atmosphere was awkward, and then spoke first.

“Um… you can go first.”
“Would you like to go together?”
“Huh?”

She asked, surprised by my words. I smiled and shook the shopping basket I had prepared in advance in front of her.

“I’m going grocery shopping right now. Since you have a shopping basket in your hand, I thought you might be going grocery shopping too.”
“Ah… that’s right. I’m going grocery shopping too.”
“That’s perfect. Then, would you like to go together? You don’t look like you’re in good condition, so I’ll carry your things for you.”

She looked slightly surprised, but then nodded.

“…Okay. Thank you.”

Actually, I usually eat cup noodles or delivery food, so I don’t go grocery shopping often, but since the word ‘grocery shopping’ was in the event, I had prepared a shopping basket that I had stuffed in my room.

And when I came out of the door and saw the shopping basket next to her handbag, I realized that was the right answer.

‘I see how the event works.’

“Then let’s go.”
“Okay.”

I smiled inwardly and began to help her down the stairs, one step at a time.