## Chapter 210 – (2)
“What’s your name?”
I asked casually, glancing at the menu.
“M-Me? Seulgi, Park Seulgi.”
I and the woman, Seulgi, were inside a restaurant.
Seulgi was looking around nervously, while I was pondering over the pictures of the dishes on the menu.
It was a place that served ribs and Pyongyang cold noodles.
And it was quite expensive.
Three times the price of a regular rib restaurant.
Was it because it was inside a department store?
Or was it because of the large “Korean Beef” sign?
I was fine with Australian beef, to be honest.
For the record, I dragged Seulgi in here because I was hungry.
Seulgi also peeked at the menu and her expression hardened.
“The price…”
“I’ll pay, so just order whatever you want.”
“No, I can’t…”
“It’s okay.”
I told Seulgi not to worry as she looked at the menu with concern, but at the same time, I felt a little puzzled.
“…But to be able to enter a department store…”
I remembered a department store employee in a security uniform asking for my card or name to check my membership level.
So, if Seulgi had gone through that process to enter, she must have a pretty high level at the department store.
And that camera around her neck.
That alone must be worth a fortune.
But she thinks this menu is expensive?
“Ah… I snuck in.”
“…Ah.”
“Just as the security guard was going to the restroom…”
That one sentence cleared up all my questions.
I called the waiter and ordered a lot of food.
A whole lot.
It seemed like I ordered almost five servings.
Being in a proper restaurant in modern times after being in the Murim world made my appetite explode.
Korean food is the best for Koreans after all.
Seeing me like that, Seulgi smiled awkwardly and closed the menu, saying I ordered too much so she didn’t need to order anything.
Well, I did order a lot.
Seulgi glanced around, and as the waiter moved away, she asked me.
“…So, what was that about earlier?”
“Pardon?”
“About… saying you’d break them up…”
“Ah.”
I am a womanizer.
Especially when I see a woman in a couple, I unconsciously use my emotions.
What can I hide?
I had a thing for taking other people’s women.
That’s when I saw the couple’s photo on the camera and used my womanizing emotion on the woman, and along with the emotion, it appeared.
A quest.
[Womanizer: Money, Big Cock, Sadist]
[Tame the woman to save the idol.]
[Reward: Quest Board Skill]
Saving a man didn’t appeal to me at all.
However, taming a sadistic woman was an interesting quest.
Moreover, the reward was leveling up my main skill.
And the two of them didn’t seem to have an ordinary relationship.
While using my emotion on the woman, I couldn’t help but read the man’s desires as well.
His desires included being a master and a masochist.
“It’s exactly what it sounds like.”
“Exactly what it sounds like… How are you going to break them up? Are you going to threaten them with this photo or something?”
I chuckled.
Would the two of them break up with just this photo?
I don’t think so.
They say love blinds people, but desire is even worse.
I felt that as I conquered many women.
I’ve rehabilitated villains and ended deep one-sided loves that lasted for years in just one night.
The photo was just to read the woman’s desires and see her appearance in detail.
I didn’t need much to break up a couple.
Once I meet them, I can solve this.
But I couldn’t say that as it is, so I made something up.
“I’m not threatening them. I just think I know who that woman is.”
“R-Really?”
“She’s a really bad woman.”
Most likely, the woman is having an inappropriate relationship with the idol, Jinwoo.
It’s probably not a lover relationship, but a master-slave relationship.
Why else would the man’s desires include the title of master?
“That’s right?! Our baby was deceived, wasn’t he?!”
Suddenly, Seulgi nodded vigorously and leaned in.
The way she called Jinwoo also changed to “our baby.”
She was almost in tears, saying she knew it all along and believed it.
Seeing her look like she was being saved by my made-up words made me feel a little guilty.
‘…No, maybe those words are right.’
Maybe the truth is similar.
Maybe the woman seduced and manipulated Jinwoo for money.
“Please, save our baby.”
“Yes, I’ll help you. But—”
“But?”
“Please tell me the idol Jinwoo’s schedule.”
At my words, Seulgi hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
“Yes…! I will! For Jinwoo.”
Thus, our cooperative relationship began.
***
“Living a busy life.”
I arrived home, lay on the sofa, and looked at the man, Jinwoo’s schedule.
It was the schedule Seulgi sent me.
He only had about three days off in a month.
Only three days off in a month.
It was almost like he was being exploited like a machine.
“Three broadcasts a day?”
It was a schedule befitting a popular member of an idol group that was at its peak.
And even in the midst of all this, he’s meeting his master and enjoying those kinds of games.
I don’t know what to say.
He was an incredibly diligent slave in many ways.
Maybe that’s how he relieves the stress of being overworked.
“This schedule is a big help.”
I’m glad I decided to cooperate.
I didn’t expect her to give me such detailed information.
I never thought she’d send me a whole month’s worth of schedule.
I quietly made inferences while looking at the schedule.
When will Jinwoo meet that woman?
“First, eliminate these days.”
I excluded days with no work and days with too much work, more than three schedules.
I excluded days with a lot of schedules because he wouldn’t have enough time and would be too tired from the excessive schedule, and I excluded days with no work because I couldn’t track him in the first place.
Yes, there was a reason why I asked her to send me this schedule.
Stalking, tailing.
Whatever you call it, I was going to follow Jinwoo that day.
To find out where that woman in the photo is.
So, even if he’s likely to go to that woman on days with no schedule, it doesn’t matter to me.
Because it’s hard to tail him.
And I also excluded local performances.
It’s hard to tail him, and local schedules have long travel times, so even if it’s just one schedule, including the travel time, it’s like doing two or three schedules.
“Then it’s this.”
Four days from now.
Fan signing event.
It’s in Seoul, and the schedule ends relatively quickly.
After roughly deciding, I picked up my phone and called Seulgi.
“H-Hello?”
Her trembling voice could be heard over the phone.
“Yes, you remember we agreed to cooperate, right?”
“…Y-Yes! I sent you the schedule…?”
I gratefully received the schedule, but there was still more I needed to ask.
“Do you drive?”
“Yes? Yes… I do.”
“Please help me on the day of the fan signing event.”
“Yes? …I’m going anyway…”
She’s attending this fan signing event too.
She’s still a fan.
That’s perfect.
“Bring sunglasses, a mask, and a hat that day.”
“…Are we going to hide our faces more than the idols?”
Seulgi, who hadn’t heard that we were going to tail him yet, was puzzled but said she understood.
I told her what to bring and hung up.
All that was left was to relieve my body’s fatigue until the day of the fan signing event.
“Haaam…”
I yawned and lay down in the car.
Of course, it wasn’t my car. I was studying for my license with an app, but I hadn’t even taken the written test yet.
This was Seulgi’s car.
I was alone in this car.
I glanced outside and saw a pretty big building.
It was the building of a terrestrial broadcasting station.
“They’re holding the fan signing event at a broadcasting station…”
Is the broadcasting station helping because it’s a famous group?
As someone who doesn’t know much about idols, it was a somewhat mismatched location.
As time passed, fans were seen walking out of the broadcasting station with serene expressions, as if they had been purified.
It seemed the fan signing event had ended after a long time.
Even so, Seulgi didn’t come out easily.
She must be fulfilling her role as a homma.
About 20 minutes later, Seulgi was seen coming out surrounded by several women.
“…She’s almost a celebrity herself.”
Because of her photography skills and Jinwoo’s popularity, Seulgi herself seemed to be well-known to many fans.
Seulgi was pushed around and awkwardly talked to the female fans before belatedly getting into the car.
“Hoo…”
“…You’re popular.”
“Popularity… They’re all just trying to get a picture…”
“Aren’t you going to post them on SNS anyway?”
“Well… They want pictures that didn’t come out well or pictures of other members.”
“Is that so?”
I didn’t quite understand.
I understood wanting pictures of other members.
But why pictures that didn’t come out well?
“We have the mindset that even our baby’s unflattering pictures are cute.”
“…Is that so?”
I tried to understand and moved on.
We turned the car around and parked it near the parking lot.
Many fans were already waiting near the parking lot, as if they were seeing him off.
And as the car moved, we slowly followed behind.
“Is this okay?”
“You’ve done illegal filming too, right?”
“No, my hand just moved on its own…”
Seulgi was trembling slightly, looking worried.
It was a tremor that made the passenger uneasy.
“I can’t believe I’m going to end up tailing Jinwoo…”
“Be careful not to get caught.”
“Y-Yes…”
We kept a little distance so as not to be suspected, and followed behind.
The car was heading deeper into Seoul.
It was also deliberately circling around in place.
I had a good feeling about this.
