## Chapter 139 – 139. A Night Out
“You really made a mess of things, huh?”
“…I know.”
“Weren’t you going to apologize?”
“…”
At a secluded café, Choi Hyena sipped her coffee.
Wendigo, sitting across from her, nonchalantly ate a cookie while observing her with indifferent eyes.
“What are you going to do now? You turned his house into a disaster zone.”
“That’s…”
*Ring ring*, just then, Hyena’s phone rang, and she picked it up.
[Secretary Kim]
One of her aides.
“What’s up?”
-Madam, I’ve handled things as you instructed.
“What about the other residents?”
-Everyone except for three households that we couldn’t reach has accepted the compensation package. We’ll finish up by tomorrow morning at the latest.
“Okay.”
*Click*, only then could Hyena breathe a sigh of relief.
Immediately after leaving Kang Hyunwoo’s house, she had instructed her aide to purchase the entire villa building to minimize the aftermath.
In addition, she promised compensation and building repairs to prevent the villa residents from protesting to Kang Hyunwoo.
She had also called in a restoration mage, so Kang Hyunwoo’s wrecked house would be restored to its original state by tomorrow afternoon.
Now, all that remained was the identity of the indigenous woman she met at Kang Hyunwoo’s house and her relationship with Kang Hyunwoo.
“She called Hyunwoo ‘Master,’ right? So, she’s either his lover or a fuck buddy, right?”
“A f-fuck buddy??”
“Hmm? Don’t tell me you don’t even know what a fuck buddy is?”
“I know!”
Sex friend, a relationship to satisfy each other’s sexual desires without any emotional attachment.
For Hyena, who grew up in a conservative family, it was like something from another world.
“…I don’t think she’s a fuck buddy.”
She didn’t know why she called him “Master,” but at least she could feel the indigenous woman’s affection for Kang Hyunwoo when she looked at him.
Besides, Kang Hyunwoo didn’t seem like he would prefer such a casual relationship.
“…He said he had another lover before.”
“Hmph? Figures.”
Unlike Hyena, who was struggling to continue the conversation, Wendigo reacted lightly, as if it were a matter of course.
Hyena felt somewhat displeased with that attitude.
“Aren’t you bothered at all?”
Wendigo chuckled and sipped her coffee.
“I’m the one who doesn’t understand why you’re upset. Isn’t it natural for a man with high social status to have relationships with multiple women?”
“That’s…”
“Besides, I remember Hyunwoo telling you beforehand that he had another lover, right? Strictly speaking, you’re the latecomer. If anyone should be angry or upset, it’s that indigenous female.”
Hyena bit her lip at the piercingly accurate statement.
But if accurate statements could solve everything, the world wouldn’t be in such a mess.
After conducting her own investigation, she found that Kang Hyunwoo didn’t have a lover, or even any close female friends.
That’s why she might have been relieved for the past three days.
That no woman would take Kang Hyunwoo’s side while she was away.
But to think that he was rolling around with another woman while she was regretting and suffering…
*Bang!*
Hyena slammed her fist on the table.
The table didn’t break because she didn’t imbue it with magic.
“What are you going to do?”
She hadn’t been forgiven yet, and she had even made another mistake, but she had no intention of giving up here.
“…I’ll have to do things my way.”
If she was going to give up here, she would have given up a long time ago.
***
“Master?”
Noel approached, wearing a black mask that only revealed her blue eyes.
“Huh?”
“What’s wrong all of a sudden? You’ve been quiet since a while ago.”
“…My ears were just itchy.”
“Itchy ears?”
It was a strange feeling.
It felt like someone was talking about me.
“Should I clean your ears for you?”
“…Our ear structures are different from humans. Can you do it?”
I was worried that she might puncture my eardrum while cleaning my ears.
“Hey, I’m not some ignorant carnivore. I’m very delicate.”
“That’s speciesism.”
“But it seems like people here prefer herbivores to clean their ears, right?”
“…What?”
“I saw flyers for ‘Beastkin Ear Cleaning’ shops all over the streets. They were advertising that they had our kind, goats, and deer girls.”
“…”
There was no point in asking when she had seen all that, since Noel had been constantly distracted by sightseeing since we left the house.
She would exclaim in admiration whenever she saw a tall building, and if she smelled food, she would run over and ask me to buy it for her, like a country girl who had just come to the city.
‘…Well, I’d rather have an herbivore clean my ears than a carnivore.’
Basically, many carnivorous beastkin are violent.
Omnivores like humans are relatively normal, and herbivores are often kind and pure.
Of course, that doesn’t mean they’re naive fools who don’t know anything about the world.
“By the way, what should we do with this?”
Noel pointed to the corpses lying on the floor.
Kang Changwon, Kim Yumi, and Kim Jangjun.
They were city council members from Seongnam who had committed various corrupt acts in the current redevelopment of Taepeong-dong, such as forcing cooperation from related organizations, manipulating resident consent procedures, and distorting redevelopment information.
Not many city council members were directly involved in this redevelopment.
Most of them just kept silent after receiving kickbacks.
But these three were different.
As city council members who were particularly shady, they seemed to be close, as there was information that they often visited hotels together.
Based on that information, Noel and I raided a hotel on the outskirts of the city, where we found the three of them indulging in drug-fueled sex.
‘There was a reason they were so shady.’
I looked at the drugs left on the table.
It was a drug made from Paradise Starfruit, a fruit that only grows in certain gates.
It was called P.S because its particles were star-shaped.
Its addictiveness and side effects were so severe that it was once widely covered in the news.
But I knew that the company that distributed P.S and several guilds that cooperated with it had been caught and disappeared.
‘Where did they get this?’
It wasn’t something that an ordinary city council member could obtain. Even in South Korea, which is known as a drug-free country, there were several addicts, and I heard that the government was cracking down on it.
“…It’s none of my business.”
I quickly lost interest. I’m not a cop, and it wasn’t my job to investigate the drug’s background.
“Noel, let’s go back. I’ll cast the invisibility spell again.”
Even for Noel, who was a summoned beast, casting the ‘Phantom Shifter’ spell on someone else required a significant amount of magic power.
It was best to leave the scene before anything troublesome happened.
“Um, but Master.”
“What?”
“Why didn’t you torture them?”
Noel asked with a pure and innocent expression, as if she was genuinely curious.
“You said you tortured and killed the other two last time. But you just cleanly beheaded these three.”
As Noel said, the three of them were beheaded while indulging in drug-fueled sex.
They probably didn’t even realize their heads were being cut off until the moment they died.
“Could it be… are you worried about me?”
“That’s just you being self-conscious.”
I stretched Noel’s cheeks, who was making a flower pose under her chin.
“Ahayooh…”
“Stop exaggerating.”
As Noel said, unlike the last time with the district head and the committee chairman, this time I just ended it by roughly cutting off their heads.
But that didn’t mean I was being considerate of Noel. In the first place, Noel wasn’t the type to tremble at the sight of corpses.
Rather, she was the type who wouldn’t care if someone she wasn’t related to died.
“I’m not a psychopath. I only torture the guys who led this whole thing.”
The Gyeonggi Province governor, the director of urban planning, the district head, and finally, the chairman of the redevelopment promotion committee.
I’ve already dealt with the last two, so now all that’s left is the Gyeonggi Province governor and the director of urban planning.
“And it’s time to confuse the investigation a bit.”
Of course, there’s a connection to the Taepeong-dong redevelopment, but unlike the previous two, I didn’t torture them, so it’ll be difficult to be sure that it’s the same culprit.
In the first place, there are so many shady people that there will be plenty of suspects even if they investigate a little.
“Hmm… Oh, right! Can I buy a late-night snack on the way back??”
“…Didn’t you eat before we came?”
Noel ate 10 servings by herself at a Korean restaurant two hours ago. By the way, it was a famous restaurant known for its large portions.
Someone even asked if she was a mukbang YouTuber.
“Hehe.”
“…Have you decided on the menu?”
“Of course! Chicken!”
“Didn’t you eat that for lunch?”
“I never get tired of chicken!”
Is that so? I’m getting a little tired of it.
I’m not good at eating greasy food in the first place.
“Let’s stop by somewhere before that.”
“Yes? Where?”
I stroked Noel’s head and activated the magic. My body and hers became transparent.
“To catch some gangsters.”
***
Weekend mornings are always nice, whether it’s now or then.
No, objectively, it’s better now.
Even though Noel is a bit noisy and busy eating when she’s awake, it’s perfect to hug her when she’s asleep like now.
She’s soft no matter where I touch her, and she always smells good.
‘I was thinking of going to the dojo, but should I just skip it today…’
As I was rubbing Noel’s chest in a drowsy mood, I didn’t want to get out of bed.
*Ding-dong*
But there was an uninvited guest who broke the pleasant silence.
‘…I should just ignore it.’
*Ding-dong*
A persistent uninvited guest.
“Ugh… It’s noisy…”
“What, you were awake?”
“I just woke up…”
*Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong*
“Agh…!”
Noel, who was blocking her long ear canals with both hands, eventually hid under the blanket.
That doesn’t make the culprit disappear.
Honestly, it was absurd. Pressing someone’s doorbell repeatedly on a weekend morning was practically asking for a fight.
“Hmph… I can’t help it. I choose you, Noel.”
“Yes…? Are you telling me to go out?”
“Should the master go out?”
“…I’m confiscating your chest for today.”
*Rustle*, I hurriedly got out of bed.
“A summoned beast threatening its master… What a world we live in.”
But I couldn’t give up my chest.
Still drowsy from sleep, I sluggishly headed to the front door.
In the meantime, there was no wall between the bedroom and the living room, so I could go straight to the front door.
My heart ached whenever I stepped on the debris that I hadn’t cleaned up yet.
*Ding-dong*
“Okay, I’m coming.”
If they came to proselytize, I was confident that I could dispose of a corpse.
*Slam*, I opened the front door while suppressing my murderous intent. An unexpected person was standing there.
“Ahem, ahem.”
“…Choi Hyena?”
An inexplicable sense of unease began to well up.
‘…I guess it’ll be okay since there’s nothing left to break?’
