## Chapter 140 – 140. Truth
#140. Truth
I took the suddenly appearing Choi Hyena into the house.
“…Sorry.”
Choi Hyena whispered in a low voice, looking at the desolate living room, which was far from having a sofa and was full of scorched marks.
Judging by the fact that she was at least aware of her wrongdoing, Choi Hyena was better than the rabbit who demolished the wall and turned a three-room into a two-room just because of a slightly wrong gift.
“It’s okay.”
It was true that my heart felt bitter every time I saw the empty living room, but everyone makes mistakes.
I was willing to forgive my woman’s mistakes as long as they didn’t cross the line.
Besides, Choi Hyena had even promised to take responsibility and restore it to its original state.
“Anyway, what’s going on from this morning?”
I treated Choi Hyena as usual, as if nothing had happened.
Choi Hyena’s condition was too poor to bring up the pregnancy incident. She was covering it with makeup, but if you looked closely, you could see quite dark circles under her eyes.
For a mage who handles magic power to become like that, simply staying up for a few nights wouldn’t be enough.
It seemed she had been suffering a lot lately.
Thinking of Choi Hyena, who must have been having a hard time in secret, I couldn’t just treat her coldly.
In the first place, I wasn’t really angry with Choi Hyena.
“…Are you busy today?”
“Today?”
It would be a lie to say I wasn’t busy, but I couldn’t coldly send away my lover, who had dark circles under her eyes, for such a trivial reason.
“I’m okay until dinner.”
“Th, then…!”
“Master?”
A faint wrinkle appeared on Choi Hyena’s forehead at the voice coming from beyond the collapsed wall.
Without anyone saying anything, my gaze and Choi Hyena’s gaze turned at the same time, and there stood Noel, scratching her stomach through the slightly raised hoodie.
“Oh? The terrorist from yesterday?”
“…”
Noel, looking at Choi Hyena with curious eyes, and Choi Hyena, looking at Noel with hostile eyes, met in the air.
I quietly closed my mouth at the unusual atmosphere. Prematurely intervening seemed even more dangerous.
A curve was drawn on Noel’s lips as she looked at Choi Hyena.
“Did you come to blow up the house again?”
Choi Hyena’s eyes sank coldly at Noel’s words full of laughter.
“…That was my mistake, so I have nothing to say. But I don’t think I should hear that from someone who isn’t even the homeowner. What is your relationship with my ‘fiancé’?”
Strictly speaking, we were in a relationship where we promised to be engaged.
But I wasn’t so oblivious as to say such a thing in front of Choi Hyena, who was subtly emphasizing the word fiancé.
Besides, if I touched her wrong this time, not just the house but the entire building might be blown away.
“Well, it’s a close relationship connected soul to soul. Isn’t that right, Master?”
Noel came to my side and suddenly leaned against me, linking arms.
‘Did she eat something wrong? Why is she suddenly acting like this?’
Gritting sounds could be heard from somewhere.
“Haa… But you were too much last night. I begged you so much to stop, but you didn’t even let me sleep all night until morning…”
This time, the sound was so loud that I was worried about someone’s dental health.
“What are you talking about? You just fell asleep yesterday because you were sleepy…”
“Shh.”
My attempt to correct the false information was stopped by a finger poking my side.
Noel blatantly stroked my chest and stomach, giving Choi Hyena an open smile.
I had heard that the herbivore types had good personalities, but it seemed that was just my prejudice.
I should have known when she was tearing apart the chicken yesterday, she wasn’t an ordinary rabbit, but a carnivorous rabbit.
I was so dumbfounded that a hollow laugh came out without me realizing it.
Suddenly, I felt a soft and warm sensation digging into my opposite side, and my head turned.
“…Did you really do it?”
“What?”
“Did you really do it all night long…!”
Choi Hyena’s eyes were trembling slightly as she looked at me.
“Of course. I can’t even sleep at night without me…”
“You be quiet.”
I pulled on Noel’s lips, who was trying to make the situation troublesome with strange bravado.
“That never happened. She’s just lying.”
I rubbed Choi Hyena’s cheeks, who still looked somewhat uncomfortable even after I told her the truth. The soft and chewy texture was excellent.
If it were before, she would have slapped my hand away asking what I was doing, but her being quiet was cute.
Come to think of it, she wasn’t originally this kind of person.
“Did you stay up all night? You have dark circles.”
“…What?”
Choi Hyena, who was leaning against me as if entrusting her body to me, hurriedly turned her head and took out a hand mirror from her bag.
Her face flushed as if she could see the dark circles herself.
“It’s nothing weird, so you don’t have to fix your makeup.”
If she put something on, the feeling when I touched her cheeks wouldn’t be good.
When I stopped her from putting on makeup with my selfish hands, Choi Hyena glared at me with resentful eyes.
“I’m telling you, you’re pretty even with dark circles. Anyway, what brings you here today?”
Actually, I had some idea why she came.
But I wanted to hear it from Choi Hyena’s mouth.
“…”
“Aren’t you going to tell me?”
Choi Hyena, who had been moving her lips several times, seemed to be struggling as she eventually bit her lip.
I stopped her with my hand in case her lips got hurt, and this time she looked at me with trembling eyes.
“…I’m sorry for lying.”
“Are you going to lie again?”
“…No.”
“Okay.”
It was a strangely anticlimactic ending, but this was enough.
She couldn’t completely stop lying, but she wouldn’t lie like this time, almost crossing the line.
“Hey, why are you two being all lovey-dovey without me?”
While I was hugging Choi Hyena and stroking her hair, I heard a disgruntled voice from the side.
“…Tsk.”
“Huh?! Master, that person just clicked their tongue! Please kick her out quickly! She’s going to blow up the house again because she’s in a bad mood!”
“…”
I don’t think you’re the one to talk.
***
There were ups and downs from the morning, but I managed to somehow resolve the situation.
A little later, someone came to our house.
It was a middle-aged man who looked quite old.
“I called him.”
The man was a restoration mage specializing in disaster site recovery, and he came to fix our house at Choi Hyena’s request.
‘…I heard that even the country is reluctant to hire restoration mages because of the fees.’
I had heard that restoration magic was a magic that could only be acquired by those born with rare talent, so the supply was far short of the demand.
I was even afraid to guess how much Choi Hyena had spent on this.
But soon I realized that worrying about the financial situation of the successor of the Seongbuk Choi family was a meaningless worry.
So, after entrusting the repair of the house to the mage, I headed to the church with Choi Hyena.
“There’s religion everywhere in the world.”
“Humans and religion are inseparable.”
For reference, Noel also followed.
Choi Hyena didn’t seem to like it, but I couldn’t just leave her alone.
So, we entrusted ourselves to a luxury sedan driven by a chauffeur, not a taxi driver, and crossed Seoul.
About 30 minutes passed.
We arrived at the Blue Church, today’s destination. I had visited it several times before to buy holy water or be hospitalized.
“Wow… Are all the churches on Earth like that?”
“No.”
Noel exclaimed in admiration as she looked at the dazzling church building.
But I couldn’t tease her as if she were a country girl who had just come to the city. Even I, who had seen it several times, was surprised every time I saw it.
The nickname of being one of the three largest and most splendid churches in East Asia was not for nothing.
Noel and I followed Choi Hyena into the church.
Perhaps because it was Saturday, the incredibly large church building was overflowing with people.
But not all places were like that.
“Welcome, sister.”
A priest, who was blocking the way like a guard, removed the gold rope and guided us inside.
It was probably a VIP-only entrance.
Seeing this, I can’t help but feel that the church is more secular and materialistic than corporations.
It wasn’t for nothing that the term corporate religion came about.
Beyond the hallway was a reception room with a luxurious atmosphere.
“The bishop will be here soon. Please wait for a moment in the meantime.”
The priest who guided us bowed politely and stepped back.
Is this the taste of power?
“Master, can I ask them to pack this for me when we leave later?”
“What is it?”
Noel put a cookie in my mouth.
Crisp, with a subtle sweetness, it was excellent. It was so delicious that it couldn’t be compared to what they sell in cafes.
“What is it? Did the church make it themselves?”
“No, it’s a luxury item you can buy at a department store. It’s for hospitality.”
“…That’s a bit disappointing.”
I thought it was a handmade cookie made by pretty nuns laughing and joking.
“Luxury and greed, Grandma chose these two as the words that best suit the church.”
“She’s wise.”
Even the simple reception room was ostentatiously decorated with expensive furniture and luxury goods, so I could understand how Choi Youngok felt when she said those words.
Even to me, it was too flashy.
“The corruption and depravity of religion are the same in any world.”
“…What are you talking about since a while ago? You’re talking as if you’re from another world.”
“Who knows?”
Noel lightly brushed off Choi Hyena’s glare with a smile and leisurely put a cookie in her mouth.
Then, she lay down on my lap, making me wonder who the master was.
“You’ll get acid reflux if you do that.”
Even if I said that, Noel, who handles magic power, couldn’t possibly get such a disease.
“How rude to lie down in the reception room, get up immediately.”
“I don’t want to.”
Noel, who was lying down and biting into a cookie as if to show off, smiled at Choi Hyena.
“You can just say you’re jealous if you’re jealous.”
“…Stop talking nonsense and get up quickly.”
I took my attention away from the fight between Noel, who was now humming and ignoring her, and Choi Hyena, who was glaring at her.
They’ll stop on their own soon anyway.
Knock, knock, Noel got up at the sound of knocking from beyond the door.
A little later, a man with sparse gray hair came in.
“Thank you for visiting our church today, Sister Choi Hyena.”
“I’m sorry for visiting without notice, Bishop.”
“Haha, you don’t have to worry about it. It’s strange to choose a time for a believer to visit the church.”
Bishop, a big-name clergyman with only 10 people in Korea.
“But… what brings you here today?”
“…Can we move to another place for a moment?”
“Hmm?”
Choi Hyena’s gaze was fixed on me.
I roughly knew what she wanted to say.
“Noel, wait here for a moment. Hyena and I are going somewhere.”
“Huh? Just me?”
“Excuse me, Priest? Could you bring us some more cookies?”
The priest standing behind the bishop smiled and nodded.
“You can take your time!”
I left the reception room with Choi Hyena, leaving Noel waving her hand to see me off.
We followed the bishop down the magnificent hallway.
After walking for about 5 minutes, the bishop stopped in front of a room.
When I opened the door and went inside, the interior seemed smaller than the reception room. Judging from the arrangement of the furniture, it seemed to be an office.
“This is my office, so you don’t have to worry about security.”
“…Thank you for your consideration, Bishop.”
Choi Hyena bowed lightly.
“The bishop must be busy with official duties, so I’ll get straight to the point.”
Hoo… Choi Hyena, who took a deep breath for a moment, glanced at me.
“I’m going to get rid of the blessing of infertility.”
I and the bishop were both stunned by Choi Hyena’s bombshell statement that no one had expected.
“…I’m sorry to say this, but that blessing can only be removed in principle if you get married in the church…”
It was a fleeting moment.
Before the bishop could finish speaking, Choi Hyena rushed at me and kissed me on the lips.
A tragedy occurred where our front teeth collided, but Choi Hyena didn’t seem to care at all as she forcibly pulled out my tongue and shared a passionate kiss.
“Chup, chuup… Choo-op…”
The kiss wasn’t very long.
Choi Hyena dropped her lips first. Then, a small line stretched between us and soon snapped with a *뚝* sound.
“…He’s my fiancé.”
Choi Hyena declared to the bishop, who was staring at us with his mouth open.
