Chapter 78
Izzen has run away.
“What do you mean, you ran away? What good did that do you?!”
An enraged Heesu slammed her palm on the table, yelling. The paper on the table had ‘I am leaving home. Do not look for me.’ written on it in a messy scrawl.
It was the note Izzen had left in his room. Judging by his usual personality, she would have expected a neat handwriting, so it was a surprise that his handwriting was at the elementary school level. The content was also like an elementary student’s, which made it look even more so.
“Why did he run away, anyway?”
Heesu glared at the note, muttering as if she couldn’t understand.
“Did he…… get mad because I grabbed him by the collar?”
“You didn’t just ‘grab’ him, you grabbed him and shook him…”
“You also threw him on the floor. Wow, I’m so jealous…….”
“That’s nothing compared to what that bastard did!”
“I agree with you on that, but…….”
Violen, standing next to her with his arms crossed, let out a sigh.
“He didn’t say anything to you?”
“No. I’m a bit surprised myself.”
“Hmm…….”
Heesu thought for a moment, then frowned and grew irritated.
“This is so annoying! I was just about to shake him down and make him spill all his secrets!”
“Maybe that’s why he ran away…….”
“What kind of guy has a grand plan if he doesn’t even have that much guts?!”
“What should we do now?”
At Violen’s question, Heesu plopped down in a chair and snorted.
“What do you mean, what should we do? I’m just annoyed I couldn’t shake him down, but are we really going to miss that bastard? It’s not like I’m going to be a magical girl anymore anyway…….”
“Oh, you’re not going to do it anymore?”
“Am I crazy to keep doing it? All that happens is I get more mouths to feed and bodies to take responsibility for. No matter how much I like handsome men, I’m done. The world’s crisis, f**k… my human dignity is in crisis first. F*****g hell…….”
Heesu, with her arms and legs crossed in a defiant posture, continued to swear. At first glance, she looked like a gangster from a back alley full of complaints about the world. She looked like she could be dropped in a back alley and extort money from people passing by.
“Oh, our Master is so cool.”
Edstan, seeming to have fallen for her again, hugged her leg from the floor and rubbed his cheek against it.
“Master, swear at me a little, please.”
“You’re all shitty. You f*****g dog s**t…….”
“Haang!”
“I wasn’t talking to you.”
“H-how could you say that!”
Ignoring Edstan, who was propped up on his hands and looking sad as if the world had ended, Heesu looked around at the others.
“Don’t worry. Even if I don’t be a magical girl, I’ll take responsibility for you guys to the end. Let’s just live here together peacefully. Don’t add any more family members. I think I can handle up to you guys, at least.…...”
“So you won’t be a magical girl, but you’ll continue to take care of us as a magical girl?”
“Yeah, something like that. From now on, I’ll only transform in front of you guys.”
When Heesu said that firmly, Edstan, who had been lying on the floor, was moved and rushed to hug her leg again.
“I love it! Then I can have a little more of Master, I…….”
“Whether there are a lot of demons or a few, your share is the same—trash.”
“But I’m happy if there’s one less demon to share Master with!”
“You’re so persistent…….”
Heesu looked down at him and shook her head in disgust. Rufus, who had been listening to their conversation, clenched his fist and stood up in excitement.
“Is that so? Then I’m happy too!”
“Really?”
“I don’t have to share Master’s bed anymore!”
“No, sharing it three ways is impossible anyway…….”
Heesu chided Rufus but smoothed out her expression and smiled.
She still liked them. She liked it here. Even though she was saying she would quit being a magical girl, a role she was so obsessed with, she felt strangely relieved. It was probably because of them. The extraordinary beings Heesu now held in her hands.
The lingering discomfort and anger that she had been tricked by Izzen and was now a body exploited by demons was still there, but she still liked them. They felt like friends, family, and lovers, and she cherished them. She wanted to care for them, treat them well, and be with them forever.
And it was even better because they were all pretty, cool, and handsome. Thinking she had gained these handsome men as a price for prostituting her body as a magical girl, it didn’t feel like such a loss. Where else would her original self meet men like this?
In light novels for male readers, the male protagonist often ends up with a large harem of female lovers. She felt like her story could be thought of as something similar.
The story of an ordinary college student, Lee Heesu, who was tricked by a suspicious man into becoming the protagonist of a magical girl humiliation story, but later realized the truth and escaped his clutches, living happily ever after with the handsome men she gained in the process.
Thinking of it as a story like that, it didn’t seem so bad.
Even though she never properly fought against the bad villains, never became a hero who saved the world, and was now in a position where she would probably never experience fated love, let alone had it…….
But it was fine. She felt that her story as a magical girl could end something like this.
“No.”
But someone with a dark face contradicted Heesu’s wishful thinking. It was Violen.
“There’s a problem.”
“A-a problem?! What problem?”
With the person she was most concerned about bringing up a problem, Heesu tensed up.
But what he said was completely unexpected.
“We have no money.”
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