1. My Body Is Strange
A dark bedroom filled with passion and rough breaths. Under the faint moonlight, a man was pinned beneath a woman.
"Hiit, hiit."
The soft, firm female body pressing down on his whole being, the alluring, rich scent of a woman, and the sticky whispers digging into his ears. The taste of sweet saliva and the pure white nude body that filled his vision. His five senses were entirely hers. Drunk on this hazy atmosphere, he moved his waist wildly in a state of trance, but his hip movements were too weak and fleeting to satisfy her.
"Heut, heut..."
Looking down at me as I squirmed miserably beneath her female body, Erjebet smiled faintly.
"Yeon. Move your waist a little more. Is that all your masculinity amounts to?"
I tried my best to ignore that seductive smile, putting strength into my waist that felt like it would fall off and my trembling thighs as I spoke.
"It... it's too hard..."
I had no energy left. Right now, I was nothing more than a slave, squirming just to avoid receiving her Punishment.
When I expressed my pain in a feeble voice, she smiled, her red eyes gleaming in the darkness.
"Hmph. In that case, it can't be helped."
Shhhk-
She lifted her waist, pulling out my lower body that was pinned beneath her voluptuous buttocks.
"I have no choice but to give you a penalty."
Then, she grabbed my both legs with her hands, spread them apart, and lifted them up over her arms.
Slide-
Caught in her hands, my waist and lower body were lifted in an instant. My two legs were spread wide, exposing my precious part.
It was a shameful sexual position where one is completely overpowered by a woman and milked, the so-called Amazon position.
"...Heut."
Unable to bear the embarrassment, I covered my face with both hands, but Erjebet slowly removed my hands and declared confidently.
"From now on, I shall personally teach you what true mating between male and female is. Therefore..."
Her eyes looking down at me were filled with heated desire and sadism.
"Wail even more cutely."
**
"..."
I opened my eyes. The warm morning sunlight pouring in through the wide-open window to my left fell upon me.
A large room. And a large bed. The top floor of an ultra-luxurious Mansion, where splendid lighting enveloped me. Here I lie. South Korea's Hunter Rank 1, with a shining epithet. The Ice Prince. Lee Yeon.
My morning routine is simple. After waking up, I take a sip of mineral water from the fridge, then take my supplements from their pre-portioned containers.
Then, after morning Meditation and some light stretching, I shower and head to work. Then I clear the highest-difficulty Dungeon by myself. Today, like always, such a day should have begun, and my daily life should have started.
But.
'Fuck.'
In this body, I can't go anywhere. I just lay there blankly on the bed, repeatedly clenching and unclenching my hand.
My skin was definitely clearer and firmer than before, my body more slender, my frame more delicate. In a word, I had become excessively young.
This situation started with the subjugation of the S-Class Fissure the day before yesterday.
As always, I entered the fissure alone and cleared it without much difficulty. And then, the Dungeon's reward.
'Stone of Regression.'
You see them in novels and comics, don't you? Those game-breaking items that can turn everything back to the past.
Thinking I'd hit the jackpot, I put it into my inventory. I didn't even use the stone or infuse it with mana. But it started working on its own.
Fwaaat-
The Stone of Regression began to glow, dyeing my entire vision white.
And now, with the Stone of Regression activated. This is my current reality. That's right. The Stone of Regression only turned my physical body back to the past.
'This fucking stone that only turns my body back to when I was young. If it was going to do this, it should've been called Stone of Rejuvenation.'
I cursed inwardly, kicking my feet against the bed. In this state, I can't go anywhere.
Not only did my body become younger, but my stats and Skills also all reverted to the past. If I were to go outside in this situation, I could literally get fucked.
'Because I have... so many enemies.'
I gulped down my dry saliva and fell into thought. Hunter Rank 1 isn't a position you can reach with just skill.
All sorts of schemes and infighting were a given, and backstabbing others was a common occurrence. In a word, to reach this position, I had earned the hatred of quite a lot of people.
'First, the Hunter Association's Association President, Yoon Jooyoung.'
I recalled her, a woman with eyes like sharp obsidian.
Sword Demon, Yoon Jooyoung.
She handles a sword like a demon, and her nature is just as frightening as a demon's.
The rank 1 position should have originally been hers, but thanks to the weapon 'Fang of the Ice Dragon Raigal,' which I took from her during her rookie Hunter days, I was able to climb to this spot.
It's no exaggeration to say that I even got my epithet, the Ice Prince, because of that weapon. The ill-fated relationship that started after that, if I were to tell the tale, it wouldn't end even if the whole night passed.
I don't know for sure, but if she got the chance, she'd make me a slave of the Association and work me like a dog.
'...That's scary.'*
A chilling feeling ran down my spine. I was truly scared of what would happen if she found out about my current situation.
Next, Clan Valkyrie's Guild Leader, Shin Jiyeon.
Clan Valkyrie is the 2nd ranked Guild in South Korea. The unique thing about it is that the guild is composed entirely of women.
I have a history of swindling the legendary-grade armor, Armor of Flight, from her in the past. Because of that, Clan Valkyrie, which took a severe financial hit, had to take on all sorts of requests indiscriminately for a while.
Thus, the Guild Leader and the Guild Members of Valkyrie are watching and waiting for my fall from power. Or so they say.
Next, Fist Saint Lee Yuri. My bad blood with her is also quite deep. The beginning of that ill-fated relationship was...
'...Enough. What's the point of thinking about it.'
I briefly recalled the faces of those scary women one by one, then shook my head. The number of people who hold a grudge against me is countless anyway. Thinking about it would only amplify my fear.
Lying on the bed, I kicked my feet restlessly.
'I'm fucked. So fucked.'
The moment I leave this room, those bitches will surely rush in like hyenas and clean me out.
But I can't stay locked up in this room forever. Let's find a way to live...
'Fleeing abroad seems best.'
I have more than enough money saved up anyway. I could live in exile, living large. I first took out my phone and looked for a plane ticket to go abroad...
Just then.
Tiring-!
An alarm from an app I'd never seen before went off.
'What's this now?'
*
South Korea's Hunter Rank 1, the Ice Prince, Lee Yeon.
After the subjugation of the S-Class Fissure, he has been secluded in his room for two weeks now.
Due to this strange behavior, all of the nation's media were currently focused on his whereabouts.
That he had suffered a major injury after subjugating the fissure, or that he had obtained an incredible Skill and was in closed-door training to master it.
Strange rumors even began to circulate that he had brought a young boy into his room and was living a promiscuous life.
They say there was even a witness for the last rumor. The public guessed that was the reason he had shunned women without a single scandal until now.
At such rumors, one woman twisted the corner of her lips.
'Hmph. Shun women, my ass.'
It was because there hadn't been a woman who could stand his fucking personality, Jooyoung was sure.
A man who only knew how to say 'get lost', 'I don't want to', 'move aside'. Proper communication with him was impossible.
Anyway, with the situation being what it was, Jooyoung, who had become the Association President of the Hunter Association, had no choice but to go check on his condition.
'...To think I have to go see that damn bastard's face.'
No matter how much pressure there was from her superiors, visiting the bastard's Mansion of her own free will was an incredibly unpleasant affair.
Click-
Arriving in front of the bastard's Mansion, the chauffeur opened the car door for her.
Jooyoung stepped out onto the ground in her high heels.
High heels that had become familiar at some point.
It had been several years since she quit being a Hunter because of that bastard and started working at the Association. Now, high heels were more familiar than combat boots.
'This, this damn bastard.'
Her body had grown used to high heels, but her pride as a swordswoman was not yet dead. Jooyoung swallowed the boiling rage inside her and walked toward the luxurious Mansion.
Clack, clack-
Oblivious to the men who were gulping down their saliva as they watched her swaying rear and long, shapely legs.
Pushing through the crowd of reporters gathered at the main gate, Jooyoung easily passed the Mansion's strict security check. She took the elevator to the top floor and walked for a bit. Then she soon arrived near the room where the bastard lived.
However, in the hallway nearby, there was a cute-looking boy.
"Hmm?"
A boy walking stealthily down the hallway, looking around.
Though still young, his finely-featured facial features were like a sculpture, looking like he would make many a woman cry when he got older. At the same time, should I say he had a face that was very cute and made one want to bully him? I can't quite explain it, but that's how I felt.
"!"
After having a strange thought for a moment, Jooyoung slapped her cheeks with her hands and came to her senses.
'Have I gone crazy?'
She had never had such a disgraceful thought before. It was strange.
"..."
Even while thinking that, Jooyoung's gaze was fixed on the boy's face. It was a devilishly charming face, as if it drew in women's gazes.
'...But, I feel like he resembles someone.'
Jooyoung tilted her head and stared intently at the boy. She couldn't explain it well, but it felt like she had seen him a lot somewhere, and he felt familiar.
"Eum."
"Heek."
As she kept staring at that face, the boy must have noticed her gaze, as he flinched his shoulders and turned away. Then, with robot-like steps, he moved away from her one step at a time.
Thud- thud-
As Jooyoung's eyes blankly watched the boy's back, someone else's figure overlapped with it.
"!"
It was the figure of Lee Yeon, the man who was always ahead of her with that damn annoying face.
Actually, this is an absurd hypothesis. To think this boy is the same person as that bastard just because their faces are a little similar. Just because he was in the hallway near the room he lives in. And just because his walk was somehow similar. But there's no harm in testing the waters.
After hesitating for a moment, Jooyoung decided to take a leap of faith and voiced her hypothesis.
"You're Lee Yeon, aren't you?"
"..."
At the same time, the movement of the boy who was slowly moving away down the hallway froze.