The Tough Guy Hides the Villainess - Chapter 130



130 – A Well-Known Wedding Feast Has Plenty to Eat #3

130 – A Well-Known Wedding Feast Has Plenty to Eat #3

Seo Ga-eul disliked Han Nam-jin.

He had kidnapped her at will, released her at will, and tried to train the current Seo Ga-eul to his liking by colluding with the suspicious entity known as “Future Seo Ga-eul.”

However, even Seo Ga-eul acknowledged Han Nam-jin’s “manliness.”

So, what was that manliness?

It was the refusal to follow predetermined fate or destiny, the resistance to pressure, and the absolute refusal to give up.

Even in situations where she would have been frustrated multiple times, Han Nam-jin found solutions. Because she had seen these aspects, Seo Ga-eul couldn’t completely hate Han Nam-jin.

“There are things to learn.”

She even had a slight sense of respect and admiration for him.

It felt like she could overcome any difficulty as long as she was with Han Nam-jin.

He was like a bundle of cash in her pocket, providing a sense of security.

In reality, Seo Ga-eul had recently been practicing “Thinking Like Han Nam-jin,” and many aspects of her life had turned brighter.

For example, it went like this:

─Giga Nam-jin! I need to pick out clothes to wear this time, but it’s a disaster! I have nothing to wear!

─Stop overthinking, b*tch! Even if you wear anything random, you’re so beautiful, Ga-eul bippy. But once you finish this dilemma, your aesthetic sense will grow up even more.

─Giga Nam-jin! Reporters keep bothering me, and I want to stay cooped up at home today. Is that wrong? I feel guilty if I just laze around at home like this.

─Hey good girl, even f*cking lions rest in peace after hunting hard.

“Hmph. Fucking picky…”

It was, to say the least, a harshly strict evaluation criteria.

Countless other women failed to escape Seo Gaeul’s tight-knit web and were confined to the 「FAILED」 box.

Seo Gaeul would nitpick, saying things like, “Her mouth is too big! She’ll devour her husband!” or “A stay-at-home wife is your dream? I’d rather have an independent woman like a lioness!”

Ridiculous pretexts, of course.

Even Seo Gaeul was finding it a struggle to deliberately find reasons to disqualify them.

‘Why are women like this participating in blind date public offerings? Don’t they have anything better to do? When the 「Black Rain」 falls, they should just stay the hell home!’

In less than an hour, the screening of thirty people was over.

Now, only about two remained.

“Finally, it’s my turn. I’m Ma Ra-hyun.”

A woman with hair grown long enough to create waves and wearing a black suit.

In her mid-twenties, maybe?

She gave off a strong “adult woman” vibe.

“Oho.”

Hanamjin, who couldn’t resist a mature woman, already seemed intrigued. Seo Gaeul took a sneaky peek at Hanamjin’s self-evaluation sheet.

Hanamjin had already finished scoring her 「Appearance : 10 points」.

This time too, Seo Gaeul made a bizarre request to find fault.

“Ra-hyun-ssi, can you do the moonwalk?”

“Of course.”

Tap, tap, tap-.

Ma Ra-hyun showed off a high-level dance while wearing high heels.

“That’s fucking awesome!”

An item labeled 「Skill : 10 points」 was added to Hanamjin’s evaluation sheet.

Unlike Hanamjin, who was marveling at her greatness, Seo Gaeul felt a slight impatience watching the woman effortlessly pass the first trial.

─Giga Namjin! What do I do? That woman is doing the moonwalk in high heels!

─Hey, fucking b*tch! Don’t get so impatient. You still have more trials prepared, right? Gaeul Bbippi, you can do it. Go hard work! Do it!

Having received encouragement from the man inside her, Giga Namjin, Seo Gaeul didn’t panic and thought of the second requirement.

To issue a difficult challenge that would make that woman, Ma Ra-hyun, look as humiliated as possible.

“Can you lick your own elbow with your tongue?”

“What’s the point of that?”

Marahyeon asked again as if she couldn’t understand.

Well, licking your elbow with your tongue was meaningless.

But Seogaeul didn’t give up.

“To live with an Awakened, you need to be flexible. If you can’t do that, you can’t face Hanamjin. Do you understand?”

It was all a blatant lie.

Seogaeul just wanted to show Hanamjin how Marahyeon struggled to lick her elbow and lower her score.

But then, unexpected things happen.

“Wow! She’s really licking her elbow with her tongue! How flexible is she!”

Slurp-.

Marahyeon licked her elbow.

Hanamjin was so impressed that he started breakdancing.

“I used to do ballet when I was young. I’m confident in my flexibility.”

What kind of woman is she?

Seogaeul was flustered but still had a trump card left.

“Do you use SNS?”

All pretty women use SNS.

It was an instinct passed down from ancient times for women to show off and boast about themselves.

But?

“I don’t do that. It’s a waste of time. In my leisure time, I usually grind ink and practice calligraphy or drink tea. These days, I also do flower arranging, but I used to go out with a gun and hunt wild boars.”

How could this be-.

Seogaeul couldn’t believe such a perfect woman existed. It was also strange that such a woman came to marry Hanamjin.

At that moment, Hanamjin put the paper he had evaluated with “Mental: 10 points” into the “Pass” box as if wrapping up the item.

She was the first successful candidate today.

“I will contact you separately, Rahyeon. Let’s have a deeper conversation later. Next!”

# # #

They say that those who have eaten meat know how to eat it better.

As Seogaeul became a judge, the piled-up evaluations proceeded smoothly.

Indeed, women are better at judging women.

Before long, it was the turn of the last participant.

The last participant shouted noisily as soon as they entered the living room.

“Hanamjin!”

“What? The last person was Bbangdaengi. Did you come to the matchmaking too?”

It was funny to see someone I knew come out as a matchmaking partner.

Kuhaha-!

So, while I was laughing heartily like a man, Bbangdaengi spoke.

“Hanamjin, if I don’t do this, I won’t have time to talk to you! Mibbangi is missing! I don’t know where she went after escaping the Great Labyrinth….”

Mibbangi disappeared?

I thought a government official might have taken her, but President Nam Taegun, whom I met yesterday, asked, “Do you have the witch?” It didn’t seem like the government had taken her.

Then, does the terrorist group “Creation Holy War” have her?

No, that’s not it either.

Those guys also demanded the custody of the “witch.”

“We have to find her quickly. Otherwise, Mibbangi might die! Hanamjin! You don’t know where Mibbangi is, do you? Mibbangi is not in good health!”

Pat pat, pat pat pat pat-!

Bbangdaengi grabbed my shoulders and shook me strongly.

“I don’t know where Mibbangi disappeared to either.”

“How can that be!”

“So, Seogaeul, what’s your evaluation of Bbangdaengi? Pass or fail?”

Seogaeul had been silent since Bbangdaengi appeared.

But it seemed she thought she had to do her job, so she put Bbangdaengi’s evaluation paper in the box marked “Fail.”

“Ugh, why did I fail! Seogaeul, I don’t like you either!”

Anyway, today’s quota is over with this!

It’s not easy to go on matchmaking dates with women.

Fortunately, the results were sufficient.

‘Mara Hyun.’

I recalled the name of the only woman who passed the first interview screening today.

A perfect woman of both civil and military virtues who passed all of Seogaeul’s picky evaluation criteria.

“As expected of Seogaeul.”

“What did I do?”

“You helped me pass exactly the person I wanted. Mara Hyun.”

“Huh? Are you really going to meet that woman?”

I nodded at Seo Ga-eul’s question.

“The skill to moonwalk in high heels. The incredible flexibility to lick your own elbow. These aren’t things you see every day.”

“I can do that too, you know? What’s so great about it!”

Doom-chit, doom-chit-.

Seo Ga-eul moonwalked while licking her elbow.

It’s truly impressive to do something difficult, let alone two things at once. Of course, Baek Yeoul didn’t hide her sneer as she watched Seo Ga-eul.

“Seo Ga-eul, what are you doing right now! That’s totally weird!”

Honestly, it is weird.

But isn’t it amazing?

Of course, amazing by the standards of ordinary people.

“In fact, for awakened ones like us, moonwalking while licking your elbow isn’t that hard. Our physical abilities are extraordinary. That means Mara Hyun, who passed earlier, is also an awakened one. An unregistered awakened one, most likely. The fact that she doesn’t use SNS probably means she’s hiding something.”

In other words, Mara Hyun is a shady ‘unregistered awakened one.’

It means she’s likely a member of the former “Villainers,” now “Genesis Holy War.”

Seo Ga-eul’s keen assessment accurately identified that, so I couldn’t help but be impressed.

Seo Ga-eul’s face turned red as she listened to my explanation.

“…Hmph! Yeah, that’s right. It was all intentional! I knew you were holding a public recruitment to attract terrorists! Geez, playing along with this act is tough.”

“…I didn’t know! Hanamjin! Whatever it is, it’s amazing!”

Now, let’s go meet the terrorist Mara Hyun.

It would be good to hear what she has to say.