This Villain is Soft - Chapter 153



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Episode 153

“… … !”

Noh Hye-jeong opened her eyes wide, accepted the napkin carnation, and burst out laughing.

Tears were slightly gathered at the corners of her eyes, which were folded with fine wrinkles.

“I’m not asking you to suddenly act like my daughter, nor am I asking you to be my replacement for ‘Haon’, so let’s get along well.”

Ha-on smiled brightly, feeling his heart ache and his eyes hot.

“Yes. I’m looking forward to it.”

Then, Nova suddenly appeared, wrapped her arms around Haon’s waist, and smiled.

“Oh no. I’m jealous of this house’s daughter. What should I do?”

“No, Nova! Why are you saying that… …!”

When Ha-on, who was surprised, hit her, Noh Hye-jeong put her hand on her forehead and sighed. It was obvious that she didn’t want to deal with Nova.

“See you next time, Haon.”

“Oh, yes. Eat lots of delicious food with the team leader!”

Noh Hye-jeong eventually moved to where Team Leader Kim Song-mi was.

Haon glanced at Nova with a pout.

“Nova. Don’t you like it when so many Hero HQ staff come here?”

“Honey. Dance with me.”

“……yes?”

When Nova suddenly spoke instead of answering, he blinked in surprise and looked around.

Now I see some people dancing in pairs in the middle of the lobby.

I didn’t know you had prepared something like this.

Although he was impressed by Nova’s sincerity, Haon still shook his head.

“Umm. I don’t want to do that.”

“In exchange for destroying my Awakening Shield, you promised to grant me one wish.”

But Nova was stubborn.

After his Awakening Orb shield, which he had removed from Woo Hye-seong, lost all its power and turned into a fossil, Ha-on gave it to him and apologized.

Nova had received a wish from Haon at that time, but she never imagined that he would use it in this way.

I thought you’d ask me to make you a weapon or new armor.

“Do you want to dance with me? I can’t dance… … .”

“I’ll take care of it.”

“Oh. That’s… … .”

Haon rolled his eyes and found Juyeol.

He was leaning against the pillar and staring intently at me.

The moment Ha-on, who didn’t want to make him anxious about her man problems, was about to refuse again.

Joo-yeol nodded his head as if to say that it was okay.

Before Haon could react to that sight, Nova smiled brightly and led Haon to the center of the lobby.

“Then shall we go?”

“Oh, but I really can’t dance. I’ve never danced before.”

When Haon spoke in a slightly frightened voice, he answered as if trying to comfort her.

“Don’t be afraid. Just be comfortable.”

Then he lifted Haon slightly and placed Haon’s foot on top of mine.

“Nova, your feet must hurt… …!”

Despite the worried words, Nova kept smiling as if she was having so much fun and moved slowly to the music.

He held Ha-on’s waist and hands, and whenever he moved his feet, her feet moved along with him.

After doing that a few times, Haon’s expression gradually brightened. It was more fun than I thought.

Nova looked down at the excited face and opened her mouth.

“Haon-ah.”

“yes?”

“Will you love me?”

“Another prank… … .”

Haon, who was about to shoot out without thinking, stopped.

He was smiling prettily as always, but the hand that touched my hand and my waist was shaking a little.

‘You’re serious.’

Haon looked into his beautiful golden eyes and answered seriously.

“I’m sorry, Nova. That can’t be done.”

Then he spun around with a bitter yet refreshing smile.

“I’m planning to go on a trip right after the opening ceremony.”

The hem of Haon’s one-piece dress spread out in a round shape and then sank.

“Travel? Where to?”

“Anywhere. I’m thinking of going and looking at the stars.”

“star…….”

Haon wanted to ask if she was coming back, but he hesitated, wondering if it was okay to do so after having just rejected her feelings.

Nova added first, as if she had noticed it.

“Keep the government seat empty, I’ll be back no matter how long it takes.”

“Um, the government. I’m not─”

“It would be better if you broke up with Ghost in the meantime.”

“Nova!”

Nova, who had stopped walking, spun Haon around halfway.

“I’ll send it to you because an ugly ghost is waiting for you.”

When Ha-on turned around, Joo-yeol was in front of him.

Ha-on was thrown into Ju-yeol’s arms by the force of his back being gently pushed.

I looked back, but Nova was already out of sight, having disappeared into the crowd.

“Is Nova that pretty?”

“… … !”

Ha-on, startled by Joo-yeol’s bold words, raised his head and hugged his waist.

“I, I like you. Not anyone else. You know that?”

“… … This is really ridiculous.”

Juyeol couldn’t stop the corners of his lips from rising at the love that melted his heart.

The two of them stayed together the whole time, talking to this person and that person, and when people started to leave, they left the library.

“Let’s go home.”

After saying that, Ha-on took Ju-yeol to a house in District 3 instead of the office.

“Here… … .”

That was the place where Joo-yeol and Woo-hye-seong’s house was 10 years ago.

A new house was built on the site of a previously empty, collapsed house.

Juyeol looked back at Haon with trembling eyes.

“Why here?”

“Juyeol-ah. I can sleep well on my own now. I don’t even have nightmares.”

“… … .”

“But I still want to live together. This is our home.”

“… … !”

He froze as if he had been shocked, then his expression gradually became more and more overwhelmed as he wiped his face.

“… … That’s ridiculous.”

Haon giggled and took his hand, leading him home.

“Let’s go in.”

Only after completing fingerprint recognition, password, and iris recognition did a cozy space unfold inside the opened front door.

“Since we both work outside the home, we didn’t think our home needed to be as big as a penthouse.”

Haon showed Juyeol, who seemed disoriented and not feeling real, around the house.

Finally, he took a look around the kitchen and sat down on the dining chair with a blank expression.

Haon approached him, nodding.

“Juyeol-ah. What are you thinking about?”

“I’m grateful that you crossed the dimension and came all the way here.”

He continued speaking, looking up at Haon for a rare moment.

“I have so much to be thankful for from you.”

“I also have a lot to thank you for.”

“……난 그냥 개새끼였던 것 같은데.”

“If it weren’t for you, Juyeol, I really wouldn’t have been able to survive here.”

Juyeol caressed Haon’s cheek at his sincere answer.

“I should have done better.”

Then Haon rubbed his cheek against his palm and smiled bashfully.

“Do a good job.”

“… … .”

Joo-yeol swallowed dry saliva as his heart pounded.

He grabbed the back of Haon’s head and pulled it down.

Ha-on, who noticed what he was trying to do, lowered his flushed face and pressed his lips against his. The unfamiliar sensation made his hair stand on end.

As Juyeol slowly got up from his chair, Haon’s head gradually rose.

When our lips were about to touch, I was so flustered that I even lifted my toes, but when he got up completely, the kiss ended up breaking off.

“ah……!”

Haon opened his eyes with a sigh of wonder and regret.

Joo-yeol was laughing with a crazy expression on his face.

“Was it so good that you chased after me with your bare feet raised?”

Haon, who was looking up at it with a dumbfounded face, blushed bright red all the way to his shoulders and made a walnut on his chin with an embarrassed and angry expression.

“Oh, really! Why are you teasing me? Is this the right thing to do?”

As he tapped Juyeol’s strong forearm, he chuckled and bit Haon’s chin.

“What is this on your chin?”

“Ugh… … !”

Haon struggled to push him away, but he couldn’t overcome the strength with which he was being held by his back.

“Come here. It was so good I wanted to hold on to it.”

Joo-yeol bent down and kissed her lips again.

Ha-on, who had been struggling, stopped and slowly tilted his head, wrapping his arm around Ju-yeol’s shoulder.

Bluebirds fluttered around the two of them, and shooting stars streaked across the window.

Epilogue

‘Oh, it’s a shooting star. I wonder if Haon saw it too.’

‘Juyeol’ looked out the window and saw a shooting star falling, drawing diagonal lines, and smiled gently.

After a moment, ‘he’ moved his hands carefully again.

Clink. Clink.

“Are you still holding on to it?”

At the noise of the machine being assembled, ‘his’ father poked his head into the workshop and asked.

‘Juyeol’ answered, shaking the screwdriver in the tool kit he had received from Haon.

“I think it’s almost done.”

When I returned home after meeting Haon, there were a lot of machine parts in my bag that I had never seen before.

I wondered if he had secretly given me the parts for the tool kit he had asked for, but they were too old and dirty for that to be the case.

I don’t know how it ended up in the bag, but ‘Juyeol’ wanted to assemble it.

It was a structure with a fairly high level of difficulty for an undergraduate student, so it took me a month to roughly complete it.

‘Hmm? We’re missing one part?’

No matter how much he searched, ‘Juyeol’ couldn’t find a single machine part. It was the same even when he asked Nana to look for it.

“Did you drop it before coming here?”

There was one small piece of machine missing, but it didn’t seem like it would be a problem.

“If you do it like this… … . That’s it. You’re done.”

‘He’ injected mana into the completed machine sphere with one part missing.

Phage-jik─.

The charger that was plugged in just before completion suddenly disconnected due to an electric shock.

Before ‘Juyeol’ could even be surprised, the sphere shuddered and suddenly changed into a different shape.

“Wh, what is it… … ?”

The mechanical hamster reacted to the embarrassed ‘him’s’ words, smiled with its eyes, and then spread its short arms.

[Hello! I am Ttiyong!]