Perfect World [EN]: Chapter 309

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“Ah, no. Of course, I should.”

As Liza lifted the weights, Beom-seok sat on the home gym equipment next to her, grabbing the handle attached to the rack and starting his training. He hadn’t completed his stat development either. If he didn’t steadily train and improve his physical abilities to some extent, he would be at a disadvantage in the next battle against Jakid and Amelie.

He focused on weight training until around noon.

“Okay. That’s enough. That’s it for now. Let’s take a break.”

At those words, Liza, who had been running on the treadmill and sweating profusely, happily stepped off. She had been consistently working out since her modification surgery, but this was the first time she had trained so intensely. She wanted to complain about how hard it was, but she didn’t dare to open her mouth since Beom-seok was training with the same intensity next to her.

“Ah. Okay. Then let’s take a bath first.”

Beom-seok immediately agreed. He hadn’t been able to wash for the past two days, and he felt quite uncomfortable.

“But where do we bathe here?”

“You can go to the stream next to my house.”

Beom-seok tilted his head. The stream next to the house was quite shallow.

“It’s a bit shallow there, isn’t it?”

“If you go down towards the lower reaches, there’s a place that comes up to your waist. And there are stairs made of large stones at the entrance, so it’s easy to get in and out.”

“Really? Okay. Then I’ll go wash first. You clean up here and wash later. Got it?”

“Yes, I understand.”

Soon, Beom-seok took out his toiletries, including a dry towel, from the hiking bag he had brought and left the house. He followed the stream downstream, looking for the place Liza had mentioned.

“Hmm. That’s it.”

Beom-seok took off his clothes and slowly entered the stream. The coldness he felt at his toes sent shivers down his spine. He immersed himself in the stream and looked up at the blue sky, which was occasionally visible through the dense branches.

‘Hoo~ What do I do now…….’

Before he knew it, worry was etched on Beom-seok’s face. The future seemed bleak. He had come all the way here following Remnant’s advice, but Dantes, whom he was looking for, was dead, and only his daughter Liza remained. Now that there was no one in the world to advise him on his habits, he had no choice but to figure it out on his own.

“Should I just go back to the team? But if I go back, I don’t have a plan. Should I just stay here for a while and quietly contemplate?”

Thinking about it, staying here for a while didn’t seem like a bad idea. If he went back to the team, he would be disturbed by the elves and teammates who were worried and hovering around him. And the match with Amelie was coming up soon, and he had to face Jakid again in the spring season next year.

In his current state, there was a high probability of suffering the humiliation of defeat, so it was better to avoid it until he found his weaknesses.

‘Well, I have to teach Liza anyway.’

Liza. This woman was truly talented. Considering her excellent growth potential and swordsmanship skills, she would be a great help if she joined the team. It was a shame that she was too focused on practical swordsmanship, but he thought it was a problem that could be overcome if he stayed here and taught her well.

And there was one thing that made him uneasy about bringing her into the team right away. Like Zelsomina and Natalie, she might notice his relationship with other women and make it difficult to win her over. Since he was planning to stay here for a while anyway, he thought it would be better to maximize her favorability and eliminate the problem in advance.

“Okay. Let’s stay here until I know my weaknesses. The team’s performance is unstable, but surely they won’t be relegated. And if it gets dangerous, I can always go back.”

Currently, Gods Knights were in 7th place in the league with 3 wins, 1 draw, and 2 losses. Of these, 1 win, 1 draw, and 1 loss were achieved in his absence. They had won against unremarkable teams, but if they continued like this, there would be no relegation. Moreover, Gods Knights was a promising team, so the team members would continue to grow, and the performance would improve.

Having made up his mind, Beom-seok comfortably lay back and took a nap.

Splash. Splash.

How long had it been? He woke up from his light sleep to the sound of gentle water. At first, he thought a wild animal had come to drink water and tried to ignore it, but he opened his eyes slightly, thinking that he might be attacked by a bear. But the sight that unfolded before his eyes was more dangerous than the appearance of a ferocious carnivore.

It was Liza, naked, soaking in the water.

Startled, Beom-seok covered his private parts and shouted.

“You, you! What are you doing!”

“I was sticky, so I came to wash too.”

Beom-seok was at a loss for words at Liza’s too natural expression. Even though it was a world where men and women kept their distance, he had never heard of bathing together without being married or in a relationship. This wasn’t Japan.

“That doesn’t make sense!”

“What doesn’t make sense?”

“Where do men and women bathe together naked!”

“Why? I used to bathe with my father often.”

Beom-seok stared at her with a blank look. No matter how he looked at it, Liza seemed to have no idea about the etiquette that men and women should observe due to her long life in the mountains.

‘That Dantes is a perverted old man! How can someone who knows better raise his daughter like this!’

Dantes had socialized enough to befriend members of the Kendo Association [Japanese martial arts organization], so he must have known about social norms to some extent. He should have taught her about these sensitive issues, but it was absurd that he had bathed with her until she was grown up. Beom-seok even suspected that Dantes might be a pervert.

“Hey, Liza, you can’t do that! It’s impossible for unrelated men and women to bathe together!”

“Why?”

“That’s the social norm.”

“Really? But this isn’t society. So it doesn’t matter.”

“It’s a problem because I care!”

“Why? Does Sahyung [term of respect, like ‘older brother’ or ‘mentor’] not like bathing with me?”

It was necessary to think deeply about that point. He didn’t know about people in this world, but he wondered if there was anyone in the real world who wouldn’t enjoy bathing with a beautiful woman.

He closed his eyes tightly, looking at Liza’s jet-black hair flowing on the water.

“W, well, it’s not that I don’t like it…….”

“Then it’s okay. What.”

She slyly went to the water’s edge and looked at the toiletries Beom-seok had brought. And she looked at Beom-seok with surprised eyes and said.

“Sahyung, is this shampoo?”

Beom-seok, unable to look at her, looked at the distant sky and nodded. He was doing his best to calm his raging desires.

“Y, yes.”

Liza smiled brightly, picked up the shampoo, and lathered her soaked hair evenly. And then she put body shampoo on her hands again and started applying it to her body.

Unable to watch this, Beom-seok turned his head and looked at the stream downstream, calming his excited heart. He wasn’t sure, but if he lost his reason here and attacked her, he might enter a humiliation route and her favorability would plummet. He had to endure it no matter what.

‘D, damn it. What do I do……. Since she doesn’t know anything, it might not be a humiliation route…….’

But he couldn’t ruin the quest for such a trivial matter. This game had many traps besides the humiliation route, so it was safer to carefully build up favorability and win her over.

Susan was a prime example. She wasn’t won over through the humiliation route, but her favorability plummeted due to the simultaneous capture of Esther.

In order to avoid experiencing such a situation again, he had to be careful and cautious. In particular, Liza was an essential figure in the team, so he shouldn’t make a mistake and let her go.

However, this difficulty was not easy. Ignorance is invincible. Liza was trying to pour gasoline on the flames of Beom-seok’s instincts.

“Sahyung. Can you shampoo my back?”

Beom-seok, seeing Liza’s sensual back handing him the body shampoo, coughed roughly. He didn’t know how to deal with this. His reason was shouting to refuse, but his instincts wouldn’t listen.

‘S, honestly, I won’t fall into a humiliation route just by shampooing, right? Yes, that’s right.’

“Ahem. Well. I guess so.”

Beom-seok squeezed a lot of body shampoo into his hand and closed his eyes tightly. The slippery, milky white color stimulated his senses. Beom-seok began to shampoo Liza’s back with a face that was half-crying and half-excited.

‘Damn it. I’m going crazy.’

The woman’s skin he felt on his hands was incredibly soft. The touch, like a baby’s skin, made Beom-seok’s manhood protest, its veins bulging. If he just inserted it, the act would begin, and there was no way it would endure.

Torn by conflicting thoughts, he began to push his hand to a place he should never go. It was Liza’s chest, which was bulging.

“Sahyung. I can apply it there.”

‘Am I stupid! Who wouldn’t know that!’

“Ah. Really? Sorry. Ahem.”

Liza turned her head and looked at him with an embarrassed expression.

“You don’t have to be sorry. If you want, just do it.”

“Y, yes. Ahem.”

Wiping the saliva flowing from the corner of his mouth, Beom-seok slyly moved his hand and applied shampoo to her entire body. His instincts were already at their peak and on the verge of exploding.

Then Liza slyly sat on Beom-seok’s lap and lowered her flushed face. As the man’s touch caressed her body, the woman’s instincts were awakening. She made a thick nasal sound, unable to cope with the heat flowing from her body.

“Umm.”

Thinking that he couldn’t go on like this, Beom-seok hit Liza’s hip hard. He didn’t know what would happen if he went one step further.

“It’s all done, so you wipe it off.”

“You can do more.”

“What more! Don’t you have hands! Don’t you have feet! Do it yourself!”

Liza stood up with a sulky face. She was disappointed that the strange feeling she had never felt before had disappeared. She splashed stream water on her shampooed body and cast a subtle glance at Beom-seok.

“Sahyung. Will you shampoo me again later?”

Beom-seok shook his head wildly from side to side. If he did, the blood vessels in his brain would burst and it would be game over. It seemed that avoiding her completely until the capture would be helpful for his longevity.

“That’s it. Unless you become my lover. Never.”

“Lover?”

“I’m talking about a man and woman who sleep together at night.”

Liza tilted her head and clapped her hands.

“Are you talking about a father and daughter?”

“Father and daughter?”

“I always slept with my father.”

Beom-seok clenched his fist. He felt like he had to go up to the mountainside today, dig up the grave, and dismember Dantes’ body to relieve this feeling. It seemed that he didn’t have any dark intentions, as her virginity was protected, but he still felt bad. Liza was a candidate for his lover.

“Keuk. No. It’s a relationship where men and women who are not connected by blood sleep together.”

“Really? Then Sahyung. Let’s sleep together in my room today. I’ve been a little scared because I’ve been sleeping alone every day.”

“That’s it. Your stomach will be pierced right away if we do that.”

“My stomach will be pierced? Then I’ll die!”

Beom-seok grabbed his forehead. He had no idea how to deal with this innocent girl. He thought she needed thorough sex education, but he was at a loss as to where to start.

“That’s not what I meant!”

“Then what is it?”

“You’ll find out gradually, so you don’t have to know now!”

“Tch. Stingy. What’s wrong with telling me now?”

“It’s hard to explain in words. There’s no need to passionately explain something you’ll know once you experience it.”

“Then. Let’s experience it now.”

“I can’t!”

Liza pouted, feeling like she was being ignored.

“Why not!”

“If we do that, you’ll have to take me as your husband for the rest of your life.”

“Husband? What’s that?”

“I mean husband! Husband!”

“What’s a husband?”

“It’s someone who lives in the same blanket for the rest of their life.”

“Then when do I learn swordsmanship?”

At that moment, Beom-seok sighed deeply. He was tired, as if he was arguing with a curious five-year-old. He had no choice but to change the subject. If he continued like this, the conversation would go on forever.

Beom-seok grabbed Liza’s shoulder with trembling hands.

“Let’s stop talking about that now.”

“Why not?”

“Because I have something I’m really curious about. Can you tell me?”

“Sigh. I have to answer if Sahyung asks. But what are you curious about?”

Beom-seok, who had escaped the crisis, relaxed his expression. And he asked anything that came to mind. Anything was fine now, as long as it wasn’t related to the relationship between men and women.

“Liza, you had body modification surgery, right?”

“Yes. I had it about three years ago.”

“What money did you use? Body modification surgery is quite expensive.”

“My father borrowed money from the Kendo Association members to pay for it.”

Beom-seok nodded as if he knew it. As far as he knew, Dantes had defrauded the Kendo Association members of nearly 60 million krons. It was almost the same as the cost of body modification surgery, so it was clear that all the money was used for Liza’s surgery.

============================ Author’s Notes ============================

Have a nice day, everyone. I’ll see you again tomorrow.