Chapter 4: You said you had a crush on me, didn’t you?

Cheon Hye-rin entered the room without hesitation.

She sent out the subordinates who were following her, gave a dismissal order, and faced him alone.

He caught sight of her eyes shaking violently as she faced him.

“…I’m sure you know why I came all the way here.”

Cheon Hye-rin opened her mouth without giving him a chance to say anything.

Was it difficult for her to calm down?

She stopped her feet, leaving a distance of about two steps.

“You said… you loved me.”

She took a slow, deep breath and placed her hand on her chest, which was particularly noticeable.

Soon, no words came from her mouth.

Her head becomes dizzy.

She utters such words again.
“1”
“1”

As she maintained that silence, an awkward atmosphere lingered in the room.

The tips of her ears were flushed red. The reaction of biting her lip… seemed like she was desperately ‘enduring’ something.

I was silent, watching Cheon Hye-rin, who couldn’t control her expression.

I risked my life to save her. Is she trying to kill me now?

What should I do?

If the game system is moving… there would be no other purpose than to kill me.

Even if it’s not the game system… it wouldn’t be a good purpose.

Because it didn’t make sense to confess purely.

Think about it.

In a Murim of the strong, would there really be someone who has their heart stolen by someone weaker than themselves?

Even confessing love? To someone you met yesterday?

It’s not like I’m exceptionally handsome or rich.

I wasn’t particularly talented either.

If I had to argue, I would only have two useless things that I couldn’t even use.

That being said, it doesn’t make sense that she knows this in advance. Because I’ve never shown it.

Okay. Let’s say I can somehow confess.

Then another problem arises here.

Confess that I love her?

According to the game’s favorability system, my upper and lower body will be separated.

What if I say I don’t love her here?

It’s not strange for her to draw her sword from her waist and kill me in one stroke, saying that it’s an act of insulting herself.

As soon as it happened, I was greeted by an unavoidable dilemma.

•Damn it, why is it like this as soon as I wake up.’

She was still looking at me.

The dice I rolled there were…

‘First, I have no choice but to do what the story did.’

The hope that even in the game world, not all laws apply. Only that one thing.

“2”

I quietly reached out and tucked her ebony hair behind her ear.

Cheon Hye-rin’s pure white skin flushed, and the heat was felt on my hand.

Is she angry?

Cheon Hye-rin, who hadn’t even recognized the sudden event, tilted her head, looking like she didn’t know what was going on.

When I brought my hand over again, Cheon Hye-rin’s face was filled with great distress.

“You…. you are, really. You always have to be like this~”

Her breath is drawn inward.

Even then, Cheon Hye-rin was staring at me with her eyes wide open.

She bows her head slightly and exhales with difficulty.

She takes a quick breath.

‘Is this something to react to this much?’

Something doesn’t make sense.

Even if I retrace the events so far, the answer is:

Ah. Was this not the side where the wound was?

As I reached out my hand again and gently touched her hair a little.

It is caught in my sight that Cheon Hye-rin’s trembling becomes more severe and her pupils shake greatly once.

“7”

Cheon Hye-rin opened her lips without giving me a chance to make any excuses.

So I was quietly staring at her.

Something felt like the situation was becoming serious.

She asks an important question.

“Will you feel better if you… make me yours?”
“1”
“1”

What the hell is this again.

“…Cheon Hye-rin.”

Cheon Hye-rin was quietly looking at her reflection in the mirror.

This was the first time in her life that she had been so concerned about her appearance.

Her original features were so outstanding that she seemed to have grown wings just by putting on light makeup.

But all of these things couldn’t erase the emotions on Cheon Hye-rin’s face.

Is it just her imagination… no, she still can’t control her expression.

“I, if I face you… I become strange.”

Her legs stagger on their own as she mutters those words to herself. Her head is dizzy.

If she showed this appearance to anyone, it wouldn’t be taken lightly…

At least, she shouldn’t let him find out that she’s being swayed by that man this much.

Soon, she will have a chance to meet him alone.

She had to suppress her desire to abandon everything and be with him.

Cheon Hye-rin recalled the promises she had made to herself.

She still doesn’t understand.

Cheon Hye-rin was being swayed by that man.

She had never had this experience for decades while having feelings for Shinkyo and rising to the position of Leader and Sword Empress.

Until now, there have been countless people who courted her to win her heart.

There were countless men who were captivated by her beauty, a beauty that could overthrow a kingdom, but above all, there were many men who were fascinated by her overwhelming strength.

Especially the absolute masters at the pinnacle of Murim.

Even those who monopolized power in the world of the strong and stood at the pinnacle in one place were eager to become acquainted with her.

Even when faced with men who were outstandingly beautiful among men who were followed by modifiers such as Cheokgwayeongcha, Heonheonjangbu, Okgulseonpung, and Namjungilsek, Cheon Hye-rin did not budge.

Not only that? Even those who were famous for their outstanding martial arts and beauty, not to mention shaking her, could not even reach her heart.

There was no one who could recklessly touch her until now and there would be no one in the future.

There was no man she was planning to give her heart to… there was no plan for one.

“But… why, only to that man.”

Why is she being swayed so much?

Cheon Hye-rin grabbed the tips of her ears, which were so hot that they were burning.

Just thinking about it makes her feel good.

Was the experience of being rescued the problem in the first place?

But no matter how much she was, she couldn’t kill all the absolute masters who were ganging up on her.

A sudden ambush. A trap.

Although she defeated them all, she was unable to continue the battle and was kidnapped by them, almost suffering something terrible in that situation.

He appeared.

If he hadn’t been there… she might have been laid down by someone she didn’t even know and wailing like a female.

Yes. That’s why.

Cheon Hye-rin nodded, placing her hand on the upper part of her beating chest.

If she had openly revealed her interest from the beginning, she wouldn’t have been this excited.

…Until now, she had not felt any feelings of love.

Just taking out the innate pure energy right before she died- at the very end, she was sure that she was going to die.

She revealed her heart, saying ‘It’s a necessary thing’ just before she died.

That one word, which was difficult for her to predict.

A sudden… emotion penetrated her and shook her.

Thinking about it makes her chest hurt as if someone is holding it with their hand.

She can’t breathe well.

At least, the relationship will progress, not like the awkward relationship it is now.

She was ashamed of herself for being happy with every single one of Yu Jin’s attentions with her body and mind taken hostage from deep inside her heart.

Although he was trying to give up his heart, he keeps wavering at the thought of being loved. She is being captured.

Perhaps it was because he had become an important person to her.

“

Cheon Hye-rin carefully opened the door.

She took a deep breath.

Composure…

She needs to control her expression.’

She was able to maintain her composure in everything, but.

At this moment, her whole body feels like a ball of fire.

There was no way to suppress the emotions that made her face burn.
“1”

She parted her lips to say something.

The hours she had practiced until now were useless, and she repeatedly hesitated.

One step, two steps.

She approached him and opened her mouth.

“You said… you loved me.”
“
“

He looked at her with a slightly surprised look.

…Was this not it?

‘…Maybe.’

Cheon Hye-rin’s heart became even more complicated at his silence. The more she sat next to him, the more she felt her heart beating like crazy.

Momentarily, anxiety settled in her heart.

But the opportunity to know that it wasn’t that came quickly.

-Thump, thump,
“

The other person’s heart was pounding like crazy.

I can hear the sound.

Yu Jin, that man.

From the moment he met her eyes.

He was taking such a reaction that he would not come out without taking the emotions of falling in love and being excited.

His pupils were dilated, as if he had faced a sight that could not be.

“…!!”

Her heart sank.

“I…I…….”

She couldn’t say any more.

With each step she took towards him, her heart beat faster and faster.

She knows it very well because she has experienced it.

Cheon Hye-rin, who is on the edge of the realm.

As a powerful person who has reached the noble realm, she could hear even the small sound of her heart beating even if she didn’t try to listen.

And, decisively

“
“

Swish,

Then he suddenly reaches out towards Cheon Hye-rin’s ear and sweeps her hair back. She looked at him, trying to stop momentarily.

-!!!!!!!!!

A familiar feeling.

The same… action at that time.

Her eyes widened at his sudden action, and her face flushed.

Even before his touch was over, she heard something breaking within herself. It was the sound of the string of emotions that had been tightly tied in her heart being released.

All

The reins have been completely handed over.

“!!!!”

Cheon Hye-rin’s heart

Started beating.

She had to answer, but her voice didn’t come out easily.

‘…Ugh.’

It felt like warmth was spreading from behind the ear where his hand had touched. Her heart was pounding momentarily, and her whole body became hot.

She blankly stared at him without even having time to touch her own ears.

With the face of a woman who has completely fallen in love.

Cheon Hye-rin was looking at his eyes and trying to maintain her composure to hide that her heart was beating so painfully, but her face was already flushed and red.

Emotions that have already exceeded the limit.

I can’t suppress it.

‘…I can’t get out now.’

Cheon Hye-rin paused for a moment, looking at him.

At that moment, he suddenly raised his hand and gently swept back the hair that had fallen next to Cheon Hye-rin’s ear once again.

This time it was the side with the wound.

His face, which was very sad when he saw that her face was hurt, flashes through her mind.

It was the first time she had come so close, having such contact with a man.

His touch was soft and warm, but Cheon Hye-rin’s heart was pounding violently.

It hurts.

It felt like she was going to stop breathing.

“You…. you are, really. You always have to be like this~”

Her heart was now beating unbearably fast at the thought that he was looking at her face from close range.

“Will you feel better if you… make me yours?”

She asked such a question while panting for breath.

But.

“…Sword Empress.”

He whispered softly.

Every time his voice called her name, her heart beat even louder.

She couldn’t bear to meet his eyes, so she avoided his gaze, but his hand was still sweeping her hair back and remained in place.

With just that small touch, she already felt like she had been conquered.

The moment Yu Jin’s hand swept her hair back, she realized that she was already being swayed so easily by just his touch.

-Hwaaa.

She reached out her hand and gently grabbed his hand. The warmth of him that touched her fingertips rushed in her heart like a wave.

The moment he turned his gaze towards her, she realized that she could no longer hide her feelings.

Cheon Hye-rin took a deep breath. The room was filled only with her and his breathing.

After hesitating for a long time, she finally asked him the question she wanted to ask.

“You, do you… how much… do you love me?”

“…Let’s just say it’s a deep emotion to the point that I’ve become like this.”

To the point of being battered.

There was not a single lie on his face as he said those words.

Would there be a woman who wouldn’t be shaken by being told that she is more important than his own life?

As he confirmed his confession once again, her heart, which was already beating fast, pounded as if it would explode, and the emotions she had hidden in Cheon Hye-rin’s heart seemed to explode in an instant.

That wasn’t all.

“You, my dear… why, are you wearing… clothes suddenly?”

“…This, it might work?”

Cheon Hye-rin reacts particularly sensitively to my words.

I thought it was time and added words in a row.

I roll up the blanket to leave a more intense impression on my situation.

Flung-

Just as I was about to say the words in front of her as is.

“If you look at these scars….”

Unlike the purpose of showing the deep scars on my chest.

She watched me taking off my shirt and avoided my gaze.

“My, dear… put on some clothes.”

“?”

“That… it’s too… s*xy… your outfit.”

“1”
“1”

“You didn’t even take it all off… and what’s with taking it off halfway….”

Cheon Hye-rin is looking at me with a face that says, “My dear, don’t tell me you were aiming for that?”

No… that’s not it.

I didn’t take it off to seduce her in that direction.