NOVEL NEXT Chapter 21 - The Sulking Lady
When I returned to my room in the dormitory, Briar Churchill had just finished bathing and was drying her hair with only a towel wrapped around her body. I flinched for a moment and turned my eyes away from her, but Churchill, seemingly not caring about my appearance at all, pointed to the bathroom.
“The bathroom’s free. Use it. Even with a body with super-regenerative abilities, you should wash up after that whole commotion, right?”
Now that we were alone, she had abandoned the quite fluent Chinese and reverted to her native English. Well, after confirming that I could speak English, there was no reason for the proud Churchill to specifically address me in Chinese.
“Yes, then I’ll borrow it for a bit.”
“Did you forget this is your room? You’re failing as a roommate. Geez, how did I end up sharing a room with such a dull person…”
Somehow, it seems my evaluation has gone down a bit compared to last night. I wonder why.
“Do you have some complaint about me?”
“Hmph.”
“Please tell me. I already know you’re moody and temperamental, but with that attitude, it’ll be hard to live together.”
“Fine, fine. I’ll talk frankly. You, it’s good you came back early. I thought by now you’d be holed up in some instructor’s room, wetting yourself and collapsed.”
“Pardon?”
“You, didn’t you hear any rumors before coming to this school? Didn’t your country’s government tell you anything?”
“I’m just a college student. What would they tell me?”
“I’m talking about that Zhou Lizhi. There are rumors all over that she’s a vicious person who lives for the fun of taking decent-looking foreign students she can handle as she pleases and then discarding them. Of course, she doesn’t just discard them. I heard she properly takes care of the women she takes in until they graduate, but isn’t that even more vicious in a way? My family sending me all the way to Guangzhou was a kind of punishment to endure a year with such a person.”
“If that’s true, you wouldn’t be in danger. How could a mere Chinese army major touch a precious British lady, right?”
“What’s with that calm attitude? Did you know?”
“Well, a little bit.”
Let’s admit here that I heard a similar story from Duey, as there’s a possibility that Churchill and Duey might cross-verify the facts later.
“I didn’t know exactly, but I became certain after seeing how she called me and treated me today.”
“You knew that and still stayed alone with her? Why, were you thinking of giving it to her once? Want to make your school life easier?”
“If it would make school life easier, it might be a proposal worth considering.”
I took off my dust-covered suit jacket and hung it on a hanger to enter the bathroom. Actually, my ability is quite helpful in removing sand dust. Since I can also control the adhesive strength of tape that has separated from my body with my ability, it’s possible to create just enough strength to remove only sand dust without damaging the fibers.
“What do you think? Do I look like someone who just almost had a go with another woman?”
“To be honest, you don’t look like that. I thought maybe you made an appointment to meet separately later so as not to raise suspicion by taking too long.”
“I tied the major’s hands, gagged her mouth, and left her in the middle of the field.”
Hearing my words, Briar Churchill blinked her eyes as if she couldn’t understand what I was saying. I continued speaking as I took off my shirt and threw it onto the hanger.
“She was about to strip my clothes right there. I took her sword and made it so she couldn’t grasp it again, then tied her hands and mouth and knocked her down there. I didn’t tie her legs. How could she go around in such an embarrassing state? I left her with the feeling of not being able to walk on her own due to shame, even though her two legs were free. Considering what she’s been doing until now, isn’t this actually not much of a punishment?”
“Th-Then?”
“The adhesive strength of my tape drops to that of ordinary tape after two hours. Then she’ll be able to remove the military sword I tied up and free herself. So she should still be there in the middle right now. Want to go take a look? She’s the woman who just completely subdued you.”
This seems like my character is changing a bit. According to the materials provided by the CIA, Shin Eun-young wasn’t supposed to be the type of character to say and do such things.
Ah, I don’t know. This suits my personality better. It’s not like I’ve shown my true self to such an extent that it would feel greatly discordant anyway. Everyone will probably just take it as it is.
“Pfft, puhehehehe!”
Briar Churchill seemed to be in a better mood. Apparently, she had been disappointed thinking I was a roommate without principles who would immediately succumb to authority and spread my legs for a woman.
“It’s a masterpiece, a masterpiece. Ah, I saw it again. You’re not an ordinary person, are you?”
“Let me tell you something even more masterful. But I don’t want to tarnish the major’s honor too much, so don’t go spreading it around.”
“Briar Churchill’s mouth is heavier than a thousand gold pieces. Actually, rumors don’t spread because I’m not social enough to go around talking.”
That’s more trustworthy than anyone who claims to have a ‘heavy mouth’. After all, people who truly have no friends to spread rumors to are the safest for keeping secrets.
“But when I tied her up like that, I felt so sorry for her that I gave her one kiss before I left.”
“Huh?”
“Over the tape.”
“Haha… haha… hahahahahahaha!”
At these words, Briar Churchill stopped drying her hair and fell onto the bed as if flipping over, laughing out loud. For a moment, the towel wrapped around her body fluttered and I thought I saw between her legs, but I didn’t pay much attention to it since we’re both women.
Hmm, but those are excellent legs. Better than any woman’s legs I’ve seen in my life so far.
“A masterpiece, a real masterpiece! A kiss, you say. Tying up Zhou Lizhi in the middle of Huangpu and kissing her covered mouth. You’re a real crazy sadist! It’s incomparable to those fake sadists who think they can only show they’re sadists by using whips, candle wax, and ropes!”
She seemed to perfectly understand the intention behind my actions.
Duct tape is my ability. It comes from a part of my body, and at that moment, it was the ability that completely sealed off Zhou Lizhi, one of the world’s top ‘Weapon Masters’.
Not only did I make her kneel and momentarily reverse the hierarchy through eye level, but even at the moment of bestowing a kiss, I reminded her through the sensation of the duct tape that ‘my superpower’ had beautifully suppressed ‘your superpower’.
I thought it was a distasteful action myself. Even knowing how much of a blow to pride it is to stimulate the superiority of abilities among superhumans. It’s no different from a man openly mocking another man for having a smaller genital size.
“I’m sorry for being cold to you, Eun-young. I completely misunderstood why you stayed behind.”
“I was just disappointed that I couldn’t land a hit in the battle.”
“I had that disappointment too, but this anecdote is so satisfying that it completely blew away that feeling. It’s the kind of episode I’d like to write down someday, frame it, and hang it on the wall of this school.”
“Then I’ll go wash up and come out.”
“Ah, I have a request.”
“Yes, what is it?”
“That merciful kiss, could you bestow it on me too when you come out? If it’s the kiss that subdued our kind teacher Zhou, I’m willing to receive it once too.”
“Hmm, no.”
“Why? You don’t seem to have an aversion to kissing women.”
“Because you’re not up to that level yet.”
Briar Churchill’s eyebrow twitched at my words. I quickly added an explanation as I entered the bathroom with a towel.
“Because you were completely defeated by Zhou Lizhi. I only gave her one kiss through the tape, so you think I’d give that for free just because you’re my roommate?”
Churchill, hearing my explanation, wasn’t upset at all. Rather, she just kept smiling with a very pleased face.
“You know what, commoner? I thought you’d just be a somewhat bold girl, but…”
“Yes, I think I’m about that level too.”
“That’s not it. You have potential. Yes, let’s say, the potential to become a queen.”
“I’m not sure. I’ve never thought about wanting to reign over someone.”
“Then you’re a genius.”
The conversation ended there. After washing up lightly in the bathroom, I prepared for the entrance ceremony in the afternoon while eating the school’s first lunch box that was kindly delivered to the dormitory.
I remembered that Chiang Kai-shek himself would attend the entrance ceremony. Although I’ve been an agent for quite a while, I’ve never seen such an important figure as Chiang Kai-shek in person. I’ve seen him countless times in photos and videos, but…
Well. I wonder what kind of person he will be. What will the absolute ruler of China, who is celebrating his 100th birth anniversary this year, look like?