SSS-Class Sui**de Hunter - Chapter 106

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Episode 106. 1 DAYS (1)
1
“Still, my lady.”
“Yes?”
“Let’s take a proper vacation for just ten days—no responsibilities, no worries.”
I made the proposal.
“Who works as hard as you do, in public and private alike? You’ve given your all to everything. So for just ten days, let’s set aside all the seriousness, keep using the Regression Skill, and—”
“Indulge in pleasures ordinary people cannot?”
“Exactly.”
“Hmm.”
Silver Lily Young Lady remained composed.
“No matter how much chaos we create, if we return to yesterday, no one will remember a thing. We have nothing to lose.”
“As expected of you. I say one word and you understand ten.”
“It’s rather unscrupulous behavior, isn’t it?”
“Let’s be unscrupulous then.”
“Mm. I seem to have taken a rather wicked man as my lover.”
“Ten days—deal?”
Silver Lily Young Lady drew out her fan and opened it.
“Ten days feels too short. Let’s make it two weeks.”
“Deal.”
We played as if we were taking revenge on our past lives.
Sormewin Academy sits on the outskirts of the Capital. A short carriage ride away lies a glittering array of amusements. And my beloved is nothing less than the most promising heir of the Empire’s most powerful noble house.
“Which seating section shall I prepare for you?”
In short: power and money flowed without limit.
She was the finest young lady in this entire world.
She spoke casually to the polite Theater Troupe employee.
“I will hire the entire troupe for one day.”
“Pardon?”
“I said I want to buy out the Theater Troupe for the full day. Did you not hear me? Must I repeat myself three times before words enter your ears? Is repeating the same phrase three times your troupe’s method for practicing acting?”
“Oh, no! I’m terribly sorry! I’ll contact the troupe master at once!”
Theater performances and operas operate on day rentals as standard.
“My dear, there’s something I’ve long wished to try.”
“What’s that?”
“Hire six troupes simultaneously.”
Silver Lily Young Lady’s tone remained measured, but I could tell. She was having the time of her life like a mischievous child.
“Then have them perform plays all at once on one enormous stage. Three plays as tragedies, two as comedies, and the last one as an opera.”
“Um… that sounds like it’ll just be chaos?”
“Precisely. I want to see chaos.”
“Then let’s see it.”
We summoned the six most expensive troupes in the Capital. When a daughter of House Ibancia calls, no troupe master hesitates to scramble.
What? Such reckless behavior would damage House Ibancia’s reputation and tarnish their honor? It doesn’t matter. We are a regression couple. Play for a day, return to yesterday, and that’s the end of it. What can anyone do about it?
“Ah… what magnificent chaos. This is exactly what I wanted to see.”
My lover fanned herself with clear satisfaction,
“Bwahahaha!”
and I rolled on the floor, clutching my sides.
Clowns performed comedies beside actors solemnly reciting tragic lines. With six plays running simultaneously, even the world’s most serious monologues became hilarious. The actors sweated through every minute of the show.
“Let’s clean out the Casino in the Capital!”
“A splendid idea. I accept it.”
The two of us marched into the noble-exclusive Casino. It was a place where masks were worn, like a masquerade, to hide one’s identity. But who is my beloved? Not a single aristocrat could fail to recognize that silver hair that flowed like moonlight.
“Call.”
“C-call.”
When Silver Lily Young Lady said call, her opponents would shrink back and nervously call.
“Fold.”
“F-fold.”
When Silver Lily Young Lady said fold, they would quietly lay down their cards.
“Raise the bet.”
“R-raise…”
“Raise it higher.”
“Re-raise…”
When she said raise, they raised it.
“All in. Every last one of you.”
“A-all in…….”
A miracle worthy of comparison to the parting of the Red Sea had descended upon the luxury casino. For our beloved, I resolved to found the Lily Church, and inscribe the casino scene as the opening verse of its sacred scripture.
Ah, how beautiful was the visage of a villainess young lady destroying others for her own pleasure.
“Th-this is outrageous!”
By the time some sixteen nobles had wept and surrendered their Diamond Rings and Necklaces to us, the casino owner came rushing over in a panic. He was a portly gentleman sporting a Kaiser mustache.
“Surely even the Young Lady cannot simply…….”
“Ho. Do you know who I am? Curious indeed. I hear this establishment takes great pains to conceal the identity of its patrons, and that discretion is both virtue and law here—even when identity is discovered. It seems I’ve been misinformed.”
“I-I don’t! Of course I don’t, but…….”
“You dare claim ignorance of who I am? Do you wish to lose your head?”
“…….”
The casino owner’s mouth gaped open. Though he too was nobility, his bloodline was of vastly inferior rank. He had rushed over only to be utterly crushed within a minute.
“Now then, sir. The Young Lady has posed a question—why do you not answer?”
I, for my part, stood pressed close to Silver Lily Young Lady’s side. And like a sycophant, I puffed out my chest and bellowed menacingly. How warm it was to stand beside our beloved.
“Do you now take the Young Lady’s words lightly? Do you mean to wag your tongue and bring shame upon her noble house?”
“N-no, surely not. How could such a thing be? I merely wished to ask for a touch more … consideration for my humble enterprise…….”
“Alas. Young Lady, this will not do. His arrogance reaches toward the heavens themselves. He must be executed for his impudence!”
“Eeeek?”
Silver Lily Young Lady opened her Fan with unhurried grace.
“Never mind. Though it’s said that Baron Roebbe maintains a secret pharmaceutical laboratory in his cellar and distributes illegal drugs throughout the Capital, that alone hardly warrants losing one’s head.”
He flinched.
The Kaiser-mustached gentleman’s shoulders trembled. His expression betrayed doubt—did he truly hear what he thought he heard? In the next moment, his face drained of all color. What had been mere panic an instant before transformed into genuine horror.
“W-what do you mean by…….”
“Sit.”
“…….”
“Sit there and play ten rounds with me, and I’ll let you off for tonight.”
In the end, we emptied the casino owner’s coffers as well. We scattered the mountains of Gold Coins and Jewels recklessly across the streets of the Empire.
Those days felt like a dream.
A delusion that was also a beautiful dream.
We did as we pleased, played as we wished. We rented the most luxurious Lodging in the Capital, and whiled away our hours in its grandest suite. I pulled Silver Lily Young Lady into my arms and dove into the enormous bed.
“Mm.”
The first day.
The corners of Silver Lily Young Lady’s eyes rose slightly.
“Mm-hmm.”
The second day.
Silver Lily Young Lady’s lips curled upward.
“…Ah.”
By the third day, Silver Lily Young Lady was smiling. Not a scornful smile, but joy—pure and simple. My beloved’s smile was as innocent as a child learning to laugh for the first time.
“Gongja.”
Silver Lily Young Lady buried her face against my chest.
“Are you happy?”
“With you in this world, I need only continue living.”
I became happy.
The minimum unit required for human happiness was two.
“I’ll start keeping a diary from today.”
“To show me, then.”
“I have a colleague who plays music beautifully. I’ll study music from her.”
“To play for me, then.”
“No matter what comes, I will survive.”
One day, we bribed the guards and threatened them until the busiest street in the Capital stood empty for a full hour. We had the entire thoroughfare to ourselves.
One day, we went to the Palace and spoke before the Emperor—everything we wished to say and everything we shouldn’t. When Silver Lily Young Lady declared, “Your Majesty, do manage your son properly. He is a lunatic without peer,” the Emperor simply slid from his throne. “Your Majesty?” The officials around him erupted in chaos.
One day. And another.
We traveled through time as though it were a holiday resort.
‘It’s just like a honeymoon.’
These words I did not speak aloud. My face grew hot merely thinking them. Yet I believed with certainty that Silver Lily Young Lady harbored the same thought.
The final day.
“…….”
“…….”
On our last day, we did not depart anywhere.
We simply sat side by side at the fountain in the Plaza of the Capital. From afternoon until evening.
Holding hands in silence, we watched the endless shadows of people crossing the Plaza. A newsboy darted hurriedly through the alley between a fruit stand and a tavern.
“We’ve done something terrible, haven’t we?”
After half a day, the Young Lady finally spoke.
“Yes. Vicious bastards, the lot of them.”
I squeezed her hand tightly.
Travel was no longer something we did because we already loved each other—it was something we did to love each other more. Now, having lived the same day over and over for a fortnight, I loved her more than before. And I wanted to love her more still.
“Only the two of us know.”
“Accomplices, then.”
A soft laugh.
[Your immersion in this character deepens.]
[Your current Immersion Rate is 81%.]
Evidence of happiness.
“Laviel, do you remember what I told you in the carriage?”
“I remember every word you ever spoke to me.”
“When I asked you to believe in me—to trust me.”
“Of course.”
“Please keep that promise.”
The Silver Lily Young Lady looked at me.
“You’re plotting something suspicious, I see. Gongja, it would do your heart good to confess plainly.”
“From now on, I’m going to raise my Immersion Rate to 99%.”
……
During this day of travel with the Silver Lily Young Lady, we spoke of many things. So many things. Where I came from. What the Apocalypse was, and what Immersion Rate meant. She learned it all from me.
“I need to become almost completely Butler. I have to become someone born into this world and who has lived in it all his life.”
“But why?”
“I cannot tell you the reason.”
The Silver Lily Young Lady rested her chin in her hand.
“That you cannot even tell me means only you must know the truth in your heart for this stratagem to succeed.”
“Yes.”
“The fact that I’m saying this now means I have something to ask of you.”
“That’s right.”
The Silver Lily Young Lady exhaled a long breath. I’d caught her completely off guard.
“So from the very beginning, you presented me with the promise to ‘trust me’ for this moment. Truly, you’re far shrewder than you appear—a cunning man. I should have guarded myself more carefully before heeding your words. Very well then. What must I do?”
It was time to execute the plan.
2
We returned first to the very beginning—the opening of this Floor, that moment when the ball was held.
The two of us slipped quickly out of the ballroom and made our way to the Silver Lily Young Lady’s Lodging.
“First, please bind both my hands and feet tightly to this chair.”
The Silver Lily Young Lady’s expression became subtle.
“Gongja, I think it rather premature for us to venture into such a world…….”
“I don’t know what you’re thinking and shouldn’t know, but right now I’m quite satisfied with my life, so please don’t worry.”
“Since I promised to trust you, I have no choice but to do so…….”
The Silver Lily Young Lady bound my body firmly to the chair.
I tested my limbs—they didn’t move an inch.
This should be safe enough.
-Hey, Kim Zombie. What are you doing? Your older brother feels a little anxious here.
[Sparkle grows concerned about your actions.]
My Immersion Rate had already surpassed 80%.
As I see it, the original owner of this body—”Butler”—must have admired not only the Geumsamae Young Lady but the Silver Lily Young Lady as well. Either way, a love that could never come to pass. Butler would have quietly sealed away his own heart.
The Crown Prince played both the Silver Lily Young Lady and the Geumsamae Young Lady. The Geumsamae Young Lady played both the Crown Prince and Butler. Butler played both the Silver Lily Young Lady and the Geumsamae Young Lady. Now the Silver Lily Young Lady was playing both the Crown Prince and me.
‘What a wretched romance.’
But.
‘Thank you.’
I was grateful—profoundly grateful—to Butler for nurturing his own affection for the Silver Lily Young Lady.
Because of it, I could devise this plan.
I steeled my resolve.
“Please bring a Mirror in front of me.”
“Very well.”
The Silver Lily Young Lady had her servants move a large Mirror to face me directly. My form—bound tight to the chair, unable to move at all—reflected in the glass.
“Character Window.”
Words slid across the Mirror’s surface.
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Name: Kim Gongja
Favorability: 90
Preferred Genres: [Martial Arts], [Romance], [Mystery], [Adventure]
Disliked Genres: None
Preferred Character Types: [Mentor], [Lover], [Noble Hero], [Victim], [Hardworking Soul], [Child], [Sage], [One Who Questions Themselves], [One Generous to Others], [One Who Knows Me]
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The text continued on below that.
Nearly everything about me.
With the Character Window floating before my eyes, I looked up at the Silver Lily Young Lady.
“Rabiel.”
“I’m listening.”
“From now on, please kiss me over and over. I’ll come to like you even more.”
“Is being kissed while your body is bound your preference? If it were, you should have mentioned it sooner. I could have taken it into account.”
“At some point, I will no longer remain as [myself].”
…
Once the Immersion Rate surpassed ninety percent and crept toward one hundred.
When I witnessed the Heresy Inquisitor completely absorbed into the Geumsamae Young Lady, when I saw her transform into the Geumsamae Young Lady and yet still possessed hair that continued to grow—I understood.
That was it.
That was the trick to smashing this Floor in exactly the way I wanted.
“At that moment, have the Young Lady kill me with her own hands.”
The Silver Lily Young Lady stopped.
SSS-rank The Only Hunter Who Lives by Dying (Serial Publication)
Author | Shin Noa
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