BCGWR Chapter 16 Part 2

“Sister, your taste in men is like a pine tree, but why did you make your own face like that?”

“What’s wrong with my face?”

“Wasn’t your type of man delicate and unreliable?”

“The type I want to keep by my side and pamper, and the type I want to be, are completely different.”

Hearing her sly reply, Ji-su let out a small chuckle.

Even when Han Ji-su was active as an idol in Loveis, that is, before Earth experienced The Cataclysm, Kim Hyun-ah was a well-known figure.

While it was partly because she was the sole legitimate heir of Peace Group and a third-generation chaebol, a larger part of her fame came from her appearance and family background. If one were to look at it from an angle other than her business dealings or family affairs, she was famous as a fan of the idol boy group Loveis’s Han Ji-su.

At the time, those dubbed ‘Kim Hyun-ah’s pine trees’ were mostly handsome young men with slightly downturned eyes, often called the ‘puppy-like’ type. When gathered, their heights varied, but overall, they were slender, always lacked stamina compared to other members, and preferred to be tucked away in a corner—in short, they had a somewhat insignificant image.

However, despite this, they all shared the commonality of being undeniable visual members when it came to their faces. The problem was that the idols she quietly admired each faced various scandals and were successively pruned from Kim Hyun-ah’s ‘pine tree.’ Ultimately, only Han Ji-su survived, leading her to become famous as a “1-Ji-su fan.”

So, Han Ji-su had naturally assumed that if Kim Hyun-ah used a transformation item, she would turn into a handsome young man with the gentle, puppy-like image she had always favored. But the man currently sitting in the driver’s seat was so intimidating that even he found it frightening to make eye contact.

He was so powerfully built that one might believe he was a special forces operative going to breach enemy lines alone, and yet, he hadn’t given up on his looks, appearing as a very Western-style handsome man. It was the kind of face one might see on the protagonist of a Hollywood spy action movie.

“Well, strictly speaking, this isn’t the form I want to be myself. If I customize it moderately, mediocre guys always look down on me and pick fights for no reason. It was a choice to prevent unnecessary killing.”

“…When you say it, Sister, it doesn’t sound like a joke, so don’t use the word ‘killing’ so casually…”

“Ahaha.”

Han Ji-su chatted about Kim Hyun-ah’s well-known taste gap.

As they talked about this and that, Ji-su was about to joke that Brother Jae-yoon was too muscular to sit on his sister’s pine tree, when he suddenly felt a surge of intense displeasure.

He really wanted to say that, but for some reason, he felt like he had to say something else. He wanted to elaborate on how diligently Brother Jae-yoon had worked out, unlike him, and how focused he was on building a beautifully toned body without overdoing it, but his tongue felt stiff, and he couldn’t speak.

‘…Ah, this is really… disgusting.’

Having his thoughts forcibly blocked was not pleasant at all.

It was terrible to think that he would have to remain in this state for roughly ten days.

Even with such a stifling and unpleasant feeling inside, there were still so many who desired mental-element skills…

Would those who desire brainwashing skills, capable of erasing someone’s memories entirely, still wish for them even after experiencing this sensation?

Do they know what it feels like to lose a loved one, to be in such pain that you can’t even think for yourself, and to live in that state?

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