Lena returned to her dorm.
In the darkness, with the lights off, she opened a notebook.
Scratch scratch-
Careful, deliberate handwriting filled the pages.
It wasn't for reviewing class notes or handling student council secretary duties.
It was a ritual—infusing curses with intent.
Click-
Lena switched the color of her pen.
'Black is for malicious, negative curses.'
Her trusty three-color ballpoint pen, seemingly ordinary, was actually a constellation.
Each color held a different type of curse.
'Red is for bloodshed.'
Click.
The pen switched again.
'And blue is…'
Lena's hand froze.
'A color I can't use.'
Even as a chosen hero, she couldn't wield blue.
Hecate hadn't permitted it.
She didn't mind too much.
Black and red were more than enough to craft powerful curses.
As she wrote diligently, the pen's ink stopped flowing.
The constellation was acting up.
The pen floated into the air and spoke.
"Lena Erandel. Your intent is stronger than usual."
"Hecate-nim."
"Who's this curse for?"
"Kim Taeyang… The guy who tormented me."
"Tormented you? That sounds intriguing."
It was a past Lena didn't want to revisit.
But defying a constellation wasn't an option.
She cautiously recalled the memories.
Lena came from a remote village in Eastern Europe.
Barely 20 people lived there.
There were no kids her age.
You'd think the only child in town would be showered with love…
But not Lena.
Her father's volatile temper saw to that.
Always drunk, beating her mother, threatening neighbors.
Back then, Lena thought it was normal.
Her world was that small.
Then one day,
A strange boy appeared in the village.
"Wohoo~ Spotted a pure white European sow☆"
"?"
His speech was odd, almost dangerous, but to Lena, meeting a kid her age was thrilling.
"Hey, you live here?"
"Yeah… Who are you, oppa?"
"The name's Kim Taeyang. Came to check out my dad's new villa."
"Villa?"
"Ugh! Enough boring questions—be my guide!!"
Kim Taeyang, an Asian kid.
Bigger and more muscular than her, Lena assumed he was a year or two older.
"I play by the creek, catching fish or frogs."
"Huh? That's lame as hell. Total country girl vibes."
"It's fun… Wanna catch a fish and smash it with a rock?"
"Smash it with a rock?"
"Like this."
Thud!
Lena's play was pretty twisted back then.
Maybe it was inevitable.
Her entire world was steeped in violence.
"This chick's got a psycho streak—hilarious! You always mess with animals like this?"
"Yeah, their reactions are fun. Try it, oppa. I'll catch one for you."
"Nah, that's gross."
"Wanna play with a dog then? Kicking it makes it yelp—pretty fun."
"Not interested."
Kim Taeyang didn't seem to care for tormenting animals.
Instead, he found something else to mess with.
"Yo! Sow hand-grab!!"
"Ow!"
Pulling her hair,
Or—
"Sow-exclusive mega knuckle-flick!!"
"That hurts!!"
Flicking her forehead.
"Hey, sow. Is that smartphone from the medieval era? Looks like a damn relic—hilarious. Hand it over!"
"Eek…!"
Stealing Lena's stuff,
Or—
"You're holding your piss until I say so, got it?"
"Okay…"
Even controlling when she could pee.
Lena once went home without permission, ate dinner, and wet herself at the table.
She got in big trouble that day.
Still, Lena didn't hate Kim Taeyang.
'Tomorrow, I'll wake up early and play with Taeyang-oppa!'
She grew even more attached to him.
Because, well, home was a far worse hell.
Kim Taeyang's arrival brought a new kind of fun.
Plus, Lena didn't have friends, so she didn't know what a healthy relationship was.
"Is this how friends act?"
"Don't ask obvious questions! Making a friend a sow and having the sow obey the master is normal in the city."
"Oh, I see…"
"Thank me for making a country sow like you mine!"
"Thank you!"
The word "city."
It was like hypnosis to Lena.
"I want to go to the city too."
"Dream on, country sow. Unless you awaken, no chance! Kek kek kek."
"Okay…"
Days passed like that.
Kim Taeyang bullied her often, and Lena just smiled awkwardly through it.
To young Lena, those were happy days.
On a rainy day,
After losing rock-paper-scissors and having her umbrella stolen,
Kim Taeyang walked ahead, hogging it.
Soaked to the bone, Lena looked at his broad back and confessed.
"I want to marry you someday, oppa."
Proposing took a lot of courage, even for an 8-year-old.
Kim Taeyang was nonchalant.
"Oh yeah?"
"It'd be nice to be your bride."
"Dream on. You're not my type."
"Why…?"
"You don't have a boyfriend, do you? And you're not the type who's loved at home."
"?"
She didn't get it at first.
But his explanation cleared things up.
"I like stealing girls from someone else."
"Well, you did steal a lot of my stuff…"
"I'm destined to join Ark Academy, you know."
"Ark?"
"The world's top hero school. A country sow like you wouldn't get it… Anyway, if you make it to Ark, I'll consider you as a bride candidate."
"Really?"
"Yeah. But get a boyfriend and wait quietly. Don't do anything physical with him—just like him in your heart. I'll come steal you. Got it?"
"Okay! I'll try!"
"Idiot! Trying won't cut it! You need to awaken to get into Ark! A backwater sow like you awakening? No way! Take a sow knuckle-flick and wake up!!"
"Ow! Sorry!!"
It was a hazy memory, etched in her mind.
The next day,
Kim Taeyang left without a goodbye.
"Taeyang-oppa…"
No amount of sniffling helped.
She had no way to contact him.
Later, like a miracle, Lena awakened.
After her parents' divorce, she moved to the city with her mother.
Adjusting was tough at first.
Everyone saw her as a weird, bad kid, and she had no friends for a while.
By middle school, she started learning city life and relationships.
As she grew older, her memories of Kim Taeyang shifted.
Her dependable first love—
'Was a complete bastard!!!'
A total jerk.
Thinking about how his influence got her ostracized in the city made her blood boil.
'If we meet again, I'll make you pay tenfold, a hundredfold…!!'
"This Kim Taeyang guy… I kinda like him."
"You're joking…?"
"Hm. I'm looking forward to an entertaining revenge play."
The pen returned to Lena's hand.
Calmly, with force, she wrote the words of her curse.
- Kim Taeyang strips naked and wets himself.
- Kim Taeyang strips naked and wets himself.
- Kim Taeyang strips naked and wets himself.
At the most critical moment.
Like when Kim Taeyang steps onto a stage or during a nationwide live broadcast.
Lena planned to cast her curse.
'I'll get my revenge! Worse than what I went through!! I'll make everyone see him naked, pissing himself!!!'
Kim Taeyang, humiliated in front of everyone, stripped bare and wetting himself.
That was the revenge Lena had fantasized about for years.
She never imagined it would backfire on her.
***
After classes ended,
I skipped the hotel-grade cafeteria food and headed to the convenience store to fill up.
You'd think I'd be a VVVIP regular by now…
"Damn fly! Every time that shit-fly shows up, business tanks!"
That's how the store owner (mid-20s, cool-beauty S+ grade, big boobs, virgin) treated me.
"Huh? There's no flies around!!"
"Hm. My mistake…? That'll be 9,800 won, sir."
She rang me up with a bored look.
I get it.
If I were the owner, I wouldn't be thrilled either.
"It's… Kim Taeyang."
"Don't make eye contact."
"I'll eat the ice cream later…"
Students scatter the moment they spot me.
Word spreads that "Kim Taeyang's at the store," and the day's sales plummet!
What did I even do to get avoided like this?!
"You look like you're feeling wronged," the owner said.
"Wouldn't you be pissed?!"
"I'm pissed too! Can't exactly put up a 'No Thug Bastards' sign… Ugh…"
The convenience store owner, with a mole under her eye.
Her nerve to not flinch at me is no joke.
Of course, she's no ordinary person.
'Lee Jeomsun, a succubus in disguise.'
A villain who, starting this semester, aims to turn Ark into "Sex Academy."
Behind her stunning looks lies a dark heart.
"Hey, Jeom-soon-noona. Don't underestimate me. I might just take this store from you."
"Please, someone take it. You know how much of a headache it is running this failing dump?"
No need to pick a fight now.
It'll be more fun to crush her when the real event kicks off.
As I was about to leave, someone boldly walked in.
"Taeyang-ssi. What's with you wandering alone without your sows?"
"Huh? None of your business!"
Seol Harin and Chloe were off for their own reasons.
Chloe had friend stuff,
And Seol Harin said a professor called her.
Wait… Did Seol Hajeong set this up?
"Hey! Did you purposely get my sows away from me?! Huh?! If that's true, I'll kill you right here!!!"
"Watch your mouth. Talking like that to your future wife?"
"Who'd take a nasty chick like you as a wife?!!"
The store owner cut into our bickering.
"Hey, hey! Take it outside, you shit-flies."
"Taeyang-ssi, wanna walk? I'm alone too."
"Tch."
Reluctantly, I left the store with Seol Hajeong.
"No need to worry about Harin and Chloe. I just called them away to talk to you alone."
"I got nothing to say to you."
"Oh? I think we've got plenty to talk about regarding Kuma."
Kuma, who declared herself a sow.
But that's our little secret.
Publicly, she's still the diligent vice-president of the student council.
That's the only way she can spy.
But sharp-as-hell Seol Hajeong already sniffed it out.
"Kuma's gone over to your side, hasn't she?"
Her expression told me denying it wouldn't work.
"So what?"
"I knew it! I may seem a bit sloppy, but I'm pretty sharp. Impressive, right?"
Seol Hajeong is the heir to a corporate empire.
Trained from childhood to take over, she's not just sharp—she's got a mind that spins schemes like a well-oiled machine.
Sneakier than she looks.
"For someone who lost a loyal follower, you're awfully smug. Isn't that a death sentence for a great leader?"
"I'll admit you got me there. But from now on, I'm going all out. Lena told me everything—about your relationship with her."
"Huh? What relationship with that chick?"
"It wasn't a question."
No, seriously, I don't know…
Tell me something, please?
Instead of answering, Seol Hajeong changed the subject.
"What's the most important thing in running a business?"
"Easy—stamina."
"Wrong. Controlling your emotions. Every decision has to be made with cold, hard reason, not swayed by feelings. I was taught from a young age to suppress my emotions. If I show any, it's just a strategic move."
"What's that, you nuisance sow? Forgot how you got all worked up and summoned a Bone Dragon last time?"
"Thanks to that, I learned your bravado isn't just hot air. And that a Bone Dragon can't crush you."
It's totally bravado, though…?
Seol Hajeong, acting like she had it all figured out, continued with a smug look.
"But even I have moments I can't hold back. Seol Harin. My precious little sister…"
"So you're saying you can't help but love tormenting your sow sister?"
Her face froze, cold as ice.
Clench-
She gritted her teeth, jaw muscles twitching, veins popping on her forehead.
Her eyes, crazed and bloodshot, looked like they'd burst.
She'd turned into a dangerous psycho…
"I don't torment Harin. I dreamed of a school life with her by my side. In those dreams, she was with me, not you. I tried to take you out and win her heart, but you're more persistent than I thought."
She snapped her fingers.
Skeleton soldiers rose from the ground.
"Kyaaa-!"
"What are these things?!"
"Let me go!!"
Screams echoed everywhere.
Skeletons restrained students, dragging them off.
"So this time, I'm being honest with my emotions."
Three skeletons latched onto me, but—
"Hey, hey!! You male skeletons dare touch me?!!"
CRACK-!
I smashed their skulls with a single punch.
Clatter…!
Still, the skeletons clung to me relentlessly.
"Due to detected gate activity in Ark, I, as student council president, declare a special martial law."
A purple aura of menace shimmered around Seol Hajeong.
Her eyes gleamed with a mystical, intense light.
"From this moment, all Ark students, except during class hours, are under student council control. No exceptions, not even for livestock."
Click!
Bone handcuffs snapped onto my wrists.
The skeletons' doing.
"Huh? You a dictator now, sow?!!"
"Yes. I'm an elected dictator. And—"
Seol Hajeong stepped closer, her psycho demeanor replaced with a beaming smile.
"A tyrant ruled by her emotions."
Martial law in Ark…
Didn't expect her to pull such a bold move.
This is supposed to be a second-semester event.
The student council triggers a gate phenomenon to flush out a hidden villain—that's the scenario.
But the real focus isn't the villain.
It's the hidden event.
The reward you must get to clear the game is the main prize.
So…
"Hey, thanks, huh?"
"…What?"
"You keep setting the stage for me, and I'm freaking pumped!!! Martial law? That's some seriously hot shit!!!!"
"Taeyang-ssi, you know what martial law means, right?"
"Huh?! Who do you take me for, you psycho siscon sow?!!!!"
Martial law's no big deal.
Just tying down students under the guise of safety.
Clear the hidden event, and I'll boost my rep, screw over the student council, and nab a reward I wasn't supposed to get until next semester!
Three birds with one stone, at least…!
If this isn't sexy, what is?!!!