Go Minji, who’d seemed destined to stay put forever, was summoned to Dalian, where the Koryo Militaris headquarters sits.
It felt like something huge was happening — the way she abruptly left in the middle of sex to handle urgent business, the strange, intense undercurrent — but not a single scrap of related information reached my side.
That hardly ever happened.
Even though people didn’t normally spoon-feed me intel, if I tried to pry through this channel or that, information usually trickled in within a short time.
This time, though, there really was nothing at all.
Soo-ah was bewildered enough to remark on it.
“Kang Hye-young and Min-young seem to be dodging something, too...”
Kang Hye-young, who’d been embedded on Muyeol Land as Sibyl’s chief researcher, and Min-young herself both gave me nothing but nonchalant “it’s nothing” answers when I asked directly.
Clearly something I didn’t know was proceeding beneath the surface.
“Probably nothing major.”
Still, I wasn’t worried.
If this had been the old days, I would have spun a hundred paranoid simulations in my head and fretted, but the Go family of the great Koryo Group is, unlike ordinary chaebol households, unusually close-knit.
Whatever it is, it won’t harm me.
So I didn’t bother fretting.
Besides, once the Prestige Incheon Branch is fully seated on Muyeol Land and my influence matures, this kind of information will find its way to me on its own.
I just had to wait a little.
“Mature people build up patience.”
With Go Minji gone, a kind of peace (?) returned.
Go Seonyul, who said she would come, was still preparing, and Go Hayan — issued under Koryo credit — was tidying things up.
Go Seon-a, no need to mention.
Except for Min-young, who can descend at any time via Kang Hye-young, Incheon was—clean, for the first time in a long while.
It meant the city was completely my world.
“This is when you get everything done.”
I threw myself into the Cunt Association meetings I’d been slacking on and went around Incheon personally managing the cunts I’d collected.
Just doing that made the city feel tended, like a lord touring his domain.
The feeling intensified most when I embraced President Jung Mina, who was playing the dictator of the Incheon Republic.
Time passed....
“...Are you really going to do that?”
“....”
Go Seonyul finally moved an entire company into Incheon.
She’d wanted Muyeol Land originally, but I turned that down.
I wanted Muyeol Land to remain my private space... I told my wives to stay in Incheon....
“...To force the barely of-age, fresh twenty-year-old graduates to submit virgins at the graduation and matriculation ceremonies, then catalogue the exceptional ones and manage them separately—”
“....”
“During the events they must wear the Education Office uniform... in short, school uniform—”
“....”
“The skirt length of the uniform will be—”
“Could you stop reading that out loud?”
Go Seonyul, who’d been publically reading my sordid desires word for word, scowled and let out a long sigh, setting the documents down.
Either her fingers lost strength or she did it on purpose — the papers slipped from her hand, fluttered in the air, and thudded to the floor.
“I knew Muyeol was lewd, but I didn’t think—this much. You’re getting more blatant by the day...”
“You don’t get to be the one lecturing me — I don’t want to hear it from the person who spied on her cousin in the bathroom and made a nude sculpture out of it. Plus, the mother-rape fantasies on top of that.”
“....”
Her face flushed violently; she turned her head with a snort.
Her arms were crossed, pressing the lower part of her already large breasts upward so the whole volume of her chest swelled, and with that expression thrown on top, a sleeping dick quietly lifted its head.
“This is getting serious... it’s not even just frustration.”
It felt like my libido grew stronger by the day.
<Traits>
Koryo Group owner family, sexual domination, rake, nicotine addiction, sex addiction, incendiary, iron will, ADHD, marksmanship, charisma, stamina king....
What the hell.
Sex addiction isn’t merely bolded — it has three asterisks? When did that happen?
“This is bullshit.”
When did I become like this....
And why the asterisks on rake? Compared to other direct-line members I’m practically a gentleman.
“You’re awful. I do all this for you!”
“You spied on someone, too?”
“...Anyway. And I stopped doing that after then!”
There’s no need for it anymore, anyway....
“Okay, okay. I’ll believe you.”
“It’s not about believing me—”
“When will the Education Department be finished?”
“....”
She was about to protest when I changed the subject; she pouted, then answered, teasingly.
“It won’t take long. It’s not a complicated facility; as long as the essential functions work, that’s fine. We’ll add decorations during practicum sessions. For the dormitories... if we just carve out the space, we can meet the deadline.”
“That’s a relief. Thanks, nuna. There really is no one like you.”
“....”
I really meant it as praise, but she looked away and rolled her eyes.
“Say it again.”
“It’s true.”
“Okay, okay. I’ll believe you.”
“Thanks.”
“....”
After that she looked sulky, and the expression stayed until we mixed hot bodies later that morning.
I never figured out why she was sulky to the end....
+++
“Wasn’t that cleaned up?”
A few days later.
While I was looking forward to the fresh trainees I’d soon enjoy, news from the continent rode in over the feed.
The continental uprisings I’d heard about intermittently from the end of last year into early this year.
[Encoded data omitted.]
The strong will for independence — to nullify an almost fifty-year-old annexation and return to their original place — had not yet extinguished.
From what I heard then, Prestige handling teams had been dispatched en masse; with that scale, the uprisings should have been wiped out.
Yet embers remained.
Was there something I didn’t know?
“Could it be that Go Minji was called to Dalian because of this...??”
Hm....
Possible.
If the protests continue to expand, it could certainly become awkward.
“Maybe it’s about Incheon,” Soo-ah said.
“?”
Soo-ah suddenly spoke up.
I looked at her, wondering what she meant, and she made a reasonably plausible point.
“Master used various protests and unrest while taking possession of Incheon, right? Maybe others are doing the same thing.”
“Ah?”
So, just as I used the Incheon independence protests to make Incheon independent and quietly take everything behind the scenes, the Beijing and continental uprisings might actually be a pretext to hand states over to our direct-line members?
“Oh... that makes sense.”
“Of course, the order is slightly different from Incheon, but if Prestige handling teams moved large-scale and yet the protests grew instead....”
“Definitely... that could be the case.”
If that’s so, it made sense that Go Minji had been summoned to Dalian.
Militaris holds large land assets on the continent.
Even Dalian itself feels like a base camp of the Militaris headquarters; outwardly it’s just a huge city on the continent, but it could be turned into full independence—
“Wait a minute.”
A huge idea occurred to me.
“Aren’t they trying to set up something like a Koryo Federation?”
“A Koryo Federation?”
“To justify independence, you need a pretext. You can’t just have every region run around with rifles like Incheon did; that’d be endless and too costly. The Group wouldn’t stomach that. So they offer a strong federal state as the condition for independence. Like: we’ll allow independence if you accept joining a powerful ‘democratic’ federation led by the Republic of Korea. Each region accepts that form, and ultimately our direct-line members inherit several nations; then we bind them into a vast federated empire! And the hegemon, the Republic of Korea—”
“You, Chairman?”
“The current regime’s a total cesspool. We clean it up and step down. Perfect plan.”
If that were truly the flow, an enormous historical movement would be passing right under my nose.
“Come to think of it, seeing how heavily these folks stockpile arms, this might have been in mind from the start.”
Koryo Group has massive arsenals.
They’re stacked in the Militaris HQ basement.
All that is money — if there’s no outlet to use it, there’s no reason to hoard it.
So I thought back then: maybe these people are preparing to conquer the world.
Besides, in the original game setting the ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) Koryo Group is explicitly the ‘source of evil,’ right?
They’re my family, but each one is unsettling in their own way. World conquest would hardly surprise me.
“Of course this is just my delusion.”
“But it could be true.”
“The fact it could be real is the frightening part.”
The Koryo Group’s suspiciously vast armory....
They’re my family, and they scare me....
“Keep monitoring that.”
“Yes.”
