Crazy guys.
“So, if you try it once, you won’t be able to forget it?”
I laughed in disbelief as I watched Taeyang give a long speech.
Sure, one might run into a tree.
I could understand if I conceded a hundred tis.
I knew well that I couldn’t say much since I also did sothing like that out of re curiosity.
But liking it was on a different level.
What’s so good about fucking a tree? It’s not like you were in a hurry for sexual release.
“Let’s move on from that topic now.”
“Oh, hyung. I can’t let this go. Aori, teach him quickly.”
Teach what?
Aori crawled out of the bushes, pulling her underwear down with her hands.
“You can do it quickly. I can make it as close to a knot as possible. I’ll make your roots numb.”
Aori reached out with her lecherous hands. Before they could touch my knees, I moved back.
I flicked her forehead using my index and middle fingers.
-Smack!
Aori’s forehead snapped back just like Taeyang’s did.
“It hurts…”
“Don’t touch. I have soone.”
“Okay.”
She mumbled while holding her forehead.
I couldn’t expect common sense from these people.
I started wondering if the Tree Spirit King, who ruled the world, was actually just a crude pervert.
Whether it was the guy who inherited his power or his descendants, they all had a screw loose.
“Hyung, but I can’t let this go. To properly use the king’s power, you have to consu the knot.”
“Stop using expressions like ‘consu the knot.’”
Taeyang seriously pondered.
“Then, how about grafting, like a noble?”
This was dizzying.
Yeah, in this world, this kind of talk wasn’t unusual.
I had experienced people making lewd jokes about trees in a taphorical way when I had relationships with soone like Byeol or Seyeong.
“Isn’t it weird that a knot is considered the tree’s genital?”
They tilted their heads at my obvious question, as if they didn’t understand what I was saying.
“What do you an? If you look through all kinds of universal encyclopedias, it’s obvious.”
“Then are all trees just standing there with their genitals out on the road?”
“That’s how regular trees are. But nobles wear underwear.”
“If we’re talking about genitals, wouldn’t flowers or leaves make more sense?”
Aori tapped my knee.
“If flowers are considered for won, then it’s that.”
“What?”
Aori placed her hand on her chest.
“Adam’s apple.”
Tree (木)… apple?
-Headache!
Could I keep hanging out with these guys?
“Hyung, do you even know how to properly stimulate it?”
“When would I ever need to do that to a tree?”
I knew that one way to get stronger was through grafting, but I never had the opportunity.
The closest was recently with Baekyang, but it was a clone, so it was impossible.
I felt a sense of self-doubt. Let’s get back to the topic.
Even if it’s about trees, I couldn’t make any progress without experience.
It wouldn’t be strange to hear about it later if I get to intertwine bodies.
“So, how did you know where I was?”
“We didn’t expect to see you at the Forester Selection Competition. Aori sohow instinctively pointed here.”
“Did you know the Tree Spirit King would appear?”
“Yes.”
Taeyang brushed the dirt off his hair and told .
“Timing-wise, the Tree Spirit King was expected to appear around now. Anyone who knew, knew. Even Flower. And the World Tree.”
Was there a separate way to know that?
Even if I asked, these two wouldn’t know.
I knew I inherited the Tree Spirit King’s power from Baekyang’s hint, but it wasn’t my power from the start.
It began with the blessing of the World Tree.
If that power was the foundation of the Tree Spirit King, then there was nothing to say.
‘If they’re manipulating ti, wouldn’t they know when I’d co?’
In fact, Flower even approached .
Jin Dallae’s adoptive father, Lee Seonghan, had invited .
No matter how much I tried to hide it, there were people sowhere who knew my identity.
“Hyung.”
Taeyang asked .
“Just for reference, how much do you know about that power?”
The power of the Tree Spirit King.
If you made love with a World Tree, you could steal that authority.
It’s a power I realized from my experience with the World Tree of Healing.
And by the ability of the Tree Circle Pill, you gained power through intercourse with tree spirits.
Of course, each tree spirit had different characteristics, and in the case of so like the National Tree with deep blood, you could gain stats.
Climax. If you reached an extre climax to the point of losing your mind, they bore fruit. Eating it helped improve talent or stats.
After explaining it, Taeyang nodded.
“You only know the basics.”
“Is there more?”
“There’s a lot, but it seems pointless to explain the trivial things. The most useful thing for you now is subjugation.”
Subjugation.
To place soone under your control.
“Just hearing the na makes reluctant.”
“Hyung. Have you ever been betrayed?”
At the sudden question, I pondered.
If you considered bad endings to relationships as betrayal, then yes, I had experienced it several tis.
If what my father did counted as betrayal, then that’s also betrayal.
Broadly speaking, yes, but I had never had soone stab in the back literally.
“It’s hard to keep reliable people close. In such tis, keep in mind when establishing continuous relationships.”
“Be conscious?”
“Think ‘You are mine. You belong to .’ It might be abstract and hard to understand, but once you use it, you’ll get the hang of it. It may feel reluctant at first… but there’s no better authority.”
Taeyang’s voice was quite serious.
“It’s hard to always think that the people around you are on your side.”
“……”
“Even if they are on your side, it doesn’t an they’ll act according to your thoughts.”
It’s an ability I might use soday.
After hearing Taeyang’s words, I decided to think only up to that point.
‘Subjugation.’
I felt sothing like that a few days ago.
When I was trapped in the dungeon with Maronnie.
Actually, my mory of that ti was vague. I didn’t even know how I ended up having a relationship with her.
But I couldn’t forget the completely different feeling compared to when I have relationships with my housemates or my lovers.
If the strange impulse I felt then was part of that ability,
It seed possible to use it directly with my own hands.
“There are many people targeting you, hyung.”
I knew that.
“It would be good to create a card you can use anyti.”
It was Taeyang’s advice.
I also knew that those who opposed were more than I could imagine.
Flower and the World Tree.
Compared to them, I wouldn’t say my side was weak, but there were very few of them.
Moreover, each one of them was too precious to involve in my fight.
But was it right to forcibly make countless people my subordinates?
I needed to think more about that.
“Hey.”
“Yes.”
“Just out of curiosity, is it possible for soone to have goodwill towards just because they had a physical relationship with ?”
Taeyang hardened his expression.
“Well, I don’t know about that… but feeling goodwill because of a physical relationship isn’t limited to the Tree Spirit King, is it?”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. There’s a reason the term ‘affection born from sleeping together’ exists. The very fact of having a relationship ans you share a certain line with that person. But why do you ask?”
I just asked.
It was sothing I had thought about for a long ti, and I wondered if Taeyang, who knew a lot about the Tree Spirit King, might know.
“As long as you don’t use that ability, it’s just sharing love.”
“Really?”
“Yes. Oh, is a one-night stand different?”
A one-night stand was broadly sharing love too.
It’s just about shaking off each other’s loneliness in one go.
Or it could be sharing pleasure.
“You seem unfamiliar with this, hyung. Since you don’t even fuck trees.”
“Nobody would be familiar with that except you guys.”
“It’s quite a common preference.”
I didn’t want to know.
Aori was listening to our conversation with her hands forming a flower cup gesture.
Taeyang glanced at Aori and sighed.
“Anyway… it’s better to discover the other abilities of the Tree Spirit King yourself. Since you’re the heir, you might have different abilities than the old Tree Spirit King.”
“My questions aren’t finished.”
I knew who the Tree Spirit King was.
I understood how powerful that force was and what subjugation ant.
I understood that I needed to et more trees in the future.
Even thinking about it made feel filthy, but I understood.
To survive, that’s the only way.
“Why am I the heir of the Tree Spirit King?”
Taeyang imdiately shook his head.
“Maybe you were the most suitable for that power.”
Even though I was from another world, I beca the heir.
Seeing as there were beings who traveled between dinsions, I couldn’t deny it.
I straightened my back and sighed.
“What are you guys going to do now?”
“What do you an? We need to help you, hyung.”
“eting a stranger for the first ti and suddenly deciding to help? Aori, what about you?”
Aori grinned.
“It’s fine.”
“She’s abnormal, so I understand.”
“…That’s harsh.”
Taeyang shrugged. He grabbed Aori’s crown and spun her head around as he spoke.
“Aori has been waiting for the Tree Spirit King since birth. As for , after being sold off at the slave market, I’ve been waiting for you, hyung. There’s nothing else we can do but help.”
“Live your lives. It’s not like you don’t have abilities. You even ca out to the Forester Selection Competition.”
“No status, and if we’re caught, we’ll die. Helping you, hyung, and dying is a hundred tis better.”
“This is our first eting today. It’s hard to understand.”
Taeyang laughed.
“Hehehe, that’s because you don’t yet know the value of the Tree Spirit King.”
“Are you asking to use it recklessly?”
At my gaze, Taeyang backed off slightly.
“Uh… but not between n.”
-Thunk!
Taeyang was hit hard on the head and flew back.
“Ouch! Can’t I joke a bit?”
“You guys volunteered to sacrifice yourselves.”
“Yes, hyung. Feed instant noodles three tis a day, and I’ll do anything.”
He spoke not humbly, but pathetically.
Rubbing his forehead, Taeyang stood up.
When he signaled with his eyes, Aori also stood up and faced .
They were born and prepared to assist the Tree Spirit King.
It’s impossible for to understand their thoughts or values.
With a spirited yet ridiculous look, they smiled in front of .
Two perverts who loved trees.
“Now let’s hear your story, hyung. How did you beco the heir… and why did you co here?”
The words that they’d make useful tools weren’t lies.
I briefly wondered if they had any ulterior motives.
“There’s still a lot to teach, hyung.”
“Yes, yes.”
However, since their personalities are so crazy, even my existing doubts disappeared.
I slowly began to tell my story.
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