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Level 005
"Look at this cute dress!" Jinah gushed and held a little pink tulle monster in front of Jinwoo and Helia. "Isn't it absolutely adorable?!"
She earned from her brother just a blank stare, while Helia sweatdropped. Jinah didn't mean this seriously, did she?
But the sparkle in her purple eyes said it all: yes, she did like it.
How could someone like this eyesore?!
"Sweetie, you do remember we don't know what the Little One will be?" Lia said slowly, like talking to a child.
"Yeah, but come on!" Jinah huffed. "Don't you just wanna know it now after seeing this dress?! Imagine your cute baby girl in it!"
"No daughter of mine is going to wear such an abomination..."
"Shut up, Jinwoo!"
"I'm actually with Jin, Jinah. That is too girly even for me..."
"How could my sister-in-law say something so terrible?!"
The little Sung-Marchese family was currently in a high-end baby shop, purchasing additional clothes for the unborn baby.
It had gone mostly well, their chest was full of pretty gender-neutral clothes, when Jinhah had spotted this...dress.
If you could call it a dress.
In Jinwoo and Lia's eyes, it was a little pink gremlin from a dungeon, so heavy that a baby would have problems moving in it, but Jinah was hooked.
"Jinah, put it away, we're not buying it." Jinwoo made it clear as he rubbed his forehead.
He could feel a headache coming.
His sister puffed her cheeks like a chipmunk before she placed the tulle disaster back on the clothing rack.
"You guys have no fashion sense!"
"It's a baby, not a doll, Jinah."
"Oi, don't talk to me like a child."
Helia could only sign as her husband and sister-in-law started to squabble, only like siblings could do.
Sometimes she indeed was glad to be an only child.
After a few moments, the red-haired woman broke their argument, reminding them how she and her husband had made plans for later.
Jinah let out a little uurgh sound. She knew this was the code for them to engage in marital activities, so she walked to another clothing rack.
Better be far away from them!
It was just creepy to think her brother and Lia did that! Even if the evidence was clear since the woman was pregnant, but whatever!
The black-haired man couldn't help but laugh a bit over his sister's reaction.
He was so glad she found the thought of sex disgusting.
If it were to go like he wanted, she should stay pure till he died.
And wait three days to check if he was really dead.
"Oi, baby, don't laugh," Helia murmured, playfully hitting with her elbow his muscular stomach. "I know you want your sister to stay a virgin till your death, but realistically, that's not gonna happen."
Jinwoo made a face. Oh, kill him now!
"One can dream..."
"Will you be like this when we have daughters?"
"With our boys, too, no one but us shall have sex."
At this, Helia rolled her eyes. He was so overprotective.
"Also, I hope all our kids will like only girls!"
"What?"
"I don't trust boys."
"You're a boy."
"Yeah, but I'm a rare one."
This motivated Helia to give her husband a hot look, which he returned with a dangerous smirk for her nether regions.
"You indeed ARE a rare one, amore," she purred.
"Fuck, I love it when you talk italien, baby." he purred back.
"Oi, you two," Jinah called over with a disgusted face. "We're still in the open, calm your hormones!"
The couple laughed sheepishly and said sorry to the young woman, who just huffed, annoyed and tried to decide which onesie she liked more for her future nephew/niece.
"You know? It's not like Jinah thinks wrong," Helia reminds Jinwoo. "Normally, we do have crazy and wild intercourse when we go on date nights. Just this date night is in an Insta-Dungeon."
This morning, Jinwoo and Jinah had gone jogging together, while Helia had stayed home to check on her guild. As it turned out, the counter for the Daily Quest goes up! Something even Helia didn't know.
So Jinwoo had doppeled all his tasks, and with it, completed a secret quest.
His price was a key to an S-Rank Dungeon, in which he would find the Elixir of Life.
A S-Rank Potion which could cure all illnesses!
Was it so far-fetched to hope it could cure the Sung Siblings' mother from her Eternal Sleep?
No, it was at least worth a shot.
After Jinwoo had returned with his sister home and told Helia about it, she had booked a hotel room near Daesung Tower in Songpa-gu.
There, she would monitor him while he entered the Dungeon.
Of course, they said they would go on a date and not return home, which normally meant for Jinah: Don't wait for us, since we will be out the whole night, doing adult stuff and not come home.
Grinning cheekily, after making sure Jinah wasn't looking, Jinwoo squeezed Helia round and pert behind, which made her gasp in surprise.
"Oh, baby, you do know my stamina? I could always go for you before, but now, since I'm so sporty, I will clear this Dungeon in no time and then give you your crazy and wild intercourse."
This made Helia blush and giggle like a schoolgirl.
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Well, the S-Rank Insta-Dungeon went like this:
"Aaaah, get you fucking dog bitch!"
"It don't bite."
"Yes, it do!"
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Half amused and half annoyed, Helia lay beside Jinwoo on the comfy hotel bed, as he was completely spent from his fight with Hell Gatekeeper Cerberus.
"Stamina, hmm?" she joked half-heartily.
Lia was just glad her husband had come out alive from literally hell. Cerberus had made him his bitch and if she didn't healed him up like any five seconds, he would be death.
The baby was, for once, still in her belly, probably also annoyed at its dad.
From Jinwoo came only a loud groan.
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The next day, Helia was working on documents from her guild in her home office as she got a video call.
Surprised, she blinked at the caller ID before she accepted.
"Good day, Master Choi ", Lia greeted her fellow redhead and Guildmaster of the Hunter Guild. "I admitted I'm quite surprised to get a call from you. Is there a problem?"
The red-haired man adjusted his glasses before he gave her a charming smile.
"Not at all, Master Marchese. Well, not with our guilds at least."
"What is it then, if you don't mind me asking?"
"Not at all. I know you awoke after the third Jeju-Raid...but what are your thoughts about it?"
This made Helia sit up straighter, her hands instinctively holding her swollen belly.
"A place full of death and monsters," Lia answered briefly. "I know you've lost a lot, and my heart goes out to you."
"Thanks, I appreciate it. Why I called you is quite simple. I plan to retake it once and for all and end this." Choi grits out.
"I can't join you, I'm still pregnant."
Choi nods and gives her a tiny smile.
"I know. The fourth and hopefully final Raid will take some time before it is made. I just wanted to assure myself how Invictus will fight with us, and you hopeful too, after you give birth to your child."
"That's not even a question. If I'm available, I will fight with you, but Invictus will anyways join your forces."
"Thanks, Master Marchese. I'm glad to hear that. I have to go now, but I will call when we take the first steps into it."
So the two guildmasters said goodbye for now.
Pensive Helia could only stare at her computer desktop.
She hoped with all her heart that they wouldn't start the Fourth Jeju Raid without her and her Wisp Armee.
Against this nightmare-ants from hell, they would need Humanity's Strongest.
"Revenge can make some people blind...I hope Choi knows what he does..."
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In the early morning light of the next day, Jinwoo sets off for a urgent D-Rank raid, with Jinah and Lia watching him get ready.
"I don't get why you still go on Raids," Jinah murmured. "You should stay with us and join our movie marathon."
Before Jinwoo could answer, Lia patted Jinah's head.
"It's just something he needs to do. Don't worry, sweetie, Jin is tough."
"Yeah, seems like his training is paying off. He doesn't get hurt anymore."
Jinwoo gave his girls a small smile. He was thankful Helia could calm Jinah down. Since he couldn't join Invictus for now and had to wait till Jinho called him for the C-Rank Raids, his only way to level up was through D-Rank Dungoens.
"I will be back before you end the movie marathon," he promised, ruffled Jinah's hair, which made her pout and kissed his wife lovingly.
Under Jinah's astonishment that he didn't take gear with him and Lia's beautiful smile, Jinwoo set off to the boring D-Rank Dungeon.
He would wish later how he would have preferred boring.
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Two Years Ago, Seoul, South Korea, Solo Leveling Earth.
Falling in love with Jinwoo was gentle and warm like summer rain.
Helia had liked what she saw before she died, but meeting Jinwoo and then after their adventure in the D-Rank Raid, where they had taken shelter in caves and told each other fairytales, it was a natural evolution.
So she couldn't help but feel jealous of Lee Joohee.
The B-Rank Healer just joined them currently, and all were smitten with the gentle girl.
Not that Lia could blame them.
Joohee was adorable.
Only she worried Jinwoo would like Joohee.
Joohee, who was so much prettier than her, didn't curse like a sailor.
Joohee, who seemed to be the clear Love Interest.
Could Lia even compete with canon?
To her luck, she had been reborn as the same ugly duckling she had been in the real world.
The same unruly and dull red hair, which she wore in two braids.
The same watery brown eyes, which made her look as if she was about to cry.
The same thin body, small breasts and no behind.
And of course, she needed glasses still.
Jinwoo was out of her league; she surely couldn't seduce him like this, with this childish body...then again, not like she knew how to seduce someone anyway.
She had been and still was a virgin.
The most she had done in her life was holding hands (Scandalous!) with Silvio Rossi in 5th Grade during a dare.
For 5 minutes.
It was pitiful.
It was just unfair!
Why couldn't she have been isekai'd into a bombshell body? Then she could confidently walk up to Jinwoo and tell him how much she liked (LOVED!) him and wanted to be a couple.
God, in her fanatsy, she was a fucking sexy seductress.
Irresistible.
Making Jinwoo putty in her hands with her dangerous words and teasing touches.
Oh yes, maybe she would just jump the gun?
Kissing him, like she always wanted to kiss, passionate and loving and with tongue?
That should make clear what she felt for him.
Or maybe she would just drop down to her knees, opening his fly and then-
"Lia?" Joohee called her, snapping her fingers before her face. "Are you with me?"
It was like someone threw cold water at her.
Fuck, she was daydreaming again, when she should just enjoy her little shopping tour with Joohee.
Even if she was jealous of Joohee, the healer was still her friend.
"Sorry," Lia whined and bashfully looked at the ground. "I was going through my lecture in my head. What did you say?"
Joohee smiled, amused at her dear friend. "Would you like to get something to drink? There is a nice cafe just down the street."
Helia nodded, not trusting her voice and followed after the B-Rank Healer.
Uurgh, she needed to get a grip on herself!
Why was she just such a basket case?
No wonder I was alone in my old life, and in this new one I'm too...
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