I Don’t Want to be an Ojakgyo (47)

~ moonliketranslations

Swanhaden occasionally came over to our class.

There was only one reason for Swan, who was in the blue class, to come all the way to the yellow class to visit us: Hestia.

Without any word, Swan would come over and just stare at Hestia’s face. It felt very unfamiliar to see Swan looking at Hestia with such a soft gaze. I’d never seen such a face, like he had fallen deeply in love.

It was just really weird how Swan had never even said a single word to Hestia when he visited so often. Then why was he even bothering to visit in the first place?

Moreover, he was probably well aware that I was observing him, but he didn’t even look at me. He didn’t try to meet my gaze. I felt slightly bitter about it: was he really treating me like I didn’t exist?

Anyway, what if he really asked me to help him get closer to Hestia in the future?

I was curious at how Hestia felt about Swan, who had come day after day to see her.

“How do I feel about Swan?”

When I nodded, Hestia’s expression suddenly went stiff.

“Shushu, are you interested in Swanhaden?”

Hestia asked me an absolutely incredible question. I answered her, slightly shell-shocked.

“No, that’s not it. I thought he was just really interested in you.”

At my words, Hestia’s expression turned into one of surprise. Then, she seemed deep in thought, face pulled into a frown, before quickly smiling again. Today’s Hestia was quite expressive.

“Mm, because he comes every day?”
“Well, yeah.”

I looked closely at Hestia’s reaction. Hestia didn’t seem to be too against Swan.

Honestly, I understood that the male characters had some kind of interest towards Hestia, but I didn’t know how much Hestia was interested in the male characters. Suddenly, the situation seemed to get a lot more interesting.

I was stroking my chin, deep in thought. Hestia’s expression seemed to get darker and darker.

“Shushu, anybody except Swan is okay.”
“……?”

I was unfamiliar with this Hestia, who had a dark expression on her face. She always smiled and whined, but suddenly seeing the smile of hers wiped clean off of her face was a shock.

When I asked, “Okay for what?” Hestia just smiled and said that it was nothing.

I headed over to my afternoon classes after my morning classes.

When I finished changing and headed over to the training halls, it was strangely noisy.

“Swaaaaaaaaaaaan! You, you!”

I wondered why it was so loud. A few swordsmanship students were chasing Swan with furious expressions on their face.

Swan peeked to see the students chasing after him, then turned his head back to look in front of him, disgust written on his face.

“My mood’s about to go way down because of your ugly mugs, okay? Stop chasing me.”
“You, you! You’re the one that made us look like this!”

At Swan’s words, I began to observe the students who were chasing after him.

All of the students had clothes with artsy cut-outs.

The blue class swordsmanship students’ training uniforms had been cut near the chest area, but the shapes were a little ugly. The nipple areas of the shirts were cut into hearts.

It was a gross sight to see a group of boys with heart cut-outs on their nipples.

“You guys said you wanted to fight me. I fought you, so what’s the fuss?”

Swan opened his eyes wide and seemed to ask, “What did I do wrong?” with his expression.

It seemed that the boys had tried to fight against Swan. He was the son of a duke, was pretty, and was famous for his healing magic, so it looked like the other students had been angered.

Seeing the current situation, it looked like Swan had cut the boys’ clothes like this as a punishment for losing against him. They had to keep wearing the clothes, so I kind of felt bad for them.

“How could you make our clothes look like this? How are we supposed to train like this?! And why are they hearts?!”
“You said that you were going to confess after training, so I just helped you out. Shoot your love towards that special someone with your heart nipples.”
“How am I supposed to do that with these clothes?! I’ll get dumped for sure!”
“Seeing your ugly mug, it looks like you’d get dumped anyway. Stop blaming other people.”

When one of the boys chasing him yelled at him, voice full of anger, Swan responded with a happy smile on his face.

I felt bad for the boy, but I couldn’t help but laugh because the scene looked like it was straight out of a sitcom. Wow, but Swanhaden’s personality was….a piece of work. It was fun watching on the sidelines, but…..I would’ve burst into tears if I was that boy.

Next, another boy who seemed to have a grudge against Swan began to speak, face full of questions.

“I didn’t duel against you, nor did I confess, why did you do this to me? I was just passing by!”
“Is that right?”
“Y……..you! I’m going to beat you into a pulp!”

In the end, Swan was captured by the boys he had angered. In my opinion, it looked like he had let himself be caught.

“Oh no. I’m so scared. I’m just a pitiful, weak magician.”
“How are you pitiful or weak?”
“Cough, cough.”

When he found himself surrounded, Swan began to loudly ask for the help of those around him.

“Teacher, they’re bullying the newbie. Please help!”

When Swan asked the teacher for help in a loud voice, a teacher happened to be passing by and, full of righteous anger, ran to help Swan.

Then, he saved Swan from the students.

“How could you! He’s already struggling because of his late start!”

Swan acted pitiful in front of the teacher who had saved him.

“Teacher, I’m struggling so much. Sob, sob.”

He sounded like he was reading a textbook, but it seemed to work against the teacher.

And thus, Swan took care of all of the students who had bothered him. Swan waved happily at the students who were dragged away by the teacher.

I watched the whole scene unfold from start to finish, and found myself shaking. Hmm, Hylli definitely had a point in being scared of him.

Hylli was easily bullied by people like Swan.

But I must have watched too closely. Swanhaden had seemed to notice my existence.

Hylli hadn’t arrived at the hall just yet, and all of the students from earlier had been dragged away by the teacher.

Swan watched as the children were being dragged with a sinister look on his face, but immediately stiffened. His smiling face had also stiffened. Swan quietly muttered, “……damn it.” and tilted his head to the floor. At this point, he could’ve just looked at me dead on, but he never turned his head my way.

Swan stayed like that for a few more moments, then turned to look directly away from me. He suddenly ran away.

After Swan ran away last swordsmanship class, he didn’t approach Hylli again. To be exact, he seemed to avoid Hylli, who was always around me.

I wondered if the scene that I had witnessed was embarrassing to him, but I knew that was his original personality and didn’t care about it. I was curious about why Swan had ran away, but that curiosity didn’t last long. I became more invested in what was going to come out for dinner.

I headed over to the green class to visit Cory and Hylli.

It wasn’t like I had a particular reason to visit, but I just wanted to hang out. Last time, Cory had said, “I have lots of snacks in my locker, so come and take some,” so he was probably going to give me some snacks too, right?

It was a new development, but I was craving more food recently. My appetite had also gotten bigger, and sharing snacks with Cory had become a common occurrence. I had already eaten a lot, but it felt like I could eat a lot more. Cory seemed to enjoy the fact that I ate a lot.

I had eaten so much of his snacks recently that I had started to feel bad, but seeing Cory look content made me feel better.

Anyway, I definitely wasn’t going to the green class to eat. It was to visit Cory and Hylli. I was going there to hang out, not to eat. That wasn’t my objective.

I swallowed thickly as I headed over to the green class. My mouth was watering. Man, I’m hungry.

When I headed over to the green class, I immediately tried to call for Cory and Hylli, but paused.

The class was incredibly loud.

And in the middle of all of the noise sat Cory and Hylli, and Swan, who was visiting.

Swan was throwing paper cranes that he had folded at Hylli. I couldn’t even begin to fathom how many he had folded: the cranes just kept coming. The paper cranes briefly flew in the air before attacking Hylli.

“Hand it over.”

On Hylli’s lap was a ton of video devices and photo devices.

“No, you can’t! If they know they’re going to kill me!”
“I can kill you before they do, you know?”

Hylli began to furiously resist to prevent Swan from taking the items. Swan used a mixture of magic and power to press Hylli down, then held the cranes with a scary expression on his face. It looked like Swan was about to shove the paper cranes into Hylli’s nose.

“Before I clog your throat with the cranes. Hurry up. I’m being incredibly kind right now.”

Poor Hylli, he was being bullied out of money by Swan too. I didn’t know what that item was, but for now my interest was more towards Cory’s locker than the item mentioned. Oh, no, my true intentions popped out.

Cory looked at the two of them from the sidelines and said one thing.

“Hylli, you’ve done it now.”

With that, Cory just stared at them and took a bite of his apple. Cory placed himself as viewer and only that.

Cory watched the two of them, then met my gaze as I stood at the doorway. As if surprised, Cory’s eyes grew slightly wide. He smiled.

“Oh, Shushu, you’re here?”

At Cory’s words, the class grew quiet.

Swan, who had been shoving Hylli and trying to grab the items in his grasp, immediately tripped and fell, taking Hylli down with him. Ouch, that looked like it hurt.

Meanwhile, Cory welcomed me enthusiastically when he saw me. I had been weirdly moody recently and had been kind of cold towards him, but Cory always tried to match my moods.

“I was kind of bored. Let’s get out of class.”

Cory tried to get me out of the mess as soon as possible. Yeah, I didn’t want to join either. But……

I didn’t want to go further away from Cory’s locker. That was a small store in itself.

I immediately tried to erase that thought from my head. Shushu, was Cory your food cart or something? Why were you only thinking of food?

But I couldn’t seem to hide my feelings. I couldn’t stop myself from staring blankly at Cory’s locker.

Cory seemed to understand my thoughts and smiled, pointing at his uniform.

“Put your hand in my pocket.”

I put my hand in his pocket.

“…..!”

Dimension magic!

Cory’s uniform pocket had been enchanted with dimension magic, and that space was filled with crackling sounds.

I opened my hand in the dimension and grabbed a chocolate bar.

When I asked if I could eat it, Cory said to eat as much as I wanted.

Wow, this was pure genius. Why did I never come up with this?

“Cory, you’re a genius.”

When I complimented him while eating chocolate, Cory also grabbed chocolate out of his pocket and ate with me.

As soon as Cory and I left the room, the class erupted into chaos once again.

46 thoughts on “I Don’t Want to be an Ojakgyo (47)”

  4. I see that Swan is overflowing with love for humanity and Hilly lololol
    I just learnt a new form of harassment thanks to him….lol never ever thought of cutting heart on people shirts, especially on the chest area…..
    But this make me wonder what Swan did when he was a kid for Hestia to be so on guard ( ¬ _ ¬ 😉 hmmmm
    Thank you soooo much for the chapter!!!(´｡• ω •｡`)

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  5. Too much random and nonsensical rubbish…I hoped he would be interesting, instead he’s just chaotic but not in a good way… He’s just a wierd thug…

    These chapters feel like the author started writing this when they were a teen..then they went back to it and took the bits they liked then slapped it in this novel…

    I couldn’t understand why the writing would be good in one chapter then deteriorate in another… It makes no sense…this chapter was a mess… All over the place and incoherent…

    0/10 rating easily the worst chapter.

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    1. Also…Hestia is pointless… She’s such a worthless character, she does nothing, she adds nothing, she’s just a placeholder of nothing…

      What kind of reader does the author think we are? We are given nothing yet are expected to believe Hestia is an FL… how??? She is worse than Ibelin in miss not so side kick… She’s a “just because character”… Nothing to here just there for shits and giggles… Cept U don’t giggle…

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      1. I kind of see what you mean by Hestia feeling like Ibelin at the moment. However, as irredeemable as she seems right now, she does get her own explanation! It’s a bit further away at the moment, but she gets to explain her side of the story in the future 🙂

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      2. From the pov of her lover boys we get nothing… Nothing that gives us any reason why they like her other than… “Because” it’s frustrating because the main catalyst to Everything is so… Nothing…

        Her personality is nothing, all she is … Is beautiful, granted this is enough for many too obsess over so why can’t the pov of her fishes be expressed in their arcs, why don’t they say so little about her? Why is she such a non entity to them?… I don’t blame the OGShushu for being shtty, nor do I blame the mc for her reaction… Hestia is a black hole for love that spares no one… Not even the mc…

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      3. I think I can help out a bit, based on from what I got based on context clues: the male main characters from the original novel seemed to have some kind of pull towards Hestia, and I feel like that’s what the initial attraction was. However, initial interest doesn’t really become love if they become interested in someone else, kind of what happened with Cory and Yves, for example. They found Hestia pretty for different reasons (Cory says her hair color looked like candy, Yves just said she was cute) but they didn’t really have anything concrete for love to actually form from it.

        That’s what I got! LOL, thanks for coming to my TED talk lol

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      4. Thanks boss! I wonder if Hestia will get more attention, you mentioned she will get her arc, she must be the next one hopefully… Unless Harun is getting one lol.

        I wish she had more presence in earlier chapters, she felt forgotten, Shushu doesn’t hate her, I hope she gets more love from the author.

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      5. Honestly speaking… chill a bit, as you can see we literally got one arc per character, and in each arc we didn’t get much info on people other than the one who get the arc, so calm down (*ﾟﾛﾟ)
        You might think Hestia is a worthless character but just in this chapter we finally got to see that she isn’t all unicorn and flower, she seem to be wary of Swan, which is actually surprising considering her original setting, we need more info that I believe will come in the future

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      6. Their pov is filled with everything about the mc… Yet all she is to them is a sibling … So what does that mean for Hestia? She’s just a love munchkin? Mc has done so much for them and with them, helped them grow, helped them be better… Then you get Hestia who is just… Nothing…

        Why don’t their arcs express that love they apparently have for Hestia? They have plenty to say about the mc, which any genius can recognize because she’s actually awesome… Yet Hestia is nothing…

        I didn’t want to do comparisons but please read Marilyn really likes Lariensa… It’s got a manhwa as well, story is similar but totally nothing alike…

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      7. I don’t understand your point, before you compared Hestia to Ibelin from miss not so sidekick, and now you compare the story to Marilyn likes Lariensa, each story has their strong point and bad point, apart from the fact that Hestia and Ibelin are both the original FL of the stories, and that both are so beautiful that they immediately captivate others, they don’t have other things in common, do they? If you read Miss not so sidekick till the end you could tell, which is why it puzzles me.
        While Marylin likes Lariensa is similar like you said, but ONLY the premise, because everything else goes in different ways, which is good because I wouldn’t want to read two identical books, AND you are reading I don’t want to be an Ojakgo. Marylin and Lariensa if I remember corrently are in the same class, with Marylin trying to protect Lariensa from any Male lead, while Shushu evidently has other problems, and isn’t with Hestia 12 hours a day like the other two.
        At this point in time I wouldn’t say that the love interests have romantic feelings for Hestia, if they don’t have feeling for her, what should they express? They don’t even know her! I mean they did express their affection, just not to Hestia xD
        So calm down buddy and just drop the novel if this irk you so much, because you had criticized the story, criticized the characters and criticized the author already. So stop and drop it, I don’t see your point in not doing so.

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      8. Ibelin was basically nothing… Just pretty with very little substance. Hestia is pretty, with nothing going for her other than her looks because the author for nearly 50 chapters gave us nothing…

        Our only substantial pov of Hestia (which isn’t much) is from Shushu who has built her future around the novel and her irresponsible parents.

        I agree other than the prince whose been star struck at the beginning, Cory and Yves didn’t have that strong of an impression only an initial attraction that so far hasn’t gone anywhere. The title of this story is becoming a reality, they haven’t used her as a means of approaching Hestia which makes her even less than nothing…

        The reason I used Marilyn likes Lariensa as an example, is how the story is written to be inclusive of the novel FL, she’s a relevant important character that isn’t just tacked on, the story involves her, gives her presence, and relevance to the mc that feels real.

        I don’t get that feeling with Hestia and Shushu, her roommate feels closer and more endearing, Hestia feels unnecessary. If that was the author’s intent then they did a great job.

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      9. Because I am a lazy person I won’t make more post to address different part of your comment xD

        First: your “nothing” I don’t understand how you perceive this word, you keep on repeating it over and over. Ibelin was ehm forgive me for talking about a completely unrelated thing on a comment section of this novel. She was a beautiful girl who grew up believing the world revolved around her, since a child she behaved in a kind way, and seeing that other people liked her for such acts and just gave her love for such minor action, she grew up with her viewpoint distorted like this, thinking that all the people’s love belonged to her. She didn’t need to hate anyone, and didn’t need to love anyone because in either way things would’ve gone in her favour, so when Latte showed up and things become different Ibelin finally come to know of hatred. Since she believed that Latte stole the love that was supposed to go to her, Ibelin if I remember correctly, even asked Latte to give it back to her (the love) as if it was an object. Like a child who had never grown and saw her toy taken away.
        This is just a summary of my thoughts on Ibelin’s character, which isn’t “nothing”, Hestia hasn’t been broached yet, and we will be filled on with the details on future arcs, but as much as I can see at the moment, Hestia isn’t as simple as a first glance at her would suggest, as even Ibelin looked to be your typical Marysue in the first half of the manwha.
        But just the fact that it hasn’t been shown yet doesn’t mean they are worthless or “nothing”.

        Second: You say you used Marilyn likes Lariensa to set an example in how they included the original female lead, but truthfully after seeing you ranting off how useless and worthless she is in your eyes first and then saying “I didn’t want to do comparisons but please read Marilyn really likes Lariensa…the story is similar but totally nothing alike” second, you weren’t coming off as someone who was doing just that, by criticising first you were obviously demeaning one story by recommending another.
        This story is told by Shushu’s perceptive, and she wasn’t with Hestia that much in reality, in each arc Shushu stayed the most with the designated target, the only time I remember a conversation of attention between Hestia and Shushu, was the time Shushu told her that she wanted her to not be controlled by anyone, to not base her happiness on anyone and such her reaction at that time wasn’t as per her setting, we got something more than a casual chit chat between roommates right? We really do need more moments between them, as it’s interesting.
        But you obviously as ANYONE here can see, not like the author writing style that introduce the thought and description of the character one at a time, you don’t seem to like how the story is proceeding nor you seem to like some characters. HENCE my response was “I don’t see your point in not dropping this novel”

        Third: criticism is valid comment? Moreover, repeated criticism? That’s new to me.
        Repeated criticism aren’t helpful in this case at all, I mean, the author already wrote the story in full, and the novel is already published.
        We all want more screen time of Hestia but when you phrase it like this? “The title of this story is becoming reality, they haven’t used her as a means if approaching Hestia which makes her even less than nothing…”

        Fourth: Has my comment above ever said to not post comments? To not continue to do so? To where you should comment? Said anything in regard of what you should say or not? Said you should read what or not?
        I definitely didn’t~
        And your inability to comprehend lead you to take offence of my opinion, which is different from what you said about accepting criticism and other people’s viewpoint. You repeatedly contradict yourself too.
        Speaking further with you is honestly speaking a waste of my time, I’ll rather go relax.
        NOTE: even if you comment again and respond to me I won’t be replying as I literally said all I had to say and seeing all these long comment for a reason so displeasing, isn’t nice since it should originally been a comment section to share a few opinion and cheering the translator on, as she is doing an amazing job for posting everyday! If it was me, and I talk from experience, I definitely couldn’t!
        So byee~

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      10. Whether you read this reply or not is entirely up to you, but since you gave so much thought it wouldnt be fair not to respond in kind… Ill break up my post as before since it’s just easier 😆
        Ibelin was an empty character, she realised l

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      11. Whoops accidentally pressed send when it wasn’t finished lol..continuing below

        She realised looking at her past and current self, how lacking she was, how little there was to her.

        Her fishes also realised except for the prince… This broke her previous held belief, shattered it, what was she without her beauty and allure?… Nothing…

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      12. Hestia had gotten very little attention in the novel, like she’s nothing.

        After nearly 50 chapters what do we see of her character?

        Very little… Almost nothing, no character growth nothing, we don’t even get anything from her love interests…

        I’m not sure what is difficult to understand? Certainly we have more chapters ahead to find out, but given how important she is, we get so little after so long… Author could’ve made her more relevant in each of the fishes arcs, but didn’t…

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      13. Marilyn was a comparison, if you need to google that meaning go ahead.

        There are similarities, but different, please note I’ll say again to clarify, these stories are similar yet very different…

        I wanted to highlight how present and relevant that novel FL was in comparison to Hestia… she and the MCs parents are the main driving force for her motivation and future plans, why is such an important character giving nothing?

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      14. Recommendations? I do that for many reasons, for comparisons, some might like similar stories, or just because liked it. Sometimes I rec books I’ve never read because I heard it’s good lol or fits what people are looking for.

        I can tell you now I’m looking for novels like kenkyo kenjitsu since the author went on hiatus since 2017…

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      16. You told me to stop and drop it… I wanted to clarify that you don’t decide anything for me regarding this story… Especially what I choose to read, certainly you can make a suggestion, but don’t be upset if I disregard it.

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      17. I’m doing separate posts to address different parts of your post so please forgive how spammy this might look.

        Criticism is a valid comment, I’m happy to address anything you have issues with in regards to that post, I accept criticism of my posts, I accept other viewpoints or thoughts, but I will continue to post as I wish within the guidelines of this site, you don’t have any say in what I post, where I post or how I choose to express it, nor do you decide what I read or how I perceive, interpret or react to this story.

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      18. Marilyn likes Lariensa … I wanted to clarify, I said the were similar but totally different

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      19. Marylin likes Lariensa and Miss Not So Side Kick? Geez, I dropped those novels because idk. So much nonsense. Are you the same person who recommended I Met The Male Lead In Prison? I’ve read your name somewhere. And if those novels are your kind of ‘good novels,’ then this one isn’t for you because your preference is just…. anyway, just drop it.

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      20. I’ve never rec male lead in prison, I dropped that.

        It’s ok if you don’t like the recs

        Drop what?

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    3. I totally get what you’re saying–it does feel extremely like filler. I think the author’s just taking the opportunity to give the characters a breather and just kind of…I don’t know how else to explain this chapter as anything other than filler and comedic relief, lol

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      1. I have some recommendations, the translator is slow to update and there isn’t much released, the story is similar yet nothing alike

        Marilyn really likes Lariensa. On NU

        I will try my best to remain a mob character – on scribblehub

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  7. Aaarrgghhh
    I’m feel save around cory
    Hey what are u doing swan, just talk to her already!
    U didn’t scared of her, right?
    I can’t wait shushu say something to him and how hillarous the reaction to be!
    Well, thanks again the translation!
    Fyi, I’m always check it out an hours, waiting an update chapter ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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  9. I guess Sean was trying to take Hyll’s collection of weird Shushu videos. But idk he seems toooo tsundere. Thanks for the chapter, you’re the reason i’m aware of the days passing 😂

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  10. Hahaha. This chapter just confirmed my intuition. And oh, god, my sweetie patootie Cory made another move and stole my growing love for Yves.

    Btw, i just wanna share. My boyfriend and i bought a dog today, a japanese spitz-poodle mixed and i named it Shushu. (means happy in arabic and guard or protect in japanese) i googled its meaning hehe

    Anyway, thanks as always, author-sama! You’re the best! I always refresh this page everyday to see the update! It became one of my daily dozes haha

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    1. Haha Yves would be so jealous about your dog. Also yeah now I can also see that he’s interested in Shushu, he got embarrassed about being seen by Shushu that time and I feel like he was after Hylli’s collection of Shushu’s shameful moments haha Or maybe he wanted to take revenge with that recordings lol

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      1. Ikr? Hahaha. Cant wait for Swan and Shushu’s interaction. And why is he already interested in her.

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  11. Daily dose of these characters being random completed! Swan is such a random dude… also it’s majorly creepy how he comes over to stare at Hestia… is he trying to challenge her to a duel or something??
    Cory being healing again though 🥰

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  13. Thank you! Moonlike Translations for this amazing chapter. Thank you for doing your best to upload daily. I love youuuu >•

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  14. Thank YOU so much for updating daily with such a high quality translation ❤ ! I started reading this a few weeks ago and fell in love, now I check this site everyday without a skip to read the new chapter haha. Don’t forget to take care of yourself, sending lots of love ✨

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    1. I’m so glad I can be a part of your day! Translating just gives me an opportunity to reread, and it feels interesting now that I know the context to a lot of the situations that take place. Thanks for reading and commenting! It really makes my day reading everyone’s comments! 🙂

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      1. YOU make our day by updating everyday. We really appreciate your hard work! Thank you so so much! *chef kiss*

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