Your remaining fame is 550.
Even after buying items from the secret exchange, Chastity Belt Girl’s fame does not decrease in the real world.
“Now my remaining fame is 550…”
She wiggled her fingers toward the remaining items, then let out a sigh.
The price was 2,000 fame.
With her remaining fame, she couldn’t afford anything.
Except for that, which might give birth to an even more horrifying hybrid, and which she could just make up an excuse for.
What should she do to gather fame faster?
Just relying on missions from the Hero App—who knows how long that would take to build up enough fame.
If she received letters from the secret exchange like today, helped citizens in danger, or resolved sudden incidents, her fame would skyrocket.
“Letters from the secret exchange don’t seem to come just anytime. Maybe I need to be in the area where the incident occurs. If they came at random, I’d have already received one every day with all the trouble happening constantly. Hmm… should I start wandering dangerous areas on purpose?”
Iris, feeling emboldened, lifted the corners of her lips and shrugged her shoulders.
After taking down a villain once, she’d gained confidence.
She still needed to be cautious, of course, but if she checked a villain’s status window and it looked bad, she could just run away quickly, right?
And no wonder she was confident—her Chastity Belt turned out to be far more powerful than she thought.
After reaching level 22, it gained an additional function: a powerful defense that could deflect bullets before she even realized it.
Thanks to that, she survived. She felt a little sorry for cursing it so much in her mind all this time.
“Thanks, Chastity Belt. You saved my life. Also… you’re the one who triggered my Hero status window, aren’t you? Alright, I’ll do my best to bring peace to Gyodam City.”
A famous quote from a movie she’d seen in her past life came to mind.
A savior who came to ruin me… or something.
She used to think such things didn’t exist—but here it was.
Although she’d taken hits to her pride, her mental state, her dignity, and even had a perverted hot debut, she wanted to spoil this thing today.
She couldn’t just ignore the one who saved her life.
This lovable thing!
Iris stroked between her legs gently, about to speak to the Chastity Belt, then awkwardly withdrew her hand.
Even though no one was in the secret exchange, the location made the action feel incredibly embarrassing.
“I should get going now. Might as well check my fame one more time before I leave.”
More accurately, she needed to check the message that reported her fame.
At the end of the message, it also told her how many people were watching her.
When she muttered inwardly for a fame check, just like last time, a breakdown of how she earned her fame appeared.
And at last, the long-awaited info popped up.
…Two heroes and four villains are currently monitoring Chastity Belt Girl.
“Hmm. The heroes must be Teresa and Rainbow Girl.
Now there are four villains.
Two of them are probably Laika and the one in the leopard-print wrestling outfit.
But who are the other two?”
It was possible some villain had taken interest after reading the news article.
But she had to consider other possibilities too.
As Iris sat with arms crossed and legs swinging, a thought crossed her mind—about the priest from the Enraka cult who had used a suspicious skill on her.
He’d been blending in with civilians in plain clothes, so she assumed he couldn’t be identified.
Was she wrong?
But if he’d recognized her, he wouldn’t have just let her go like that…
“Or is there someone else? Maybe a villain was hiding in the area where the monster appeared…”
Either way, she needed to be careful.
Buying that item just in case had been a good move.
With that item, she could escape any crisis.
Iris exited the secret exchange.
She lay on her bed, but couldn’t fall asleep easily.
She was worried about the two villains monitoring her.
And instead of feeling reassured after buying the item, she became more anxious.
She kept imagining scenarios where she’d need to use it.
“Surely I won’t end up using it at Laika’s place, right? Things felt weird in the car… maybe he saw me coming out of that public restroom…Ugh, whatever. Our cute Chastity Belt will save me. Won’t you?”
No reply came.
And if it had, that would’ve been a horror story.
Iris gave a few playful slaps to the spot between her legs above the blanket, then tried to sleep.
It was a night when even the Chastity Belt, once her enemy, felt adorable.
***
Meanwhile, at Laika’s home.
Wearing a nightgown, he sipped wine.
Deep in thought, a wrinkle formed between his handsome brows.
“Tentacle person… no, that white-clad hero… was definitely a woman. I had a hunch, but now she’s not contacting me. Did she catch on to my lie?”
Maybe she had.
The lie had holes in it since it was rushed.
And anyone who easily trusted someone claiming to be a hero wouldn’t survive in Gyodam City.
Leaning back in the recliner, he gazed through the large window overlooking the river.
His mind replayed the memory of that bizarrely flamboyant battle by the white-clothed hero.
Weapons had emerged from between her legs—metal bars, even barbed wire.
She breathed fire and shot webs in strange poses.
The way she deflected bullets with something from between her legs had been shocking.
How had she learned such outrageous skills?
And using something worn under her skirt, no less?
“Each person awakens their powers differently.
Abilities like these are supernatural; science can’t explain them. Unless she tells me herself, I can’t guess how she woke up.”
Still, he couldn’t help speculating.
Laika normally had no interest in others.
But after seeing that fight, even the most indifferent person would be full of questions.
Abilities could vary in countless ways—but why did hers all come from between her legs?
Something worn down there…
He couldn’t think of anything but panties.
Maybe she had a pair of beloved childhood panties that one day awakened with mysterious powers…
He imagined a mythical goblin granting magical underwear and frowned.
Underwear that awakened after long use? That was too much, even for fiction.
Unless he removed limits from his thoughts… what if it was a bell, a piercing, or something else wearable down there?
He even imagined a dildo or a small sex toy.
Laika covered his face with both hands and sank deeper into the recliner.
“I don’t want to think about this anymore.”
His head throbbed, so he decided to stop guessing.
But one thing was certain: she was a physical-object awakener.
Even from afar, sitting on a streetlight, he’d seen it.
The thing coming from between her legs was definitely metal.
“She has a body worth studying. Maybe I shouldn’t have let her go. If I knocked her out and brought her in… But if I fought in front of the police, it would’ve gotten messy.”
“There would’ve been more than just a simple investigation. Worst case, I could’ve ended up wanting to. And if she resisted too strongly, I’d make an enemy of her—so I had to be careful.”
As he recalled his conversation with the white-clothed hero, Iris’s face suddenly flashed in his mind.
She had ordinary blonde hair, but it looked similar to the hero’s.
However, the hero had black eyes, unlike Iris.
Their features were also slightly different.
“Due to transformation suits, ability users can appear different from reality. Still… Could Iris be that hero? That hero appeared at the bakery café right after Iris left…”
“No, that’s impossible.”
The dazzlingly skilled hero in white and Iris couldn’t be the same person.
If Iris were an ability user, she wouldn’t have been so easily affected by mental-type skills.
More than anything, when he felt her down there, he hadn’t noticed anything strange.
If they were the same person, there should’ve been something suspicious there.
Even her panties changed each time.
White cotton panties at the hospital.
Seductive red mesh panties in the car…
Thinking of Iris’s inner thighs, blood rushed to his lower body.
Right—there was nothing suspicious there, and the panties always changed.
Therefore, Iris was not the hero in white.
Absolutely not.
“What a ridiculous thought… I must be tired to even consider that. There’s no way the nerd and the tentacle girl are the same person.”