Yura giggled, looking at me with love-filled eyes. "...Yeah. You drive me crazy already in more ways than one. I might be a completely different person by then. And I'm not sure if I should be upset that I'm okay with that..."
"Well, you should make up your mind. I mean, we still have to deal with your parents."
Yura froze.
"What?" I glanced down. "Did you forget?"
"That's... right." Yura swallowed and then let out a nervous laugh. "...Oh my god, Mom's going to kill me."
"Meh. You're an adult already anyway. Besides, you're already officially Yura Won. I filed the marriage certificate yesterday already."
"YOU WHAT?!"
"Joking."
Yura let out a sigh of relief, clutching a hand to her chest. "God, Neol. Don't scare me like that. I mean, it's not like I DON'T want to marry you. But just dropping that on a girl-"
"I filed it just an hour ago while you were doing your other paperwork."
"NEOL! REALLY?!"
"Nah."
"I'm going to...!"
"I do have it pre-filled though. Whenever it's convenient, let me know. You might want to do it soon though. Married Hunter couples get a zero income tax voucher for the first five years, you know?"
Yura paused. "...Wait. Really?"
"Really. Apparently it's an incentive so they can save up a nest egg and have kids. You know, since children of Hunters tend to have inherited abilities."
"..."
"...Wait. Are you seriously thinking about getting married just for the tax break?"
"Sh-Shut up!" Yura blushed. "They took half of what I reported, you know! Half! If we get married and I get all of that..."
"...Some story we'll have to tell our kids. Oh, Mom. Why did you marry Dad? Well, Sweetie, it's because Mommy would get a lot of money... OW!"
"Hmph." Yura pulled back her hand from pinching me and said, "...If you're worried about that then propose properly you- I SWEAR TO GOD NEOL, that had BETTER NOT BE AN ENGAGEMENT RING IN YOUR POCKET."
I held my hand just over my pocket, moments away from pulling out the very much real engagement ring I was definitely keeping there. "...Of course not. I was just going to... check my phone."
Yura glanced at my pocket, then at my other pocket where the outline of my phone was clear as day. "...Your phone's in that pocket."
"Oh. Must have been confused with how lovely you are."
"Neol. Do you or do you not have an engagement ring in your pocket?"
"Depends. Will you say yes?"
"You...! Argh, fine! Yes!"
"Bet." I pulled the ring on and slid it on Yura's left ring finger.
Yura froze.
I smiled.
A few people walking past noticed and then started cheering.
Yura turned a beet red and glared at me, although it was softened by the tears welling up in her amethyst eyes. "You fucker...! This isn't how you do a proposal!"
"Well. I'm me. You're you. I wanna stick around. So... can I be your husband?"
"You...! FINE!" Yura pulled me in for a deep kiss, her face as red as a beet, but her smile as radiant as the sun.
I chuckled and kissed her back, holding her close as people cheered all around us.
'Well. It's a bit fast, but when you know, you know, right?'
===
Lee glanced down from his office, seeing his granddaughter stammering after kissing Neol. "Wow." Lee chuckled and said, "That rascal works fast."
It was Monday evening. Not even the fourth day since Neol had met Yura. And not even the third since he'd been romantically involved with her.
But here they were, already engaged.
"As a grandfather, I should be furious. But as a man... can't help but say I'm impressed."
Lee had known Yura and Neol had chemistry. His granddaughter tried to be prim and proper to live up to their family history, but Lee already knew that she was a wild one. Although she'd cleaned up her act in middle school, Lee remembered that it was her who had wrecked his office every Christmas holiday when she was growing up.
Meanwhile, Neol looked blase and normal on the surface, but he was definitely a manipulative man with hidden depths. That 'normal' facade was one carefully honed after over a decade of practice and cultivation.
The two weren't peas in a pod. Instead, they got along like oil and fire.
Neol was definitely an enabler of Yura's worst and wildest sides... especially considering how intimate they apparently were.
And THAT much was obvious to anyone who took a look at Yura.
Lee chuckled and said, "I DID tell Eunhwa that restricting her from any explicit material was going to backfire..."
Maybe it was because Lee's daughter, Eunhwa, had grown up without supervision and got exposed to 'that' side of the internet early, but she was wild when she was younger too. That was why she ran off with that American boy and eloped.
But clearly Yura had gotten that from her mother in spades. And it had clearly ALSO been pent up over the years due to their strict supervision.
Then came Neol, who not only enabled it, but who, judging from his stories, was VERY well versed in intimacy... and also VERY willing to indulge.
Lee smiled and then glanced in the corner of his office where a small pile of baby shower gifts was already growing.
After all, it was only a matter of time. No matter how careful those two were, with how enthusiastic both were about each other...
'Mm... by July. There'll be an announcement by then for sure.'
It was still early for any signs of pregnancy. But in a week or two, there might be symptoms. Though by the end of the first trimester, it'd be impossible to hide it... and that would coincide with July since it was May.
"My, my..." Lee chortled. "My precious Eunhwa. Karma really does come around to bite you, hm~?"
It was refreshing schaudenfreude.
Lee still remembered the headaches he had when his daughter had that whirlwind romance. Thankfully, it hadn't come with an unplanned pregnancy...
But Yura's might.
Which meant Lee would get to sit back, relax, sip on some tea, eat popcorn, and laugh as his only daughter ran around like a headless chicken panicking when she found out that Yura not only had a boyfriend, but slept with him day one, was now engaged to said boyfriend, and probably pregnant.
"Yes." Lee pulled out an emergency KitKat bar from his desk and unwrapped it. After taking a bite out of the side, he nodded and said, "This is the slice of life drama I've earned after my long life."
After killing the Dragon King who tried to conquer Earth, clearing out a good slew of primordial gods, and also getting rid of the crazy bastards who wanted to turn Earth into their private lust-filled kingdoms...
"Retirement is good." Lee took another bite out of his KitKat bar and nodded. "Real good... Though." He glanced at the KitKat bar and said, "They don't make them like they used to... Hah. I miss the 2000s..."
A loud knock at Lee's office door.
"MISTER PRESIDENT!" Park Rajin's voice echoed from the other side of it. Lee's head of PR. "A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE WAS JUST FILED! LADY YURA CHANGED HER LAST NAME TO WON!"
Lee laughed. "Come in, Park. And did she now?"
Park Rajin walked in, carrying a freshly printed copy of the marriage certificate.
Staring at it, Lee laughed again and said, "Wow. That rascal really does work fast. But I guess you can say my granddaughter truly..."
Park Rajin's eyes widened, quickly catching onto what Lee was going to do. "Mister President, no..."
"...Won."
Park Rajin let out a loud groan.
===
America. The S-Ranked Gate, Bug Apocalypse.
Eunhwa Shin-Everbright paused in the middle of clearing out a wave of mosquitos.
Kyle Shin-Everbright, her husband, paused and looked over at her. "Is something wrong, Honey?"
"...I just had a feeling, Husband."
Kyle swung his sword, cleaving a giant millipede before punting its corpse away. "About Yura?"
"Mmhm." Eunhwa furrowed her brow and flicked her wrist, sending vorpal winds out and shredding all the nearby monsters into molecular debris. "...I feel like our baby girl got involved with a bad guy. We should hurry."
"...What?"
"Call it a woman's intuition. Now come on or else you're getting tied down tonight."
"Y-Yes, Honey!"