Ling Qi (Spiritpact / Soul Contract)

Episode 2

What Attracted You to Him?

Look, it's a Korean star.

How can you tell?

It's the length of his bangs. There's no mistaking it.

Wait up, Mr. Korean Star.

I thought you were just showing off, but you do move fast, don't you?

Are you in a hurry to meet someone? Is a famous person waiting?

I'm meeting someone who even I can't handle.

Someone impossible even for a Youmeishi? They must be pretty fierce.

Hi!

It's been a while, Tanmoku-san.

Woah, you're kidding, right?

This lady is a total knock-out!

She's not fierce at all.

The flight was late. I'm sorry for asking you to pick me up so late at night.

Don't get the wrong idea.

I got you tickets for the next flight.

I didn't come to get you, but to see you off.

Isn't that a little cold, even for a joke?

He's making the atmosphere all stiff.

It's like we're at a wake.

Let's go. I'll pull the car around.

I knew you were just joking.

Liar, you looked like you were about to cry just now.

Tanmoku-san, wait.

Who is this woman anyway?

She's my fiancée.

Come on now. That's a cruel joke, too.

Since he talks without changing his facial expression.

It's hard to tell when he's joking or serious.

She must be pretty important for him to come all this way to get her late at night.

Oh, good evening. It's nice to meet you.

I am Shin Shiyou.

Huh? You can see me?

I've been able to see you since we met at the airport.

Tanmoku-san made you his spirit shadow, didn't he?

Nah, he didn't make me.

He cried and begged me to.

So, I eventually gave in.

I'm You Keika.

I'm glad. With you as his spirit shadow and me as his fiancée,

it'll be like we're siblings.

Let's get along.

No way. She's really his fiancée?

She's cheerful and nice and she has a nice body on top of that.

No matter how you look at it, she's totally my ideal type.

Why is such a nice woman like this in love with such a stony and brusque guy?

What an utter waste!

Ah, be careful!

Put your seat belt on.

Hey, you did that on purpose!

There's no point in a spirit wearing a seat belt, is there?!

You were in an accident because you didn't know the traffic rules.

You two really get along well.

Don't joke around.

You two are the ones who get along well, right?

Tanmoku-san, I'll stay at the usual hotel tonight.

Huh? A hotel?

She doesn't stay at his place even though they're engaged?

Why did it suddenly get weird in here?

We're here.

Thank you for going out of your way.

Will you see me up to my room?

I'm sorry. I got too carried away.

What the hell are you thinking?!

Do you have another woman or something?!

You're so cold to your fiancée.

Keika-kun, I'm glad we met.

Good night.

Bye-bye.

Mr. Korean Star, what's your deal? See her up to her room!

Hello?

I just dropped her off.

Is that so? Understood.

I'll let you know later.

I'm busy, so I'm hanging up.

Go tell her we're having dinner at the Tanmoku mansion tomorrow.

What?

It's her welcoming party.

No way. Why do I have to be the one to tell her?

Why don't you just go do it yourself?

Get going already.

Making me do things right after agreeing to the pact, huh?

I'm supposed to be your support, not your errand boy!

It's like he's a pervert sneaking off into the bushes late at night.

There's no point in saying it, but it's irritating.

I can't touch a woman because I'm a spirit.

It should be fine if I enter normally like this.

But what should I do if I see her like this or that?

Manners are still important even if I'm a spirit.

Miss Goddess, it's You Keika.

I'm coming in, Miss Goddess.

Huh? She's not here?

So this is where you were.

Miss Goddess, Tanmoku Ki said for you to come to dinner tomorrow.

Huh? What did you say?

Huh?! Y-You're not a goddess!

You Keika, you've made me angry!

Who are you?!

Where did the nice and neat lady go?!

I can't let you live now that you've seen me like this.

Fail

Crap, crap, crap!

It was supposed to be a group fight.

I was beaten even with three reinforcements.

No way! It was at an important point, too.

"You're supposed to be supporting us. Where are you?"

"I'm going to put a deadly curse on you for stepping away."

These are comments to you?

You've got to be kidding me!

I'm always going solo! You're the ones who forced me to support you!

Only the spells weren't ready!

You utter idiots!

So frustrating.

We had two wins and two losses.

It was the boss fight, too.

Huh? You play solo?

I do too.

What level are you?

I'm the strongest king of Ionia.

What? You have to be totally bluffing.

Yes, yes, just like that.

Use your skills under the tower and turn around.

Victory!

Victory

It took three years, but I was finally promoted to platinum.

That was quite an obnoxious evil spirit.

That's not good.

So that was a decoy?

Here you go.

Thanks.

But why do you act docile, like a completely different person,

when you're around Tanmoku?

Isn't it obvious?

He would hate me if he were to see me like this.

But you're his fiancée. Aren't you going to live together someday?

What's the point of a contract on a scrap of paper?

He hasn't even signed it.

You saw how he acts around me, right?

Well, he's always been like that, so I'm satisfied.

Really?

So it's been one-sided the whole time? That's so pathetic.

Don't look at me with such pity in your eyes!

The more pitiful one is Tanmoku Ki.

Those born into prestigious families have no choices, in life or in marriage.

But I'm lucky to have been born into a prestigious family.

If I hadn't been, I wouldn't have become his fiancée.

You're pretty enamored with him, aren't you?

What's so good about him anyway?

He has a high facial value score.

You chose him just for his face?

What, you have a problem with that?

Listen, You Keika: our facial value score is the greatest power we're born with.

Even the famous Steve Jobs advocated for this early on.

He announced a calling app that would allow you to see each other's faces.

We're living in the "age of faces" right now.

A new trend of men selling their faces was born.

The feudal concept of male chauvinism,

which lasted for hundreds of years, was destroyed.

It was inevitable that I would be attracted to him by the flow of time.

Seeking a prince on a white horse, it stimulates the propagation of life.

My mission is to remove my clothes for him

and to bear children for him.

So she's just his crazy fangirl, huh?

Please hold me, hold me tonight.

Somehow I feel a little bad for Tanmoku Ki.

Facial value scores will increase the country's future GDP.

They'll promote consumption and boost the economy.

Supporting his attractiveness is the same as devoting my love.

In other words, yes, I love him because he's good-looking.

You'd go that far to discard your pride?

Pride disappears the instant you truly begin loving someone.

Do you get it, little boy?

That's right, and there's one other thing.

You've never been with a woman, have you?

Virgin

You don't have any romantic experience, do you?

Sorry, sorry.

There's no way you could understand what I was talking about then.

What's this?

Gross, did you wet yourself over my lecture earlier?

I didn't wet myself.

What the heck?

This is...

Not good, it's an evil spirit. Hurry and run.

You Keika, open the door!

We're saved. Tanmoku is here!

N-No, don't open it.

I'm not wearing any makeup.

That's your problem?

You Keika, I can hear you!

Open up already!

Let go!

Are you okay with dying over something like that?