Chapter 1069: Side Story – Destruction Trio (1)

A few days had passed since the day I went on a late summer vacation with Eunyoung Noona, President Seo Ok-hee, and Kyungsook Sunbae.

As soon as that vacation ended, the first thing I checked was the new awakening ability I obtained through President Seo Ok-hee.

I already knew that her main skill was electric magic, which uses electricity. However, the problem was that I already possessed electric magic.

So, perhaps like with Eunyoung Noona, I thought another skill from the President might come in, but sure enough, the ability President Seo Ok-hee gave me was more precious than I could imagine.

『Active Skill: Mind Reading 5/5』

It was the ability I felt the most since forming a connection with President Seo Ok-hee, and depending on how it’s used, it was an ability capable of creating truly high value.

Moreover, reading the description, unlike President Seo Ok-hee’s ability which can only read ‘thoughts related to oneself’, the fact that it can simply read all of the opponent’s thoughts also made it considerably valuable.

The downside is that it’s an active skill, so it can only be used a maximum of 5 times. For reference, one use corresponds to ‘reading one person’s thoughts for 30 minutes’.

‘Even just this much is something to be grateful for.’

When really pressed, it meant it was sufficiently possible to skip the process of various persuasions and extract only the content I definitely wanted to hear from the opponent.

Since I obtained a precious skill, I should use it often. If the uses run out, I can visit the company and ‘recharge’ it as much as I want.

Besides that, what I gained from the valley vacation was it perhaps the connection with Kyungsook Sunbae?

With Kyungsook Sunbae, I contacted her right from the evening we exchanged contact information, and we are currently scheduling a time for us to meet again.

「Feed the kids proper meals. They are kids who risk their lives entering dungeons every day, so they need to eat something delicious to get energized.」

「That’s a bit difficult. The infrastructure here isn’t properly established yet, so it’s hard to procure ingredients, and it’s also not easy to find someone to work in the kitchen.」

「Well, sometimes I could go and cook for them, but I have my own main job, so doing it every day seems difficult.」

「Of course, I can’t ask for that. Is it possible to at least receive ingredient deliveries from Sunbae’s company? Right now, I’m getting deliveries via courier from the internet, but it’s not very stable here.」

「I need to know your guild members and the number of hunters using the cafeteria to know roughly how much to send.」

「Then, would you like to visit our guild sometime? If you came to the cafeteria yourself to check, it would be more certain.」

「That last trip too, I was incredibly busy and went reluctantly, and now you want me to go all the way to Hope City again?」

「If you help me, I’ll properly repay you. When we went on the trip together last time, thanks to me, you had quite a good time, didn’t you?」

「For now, I’ll check my schedule and contact you again.」

By deliberately mentioning the last trip and hinting that I would give her the enjoyment from that time as ‘repayment’, she responded by saying she would check her schedule. Perhaps in the near future, she might actually visit the Hope City Guild.

With her help, our guild’s cafeteria, which is only operating temporarily now, could be improved to some extent. If possible, getting introductions to ingredients and kitchen chefs from an expert seems like it would be much more efficient. She owns franchise stores nationwide, so if I asked for help in this area, she would probably gladly help.

It might seem like I’m meeting people solely based on profit and loss, but Kyungsook Sunbae also gains something from me, so it wasn’t exactly a losing deal. In the first place, the only transaction partner who could give her what she wants most was me alone in the entire world.

…And besides that, there’s one person who has recently started contacting me quite frequently.

「(Photo)」

「How is it?」

Suddenly, Seolhwa-ssi’s KakaoTalk message arrived, sent along with a photo of herself.

If it were an ordinary photo, I wouldn’t react too strangely, but the photos she sends me mostly featured unusual attire.

Her arms, legs, abdomen, and sometimes even her buttocks were fully exposed in clothing that was practically a naked state. Even the covered parts weren’t covered by wearing underwear or anything similar, but rather by using ‘shadows’ to merely conceal her private areas. As I mentioned last time, it was practically no different from body painting, making it an incredibly lewd appearance.

Especially in this manner, to see during work hours, it was a highly embarrassing outfit, so I just glanced at it and sent back a brief appreciative reply.

「Looks good.」

「Your reaction is lukewarm. Is there perhaps a part of my body you don’t like?」

「Because I’m at the company right now, it’s a bit awkward to send a reply.」

「You’re the Guild Master, aren’t you? Even if you slack off a bit during work hours, there’s probably no one to reprimand you, so please admire it boldly and give me your review.」

…What on earth does this person think of the Guild Master?

No, rather than ordinary people, they might understand the best. From what they said last time, they seemed to always stick close to Do Yehee, the CEO of Dokyung Construction, so they seemed to have accurately grasped that she was surprisingly free if there were no external schedules.

「Despite taking time out of their busy schedule to take this photo for you, are you just going to read it and ignore it?」

「You didn’t just take it, did you? Seolhwa-ssi, now isn’t the time for you to be slacking off, is it?」

「Since Do Yehee-nim has gone into a meeting, I have about an hour of free time. If you understand, please hurry and give me your honest review.」

While she herself is in a meeting, how must Do Yehee feel, having a woman who sends revealing selfies to a man as her secretary? No, perhaps hiring a Hunter from the Foundation as her close aide itself might mean having to tolerate such perverted behavior. Still, based on my experiences encountering her a few times, excluding ‘this kind of thing’, her abilities as a secretary seemed excellent.

Well, honestly, since I’m a man too, when photos like these fly in, my eyes couldn’t help but be drawn to them. Firstly, Seolhwa-ssi’s body itself is a bit small in the chest, but overall it’s a well-balanced, slender figure. More importantly, as Do Yehee’s secretary, getting closer little by little like this wouldn’t be bad. If I narrow the relationship little by little like this, the next time I meet Do Yehee, we might become a little closer.

“……”

After subtly checking Eunbyul, who was standing diagonally behind me, and slightly zooming in on the image file Seolhwa-ssi sent, it was indeed a truly daring photo. Although covered by shadows, the curves of her protruding nipples were clearly visible. Although her pubic area was small so that part wasn’t very noticeable,

because I had a hunch she’d get sulky if I didn’t reply, for now, after examining Seolhwa-ssi’s body thoroughly, I sent her a short appreciative comment back.

「You’re pretty. Your figure is slender, showing you manage it well. Pretending to cover your chest while openly exposing yourself is also quite sexy.」

「Did you cum?」

「Didn’t I say I was at the company? And you know that doing that to another man is sexual harassment, right?」

「You don’t need to worry about that. If it were sexual harassment just by saying this, it would have been sexual harassment from the moment I first sent photos to Sung Taekyung-nim.」

「Someone who knows that is quite fearless.」

「I don’t do it to other men. It’s something I can do towards Sung Taekyung-nim because you have an eye for that sort of thing.」

「What kind of eye for that sort of thing?」

「It’s the eye of a man very interested in sexual matters. As expected, the intense gaze I felt that day was not a lie.」

「In the first place, if you walk around dressed like that, anyone, not just me, couldn’t help but look.」

「An ordinary man would probably just try to avoid looking. Anyway, I will take Sung Taekyung-nim’s feedback into consideration in various ways. And if you cum from my photo, please be sure to report it.」

…What on earth are they going to use my feedback for? And what the hell is this “report it if you cum” nonsense?

Just as I was about to end the slightly strange KakaoTalk conversation with Seolhwa-ssi, this time, a video file was unexpectedly sent and arrived.

「(Video)」

「This is a thank-you gift. Use it when you’re in a hurry.」

「I would be even more grateful if you use it and leave a review.」

…This is, like, an naked Zero Two. I never thought I’d see this in this world.

While it was absurd, I couldn’t deny that I was honestly turned on. On this world’s adult video sites, videos like this were all men, not women, dancing naked. Although their private parts were still covered by black shadows,

Feeling it for the first time in a long while, like adult videos from home, as I watched with some focus, Eunbyul’s voice came from behind.

“Is that kind of lewd act your preference, Master?”

“…It’s not really a preference, it’s just that someone I know sent it via KakaoTalk.”

“It’s Seolhwa-ssi. When did you become close with her?”

“You know her?”

“Since she’s Yehee-nim’s attendant, of course I know her. When she used to work as Sihee-nim’s maid, I often ran into her at the mansion.”

That’s true. Before she was my maid, she spent much longer as Sihee’s maid, so it would be stranger if we didn’t run into each other inside the mansion.

“Since I meet Do Yehee for business, we met occasionally and got to know each other a little. It’s not like we’re involved physically, so you can rest assured.”

“I think it’s more problematic that she sends videos like this when you’re not in such a relationship.”

“…Well, I don’t exactly dislike it either.”

“So that kind of thing is indeed your preference. I’ll keep that in mind for next time.”

“It’s not really a preference, though….”

…Still, the sight of Eunbyul dancing, shaking her hips naked right in front of me, might be something I’d like to see.