Chapter 1246: Side Story – Master and Disciple (1)

The schedule in the Holy Kingdom lasted a bit longer than expected.

Moreover, because I couldn’t properly contact anyone due to the final Holy Father ritual, the moment I returned home, what greeted me was the nagging of my wives.

“Taekyung! Do you know how worried we were?! You suddenly became unreachable…”

“Even though it’s Sungchul-ssi, I can’t forgive you this time. Even if you were in the Holy Kingdom, not a single KakaoTalk message for four whole days…”

“You need to know that if you suddenly disappear, Master, it’s not just one or two people, including myself, who will worry….”

“…Haa. I have a lot I want to say, but since it seems like nothing really happened, I’ll hold back. Really.”

With over ten wives, the nagging was more than ten times worse. Even the usually quiet Cha Yuri and Seon-ah would chime in at times like this.

In the end, to appease my wives, being squeezed dry for days on end in Belle’s dungeon right after returning home was yesterday’s news.

Anyway, after returning like that, I went back to the company, handled the interviews that piled up during my absence, and returned to my daily life.

For some reason, the number of people commuting to the Hope City Guild’s representative office increased by one.

“I brought coffee, Holy Father.”

“Ah, yes. Put it there, Maria.”

Maria, Lulusia’s attendant and one of the high priests of the Vatican Holy Kingdom.

Her taking on my (temporary) secretary position in the representative office requires a little explanation.

First of all, after finishing the Holy Father ritual, Lulusia returned to Korea with me.

I had no particular reason to stay in the Holy Kingdom after finishing the ritual, and Lulusia didn’t have any obligation to remain there either.

Since Lulusia returned together with me when I came back to Korea, she is currently living in our home in Hope City Primera Hills, having received her own room like my other wives.

While doing so, she’s getting acquainted with the other wives, and more importantly, her former colleagues Sihee and Eunbyul are also living in our home.

And as Lulusia came to Korea, her attendant Maria naturally came along via the Warp Gate to Korea.

She mentioned she plans to stay in Korea until Lulusia’s childbirth. In this world, the person who assists during childbirth isn’t a doctor but a recovery-type Awakened being, and since Maria is also a recovery-type Awakened being, she can handle divine power.

‘I said I wouldn’t get pregnant during the Holy Father ritual because of Lulusia.’

Seeing her dressed up properly like the other priests, I thought Maria would naturally participate too, you know.

It seems there’s still a part of her own divine power that needs to be utilized for that purpose.

Well, the reason she, who returned with Lulusia, is acting as a temporary secretary in my office right now… is simply because of our household’s rules.

After all, since our household itself has many people connected by somewhat special relationships, minimum rules are necessary. One of them is that anyone living together on the same floor must be my ‘wife’ or ‘child’.

In Maria’s case, it was obviously a condition she couldn’t meet. In the first place, she doesn’t particularly have romantic feelings for me, and besides performing fellatio once, we haven’t had any physical interaction.

Lulusia is also my wife, and in the first place, if she had to choose between living with Maria or living with me, it was obvious she’d choose to live with me… So Maria lost her place to go, and was essentially hired temporarily as my secretary.

Although she can’t live together on the top floor, I can give her another room in Primera Hills. Besides, the rooms other than the top floor are already being used as dormitories for our guild members.

Hiring Maria as an employee provides the justification for her to move into the Hope City Guild dormitory. It’s a form of consideration for her, as she has no connections in Korea.

‘As for after that… she’s truly acting like my secretary, saying she can’t abandon her duties even if it’s temporary.’

She was a woman who, strangely enough, had quite a lot of similarities with Eunbyul in many ways.

Of course, I’m only talking about personality; in other aspects, my wives are much cuter.

“It is mealtime, Holy Father. Also, there is an interview with a registered Hunter at 2 PM, so please prepare after your meal.”

“Ah, right.”

Of course, her ability as a secretary wasn’t too bad. She wasn’t at the level of being able to offer management advice or handle company documents like Eunbyul, but she’s still helpful with simple schedule coordination and maintaining the work environment.

It’s sufficient enough to slightly fill the gap left by Eunbyul, who is temporarily absent due to pregnancy.

And besides Maria, there were priests brought from the Holy Kingdom – the three priests who were in charge of ‘service’ during the Holy Father ritual.

Sophia, Angelina, and Leah.

The three priests who participated in the Holy Father ritual-to be precise, who had participated in rituals before that.

Having become the Holy Father of the Holy Kingdom, I gained some authority there, so while I was at it, I brought the three of them back with me.

“If it’s those children, they haven’t started overseas dispatch duty yet, so having them generally accompany the Holy Father is fine. Perhaps, considering their age, they will eventually be the generation to receive the Holy Father’s seed.”

When I mentioned wanting to bring them from the Holy Kingdom, Maria explained as if there wouldn’t be any particular problem taking them outside the Holy Kingdom, since they are children I’ll eventually impregnate anyway.

Thanks to that, I could solve several problems I’d been worrying about recently. Regarding the supply of recovery-type Hunters for the Hope City Guild and the debt owed to President Seo Ok-hee.

While recruiting Teacher Yang Miyeon to our guild, the ‘health teacher’ position at the Hunter Training High School was almost lost when this year ended.

Still, I asked Sophia, who seemed to have the most experience, to take the health teacher position at the Hunter Training High School, and I hired Angelina and Leah in our guild as trainee Hunters and healers.

Of course, I’ll still treat the injuries of Hunters like Min Hyunyoung and my wives, but the fact that the burden of treating ordinary Hunters, who don’t have such deep relationships with me, is reduced is important in itself.

‘Nowadays, with the increased staff, I don’t have the time to treat injuries even because of interviews.’

Moreover, if I were to leave the guild like last time, treatments would truly pile up, so hiring recovery-type Awakened beings was an essential issue.

Looking at it that way, although the trip to Vatican City was briefly busy, I gained a lot. Of course, the most important thing among them is indeed being able to accept Lulusia as my wife.

…In that process, there was a step of accepting the unmarried priests of the Holy Kingdom as beings almost similar to wives, but…

‘Well, it was something I had to accept anyway, for Lulusia’s sake.’

Let’s deal with the issue concerning Vatican City a little later. Besides, it’s not such a serious matter that it needs to be considered a problem right now.

Just handling the tasks that piled up during the week-long business trip kept me extremely busy. Moreover, there are still many ongoing tasks that haven’t been finalized.

…For example, the matter concerning Teacher Yang Miyeon I mentioned earlier.

-Knock knock.

“T-Taekyung…. Are you inside…?”

A very tense voice was heard from beyond the door.

Hearing the voice of my former teacher after a long time, I replied with a quiet smile.

“Yes, Teacher Miyeon. You can come in.”

-Creeeak.

“…What do you mean, Teacher Miyeon. Several years have already passed since graduation.”

Teacher Yang Miyeon entered the guild representative office carefully, wearing a slightly awkward expression.

Compared to her strangely charismatic appearance back when I was attending Hunter Training High School, she definitely looked a bit unfamiliar now.

…Well, it’s natural, I guess, given how many relationships have passed between me and Teacher Miyeon.

“Did you finish the handover to the successor I sent?”

“…Was her name Sophia? But did you send her, Taekyung?”

“Yes. President Seo Ok-hee said she couldn’t permit your retirement unless a successor was placed in Teacher Miyeon’s position.”

“To mention the company guild leader’s name so casually… Wait, but Taekyung, what have you been doing lately to be acquainted with priests from the Holy Kingdom?”

“…Well, various things happened.”

It’s complicated enough that explaining everything one by one to Teacher Miyeon would be difficult.

Still, thanks to that, I succeeded in bringing Teacher Miyeon, who almost caused a slight disturbance, to our guild, so nothing else mattered.

After all, I received so much kindness from her during my school days, so my feeling is that I want to repay Teacher Miyeon as much as possible.

And the best way I can repay that kindness is… after all, it’s indeed paying with my body.

“Since you came after a long time, would you like to have a ‘meeting’ after a long time, Teacher Miyeon?”

“…Hooo. Taekyung, as I always say, a boy acting like this, moving around so carelessly, doesn’t look that good from a teacher’s perspective. In the first place, my objective isn’t particularly your body, Taekyung, it’s just…”

Anyway, she’ll quickly become honest once we move to the meeting room, so why is she making excuses like that?

On the outside, Teacher Miyeon was trying hard to maintain the appearance of a teacher from school days, but she couldn’t hide her blushing face and the way her gaze awkwardly avoided mine.