Chapter 1291: Side Story – Oyakokodon (1)

The contact from Chairman Do Kyunghee came just as I was about to wrap up the morning’s work.

「Come to my office tonight. I have something to say.」

A short message. A concise, no-frills text.

After briefly checking the message that arrived via Cocoatalk, I spoke to Maria, who was currently serving as the acting secretary.

“Maria. How many people are left for ‘interviews’ today?”

“Miss So-eun-ah, Miss Lee Hye-won, and Miss Choi Yeon-joo’s interviews remain.”

“See if you can contact anyone available for an interview right now. I think I need to finish the hunter interviews a bit early today and head out.”

“Understood.”

Going out for work after a long time? …Well, I’m not sure if I should even call this an external work trip.

I’ve maintained a fairly decent relationship with Chairman Do Kyunghee-nim, who is the mother of Sihee and Yehee, even after that.

We sometimes cooperate to some extent on business matters, and sometimes talk about Sihee and Yehee as prospective mother-in-law and son-in-law.

Sometimes, when I receive a message that seems to have a clear ‘purpose’ like this, I head directly to Dokyung Group myself to resolve my urges.

「Do Kyunghee – Estimated Acquisition Points: 160」

Looking at the accumulated sexual desire, the purpose was obvious without even looking.

After all, given her standing as Chairman, I can’t meet her as often as other women, so her sexual desire naturally tends to accumulate quite a bit.

Outwardly, she might add the pretense that it’s a necessary process for maintaining her awakened abilities… but having already slept with countless women who show such reactions, I know even that is just an excuse.

Unlike her strong-willed and seemingly perfect public image, deep down she’s just a bitch who wants to be dominated by a man.

How the mother and her two daughters all like being tied up and dominated is truly a question for me. Still, it’s hot, so I don’t really care much.

-kkiiik.

“Guild Master-nim! You said you’d do the interview now!”

“Ah, Miss Yeon-joo. Thank you for moving the interview time up. I had an external work trip today, so I needed to leave later.”

“Not at all! I wanted to have an interview with you, Guild Master-nim… Ah, no, I was just itching for it!”

“That’s fortunate. I was thinking I wanted to have an interview with you, Miss Yeon-joo, after a long time too.”

…Well, I suppose I should still do my Guild Master duties properly.

⁎ ⁎ ⁎

Finishing the interviews for three people within two hours of afternoon work, I immediately headed to the Dokyung Group main building.

“Welcome, Sung Taekyung-nim.”

As soon as I entered the building’s main entrance, a familiar person caught my eye.

The personal secretary of Chairman Do Kyunghee, who always came down to greet me whenever I visited Dokyung Group, bowed and greeted me.

“Yes, it’s been a while.”

“Chairman-nim is waiting. Please go up.”

Without unnecessary words, she silently got into the elevator with me and pressed the top floor button.

I silently saw her off as she guided me to the office door without any particular words and disappeared, then opened the familiar door and stepped inside.

-hwi-iing.

“…….”

As soon as I entered, I felt a slightly cold air.

Perhaps because she’s an ice mage, Chairman Do Kyunghee-nim’s cold aura was spread throughout the office space.

And behind the large desk in such an office, Do Kyunghee sat in her dedicated chair, dressed in a luxurious suit.

Her eyes, which immediately turned to me as soon as I entered, were frozen quite stiffly, fitting the epithet ‘Witch of the Extreme Cold’ she was once called.

“…Oh, you’ve arrived.”

…Of course, only her gaze was like that; she couldn’t hide the signs of her own nervousness at all.

I lightly raised my hand in greeting to Chairman Do Kyunghee-nim, who was excited at the thought of doing it with me after so long.

“It’s been a while, Chairman-nim.”

“…Yes. It has been a while.”

A subtly trembling voice.

A subtle tremor she couldn’t hide, even while trying hard to maintain composure.

Slowly walking towards her, I continued speaking.

“What did you call me for today? Is it perhaps about the collaboration matter between the Hope City Guild and Dokyung Entertainment that I mentioned last time?”

“…No, I didn’t call you particularly for work-related matters.”

“Then do you have something to discuss with Sung Taekyung, the husband of Sihee and Yehee?”

“…….”

“If not that… perhaps you called because you wanted to see the face of your ‘Master’ after a long time?”

Rounding the corner of the desk, I approached Do Kyunghee’s side and whispered in her ear.

As I placed my arm on her shoulder, the sensation of her stiffening with tension was palpable enough to be felt through my palm.

After a brief silence, she, who was quietly avoiding my gaze, cautiously opened her mouth.

“If I had to say, it would be both.”

“…Both?”

It meant she had business both as the husband of Sihee and Yehee, and as her ‘Master’.

At first, I didn’t understand what she meant, but after hearing Do Kyunghee’s words that followed, I quietly understood.

“Ah… Then, have you decided to tell Sihee and Yehee as well?”

“…At least the two children will need to know. Anyway, if this relationship continues for a long time, it will eventually be exposed through the two children’s information network, and I don’t want to appear like I deceived them then.”

“Well, it is a relationship that’s bound to be discovered someday.”

“Aren’t you worried at all? If my relationship with you gets into the ears of the two children, you won’t be able to finish your business safely either.”

“Hmm. I can’t really imagine Sihee or Yehee hating me.”

“…Lucky you, being so carefree.”

It’s not that I’m carefree, but rather that I genuinely don’t seem to care much, which is why I’m saying this.

To begin with, both Sihee and Yehee already know everything about how I operate the guild.

Of course, I reassure them by constantly letting them know that the affection I give to those two is stronger than the affection I give to the guild members.

So, even if they found out the fact that I’ve slept with Do Kyunghee, the possibility that they wouldn’t say anything to me was high.

In the first place, both of them already know that I am this kind of man.

Of course, conversely, Do Kyunghee, the mother of the two, will have to endure somewhat betrayed gazes from her two daughters the moment our relationship is exposed.

“Anyway… for that reason, I hope you cooperate too. Even for the sake of preventing my daughters from noticing my relationship with you later and going crazy.”

“Well, let’s do that.”

I also want to reveal it openly rather than insistently keeping it secret from Sihee and Yehee.

And for my personal desires… I also had the desire to try a ‘three-mother-daughter rice bowl’ including Do Kyunghee at least once.

⁎ ⁎ ⁎

Do Sihee nervously clenched and unclenched her palms a few times as she passed through the main entrance of the building.

Mother… no, the summons from the Chairman of Dokyung Group.

Because Do Sihee had always received reprimands or scoldings rather than praise every time she was summoned, her heart pounded.

‘What could she have called me for all of a sudden…?’

Speculations were not entirely absent from her mind.

The year-long leave of absence request she submitted somewhat unnaturally recently, to have a child with Sungchul-ssi.

Perhaps Mother had harbored some suspicion from that.

Of course, even while pregnant, she had handled most of the work instructions for Dokyung Chemical and Dokyung Bio remotely, and in the first place, it was leave she had taken after receiving Mother’s permission from the very beginning.

Considering there weren’t any particular issues within the company even after returning to work recently after giving birth to Heecheol, perhaps she didn’t call for that reason.

If not that… perhaps she plans to gradually sort out the issue of Dokyung Group’s successor.

“…….”

-kkolkkak.

It was unavoidable for Do Sihee to feel nervous every time she thought such thoughts.

For now, it was a bit difficult to say that she clearly had the upper hand over her older sister in the succession competition.

Of course, in terms of the company’s growth, new drug development obtained through monster materials, and even up to her recent promotion to S-class Hunter.

Although there were parts where she was behind Do Yehee, she wasn’t significantly behind either, and considering the points where she clearly had the advantage, there wasn’t no chance of winning, but…

Still, if she was ready to compete perfectly, that wasn’t the case, so she couldn’t help but be nervous.

‘Whatever the reason she called me, I must overcome it with dignity. I am the daughter of Dokyung Group, Sungchul-ssi’s wife, and Heecheol’s mother.’

Do Sihee had become even more able to strengthen her resolve after becoming Sung Taekyung’s wife and giving birth to a child.

While thinking such thoughts, she arrived in front of the elevator of the Dokyung Group building.

There, upon seeing the silhouette of one person who was familiar yet not exactly welcome, her steps slowed slightly.

“Sihee.”

“…Unnie.”

In a red dress, with red hair and red eyes.

Do Yehee, the half-sister walking the path of a Dokyung Group successor, just like herself.

“Seeing as, Sihee, Mother must have called you too. Right?”

“…Did Mother summon you too, Unnie?”

“That’s why I’m here now, isn’t it? If not, I’m already busy with the Hope City business, so why would I deliberately carve out time to come all the way up to Seoul?”

“…Ah, I suppose so.”

Even though we met after a long time, her tone, which still provoked people, was the same.

Realizing that there was no malice in that tone was only a year ago, so…

Since realizing that, Do Sihee had been conversing with her, addressing her as ‘Unnie’ each time, even if it became a bit awkward, but…

-Tting.

“Hurry and get on, Sihee. Surely you’re not going to stand in the first-floor lobby all day?”

“…I was going to go anyway.”

It was unavoidable that the tone still instinctively displeased her.