Chapter 164: More Than Friends, Less Than Lovers (4)

When Han Min-ah emerged from a shower that had run a little long, the clock hands were just pointing to 11 AM.

The house was cleaned so neatly that there was nothing to indicate anything was amiss, and chores like dishes and laundry had already been taken care of.

She had even meticulously cleaned her own body, so all that was left was to wait for the person who would satisfy her sexual desire to arrive.

Sung Taekyung.

An old friend since their days at Hunter Training Middle School, and the one who recently took her first experience.

Putting aside the fact that he had torn her own insignificant hymen, he was already a sufficiently meaningful partner just by being the first person she had ever mingled bodies with.

Especially so if he was the male friend she had secretly been paying attention to for a long time.

It would have been strange if she wasn’t nervous.

Han Min-ah, naked, walked out of the bathroom and pulled open the very top drawer of her dresser, which held her underwear.

An outfit that was as natural as possible. As if she wasn’t consciously thinking about him being a man.

As Han Min-ah was about to prepare herself to greet Sung Taekyung in such an outfit, she was immediately engulfed in a different kind of worry upon checking the contents of the drawer.

“Ah, damn it, why is there only this kind of stuff….”

Every single piece of underwear in her drawer was either plain or solely focused on function, completely unusable as something meant to be shown off.

A few pieces of sports-type underwear made to support the chest and absorb sweat when needing to move agilely.

And the rest were just a few pieces of cheap, shoddy underwear they put out at clearance sale prices at the supermarket.

Moreover, most of them were mismatched top and bottom, making them absolutely unsuitable attire to wear in front of someone you like.

Underwear she had carelessly picked out, thinking ‘cheap is best’ since it’s not like anyone would see it anyway.

Han Min-ah’s thoughtless cheapness had unfortunately returned to haunt her now, in the worst possible form.

“Haa, thinking about it, I had sex with mismatched underwear last time too… Ah, you idiot, really…”

When she came to her senses in her state of heat, she was already naked, so she hadn’t noticed, but thinking back, she must have undoubtedly been wearing mismatched underwear on that very first day they mingled bodies.

And Sung Taekyung must have been disappointed to some extent seeing her like that back then.

Thinking so, Han Min-ah leaned against the drawer and clutched her head.

In fact, her guess was half right and half wrong.

It was true that Han Min-ah had been wearing mismatched underwear the day she first had sex with Sung Taekyung, but…

…she had thrown off all her clothes the moment she met him in her state of heat, so Sung Taekyung couldn’t even confirm what underwear Han Min-ah was wearing.

However, regardless, that was information Han Min-ah couldn’t know, and it was more than enough motivation for her to spiral into fantasies mixed with extreme regret.

“Last time, seeing me in mismatched underwear, you must have definitely thought it was a turn-off… If it’s the same sorry state this time, what would you really think…?”

Whether he openly laughed at her embarrassing state, or pretended to be considerate by deliberately avoiding her gaze and saying nothing, either way, it would be a sufficiently humiliating experience for her.

At least the matching sports underwear were all plain and extremely awkward to wear as daily clothes.

Moreover, wearing panties with a ‘tail hole’-made in preparation for transforming-just to show someone else required considerable courage.

Because if worn in an untransformed state, it wouldn’t look much different from trying to show off one’s butt crack like a pervert.

“Ah, maybe I should just wait in my transformed state? Wouldn’t they think it couldn’t be helped then?”

Han Min-ah was cornered to the point of even considering such absurd ideas.

Of course, greeting him in her transformed state was like expressing her state of heat with her whole body, so that too was equally embarrassing in its own way.

Furthermore, there was the anxiety that revealing her ears and tail in a state of peak sexual desire might lead to her being unable to suppress the instincts of heat.

The experience of losing her reason and pouncing on him was enough; she only needed it once.

“Haa, fuck… What am I supposed to do about this…”

It was too late to go out and buy underwear now.

Even as she agonized like this, the appointment time for Sung Taekyung to come over was steadily approaching.

Eventually, while agonizing over whether she should at least put on underwear that matched in color to greet him.

“……Ah.”

A plausible idea suddenly popped into Han Min-ah’s mind.

A plausible method that might lead directly to sex without her having to show the mismatched underwear.

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The appointment time to meet Min-ah was 12 PM.

The reason they decided to meet at such an ambiguous time was naturally because the meeting place itself was ambiguous.

If they were to meet outside, the plan was to meet around 3 PM, go on a light date, and then leisurely continue having sex at a hotel after dinner. However, since Han Min-ah decided on her home as the meeting place, this method couldn’t be used.

Because the semi-basement apartment where Min-ah lived wasn’t a space for her alone.

It was a space shared by her two younger sisters, Jin-ah and Seon-ah, so naturally, mingling bodies there until late was out of the question.

In fact, last time they had lingered too long and were caught in the act by the twins.

Although they weren’t caught right in the act of mingling bodies, it was as good as revealed circumstantially what Min-ah and I had done.

To be honest, I wouldn’t have cared much even if we were caught, but for Min-ah, it would be an embarrassing situation that diminished her dignity as an older sister.

Moreover, I didn’t want to unnecessarily provoke those kids, who were Awakened beings of the Beastkin class just like her.

Although they were almost adults, strictly speaking, messing with Jin-ah and Seon-ah, who were minors, was close to crossing the line.

Maybe after they graduate next year and start working as active hunters…

Showing those kids me and Min-ah having sex now, unnecessarily causing their uncontrollable sexual desires to boil up, would be quite regrettable.

Therefore, we had to meet at her house a bit early, take care of the sexual tension, and then clean up the scene and get out before the twins’ school dismissal time.

…Putting it like this, it really feels like I’m just going to Min-ah’s house to have sex.

I didn’t really mind Han Min-ah considering me as some sort of biological dildo for resolving her heat cycle, but still, for me, for whom sex wasn’t the only purpose, this kind of time allocation was a little disappointing.

I liked the whole process: going on dates, having sex, and then waking up together in the same bed the next day.

Unfortunately, today there’s only time for a few hours, but next time, I should strongly suggest we definitely meet outside if possible.

While thinking that, I walked towards the east of Gangdong District, and the villa in the complex where Han Min-ah lived came into view.

After walking down the half-story stairs, I pressed the doorbell of the house further inside, and a voice, presumed to be nervous, came from beyond the door.

“Wh-who is it….”

We had exchanged KakaoTalk messages right up until just before, so she must have known who was at the door.

To Han Min-ah, who was cautiously trying to confirm until the very end, I calmly revealed my identity.

“It’s me, Sung Taekyung.”

“Ah, it’s, it’s you…”

“You already knew, so why act like that.”

“W-well, still, you never know…”

While she answered, I knocked on the door as if urging her, since she was reluctant to open it.

“Enough of that, hurry up and open the door. We have to finish before your sisters get back, don’t we?”

“…….”

A moment of silence followed. Then, accompanied by a ‘cheolkeok’ sound, the lock of the semi-basement studio room opened.

Behind the front door, which slowly swung open, stood Han Min-ah, looking extremely nervous.

Seeing her dressed in an ordinary black t-shirt and sweatpants, it seemed she hadn’t paid much attention to her outfit for meeting me.

Therefore, the first thought that came to my mind upon seeing her outfit was just one thing.

‘She really doesn’t see me as a man at all.’

Still, considering it’s a relationship between a man and a woman, I thought she might have dressed up at least a little. It anew hit me that the relationship between Han Min-ah and me was closer to ‘ball buddies’ than childhood friends.

Still, perhaps because she was embarrassed by the very fact that we were about to have sex, she tried hard to avoid my gaze.

“Coming in?”

Hearing my words, Han Min-ah’s body flinched slightly.

“Are, are, are you really going to…? Taekyung, if you aren’t really up for it, well, you know, you could just take the heat suppressants like before…”

“…Well, that’s, that’s…”

“Rather than enduring it with mediocre effects from expensive medicine, it’s better to be sure. And I told you I’m doing this because I want to, too.”

“No, well, that’s true, but, ugh…”

“Just move aside so I can go inside.”

“Yeah…….”

I grabbed Han Min-ah, who was blocking the door halfway, and safely entered her house.

Click. The front door closed, and soon after, the sound of the electronic lock engaging was heard.