Chapter 302: Meal, Ablution, Sex (4)

“Mmm~ Delicious!”

Kang Hye-eun, savoring the dinner I made while sitting at the table.

Feeling a sense of accomplishment from her positive reaction, I also started eating across from her.

“Eat slowly and a lot, Hye-eun-ah.”

“I want to eat the meals Taekyung makes every day~. It would be great if I could eat like this every time I come home from work.”

“Even if not every day, I’ll keep making them for you whenever I have time.”

“Ah, but still, Taekyung, you don’t have to if it’s too much trouble. You must have been tired from party hunting together today….”

“Tired? Not at all. Just looking at your butt, Hye-eun, makes all my fatigue disappear.”

“…Usually, people say looking at the face makes fatigue disappear, don’t they…?”

Still, the thing I saw the most today was your butt, rather than your face. The part I touched the most was the same, too.

Looking at Hye-eun, who let out a laugh as if finding it absurd, we talked while eating.

“Next time, should I research ways to defeat it using something other than fire magic? This time, I noticed there were some issues in various aspects.”

“Is it because of what Min-ah said? That the material yield isn’t good if you catch it with fire magic.”

“Well, that’s part of it.”

Catching the White Crystal Spider Queen with a combo of wind and fire magic was good, but Han Min-ah had occasionally expressed regret that the materials were heavily damaged, making it impossible to recover the expensive parts.

“Even setting that aside, using fire magic inside a cave is inherently dangerous. The possibility of the fire spreading and ventilation must also be considered. The nest where this White Crystal Spider was had such a high ceiling that I tried it, but we might not be able to use the same method next time.”

“As for the flames spreading, I can somehow block it with my shield.”

“Exactly. Because of that, we have to change it.”

“……Huh?”

“What if you block it with your shield, Hye-eun, and get burned again like last time? Because of that, we need to think of another approach.”

“……Yeah, that’s right.”

Looking at Hye-eun, who was blushing strangely and making eye contact, I continued the story about the White Crystal Spider Queen.

“For now, since there are many usable techniques, let’s try to handle it without damaging the main body next time. Today, Min-ah also said she thought she found a weak spot during the process of dismantling the queen spider.”

“Yeah, that’s a good idea.”

“Even if it’s an S-class monster, you can kill it like any other monster if you just aim for the weak spot. Perhaps with my swordsmanship or Cha Yuri-ssi’s magic, if we can aim well at the weak spot, we’ll be able to recover the body intact with a relatively safe method next time.”

“Right, just like you said, Taekyung, if you aim well at the weak spot of an S-class monster… Huh?”

As Hye-eun continued the conversation, mulling over my words, a strangely questioning reaction came back from her mouth.

“…Taekyung-ah.”

“Huh?”

“It sounds like what you just said wasn’t about this hunt, but that you’ve killed S-class monsters before?”

“…….”

“…Taekyung, you really…!”

While I was pondering what to say to smoothly get past the situation, Hye-eun, who took my silence as confirmation, glared at me and pressed the issue.

“I clearly told you not to do dangerous things, and yet, in the meantime, you did it again…!”

“Hye-eun-ah, it’s a misunderstanding. The time I caught the S-class monster was even before you told me that…”

“Even before then?! Then you’re saying you challenged an S-class monster when you were a C-class hunter?!”

“…….”

…The more I tried to explain, the more tangled the story seemed to get.

Since it wasn’t actually wrong, I couldn’t flatly deny it. When I caught the Kraken on a deserted island in Indonesia, I was still technically a C-class hunter on paper.

“Who was it? Did Cha Yuri-ssi perhaps coax you into going and you followed? Or perhaps Han Min-ah…?”

“It has nothing to do with Cha Yuri-ssi or Min-ah. Besides, it wasn’t like someone asked me to go and that’s why we fought.”

“Then did you challenge it solo?!”

“That wasn’t it either… Ah, anyway, encountering the S-class monster was pure coincidence! It just so happened that a monster wave occurred at the vacation spot I went to…”

“Monster wave….”

As soon as the words ‘monster wave’ came out, Hye-eun stopped her loud talking and suddenly became quiet.

Perhaps she was thinking about how I lost my parents to a monster wave.

“You can’t avoid that just because you want to avoid it, right?”

“Yeah, that’s right….”

“And it just so happened that around that area, I was the only one who could stop that monster wave. If I couldn’t stop it, it was a moment when others would be in danger too.”

“Knowing your personality, Taekyung, you probably wouldn’t run away in such a situation….”

“As proof that the situation was resolved well back then, I’m sitting here safely, aren’t I? Since it ended well in the end, isn’t it okay?”

“Hmm… It’s an answer I can’t quite accept….”

Hye-eun tilted her head and made a strange expression, but it seemed she couldn’t criticize me for this.

Monster waves, if not dealt with early on, will take over the area and turn it into a dungeon. Cases of reclaiming areas that became dungeons have been extremely rare so far. Conversely, when a monster wave occurs, cases where nearby hunters respond well initially and prevent dungeonization have occurred frequently. Eunyoung Noona also said she participated in stopping monster waves twice during her active days.

Moreover, knowing that I would never run away in such a situation, Hye-eun eventually had no choice but to reluctantly nod.

“…Anyway, you didn’t face it alone, right? Since it was a vacation spot, there would have been many people besides you, Taekyung. If you participated in such a large-scale subjugation, I’ll accept it.”

“…….”

“But were there any cases of stopping a monster wave in Korea this year? If it was an incident where dozens of people stopped a monster wave, surely it would have been reported excitedly on the news or the internet, everywhere.”

“…There were three people.”

“Huh?”

“Three people, including me… That’s how we faced it.”

“…….”

Hye-eun’s reaction afterward can probably be understood without further explanation.

Facing her raging fury, only after explaining that the other two were A-class hunters and that fundamentally, if we couldn’t defeat the monster, we couldn’t even escape, did Hye-eun grudgingly understand the judgment I made back then.

“Then the reason there was no particular news even though we stopped the monster wave…”

“It was private property. There was no one else besides us. It wasn’t even in Korea.”

“Private property in a foreign country… Just who, Taekyung, are you going around meeting behind my back…?”

“…There is someone like that.”

“They’re not dangerous, are they…? You have to introduce them to me later, okay…?”

“…Yes, I’ll introduce you someday.”

Perhaps Sihee would also want to confirm who else I’m meeting at least once, so if the opportunity arises, I would have to introduce the two of them to each other.

…Honestly, considering both their personalities, the situation that would unfold after they meet is roughly predictable, though.

Both Hye-eun and Sihee were strong-willed women in many ways, so the atmosphere that would result from putting them together was obvious without even seeing it. I just have to mediate well in the middle. Last time, because I couldn’t step in on time, an awkward situation almost occurred.

“So, which one is it?”

“Huh?”

“The person you’re meeting, Taekyung, which one is it? I feel like I should know in advance.”

“Ah…”

“Is it the one who uses a bow? Or the one who manipulates metal with magnetism?”

“…It’s both.”

“Huh…?”

“Both people are roles where I satisfy their sexual desires. One person only recently started letting me relieve them, though.”

“…Taekyung, how many people are you actually meeting…?”

Including herself, the people she knew about were already four, and with two more suddenly added, she couldn’t hide her agitation.

…It’s probably best not to mention the story about Hwayoung Sunbae right now.

“Ah, anyway, if something similar happens again, you must run away then. I’m not kidding, you really almost died….”

“…You yourself, Hye-eun, don’t seem to be in a position to tell me not to do dangerous things.”

“…Huh?”

“I heard from Cha Yuri-ssi recently about your reckless challenge of an A+ rank dungeon with the Sky Blue Shield.”

“…….”

“Moreover, they said either you or Cheon Jihee Sunbaenim almost got into danger. For you, Hye-eun, it doesn’t seem like you’re in a position to tell me not to do dangerous things…?”

“Th-that’s because… it just so happened that back then it was a good opportunity to test my skills….”

Kang Hye-eun made excuses, avoiding my gaze with an awkward face.

Half-accusingly, I extended my foot under the table towards her chair.

“You did something dangerous, that’s true, right? What’s more, unlike me, who had no choice but to face an S-class monster, you, Hye-eun, voluntarily went in.”

“J-just a moment, Taekyung-ah…. There were circumstances….”

“You almost lost your life, and you’re going to let it slide just because there were circumstances? Huh?”

“Hngh… Th-that’s not true, but, Haaen, deet…!”

Hye-eun’s crotch gap was touched by my big toe, and she made excuses in a lewd voice.

Perhaps because she had changed into thin pajamas, the sensation felt through the clothes was even clearer.

I could distinguish the boundary between her vaginal opening and clitoris just by the touch of my toe.

“Did you do wrong, or not?”

“I-I did wrong… H-Hngg-ah?!”

“I can’t quite understand what you’re saying.”

“T-Taekyung, you keep fiddling… Hngg…!”

“Huh?”

“J-just a moment, that spot is sensitive, I can’t…!”

Half-sprawled over the table, Hye-eun was reaching a mild climax.

She was lovely in many ways, but still, there were issues that needed addressing. She herself went into a dangerous dungeon without telling me, yet she lectured me as if it were obvious, telling me it was dangerous, etc. What punishment should I give her? Even if I can’t do full-on masochistic play like Sihee, I want to give her some kind of slightly lewd punishment.

Thinking about how to ‘cook’ my girlfriend’s climax this time while teasing her with my toes, Hye-eun’s plate, as she had finished her meal, naturally caught my eye.

…Right. Since I had also almost finished eating, this much of a punishment would be fine.

“Hye-eun-ah, you’re really reflecting, right?”

“Yes, mmm….”

“Since dinner is over, as a sign of reflection, you do the dishes.”

“Huh?”

“Why, you don’t want to?”

“It’s not that, I was already planning to do the dishes anyway…”

“Then I’ll forgive you for that. On the condition that you stay still, without moving from your spot, while you do the dishes, Hye-eun.”

“Without moving, staying still…”

Hye-eun immediately understood the intention behind my words, and her face turned red again.

The night was still long. Opportunities to relieve sexual desire were just as plentiful.