Chapter 325: The Way Home from Work

And then, the next evening.

Having finished two sorties, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, Han Min-ah trudged along with various thoughts swirling in her head towards her home, a semi-basement villa.

“Haaah.”

Now that the duo hunt with Sung Taekyung was over, it was already evening, so with a slightly weary sigh, Han Min-ah hurried her steps towards her home where her two younger sisters awaited.

Recalling his face from just moments ago, Han Min-ah murmured softly.

“…I didn’t intend to team up just for a bit in the morning and then go into the afternoon hunt together. But somehow, I ended up running around with him all day again today.”

If I counted the time since yesterday’s date, it meant we’d been practically glued together for nearly two straight days, meaning over 30 hours had been spent sharing the same space with Sung Taekyung.

From the bakery cafe, the movie theater, the hotel, the company, inside the dungeon, and even on the way home.

The locations changed countless times, but Sung Taekyung was by Han Min-ah’s side throughout yesterday and today.

Through the various processes of sharing such a long time, Han Min-ah’s feelings grew even stronger this time around.

“Why is it that whenever we fight, he suddenly becomes cool again, damn it…. when yesterday he was clinging to me like a pervert all day long….”

While everyone’s preferences for the opposite sex might vary wildly, Han Min-ah, who had learned responsibility from a very young age, had her own firm views on relationships.

Her favorite type of man, above all else, was a ‘hardworking man’.

Having taken responsibility for her younger sisters, Han Min-ah had struggled and endured through countless hardships, so it was only natural that she would be impressed by a man who strove to achieve something, just like herself.

In that sense, Sung Taekyung during his school days was the very picture of the ideal man for her.

The sight of Sung Taekyung constantly striving not just for difficult goals, but for impossible ones, resonated even more strongly with Han Min-ah.

Now that he had achieved those seemingly impossible goals and was moving towards even greater heights, it was an unavoidable reality that her feelings for Sung Taekyung would grow.

As if that weren’t enough, he was also one of the few friends she could confide in about her difficult family situation and personal matters.

In fact, even after spending so much time together yesterday and today, she still felt a sense of longing, making Sung Taekyung a particularly special person to Han Min-ah as a friend she connected with.

Even though they had spent so much time together, she wondered when the last time she had been this close to someone for so long was.

The last time she had spent such a prolonged period alone with someone like this was almost certainly the time they had shared intimacy in her home before.

In fact, both of them were so exhausted that they had fallen asleep right after, and didn’t wake up until her younger sisters returned from school.

The result was a mortifying memory for Jin-ah and Seon-ah, who had witnessed Sung Taekyung and her having sex in plain sight.

“…Ngh.”

For some reason, just recalling that memory made her face feel strangely hot and her heart beat faster, a peculiar sensation.

It was a different kind of feeling than simply getting excited out of embarrassment about what happened.

Although she had temporarily lost control of her body due to hormonal changes and only regained her senses midway through him penetrating her, she remembered every single detail of how she had mixed bodies with Sung Taekyung and how she had shown it all to her sisters.

Whenever she recalled that time, which felt almost like someone else’s memory, she would fall into a strange state, feeling a peculiar tremor in her lower abdomen.

Han Min-ah herself hadn’t yet figured out the exact cause.

Was it because the sex had felt exceptionally good due to the manifestation of her instincts as the alpha female in heat?

Or perhaps she felt a sense of superiority from having claimed the attractive male, Sung Taekyung, without even realizing it?

Or maybe, she just wanted to show him off to her sisters….

“Haaah, fuck. What kind of weird thoughts are these. Sung Taekyung isn’t even that special to begin with…”

If you only consider him as a male Awakened Hunter, he might arguably be the most special being in the entire world.

But to Han Min-ah, Sung Taekyung was, after all, just her close friend, Sung Taekyung.

Just a friend of the opposite sex whom she found fun to talk to, enjoyable to joke around with, and whose gaze sometimes made her heart flutter.

His particularly outstanding qualities were perhaps that he was taller than the average guy, had a well-built body, or was a bit handsome.

Constantly challenging himself even for seemingly impossible goals, moving forward without regard for his troubled past, and ultimately achieving his dreams through his own efforts.

That he was good at sex, had a big dick, had great compatibility in bed, that it wasn’t just about getting his dick hard and fucking, but that the entire process from kissing to foreplay was filled with delicate affection, and that after sex, the accumulated fatigue of one or two months would be washed away all at once.

What reason could there possibly be to brag about a man with so few, trivial advantages….

“……Idiot.”

The more she thought about it, the more the reasons she fell for him came to mind, so she immediately muttered self-deprecatingly at her own foolish thoughts.

The more she thought about him, the more only good points surfaced. Although his relationships with women were messy, that was negligible compared to the advantages mentioned earlier.

Could she really afford to use ‘being in heat’ as an excuse to mix bodies with such a perfect man?

Of course, Sung Taekyung himself needed it, and she knew well that he also enjoyed sex with her, but still, it was unavoidable that a strange sense of indebtedness lingered in Han Min-ah’s heart.

“And on top of that, he paid for the hotel this time too….”

Sung Taekyung, who had stubbornly refused until the very end, even when Han Min-ah, realizing the cost of the suite, freaked out and insisted on paying him back immediately.

His insistence on returning the bills she tried to press into his hand, spouting strange excuses about the hotel fee being his last shred of pride, wasn’t entirely unwelcome, to be honest.

Seeing him stubbornly insist on such trivial matters reminded her of the Sung Taekyung she knew back in school.

“Our synergy in the dungeon today seemed pretty decent. Maybe it would be better to just team up with Sung Taekyung whenever he’s working from now on?”

Sung Taekyung, who could handle monsters in various ways using his diverse skills in swordsmanship and magic, and Han Min-ah, specializing in exploring terrain, locating monsters, and disarming traps, formed a party composition that was quite excellent, allowing it to run smoothly with just the two of them.

The sorties were structured so that Sung Taekyung, capable of using various abilities thanks to his special awakened powers, took charge of hunting monsters, while Han Min-ah handled the monster tracking and terrain reconnaissance that he couldn’t.

It was a special combination where each person efficiently handled tasks the other couldn’t, leading the party of just two to operate together for both the morning and afternoon sorties.

Adding Sung Taekyung’s healing and protective abilities further enhanced their safety, making a clear difference compared to their previous activities with the Sky Blue Shield guild.

“I should ask that Sung Taekyung later. Maybe I’ll just ask if he can let me know in advance on days he’s working…”

As she walked along with these thoughts, Han Min-ah soon arrived at her semi-basement villa.

As soon as she opened the door with her key and stepped inside, she was greeted by her two waiting younger sisters.

“I’m home~.”

“Ah, Unnie, welcome home!”

“You worked hard, Unnie.”

“……Huh?”

Han Min-ah entered her home with a slight sense of puzzlement at the unusually affectionate greetings from the twins.

The moment she stepped past the entryway into the house, seeing her younger sisters behaving strangely deepened her confusion even further.

“Sniff sniff. Sniff sniff.”

“Hoo, hooo….”

Suddenly, Han Jin-ah and Han Seon-ah buried their faces into her clothes from both sides, inhaling deeply through their noses.

Han Min-ah, finding their actions rather peculiar, tilted her head towards them and asked.

“…What are you two doing?”

“Unnie, you met Taekyung Oppa yesterday, right? We thought maybe Oppa’s scent might still be on you.”

While Han Min-ah reacted awkwardly, momentarily dumbfounded, the younger twin, Han Seon-ah, had already edged her face close to Han Min-ah’s lower body.

As Han Min-ah pondered how to reprimand her two sisters sniffing around her private areas, the younger twin spoke up first.

“Hoo, huff. …Unnie, I think I can smell it around this area. Near your underwear, inside the skirt….”

“……”

“Ah, it’s true. It’s mixed with your scent, Unnie, but it’s definitely Taekyung Oppa’s scent.”

“……”

“But it’s a bit strange. If you had simply resolved your heat cycle, Oppa’s scent should only be lingering in the front, but for some reason, I can faintly sense Taekyung Oppa’s scent in the back as well…”

“Ngh, hngh…. I want to graduate quickly and debut as a full-fledged Hunter…. Then I can do this and that with Taekyung Oppa…”

“……Haaah.”

With graduation just days away, the two sisters were increasingly focused only on the job offer gift Sung Taekyung promised.

Even as Awakened individuals of the animal type, Han Min-ah let out a deep sigh watching her two sisters so solely focused on their desires.

She wondered if even Sung Taekyung could withstand the lust of these younger sisters.

Regardless, she had sown the seeds herself, so all she could do was pray that he would handle the aftermath well.