Chapter 574: Unintentional Witness

After unexpectedly finishing the prolonged meeting with the boss, I immediately hurried down to the Sky Blue Shield conference room on the 14th floor.

I thought signing the promotion contract would only take about 10 to 20 minutes. I never expected it would take a whole hour just to read and sign the contract.

Thanks to that, KakaoTalk messages urging me on from Cha Yuri had already been arriving since about 30 minutes ago. After belatedly replying, I couldn’t even wait for the elevator and quickly took the emergency stairs.

-Cheolkeok.

“Cha Yuri-ssi?!”

Feeling a little anxious due to the KakaoTalk message that was 30 minutes late, I called out Cha Yuri’s name as soon as I entered the conference room. As soon as I stepped inside, I immediately faced a mage wearing a navy robe and a hat pulled down, face down on the table. Fortunately, it seemed she hadn’t left first, thinking I had stood her up.

“Ah, you’re here. That’s a relief.”

“…You’re late.”

“I’m sorry, Cha Yuri-ssi. The paperwork related to what happened in the dungeon last time suddenly got delayed.”

“…It’s not about today, you’re just late.”

“Huh?”

“…You said we should go on a date on the last integrated management day. But it’s already been two weeks.”

“Ah.”

“And you made me wait an hour today, too.”

“……”

From Cha Yuri’s perspective, it was certainly a situation where she couldn’t help but feel wronged. Even without that, she must have already had quite a bit of sexual desire built up when she asked me out that day. On top of that, she probably couldn’t imagine having to wait another two weeks. Moreover, recently there were many people I needed to pay attention to elsewhere, like Eunbyul, the Min-ah sisters, and the sisters from Dokyung Group. Because of that, it was a clear fact that I couldn’t spend as much time on Cha Yuri.

Of course, I didn’t exactly want to stand her up; it was more like I unavoidably neglected her due to various irresistible forces.

“There were many things going on for the past two weeks.”

“Before, you said you wouldn’t abandon me… Liar…”

“Who said I’d abandon you? You’ve interviewed with me several times, Cha Yuri-ssi, so you know how incredibly busy I’ve been.”

“……”

Cha Yuri, like the other Sky Blue Shield members, was one of the hunters who played an active role in the abandoned village, so she must have been quite busy lately. Of course, it would have been relatively less compared to the attention and focus directed at me, a male Awakened Hunter, so she probably wasn’t as busy as I was.

In fact, if I forced myself to make time, there were situations where sex itself would have been possible. At the broadcasting station where we went for interviews together, we could have secretly mixed bodies during long waiting times, or meeting late at night after finishing all schedules would have been entirely possible. However, I didn’t particularly want to resolve my sexual desire in that way, so I didn’t. Cha Yuri’s favorite sex was always sex inside a dungeon, so I wanted to satisfy the first release of my long-accumulated sexual desire with that dungeon sex, if possible. Perhaps Cha Yuri was also expecting that, so she didn’t particularly suggest mixing bodies in another way… though it seems she didn’t anticipate it would take two weeks.

Lately, perhaps because of my busy schedule or my unbearable sexual desire, I don’t know, Cha Yuri looked a little tired, unlike usual. While she was face down on the table showing a displeased reaction, I grabbed her shoulder and subtly tested the mood.

“Cha Yuri-ssi.”

“Why, why…”

“I was busy in my own way for the past two weeks, but still, thanks to that, there are good points too, you know.”

“…What’s good about it?”

“What do you mean, ‘what’? The chance to fully receive my sexual desire, accumulated over two weeks, has arisen for you, Cha Yuri-ssi.”

“……”

At the mention of two weeks’ worth accumulated, Cha Yuri flinched slightly, startled. Her being faithful to her desires in this way was one of her biggest charms.

“Um, for two weeks, let alone sex, I haven’t even masturbated.”

“S-so what about it…”

“Normally, wouldn’t there be a chance like this? Like the chance to receive all at once the love I’ve accumulated for two whole weeks.”

“……”

“I was only thinking about going on a date with you, Cha Yuri-ssi, and even kept my loyalty, but surprisingly, you don’t seem to have waited much for the date with me.”

“…I-I didn’t mean it that way.”

As soon as I teased her a little, Cha Yuri immediately lifted her head from the table and cautiously denied my words. Slipping my hands under both her armpits, I lifted her upwards, stretching her body long like lifting a cat.

“I will definitely take responsibility for the overdue time, so don’t complain.”

“……”

“We’re doing it in the dungeon today too, right? Have you booked the rental for today’s date?”

“Yeah…”

Perhaps imagining what would happen in the dungeon shortly after, her face quickly flushed as she nodded. Walking side-by-side with her like that, we headed together to the B-rank dungeon Cha Yuri had booked.

She’s easy to handle, as expected.

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「B-Rank Dungeon, Azure Strait Mountains.」

About 30 minutes had passed since Sung Taekyung and Cha Yuri entered the dungeon. Seo Ok-hee, having roughly finished her piled-up work, immediately followed them into the Azure Strait Mountains, holding a document that needed to be delivered.

Normally, another hunter entering a booked dungeon was a violation of guild rules, but Seo Ok-hee held the position of Guild Master and wasn’t bound by such rules in the first place. Since hunting wasn’t her specific objective, entering wasn’t impossible. Thus, holding a guide on mystery dungeon exploration in one hand, she immediately tracked the location of the two people who had entered the dungeon about 30 minutes ago using her Awakened ability.

Although mostly erased by the seawater, there were faint traces of footprints and slight evidence of battle, presumed to be from fighting monsters as they advanced. Since manipulating information and the composition of matter was Seo Ok-hee’s Awakened ability, finding the path of the two people who entered first using the information from the remaining traces was an extremely easy task. She moved her steps in a straight line towards where her employees were, without much thought.

Normally, she herself wouldn’t have had to physically move like this to deliver documents to an employee. Usually, she would ask an employee to deliver the documents, or if confidentiality was needed, she would just summon them directly to her office. However, she felt strangely apologetic about summoning the employee back to the office after already telling them to return once. Since this exploration of an unrated dungeon was a secretly proceeding operation, it naturally couldn’t be delivered through someone else. As a result of these two coincidences overlapping, Guild Master Seo Ok-hee personally delivered the documents by making the trip into the dungeon.

‘In fact, it was because of this that I forced him up to A-rank.’

After all, if I had let Sung Taekyung enter an unrated dungeon while still B-rank, there was a possibility of controversy later. Therefore, there was a need to raise him to A-rank through a formal promotion test once. In the end, that decision did push Sung Taekyung into a more dangerous situation, but it also allowed his Hunter rank, which was originally intended only to be raised to A-rank, to be elevated all the way to S-rank at once. In many ways, that incident two weeks ago ultimately returned as a considerably good outcome for Seo Ok-hee.

Raising Sung Taekyung’s Hunter rank itself was not a particular problem. Rather, considering his achievements so far, I had thought B-rank was too low even before, and I was looking for ways to raise him to at least A+-rank soon using some other pretext. Seo Ok-hee’s influence also played a part to some extent in not missing the opportunity to promote him straight to S-rank. I had already watched the subjugation footage many times and sufficiently confirmed that his skills were not lacking for S-rank, and I had also secured testimony from other subjugation team members that he delivered the final blow to the SS-rank monster. Judging with my own eyes after rewatching it nearly 100 times over two weeks, it was an accurate judgment.

‘Strictly speaking, I only rewatched the video numerous times for the purpose of accurately judging his skills.’ Whenever I saw Sung Taekyung in action in the video, I felt a strangely profound emotion, but it was just pride in seeing a video of my guild member performing well. At least Seo Ok-hee herself thought there wasn’t any other particular meaning behind rewatching the video he appeared in.

As she walked towards the coast, following Sung Taekyung’s gradually approaching presence, strange voices, seemingly mixed between male and female, began to quietly reach her ears.

“…Hk, Hhheuu…!”

“Hgeu…. Eut… Aack…!”

‘…Moans?’

Seo Ok-hee felt a bit flustered by the sudden rough breaths of a man and woman, carried by the wind. The painful moans and tired breaths that should not have been heard reached her ears, and she naturally couldn’t help but question the information she had just obtained.

The Azure Strait Mountains is a B-rank dungeon. Although A-rank monsters occasionally appear, it’s not a dungeon where they appear frequently. Moreover, the two people who had entered the dungeon together now were members of the A-rank party, Sky Blue Shield, whom Seo Ok-hee knew well. One person was the Sky Blue Shield’s mage, who was about to be promoted to A+-rank. The other person was the male multi-Awakener who had just signed the S-rank promotion documents and returned.

Even if A-rank monsters appeared in droves, the very idea of them facing trouble was an illogical assumption. Therefore, a bad premonition immediately flashed through her mind. The possibility that an anomaly had occurred in this Azure Strait Mountains, just like the previous abandoned village, and a boss monster was attacking. Perhaps a Red Dragon, which had been dormant deep within the strait, had suddenly become active and was attacking the two people?

The moment such a possibility flashed in her mind, Seo Ok-hee’s steps could only quicken. As the voices of the two people grew closer, the intensity of the moans also deepened further.

“Heuk, heuk, heuk…”

“Heungeueueup…! Ha, Hhyeuk, Eunga-aaaaang…!”

“……!”

Even when I checked the video of them fighting the Three-headed Basilisk, I couldn’t bear to hear screams this intense. She, the Guild Master of the guild managing this dungeon, had to quickly confirm the reality of what was happening in this dungeon. Seo Ok-hee, having quickly run to the forested beach, could immediately confirm the identity of the moans uttered by the two people with her own eyes.

“What on earth…!”

“Heung-eut, Eut, Sungchul-aaaaang…!”

“W-what?!”

At the scene where she surely thought they were confronting a dangerous monster equivalent to a Red Dragon, what entered her eyes was not the Red Dragon’s red scales, but a certain mage’s fluttering red hair. The scene unfolding where her gaze landed was, in many ways, completely different from what Seo Ok-hee had expected. Sung Taekyung, whom I thought was clashing swords with a monster, was bumping skin with Cha Yuri. Cha Yuri, whom I thought was fighting while flying through the air, was being held up in the air in a completely different sense.

Faced with the lewd yet complicated scene she was seeing for the first time in her life, Seo Ok-hee’s mind fell into confusion once again. Just like the first time she faced a man’s naked body before her eyes.

“Wh-what?! What on earth are they doing?!”

Her 43 years of life, lived without any knowledge of sexual content or the opposite sex itself. was the act of intercourse between a man and a woman, which she encountered for the first time with her own eyes.