Chapter 609: A Door That Won’t Open Unless XX (3)

“You don’t mean, right now, you’ve become unable to use your awakened ability?”

“…….”

“President-nim?”

Reaching her hand out into the air, she tried to use her awakened ability, but nothing came out of her hand, so she froze stiff, and the sight of the President-nim flustered.

Frozen stiff like a statue, she paused her actions for a moment, then, as if it were no big deal, she responded with a composed reaction.

…To be precise, her attempt to force composure was almost pitiful.

“I-I-I-It’s fine. T-th-this kind of thing is n-n-no big deal…. A-a-anyway, I had prepared myself for this to happen someday… I had prepared….”

“…It doesn’t seem like ‘no big deal’ to me.”

Seeing the President-nim flustered to a degree I’d never witnessed before, I too began to feel quite worried.

Could it be that, in this current situation, her sexual desire suddenly surged and she became unable to use her awakened ability?

As I had already seen various cases with other women, it was a sufficiently plausible guess.

Moreover, judging by the President-nim’s reaction, it seemed that her awakened ability was something she absolutely could not afford to lose.

Could it be that I had to suddenly satisfy her sexual desire right here, a thought briefly crossed my mind.

‘Wait, maybe it’s not just the President-nim….’

Not only had President Seo Ok-hee’s awakened ability disappeared, but perhaps this space itself was suppressing hunters’ awakened abilities? The thought naturally occurred to me.

Just in case, I also tried to cast ice magic from my hand, but just like her a moment ago, it wouldn’t activate.

Other magic, healing spells, even the system or spatial pockets were unusable.

“W-w-what do I do? I-I-if it’s revealed that I lost my awakened ability overnight, b-b-if it gets revealed, o-our guild could soon be d-disbanded….”

“Just in case, I tried it briefly too, but my magic and spells aren’t activating at all.”

“……Huh?”

“It seems this space itself is just a space where awakened abilities don’t work. It’s not like only your awakened ability disappeared in an instant.”

“R-really?!”

“Yes. Not just magic, but healing abilities aren’t manifesting either. All our weapons are stored in spatial pockets, and unfortunately, even those spatial pockets have become unusable right now….”

“I-I see. Then this space itself was designed to make it impossible to use internal energy, including awakened abilities. I-it’s not like only my awakened ability disappeared suddenly. Phew, phew….”

As soon as she heard that I also couldn’t use my awakened ability, she seemed relieved instead, crossing her arms and nodding, the President-nim.

In reality, even though the situation had become worse because I also couldn’t use my awakened ability, a strangely joyful emotion was evident on her face.

…Just moments ago, she was flustered, even shedding tears, yet here she was.

“I’m just asking, but did you perhaps panic thinking only your ability had suddenly disappeared?”

“…What are you talking about? I don’t know when I was ever flustered.”

“You were clearly flustered just now. Unlike usual, you were stammering terribly.”

“…….”

“Besides, it’s strange that you suddenly seemed relieved the moment you heard I couldn’t use my awakened ability either. If both you and I can’t use our awakened abilities, objectively speaking, isn’t that obviously a bigger crisis?”

“…Oh, this is bad. Now that both you and I can’t use our awakened abilities, it’s become even more difficult.”

“…….”

With an awkward act that felt suffocating, she tried to somehow gloss over it, but it was too late to turn back after showing such a drastic emotional shift.

The President-nim, glancing at me, carefully met my gaze and began a quiet confession.

“W-well, I couldn’t help it…. If you were me, after living for 30 years wielding your awakened ability, and it disappeared overnight, you would definitely have panicked.”

“I’m not criticizing you for panicking, but the fact that you tried so hard to hide it is more….”

“Enough of that, let’s just move on quickly. After all, if we don’t move to the next room, we’ll just waste more time in this dungeon.”

…She’s making sense again, so it’s hard to argue.

Certainly, what’s important right now is to quickly clear this dungeon and get out.

However, the fact that both the President-nim and I can’t use our awakened abilities is not something we can simply dismiss.

Not being able to use awakened abilities meant that the President-nim couldn’t try to open the door with her awakened ability, or try to break it down, like before.

Thinking back to the situation when we just entered this room, I doubted this door would simply let us pass.

Just like before, the second door remained firmly locked, showing no sign of opening.

On the digital display above the door, a phrase more dangerous than the one on the door we just passed was displayed.

「The Door That Won’t Open Unless You French Kiss」

“…….”

“…….”

…Seriously, this dungeon is really putting people in awkward situations.

It wasn’t just any kiss, but the emphasis on French kissing made it clear that the dungeon’s purpose could be understood to some extent.

Ultimately, what it hoped for me and the President-nim to do.

At the very least, it’s best not to think that it would end with just a French kiss.

“…Taekyung-ah.”

“Yes, President-nim.”

President Seo Ok-hee also seemed to notice the suspicious nature of this dungeon, carefully gauging my reaction, as she asked a question.

Perhaps she too had vaguely sensed through this process.

If we continued like this, it would undoubtedly lead to sex, and she was likely asking if I could accept that.

From President Seo Ok-hee’s perspective, she was a 43-year-old ahjumma, and I was just a young man in my early to mid-twenties, in his prime.

“Yes, of course.”

Of course, from my perspective, there was no reason to hesitate about doing such things with the President-nim.

As I had mentioned earlier, objectively speaking, the President-nim was a sufficiently attractive woman.

If she were still in her younger form, before her body had developed, even I would have found it a bit difficult to get excited, but at her current age, she was someone I could embrace without much hesitation.

If she allowed it, I planned to continue the relationship to the very end in order to escape this dungeon.

So, if the President-nim were to ask me now whether I could go ‘all the way’ with her, I would answer without the slightest hesitation that I could…

“This thing written here, what exactly is a French kiss?”

“……Huh?”

“What we came in and did was a kiss. Is a French kiss different from a kiss?”

…No way.

Could the President-nim perhaps be lacking in sexual knowledge in various ways?

A Korean woman who grew up normally through puberty in this world would surely know that a French kiss involves inserting tongues and is an intimate kiss.

Seeing the President-nim ask as if she truly didn’t know made me bewildered in many ways.

Along with that, it was also the moment when a guess about why her body hadn’t grown and had remained stopped until now vaguely formed in my mind.

‘It wasn’t because another man satisfied her sexual desires beforehand, allowing her body to stop growing, but perhaps….’

Because she simply lacked sexual knowledge, she had no reason to feel sexual dissatisfaction, and as a result, her awakened ability was maintained while her body also didn’t grow?

In modern South Korea of the 21st century, an information age, this was realistically nonsensical, but recalling that the President-nim’s awakened ability involved handling ‘information’ added credibility to the guess.

If she used her awakened ability, she probably wouldn’t need to browse the internet when gathering information, and wouldn’t stumble upon adult advertisements or suggestive links in the process, thus never awakening to sexuality.

Therefore, she didn’t know terms like French kiss and was asking me about it.

…Well, regardless of the President-nim’s secret to her youthful appearance, to pass through this door, it ultimately meant that the President-nim and I had to share a kiss involving tongues, and that fact remained unchanged.

I tried to give her the most natural explanation possible about French kissing.

“A French kiss is, think of it as a slightly more intense kiss than a regular kiss.”

“…A slightly more intense kiss?”

“Yes. You share deeper affection with the person you kiss, and share a bit more than a regular kiss.”

“Share more things? Do you perhaps kiss for a longer time? Or, the moment your lips touch, if you think the same thought, is that a French kiss?”

“No, it’s not like that….”

…Seeing the President-nim grasp at straws, unable to understand, made explaining it increasingly difficult.

Slightly frustrated by my reaction, she crossed her arms, looked at me, and said.

“It’s hard to understand through explanations, so just do it.”

“…Huh?”

“Since we can’t pass unless we do that French kiss thing, right? Come to think of it, there’s no need to hear the explanation first. We’ll naturally understand once we experience it directly.”

“…….”

“If you understand, hurry up and do it. That French kiss thing.”

“…Alright. I think that way would be easier for you to understand too.”

Doing a French kiss with such an innocent President-nim without a proper explanation felt a little guilty, but

…Well, if she wants it that badly.