Chapter 651: A Cat with Many Worries (1)

After looking around the former Chuncheon City Hall once, I heard a proposal about the Hunter Guild from the boss.

Although the boss returned to the company first, I still needed to check this building a bit more.

I took a look inside the former Chuncheon City Hall building, which would be used as the headquarters for the Hunter Guild I would establish later.

In my mind, I was envisioning roughly where it would be best to build a few essential facilities for the Hunter Guild building.

Of course, the Hunter Guild building was too large for me to decide on my own, and there was one spirit who could offer advice, especially regarding the interior design.

During the tour, I also took the opportunity to check Esila and Belle’s advice.

「It would be best to inherit most of the spaces previously used by the Chuncheon City Hall, such as the cafeteria and lounge areas. These spaces are already structurally well-positioned, and relocating specialized facilities like the cafeteria, which use water and gas, would incur significant costs.」

‘Right. It definitely seems better to keep the location of the cafeteria as is and just change the furniture.’

「Master, Master! What about the private waiting rooms for high-ranking Hunters? Are Kang Hye-eun and Cha Yuri, the ones you just mentioned, definitely transferring?」

‘Well, it seems like those two will definitely follow…’

「Then, how about using my dungeon as a sort of model house for the A+ class Hunter private waiting rooms? As long as you bring them into my dungeon, I can analyze their memories and tendencies and create a few designs for you!」

‘That’s a good idea, but isn’t your real goal just to get them into your dungeon so you can have sex with them?’

「W-well, isn’t it good for everyone! I need compensation for my hard work too!」

In the end, Esila offered more useful advice, but Belle’s suggestion was still too good to ignore completely.

Of course, I wasn’t tempted by the idea of sex in her dungeon; the suggestion itself to use Belle’s dungeon as a model house wasn’t bad.

Actually, buying and installing the interior decorations myself would be costly in many ways. Honestly, I wasn’t very confident in my aesthetic sense either.

Belle, having managed dungeons for nearly a hundred years, was more reliable in terms of aesthetic sense than most designers.

Anyway, since I was only here today to get a general idea, I didn’t waste much time and returned to the company.

To properly open the Hunter Guild, recruiting talent and securing dungeons were more crucial than securing a headquarters building.

Especially since the only dungeon I currently possessed was Belle’s, and even that couldn’t really be called a dungeon in the conventional sense.

Monsters hunted within Belle’s dungeon do not drop materials. If that were possible, I wouldn’t be worrying about capital issues in the first place.

While I can create items usable within the dungeon, those items vanish the moment they are taken outside.

The warp gate leading to Belle’s dungeon was an exception because it was essentially part of the dungeon, allowing it to be brought outside; that was the extent of Belle’s ability to interfere externally.

‘Securing dungeons… come to think of it, there might not be absolutely no way.’

It seems I’ll have to put in the legwork myself during that process, though.

Anyway, that’s all I can think about regarding the founding of the new guild for today.

Securing dungeons without enough Hunters recruited would only lead to difficulties later.

Even though most of a guild’s revenue comes from dungeon byproducts, that’s only possible if there are skilled Hunters who can secure those byproducts.

Securing the necessary capital for founding the Hunter Guild, and recruiting talented Hunters to cooperate with my startup guild business.

For a while, I was destined to move quickly because of these two things.

…First, I should probably start by persuading the people close to me, one by one.

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Han Min-ah, an A+ class scout from the Sky Blue Shield.

She had recently fallen into internal conflict, unbeknownst to her younger siblings, due to a troubling concern.

It was about the ‘Three-Headed Basilisk subjugation reward’ she had heard about directly from the boss recently.

It had been about a week since she learned that the outcome of the Three-Headed Basilisk subjugation, achieved through the cooperation of two hastily formed parties, was a significantly large sum.

Since the day she heard the total amount of the reward, Han Min-ah had found it difficult to concentrate on her daily life in many ways.

The total subjugation reward, 40 billion.

No, when she heard it, they mentioned there were still a few more things to recover, so perhaps the total reward the subjugation team members were due to receive had increased even further by now.

The thought that Han Min-ah might handle billions of won for the first time in her life made it difficult for her to focus on everyday matters.

‘Let’s say the leader, Sung Taekyung, takes half of the total reward of 40 billion, leaving 20 billion to be divided among 7 people… Honestly, my role wasn’t that significant… If everyone else gets 3 billion each, maybe I’d get around 2 billion?’

Calculating the amount she might receive several times a day had become a habit for Han Min-ah lately; it was a natural reaction for someone who had lived her entire life as the epitome of an ordinary citizen.

At the same time, various problems she couldn’t solve due to lack of money began to surface in her mind.

As her thoughts flowed that way, the issue of moving, which she and her sisters were currently facing, naturally came to mind.

Whenever she thought about that aspect, Han Min-ah couldn’t help but fall into a strange conflict.

‘If I receive that money from Sung Taekyung… then I’ll really have to move, won’t I…?’

It had already been about three months since she and her sisters started staying at Sung Taekyung’s place.

Now, in many ways, it felt so familiar, like her own home. Sometimes, she even forgot about life in the cramped semi-basement villa where she lived squabbling with her two younger sisters.

Although they hadn’t had sex because their heat cycles hadn’t arrived, she and Sung Taekyung occasionally engaged in intimacy like kissing.

In the first place, cohabiting in the same space with him had quite a positive effect on delaying her and her sisters’ heat cycles.

The potent male pheromones Sung Taekyung constantly exuded seemed to delay the onset of heat, even without sexual activity.

Therefore, she didn’t want to leave.

She hoped this period could continue for as long as possible.

Even during the three months Han Min-ah had been living with Sung Taekyung, she had found several houses with conditions quite suitable for moving, by her standards.

There were even houses with better conditions than the apartment in Hanam City they were originally supposed to move into.

However, no matter how good the conditions of a new home she found, Han Min-ah couldn’t make a decision.

For herself and her sisters, who had experienced living with Sung Taekyung, a home with better conditions than their current one practically didn’t exist.

It was simply too enjoyable to leave this place and move somewhere new just because she had money.

She would finish work at the company with Sung Taekyung, and upon returning home, her sisters would greet her in the spacious house.

She would share household chores and chat about various things with Eunbyul-ssi, with whom she had become quite friendly.

Sometimes, she would calm the rising sexual desire with kisses or light physical contact.

Living like this sometimes made her feel as if she were Sung Taekyung’s wife, living a newlywed life…

‘No, no. What kind of nonsensical rubbish is that?’

She knew better than anyone that such a future was impossible.

He already had a girlfriend, Kang Hye-eun, whom she knew well, and recently, she even heard that Do Sihee, the successor of Dokyung Group, was also after him through Eunbyul.

Han Min-ah believed she couldn’t compete with those two in terms of the depth of time spent together or the financial stability required to support a man as a woman.

Now that she was somewhat honest with her feelings, she didn’t deny that she had harbored feelings for Sung Taekyung for a long time. However, separate from her own affection, there were many other women who had special feelings for him.

Just among the people she knew, the number was quite significant. Kang Hye-eun, Yuri Unnie, Eunbyul-ssi, Sihee-ssi, and her own two younger sisters.

Even for someone as energetic as him, he wouldn’t likely make the reckless plan to live with all these women.

Ultimately, Han Min-ah always thought that eventually, only one or two would remain.

…Of course, she herself would be content with the current level of relationship and wanted Sung Taekyung’s affection for as long as possible.

That’s precisely why Han Min-ah deliberately avoided bringing up the topic of her subjugation reward with him first.

The moment she received the reward for the subjugation in the abandoned village from him, the justification for her and her sisters staying in this house would disappear.

Ending the current lifestyle with her own hands was a decision Han Min-ah couldn’t possibly make right now.

‘If it were up to me, forget the subjugation reward, I wish these days could just continue every day…’

If the payment of the subjugation reward could be postponed, allowing her to continue living with Sung Taekyung and her sisters, Han Min-ah would gladly choose that option.

She even entertained the thought that if this cohabitation could last a lifetime, she might be able to completely forget about tens of billions of won.

‘If I could just say I needed the money urgently later and ask to receive my share then, I could wait much more comfortably.’

However, in her mind, Sung Taekyung wasn’t someone who spent money lavishly, and considering his own share, his financial situation probably wasn’t so tight that he’d need to borrow money from her.

Ultimately, for Han Min-ah, leaving Sung Taekyung’s house felt like a death sentence.

Sensing that the atmosphere felt off for some reason today, a quiet summons came from the landlord, Sung Taekyung.

“Hey, Han Min-ah.”

“Uh, uh-huh?!”

“…I have something serious I need to talk about. Can you come to my room after dinner?”

“…Okay.”

Han Min-ah, roughly guessing what Sung Taekyung meant by ‘something serious,’ quietly began preparing to end this lifestyle in her mind.

She never expected that what he was about to say would be a proposal completely different from what she imagined.