Chapter 66: Growth and Promotion (1)

Around the time Sung Taekyung was vigorously sharing a relationship true to their instincts with the Foundation’s female hunter, Do Sihee.

「Taekyung-a, are you perhaps busy this weekend?」

“……”

Kang Hye-eun, on the bed, was concentrating her gaze on the smartphone screen she held for quite a while.

Although she had unconsciously written down a KakaoTalk message as her heart dictated, the final courage needed to press the send button wasn’t easily arising within her.

As a result, Kang Hye-eun was merely engaging in a meaningless staring contest, leaving the KakaoTalk chat room open.

「If you’re free, won’t you go out somewhere this weekend」

“…Ah, no. This seems too blatant, like my intentions are too obvious.”

She pondered for a long time about what words to add to the previously written message, but however she tried to follow up, every text message seemed to represent her own sly intentions.

Since Kang Hye-eun had already easily spent over two hours just by repeatedly writing and deleting the same content, she eventually couldn’t take her thumb off the smartphone, even late at night.

「Taekyung-a, it seems like you’re not home often these days. Are you perhaps hanging out with strange women until late at night?」

“…Th-this isn’t it either. If I write it like this, I’ll look like a stalker, and even the affection that existed will fall away.”

Actually, since she had been coming and going to his house like her own since quite a long time ago as his childhood friend, and recently she even brought the mattress he had used for many years under the excuse of changing his bed, Kang Hye-eun’s actions towards Sung Taekyung lately weren’t significantly different compared to a stalker or a sasaeng fan.

Kang Hye-eun also knew about that tendency of hers, but regardless, since it was obvious he would undoubtedly be disgusted if she revealed that aspect outwardly, she hastily deleted even the second message instead of pressing the send button.

Clearly, even until just a few days ago, the distance with her childhood friend Sung Taekyung felt closer than family, but the psychological distance towards him had already considerably widened without her realizing it.

‘I’ll help you resolve your pent-up sexual desire. We’re childhood friends, aren’t we?’

Even at the first time he initiated relations with me, he approached without hesitation as if we had always been this close.

‘Why are you my girlfriend? We’re just childhood friends.’

In response, when I also resolved myself and took a step closer, this time he immediately widened the distance and drew a line.

She hadn’t had any dating experience even after turning twenty-two, and Sung Taekyung was the only person she considered a romantic partner, so it reached the point where she doubted whether this kind of casual distance was common among men.

As long as she couldn’t open his mind and check inside directly, it was clear this frustrating feeling would never be resolved, and she thought she had to meet him for an honest conversation sooner or later, whether she liked it or not, but.

「Taekyung-a, even if I go to your house for dinner tomorrow…」

“Aaaargh! This and that, they all just look so lewd!!”

While writing the text message, due to recent memories suddenly flooding her mind, Kang Hye-eun started stamping her feet on the bed.

Even without that, when she visited his house a few days ago to replace his bed, memories of the sex she and he had shared used to come to mind in every corner of her childhood friend’s house.

Sending this kind of text message itself felt not significantly different to her than asking, ‘Can I fuck you this weekend?’

For Kang Hye-eun, who had decided to abstain from sex for a while even for the sake of solidifying her own feelings, the content felt infinitely guilt-inducing.

“Hye-eun-a~! Stop making those thumping noises late at night~!”

“Ah, okay! I won’t do that anymore!”

Kang Hye-eun gave an appropriate reply to the voice of her mother, Kang Eunyoung, heard coming from downstairs.

Along with that, she hastily deleted all the text message content she had written until now and just put down her smartphone.

Harboring such a vague hope in her heart that perhaps Sung Taekyung might contact her first around tomorrow or the day after.

The afternoon of the next day, after spending a night filled with sexual desire with Do Sihee.

I was still spending the late hours remaining on the bed where I last shared love with her.

If it were a typical hotel, it was the kind of time where I should be rushing to prepare for check-out, but the check-out time for the hotel where I and Do Sihee stayed for one night was 2 PM, so there was no particular problem even if I left after leisurely enjoying the hotel air conditioning for about another hour.

‘Since I paid as much as 400,000 won for one night in this accommodation, it’s a loss if I don’t enjoy it fully, even just a little.’

Anyway, even if I returned home, the things I would do were about just manipulating the system to level up skills or looking over the list of other Hunter’s Sexual Desire Managers, so these were things I could easily do even in the hotel.

Moreover, since I wasn’t returning home this evening anyway but was scheduled to go to the Union Guild, considering those things, stopping by home first would be a much more troublesome task.

For reference, Do Sihee, who had formed such an intense relationship with me last night, was already not beside me.

Befitting a young lady of the Dokyung Group, one of the top three conglomerates in the country, she left the room hurriedly this morning, saying she had a schedule.

Since Do Sihee herself said there was no need to necessarily see her off, I also let her go first without much hesitation.

Although we did share a slightly intense kiss at the hotel room entrance right before parting.

“Tomorrow’s advancement test, I wish you luck.”

“…Thank you, Sungchul-ssi.”

After having that conversation and sending her off first in the morning, I was left alone in the 5-star hotel’s double room, bringing up the Hunter’s Sexual Desire Manager System.

Although I had already checked once last night while leveling up my swordsmanship level, because I felt a vague expectation that I could do something additional as points had come in through Iramachio even after that.

Because there was also the need to check, just in case, if new items hadn’t arrived in the point shop.

『Achieved Achievements (NEW!) >>』

“What the? Are there achievements again?”

I think I unlocked three additional ones just last night.

First of all, securing points was the highest priority in all aspects, so I immediately claimed the two achievement rewards from the Achievements menu.

『Reaching ejaculation solely through Fellatio and Iramachio』

『Causing the other person to reach orgasm with the erogenous zone inside the throat』

Certainly, after having sex with Do Sihee, when I looked around the achievements list, I could confirm that strangely novel achievements had all been cleared.

It must be the result of her unique sexual preference, different from other women.

Although Do Sihee did say she gained many things from me, including sexual desire resolution, perhaps compared to the things I gained from her, its value would likely not even be one-tenth.

It’s probably unavoidable that I’d secretly become expectant, wondering what kind of achievement will be unlocked next time.

‘Anyway, who on earth made the achievements for this awakened ability called Hunter’s Sexual Desire Manager?’

First of all, the concept of gathering points and acquiring skills or items with those points itself was a type of awakened ability I had never learned before, and from the day I encountered this awakened ability until now, I had only thought of it as a concept of ‘an unrealistic thing within an unrealistic thing’.

And among those, separately from the strange yet scam-like ability called Hunter’s Sexual Desire Manager, the menu called ‘Achieved Achievements’ had more than just one or two strange points that needed addressing.

…Of course, even if the thought that it was strange arose, it was just a question up to that point.

‘For now, resolving this question isn’t that important.’

Even if I found out the process of how achievements were made, it would only be resolving one or two strange questions wandering in my mind, not an element that substantially helps my growth.

Rather than using my head on pointless things, concentrating my mind on future plans would be much more important.

Especially for me, who is thinking about transferring from the Union to a company, there was no time to waste worrying about these useless things.

I had to quickly finish the transfer procedures to Eun & Ok Co., Ltd. before Han Min-ah’s mind changed, and afterwards, joining Kang Hye-eun’s A-rank Hunter party had become my current top priority goal.

If it’s for that, there was no time to waste thinking about other things.

‘Although the means might be a bit lewd, I must act with at least a clear sense of purpose.’

To become stronger as a hunter, having as many sexual relations as possible with the women currently on the sexual desire management list, and accumulating as much performance record as possible in the Union to raise my rank to B-rank Hunter as soon as possible.

For a while, let’s only think about these two things. Because it didn’t seem like answers would come out even if I worried about various other problems in advance now.

‘Come to think of it, I need to contact Hye-eun again too.’

Including memories from our school days, no matter how angry she was at me, the Kang Hye-eun I know would approach first within five days, so this case of not contacting for nearly a week due to a sudden discord while conversing via text was the first time even for me.

It seems she must have become greatly angry after hearing my words last time. I could fully understand her showing this kind of reaction.

‘What should I do in times like this?’

The best thing would indeed be for Kang Hye-eun to approach first, as if nothing happened, like until now, but if I just kept waiting in that way forever, I could really end up losing her.

Because people are not always acting rationally.

Even with a deep, long-time connection, if the discord of a moment deepens too much, it might become an uncontrollable rift, so if the connection with Kang Hye-eun were to be cut off meaninglessly like this, feelings of regret would undoubtedly sprout within me.

As her childhood friend, as a sex friend, and as a Sexual Desire Manager.

‘Even so, if I contact her anytime without reading the room, the atmosphere might become strange again….’

Contacting her first when Kang Hye-eun’s feelings have certainly cooled down would be the best way to open the path for reconciliation. Fortunately, I had one way to check her feelings, even indirectly.

As soon as I recalled that thought, I immediately went into the “Current Sexual Desire Management Hunter List” in the Hunter’s Sexual Desire Manager System, and unfolded item number 001 located at the very top of the relevant menu.

『001.

Name: Kang Hye-eun

Awakened Ability: Guardian Shield’s Female Warrior

Current Estimated Points to Obtain: 80』

…The fact that the estimated points to obtain are this high means that I can at least create an opportunity to talk.