Chapter 674: One Step Further (2)

After having sex with Han Min-ah, while checking the rewards I obtained, the only conclusion reached was that I simply needed to continue doing what I had been doing up until now.

Of course, my sense of purpose became a little clearer in the process, but it wasn’t enough to change what I had been doing until now.

As of now, a total of five people have reached the highest level of favorability. And at the fifth person, the favorability reward was upgraded.

If the number of people with ‘highest level favorability’ increases to ten or fifteen in this way, perhaps the ‘Forced Summon’ function I just obtained would become usable on all the hunters I manage.

In other words, it means that anyone who has mingled bodies with me even once can perform an emergency return from the brink of death during combat, once a month.

Perhaps even that might not be necessary. Registering itself was sufficiently possible just by stroking the chest once or rubbing the body.

In that state, after using Forced Summon once, if they stayed safe for just one month, it meant they would be guaranteed a second life.

If the return location were designated as something like the company’s recovery room as a precaution, then immediately after returning, entering treatment right away…

“No, no.”

If I’m going to use it anyway, using the recovery room of ‘my guild’ would be much better than the company’s recovery room.

A guild where a spare life is guaranteed once a month would be a sufficient reason to recruit new hunters, even if it’s located a bit far from Seoul, right?

Alternatively, making it possible for all hunters who join the guild I will newly create in Chuncheon City to be capable of ‘Forced Summon’ was also one method.

Of course, this side, in its own way, had the restriction that I must have ‘sexual contact’ with all hunters who will join my guild, so that part was a bit worrying, though.

Simply having sexual contact itself wasn’t much of a problem. Just registering was sufficiently possible just by stroking the chest or so.

There wasn’t even a need to necessarily have sex. As for me, I didn’t really want a future like forming relationships with an unspecified number of people.

And for now, excluding the method that just came to mind, making the ideal guild I envision is also sufficiently possible…

“…Is it okay, even like this?”

Something, something didn’t feel right.

Until now, even when adding each person to my Hunter Lust Management list, I had decided after careful consideration, so the thought of suddenly putting a woman whose face I don’t even know yet into that space somehow felt wrong.

Really, is it okay to abandon my own beliefs, which I’ve upheld until now, in order to create a ‘guild where affiliated hunters don’t die’?

At this unavoidable crossroads of choice, is choosing the ‘dream’ I’ve longed for since childhood truly the right thing?

Or, is choosing the ‘belief’ I’ve upheld until now as a Hunter Lust Manager the right thing?

For some reason, my head became complicated.

Perhaps if it were me when I first obtained the awakened ability, I would have chosen the ‘dream’ without hesitation. Because the past decade or so had been spent running solely for that.

However, the time spent living as a hunter for the past year and several months might have been more important and valuable than the decade or so spent running like that.

Although it was a relationship between a hunter and a lust manager connected by my awakened ability, at least in the moments we shared love, it was a relationship naturally shared with all my heart.

To say it was merely a relationship for my awakened ability and to achieve my dream felt like an understatement, as all of it had become too deep.

‘For now, I can’t reach a conclusion.’

There’s no guarantee that the reward I want will appear 100% just because the number of people with the highest level of favorability towards me increases to more than ten.

Perhaps I might be getting ahead of myself over something useless.

So for now, there’s no choice but to focus only on sharing love with the women I’ve embraced with both arms until now.

Achieving the dream, and upholding the belief.

It was too complex a problem for me right now to choose.

Perhaps because of the slightly impure thought that momentarily came to mind, my mind became a bit chaotic.

I don’t know well how my awakened ability will change later on, but for now, I’ve organized only the things that the current me must definitely do.

First off, the hunters whose lust I manage are fourteen people in total.

Among them, nine people in total have not yet reached the highest level of favorability at the current level.

Eunyoung Noona, Hwayoung Sunbae, the Jin-ah and Seon-ah twins, Areum-i, and Lulusia were the individuals likely to reach the next highest level of favorability at the current stage.

To be honest, there were three people who seemed a bit difficult to raise their favorability up to the highest level.

Cheon Jihee, Do Yehee, and President Seo Ok-hee, making three people.

“If possible, it would be good if I could raise all of them to the highest level of favorability… but let’s not get too obsessed.”

Ultimately, what I want is to give them the Forced Summon function. Just that alone meant that when things get tough, I could at least protect them.

Whether or not I could give Forced Summon to other women, not just the ones I’ve mingled bodies with until now, I decided not to think about it for now.

Because it would make sense in many ways to think about the next step only after being able to reliably protect everyone I’m holding in my hand.

Cheon Jihee, Do Yehee, and President Seo Ok-hee.

Looking at the three people with the lowest favorability towards me like this, I really felt that all three of them were people intertwined by a strange fate.

Unlike the other women, they also had that commonality, in a way: their first relationship with me happened involuntarily.

All three people also had similarities in that they didn’t like men from the start.

Of course, I had no intention of discriminating against them based on their favorability towards me; rather, I will focus on sharing more love in the future, wanting to draw even them into the space I can protect.

“There’s still plenty of time. Since the guild isn’t completed yet, there’s no need to think hastily.”

Telling the President that I would establish a hunter guild in Chuncheon City was just something from a day ago.

Let alone recruiting hunters or securing dungeon gates, the remodeling of the guild headquarters building hasn’t even started yet.

Since it was something that just needed to be completed by the time the guild is created in earnest, it would be enough to consider there’s leeway for the next year or so, right?

The first time I obtained the awakened ability was also about a year ago.

During that year, I built connections and formed relationships with fourteen hunters, and among them, I reached the highest level of favorability with five people.

If it’s another year, it’s sufficiently possible to make the favorability of the women who formed a connection with me now reach the highest level. Even without making dramatic changes in a different way from my actions until now.

In the first place, in a situation where I couldn’t even make the women who came into my hands once reliably love me, thinking about relationships with other women already would be a foolish act, right?

For now, in the current state, I decided to think starting from cherishing the connections formed once.

While thinking like that, I was finally able to organize the content regarding ‘Summon’ and ‘Forced Summon’.

I also needed to check the other additional rewards that I had postponed for a moment because I was busy checking the content of the important parts.

First of all, among the parts I haven’t checked, the one that bothers me the most is indeed the ‘awakened ability’ part related to Han Min-ah.

How the awakened ability given by an animal-type hunter as a highest-level favorability reward would actually turn out, that part was the most questionable.

No way, did I get an awakened ability like being able to transform into a Russian Blue?

Well, if I had it, of course it would be a useful ability. It would be the same as obtaining a search ability that I didn’t possess until now.

However, what bothers me personally about that ability is inevitably the ears and tail part that stick out when transformed.

No matter how much it’s to utilize the sensory ability I don’t possess, I absolutely didn’t have the confidence to wear pants with a ‘tail hole’ just because of that.

By the standards of the women in this world, a man with cat ears and a tail might be felt as a type of attractive point, but me myself having to become such a sight itself somehow felt really unappealing.

Hoping it wasn’t the transformation ability, please, I carefully checked what the newly emerged awakened ability was.

Fortunately, perhaps my wish came true, as the awakened ability related to Han Min-ah belonged among the rather ordinary ones.

『Search lv. 2』

It seems Han Min-ah’s position as a Searcher was applied, so it came to me as an awakened ability called ‘Search’.

It’s a sorry story to Min-ah, but it was truly fortunate that it wasn’t an awakened ability like transforming into a cat.

That’s cute only when watching, but if you become the person involved, it’s a little too embarrassing.

『Raise the favorability of five hunters to the highest level』

『Cooperative Climaxing』

Lastly, by checking the First Achievement menu and retrieving the bonus 100 points, I concluded the day’s work.

Although a complex problem that I couldn’t conclude right now had newly entered my head.