Chapter 732: How to Secure a Dungeon (4)

About an hour after receiving Do Yehee’s contact and leaving my house.

It took about three transfers through the warp gate transfer points she sent me before I could finally reach my destination.

As soon as I arrived at Tioman Airport in Malaysia, I immediately sent Do Yehee a KakaoTalk message to let her know I had arrived.

「I’ve arrived. I’m at the airport now.」

「Yes, I can see you.」

「Huh?」

The moment I saw Do Yehee’s KakaoTalk reply, I looked around, scanning my surroundings.

A short while later, a woman dressed in a suit stepped out of a limousine and approached me, giving a slight bow.

“You must be Sung Taekyung-nim. My Master is waiting in the vehicle over there, so I will escort you.”

“Ah, yes.”

…A female butler. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in this world before.

Then again, Do Yehee has androphobia, so she probably couldn’t hire a typical butler. Considering that, it was an unavoidable choice.

Judging that Do Yehee was already nearby based on this valid reason, I followed her towards where a white limousine was parked.

-Click.

“Whoa….”

“My Master is inside the vehicle, Sung Taekyung-nim.”

“Yes.”

As I stepped inside, marveling slightly at the automatic door opening upwards from below, I immediately came face-to-face with a woman with red, dumpling-shaped hair.

Still, seeing Do Yehee’s face, which was rather welcome after not seeing her for a while, I greeted her with a smile.

“It’s been a while. Have you been well?”

“…I was doing fine until just now. If only someone hadn’t done that unpleasant thing of poking at my weakness.”

“That’s why you shouldn’t carelessly call people vulgar or uncultured.”

“……Hmph.”

Do Yehee turned her head away sharply with a slightly sulky expression.

While I was subconsciously thinking her expression was a little cute, the limousine carrying me and Do Yehee started moving towards our destination.

Contrary to her words about waiting at the site, she had personally come to pick me up at the airport, so I asked her nonchalantly.

“You said you wouldn’t last time, but you must have wanted to see me quite a bit deep down, huh?”

“…What did you say?”

“Seeing as you came all the way to the airport yourself despite being busy, isn’t it because you wanted to see me?”

“N-no, it’s not! I just came myself because I thought you might get anxious if I only sent one or two female servants!”

“Hm? Why would that be?”

“…You know roughly what kind of trouble a man visiting a foreign country, not the Republic of Korea, could get into if he gets into a strange woman’s car, right?”

“…Ah. So that’s what you meant.”

…Right, I had forgotten.

What I was doing right now was essentially no different from a female tourist traveling alone in Southeast Asia in my previous world.

It might be fine if I only went to designated safe places, but getting into a strange woman’s car in a foreign land is definitely a risky move.

Of course, in my case, I had already confirmed she was Do Yehee’s servant the moment I saw the female butler.

In this world, the profession of butler was exclusively male. Compared to my previous world, it was practically as awkward as a male maid… No, let’s stop thinking about that.

“So you were worried, not that you missed me. That’s not bad either.”

“Yes, I was worried. It’s hard to find female butlers, after all. I was worried you might feel wary of my servant and lash out with your fists.”

“You’re not being honest.”

“I’m not being dishonest…!”

“You remind me of Sihee when we first met. Even if they’re only half-connected, sisters are sisters, I guess.”

“…Of c-course. Sihee and I are inseparable sisters, bound by strong blood ties.”

Do Yehee reacted particularly sensitively to the remark about resembling Sihee, her face flushing.

Well, it was an understandable reaction, considering she had a sexual fetish and was so devoted to her younger sister that she openly expressed her sisterly love.

Although Sihee herself still didn’t seem to like Do Yehee much.

‘Still, seeing them get along reasonably well, it feels like things have definitely improved compared to before.’

Perhaps it was because they shared the same man. Or maybe it was because she provided considerable help when rescuing Eunbyul before.

At any rate, the last time I saw the two of them together, they didn’t seem to be on terrible terms.

Even on the day the three of us shared a bed, or when we hunted the three-headed basilisk together in the abandoned village, they weren’t constantly snarling at each other.

Lost in thought while sipping a drink from the central table in the limousine, Do Yehee, sitting opposite me, asked with a slightly anxious expression.

“…J-just in case, I’m asking this.”

“Hm?”

“That photo from earlier… have you shown it to anyone else?”

“What photo? Your naked photo?”

“……Yes.”

I had wondered why she seemed vaguely uncomfortable since we first met; I guess that was the reason.

She had forgotten about it for a while, but seeing it again this morning must have brought it back.

She was currently in a position where she had admitted defeat and given me leverage over her.

“I only showed it to Sihee. The day you broke into my house, I needed proof that you were there when I called Sihee for a three-way confrontation.”

“…Sihee doesn’t matter. What about others?”

“No one else. I never intended to show it to anyone else in the first place.”

“…Really?”

“I’m the type who doesn’t do things my woman dislikes.”

“Your woman…. Ah, no! Who exactly is your woman?!”

“If she gave me head, sex, and even her back door, she’s my woman. What more conditions do you need?”

“I told you to tone down your language! How can a man’s mouth be so vulgar…!”

It seemed that one of the reasons Do Yehee had been in a bad mood was the photo of her still saved on my phone.

It looked like I needed to help Do Yehee get over her embarrassing past to ease her turbulent feelings.

…Well, it should be fine now. I don’t need to hold onto this weakness myself anymore.

“I’m not your woman! And besides, such crude language is for Sihee…!”

“If you don’t like the fact that your naked photo is still on my phone, I can delete it for you.”

“…What?”

“I said I’ll delete your humiliating naked photo saved on my phone. It seems like that alone is making you feel uneasy.”

“…What do you want?”

“I’m saying I’ll delete it because I don’t want anything. I saved it before because I thought you were a woman who did terrible things to Sihee, but now I know that’s not the case.”

“……”

“If you’re not Sihee’s enemy, then I have no reason to keep you in check with that as your weakness. At least, from my direct experience, you weren’t that much of a villain.”

Do Yehee looked at me with wide eyes, perhaps not expecting me to bring this up first.

Regardless, I opened her humiliating photo on my smartphone gallery and then, just like that, tossed my phone towards Do Yehee sitting opposite me.

-Flick.

“Here.”

“Wha-?!”

“It’s just that one picture. I didn’t save anything else on external hard drives or the cloud. Just delete that, and we’re done. Delete it yourself, then give me back my phone.”

“……”

“I’ll tell Sihee to delete it too. She’s much kinder and more obedient than you, so she’ll probably delete it obediently.”

Do Yehee, having heard my sincere words, stared blankly at the smartphone she took from me, seeming hesitant.

She just stared at the screen with a bewildered expression and handed the image of her humiliating photo back to me.

“It’s fine. There’s no need to delete it.”

“…Hm?”

“Since you’ve proven your trust to me, I must also prove my trust in you. It’s okay to leave that photo as it is.”

“Are you serious?”

“I suppose that would be a fair price for the rudeness I committed towards you.”

“…Well, I don’t really need it. If you’re talking about a price, I think I received enough when I saved Eunbyul back then.”

“Then, please consider that as proof of the trust I have in you. Relationships based solely on mutual interest, without trust, tend to disappear easily.”

To think she considered leaving her naked photo on my smartphone as a form of trust.

Perhaps she had some profound meaning in mind that only she knew, and I was unaware of it.

There was no way for me to know what knowledge was stored in the minds of chaebol heiresses or how they were raised.

In any case, respecting Do Yehee’s own choice, I decided to leave the photo saved on my smartphone as she wished.

…Honestly, I felt a little reluctant to just delete it myself.

“So, that photo… please use it later when you need to subdue me.”

“What? Don’t tell me you’re into that stuff too, just like Sihee? How can sisters both be masochists….”

“That’s not the kind of subduing I meant! What do you take me for, the eldest daughter of the Dokyung Group?!”

“Then?”

Hearing her ask to be subdued, I immediately thought of masochism, but Do Yehee got angry instead.

Wondering if her words held another meaning, I asked again, and Do Yehee explained the reason she hadn’t deleted the photo with a rather serious expression.

“It means that if I ever stray again and act wrongly like before, you should use it to threaten me and stop me.”

“…What?”

“Because I only recently realized that the actions I took for Sihee all this time ultimately only hurt her…. Who knows, maybe even after today, my good intentions could turn into an unpleasant experience for Sihee again.”

“Well, at least from what Sihee told me, you were truly an arch-nemesis, a total bitch. For a while after we first met, she even said she was an only child.”

“…That’s… a bit shocking.”

It must be shocking. She thought she was acting for her younger sister, but her sister wanted to erase her existence from her life.

It couldn’t be helped. No matter how good her intentions were, Do Yehee’s past actions had become so inappropriate that they left Sihee with trauma.

It was up to Do Yehee to bridge the gap that had formed because of it.

“Even setting aside the photo, I wanted to tell you this: Please watch me so I don’t act wrongly again. That was a major reason why I came all the way to the airport to meet you, despite being busy.”

“What’s this? The proud eldest daughter of the Dokyung Group asking for such a thing.”

“…Are you mocking me?”

“No, I’m praising you.”

“……”

Whether Do Yehee could truly improve her relationship with Sihee in the future was something that would have to be seen.

Of all the women I’d had sex with, Do Yehee had undoubtedly the worst first impression.

The limousine carrying her and me quietly moved towards the opposite side of the island where the gate was located.