Chapter 794: First Day at the Foundation (4)

It was actually Sihee who was flustered by Lulusia’s awkward and dramatic reaction.

It seemed she had asked, having become somewhat certain after hearing the conversation content we just had, but she clearly hadn’t expected such a strong denial in return.

“…R-really?”

“Yes, yes…! M-my relationship with Taekyung hasn’t crossed any lines like you think, Sihee~! Taekyung and I are strictly ordinary friends, a man and a woman~!”

“Hmm… B-but even so…”

Do Sihee, covering the corner of her mouth as if finding it hard to understand, quietly looked back and forth between me and Lulusia.

In the first place, the fact that I mentioned meeting her separately two months ago, and the conversation content between me and Lulusia just now, clearly didn’t look like the kind of talk people in a short-lived, few-months-old relationship would have.

It was a closeness that clearly indicated they had been keeping in steady contact for at least a few months, or perhaps sharing affection in some other deep way. No matter how outgoing Lulusia was and how good she was at making friends, even considering that, they must have seemed like quite a close pair.

‘…Why is she acting like that all of a sudden?’

Regardless, I found Lulusia’s reaction itself quite flustering. In the first place, I didn’t particularly have any intention of hiding my relationship with her from Sihee.

Considering the promise I’d made with Sihee previously and our future relationship, lying now would inevitably lead to discovery soon anyway.

‘Lulusia, why on earth are you telling such an easily revealed lie?’

‘I-I’m sorry, Taekyung…. B-but….’

‘But what is it…?’

‘It’s a l-little embarrassing to confess to a friend that a woman who hasn’t had her first experience did it through her butt hole from the very first sex….’

‘…Yeah, that would be understandable.’

Hearing Lulusia’s words, it certainly wasn’t easy content to confess frankly.

Confessing her and my current relationship to Sihee was, in other words, equivalent to confessing our anal sex.

Lulusia’s awakened ability, based on her holy power, was an ability that would disappear the moment she shared normal sexual intercourse with me. To the extent that if I really were to form a proper man-woman relationship with Lulusia, it would immediately become an international issue.

However, releasing sexual desire through the rear had absolutely no restrictions, so I did it that way, and naturally, Lulusia’s holy power and awakened ability remained perfectly intact.

If I confessed that I had a relationship with Lulusia in this situation, they could only guess that Lulusia and I had relations anally. In the first place, Sihee had a keen eye for anal acts in many ways, so she probably would have noticed instantly the moment she heard it.

No matter how friendly they are, confessing anal sex would be tens of times more embarrassing than confessing they had sex. Even more so, confessing that the first sex was anal intercourse.

‘C-couldn’t you give me a little more time…? I-I don’t have the confidence to tell Sihee directly yet….’

‘Understood, Lulusia. If that’s the reason.’

‘Th-thank you, Taekyung….’

Considering Lulusia’s dignity, I decided to keep her secret for now and continued making excuses to Sihee, using as few lies as possible.

“I did meet Lulusia separately last time and went on a date.”

“A d-date?! A-as expected, Sungchul-ssi…. After all, Sungchul-ssi’s sexual desire extends even to Lulusia, the Saintess of the Vatican….”

“Don’t think too strangely of it just because it’s called a date. If a man and a woman meet alone and spend time together, that’s a date, right? Isn’t it?”

“If i-if it’s that kind of date, then it doesn’t really matter much….”

Of course, it was indeed the date Sihee was imagining with the ‘not that kind’ meaning, but for now, for Lulusia’s sake, I deliberately didn’t add any further explanation.

“B-but still, the fact that you went on a date means Sungchul-ssi had a purpose, right?”

“Of course, there was a purpose.”

“A-as expected…! Th-then, surely Lulusia isn’t now….”

“I wanted to meet Lulusia alone separately and learn a bit about how to handle holy power.”

“…What?”

“Holy power, I mean holy power. I wanted to learn a bit more detail about the awakened ability Lulusia handles, so I asked her. If she could hang out with me for a short day when I had free time.”

“Holy power, training…?”

The words about wanting to learn how to handle holy power weren’t exactly a lie.

In the first place, the reason I first approached Lulusia was because I needed a teacher who could handle powers related to holy power, and around the time I started dating, I hadn’t even thought about forming a relationship with Lulusia at all.

And I did actually learn about how to handle holy power. Like ‘Moisture Drying’, or ‘Purification Enema’, things like that.

Lulusia, who had been observing the situation for a moment while listening to my conversation with Sihee, quickly joined in upon hearing my story and supplemented the explanation.

“Th-th-th-that’s right…! Th-that time, what me and Taekyung did was just simple holy power training…!!”

“…Hmm, really?”

“T-t-t-taekyung is a multiple awakener, so he can use abilities related to holy power! A-and since I’m also a multiple awakener related to holy power, and there aren’t any other acquaintances, he said he wanted to learn from me, so I just went along with it!!”

“But why have you been so flustered since earlier, Lulusia? As if you did something wrong to me.”

“Oh, no…? Flustered? Not at all….”

“Isn’t it because you thought Sihee and I were lovers? Usually, there isn’t a woman who would like it if her boyfriend came back from a date with another woman.”

“L-lovers…. Did you misunderstand me and Sungchul-ssi as lovers…?”

Since Do Sihee’s face easily turned red the moment she heard the words ‘lovers with me’, it wasn’t that difficult to guess her emotions. Lulusia, who was contemplating what excuse to make, adopted it as her excuse without hesitation.

“Ah, th-that’s right~! Fr-from the first time I saw you two in the abandoned village, there was a sweet atmosphere like lovers flowing from you both~! Th-that’s why I was worrying~! Wh-what if you misunderstood that I might steal Taekyung from Sihee~!”

“If i-if it’s for that reason, then it can’t be helped. If you thought Sihee and Sungchul-ssi’s relationship was like that, then Lulusia wouldn’t have been able to speak easily.”

“Ah, ahaha….”

“Actually, it wasn’t particularly because I was worried about Lulusia becoming special with Sungchul-ssi? It was out of concern that Sungchul-ssi might get entangled in international problems due to your awakened ability….”

“It’s o-okay~! I, I also surely realize with what belief my awakened ability comes out! Such things Sihee worries about won’t happen, so you can rest assured~!”

…Although I’ve already done plenty of the act of sticking it in through the other side, not the front, you know.

Of course, as long as there was no problem with the awakened ability Lulusia possessed, other plays, even if discovered, had no possibility of escalating into international problems. Besides the act of tearing her hymen with my penis, other positions, no matter how lewd their content, wouldn’t affect her holy power.

In fact, it might seem funny in a way that this kind of talk arises even concerning personal sexual desire, but anyway, Lulusia was the Vatican’s Saintess, possessing unbelievable value as a single individual. Having only been actively working as a Hunter for about a year, she was still just an A+ class Hunter, but considering her value purely as a Hunter, she would have already reached S-class long ago.

If I were to arbitrarily take away Lulusia’s awakened ability, even I, the world’s only male Hunter, would find it hard to avoid public criticism.

Regarding that kind of relationship between Lulusia and me, around the time I was thinking of explaining it separately to Sihee later, Sihee suddenly started hurrying me and Lulusia, her reaction becoming urgent.

“Ah, th-that’s right! Come to think of it, now is not the time to be standing around here!”

“Huh?”

“Why are you acting like that, Sihee?”

“We have to quickly go to the waiting room and finish preparing to enter the dungeon! Even without this, I had trouble leaving her behind this morning, and if I waste time here for no reason, that woman again….”

“…Are you still calling ‘Unnie’ like that outside? You really are something else, Sihee.”

“….”

Sihee stopped speaking and froze quietly at the voice of Ibu Unnie coming from behind her back. On her face, displeasure that anyone could see was clearly flickering.