Chapter 844: Foreplay (3)

About three hours after I started acting in earnest to deal with Geum Jangmi and Geum Dallae.

After proceeding with the ‘minimal preparations’ to some extent before teaching those two women a lesson, I muttered quietly inside Belle’s dungeon.

While focusing my gaze on the food and water piled up like a mountain in one corner of her dungeon.

“…Might be a bit short.”

「You want to stock up more here?! Just what you’ve gathered is already almost enough for a year, isn’t it?!」

Food (most of it being hardtack and bottled water) purchased directly from local factories and stocked up. Even at a rough estimate, it was an amount that posed no particular problem for one person to ‘survive’ for a year.

The reason I still feel it’s insufficient despite that was due to the absurd time ratio flowing within Belle’s dungeon. Because even if I forget and come back just one day late from outside, a month of time flows by inside this world.

My goal was to ‘imprison’ the two women in this space, not to make them ‘starve to death’. …In the end, both women will probably end up begging me to kill them, but anyway.

“A year… although it is, the time inside your dungeon is 24 times that of reality, you know. If it’s one year, that’s an amount that disappears entirely in about fifteen days of outside time.”

Besides, since there are two of them, it would effectively all be consumed within a week based on outside time.

Of course, kidnapping the two women at once would be quite tricky, so it would be in the form of summoning them one by one, but anyway, if we set the standard for replenishing this much at one time, I’d have to spend an hour moving my body to a factory in a distant region at least once every 1-2 weeks to replenish food.

I couldn’t buy this much food at the local supermarket. Buying it locally also saves on distribution fees.

「Thorough preparation is good, but~. You don’t know yet if things will go well or not~. As for me, I have plenty of space left even after storing this much food, but if things don’t go well, what are you going to do with all this hardtack?」

“…That’s true, too.”

「Well, it doesn’t really spoil inside my dungeon, so I can store it for you indefinitely if you ask~. Still, ultimately, the reason I entrusted this dungeon to you, Master, is because I hoped you would use my dungeon as a place for amusement~.

I also agree with the plan to torment those two girls you mentioned, Master, but since things might not go well, preparing too much too hastily seems like overdoing it~.」

“Hmm, Esila, what do you think?”

「I do not think your plan will fail, Master, but if it were to succeed, I believe the preparations made so far are sufficient. If the duration is extended and food runs short, we can simply replenish it anew.」

「And couldn’t they give up first before the food runs out? Honestly, if we assume you do everything you’re thinking of right now, I feel like I wouldn’t last even a month, let alone a year, and would give up~.」

“…Well, if it were average mental fortitude, that would naturally be the case.”

To be honest, I could be confident that I wouldn’t last even a month.

But what I wanted was not simply for her to surrender and give up to me right in front of me. My ultimate goal was to thoroughly break both women, making it so they couldn’t even think of revenge.

In the first place, killing them doesn’t align with my principles. I became a Hunter to protect human lives from monsters, but actually committing murder with my own hands would be breaking my own rules.

Anyway, to break those two women without killing them, just one year of time, or fifteen days in real-world time, would probably be insufficient.

…Well, anyway, this operation too ultimately truly begins after capturing Geum Jangmi and Geum Dallae. The specifics can be adjusted after starting the actual operation.

“Right. After all, I have to start by capturing those women. The details can be changed as we go, starting from after the operation begins.”

「Yeah, that sounds about right.」

「I will cooperate to the best of my ability, Master.」

Receiving their encouragement, my two reliable supporters, I first opened the system window and checked the menu for the 『Current Lust Management Hunter List』.

Accurately pinpointing the location of those two bitches was more important than anything else to bring them to this place.

…Shall I check on the older sister, Geum Jangmi, first.

『015

Name: Geum Jangmi

Awakened Ability: False Pain

Current Location: (Check)

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The function that allows real-time location tracking, obtained just by grabbing her chest once while taking advantage of the confusion, shone even brighter in a situation like this.

It was truly a function that could be misused endlessly if one wanted to. Conversely, if used according to its purpose, it was also an incredibly helpful ability. Like the current situation.

“So, ‘Summon’ can’t be used, huh.”

Although these were functions I had used a few times before, the special functions that could be utilized from the Hunter profile of the Hunters whose lust I manage were largely two.

One is the function to observe the Hunter’s naked body in 3D video using ‘Detailed View’ from the Hunter Lust Manager profile.

Naturally, for me right now, it was an unnecessary function. I had already used it habitually on other women, almost once or twice, but I had no intention of using it against the two women, Geum Jangmi and Geum Dallae. My thought was that I didn’t want to create even the slightest room for affection to build for those bitches who turned Eunbyul’s life into a sewer. Maybe if used later for catching weaknesses, but not right now.

In the first place, the unlock condition was seeing the Hunter’s naked body at least once, so it wasn’t something I could see just because I wanted to.

And the second function was the ‘Summon’ function I used on Eunbyul last night.

The ‘Summon’ function was the ability to instantly teleport the target Hunter, wherever they might be. Although it’s written as ‘Summon’, it doesn’t just mean summoning them near me; that’s not the entirety of the function. If desired, summoning them to a location I designate, not just next to me, was also possible.

In fact, if I could just use this Summon function, there would be no particular reason to worry about bringing the two women. Of course, it was a bit disappointing that the ‘Summon’ function couldn’t be used right now.

Until now, Summon had never been in an unusable state, so I became curious about the criteria, and Esila’s subsequent explanation clarified the requirements for Summon.

「The ‘Summon’ function can only be used when the target Hunter’s favorability is 0 or above.」

‘…Right, if that’s the reason, then it can’t be helped.’

Indeed, using Summon towards someone with no favorability was no different from kidnapping. Regardless of my intention to use this ability for kidnapping and confinement, this awakened ability itself was purely created for the ‘sexual release of female Hunters’.

The condition that it can only be used on targets with 0 or more favorability seems intended to prevent its use for impure intentions… Anyway, if I can’t use this function, it was a matter that could be resolved by moving my body myself.

A strategy like summoning them by raising favorability was naturally out of the question. I absolutely had no thought of becoming friends with those women, Eunbyul’s enemies. More importantly, the current favorability status itself was scraping the bottom, to the point where such a strategy couldn’t be used.

『Current Favorability: -80』

The standard for ‘Maximum Favorability’ starts at 80, but to have -80. If there were an achievement called ‘Minimum Favorability’, this score would have been sufficient to achieve it.

‘Even Do Yehee, whom I beat up and provoked her wariness like that, I think the lowest her score got was -60, but to get -80 after meeting her just once…’

Seeing that the favorability is lower than Do Yehee’s during her phase of extreme personality issues, just because I crushed her hand once or twice, it was highly likely she was just a woman with a fundamentally dirty personality. In the first place, she was a woman who tried to use Phantom Pain just because I was Sihee’s acquaintance. That’s only natural.

Probably, without thinking about what she did herself and only focusing on what she suffered, badmouthing others is probably the norm, wouldn’t you say? If anything displeases her even slightly, she’ll likely nag everyone around her.

If I hadn’t deliberately provoked her there, the fact that her favorability was negative probably wouldn’t have changed. It might not have reached the overwhelming score of -80, but in the first place, I have no desire to get along with that woman.

Even among the women from the Foundation whom I was warned not to get involved with, she was the worst I never wanted to associate with, but for Sihee and Eunbyul’s sake, I needed to settle this properly this time.

‘Seeing Geum Jangmi in this state, there’s probably no need to even check on Geum Dallae.’

She was Geum Jangmi’s twin sister, and besides, she witnessed her own sister suffering right before her eyes. In the first place, she too had a bad relationship with Eunbyul just the same, so there was no reason for her to have a good impression of me.

Along with those thoughts, the moment I moved to the next profile just to roughly check her current location, I was able to confirm a piece of information I could hardly believe with my own eyes.

『016

Name: Geum Dallae

Awakened Ability: Fruit of Oblivion

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Current Favorability: 5』

Favorability is… positive…?