Chapter 902: Awkward Relationship (1)

After climbing the stairs while lost in thought, my steps eventually brought me to the 8th floor, where the guild representative’s office was located.

Personally, the 8th floor was also a place that contained my personal desires. Because besides the guild representative’s office where I’d be staying, I had also requested private rooms for hunters ranked A+ or higher to be made in this 8th-floor area.

Hye-eun, Cha Yuri, Han Min-ah, Cheon Jihee.

And also, private rooms for Sihee or Do Yehee, or Eunyoung Noona or Hwayoung Sunbae, though I’m not sure if they’ll join my guild later. This 8th floor was the place where private rooms would be created for hunters of A+ rank or higher who had even the slightest possibility of transferring their affiliation to my guild. …In other words, it was also a place where the private rooms of the women who managed my sexual desires were gathered.

…Well, I had simply thought that since I’d worked hard and run for two years, it would be okay to be faithful to my desires just a little. Because I felt that making about one floor of the guild building into a space for myself and the women wouldn’t be so bad.

In the case of Lulusia or President Seo Ok-hee, transferring to my guild would be impossible because their affiliations were different, but still, vacant rooms were prepared generously just in case.

And for the twins who haven’t risen past C-rank yet… I’ll have to hope they work hard to rise up to this level.

Looking at it this way, the one I was most concerned about was Eunbyul, but since she was scheduled to play the role of secretary in my guild later, there was no need for a private room. Just making a suitable spot next to the representative’s office would probably mean she wouldn’t harbor any particular complaints.

Later on, depending on what Eunbyul does with the Geumhyang Group, there might be a possibility of her relationship with me changing slightly, but… I think perhaps ultimately, she too would be happiest continuing to serve as a maid by my side. Because I was the only one who could uniquely satisfy the submissive and exhibitionist kinks she possessed.

‘If I start operating the guild officially, will this be the scenery I see every day?’

Since I haven’t even officially opened the guild yet, I suppose I was getting ahead of myself unnecessarily, but anyway, except for announcing the guild, all other preparations were complete.

The guild building, the dungeons, the affiliated hunters – all secured.

Although securing material suppliers is still pending, President Seo Ok-hee said she would handle proxy purchases until a suitable supplier is decided upon, so this side is also somehow resolved. And since some materials can be traded through Sihee as well, there aren’t any major problems in the long run either.

All preparations were complete to the point where it wouldn’t be strange even if the guild were to open tomorrow, but still, if possible, I had set the plan to establish it on January 1st of next year, embedding various meanings. Because if I were going to found a guild anyway, launching a new guild in the new year as Chuncheon City’s name changed to Hope City seemed deeply meaningful in various ways.

-Bang.

Upon opening the door and entering, the view of the representative’s office unfolded. Mostly, stylish furniture, like what I had seen in President Seo Ok-hee’s office, was placed there. The desk surface, the inside of the bookshelves, those trivial parts would be the things I needed to fill in the future. The only thing that caught my eye was a triangular nameplate on the representative’s office desk that read ‘CEO Sung Taekyung’.

‘Did Do Yehee make this?’

Actually, strictly speaking, since there was no board of directors, I thought it might be a bit early to use the title CEO, but as long as the intention was understood, it didn’t matter. Or perhaps Do Yehee was predicting that my guild would grow significantly enough to form a board of directors. Considering that aspect, maybe I should consider it well done.

‘If I’m the CEO, who should I put on the board?’ For the Director of General Affairs, Hye-eun; for Human Resources, Min-ah; and if I assigned Cha Yuri to Technology, the balance might be roughly right.

While having those useless thoughts, after roughly looking around the representative’s office, I quickly moved my steps to return home. As for dinner, although I had told Min-ah I’d be eating out before coming back, there was no need to go home late. With those thoughts, the moment I left the representative’s office and was about to head back to the stairs along the hallway.

-Thud, bump.

Hearing a sign of someone’s presence from somewhere in the room, my steps stopped for a moment.

“……”

Weren’t there supposed to be no construction workers left? My attention was drawn by a sound suddenly coming from somewhere on the 8th floor. If it were another space, perhaps, but this place is like a main base that I would use for activities from next year onwards. If it were a thief or intruder who had entered, it wasn’t a very good situation.

‘Thinking logically, it must just be one of the construction workers who remained behind.’ Still, there’s no harm in checking once. If it were one of the construction workers, I could also find them with the ‘Hunter’s Sexual Desire Manager System’ that I possess. In this world, physically demanding work is done almost entirely by women, and even if only a tiny bit of sexual desire remains, finding where women are hiding nearby isn’t that difficult if I use my ‘Find Nearby Hunters’ function.

The sense of unease I felt seemed not to be just my imagination, as someone did indeed seem to remain inside the building. …However, the value of the estimated acquisition points shown on the nearby hunter search map was quite large.

“…60?”

Judging from my experience so far, a value of around 50 generally represented the exact level where a woman would feel like having sex. A value of 60 would be about being slightly more desperate than that. Of course, just because someone has pent-up sexual desire doesn’t mean they’d act indiscriminately towards a stranger to the point of thrusting their dick in, but still, the value of 60 was sufficiently large to pique my interest.

‘Judging by the location, it seems to be somewhere on the 8th floor.’ It’s not like I intend to meet them and do something. But I am curious. If they were truly remodeling workers for the guild building, as the owner of the building, I could at least offer a greeting saying I look forward to working with them in the future. If, hypothetically, they were like Eunyoung Noona or Hwayoung Sunbae, whose sexual needs became an issue causing them to retire from active duty and work in another field… there’s also the possibility of recruiting them as hunters for my guild later on.

It was merely a possibility, and its feasibility was ambiguous. I wasn’t planning to thoughtlessly and indiscriminately increase the number of people in my guild. As for the hunters in my guild, my goal was to create a safe environment where they wouldn’t lose their lives, and until sufficient safety measures were created, I had no intention of recruiting other hunters besides those I had already finalized discussions with.

-Bang.

With those thoughts, as I opened one of the empty private rooms on the 8th floor and entered, I found a woman sleeping and occupying one bed. As soon as I saw her face, my slightly tense heart strangely felt empty. That’s understandable, because the previous guest who had entered the building before me was a woman far too familiar to me.

“Kuuuul, mmm…”

“……”

Do Yehee.

Upon facing her, the next president of Dokyung Construction and the one who took charge of remodeling the hunter guild, I felt strangely empty, and yet her sleeping here right now didn’t seem particularly strange. ‘In the first place, the person I entrusted the building remodeling to was Do Yehee.’ I never imagined she would personally come out like this and be doing the work, but I hadn’t imagined it. Cautiously speculating, she probably participated directly in the guild building renovation work for efficiency. By using Earth Golems, much time can be saved while carrying materials or doing external construction. Since it’s a private room whose owner hasn’t been decided yet, if she gets tired during work, she’d probably borrow one of the beds like this and sleep. Coincidentally, the construction site of the large apartment complex I had contracted with her for was not far from the guild, so she probably used this empty guild as a substitute lodging for a considerable period.

“Ugh, hmmm…”

‘Seeing her sleeping so quietly like this, she does look rather cute.’ That was a thought that, if Sihee heard it, she would clearly show jealousy over. Speaking of which, did the two of them make up? I haven’t yet heard from Sihee any news that she reconciled with Do Yehee, or so it seems. If they had succeeded in reconciling, wouldn’t Do Yehee have contacted me excitedly instead? I briefly wondered, but when I thought about whether I was really that close to her, it was a bit hard to be sure. Now, well, it has somehow changed into a feeling similar to a business relationship where we can exchange what each other wants, but we still hardly had any conversations on a personal level. The conversations we had on KakaoTalk recently were almost entirely about work. The remodeling process of this old Chuncheon City Hall building, or the progress of the construction of the large apartment complex in this area, now Hope City. …Sometimes I talked about Sihee or Eunbyul too, but this side too, strictly speaking, was closer to information delivery. There were many opportunities to get closer, but still, unlike ‘other women’, it was hard to get close to this Do Yehee. They say the first meeting is half the impression, but Do Yehee and I spectacularly ruined that first meeting for each other right from the start. The awkward feelings I have towards her are matched by the awkward feelings she must harbor towards me. The fact that the estimated acquisition points appear high when directed at me is itself a positive sign, but when you think about it, that’s because I’m the only man Do Yehee can embrace without fear. Since Do Yehee and I had sex a few times even during the process of disliking each other, she found it hard to hate me indiscriminately anymore. In short, perhaps the ‘bond forged through sex’ piled up too much.

“Zzzzz, puheu…”

“……”

-Stroking, stroking.

“Mmm, mm…”

Because she looked cute sleeping so peacefully, I approached the bed where Do Yehee was sleeping and gently stroked her head. Perhaps she wasn’t sleeping that deeply, as Do Yehee’s eyes slowly opened at my touch.

“Ugh, mm…?”

“…Ah.”

-Freeze.

“……”

“……?”

Because Do Yehee suddenly woke up, my hand stopped, and she too looked up at me with a groggy expression, as if not understanding what was happening.

“……”

“……”

For a moment, a suffocatingly awkward silence lingered between Do Yehee and me.