Chapter 91: Retired S-Rank Hunter (5)

It was around 11 PM when I returned home, holding her as she sniffled.

In front of the neighbor’s door, separated from my house by just two walls, I reached into the secret pouch attached under the mailbox.

“Creak, Psssh…”

Hye-eun’s mother, after her loud singing, had apparently not only been sniffling but had now completely worn herself out and fallen asleep.

So as not to wake her, I carefully supported her bottom with one hand while pressing the front door’s passcode with the other.

The four digits and the star pressed unlocked the lock on Hye-eun’s front door.

“Ugh, mmm…”

“We’re here, Mother.”

“Ughhhh…”

Since she still showed no signs of waking up, entrusting her body to my back, I stepped inside the entranceway, carrying her on my back.

“Mom’s here… Taekyung-ah?”

As soon as the front door opened, Hye-eun, who came out to greet her mother, made eye contact with me.

“I brought your mother.”

“Uh, yeah. Come in for now.”

At the entranceway, she naturally took her mother, holding her, and took her to the room; I also took off my shoes and followed Hye-eun into the house.

“Mom, really, since I told her to stop drinking so much, look at her coming home drunk from outside…”

Somehow, I thought it was strange that she wasn’t drinking and getting drunk inside the house like usual, but was the reason Hye-eun’s nagging?

After checking on the mother, who was lying sprawled on the bed, I moved to the living room.

“Sorry about my mom… Bringing her here must have been hard, right?”

“She wasn’t that heavy, but it was a bit embarrassing when she was singing loudly in the middle of the street.”

“Next time, I’ll tell her to just drink inside the house…”

Seeing Hye-eun lower her head in embarrassment, even though it wasn’t her fault, I agonized over whether to say the words that had been swirling in my mouth several times.

『Urgent Quest Arrived!

S-Class Hunter Kang Eunyoung misses her Hunter husband, who passed away 20 years ago, and spends many nights drinking.

In place of her Hunter husband, relieve her sexual desire and reawaken her will to live.

Special Reward: Awakening Points +300

Remaining Time: 167:05:35』

This thing that came to mind from the moment I met her, Hye-eun’s mother, in the middle of the street.

How to explain this urgent quest attached to her mother, S-Class Hunter Kang Eunyoung.

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In the end, that day, I returned home without being able to say anything to either Hye-eun or her mother.

I didn’t feel any particular regret about missing the chance to speak, but surely, would anyone feel sad about missing the chance to have sex with someone like a mother? Even if she wasn’t my actual mother, it wasn’t the case.

Actually, not long after gaining the awakening ability called ‘Hunter Lust Manager’, I had one idea. I wondered if my awakening ability would work even on retired Hunters.

Of course, retired Hunters have a certain level of financial power, so most of them carefully choose a man and get married, or occasionally, for popular Hunters, living lives as alpha females even after retirement was not uncommon, but this was just a generalization and certainly didn’t apply to all Hunters.

There were cases like Choi Hwayoung, who was too busy with work even after retirement to have time to date men; and of course, cases like Hye-eun’s mother, Kang Eunyoung, who was just on my back moments ago, also existed.

Encountering a case like Hye-eun’s mother, who didn’t date other men after losing her partner in an unfortunate accident, right before my eyes, it wasn’t difficult to realize that the scope of my ability’s use was not limited to active Hunters, but unlike Choi Hwayoung, whom I had never met before, imagining becoming intimate with Kang Eunyoung, who I had known since childhood, was not easy at all.

Not that she didn’t feel attractive as a woman; that was absolutely not the case. How on earth she maintained her youth, I didn’t know, but S-Class Hunter Kang Eunyoung, even at her current age, still looked no different from her prime and maintained her appearance; at first glance, even compared to Hye-eun, she seemed no more than an older sister with only a slight age difference.

Of course, that alone wasn’t a justification to have sex with her without a second thought, but she is like a real mother to me, having raised me since I was young. A mother is a mother, no matter how beautiful. Forgetting her past as a mother, spanning over a decade, and seeing her as just a woman was impossible overnight. The system’s one-week grace period must have surely anticipated that.

Somehow, within a week, make me able to see Kang Eunyoung not as ‘Mother’ but as a ‘Woman’. I felt as if it were telling me that.

‘Esila, what should I do in this situation?’

“Esila does not interfere at all in the Master’s final choice.”

‘If I ignore this urgent quest and let it pass without anything happening, would it be okay?’

“The system’s urgent quests are not mandatory achievements, but if possible, I recommend completing them.”

‘Why? Just for Awakening Points? To earn barely 300 Awakening Points, you’re telling me to fuck someone like a real mother?’

As expected, perhaps because it’s an SI derived from the system, is it defending this absurd urgent quest? Thinking that, I asked Esila again a bit irritably, but the advice that came back from her was a slightly different answer than I expected.

“When looking at the system’s ■■■■, the reason urgent quests arrive is very likely because there is ■■■■. targeting Hunters facing situations like ■■■■, ■■■■, or ■■■■, it is a quest for ■■■■….”

Esila’s answer returned with parts of the sentence garbled, to the point where I couldn’t understand what she was talking about. Suspicion about this unusual situation naturally arose.

‘What the hell are you talking about.’

“I apologize. Some information has been omitted due to system censorship.”

Irritation naturally arose about this system that does every damn annoying thing. Regarding this awakening ability, where the more female Hunters I fuck, the stronger I become, I can let that slide. I too never had any complaints from the point I started using this ability properly; rather, I am satisfied with the very fact of awakening in a male body, so But no matter what, what this awakening ability did to me today could only be described as crossing the line. Not only did it issue an urgent quest targeting Kang Eunyoung, someone like a real mother, holding points hostage. When I protested about it, instead of giving an answer, it even censored information? Because it was anger towards something without a physical form that I could punch, my emotions had nowhere to go and had to be suppressed in my heart; my emotions became complicated, to the point where I wondered if my heart had ever beaten this fast. If I could have fully heard what Esila was trying to say, at least the material for judgment would have increased. Right now, the system gives me no information and only tells me to fuck Hye-eun’s mother, so I can’t help but be confused.

“The analysis of the censored expression is complete.”

‘…What?’

“Preparation to deliver information, evading the system’s censorship, is complete. Would you like to hear it?”

It seemed like she was quiet for a while; was she doing this kind of work behind the scenes? For now, the more material for judgment, the better, so I mentally agreed to Esila’s proposal.

‘Tell me.’

“Please recall the previous cases where urgent quests occurred from the system.”

‘Previous cases where urgent quests occurred?’

“For reference, up until now, the number of times urgent quests occurred in the Hunter Lust Manager system is a total of three times. Urgent quests are related to the commonality that all three cases share.”

‘…….’

Three times, three times… For now, setting aside the most recent case today, I recalled the events from when urgent quests previously arose after a long time. The first time it appeared was when I saved Cha Yuri from the tomb of the ancient tree; The next time was when I saved Do Sihee from the abandoned village. Finding the commonality the two shared was not difficult.

‘Saving their lives from monsters?’

The problem is, in addition to that, nothing came to mind that could lead to a commonality with Kang Eunyoung now. The reason is that regarding Hye-eun’s mother, Kang Eunyoung, there was only the memory of being saved; it was safe to say there was none at all regarding me saving her. Something feels like I’ve grasped the point incorrectly…

“Please recall carefully the behavior displayed by A-Class Hunter Cha Yuri and A-Class Hunter Do Sihee after being saved by the Master.”

‘When they were saved by me, after that…?’

It’s already been a month, I don’t know if I can remember well. Thinking that, I recalled once more their first meeting and the situation until the urgent quest appeared.

‘I want to die….’

‘D-Don’t say that! Since my strength returned once this time, it will probably return again next time!’

‘We don’t know when…. It’s meaningless….’

‘Do Sihee-ssi! You need to return to the guild!’

‘That’s unnecessary interference! I’m still full of energy?! Do you think I’ll return to the guild like this, without any results?!’

‘Even in the recent battle, you were so badly injured; where are you trying to go back into with that injured body!’

‘Stop worrying about me!’

“Ah.”

As soon as the subsequent reactions of the two women, who had been in danger once and had their lives saved by me, came to mind, one ominous connection arose in my mind. If the reason urgent quests arise is the reason I’m thinking, it was no different than meaning Kang Eunyoung, who is like my real mother now, is also experiencing a similar problem.

‘No way… Is it what I’m thinking?’

“The probability is very high.”

Due to Esila’s firm answer, my mind began to become more confused, even more than the moment the urgent quest appeared. If I didn’t resolve Cha Yuri’s or Do Sihee’s sexual desires and left them be, the fate that would have befallen them. Perhaps it meant that fate was approaching her too.