Chapter 918: Side Story – Always on Your Side (3)

With the atmosphere suddenly feeling awkward, Hye-eun and I walked side-by-side down the mountain.

Hye-eun and I, who were scheduled to have ‘baby-making sex’ very soon, were filled with the resulting tension, and unlike usual, we took steps down the slope one by one in a slightly awkward atmosphere.

“……”

“……”

…It’s awkward, but is there anything we could talk about?

We couldn’t just go to the hotel without saying anything the whole time like this. Considering the time it would take to get down, we still had about two hours of walking left in this atmosphere, and walking for two hours in such a suffocating mood wouldn’t be easy.

To slightly ease the awkward atmosphere, I tentatively brought up a topic about the near future.

“…What should we name our baby?”

“Huh?! Wh-what?!”

“I mean the baby’s name. I thought it might be good to decide on a name for a boy and a name for a girl.”

“Ah, uh-huh…. Th-that’s right…. That might be okay…”

Of course, even if it were the earliest possible, we wouldn’t actually use it for another ten months.

Nodding cautiously at my question, Hye-eun suggested a few potential names.

“How about Hyun-tae or Hee-tae for a boy?”

“If we add the last name, maybe Kang Hyun-tae or Kang Hee-tae? Since your last name is Kang, Hye-eun, most names would probably suit it well.”

“Or maybe Tae-won or Tae-min would be good too.”

“Those are nice too. But why do all the names you’ve suggested so far have the character ‘Tae’?”

“Hmm… Still, don’t you think a name with the character ‘Tae’ suits a boy better? Maybe it’s just because I’ve seen you, Taekyung, so much…”

Well, that makes sense. Since Hye-eun went to a specialized school for training Hunters from middle school through high school, my name would be the most familiar one among males.

A Hunter training school was no different from an all-girls middle or high school. All the teachers were former Hunters, so there were only female teachers, and I was literally the only male student in the entire school.

“What about a girl then? It could be a girl, so we should decide on a name for that possibility too.”

“…Well, that’s true, but I have a feeling the first child will be a boy.”

“Huh?”

“If it’s our child, Taekyung, I think so. I also have a feeling it’ll be a boy who looks just like you, Taekyung.”

“……”

It seemed Hye-eun’s mind had already almost confirmed that our first child would be a boy.

…Honestly, I had a strange gut feeling too. A peculiar intuition, perhaps.

‘If he really turns out to have a personality similar to mine, what then?’

I was lucky enough to somehow end up with a girlfriend like Hye-eun, but if another boy were born with a personality like mine-one who’s overly fond of women and lacks a sense of chastity-I couldn’t help but worry about many things.

In this world, a boy with ‘a personality like mine’ clearly wouldn’t have a very bright future in many aspects.

And in my case, I had awakened abilities to protect myself, but there was no guarantee my child would gain awakened abilities like me, and they could also be in danger if they happened to mess with the wrong woman who was overly obsessive.

‘Well, worrying about it now is probably pointless.’

Just thinking about these worries before even confirming the baby is a boy shows how much of a doting parent I’m already becoming.

“Let’s decide on a name for a girl too, just in case. How about sophisticated names like Kang Eun-rang or Kang Eun-hwa?”

“Aren’t those less sophisticated and more like tough-sounding names…?”

“What about names like Kang Myung-eun or Kang Sim-eun?”

“Sigh, forget it. I get your naming sense, Taekyung. Whether it’s a boy or a girl, I’m naming the baby.”

“……”

Although my naming sense was criticized somewhat unfairly, I nodded for now.

The baby isn’t even confirmed as a boy or girl yet. There’s no need to get worked up over this. …Still, Kang Eun-rang really sounds good for a girl.

Thanks to that conversation, the atmosphere had eased up considerably. About halfway down the mountain, Hye-eun, whose expression had been strangely stiff for a while, urgently called my name.

“…Ah, Taekyung-ah.”

“Yeah?”

“Um, I need to go over there for a moment. Can you sit here and wait for a bit?”

“Huh?”

Hye-eun pointed to a conveniently shaped rock nearby.

And then, without even properly answering my question, she hurried away.

“It’ll only take a second! Don’t chase after me or look back, just wait! Okay?!”

“Wait here? Why all of a sudden….”

-Flap flap!

“……”

Hye-eun suddenly said that and hurried behind a large tree.

I wasn’t so clueless as to not realize what situation Hye-eun found herself in.

‘She drank so much water earlier.’

It seemed the signal to expel the fluids she’d replenished on the way up to the summit was starting to come through.

And as mentioned before, hiking wasn’t a very common hobby in this world, so there was no way there would be a restroom in the wilderness like this.

She probably intended to quickly take care of business using the large tree as a screen. Feeling a bit curious, I quietly followed Hye-eun behind the tree.

-Swoosh….

“Ugh, hnggg…”

Perhaps she had held it for a long time, judging by the cute sounds accompanying the strong stream emanating from my childhood friend’s lower body.

She seemed so focused that she didn’t notice me sneaking up behind her. Of course, I had tried my best to move quietly.

-Drip drip drip….

“Haa… I shouldn’t have drunk so much water earlier…”

-Trickle….

“Ughhh, hng, hng…”

“……”

Why did I feel so turned on just by secretly watching Hye-eun relieve herself?

It might be because it overlapped with the image of her spraying water right after reaching climax. The essential principle-expelling a warm stream of liquid from the urethra-was similar, differing only slightly in whether the liquid was clear or contained minor impurities.

Also, the sense of transgression from secretly watching despite her telling me not to was strangely exciting.

Is it too perverse a desire to want to know even these trivial, embarrassing aspects of Hye-eun, who I’ve known the longest?

Well, I didn’t really care if someone judged me that way. What mattered was that this desire stemmed from my love for her.

-Trickle, plink.

“Hoo, ugh…”

-Rustle, rustle.

“Ah, toilet paper…. I didn’t bring any, what should I do…?”

“Do you need something to wipe with?”

“Yeah, Taekyung-ah. If you happen to have toilet paper or anything else…”

“……”

“Kyaaaaaaaah?!”

Seeing me appear from behind the tree, Hye-eun startled and tried to stand up.

I grabbed her arm just in time to prevent her from falling right where she was sitting.

-Wobble!

“Eek?!”

-Grab.

“You need to be careful, Hye-eun-ah.”

“Ah, th-thank you, Taekyung-ah…”

“Yeah, be careful.”

“W-wait a minute…!! B-but I told you not to peek earlier…!”

Well, that was true. She seemed embarrassed that she’d been caught peeing, probably hoping the situation would just pass somehow.

“Is that how you talk to someone who just stopped you from falling?”

“If you hadn’t been peeking in the first place, I wouldn’t have fallen…!! Why did you suddenly pop out and startle me?!”

“What’s the big deal over something like this? We’ve already shown each other embarrassing things more than once.”

“Just because we’ve shown each other a lot doesn’t mean the embarrassing things stop being embarrassing…?”

“Then you just don’t have to be embarrassed. I don’t think it’s embarrassing at all, so don’t worry.”

“I-I’m embarrassed…!! Ah, even if we’re lovers, who secretly peeks at their girlfriend while she’s peeing…?!”

…Usually, people don’t.

But what could I do? Just moments before, she was talking about wanting a baby with me and even deciding on names, and right after that, she blushingly declared with confidence that she was going to the restroom.

This was essentially Hye-eun openly asking me to watch.

If anyone did wrong, it was me getting caught while trying to help Hye-eun, who was in trouble because she had no toilet paper.

“Enough, don’t worry about trivial things.”

“I don’t think it’s trivial…”

“Weren’t you having trouble earlier because you had no toilet paper? You need something to wipe with, right?”

“……Yeah.”

“Then I’ll help you wipe, so just stay still.”

“Wait, what do you mean by ‘help you wipe’…”

Sensing something was wrong, before Hye-eun could escape my grasp, I pulled her arm towards me.

Hye-eun’s cute lower body, still damp, with liquid slowly dripping down.

I gently placed my right hand, enveloped in divine power, between Hye-eun’s legs, her lower garments partially removed for urination.