Chapter 938: Side Story – Recruiting (3)

“I, I’ll contact you next time…! I, I really will contact you next time…?!”

“You can take your time contacting me, Miss Hwayeon. You’ll need time to sort out things like your contract with your current guild.”

“R, really, Healer Teacher… Ah, no, if I join Sung Taekyung Sunbae-nim’s guild, I, I’ll get to… once a month during my heat cycle….”

“Yes. And that’s ‘at least’ once a month, Miss Hwayeon. If you happen to join our guild and achieve results worthy of ample compensation, we might even offer additional ‘rewards’.”

“I, I’ll definitely contact you…!! I really will…!!”

“Yes. Go carefully now, Miss Hwayeon.”

Seemingly having quite a bit to do to switch guilds, Miss Hwayeon darted out of the infirmary like an arrow.

Thanks to her quickly vacating the spot, it was just Teacher Yang Miyeon and I left in the infirmary again.

“…….”

“…….”

“……Haa.”

As if she had something to say, she cautiously met my eyes several times before finally shaking her head and replying.

“Alright, I suppose I have no reason to criticize you for wanting to run your guild that way. It’s your choice, after all.”

“…I’m sorry if you seem to have some strange misunderstanding. I’m genuinely doing this because I want to, Teacher.”

“Yeah, it seems that way. Just looking at that shameless expression Sung Taekyung had a moment ago is enough to tell me you like lewd things.”

“Heh heh.”

“I’m not praising you, so stop grinning like an idiot.”

If it were Teacher Yang Miyeon from my school days, how would she have reacted to me saying I’d use my body to run the guild like this?

Perhaps she would have lectured me, thinking I was making the wrong choice, and pondered with me to find a better way.

Or maybe her reaction wouldn’t have been much different from how she’s acting now. Anyway, I feel like Teacher Miyeon wouldn’t have fussed too much about my ‘choice’ to go down this path.

Honestly, no matter what she said, Teacher Yang Miyeon was always a teacher worthy of my utmost respect.

The fact that she was the only teacher at this school who helped me during my toughest times is a truth that will never change for all eternity.

“Earlier, I told you I wasn’t here to recruit someone for our guild, remember? That was actually a lie.”

“…I figured. It seemed a bit too natural how you were coaxing Hwayeon.”

“Ah, that’s right, she wasn’t part of the plan. I genuinely had no intention of recruiting any ‘students’.”

“……Hm?”

“Because, from the very beginning today, the person I intended to recruit was you, Teacher Yang Miyeon, not a student.”

“……Me?”

As soon as I confessed my true purpose for visiting the school, Teacher Yang Miyeon pointed at herself with a flustered expression.

I met her gaze and nodded in response.

“Healers are always valuable human resources. Bringing in one Teacher Yang Miyeon is far more profitable than recruiting a few mediocre students.”

“…Don’t joke. Do you know how much the salary is for a health teacher at a Hunter Training High School? You think you can match that amount?”

“Well, of course, I can’t match it. We’re still a new guild, aren’t we? How much do you plan to leech off your one and only male disciple? Especially after just starting to leech off him.”

“…Honestly. You’ve become strangely slick since I last saw you.”

“Still, your expression is definitely better than before,” she said, trying hard to act nonchalant, Teacher Miyeon.

Seeing as she didn’t outright reject my recruitment offer despite being taken aback, she probably is willing to accept my proposal under ‘certain conditions’.

Figuring she wouldn’t be able to refuse if I added extra conditions, I mentally decided and made my next offer.

“While I can’t match the salary you receive from this school, Teacher Yang Miyeon, I can offer you conditions that only I can provide?”

“…….”

“You know it too, Teacher. The man who can satisfy your unique sexual urges, and who genuinely wants to… you probably wouldn’t find anyone else like me even if you searched the whole world.”

“…It’s not like I’ll die if I can’t have sex for a bit. Am I supposed to give up this stable job to come work in your adventurer guild’s healing room just because I want to be with you? Make some sense.”

“…Well, you might think that. Right now, it’s ‘Saintess Time’, so you probably have the leeway to think coldly. Unlike the Teacher who was just begging me to take her, saying she didn’t need her job or awakened abilities anymore.”

“……Tsk.”

Teacher Miyeon averted her gaze, her expression clearly hit where it hurt.

Having already shown me her most honest self once, no matter how much she pretended otherwise, to me she just looked like someone temporarily regaining composure after sex. Simply mentioning what happened moments ago was enough to make her blush.

“I don’t intend to pressure you into making a decision right now, Teacher. You still have time left on your contract with the school, don’t you? It makes no sense for me to demand you join our guild without any regard for your situation.”

“…….”

“When is your next contract renewal with the school? It’s usually yearly, so you probably have about half a year left, right?”

“…3 months. My contract renewal is in early September, and I have to work at the school until the end of the year.”

“That’s sooner than I thought.”

I only casually asked about the contract renewal, yet Teacher Miyeon volunteered specific information like ‘early September’.

Her candidness implied two things.

One, even though I want to join your guild, I have to work at the school until the end of the year, so please be understanding.

Two, since the contract renewal is in 3 months, find a way to persuade me over those 3 months to make me want to join your guild. Fortunately, neither of these requests was difficult to grant.

For starters, our guild doesn’t have that many members yet, so including current members and those joining by the end of the year, we’ll be around twenty people.

With that number, I could handle the healer role sufficiently on my own, so Teacher Yang Miyeon’s help wasn’t urgently needed right now. Recruiting her is purely a measure for when the guild grows larger in the future.

And the issue of persuading her within 3 months… I consider it practically already resolved.

Even though she’s acting all composed now, pretending she can’t give up her reality, I bet she’ll be more desperate to find me than anyone else once her desire builds up again. Especially considering what she showed me on the infirmary bed earlier.

And even if Teacher Yang Miyeon doesn’t come looking for me first, I have plenty of ways to approach her.

There were countless methods, including visiting the school again during less busy hours for students, or using the real-time tracking of the Lust Management Hunter list to stage a chance encounter.

“Alright. Then you can give me your answer around 3 months from now. If, after 3 months, you still insist you can’t give up your stable job at the school… then I’ll give up too.”

“…Yes, that’s a wise decision.”

“However, you must keep the promise to meet again within a month, okay? I need a chance to introduce the advantages of our guild to you, Teacher.

Today, things happened rather hastily in the infirmary, but next time, we’ll set aside a proper day and I’ll make love to you all day long.”

“…….”

“Got it, Miyeon-ah?”

-pat, pat.

“Ah, alright, now get going. Stop lingering and saying pointless things.”

“Yes, Teacher Miyeon. I’ll get going for today then.”

“…I’ll contact you first, so don’t come to the school. If you’re here, things might get complicated again like this time.”

“Yes, yes.”

Just as I was getting up and about to leave the infirmary, promising Teacher Yang Miyeon our next meeting.

“…Ah.”

Something I’d momentarily forgotten suddenly popped into my head, so I turned back towards Teacher Miyeon.

“What is it? Why are you back?”

“I left something behind for a moment.”

“…Did you drop something earlier while taking off your clothes?”

“No, it wasn’t that.”

Teacher Miyeon, who had let her guard down, thinking I’d come back for something I left behind, was sitting at the infirmary desk.

I quickly leaned towards her face and, at an unexpected moment, pressed my lips against hers.

-smack.

“Eugh?!”

It wasn’t the deep kiss like before we had sex, just a brief peck, merely touching lips.

Teacher Miyeon’s face, which had just returned to its normal color, couldn’t help but flush red again in surprise from the sudden peck.

“I realized I hadn’t gotten my goodbye kiss from you, Teacher Miyeon.”

“S-stop doing useless things and get out already!”

“Yes, Teacher Miyeon. See you next time.”

Having done one last thing to leave an impression of me in her mind, she’d probably keep thinking about this final kiss whenever she remembers me for a while.

Thinking that perhaps next year, the Hope City Guild would gain one more healer, I left the infirmary.