Chapter 234 – The Black Mud Swamp (2)

After appreciating Sihee and Eunbyeol’s splendid catching skills demonstration.

The three of us settled down again on one side of the black mud bog and went hunting for wind gnats.

Unlike the vulgar female expression seen on the bed, Doshi-hee draws a bowstring with serious eyes.

And Eun-byeol, with the same expression as usual, silently focused on flying the iron blade from her position.

I don’t know if most of the A-rank hunters have this level of skill, or if it’s just because the two of them work well with me, but anyway, both of them were good enough to leave their backs in the dungeon.

In addition to that, I was able to confirm the performance of my newly acquired awakening ability, God’s Protection to some extent.

“Did you just see it, Mr. Seongcheol?”

“Yes?”

“The wind gnat just twisted to dodge my arrow, but at the last second it was hit by an arcane arrow’s changed path!”

“I saw a slightly curved trajectory at the end, but I didn’t shoot it myself, so I’m not sure if it was the effect of God’s blessing.”

“Come to think of it, I can’t say for certain that it’s because of Kim Seong-cheol’s protection, but in today’s hunt, even though I’ve been using the iron piece for quite a while, wear and tear is less.”

“What does that have to do with my Divine Protection?”

“It means that the probability of hitting the weak part of the monster has increased, so I don’t think there will be any correlation at all.”

“… Hmm, is that so?”

They were two people who reported various things to me whenever they saw an effect.

To be honest, it was a subtle change that wouldn’t be obvious from the audience, not the person in charge, but it’s probably a stronger feeling because they’re two people who have been using their own exclusive weapons for a long time.

I was also killing an A-class monster with just one or two sword strikes, so it seemed that the effect of weak luck was hitting the vital points well without knowing it.

In order to see the effect of protection in earnest, you need to level up and use spells related to evasion or enhancement.

By the time I was sorting out the achievements I had obtained after finishing the hunt to some extent, Doshi-hee looked at me and muttered these words.

“Really, the more I look at him, the more I like him.”

“… Are you saying that all of a sudden?”

“Didn’t I tell you last time? At most, I gave you a chance to become my partner, even bending my pride, but you haven’t forgotten the past when you coldly dismissed me without much thought, right?”

I shook my head and replied, wondering if I was referring to the proposal I made at the dinner table on our first date.

“I don’t remember being particularly cold. I just refused because what I wanted to do was a bit difficult for Si-hee’s husband to do.”

“Being the son-in-law of Dokyung Group is a good thing if you like it.

“What is that… I’ll let you know when I get a chance someday.”

“… He is a fresh person.”

If I tell you now about my absurd dream of making sure no one gets killed by monsters, you won’t understand easily.

I should tell you about it when the plan is a little more concrete and I have the strength to fulfill it.

It wasn’t that he was discriminating against Doshi-hee, who was from the foundation. Because in the first place, there were only two people who knew about my dream, Kang Hye-eun and Eun-young.

I know better than anyone else that it’s nonsense to the extent that it’s ridiculous to even talk about it anywhere.

As soon as I showed no signs of talking, the perceptive blonde stopped bothering me about what I was trying to do.

Returning the topic to the starting point, he continued to talk about his marriage with me.

“You should know, but the marriage proposal I gave you last time is still valid?”

“Then I have no choice but to give the same answer as back then.”

“… If you come into the family of the Shinto priestess as it is now, even after marriage, I will specially turn a blind eye to the fact that you make her a few lovers.”

“… Yes?”

“You know very well that the original story is really nonsense, right? Because I love you so much, I am really looking after you.”

“… Thank you for your words, but I like the relationship as it is now, Mr. Sihee.”

“Hmm…”

Perhaps because she seemed to have no sign of coming over, the blonde lady brought out a completely different idea to me.

The words that came out of her mouth were suggestions on a level that I couldn’t comprehend in an instant.

“… If you wish, I will allow you to make our Eunbyeol a special lover.”

“… Did you not hear me?”

“Even if you look at it like this, our Eunbyeol is the son of a good family in its own way. Perhaps Seongcheol is the daughter of a famous company that you would recognize just by hearing her name.”

“That was roughly what I expected. Without that, I wouldn’t have been able to work for the foundation together with Sihee before.”

In fact, I know that he sniffed personal information from the Hunter’s sexual desire management system.

“In that case, the story should be fast. Right now, due to various circumstances, she is working under me as an exclusive maid, but if she finds her place, it will probably be a good thing for me and Seongcheol.”

“… Isn’t that definitely good news even if I don’t take Eunbyeol as my girlfriend?”

“As Mr. Seongcheol told me the other day, solving Eunbyul’s sexual desire will restore her weakened awakening ability, so if that happens, the current gold… No, I think the problems Eunbyeol is having in her family will be resolved.”

Ah, was that a story?

He said that he wanted to give Eunbyeol a similar experience, since he once had the effect of regaining his awakening ability through sex with me.

… Well, the fact that a lady from Geumhyang Group lives as a servant under a lady from Dokyung Group is likely at least because something went wrong within the family.

Of course, it wasn’t a story worth sharing between me and Shihee, so this time I turned my gaze and made eye contact with Eunbyeol, the maid, and asked.

“Isn’t Eunbyeol okay? Now Si-hee is trying to sell you to buy me.”

“… Sorry. I didn’t understand Kim Seong-cheol’s words that the owner sold me.”

“Yes?”

“If there was such a thing as the right to be Seongcheol Kim’s lover, it would be common among female hunters to want to buy it even at a price, but I don’t understand why it is being said that I am being sold.”

… Yes, the relationship between a man and a woman in this world was treated like this.

It was the moment when I suddenly realized that the world in which I lived was opposed to the concept of chastity.

“Then, does Eunbyul mean that it doesn’t matter whether you have sex with me or not?”

“… It’s not that I’m not interested, but I think it’s probably a little different from the ‘love relationship’ sex that Kim Seong-cheol talks about. If I do something wrong, as a result, neither I nor Kim Seong-chul may end up in a not-so-satisfactory relationship, and if that happens, my ability to awaken will be at the same level as it is now.”

“Hmm…”

Certainly, according to the theory so far, it was a sufficiently meaningful hypothesis.

If the awakening ability is restored simply by inserting a cock and ejaculating, it would be normal if other hunters did not lose or weaken the awakening ability in the first place.

To be honest, I had enough emotions to make my cock stand up right now just from the experience of receiving a cleaning fella on the boat the other day, but Maiden Eunbyeol didn’t seem to have any special feelings for me as a man.

For instance, Eunbyeol’s personal information currently displayed on the Hunter’s sexual desire management system window seemed far from suggesting that she had a crush on me.

『Name: Geum Nari (pseudonym: Eunbyeol)

Current Estimated Points Earned: 15

Current affinity: 20』

Because of what happened on the boat, her sexual desire information is listed in my hunter sexual desire management system, but it was a level that it was difficult to imagine that she would have rational feelings for me.

The amount of points expected to be acquired is so subtle that it is impossible to know whether sexual desire is resolved or not, and the low liking level, which does not feel rational feelings at all, although it is subtly feeling like it.

Having sex with her in this state would only lead to a not-so-good ending.

It was a priority to make her feel a little more rational for me rather than making the relationship awkward for nothing.

“If Kim Seong-cheol is interested in having sex with me, regardless of my awakening ability, I will gladly respond, so don’t worry about that.”

Although I almost lost my resolve at the moment when I saw Eunbyeol talking calmly as if she had no feelings.

Still, if possible, in the first relationship, I wanted to start with a crush on each other, so I answered quietly.

“Certainly, Eunbyul is an attractive woman, and I was a little shaken by her suggestion that by becoming Shihee’s husband, she could even get Eunbyul.”

“Ah, then right now…”

“But I don’t really want a relationship where we mix bodies first in a situation where we don’t really want each other. Eunbyul seems to think so too.”

“…”

“Also, I’m sure I just told you that it’s burdensome just to be Si-hee’s husband, but you’re so calm that you’re telling me to seduce a young lady from another family.”

“… It doesn’t mean that.”

Si-hee’s hand, which was about to take out some papers from her pocket, immediately returned.

It was a document that felt like I shouldn’t check it for some reason, but it’s better not to wonder about it.

“… Uh, it seems that it came to mean that somehow, but can you take it as a sign that I have high expectations for Seongcheol?”

“I understand that. If that happens, what are you going to do if I become more attracted to Eunbyeol than Sihee?”

“… Yes? Stand, please… That…”

As soon as she heard my words, her city-hee’s eyes, filled with a sense of crisis, began to tremble anxiously, and I smiled at her and reassured her.

“It’s a joke. No matter how many other women I mix with, you can rest assured that I will not be particularly neglectful of a woman with a unique charm like Si-hee.”

“… All right, you’re saying it! On the contrary, to get a chance to mingle with a woman like me, even if you asked me, it wouldn’t be enough, but now that I think about it, it didn’t make sense that Mr. Seongcheol was neglecting me!”

“Yes, it is.”

“Ah, anyway, let’s pretend this story didn’t exist! I’m not saying this because I don’t think I’m less attractive than Eunbyul, but I’m saying this because neither of them seem to be very willing!”

“Yes yes.”

With her expression of apologetics, she hurriedly rectified her situation, giving an appropriate response to her, and the day’s departure was finished as it was.

… To be honest, it was a bit disappointing.