Chapter 295 – Senior at Work Who Doesn’t Hate Me (1)

In the shadow catacombs, several minutes have passed since I joined Cheon Ji-hee and started the battle.

‘… Keek!’

After the body of the last soul reaper was split in half by my sword, the monsters disappeared and only me and my senior remained in the soft light.

She opened her mouth to her with the thought that she had passed her immediate crisis.

“… It’s over.”

“… Okay.”

After taking the strangely awkward senior to a corner where the monsters wouldn’t come, she reached out with her right arm.

“Her right arm. Are you hurt?”

“…”

“Show me where you got hurt. I’ll take a look.”

“… Is there any higher cure?”

“Something similar.”

Senior Cheon Ji-hee gave her a look that seemed unreliable, but in the end, she looked at me and cautiously extended her right arm.

In the center of her right forearm, she had a deep scar, as if she had been stabbed.

It must have been a wound dug by the soul reaper’s scythe. Fortunately, it wasn’t too deep.

Although she was momentarily taken aback by the huge wound that hurt just by looking at it, she regained her senses and covered her wound with both hands.

She immediately began to use a recovery spell to seal senior Cheon Ji-hee’s wounds.

“… Ugh!”

“…”

“Now, what are you doing…”

“Stay still for a moment.”

“…”

Her senpai, who was about to say something to her, looked shocked at the divine power that stretched from her hand to her own arm.

Ten seconds later, even after watching her own wounds heal, that expression did not gradually loosen up.

“Are you a healer? Aren’t you a swordsman?”

“As a healer, he was also a swordsman.”

“… Are you claiming to be multi-powered? Multiple abilities deal with abilities that use similar powers in the same class, but in reality, it’s just that the spectrum of weapons that can be handled is broadened…”

“If you don’t want to believe it, don’t believe it. I didn’t think you would believe me anyway.”

“…”

Senior Cheon Ji-hee, who had been spouting long, inappropriate words, listened to me and became calm again like a mute who had eaten honey.

That I am multi-talented. I knew that it was an unbelievable fact that she was using a completely different power, but if she didn’t believe it now, it would be like denying the phenomenon she witnessed right in front of her eyes.

For now, it seems that he has made another decision to observe the situation and save his words.

“Let’s go back outside. I guess it’s going to be more difficult to get into. Same with the senior’s attire.”

There were really no rags, as the clothes that looked like matting were cut here and there by the knife.

The bandages that had been tied to compress her chest seemed to have loosened in the aftermath of the battle. Thanks to that, it was an unavoidable phenomenon that every time she turned her gaze toward her, whether she liked it or not, her eyes would touch her violent breasts.

… You wouldn’t say anything just because my eyes touched you. Because there was something he said in the first place.

“… Okay.”

Senior Cheon Ji-hee also nodded her head as if she didn’t really want to stay in this dungeon longer and moved her steps out of the dungeon with me.

Even on the way out, the monsters had to attack, but since they were already familiar opponents, they didn’t pose a particular threat.

As soon as it appeared, most of it was solved by cutting the shape to the core with a Mithril Greatsword or stopping and attacking with a divine spell.

As if it was the same for the seniors, they calmly reached out to the shadow specter, grabbed the core at once, and killed it as if pulling it out.

Seeing him kill easily without hesitation in a state where he didn’t even look at her properly, I felt in many ways that it was definitely a difference in career.

“… Why weren’t you talking?”

She already knew what she was not saying, so she didn’t have to ask again.

“One was because I thought you wouldn’t believe me.”

“…”

“The other is, I guess I don’t want to be known too widely that I am a multi-awoken person.”

Senior Cheon Ji-hee, who was quietly listening to my words, asked me about my answer with a slightly questionable expression on her face.

“… The first reason is yes, but why the second?”

“My awakening ability is not the ability to speak confidently anywhere.”

“… What does it mean?”

“In the literal sense. Objectively, it’s definitely a good awakening ability, but it’s an ability that I don’t want to be known about yet.”

“… To the point where I have to hide it even from my co-workers?”

“Ah, except for Cheon Ji-hee, everyone else knows what my awakening ability is. Hye-eun and Min-ah, and Cha Yu-ri too.”

“What…”

She couldn’t have guessed that, apart from herself, she was sharing information with only the other members of the party, she could see the obvious bewilderment on her face.

It’s a party that’s been soaking in for a long time, but it must have been a shock in many ways that information was not shared only with oneself.

Before she escalates the conflict due to misunderstanding, I went ahead and added a few things about how my awakening ability became known.

“… No way, Hyeeun is me…”

“Please don’t misunderstand, Cheon Ji-hee senior. It was before I even moved to the company that my awakening ability became known to other party members.”

“… Uh?”

“It’s not that I didn’t say it specifically to ostracize you, it’s just that I really didn’t have a chance to say it.”

“…”

Despite those words, she still has a distraught expression on her face and she lowers her eyes darkly.

It was a moment when you could be sure that if you didn’t explain properly, misunderstandings would inevitably deepen.

“After you finish exploring the dungeon, let’s talk for a while in the conference room.”

“…”

“First of all, I have to explain that all the thoughts Cheon Ji-hee has in my head are misunderstandings. And probably, after hearing about my awakening ability, seniors will understand why I tried to hide it even though I have powers like multiple abilities.”

“… How do you know what I was thinking… ?”

“I was just guessing what I would think if I were in Cheon Ji-hee’s position. I’m sorry if you felt offended.”

Even after my consolation, the distraught expression was still unresolved, but a positive response came back to the request to talk alone.

“Okay. Then, after the report, in the conference room…”

“Right, senior. Put some of this on before you leave the dungeon.”

“… What is this?”

Her expression subtly changed as she suddenly identified her cloak draped over her own shoulders.

“Just what. It would be a little embarrassing to go out dressed like that.”

“I don’t really care. Just to the extent that the clothes are worn out…”

“I don’t know about you, but I care. It’s a change of clothes anyway, so just wear it.”

I wonder if it’s someone who doesn’t know her raw face. Still, since she was a colleague at the same party, she didn’t want to see her shamefully showing her breasts outside.

She was lucky to have a spare set of clothes in her pocket. In this world where her notion of chastity has changed, if I took off my T-shirt, which is only one of hers, it would have caused more confusion in many ways.

“… You said you didn’t care?”

“Think whatever you want.”

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After finishing the report with senior Cheon Ji-hee and the Hunter Achievement Report, we immediately returned to the meeting room on the 14th floor of the Azure Shield.

It was a dungeon that I entered separately from the beginning, so I was thinking of doing it individually even after reporting the achievements, but Chun Ji-hee seemed to have a slightly different idea from mine.

In the end, the monster cores she and I collected were combined and reported as party hunting.

“You caught a lot more, but wouldn’t it have been better to do it individually?”

“…”

There was no answer. I wonder if he was ashamed to answer.

It was a little hard to imagine her expression of embarrassment, but the subtle feelings she would feel in this situation of being saved from her crisis by her junior Hunter were fully predictable.

It even went so far as to firmly drive a nail in, such as not to follow me right before.

Being able to get out of a crisis thanks to such a junior following him must have been an embarrassing situation in its own way.

I could fully understand her feelings, so I silently walked to the meeting room on the 14th floor with her senior.

As soon as Jihee Cheon arrived at her conference room, she took off my coat and returned it to me.

“Enough now.”

“… When she leaves work, she thinks that she will return as it is…”

“… There are spare clothes in the conference room. I’m going to change.”

“Ah.”

Well, it was a space I used before I joined the company, so it’s not strange that there are some personal items there.

Although, it wasn’t that she was used to the act of exposing her breasts in front of men like that.

Thinking about that, I inadvertently fixed my gaze on senior Cheon Ji-hee, but this time, she suddenly loosened her belt and threw off the cloth that covered her bottoms.

“What, what are you doing?!”

“You said you were changing clothes. Didn’t you hear me?”

“… I didn’t know that you meant to take off your bottoms.”

“It’s one piece of clothing.”

“… If that’s the case, I can’t help it.”

I thought it was a missing bottom fashion, but it was really a type of clothing where you don’t wear a separate bottom.

Even so, it was shocking in many ways to see her become half-naked, leaving only one pair of underwear behind, saying that she would change clothes in front of a man who was not even her lover.

… Is it a good thing that I’m wearing underwear?

“You’re wearing underwear. Don’t make a fuss. If you can’t see it, close your eyes.”

“… What should I do if my gaze goes by itself?”

“So what. This is the meeting room Hyeeun and I used before you came into the company, even before Cha Yu-ri or Han Min-ah came into Azure Shield. Should I come and look at you?”

“… I didn’t say that. Just don’t worry about me, senior, and change.”

“I was thinking of doing that from the beginning.”

With those words, senior Chun Ji-hee calmly took out the cabinet and changed into a uniform.

Aside from the not-so-good relationship between her and me, this recent sight was a sight to behold as an objective man.

Although it is not shameful in this world for a woman to show her breasts to others, the sight of her changing into her clothes with only one pair of underwear on was quite bold.

Even the underwear was embarrassing underwear that seemed to be tied with a thin cloth tied in a T shape, so except for the important parts, the buttocks and other parts were exposed without adding or subtracting.

… Let’s not think about anything strange. All of that would be a bold move that you could have done because you had no feelings for me.

As she waited for her to change her clothes, somehow catching her heart, senior Cheon Ji-hee appeared in front of her again, wearing a relatively neat uniform compared to before.

After changing her clothes, she sat down in her chair across from me and met her eyes with mine.

“You said that in the dungeon earlier, right? I’m talking about your awakening ability.”

“Yes.”

“Tell me once. What is the awakening ability that you so longed to hide?”