Chapter 766 – Operation Prince on a White Horse (2)

About an hour has passed since the moment Seong Tae-kyung and Seo Ok-hee began exploring the mystery dungeon.

Seo Ok-hee, who was walking behind Seong Tae-kyung as he conquered the mystery dungeon, was somehow unable to control the emotions in her heart that were growing as time passed.

‘Gehehe!’

‘Kkiheeeeek!’

“Boss, step back!”

“Yeah, yeah…”

Seong Tae-kyung steps forward to protect himself from dozens of monsters that block his and Seong Tae-kyung’s path.

After entering the dungeon for the first time, ever since the battle that began when she faced the one-eyed giant, a pounding feeling had been shaking her body.

That thrilling feeling toward the opposite sex that Seo Ok-hee had never felt before.

‘… From earlier, I really have no idea what this feeling is.’

Why is my heart beating so hard and why is my face burning?

Why do my hands keep getting sweaty and why does my voice not come out well?

And why does the gaze gradually shift to looking at Seong Tae-kyung’s back?

After she started raiding the dungeon, Seo Ok-hee started to feel strangely hot and kept following Seong Tae-kyung’s back with her gaze. The majestic and dependable back that can be felt from her own gaze.

It was a strange feeling that Seo Ok-hee had never felt before. She’s just that, she’s ordinary. It’s hard to believe that the emotions felt from the back of Seong Tae-kyung, who is chopping down a monster.

The monsters that Seong Tae-kyung was cutting down right in front of her were not originally particularly threatening to Seo Ok-hee. Considering Seo Ok-hee’s skills, monsters below her A level were always things she could kill and control with a single wave of her hand.

On the contrary, Seong Tae-kyung’s hunting method was much simpler, as she couldn’t kill it with one or two movements of her hand like herself, but instead cut up ten or twenty monsters one by one while sweating profusely.

“Haaaaap!!”

-Wow!

‘Keh… !’

Even if she had only been able to use her awakening ability in the first place, she would have been able to kill those random mobs much faster and more easily.

No matter how much she thought about it, Seong Tae-gyeong’s fighting method was not very efficient compared to usual hunting, but Seo Ok-hee could hardly take her eyes off his behind.

… When she thought about it, when was the last time she had someone’s back?

17 years ago, when Kang Eun-young retired from her position as an S-class hunter, it was safe to say that she had never had someone entrust her back to her.

Even when she entered the dungeon with the newly promoted S-class hunters, she never truly put their backs into battle. In the first place, she had an overwhelming career in the dungeon, so if she were to entrust her back to someone else, she would actually feel pressured by the burden of the person entrusted to her.

Kang Eun-young was the only person Seo Ok-hee could trust in the dungeon because her career was similar to hers and she had a good connection with her because they had known each other for a long time. Since she retired, she never once relied on anyone in the dungeon or took care of her personal safety. Because it was Seo Ok-hee who did not even ask to protect her.

It was the first time in a long time that she felt truly dependent on someone. Moreover, this was actually the first time for Seo Ok-hee that she had not just entrusted her with her back, but had completely entrusted her with her own affairs.

For Seo Ok-hee, who was always in a position to protect herself even when she went into a dungeon because there was no one on her level, so even if she had to enter a dungeon, she mostly did it as a solo activity, and sometimes even when she went in with other hunters, this was the first time in her life that she had experienced this situation. For some reason, she didn’t feel that bad again.

Rather than feeling bad, it was to the point where she felt a little joy in her heart. The fact that there was someone in front of her, desperately wielding her sword to protect herself, made Seo Ok-hee’s heart beat louder. Made me do it

‘Is it just because it’s fun? It seems like a slightly different feeling from that, but…’

During her 43 years, Seo Ok-hee was less than half a year old when she realized that her feelings were between people of the opposite sex.

She only knew about the excitement between people of the opposite sex in her head, but in fact, this was her first time experiencing it herself, so it was inevitable that she would be embarrassed by the unfamiliar feeling. Normally she would have used her information retrieval ability to find out this emotion, but right now she couldn’t even use that auxiliary ability.

Although she had entered once, she was still in an unfamiliar dungeon, and her own awakening ability was suddenly unusable.

Not only did she lose her fighting ability to deal with monsters, but she couldn’t even use the detection ability she normally used, so she couldn’t play the role of a searcher.

All she can do is acknowledge her own helplessness and entrust her safety to Seong Tae-kyung, who somehow still has the ability to awaken her, so that she can be protected. Even though she was clearly in a crisis when viewed objectively, Seo Ok-hee’s heart continued to flutter with her pounding emotions that she had never felt before.

“President! “Stay close to me!”

“Ah, uhm… !”

She was surrounded by monsters from both front and back at the same time, so this time, it was Seong Tae-kyung who put herself next to her and engaged in full-scale battle. Seo Ok-hee, who was quietly held in his arms, could only secretly enjoy the feelings that were blooming in her heart.

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The ‘Prince on a White Horse in a Dungeon’ operation with CEO Seo Ok-hee continued smoothly thereafter.

To be honest, the content of the operation itself was extremely simple. As I progress through the dungeon, whenever a monster appears, I have the boss stand behind me or next to me, and I respond to and kill each monster that pops out in front of me one by one.

In fact, she was a monster created by Bell in Bell’s dungeon, so it was a little strange to say that she was defeated. If I were to be specific, it would be closer to Belle acting out the monster being defeated.

Still, it didn’t matter because the external appearance of the situation was no different from rescuing the boss from a dungeon. Anyway, the important thing was to make the boss feel protected by me while feeling helpless.

Fortunately, my plan didn’t seem to have gone completely awry, and CEO Seo Ok-hee had been quietly following me and Belle’s performance for over an hour, and her emotions had changed so noticeably that even I could recognize them.

“If you’re tired, would you like to rest for a bit?”

“Oh, no… “Well, I’m not particularly tired, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

A red face, a stuttering voice, and even a gaze that stares at me and then quickly averts the moment our eyes meet.

Anyone who could see it could tell that CEO Seo Ok-hee was feeling excited about the current situation.

This may be because the feeling of being protected is so unfamiliar and thrilling. You’ve probably always been in a position to protect someone until now.

I could almost figure out what her helplessness and sexual fetish were about without even having to check her details.

“… “Bird, come to think of it.”

“Yes?”

“Joe, it would be better to take a break and then go. I’m just following you, but you must be tired after swinging a sword for an entire hour. Oh, I answered because I was thinking too much about myself. Huh.”

It was the boss who was belatedly answering the question I had asked earlier with her arms crossed next to me, so I thought it was rather cute to see her trying to act calm, as if she thought her feelings had not been revealed yet.

“Okay, then. “I happen to be in front of a fork in the road, so let’s take a short rest and then go.”

“Um, I guess so.”

With her answer, we rested our butts on the floor in front of the fork in the road and went to rest.

In fact, in my case, I didn’t feel so tired that I needed to rest. By occasionally using recovery spells during rainy times like this, I was able to temporarily relieve some of my fatigue.

Of course, I couldn’t deal with the muscle pain the next day that came as a result of overexerting myself, but in the end, this was all a process to bring out the emotions in CEO Seo Ok-hee’s heart, so I was willing to endure it.

“Taekyung, you’re having a hard time because I asked you to do something like exploring a mystery dungeon for no reason. Sorry.”

“Hey, what are you saying? “I agreed to this in the first place, so why does the boss feel sorry?”

“… I never would have thought that I would not be able to use my abilities as soon as I entered the dungeon. “I thought it would be okay since I obviously couldn’t use it since I entered the white room last time, but I let my guard down.”

“Last time? “You’re saying it as if you’ve been in this dungeon before?”

“Well, I wasn’t specifically talking about this dungeon. It seems like something similar happened in another dungeon, or maybe not…”

Even in this situation, it was still cute to see Seo Ok-hee pretending to have erased her memories. However, if you look at the content of the conversation and the tone of the words spoken, I can feel a strange affection for me, it seems that the ‘Prince on a White Horse in a Dungeon’ strategy has worked well.

You probably can’t use your awakening ability right now, so you can’t read my mind, and of course you didn’t seem to notice that this was a situation created to awaken the boss’s sexual fetish, so that innocent yet cute reaction kept coming back to me. Stimulated desire.

‘If I’ve done this much, can I now move on to the next step?’

This is enough to satisfy the feeling of helplessness and the desire to be protected.

It was time to achieve the real purpose of entering the dungeon in earnest.