Chapter 11: Secret Photographer (2)

There were no pictures of anyone being secretly photographed on the office worker’s phone.

‘…Although there were 2D erotic images of a taste that was difficult to understand.’

“…I don’t see any pictures of secret photography in the gallery.”

“R-Right? Phew…”

The office worker sighed in relief.

“Student. Are you sure this person took the picture? Are you sure you didn’t mistake it for someone else?”

“Uh, um… But I heard the shutter sound right behind me! And… there was no one behind me but that person.”

The male student was also flustered, and the people around them were confused.

Everyone clearly heard the shutter sound.

The most likely suspect was not the culprit.

The office worker hesitantly raised her hand.

“Th-That, actually… I’m a special awakened one…”

And she suddenly came out as awakened. (각밍아웃, a portmanteau of ‘awakened’ and ‘coming out’)

“The skill is called… Photography… but it turns on and off… regardless of my will… The shutter sound earlier… was probably because of that…”

Click!

Right after she finished speaking, a camera shutter sound was suddenly heard.

She didn’t touch her cell phone or anything else.

Just in case, I checked her cell phone gallery again, but there was no change.

Her skill was a strange skill that only made a camera shutter sound.

The male student realized the situation and asked in a bewildered tone.

“Huh? Then you should have said that first! I didn’t know that…!”

Most of the special awakened ones awakened unwanted skills.

It was rare for their awakened skills to be beneficial, and many were skills that were rather inconvenient in everyday life.

The male student seemed to be well aware of that fact.

The male student apologized for accusing the office worker of being a molester, and the office worker also apologized for causing trouble because of her skill.

It was fortunate that the male student was a normal person with a top-tier personality.

If he was that Meminist civil servant I saw at the Association, the office worker would have been on the 9 o’clock news without being able to properly explain herself.

The increasingly serious problem of secret photography. It happened again. This time the culprit is an awakened one?!

With a title like that.

The office worker, who kept apologizing to the people around her, found me and came running.

I looked up at her.

I didn’t realize it when she was sitting down, but she was quite tall.

She’s a head taller than me. She’s probably almost 190cm.

“Um, that…”

And she’s quite a beauty.

A beauty with long black hair, faint dark circles under her eyes, and a gloomy and dark atmosphere.

And right in front of my face.

Big.

Very, very big….

‘Breasts.’

I’ve never seen such big and beautiful breasts in my life.

Her breasts were truly amazing.

“Your t*ts are really plump and pretty, they look good to suck and chew on.”

“…Huh? Yeeeees?!”

To the point where I blurted out what was in my head.

‘F*cked up.’

Any man would be captivated by the charm of her breasts, I almost lost my reason for a moment.

But no matter how much I apologize, it’s already spilled milk.

This time, I crossed the line.

I was about to apologize immediately.

“Th-That… Is it… a compliment…?”

The woman’s reaction was strange.

“Uh… Yes. It’s… a compliment…?”

“Ehehe… R-Really? Hehe… Th-Thank you… It’s the first time. I’ve heard such a compliment from a man… Bu-But. It’s a little embarrassing…”

A compliment…? No, it’s a compliment… Uh…?

My head was dizzy.

In a gender-reversed world, is that a compliment to a woman’s body? Really? Is this right?

No matter what, isn’t this wrong? Or is that woman strange?

The office worker began to twist her body, put the tips of her index fingers together, and rub them in circles, and started to become shy.

Seeing that, it seemed that she really accepted it as a compliment.

Her breasts were pressed by her arms right in front of her, and they were emphasized and tried to escape from the sides.

“Ever since I was little… I was always teased for having monster breasts… Ah, that’s not it. I-I actually wanted to thank you…”

“Huh? Thank me?”

“Wh-When everyone was just watching… you stepped up and cleared… my… n-name… And, th-those… pictures… you pretended not to see them…”

“Hey, it’s nothing. An adult woman can look at some jjal-“

The office worker freaked out and put her index finger on her lips.

At that desperate gesture, I quietly shut my mouth.

She quickly looked around and sighed in relief.

Seeing that made me laugh.

I had to look up at her because she was in the late 170s, but her strangely childish behavior made me feel like she was cute.

I’m definitely not captivated by her breasts.

“Anyway… Thanks to you, I was able to clear my name… Thank you.”

“I’m glad I could help. But be careful next time.”

“…Yes. Thank you very much… Ah. U-Um, if…”

The office worker hesitated with a face that wondered whether she should say this or not, and finally opened her mouth.

“Y-Your name…! Can… c-can you… tell me…?”

Was she so hesitant just to ask that?

Not even a phone number, just a name?

“My name is Han Suhyeon.”

“…! Yes…! My name is Yu Ayeon…!”

Yu Ayeon’s eyes twinkled through her long bangs.

There was a brief commotion, but the subway seemed to have regained peace.

Metedashi metedashiiiiik…! (Japanese expression meaning “and they all lived happily ever after,” often sarcastic)

Suddenly, the inside of the subway began to shake wildly.

Screeeech!

Bang!

The sound of metal grinding and something breaking rang out.

I quickly strengthened my legs with mana to maintain my balance.

“Ugh, uh, uhiik…!”

I grabbed Yu Ayeon’s waist, who couldn’t keep her balance and was flailing her arms, and pulled her tightly towards my body.

Yu Ayeon’s breasts wrapped around my face.

It’s soft, but I can’t breathe.

The subway completely stopped after about 15 seconds.

“Ugh, uh, b-breasts…! Su-Suhyeon’s breasts…! Heueung…”

“Ah, I’m sorry, Ayeon. It was an urgent situation.”

“No… It’s okay… I rather liked it…”

I released my hands around Yu Ayeon’s waist and looked around.

The subway was tilted to one side, and the people inside were also tilted to one side, and most of them suffered minor or major injuries due to the broken glass fragments.

The only ones who were able to maintain their balance and avoid injury were me and Yu Ayeon, whom I supported.

[Crack. Crackle.]

At that time, when everyone was confused, the subway announcement rang.

[An unconfirmed B-rank gate is currently backflowing in the nearby area. I repeat. An unconfirmed B-rank gate is currently backflowing in the nearby area. Citizens, please evacuate to the shelter immediately…]

People seemed to not accept what they had just experienced as reality.

“A B-rank gate? Did I hear that correctly?”

“Hey, no way. There’s no way a B-rank gate would suddenly backflow.”

“Then what’s the reason for the subway shaking just now?!”

“Isn’t this subway heading for Incheon? Incheon is supposed to be a gate-free zone… Isn’t it just a simple subway accident?”

“It’s an unconfirmed gate! Unconfirmed! It means that a gate that the Hunter Association couldn’t find has backflowed!”

“H-Hey. L-Look outside…!”

Someone shouted in a trembling voice.

The voice filled with fear quickly spread among the people.

People’s gazes turned to the outside of the subway window.

A burning city, black smoke rising to the sky, the occasional voice of monsters. And…

Citizens being chased by monsters and fleeing.

It was the sight they saw, and the future they saw overlapping.

“H-Hiiiik! Run away! It’s a monster! Run away to the shelter!”

“O-Orc! Why is a C-rank monster there!”

The subway was instantly thrown into chaos.

People escape through the broken subway doors.

They pushed and stepped on each other, struggling to be the first to escape.

Among the people in chaos, I was lost in thought.

It’s a good opportunity.

I’m just an F-rank hunter right now.

I didn’t know when I would get a chance to slice up higher-level monsters.

Honestly, I thought it would take at least half a year to a year to compete with B-rank or A-rank, so I had half given up on competing with higher-level monsters.

How long has it been since I returned, and the opportunity came to me.

I sliced up twenty goblins this morning, but my dark barbarian self, who was asleep inside me, was not satisfied with just that.

So I found a decent chair among the crushed subway chairs and sat down.

If I stay here quietly, wouldn’t an orc or two come looking for the smell of humans?

If I strengthen my body and turn the core, I think I can kill up to two.

I was going to spend time drinking Dr. Pepper until the monster came.

“Su-Suhyeon! What are you doing, you have to run away…!”

Yu Ayeon grabbed my arm and pulled.

“Y-You’ll die if you stay like this…! D-Don’t give up on life in a place like this…! It’s too unfair to die to a monster…!”

Yu Ayeon must have thought that I had given up on life because I was terrified.

By now, all the people in the subway had run away.

But Yu Ayeon tried to take me with her until the end.

I thought she was a gloomy, big-breasted, introverted, tall beauty with a depressing atmosphere, but she has quite a bit of guts and loyalty.

I tapped the chair next to me with my palm.

“Hey. It’s not like that. Ayeon, calm down and sit here. It’s comfortable because I’m sitting after half a day.”

“No, ugh, ugh…! I’m sorry, Suhyeon…!”

“Ugh…?”

Yu Ayeon pulled my arm hard and pulled me, who was sitting on the chair.

My body floated in the air and came into her arms.

‘What strength…’

To make an adult male float with pure arm strength without the help of mana or skills.

Impressive?

I was held by Yu Ayeon in what is commonly called a princess carry, no, in this world, a prince carry.

“I-I’m sorry, Suhyeon… Still, we have to live…!”

Yu Ayeon said with a flushed face.

It seemed like she knew she had said an embarrassing line that would only appear in a shojo manga (girls’ comics).

Yu Ayeon ran towards the shelter with me in her arms.

A man being carried in a princess carry by a woman.

I was embarrassed and thought about getting off, but the feeling of her breasts pressing against my lower abdomen and thighs was really, really, really, really great, so I just stayed still.

Yeah. What’s so important about a gate backflow, an orc, or a troll?

After all, the most important thing in life is to live happily and enjoyably.

So right now, this feeling was the most important thing in the world to me.

“Kueeeek! Kieeeeeeek!”

“Hiiiiik…!”

I heard the cries of goblins from behind.

Yu Ayeon ran more desperately at that voice.

Yu Ayeon’s embrace was warmer than a saint’s healing and more comfortable than any resting facility.

I made a mistake as if I had returned to the days when I was in my mother’s arms when I was a child I can’t remember.

Wasn’t heaven actually in Yu Ayeon’s chest…?

After enjoying Yu Ayeon’s breasts as much as I could, I casually looked back and sent killing intent to the goblins.

The powerful killing intent that even the Demon King flinched at for a moment, overwhelmed the uncivilized beings.

“Kiek, kiek, kieek…!”

“Gurg, gurgle…!”

F-rank. The insignificant creatures, too embarrassing to be called monsters, faced a different kind of fear and fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth.

How dare you try to disturb my happiness.

I made a promise the day I returned.

I would get rid of everything that interfered with me living a happy and ordinary life.

“Heuk, sob, huuuuk… Is, is something, wrong, behind?”

Yu Ayeon, who was running desperately and breathing heavily, asked.

Yu Ayeon’s harsh breath came directly into my ear.

Heueung… My ears are melting, noona…

I looked back again.

The goblins were lying on the ground, foaming at the mouth.

“Nothing happened.”

Nothing happened.