Chapter 22: Yeom Haneul is smiling

I opened my eyes, clutching my throbbing head.

Ugh, did I drink too much yesterday?

My head was spinning and I felt a headache.

Strangely, my body was also sore here and there.

Rubbing my sleepy eyes, I looked around and saw liquor bottles scattered all over the place.

How many bottles did I drink?

Just by looking, it seemed like there were at least eight bottles.

Did I buy more while I was drinking yesterday? There were more empty liquor bottles than I bought at the supermarket yesterday.

I don’t remember exactly, perhaps because I blacked out while drinking.

The only thing I remember is moving Yu Ayeon, who fell asleep while drinking, to the bed.

I looked to the side and saw Yu Ayeon asleep, breathing softly.

Did we sleep in the same bed?

Fortunately, we were both wearing clothes.

First, I put my hand on the bed to get up to wash my face.

Squish.

But I felt a strange sensation.

It’s definitely not the feel of the bed.

It was much softer, squishy and chewy, and warm.

I definitely touched the bed, but my hand was somewhere else entirely.

“Uhnn…”

I was instantly absorbed in that miraculous touch.

“Mmm… S-Suhyeon-ssii…?”

I want to continue enjoying this sensation. I want to focus on this sensation.

“Ahnn…! W-Wait…!”
“…”
“Unn, hnn…! S-Suhyeon-ssi, stop, stop it…!”

Yu Ayeon blushed bright red with embarrassment and covered her chest as she sat up.

She was trembling slightly and slowly catching her breath, which was so cute.

“… I’m sorry. It was dark so I didn’t see.”
“Hnn… I-It’s the middle of the day…! It’s so bright…!”
“Ehehe. I’m sorry, Ayeon-ssi.”

I smiled foolishly and clung to Yu Ayeon, getting past the situation.

“Agh, ugh… I-It’s okay now… Please let go… It’s, it’s not good for my heart…”

The closer I got to her, the redder Yu Ayeon’s face became, and she stiffened like a wooden doll.

We drank together the day before, had many conversations, and became close very quickly.

To the point where I thought this level of skinship was okay.

Click! Click! Click!

Extremely excited, Yu Ayeon started firing her skill.

“Wow. Isn’t this the first time it’s made so many sounds?”
“Y-Yes, it is…”

Yu Ayeon’s eyes scanned the air.

She was looking through the photos and videos stored in her head through the photography skill.

Yu Ayeon, who was going through a series of actions, stiffened.

Her apple-red face now looked like it was really about to burst.

What kind of picture did she see?

I chuckled as I looked at the stiff Yu Ayeon.

“Shall we go get some hangover soup?”
“… How about… blood sausage soup?”
“Do you know a place that makes it well?”
“Hmm… There’s one nearby… I know…”
“Then let’s go to the place Ayeon-ssi knows. Ah. Just a moment. Let me just wash my face.”

I got ready enough to look like a decent human being and went outside.

Without much thought, the clothes I took out and wore were quite similar in style to her hoodie.

“Wearing it like this, it looks like couple clothes.”
“C-Couple clothes?!?!?!”
“… Was the word couple clothes that surprising?”
“Ah, no… Couple clothes… Ehehe… When you say it like that, it really… does seem like… couple clothes… Uhuhu…”

Yu Ayeon smiled broadly, as if she liked something.

“D-D-Do you think other people… will think it’s couple clothes…?”
“Hmm. Well. Since it’s so similar. Maybe they will?”
“Hnn… Uhhuhn…!”

Yu Ayeon hummed and led me.

And the restaurant we arrived at was.

“Ah, Ayeon-ssi knows this place too.”
“Uh, Suhyeon-ssi… knows this place too…? The blood sausage soup here is really delicious…!”

It was the Grandpa’s Blood Sausage Soup restaurant I ate at the day after I returned.

It was delicious, but I remembered it because it was the place where I suddenly fired killing intent jigeon at Yeom Haneul.

When we entered the blood sausage soup restaurant and sat down at a suitable table, the gazes of the surroundings were focused on the table we sat at.

This blood sausage soup restaurant had unusually many female customers.

Even when I visited last time, and even now, most of the customers occupying the tables were women.

The women’s gazes were fixed on Han Suhyeon.

They instinctively scanned his body and face and couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.

This was because they had never seen anyone with beauty surpassing the man in front of them, even if they combined their entire lives.

Some of them stopped all actions the moment they saw him and were dazed to the point of losing their minds.

The people who looked at Han Suhyeon naturally shifted their gaze to the woman next to him.

Who. Just who took such a man? Just how great is she…!

Where they looked. There were breasts.

Just, overwhelming breasts.

The women who were glaring at Yu Ayeon suddenly withdrew their hostility.

That can never be beaten.

Just looking at it, something attached to Yu Ayeon gave an overwhelming sense of defeat to the same woman.

They lowered their heads again and focused on their meals.

Yu Ayeon, who didn’t even know how she had crushed the hearts of other women, was just embarrassed by the suddenly quiet atmosphere.

“Auntie! Two special blood sausage soups here!”

Yu Ayeon had a surprisingly big appetite.

Just yesterday, didn’t Yu Ayeon almost eat all of the kimchi stew made to calculate the amount for several days?

Considering that large body, it seems like she should eat that much.

It’s a little innocent to think that she’s eating so much like that, and all of her fat will be wondering, “where did I put my diet?” when she speaks out loud about having worries because she is gaining weight, only on her chest.

It was incomprehensible that she was only going to eat ramen at the supermarket, despite having such an appetite.

“How is it…? Is it delicious…?”
“It’s hearty and good.”
“Huhu. That’s good…”

The soup was indeed delicious.

Drinking the warm broth cleared my head and seemed to relieve my hangover.

We had a delicious meal and talked.

“Then let’s rest well this week, and next week let’s go into the F-rank gate.”
“Yes… I think that would be good too…”

Now that I’m a D-rank hunter, I could enter D-rank gates if I wanted to.

But I haven’t experienced going to D-rank or higher gates yet, and Yu Ayeon, who is going into a gate for the first time, was with me.

So we decided to go into a relatively safe F-rank gate.

I judged that there would be no problem because I had experience clearing an F-rank gate half by myself.

I will challenge the higher gates after I have grown my strength to the point where I am confident that I can protect Yu Ayeon.

While we were talking and eating, we started to hear murmuring noises from around us.

“Wow, s*… Am I seeing things right now?”
“Uh. No. I’m seeing it too.”
“Th-Then is that person really Yeom Haneul…? Wow, I’m seeing Yeom Haneul for the first time…!”
“Aren’t the two people behind her the swordsman Jeong Hana and the healer Go So-hye? Waaa… They’re really f*cking cool…”

Three women in stylish black suits entered the restaurant.

People’s gazes were focused on the woman in the middle.

A woman who exuded a somewhat rough, violent, yet sophisticated atmosphere.

Yeom Haneul was there.

“Ah, unnie! Blood sausage soup again? How many times have we come here this week!”
“That’s right. No matter how much, blood sausage soup for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for four days in a row is a bit much…”

Yeom Haneul frowned at the whining of the two women.

“Shut up, you b*tches. Do you think I come here because I want to eat soup?”
“You don’t?”
“Wasn’t it?”
“… Phew. What am I going to say to you guys. Just eat what I give you. I’m buying it anyway.”
“Ah! Does this make sense! This is an obvious abuse of power by a superior…! Even if it’s you, nunim, I can’t stand… Yes. It makes sense… Yes… I’m sorry…”

The swordsman of the Flame of Upheaval party, Jeong Hana, rebelled against Yeom Haneul, but quietly accepted reality when she raised her fist.

“Then why are you complaining about food? Unnie. I can always eat what unnie wants to eat. I welcome blood sausage soup for a week straight!”

Jeong Hana looked at Go So-hye, who changed her words in an instant even though she had been complaining together until just now, and thought that this b*tch had finally gone crazy.

“Unnie! This really isn’t right. That b*tch has finally gone crazy…?”
“… Unnie?”

Jeong Hana and Go So-hye were puzzled by Yeom Haneul, who suddenly froze like a stone.

They also followed Yeom Haneul’s gaze and saw the man she was looking at.

“Wow…”
“… Gulp…”

Jeong Hana let out an exclamation without realizing it, and Go So-hye smiled and smacked her lips.

“Wow… Really… Wow… What a man… Wow… Wow…”
“At that level, even unnie, who is not interested in men, would naturally turn her eyes… Unnie?”

Yeom Haneul couldn’t answer their words.

She couldn’t take her eyes off the scene in front of her.

Since meeting Han Suhyeon that day, his face hadn’t left her mind every day.

In her dreams, after waking up from her dreams, when she was eating, when she was washing, when she was working, when she was falling asleep, she thought of him.

Work was not in her hands, and even when she vowed to force herself to concentrate on work, she was thinking about him again before she knew it.

That’s how shocking their first meeting was in Yeom Haneul’s life.

To meet Han Suhyeon again, she came to the blood sausage soup restaurant where she first met him every day.

When she saw Han Suhyeon collapsing and bleeding in the shelter, she felt like her breath had stopped without realizing it.

When she was rejected for her party joining proposal, she was a little bitter, but she was burning with hope that she would work harder in the future and get him.

When she suddenly heard that Han Suhyeon had come to the place where the association was handling monsters, she dropped everything and ran out.

But how long has it been since she was rejected, and it was too embarrassing to face him again, so she was satisfied with just watching from afar.

Last night, just that memory was enough to soothe her excited body while having happy delusions until dawn.

But.

What is in front of her eyes now?

She thought it couldn’t be.

When she saw that b*tch in the hospital, she thought that a woman with a strange skill had just taken a picture of Suhyeon-ssi.

Just that kind of, a woman with a little… big breasts.

She thought she would never be Suhyeon-ssi’s girlfriend.

He, who appeared even in her dreams and tormented her every day.

He and another woman, wearing the same couple clothes.

As if they had been rolling around in a motel, intimately exploring each other’s bodies.

He was smiling brightly at another woman.