Chapter 24: E-Grade Gate (1)

Consciousness was there, but the body wouldn’t move.

It felt like I was being pressed down by a nightmare, unable to breathe properly, and I felt a stifling sensation.

The identity of what was on top of me now…

“Ugh… So f*cking heavy…”

Vmmmmmmmm!

Cutie♡Angel (Greatsword/Ego Sword/2m/28kg/Virgin) was pressing down on me from above.

“A-Are you finally going to kill your master…!”

Vmmmmmm!!!

Cutie♡Angel shook her blade violently.

“… You made my body so eager, why are you just leaving me alone…?”

… Vmmm.

“You want me to quickly touch you here and there with my hands and make you messy…?”

… Vmmmmmm♡

The morning that started with a skit with Cutie♡Angel.

I meticulously wiped Cutie♡Angel’s blade with a towel and checked the time to meet Yu Ayeon.

I’m already messing around with one woman under the bed, but I’m thinking of another woman in my head.

Vmmm…♡

Every time I looked down at Cutie♡Angel, who was moaning, I felt strange, but that wasn’t important right now.

I put Cutie♡Angel, who had finished maintenance, in the inventory and took a shower.

I changed into comfortable activewear, finished getting ready, and went outside.

The place I was heading to was none other than the soup restaurant I visited last time. The reason, of course, was to buy soup.

However, I wasn’t going to eat there, but I was planning to take it out.

The higher the grade of the gate, the larger and wider the inside of the gate becomes.

The higher the grade of the gate, the more powerful monsters appear, so you need to be more careful about safety, and sometimes traps even appear.

As you go to higher-level gates, the time it takes to explore the inside of the gate doubles.

Because of this, from E-rank gates, unlike F-rank gates, you often have to ‘live’ inside the gate.

If it’s long, it’s a few months, if it’s short, it’s a few days.

In the harsh environment inside the gate, you have to solve not only food, clothing, and shelter, but also s*xual desire, which becomes more intense in crisis situations.

The E-rank gate we’re heading to this time has a short estimated clearing time of about 6 hours, so we won’t be packing food.

Originally, meals inside the gate are taken with combat rations containing mana cores, which are relatively light, easy to store, taste like sh*t, but can definitely provide nutrition.

Carrying supplies, including food, and taking on all kinds of chores inside the gate was the porter’s job.

But now I didn’t need a porter.

Me, Han Suhyeon. A steady seller in the porter world, who has mastered all aspects of housework, including cleaning, laundry, cooking, and s*xual processing, through 5 years of porter life and 10 years of hero life.

And I had the awesome skill called Inventory given to me by the goddess.

Why eat combat rations?

Just eat warm and hearty soup.

Why carry a porter’s bag?

Just put it in the inventory and carry it around.

As I walked, stabbing innocent porters’ hearts with my thoughts, I arrived at the soup restaurant.

I opened the door with a clatter and came in and ordered takeout.

While waiting for the order, I looked around.

Maybe it’s because it’s morning, but unlike the busy lunch time, there was only one group of customers.

“Unnie. Unnie. Ah, please eat some. It’s the soup that unnie likes.”
“… I don’t like it…”
“No, you came here every day for several days last week. You haven’t eaten anything for a week now. You need to eat something.”
“That person… doesn’t like me… Another woman… Ahhh…!”
“… Sigh. What happened that a person became an idiot in a week…”
“I know, right…”

The people who came to the soup restaurant in the morning were Yeom Haneul’s party, whom I had seen last time.

Jeong Hana and Go So-hye were sitting on either side of Yeom Haneul, who had a corpse-like expression, and were poking her cheeks with spoons filled with soup.

The soup dripped down Yeom Haneul’s sloppy suit, who was staring blankly into space.

‘What the hell happened?’

The sharp eyes that once shone brightly were now dead black, and it was clear that there had been a major incident that had shattered Yeom Haneul’s heart in the past week.

The sharp eyes filled with passion and fighting spirit that I saw that day.

And the courage to be able to maintain sanity even in front of my killing intent was not something you could easily see.

‘What a waste…’

It was a waste.

It was such a waste for such a talented person to be on the ground.

As I was thinking about what to do and staring at her, our eyes met.

It was awkwardly embarrassing, so I smiled awkwardly, but she just stared at me with a dazed look.

And time passed.

1 second. 2 seconds. 3 seconds.

Whoosh!

“Huh?!”

Suddenly, Yeom Haneul’s dead eyes came to life, and her pale skin turned red.

“Uh, uh, uh? H-Han Suhyeon-ssi?!”

Yeom Haneul desperately tried to cover her bright red face with both hands.

I greeted her, who was suddenly embarrassed and didn’t know what to do.

“Ahaha… Hello? It’s the first time I’ve seen you since I saw you at the hospital.”
“Huh? Hospital…? … Ah, yes. That time. We last saw each other then. Yes.”
“… Did something happen? You don’t look well, and… your clothes…”
“Huh? My clothes?”

I looked at her sloppily loosened suit.

The buttons of her shirt were not properly fastened, and her tie was loosened as if it was barely hanging on her neck.

“My clothes are, mmm…!”

As if she had just realized her condition, she quickly turned around and buttoned up her suit.

In that time, she seemed to have regained her composure, and her embarrassed and flustered face returned to the sharp face I had seen before.

“I’m sorry for showing you an unsightly appearance.”
“Hey. It’s nothing. The appearance a little while ago was also Haneul-ssi’s… Ah, can I call you Haneul-ssi?”
“Ah, yes. I-It’s an honor.”
“It’s not that much of an honor… Rather, I felt like I saw a new side of Haneul-ssi, so it was good?”
“N-New side…… Thank you.”

Yeom Haneul took a deep breath and trembled as she thanked me.

“Ah, are those people behind you…?”
“… Ah. These guys are my lapdo… No, my precious colleagues.”

When Yeom Haneul whispered to them in a very small voice, looking at them, who were staring at me and Yeom Haneul alternately with astonished eyes, they jumped up and began to introduce themselves.

“… Hurry up and introduce yourselves. Before I kill you.”
“I-I! Am the swordsman belonging to Flame of Upheaval! My name is Jeong Hana! Nice to meet you, brother-in-law!”
“Ahaha! Brother-in-law! What is this kid saying, really!”

Thump!

Yeom Haneul, whose lips were curled up to her ears, thumped Jeong Hana’s head, and Jeong Hana collapsed to the floor like a puppet with its strings cut.

… Is she dead?

While glancing at Jeong Hana, who had fallen to the floor, Go So-hye continued.

“S-Similarly, I’m a healer belonging to Flame of Upheaval. My name is Go So-hye.”
“Yes. My name is Han Suhyeon. Nice to meet you.”

When we exchanged names, healer Go So-hye tilted her head.

“…? Han Suhyeon…? Ah. Ah! Perhaps, at the shelter then…?”
“Ah, yes. At that time, Yeom Haneul-ssi told me that her party’s healer treated me. I’m finally thanking you now. Thank you so much for that time.”

When I bowed my head and expressed my sincere gratitude, Go So-hye’s face turned red.

“Th-That’s nothing…”

And her eyes met Yeom Haneul’s, who was looking at her as if she would tear her apart.

“… It wasn’t nothing! In fact, it’s all thanks to the excellent judgment of our party’s leader, Haneul unnie~.”
“Hmm. Hmm.”
“Is that all? In a crisis situation, judgment if it’s judgment! Strength if it’s strength! There’s no other woman like this anywhere in the world?”
“Uh-huh. Uh-huh.”
“Our unnie is rich because she’s a hunter. She has a bit of power. And look. Isn’t our unnie really pretty? And with those melons, in bed…!”

“Hmph! Stop. Hmph.”

Yeom Haneul tapped Go So-hye’s shoulder.

I don’t know what the meaning of that action is.

But seeing Go So-hye stepping back with an expression that said she survived today, it seemed like a gesture of good job.

“… You have interesting party members.”
“… They’re embarrassing guys to show anywhere.”

“It would be too rude to get a ride.”
“No, brother-in-law! Please get in!”
“Ah, yes…”

I put the packaged soup in the inventory and talked with them, and somehow I ended up getting a ride.

Jeong Hana was driving and Go So-hye was sitting in the passenger seat, talking about how this car is a Rolls-Royce Phantom something~ our unnie’s wealth is this great~ but honestly, I couldn’t concentrate on that conversation at all.

My gaze was fixed on Yeom Haneul, who was sitting elegantly with her legs crossed in the next seat.

‘The size of her melons

… is considerable?’

No matter how much, it wasn’t comparable to Yu Ayeon’s, but it seemed like it could put up a pretty good fight.

“… Are you uncomfortable somewhere?”

Yeom Haneul also seemed to be conscious of that gaze, so she asked me.

‘Yes. I’m uncomfortable in my lower body because of Haneul-ssi’s melons, which have a heart as wide as the sky.’

“Huh? No? I’m comfortable and it’s good?”
“Then that’s good.”

Still, I didn’t suddenly ‘compliment her body’ like when I met Yu Ayeon.

Honestly, at that time, I was also facing such an unbelievably huge existence that my head went blank and I said what I was thinking only in my head without realizing it.

It’s Yu Ayeon’s fault for having a suggestive body that makes you want to compliment her body.

While I was thinking such thoughts, Yeom Haneul suddenly said something out of the blue with a very serious expression.

“… Th-That, Suhyeon-ssi… Are you… in a relationship… with Yu Ayeon-ssi, who was taking care of you at the hospital that day?”
“… Huh?”

Relationship? Why did she suddenly reach that conclusion?

“No?”
“Really… You two even mixed bodies…… Eh? Huh?”
“I’m not in a relationship with Ayeon-ssi. Rather… A business relationship…? No, a friend…?”

Yu Ayeon and I are in a business relationship where we will film videos to upload to iTube together.

We also had sincere conversations, drank alcohol, and shared.

We were friends who lay in the same bed and spent the night together.

… Huh?

Is this a friend…?

“I-Is that true? Really?!”
“Uh, uh… Yes…”
“Haa… That’s a relief…”

I don’t know what’s a relief, but it was too late to say it wasn’t like that, and I was suddenly confused myself, and Yeom Haneul was so happy that I just let it go.

Then, a strange atmosphere flowed in the car for a moment, but fortunately, we arrived at the place where I was supposed to meet Yu Ayeon soon.

“Ah, you can drop me off here. Thanks to you, I came comfortably.”
“It’s nothing. Contact me later if you need it.”
“Yes. Thank you… Uh, Ayeon-ssi!”

As I was saying goodbye to Yeom Haneul and getting off, I saw Yu Ayeon in the distance.

Yu Ayeon also seemed to have seen me, and she approached with a bright expression like a puppy that found its owner, but her steps gradually slowed down when she saw the unfamiliar car next to me.

And then Yu Ayeon’s steps stopped completely.

“…”
“…”

Yu Ayeon and Yeom Haneul exchanged silent eye contact.

Yeom Haneul looked at Yu Ayeon with sharper eyes than before, but with a strange sneer mixed in.

Yu Ayeon looked at me and Yeom Haneul alternately with a confused expression.

“Thank you so much for today! Then see you next time, Haneul-ssi! Come on, let’s go, Ayeon-ssi.”

I had a strangely ominous premonition, so I quickly said goodbye to Yeom Haneul, pulled Yu Ayeon’s arm and hugged her tightly, and left the place.

It was a posture like lovers linking arms.

“…”

Then, I heard a grinding sound from behind, and a chuckle from the side.

“… Huhu.”
“…? Ayeon-ssi? What’s wrong?”
“… It’s nothing… Huhuh… For now… I won…”

… I don’t understand the hearts of women in the reversed world or the original world.