Chapter 33
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 33
Chapter Title: I Just Came to Steal Panties
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Under the pouring water, Baek Hwa surrendered her body, starting to regret everything she'd done from last night until now.
It was what they called post-nut clarity.
'Damn...'
Baek Hwa had gone to his room last night because her sex drive had suddenly exploded. She'd only entered to look for a handjob buddy.
She knew Park A-jun would be late coming back because he was getting examined by Professor Kim Yun-ji.
That was how Park A-jun's panty theft began.
For her, whose surging libido had driven her to such a risky act, it was unavoidable. Lately, Baek Hwa's growth had stalled.
No matter how much she swung her sword, she wasn't achieving the progress she desired, and the immense stress was eating at her.
For someone like her, where stress directly translated to sexual frustration, it was an unbearable issue. That's why, even knowing it was dangerous, she'd snuck into Park A-jun's room.
The thrill of possibly getting caught fueled her treasure hunt... for panties.
Success meant finding ones that still carried the intense male scent, unwashed.
So absorbed was she that she'd forgotten the time Park A-jun would return. After agonizing, Baek Hwa's conclusion was to get angry.
Park A-jun still hadn't received the video—clearly capturing his disgraceful state—from Professor Kim Yun-ji.
She'd glared at him with an expression of fury, but who would've thought he'd use it to blackmail her...
"T-to think I'd actually get blackmailed..."
Watching the semen wash away under the cascading water, Baek Hwa, deep in post-nut clarity, thought nothing at all.
She'd fantasized daily about being blackmailed by Park A-jun and forced into submission, but the reality far exceeded her imagination in pleasure.
That's why she was afraid. Afraid she'd truly surrender to this ecstasy and lose herself.
And yet, part of her hoped Park A-jun would blackmail her again.
That's why she could never give in to pleasure of her own will. It had to be because of Park A-jun's blackmail.
'I'm a knight... a knight who protects the Young Lady.'
She was a knight sworn to protect the Young Lady...! So she couldn't fully surrender to such depraved pleasure.
That was Baek Hwa's vow.
"What depravity is this...!!"
But before even a day passed, Baek Hwa faced an irresistible temptation.
On the way to the academy.
In the limousine where she sat casually with her teammates, she couldn't help but be shocked by Park A-jun casually pulling out his dick.
"No need to worry? No matter what illusions I cast of me, Master, and you doing, it'll just look like we're sitting here normally~ Ah! But be careful—if you try to exert physical force on someone, the illusion might break."
Hearing the brief telepathy, Baek Hwa was stunned.
This was Lee Ji-hyun's limousine, daughter of the Star Cloud Guild Master—one of Korea's top guilds. Naturally, the seats were spacious enough that even stretching out their legs, they wouldn't bump into each other.
In the center, Bianca knelt firmly, preparing to suck his dick—a pose that screamed this wasn't her first time.
She must have done this every day on the way to the academy.
"Y-you're insane...!!"
"What's up with you all of a sudden?"
"What's wrong?"
The other teammates gave her weird looks at her outburst. Even Park A-jun!
"Ah, voices escape if you're too loud, so be careful~?"
"N-no, it's nothing..."
Baek Hwa glared at Bianca, who was telepathing with his dick in her mouth. Shouldn't she have said that sooner!
Her voice even sounded teasing, like she'd deliberately waited, making Baek Hwa's blood boil even more.
"Why don't you join in serving Master's dick~?"
"Hah... Do I have to do something you didn't even order?"
Baek Hwa sent back her telepathy in response to Bianca's.
Of course, Park A-jun heard it too. Naturally, Baek Hwa was baiting him, hoping he'd blackmail her.
"Well, if you don't want to, no big deal."
"...?"
But the telepathy coming through Bianca left Baek Hwa flustered.
Why...?
No matter how you sliced it, with Bianca there, if she exposed her breasts and sucked his dick right beside her, it had to be the ultimate turn-on for any man.
Yet Park A-jun had just refused.
'Why on earth?'
The question swirled in Baek Hwa's mind.
Thwack-!!
"What're you doing? Not focusing."
Until a hard wooden sword smacked her head.
Today's academy lecture was only in the morning, meaning afternoons were for returning home and free practice.
And her free practice time was no different from Park A-jun's. It was time spent training under the individual hunters hired by Lee Ji-hyun.
Her instructor, like Sin Han-byeol who taught Park A-jun, was a B-Rank female hunter.
Only after feeling the sharp impact on her head did Baek Hwa momentarily forget the emptiness she'd felt today.
"Hoo. Sorry."
"Something wrong? Looks like boyfriend troubles?"
Baek Hwa clamped her mouth shut at the instructor's sharp question.
"Kidding. Just kidding."
The instructor knew Baek Hwa disliked men, so it was a joke, but Baek Hwa's fierce glare gave her chills, prompting her to smooth things over.
Getting on her bad side would be trouble.
Whether Lee Ji-hyun became the next Star Cloud Guild Master was uncertain, but Baek Hwa was all but guaranteed the position of Team 1 Leader—the guild's top elites.
She might not have that level of skill yet, but with her mother being the renowned Sword Ghost, caution was advised.
Unless she retired in the next 1-2 years.
"Hoo. No. One more spar, please."
"Sure."
Thankfully, Baek Hwa gripped her sword again, ignoring the instructor's slip.
'Focus.'
Baek Hwa began enveloping her sword in sword energy. A bit more refinement, and she might form sword aura.
It had been over two years since she'd hoped for that.
Thinking of her sword again brought only a sigh.
Sword aura.
Called "aura" in the West.
For reference, sword energy was known as mana sword.
Anyway, this sword aura realm was one every martial practitioner had to reach. In hunter terms, it was the minimum qualification for B-Rank.
Any class could acquire it via skills, but without genuine dedication to martial arts and true enlightenment, it was forever out of reach.
That's why Baek Hwa was anxious. Her S-Rank mother, the Sword Ghost, had mastered sword aura before entering the academy.
The Sword Ghost back then and Baek Hwa, barely past her first semester, weren't that different in experience—but who knew.
Many swordsmen stalled at C-Rank or learned miscellaneous skills to scrape B-Rank without sword aura, so Baek Hwa might fail too.
Thus, anxiety naturally infused her swordplay.
"Steady your mind! No good strike comes from a disordered heart!"
"Yes!"
As a fellow swordswoman, the instructor recognized it. That's how she spotted the anxiety in Baek Hwa's strikes.
Petty tricks in an honest sword would fell any but third-rate hunters.
Superfluous flourishes weakened power and exposed weaknesses.
Thwack-!
"Ugh-!!"
This time, the wooden sword hit Baek Hwa's abdomen, nearly making her vomit the bread Cha Yu-rin made for lunch. The pain was that intense.
The real Baek Hwa would've mitigated the impact by retreating appropriately. But her prolonged failure to form sword aura was dulling her skills overall.
She knew it, but couldn't fix it.
That's why she'd snuck into Park A-jun's room and endured all that!!
"Calm down and master your heart, I said. At this rate, without real talent, you might never learn sword aura."
"Talent" meant easily raising or acquiring skills. Effort varied; one might go F to E with 100 units, another need 200 and still fail.
But no one knew their own talent without comparison. With a rare class like Sword Saint, it was impossible to gauge progress.
Thus, most hunters thirsted for enlightenment to learn their class skills.
Even the untalented could learn with enlightenment.
Rare skill books from dungeons existed, but at minimum 10 billion won, they were unobtainable.
Baek Hwa, daughter of Team 1 Leader, wasn't poor, but lacked crucial skill books...
Whoosh-!!
Baek Hwa merely swung her sword.
"Hm...?"
But this time was different. A strike so heavy it defied belief.
No clumsy tricks or anxiety—just honest, thus harder-to-block power.
'She got enlightenment!'
The instructor marveled at Baek Hwa's sudden breakthrough. As expected of the Sword Ghost's daughter.
But Baek Hwa's reaction was flat.
Whoosh-whoosh-!
Her sword kept swinging, as if in a trance.
Well, she was in a trance. She'd gained enlightenment, after all. However it happened, enlightenment was enlightenment.
Semen absorption complete. Sensitivity increased status applied!
Permanently gained experience toward enlightenment.
Sufficient experience accumulated. Enlightenment achieved!
Even if it came from absorbing someone's semen.