Chapter 18
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 18
Chapter Title: Take Good Care of My Granddaughter...!
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"Puhahaha! So the outing that day ended without even lunch?"
"Yes... Sigh. I never imagined beastkin discrimination would be that blatant."
"Heh heh. You had a rough time, our Counselor Seungbin."
It was a sort of guardian meeting.
When working as a patient's dedicated psychiatrist, sharing the overall progress of treatment with their guardian was an important procedure.
Especially for psychiatric counseling.
The person sitting in front of me now was Narae-ssi’s sole guardian.
Though she was past sixty, her appearance boasted a petite, elementary school kid-like frame and a loli-esque beauty: Branch Chief Yoo Geumhui.
In her office at the top floor of the Hunter Association building.
I sat face-to-face with the branch chief alone, explaining yesterday’s first outing therapy session with Narae-ssi.
And at the same time, my clear mistake as well.
"Um... Are you alright?"
"Hm? With what?"
"It might not be my place to say, but... due to my carelessness yesterday, your granddaughter had an unpleasant experience."
Of course, we made it home safely.
But in the middle of the street, her panties got soaked through and unwearable, and in the end, she had to put on the diaper I gave her.
Narae-ssi wasn’t a patient with infantile regression tastes like Yunhwa-ssi, so I worried she might take it as humiliation and shut her heart away again.
But to my concern, Branch Chief Yoo Geumhui waved it off dismissively, as if it were pathetic.
"Humiliation? Narae was perfectly fine—just the other day, she sat down with me for a meal for the first time in ages."
"Pardon...? Is that true?"
I couldn’t believe it.
Locked in her room for two months.
She’d always only sneakily eat the food the maids left outside her door.
Yet after that incident a few days ago, Narae-ssi had sat across from Branch Chief Yoo Geumhui with a smiling face, devouring over 10kg of beef while grinning ear to ear?
Of course... when a wolf beastkin’s heat cycle overlaps, they need 2-3 times the usual calorie intake.
Even if it was a physiological response, if her heart had been closed off, such a meal would’ve been absolutely impossible.
The branch chief looked at me with a chuckle.
"That kid’s always secretly yearned for crowded places."
"...I hadn’t heard that before."
"She’s been like that since she was little. Shopping malls, cafes, amusement parks... She’d only look at them on her phone. I was too busy to take her, she refused to go with the maids... and she couldn’t dream of going alone."
Her words made my head spin.
I recalled Narae-ssi’s expression at the cafe.
Her eyes unfamiliar yet excited, her thrilled gestures.
That cautiousness, like touching something that was both new and precious.
...So that really was her first time.
It wasn’t just a simple outing.
For her, it might’ve been her first real encounter with the world.
"Next time, I’ll take her somewhere even better."
"Good mindset. That’s what a lead doctor should be."
The branch chief set down her teacup and leaned forward slightly.
And suddenly.
"But you know, Counselor Kim Seungbin."
"......Yes?"
Straightening her back abruptly, staring right at me with that expression.
A faint smile hiding a strange aura.
She looked like a child... but her speech and presence were pure authority figure.
"So, about that ‘naked stroll’ Narae’s been dying for. When exactly are you going to make it happen?"
"......!"
Of course, I hadn’t forgotten.
For typical psychiatric patients, using specific sexual fetishes in treatment was taboo.
It might provide temporary stability, but long-term, it usually worsened the condition.
But Narae-ssi wasn’t a typical patient.
A top combat talent in this world, touted as a next-gen S-Rank Hunter candidate.
She was a special case with considerable self-control and resilience even in extreme stress.
Moreover, if her sole effective outlet for mental instability was this ‘exposure’ fetish, as her therapist and doctor, I couldn’t ignore it.
Of course, strictly as part of role-play therapy, under proper control and circumstances.
As if seeing through it all, Branch Chief Yoo Geumhui eyed me playfully and chuckled.
"Hesitating because you’re embarrassed? Don’t worry. I’ll specially send all the mansion staff home early that day, so it’ll just be you two in the garden~."
She threw in a cute wink, like an elementary kid playing a prank.
But I didn’t waver.
This was treatment under medical judgment.
Nothing more, nothing less.
"For that... I’ve already scheduled it for tonight."
"Wha... what?? R-Really?"
"Yes. I’d be truly grateful if you could help, Branch Chief. And..."
"...?"
Given the treatment method, the guardian might have concerns.
So I added calmly.
"If you’re curious about the process... you can ‘observe’ from an angle where the patient can’t see you."
"Ob-Observe...?!"
'This is it!'
Branch Chief Yoo Geumhui inwardly cheered.
Before her heavy role as Hunter Association Korea Branch Chief, she was Narae’s guardian, raising the child alone for so long.
No blood relation, but she’d poured in affection enough to call her ‘daughter.’
But due to her carnivorous beastkin sense of smell, Narae always picked up others’ emotions too sensitively.
That’s why she couldn’t fit into human society and spent more time holed up in her room.
One day, as she passed the lonely time, a figure appeared before the child.
‘Counselor Kim Seungbin.’
High specs, stable job, tall stature, appealing looks.
Above all, a rare man who treated beastkin warmly without disgust or distance.
From the moment she first saw him with all those qualities, Branch Chief Yoo Geumhui’s scheme was set.
Under the guise of ‘treatment,’ forge a ‘bond.’
And ultimately, make that man ‘Narae’s exclusive stud.’
The fox in branch chief guise was already plotting beyond treatment effects.
‘Honestly... a man like this won’t come again in Narae’s life. No, never again?’
He was like the last ticket from god in an era of male extinction.
Even her daughter’s special sexual trauma was unraveling before him as ‘stability.’
...At this point, it was divine revelation.
‘Yes... this is the goddess whispering.
She’s a girl too—shouldn’t she bite and suck at least once? ...or something like that.
So, using this ‘treatment’ as the turning point, she planned to nail it down.
Dedicated counselor for her daughter?
No, you’re just her exclusive stud.
But then, his utterly calm words.
"Ah, for that, we’re doing it tonight."
...Pardon?
And it didn’t end there. He went further...
"As long as it’s from an angle the patient can’t see, you can watch. ‘Observe’ discreetly."
That was the moment.
Branch Chief Yoo Geumhui realized.
No, she had no choice but to.
This man... wasn’t some ordinary stud to sweetly mate with Narae, bear a cute wolf pup, and call it a day.
He was the one who tames wolves—or rather... yes, a ‘beast trainer.’
Not even a male wolf, but a beastkin tamer.
A professional who could fully domesticate even howling, biting beasts.
‘A man with such ironclad ‘sexual mentality’...?!’
No matter how you slice it.
Narae’s ‘fetish’ was at a level that could make others nosebleed and faint just hearing it.
Even as a treatable trait... ultimately, what she wanted was crawling naked in the garden, right?
Not just walking either.
Breasts dangling, on all fours, barking ‘Awoo~’ from her mouth, playing beast in the dawn garden.
Ha... and he’d supervise that?
A real man, no less?
"Incredible professional spirit... and even more incredible... male...!"
Branch Chief Yoo Geumhui’s brain started overheating.
Already, her mind vividly pictured Seungbin shedding his doctor’s coat, like a piper beast trainer gripping Narae’s leash, strolling the garden.
Now, a man joining that lewd, sad beast play she’d secretly witnessed at dawn.
Narae crawling leashed, shaking her tail with “Ahn~♡”
And beside her, Seungbin transformed from doctor to male tamer, expressionless, saying:
"Crawl."
"Yesss... Master... Awoo~♡"
"Uh, uh buh buh... uh buh buh buh...!"
Branch Chief Yoo Geumhui swallowed her unintended moan, words tangling.
No, at nearly eighty, for a ‘pure man’ treating her granddaughter to spark such fantasies.
What the hell was this situation!
Maybe because she was an ‘old spinster’ with extra male fantasies.
These imaginings wouldn’t stop.
If Counselor Seungbin... could tame even Narae, someday he’d say to her too, “There, Branch Chief. On your knees”!?
"Br-Branch Chief? Are you okay?"
"I-I’m fine!"
She quickly wiped drool from her mouth and nodded.
But her face, red to the ears, didn’t look fine at all.
"But you, Counselor Seungbin... will you be okay tonight?"
"Pardon? Ah, well... of course I’m a bit nervous. But for the patient, I have to ‘lead’ her all the way."
"?! A man who leads women around... Indeed... ‘Please handle the taming well.’"
"......It’s ‘treatment.’"