A Lesson in Hierarchy
About a month ago.
Detective Kwon Jihyun woke up from her hypnosis.
Well, not completely.
She had merely regained her senses, seizing a brief lapse in the control.
She hadn't fully reclaimed her freedom.
She knew this better than anyone.
In that state, she kept thinking.
And at the end of those thoughts, she arrived at her current decision.
To willingly cooperate with Song Rahee of Shadow Company.
And with her help, take down Han Igyeol, and ultimately, Healing Soul.
Fighting poison with poison.
The so-called idokjedok—using one poison to cure another.
Since she had no proper means to resist the hypnosis on her own,
it was an unavoidable, highly rational, and obvious choice.
"Just you wait! I'll never forget this! I'll definitely get my revenge...!"
With those parting words, Poppy—or rather, Deputy Manager Red—fled the scene.
Ah.
My cute pet was gone.
Just when I was starting to grow attached to her, too.
"Keeping a human as a pet... You're out of your mind, you piece of trash."
The one speaking was Detective Kwon Jihyun, who had come home with me.
From now on, she would be living with me to keep me under surveillance.
"I'm the one who agreed to this. Even that Song Rahee woman consented."
"……Hmm."
"More importantly, where is my sister? I know everything. I know you're keeping Dahye locked up in your house."
"It's not exactly confinement..."
"Release her."
Detective Kwon Jihyun glared at me, her eyes saying she knew exactly what I was up to.
Her younger sister, who was now my lover.
She was currently living with me in this very apartment.
I only did it to prevent what happened yesterday.
Manager Alice's advice.
Following her counsel, I had made the younger sister my bodyguard.
But that effort proved futile.
Since I ended up getting ambushed while away from home anyway,
there was no longer any real need to keep her by my side.
"Alright, alright. But not right now."
"Why not?"
"Because she's out on a business trip. Didn't you know?"
"……."
The exorcist was currently away on business.
It was a long-term request, so she wouldn't be back for about a week.
"...Fine. Then release her the moment she returns."
And with that, the matter of her sister was settled.
"Good. Now then..."
"Is there something else?"
I wished she'd give it a rest.
She'd already taken away my girlfriend and my pet in a single morning. What else was she planning to rob me of?
As I glared at her with resentful eyes,
Jihyun looked around my room and knit her brows slightly.
"First... let's clean up. This room is a total pigsty."
"How on earth could you live in a dump like this? Did none of the three of you ever think to clean up?"
Nag, nag, nag.
At Jihyun's nagging, Igyeol half-heartedly muttered, "Yeah, yeah."
Jihyun did not appreciate his attitude.
How could a man be so utterly pathetic?
For someone as upright and moral as Jihyun, he was an incredibly uncomfortable person to deal with.
She felt like she could never, in a million years, get close to a man like him.
"But I actually keep things pretty tidy, you know? Most of the mess is from your sister—"
"Are you blaming my sister?"
"...No, no. It's entirely my fault~."
She began organizing the items and stuffing useless things into trash bags.
Exorcism tools were scattered all over the place, getting in the way of the cleaning.
It seemed her sister Dahye really was responsible for a large portion of the mess, just as he said.
I'll have to give her a piece of my mind when I see her.
Maybe I spoiled her too much just because of our age gap.
"...? What are you doing?"
"Admiring the view."
Before she knew it,
Igyeol had squatted down behind Kwon Jihyun, watching her intently.
She wanted to scold him for slacking off instead of helping,
but on second thought, watching felt like a perfectly valid contribution to the cleaning... or so it seemed.
Right now, Detective Kwon Jihyun was wearing nothing but an apron.
Standing behind her, her ass and pussy were completely exposed to his view.
That was a good thing.
She couldn't remember exactly why it was good,
...but anyway, it was a good thing.
A sow like me, cleaning while exposing her pussy and ass for all to see.
Just having him watch made her clean so much more efficiently.
Yes, that must have been it.
"I'll keep watch, so keep going, Detective."
"...Understood. Keep watching from right there."
Jihyun bent over to tie the trash bag.
Deliberately pushing her hips further back, positioning herself so he could get a better look.
Swaying her rear enticingly as she did so.
She finished her call with the safely released Deputy Manager Red.
Just in case, she ordered her to lay low in a designated safehouse for the time being.
Last night's negotiation.
It seemed Igyeol had faithfully complied with her demands.
Song Rahee hung up the phone and leaned back languidly against the backrest.
She was currently sitting on a sofa, having her nails manicured by Deputy General Manager Lim.
Carefully handling the nail file, Deputy General Manager Lim asked softly,
"Has Deputy Manager Red been released?"
"Indeed."
"To think she was actually bested by that man..."
It was quite surprising.
Even after interrogating him last night and hearing the truth, she had still been half-skeptical.
In any case, it was a relief she was free.
Deputy Manager Red still had work to do in the future.
"Does this mean we can assume he's joining hands with us?"
"Who knows," Song Rahee murmured.
"Probably not just yet."
He wasn't the type to fold so easily.
Song Rahee was certain of it.
"For now, he'll pretend to play along. He has no choice, given that the detective is watching his every move."
No matter how clever he was, he wouldn't dare do anything too reckless under constant surveillance.
"If I had to guess, he'll try to break the hypnosis on that detective."
"...! Such insolence...!"
He wasn't the type to meekly obey orders.
She had known the moment she laid eyes on him last night.
He was far from a docile, obedient dog.
He would undoubtedly struggle to reclaim Kwon Jihyun—the shackle binding him—as his own.
But that was impossible.
Not with the level of power Igyeol possessed.
"Once he realizes there's no way for him to break my hypnosis—"
he will eventually accept his defeat.
And he'll learn exactly where he stands in the hierarchy.
"So you intend to show him the difference in your ranks."
"Exactly. What do you think, Deputy General Manager Lim? How do you see this playing out?"
"Of course it will go exactly as you say, Director Song. You are absolute perfection!"
It was a bit of an exaggeration,
but she wasn't wrong.
Song Rahee wasn't invincible.
But she was far from incompetent enough to be outmatched by a mere Employee.
It was simply the natural order of things.
Between a Department Manager and an Employee, there lay an insurmountable gap in power.
Suddenly, her recent conversation with Deputy Manager Red crossed her mind.
Her voice had sounded strangely frantic.
But that was likely just because she was still disoriented from having her hypnosis broken.
If she were in her right mind, she would never have said such things.
There was no way Song Rahee couldn't handle a single greenhorn.
There's not even a one-in-a-million chance of anything going wrong.
Song Rahee pondered it for a moment, but quickly dismissed it as a useless worry.
Anyway, I went through hell yesterday.
I summoned a sex slave, and a stun gun got delivered instead.
And on top of that, I heard some mind-blowing news.
Betray the company?
There was no way I could do that.
If I did, it would be an instant game over.
And there was another reason I couldn't disobey.
Every employee in the company had a 'bomb' planted in their head.
A bomb planted by the CEO herself.
"You don't have to worry about a thing."
"If you agree to join hands with us, we'll take care of everything."
Director Song had declared so with absolute confidence.
And indeed, they seemed perfectly fine despite having deserted the company on their own terms.
Did they have some secret method of their own?
Was there a scenario like this in the game?
As if I could remember.
It had been years.
Besides, it was a game that encouraged multiple playthroughs.
Maybe there was a different scenario prepared starting from the second playthrough.
Having only completed the first playthrough, I had no way of knowing.
What should I do?
This is trouble. Serious trouble.
"...Focus on your food... while you're eating...!"
Detective Kwon Jihyun was truly amazing.
She cleaned fast, and she was a great cook.
The room was completely unrecognizable from before.
An incredibly mouth-watering aroma drifted through the air.
The dishes laid out on the table.
Jihyun had prepared all of them.
She had even bought the ingredients herself—though, of course, not while wearing just an apron.
Her younger sister had never done anything of the sort, nor was she capable of it.
As expected, the older sister was superior.
"Sorry, I'm sorry. I have this disease where I'll die if I don't get enough kisses before a meal."
"There's no way... such a disease exists..."
"It's true. I really caught it."
"……Then I suppose it can't be helped."
The detective nodded as if convinced.
Still holding her chopsticks, she leaned in to return my kiss.
We shared a long, deep kiss right in front of the dining table.
Even when my hands snuck down to knead her breasts and rub her private parts, she didn't resist.
Whenever she showed even the slightest hint of hesitation,
"I have that disease. Help me out, Detective."
a single reminder was enough to make her instantly comply.
She would even press herself closer, letting me touch her breasts or pussy however I pleased.
What a kind, innocent detective.
Of course, it was all thanks to the hypnosis.
"The food... is getting cold..."
"Then feed me, Detective. Come, sit here."
I pulled her onto my lap and began groping her body.
Though her body squirmed, she diligently picked up food with her chopsticks to feed me.
Slurp...! Ahh...!
In the middle of it, I began teasing her pussy directly with my cock.
The detective's hot, fully prepared pussy wrapped tightly around my hard shaft.
It's so tight...! Feels amazing...!
"You really have such a slutty body...!"
Squelch, squelch, squelch, squelch
Gush... Spurt...!
After thrusting into her wet hole for a long time right in front of the dining table,
I discharged a thick load deep inside her womb.
As I pulled out, semen began to overflow and drip down her thighs. The detective stared down at it with vacant, dazed eyes.
"Thanks for cooperating, Detective. You were a big help."
"...I'm glad... I could be of help..."
She cleaned my cock with her mouth,
and only then did we resume eating.
...The food had gone cold, but it was still delicious. You're the best, Detective.
The one who had hypnotized the detective was Director Song Rahee.
She had erased my original hypnosis,
overwriting it with her own instead.
And Director Song Rahee's hypnosis was indeed sophisticated and masterful enough to justify her immense confidence.
The more I observed it, the more impressed I became.
Even more so considering the target was Detective Kwon, who possessed a natural resistance to mind control.
As a mere Employee who had only recently shed his Intern tag, I couldn't even begin to compare.
It was only natural.
Truly incredible.
Maybe it wouldn't hurt to hear what they have to say.
But before that, there was something I had to do.
I needed to get some information from Manager Alice.