A Dog's Morning
Managing the S-Ranks. Flash. Jin Seong-ah opened her eyes in the morning and cast everything else aside to search for Yu Seong-eun first. The moment she saw him sleeping soundly in her own bed, a sigh of relief escaped her lips.
……Could a person really look this different in just one day? Compared to when she had first become a hunter and joined Yushin Guild, he seemed impossibly changed. D-rank. Among the hunter ranks divided from A to E, it was essentially the bare minimum line where one could still function as a hunter. E-rank hunters only reached the level of sensing mana and usually did not work as hunters. Most of the guild’s rear-support personnel were E-rank. The lowest rank among hunters who entered gates. She could not understand how someone like that had become a team leader in the massive Yushin Guild, or why he kept nagging her with orders.
‘He does seem pretty smart, though……’
He was not the type to fight monsters head-on inside gates. In truth, when she had worked in Team 3, he never charged into battle like the other team leaders. He simply split the team members, assigned tasks, and focused on completing objectives. He was better suited to being a commander than a soldier.
‘But how did he do it?’
Jin Seong-ah lightly placed her hand on his arm. The amount of mana flowing from his body was pitiful compared to hers. Barely a handful. And yet he had wiped out the Scavengers in an instant—creatures that were hard to even locate—using nothing but a single pistol.
‘……I don’t get it.’
Perhaps because she had been in a panic, her memories were hazy. Hunters’ bodies fundamentally surpassed ordinary humans. They could take rifle rounds without a scratch and walk out of artillery barrages unscathed. ‘If those Scavengers could wound my body, they couldn’t have been that weak……’
She looked at the back of her hand, now perfectly healed. The arrow that had been wrapped in mana. If an ordinary person had shot it, the arrow would have bounced off without leaving a mark. At the very least B-rank—probably A-rank. And that Scavenger had died to a D-rank senior. It made no sense to Jin Seong-ah. After all, Yu Seong-eun was the kind of person who struggled even in C-rank hunter training facilities, let alone against monsters.
No matter how much she thought about it, she could not figure out how he had bridged that gap.
“Huu……”
Instead of struggling with the unsolvable question, Jin Seong-ah chose to savor the feeling of his sleeping body.
“So thick……”
Even his fingers were thick. And the veins standing out on the back of his hand—how could she not notice? She knew that the innate physical differences between men and women had widened under the influence of mana, but now the disparity felt especially vivid.
‘Senior is a much stronger person than me.’
He had casually handled things she could never do. He had risen to a team-leader position that even top-tier A-rank hunters struggled to reach. ……So it was only natural that she got hit by him, treated like a dog and made to bark, used like a toy with her mouth. “Huuu……♥”
Having sorted her thoughts, Jin Seong-ah emptied her mind and buried her nose against his chest. Dogs were supposed to have keen noses—had she really turned into one? The scent she had smelled so much yesterday felt brand new in the morning. A far warmer, more comforting body odor than before. She breathed in the smell that had accumulated under the blanket overnight and sank into happiness.
After sniffing for a long while, she felt her lower belly tighten again.
‘When is he going to do something even lewder?’
She thought she understood why he had stopped yesterday after saying those words. The moment she finished showering, all tension had left her and she had fallen asleep as if someone had flipped a switch. She had clearly been exhausted from experiencing too much in a single day. Her body had been a mess too.
‘……Once I’m fully healed?’
She felt grateful that a hunter’s body recovered so quickly. She could tell her stamina had completely returned. The only problem was that the bruises on her stomach were still there, though they had shrunk a little. The red marks that had covered the area around her navel were now no bigger than a palm. Maybe in two or three days they would be completely gone. It was a little disappointing……but Jin Seong-ah was already looking forward to what would happen once she was fully healed.
“……When did you wake up?”
“Kkrrng?”
While rubbing her throbbing stomach and sniffing for a long time, Jin Seong-ah lifted her head at the voice by her ear. Yu Seong-eun was looking down at her with half-lidded eyes.
“Ah, S-Senior, um, this is……”
“It’s fine.”
“Ah……”
She felt her face flush hot. Even though she had spoken and acted far more vulgarly yesterday, this felt more embarrassing.
“I-I just……woke up.”
“Yeah? How’s your body? Does it hurt?”
“A little……it’s still bothering me……”
She barely stopped herself from saying it was completely healed. Her stomach still ached when she moved. He had told her they would do it once the pain was gone…… She had almost died for disobeying him once, so she had to listen no matter what.
“It’s……better than yesterday.”
“That’s good. What are you going to do today?”
“Today…… Is there something I need to do?”
“If you want to rest, you can rest. There’s nothing urgent anyway. Or you can just wander around the guild like usual.”
“Ah……”
For a moment, she wanted to stay right here. Lying sprawled on the bed all day with Senior…… ‘……That’s probably too greedy.’
Senior was a busy person. Not some hunter who only had the S-rank title like her, but a truly capable one.
“Senior……what do you think I should do?”
Secretly, she hoped he would scold her. Tell her not to rest. Not to laze around. How dare she rest when she had been pathetic enough to struggle against other hunters, let alone monsters or demons…… ‘I want to be useful somehow……’
A dog that knew plenty of tricks would not be abandoned by its master. She did not want to be left alone trembling in fear inside a gate and die, the way she had yesterday.
“……”
In that brief silence, Jin Seong-ah felt as if her breath had stopped. Just as her hand clutching the blanket began to tremble, a hand gently stroked her forehead.
“You can just rest here.”
“Ah……”
A sigh slipped from Jin Seong-ah’s lips—the very person who had been waiting for his scolding. Of course Senior was kind. He was the kind of person who would enter a gate with nothing but a pistol just to help someone like her……
“But.”
The stroking hand paused. Words that made her anticipate what came next. Jin Seong-ah swallowed and looked up at him.
“That doesn’t sound like you, does it?”
“……Ah.”
“You’re supposed to smash and break everything. That’s the Seong-ah I know.”
It was a habit she had developed after awakening as a hunter. Whenever things did not go her way, she relieved stress by smashing whatever was in front of her.
“……Is that really okay?”
After smashing things, Jin Seong-ah usually fell into intense self-loathing. At least there were monsters everywhere that she was allowed to break, and people liked her more the more she did it—that was her only comfort. Though that very personality had nearly gotten her killed yesterday……today felt different.
“Of course it’s okay. Lee Seon-yul will probably nag if you break another dummy, but I’ll cover for you.”
“……”
“If you’re not up for it yet, you can rest.”
“……I think I can do it.”
“Good. Then shall we get out of bed first?”
“Ah, yes.”
Jin Seong-ah quickly got up at his words and straightened the blanket. Yesterday, on this very bed……they had done all sorts of obscene things. Yet the blanket still felt as fluffy and fresh as if it had just been laundered.
‘Come to think of it, Senior tidied it up.’
She drew up her mana to remove the moisture from the damp blanket and aired out the room. Looking around the now spotless space—cleaner than even after the care team had visited—she felt another question rise.
‘How did he do that?’
……Yet another mystery she could not solve. If she asked, he would probably just say he handled it with mana. It was something she could not do. She felt it would only make her seem useless, so she pressed her lips together.
“……”
Instead, while he fixed his clothes, Jin Seong-ah brought her nose to the blanket.
“Huuu……♥”
The blanket was soaked in Senior’s scent. Since it was still in good condition, she decided she would tell the care team not to touch it.
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“I’m heading to work. Call me if you need anything. You have my number, right?”
“Ah, yes.”
He looked exactly the same as yesterday, yet somehow new. Shirt and tie. The way the fabric wrapped around his solid frame really made him look like a man…… ‘Ah.’
While Jin Seong-ah was staring blankly at him, she hurriedly pulled out her phone. The moment she showed him the contact saved in her phone, a small chuckle escaped him.
“Weakling Senior?”
“Ah……?! S-Senior, this is……I-I……!”
It was a contact name she had saved in a fit of irritation back when he used to nag her as team leader. She had never gotten around to changing it.
“Huu……”
“I-I’m sorry, Senior. I-I’ll fix it right away……”
While her hands trembled as she tried to edit the contact, her wrist was suddenly grabbed.
“Ah……?”
Senior……was angry, wasn’t he? Had she upset him? If it were her, she would be sick of it by now……
“You really haven’t learned your lesson, have you, Seong-ah?”
“Y-Yes……”
“Looks like you still need more reflection.”
Reflection. And what came after that was……
“You’ll have to be punished again.”
“Ah♥”
She could already feel her underwear growing wet.
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“Huuut……♥”
Ever since becoming a hunter, her body had become more comfortable. She no longer caught minor illnesses. The only inconvenience was the side effect that came with her ability—sexual desire. She used to masturbate six times a day, but yesterday she had only done it twice. And it was not like she had expended much energy in other ways…… ‘That’s not quite right either.’
She had gone into a gate and visited the police station, moving around quite a bit, yet she had not used much strength.
“Don’t tease me……♥”
After finishing his talk with the care team and Jin Seong-ah and handling various matters, it was lunchtime. Instead of going to the guild cafeteria that served proper meals, he had bought a sandwich and come to the Guild Leader’s Office for a reason.
“Shin Ji-hye.”
“U-Ung……?”
“Did you go home yesterday?”
“I-I didn’t……Huuuk?!”
“Then what did you do instead of going home?”
Rub, rub. Sitting in the guild leader’s chair, he kneaded Shin Ji-hye’s breasts. The way his fingers sank in when he grabbed them was dangerously addictive.
“I-I did……some work……”
“Work, and then?”
“I-I don’t knooow……♥”
“You masturbated, didn’t you?”
“H-How did you know……? Hiyaa……♥”
“How could I not know? The smell of your fluids is filling the entire office.”
A faint sweet scent lingered in the Guild Leader’s Office. Unlike him, who often bought cookies, Shin Ji-hye never touched snacks or desserts.
“You can smell that……? I-I wiped it……”
When he said he could smell it, Shin Ji-hye’s face turned bright red. She was probably worried someone else might have noticed. The fact that she was embarrassed rather than hoping to be caught showed that her condition was gradually improving.
“Don’t touch yourself without my permission.”
“You……bad bastard……♥ You said you’d do it after work yesterday……♥ In the end, you were with Seong-ah……”
“It was work. How could I leave her alone when she was in that state?”
“Hiiik……?!”
Annoyed that she was blaming him, he pinched and pulled her nipples. Seeing her toes curl while pressing her legs together, he knew she had reached climax.
‘Good thing she doesn’t seem to know.’
If she found out he had touched Jin Seong-ah too……she might try to kill him. She would not actually kill him, but she would be furious enough.
‘No, wait. I didn’t go all the way, did I?’
Doing it only with his mouth probably did not count. While he was thinking that—
Thud, thud, thud.
Steady footsteps echoed from the hallway. Shin Ji-hye, who had also heard them, stopped her sweet moans and spoke in a flustered voice.
“Who is it? At lunchtime, there shouldn’t be anyone……”
“Put your clothes on first.”
“Ah……!”
He removed his hands from her chest and stood up. To buy time, he walked toward the door first. When the footsteps were right in front of him, he opened it.
“……What?”
Deep dark circles framed a pair of bright yellow eyes glaring at him.
It was Lee Seon-yul.
‘Wow, her chest.’
Maybe because he had just been groping Shin Ji-hye’s breasts, his gaze automatically went to hers. But why was she not wearing a bra? ‘Aish, seriously.’
He needed to stall until Shin Ji-hye finished getting dressed. Deliberately standing right in the doorway and fidgeting, Lee Seon-yul glared at him and asked,
“Why are you in the Guild Leader’s Office?”
“I just had lunch. A sandwich.”
“……Lunch?”
Lee Seon-yul’s eyes narrowed. When she looked past his shoulder, she let out a sigh.
“……Unbelievable.”
Following her gaze, he turned his head. Shin Ji-hye was still flushed, staring at him. Had they been caught?