Rest and Reflect

The cold snap had eased a little. Time kept moving, whether you turned the clock back or flipped it upside down. The trees in front of the center were still bare, but it no longer felt so bitterly cold. And the work of a rural civil servant remained exactly the same.

"It's been a while, Chairman."

"You've been doing well too, Chief Maeng?"

"Of course~."

They prepared a seat inside and brought out coffee. It wasn't anything fancy like a blend—just instant mix coffee.

"The township head will be down shortly if you wait a moment."

"Alright, alright."

These were the regular visits from agricultural cooperative chairmen or village heads. Apparently, women used to bring the coffee in the old days. Doing that now would cause an uproar, so it had become the administrative staff's job. I didn't know how it was elsewhere, but that was how things worked here.

*Sigh.* As a twenty-something old fogey, I had plenty of complaints. Women bringing coffee? Whatever. As long as it wasn't me, it was fine.

"Chief Maeng~. The documents you distributed this morning aren't our department's responsibility~."

"……."

After serving coffee to the chairman, a staff member from the tax section of the civil complaints team came waving the papers I'd handed out earlier. What was I supposed to do about it?

"There's an official seal on it…. Isn't there?"

"Yes~. Could you check it one more time for me?"

They were going to handle it themselves after I checked anyway.

"Sure~. I'll take another look."

Arguing here would only hurt feelings for no reason. After checking again and telling them, the tax staff's expressions twisted.

"Really? This is our job?"

"Yep. That's what City Hall says."

What could I do even if they complained to me? I was just an eighth-grade administrative clerk.

"Haah. Understood~."

These kinds of situations happened all the time. The administrative clerk position. It looked somewhat high-ranking, didn't it? No real power, plenty of work, and all the responsibility. It was literally the position everyone dumped their problems on. It meant handling all the petty tasks at the center. That was why I'd been running around on "field work" until now.

"We bought some bread. Have some while you work~."

Still, there was one change: the customized welfare team. Ever since I'd stood up for them once, things had shifted slightly. For example, now they gave me an extra slice when sharing bread. It wasn't much, but it was nice that they showed me some goodwill.

"Thanks, I'll enjoy it~."

The afternoon was quiet too. Malicious complainants didn't show up every single day. This was one city, after all—newly designated as a planned new town and just starting development. Even that development was centered around the terminal. The KTX station was far out on the outskirts, opposite from where I was. I'd heard they'd ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠fought for a long time with the neighboring city, Duri, over the station's location, but that was before I got hired, so I didn't know the details. From what I could see, it would take at least twenty years for this place to develop properly. With the low birth rate, it was uncertain if it would develop at all.

After work, I enjoyed some rare alone time.

"Hmm."

For now, rest and think. I lay on the bed, turned on the small TV, fiddled with my phone, and fell asleep. A few days passed like that. Just because I got the hypnosis app didn't mean my life would change dramatically overnight.

"Though it did change dramatically in one way."

No one else knew, but I alone knew that I had a child on the way. If I removed the setup, their memories would adjust on their own. The events during hypnosis would be filled in with plausible recollections.

"……."

Sitting on the cushion, I rested my chin on my hand and absentmindedly tapped the table with a pen.

*Tap. Tap.*

I'd obtained this hypnosis app, yet all I'd done was have sex. And there were no more women who caught my interest. Impregnate everyone at the center? Suddenly my wife or girlfriend gets pregnant? And all the women at work happen to get pregnant around the same time? That was basically begging to get caught.

What to do?

"Huuu."

I let out a long sigh, deep in thought.

"Ah~. I can't do this alone."

I scratched my head vigorously and rolled around on the floor.

"Why does it have to be just one person~."

The hypnosis I could apply in real time was limited to exactly one person. That came with too many restrictions. No matter how much I searched through the app, there were no other explanations.

"Ugh."

I needed help.

I pulled up the oldest setup at the bottom and applied it. Maybe because I'd done it before, the application was quick.

"……What would you do if you got a hypnosis app?"

I tilted my head at my friend's question after she came over after work.

"Huu~. I wonder?"

I thought seriously about it, but nothing came to mind.

"Oh. I'd use it on people with depression. I'd tell them they can do it~."

At that, Do-yun's head drooped.

"Saintess, Saintess. I look like trash……."

"Huh?"

Suddenly?

"Why? Why would Do-yun be trash? Don't think like that~."

The childhood wounds were clearly still there. I ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠grabbed Do-yun's shoulders and spoke seriously.

"I know how hard you've worked and how much you've tried to live properly. So don't say things like that. Got it?"

"……Please accept me, Saintess."

"Aah~. Why~."

Really.

"But why the hypnosis app all of a sudden?"

"Well. I had a dream, you know?"

I sat facing Do-yun, who was sitting on my bed as if it were natural.

"Yeah."

I listened seriously, wondering if he'd had a nightmare.

"I got a hypnosis app. So guess what I did?"

I perked up my ears at his words. Just hearing "hypnosis app" didn't give me any real sense of it.

"First, I hypnotized our Yoo-na and made her my childhood friend."

"Ehehe~! Yeah yeah."

I burst out laughing the moment I heard it. The idea that us being friends was hypnosis? With memories this vivid? What a funny dream.

"And then?"

"Next, there's Team Leader Han So-jeong, right? I hypnotized her so that having sex with me felt like work."

"Eek. Really?"

I'd overheard something like that once. They said men have wet dreams and nocturnal emissions when their desires build up. Still.

"B-breast milk…? Really…? That's a bit much."

It was hard to imagine.

"Next, you know the agricultural-industrial complex over there? The smart farm site."

"Yeah yeah."

"I hypnotized a married woman there into an exhibitionist pervert and got her pregnant."

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"……."

Even as I listened this far, I felt no sense of discomfort or doubt. Of course! It was such an absurd story. Literally.

"Wasn't it just a wet dream?"

That was all I could think.

"Right? That's why I asked."

"Huu~."

Yoo-na looked intrigued.

"Do-yun-ah. Isn't it because you haven't played any mischievous pranks lately?"

"……You don't suspect anything? What if you were the one hypnotized."

At Do-yun's serious words, Yoo-na grabbed her stomach and laughed.

"Ehehe~!"

"……What."

"No, ah. I laughed so hard I teared up."

After finally calming her laughter, Yoo-na shared her thoughts with Do-yun.

"Think about it, Do-yun-ah?"

She used the tone she used when teaching children.

"Hypnotizing someone into a childhood friend? I thought, maybe? But Team Leader Han? There's no way she'd do that."

"It's hypnosis though?"

I shook my head at his answer.

"I know about hypnosis therapy too, you know?"

I told him what I knew. There had been hypnosis counseling during psychological sessions, after all.

"No, it's a hypnosis app."

"Still, thanks to you, I got to laugh~."

Damn. What the hell. She didn't suspect a thing. It was a good thing for me, but it felt awkward. What was certain was that Yoo-na had absolute confidence in her own memories.

"Even reapplying the setup has no side effects."

Now that I knew the memories filled in cleanly and cleverly on their own, one worry disappeared.

"Do-yun-ah. Aren't you going to wash up?"

Yoo-na, who had just finished showering, asked.

"Yeah, I'm about to go wash now."

"But you're not playing any pranks today? I thought you'd mess with my body while I was washing."

I waved my hand at Yoo-na's words.

"I'm going to be a dad."

"……Pfft. Got it. Go wash up~."

Yeah, Yoo-na. What would you know? When I first hypnotized you, I was completely dominated by teenage lust. But quite some time had passed since then. After doing it until my balls were completely empty, I had room to think. And now that I even had a child on the way, everything in the world felt relaxed. The greatest task given to humans. Passing on genes. This was the leisure of a victor who had accomplished it. Yoo-na, you'll receive my genes too. Not right now, but eventually.

*Shwaaa—!*

I washed up in warm water and came out. Roughly drying off, I lay on the bed and looked at Yoo-na. She was doing her skincare routine in front of the vanity. Her face really was fair. Not a single blemish, plump and smooth. Were we really the same age?

I casually lifted my foot and poked her side while she was applying skincare.

"Kyaa! T-ticklish. Uuung."

When I lifted her tank top with my toes and tickled her side, her body trembled.

*Brrr!*

"Uuung…!"

It wasn't that she felt it—I could see she was holding back laughter.

"Come on~."

Even so, she lifted her clothes up to under her chest to accept my prank. What a beautiful friendship!

"Ah. Do-yun-ah."

"……?"

Yoo-na looked at me through the small table mirror on the vanity.

"Want me to clean your ears?"

She smiled brightly as she was about to wipe her wet ears with a cotton swab.

"Come here."

Yoo-na patted her thigh.

"Do you clean ears often?"

"It's been a while since I last did……."

"Then come here. Want to do a face mask too?"

Face mask? That was annoying.

"Yaa~. It's written all over your face that you think it's a bother~."

Yoo-na, who could now read my expressions. I rested my face on her thigh. Wow. It was springy. A different feeling from Han So-jeong or Kim Na-eun. At first, I hadn't had the leisure to enjoy this kind of skin slowly. On top of that, there was a pleasant scent rising up. The fabric softener smell from her short shorts. The body wash fragrance and soft skin scent from her thighs. It was comfortable.

"Your pussy smells nice~."

"Huek…! I-I washed~. It doesn't smell, ah."

"Just kidding."

She pouted and poked my cheek.

"Come a little closer. I can't see well."

"Like this?"

I pressed right up against Yoo-na's stomach.

"Good job~."

Her gentle voice, as if soothing me, and the comfortable scent. Customized welfare just for me.

*Rustle.* Yoo-na ran her fingers through my hair. Then she picked up a small ear pick. My face was pressed between her stomach and thigh, so I couldn't see. But the ear pick that caressed and tickled my ear. It stood up.

*Scratch, scratch.*

The sound of gently scooping out my ear reached me. What was this feeling that made my hair stand on end? A pleasant thrill.

"Oh my. It's big!"

"……."

I could feel Yoo-na wiping it off on a wet tissue with fascination. Her hand that had moved away came back and cleaned my ear again. This feeling in the quiet sound was nice.

"The other side."

"Huaaam. Yeah."

It was so comfortable that a yawn came out. *Scratch, scratch.* Enjoying the ticklish languor in my ear, I touched her soft thigh.

"Done~. Do-yun-ah, look at this."

I felt a bit disappointed that the ear cleaning was over.

"……."

Whoa. There was a lot.

"There was……this much?"

"Yeah, you should wash more often~."

I showered every day though.

"Heh. Fun."

She didn't find it gross at all.

"I used to do it for my younger siblings a lot. When a lot comes out, it feels refreshing or something?"

"Really?"

From now on, I'd have to leave ear cleaning to Yoo-na.

"Yoo-na-ya. There's one important thing."

"Huh? What is it?"

Yoo-na looked down at me. Even from below, she looked pretty without any humiliation. Small face, fair skin. A nose with a thin curve and pink lips. And finally, her eyes looking at me with a hint of laughter.

"I'm hard."

"Really?"

Yoo-na's gaze turned downward. Seeing my bulging underwear, she laughed.

"Pfft! See? You've been holding back a lot lately, right? ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠Because of work. That's why~."

Yoo-na, who understood me.

"But what do we do~."

Then her face turned slightly apologetic.

"I… started my period, so I can't play with the bottom……."

That was what she felt sorry about?

"Mouth, armpit, breasts. There's also the butt hole."

"Ah…. Uung. B-butt…? Anal?"

When I nodded on her thigh, her face flushed.

"I've never done it before……."

"Me neither."

I knew that just shoving it in like in AVs would be a disaster in reality.

"Come on~. Want to use your mouth?"

Was "want to use" such a… lewd phrase?

"Yeah. I want to."

"Uung~. You can play around as much as you want~."