The Second Possession
[Choi Yong-ho: Submission Level 95%]
Yong-ho, who had listened to Min Seolah and me through the wall while we were busy at night, had gone up a little more in submission.
I had no idea what he’d been doing while we slept, but now that it had risen, I wasn’t about to complain.
Only after the sun was fully up did I get out of bed, and the first thing I did was decide to eat Min Seolah again.
“Aaahhh!! Oppaaahh!!”
But, unfortunately, there was no more progress to be made.
This seemed to be the limit of what I could get out of her for now.
In that case, I’d have to do the thing I’d been thinking about last night after all.
This was a little... well, I did wonder if I should really go this far, but... Yong-ho was basically my enemy anyway.
Besides, the person I was thinking about right now wasn’t exactly easy to deal with either.
“Seolah, do you know something?”
“Know what?”
“Not every weak person is nice. Among weak people, the nastiest bastard is usually the one who’s strongest.”
“Ahh~”
“And just because someone gets older doesn’t mean they start acting their age.”
“Yes.”
“You probably don’t realize how exhausting it is when the strongest bastard among the weak ones has a filthy personality to go with it.”
“I seeee~”
I had no idea whether she actually understood me, but she sure answered well.
“You know why I’m telling you this?”
“No.”
“You’ll find out soon enough. Heh.”
I walked over to Yong-ho, who was still doing his little wall-gazing repentance ritual.
When my naked body came swaying up to him, he flinched, but I ignored it.
Soon enough, he wouldn’t even notice anymore.
I leaned in and told him quietly what he had to do.
What I was about to say was disgusting, so I made sure Min Seolah couldn’t hear it.
In the past he’d been a bastard I would’ve happily killed, but now he was just a pretty possession who looked only at me. No need for her to hear anything unpleasant.
“You crazy son of a bitch! I’m gonna fucking kill you, asshole!!”
“Ohhh... scary. Hurry up and go, then~”
“I’ll kill you for sure! For sure! I’ll rip you apart and kill you!”
Yong-ho screamed about killing me by every possible method, and yet his body was already leaving the house.
He was heading out to do what I’d ordered.
“Where’s he going?”
“Just somewhere. I told him to go have some fun.”
“Huh?”
“There are things like that. Heh.”
I was certain of it.
Yong-ho would definitely become my slave.
“Huh? I just heard something break.”
“Really? It can’t be that far away, then.”
“Yeah.”
“Sounds like he’s doing a good job.”
[Choi Yong-ho: Submission Level 99%]
He was almost there in one shot.
It was a sudden thought, but I realized I’d come up with a pretty good idea for screwing someone over while I was at it.
“Kyaaah!”
“Someone just screamed.”
“Yeah. I heard it too.”
A woman’s shrill scream rang out, the kind that sounded like it had to be from someone with a few years on her.
“Did you send him to that woman?”
“No. The woman’s just there where he went.”
“Ahh~”
Right now, Yong-ho was raiding some house nearby.
The owner was a regular human, but she was the kind of hateful piece of trash who picked fights with everyone in the neighborhood.
She’d cursed at me more than once, and I couldn’t count the times I’d clenched my fists when she got on my nerves.
Anyway, it was one of those houses where a spiteful old woman lived, the same sort of person the whole neighborhood hated.
So what was Yong-ho doing in there?
...Probably having a lovely time with that damned woman.
“At least I didn’t tell him to put it in, as a matter of human decency.”
Both of them were bastards who deserved death, but even I couldn’t bring myself to go that far.
I respected that sort of preference, I guess, but there was no need for me to picture it.
I could understand women with women all day long, but men with men... I didn’t even want to think about it.
So I cut him a little slack.
Just enough to have them enjoy each other with their hands.
I even told him I wouldn’t stop him if he wanted to go further than that, but... would he really? I hoped not.
Judging by how much Yong-ho’s submission level had already risen a moment ago, he must’ve started by now.
I didn’t know who was doing what to whom, but whatever it was, it had gotten him there.
If the last 1% was the opposite side of it, wouldn’t that push him over the edge too?
“Kyaaah!!”
“Again?”
“Looks like it. That old woman’s having a busy day.”
The woman was putting up the strongest resistance she could against the intruder in her house and her husband in the same room.
Resistance was a generous way to put it. Against a Hunter carrying a giant greatsword, all she could really do was scream.
Like that was going to fix anything.
“Should’ve lived your life with a softer heart, then.”
I could say with confidence that nobody was going to step in for her.
And even if someone did peek in, the second they saw that scene, they’d run for their lives.
“Ah, that feels good. Those bastards.”
“Right?”
“...”
She really did answer everything.
“Anyway, I guess I should bring that healer sister too.”
“Should I go get her?”
“Hmm... what’s the best way to do this...”
I could send Min Seolah to bring her back, but there was a catch.
Since she worked from home, she’d have to go to her house to get her, and there was no way the guild leader would just sit back and let that happen.
He’d obviously grab her and start asking what the hell was going on. And he’d try to keep her by his side too.
Then the odds of me not being able to see Min Seolah for a while would go way up.
I’d have to send her eventually, but right now... I was a little too attached.
I thought about it carefully.
I even considered contacting her and calling her over a little, but if she told the guild leader about it, that would be ruined too.
Just as I was looking for another way—
[Choi Yong-ho: Submission Level 100%]
You have completely dominated Choi Yong-ho. As Han Jungwoo’s possession, Choi Yong-ho will obey perfectly and permanently.
You have been granted 5 film sheets.
Just then, I got the message that Yong-ho had finished his work.
“If I send Yong-ho, maybe he can bring her here?”
I didn’t know.
Even Min Seolah wasn’t sure.
But... so what?
“I’ll send him first, and if it fails, there’s nothing I can do.”
Let’s send him and see.
If some problem came up... I’d just drop Yong-ho cleanly.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
“Oh? Looks like he’s done.”
I could hear the sound of something exploding.
It probably wasn’t an actual explosion, but the deafening noise was enough to cover the whole neighborhood.
I knew exactly what that sound was.
I’d told him to go rough up a few places on the way, enough to make it impossible for people to keep living there comfortably.
Yong-ho was carrying out my orders with admirable obedience.
Creak.
“You’re back?”
Yong-ho returned from his pleasant little outing.
Now fully my possession, he stood there with an almost expressionless face.
Seeing him like that, he did seem pretty reliable.
Still, Yong-ho didn’t have time to stand around like this.
There was too much to do.
And the very first thing he had to handle was—
“Bring me money.”
I hadn’t gone looking for a rich Hunter for nothing.
There was no way I could keep living in this cramped little house with the Hunters I’d be collecting from now on.
I needed to move.
With Yong-ho’s money.
Yong-ho left the house immediately.
He’d probably empty out every last bit of his assets and buy a new place.
Of course, there wouldn’t be a seat in that house for Yong-ho himself.
I was going to keep him running around outside. Very hard.
—
I had eleven film sheets now.
Even after setting one aside for the healer who did housework, I’d still have ten left.
I’d worried when I was only given three at first, but... they were easier to get than I’d expected.
“What else do I need...”
I already had Min Seolah to keep around. I’d have to send her away later, though.
Yong-ho was going to become my never-ending money box, if he survived.
If I brought the healer over, I wouldn’t even have to worry about housework anymore.
Then what else was missing?
“Should I just add people first and figure it out later?”
I was torn between increasing the number of people I absolutely needed and simply adding them first, then assigning them somewhere sensible.
“Men are enough.”
Yong-ho was enough. One was already more than plenty.
“Should I make someone to take along as a guard?”
Honestly, I’d thought about using Yong-ho for both money and guarding, but that didn’t seem right.
“Seolah.”
“Yes?”
“Among the female Hunters you know, who’s the best fighter?”
“Older sister Choyeon.”
“Rank?”
“A.”
“...Isn’t there anyone in C-Class?”
What the hell, an A-rank? Was I supposed to have her cut off my limbs with one swing?
“Hmm... Sister Rumi?”
“You mean that swordswoman?”
“Yes~”
Rumi... I’d heard of her. I’d never met her personally, but I’d definitely heard the name before.
Before Min Seolah made her formal public debut, she must’ve been fairly well known.
Anyone who’d had their name tossed around by people was probably at least pretty enough to be worth looking at.
“She’s strong for a C-Class?”
“Yes. She’d probably be about as strong as Oppa Yong-ho.”
“Oh? Not bad.”
Yong-ho was a Hunter with a decent reputation.
If she was about on his level, then she was definitely worth considering.
“Where can I meet her?”
“Oppa Yong-ho knows.”
“...”
Wait, did that mean Yong-ho might actually be useful after all?
I kept getting the feeling his utility was expanding every minute.
Talking to Min Seolah made the need even clearer.
Our Seolah had grown up like a greenhouse flower, so there were almost no things she’d actually done herself.
In the past too, it seemed like Yong-ho and the others in her group had handled everything for her.
“Should I just bring the whole group here?”
“I can call them over.”
“Yeah, but...”
I wasn’t especially tempted.
To be honest, aside from Min Seolah, there wasn’t really anyone in that group worth looking at.
Still, if I brought them in, I could probably put them to use...
“Let me think a little more.”
If I really couldn’t find anyone else, I’d bring them in. But for now, I wanted to look a little harder. If I absolutely couldn’t find anyone after that, then I’d have to bring them over.
—
While Min Seolah and I rolled around the house having our fun, Yong-ho busied himself with the task I’d given him alone.
What he was doing was liquidating his assets. He was running around like mad, turning everything into cash.
And then someone appeared who found that suspicious.
“What are you doing all of a sudden?”
“Because I have to.”
“No, I’m asking why now, when the guild’s already a mess.”
“There’s a reason.”
“...You got something going on, don’t you?”
Kang Hee-jin, who had once been in the same group as Yong-ho, was quick on the uptake.
To her, the Yong-ho in front of her now looked suspicious from head to toe.
“You’re with Seolah, aren’t you?”
The guild had fallen apart because Min Seolah had disappeared.
Yong-ho had been close to Seolah.
And yet here he was, acting like nothing was wrong while liquidating his assets at a time like this. He left Hee-jin no choice but to suspect him.
“Be honest. Right? Where is she? Why isn’t she coming?”
“I don’t know.”
“If the guild leader catches you, you’re dead. Stop doing weird shit by yourself and tell me already. Then I can help you.”
“I said I don’t know!”
Hee-jin became certain. And then she decided to follow him.
Her job was assassin.
Following Yong-ho without getting caught wasn’t a difficult task at all.