But I'm Her Boyfriend

Squelch—uck, squelch—uck.

"Aaahn…❤︎! Nnngh, mmnh—❤︎!"

Sera…? What is… what is this…?

"Does that trembling little fool know right now that you're lying beneath me?"

"I d-don't knooow…❤︎! Who, cares about somethin', like that…❤︎!"

You're my girlfriend. You said you loved only me. You said you'd never been with a man like me. You said you were thankful I taught you what love felt like.

Then why… why on earth?

"Don't know? Why? I take it that bastard's cock is as useless as expected."

"Haah…❤︎! ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠Th, that's riiight…❤︎"

"So then. Mine's better than your boyfriend's cock, isn't it?"

"That goes without sayiiing…❤︎! Compared to Master's cock, that thing that's only good for being a piss chute—it'd be an insult just to put them in the same senteeence…❤︎!"

Just one door between us, and Sera—

wearing a face she had never once shown me, spewing obscene moans she had never once given me, comparing me against another man, degrading me, spreading her legs for a man who wasn't me.

"An excellent answer. A well-trained female deserves a reward to match."

"Y-yes…❤︎! Th-thank you…! Please fill your exclusive cumdumpster pussy to the brim…❤︎ Before I get knocked up with some low-tier loser's jizz, stuff me full of Master's superior alpha seeemen…❤︎!"

Bbbrrrt—!

"Cuuuum inside meee——❤︎!!!"

Bolting upright!

"Yoo Sera—!"

I shot up, drenched head to toe in cold sweat.

"……?"

When my senses came back to me, I was lying on the bed in my own room.

"It… it was a dream…?"

Rubbing the goosebumps rippling up my arms, I replayed what I'd just seen.

Sera's eyes rolled back. Her tongue lolling out, drool trailing down her chin. Her ass jiggling, covered in handprints. Even the way her pussy drooled around some stranger's cock with every thrust.

"…… All of it was just a dream."

Sshaaa—.

"Hoo…."

To wash that disgusting memory away, I got up and took a cold shower first thing.

From the very first day we met, Sera had been unwavering with me. She declared her love for me boldly, anytime, anywhere—so openly that doubting her sincerity was impossible.

And yet the reason I'd had such a rotten dream was—

"…… Because I'm just not enough of a man."

They say love arrives out of nowhere, without reason. I'd never believed the idea that love ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠had no rhyme or cause—

not until Sera became my girlfriend. Not until a woman that far out of my league became mine.

And yet, that adolescent boy's fantasy had somehow become reality.

Even so, a sense of crisis still filled my heart.

Because someday, I was sure, the spell would break and Sera would leave me without so much as a glance back.

Swish, swish.

After gates—the dimensional rifts—tore open across the world and countless humans awakened as hunters…

"Good morning, Hunter!"

"Skip the pleasantries. Scrub that spot better."

"Ah… sorry, sir."

My role was nothing more than the Association's temporary gofer.

Of course, I was an Awakened too—but—

"Oh, Dojun? Cleaning the stairs again? Thanks for all your hard work today. Really, I'm so grateful, every single time!" [FALSE🟥]

My ability was nothing more than telling truth from lie in a person's words.

A clownish power, utterly useless for subduing the monsters inside gates.

In the end, cleaning up after hunters for minimum wage was the best I could manage.

But.

Beep beep beep beep, click.

"Oppaaa—!!"

"Sera?"

"Congratulations on becoming an investigator at the Central Inspection Bureau—!"

After meeting Sera, my life changed completely.

Just having her beside me, lifting my self-esteem, would have been more than enough—

"Wow…. Thank you. It's all thanks to you, Sera."

—because her very existence became my good fortune.

After I met Sera, everything worked out as if by magic.

Getting a real job. Becoming an investigator in the Corruption Investigation Division of the Hunter Association's Central Inspection Bureau. That had to be Sera's doing too.

"Whaaat! It's all because you worked so hard, Oppa! Now blow out the candle. Then you owe Sera a kiss."

Whoo!

Sera's porcelain face wavered above the extinguished flame.

A face I couldn't help falling for every time I saw it—not just a boyfriend's doting exaggeration, but literally the most beautiful face in the world.

"You just got back from your trip and you still found time to plan all this? I'm sorry."

"Ugh… I thought I was going to die…."

"Why? Did something happen?"

"I missed you, Oppa!"

Mwah mwah mwah mwah—mwah!

Sera hastily set the cake down on the table, then threw herself into my arms, lips crashing against mine.

"Whoa, you startled me. Mmh, mmh…!"

Planning a surprise party on top of everything when she was already so busy.

All I could do for that adorable, lovable girl was gently stroke her hair.

"Nngh! You're trying to touch my chest again! I told you, no!"

"… Sorry."

"When's the naughty stuff allowed?"

"After we're married."

"That's right. Kiss me again!"

Even after a year of dating, Sera and I couldn't manage anything beyond kissing—not even the most basic skinship.

Because her family, citing some tradition or another, had upheld premarital chastity for generations.

It was a restriction that was hard to bear as a man, but if meeting a woman like this was the reward, then surely I could endure this much hardship.

Now that I'd landed a job, the qualifications to propose weren't far off either.

"Did the shoot go well?"

"Mm-hm! It was nothing much!"

Sera had just returned from Italy a few days ago—for a commemorative photoshoot upon being selected as a luxury brand ambassador.

"Bella! That's what they kept saying—'so beautiful.'"

"Bella?"

"Ugh, but don't say it…. I don't want to hear it anymore…."

Sera was an Awakened, just like me. Her ability: Beauty.

Quite literally, Sera possessed, from the crown of her head to the tips of her toes, an aesthetic perfection no ordinary human could ever hope to touch.

With that power, she'd taken her place as a singer, an actress, an influencer—every position where one could stand as a 'beautiful existence.'

Her silk-smooth hair, her intoxicating scent, her flawless milk-white skin, her perfectly sculpted eyes, nose, and lips—and.

"Hngh! You pervert, your eyes just dropped to my chest again!"

Her enormous bust, hovering just barely below the inhuman. The thin waist I could circle with both hands. The hips that dwarfed her delicate shoulders.

Of course it wasn't easy—just to look at her.

Ding-dong.

"Oh, the delivery's here!"

"When did you even order food again? Hold on."

Still—if things stayed like this, marrying Sera was as good as a settled future. I'd held out this long; just a little further.

The long-awaited first day at work. Standing before the vast glass doors of the Hunter Association's Central Inspection Bureau.

"Hooooo…."

I drew a long, deep breath against the chest-tightening tension.

[Kim Dojun — Investigator, Corruption Investigation Division, Central Inspection Bureau, Hunter Association]

I clutched the full-time employee badge hanging from my neck, squeezing it hard in my fist.

Not a combat hunter who entered gates, no—but a post wielding powerful authority, one that surveilled power and corruption alike.

For someone who'd spent his days crawling along the bottom, it was a grand title I'd never have dared to dream of.

'I can do this. Becoming a man worthy of Sera, proposing, the workplace—I can do it all. Kim Dojun…!'

Picturing Sera's face, I bit down hard on my lip.

Vvvvmmm.

It was the exact moment I was crossing the lobby toward the elevators.

Thud——. Thud——.

Heel-strikes—regular, weighty, and at the same time so magnificent they seemed to shake the earth itself.

And with each one, the dozens of employees and hunters filling the lobby parted to both sides in perfect unison.

"……!"

The moment ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠my eyes turned toward it, my feet stopped on their own.

A single man striding leisurely through the very center of the lobby, flanked by bodyguards in black suits and executives radiating S-rank pressure.

An overwhelming frame that had to be well over two meters. Muscle that no suit could hide. The crushing weight of magic power that froze every inch of my body.

'The Association President… Gwak Taehyeok…!'

A man seen only on screens. The absolute ruler at the apex of the Korean hunter world—a supreme authority of the Association, hailing from the ranks of National-Power-Rank hunters.

Just brushing past him, it felt like the air around me thinned, like oxygen was running out.

At the same time, my heart pounded wildly, and a clammy cold sweat traced down my spine.

My whole body trembled—shaking with an inexplicable, instinctive terror.

— The doors are closing.

With an indifferent gaze, he swept past the lobby and boarded the executive-only elevator to the top floor.

'To think I'd see someone like him in person….'

My spirit utterly crushed by that overwhelming aura, I barely steadied my hammering heart and headed for the Inspection Bureau's floor.

"Oh, the new guy?"

"Yes…! I look forward to working with you! New inspector, Kim! Do! Jun!"

The Corruption Investigation Division opened with taut, suffocating tension.

"What was your ability again? Memory?"

"I-I can distinguish truth from lies!"

"Sure, fine. Whatever. Don't care. Here—the gate concession ledgers. Sort them by date and bring them back."

Stacks of documents piled sky-high onto my desk with my supervisor's curt instructions.

The high-pressure atmosphere pouring down from day one left my breath catching in my throat.

'… Like I expected, this isn't going to be easy.'

As the tension and pressure of the new environment crashed over me all at once, my stomach began to twist with a sick, queasy unease.

With a stabbing pain needling at my lower abdomen, I finally excused myself to my supervisor and headed for the restroom at the end of the corridor.

Click.

The innermost stall.

Pants still on, I sank onto the cold toilet seat and began taking slow, deep breaths.

"Hooo…. I can do this…. I can do this…."

I pictured Sera's face one more time.

That angelic face, wearing the brightest smile in the world.

— It's all because you worked so hard, Oppa!

Recalling that warm, tender voice seemed to settle my stomach a little.

And then.

Screeeech——!

Suddenly, a pain like an icepick gouging into my skull tore through my mind.

"Ugh—!"

Clutching my temples with both hands, I bit my lip to hold back the scream.

In an instant my vision flashed blinding white, and behind my eyes came a terrible sensation—something cracking open, a shell shattering from within.

What is this…?! An awakening…? Again…?

A notification chime rang in my ears like an auditory hallucination.

Then, entirely against my will, the spatial sense of my vision began twisting 180 degrees.

Like a rippling wave, the dark scenery of the bathroom stall peeled away, and the afterimage of a completely different space unfolded vividly before my eyes.

From a point of view as if I had become a CCTV camera.

And the location my uncontrollable ability had locked onto was—

"You're an insolent bitch, aren't you. Who said you were allowed to keep clothes on in front of me?"

The private penthouse on the Association's top floor—the very place the Association President had just ascended to.

And standing before the Association President's eyes was a woman.

A woman with tears welling in her eyes, wearing ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠an expression of utter shame, unbuttoning her shirt—

"I-I'm… sorry…. I'll greet you properly at once, Master… naked, as befits my place…."

"…… Sera…?"

It was my girlfriend.