Episode 30: Excuse me! Yoo Ara, you're the tutor, right?
Episode 30: Excuse me! Yoo Ara, you're the tutor, right?
"Haa, haa......."
Yoo Ara lay next to me, panting.
The bed where she and I lay was covered in the vaginal fluids and lubrication she had shed, along with our sweat.
"Ssaem....... That was truly amazing."
Her fingers brushed over my chest.
Her eyes, looking at me, were filled with a strange sense of satisfaction.
"Is sex always this good?"
"It depends on the person."
I stroked her hair.
Her hair, soaked in sweat, was damp.
I looked at the virgin blood she had shed.
'I can't use that blanket anymore.'
It was soaked, way too soaked.
Besides, she wouldn't be able to wash it in the washing machine at a woman's studio apartment living alone.
Thinking I should buy her a new one, I looked at her again.
"Then, did you enjoy it, Ssaem? Um....... Because it was me."
"I did."
"Hehe. That's a relief. I enjoyed it too. Truly."
Her voice as she spoke to me was full of affection.
We had started this while doing a massage for her lesson.
'Ara must have planned this.'
Seeing that there was even a condom in her bag, she must have thought this far ahead.
From the date to the massage, and then to sex.
I knew why she had gone this far.
Possessiveness.
The greed to own me.
The desire for me to be her teacher alone.
She probably thought that if we had a relationship like this, I would focus on her a little more.
"Ssaem, are you...... going to take on other students?"
This question made my guess even more certain.
"Other students?"
"Yes. We made a bet last time, remember? That if I fell below 5th place, you would promote yourself to other students......."
"I did."
"I was just wondering if you needed more students."
"Hmm."
"Am I not enough for you?"
I looked at Yoo Ara.
She was staring at me intensely with an anxious face.
"It's better to teach many students if possible. I have my own personal goals, too."
"......."
Her face clouded over.
"But Ara, keep this one thing in mind."
"W-what is it?"
"That you are my first disciple."
"......."
"Even if other students appear, that fact will never change."
"Was I really Ssaem's first disciple?"
"Yes."
"Haven't you taught other students before?"
"No. Teaching you after being asked by Bong-sik sunbae was the first time. He asked me to take you on, saying it was an urgent request."
"O-oh, I see."
Her voice trailed off.
Her face seemed to have flushed slightly, but it was hard to tell because it was dark.
"So don't worry. There is absolutely no chance I will neglect you just because other students appear."
"I understand. Ssaem....... Oh, and Ssaem, about me."
Yoo Ara, who was clinging tightly to me, continued to speak while rubbing her fingers against my body.
"I think I'm going to go down to my hometown for about a week. I wasn't originally going to go, but I got a call because I got 1st place in the final exams. I'll be getting a scholarship, so I thought it was right to visit once."
"Are you going next week?"
"Yes."
"Got it. Then let's skip one day of class next week. We can just do a make-up class later."
"Thank you. Ssaem."
"Then, shall we wash up again?"
The sweat was starting to dry.
I thought it would be better to wash up and sleep before our bodies got any stickier.
"Shall I wash you?"
"No need. Go in and wash first. I'll tidy up."
"Ah......."
Only then did she realize the fluids she had shed and felt embarrassed.
Swaaaaa!
Ara went in, and I could hear the sound of her showering.
I opened my status window while tidying up the bedding.
[Kim Si-woo]
-Strength: A
-Mana: A
-Intelligence: A
-Stamina: A
-Agility: A
-Charisma: SS
[Owned Skills]
-Passive: Emotion (SS)
-Passive: Growth Assist (SSS)
-Active: Psychokinesis (B) 5/5
I had acquired a new skill.
A B-rank active skill, Psychokinesis.
It was Yoo Ara's skill.
[Yoo Ara: Conquest Rate - 100%]
It was a skill obtained by having sex after perfectly conquering her.
[You have 100% conquered Yoo Ara.]
[Conditions met.]
[You can use Yoo Ara's Active Skill - Psychokinesis (B) 5 times.]
"Active skill......."
It was the skill I had dreamed of.
I, who had been a half-baked hunter all my life without an active skill, had finally become a complete hunter.
Of course, it was a skill with a limited number of uses, but even this was something.
"I have to test it."
I caught my breath and looked at the bed where I had shared intimacy with Yoo Ara.
I reached out toward the bed, which was dirtied not just by water, but by a mixture of vaginal fluids, sweat, urine, and the blood she had shed.
Even if I buy a new one, I can't sleep here.
I used Yoo Ara's skill, Psychokinesis.
Woooong!
The mana inside my body trembled.
It was an explosive movement.
A power with absolute and powerful explosive force, different from when I used my specialty, Mana Cut, extended through my hand.
'Is this the sensation hunters who used active skills felt?'
It was an unfamiliar sensation.
The mana that extended from my hand became Psychokinesis and pulled up the fluids that had soaked into Yoo Ara's blanket.
The fluids of hers and mine that had dug between the bed and the blanket fibers were forcibly pulled out and floated in the air.
'This is incredible.'
It was an absurd power.
A power incomparable to when I only had passive skills.
To think I could extract all the liquid absorbed into every single fiber.
I threw the fluids extracted by Psychokinesis out the window.
"That's better."
It became fluffy again.
However, I couldn't remove the scent entirely.
I would have to buy a new one, but it would be enough to sleep for one night.
-Active: Psychokinesis (B) 4/5
"To think even this is possible. No wonder people keep singing praises about active skills."
It was a kind of test to see how far it could go.
It was worth using one active skill.
From now on, I would have to use it as carefully as possible.
I sat on the completely dry bed and looked at my hands.
My past self, who had walked around without a single active skill, came to mind.
"Now that I think about it, it's unfair."
Some people went through all that hell because they didn't have this one skill.
Have other hunters been walking around enjoying the benefits with such good skills until now?
It was just a B-rank active skill.
Not an A-rank, not an S-rank of a 1st-class hunter.
A B-rank skill of hunters who are sometimes called second-rate hunters.
I know that active skills aren't everything.
I proved that the rank of a skill isn't everything, and Yoo Ara is proving it too.
But still.
'I can't help feeling bitter.'
If this weren't Ara's house, I would have shed a tear or two out of that bitterness.
The reason to teach more students increased.
I won't be satisfied with just one skill.
As limited as the number of uses is, I will obtain various skills.
I will teach many students, make their conquest rates 100%, and somehow have sex with them to make them mine.
I don't care if I'm called trash.
I don't care if I'm called a woman-crazy bastard.
For the sake of revenge.
For the sake of taking revenge on Daeseong.
Because it was an absolutely necessary process.
I engraved my goal in my heart once again.
My ultimate goal, which I had momentarily forgotten while growing and teaching Yoo Ara.
'Overthrow Daeseong.'
The monster that is the largest guild in South Korea and even owns a huge academy in Busan.
I will destroy those guys no matter what.
To do that, I needed more students.
Since Yoo Ara has laid that foundation beautifully, I should move busily now, too.
That's why I even quit my company.
"Ssaem, I'm done washing. Now you wash up too."
Steam rose up.
She, covering her chest with a towel, looked at me with a flushed face.
"Thank you, Ara."
It's thanks to her.
That I was able to obtain a skill like this and dream of a comeback again.
"What for? It's only natural. You should wash up quickly too, Ssaem."
"Yeah. I should wash up."
The water from the shower was warmer than ever.
-Ssaem, it was really great. Then, I'll go down to my hometown. You have to teach me right away when I come back, okay?
I had received a message from Yoo Ara along with a cute emoticon of a black cat holding a heart.
-Got it. Have a safe trip.
-Yes♡
To my plain text, I sent back a message with a heart attached, followed by a black cat emoticon.
I could vividly feel through the text that she was twenty-one.
"I should loosen up my body too."
Just because Yoo Ara went down doesn't mean I can play around.
There is no end to training.
Senses are things that lose their elasticity and disappear if you rest even a little.
I needed to keep my senses alive today as well.
I even obtained an active skill, albeit a limited one.
A skill obtained thanks to hitting 100% conquest on Yoo Ara.
I've only taken one step, so I can't be satisfied and stop here.
I was about to change clothes and go out.
'Someone is there.'
I felt a presence outside.
It was a presence so subtle that I wouldn't have been able to feel it a month ago.
'It's that girl.'
The presence I saw outside the window when I gave Yoo Ara a massage.
The girl who secretly came and watched us every time I tutored Yoo Ara.
It was Lee Hye-ri's presence.
Yoo Ara couldn't sense it, but I had been watching all along.
That she was monitoring my tutoring sessions with Yoo Ara.
The fact that she came all the way here.
It must mean the time has finally come.
I pretended not to know anything, changed my clothes, and went outside.
How far had I walked after leaving the house?
The gaze chasing me stuck persistently.
The moment I left the apartment complex and entered the alleyway.
"Excuse me."
A voice came from behind.
When I turned my head, the familiar woman I had seen from afar was standing there.
A woman with long, straight hair and a cold impression.
Was she what they commonly called a delinquent type?
She was glaring at me with sharp eyes.
"Excuse me, you're Yoo Ara's tutor, right?"
It was Lee Hye-ri, as expected.
"You're Lee Hye-ri, right? You did well on the 2nd exam."
"So it really is you."
"I am, but what is it?"
"Can we talk for a moment?"
She took a step closer.
The scent of mint pierced my nose.
"Talk about what? I don't think there's anything personal to talk about with a student."
"It's about the tutoring. And it's something that won't be bad for the tutor to hear."
"Hmm, it's a bit much to talk here, so let's go somewhere without people."
"Good. I know a place. Let's go there."
"Sounds good."
I followed Lee Hye-ri into a cafe she had picked out in advance.
A quiet cafe with few people.
We sat facing each other, having ordered our respective drinks.
I had an iced Americano, and Lee Hye-ri had......
"It's mint chocolate."
"Yes. It's my favorite drink."
"Hmm......."
Lee Hye-ri, who took a sip of her mint chocolate latte, opened her mouth.
"I'll get straight to the point. Teach me."
"Teach you?"
"Yes. If it's the skill of the teacher who made Yoo Ara, a student who was held back, compete for 1st and 2nd place in the grade, I'm convinced that you can teach me too."
"You're too kind. I didn't do anything special. I just met a good team member."
Playing hard to get.
It was a basic technique good for raising my value even higher.
The other party needs me.
Although she never said it herself, her actions of coming to find me several times decided who was the master and who was the servant in this situation.
In this negotiation, I was the master, and Lee Hye-ri was the servant.
"No. It's a grade that could never be achieved if you were an ordinary teacher. In fact, Yoo Ara's grades were disastrous at the beginning of the first semester. Ara changed after meeting you. So......."
"Is that so?"
I drank my coffee.
"Yes. I don't know if you knew, but I watched for a month. At first, I just thought you were a pervert....... But with your detailed teaching, I could see Ara's skills improving later on. So......."
"So Lee Hye-ri, the younger sister of our Lee Gang-san, wants me to teach her too?"
"......Yes."
When Lee Gang-san's name came up, the look in her eyes as she stared at me turned cold.
Hmm, it seems she wanted to become a tanker because she admired her brother.
Does she hate it when others call her brother's name?
Well, that doesn't matter.
Because it's not necessary information for teaching her.
"I'm a bit expensive, you see."
"......How much do you need?"
"20 million per semester, and an additional 20 million as a success fee."
My value has gone up a bit.
Suggesting 20 million wasn't to make money.
It was a figure to show my worth.
"And if you promise never to disobey me during the tutoring process, I will teach you."
Lee Hye-ri, who glared at me for a moment and bit her lip, nodded.
"......Fine. That much is......."
"And you have to pass one test."
"A test......?"
"Yes."
"What is it?"
"You must take off all your clothes in front of me."
The look in Lee Hye-ri's eyes as she glared at me became even sharper.