A Peculiar Intent (1)
"Mmph! Mmmphhh!!!"
Her throat convulsed around the unfamiliar intrusion, spasming hard. Even so, Ji-ye drove her head down deeper, bloodshot eyes wide and burning. Faced with a man's cock she hadn't met in so long, she looked ready to claim every year she'd spent trying to remain a good mother as overdue compensation.
"Not bad."
Sun-hwa watched Ji-ye work and muttered it with a sour twist to her mouth. The way the woman moved her tongue—more aggressive, more practiced than even Sun-hwa herself had been the first time she'd met him—clearly got under her skin. I squeezed Sun-hwa's breast as I spoke.
"Don't get jealous. I always keep to the order."
"W-what… When you put it like that, I sound like some petty little—"
"You weren't jealous? You get jealous of Su-ah too."
"Th-that's not true! You don't even know—Kyaah!!"
I didn't care for the cheeky answer, so I gave her ass a light smack. A sharp crack rang out as her plump rear jiggled, and Sun-hwa shuddered hard, leaning her head against me in the same breath.
"Ah… hnn…"
"Going to speak nicely?"
"H-hmph…!! As if I'd—hiiik?!"
—Shlick!!
"Ah, nngh…!! P-pull it out…"
The moment I brought my hand between Sun-hwa's thickly furred thighs and found the hole nestled in that slick thicket, my finger was sucked in as if it belonged there. No matter how much she protested with her mouth, her body was honest about wanting me.
That was exactly why I could never hate her. Every time she huffed and pouted and played the haughty princess, her body still came right out and begged for me. So even her bratty little acts, I could let slide as charm.
—Squish, squish, squish.
"Ha… nnh…!! Hnn… hyaaang…!!"
I scraped roughly along the inside of her belly, and clear nectar began to run down my finger in streams. Watching that soft lower half tremble made my cock swell harder; the sudden increase in size startled Ji-ye into a gagging retch.
"Urgh…!! Phhhuu…!!"
—Drip…
Thick spit slid from her lips and hit the ground. Beside the little puddle already forming from the wetness running down between Ji-ye's own legs, a second puddle of her drool began to gather. Cheeks flushed pink, she coughed—and still wrapped her hand around my cock and started stroking.
"Haa… haa…"
Seeing something thicker and longer than her own forearm right in front of her face was probably a first. And if she'd gone nearly ten years without a man—long enough to end up doing exhibition play every night—she wasn't about to let this chance slip away.
Besides, mother or not, she was still only just into her thirties. Thirsty didn't begin to cover it; she had to be bone-dry. Any sense that this situation was strange, any lingering doubt about whether she should be doing this, had long since burned off.
High Charm is in effect.
Target Hwang Ji-ye's Affinity has increased.
Roughly speaking, the fact that this wasn't happening with a total stranger worked in my favor.
After stroking me for a long while, Ji-ye spoke in a trembling voice.
"This… is a coincidence…?"
"What do you mean?"
"The day I… the day I gave you that thing… you just happened to be out walking with another woman, right in front of me like this… It's too strange to call a coincidence."
Even as she said it, the older woman was breathing hard, unable to tear her eyes off my cock.
Hwang Ji-ye's disposition 'Pet' is in effect.
It has been a long time since she last found a Master.
Give her the right answer, and you may become her Master.
What was this?
All of a sudden the system's messages had shifted. It almost felt like it wanted me to clear this conquest.
"…"
"W-why are you like that…? Don't tell me… don't tell me…"
"It's nothing. Don't worry about it."
My face must have gone stiff for a second, because Auntie Ji-ye pressed me in an anxious voice. I soothed her lightly—but the question wouldn't leave my head.
Why had I never doubted this system?
It was like… how to put it. It always brought me exactly what I needed, right on time. And it seemed to know those things would be necessary when it handed them over. Everything I'd received had proven useful in the next conquest, tailored to the other person's disposition…
No. Maybe that was stretching it too far.
Even so, the doubt wouldn't fade easily. Did that mean someone really was watching me from beyond the system—the way the apothecary had reacted that time?
"Hoo."
For now, thinking about it wouldn't get me anywhere. I pulled the leash Auntie had handed me earlier that day out of Sun-hwa's coat pocket and spoke.
"Shall we move somewhere else first? We've been here too long."
"Th-that's…"
"I brought it just in case—and it looks like I've ended up returning it to its owner."
"Nnh…"
I handed Sun-hwa her coat, then unclipped the lead attached to her collar. She mumbled with a look of pure disappointment.
"Hngh… That was mine…"
"I'll spoil you even more later. Just hold out for today."
I kissed her on the head as I said it, and Sun-hwa—cheeks as red as her hair—turned her face away primly.
"Y-you think I'd do something like this again? I was just… just saying."
"Oh, please…"
She melted that fast and still had to snap about it. I looked away from Sun-hwa and back at Ji-ye, who seemed torn over the worn old collar sitting in front of her.
Come to think of it, this woman's conquest conditions were pretty simple, looking back. Be recognized as her Master, and receive the collar she'd been using.
Su-ah's help had played a part, sure—but I couldn't shake the feeling the system was steering things so I could keep clearing conquests with ease.
"…Auntie."
"Nnh…!"
I spoke to Auntie Ji-ye in a low voice.
"Honestly, I think you're pretty charming."
"W-what are you saying… H-your girlfriend is right there…"
"Girlfriend?"
I snorted a quiet laugh and smacked Sun-hwa's ass again.
—Crack!
"Hiiik?!"
"Are we lovers?"
"Y-you…"
Sun-hwa trembled for a moment, then answered once her body settled.
"Hoo… Well, I can't exactly say we aren't… But still, I'm the second one too."
"Right."
"Th-the second…?"
Auntie Ji-ye said it like she couldn't believe her ears.
"W-why…?"
"Why, she asks."
Sun-hwa smirked and looped her arms around my neck.
"Where else am I supposed to find a guy this handsome who also fucks this well? And… even if I'm second, as long as I listen to Unnie, he takes care of me without leaving me wanting for anything."
Well now.
"Look at you, saying nice things for once, Sun-hwa."
"You do know I'm quite a bit older than you, right?"
"I know. You just don't have any Dignity of the Elder Woman, that's all."
"You little—"
Sun-hwa pinched my nose—gently enough not to hurt—as she spoke.
"Still. I mean it. I'm happy with this life. He's more lovable than the husband who knocked me up once and ran off chasing some young piece of ass."
"M-my husband…"
Auntie Ji-ye looked back and forth between us with a dazed expression, then swallowed dryly and spoke.
"I-if someone like me is all right… i-if you're all right with it… will you be my Master…?"
"Hmm."
A satisfying turn of events. Bringing Sun-hwa along might have been the perfect choice, in a way. Su-ah, with that gentle heart of hers, never would have steered things toward a decision like this.
"Well. No reason I can't."
"Th-then…"
With trembling hands—but practiced motions—Ji-ye undid the buckle of the collar and fastened it around her pale throat. The collar marks already ringing her neck vanished completely beneath it. Anyone could have told those marks had been made by something exactly like this.
Once the collar was on, Ji-ye took the dangling lead in her mouth and looked up at me, making no effort to hide the desperate hunger on her face.
"Hnn…"
"Wow."
Su-ah was a cat, Sun-hwa a pig… so Auntie Ji-ye would be a dog, then?
No. She was a little too old for "puppy" to fit.
A bitch. That was the right word.
Meanwhile.
"Aigoo, shit. Lost again today."
In the park management office, an old man spat a rough curse in front of a crackling monitor as he slapped down hwatu cards.
Work had run late into the night, so Su-ah hadn't managed to reach Se-hyun. To work off the frustration, she'd come out for a run—to the same park where she and Se-hyun had first met.
"Haa… haa…"
After a stretch that left her lungs burning all the way up into her throat, the tightness in her chest eased a little. Times like this, she almost envied Sun-hwa. Being able to do whatever she wanted without a second thought… it was a little enviable. Even so, Su-ah had no intention of giving up who she was now.
"Heh…"
No matter who Se-hyun held, no matter how many women he met—the seat at his side would always be hers to claim first.
Thinking of it that way, she could let something like this slide with a principal wife's composure.
"Still, it's strange…"
After wiping away the beads of sweat, Su-ah rolled her neck and shoulders and felt a curious vitality humming through her. The energy she'd been feeling ever since meeting Se-hyun seemed even denser lately. As if she were slipping back toward her younger years.
Unlike before, when she'd tired so easily, she could now push her usual workout volume up by thirty percent without wearing out—and sometimes she felt more energetic than her own daughter.
"It really is odd."
She was still turning that over when a voice from behind stopped her mid-step.
"Huh…? You—why aren't you alone?"
"…?"
Not understanding what he meant, she turned her head—and found the security guard grandfather standing there with a thoroughly baffled look on his face.
The same old man who, that day, had returned Se-hyun's phone and handed over that bizarre tonic.