Bumping into a Childhood Friend at an Upscale Restaurant
Han Sia, Min Jihun’s kindergarten classmate and childhood friend, crossed her arms over his chest.
Her cleavage peeked out from above the off-shoulder top.
The sight made the other male hunters nearby cough awkwardly and glance over, while the female hunters shot daggers with their eyes.
“Eh… huh! No, Sia! Long time no see!”
Jihun reached out as if to shake hands, but Sia didn’t move an inch with her arms crossed.
At the height of his seated position, Sia’s chest was right at eye level. Above it were her arms crossed, and above that, her voluptuous breasts. Below, the clinging one-piece dress revealed the silhouette of her belly button and lower abdomen that had nearly choked Jihun earlier. Moreover, next to her feminine lower belly was the curve of her hips, and because of the peach-colored thin dress, it created the illusion of seeing a naked body, leaving Jihun seriously considering whether to close his eyes or not.
Her toned, sensual body — the kind that could rival a ring girl or cheerleader — was causing Jihun’s pupils to dilate as if an 8.0 earthquake was hitting him.
'I can’t look away anywhere.'
Wherever Jihun’s eyes landed on Sia’s body, his junior was about to start making his case.
“Aah! Sorry! My mind’s all over the place. I should have woken up too, haha!”
Acting as if he was the one who committed a huge faux pas by offering a handshake while seated, Jihun stood up abruptly and tried to shake hands again. Looking at Sia’s belly button and the lower breast peeking out from under her arms, it seemed better to stand up to calm his junior’s erection.
“Huu… that wasn’t it. Yeah, long time no see.”
Now Han Sia accepted the handshake.
Standing up to face Sia, this time the deep cleavage entered Jihun’s view.
'Oh my god. Junior, hold it! No way! Ugh! Dad said this is not allowed here!' Jihun started counting backwards from 100 in his head to calm his unruly junior.
“What are you thinking about, Min Jihun? With a friend you’ve met after a long time right in front of you?”
Sia looked at Jihun with a displeased expression.
'I’m thinking about your breasts.' Jihun couldn’t say it and scratched the back of his head awkwardly.
“Thinking about what? Haha, just… uh, haha.”
“Hmph, boring. Just like you, Min Jihun. You haven’t changed at all. By the way, what brings you here? This is the first time I’ve seen you here?”
It sounded like she was asking how he got in on his salary or something.
'You really haven’t changed. What a rude attitude.' Jihun wanted to say that but held it back and taught it to Cheol-uk.
“I came here because my friend here said he’d treat me to a meal!”
'Go on, Cheol-uk! Trust me! I have a cool A-rank hunter friend! I’m proud of my friend. Help me out a bit!'
“Oh my, Cheol-uk! I didn’t expect to see you here!”
“Y-yes, nice to meet you, Sia.”
“?? You two know each other?”
“Of course~ We’ll be going to the B-rank gate together tomorrow with Cheol-uk.”
B-rank gate… just the magestones that come out of it are worth hundreds of millions of won.
'Of course, for B-rank and above, it’s salary-based, so they get salary and the association takes all the magestones… but they’ll get a separate bonus.'
Contract-based C-rank or D-rank hunters get only a nominal contract fee, while the magestones from monsters they defeat belong to them, and they can entrust them to the hunter association for a settlement after a fee.
'Of course, for someone like me, a D-rank, gathering magestones with all my might is just pocket change compared to the salaries of higher-rank hunters.'
Just as Jihun was feeling a bit down thinking about his small cute settlement, Sia made a sweet suggestion.
“Hey, then you, me, and Cheol-uk will go together tomorrow?”
'What?! We’re going to a B-rank gate together? This is the perfect opportunity! I have to seize it!'
Even just catching one goblin from a B-rank gate could yield magestones worth tens of millions of won. Even if I have to give up the boss, with Sia’s wide-area skill, just landing the finishing blow on a goblin on the verge of death could mean earning enough to cover the rent for Jihun’s studio and his father’s butcher shop combined.
Jihun nodded vigorously.
“Eh!! Yeah!! Can I go too?”
“Nothing’s off the table…. right…?”
Jihun was so excited about making money that he grabbed Sia’s hands with both hands and his eyes sparkled, causing Sia to blush and trail off.
“Tomorrow the day after tomorrow at 11. Details from Cheol-uk. More importantly, don’t let go of this hand now?”
“Ah! Sorry, sorry haha”
Jihun kept smiling kindly and scratched his head again.
“By the way… Cheol-uk? If it’s not rude, can I calculate the bill for this table too? I want to treat a friend to a meal after a long time.”
'Huh? What did he say?'
Jihun glanced at Cheol-uk’s expression.
'Please, Cheol-uk, help me out a bit…'
“Hah! Really? If you do, I’ll be grateful! As expected! Sia isn’t just beautiful, but her generosity is also wide!”
'Yah.. you didn’t have to be that submissive…'
“Ho ho, what a compliment. I’ll tell the staff to prepare. If you want to order more, feel free to. I’m leaving because the rest of the group is waiting.”
“Yes! Take care!”
Lee Cheol-uk bowed 90 degrees and clasped his hands politely, handing over the bill.
'Where do you think you’re going, dude… this is right next to us…'
A bit away from them, a man in a suit was waving happily at Sia.
'Is he her boyfriend…? Or fiancé? Rich people do that with engagements…'
After handing over the bill, Cheol-uk’s condition visibly improved, and he was sitting with his legs crossed like he was at home, drinking wine as if he had just ordered it.
“Hey hey! We’re not talking about that with you! Help me out a bit… what the hell is a 90-degree bow! A 90-degree bow!”
“Hah! Dude! Greeting the angel of capitalism is only natural!”
A bit later, the ordered food arrived.
When Jihun looked at Sia, she seemed to have completely forgotten about his side, chatting with a handsome man who had neatly combed his hair in front of him, laughing “haha ho ho”. Anyone would think they were a couple, and Jihun gave a bitter smile.
'Wow… he knows how to cover his mouth when laughing…'
Jihun, not knowing if the expensive food was going in his mouth or nose, poured more alcohol than usual to soothe his sour stomach today.
How much time had passed? Jihun’s eyes, numbed by excessive drinking that overwhelmed the hunter’s natural recovery ability. Even the blurry vision showed clearly the sight of Sia, who had revealed her snow-white shoulders, leaving the restaurant.
Like she was asking to calculate the bill for the other table too, Sia turned her head towards the table where Jihun and Cheol-uk were sitting. Jihun instinctively avoided the gaze.
“Why are you doing that, dude?”
Cheol-uk saw Jihun burying his head in the plate and turned his head to the place Jihun had been looking at earlier, then stood up abruptly and gave Sia another 90-degree bow.
'Shit… my only friend isn’t helping at all.'
When Jihun glared at Cheol-uk’s eyes that knew no social cues, Cheol-uk gave an expression as if to say ‘What did I do?’ and instead lit Jihun’s anger more.
“Hey, hey, dude, I know what you’re thinking right now. But don’t worry, I have my own ways too.”
“What are you talking about? If I know what you’re thinking right now, you should run away. Because I want to beat the shit out of you until you die.”
“Sigh, you talk about it so crudely. But that’s not it, that Sia friend.”
“Ah, no, I don’t care.”
“What do you mean you don’t care. You’re all dried up like that. Hey, think about it well. If that guy had said ‘I’ll just drop your Sia friend casually~’, would you have come?”
Jihun finally lifted his head and looked at Cheol-uk. His expression was like ‘This guy… how did he really know my mind?’
Cheol-uk read Jihun’s expression and raised his chin as if to say ‘See, I told you I know your mind!’ then leaned on his elbow on the table and got close to Jihun. He had gotten quite drunk, so his usual polite tone was gone, and he was speaking in the tone of a street vendor.
“It seems like you guys have the men calculate, and we have Sia calculate. Look at your… your dicks are feeding expensive food to a bitch. But if that’s the case! Ah just! Let’s go to a hotel restaurant, why did we come here? There’s a place where you eat and then immediately eat something else, right? Moreover, this place is all~ basically a place where only colleagues and superiors gather, and they’re just acting like ‘Let’s have a treat today~’ which they wouldn’t know?”
'Shit……'
Listening to it, every word was convincing, so Jihun nodded without realizing it. It was a bonus that his mind felt a bit at ease.
“How is it? Is my word right or wrong? If it’s right, drink up, dude.”
'My only friend is really nice.'
Jihun, feeling a bit sorry for having cursed at Cheol-uk earlier, raised his glass and clinked it with Cheol-uk’s.
To him now, it was a sort of toast.
2.
'Huu, today was unusually long.'
'Opening the shop from morning, arguing with that chaebol bastard, caught by the demon of “physical training”, and finally even Han Sia…'
Jihun, who had been busy all day and had done hellish training with the comrade from the North, Lee Cheol-uk. On top of that, pouring alcohol to soothe the inexplicable pain in his heart felt in the lounge made his body condition bad.
“Hah… huu… ah, the smell of alcohol. I should drink some water.”
Jihun stretched his tired body and stretched, feeling something soft at his fingertips.
'Huh? What is this?'
Thinking if there was something like this in his bed at home, he fiddled with it several times but got no sense.
'It’s really soft… hmm, good…'
After fiddling with the thing that filled his hand for a long time, he suddenly felt something strange.
Foreign ceiling.
'……? What do you mean foreign ceiling, shit… what is this happening.'
The colorful glow-in-the-dark stickers that should be on the ceiling were nowhere to be seen, and in the apparently high-end coffered ceiling, a subtle indirect lighting was flowing.
“Did you sleep well?”
Familiar voice.
“N… noona?”
“Noona? After coming all the way here, ho ho, shall I call you Jimin-ah~?”
“Hah.. hah!”
Jihun sat up abruptly and stood up. He was wearing only panties, and luckily, the place he was lying on was a sofa.
“Waaak! Ugh… what the… noona? How did I end up here?”
“I told you to call me Jimin!”
“Eh… what… Ji… min? Noona?”
“Yeah~”
“H.. how did I end up here?”
Jihun, still not having his mind back, asked Kim Jimin in a babbling manner what happened.
“How? You said let’s drink and meet in front of your butcher shop? When I went there, you were already passed out and couldn’t even move, so I brought you home.”
“Wah! Waaaa… this is crazy. Really… I’m so sorry, noona! Ah, no, Jimin.. noona.. haa”
“No no, even though it seems like my waist is all messed up dragging a sturdy man~ it’s only natural to help out neighbors like this, right?”
Jihun was fidgeting as if he wanted to kneel and beg for forgiveness right away.
“Oh, right! That o.. clothes, because you threw up so much earlier, I took them off a bit.”
Jihun finally understood why he was in just panties.
“By the way~ our Jihun’s sobering up made it less fun~ Earlier, you were acting all macho like ‘Hey hey, Kim Jimin.’ Kuku.”
Jihun’s dazed expression made Jimin add.
“Look at this? Who did this~?”
She slightly lowered the shoulder strap of the green dress she was wearing even in the morning, revealing more of her upper chest. A thin pastel bra was wrapping her breasts, with a thin material that subtly showed her skin. However, what caught Jihun’s gaze more was the red kiss marks left on Jimin’s upper chest that the bra hadn’t covered.
'Wah, shit, it happened.'
Jihun’s head went blank. Recalling memories, it seemed like there was a memory of something being bitten and sucked, making it even creepier.
“Kukukuku! Ah~ cute~ cute~ this appearance is also cute, Jihun! Haha hot! It’s okay, it’s okay! Noona will only know about it, so don’t worry~?”
Then she quickly raised the shoulder strap and fixed her clothes and took out water from the fridge.
“Here, this is the hangover tea I drink every time I drink alcohol, made at home. Here, don’t stand there all embarrassed, come sit down quickly! I’m not going to eat you!”
“Ye.. yes!”
Jihun, even at this moment, awkwardly sat on the sofa to avoid pointing out his heavy thing that he was trying to raise his head to.
Tap.
Jimin put down the water and sat next to him.
“Auung~ our Jihun has been watching over me so much, you’re tired~ Can I lie down?”
“Yes yes, please lie down comfortably. Should I move?”
“Huh? No no~ Jihun wants to borrow my knees a bit. That’s something I can do, right?”
Unable to say ‘Earlier, because noona lowered her dress, my junior was about to get hard, so I can’t.’ Jihun, like a puppy wagging its tail, placed his rebellious junior between his legs and calmly tapped her thighs.
“Yes yes! Then lie down here. Haha, today I have the merit of having my lower body exercised!”
Jimin smiled satisfied with Jihun’s answer and lay down on Jihun’s firm thighs, resting her head on them. In Jihun’s view, her side face lying sideways and her snow-white and slender earlobes were visible.
'Wah…. her ears are really white and small.'
“Oh my… it seems Jihun likes noona’s ears?”
'I thought he was thinking it inside?' Jihun startled.
“Hah! Sorry! I was definitely trying to think it inside but it came out!”
Then Jimin burst into laughter, holding her belly.
'??????'
Jihun was puzzled what was so funny. Jimin, barely catching her breath, opened her mouth to explain Jihun’s curiosity.
“Ahak! Ahahaha! Ahaha kuku kuku It’s a joke! Somehow my eyes were itchy so I just tried it once but it was real? En- yeah. It’s big, right? Our Jihun?”
'Wah, this is a big disaster…'
Jihun, who was worried how to handle this, even after rolling his head as if it would explode, couldn’t find an answer. What Jihun saw in his eyes was Jimin’s ear that had turned red.
“Hmm… you said you exercised, it’s not bad? Thighs?”
Then Jimin buried her head between Jihun’s thighs as if trying to hide her red face. It wasn’t particularly lewd intention, and she was just hiding her face in embarrassment.
However, at that moment, Jimin’s ticklish breath passed between Jihun’s thighs.
“Ugh… Jimin.. noona.. if you’re doing that there, it’s not good!”
But Jihun’s junior, who had already become angry beyond words, was angry. The sensual woman in the green dress who had been teasing him since the morning. As if to show her a lesson, Jihun’s penis, which had been standing up arrogantly, hit Jimin’s nose while she was burying her head between his thighs.
'Ah… this is a super big disaster.'
Jihun stopped thinking and just closed his eyes.