Chapter 208
Chapter 208
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Translator: crow
Chapter Title: Threat
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The bathroom was filled with white steam rising from the warm water.
After our passionate lovemaking, Kyung-sook and I were soaking in the steaming bathtub, enjoying a leisurely time together.
Her pretty breasts and gently swollen belly swayed in the rippling water.
Inside that belly...
My child.
It still didn't feel real.
"How's the baby?"
"Healthy."
"I see."
"......"
"......"
A brief silence passed before Kyung-sook spoke up.
"It's a girl."
"........I see."
I had no idea how to respond in moments like this.
What was I supposed to say...?
Should I compliment her?
Act happy?
My emotions were just... indifferent.
In that awkwardness, I gently stroked her swollen belly as she leaned her back against me.
She didn't say much either, just quietly leaned into me with a peaceful smile.
"Un-ho, dinner's ready. Come eat while it's hot."
After the bath, I was lounging on the sofa like it was my own home, watching TV, when Kyung-sook called out.
A delicious aroma wafted through the air.
I got up from the sofa and headed to the dining table, where a feast was laid out.
It was more than enough for two people—a lavish dinner.
The main dish was eel.
As I eyed the eel intently, Kyung-sook blushed shyly.
"Eel, huh? Does that mean you're expecting me to put in some serious effort later?"
"Un-ho, honestly..."
Whether it was eel or Viagra, it wouldn't make much difference to me, but eel tasted good anyway, so no reason to complain.
For some reason, Kyung-sook watched me eat with a contented smile.
"Aren't you eating?"
"Yes, I will."
Only then did she pick up her chopsticks.
Her husband, Yi Man-su, wasn't coming home due to work, and she'd gone out of her way to make eel, so it seemed like I owed her a sticky, intense night.
We both knew.
About her husband heading to his mistress's place.
After dinner, the two of us roamed the house all night, entwining our bodies.
The next day.
I even polished off the lunch she'd packed for me before getting ready to leave.
As I was heading out, Kyung-sook stopped me.
"Wait a second, Un-ho."
I turned back absentmindedly to greet her.
Despite our all-night romp, her face showed no signs of fatigue.
If anything, she looked more vibrant.
The elixir's effects were getting even more impressive.
She approached quietly and straightened my clothes.
Like a wife seeing her husband off to work.
Her cuteness made me pull her waist close.
"Ah..."
She blushed in my arms.
My hand instinctively slid to her ass.
The plush softness through her thin clothes was exquisite.
My lust surged again.
Sensing my gaze, she looked shy but not displeased.
"Un-ho... again...?"
I turned her around, had her brace against the shoe cabinet, and stick out her hips.
Kyung-sook obediently assumed the position.
I lifted her skirt.
Her pale, bare ass was exposed—she wasn't wearing anything underneath.
Any man who could resist this wasn't a man.
In the end, I mounted her from behind one more time at the entryway, shaking my hips until I left her home feeling refreshed.
A handsome middle-aged man with neatly combed-back blond hair and tanned skin sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, reviewing documents.
It was South America's S-Rank villain, Juan Razka.
What he was looking at now were profiles of women.
Park Un-ho's women.
Unfortunately, the man had no family.
He seemed to have about four lovers.
They varied in age and type.
Not just sexy ones, but innocent-looking pure types and petite women too.
Quite the omnivore.
It wasn't unusual or frowned upon in this world for an Awakener to have multiple women.
Laws still mandated monogamy in many places, but most male Awakeners kept two or three around.
The key reason: their offspring had a higher chance of Awakening.
The world had formed an unspoken atmosphere that neither endorsed nor condemned polygamy among Awakeners.
With no family for Park Un-ho, the targets were inevitably limited to his women.
As Juan scanned the profiles, his eyes locked on one woman.
Her face was, of course, stunning.
A married woman.
But she didn't look much older than the others.
Park Un-ho was even living with her daughter—a deep relationship.
He'd gotten involved with both mother and daughter.
And she was pregnant.
A pregnant woman with a family.
'This woman...'
Juan knew instinctively.
That the child in her belly was Park Un-ho's.
'A woman carrying Park Un-ho's child...'
With his power, he could've made her divorce her husband and claim her for himself... but he was keeping her family intact.
According to the intel, her husband knew nothing.
A perverse fetish.
I thought he was a fool, but he had a sneaky dark side.
I got it.
Everyone has their shadows.
But... that might make her even more precious to him.
Juan licked his lips with a sleazy smile.
"This one's perfect."
I was on Jeju Island for the first time in a while, chilling with a gamepad in hand.
-Knock. Knock.
"Ah, Uncle..."
Yu-na's voice came with the knock.
"Come in."
The door opened, revealing Yu-na's face.
But she was fidgeting anxiously, her face pale.
"What's wrong?"
"Uncle, Dad says Mom still hasn't come home. What do we do?"
"Hm?"
Of course I knew Yu-na's mother.
Kim Kyung-sook.
I'd spent a hot night at her place just recently.
'Pregnant and all, she shouldn't be out much... and she hasn't come home?'
Kyung-sook wasn't the type to wander around much anyway.
"Dad says she was gone when he got home from work. He thought she'd just stepped out briefly... but she still hasn't returned. Apparently, she went for a walk in the afternoon and never came back..."
'Suni, check it out.'
[Got it.]
I immediately asked Suni to track Kyung-sook's whereabouts.
[CCTV confirms her up to the afternoon walk. She's presumed kidnapped in a blind spot. This is the vehicle suspected of taking her.]
A black SUV appeared in my view.
'Trace it?'
[Trail ends at Busan Port. Likely took a boat.]
If she'd been in my raid party, tracking her would've been trivial...
But she was at home, quietly focusing on prenatal care, not hunting like the others, so it hadn't crossed my mind.
Who'd bother kidnapping a pregnant housewife? Hard to imagine she'd made enemies.
'.........It's gotta be because of me, right?'
They wouldn't have targeted her if I'd included her in the party—lucky for them.
Recent grudges...
Wang Cheon and China, maybe.
Nothing else came to mind.
'Wang Cheon?'
He seemed prideful; probably not his style.
'Who the hell?'
Even if I couldn't remember.
I might've unknowingly made an enemy.
Then Yu-na's phone rang.
She answered hurriedly.
Desperate hope for news on Kyung-sook.
Her face hardened instantly.
"Uncle..."
Yu-na looked on the verge of tears as she handed me the phone.
"Me?"
"Yes..."
A call to me through Yu-na...
I took the phone from her.
「Park Un-ho.」
My name came out of nowhere.
A man's voice.
"Who is this?"
「Juan Razka.」
Famous enough that I knew the name.
South America's S-Rank villain.
"What's this about?"
I already sensed he was the culprit.
「Cliché, maybe, but... I've got someone precious to you.」
"You're insane. Do you know what you've done?"
「Of course. My demand is simple. Hand over your secret arts. All of them—the ones locked in your Secret Manual Library and whatever else you're hiding.」
Straight to the point.
No intent to hide his identity like some random kidnapper.
Makes sense.
An S-Rank villain like Juan Razka was beyond any nation's reach.
Negotiate? Pointless when his demand was clear.
"Hah... Release her now, and I'll forgive you with just one arm."
「Hah... Park Un-ho. Still don't get your position? 」
"You're the one who doesn't get it. I'm showing you immense mercy right now. Consider this your warning. Fail to bring her back immediately, and you won't die easy."
「Hah... Pathetic. Need to see your woman screaming under me to snap out of it? I'll call back. Might send a nice video of her well-being.」
-Click.
Juan hung up rudely first.