As the warp ended, the scenery of a tiny village entered my vision, and the thick scent of earth and grass forced its way into my nostrils, refreshing me.
"It definitely feels like the smell of nature is everywhere when you're in Yggdrasil."
I was in the middle of the village.
Though it was too small to even be called a village, the tall hotel stretching up in the center elevated the village's status.
Just as I was about to head toward the hotel after looking at it—
Suddenly, someone covered my eyes from behind and tickled my ears with a refreshing voice.
"Who is it?"
"…Who do you think?"
"Kyaahk! H-Heup…"
"Churp… Chueueup… Churp."
I turned around, pulled the woman close, and kissed her relentlessly.
In broad daylight, right under the blazing sun, we were making out in the middle of the village.
But despite my forceful kiss, the woman hugged me tightly and shamelessly pressed her large chest against mine.
After kissing for a while, I gently looked down at the woman in my arms.
"Hah… Hah… What's with you, all of a sudden! Hehe…"
Long, flowing brown hair, transparent black pupils, and a flawless, pure white face.
The woman looking up at me with a dazed smile—
It was Min Ha-yeon.
***
Min Ha-yeon led me to the restaurant inside the hotel.
Even though she had only been apart from me for 12 hours, she clung to my arm, refusing to let go.
Even when we sat at the luxurious table in the hotel restaurant, she stayed glued to me.
"Aren't you hungry? Let's eat quickly. I skipped breakfast on purpose so I could eat with you."
"You're not hungry? Then don't eat."
"…I don't want to eat alone."
I smiled at her, but I felt a bit puzzled.
'Huh? What's up? I don't remember her being like this.'
Was Min Ha-yeon the type to be this openly affectionate?
I mean, I knew she was incredibly passionate when it came to sex, but she wasn't the type to act all lovey-dovey like this.
As a woman who had dedicated herself to the fiercely competitive world of archery, she was more tomboyish than the type to act cute like this.
Armonia, who heard my question through our mental link, came up with a hypothesis.
[Perhaps it's because you completely satisfied her sexually before leaving?]
'Ah… I did use my hands to make her lose her mind.'
Before leaving this place, I had sex with Min Ha-yeon and used my fingers to push her over the edge, making her pass out from pleasure.
Armonia's theory was that Min Ha-yeon, having experienced satisfaction like never before in her life, was now treating me extra well.
She stuck right by my side, neatly arranging the spoon and chopsticks in front of me and fussing over everything.
Since this was a village without NPCs, food just popped out of the inventory like items.
As Min Ha-yeon and I ate and talked, the topic eventually shifted to Han Yeo-reum.
"Hahaha! He really said that?"
"Yeah! He was like, 'Try it yourself!' and then started clinging to me, crying and begging!"
Min Ha-yeon told me about how she met Han Yeo-reum in the morning after leaving the hotel.
She said she preached to Han Yeo-reum like some kind of sex evangelist, saying things like, "Getting r@ped by Seong Suho felt amazing."
But the best part was the final blow.
"When I told Yeo-reum, 'Let's just date, but have sex with other people,' he ran off crying!"
"Pfft—HAHAHA!"
I couldn't stop laughing as I listened to her story.
Min Ha-yeon was dead set on breaking Han Yeo-reum's spirit.
It was the result of her pent-up emotions exploding, combined with her affection for me.
After moving past the topic of Han Yeo-reum, I brought up the next subject.
"First, let's grind points like crazy while we're here."
"…Why? Can't we just stay like this?"
Min Ha-yeon looked at me with a disappointed expression.
She probably wanted to make good memories, knowing that both the points and my memories would disappear after the regression.
But good memories wouldn't protect her future.
Sure, points and items would reset due to the regression.
But there was one thing that carried over—
Min Ha-yeon's abilities.
We had to grind points like mad to maximize her abilities.
That way, even after regression, we could breeze through the beginner village again without any issues.
"Ha-yeon, it's about your abilities. I want to stay with you too, but opportunities like this don't come often."
"…Alright."
Min Ha-yeon pouted but understood what I meant.
After staring at me for a while, she flashed a bright smile and said:
"I'll get so strong that you won't be able to say things like that anymore."
"Hahaha."
After finishing our meal, we left the hotel and headed to the hunting grounds.
***
At the entrance of the hunting grounds, I muttered as I looked at Han Yeo-reum, slumped on the ground like a ragdoll.
"…What do we do with him?"
"Ugh…"
Min Ha-yeon's expression clearly said she was dying of embarrassment.
It must've been humiliating to think that this guy was once her boyfriend.
'Wow… This guy really has nothing going for him except regression.'
[But it's strange. Why is he lying around here instead of the hotel…?]
Why would he sleep rough in a place like this when there was a perfectly good hotel?
"Ha-yeon, I'll go talk to him. Wait here for a bit."
"No, I'll go and—"
Min Ha-yeon tried to stop me, insisting she'd handle it herself.
She seemed reluctant to dump the annoying task on me.
But I stopped her and explained why I should be the one to go.
"He needs to direct his resentment at me, not you."
"…"
"Just like yesterday's r@pe play, we can't let Han Yeo-reum resent you. A little teasing is fine, but it's better to be careful."
"Sigh… Fine."
Min Ha-yeon reluctantly agreed and decided to wait at a distance while I talked to Han Yeo-reum.
I walked right up to Han Yeo-reum and spoke.
"Hey, what are you doing here?"
"…"
Han Yeo-reum turned his head slightly, glanced at me, then ignored me and looked away.
"Are you a hobo or something?"
"Grrr…"
Well, at least he wasn't deaf.
I smirked and asked again.
"Answer me. What are you doing here?"
"The… fairy… restricted… lodging…"
Han Yeo-reum gritted his teeth but obeyed my command and began explaining why he was lying around on the street.
After hearing everything, I finally understood the situation.
The day before, Han Yeo-reum had mistaken my and Min Ha-yeon's r@pe play for the real thing and called a fairy.
I already knew that part.
But when the fairy didn't give her the solution she wanted, Han Yeo-reum cursed at it, and the fairy slapped him with all kinds of restrictions.
No lodging, no point usage, no fairy summoning.
Because of that, he got forcibly kicked out when he tried to enter the hotel and couldn't buy anything from the shops.
Starving and with nowhere to go, he eventually collapsed from exhaustion here.
Min Ha-yeon's words must've also hit him hard…
"You're lucky to be alive. It's a miracle you survived after talking to a fairy like that."
"Grrr…! Just kill me!! You!!"
"Pfft—HAHAHA!"
What is this, 'Grr! Kill me!'? Some kind of knight's last stand?
I burst out laughing at Han Yeo-reum's furious honorifics.
Sure, the forced politeness was awkward, but that awkwardness made it even funnier.
Still, as funny as it was, spending four days with him talking like this would be annoying.
'If he keeps resisting, it'll be more fun to mess with him, right?'
He's annoying, but there's a certain thrill in breaking someone like him.
"Hey, stop with the honorifics. It's weird."
"Grrr…"
After telling Han Yeo-reum to drop the honorifics, I summoned a fairy.
The fairy appeared and fluttered its wings at me with a bright smile.
"How can I help you?"
"Ah, I wanted to ask something…"
What I asked about was Han Yeo-reum's lodging situation.
If he slept out here and got sick or worse, died, it'd be a problem for me.
If he died while I was having sex with Min Ha-yeon, I'd be so pissed I might just kill him myself.
But the fairy's answer disappointed me.
"I'm sorry. I can't arbitrarily lift the lodging restriction now."
"Ah… Alright. Can't be helped."
"…But! There is a way for him to stay in the lodging facilities."
"Huh? How?"
"If you and the woman over there permit it."
The lodging facilities allowed multiple people to stay together.
If Min Ha-yeon or I shared a room with Han Yeo-reum, he could use the hotel too.
"Oh… Got it. Thanks."
I handed the fairy 3,000 points as I said that.
It wasn't as much as the 10,000 points from before, but judging by her expression, she was still satisfied.
"Call me if you need anything else! Bye~"
The fairy disappeared after saying that.
As I watched her vanish, I turned my gaze back to Han Yeo-reum.
The sheer hatred in his eyes was palpable—he was glaring at me like he wanted to kill me.
I looked at him and spoke.
"Hey, for now…"
"…?"
***
Min Ha-yeon and I were so focused on hunting that it felt like we were determined to wipe out every monster in the area.
Originally, only Min Ha-yeon would shoot arrows while I brewed potions on the side, but now we were both firing arrows and sweeping through the mobs together.
Min Ha-yeon, surprised by my archery skills, slumped her shoulders with a sigh.
"Haah... You use magic, you do alchemy, and now you shoot arrows better than me... I feel so useless..."
"Hey, what are you talking about... That's not true at all. I'm only good at shooting because I have magic support. It's not my real skill."
To avoid suspicion, I lied to Min Ha-yeon, claiming that my accuracy and archery skills were magic-assisted.
But seeing me, who couldn't shoot well before, now handling a bow so skillfully made her more demoralized than suspicious.
Still, the suspicion wasn't completely gone.
After some time passed, she started asking me questions.
"Suho... Why did you hide the fact that you're so good at archery all this time? No... Why did you hide it before?"
"..."
People naturally feel uneasy when they sense something being hidden from them.
If it weren't for Min Ha-yeon's dependency on me and her affection, the real Min Ha-yeon would've pegged me as a suspicious person long ago.
After a long silence, I finally spoke.
"Actually... I just wanted to stay close to you. I was worried that if I showed off my archery skills on the first day, you'd just see me as a rival."
"..."
As I watched Min Ha-yeon staring blankly at me, I sent a telepathic message.
'Total bullshit.'
[...]
Truthfully, I hadn't even considered archery until now.
But that blatant lie seemed to have pierced right through Min Ha-yeon's heart.
"Hehehe... Ah, seriously..."
Her lips twitched as she swayed playfully before clinging to me and saying:
"Don't even think about going to bed early tonight."
While Min Ha-yeon was whispering to me, Han Yeo-reum's cursing echoed from afar.
"Hey! Min Ha-yeon! Stop clinging to him! You're being deceived!!"
"Haah..."
Min Ha-yeon sighed and started scowling.
Even when she frowns, a pretty girl stays pretty.
"Ha-yeon! That bastard called you a whore behind your back!!"
Han Yeo-reum.
Currently, he was completely useless in this hunt.
So why did I even bring him along?
After meeting Han Yeo-reum at the village entrance, I took him to the hotel and said:
"First, go wash up, then just stay here... But when you sleep, you're only allowed on that sofa in the living room."
I let Han Yeo-reum stay in the penthouse.
With one condition—he only got one bathroom and one sofa.
Everything else was off-limits.
Han Yeo-reum, flustered by my sudden generosity, stammered:
"Wh-What's this about? Why are you suddenly being nice to me?!"
"...."
Without answering, I took a freshly washed and tidied-up Han Yeo-reum with me, and the three of us—Min Ha-yeon, him, and I—headed to the hunting grounds.
But since Han Yeo-reum was utterly useless, we kept him at a distance, far away from us.
Honestly, even if he had been helpful, I would've done the same.
Now, it was time to put the real reason I brought him along into motion.
After glancing at Han Yeo-reum, who was still whining to Min Ha-yeon from afar, I whispered into her ear.
"Ha-yeon... Can I ask you for another favor?"
Min Ha-yeon, who had been scowling, relaxed her expression and smiled at me.
"Hmm? What is it?"
After a brief silence, I spoke quietly.
"I want to do it here."
"...Huh? Hwahk!"
With those words, I pulled in my arms and began kneading her firm buttocks.
***
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