Yu Gaeul returns from the restroom.
Behind her, Yeon Haneul and Go Eunbi were walking with some distance between them.
‘Did something happen?’
Unlike Yu Gaeul, who was hopping along as if she were in a good mood, Yeon Haneul was clinging to Go Eunbi, who was shorter than her, and muttering something. She looked somewhat gloomy.
I couldn’t help but feel concerned.
I sought an answer from Yu Gaeul, who had approached first.
“Did something happen in the restroom? Haneul looks upset.”
“Huh? I don’t know. I really have no idea.”
She seems to know something….
Even so, Yu Gaeul merely smiled and blended into the group of first-year students without telling me anything.
In the end, I had no choice but to ask Yeon Haneul directly when she came over.
“Gyeonu….”
“What’s wrong? Did something happen? Did someone bully you? Are you hurt anywhere? Is it… that time of the month?”
“No, it’s not that….”
Yeon Haneul broke away from Go Eunbi and immediately stepped into my arms.
I gently embraced her and patted her back.
Then, placing her hand on my chest, she looked up at me and said,
“Childhood friends… aren’t a losing hand, right?”
“Huh?”
What was she talking about?
I could do nothing but tilt my head at her incomprehensible words.
Regardless, Yeon Haneul insistently demanded an answer.
“They’re not, right? Hmm? They’re not?”
“….”
Her tone suggested that the answer had already been decided and that I should simply say it.
To comfort her, I nodded without question.
“Yeah…. No, they’re not. Of course not. Childhood friends… aren’t a losing hand. They’re a sure win.”
“Right? You think so too, don’t you? That’s right, we’re a sure win.”
“….”
“Do I feel like the opposite sex to you? Like a woman?”
“Isn’t that obvious? Don’t tell me you didn’t know even that?”
“…No. Still, hearing you say it directly makes me feel better.”
“What about you, then? Do I feel like the opposite sex to you? Like a man?”
“Yeah, very much so.”
As Go Eunbi wore a bitter smile, Yeon Haneul’s expression brightened considerably.
Thank goodness.
Though I still couldn’t understand the context, I inwardly sighed with relief and responded as Yeon Haneul wished.
“No matter what anyone says, we’re a sure win. We’re invincible.”
* * *
While strolling through the coastal city with the students in my group, I ran into Ham Minju.
The moment she saw me, she frowned.
“Ugh, it’s the perverted upperclassman.”
“….”
She seemed to be muttering so I wouldn’t hear her.
Unfortunately for her, I heard it all.
I couldn’t help but feel dumbfounded.
‘Why am I a pervert?’
It was unfair.
Still, given Ham Minju’s personality, I had expected her to dislike me to some extent.
In fact, she didn’t seem comfortable with Yeon Haneul either, despite Haneul being her senior in the student council.
I quickly shook off my feelings and walked toward her.
I spoke to her.
“Are you looking around properly?”
“Yes.”
“….”
Ham Minju cut off the conversation with a curt answer.
She was making it clear that she didn’t want to get involved with me.
I had planned to chat with her and build a rapport, so I couldn’t help but feel flustered.
Just then, she suddenly brought up a topic.
“I heard from Gaeul that you seniors are childhood friends?”
“Haneul and I? Yeah, that’s right. Why?”
“You aren’t dating, though.”
“Uh…. Not yet.”
“So you did that last time even though you weren’t dating? How impure.”
“….”
Ham Minju glared at me and quietly spat out, “Pervert.”
Last time. That thing.
There was no way I could fail to understand what she was referring to.
After being suddenly rebuked, I found myself at a loss for words.
Eventually, I squeezed out an excuse.
“We’re not dating yet. You could say we’re still at the stage of getting to know each other….”
“Does that mean it’s okay to do it?”
“…It’s not as if we can’t.”
But I hadn’t done anything wrong. Why did I have to make excuses?
Why was she nitpicking about someone else’s love life?
I answered gruffly, struck by the sudden sense of absurdity.
Ham Minju flinched.
“W-Well, you’re not exactly wrong, Senior, but still, doing something like that….”
“We didn’t inconvenience anyone else, and we did it because we like each other. What’s the problem? Don’t be so old-fashioned.”
“Ugh….”
Ham Minju’s face flushed bright red.
Since her hair was dark green, she looked just like a tomato.
I had never seen her like this, not even in the game.
I couldn’t help but chuckle.
Then my gaze shifted to the wolf familiars standing guard beside her.
“You said their names were Sola and Luna, right? Can I touch them?”
“They don’t really like being touched by other people…. Just give them a quick, light touch. And keep in mind that they might bite you if you bother them.”
“Got it. Thanks.”
Sola and Luna were wolf familiars with attractive black and blue fur.
After receiving Ham Minju’s permission, I reached out toward the two wolves.
Though the wolves seemed wary of me according to her command, they remained still and allowed me to touch them.
‘Haneul’s hair is soft, but their fur is stiff. Their tails… I’ll have to touch them if I get the chance later.’
I stroked both wolves on the head.
Then I slowly moved my hand and gently ran it down their backs.
Before I knew it—
Purr.
“Sola!? Luna!? Why are you doing this now….”
The two wolves gradually grew accustomed to my touch and completely surrendered themselves to it.
Now they whined as if they were enjoying themselves and lay down on the ground, as though asking me to scratch their sides.
They had come over to my side.
I cheered inwardly.
‘Now I can touch their tails.’
The wolves lay on their sides on the ground, lazily swishing their long tails.
Having eased their wariness, I reached for their tails.
“So this is what a wolf’s tail feels like.”
Success.
From that moment on, the wolves began actively fawning over me.
They wriggled around on the ground and even rolled over to expose their bellies.
I was satisfied.
Meanwhile, Ham Minju, who had been mumbling, “This is impossible…,” like someone in a daze—
“Sola! Luna! Why aren’t you getting up already!? And you, Senior, stop touching them now, will you!?”
“They seem to like me. Do you think I could make a contract with them? Would a double contract be impossible…?”
“Senior, you too!? Seriously…. Say something that makes sense!”
She let out a shrill scream.
* * *
After the club experience event, there was an after-party.
My friends, the other members, and I did our best to recruit the students who had participated that day.
We drank until we were drunk.
After returning to the academy, I went for a walk with Yeon Haneul to get some fresh air.
It was while we were walking that she suddenly spoke up.
“I want to kiss you.”
“Now? Here?”
“Yeah, now. There’s no one around anyway.”
We had stopped beneath a streetlamp on a forest path with no pedestrians in sight.
Yeon Haneul leaned against me.
Her gaze as she looked up at me was deep and languid.
I was inwardly flustered.
‘What’s gotten into her? She’s being unusually forward today…. Is she drunk? No, that can’t be it.’
Among my friends, Yeon Haneul was the one with the highest tolerance for alcohol.
Besides, she had used magic to dispel her hangover long ago.
There was no way she was drunk.
I denied the thought that had occurred to me.
Just then, the red eyes of Yeon Haneul, who had been waiting for my permission, trembled.
“Do you not want to?”
There was a trace of gloom in her voice.
It seemed that I had made her anxious by getting lost in thought.
I quickly shook my head.
“No, I’d love to.”
I meant it.
I wanted to do it too.
I had been jealous earlier when I saw Yeon Haneul getting along so warmly with the first-year boys. In truth, I had been itching to have her all to myself.
I couldn’t take my eyes off her as she let out a soft giggle.
She was beautiful.
“But you can do it anytime. Why do you need to ask me?”
“Because I want to receive it from you. Do it.”
“Do it?”
“Yeah, hurry.”
Yeon Haneul rocked her body and urged me on.
I stopped hesitating and pressed my lips to hers.
“Mmm….”
Though we knew we wouldn’t be able to pull away, our tongues intertwined as if we were devouring one another.
Yeon Haneul leaned her body against mine.
I held her with just enough strength to keep from crushing her.
Then she shifted her weight and pushed me backward.
“Haa.”
I didn’t resist her strength and moved back until I sat on a bench.
Yeon Haneul roughly wiped her lips with the back of her hand before approaching me.
She climbed onto my thighs, lightly placed her hands on my shoulders, and looked down at me.
She licked her lips as if to seduce me.
I felt as though I might be sucked into her crimson gaze.
“Mmm….”
This time, Yeon Haneul moved first. She wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me.
Naturally, I didn’t refuse.
Meanwhile, the warmth, weight, and sensation of her body against my thighs continued to stimulate me.
When she suddenly shifted her hips, I moved mine in response.
My waist tensed of its own accord.
“Mmph. Gyeonu….”
Yeon Haneul’s breathing was ragged.
I ran my hands down her back and nuzzled into the nape of her neck.
She was covered in the scent of soap, perhaps because she had just washed.
‘This is nice.’
I inhaled her fragrance through my nose, then abruptly licked the nape of Yeon Haneul’s neck as if marking my territory.
She recoiled for a moment.
Even so, I paid it no heed. I carefully nibbled at her neck and kissed it.
“Don’t, if you do this… it’ll leave a mark….”
“I’ll make sure it doesn’t.”
“Really…?”
“I won’t do anything you dislike.”
Yeon Haneul gripped the back of my head tightly.
I touched her tail, teasing her until she could no longer think straight.
Just then—
Crack!
The sound of a branch breaking rang out, accompanied by the sensation of someone’s gaze.
I had been absorbed in savoring Yeon Haneul, but I abruptly raised my head.
‘Somehow… I feel like I’ve experienced something like this before….’
The strange sense of déjà vu wasn’t merely my imagination.
I tensed as I watched a figure emerge from the darkness.
* * *
Though the mysterious exploration club experience event had been forced upon her by Yu Gaeul, it had been surprisingly enjoyable.
There was someone as spiteful as Gang Hanbyeol, but all the club seniors had been kind.
She hadn’t shown it outwardly, but she had thoroughly enjoyed strolling through the coastal city with them, chatting, drinking, and playing around.
She had even felt disappointed when the after-party ended late at night and she had to return to the dormitory.
‘At first, I wondered if joining had been a mistake, but it was better than I expected. Sola and Luna are pretty wary, but they took to some of the seniors. I never expected the plunderer senior and the pervert senior to tame them, though…. The plunderer senior borrowed the power of an artifact, but how in the world did the pervert senior do it? They don’t expose their bellies for just anyone…. He didn’t seem to be using an artifact, either…. Could he possibly possess a gift related to taming?’
Since it felt like a shame to go straight to bed, Ham Minju was taking a walk along the forest path near the dormitory.
As she walked, she calmly reflected on the day.
The wolves followed behind her.
“Hm?”
It was then that she spotted a figure in the distance beneath the light of a streetlamp.
Ham Minju narrowed her eyes.
‘Rabbit ears? Is that Senior Haneul?’
A figure sat on a bench, with something long and rabbit-ear-like twitching perkily above its head.
Naturally thinking of Yeon Haneul, Ham Minju walked toward it out of curiosity.
As the distance gradually closed, she was able to identify the figure.
What she saw shocked and horrified her.
“Ah….”
There weren’t one but two figures.
Do Gyeonu and Yeon Haneul.
The reason she had mistaken them for one person was that the two were sitting very close together, facing each other.
They were engaged in a display of affection so intimate that her eyes widened and her mouth fell open.
‘Th-Those seniors really…!’
She had spent the day with them and revised her opinion, deciding that they were unexpectedly kind and good seniors.
She never expected to see such an outrageous scene again before even a day had passed.
Ham Minju’s face flushed bright red, and she was extremely flustered.
At the same time, she was angry.
‘They’re kissing and slobbering all over each other outdoors…. I can’t leave them like that. They’ll go even further if no one stops them. This violates public decency. I have to stop them right now.’
As a member of the student council’s disciplinary committee, she had to uphold her duty.
Ham Minju prepared to go scold the two of them.
But she couldn’t bring herself to take a step.
Gulp.
‘It’s so indecent….’
Passionate and unending.
Yeon Haneul and Do Gyeonu craved each other. Their behavior was so vulgar that it made her frown, yet at the same time, it was so sublime that she couldn’t help but think it beautiful.
As if she shouldn’t interrupt them.
There was also something about the sight that made the viewer’s body tingle.
Without realizing it, Ham Minju became absorbed in the scene and swallowed hard.
“….”
She wanted to keep watching. To watch until the very end.
After signaling to the wolves to stay quiet, Ham Minju hid in the bushes and continued observing the two.
‘I wonder what it would feel like to do it. How good could it really be…?’
Ham Minju’s tongue stirred inside her mouth.
But then she failed to control her emotions, heat entering her gaze, and ended up giving away her presence.
She even foolishly stepped on a branch.
‘Ugh.’
Her eyes met Do Gyeonu’s.
Ham Minju flinched.
Her mind snapped back to reality.
‘W-What was I doing?’
She was ashamed and embarrassed that she had become so absorbed in the two of them making love.
She was humiliated.
If she could, she wanted to pretend she hadn’t seen anything and run away as fast as she could.
But she had already been caught.
“Ahem!”
Barely maintaining her composure, Ham Minju walked over to the two of them.
Then, trying to smooth over the situation, she lectured them in as calm a voice as possible.
“Senior Do Gyeonu, Senior Yeon Haneul, do you know that this constitutes public indecency? Normally, you could be suspended for this, but I’ll make an exception and only give you demerit points. If you have any objections, come to the disciplinary committee later. That’s all.”
“….”
Good. That was natural.
Ham Minju spun around.
**I Became the Middle Boss’s Childhood Friend**