## Chapter 31 – The Perfect Couple (1)
“I’m back.”
It hadn’t been long since I’d left home, only a few days, but it felt like much longer.
The fact that it had only been a few days was reassuring, but it also felt strange, so I looked around my own house as if it weren’t mine.
I’d spent almost three weeks in the world inside the quest, so my house felt unfamiliar.
I was honestly worried.
I’d been staying in expensive, nice hotels every night towards the end of the quest, so I was worried I might feel disappointed coming back home.
But it was a needless worry.
My computer that cost a fortune, my cheap blanket, and the flat, zero-calorie soda in the fridge.
It was a very comforting sight.
Home really was the best.
It felt like an unknown sense of stability was enveloping me.
I threw myself onto the bed, and the hard mattress pushed back.
“Yeah, this is the bed I know.”
A soft mattress that swallowed you up wasn’t my bed.
Lying down, I naturally opened the quest board.
The level 2 quest board I got after winning over Gaeun Choi had added two new features.
Linked quests and additional rewards were the main attractions.
The additional rewards were like this:
[Additional rewards will be given based on the completion of the missions below.]
[Win over a woman other than Gaeun Choi.]
[Become a B-rank or higher hero.]
[Engage in skinship with Gaeun Choi in front of Kang Seok.]
I completed all three in this quest, and I received additional rewards.
First, the main reward of 3 million won was doubled to 6 million won, which was deposited into my account.
I was curious how the money would be given, but it was deposited directly onto my card.
I checked the depositor, and the name was Quest Board.
In addition, it upgraded one of the skills I frequently used in the quest.
I thought it would be a weapon skill, but my stamina skill leveled up.
Stamina became level 3.
I learned one thing.
Stamina seemed to affect virility.
As soon as my stamina level went up, I felt my dick stirring in my pants.
The fatigue that had been lingering in my body vanished as if washed away.
I also looked into the linked quests that appeared when I reached level 2.
I could find them on the quest board.
[A Woman Hiding Her True Nature – Linked Quest]
[Corrupt a Hero – Linked Quest]
The next quest for the quests I had already cleared had appeared.
Curious, I checked, and the linked quest for Corrupt a Hero was surprisingly about winning over Minji.
“I already cleared that?”
For me, it was practically a break quest.
If I ever got tired of quests or missed the women in the quests, I could accept it then.
I thought about accepting the quest right away, but since I had been away from reality for so long, I wanted to rest in the real world for a bit.
Besides, I had money now.
Then, naturally, I thought of Hanna.
I opened my messages and saw a text she had sent a few days ago.
[I might be hard to reach for a while.]
“She said she’d be busy for a while.”
Hanna, whose expressions had become richer since her anorgasmia was cured, had become increasingly popular and was receiving love calls from various advertisers.
I had heard that she would be busy filming commercials for a while.
I couldn’t reply because I was doing quests, so I sent a late reply now.
I wondered what I should say, but I sent a normal text.
I apologized for the late reply and said I had circumstances.
Then, as if on cue, I got a call.
It was, of course, from Hanna.
“Hello?”
“Hanna? Didn’t you say you’d be hard to reach for a while because you were busy?”
“I just didn’t expect someone to be even harder to reach than me.”
“…Sorry.”
I had nothing to say, even if I had ten mouths.
Maybe someday I’d tell Hanna about the quest board.
But I didn’t think that day would come.
Because then I’d have to tell her that my skill cured her anorgasmia, that I approached her because of the quest.
“Are you worried about something?”
“Worried?…”
Hearing that brief silence, Hanna spoke as if she could see everything, even through the phone.
A woman’s intuition was scary.
I actually had something to worry about right now.
This quest was different from the others.
I met many women while doing this quest.
I won over many women in one quest, and I even acted a bit excessively.
I deceived myself by saying it was all to clear the quest, but I was clearly enjoying it.
Since the day I got the quest, I had been enjoying being the one who takes.
Honestly, I was no different from Kim Taeyang, who stole my girlfriend, or even worse.
Maybe I was even more—
“It’s sudden, but I feel like I’m no different from Kim Taeyang.”
“You’re not.”
“…”
Hanna affirmed it so easily.
I was momentarily speechless.
Yeah, I actually knew.
Because of the quest, to get new abilities, to save her from a bad guy.
I deceived myself with countless excuses, but that wasn’t it.
I quietly walked to the mirror.
I had to admit it.
[Bastion: NTR, Conquest]
This was my bastion.
I wanted to be the one who takes.
And this quest had made me that kind of person.
“Yeah… that’s right.”
“You’re just the same bad guy.”
“…That’s right.”
“I think I’m more attracted to the bad ones.”
Hanna laughed playfully.
Hearing Hanna’s words and admitting it made me feel relieved.
It felt like the lump in my heart was disappearing.
Now I could be honest with my feelings.
That’s why my lust was boiling.
“I fucking want to fuck you right now.”
“…I have a shoot soon, don’t get me excited… seriously…”
“Sorry.”
“…When this schedule is over— then…”
Unfortunately, I couldn’t meet Hanna because she had a shoot.
But just hearing Hanna’s last words made me feel full.
Still, I felt like something was missing.
Honestly, I wanted to relieve my lust.
I finished the flat cola in one shot.
Maybe it was because it was zero-calorie, but it didn’t fill me up even after drinking it like that.
“…Should I go out for a bit?”
I had money to spare, so I wanted to enjoy the real world a bit.
I casually threw on a hoodie and sweatpants and went outside.
My destination was Myeongdong.
The place I had seen so much of in the hero world that I was sick of it.
It was my first time in this place in reality because I had only been there in the hero world.
Still, the streets weren’t much different from the hero world.
Of course, the advertising models on the posters and standees were celebrities, not heroes.
That was to be expected, but it felt very unfamiliar to me.
At the same time, I subtly continued my new hobby.
[Bastion: Public Exposure, Exhibitionism]
I checked the bastion of the idol in the poster.
I didn’t use bastion appraisal on just anyone before.
But after my conversation with Hanna and confirming my true nature, I decided to be more honest with myself.
So I didn’t discriminate between passersby, actors in posters, or idols in commercials.
I appraised their bastions without exception.
I even used it on men.
[Bastion: Furry, Animals, Anthropomorphism]
“…He looks normal, but…”
Of course, I occasionally saw information I didn’t want to know.
Maybe because there were many foreigners in Myeongdong, the bastions were also open-minded.
And I made eye contact with a couple.
The two of them looked back and forth between the black man next to me and me, and their cheeks were flushed.
I couldn’t figure out what was going on, so I appraised their bastions and listened closely.
[Bastion: NTR, Masochist]
They were a couple whose bastions perfectly matched.
The conversation was even more unusual.
“That black guy…”
“…Isn’t it better to have someone who communicates well? And he’s a little scary…”
“Then that guy.”
“Yeah… good.”
“A, are we really doing this?”
“Yeah… let’s try it.”
I could feel a sense of determination in their conversation.
And at the same time, a quest popped up.
[Participate in the couple’s NTR filming.]
[Reward: Inventory]
It was the second quest I had received in reality.
And it turned out my hunch was right.
“So there really are couples like that.”
I was honestly taken aback.
And on the other hand, it felt like fate.
For that couple to appear in front of me of all people.
And at this moment when my lust was boiling.
I slowly got up and approached the couple.
Just as I couldn’t take my eyes off the couple, they were only looking at me.
“Um…”
“Yes?”
The couple spoke to me as soon as I got close.
It was good that they called me, but both of them were fidgeting, unable to speak with nervous expressions.
It was the woman who mustered the courage.
“Could you possibly help us with our filming?”
“Hmm…”
They were being a bit indirect.
I looked down at the two of them, pretending to think about it.
It felt like I had gotten a little taller since my stamina went up.
“What kind of filming is it?”
“That’s—”
Just as the two of them were about to become passive again, I decided to help them this time.
“Is it possibly that kind of filming?”
“…Yes…”
The woman nodded as I spoke with a lewd smile.
The man nodded along with her.
“Okay.”
“R, really?”
“Yes, I have experience too.”
“E, experience?”
I had even filmed real videos, not just role-playing.
I had even done it live on video call.
Both of them blushed at my words that I had experience.
Their expressions were the same.
They were the perfect couple.
