## Chapter 218 – 218. The Mistaken Wolf
#218. The Mistaken Wolf
I don’t know why she suddenly screamed, but even after waking up, Master didn’t seem to be in good shape.
Her complexion was still pale, and her fingertips were trembling slightly.
The only good thing was that her hands were warm?
It was better than being as cold as ice.
But she still looked sickly, like a patient.
That wasn’t the only problem.
The silver wolf woman named Joo Seo-yeon that I met in front of the building.
She looked so much like Master that I mistook her for her, so they must be close, like family or cousins. The different surnames must be due to some circumstances.
But judging from Master’s reaction, it was clear they weren’t on good terms.
And she didn’t seem to have come with good intentions either.
I felt uneasy leaving Master alone at the dojang in this state.
“…So that’s why you brought her here?”
“Yeah.”
With a heavy sigh, wrinkles formed on Noel’s forehead.
When I gently pressed those wrinkles, Noel stared at me. She seemed to be asking, ‘What are you doing?’
“Wrinkles.”
At my answer, Noel let out a dumbfounded laugh.
Swoosh.
Just then, someone tugged at my sleeve.
It was Master. Half-dragged by my hand, Master looked visibly anxious.
“I’m fine going back to the dojang…”
“What are you going to do if that woman comes again?”
“…”
I hadn’t heard anything about the woman named Joo Seo-yeon.
I didn’t even ask. There was no way I could ask someone who fainted with a fit just at the mention of her name.
I believed she would tell me someday when she was ready.
“There are plenty of rooms anyway.”
“It’s not that…”
“Yes?”
Unlike her usual self, Master fidgeted with her fingers and glanced back and forth between Noel and me.
“…Isn’t it a bit much for me to live in a house where my student is living with his girlfriend?”
“Ah.”
Well, a third party might think that.
And I think I was only thinking about Master too much.
‘Should I have asked Noel first?’
Even though it’s my house, this is clearly a place where I live with Noel.
If Noel was suddenly notified that someone else would be living with us, she might feel bad.
She wouldn’t show it outwardly, but she would keep it inside.
This was my mistake.
The only saving grace was that the house next door was empty.
“Then the house next door…”
“Then Unni can use the room next to mine, right?”
“?”
Noel, who had been standing in front of the entrance, was now holding Master’s hand.
Was Noel always this fast?
“Can I show you around the house? Let’s start with my room.”
“O-okay…?”
Dazed, Master was dragged into the house and looked back at me with eyes that seemed to be asking for help.
I blankly watched the scene.
What is this?
***
“Hehe.”
Of course, Noel wasn’t happy when Kang Hyun-woo brought Jeon Seo-ha home.
Putting aside the discomfort, what woman in the world would welcome an increase in rivals?
But as she looked at her, a line from the comic book she read yesterday came to mind.
[Crisis is an opportunity.]
This was an opportunity.
First of all, Kang Hyun-woo had many women. It wasn’t just a lot. She knew of at least four.
Among them, she had only actually met Choi Hye-na, but she had long known that he was carrying the scent of several women due to his unique beastman sense of smell.
Of course, that wasn’t a problem.
It was natural for an excellent male to have several females.
But just as there was a hierarchy among beasts, there was also a hierarchy among wives.
Just as there was only one master of the pack, there was only one legal wife.
Of course, seizing the position of legal wife in a pack of excellent males was never an easy task.
She herself had grown up under a father who had many women.
Noel’s plan was simple.
To bring Jeon Seo-ha into her camp in order to gain an advantage in the future competition for the position of legal wife.
Given Kang Hyun-woo’s personality, there was no way he would leave that wolf woman, Jeon Seo-ha, alone. He would get his hands on her within a week at the latest.
Of course, the position of legal wife ultimately depended on the husband’s favor, but she had no worries about that part.
She was confident.
She was confident that Kang Hyun-woo’s feelings for her were no less than those for the other women.
No, they might even be ahead of the other women. This was also not unfounded confidence.
‘He’s reading my face right now, isn’t he?’
She had only crossed her arms in front of the entrance and pretended to be slightly upset, but Kang Hyun-woo was reading her face.
This was undeniable evidence.
It might not seem like much, but in the tribe, there were only two cases where a husband read his wife’s face.
When he couldn’t support the family, or when he couldn’t perform at night.
Otherwise, the husband was absolutely the boss.
The reason was simple.
Except for a very small number of women like herself, it was the men’s job to protect the tribe and the village.
It was a natural courtesy to those who sacrificed their lives.
Of course, there were always exceptions.
Especially when she was young, the man who lived next door couldn’t do anything without his wife’s permission, and one day she became curious about the reason and asked him directly.
-Mister, why can’t you do anything without your wife’s permission? Are you impotent?
-…
The man smiled awkwardly and replied.
-That’s because I love my wife so much. The more a man loves a woman, the more he reads her face.
The moment she heard those words, it was as if lightning struck her head.
The reason he was reading her face was because he loved her so much!
In that respect, Kang Hyun-woo didn’t usually read her face.
Of course, she had no complaints about that part.
If she doubted his affection when he devoured her like that every night, that would be even stranger.
So she didn’t pay much attention to it.
‘Hehe.’
Unlike usual, she felt strangely good at the sight of Kang Hyun-woo being subdued and reading her face while being conscious of her.
His reaction seemed to prove that she was not just another replaceable woman.
Moreover, this house belonged to Kang Hyun-woo.
It was his freedom to bring anyone he wanted to live with him.
But the fact that he was reading her face meant that he loved her that much, didn’t it?
Of course, they hadn’t officially held a wedding yet?
If an unmarried man and woman lived together and mixed their bodies every day, it was already the same as a common-law marriage.
‘Hehe.’
Her hope circuit spun wildly, and a smile spread across Noel’s face.
But Jeon Seo-ha’s expression, who was being dragged away by Noel, was not so bright.
It wasn’t just that her complexion had turned pale due to the aftereffects of fainting.
‘I feel strange…’
Her chest felt strangely stuffy.
Why?
Contrary to her worries, far from being abandoned, Kang Hyun-woo, her student, was worried about her and even brought her home.
When she was led by his hand and got into the taxi, her heart was beating so fast that she thought it would burst.
She didn’t smell the oil of the car that she hated so much.
She unconsciously listened to his voice and fell into his scent.
How long had it been since she had received such concern?
‘In the family, even if I was bleeding, I only heard that I was dirty…’
She didn’t look at the scenery outside the window the entire time she was in the taxi.
Her face was too hot and her lips kept trembling.
She didn’t know what kind of expression she was making right now, but it was clear that it was an expression she couldn’t show him, her student.
She had never resented her tail wagging so freely as she did now.
Anyway, when she arrived in front of his house, realistic worries began to arise one by one.
‘A man and woman in their prime under one roof…’
It was true that her common sense was somewhat lacking, but she knew what it meant for a man and woman who hadn’t even had a wedding to live under one roof.
Cohabitation.
It had also appeared in a drama she happened to see in the morning.
The male and female protagonists in a relationship lived in the same house and lived like a married couple.
As if it were natural, the two spent their first night together, and after that, they mixed their bodies hotly without rest, day and night.
‘C-could it be…’
Could it be that her student was expecting something like that and brought her here?
In the first place, even if they were in a teacher-student relationship, there wasn’t much of an age difference.
She didn’t know if she was an attractive member of the opposite sex, but she had heard that the sexual desire of a male in his prime was beyond imagination.
‘Gulp…’
Jeon Seo-ha unconsciously grabbed her trembling hands and braced herself.
In the first place, Kang Hyun-woo wasn’t the only adult in his prime.
Jeon Seo-ha was also a beastman who experienced heat cycles from time to time.
Without her knowing it, she clung closely to Kang Hyun-woo and wagged her tail.
Kang Hyun-woo inwardly questioned the subtly close distance, but dismissed it as his imagination.
Bang.
That’s how the door opened.
And Jeon Seo-ha realized that it was all just her imagination.
-Master! You’re home early… huh?
Thud-
The roller coaster that had climbed to the highest point plummeted vertically.
Her heart ached.
In fact, she already knew that he had a woman.
She could always smell a woman on him.
Even the bunny girl in front of her had visited the dojang with him.
‘…It’s only natural, right.’
It was only natural for an attractive member of the opposite sex like her student to have many women.
Above all, there was no way her student would sincerely want a woman like her, who was short and had small breasts.
Her student’s feelings for her were not affection or lust, but pity.
Because he was kind.
So she shouldn’t expect anything.
But when he said with his own mouth that the bunny girl was his girlfriend, her heart felt stuffy and even sore.
‘…I don’t know.’
She didn’t know what this feeling was.
***
The next day, I headed to the Hunter Association.
Because I had to be investigated by the association, just like I was investigated by the church.
To be honest, it was annoying.
“No matter how many times I see it, it’s really tall.”
“It is tall, but there are five more buildings taller than that in Seoul.”
“Really?!”
Of course, Noel came with me too. She was also a victim of this demon worshiper incident.
Master stayed at home. I tried to persuade her to come with us, but she said she was uncomfortable in crowded places, so I couldn’t help it.
I thought I should buy some snacks on the way home and went inside the building.
“Are you Kang Hyun-woo and Noel?”
Then, as if she had been waiting, a female employee dressed in a suit approached us.
She was not only someone I had never seen before, but she was also not an ordinary person. Her aura was quite strong, so I guessed she was around B-rank.
“Who are you?”
“Nice to meet you. I’m Song Yu-kyung, the assistant manager of the Hunter Monitoring Department, who will be in charge of guiding and investigating you two today.”
The female employee smiled lightly and handed over her business card.
[Song Yu-kyung, Assistant Manager of the Hunter Monitoring Department]
“Monitoring Department?”
The moment I saw the business card, I couldn’t help but be surprised.
The Monitoring Department, of all places.
The Monitoring Department was literally a place that monitored hunters. It was a department that hunters avoided because it could exercise everything from disciplinary action to forceful suppression depending on the situation.
As such, it was one of the most powerful departments within the association.
‘Isn’t she only in her early to mid-20s at best?’
The fact that she became an assistant manager of the Monitoring Department at a young age meant that she was an amazing elite.
Or she was a parachute hire.
I didn’t plan to focus on hunter work, but it didn’t seem like it would be bad to get close to her.
“Nice to meet you. Please take good care of me today.”
When I offered a handshake, Assistant Manager Song Yu-kyung stared at my hand as if she was surprised. She seemed to be thinking, ‘Is a mage doing a normal greeting?’
Well, I also somewhat agree that mages are rude.
Thanks to that, I don’t have to go through annoying formalities, so it’s convenient.
After exchanging greetings appropriately, we boarded the elevator and went up.
We were able to meet a familiar face at the place we arrived.
