Chapter 33

Morae remembered that Pado had come to the company dinner last night.

Not only had he come.

He had brought her all the way back to her room.

He had carried her dangling from one arm and brought her inside.

He had entered her room.

He had even changed her clothes for her.

The embarrassing things she had done from the dinner gathering all the way back to her room came rushing back one by one.

“No way…”

Morae covered her face.

How could she have acted that shamelessly toward Pado?

The moment she saw him, she had clung to him and refused to let go.

She had dragged him into her messy room.

She had even acted spoiled and asked him to take off her clothes.

Seeing her stubbornly insist that he remove her wet clothes, how much must he have clicked his tongue at her?

Her intentions must have been obvious.

She had been so blatant with her advances that it was only natural for him to laugh at her.

Holding onto Pado’s clothes while he undressed her.

Using a cute, affectionate voice while pretending to be adorable.

Refusing to wear the T-shirt and implying that she didn’t mind having sex…

Each memory made her face burn with embarrassment.

The fact that she even remembered what kind of thoughts had driven her to do those things made it impossible for her to lift her head.

Alcohol had destroyed her self-control.

“Ughhh…”

The most humiliating part was that even after doing all of that, Pado hadn’t laid a single finger on her.

She felt like she wanted to line up her past self and Pado from last night and smack them both.

How could she have acted so seductively?

How could he have possibly resisted such an obvious temptation?

Realizing that her desperate attempt at seduction, done with a mind barely functioning from alcohol, had completely failed made her feel miserable.

How could nothing have happened…?

Could nothing really have happened?

Morae, who had been crouching down in despair, suddenly raised her head.

She didn’t remember Pado leaving her room.

The entire memory of how she had sent him away and how she had fallen asleep was completely gone.

She vaguely remembered things up until the moment Pado put the T-shirt on her.

But everything after that was completely blank.

What happened during the time she couldn’t remember?

Her heart sank, yet a strange sense of anticipation stirred within her.

Morae removed her hands from her face and looked down at herself.

She carefully examined her arms, legs, and body, but there were no wounds or fingerprints.

There were no bite marks or bruises either.

But she couldn’t know for sure.

Maybe, like last time, they had slow and quiet sex.

Maybe he had soothed and comforted her while she was drunk and slightly out of control, then gently slept with her.

If she hadn’t resisted, there wouldn’t have been any traces left behind.

Maybe he had at least held her tightly.

Morae lifted her T-shirt and slowly pulled down her underwear to check between her legs.

There was no dampness, and she didn’t feel any heat.

There were no obvious signs.

But when she thought about it, she didn’t even know what kind of traces were left after having sex.

Morae, who had been looking down, suddenly raised her head.

There was no way to know what happened last night…

Actually, there was.

She quickly turned on her computer and opened the CCTV recordings.

There was a CCTV camera installed in Morae’s room.

The camera had been left running in case something happened, and it had been operating perfectly last night as well.

There was no way drunk Morae would have turned it off.

Which meant Pado’s every action should have been recorded clearly.

The last time she remembered was around 10 p.m.

It was depressing that she had been completely drunk by that time, but there was nothing she could do about it.

Morae held back her pounding heart and played the footage.

Her head spun as she wondered what might have happened.

If she had really slept with him, she even wondered what she should do with the recording.

Would she actually be able to watch footage of herself sleeping with Pado with her own eyes?

The footage from around 10 p.m. began playing.

On the screen, Pado was seen removing her wet clothes and putting a T-shirt on her.

Meanwhile, she was under Pado, wearing only her underwear, twisting around and acting stubbornly.

Seeing herself struggle not to put on the clothes made her face heat up again.

“Even the underwear was like that…”

It was another rough, mismatched pair of underwear.

Seeing the plain apricot-colored cotton panties that were similar in color to her skin, Morae lightly slammed her head against the desk.

Still, she remembered everything up to this point.

What she wanted to know was what happened afterward.

On the screen, Morae pulled the blanket over herself and tilted her head.

Pado seemed to say something.

Then he turned around and walked away.

Morae collapsed onto the bed as if a thread holding her up had been cut.

And then…

“I must be crazy.”

At what followed, Morae’s face turned completely pale.

She froze in shock like someone who had been stabbed and lost herself.

All the strength left her body, and she couldn’t even sit properly, like someone who was drunk.

“I must be crazy…”

To think she had done that right there…

In front of Pado…

The fact that she didn’t remember made it even more unbearable.

Her pale face gradually became even whiter before slowly turning red.

The place where embarrassment and despair had filled her heart was soon replaced by rising anger.

“YU PADO!!!”

Morae’s voice thundered from outside the door.

Her urgent, powerful voice quickly grew closer, followed by the sound of her kicking the door hard.

After a distinctly violent noise, the door suddenly opened.

Pado, who had rolled out of bed and gotten up, glared at the unwelcome visitor.

“You used a master key? Don’t you know what privacy is?”

“Do you still think you live in a society where people care about laws?”

Morae, who had opened the door lock without permission and walked in, raised her head proudly.

It was ridiculous to talk about something like “privacy” to so-called villains—thugs, outlaws, underground hunters, and people like them.

She closed the door and strode into the small room.

“You… you…”

Morae walked right up to Pado, who was standing in front of the bed, and growled.

Her anger at its peak, she jabbed her index finger hard into Pado’s chest.

Pado lost his balance and fell backward onto the bed.

Part of it was because he hadn’t bothered to resist properly, but Morae’s ability had also played a major role.

When she hardened her hand like stone and pushed someone, it was nearly impossible to withstand.

Now sitting on the bed, Pado rubbed his chest.

The spot where her finger had struck throbbed painfully, as if he had been stabbed by a heavy iron rod.

According to the Hunter Association’s standards, Morae was a C-rank Hunter, and her ability was to harden parts of her body.

The maximum area she could cover was about the size of one arm, and her maximum hardness was enough to casually block bullets and grenades.

Her ability was somewhat similar to her mother’s Diamond Body, and it was useful in many ways.

Though this was not exactly what it was meant for.

“You suddenly barge into someone else’s room and start causing a scene?”

“You’re the one who did something wrong!”

“What did I do?”

As he said that, Pado swallowed dryly.

He pretended not to know because he couldn’t show anything, but it wasn’t like he had absolutely no idea what she meant.

The image of Morae clinging to him while drunk and the sight of her lying on the bed and touching herself still lingered vividly in his mind.

He had always thought watching someone else masturbate would only be awkward and unpleasant.

But seeing Morae’s hand move had been a sight so enticing it felt like his brain had nearly burned away.

It had been thrilling enough that he wanted to keep it in his mind like a recording and replay it forever if possible.

However, because he had witnessed such an intimate moment, guilt followed behind the pleasure like a shadow.

Thanks to that, Pado’s expression became slightly awkward.

“You saw it!”

“What did I see?”

Even so, Pado continued pretending not to know.

Morae had been extremely drunk the previous night.

She had been so intoxicated that she had lost herself right in front of him.

Until he knew exactly how much she remembered, he couldn’t fall into a trap.

Maybe she was accusing him of stripping her down to her underwear without permission.

He casually crossed his ankle over his opposite knee and pretended not to know anything.

The more Pado acted clueless, the redder Morae’s face became, trembling with embarrassment.

“You weren’t drunk, so you remember! You saw everything and remember everything, so why are you pretending not to know? That’s so mean! So mean! So mean!”

“No, but what exactly…”

“U-uuuugh! My room has CCTV!”

Morae, who had been stomping her foot and clenching her teeth while trying to calm her anger, pointed accusingly at Pado.

At the word “CCTV,” Pado’s eyes widened.

He had been trying to look calm while relaxing his body slightly.

“Who puts CCTV in their own room? Is something wrong with you?”

“I don’t know what could happen when I’m not there. That’s why… that’s why I watched everything that happened last night.”

Pado was secretly impressed.

He had expected surveillance cameras in the hallway, but she had actually installed one inside her own room.

If it were him, he would never do something like that because he would feel uncomfortable worrying about a leak.

But the princess of an underground organization with years of kidnapping experience had a completely different mindset.

At the same time, he felt relieved knowing that his choice last night had been the right one.

If he had done something reckless just because no one was watching, he would have given her a huge reason to criticize him.

And if there was video evidence, he couldn’t even deny it.

He was proud of himself for not letting a moment of desire lead him into something he would regret.

He hadn’t done anything suspicious.

He had removed her clothes politely because they needed to be changed.

He hadn’t touched her anywhere unnecessarily.

And even after seeing Morae touching herself, he hadn’t thrown himself at her.

Even after everything was over, he hadn’t done anything reckless in the room just because no one was watching.

He had quietly borrowed the bathroom instead.

It had been the perfect ending.

After thinking that far, Pado finally considered Morae’s feelings.

What must it have felt like to see her own embarrassing behavior from a third-person perspective through CCTV?

“Wow… what are you going to do? Your chances of getting married are ruined.”

“Who do you think caused that? How can you say that?”

“Who else would it be? You were the one who got drunk and had your private moment without caring who was watching.”

Morae, who had been shouting loudly, suddenly fell silent.

Even though she wanted to die from embarrassment, he wasn’t wrong.

Morae’s face looked like she was about to cry, flushing red and pale repeatedly.

Her expression, caught between humiliation and shame, only made Pado’s desire burn hotter.

The way she stomped her feet in frustration while feeling wronged had a different charm from her innocent embarrassed expression.

Since he had already seen it, there was no reason for him to feel uncomfortable anymore.

Pado rubbed the back of his neck and met Morae’s eyes.

“I’ll keep it a secret, so don’t worry.”

“……”

“You showed me something precious, so I’ll at least keep my mouth shut—”

“You masturbated in someone else’s bathroom!”

Cornered, Morae turned the accusation back on Pado.

In the footage, after Morae fell asleep, Pado had entered the bathroom and only came out after quite some time.

Judging by how restless he looked when entering and how refreshed he looked when leaving, it wasn’t hard to guess what had happened.

Morae couldn’t stand the thought of where exactly in her bathroom he had done it.

Under the shower?

Sitting on the bathtub?

Or on top of the toilet lid?

Pado narrowed his eyes slightly, unable to completely hide his embarrassment.

“…Then what was I supposed to do? In that situation? Walk into the hallway like that? Or do it right next to your face?”

“Yes!”