Chapter 9
The manager's attitude was different from usual.
Was my gut right?
"I thought I should do something."
"It's not like anyone asked you to."
"Still, I can't just do nothing like this..."
"Hmm."
Was that really all there was to it?
"But you're already panting like that. It's hard, isn't it?"
"……."
As if she couldn't bring herself to say it wasn't hard, the manager lowered her head.
To think that the capable, elite manager was being berated for being unable to explore the jungle.
This deserted island really had changed a lot.
"Mr. Woojin. I... I have to make it back alive."
"Yes. I feel the same."
"Yulha, Jain, our children, and my husband…"
"……."
What was she hesitating so much to say?
The manager, who always smiled even when things were tough, wore an unusually troubled expression.
She couldn't even meet my eyes properly.
"What if there were another way I could help you, Mr. Woojin?"
"Pardon?"
What did she mean by…
Just as I was about to ask,
Jia pulled her huge, freely swinging tits out from under her shirt.
Manager Han's enormous breasts were as impressive as ever.
They were soft and looked delightfully squishy, too.
Sweat trickled down her well-maintained, pale breasts, untanned even under the deserted island's scorching sun.
"I got a little sweaty on the way here, so I might smell, but…"
…She did smell like I wanted to bury my face in them.
The difference from last time was that the manager had taken off her clothes to service me, leaving her hunched over awkwardly, unsure of herself.
「Is this really okay? 」 Her expression was full of uncertainty.
"What are you planning to do with that?"
"If you want, Mr. Woojin… my breasts…"
The manager went further, taking my hand and placing it on her breast.
Squeeze…♡
The sensation was so incredible I was speechless.
Her slightly hardening nipple brushed my palm, and Jia let out a breathy "Ngh."
As I hesitated with her breasts right in front of me, the manager nudged me forward.
Even so, I held back the urge to grope them as if I were violating her.
"This is all I can do for you, Mr. Woojin."
"Are you doing this because you feel indebted to me?"
"…Yes."
"Are you asking me to help you survive in return?"
"……Yes."
With difficulty, I pulled my hand away from Manager Han Jia's breasts.
"Mr. Woojin? You don't like breasts? Then my butt…?"
"What is this, the golden axe and silver axe?"
If a married mountain spirit appeared and I honestly said I wanted neither her breasts nor her butt, would she offer me her pussy too?
I couldn't quite say that.
"What?"
My killer joke didn't land!
"I mean, I don't want to take advantage of your weakness, Manager."
Jia's face turned red.
She neither covered her breasts nor exposed them further──frozen awkwardly in between, unsure what to do.
It was the first time I'd seen the manager so flustered.
"But if it's what it takes to survive…"
"Who asked you to do that?"
"……No one."
My voice had risen a little.
This lady was so awkward about it, I could tell she'd never had anything to do with prostitution in her life.
"The assistant manager and you are both workaholics."
"Workaholics?"
"Do you really need to have a role to live? By that logic, I was a useless guy for twenty-seven years, and only just became useful."
You two are whining too much over being useless for a day or two.
These career women were such workaholics.
"If I accept this deal, who's going to take responsibility for my guilt? I'll be the guy who wrecked a perfectly good family in exchange for being saved!?"
I wanted no part of that.
I wasn't so full of myself that I could promise salvation on a deserted island like this.
"Ah… That's… that's not what I meant."
"It's okay! You can be a burden when you're alive! In fact, be a little more of one!"
"…Why are you being so kind to me?"
Hmm.
It's always hard to put things into words.
"Back in society, you waited for me even though I was so clumsy, Manager."
"Mr. Woojin…"
"This time, I'm your protector. I'm a little more capable, so I can take you under my wing."
"……Ngh."
"Even just helping with the laundry like you do now is a big help. And you're physically fine, so there'll be plenty you can do."
My attempt to encourage her not to feel down had turned into something between scolding and lecturing.
That was way too much to say!
But once it was out, I couldn't stop.
"Relax a little more and lean on me. I won't abandon you just because you're holding me back a bit."
"……Mr. Woojin."
"And, well, there's no point in me touching your breasts unless you enjoy it too… Don't think you have to sacrifice your body for your kids."
"……Hehe. You didn't say you didn't want to touch my breasts, did you~?"
Manager Han Jia smiled again.
What a relief.
"Well, I'm a man too. I'm sorry to your husband, but I can't help getting turned on when you keep walking around braless."
"I understand. You're in the prime of your youth, Mr. Woojin."
"Thank you for understanding."
Even my thoroughly male excuse that I couldn't help getting turned on worked.
Looks like I wouldn't get sued when we got back.
"Being stranded was a great misfortune, but meeting you in the middle of it feels like the greatest good fortune."
"You think so?"
"Thank you for being so kind…"
I chose Manager Han Jia's feelings over her breasts right in front of me!
I had not a single regret about that choice.
But when her shirt was buttoned up and the nipple that had been poking out disappeared inside, I felt a pang of disappointment.
Fuck, I wanted to touch them…
I loved you, breasts!!
"Hehe…"
The manager suddenly unbuttoned her shirt again.
"Gasp! Manager."
"Still, I want to repay you for all your hard work, Mr. Woojin. This isn't a deal…"
"Not a deal…?"
"Just… I'm in a good mood, so I'll let you touch them."
In that case, I wouldn't turn her down.
"But… um, using both hands to grope them would be a bit much… and let's not face each other."
Those were the minimum conditions Manager Han Jia set for letting me touch her breasts.
Well, being groped face-to-face by an employee much younger than her—no, not even a coworker at this point—would be a lot for the manager.
"One hand, from behind? I won't hold back."
"…Just three minutes."
Three minutes!!
I immediately grabbed the manager's breasts from behind.
"Hyah."
The manager flinched, apparently startled by how firmly I squeezed.
"Should I be a little gentler?"
"Y-yes. You startled me."
"I'll say it again, I'm absolutely not taking this as payment or anything."
"Hehe, I know."
The manager smiled and fixed her hair.
"I just… want to do this for you, Mr. Woojin. My husband would understand something like this."
I wasn't sure he would. It wasn't my problem anyway.
The manager was offering to let me touch her boobs out of pure goodwill. I'd be a sucker, an idiot, to refuse.
A jungle with no one around.
I grabbed and touched the manager's breasts from behind.
"……."
The condition was that we wouldn't look each other in the eye.
The manager turned her back and acted as if nothing was happening, letting me touch her breasts as a token of gratitude.
Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze…♡
I didn't hold back.
Images of the manager working at the company flashed through my mind like a panorama.
Physical intimacy with someone you know is dangerous, no matter how trivial it might be.
I was freely fondling and touching a woman's breasts that I hadn't even been allowed to lay a fingertip on before.
It felt like the relationship we'd built up until now was changing from the ground up.
I could feel that change at my fingertips.
Soft, squishy breasts. When you got down to it, they were just lumps of fat, so why was touching them so arousing?
The married woman's enormous breasts, a warm drizzle bestowed on me by the manager's permission.
"Ha, hng."
A sweet sigh she'd been holding in escaped.
I didn't hold back.
It was like the married woman's breast service was comforting me for enduring all this time while looking at those arousing boobs.
I got carried away and brazenly pinched the manager's nipple hard.
"Nngh!!?"
A rude nipple twist from a new employee—no, a contract worker.
As I grabbed and toyed with it as if it were my own wife's boob, the manager swallowed a breath through her nose and twisted her hips slightly, as if unsure whether to stop me.
It was a reaction that seemed to say, That nipple pinching was rude.
Her nipple was incredibly sensitive.
As I kept rubbing and flicking it, it gradually hardened, and seemed to grow accustomed to my touch.
Then the manager yielded herself to my hand, as if riding the sensation, and calmly caught her breath.
It felt like she was adjusting to another man's touch and strength, rather than her husband's familiar hands.
With her breasts, Manager Han Jia was learning that this was my hand.
I pressed my fingers into the soft flesh as if leaving my mark like a tattoo, showing her how much pressure I used when touching her breasts.
Squeeze.
"Uh, mmm."
A short breath slipped out.
I gently tugged and flicked her nipple.
My other hand was itching. If I could do this with both hands, the happiness would be doubled—or squared.
But she'd only given me permission to use one hand.
Human greed has no end. I really fucking want to touch them.
A woman is truly a wondrous being, with two breasts this wonderful attached to her.
Squeeze. Squeeze. Squeeze.
"Haa♡ Hah."
Tick, tick, tick.
I could hear my wristwatch ticking.
Three minutes had passed, but I was enjoying it a little longer, indulging myself just a bit.
I trusted the married manager to let a little extra time slide.
Like a spoiled child, I twisted her breasts and touched her nipples.
"Thank you for letting me touch them."
I whispered my thanks close against the nape of her neck.
"Ah♡ Mm. Haa."
"How is it, Manager? Are you uncomfortable?"
I asked as I continued the vigorous breast caresses.
"Y-yes. It's fine. It doesn't hurt."
Squeeze. Squeeze. Squeeze.
It felt like the manager's aroused, feminine scent had grown stronger.
I'd thought Kang Seoyoon's scent was the strongest, but I was wrong.
Manager Han Jia's scent when she was aroused was rich.
A scent only her husband had been able to smell in bed.
Squeeze. Squeeze.
Just as I was pinching her nipples and getting more accustomed to handling her breasts—
"Let's stop here."
The manager bashfully called it off, and I withdrew my hand too.
"Thank you. That was really nice."
"Hehe. I'm glad if it helped you relieve some stress."
That was more than just stress relief.
It felt like my brain had completely awakened.
My cock was painfully erect, and when the manager saw the bulge rising from my pants, she blinked in surprise.
"Oh my. That must be hard."
"You're saying that like it has nothing to do with you, but your breasts are why I'm like this…"
"Tsk. No sexual harassment."
"Yes ma'am."
Good thing I hadn't accepted a slave-trade arrangement after all.
If I'd told her to do as I said if she wanted to live, the manager would have cried afterward over her miserable situation.
"I'll do this for you from time to time."
For now, the manager was offering her breasts purely as comfort, without any coercion.
I liked that, too.
"It's not like you owe me anything, Manager."
"No."
The manager said firmly.
"I don't mean to cross the line. I just… want to put my own mind at ease. And you don't mind this kind of service either, do you, Mr. Woojin?"
"I guess not."
"Hehe. I look forward to it."
"Yes."
The legal married-woman breast-groping service was pretty amazing.
It was nice to grope them freely without that unpleasant aftertaste.
A faint excitement lingered pleasantly.
"We've rested enough. Shall we keep going?"
"Yes~."
I gathered fruit deeper in the forest.
The manager climbed onto me just as the assistant manager had.
'Huh. The manager's different.'
The manager's big butt was different.
How should I put it? Her center of gravity was incredibly heavy.
She probably weighed a little more in reality, too, but while Seoyoon felt springy, the manager's weight felt more substantial and languid.
The way her thighs squeezed around me, pressing down, felt somehow sensual.
"Ah! I dropped the fruit. Sorry."
A few fruits fell to the ground with little thuds, but…
"It's okay. Take your time…"
Haaa.
I spent a happy time wrapped in the manager's thick thighs.
We could just find more fruit.
"I got three! Yay!"
"Wow. Well done. You're giving the assistant manager a run for her money."
"Really~?!"
When I praised her like that, Manager Han Jia hopped around happily like a child.
"Hehe, thank you. Mr. Woojin, you're so strong, I felt safe climbing on you."
"Shall we keep going?"
"Yes! I'll look for something else that might be useful~."
The manager sure was working hard.
She'd struggled quite a bit at first, but she was gradually getting used to it.
"Oh, Mr. Woojin, now that I think about it, didn't you say you saw a beast when you went with Assistant Manager Kang?"
"Yes. You'll be fine if you stay close to me."
I gathered water into a ball in my hand and shot it at a tree with a thwack.
Boom!!
The tree shook.
"Wow!"
"I've gotten stronger."
The changes in my body had made me more adept at controlling mana. It also meant my basic magic had gotten stronger.
At this point, I could easily incapacitate someone just by firing a water bullet hard.
Of course, I couldn't use it on people.
This was all for hunting beasts.
'I'd need more firepower to take one down in a single strike, though…'
The important thing was that I had a weapon to fight back with. My magic would keep improving.
I used detection magic and continued onward, keeping an eye out in case the boar showed up while we let our guard down.
'Hmm?'
Just then, detection magic picked something up.
Seeing me staring at the spot that had caught my attention, the manager asked,
"Did you find something?"
───Damp earth, the sound of flowing water.
Could it be a freshwater source?
I finally found one!
"I'll go check it out!"
"Ah, Manager?"
The enthusiastic manager hurried off at a quick trot.
I followed behind her.
"Wow!! Mr. Woojin, look at this!"
…This is amazing.
As we pushed through the jungle, the ground suddenly dipped and the view opened up.
Clear water flowed continuously from a rocky cliff, forming a small natural pool about waist-deep below.
Water overflowing from the pool formed a shallow stream that flowed down into the jungle.
There was flat, dry ground nearby, and large trees cast shade like a ceiling.
You could tell at a glance.
This was a natural settlement.
This is incredible…!
"I found it!"
"Oh. You're right. The manager really was the goddess of fortune."
When I said that, Jia took my hand, overjoyed.
"Mr. Woojin~!"
Haha.
Good thing I'd held back earlier. I almost missed this smiling face forever.
And as a result, I'd gotten to touch her breasts, too.
I got everything.
"Hm?"
Srrrr.
In the wide-open clearing, I saw a new pattern. Its rippling shape meant 'wind.'
'All right, come to me.'
I raised my hand high, as if inviting a trained bird to perch on my arm, and the wind, along with mana, settled on it and coiled around my arm.
As if greeting its master, it was drawn into my embrace.
Fwoooooosh…
Before long, the little gust swirling around my arm was brought into order by my will.