Lend Me Your Underwear
The moment Han Gi-hui swung her sword at the writhing tentacles, my body—already leaping down from the second floor with muscles honed to perfection—reached the summoned monster on the platform. My fist slammed straight into the top of its head.
A fist. I’d swung a sword, but what actually landed the hit was my bare fist. Why? Because—
“Hmph. Idiot.”
A magic swordsman’s blade always returns to its owner.
“You son of a bitch!”
Before I could even finish cursing, one of the monster’s tentacles smashed into my stomach.
“Ku-heuk?!”
I’d definitely hit it, yet… it seemed this thing wasn’t the type to go down from a simple punch. Dozens of tentacles wrapped around my body in the blink of an eye.
‘I already feel robbed that I never got to see a girl group perform, and now I’m starring in a tentacle hentai scene?’
Honestly, that wasn’t even the most depressing part. The real tragedy was reincarnating into an academy story only to end up as a lowly maid.
“Isn’t reincarnating from a hikikomori life supposed to make you the protagonist?!”
But the monster’s tentacles showed no sign of stopping. Only after my lower body was completely restrained did Han Gi-hui’s voice ring out again.
“Hey, maid! Hang in there just a little longer. I’ll save you soon!”
Of course, when I turned to look, Han Gi-hui was wearing a mischievous grin. What the hell happened to her personality?
In the original story, Han Gi-hui became the protagonist’s heroine because he found her failing-student pity and painfully shy, introverted nature cute.
‘Which means… I can’t afford to look pathetic in front of that girl.’
If I couldn’t use my body, I’d just have to rip them apart with my teeth.
Contrary to expectations, escaping the monster’s tentacles didn’t take long at all.
This body must have trained its jaw strength too, because the tentacles tore off like tender beef jerky. Finding the weakness after that was child’s play.
“This bastard’s weak to grip strength, huh?”
Instead of punching, I switched to pinching. The effect was incredible.
“Ha! Hahaha! This guy’s nothing special!”
Let’s see. I turned my head to check Han Gi-hui’s expression. She looked utterly disgusted, unable to hide her shock. Does it piss you off? Does it piss you off that I’m winning?
The moment a smug little smile crept across my face—
“Yu-bi!”
Kim Sae-kom’s voice suddenly called out from nearby.
“Don’t worry about me, Class Rep. This thing’s not that tough.”
“You’ve finally come to your senses!!”
“…Huh?”
Ah. That’s when I finally understood why Han Gi-hui looked disgusted and Kim Sae-kom was smiling so brightly.
“Even you have to admit that pants don’t really go with a maid outfit, right?”
The monster’s tentacles had melted my pants clean off.
***
When tentacles appear, they melt clothes. It wasn’t in the original webtoon, but it was such a common cliché that it had no problem dissolving my pants.
“It actually looks pretty good on you. You should dress like that from now on.”
“Like hell I will!”
Besides the missing pants, the maid uniform had melted in several places, exposing my shoulders. It had turned into a sleeveless, tank-top-style maid outfit. This was the absolute worst.
“It was specially made, yet even the clothes melted.”
“…At least I won’t have to wear this outfit for a while.”
“What are you talking about? We have spares.”
“……”
You said it was specially made. Why are there spares all of a sudden?
Before I could complain about the plot logic, the monster that had been tortured by my jaw strength and pinching let out a deafening shriek.
That’s one loud death rattle.
“Sae-kom, please go rescue Mi-ran. I’m having a hard time moving right now.”
Now that my pants were gone, moving had become genuinely difficult. And why the hell was this maid skirt so short—
“Yu-bi! Dodge!”
“Yes—?”
A greenish tentacle. The monster that looked like it was on its last breath had launched another attack.
“What? It wasn’t dead—?”
“That wasn’t a death cry. That was the sound it makes when it awakens.”
The monster had awakened. That kind of phase transition only happened with late-game boss monsters. Where the hell did she throw the girl group she was supposed to summon and pull out something like this instead?
Kim Sae-kom shoved me out of the tentacle’s range and helped me back up.
“Are you okay, Chief?”
“Yeah, I’m not hurt. I’ll clean up the rest, so stay back, Yu-bi.”
“That won’t do.”
The awakened monster. Kim Sae-kom, who had protected me from its tentacle attacks, clearly couldn’t dodge the next one.
“It’s fine. This much doesn’t even count as damage, so don’t worry.”
“Chief, your clothes are melting.”
“What… Kyaa!!”
The monster’s bodily fluids flowing over her shoulder had eaten away at Kim Sae-kom’s perfectly squared shoulder line. But why does it only melt clothes?
“It’s okay. I’ll handle it, so just hold onto what’s left of your clothes.”
“No! An awakened monster is way beyond what you can handle!”
“We’ll see about that.”
Ju Yu-bi. No matter how much this body had trained its muscles, the power overflowing inside me was real. If I was going to survive in this academy, figuring out exactly how far that power could take me wasn’t a bad idea.
However…
“Chief, I have one request instead.”
“W-what is it?”
“Lend me your underwear.”
I absolutely could not fight while wearing nothing but a skirt.
“Hurry up already!”
“I said no!!”
Right now, as I was jumping over tentacles like they were jump ropes, Kim Sae-kom was refusing my request.
“I can’t fight like this either!”
“B-but…”
She had no problem flipping her skirt up to show off her butt earlier, but now she was getting shy over a single pair of underwear?
I grabbed her wrist.
“Chief, you can’t fight anyway while you’re busy holding your clothes together.”
“…So you want me to take them off right here?”
“The skirt isn’t melting, is it?”
If we wasted any more time, the maid uniform might melt completely. That would be a feast for the eyes, sure, but if I wanted to flatten Han Gi-hui’s pride, I had to take care of this myself.
Without further hesitation, I shoved my hand under Kim Sae-kom’s skirt.
“Hey, you… Yu-bi!!”
“I’m borrowing them.”
The black underwear slid down in one smooth pull. Thankfully, it had good stretch.
The sensation of wearing someone else’s underwear for the first time was… how should I put it.
“It’s warm.”
“Shut up!!”
I got slapped once, but at least now I could move properly.
“Chief, stay back now.”
But the reply that came wasn’t from Kim Sae-kom.
“What the hell is that hideous outfit?”
“…Why did you come down?”
The magic swordsman Han Gi-hui had somehow appeared right beside me.
“You were dragging your feet, so I came down to give you a chance to run away.”
“I don’t need it, so why don’t you go rest somewhere?”
“Do you even have the strength to handle that thing?”
Why can’t she fix that condescending tone? She wasn’t supposed to be this kind of character. She wasn’t subtly looking down on me—she was openly despising me.
“…Strength? I’ve got more than enough.”
“All talk. Tsk.”
No matter what Han Gi-hui thought, real power had definitely surged through me. The moment I stole Kim Sae-kom’s underwear, a system window had appeared before my eyes.
2-piece set equipped. You have achieved the basic stance of a maid.
Agility has increased.
A system window. The screen that looked like it came straight out of a game felt strangely familiar. Or rather, it should have felt unfamiliar.
‘Wait, isn’t this the thing that was supposed to appear for the protagonist?’
The protagonist’s power-fantasy webtoon, Ascentio Academy. Naturally, the author had created a system window to turn the protagonist into an overpowered munchkin. It raised his magic power and gave bonus effects to every item he wore—a setting made exclusively for the main character.
There was no way to know why the supposedly absolute system had shown up in front of me, triggering a maid uniform set effect. Not that I particularly cared.
Wearing underwear increasing my agility made perfect sense. ‘Now I don’t have to worry about flashing my panties, so of course—wait, no. If we’re talking about plot consistency, that would mean this isn’t Ascentio Academy anymore.’
Han Gi-hui frowned at me with a murderous glare, as if she found the whole thing ridiculous.
“If you don’t want to die, know your place. A mere maid acting cocky will really get you killed.”
“Are you actually worried about me now? I’m touched, dropout.”
“…Shut your mouth. I’m in Class A.”
A few more verbal jabs were exchanged with a monster right in front of us. Of course, the exchange was with Han Gi-hui. The monster waited politely for its transformation to finish and didn’t move.
What a considerate monster…
“Yu-bi! Stop arguing and fight already! Hit it!”
“Huh?”
“It’s mimicking right now!!”
“…Just what the hell did she summon?”
Kim Mi-ran was talented enough to demonstrate summoning magic at the freshman welcome ceremony. Still, summoning a monster this powerful should have been nearly impossible for her.
If what Kim Sae-kom said about it mimicking was true… then this was a genuine boss-level monster. It was on the same level as the first boss that appeared in the protagonist’s first year to trigger his awakening.
“Hey, you. Hurry up and grab your sword.”
“Hmph. Are you maids really getting scared of a pathetic monster like—?”
Han Gi-hui was sent flying into the wall without even swinging her sword once. She crumpled like a sheet of paper.
“That stupid bitch…”
This was no longer an opponent I could fight. I didn’t know how she ended up in Class A, but if that badge wasn’t fake, even the current protagonist would barely be able to handle this thing.
‘Even if my agility went up… I can’t keep up with the attacks at all?!’
All I could do against the accelerated attacks was raise my guard and get pummeled by tentacles. Come to think of it, there should have been tons of academy students around, yet none of them were trying to deal with the monster.
“Chief! Isn’t any backup coming?!”
How long was I supposed to endure this? Today was the freshman welcome ceremony. There was no way there weren’t guards nearby.
After getting beaten for quite a while, Kim Sae-kom’s voice reached me again.
“…Yu-bi. Monsters have appeared where the civilians were evacuated to as well!”
“What?”
What Kim Sae-kom said made everything clear. The guards and academy students were all protecting the civilians. That meant there was no one left to handle the monster in the banquet hall.
“Kim Mi-ran… just wake up already. I’m going to kill you.”
A situation that never appeared in the webtoon. My head wasn’t working fast enough to come up with a solution.
‘Think, damn it. Think. You read that trash webtoon all the way to the end!!’
Ascentio Academy. When everyone else dropped it, I stuck with it until the bitter end. And yet… I’m going to die to a mere monster?
The difference between the hikikomori I used to be and now that I’ve come to the academy—
That’s when a familiar voice rang out.
“Entangle.”
A single spell. Dark, murky stems burst from the green-glowing magic circle and seized the tentacles. And then—
“Crush.”
At Opera’s single word, the tentacles of the monster whose motif I couldn’t even guess were instantly pulverized.
‘This is… Opera?!’
Opera, who had originally been the head maid of the A-class dormitory. Even though she had been demoted to Colonge Dormitory, she was still a high-ranking mage.
“Did you just think, ‘Even though she was demoted, her skills are still the same,’ Yu Yu-bi?”
“Y-yes?! No?!”
Is she using mind reading or something?
“Was my skill that lacking?”
“…No, I was the one who wasn’t helpful.”
A magic circle had manifested beneath Opera’s feet. Beside her lay the unconscious Kim Mi-ran.
‘When the hell did she rescue her?’
Her strength was on a completely different level from mine, who had just been standing there getting beaten.
“Thanks to Yu Yu-bi drawing its aggro, I was able to approach easily.”
“I didn’t even see you.”
“That’s because I’m an assassin-type mage.”
She had that setting too?
“For an assassin, your magic is pretty brutal.”
“It’s monster assassination magic. Anyway, go finish it off.”
What? She’s giving me the last hit?
Still, I couldn’t just rush in blindly.
“Opera, my grip strength can’t get through it anymore.”
It might have looked like I was just getting beaten, but I had tried to crush every tentacle that grabbed me and failed. With my current grip and arm strength, I couldn’t pierce a monster that had completed its awakening and mimicry phase.
“No. It has to be you, Yu Yu-bi.”
“That’s what I’m saying, it won’t get through—”
—Swish.
In that instant, Opera placed something on my head.
“The head maid’s headdress. This should be enough.”
A white lace-trimmed headband with pleated frills. It was literally just a maid headband, yet she was using some fancy professional term for it.
The system window reacted immediately.
3-piece set equipped. The maid power surges from the high-grade accessory.
Agility has increased. Strength has increased. Stamina has increased.
“How about it? You can do it now, right?”
Opera’s words barely registered. The three-piece set effect filled me with a strange sense of elation.
‘No… this is all… because of the set effect.’
With power overflowing through my entire body, the maid power was rising in real time.
“I’ll clean it up without leaving a single speck of dust.”