The Alpha Male Skill Has a Feature Like This?

Roughly thirty Black Bone Wolf carcasses lay strewn across the ruined road.

A grim sight befitting the first floor of Nightmare difficulty.

Most of the pack, however, was still very much alive—crouched in postures of total submission, all of them facing me.

And I stood at the center of that pack.

Off to one side, the woman who had followed me was flushed a deep scarlet. The look she fixed on me burned with an intensity that was almost unnatural.

The gaze of a warrior who has just met a stronger fighter on the battlefield… No. It was subtly different from that.

A thought struck me.

Is this Han Yujin woman… falling for my alpha male aura right now?

If so, the strange way she was acting suddenly made perfect sense.

"Han Yujin."

"Y-Yes?"

"Why are you staring at me like that?"

"Ah—no, I was just…"

Han Yujin looked away. But a moment later those brown eyes were already sneaking glances at my forearm again.

Standing in the middle of the wolf pack, I beckoned her over.

"You may come closer."

"W-What…?"

"These things won't bite anymore. And if any of them so much as tries, I'll separate its jaw from its skull on the spot. So don't worry."

In that instant, the whimpering of the wolves sprawled on the ground cut off completely. Dozens of them were so terrified they could barely breathe. If they could sweat like humans, cold sweat would have been pouring off them in sheets by now.

Han Yujin finally stepped up and stood facing me. A soft shampoo scent brushed past my nose.

So this is the fragrance of a beautiful woman.

Breathing hard, her face still flushed, she stared at my arm and then spoke with genuine concern in her eyes.

"Um… let me take a look at that wound."

"I'm fine."

"Fine? You got bitten hard earlier."

"Barely a nibble."

"You're the only person on earth who would call a Black Bone Wolf bite a nibble."

The next moment, her pale, slender fingers touched my arm and began to explore—checking the wound, of course. That had to be it.

…So why did her touch feel so strangely sticky?

"What is it?"

"Th-th-th-the muscle is… I mean, th-th-th-the wound is shallower than I expected?"

"Muscle?"

"No! I said wound! You must have misheard!"

She practically shouted it. If it wasn't, it simply wasn't—there was no need to yell.

As she coughed awkwardly, her ears and the nape of her neck had already turned bright red.

I clenched a fist and showed it to her.

"Good. Now that we've confirmed the wound is nothing, we push deeper."

For a long moment Han Yujin still couldn't take her hand off my arm. When she finally spoke, she almost sounded disappointed.

"A-Already?"

"Our goal is to beat the boss into the dirt."

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"…You're so straightforward it's almost refreshing."

I didn't answer. I simply started walking. Han Yujin stared at my back for a second, let out a small sigh, and trotted after me. Behind her, the now-docile pack of Black Bone Wolves followed in a line.

Her muttered words brushed past my ear.

"Seriously, what a weird guy…"

"Is that a compliment?"

"Absolutely not! Hmph!"

"…"

The interior of the tower was far larger than I had expected. The ruined city stretched endlessly before us. Collapsed apartment complexes, half-burned gas stations, tilted billboards, and blackened buses drifted past one after another.

"…"

"…"

Even after walking for a long while, there was still no sign of the boss. As we drew closer to the city's center, the fog thick with ominous mana grew denser, and the air itself grew heavier.

Han Yujin, breathing hard, was the first to speak.

"Let's rest here for a bit."

I stopped. The wolf pack following me halted as one.

Normally an alpha male has no need for rest. That didn't mean I was so callous I'd ignore Han Yujin's condition. Beads of sweat dotted her forehead, and her shoulders rose and fell with tiny tremors. Even for an S-rank Hunter, the pressure inside Nightmare difficulty was clearly no small thing.

Right. Looking after a woman is also part of an alpha male's duty.

"Fine."

Han Yujin blinked as if she hadn't expected that.

"Huh? You're just… accepting it right away?"

"I can't simply pretend I don't see how exhausted you are."

Her eyes, fixed on me, trembled ever so slightly.

"You need rest right now."

She stared at me blankly for a moment, then let out a short laugh.

"Well, well… you've got a surprisingly considerate side."

I nodded toward the status window.

The right call after all.

We stepped into a ruined commercial building. The windows were shattered, the ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠tables overturned. Once inside, I opened the status window. Alpha Male Points had been piling up for a while now. Since we were resting anyway, I intended to figure out exactly how to use them.

I looked over the list.

My eyes lit up. Familiar words—ones I might have used in my past life. It felt as if they had been prepared specifically for me.

"Odin…"

I muttered without thinking. Beside me, Han Yujin, still breathing hard, tilted her head.

"Why are you suddenly looking for Odin?"

"I like the shop list."

"That status window of yours is as weird as you are, huh?"

She said it gruffly, yet she leaned affectionately against my body. The sweet floral scent rising from her hair teased my senses. And something soft and yielding pressed against my arm… honestly, it felt good.

I checked the status window again. It seemed existing skills could also be upgraded with points.

Not bad. I opened the special section at the bottom.

"Ohh!"

Weapon summoning. In other words, I could hold that axe of mine again. The problem was I nowhere near had enough points right now.

"Weapons will have to wait a little longer."

I decided to look at what I could buy immediately.

Frustrating. I was just a hair short of buying the ultimate alpha male skill, Final Blow.

And then it happened.

Han Yujin, who had been breathing hard for a while, rested her head on my shoulder and fell asleep. She was so deeply out that the drool slipping from ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠the corner of her mouth thoroughly soaked my shoulder.

Haaah… haaah…

She looked so cute and lovely while sleeping that I couldn't bring myself to wake her. We still had a boss to kill—this was a real problem.

Suddenly I remembered one of the ways to earn Alpha Male Points.

Of course I couldn't just take her right here. That wasn't the act of an alpha male—that was the act of a scoundrel.

But… the definition of "relations" was awfully vague. Did hugging or kissing count?

There was no way to know without testing it myself.

I gently tried to shake her awake.

"Haaahhnn…"

Instead she pressed even closer, grinding her violently oversized chest against my body.

That was when the status window appeared.

A full ten at once? Then what would happen if I took things a little further…?

Curiosity boiling over, my hand reached toward her cleavage almost on its own.

The status window went wild.

"…"

It had a feature like this? This was far more broken than I'd imagined.

The next moment—before my hand even fully reached her cleavage—the skill must have fired. The suit and bra covering those violently oversized breasts were stripped away all at once.

The status window flashed a cheerful notification.

This ability might be even more perverted than I'd expected.