This Time It's a Temporary Alliance!

The moment I finished training with my climax, I quickly scanned the settlement messages floating before my eyes, then immediately checked Sila's reaction.

"Squeeeal♡ Cough, you really did dump a ton, didn't you. You crazy bastard—after I swallowed that much, it still feels like your cum is stuck in my throat… Just how much had you been saving up for the smell of semen to reach all the way up into my nose…!!"

"Just checking first—you hate this, right?"

"Of course I hate it! Who in their right mind would enjoy drinking the semen of the likes of you! Honestly, squeeeal♡ this sort of act is the first and last time, I say. Squeeeal♡"

For someone who claimed to hate it, she was naturally ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠performing a cleaning blowjob, obsessively sucking out even the last drops of semen remaining in my urethra. I tilted my head for a moment, but since it looked like something she was doing unconsciously, I decided not to call her out on it.

"More importantly, why is today the first and last time? Ah, because you're going to spend the rest of our remaining time looking for that stuff? You know, the methods for banishing the reaper and all that?"

"Obviously! How many times must I say it—why would I want to suck the di— ahem, the manhood of a D-class human like you and drink your semen! If you have a brain, would you kindly use it a little?"

"Aigoo…"

She was really making me want to punch her womb with my cock.

I forced down the boiling rage as I watched Sila pull a tissue from between her cleavage and wipe her mouth, then used the moment while she cleaned up to check the settlement messages again along with my newly updated status window.

The moment I opened the status window, several things stood out.

First was that my Strength had finally broken past the 30 mark, following after Stamina.

Still in the low-level range, so the levels keep shooting up, huh? Not that I'm complaining.

The app had been uploaded to a game site pretending to be an eroge, and true to that concept—or perhaps just like any other RPG—it was showing that classic rapid early-game leveling. I couldn't help but click my tongue.

Another peculiarity was that a list of the unique skills I possessed had been added to the status window.

Whether it was because I'd newly acquired Sila's unique skill Hawkeye and the system had updated, I didn't know, but since it was right there, I immediately checked the unique skill I'd obtained from her.

Just like with Senior A-rang's skill, the unique skill showed clearly lower effects compared to the original owner.

But there would be plenty of chances to raise the skill's level going forward, so I wasn't particularly disappointed.

And the last thing that stands out is definitely the Training Points I just earned.

I still didn't have enough data to be certain, but judging by the amount of points I got this time, it seemed that to earn large quantities of Training Points, I really did need to do creampie sex or acts of comparable intensity.

"What is it? Why are you staring at me with those eyes dripping with disappointment? Do you still have unfinished business with me?"

"…Maybe I really should have just gone all-out and raped you after all?"

"Wh-what did you just say?! You—what did you just— wait, what is this nonsense?"

Just as Sila's face flushed red again and she looked ready to draw her gun from its holster at any second, her elf ears suddenly fluttered. She looked around and rose to her feet.

Given that elves possessed superior hearing and vision compared to humans, I figured Sila had heard something I hadn't. I stopped teasing her and began scanning our surroundings as well.

Kyaek-kyaek-kyaek-kyaek—

Then came the bird cries drifting in through the window.

That distinctive cry—like a magpie and sparrow's call mixed together and played at half-speed—sent cold sweat trickling down my spine. I shot a glance at Sila, who had already entered combat readiness and was swallowing hard with tension, and asked,

"Bok-soon. Didn't they say they cleaned this place out the day before yesterday and that no B-class would show up?"

"That's… what I heard, but who knows. Maybe they got lazy about clearing the whole dungeon complex and just cleaned one or two buildings, then reported it as done."

The Eunma Apartment dungeon.

Normally it only spat out D- to C-class monsters like bone spiders or bomb roaches that exploded when you sliced them open—making it a livelihood hunting ground for D-class hunters like me.

But on unlucky days, it would spit out something that hunted the D-class hunters who came here to make a living, the way lions on the savanna stalked animals coming to the waterhole to drink.

The nightmare of every D-class, the so-called beginner hunter… its name was—

"Aaaaaaah, it's a Giant Kestrel?!"

"Get back! Get away from the window right n—"

Crash-shatter—!

—Kyaek kyaeeeeeeek!!

A giant raptor-type monster that appeared with roughly the same odds as finding a fifty-thousand-won bill on the street.

This massive bird of prey, easily five to six meters in size, was hovering in place with its signature stationary flight, staring straight at us. Sila and I both screamed in mixed shock and scrambled backward toward the front door—

But those eyes that had already been peeping at us through the window had fully locked on. Its enormous beak came plunging straight toward us.

"How can anyone be this unlucky?! Can we still run if we bolt right now? We can't, can we?!!"

"Of course we can't! That bird-brain has clearly already marked us as prey, I say! And you saw it too, didn't you? That stationary flight just now! The moment we step out into the corridor, we'll be attacked immediately!"

The Eunma Apartment was a corridor-style building.

The second we left through the front door, we'd be completely exposed in the narrow apartment hallway to whatever was waiting somewhere overhead.

Even Sila, who was on the verge of promoting to B-class, couldn't guarantee victory when she had no idea from where the thing would strike.

Which meant—

"We're completely trapped…!!"

"There are two options. We wait here for rescue, or…"

"Or we take that bird-brain down ourselves right here."

"…For a D-class, you talk a good game. Uuuugh, more importantly, what the hell is the Hunter Bureau even doing! An A-class hunter supposedly swept through here just yesterday!"

If the enemy held the initiative, rather than stupidly trying to face the thing diving from the vast sky somewhere, we'd intercept it when it came at us through the limited routes of the front door or the window.

Watching the Giant Kestrel's beak withdraw back out the window and vanish, Sila and I quickly pressed our backs together and entered a defensive stance.

"So now's when we say the line, 'No choice—this time, it's a temporary alliance!' right?"

"Is this really the time for jokes?! Let me make this clear in advance—I have not forgiven you! I will absolutely put air holes through those giant balls of yours, so don't go running around more than necessary and get yourself killed, I say!"

"Then should I just tremble like a proper D-class?"

"You understand perfectly! If you're D-class, then act like one—flatten yourself on the ground, watch me magnificently take down that bird-brain, and shake in fear as you imagine the future that awaits you!"

I'd mostly served as a meat shield and pack mule, but I'd still coordinated with Sila to some degree.

Just once. I only needed to create an opening once.

Then Sila would handle the rest.

In that case, before that…!!

I immediately spent Training Points to raise Stamina by 5 and Strength by 6, then clicked my tongue in regret.

If I'd known this would happen, I wouldn't have blown Training Points on the gacha earlier. I should've just done it in batches of ten or twenty pulls instead of rushing… Huh?

Thirty-three-point gacha.

I'd been so frantic that I'd swiped away the message windows with the attitude of "Anything filthy that helps with training, or else get lost—I'll check later!" and something unusual had flashed past.

"Right, that's it. I was just brushing past them earlier so I skipped over it, but I definitely remember receiving some kind of combat skill… Ugh?!"

"You've been muttering something this whole time— kyaa?!"

Kuuung—!!

Just as I was frantically digging through my skill window, a sudden roar shook the floor beneath us.

With trembling eyes I glanced from the floor up to the ceiling, then immediately spun around and tackled Sila underneath me.

"What in the world are you ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠doing right now, I say?! As expected of a D-class, you must be dying to die—don't tell me you've panicked and decided to take my virginity before you go,"

"Stay still! Ugh…"

"Y-you…?!"

Kugung, kung—!!

I pinned the struggling Sila down with my full weight just as the stalactites hanging like icicles from the ceiling crashed onto my back.

They looked light but carried surprising mass; a pretty solid impact ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠transferred through.

Sila, eyes rolling in shock at the sight of me, snorted and said,

"Looks like your talent as a meat shield is finally about to bloom! This is it! This is exactly why I've been dragging you around all this time!"

"You sure know how to make 'thank you' sound annoying. More importantly, this bird-brain… I thought it was hovering above the apartment since it kept out of sight, but… that wasn't it."

"It only pretended to go up for our benefit—it actually went down, I say! Wait a moment, don't tell me this insane bird bastard knew we would stubbornly seal off the front door and window… Aah?!"

Drrrrrk—

Before Sila could even finish, cracks raced rapidly across the floor.

"Don't tell me—from beneath us! That roar earlier was the sound of it forcing its huge body into the apartment! It's trying to collapse our footing along with our entire defensive setup?!"

"What are you doing! Get out of here now!"

"Kyaa?! W-wait, where do you think you're grab— kyaaaaa?!"

As the floor split open like thin ice when you playfully jump on it, I grabbed Sila's massive breasts like handles in my haste and shoved her hard toward the front door.

"Are you truly a madman?! I knew you were a vulgar human, but to use an elf's breasts as handles… Wait! C-come this way quickly! Take my hand— aah?!"

"I'm right behind you—!!"

Sila tumbled in a pathetic heap, then stretched out her hand as if telling me to come too—but I was already falling with the completely collapsed floor into the level below.

After shouting to Sila, I surrendered my body to gravity and lowered my gaze.

How would the Giant Kestrel come at me now?

It was a clever bastard that had known how Sila and I would try to face it and had faked flying upward.

Moreover, it was a creature the dungeon had created specifically to hunt D- and C-class. Of course it knew the hunters roaming the Eunma Apartment were its prey.

Which meant…

—Kyaeeeeeeek!!

"Yeah, you're getting ready for dinner right about now! Delighted that everything is proceeding exactly according to your plan!"

Down in a pit easily two or three stories deep, the creature had its maw stretched wide open toward me.

It had probably locked onto me the instant I started falling.

I didn't know if this one could do it, but some raptors could adjust their focus to magnify or shrink their targets.

"But my eyes aren't half bad either, you know?! My vision is 2.0 in both eyes!"

As if answering my shout, a notification chime rang out and faint glowing lines appeared across various parts of the Giant Kestrel's body.

Those are the weak points the skill is showing me!

Confirming them, I twisted my waist and began to spin.

I never could have imagined this before, but my Strength and Stamina—noticeably higher than back then—were putting centrifugal force into the greatsword gripped in my hands.

—Kyaek? Kyaek, kyaeeeeek!!

"Of course you would! Anyone can see I'm about to mess with you, so you want to figure out where I'm aiming and counter it, right?!"

The remaining distance was about two meters. Even while spinning wildly, I could see its gaze locked dead on me.

With the most arrogant eyes imaginable, as if saying no matter how much I thrashed, there was nothing I could do.

"But what if I block your vision right here! Trace of the Sandman!!"

At my cry, a sandstorm of unknown origin began whipping around me like a whirlwind.

No matter how good your eyes were, what good were they if you couldn't see the target?

—Kyaeeeeek?!

The Giant Kestrel's cry mixed with pain and shock as sand suddenly poured into its eyes.

Of course, I couldn't see it clearly either, which was equally inconvenient.

"If you start making noise like that, you're basically yelling 'I'm over here~'! Even a B-class monster is still just a bird-brain in the end!"

Pwaaaaak—!!

Following the instincts and intuition enhanced by Senior A-rang's unique skill, I twisted my waist even harder right there and spun with greater force—and felt something slice beneath my fingertips.

"This sensation… it's the tongue! Exactly as planned! Ugh?!"

—Kyaeeeeeeeeek!!

I slammed into the ground with a dull thud along with the Giant Kestrel's tongue that had been sticking out of its beak.

Having launched a spinning slash from three stories up without any thought of landing properly, the impact was enormous.

"Ugh…"

—Kyaeeeeeeek?! Kyaeeeeek?!

I forced my body—still reeling from the impact—to stand and gripped my sword properly.

I intended to land a solid hit while the Giant Kestrel was thrashing in agony, spitting blood from its mouth.

But a problem arose.

"This shit… I can't see a damn thing?!"

The sand created by Trace of the Sandman, which I'd used to blind the Giant Kestrel, had now become a curtain hiding the creature thanks to its thrashing after having its tongue severed.

"I was going to treat it nicely since it was a skill from my first gacha pull, but this is a complete trash skill?!"

It even blocked the caster's vision.

Shouldn't it at least let me see?

Even so, I charged toward it without hesitation.

The tongue alone wasn't enough—I intended to land a proper decisive blow.

I couldn't see it clearly, yet I still had confidence I could hit it hard.

I had my reasons.

Before falling here, back in the bathroom, I'd spotted one of the new combat skills I'd pulled from the gacha.

I swallowed hard and shouted the skill's name.

"Dragon Buster Slash…!!"