Risk Level 6: Undine
The sensation of waking felt just as instantaneous as the moment I had fallen asleep from that tiny finger pressing against my forehead, as if someone had simply flipped a switch. It was the kind of perfect rest that erased every trace of mental fatigue without a single dream. Yet… squish. Squelch.
I found myself wondering why my upper body was completely bare. The unusually refreshed feeling I had wasn’t simply from a good night’s sleep. “Kyuung…” “…”
Looking at the now noticeably larger mini Undine compared to last night, I could roughly guess what had happened. Lick, lick… “Ugh… Whoa?”
When she buried her face against my stomach and started licking, a strange mix of discomfort and pleasure made me instinctively grab and lift her up. The heavy, squishy weight filling both palms told me she had definitely grown since yesterday, when she could still rest lightly on my hand… though she was still only about the size of a four- or five-year-old child. Her voice still hadn’t returned, so it seemed Founder’s words were right—we still couldn’t communicate properly.
“…?” Something felt off. I was clearly holding mini Undine in my hands, yet that pleasant softness still enveloped my right arm. The only difference was that it now felt warm. “…Hup.”
I desperately swallowed the sound that almost escaped. Nero, who had apparently fallen asleep while hugging my arm, had her clothes melted away completely from the front. What now pressed against me was unmistakably her bare chest. “Mm…”
When Nero shifted uncomfortably, her large breasts—exactly my type—squished pleasantly around my arm, making it impossible to look away. …If I lowered my arm just a little, I’d probably see everything. Just a bit more… “You really want to see that badly?” “Huh?”
The voice that followed told me she had already been awake. I froze mid-motion, my head still craned forward in that unnatural attempt to explore forbidden territory, then slowly lifted my gaze. Her eyes held a half-teasing, half-amused look. “That’s not what I—” “Never mind that. Pull the one under the blanket out first.”
Nero pulled away, barely managing to cover her overflowing chest with one arm, and pointed toward my lower body with a pout. “Ah…” Founder was nowhere to be seen. Though it was obvious where she had gone. Flap.
When I set mini Undine aside for a moment and lifted the blanket, the black-haired girl was curled up between my legs, sleeping as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Thanks to her position, mini Undine had at least confined her “meal” to my upper body. If my clothes had melted all the way down, things could have gotten dangerous. “…Now what do we do?”
Squelch. After breathing a sigh of relief, I turned my head to find that mini Undine had already crawled back over and was pressing her lips against my arm again. Her small mouth made sucking sounds as she licked and drank, leaving most of my upper body glistening. “Kyaaung…”
Though the sensation was strange and I tried to set her down again, her bright, smiling face made it hard to follow through. “Undine, is talking still difficult for you?” “Kyuu!”
She had never spoken with her actual voice before, only communicating by dropping parts of her body to form letters, so I hadn’t expected an immediate answer. Still, that adorable, unintelligible sound almost felt like a reply. “…Should we start preparing breakfast? Founder, it’s time to wake up too.” “Haaum…”
The girl rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand and slowly lifted her head, her messy hair tumbling around her. When her jet-black, pearl-like eyes met mine, they felt strangely chilling for a moment—yet I couldn’t help thinking how beautiful they were. “Sleep well, big brother?” “…Thanks to you.” “Looks like the squishy one took a liking to you.”
Her words made me wonder if I was the most contaminated of the three, but I couldn’t bring myself to laugh. Still, the fact that this adorable mini Undine liked me brought pure joy. Thinking this must be what it would feel like once Harpy’s child was born, I scooped Undine into one arm and stepped out into the living room, where Nero was already rummaging through the fridge. “Making breakfast?” “Yeah.”
Her melted clothes had already returned to normal. Now that I thought about it… those curves, and the unnatural swell visible beneath them. Why had I only just noticed something so important? “…” “W-What?” …She wasn’t wearing underwear. “Why are you grinning without saying anything? It’s annoying…”
She frowned and turned away sharply, but since I could hear her true feelings, I wasn’t hurt. She wasn’t actually angry—just embarrassed because she wasn’t used to this kind of gaze. And she knew it herself. Even so, she stubbornly refused to admit it out loud. “Want some help? It’d be a waste if you burn it again.” “…Go sit down.”
Since she was holding a knife, I obediently backed off. “Huuu… I wanted to sleep more…” After placing Undine on the table and sitting down, Founder soon shuffled out, dragging her long hair behind her. As usual, she climbed into the seat beside me and nestled into my arms. “Uueung… Warm…”
She rubbed her face against me, stealing my body heat. I decided to leave her be and turned my attention to mini Undine, who was happily melting my clothes. When I changed into fresh clothes and handed her the ruined scraps—now only the back remained—she devoured them eagerly. Watching the fabric dissolve into thin threads and disappear into her was oddly relaxing.
I could have called Yerin or the Management Team Leader right away to return Undine to the facility, but I hadn’t. I was trusting Founder’s words and waiting until we could communicate properly. It was clearly because of my own greed. If we could talk, maybe I could ask for a favor… Maybe everything would work out after all.
But after thinking it over, I knew I couldn’t go through with it. If mini Undine had learned to speak even a little sooner, I might not have been able to cut off this desire so easily. The thought that Undine liked me precisely because I had been harboring this selfish wish the whole time suddenly occurred to me. I really did need to make that call. “Just a moment, Founder. Could you watch Undine for me?” “Okay! But… are you sure about this?”
Her question, which seemed to omit a lot while implying she knew everything, made me hesitate. Still, I knew that going along with the atmosphere would be wrong. If I rationalized it as being for the best, I’d be betraying everyone’s trust in me. “…It’s fine.”
Feeling guilty toward Founder, who had gone out of her way to bring Undine for my sake, I finished my answer and decided to think of it as simply having had the rare experience of sleeping in the same bed with three girls. Two of them were untouchable, after all. So this was really okay. “-Ah, it should be fine, right? Founder is with you, after all.-” “…?”
The voice on the other end of the call I made to the Management Team Leader, after steeling myself, echoed my own shameless rationalization. “-If things go well, it’ll be good for everyone, won’t it?-” “No, even so—” “-Think of it as a reward for contacting me despite having the opportunity right in front of you. Of course, you’ll have to promise to return her to the isolation room when you come to work tomorrow.-”
I wasn’t sure how far I could trust the Management Team Leader’s claim that having Founder around would make everything okay. “-More importantly, shouldn’t we set up that date we talked about?-” “A date? Suddenly?” “-You remember saying you’d make time, right?-”
Ah, because of Nero, I had wanted to get a proper apology from her… I vaguely recalled the conversation turning into something like that. But I didn’t remember agreeing to a date. “-Management Team Leader! W-What are you suddenly saying…! Hnn, put that down…?-” “…?”
Wasn’t that Yerin’s voice? And what was that vibrating sound…? It was still hours before work. “-Aah, sorry. I had to quiet her down for a moment… I knew, but there really are a lot of fun toys here.-” “…Team Leader?” “-Founder alone should be enough, but I’ll send a field team over soon anyway. Don’t worry and go visit your mother. I’m busy, so I’ll hang up now.-” Click. Beep… Beep… Beep…
The call ended with a hollow tone. I was worried about Yerin, but then another realization hit me. “Wait a second.” That meant I had to bring Founder along to the visit too. Wasn’t this situation far more dangerous than just taking Undine by herself? *
While the counselor stared blankly at his phone screen, still processing a truth he didn’t want to accept, someone else’s ordeal was unfolding not far away. The protagonist of that scene was none other than his perverted upstairs neighbor. The events had occurred just moments earlier. “W-Wait, Management Team Leader. What is all this…? Could you untie me already?”
After finally managing to kick the woman wearing that unsettling clown mask out of the bedroom and locking the door, she had woken up to find herself in this state. “Ugh… Urk?” She struggled and pulled at her limbs, making the bed shake, but the knots only tightened further. “How strange. I was under the impression you enjoyed this sort of situation.” “Ghk…! That’s not true!”
This was exactly why she hated it. When the President first told her to go home with the Management Team Leader, she had stayed up all night fending off the woman’s attempts to slip under the blanket, thinking it would only last one day. After that, she had been able to commute with Woong and stay under Founder’s protection… But then Woong had taken an unexpected day off, forcing her into a second round. Just like two nights ago, she had fallen asleep quickly from exhaustion—yet the prank this time was going way too far! “And what are all these? They all look rather grotesque.” “…!!”
When the Response Team Leader saw the various shapes of dildos neatly lined up in front of her—ones she had hidden tightly under the bed—she trembled with familiar shame. “T-This is… I just bought them out of curiosity…” “You haven’t used them?” “N-No… I have used some, but…”
Since she had been unwilling to lose her virginity to something like a dildo… Bzzzzzzzz! “Hik…?” “Quite impressive. Have you tried this one too?” “I-I haven’t!” “Then it would be a waste not to.”
When the Management Team Leader pressed the power button on the bizarrely shaped rod in her hand, it began vibrating with a menacing intensity. The Response Team Leader tried desperately to cover her defenseless lower body, but with her wrists and ankles firmly bound spread-eagle, there was nothing she could do. Bwaaaang! Bzzt! Bzzzz! She had never imagined being overwhelmed and frightened by a woman holding a dildo, yet here she was—both bewildered and strangely aroused by this unheard-of play. “I didn’t bring Woong here for you to eat, you know.” “Why are you suddenly bringing up Woong—Hik!?”
The moment she squeezed her eyes shut at the approaching vibration, the ominous noise suddenly stopped. “Oh, a call came in.” Even as relief and disappointment flooded her at once, making her wonder what was wrong with her, she peeked through her lashes at the screen. The name displayed was “13th Counselor.” She immediately knew who had called. “A call for Woong, how curious. Is this what they mean by ‘people can’t be trusted’? …Or was it ‘even gentlemen’?”