Chapter 28
Chapter 28
----------------------------------------------------------------- Translator: True Detective Chapter: Chapter Title: Everything's Soaked ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Everything's... soaked."
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙
Neural Enhancement Module: 150 points Effect: Usable only while wearing the suit. Activates 'Bullet Time,' where all surrounding time slows down. However, performance and recoil may vary based on the user's physical specs.
[Purchase completed.] "Neural Enhancement Module ON." With those words, the entire scene before my eyes began to slow down—literally. No, at this level... it wasn't just slowing; it had outright stopped. 'My head's spinning right from the start... And is this blood dripping from my nose?'
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Slow." It was slow. So slow it was harder to play along. Every attack from it was already in the palm of my hand, like a worm inching along. And so... About 40 seconds later. Kraaack! My last hope revived perfectly from the slime's frozen right arm. Lee Gok burst out of the water prison that had nearly suffocated her and immediately pulled me into a hug. "You did great... thank you." "Heh heh, it was nothing..." I'd been teetering on the edge of life and death. A little longer, and my brain would've gone boom! My mouth was flooded with the taste of blood. Maybe because I finally relaxed... "S... sleepy..." I should've backed off to not get in the way, but that nice scent from Lee Gok's embrace melted my tension away. The suit peeled off, leaving just the helmet, and I was on the verge of passing out. Well, at least now I was sure we'd won. "Don't worry, Yongchan." Thud. Having used up every last bit of energy, the guy—looking like a baby brother figure—buried his nose in her cleavage and blacked out. Slurp. Watching him, Lee Gok licked her lips, determined to keep any other female from claiming this male. "Well then, shall we have a proper fight from now on?" She gently laid Yongchan on the ground, sprinkled her blood in a circle around him to form a 'barrier,' and shot the slime a warning glare. "Just so you know, you'd better be careful from here on out." "...!" "Because..." ...
Drip. "...you've got me completely soaked top to bottom."
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ The slime showed massive confusion at the loss of its right arm. 'Oh no, my right arm's gone! My right arm disappeared!' The slime that had been its right arm was now completely frozen solid, unable to move. Yet in this state, it was supposed to face that scary human again, who had been somewhat evenly matched? This was ridiculous. At least the male had suddenly started moving weirdly. She figured targeting him would work. Zap! "Ah, aaaah?!"
"No use. Yongchan's already protected by the blood barrier passed down through our clan for generations." Wasn't that human's power ineffective against me? The slime flung its remaining left arm at the fainted Yongchan behind Lee Gok's shoulder, only to slam into the barrier and scream in agony unlike anything before. 'What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?' Her lower belly ached fiercely. She wanted to climb on top of that male right now! But she was weaker than before, while this female human somehow felt stronger. Shake shake.'No! That can't be!' Right, impossible. She'd just lost confidence after one arm vanished and was imagining things. Too bad she couldn't target the male like last time. But if the power guarding him came from this female human right in front of her, killing the female would solve everything. 'I can win! I beat her once already!'i> Attacks swinging that weird red liquid around wouldn't work on her! Convinced Lee Gok's power couldn't reach the edges, the slime reshaped its left arm into a blunt hammer. Regaining its confidence, it...
"Kyahahahaha!"
"......"
Leaped with a chilling laugh, ready to crush Lee Gok flat...
"Stop." Clank. "... Huh?" ...or so it thought.
"Ah... ah, ah?"
This was weird. Incomprehensible. Why? How? What had this female human done to her body to stop her from moving?
"Ahh, ah...!"
Frozen mid-air, the slime plummeted to the ground, unable to even hold its shape. Wasn't this female's power limited to manipulating red liquid? She was blue. Outside that power's reach. And yet.
"I figured it out when you had me trapped inside you."
Lee Gok—the princess—walked forward slowly, heavily, toward the slime that had lost its momentum.
"It was strange. No matter how unique the lifeform, anything alive should have 'blood' flowing inside. But no matter how much I searched, there wasn't a drop in you."
But.
"Instead, I sensed something similar to blood."
"Uh, uhh...?"
"Mana."
Vampire Hunters could only manipulate the red liquid flowing in living beings' bodies. Limited to 'blood.' But in the slime's body, replacing blood, Lee Gok detected mana flow—and something uniquely different from normal lifeforms. Red and white blood cells floating alongside mana in a body that should only have mana.
"Your body structure must be fundamentally different from humans or other monsters from the start."
"Uh, uaa..."
"That's why I could stop your movements for just a brief moment the first time I tried controlling you."
Hunter abilities manifested through 'images.' Naturally, trying to control it like other lifeforms she'd encountered had failed spectacularly due to the different structure. But now that the mystery was solved, a mere slime was no longer Lee Gok's enemy.
"It was odd from the beginning. If you truly had no blood, you should've moved right away when I first commanded you."
"Ah, aaa, aaaaa!"
"Thank you, humanoid slime. Thanks to you, I've grown even stronger now."
Including me—and our 'prince' here. Especially Yongchan, who'd not only survived against an overwhelmingly stronger foe but even fought back—his growth was the most impressive. And so.
"By the edict of blood, I command."
"...!"
"Die." ⟨ Blood Command ⟩ Krunch. With that command, Lee Gok put an end to today's grueling battle.
"Gahk?!"
Blood commands were absolute. The slime's flesh in her palm ignored its own will and detonated a hidden transparent heart somewhere inside.
"Ah, aaa...!"
"You lost. So now... rest in peace."
The slime's form began to melt away. Its blue slime lost strength, color fading as it seeped into the ground and vanished. Turning her back on the monster, Lee Gok gave a brief farewell and headed back to Yongchan. Keeping her promise to the delicate man—that was a lady's duty.
"As promised, I brought you victory, Yongchan."
She gazed down at the soundly sleeping man, oblivious to their survival. He was maddening enough just being nearby usually, but now with the suit off and his upper body fully exposed...
"Th-this...! Could this be... those legendary abs I've only heard about?!"
Men hated exercise to death, so unless they were models or AV actors, a man's sex... no, sexy appeal like this was a rare sight. Perfectly chiseled chocolate abs. 'Calm down. Calm! Lee Gok, get a grip. Yongchan's thirty years younger than you!' If not for being hunters, he'd be like a son to her age-wise. Yet the exalted future Clan Head of a 1,000-year lineage losing her reason over this?! Lick lick... slurp slurp... "D-damn... Yongchan's sweat... so... sweet..."
Get a hold of yourself. Besides, this kid was already marked by her baby sister as a potential brother-in-law. ...
Even thinking that, her body was more honest than her mind. Pressing her massive breasts against the fallen Yongchan's abs, Lee Gok shamelessly licked his body like ice cream. "Sorry, Seolgi... But what can I do... Big sis is just a woman with a womb too... Down there's been drenched since earlier...!" Plus, after overcoming trials to defeat a mighty foe, the hero and heroine lock eyes, forget fiancés, and go at it— Frankly, it's hot as hell! And this counts as consensual(?), so not NTR. So. "As the eldest sister in the clan... I'll just suck on it for now, out of conscience." Thinking of Seolgi as the caring big sis(?), she held onto her last shred of conscience and didn't go all the way. "I've practiced with a dildo, after all..." Today, she'd just use her ridiculously huge breasts for a little burrrrp! action... Furtively... Rustle rustle. She reached for Yongchan's lower half, bulging with survival instinct... That instant. Squelch squelch. "...
Huh?" During the time she'd been trapped earlier, in the fight with the slime maybe? Around Yongchan's pants, with the suit off, blue slime residue from the now-dead slime clung stubbornly. But that was weird. She'd definitely defeated the main body? Squelch squelch squelch! "Wh-what?!" As if slapping an age restriction, the blue slime fully enveloped Yongchan's lower half, preventing her from removing the pants. "Get off!" Lee Gok tried commanding it with blood... "Wh-what the hell?!" But the slime goo ignored her completely, steadfastly guarding the male's chastity to the end.