I became the contractor of my favorite character. (2)
I became the contractor of my favorite character. (2)
"Turn around!!!"
She screamed at me while covering her body.
Honestly, I kind of wanted to keep watching a bit longer, but her glare was too intense.
"Ugh... Now I'll never get married..."
-Rustle...
The sound coming from behind made me whip my head around intensely, wanting to admire her naked body, but I soon realized I didn't need to turn at all.
The mirror.
An object that uses light reflection to show people's appearances or the shapes of objects.
Through that thing, her figure was visible in all its naked glory.
I freely enjoyed the dressing show through the mirror.
She seemed completely unaware that I was watching, frantically putting on her clothes.
At first, I was admiring her voluptuous breasts and pubic area, but as she dressed, my gaze gradually shifted to her face.
When I saw her face, I couldn't help but be shocked.
Her face was the spitting image of A-young, my favorite character from Hero of the Academy.
She appeared briefly early in Hero of the Academy before showing up as the final boss.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say I poured 500 hours of playtime just to meet her again.
There were several reasons.
I was curious why a character with a kind personality became the final boss, she had the biggest breasts among the student characters in the game—total big tits—and above all, her looks were exactly my type.
And now, she was right behind my back.
"Ahem! You can turn around now!"
The moment she said that, I spun around like I'd been waiting.
She let out a slight surprised noise at my action, but that wasn't the issue right now.
It was definitely A-young.
I'd saved screenshots of every scene she appeared in, so there was no way I'd mix her up.
Her delicately arranged features, her flowing brown hair, pink lips, and voluptuous breasts were proof.
Look at that second button on the pink cotton pajamas she was wearing—it looked precarious right in front of my eyes.
She seemed just as shocked as I was that my favorite character lookalike was standing right there.
"Um..."
"Th..."
She seemed to have something she was curious about too and spoke up, our voices overlapping.
"..."
After a brief silence.
"G-Go ahead and speak first."
She blushed and spoke first.
"Yeah, okay. What's your name?"
I gladly accepted her courtesy and asked her first.
"A-young. Seo A-young."
'A-young!'
Same looks, same name.
She was definitely my favorite character.
'But why...?'
I remembered up to the point where drowsiness hit me the moment I started a new game.
Was it manifesting in my dream because I was bitter about losing my save file?
I looked up at A-young, who was sitting across from me, waiting for my reaction. Our eyes met, and she tilted her head.
'...Actually, this is kinda nice?'
Not some hazy, half-remembered sloppy dream from waking up in the morning, but one I could see and feel directly.
Way better than seeing her on a computer monitor, right?
'Is this what a lucid dream is?'
The facts didn't really matter.
Blood was rushing to my little brother down below.
Like it was gearing up for battle.
"Can I ask a question now?"
"Yeah, of course! Ask away!"
When I didn't react, she spoke up.
I'd only heard her scream before; this was the first time hearing her proper voice.
Clearer than the voice from my headset.
Is this what they mean by a nightingale-like voice?
'Ah, no-fap ejaculation fully possible.'
I was already hard, though.
"Eek, yes. Have we met somewhere before? You feel familiar."
She flinched at my intense reaction and spoke.
"Hmm..."
I'd been looking at her screenshots every day.
I saw her daily, but she'd never seen me.
After all, she was just a chunk of 0s and 1s data in the end.
"You might not have seen me, even though I've been seeing you every day for the past month?"
"...? What does that mean?"
"Exactly what I said?"
"Hmm?"
She tilted her head like she couldn't understand.
That's how one-sided crushes work.
A-young soon seemed to realize something and muttered something like 'As expected of a demon...' while nodding.
Every little movement of her small body before turning dark as the final boss was utterly lovable, but I couldn't help having questions.
'Demon...?'
The moment I was about to ask what she meant.
"Even though you saw my embarrassing side just now. Let's start the contract right away."
A-young clenched her fists on her lap and looked at me with a face full of determination.
"Ruler of the demon world and source of all evil, take my soul..."
"Wait a sec? What are you doing?"
Suddenly spouting chuunibyou lines, blue lights began gathering around A-young's body.
Feeling something off, I stopped her.
She looked at me like she couldn't understand, her eyes questioning me.
Her cheeks were slightly flushed, probably embarrassed by the lines she'd just spouted.
"Of course it's the contract ritual. You didn't know?"
"Yeah, no clue? From 'demon' this, 'ruler of the demon world' that, 'source of evil'—I have no idea what any of it means? Mind explaining?"
Her serious crazy talk deflated my battle-ready little brother, and distracted by A-young, I tried to make sense of the current situation I'd brushed off as a dream.
Fell asleep playing the game, woke up to my favorite character about to masturbate, screamed when she saw me. Now she's saying weird stuff and calling it a contract ritual.
'Hmm... No idea.'
What kind of ridiculous dream is this? Is it even a dream?
I looked at her, who was stunned by my words, urging her to answer.
"W-Wait a sec."
She soon snapped out of it, picked up the black book scattered on the floor, and quickly flipped through the pages.
The moment I was about to watch her rolling her eyes, sensing it was some ominous book.
[F-rank Grimoire]
[Contains knowledge needed for summoning demons. Can summon demons under 100 years old.]
A blue hologram window straight out of an SF movie suddenly appeared in my view.
No, it wasn't an SF movie design.
It was the notification window design from Hero of the Academy.
"What the..."
"Yes?"
She asked at my mutter.
"You see this?"
I pointed at the hologram with my finger and asked.
"...Pardon? What are you talking about?"
"Oh, nothing."
Reading no interest in my lame reaction, A-young went back to intently reading the F-rank Grimoire.
'Game addiction...?'
Seeing A-young in a dream and getting Hero of the Academy notifications? That's some serious game addiction territory.
But something felt off.
The cool night air coming through the open window, senses way too realistic for a dream, and a consciousness too clear.
Pinch my cheek or thigh in the obvious way, and it hurts.
'No way it's not a dream? ...Kekeke, yeah right.'
I chuckled self-deprecatingly inside.
Confusing game and reality.
Classic severe game addiction symptom.
A-young, not getting the result she wanted, put down the book with a gloomy expression.
"Couldn't find anything helpful?"
"Yes..."
She nodded weakly, looking dejected.
"Are you sure you're an incubus? There's nothing written about demons who don't know contract rituals."
She suddenly asked if I was an incubus.
"...?"
Did I hear wrong?
Incubus.
The male version of a succubus that absorbs men's vitality as nourishment.
"Th-that incubus, you mean the one that absorbs vitality, right?"
"Yes."
"But don't incubi have horns or wings? Or weird eye colors or something?"
"No idea..."
"Hmm... Do I look like that now?"
"No."
"Then why ask if I'm an incubus?"
"Well..."
She started explaining what happened before I opened my eyes in her room.
She'd gotten the grimoire in an F-rank dungeon, built a magic circle for summoning to gain power, and right at the final step of sprinkling virgin blood, I suddenly appeared.
"Ah, so that's why you were doing that. Not masturbation, huh."
Gotta call it true to the ero-game nature.
Thanks to that, I got an eyeful.
"P-Please don't talk about that..."
A-young turned her head, blushing in embarrassment, and said in a small voice.
Her voluptuous breasts squeezed together by her arms covering her face looked lewd as hell against the plain pink pajamas.
'Ah, wanna pounce.'
Wanted to tackle A-young, the unrouteable character wafting shampoo and sexy flesh scents, but sex without love isn't sex.
Superhuman self-control to not toy with those breasts straining against that second button.
'Right now, in this moment, I am Buddha.'
"Haa... What do I do... I'll get expelled like this..."
She sighed, then muttered in a teary voice.
"Expelled? What's that about?"
"I'm at risk of expulsion for bad grades."
Haha, she laughed awkwardly and bowed her head.
Embarrassed about her bad grades?
From what I knew of the game story, A-young started as an F-rank student, skyrocketed to C-rank, then suddenly dropped out.
'Ah, so that's why she summoned a demon.'
I'd gone right up to the ending, so I knew the overall story.
I didn't know why she, who became the Demon Cult leader, summoned a demon.
'Well, considering her family, it makes sense.'
The prestigious Korean hunter family, Seo Family.
Just her older sisters alone: S-rank and A-rank hunters.
Compared to that, being an F-rank student must suck.
Born into a famous family with high expectations, but unlike her blood sisters, she's F-rank.
Of course, that's my headcanon.
"Hmm..."
I pondered for a bit.
Wanted to help her, but what could I do?
As I thought about various things, one idea suddenly flashed through my mind.
"Ah! Doesn't it say that when a demon is summoned, the magic circle and candles disappear? And they did when I was summoned?"
"Yes. That's right."
"Then how about trying that contract ritual thing on me?"
The situation when the grimoire said a demon is summoned matched exactly when I opened my eyes.
So maybe I could contract with A-young through that ritual?
It's a game dream anyway.
"Hmm... Think it'll work?"
"Even if not, better to try than not, right? Worst case, back to square one."
"True... Okay, shall we start right now?"
She nodded like she agreed and said.
"Yeah, anything to prepare?"
"Nope. Just stay as you are."
A-young said as she stood up.
Just standing made them jiggle... No, not the time.
Seeming to go all out this time, she struck a pose and extended one hand toward me.
Even blushing from embarrassment, her appearance was utterly lovable.
"Then, let's begin."
The moment A-young finished speaking, blue lights gathered around her again like before.
"Ruler of the demon world and source of all evil, take my soul..."
And she started spouting those cringey lines again.
"...and respond to the contract!"
Finally shouting the last line powerfully, she looked at me with her face red as a ripe persimmon.
[Will you become the contractor of the human 'Seo A-young'?]
[YES/NO]
"D-Did it work...?"
"Yeah, looks like a spectacular success?"
She beamed and rejoiced at my words.
But my mind was a bit complicated.