I became a member of a new party. (1) - Minor edit
I became a member of a new party. (1) - Minor edit
"What's going on."
I sat Leisha down in the chair and then perched on the bed.
Chloe stood tall behind Leisha's right side, just like a knight from the movies guarding her lord.
"You already know, don't you."
Huhut. She said with a smile.
"To recruit me into your party?"
"Yes. This time, excluding Geon-woo-nim, we want to bring Si-woo-nim into our party."
"Sorry, but I already have a party."
Truth be told, joining Leisha's party sounded great.
Both A-young and I were long-range positions. Joining Leisha and Chloe's party, who were swordsmanship tankers, would make conquering Glass Worlds way more stable.
"You mean A-young-nim, your current party member? If so, you're welcome to bring her along. During the last Special Class, I dueled with her, and just like Si-woo-nim, she showed tremendous growth."
"Wasn't your party already at five members? Even excluding that Geon-woo guy, it'd still be four."
The academy basically limits party sizes to a maximum of five.
"No, the last dungeon training was a hastily assembled party. Originally, it's just me, Chloe, and Geon-woo-nim as our trio."
Leisha's tone carried a sense of pride as she said that.
No wonder—achieving B-rank with just two people was something to boast about.
Since conquest difficulty scales inversely with party size.
"As far as I know, Si-woo-nim has overall support abilities and Magician skills, and A-young-nim is also a Magician, so your party's frontline is lacking, right? We've been feeling the need for backline and support roles starting from B-rank Glass Worlds ourselves."
Leisha had a point.
I could use the Vitality gained from sex to create abilities and skills to handle the frontline myself, but Vitality wasn't infinite.
Based on A-young, sex until she passed out yielded between 1400 and 1700.
In terms of the 10-to-1 point ratio, that was 140 to 170 points.
Roughly equivalent to clearing a D+ rank dungeon twice.
It couldn't compare to Vitality, which could create or enhance any skill.
Leveling up Energy Absorption and Sexual Technique would yield more Vitality, but lately, I had a lot of places to spend it.
"If I may ask, Si-woo-nim, what's your BP?"
"200."
"Wha... impressive."
Leisha gulped in surprise upon hearing my BP.
I didn't miss the slight change in Chloe's expression, which had been stone-faced since entering the room.
Of course.
My current BP was on par with active B-rank Blesser Hunters.
Purely in terms of BP, that is.
Blessers gain Blessing skills but can't acquire other combat abilities.
That's why students who awakened and blossomed other combat skills outpaced and weeded them out.
According to A-young, who was always a huge help, the current top first-year Blesser was D-rank with 47 BP.
And I could even use magic, though only with Search, Heal, and Magic Missile.
Truth be told, I grew this much thanks to the Vitality from save file rewards.
But I considered it my own ability.
I'd grown stronger through Energy Absorption, Sexual Technique, and Buff Skill investments in Vitality.
What if Energy Absorption was still level 1?
Judging from its current level 6 and the 30 Vitality per climax, I wouldn't have gained this much.
What if Sexual Technique was level 1?
Obviously, I couldn't have gone until A-young and Seo-in passed out.
What if I hadn't gotten Buff Skill?
Could I have conquered Glass Worlds?
It was the result of smart investments, so I felt a bit proud.
"Hmm... Joining the party sounds good, but kicking out this Han Geon-woo guy—there must be some issue, right?"
"Yes. A bit of a personal problem."
"What kind?"
I already knew, but I couldn't just gloss over something like this.
I knew it was Han Geon-woo's stalking issue, but from their perspective, I'd think there was team trouble.
"Sigh... Since we're here to invite you to join, I can't just skip it. It seems Geon-woo-nim is stalking me."
"Seems like stalking? You're not sure?"
"No, the circumstances make it almost certain. Despite me rejecting him multiple times, he kept pursuing me relentlessly, and when I hid my presence to move, I felt the sensation of being detected by a Search Skill."
"Isn't that not enough?"
"Yes, if it were just that, there'd be no reason to suspect Geon-woo-nim specifically. But traces of him visiting shops and restaurants I frequent often turned up. The owners told me a guy asked what I bought and ate. Even... the lingerie shop owner. The description matched Geon-woo-nim perfectly."
Leisha spoke softly, her voice suppressing anger laced with humiliation and fury.
"Hmm... That's pretty bad. With that level of obsession, he probably won't leave the party quietly."
If he's going to lingerie shops asking what underwear she bought, he's clearly obsessed.
In that state, suddenly getting replaced and told to leave the party?
He wouldn't just say okay and go.
"So, Si-woo-nim, I have one favor to ask."
Leisha said cautiously.
"Catch this Han Geon-woo guy?"
"Yes."
"Reward?"
I crossed one leg and asked Leisha.
My Buff-enhanced Acting Skill was working overtime.
"I was going to offer GP originally, but I doubt you'd be satisfied with..."
"Fine, I'll catch him. How much GP?"
"...Pardon?"
Leisha's calm expression flushed with bewilderment.
"I'll do it for GP. Didn't you hear?"
"Ah, no. I heard you fine. GP is really okay? You knew what reward I'd offer?"
"Sort of... How much GP were you thinking, and what's this better reward?"
"Haha... Si-woo-nim, you're a bit of an odd one."
Leisha chuckled lightly, amused.
I shrugged in response.
"We were thinking around 5000 GP."
5000 GP... Exactly what's needed to rank up to C-grade.
"And the other reward is this..."
Leisha pulled something from her uniform's inner pocket.
A sleek stone emitting red light.
'Spirit Stone...!'
In the original game, it was an item to evolve spirits into higher forms. To see it at this point.
I couldn't help but be shocked.
But I kept a straight face and stared at Leisha calmly.
"As a student, I can't freely use my family's assets, but how about this stone I've cherished since childhood?"
"A stone? It has a mystical aura, but it's worth over 5000 GP?"
5000 GP was about 50 million won in Korean currency.
Of course, its future value exceeded hundreds of millions, but right now, it was just a curious rock.
Leisha naturally wouldn't know, so I played it cool.
"No need to play dumb. I always carry this stone, and it reacted intensely when A-young-nim, your party member, used fire magic."
Leisha smiled faintly, staring into my eyes as if piercing my facade, but I met her gaze confidently.
"Well, I do like the look of that stone."
Truth be told, I fucking wanted it bad, but I played it nonchalant.
Reacting too eagerly would just inflate the Spirit Stone's value as her reward, which would be a loss for me.
"How about it? Successfully complete my request, and I'll give you this stone."
Leisha held it out slightly, as if urging me to take a good look.
"GP and the stone. Give me both, and I'll do it. Advance payment in GP, completion in the stone."
"Hmm... I hear there's a Korean saying, 'excess is as bad as deficiency.' Aren't you being too greedy?"
Leisha furrowed her brow slightly as she looked at me.
"If you don't like it, shop around."
I said indifferently to Leisha.
Truth be told, if she actually went elsewhere as I said, it'd be a headache, but I knew she had nowhere else to turn.
First reason: Testing my skills.
Leisha, the top first-year B-rank, couldn't catch him herself largely due to Han Geon-woo's Search Skill.
Even if she tried, he'd sense her approach and bolt, making it hard for her to capture him.
So, by having me— with equal Search ability—catch him, she'd confirm I was superior to Han Geon-woo.
Second reason.
I didn't know exactly.
In the game, Leisha was hiding something, so it wasn't clear.
-I can't tell the professors for some reason...!
A screenshot from some Leisha fanboy user popped into my mind.
Leisha always blushed while maintaining her composed, elegant face, so she must have something to hide.
"Hmm... Fine. But can you handle it faster then?"
She was acting generous despite having no one else to ask—it was kinda cute.
Leisha fiddled with her Cube Watch briefly, and mine buzzed. Checking my student ID via the screen, I saw 5000 GP deposited.
"I'll wrap it up quick, so wait for me."
I grinned satisfactorily at the sudden GP influx.
"Yes. I'll be expecting great things?"
Leisha beamed and offered a handshake.
No reason to refuse, so I extended my hand. Her palm was soft and smooth.
∴
"Phew... A-young-ah, it's okay now."
After chatting more with Leisha about joining the party, I opened the wardrobe and called A-young.
But after quite some time, she was fast asleep despite the uncomfortable position, breathing softly.
A-young sleeping peacefully was adorable—her pale belly, without a single ounce of excess fat, rose and fell with each breath.
On her lower belly was the Yin Mark proving she was mine, and on her ring finger was the Ring of Growth, the first gift I gave her after arriving in this world.
I gently lifted the sleeping A-young, carefully laid her on the bed without waking her, placed my hand over the Yin Mark on her lower belly, and went to sleep.
∴
-Kwadeuk.
As expected of a Pathfinder.
Even from quite a distance, it was crystal clear in his eyes.
Leisha and Chloe entering and leaving the room of Kim Si-woo, a male student freshly promoted to D-rank.
With skills far beyond his rank and outstanding looks, he was quite the hot topic among first-year girls.
Han Geon-woo, who had been desperately waiting at the entrance of the F-dong Dormitory where Kim Si-woo lived for Leisha and Chloe to emerge, ground his teeth.
What could those two prime-age women have been doing sneaking into a guy's dorm room late at night?
With his pathetic looks, Han Geon-woo had zero dating experience, not even a single girl friend, and now intense jealousy made his stomach churn.
Probably, inside that room, Leisha was pinned under Kim Si-woo, moaning sweetly as he savagely thrust his beastly cock into her shaking hips, while Chloe fawned over the man ravaging her lady, begging him to shove it in her too.
His sex knowledge limited to porn scenarios, he felt his dick stiffen rigidly.
But it was pathetically small.
He loved Leisha as a sexual object.
Every day, he fantasized about pinning the beautiful, busty Leisha under him, making her moan sweetly, and saw the equally stunning Chloe as bonus loot that came with Leisha.
Han Geon-woo's personality was already warped somewhere.
"Leisha is mine...!"
Han Geon-woo pulled out Leisha's panties, which he always carried in his pocket.
The lacy panties with flashy white patterns seemed designed to tempt sanity—unlike plain lace ones, even the crotch was lace.
"Sniiff... Haa..."
To steal Leisha's underwear, he'd snuck into her dormitory and realized the moment he found these panties.
Leisha loved him too—she was just shy about it.
Why else would she, who had no interactions with other opposite sexes except her party member, own such lewd, seductive panties?
It had been over two weeks since he started jerking off to the scent of these panties while lost in that ridiculous delusion.
'A little fling with another guy while I'm away— I can be generous.'
Once she tasted his dick, she'd never leave.
Thinking that, he smirked bitterly down at his own erection—hard but more pathetic than Si-woo's—while inhaling deeply, nose buried in panties that reeked of detergent he'd mistaken for her pussy scent, deluding himself that he'd watched over Leisha from afar today too. He turned away.
Unable to even imagine his own future.