A Scent I Had Never Smelled Before

I hadn't even properly begun, yet I knew I could ease her into it little by little. Even though she would instinctively resist because I wasn't human, eventually she would reach the point where she no longer cared. If she came to like me so much that there was nothing more I could do about it...

'We can be together.'

Until just recently, I had even resigned myself to the idea that Yeonhee would live a happy life with impressive men like Hyeon Il-hwan or Hyeon I-hwan.

But I had completely abandoned those thoughts now. I would swat away any such annoying flies, no matter what. Just let them come. I'd blow them up with a bomb. Boom!

Twitch—

"Hngh..."

Yeonhee's struggles were growing increasingly violent. Had I been holding her too tightly?

I was debating whether to loosen my grip a little when—

'Hmm...?'

A scent I had never smelled on her before began to spread from her body. This smell was...

"Huuu... P-please! Let me go...! Ngh? S-stop... Aah...! Hngh..."

Squeeze— squeeze—

"Haaah...!"

When a woman says to stop, a man's heart wants to do the opposite. I pressed a few more times.

She had now reached the point where sobs were breaking free. They say that when shame reaches its peak, one feels the urge to die. I could somewhat imagine how tormented she must be feeling.

She wouldn't understand why her body was reacting this way, and that must be terrifying. A tingling pleasure like an electric current would spread through her, and the moment she gave up trying to endure it and tried to surrender to her body, I would pull back.

Just as she wondered if I was rejecting her again, I would embrace her once more and kiss her forehead. Her mind must be in complete chaos.

In truth, all I had done was press her thighs a few times and kiss her forehead, yet her reaction far exceeded my expectations. It was so intense I wondered if she was ill. Of course, it was supposedly proportional to her talent...

There was still so much ahead. She couldn't fall apart this badly from just this much. We had a long way to go. For me, of course, ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠that was fortunate.

"Mmmh— Ah..!"

While simply holding her, I slowly stroked her hair, occasionally caressed her ears, and ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠sometimes brought my lips close to her neck.

"Hiiing..."

Just like she had done to me yesterday, I slowly ran my hand along her leg and lightly scratched above her toes.

"...!"

The tops of her feet were surprisingly sensitive to stimulation. Her whole body jerked violently. Whenever she moved that wildly, the inside of her thigh would rub against my knee, creating even greater stimulation. If I stayed still, I kept tormenting her in different places.

"Ugh... Ngh... Ahk...!"

After letting out several lewd moans, Yeonhee urgently patted my chest with her fist, signaling me ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠to please let her go. If she really hated it, she could have infused her will into the command...

".....!"

She opened and closed her mouth, sending me a plea for rescue. She looked at me with eyes begging, as if asking what she should do. She seemed ready to do anything I asked.

This reaction was clearly different from anything before. And the concentration of the scent coming from her was at least ten times stronger than at the beginning.

Eventually.

Shaaaa—

"Haaaaah..... What do I do... Hic..."

I felt the fabric of my dress pants, pressed against her thigh, growing damp.

"......!!"

She finally wrapped her arms tightly around my waist. In that state, her body continued to twitch for a long while.

"Haaang... Aah... Ngh...!"

The look of immense release on her face was something I had never seen since the day I was summoned.

Her half-lidded, hazy eyes had lost focus and were staring blankly into space. Her flushed cheeks, her mouth hanging open in a perfect circle, and the way her tongue twitched as if it might slip out at any moment. It was more than enough to tell me that what she was feeling right now was extreme pleasure.

A small room. If the two of us lay down, half the floor would be covered. A narrow, quiet space.

"Haa..."

Yeonhee seemed intent on filling this space with the pink breaths she exhaled. Her arms, which were hugging me as if she wanted to kill me, were filled with resentment and hatred, but an even greater wave of ecstasy completely erased those dark feelings.

Slide— slide—

She had now begun moving her body up and down on her own, ever so slightly. The movements were so minute that even she probably wasn't aware of them, but to my senses, they were crystal clear.

"... Ang... Aahng..."

Yeonhee, who had been slowly moving with my knee as the center, at some point stopped hiding her moans. She simply held my waist tightly and trembled in place.

Several minutes passed like that. I'd heard that women take longer than men, and it was true. The aftershocks showed no sign of ending.

She buried her face completely into my stomach. When I looked down, her ears were flushed bright red like ripe strawberries.

She was trembling with shame. Even if she had surrendered her body to pleasure for a moment in front of a being she had completely subjugated, was it really something to be so ashamed of? I didn't know.

It wasn't for nothing that motels were packed near gates... From my previous life's memories, it was hardly a surprising phenomenon.

But she was different. A pure white maiden had essentially just experienced something close to her first time.

What should I do in a situation like this to make the best choice? Should I pat her on the back and tell her she did well? What a crazy thought. Even thinking that sounded stupid. I clearly hadn't had much dating experience in my past life either. My creativity was scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Should I say something? With this clumsy, baby-like pronunciation? That idea was also rejected.

In the end, I decided to just stay still and enjoy what I'd already gained.

While I was inwardly criticizing myself, Yeonhee was still panting, her body surrendered to the afterglow, but I could sense the atmosphere slowly calming down.

"...... Um..."

I felt her barely open her mouth and try to sit up.

Suddenly, Yeonhee covered her face with both palms. I wondered if other people knew about this. Even when she hid her pretty face, it was still pretty. Wasn't that fascinating?

Anyway, it was time to wrap things up.

'Guess we'll stop here for today.'

"I... n-need... water..."

Nod—

She pushed me away with effort and began to stand, staggering.

Sway—

She swayed once, then again, even more violently. She couldn't keep her balance at all. It made me wonder if I should just leave her like that. Fortunately, the lighting in the room was soft. If it had been bright, it would have been even more embarrassing for her.

She shuffled forward in an awkward, half-crouching posture, then muttered in an extremely low voice.

"C-close... all your senses... You must never look. This is an order..."

Nod nod—

Though her voice was small, she had given the command with stronger will than ever before. She quickly left the room. No—she came back in, grabbed the blanket, and left with it. Yeonhee was sobbing loudly.

'If she cries like that, it makes me feel like...'

An unexpected sense of guilt washed over me. I felt like a criminal who had committed a grave sin.

Anyway, once she went outside, I had no way of knowing whether she was really drinking water or rushing off to clean something up.

The moment ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠I received Yeonhee's order, all my senses were cut off in an astonishing way.

Space... It felt like I had been thrown alone into the middle of the universe.

'Whoa... So this is possible?'

This was something I couldn't do even if I consciously tried... As expected, her will was overwhelmingly powerful. She was a being so strong that if she put her mind to it, she could even erase my existence.

As I thought that, black smoke-like energy suddenly rose from the depths of my being.

'... Scary... Did I go too far today after all?'

Only now did such worries surface. But really, I hadn't done much of anything. I could defend myself clearly enough to claim innocence. All I did was hold her and kiss her forehead. Of course, pressing her thighs had been somewhat intentional. And I had rubbed her thighs with my leg a few times...!

'Has time already passed this much...? Still, I can see the message.'

With all my senses completely blocked, I couldn't feel anything at all. The fear that I might be ejected into another world began to rise.

Or the terror that I might simply disappear like this. If I were still human, I would have dismissed it as the ridiculous thoughts of a coward, but as a skeleton who had regressed, I couldn't simply brush it aside.

One small comfort was that I could still think.

A French philosopher once said that to think is to exist. How much power a single famous quote could hold in a situation like this...

For a while, I let everything go and simply let my mind float freely.

How long had I been floating like that? I didn't know. With my senses cut off, I couldn't even gauge time. It felt like both an instant and several months had passed.

That wouldn't do... If I didn't give the kids water from Irmana's lake, they'd struggle. It would be better to make a huge amount in advance and distribute it beforehand.

While I was lost in such pointless worries, from somewhere far away, a vast and majestic resonance reached me.

Thud───── Thud─────

'Hmm?'

It sounded like the footsteps of a colossal creature, or perhaps a heartbeat. I was incredibly curious what it was, yet an equally strong intuition warned me that I shouldn't know.

When in doubt, my usual thought was to not do it. So I waited quietly. I waited for Yeonhee to call me back.

But there was someone calling to me while I remained still.

'·······'

'······ Yes? M-me?'

The feeling that someone was repeatedly calling me made me unconsciously respond.

I had no idea what was happening. I felt like I had to say something. Otherwise, I might die—that was the intuition I got.

'Uh... Well... I am a skeleton soldier named Ilwol... May I ask who you are...?'

I mustered up the courage to answer, but after that, I couldn't hear or feel anything. Come to think of it, that was strange. Even though all my senses were supposed to be blocked, I could still feel the resonance and hear the sound.

While I was deeply lost in that question, Yeonhee's voice began to reach me faintly.

"...Wol-ah— Ilwol-ah?!"

"Aeo!!"

What? Ah, had I been dreaming? Did I have a dream?

I clutched my throbbing head and turned toward the direction of the sound. There, Yeonhee was looking down at me with worried eyes. Her face looked much cleaner than before, but her expression was extremely serious.

"Are you okay? Do you know how many times I called you? What on earth happened?!"

"Ah... Sorry."

"... A-anyway, I'm glad you're awake. But I was really scared! And from now on... I won't say those things... I'm sorry too."

Yeonhee was deeply regretting that she had given me an overwhelmingly strong command, which had apparently put me in an abnormal state.

Only after I woke up did she seem to relax. The corners of her eyes began to glisten again, and it didn't take long for teardrops to form. She really cried a lot. She cried when she was sad, and she cried when she was happy.

"What did I do to you... Hic... I'm sorry... Really, I'm so sorry."

'Looks like something almost went terribly wrong. Her face is filled with fear.'

I was thinking that Yeonhee's crying face looked especially beautiful when a message suddenly appeared.

'...... This feels like something really fucking bad happened...'

I had somehow connected with something whose name I'd never heard before. Why all of a sudden?

'When all my senses were cut off, did I actually go to a completely different space? Was it not a dream? Hoo...'

"Ugh..."

I vigorously shook my head and rubbed my face dry. It felt like I had only just realized I had brushed past the moment of death. I should have kept my mouth shut. Did I answer for no reason? A chill ran down my spine as if it had been dipped in ice water.