The Queen's Marionette
"I told you... everything, so spare me. You said you wouldn't kill me."
"Of course I keep my promises. I'm not going to kill you."
I said with a smile to the guy sprawled on the ground.
"Master-nim, are you just going to let him go?"
Jiyoung, chiming in from behind, looked more like a plunderer.
"I promised, didn't I? I won't kill him."
I hoisted the bastard off the ground and carried him over to the national highway roadside.
"Wh-What?!"
I tossed him next to an overturned car. With his hands and feet all twisted, he had no choice but to crawl.
Grinning, I began bashing the car with my aluminum bat.
Kkang—!! Kwang, kwang!!
"You son of a bitch!! St-Stop... don't do ittt—!!"
Zombies are just as sensitive to sound as they are to smell. Bashing like this, there was no way the bastards nearby wouldn't notice.
"Keureureureu...."
One by one from over there, they approached us with their maws wide open. They were slow-walking low-grade zombies, but they were faster than this bastard who had to crawl.
Moreover, since he was reeking of blood, there couldn't be a more appetizing target.
"I'm not the one killing you."
"Kkaaak, fuck... you son of a bitch, you fucking asshole... just kill me instead—!!"
I quickly crossed the road before the zombies drew near. Even if one took an Enhancement Capsule, one's limbs had to be intact to fight zombies. Right now, that bastard was merely zombie food that was barely breathing.
The ear-splitting scream was drowned out by the sound effects of the zombies' mukbang. After confirming his demise from across the street, I turned my steps away.
When I went up to the villa, Jiyoung was sweating profusely while clearing corpses to the side of the road. Just looking at her actions, she was an entirely different person from when we first met.
"Master-nim, is it over?"
"Yeah. By now, he's probably inside the zombies' bellies."
"I've cleaned up everything here, so let's go in. We... still have what we left unfinished, you know."
My slave knew very well what her master liked.
*
In the bathroom, admiring her sleek back, I was thrusting my hips in full swing.
Cheupeok cheupeok cheolpeok cheolpeok, paang pang
"Ha-eut, hyaaang... Master-nim, it feels good... harder... ha-eut...!"
When one awakens and becomes a slave, they inherit a percentage of my physical stats, so naturally her body improved. On top of that, having to move diligently for more than half a day every day made her workout volume rival weight training.
"Seeing muscle tone building up bit by bit looks good."
"It's because we go out together every day... ha-eut, and Master-nim dotes on me like this, you know."
"It'll get even better from now on. Because I'm going to dote on you tremendously."
As if she liked my words, she let out a heated moan and clamped down on my cock with all her might. Under the terrifying vaginal pressure, my urge to ejaculate soared to limit-breaking levels.
Pukjjeok pukjjeok cheolsseok cheolsseok, jjaak jjak
I had intended to enjoy it leisurely, but under the ruthless tightening that fanned my ejaculation, I let out a cry and unloaded my semen inside Jiyoung until my balls were completely empty.
"Haa, haa...."
After receiving a neat cleanup blowjob at the very end, I stepped out of the bathroom.
[The location of the second Slave Candidate has been identified. You can check the time limit and location in the status window.]
[The Slave Capture skill grade has increased, allowing the villain's location to be displayed as well. You must defeat the villain first to capture the Slave Candidate.]
'It popped up!'
It was said that the Slave House infrastructure lasts for 10 days. Jiyoung solved the water issue, but in two days, electricity and light would be cut off.
The system had informed me of the next Enchanter's location right on time.
"Master-nim! It says a slave was found."
"A Slave Candidate. Wait a second."
When I opened the status window, a map unfolded and each location was pinpointed with icons.
They were all inside Cheongun University.
"Master-nim, the icon colors are all different."
There were yellow and black icons in the Student Union Building, a red icon in the central square, and a black icon in the Language Building.
"The yellow one is the Slave Candidate."
It was that color when Jiyoung's location first appeared on the map as well, and it was the only icon with numbers written on it.
[Remaining Time 29:59:59]
"Master-nim, I see a clock."
"It's a timer. We just have to capture the Slave Candidate within 30 hours."
Cheongun University is near the new town where I captured Jiyoung. An hour by car from here is more than enough to get there.
"What about the other colors?"
"The black ones are villains, and the red one in the square is probably that unidentified creature. That's what the team leader said."
I suspected the red one was a mutant, but without seeing it in person, I couldn't be certain. Before my regression, I had dealt with quite a few mutants, but I had never seen a mutant that spewed fog.
"We'll have to get rid of the two black dots first."
"Right. Starting with the ones whose identities we know."
The villain in the Language Building is the Awakening Capsule production-type that the team leader mentioned. He's a bastard who rounds up survivors at random to enhance them with their lives as collateral, and above all, since he targeted us, there's more than enough reason for him to die.
I will never let anyone who hinders the survival of my slave and me live.
"Are my current level and stats enough? As you said, I raised it to 10."
I asked the system, which was probably watching from somewhere. It had only advised me on my level, but thanks to sex without rest, Jiyoung also reached 10.
[Your level is sufficient, but it is recommended to raise Offense/Defense and Agility stats to 20 or higher. A situation requiring resolution by force may occur at the destination.]
Currently, my points were 16, and Jiyoung's points were 51. The Artifact Shop seemed fine to handle with Jiyoung's points alone, so I invested all of my points into stats.
■ Stats
— Offense/Defense: 21/99
— Agility: 21/99
— Senses: 19/99
Points: 0pt
After raising Offense/Defense and Agility by 6 each (15 → 21), the sense of exhilaration was at a lethal dose level. If it only brought up my mood, I could at least bear it, but sexual desire always tagged along and put me in a bind.
'From now on, I should raise them bit by bit before the system even mentions it.'
If I told Jiyoung, she would spread her legs immediately, but capturing the second Slave Candidate came first right now.
*****
Cheongun University Student Union Building —
Right from the entrance, corpses dried up and shriveled like mummies lay rolling around. Mixed with the chunks of flesh left behind after zombies gnawed on them, a scene reminiscent of a portrait of hell was created.
"Kkeuuueuk.... Ye-Yeji-ya... please...."
Inside a club room on the second floor, a man was foaming at the mouth and clawing at the floor. On his neck, pitch-black blood vessels bulged hideously like a zombie's.
"Yeji? Then what about the other scum calling me Queen-nim?"
A woman was sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed. Her upturned eyes, twisted corners of her mouth, and chilling pupils were filled with vicious malice.
She was Seo Yeji, the main dancer of the famous girl group Blue Eyes. Having come to the school for a festival performance, she was trapped in the Student Union Building when the apocalypse broke out.
Now, she is an Awakened who reigns as the queen of the Student Union Building.
Name/Age: Seo Yeji/22 years old
Class: Queen of Venom
Level: 11
EXP: 31/110
Points: 18pt
Skills:
— Fatal Sex Lv.11
— EXP Plunder Lv.11
— Marionette Enhancement Lv.11
Seo Yeji's awakening condition was murder. What's more, she drove two members with whom she had shared joys and sorrows to their deaths.
"Ye-Yeji-ya... kkyaaaak—!!"
She shoved the two members running alongside her, turning them into zombie food. While the zombies were tearing the two apart, she barely managed to flee, and strange letters appeared before her eyes.
[Seo Yeji-nim has fulfilled the awakening condition of betraying companions and driving them to death in order to survive. A status window containing related skills is granted.]
'Awakening? Skills? Status window? Wh-What on earth is this...'
[Males who engage in sex with the Queen become poisoned with deadly venom, turning into the Queen's faithful marionettes.]
[A marionette that disobeys the Queen experiences body-twisting agony, and according to the Queen's will, dies shriveled up like a mummy.]
[The Queen can level up through marionettes. When marionettes eradicate zombies and mutants, EXP belongs to the Queen through the EXP Plunder skill.]
[Points are awarded upon leveling up. Points are used to enhance marionettes. Each time the Queen engages in sex with a marionette, points are transferred through the Marionette Enhancement skill. The more points accumulate in a marionette, the higher their attack/defense stats become.]
[All skill levels increase equally with the Queen's level.]
[The more a marionette satisfies the Queen, the better their stat efficiency from point accumulation becomes.]
[Not all males can become marionettes. If an incompatible male engages in sex with the Queen, he dies of postcoital sudden death.]
[No matter how much semen the Queen accepts, she will not get pregnant.]
[An injured marionette recovers when engaging in sex with the Queen. However, severed body parts do not regenerate.]
As accustomed to men as her promiscuous private life was, Seo Yeji understood right away what the flood of information before her eyes meant.
'I can turn the bastards who have sex with me into puppets. They get stronger, their hurts heal, and they do whatever I tell them to do. Wow, this is no joke, is it?'
Seo Yeji immediately tested her ability on the surviving staff members. The first target she seduced was a road manager who was interested in her.
Having a security agency background, he was a muscular man perfectly suited to be used as an escort.
"Ye-Yeji-ya...."
"We don't know when we'll die. Let's think of it as the last time... and enjoy ourselves, oppa."
Having fallen for Seo Yeji's seduction like this, the road manager became Marionette No. 1.
Once his originally good physique was enhanced by the skill, the muscular man became a faithful guard who snapped the necks of survivors defying Seo Yeji.
'So this is what kind of ability it was. With this... I can become a real queen.'
It only took five days for Seo Yeji to turn all the men in the Student Union Building into marionettes.