The Price of Pleasure
I’ll make you taste exactly what I’ve been through.
Deep inside the workshop of the Underground Village, where she always worked and lived, Placia hurried her steps, not even pausing to catch her breath. She was heading toward the spot where Chanwoo had secretly rigged the circuits beforehand.
And there it was.
In the center of the dark, quiet circuit room, amidst dozens of wires tangled along the walls, a small silhouette stood, filling the space. It was Lyla.
Her hands were touching the circuits. Her two small palms were carefully pressed against the lines, and her posture was somehow desperate. Quietly. And firmly. As if she were praying for something.
“Lyla...”
“Oh, Placia!”
The child who would usually run to her with a bright greeting. But today was different. She was smiling, but that smile was somehow anxious, and her eyes... reflected a strange sense of guilt.
“Hello...”
Even that greeting felt strangely small and distant. Placia took a cautious step forward. At that movement, Lyla flinched and shouted.
“You can’t come any closer! Really, I’ll rip all these circuits out!”
“......!”
These circuits were the passage connected to the core of the Underground Village. It was a dangerous place where a single wrong move could collapse the entire power system. At those words, Placia’s feet froze. But she couldn’t understand.
“...Lyla. Why are you doing this?”
“...”
“Why are you taking Chanwoo’s side? Is it that you... hate this village?”
At that question, Lyla shook her head violently.
“That’s not it! I... I love this village!”
Her voice was clear.
“The people in the village, and you, Placia... you’re all precious to me. How could I hate the place that took me in when I was on the verge of death!”
“Then why are you doing this...?”
At those words, Lyla slowly closed her eyes. A faint smile appeared on her lips, and tears flowed quietly down her cheeks.
“When I... first met Chanwoo Oppa.”
The girl said, pressing her fingertips more firmly against the circuit.
“It was the first time in my life... I saw the sky.”
“The sky? You’ve seen it many times before.”
Lyla shook her head slowly. Her clear eyes trembled slightly.
“No. Back then... it was just there.”
She breathed for a moment, as if choosing her words. Then, very slowly, she took her fingertips off the workshop circuit and continued.
“I don’t even know when it started. I don’t remember. I just had to keep crawling to survive. When I opened my eyes, I was in this body... I had to run away without a moment to breathe... my stomach was stuck to my spine... and there were only monsters around me.”
Placia’s gaze wavered. In her memory, the image of the small, weak child from that day overlapped.
“Back then, the sky was above my head. It was always there. But... it was scary. I couldn’t lift my head. It was too high, too far... and the moment I looked at it, I felt like I would die.”
Lyla looked up at the ceiling. Even though it was just a pile of old machinery, her eyes seemed to be looking at something far away and transparent.
“But when I was with Oppa... I knew. That I could lift my head.”
“Lyla...”
“I saw it for the first time. I thought the sky was beautiful. And in that moment... I felt like I was a ‘person,’ not an infected one.”
A quiet smile spread across Lyla’s lips. And the words that followed were as light as a breath, yet deep.
“Chanwoo Oppa didn’t call me an infected one. He just... called me Lyla. He called me by my name.”
The name the little girl heard from a human for the first time. It was a quiet permission that she was ‘allowed to exist’ in this world.
“I read a lot of comic books from your bookshelf, Placia. The protagonists were always human. Stories of humans helping each other, laughing together, and fighting together.”
“......”
“And like those protagonists... I met people who treated me like that for the first time.”
Placia quietly held her breath.
“Oppa said.”
‘Just trust me once.’
That one sentence changed everything for Lyla.
“Even though he knew I was a spy, Oppa trusted me. And he asked me a favor.”
To not let go of this circuit... the ‘emotion filter’... until he returned.
“Everyone said they wanted to protect this village. That they wanted to save this place that might collapse soon.”
“...I see.”
“Yes. I want to believe that, too.”
Lyla reached out her hand quietly. To Placia, who had saved her. To her benefactor, the sister she was most grateful to in the world.
“So, Placia... couldn’t you trust me, who trusts Chanwoo Oppa?”
She had offered a chance to be with the ‘protagonist.’
“So, you’re saying those computer monitors stuck all over the place were the true rulers of this village?”
“Yeah. That’s right. It’s called ‘N.E.M.E.S.I.S.,’ one of the early models of the R.P.M. series. It seems it has been quietly ruling this entire village from behind your back, Placia.”
“That’s honestly not important. What’s important right now is that it dared to try and rape Chanwoo’s body!”
The final boss of the Underground Village had finally revealed itself. Looking up at the main body of N.E.M.E.S.I.S., whose attached monitors were flickering erratically as if its emotion circuits were malfunctioning, we slowly prepared for battle.
[Foolish. Even if you have restricted some of my movements, you intend to face me, an early R.P.M. model, with just two androids?]
In a head-on fight, it would normally be impossible. But we had a track record of overcoming the impossible twice already. Two Queen-class monsters. Battles where we lightly brushed past death. And I, who had been pickled in that recklessness for a staggering 20,000 hours, tried to quietly summon my game controller with familiar fingertips.
But.
“Wait.”
“Yeah?”
“Huh?”
Revi stopped the situation.
“Before that... there’s something we need to settle.”
“Settle?”
“What kind of calculation are you talking about in this situation?”
Like a user sitting down to rest at a save point right before a boss fight, Revi turned around leisurely. She pushed Serika, who was standing next to her, to the front line and tossed the blade she was holding to her.
“Here, take this.”
“...Why are you giving this to me?”
“Because I was on the front line in the last battle. So this time, you have to do it. That’s the only way the balance will be right, isn’t it?”
“Huh?!”
“Re, Revi...?”
Serika was a sniper, clearly a rear-line position. I wondered what on earth she was thinking, putting her on the front line.
“Anyway, whoever stands on the front line, the performance is the same if the control is good. Right? Chanwoo.”
“Uh... that’s true, but.”
Since that was the intention from the start, it didn’t matter which android I controlled. But...
“So you’re saying you’ll shoot from the rear, Revi?”
“No.”
I was momentarily stunned by her next answer.
“I plan to provide Chanwoo’s support, that is, ‘cock support,’ just like Serika did before.”
“Huh?”
“...What?”
“By sucking it with my mouth.”
Revi’s gaze turned to my lower body. She raised the corners of her mouth slightly, as if she had been aiming for this timing from the beginning.
“Hey, is now the time to say something like that?!”
Right before the battle, Revi had suddenly declared a sensual contact with her mouth. Serika was shocked, but Revi glared at her with sharp eyes instead.
“Then, is it okay that you were quietly jerking off Chanwoo’s cock while I was fighting the monster last time?”
“Th, that’s...!”
At those words, the two of us held our breath. We couldn’t refute it because it was clearly true.
“Don’t you think so too, Chanwoo?”
Revi slowly knelt before me, as if she had made a quiet resolution. The moment her fingertips brushed my pants’ waistband and went down.
Faster than the wind, a hot and heavy sensation popped out on the back of her hand. The shape of an unbearable instinct that had been suppressed for 10 days. My cock, fully engorged, popped out regardless of my will, trembling as if vibrating in front of her eyes.
“Then Revi... don’t tell me, the reason you made me stop masturbating all this time was...!”
“Yes. Someone is fighting and bleeding under the threat of death, and it was so annoying to see someone getting a handjob in the back, so I just acted a bit spiteful.”
...That’s too much.
No, it really was too much, but it was also true that I had nothing to say. Because that was 100% my fault. I was the one who was bad for pursuing pleasure so much during battle. But it seemed she was going to forgive that anger today.
“Then really... am I standing on the front line?”
“Serika. I’ll control you well. Don’t worry.”
“Uuu... I trust you. But I’m not used to the front line...”
Serika dropped her head in tears, and at that moment, N.E.M.E.S.I.S. erupted with a warning.
[Genetic anomaly detected. Human male’s core resources are being wasted. Warning. The white-haired android has no ownership rights to said resources.]
But Revi lightly ignored that warning. Soon, she stuck her lips out slightly, like a predator salivating before a long-awaited reward. Warm breath caressed the area around the glans first, followed by a shy kiss. It was a sensation that was soft, hot, and seemed to want to quench a very long thirst.
“Then... I’ll leave it to you. Mr. Cock.”
Mwah♡