Chapter 24. If I keep going like this, it's going to explode.
Chapter 24. If I keep going like this, it's going to explode.
I don't know if Lim Seo-yoon really went into hiding like this. It's only been a day. If Lim Seo-yoon doesn't show up tomorrow, a situation might unfold where I'd really have to scout for another woman.
Even though my heart was breaking, a part of me thought it might be for the best. Lim Seo-yoon was a woman with two vaginas. One of them was at eye level, which made it hard to know where to look, and since I was under a sex ban from Choi Yeon-ju, I couldn't touch her as much as I wanted anyway.
It was only natural to think that it would be better to do something with a woman after the modification of my penis was finished.
Choi Yeon-ju, who had been cursing at me yesterday saying that Lim Seo-yoon was finished, was sitting in the living room facing me, despite the fact that it was almost time for work.
"Aren't you going to work?"
"I have something to convey regarding Lim Seo-yoon, so I have no choice."
"You can do that tomorrow. Lim Seo-yoon will come after you've gone to work anyway. After you get off work today is fine, too."
"I'm doing this because you're stupid, so I can't guarantee you'll listen if I say it once. And do you not remember what we talked about yesterday? It's absurd that you seem to think Lim Seo-yoon will definitely come tomorrow."
That's mean.
I became sullen.
Choi Yeon-ju started saying what she had to say, whether I cared or not.
"For now, I will look into whether there are other suitable women. But if Lim Seo-yoon comes tomorrow, then use the same amount of Goblin fluid as the first time."
"Huh?"
"I mean, don't reduce it, use the amount you put in at first."
"Wouldn't that be a disaster? She might faint."
"Hmph. You really are a person who is stupid beyond imagination."
Choi Yeon-ju snorted at my question. Just from that action alone, I felt anxious, thinking, 'Did I do something wrong?'
Is this hypnosis, too?
Whenever she does that, I just feel anxious.
"Do you not remember what you said yesterday? What was it? That vulgar and..."
"'Vulgar and lewd teacher's breast pussy smelling training'?"
"...That's right. That."
Choi Yeon-ju nods with a look of disgust. She looked at me as if I were a subhuman creature. The gaze of contempt and hatred piercing me...
I felt wronged.
"I didn't name that."
"Don't tell me Lim Seo-yoon named it?"
"Yeah."
Choi Yeon-ju looked like she couldn't believe it, but that training name wasn't a lie; it was really the name Lim Seo-yoon had come up with. After all, Lim Seo-yoon was the one who had clearly said she wanted to do that training all day long.
I was only guilty of calling her cleavage a breast pussy.
Choi Yeon-ju opened her eyes wide as if it were unexpected, then quickly fell into thought. I wanted to ask, 'It's time for work, is it okay for you to be so relaxed?', but suddenly the thought crossed my mind that this woman was a laboratory director. Even when I worked as a cleaner for the Association, the cleaning manager came to work late. That was the power of a cleaning manager.
Since she's a laboratory director, they said no one could say anything even if she skipped work as she pleased, so this amount of delay would probably be seen as just a cute quirk.
While I was thinking, Choi Yeon-ju finished organizing her thoughts quickly, nodded a few times while going "Hmm, hmm," and opened her mouth.
"Then the situation might be even better. It seems faster training will be possible than I thought."
"Really? How long do you think it will take?"
"If it's fast, a female slave of the desired quality will be born within half a year."
"Half a year, if it's fast...?"
Is that fast...?
I definitely didn't ask out loud, but Choi Yeon-ju saw my expression and frowned deeply. Now she could figure out what I was thinking just by looking at my expression. Well, the same went for me.
Because I could see through every expression Choi Yeon-ju made when she thought I was pathetic.
Anyway, I thought it was a wash.
"At least until yesterday, Lim Seo-yoon was properly immersed in the role of 'Teacher'. Not only did I place a suggestion for her to feel sexual pleasure whenever she heard the word 'Teacher', but she also ingested Goblin fluid, so she must have developed sexual desire as well."
"So?"
"So yesterday, that vulgar breast smelling training..."
"'Vulgar and lewd teacher's breast pussy smelling training'?"
"...Can't you just understand when I talk about it roughly? Do you really have to correct it like that?"
Choi Yeon-ju scolded me, but I had absolutely no intention of just letting it slide. That training was one that Lim Seo-yoon had personally named. How happy I was because of that yesterday. I could never let the name of that training be spoken carelessly. That training was one that should be in a textbook.
"So?"
"It was like that until yesterday, but since the effect of the fluid has worn off, she must be flustered. It's highly likely she thinks she got swept up in the atmosphere and did something nonsensical. And you drove the nail in. Because you fired off an absurd, pathetic flirtation, not knowing your place, saying you wanted to do the same training when she came next time."
"...Knowing my place...?"
"Do you think Lim Seo-yoon did that because she was attracted to your face, body, or, by any chance, your character? The atmosphere was erotic, and she wasn't in her right mind due to drugs and suggestion, so she ended up getting swept away. You're the one who couldn't grasp that and spouted bullshit, even though you said she was so embarrassed when it ended."
"......"
"I wish you would think calmly about why we are going through all this trouble to feed her fluid and place suggestions. If you were the universe's most handsome man, would you have done this? There are tons of women who would spread their legs if you just went and said 'Hey, spread 'em.' No, wait, you wouldn't have even asked me to hypnotize you to show me your vagina in the first place. Because women who would spread for you just by you saying the word would be lining up and pulling numbers. The universe's most handsome man doesn't need female slaves. Because every woman on Earth is practically a female slave from birth. Ah. Except for lesbians. Those women might think of you as a rival and grind their teeth."
Her words flew into my heart and pierced it like a dagger.
Choi Yeon-ju insisted.
"If she doesn't come, she probably won't come ever again, and if she does come, it will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If Lim Seo-yoon visits this time, feed her the Goblin fluid and do that training with the absurd name..."
"'Vulgar and lewd teacher's breast pussy smelling training'"
"...Anyway, while doing that, touch her vagina and make her faint."
"Is it okay to touch her vagina?"
"Yes. Rather, you must do that. Because you can deeply imprint the suggestion while she is fainted."
"What about sex?"
"That is not allowed."
My mood, which felt like it was about to soar to the sky, fell into the abyss.
Choi Yeon-ju, seeing me sullen, said she needed to make medicine in preparation for when Lim Seo-yoon comes, and left the mansion. It seemed she intended to secretly make it at the Association and bring it.
The living room instantly became quiet. I felt like I had been left alone.
If you asked me if I was lonely, that wasn't it. Because I was so, so happy right now, not working and just playing.
Since they said I didn't have to enter the gate for a while, I was content to just proudly play the part of an unemployed person.
So, I turned on the TV first.
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Yesterday, she had written a dark history so embarrassing that she couldn't even lift her head. Lim Seo-yoon, who had entered a nearby gate alone, kicked at the air by herself because of the memories of yesterday that kept coming back to her whenever she had nothing to do.
"If I die, will Byeong-jin-ssi come to my funeral...?"
Surprisingly, she was thinking the exact same thing as Seong Byeong-jin. However, her situation was better than Byeong-jin's. Unlike Byeong-jin, who was an orphan, she had parents who would hold a funeral for her. It could be seen as a completely different ending from Seong Byeong-jin, who was guaranteed to end up as an unclaimed body if he died.
However, even while suffering from such shame, in a corner of her heart, she kept thinking about the lewd situation from yesterday that felt like it would make her lose her mind. This was natural. The thing that happened with Seong Byeong-jin yesterday was the first sexual simulation she had ever experienced in her life. As they say, seeing is believing; it was natural that one instance of sexual simulation would be more powerful than a hundred porn videos. Lim Seo-yoon still couldn't forget yesterday, and she had a premonition that she wouldn't be able to forget it even when she died.
"Things I only saw in porn really happened... So a porn-like atmosphere really can be created..."
It wasn't true at all, but Lim Seo-yoon, who didn't know that, walked along the forest path, recalling what happened yesterday, and made a dreamy expression. It was definitely a memory that would make her kick her blankets in her sleep, but it was also true that the amount of arousal fluid she had leaked from her vagina was an amount she had never seen in her life. Yesterday, she had been so excited that she was worried she might get a nosebleed.
Naturally recalling yesterday, Lim Seo-yoon remembered what Byeong-jin had said before she left the mansion. The request to come again next time. The request to receive the same lesson.
Choi Yeon-ju, who had heard the same lines through Byeong-jin's explanation, had told Byeong-jin that it seemed they should give up on Lim Seo-yoon, but Lim Seo-yoon was a person who was hard to see as the typical woman Choi Yeon-ju had thought of and expected.
Lim Seo-yoon, who learned her sexual knowledge from porn and believed it to be true, found it too regrettable to give up this situation and return to normal. It was because she couldn't guess when such a situation would happen to her again.
"Ah. It's a goblin."
While she was thinking about Seong Byeong-jin and debating whether or not to go to the mansion tomorrow, two goblins popped out on the path she was walking on. Lim Seo-yoon immediately took a stance and raised her weapon. No matter how troubled Lim Seo-yoon was by what happened yesterday, she was one of the hunters capable of solo play. It meant she was maintaining the necessary amount of tension inside the gate.
Lim Seo-yoon immediately cast Sensory Amplification on herself, seeing the goblins that spotted her and came running. Then, she loaded a steel ball into her main weapon, a slingshot, and pulled the string. The interval between discovery, aiming, and firing, powered by Sensory Amplification, was so swift and accurate that it was meaningless to distinguish them. If someone had been watching from the side, they would have believed it if they said she shot as soon as the goblin popped out.
Ppak!
"Kek!"
The head of one goblin that had spotted Lim Seo-yoon and was trying to run at her snapped back with a chilling tearing sound. Then it didn't move. A properly made slingshot had the power to embed itself into a skull at close range. Let alone a slingshot made of orc tendons, which couldn't possibly be weaker than that. Her slingshot had the power to penetrate the skull of a goblin if she had been just a little closer.
With one left, it was an easy win. Lim Seo-yoon retracted the ability cast on herself and instead cast the ability on the running goblin.
At maximum output.
"Keeeeek!"
The goblin that had been running across the forest stopped its fierce run and rolled forward. Then it couldn't get up. It was because immense pain had surged over it. The touch of small branches brushing against its body would be comparable to the pain of being whipped. When a small pebble hidden in the bushes caught its skin, it would feel pain like being stung by a bee. The weeds growing here and there were the same. Since it felt like being cut by a razor every time it brushed against its skin, unless it was a monster like a golem that had no sensory organs at all, there were many times when it would die of shock without any other attacks when Lim Seo-yoon's ability was properly cast.
"Stay still~"
Lim Seo-yoon, who had leisurely gotten a little closer to the goblin, aimed her slingshot. Since she had retracted the ability she had cast on herself, and the goblin under Sensory Amplification was going crazy and rolling on the ground, it inevitably took longer than the first time she aimed.
But really, in this situation, the aim didn't need to be precise. When she cast the ability on herself, it was right to aim for a headshot to go for a one-hit kill, but when she cast it on the opponent, there was no particular problem even if she shot anywhere.
When she released the string, a small 1.5cm diameter steel ball flew at a speed invisible to the eye and embedded itself in the goblin's back. The goblin that had been going crazy stopped in its tracks, forgetting that it had been rolling around as if it had been struck by lightning, then soon trembled and went limp. It had died of shock after feeling pain that far exceeded its threshold in a short amount of time.
"Hmm..."
Lim Seo-yoon easily disposed of the two goblins and fell into thought. She wasn't thinking about the goblins that had suddenly popped out. It was natural for goblins to appear in the forest terrain of a gate in the first place.
Rather than that, the training with Seong Byeong-jin tomorrow was a more important concern for her.
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"If it was going to be like this, wouldn't it have been better to have made Lim Seo-yoon the first target?"
Lee Si-woo looked at the blue-haired woman who was expressing her dissatisfaction to him with a frustrated expression. Then he sighed. It was because he thought it was the right thing to say, even in his own opinion.
The blue-haired woman. Seong Ha-na exploded with anger at Dr. Choi Yeon-ju's requirements, which were pickier than she thought.
"Swamp Blue Frog and Orc, I'll let that slide. But Iron Lizard is a monster that's hard to even find..."
"The problem is the time, expenses, and fatigue to travel there. The difficulty of the Orc and Iron Lizard is also considerable."
"If we had recruited Lim Seo-yoon first, it wouldn't have been such a difficult task."
"Calm down. I didn't know that woman Choi Yeon-ju would make such demands either. You're the same. Bringing up hypotheticals now only creates discord. And Lim Seo-yoon is a solo player. It's not easy to meet her."
At Lee Si-woo's words, Seong Ha-na tried to calm down after exploding with anger. She thought, no matter how much of a genius scientist she was, wasn't this going too far? Even Lee Si-woo said he was fleeced for donations as soon as he entered, so she felt she could tell without seeing her how calculating and gloomy a woman she must be.
"When are the other crew members coming?"
"I called them, so they'll come as soon as possible. I thought we wouldn't enter the gate until the work was finished. It looks like we'll end up going back in after all."
"It will take a long time, right?"
"The gate where the Swamp Blue Frog inhabits is in Chuncheon, and the Orc is fortunately in Sejong City, but the distance to travel inside the gate is quite long. The gate where the Iron Lizard was spotted is in Pocheon."
"How much do we have to run around..."
It's a route that makes your motivation disappear when you think about the schedule. Seong Ha-na was the person who had shouted from the beginning that they should bring Lim Seo-yoon into the organization before Dr. Choi Yeon-ju. It was because Lim Seo-yoon was a quite special solo player. Most Awakened who can enter a gate alone and survive are Physical Enhancement type ability users. Because they are superhumans who can beat an Orc to death with their bare hands in a one-on-one fight.
However, even they can only survive, and most of them often work as a crew. Because hunting by entering a gate alone is not very efficient even for them. For example, even a Physical Enhancement ability user whose wallet situation is not good right now often considers manual labor rather than thinking about entering a gate alone to do solo play.
An ability user who can earn a meaningful income through solo play. Lim Seo-yoon is one of them. If she had joined the organization, the crew, first, monsters like Orcs or Iron Lizards wouldn't have been anything to worry about.
Lee Si-woo smiled bitterly while looking at Seong Ha-na, who was sitting on the sofa with a frown as if she didn't like it. Then he approached and stroked her hair as she was frowning. Feeling Lee Si-woo's large hand placed on her head, Seong Ha-na entrusted her head to his touch.
"Don't be frustrated. It's a matter of time anyway. Anyway, the probability that the plan we are going to execute will fail is close to zero."
"Is it really true that Dr. Choi Yeon-ju is coming to our side?"
"She will definitely come in. If we plant the conviction that the Hunter Act will be revised and that Lim Seo-yoon will join as a crew member, she'll have to come in even if she hates it."
"That's why, starting with Lim Seo-yoon..."
"That is definitely our mistake."
"Don't include me."
Seong Ha-na snapped. Since she had reason to feel wronged, Lee Si-woo couldn't help but smile bitterly and pat her shoulder.