Chapter 39. It keeps getting tangled.
Chapter 39. It keeps getting tangled.
Im Da-eun was much stronger than I had thought. And yet, she was weak.
It might sound a bit strange, but while clearing gates with Im Da-eun, it felt like I couldn't help but feel that way.
"Fighting is all about senses, right? What I do is just mindless punching and kicking."
"But if they get hit, they die."
"That's true. My strength is much higher, after all."
Im Da-eun said that and flexed her arm to show off a bicep. Not that you could see it through her leather jacket anyway. She had a healthy physique, but it was slender, so she didn't look muscular or anything.
Not bulky, but slim and firm, right?
She had such a healthy body that it looked like she'd ride on top in a cowgirl position and suck the life out of you.
So damn hot.
It was just as Im Da-eun said. Even to my eyes, she wasn't very good at fighting. Is it even right to call it combat right now? Anyway, it was more accurate to see it as her having much harder and more powerful strength than others, but not being able to use it properly.
It was the same against Goblins. She obviously had the ability to easily kill any number of Goblins, but once there were more than two, she would inevitably allow an attack. There was absolutely no action of sensing and dodging attacks coming from behind or from the side. Maybe she just ignored them because it didn't even tickle when a Goblin hit her, but Im Da-eun smiled sheepishly and told me this.
"When an attack comes in, I just can't get a feel for how to dodge it. Same goes for attacking."
I didn't know the Sensory Dulling was to this extent. Im Da-eun is just uncoordinated. And it's not because she's lazy and doesn't train, but because she's uncoordinated due to Sensory Dulling. Her attacks are clumsy too. Her punches looked like pitter-patter punches, and if you look closely at that exhilarating front kick, it's no different from the front kicks women usually throw while pretending to be cute.
It's just that if they get hit, they die.
"I wasn't always like this, you know. I received proper combat training, and I can fight if I want to, but I just can't control my body. Since I lack the senses, I've just lost confidence in my actions. Because the balance is off..."
Im Da-eun said she had never fought with all her might before. She couldn't bring herself to strike with full force. Since her senses were acting up, she didn't have faith in her own body. I never imagined it would be such a huge penalty.
"I once tried running with all my might during crew activities. It was when I was fighting an Orc, and I ended up jumping too far and left the battlefield."
"That's serious."
"Yeah... Anyway, that might be why the repair costs are higher. I might kick off to dodge an attack, but if I can't control my strength, I might end up body-checking a crew member. I don't care, but what crime did the crew member commit? They could die with all their bones shattered, right?"
"If they aren't a Physical Enhancement Ability User, they're no different from an ordinary person, right?"
"They might get a little, very little bit stronger, but it's not significant. A scrawny Awakened can't beat a gym rat in strength. Unless they're a Physical Enhancement Ability User."
I nodded at Im Da-eun's words. In the meantime, a Goblin appeared, but as soon as Im Da-eun spotted it, she ran over leisurely and finished it off in an instant with a clumsy uppercut and a front kick.
The scene of the Goblin floating into the air after getting hit in the stomach by the uppercut looked like something out of a cartoon, so it felt surreal.
After easily dealing with the Goblin and returning to my side, Im Da-eun complained with a drained expression.
"Punching is harder than you'd think. Goblins are fine to just swing at randomly, but against monsters heavier and harder than me, attacks where I strike down from above are dangerous."
"Why?"
"Because I go flying. Since I struck down from above, I end up floating in the air due to the recoil. It doesn't matter if they get hit and die, but the moment they endure it, I can't dodge the monster's attack either."
It seems even Physical Enhancement Ability Users have their struggles.
Though, surely not as hard as mine.
"By the way, you've collected a lot of herbs, huh? Your ability to find herbs is truly amazing."
Im Da-eun opened my bag and whistled at the amount of herbs I had collected. Every time this happened, it felt like only my heart was pounding. Whether it was because of her easygoing personality or because her senses were dull, I don't know, but the distance between her and other people was closer than I thought. She didn't even hesitate to lean her head on my shoulder to look inside the bag.
If the distance is that close, a virgin would die from their balls exploding.
Since I was a virgin too, every time Im Da-eun did this, my balls were trembling as if they were about to explode.
The reason my balls hadn't exploded yet was likely thanks to the training I had been doing with Lim Seo-yoon so far.
If I didn't even have that, I might have died from my balls exploding.
"I guess I have a talent for finding herbs, more than I thought."
"Those Goblins could make a little money if you dismantle them somehow, but..."
"They aren't monsters that are worth the effort. I think it's right for us to boldly give up on that."
There's no need to do the Goblin penis cutting anymore. Because that modification was finished, for one. As Choi Yeon-ju said, Goblin penises were a part that could be sold if you took them out. However, since there are few uses for them and they are the most populous, they aren't that expensive.
The herbs are even more expensive, so that says it all.
There's no way a crazy person would grab a penis and start cutting unless they were truly desperate for that little bit of money.
I had no intention of touching a Goblin's penis with my own hands ever again.
Im Da-eun nodded as well.
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"Ah... aaah... hng... hng-uuu..."
Lim Seo-yoon was sweating profusely inside her officetel, stroking her pussy. She couldn't bring herself to put her fingers into the vaginal opening, but she could feel the sweet pleasure rising just from rubbing her clitoris.
"Ugh... I'm... I'm coming..."
Lim Seo-yoon arched her back at the sensation welling up from within. Her body shuddered. Her vaginal fluid came out like a flood, but it was far from the dramatic orgasm where she sprayed squirt like at the mansion last time.
Zar-r-r. Pleasure washed over her body like waves. Along with the thrill of being thrown off a cliff, goosebumps rose all over her. Her erect clitoris boasted its presence alone above Lim Seo-yoon's innocent-looking pussy.
"Hoo... hu-aaa... ha-woo..."
Her body, which had been trembling on the bed, went limp. Her breath was short. She didn't know how many times this was. Lim Seo-yoon lay on the bed, drained of all energy, and turned her head to look at the clock. Three in the afternoon.
Lim Seo-yoon looked tearful.
"I have to go to the Gate... ugh..."
But it was already too late. As the saying goes, a thief who learns late doesn't know when to stop at night; ever since she returned from the mansion yesterday, Lim Seo-yoon had been obsessed with masturbation. Now, her clitoris was even starting to hurt.
Lim Seo-yoon recalled how she ended up like this. At first, it was nothing. She had gone to the mansion with the intention of pulling herself together and properly training Byeong-jin, but in the end, it was she who got excited at the sound of being called 'Teacher'. Thanks to that, she had lost her mind all day, and even though her student was sitting on her lap, she shoved her face in, enjoying it.
She came to her senses only after the promised training time was over and ran away, but it was natural for the ignited impulse to want relief. Lim Seo-yoon, who returned straight to her officetel, threw off all her clothes and fell asleep while touching her pussy. She hadn't even eaten properly because she was masturbating.
There was one problem. Even though she masturbated so diligently, it was impossible to feel the pleasure that made her faint while squirting from just one touch of Byeong-jin's hand at the mansion before. The memory of that day, where she had come so spectacularly that it was embarrassing to even look at his face, remained branded in Lim Seo-yoon's mind. There was no way such an intense memory would disappear.
Since Lim Seo-yoon couldn't even imagine that the immense climax was an artificial one caused by Goblin fluid and hypnosis, her masturbation was bound to continue until she felt that intense sensation. The fact that no matter how much she climaxed, it wasn't enough, was a bigger deal than she thought.
Pleasure has a threshold. It's like how the more you are exposed to alcohol and cigarettes, the more you seek them out. There was no way Lim Seo-yoon, who had already tasted that grand climax, could be satisfied with a climax that couldn't even fill half of it.
The result could be explained by the current appearance of Lim Seo-yoon, who was skipping the Gate and immersing herself in masturbation.
Lim Seo-yoon was an Awakened so great that other Awakened felt it was absurd. The ability of Sensory Amplification itself was like that. No matter how strong the monster was, as long as it wasn't a non-living monster like a Golem, there was no way to beat Lim Seo-yoon one-on-one.
She is an Awakened who doesn't need high attack power separately. When tanks risk their lives to catch Orcs solo, she hunts monsters that should be caught by a crew unit alone in deeper, more dangerous places. The money she earns from one Gate run is equivalent to the income of a decent crew.
Thanks to that, Lim Seo-yoon was an Awakened who could enjoy a relaxed life while holding a thick bank account despite being a solo player, but that meant, conversely, that if she didn't go to the Gate for a day, she would suffer a massive loss compared to other Awakened.
Knowing this well, Lim Seo-yoon gave up on the Gate and masturbated all day.
"What do I do..."
Lim Seo-yoon was anxious. Skipping the Gate for a day was a more shocking event for her than she thought. However, it wasn't like Lim Seo-yoon would immediately go bankrupt just because she skipped a day. The loss was massive, but it didn't mean it would cause serious problems in her life.
The reason Lim Seo-yoon was anxious was for another reason. It was because of herself, who, while knowing that giving up the Gate for masturbation like this was not the right thing to do, was thinking that she wished the class with Byeong-jin tomorrow would come quickly.
Lim Seo-yoon was most anxious about herself, who was excited and looking forward to the training tomorrow.
"I might really be a pervert..."