Survival Exam (4)

"...Rumi?"

Rumi pushed through the undergrowth and stumbled out, her cadet uniform torn in a dozen places. The instant her eyes found mine, her face lit up and she came running.

"P-please help me... Hoyeon."

"Huh? Ah... get inside that tent. I'll call you when it's over."

"Thank youuu..."

I started to wonder what she meant — then I sensed two mana signatures coming from the bushes she'd just left. Understanding the situation, I hid her.

Footsteps came crashing through the grass, and two male cadets burst out.

"She's here...! Huh?"

"Wh-what? Why is Lee Hoyeon here?!"

The cadets who'd been chasing Rumi froze the moment they ran into me, glancing around in confusion.

"Hey, guys. Nice to see you."

I felt like ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠I'd seen them somewhere before, but they weren't familiar enough to be from Class A. I greeted them while drawing up my mana at the same time. No point wasting words on guys who'd been trying to jump Rumi.

Chains of flame erupted from the ground and surged toward the two of them. I caught one, but the other backflipped out of the way.

"Gyaaah...! It's hot!"

"Ah, you dumbass. How do you get caught by that?"

The cadet with the sword who'd escaped my chains glanced ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠around, then sighed and charged at me. Guess he didn't want to abandon his friend.

"Bad call."

If he'd just run, at least one of them would've made it. I casually slipped past the incoming blade and drove a mana-coated fist into his gut as a counter.

"Guh..."

It must have landed pretty hard — he dropped his sword and crumpled to the ground. I snatched the smartwatch off the cadet bound in flame chains, then took the one from his friend, who was still clutching his stomach on the dirt.

"Y-you cheap bastard... We're supposed to be friends and you still pull this shit?! I'm going to make this public...!"

The cadet with burns from the flame chains was screaming his head off.

"...You two ganged up on her first."

"Huh?"

His eyes went wide. He clearly hadn't thought of that.

"Just go get yourselves treated."

I entered their smartwatches and took their points. They'd said losing your points meant instant elimination — both of them teleported away. Must have been sent to the elimination zone.

"Rumi. You can come out now."

"Th-thank you."

Rumi stumbled out of the tent.

Her condition was a mess. This was probably how most of the cadets were doing. Things would get a little better once the supply crates started dropping tomorrow, but you'd still have to fight for them, so it wouldn't be much easier.

"You already ate all your emergency rations?"

"W-well... the cadets I ran into took them..."

"Aigoo..."

She couldn't fight, so she'd been offering up her rations as tribute just to survive. I held out my own emergency rations to her.

"Eat this at least. It's late, so just fill your stomach and get some sleep. I'll cook you a proper meal in the morning."

"I-I'm fine."

"I've got plenty of food, so don't be polite. Eat."

Only then did Rumi start devouring my chocolate bar and eggs. Watching her chew with her cheeks stuffed full of egg, she looked just like a squirrel eating an acorn.

"Come in when you're done."

In the meantime, I went into the tent and prepared the bedding. Good thing I'd bought a spacious tent. I spread the blanket wide enough for Rumi to sleep beside me.

"Haaawn—"

I set up the pillows and lay down waiting for her, but sleep didn't seem like it was coming anytime soon. If I just lie here, I'll drift off eventually.

Rumi came in shortly after.

"Lie down next to me."

"O-okay..."

Rumi awkwardly lay down beside me... and started unzipping my pants.

"Wait wait wait. Rumi, we're in the middle of an exam?"

"Uh, ah...? I-I'm sorry. You told me to eat and come in, so I thought you wanted..."

"...I just meant come in and go to sleep."

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."

"It's fine. Let's sleep."

"O-okay... I'm sorry."

That caught me off guard. Why did all the heroines jump straight to that conclusion? Let's just sleep.

"..."

"..."

This awkward atmosphere. Sleep wasn't happening. A beautiful girl I could have anytime was lying right next to me, and she wanted it too. Once I registered that, the second brain between my legs refused to let me sleep.

"Rumi. Just once...? We're secret friends, after all."

"Yes... because we're secret friends..."

I'd used the drones as an excuse not to bring Liliana, and now I was having sex on the very first night. Felt a little bad about that.

I wrapped the tent in a Rune Barrier. The drones wouldn't come inside the tent, but better safe than sorry.

We both knew what was happening, so I just pulled my pants down a little and Rumi hiked up her skirt.

"Get on."

"O-okay..."

Rumi's face flushed as she started rubbing her pussy against my rock-hard cock. It was her first time putting it in herself, so she was having a hard time getting it in.

"Hold my cock with your hand and guide it in. That'll keep it steady so it goes in easier."

"Ah... okay."

Rumi gripped the shaft with one hand and slowly lowered herself down.

"Nnhhh... mmn."

Then she started rocking her hips up and down.

"Ahn... nnhhh. Haaahn..."

Rumi's slow, clumsy hip movements felt good, but they were frustrating at the same time.

"I-I'm sorry, Hoyeon... it's my first time so I can't... nnh... hnnn..."

She must have read my expression, because she apologized first. I just pulled her torso down against my chest, grabbed her ass, and started thrusting up into her myself.

"Ahk... w-wait... Hoyeon..."

"We don't have time. We need to finish quick and sleep."

"Ah. Aaahn... but... hick? Hieeeeut! Aaahn!"

I felt her pussy loosen up enough and drove my cock in to the hilt. Her tight walls squeezed around me as her womb pressed against the head. I pistoned into her fast, tapping against her womb with every thrust. Each time, her juices splattered out and her pussy clenched, stimulating my cock. Lewd moans spilled from her mouth.

"Rumi. The way you're squeezing me is no joke. Is it because we're ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠doing it in a tent?"

"N-no... mmm. I just like it...!"

"I'm gonna cum soon."

The urge to climax was building. I needed to finish and get to sleep so I could start tomorrow.

"Y-yeees... haahn. Cum deep inside me...♡"

"Don't worry."

Thump— thump—

Rumi's pussy clenched hard around my cock, working to milk out my cum. Every time the head kissed her womb, it dropped a little lower, giving me a soft, velvety stimulation.

"Haaah... aaaahn... i-it feels good. So good... ahn..."

Her pussy twitched on the verge of climax, stimulating my cock—

I started cumming against her womb. One hand gripped her ass tight while the other held her torso in place, our bodies pressed flush together as I emptied myself completely.

"Haaaaaahn..."

The moment I finished, exhaustion and drowsiness hit me all at once.

"Rumi... let's just sleep."

"Okay. Just like this..."

We'd clean up when we woke up. We closed our eyes with my cock still buried inside her. Rumi lying on top of me was so light I could barely feel her weight. The warm sensation of her pussy wrapped around my spent cock felt nice.

It'd be a little messy down there when we woke up, but I had Clean magic, and we could always wash... The Rune Barrier was still holding steady. It'll hold until morning, right? My mana was running a little close... ah, whatever.

I drifted off just like that.

Elise kept walking.

She'd gone to sleep on an empty stomach like she was fleeing something, so of course her body wasn't in good shape. Even the sturdiest Awakened still felt fatigue the same as anyone else.

Elise had been following Lee Hoyeon's location coordinates when they suddenly vanished, throwing her off.

"What...?"

The device flickered, and Hoyeon's coordinates reappeared in the same spot. She was about to write it off as an error when the coordinates vanished again.

"...I should go check it out."

She didn't think Hoyeon had been eliminated. It was either a glitch, or possibly a barrier. Elise doubted there was a barrier capable of blocking the Academy's tracking technology, but after witnessing Hoyeon's reverse-engineering talent and learning about his promiscuous private life, she'd decided to suspect everything.

She followed the river upstream and arrived at the location of Hoyeon's last coordinates. A single tent sat there, all by itself. She peeked through a slightly open gap — nobody was inside.

This was Hoyeon's last known location. He'd stayed here since morning without moving, then suddenly vanished, leaving only the tent behind.

"...Suspicious."

Elise drew up the last handful of mana she had left. Only then did something about the tent start to feel off. It was a barrier far beyond her own level.

A cadet-level mage normally wouldn't even be able to detect a Rune Barrier. But Hoyeon had been asleep, leaving the barrier on autopilot for hours, and it had grown unstable. Combined with Elise's world-class talent for barriers and reverse-engineering — and the vanished coordinates that had already convinced her something was wrong here — she examined the tent even more carefully.

With all these factors stacking at once, Elise managed to pierce through the Rune Barrier. A shimmering mana membrane became visible to her eyes. If she stepped through that membrane, Hoyeon ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠would notice her.

Elise peeked through the open gap in the tent. And there she found a female cadet with her skirt hiked up, her sex connected to Lee Hoyeon's.

"......?"

Elise's breath caught at the lewd sight — something she'd never seen in her life — and she pulled her face back from the tent. Then she looked again, properly this time.

She couldn't see the girl's face from this angle, but that petite frame belonged to one of the Lucy-Rumi twins. And with the black hair and the red ribbon hair tie, that was Rumi.

Elise swallowed.

It was the first time in her life she'd seen a man's thing, but the sight of Hoyeon's buried inside Rumi was strangely arousing. That white fluid leaking from Rumi's sex was definitely semen.

D-doing that even during the exam...

Elise lowered her evaluation of Hoyeon once again. And yet, strangely, she couldn't look away.

Until Hoyeon stirred and stretched, Elise couldn't take her eyes off his cock.