Chapter 40
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 40
Chapter Title: Academy's Summer Vacation (9)
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Craving born from deprivation becomes the driving force of growth.
So, to make me grow, she deliberately created a deficiency—a girlfriend, a breakup—and that's what this was all about.
If I'd done something wrong to Seo Yeon, it was that I couldn't even look her straight in the eye out of sheer intimidation. But in the end, she was the one who first suggested breaking up, leaving me in the position of having to take her back.
So, seeing Seo Yeon shedding tears, I decided to think about something else entirely.
Craving from deprivation, acquiring skills through repeated behaviors— that too could be seen as a result of yearning for a skill you lacked, acting on it, and obtaining it.
A desire for higher realms leads to acquiring even stronger skills.
I'd obtained skills through what could be called the convenient method of quests.
At the very least, that was true for Survival Rules.
In a zombie apocalypse world, I'd survived six days and raised an A-rank skill from the ground up.
With the somewhat complacent thought of just surviving until I could release the possession and return, I'd climbed to B-rank by the time I made it out alive.
At the end, when I thought I wanted to defeat—kill—that evolved zombie, to protect Na-eun, the quest rewarded me first.
And that's how Survival Instinct A-rank appeared, with its new effect: Savior.
So, it wasn't entirely wrong to say that desire to fill a void becomes the driving force of growth.
But Yoo Sian's body was clearly different from others.
From the moment I first got the Possession skill, every action I took as Yoo Sian seemed to prevent me from acquiring ordinary skills.
Even when I did gain them, only mental ones related to possession would strengthen; for the others, I could feel the Status Window's intent pushing me to fetch them from below.
"Hic... Hwaaaang..."
As I quietly sorted through my thoughts, Seo Yeon suddenly burst into loud sobs.
She wiped at her tears with her small hands, but they wouldn't stop.
"What do you have to be so proud of? Stop crying."
"Hic..."
She'd thanked me for the healing, but deciding on her own to break up and then coming back to reunite didn't sit right with me.
If I were asked if I hated Seo Yeon for it, no, I still liked her. But it was true that when I was madly grinding through the Goblin Dungeon, focused on growth, she hadn't crossed my mind.
"Growth through deprivation. Thinking it over again, it does seem to have some effect."
At those words, Seo Yeon, who had barely held back her tears, flinched.
"I won't get revenge on you. Honestly, that thought never crossed my mind. Clearly, I wasn't growing after coming to Global Academy, so you must've listened to some weird friend and acted on it. You were thinking of me in your own way, and it was hard on you too. Right?"
Seo Yeon nodded silently.
"Until I found a way to resolve the possession, I couldn't live properly for about a week. But looking back, we'd been drifting apart ever since I came to Global Academy. Maybe breaking up like this is the right thing."
Seo Yeon bowed her head slightly, then shook it quickly from side to side.
Her sky-blue long hair, once her pride, fluttered with the motion, but it looked a bit drier than before—was that just my imagination?
"Yeah. Craving for growth. After the possession, I figured it out and started grinding dungeons like crazy. And I actually grew. You might not think I've grown much yet, but I discovered the thrill of it. Exchanging emotions through dating you was fun, but this growth path isn't bad either. Anyway, I grew, so what you wanted came true, didn't it?"
Hearing that after all the twists and turns, our breakup had ultimately helped my growth, Seo Yeon's eyes trembled wildly.
It hadn't influenced my growth as much as when she denied it earlier had hurt, but the conclusion was just as she'd feared.
We broke up, and I grew.
"No... I said no..."
As if her mind had frozen solid, Seo Yeon desperately started denying it.
"And even if we date again, I don't have the confidence to treat you as well as before. What if I hear some weird advice again and break up or keep my distance..."
"I won't. Never again. I even came to Utopia because of you, even though I didn't want to. I left my family, came to Global Academy, saw only you, kept grinding... raising my skills... Please, don't do that."
If I dug any deeper here, I'd be reminded of the lifelong debt I owed Seo Yeon.
To avoid completely losing the upper hand, as I tried to press her down harder, I felt the sharp prick of a needlepoint that could never bend in my palm.
Seo Yeon's tears were starting to slow now. As she began to compose herself bit by bit, her top caught my eye.
A white blouse. When I collapsed from the hobgoblin, I'd vomited quite a bit of blood, but luckily none had stained it.
"Unbutton your blouse."
"Huh...?"
"Feels like it's been forever. I want to see your breasts right now."
After coming to Global Academy, we'd been intimate on weekends for the first month or so, but once the gap started widening, I began avoiding it.
So, about two months and three weeks? Roughly three months since I'd seen Seo Yeon's body.
If asked whether I'd gone without a woman's body entirely, well, Na-eun and I had been together every day, but that was in another world.
Just thinking of Seo Yeon's soft, ample breasts made me hard instantly, so my body was definitely starved.
"Right now? Here?"
Seo Yeon, who had been sobbing her heart out moments ago, seemed to have pulled herself together quite well.
"Yeah. Right now. Here."
"If I take it all off... we'll get back together, right?"
"Like I said earlier, it won't go back to how it was before academy. I need time to grow too. But during break, we can see each other a bit more often."
Seo Yeon bit her lip hard, then glanced around the hospital room where I lay, as if making up her mind, and began unbuttoning her blouse.
One button at a time from the neck: collarbone, plump breasts cradled in her bra, smooth stomach without an ounce of fat—each button revealed more, and by the time they were all undone, her face was beet red.
"There. Happy now?"
"I want to touch them."
"You're... too much..."
Unable to move, I watched as she pulled her chair closer.
She came within arm's reach, close enough to grope her breasts if I stretched, and I reached out to her face instead.
At the touch on her right cheek, Seo Yeon started crying again.
"You're such a crybaby."
"Sob... I'm such an idiot... Sob..."
I wanted to sit up and wipe her tears, but my body still wouldn't cooperate.
Even using Combat Rest in Lee Sian's body, the wounds were too severe to recover all at once.
To stop her tears, I moved my hand from her face down to her breast.
Cloud-soft fullness in my left hand.
Closing my eyes to savor the gentle mound, her sobbing slowly faded.
Peeking with one eye, I saw her strange expression: crying one moment, smiling the next.
"They say letting a guy touch your breasts melts away most of his anger. Seems true."
"That's for real ones. Honestly, I could be even madder about this, and we could break up for good. Right?"
Reminding her once more of our positional difference, she nodded obediently.
"Yeah. Then wait a sec."
Now fully submissive, she unhooked the back and lifted her bra slightly.
As her pink nipple emerged, blood rushed lower, but given my condition, even if she rode me, I probably couldn't last.
Kneading the cloud-soft breasts now free of their bra seal, Seo Yeon spoke cautiously.
"Sian, have you been backed up a lot?"
"Well, think back to the days we spent together before academy."
"Ah... Yeah."
We'd had sex every single day.
Except for days we went out and played till we dropped, we lived like cohabitants, overlapping bodies every night.
After two years of high school holding hands and kissing, once we graduated and I suggested it, becoming lovers—no wonder it never got old.
"Your body's not up for it right now... Want me to use my mouth?"
Seo Yeon said, eyeing my hardened cock even under the blanket.
I flicked her slightly stiffened nipple with my finger and replied.
"Can you do it right now, here?"
Her earlier question to me.
"Right now, here. I want to."
As she answered, she lifted the blanket.
Pulling down the patient pants and underwear, my cock sprang up erect—unused in this world.
"Whoa... It's been a while."
She wet her lips and slowly lowered her face toward it.
Warm breath, then it vanished into her mouth in an instant.
One hand holding her long hair aside, she bobbed her head slowly, stimulating me.
I never thought she'd offer a blowjob first—something she used to shy away from.
Chup chup chup
Regaining her feel bit by bit, her intensifying tongue work brought unbearable pleasure surging as a patient.
Thinking back, since returning, I'd ignored sex, so yeah, I was backed up.
The moment I sensed I'd cum faster than usual, I did.
Spurt spurt spurt
"Gaaah... My back..."
My back muscles cramped wildly as I ejaculated.
I'd half-expected it, but the pain hitting with the orgasm...
Seo Yeon, mouth full of semen, saw me wince, swallowed it down, and reached out both hands.
Sky-blue mana poured from her palms, slowly easing my pain.
When the ache had dulled considerably, I raised my left hand to signal I was okay, and she stopped.
"You swallowed."
"Yeah. You suddenly said you were hurting, so I panicked."
"Good girl. Always swallow from now on."
"From now on... Yeah, I will... Ah, clean up. If we're caught..."
"You'll be the girl doing naughty things with her boyfriend in his hospital room."
"Yeah. Sorry. And I'll do better."
She pulled out several wet wipes, cleaning her mouth and my cock of saliva and semen.
As she tidied the scene, I checked the Status Window.
I was getting close to the combat power the quest demanded.
And the surest way to raise the remaining combat power came to mind.