Chapter 236: 41st Floor: The Growing Shota
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 236: 41st Floor: The Growing Shota
“You… no, Shota? What happened to you? Don’t tell me… in just one day?”
No way, he's not a plant. How can a person change that much in a single day?
He gave a slight nod as if to say yes, smiling with his eyes as he suckled on my breast milk.
But this kid…
He's handsome.
Wouldn't any normal woman's heart skip a beat?
He hadn't fully matured yet, but even a quick glance told me he'd grow up to be a handsome alpha male who'd have women falling all over him.
Ah, is this not the right time for my heart to be fluttering?
I guess seeing a man stealing your baby's food would make your heart pound, but out of shock.
Anyway, that's not what's important…
“Hngh… Shota? Can you stop now? How long are you going to keep drinking… Ahng! Nnghaaaah…!”
Schlurp!! Schluuuuurp!!!
“I’m… still hungry… Mmmph!”
Shota gave a short reply and went back to sucking on my breast like a vacuum cleaner.
“Nngh…! Hahh……”
Th-that stuff is so expensive…!!
- O-our provisions!
- Shota, stop!!!
- He's got the looks and Lee Do-hee's breast milk.
- All he needs to do is fuck her pussy and he'll have it all.
- Looks like she's about to get fucked.
- fr lol
- That stuff is so expensive…
- He's probably drunk nearly 100 billion worth by now, right?
I was worried he might pounce on me while I was moaning as he drank my milk, but that didn't happen.
After sucking away like a madman, Shota finally wiped his mouth and slowly stood up.
“Hah… Phew! Sorry, Noona. I woke up this morning and was just so hungry… I felt like nothing else would do.”
“I-I see… Are you done?”
“Yes! I'm full now!”
He's really only drinking the milk?
“O-okay, then. Let's get ready to go…”
- lololol
- He passed on Lee Do-hee.
- Is that bastard a eunuch?
- Looks like his appetite is stronger than his libido.
- Passed on Lee Do-hee's pussy lol
- What's with Do-hee's disappointed face?
- 'Cause she's all wet down there~
“……”
I dismissed the chat window, full of its lust demons, and prepared a simple breakfast.
I took a pack of Korean Army Base Stew from my inventory and flicked the magic switch. It automatically thawed and began to bubble and boil.
“Whoa… Noona, what's this?”
"Hehe, this is something called Korean Army Base Stew.”
Maybe it was because he'd drunk so much of my milk, or maybe it was from the intense focus yesterday, but I was starving too.
Normally, anyone would find it strange to see food suddenly appear out of thin air, but Shota trusted me 200%. I just told him it was preserved food from my hometown, and he simply nodded, looking at it with wonder.
Slurrrrp!! Chomp chomp chomp…
First, I slurped down the perfectly chewy noodles, then piled sausage, Spam, and rice cakes on top of my rice and stuffed a hearty mouthful in. The meat, soaked in the spicy broth, and the grains of rice chewed softly in my mouth.
"Kuh~ This is the stuff!"
Shota watched me, a look of curiosity on his face.
“Want some?”
“Yes!! I want to try it!”
Didn't you just say you were full…
In the end, I took out another pack of stew for Shota.
For the record, this was a 3-4 person serving. It was food meant for a physical-type Awakener like me.
But…
“Mmm!! This is delicious too. It's a little spicy, but it's perfect!”
Slurrrrp...!! Chomp chomp.
Is this for real?
Shota glanced at how I was using my chopsticks, and in no time, he was skillfully using them himself, slurping up the ramen.
And, of course, for dessert…
Guuuulp~~!
“I'll just have a little, Noona!”
He casually lifted my clothes, squeezed my breast milk into a bowl as if milking a cow, and drank it down like he was drinking makgeolli.
“Hnngh...! Y-you, wh-who said you could just… Hmph!”
“Kyah~~! Still, nothing's as delicious as your milk, Noona! It's the best!”
“……”
Anyway, we cleaned up and finished preparing to leave.
But… is going back the right move?
Shota's curse was broken, but a new problem had arisen.
This kid… anyone can see he's Shota.
The curse-free Shota, at that.
All my hard work slicing up assassins last night was now meaningless. Well, not entirely, but our cover would be blown in a few days.
And I'd been carrying him in my arms this whole time, but now he was almost the same size as me, making that awkward.
The Red Drake Subjugation Party departs tomorrow.
There's still one day left.
Every day we can delay getting caught is a win.
If we can just get through the Warp Gate safely, we can handle the rest somehow.
So, what can we do in the forest for a day?
“Shota. Don't you want to get stronger?”
The answer was to train Shota.
Just enough so he can protect himself for a little while.
Even with his talent, a few days of training wouldn't be enough for him to start using Aura or anything like that.
“Yes! Actually, I was just about to ask you to train me!”
“Oh? A student ready to learn. You'd better brace yourself."
The sword for Shota was sponsored by the viewers.
A plain but sturdy longsword.
They said it was about the same size as the one the Emperor here uses.
“Shota? Have you learned anything before?”
“Ah… no. B-but I've watched!”
It seemed all Shota had ever done was watch the knights train from his window.
In truth, training a prince could be a bit risky.
Most royal families have their own unique swordsmanship or mana cultivation techniques. If he picked up the wrong habits, that would be a problem in itself.
But it's not like Shota is going to become the Emperor, right? Still, just in case, let's just have him practice the basics.
“We don't have time to build your basic stamina, but you should at least understand your own physical limits, right?”
That way, he'll be able to help when guys like Rodso try to rape me.
Even back then, if Shota had just put his mind to it, he could have easily beaten a Silver-rank adventurer like Rodso.
My breast milk had already raised all his stats by 160. With stats like that, he's already on the verge of becoming a Swordmaster.
I started some basic training to make Shota realize his own strength.
“The most important thing in a fight isn't just knowing your opponent. Know what you yourself are capable of. Do that, and the battle is half-won.”
“Yes, Noona!”
For the record, since we couldn't test him by normal means, I'd let him experience his power firsthand.
“Block this.”
Clang!
Shota, who clumsily blocked my sword, went flying and crashed into a tree.
“Kugh...!”
“Shota, you can do better. Don't decide your own limits! Get in your stance!”
What's the best way to test his kinetic vision, his strength, and get him practical experience all at once? A realistic spar, of course.
I changed my own sword to match Shota's and began striking at him from all angles, just fast enough for him to react.
Training by the book with a standard swordsmanship manual would take too long.
And…
What the, he's not bad... No, he's good.
I was definitely sparring with him using the same amount of strength, but Shota, who'd been sent flying with a single blow at first, was now blocking my attacks.
Clang!!
Nice… He's keeping up?
Clang!! Clang!!!
Shota was barely managing to block my sword. But the more our blades crossed, the faster and more precise his movements became.
Clang!!
And then, Shota's eyes flashed for an instant.
Clang! Shnk!
Shota deflected my sword at an angle,
Shwing!
and seeing an opening, he thrust his blade forward!
Thwip!
I caught the blade between my fingers, stopping it easily, but even I was a little taken aback.
“What the… G-good job, Shota!”
He not only read my sword path and deflected it, but he even counterattacked?
He's got talent.
Is this just the default setting for royal bloodlines in fantasy worlds?
“Where did you learn that?”
“Ah, from the knights outside! I just imagined it in my head while they were training.”
Just from watching... he learned to deflect and defend after only a few exchanges…
And I was even using a bit more strength than him for the sake of training. My swordsmanship wasn't sloppy, either.
He definitely… has a gift.
Shota grinned, as if he was enjoying training and sparring with me.
“Let's go again, Noona!”
“Alright, should I raise the difficulty a bit?”
After that, our session started to look more and more like a real spar.
“Noona, you're... really good!”
“Is that something you should be saying?”
“It's true. You're much stronger than the royal knights!”
“……”
From Shota's perspective, the strongest people he'd ever seen were the royal knights. I had covered his eyes and ears when I fought the assassins, so he wouldn't have seen it properly.
The time had come to tell him the truth.
“Shota, your noona is actually... the strongest person in this world.”
“What…? C'mon, I trust you, Noona, but I'm not falling for a joke like that! Everyone knows the strongest person in the world is His Majesty the Emperor.”
So it's common sense here that the Emperor is the strongest?
“No... Anyway, I'm the strongest. I'm not kidding, Shota. If you want… never mind.”
"Okay~! I'll say you're the strongest, Noona~"
Shota replied with a laugh, thinking it was a joke.
Arguing any further would just be pathetic. He'd realize it on his own later. The only way to overturn common sense is to see it for yourself.
Our physical training continued until evening.
Of course, we ate lunch and dinner.
Shota, who seemed to have a black hole for a stomach, ate as much as I did and never forgot to chug over a liter of my "baby food" for dessert.
“This time, let's practice handling mana.”
Originally, I'd only planned to teach him how to survive through realistic sparring, but Shota's talent was better than I expected.
Creating Aura might be out of the question, but he could probably manage to reinforce his body with mana, like knights commonly do.
I had Shota lie down on that rock again and channeled a little divine power into his body.
But then,
“What, why are there two dantians?”
The Mana Core I had created was in his lower abdomen, but another one had formed in his heart.
In fact, there was more mana gathered in the one in his heart than the one below.
Was he affected by the curse-breaking process yesterday…?
The lower and middle dantians, common in martial arts novels, had been opened.
Truthfully, in modern internal energy training, opening the lower, middle, and upper dantians in sequence is a pretty old-fashioned method.
It's much more efficient to just focus on the lower dantian, compressing the internal energy into a purer form to unleash greater power at once.
It's the same principle as how one 3050 graphics card performs better than two 2050s. It's even cheaper.
Of course, that doesn't mean they're completely inefficient.
How could 1+1 be a bad thing? And if you manage to open the upper dantian as well, you can approach the level of a transcendent being and surpass those who only use a single dantian.
It's a bit of a risky endeavor, of course, but people are bound to use it eventually.
So, why the sudden martial arts lecture?
Since it's come to this, I'm planning to apply this to Shota.
If… Shota can open his upper dantian, he'll reach the level of a Swordmaster. No, if he does well, he might even be able to glimpse what lies beyond. He certainly has enough talent for it.
And I can also help him with a method for using two dantians.
The two pouches of divine power nestled in my chest.
It's practically the same as me having two dantians, and I can produce double the output with them. If I can apply this to Shota, it might actually be an advantage.
Of course, there are several problems.
Even if I found a suitable martial arts manual, Shota uses mana, so he wouldn't be able to learn from it.
In the end, he'd have to create a new martial art for himself.
And since this is the first time, he might face all sorts of unexpected problems.
But for some reason, I don't feel like he'll fail.
"Um... is everything okay?"
Shota asked in a worried tone after I was lost in thought for a long time.
“Hm... It's fine, Shota. Since it's come to this, we're going to tackle this head-on. I'll make you the strongest man in this world.”
"The strongest in the world..."
The strongest man…
Shota engraved those words in his heart.
*
The mana training was a great success.
As expected, Shota was a genius. He immediately learned how to reinforce his body with mana like the knights, and I spent the rest of the time explaining his physical condition and the path he should take from now on.
For this part, there were things I didn't know, so I got a little help from the chat window.
"I... have a unique constitution? But you're saying that's a good thing?"
I tried to fiddle with his mana roads, but it seemed to be beyond my abilities. Getting him to use a two-cylinder engine like me was impossible.
Instead, I just taught him how to reinforce and use mana with his middle dantian.
*
That night.
Before bed, Shota once again lay on top of me, suckling at my breast.
"Hnngh...! Shota... S-slow down... Haht!!"
But there was one small difference from the night before.
His height, which had been similar to mine in the morning, had grown considerably.
Shota was now nearly 180 cm tall.
When he lay on top of me, my body was completely covered.
His palms were bigger, and the feeling of him gripping my breast was different. His body was covered in lean, defined muscles—the physique of a proper male.
Also, the amount he drank had clearly decreased.
Instead, I could feel it…
His huge, hard, erect cock, rubbing back and forth against my mound.
There was no way not to feel it. How could I not get excited with a cock pressing against my pussy?
My pussy juice flowed like a flood, but surprisingly, Shota didn't rape me.
Th-this bastard…?
After filling his stomach, he just hugged my chest and fell asleep.
“……”
I had a hard time cooling down my own plump, throbbing pussy all night.
*
The next morning was the same.
He was erect, but he focused on drinking the milk in front of him and didn't fuck me.
Is his body so focused on growing that it's not paying attention to other things?
Come to think of it, he wasn't erect on the first day, and while he was today, it didn't seem like his libido was kicking in.
His rapidly growing body was probably controlling itself, not wanting to waste nutrients on such useless activities.
So, once his growth is complete… what will happen?
I couldn't just ask Shota, "Are you going to fuck your noona?"
“……”
For now, I pretended not to notice and got ready to return to the city.
Right, for now, let's just focus on getting him to the safe house safely.