Episode 1. Tutorial.
"........This really is a cheat."
Jaeseok sorted out the details of this unusual space.
1. System interference, including cooldowns.
As he'd already experienced, the Labyrinth's systems were being partially blocked or distorted in this unusual space. It wasn't just that time flowed differently here.
Click.
As he focused, a rune separated from the Exploration Journal floating before his eyes and slipped out in the form of a Rune Stone. The Exploration Journal still displayed the notification [Removing an equipped rune requires the same amount of experience as enhancing it!], yet there was no restriction at all. Considering how the system demanded experience when he tried to remove a rune in the real world, this was clearly a glitch.
"Well, this won't make me stronger right away or anything, but at least it'll be easy to undo it if I equip the wrong rune. It should also be good for experimenting with different combinations."
2. Trash bags pouring in from the [Outside].
"Let's call it the Garbage Dump."
Actually, he'd liked the term emotional trash can better, but the place was far too enormous to call a trash can, so Jaeseok settled on that name and looked around the inside of the Garbage Dump.
It was roughly a hundred meters in radius. In other words, this spherical space was two hundred meters across, and it was piled high with emotional trash that had come in from outside.
Anger. Hatred. Resentment. Jealousy.
Loneliness. Emptiness. Despair. Fear.
Shame. Humiliation. Contempt. Guilt.....
Even now, he could see countless emotions trying to enter the space where Jaeseok stood from the [Outside]. Time was stopped—or perhaps accelerating infinitely—so the emotions were frozen too, but the garbage bags half inside and half outside made the process clear.
After Jaeseok had relieved his desires against the Labyrinth's monsters, there'd been some room to spare for a while. But if time passed, this place would probably fill up again, just like before.
"Ha. So these assholes kept dumping their trash on me, and that's why I suffered so much."
Every time Jaeseok touched a garbage bag, he saw not only the [Voices] he'd heard his whole life, but also the people those voices belonged to.
The Garbage Dump had more emotional trash related to lust than anything else. It wasn't that there were no other emotions at all. Even the anger was anger toward women who wouldn't choose him; even the jealousy was jealousy toward men chosen over him. The fear came from the thought that he would never be loved as a [man] by anyone, and the contempt was what he'd felt when he confessed and got rejected. The guilt was what he felt toward his parents because he'd never managed to have a relationship.
"Feels like it's being steered in a certain direction, doesn't it?"
In fact, that was probably true. He'd been orphaned at birth, and he was a fat, hulking guy—not exactly someone with the looks to win people's affection.
He was so big that nobody bullied him, and he was so easygoing that he'd never given poverty much thought.
There was only one thing.
He couldn't help his lust.
'So these things gathered because I was lustful and couldn't satisfy it.'
The problem was that lust wasn't the only thing that had gathered.
3. Physical objects can enter the Inner World, too.
The reason Jaeseok had realized this was, frankly, a little absurd.
Absurdly enough, some of the garbage bags containing lust also contained semen!!!
"Fuck. Yeah, it was weird. Was masturbating twenty times a day even physically possible? But I was ejaculating other people's semen with my body? What the hell is the principle behind that?"
It was a shitty trait, but if he thought about it, it was a power close to a miracle or a supernatural ability. One way or another, it meant something physical—something whose origin he didn't even know—could enter a space closer to the mental world.
"Once things settle down a bit, I should test whether this can function as an inventory. And, if I get the chance, I should get a DNA test or something."
4. One way or another, Jaeseok himself is the master of this space.
Jaeseok still had no idea what this space was for, but he could feel that it was his [property]. That feeling only grew stronger when he realized he could change its original spherical shape, with a diameter of two hundred meters, into a square just by focusing his mind.
"Ah, picturing a square is easy, but a height of 150 meters is way too much."
He focused again and limited the height to thirty meters.
Grrrrr---!
With a brief rumble, the height dropped, while the width and length expanded to nearly four hundred meters. A vast space, big enough to rival a decent-sized village, spread out before him.
That wasn't all.
Jaeseok couldn't stop garbage from being dumped into this space, but he could at least control what kind of garbage came in.
'For now, let's stick with lust like before. It's not like other emotional trash is any better, and at least I can let off some steam with lust here.'
Endurance's cooldown had long since hit zero.
After checking everything, Jaeseok tidied up the garbage bags, sat down in the middle of the empty space, and calmly opened his eyes.
Poof!
When he woke, the garbage bags piled up like a mountain were gone, and the sight of the slender woman's lithe body trembling came into view.
At the same time, a wave of pleasure surged through him, born from the slender woman's vagina clenching in spasms—a sensation he hadn't been able to feel at all in the Inner World!
[Technique. Activating Endurance (Common)!]
He'd been right on the verge of ejaculating, so he naturally expected his training points to pile up the moment Endurance activated. But reality didn't quite work out that way.
Unlike the vivid sensation of his stamina draining away—
'It feels good, but the pleasure's been dulled quite a bit?'
Naturally, it wasn't because of the rune's trait. Endurance raised [Pleasure Receptivity] and [Toughness]; it didn't dull pleasure itself.
But with the [Voice] gone and the burden on his mind eased, the pleasure he felt had been [normalized].
Now, he only felt pleasure at the level of an average adult man.
'Huh? Somehow, that's a little disappointing in its own way.'
That wasn't the only problem. When he had sex without the garbage bags, the bags didn't disappear, even after he'd done the deed. That meant he could have sex a hundred or even a thousand times and it wouldn't help his [Garbage Dump] one bit!
Just as Jaeseok was lost in thought—
"Haaah. Haaaah.... Haaaah...."
The slender woman, having climaxed, trembled all over and collapsed onto the bed.
[Sex Battle has ended!]
[Victory. Bae Jaeseok.]
[You have defeated a Level 1 Common Monster: Prostitute!]
[1 experience point awarded!]
[Mission updated!]
[Level 1 Common Monster (13/30).]
The same messages he'd seen countless times before.
But the next notification was something he'd never seen before.
[You have defeated a Common-grade monster in a Sex Battle! You absorb a portion of the target's health, mana, and time limit!]
"Huh?"
Whether he voiced his question or not, his breath—which had been ragged right up to the edge of his jaw—began to recover.
[You have not awakened mana!]
[Unabsorbed mana is released.]
Reading the notification that appeared next, Jaeseok finally understood.
'Ah, I get it. Thirty people in two hours and forty-six minutes really is impossible.'
Ten thousand seconds was only 166 minutes. Jaeseok had been able to get through things quickly by spurting it out like a premature ejaculator, but even ten minutes was considered fast for ordinary sex. How was he supposed to handle thirty people in that amount of time?
This was the answer.
He had to make the monsters climax, then steal their stamina, mana, and time limit!
"Oh my! You're really amazing!"
"She's completely out of it."
"With something that huge pounding her so relentlessly, no wonder she couldn't take it~ Haaah..... It really is huge, even now that I'm seeing it again....."
Even though the slender woman had collapsed, A and Kay showed no sign of anxiety. In a battle, it would've been like a comrade losing, but they didn't even think of it that way.
In this strange space, they watched Jaeseok with even greater excitement and anticipation, their eyes practically licking him from head to toe.
"Next."
"Hehe. Yes."
At Jaeseok's words, Kay didn't object. She braced herself against the vanity. The slender woman's body had already disappeared, but nobody mentioned her.
'By the way, how long does my turn last? It seems longer than it did during the blowjob.'
Jaeseok wondered, but for the moment, he decided to focus on the act itself.
Krrrk.
He plunged in at once. That was only possible because her vagina was already soaking wet, but that didn't mean his enormous Afkill could move freely.
"Ah—!"
Overcome by the intense pressure filling her up, Kay's eyes widened as she let out a moan. If this were reality, it would have been painful at that size, but in a space made solely for pleasure, it worked differently.
'Th-this is insane. Hngh. So full. I'm completely full.......!'