Chapter 15: An Unexpected Situation (2)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 15: An Unexpected Situation (2)
The fast-walking Ajumma led the way, and I followed behind her.
So far, the situation was no different than usual, but the atmosphere was.
Normally, she would glance back from time to time to offer a word of encouragement, but today, she was silent.
“This is completely screwed.”
The miserably ruined atmosphere weighed down on my shoulders.
Truthfully, masturbating in my own home isn’t a crime.
Of course, it was my fault for not locking the door properly, but she was the one who just walked in.
Why should I be the one feeling so guilty?
“Hoo…”
Following the walking path to its midpoint brought us to a small park.
It was a gathering spot for the grandpas and middle-aged men who enjoyed their morning exercises.
The Ajumma, who had arrived first, was stretching with a pleasant expression, her arms reaching for the sky.
The thin jacket that had been hanging below her waist rode up with her arms, revealing the skin underneath.
“Ajumma, I’m going to use the restroom.”
“Ah, okay. Go ahead.”
Leaving the Ajumma and her awkward smile and nod behind me, I waddled over to the restroom.
I immediately opened the door to an empty stall and sat down on the toilet.
“Haa.”
I exhaled the breath I’d been holding and leaned my body against the back of the toilet.
Right.
There was no reason for me to feel guilty about masturbating and getting off in my own house.
If anything, the Ajumma should be the one apologizing to me.
There was only one reason I felt such guilt.
The cause was my own dick, which had swelled with power and was now bulging in my pants.
“Get a grip, Do-jin. She’s an ajumma, an ajumma!”
The porn I watched yesterday was the problem.
He might have thought of Han Ju-hee while watching it, but I hadn’t.
At first, I was just watching it as a piece of work, a means to masturbate. But the moment the Ajumma barged into my room and I saw her, everything fell apart.
Her face kept superimposing itself over the face of the actress who was giving her all.
That was why my lower body was bulging.
Her body, which had been a bit stimulating at first but I was gradually getting used to, was now causing my own body to react all over again.
“How can she be prettier than the porn actress I watched?”
The actresses who play married women in porn are mostly young.
At most, they’re in their mid-to-late twenties, maybe early thirties if they’re older.
In contrast, the Ajumma is in her mid-forties.
An age when even a beautiful flower begins to wilt, yet she was still pretty.
If someone asked me if I’d do it, I’d say yes without a moment’s hesitation.
As much as I wanted to live my life following my heart, this was not it.
“I can’t make a move on a married woman…”
The Ajumma has a family, and she’s a person who is very devoted to that family.
It wasn’t like she’d agree just because I wanted to, and I had no desire to break up someone else’s home.
So I had to suppress it.
The Ajumma was an incredibly grateful presence in my life.
I didn’t want to be seized by a moment of desire and commit a foolish act against such a person.
“Mahāprajñāpāramitā…”
Just as I was slowly calming my angry dick by chanting whatever Buddhist scripture came to mind, a loud noise erupted from outside the restroom.
“Uwaaaah!”
“Kyaaak!”
Screams?
I kicked open the locked stall door and ran out of the restroom.
The scene before my eyes was one of complete chaos.
The people who, just moments ago, had been sitting on benches with relaxed faces or thumping their backs against trees were now scattering in every direction in terror.
Something had definitely happened.
As I stood there watching them, an ajeossi who was running by grabbed my shoulder.
“S-Student! Run, hurry!”
“What’s going on?”
“A m-m-monster! A monster appeared! So hurry…!”
The moment I heard that, I shook off the hand of the ajeossi who, even while fleeing, had worried enough to run over to me.
“You go first, Ajeossi.”
“S-Student! Where are you going! Th-this is…!”
Neither the monster that had made everyone run nor the Ajumma were anywhere to be seen.
The Ajumma might have already escaped, and the monster could be chasing after one of the fleeing people.
But still.
“I have a really bad feeling about this.”
A sticky sensation crept over my entire body.
Whenever I got this feeling, something bad was bound to happen.
So I couldn’t leave this spot.
At least, not until I realized this filthy feeling was nothing more than a groundless fear.
“Calm down, calm…”
I suppressed my frantic senses.
With a calm gaze, I scanned my surroundings.
The dirt ground of the park was adorned with the footprints of countless people.
Among them, I found one that was uniquely large and out of place.
A bipedal monster with a foot length of about 300mm and a width of just under 200mm.
“An Orc.”
Monster difficulty ranges from A-rank to D-rank.
Depending on its form, it was a monster with various variations within its species that could be either A-rank or D-rank.
I remembered the news I’d heard from the TV that had turned on when I accidentally stepped on the remote.
They said a monster that appeared in the Mok-dong area had escaped the containment perimeter.
“What a fucking mess, these bastards.”
It would take at least two hours to walk here from Mok-dong. What the hell were those Hunter bastards doing while this thing was making its way over here?
“If my body hadn’t been swapped, I’d have had all their licenses revoked.”
You should be thanking the (New) Son Si-woo who took my body, you bastards.
Following the direction the footprints were pointing, I walked a little further and saw another set of tracks.
The wide gaps between the footprints.
Judging by the long stride, the creature had clearly started running.
Was it chasing the people who fled this way?
Another trace entered my vision.
A liquid, dripped here and there, soaking the dirt.
“Sniff, sniff.”
I scooped up a clump of dirt with my finger and smelled it.
“Ugh.”
The stench of Orc saliva, dozens of times more nauseating than human spit, made me want to gag.
There was only one reason an Orc would be drooling all over the ground.
“A state of extreme excitement.”
For whatever reason, when an Orc becomes extremely excited, it drools uncontrollably from the gaps in its snout, which can’t close completely because of its long tusks.
In other words, the creature was incredibly worked up over something.
“Fuck.”
The image of the Ajumma naturally came to mind.
Orcs are a species with extremely high reproductive capabilities.
They go crazy for any woman, but they have their own standards.
Do they look at faces? No.
What they look at is body type.
A woman with wide, sturdy hips.
They go absolutely wild for a woman with a body type that looks like she could easily pop out their children.
The Ajumma has wide hips.
When she wore that form-fitting gray dress or leggings, her curves were brought to life, stimulating the lustful thoughts of men.
“How is this goddamn feeling never wrong?”
I took out my smartphone and called 119.
“The Orc you guys lost is over here, so come get it quickly.”
I couldn’t bring myself to speak nicely, so I was a bit blunt before hanging up.
They’d track my location and come right away.
I’d made the report, but I had no intention of just sitting around sucking my thumb while waiting for the Hunters to arrive.
I started running, following the path the Orc had taken.
“Hoo, hoo…!”
This pathetic body was holding me back again.
I hadn’t even run that far, but I was already this out of breath. What was I supposed to do?
My pace kept slowing down.
But I didn’t stop.
“Just a little, huuk, more…!”
The stride of the tracks was gradually getting shorter.
That must mean the creature’s pace was slowly coming to a halt.
I entered the mountain forest.
“Cough, cough!”
Even as I coughed up the breath that had risen to my chin, my eyes never stopped scanning the ground.
Besides the Orc’s tracks, I saw another set.
A small and dainty size compared to the Orc’s.
Human, and a woman at that.
The woman’s footsteps had crisscrossed all over the mountain.
Kueeek! Kuik!
From not too far away, I heard the enraged cry of an Orc.
I could guess what happened.
The woman it had been chasing so desperately had hidden somewhere in the forest.
The Orc was now searching the area thoroughly to find her.
“There’s still… hoo! Time.”
Catching my breath, I moved toward the source of the roar.
I see it.
K-thump!
The Orc came into view, wandering through the forest and randomly punching trees.
It was clearly furious; its back muscles were twitching.
Kueeeek!
Its voice wasn’t as deep as I expected.
Its skin color was also much lighter than I’d anticipated.
“It’s a young one.”
Well, young isn’t quite the right word.
An immature specimen, perhaps.
The darker an Orc’s skin, the tougher and harder its hide becomes.
This one’s skin was a green close to lime.
It meant its combat power wasn’t very high.
The rank I calculated from that was D-rank.
And even among them, it was at the very bottom.
It was a silver lining that this was the weakest type of Orc, but it wasn’t much of a relief.
“It’s still stronger than me.”
No matter how weak it was, it was still dozens of times stronger than this body that had just begun its tempering.
What I had to do was clear.
Find the woman hiding somewhere here before the Orc does, and escape.
“Focus, focus.”
I slowly walked up, following the direction of the woman’s footprints.
A dense thicket of trees, located slightly off from the direction the Orc was rampaging.
I could see a bit of fabric sticking out.
I moved up a little faster and looked, and I saw a familiar back.
The woman hiding behind a large tree, observing the Orc throwing a tantrum a short distance away, was the Ajumma.
I was about to run to her but suppressed my footsteps as much as possible.
If I called out from behind and she screamed, it would all be over.
I slowly approached, reached out, and covered her mouth.
“Mmph!”
I quickly spun her around to let her see my face.
“Ajumma, it’s me.”
Her chest heaved up and down as if it would burst, showing just how startled she had been in that brief moment.
“Don’t scream.”
The Ajumma nodded.
I removed my hand from her mouth and offered an apology.
“I’m sorry. I was afraid you’d scream out of shock.”
“I-It’s okay. But Do-jin, why are you here?” the Ajumma asked, rubbing her startled chest.
“You disappeared, so I came looking for you.”
“Are, are you crazy? You should have run away while a monster was on the loose…!”
She was scolding me, lightly hitting my shoulder, but a faint smile played on her lips.
She seemed secretly pleased.
“I figured if I had disappeared, you would have looked for me too.”
She was a person with a lot of heart.
Enough to be worth risking danger to help.
“Let’s get out of here the other way while it’s busy searching in the wrong place.”
“O-Okay.”
To escape from the creature, I gently wrapped an arm around the Ajumma’s shoulder and helped her up.
As she was rising from her crouched position, the Ajumma collapsed again.
“Oh, what do I do? My legs have gone weak…”
The problem was that the tension she’d been maintaining had loosened a bit upon seeing me.
I grabbed the legs of the woman who had collapsed helplessly, stretched them out, and began to massage them with my hands.
“D-Do-jin.”
“Massaging them like this should help.”
I rubbed her legs, moving back and forth from her thighs to her calves.
“Eung…!”
A pleasant moan tickled my ear.
“Aahk…!”
It wasn’t the kind of thought one should have in a situation where one wrong move could get us killed by an Orc, but…
Perhaps thanks to her years of working out, her thighs were incredibly firm.
After a proper massage, I hid my disappointment and looked at the Ajumma.
Her face was a little flushed, but her expression was much better than before.
“You can stand up now, right?”
“Y-Yeah. I think I can.”
She stood up more easily than before.
“Then let’s go.”
The distance to the creature had closed.
Orcs may have abysmal intelligence, but their animalistic senses couldn’t be ignored.
If we got any closer, I couldn’t rule out the possibility that its sensitive sense of smell would reveal our location.
“Now.”
The moment we heard another tree splinter, we left our spot and started running in the opposite direction of the creature.
“Huk, heok…!”
I was out of breath in no time, having used up too much stamina running here.
The Ajumma’s breathing was also much rougher than usual, likely due to the tension constricting her entire body.
It didn’t seem like we could run for much longer, but that was fine.
Just a little farther, and we’d be a safe distance away from it.
Just as I was thinking the threat that had filled my chest was slowly receding, a problem occurred.
“Ugh!”
My foot caught on a tree root sticking out of the ground.
My heavy body lost its balance, hung in the air for a moment, and then tumbled down the mountainside.
“D-Do-jin! Are you okay— Hup!”
The startled Ajumma shouted as she came down, then clamped a hand over her own mouth.
Kuaaaaaaak!
The creature’s roar echoed.
Too late.
The roar was aimed directly at us.
It had clearly heard the Ajumma’s voice.
“Ah…!”
The Ajumma gasped, her hand still over her mouth.
Watching the creature charge toward us from a distance, I pushed my scraped and bruised body to its feet.
“This is no time for that, Ajumma.”
“D-Do-jin. I’m sorry, I’m so, so sorry…”
Tears welled up in her large eyes.
It seemed she thought we were going to die here because she had screamed.
Well, she wasn’t wrong.
The probability of us dying was indeed very high.
But I haven’t lived such a meek life that I’d just lie down and die when cornered.
“Listen to me, Ajumma.”
“O-Okay.”
At my serious tone, the Ajumma wiped away her tears and looked at me.
Running was out of the question.
The creature was several times faster than us, so it would catch us in no time.
In that case, there was only one answer.
“That Orc… I think we’re going to have to kill it.”
We had no choice but to kill it ourselves.
