52. Ranfang (4)
52. Ranfang (4)
"If points are the problem, I can lend you some. I barely ever use mine, so I've got a decent stockpile."
"Huh? Nah. Points vanish instantly the second you buy a piece of gear or a skill. Better to hoard them whenever they pile up."
Choi Ah-young shot him down immediately, but Hye-yong held his ground.
"Yeah? I look at it differently. I'm not giving it away for nothing. I'm just lending you points that are sitting there doing nothing so the party gets stronger, right?"
"You really think that works?"
"Don't stress about it. We're friends, same party. You can't fight properly if you're scraping by on living expenses. I'll lend you eight hundred points. We are staying friends, aren't we?"
At that, Ah-young laughed softly and nodded.
"Yeah. Good thing I've got a friend."
In the end, Choi Ah-young borrowed the points and bought the Kobold Swordsman's Bracelet.
She slid it on right away to test it out.
It was a dull, brownish bracelet—didn't look like much on her wrist.
"Well? You feel any difference just wearing it?"
"Unless it's something like a blessing, stats take time to settle into your body. About an hour."
So equipping an item wasn't an instant power-up.
"Still, I know the specs, so I can roughly guess how it feels. Feels a bit more solid."
The moment she said that, the bracelet slid off Choi Ah-young's wrist and vanished.
"Huh? It disappeared!"
"Heh. You seriously didn't know. When an Awakened equips an artifact, they can make it lose its form like that. Here, feel."
Choi Ah-young stretched out her arm.
A light touch on her pale, slender wrist confirmed it hadn't just gone invisible—it was truly gone.
"Whoa. That's freaky. It's really gone. And you still get the artifact's effects properly like this?"
"Of course. The trade-off is you lose the physical defense. For something like thick plate armor, it offers actual physical protection on top of the effect, so some Awakened wear that kind of thing into combat. But in the end, armor gets damaged and it's useless against high-rank Heterogeneous Species, so I've heard the real consensus is freedom of movement beats everything."
Back in his modpack, armor had solid performance, but this was a world that looked down on it.
So you could equip it, strip away its physical form, and still get the stat and protection effects.
'I wouldn't want to lug around heavy armor either. And it doesn't even break.'
Hearing that, he really understood why artifacts were so expensive.
The convenience was insane.
"Thanks, Hye-yong. Looks like I could grab the artifact comfortably thanks to you."
"No need to be that grateful. You're paying me back anyway, right? I can't even picture you stiffing me on the points, Ah-young."
Choi Ah-young gave him a surprised look, then grinned playfully.
"You... trust me that much? How many points are we talking?"
Hye-yong played along and answered.
"Ten thousand points, I'd lend you five. A million, I'd do half a million."
"So if you had a hundred million, you'd lend me fifty?"
"If I owned the whole world, I might carve off half and lend it to you."
"Ahaha! Okay, stop. This is stupid."
If Lanfang had seen this, she'd no doubt have clicked her tongue and walked off like she'd just glimpsed a monster from the abyss.
"Hye-yong."
"Yeah?"
"It's okay if I pay you back slowly... right?"
Huh. Was Choi Ah-young the type to say something like that?
Even as he thought it, Hye-yong was about to nod.
But before he could answer, Choi Ah-young spoke up first.
"We're... still friends, after all. Right?"
Ah...
He caught the meaning threaded beneath her words.
"Yeah. We're still friends. Paying me back slowly is no problem."
"And Hye-yong, I had no idea you were dealing with that kind of trouble. If there's ever anything you don't know or you need help with, tell me anytime. If there's anything I can do, I'll help with everything I've got."
Choi Ah-young smiled her usual businesslike, kind smile.
But something was different.
Today more than ever, he thought her smiling face looked especially pretty.
-
June 12th, 1:31 AM
Choi Hye-yong's Room
'She should be asleep by now.'
He couldn't get the previous night's pleasure out of his head.
For Hye-yong, this time of night had become nothing but nerve-racking anticipation.
'I'm already hard just thinking about it, fuck...'
His lower half was brimming with intent.
Hye-yong lay on his bed and activated the Inner World Intrusion Buff.
The moment he entered, he crafted a Night Vision buff and applied it.
He saw Lanfang immediately, sleeping flat on her back, perfectly straight.
'This side again tonight...'
He'd done it once before and it already felt routine. He cast Deep Sleep and expertly stripped off her clothes.
Then, exactly like two days ago, he created a buff and checked Lanfang's status.
[ Sleep Depth: 98 ]
[ Arousal Level: 1 ]
[ Resentment: 62 ]
[ Depression: 55 ]
'Resentment's gone up quite a bit, huh.'
Telling her while he groped her yesterday that "I have plenty of people on my side, but you have no one on yours" must have hit hard.
Her depression had climbed quite a bit too.
'I feel like I should bring the depression down somehow. Should I slap on a buff that gives her a secret little jolt of happiness every time I visit?'
He figured he'd buy her a meal tomorrow.
'Alright, time for the real work.'
After yesterday's attempt at making her come from her nipples alone actually succeeded, he'd grown genuinely interested in sensitivity development.
If he kept at it steadily every day like this, her nipples might end up so lewd that a few touches would make her climax instantly.
If all he wanted was resentment, the smartest play would be to wake her up right away and pin her down by force, but Hye-yong had his own thoughts on the matter.
'If I wake her up and start touching her without any development first, she'll just be in shock. She'd be so scared and confused she might not even feel any real pleasure.'
But if he completely developed her first and then pounced?
'Then even in the middle of all that confusion, her body would be going, why does this feel so good! That's the way to play it.'
Hye-yong knew perfectly well that anyone watching would tell him to quit reading so much doujinshi.
But with the buffs, he didn't think it was impossible.
Tonight, too, the act began: developing the Seed of Negation, and venting Hye-yong's own desires.
-
[ Sleep Depth: 71 ]
[ Arousal Level: 100 ]
Was it about time?
The very moment he thought that—
"Hyaaaaaahhh...!"
Squeak, squeak!
Lanfang's body heaved and shook, rattling the bed noisily.
After all his persistent caresses, tonight as well, Lanfang had climaxed from her nipples alone.
Even while asleep, her face was flushed bright red, and the way she twitched with her cheek buried in the pillow was adorable.
'Hoo. Maybe it's because I cranked the buff performance another notch, but that was fast.'
Last time it took at least over an hour.
This time felt like it hadn't even been thirty minutes.
The buff performance played a part, but considering he'd only raised each level by one, she seemed to be getting a lot easier to get off through her nipples.
'Alright... Let's go for a two-hitter today.'
This time, if only slightly, she came even faster.
"Hnn, hyat! Hyaaaaaaah!"
This time, wanting to see her hips lift, he'd gotten off her body and was watching the climax from the side.
When the climax hit, her pelvis lifted sharply, sank back down twice, then she writhed and twitched, thrashing around.
"Hyahh, hyahh, hyahh...!"
This time she must have felt especially good, because even her panting breath was laced with pleasure.
'My dick's about to explode again tonight.'
But it wasn't time yet.
He wasn't planning to turn her into some pathetic pervert who could only come from her nipples, and he couldn't just keep caressing her chest forever.
Hye-yong moved between Lanfang's legs and slid off her pajamas and underwear in one motion.
Once again, her secret place was fully exposed.
The first thing Hye-yong checked was the presence of a hymen.
'Oh... for fuck's sake.'
He'd half-jokingly expected it, but there it was. A hymen.
'So if you never actually break through it in reality, she just stays an eternal virgin.'
Honestly, it was exciting.
Hye-yong decided to take his time and gradually raise her sensitivity on this side as well.
[ Caress Technique ]
Learns techniques for caressing female genitals.
Pussy Caress Proficiency level 5
When caressing pussy, female's Pleasure Bonus level 5
'Damn. I made this myself, but the description is crass as hell. The other Awakened would lose their minds if they knew this buff existed, right?'
Even if this world didn't exactly seem big on feminism, it would definitely cause a scandal, and some government agency would probably haul him in and interrogate him about how he got a blessing like that.
He applied a Pleasure Enhancement Buff to the sleeping Lanfang as well and began the lower-body caress.
The Proficiency stat was basically the same as granting enlightenment itself.
Although Hye-yong was hardly experienced in caressing female genitals, under the effect of this buff, he could make Lanfang's precious parts feel good as if he'd known what he was doing from the very start.
Using his left hand, he spread the outer mound and visually confirmed the pretty, reddish inner flesh before softly blowing his breath against it.
Her legs folded up, instinctively trying to hide a precious place she shouldn't be showing others so thoughtlessly, but she couldn't—blocked by Hye-yong's back.
Starting from the inside, he used his index finger to sweep upward, gently gathering her arousal fluid onto her clitoris, pressing lightly and rubbing.
"Hnng...!"
Unlike her nipples, which were somewhat slow to react, the feedback came back immediately and eagerly.
[ Sleep Depth: 65 ]
[ Arousal Level: 53 ]
'Going well. Just get her off twice more through this, and I'll pull one out too.'
From here, he planned to use his tongue and go for cunnilingus.
Maybe because she was already wet, the sound of his tongue licking and sucking the little bud echoed out shamelessly—schlick, shlorp.
"Hah... Nnngh! Ahht...! Can't...!"
As the waves of pleasure repeated, she mumbled like she was sleep-talking and clawed at her pillow, even while unconscious.
[ Sleep Depth: 71 ]
[ Arousal Level: 100 ]
'Almost...'
Less than ten seconds after the Arousal Level hit 100, the signal announcing that pleasure had reached its limit burst out.
"Hyahht, haaahhh!"
Lanfang's back arched like a bow.
That description was perfectly literal.
"Huh-ahh... haahh... Hoo— hoo— hoo-ahh—."
Watching her breathe heavily after climaxing, settling down from the traces of intense pleasure—it shouldn't have been possible for it to be this arousing.
After making her climax one more time like that, he immediately yanked his pants down and pushed his cock, swollen to the limit, inside her.
Shlrk...
"Aahk, ah-hk, gkrrk...!"
Shlrp.
'Ah, this is insane. Fucking incredible...'
Maybe because he'd loosened her up thoroughly with the caressing, it went in far more smoothly than yesterday.
Seemed like proof that Lanfang was considerably aroused too.
Her Arousal Index was indeed high, even though she'd just climaxed.
She might be able to get off from vaginal stimulation tonight.
'Shall I erase the buff and put on a new one?'
[ Sex Technique ]
Learns techniques to make the other party feel the best possible during sex.
Sexual Mastery level 5
Female's Pleasure Bonus during sex level 5
He could have raised it further, but he felt like relying too much on the buffs would make it less fun, so he capped it around level 5.
The moment the buff was applied, he started the reciprocating motion.
'Let's try to hold out a bit longer today...!'
Lanfang might have been so aroused that she accepted him more smoothly than yesterday, but the way her insides clamped down like mad, as if trying to squeeze the intruder to death, hadn't changed one bit.
Both going in and pulling out, it delivered such intense pleasure that Hye-yong became a fool who couldn't do anything but move his hips.
Even in the middle of it, Hye-yong was learning through the effect of his Proficiency Buff.
"Hnng...!"
Watching Lanfang's reactions.
"Ahhhnnng...!"
Which spot, how, and at what intensity to thrust so she felt it the most without pain.
[ Sleep Depth: 49 ]
[ Arousal Level: 67 ]
When the Sleep Depth dropped, he stopped his hips to catch his breath and slowly drove her arousal level upward.
But the sheer intensity of the pleasure was so overwhelming that the limit arrived in no time.
'Ah... I really can't hold it anymore. Already coming...!'
He pressed his pelvis flush against her and rammed his shaft, which had been halfway out, as deep as it could go.
The tip of his cock slid in with a shluup and slammed hard against her deepest point.
The instant that electric sensation rode up to his brain, the thick semen he'd been holding back and holding back gushed out powerfully inside her.
Splurt! Splurt! Splurt!
Once, twice, three times... He'd held it for so long it just kept coming.
It felt like the biggest load he'd ever shot in his life.
Only after he'd poured out eight spurts did the pleasure flooding his brain begin to drain away, replaced by a creeping sense of regret.
[ Sleep Depth: 61 ]
[ Arousal Level: 87 ]
'Lanfang didn't get there...'
Still, he figured leaving her in this halfway state wasn't so bad either.
There was a playstyle called teasing, where you got them all worked up but never let them finish.
And just like that, every night he came to her Inner World and developed her sensitivity for an entire week.
Clear changes began to manifest in Lanfang's body.