Kingmaker (End)
"I'm moving."
Carefully, rhythmically, he began to thrust.
Squelch. Squelch...!
"Nngh...!"
Sora squeezed her eyes shut and bit down hard, trying with everything she had to endure the pain.
Squelch, squelch, squelch...!
"Nnh... haah... haang... huaaang...!"
But the more he repeated the motion, the more pleasure began to bleed into the moans spilling from Sora's lips. Yes — her inner walls welcomed his cock as if greeting an old friend, and Jeong Hoon felt a rush of pure delight at the sensation.
So he pushed a little harder.
Tap.
Ah. Something just... I touched something. Wait... is that...?
"Huaaat!? Haang! Huaaaaang... haaaaang...!!"
The moment that sensation combined with the increased pace, Sora's voice shot up. She cried out with abandon, completely forgetting that someone might be in the next room. Her legs, stretched to their limit, wrapped tightly around his waist. Her nails dug into his back hard enough to nearly break the skin.
But the joy and ecstasy flooding through him from his penis — which had forced its way past her inner walls and reached the mouth of her womb — made him forget every bit of that pain.
No... it's even more intense!
"Kh... I'm... coming...!"
He'd been holding on somehow ever since her walls had started clamping down so hard, but he couldn't take it anymore. How long had he even been inside her? Already...? Seriously, how long had it been?
The moment he whispered that, Han Sora suddenly released her arms from around his back.
"Y-your haaands... huaaang...!"
He understood. She wanted him to lace their fingers together.
Apparently Han Sora was right on the edge of climax herself. That was why she was asking — so they could reach it together, like true lovers.
So he took her hands, and whispered against her ear.
"Let's go together, Sora."
Still moaning, she answered almost unconsciously.
"Y-yeesss...! Huaaaaang...!"
The instant he heard that reply, he drove his hips forward and buried himself as deep as he could go.
Han Sora's waist arched as if she'd been struck by lightning. At the same time, her inner walls clenched down with crushing force — squeeze! — wringing his cock for everything it was worth.
I really can't hold— I'm coming!
Spurt, spuuurt! Spuuuuurt!
"Huaaaaaaang...!"
With a climax so overwhelming it stunned even him, Sora gushed with her own fluids and came hard right along with him.
"Haa... haa... haa... haa..."
"Hoo... hoo..."
His first time having sex had gone far better than expected.
Honestly, he'd figured that when the moment came he'd freeze up and not even be able to find the entrance... but the second he left it to instinct (read: Lawful Good), it found its way just fine. And every caress meant to turn Han Sora on — he'd handed those over to instinct too — and the results had been incredible. The way she'd writhed and melted for him said it all.
Carefully, he drew his hips back and pulled his condom-sheathed penis free of Sora's pussy. Whoa... that blunt bulge at the tip... I came that much?
...And, ahem. I know it's bad form to discuss a woman's chastity right after sleeping with her, but... yeah. Sora really was a virgin. There wasn't a lot of it, but there was a little blood.
"O-Oppa..."
He'd half expected her to pass out after that thunderous climax, but somehow Sora clung to consciousness and whispered faintly against his ear.
"P-please... never throw me away..."
As if I'd ever do that.
A snort of laughter rose inside him. Why on earth would he throw away a girl this good at making a man's cock happy — a girl who helped him in so many other ways besides? A man had standards.
Instead of answering with words, he pressed his lips to those of their Han Sora — the girl who'd gifted him such joy and pleasure with that heavenly body of hers.
Smack...
"Heheh..."
Sora nestled into his arms, looking blissfully content.
Soft, even breathing. The sound of her drifting off. Hearing it settled something in his own chest. He carefully removed the condom, tied it off, and — well, he couldn't just leave it on the floor, so he tossed it out the window.
After a rough cleanup with the tissues and wet wipes kept nearby, he stayed right there on the sofa and lay down beside Sora.
In the hours sliding toward dawn, the man and woman who had shared their passion on that sofa fell asleep in each other's arms without so much as a thought of washing up.
Of course, the far less pleasant truth was that they woke up less than five hours later, scrambled in a panic over the leftover evidence of their night together, and ended up taking turns bolting into the bathroom for a lightning-fast shower.
April 15th.
"I-I'm going in! Multi Shot!"
"That's it, unnie... nice work! Three headshots, dead on!"
"Hehehe... I-I did good, right? Ah, ow ow ow... my crotch again..."
"Hmm... Sora's been awfully... today..."
"A-ahem..."
Kim Seyeon wore a distinctly intrigued little smile as she carefully looked back and forth between Jeong Hoon's face and Han Sora, who was hunting zombies in the distance alongside Park Seeun.
Strangely enough, after their night together, Sora had become even more proactive. Of course, the second she declared she was going to charge in full force, she'd clutched her pelvis and groaned in pain, which only made things far more embarrassing for him.
Still, she was now actively pairing up with Seeun, and the two of them had started properly leveraging the strengths of a ranged DPS–melee DPS combo. Thanks to that partnership alone, they'd already wiped out more than eighty zombies today.
"About Sora. When she talks with us, she's whispered it several times — how she feels about you, Jeong Hoon. Well, not in so many words, but... you know, don't you? How much she depends on you, and how unshakable her faith in you is."
Yeah... hard to deny that.
It had started on the second day they'd met, hadn't it? After watching him hunt, Sora had begun looking up to him even more. Whatever faint suspicion had lingered in her eyes before was gone now, replaced by something close to fierce devotion.
"That girl, really. She only did it for the first time yesterday, so her back and hips and everything down there must be killing her, and yet she's out there like that... Hmm, I suppose the power of love really is something~"
Kim Seyeon murmured it with obvious amusement, and Jeong Hoon absolutely did not respond. Not because he was embarrassed. N-no reason at all...!
"I'm envious of Sora..."
Huh...? Did Teacher Kim Seyeon just whisper something?
"Teacher Kim Seyeon, just now—"
"W-well then. It's shift change, isn't it? Shift change? Shall we get going, Jeong Hoon?"
The way Kim Seyeon brushed it off looked painfully awkward to anyone watching.
At any rate, Day Three of the power-leveling plan went far more smoothly than yesterday or the day before. Part of it was Sora's little "awakening," sure — but more than anything, the group of men who'd approached them yesterday never showed up.
Which made sense. They were hunting somewhere completely different from the spot they'd mentioned yesterday. And he'd made a promise right in front of them that he wouldn't allow those bastards anywhere near Han Sora.
Thanks to that, their band of survivors could focus entirely on the hunt — and before long, tremendous news arrived.
"I-I did it. Lord Level 10..."
"R-really?"
"Congratulations, Hyejin unnie!"
Seo Hyejin stared blankly into empty air as she announced she'd hit Level 10. The others lit up at the news and crowded around her. Even as she accepted their congratulations, Seo Hyejin remained absorbed in whatever was floating in front of her — a system window, no doubt — reading something under her breath in a daze.
You may now designate a stronghold and declare it as your territory.
Upon declaring a territory, the Lord class will be granted the rank of Baron, and a guild will be founded automatically.
Guild name and emblem may be freely chosen and designed.
WARNING! All hostile entities within the stronghold must be completely eliminated before it can be selected and declared as a territory.
"...That's what the notification window says," she finished.
"Fortunate indeed."
"W-whoa... then! If it's right now, when there are no zombies or monsters around...!"
Park Seeun's awe was only natural. The purified zone spreading around them was living proof that this was the perfect window for a Lord class to found a territory and begin developing it.
All that remained was choosing a building worthy of serving as their stronghold.
And that decision came with some rather complicated considerations.
"First, it has to be a large building that can house a lot of people. Not just our current survivors — we need space for prospective guild members who'll join us going forward. The best candidates would be... the mixed-use residential complexes down in the southern part of XX-gu."
Unlike the northern side of XX-gu, where Haengbok Villa currently stood, the southern area near Daengdaeng Elementary School was relatively packed with large buildings. The mixed-use complexes were concentrated entirely on that side. The problem was...
"Th-that is... the apartment I was staying in was a mixed-use complex too, and... um, the orcs broke through and I got captured..."
"A-actually, I was staying in one of those too, and then monsters came pouring out, so..."
"Same here. Doesn't really seem like a safe structure..."
Han Sora and the other survivors' reactions were less than enthusiastic.
Under normal circumstances, nothing beat a mixed-use complex for lodging — but in a world crawling with monsters and zombies, that was a different story. The biggest issue was their location on wide-open main roads. Big, open streets? That just meant zombies and monsters could roam freely.
A building tucked into a narrow alley like the villa he was staying in was far superior in terms of security and safety.
Or else...
"...If what we need is a large building that can house many people... what about something like that?"
He pointed somewhere. Seo Hyejin and the other survivors followed his gaze. A few of them nodded, finding the idea plausible.
"Certainly, if it's that place..."
"That could work."
"H-huh... over there..."
What he'd pointed to was a dormitory.
A university student dormitory built atop the tallest, flattest hill in XX-gu. A residence for the male students of ▲▲ University, which sat in the neighboring district.
And, in all likelihood, the building where Kim Suhyeok and his underlings were holed up.
"Jeong Hoon, are you by any chance..."
"If the word that comes to mind is plunder... then you have the right of it."
"I thought as much."
He answered before Teacher Kim Seyeon had even finished speaking. She nodded in understanding.
That was right. He had...
already begun mapping out a plan to raid Kim Suhyeok's nest.
And not just that — a way to fold the whole thing seamlessly into their leveling plan.