Episode 48: Corporal punishment combined with weakness training.
A mess.
If I had to summarize Lee Hye-ri's current state in one word, that would be it.
The scratches from failing to properly block the practice spear were inflamed and red, and her clothes were torn to shreds where the spear had grazed her.
The rash guard that had covered her entire body was now completely shredded, save for the parts covering her chest and pelvis.
I had intended it, to some extent.
To be precise, I hadn't intentionally aimed for those spots.
It was my own way of being considerate toward Lee Hye-ri.
Recently, she had been exposed quite a lot because of me.
I had decided to go easy on her, thinking it would be too much for a young lady who wasn't used to exposure and seemed to have almost no sexual experience.
The problem was.
The fact that it was torn everywhere except for those two spots made it look even more erotic.
"Which punishment will you choose?"
Lee Hye-ri bit her lip as she stared at the list of punishments.
In the bag I had brought, the tools for her punishment were waiting silently.
Punishment combined with striking countermeasure training.
Punishment combined with burn countermeasure training.
Punishment combined with laceration countermeasure training.
Punishment combined with weakness countermeasure training.
She had already experienced striking and laceration training once.
Both must have been embarrassing experiences for her.
Burns? She must remember me saying it was a punishment involving dripping candle wax.
If she had a candle wax fetish, she would choose this, but if not?
'She'll choose the last one remaining.'
Punishment for weakness training.
"What exactly do you think my weakness is?"
"I don't want to spoil it. If you're curious, pick this."
"Ugh......"
Lee Hye-ri rolled her eyes, deep in thought.
But in the end, there was only one answer.
"I, I'll go with the weakness punishment."
"I thought you would. It's the best training. It's also the training you need the most."
"Wh, what is my weakness?"
"Your weakness? It's that you're too aggressive."
"And?"
"To compensate for that weakness, you need to maintain a defensive posture."
"A defensive posture?"
The evasion-tank role that Lee Hye-ri needs to play requires fast transitions between offense and defense.
It's a high-difficulty position where one must go all-out on offense to draw the enemy's aggro, but once the aggro is drawn, one must be able to parry the enemy's attacks multiple times.
What if the transition between offense and defense is slow?
The attack would fly in before she could even dodge, making proper countermeasures impossible.
That wouldn't do.
She can double as a dealer, but she is, strictly speaking, a tanker.
If she can't protect the team, she's no different from a dealer.
"We're going to enter a holding phase while maintaining a defensive posture."
"A holding phase...... that's the same as when we train."
"Is that so?"
I taught her the posture.
"Spread your legs a bit wider than shoulder-width, bend your knees slightly, hold the spear, lift the arm holding the spear up, and push your chest out a little."
"I, is this really correct?"
A somewhat shameful posture was completed, with the inside of her crotch and her lower body fully exposed, revealing a slight outline, and her chest shape clearly protruding.
"Yes."
A defensive posture to compensate for the weakness of being too aggressive.
......was a lie to deceive Lee Hye-ri.
In reality, this was a punishment to humiliate her.
The point was that she took it seriously.
The shame she would feel later when she realized she had been tricked.
Since she had already taken off her clothes and had various things done to her in front of me, I had no choice but to trick her.
She would hate it if she knew the truth, but it couldn't be helped.
Punishment has to be harsh.
The goal of the punishment was simple.
A program to make the cheeky Lee Hye-ri obedient to her tutor.
The more she disliked the punishment, the harder she would work to avoid receiving it, and that would directly increase the efficiency of the lessons.
I watched such a Hye-ri closely.
As she spread her legs and raised her arms, the clothes that were already almost torn to pieces couldn't do their job and couldn't cover anything.
Realizing this, Lee Hye-ri flinched, trying to cover her chest with the hand holding the spear.
"Don't cover it. Are you going to cover yourself when you're fighting, too?"
"Bu, but...... it's embarrassing."
"Are you planning on being embarrassed in the dungeon, too?"
"Ugh......"
Lee Hye-ri, who had raised both arms high again, flinched.
"It's embarrassing......"
Lee Hye-ri's face, exposing her pussy and breasts, turned increasingly red.
Every time she flinched, her areola, which was barely covered, was slightly revealed.
Lee Hye-ri herself didn't seem to notice.
She started to tremble.
Even for a hunter, it wasn't easy to maintain the same posture.
Moreover, the spear she was holding right now was for dungeon combat and was dozens of times heavier than a normal spear.
Trembling while holding the spear, she bit her lip tightly.
"Maintain the posture."
I tapped the inside of her trembling thigh with my hand.
"Kyaa!"
"Your posture is slipping. Do it properly."
"Ugh......"
"It's still comfortable, isn't it? You don't have to get spanked or hit with a whip like last time."
"St, stop talking."
"Why? You resisted back then too, but you secretly liked it."
Lee Hye-ri shut her mouth.
She didn't reply.
What?
Did she actually like it?
"Wh, who said I liked it......"
I grabbed Lee Hye-ri's waist with my hand to correct her posture as it was about to collapse.
"Eek!"
"Keep your back straight."
That way, I can see better.
"Your arm keeps dropping."
"Huuu......"
30 minutes.
As time passed, sweat poured down her entire body.
The clothes she had been wearing, which were already torn and barely functioning as clothes, soaked up the sweat and became heavy, sliding down slightly. Because of that, her breasts were fully exposed.
Her pink nipples were erect and swaying.
Lee Hye-ri, who was struggling just to maintain her posture, didn't seem to have the capacity to care whether her nipples were exposed or not.
I pinched Lee Hye-ri's nipple slightly with my fingers.
"Kyaaak! Te, Teacher!"
"Are you coming to your senses now?"
"Th, that just now......"
"Focus. Your posture is slipping."
I made Lee Hye-ri focus.
She, who had been about to argue, corrected her posture again.
Now, even her torn leggings were hanging down in tatters. Thanks to that, the slit of her pussy was visible.
The clitoris, peeking out from between the swollen pussy lips at her crotch, was moist.
I didn't bother to check if it was because of sweat or something else.
But seeing that it was a bit viscous.
"Seonsaeng-nim....... How long is this punishment going to last......?"
Lee Hye-ri, trembling and desperately holding on.
Her eyes were wishing for this to end here.
But Lee Hye-ri didn't know that this was just the starting point.
The shame of being forced to feel under the guise of training, and the shame of realizing the truth.
The control of these two had to be perfect.
Since she was different from Yoo A-ra, a more delicate tempo adjustment was needed.
"Haa, haa."
Her breathing was getting rougher.
"Don't straighten your knees, keep them bent. Your arms are dropping too."
"Ugh......"
The clothes she had been wearing had already lost their function, revealing even the shameful parts, and her skin was glistening with the sweat flowing over her entire body.
Her red lips, slightly parted as she let out rough breaths, began to dry up.
Her eyes were slightly unfocused.
The stamina she had consumed while learning the Cheonryu Spear Technique had long since hit rock bottom.
Now, she was holding on with mental strength.
Lee Hye-ri, looking at me with trembling, unfocused eyes.
The moment her eyes pleaded.
"Good. That's it."
Clang!
"Huuu......"
I caught Lee Hye-ri with both hands as her legs gave out and she collapsed.
"Haa, haa, Seonsaeng-nim....... I did it."
"Well done."
Lee Hye-ri, looking at me with faint eyes, was filled with a sense of accomplishment for having done it.
And now, it was time to tell her the true meaning of the punishment.
"Actually."
"......?"
"There's no such thing as a defensive posture."
"......Yes?"
Lee Hye-ri asked back with her mouth slack as if she had lost all strength.
A question mark was drawn on her face.
"What you just did is actually just a meaningless posture."
"Th, then......"
"It was to make you feel ashamed."
"Eeeeek!"
Lee Hye-ri, her face flushed red, tried to slap my cheek with her trembling hand.
However, her hand, which had already been pushed to the limit, was helplessly caught in my hand.
I covered Lee Hye-ri's resisting body with a blanket I had prepared in advance.
"I made you feel that there is no such thing as an easy punishment."
"Haa, haa."
"But I like this one the best. It also serves as physical training."
Lee Hye-ri's face turned bright red.
She seemed to have a lot to say, but perhaps she lacked the strength, as she only moved her lips.
"Still, it was a good sight."
"What is? You liked seeing my naked body?"
"No. The fact that you listened to me even at the cost of your clothes being torn off. Honestly, I was moved. I thought you would give up halfway."
"......Complimenting me now won't make me less angry."
"I'm not saying it to make you feel better. Just as you took the punishment seriously, I will teach you with all my heart."
"......."
I stroked Lee Hye-ri's hair, who was pouting, and said.
I understand her being angry.
"I promise you. I'll make sure you're called a proper tanker within this year."
"That...... is a foul."
Lee Hye-ri said, glaring at me.
Still, she looked less angry than before.
I handed Lee Hye-ri water mixed with Merubasa's Bone Powder.
After glaring at me for a moment, she drank the water like a baby bird.
I held her silently until she finished drinking all the Merubasa water.
She seemed to have regained some energy now.
Her unfocused eyes had returned, and she put strength into the hand holding the blanket covering her body.
"And."
"......?"
"The real thing is definitely better than the photos."
"What is?"
"You know? The photos you sent."
I smiled playfully and flicked my finger on Lee Hye-ri's forehead, giving her a light flick.
Snap!
"Ouch!"
"I'm leaving now. Rest until you recover."
"Seonsaeng-nim! You're really bad!"
Lee Hye-ri's face turned bright red.
She had a look that suggested she realized what I meant.
Still, seeing her react only that much, she's improved a lot.
If it were before, she would have gritted her teeth and followed me out, right?
'Ah, is it because her clothes are all torn?'
I left her house, thinking about trivial things.
"Ugh......"
I got played.
I got played. I was completely played.
That teacher, he spoke as if this was serious training, and then.......
I felt bad thinking I had been tricked.
But I didn't feel any worse than that.
I felt a slight sense of betrayal, but I knew he wasn't doing this just to satisfy his own desires.
This was all a process for training.
So, I could forgive him.
Kim Si-woo said.
-I'll make sure you're called a proper tanker within this year.
-I promise you.
My heart raced the moment I heard Kim Si-woo's promise.
Because I felt it was possible, just as he said.
Because I felt like I could become a tanker.
She herself felt that she was gradually improving.
Really, perhaps.
I felt like I could become a tanker, which everyone said was impossible.
That must be why.
Perhaps, that's why.
Thump-thump.
My heart is still racing like this.
"Phew, that was tough."
Today was particularly difficult.
It seems it was a more demanding lesson because I had to teach her the newly realized Cheonryu Spear Technique.
Still, I finished it safely.
Now, I just have to wait until Lee Hye-ri realizes that doctrine.
"Should I have a beer at home to celebrate?"
Do I have beer?
Just in case, I went into a convenience store to see if I should buy one.
Jingle!
I opened the door, and.
Thud!
Something bumped into my chest.
"Kyaa!"
With a shrill scream, the woman who was just opening the door to leave bumped into me and sat down on the floor.
The items she was holding spilled out as she, wearing a deep hood, fell.
"Ah, I'm sorry. Are you okay?"
I asked, checking the woman who had bumped into me.
"I, I, I'm okay. Just passing......"
Her voice was so small that I couldn't hear anything properly other than that she was okay.
Thanks to the deep hood, I couldn't see the woman's face properly.
Still, one thing was certain.
She was an incredibly passive woman.
Not only was it impossible to make eye contact with me, but she couldn't even speak properly.
I helped her, as she was hurriedly gathering her things with trembling hands.
After putting the woman's things in another bag, I handed it to her, hooded as she was.
"Here you go."
"U, uuaaa....... Th, th, thank you. I'm s, s, sorry for bumping into you."
The woman, with her head bowed low, left the spot as if running away.
Anyone would think that woman was the one at fault, not me.
I couldn't even answer her as she walked away.
"What was that?"
She was a woman like the wind, something like that.
Watching the back of the woman walking away, I saw a rubber band that had fallen to the ground.
It was a thick bracelet that glittered purple.
"A bracelet......?"
That belongs to that woman from earlier, right?