Ability Sharing
Ability Sharing
"So, Su-bin-ah. Please help your hyung."
"Me, help hyung?"
"Yeah, you help me. Here, only you can help me."
Considering Su-bin's age, I tried saying a chuunibyou-like line.
It was a bit embarrassing, but it was worth enduring the embarrassment.
"O-of course I have to help you! Just tell me anything! I'll help you with all my might!"
"Su-bin-ah! You shouldn't say things like that so carelessly!"
"I know, nuna. But Minsu-hyung saved nuna's life and mine, and he enhanced Lala and put the Full-body Suit on me. I think it's okay to say such things to Minsu-hyung."
Perhaps quite moved by my words, Su-bin's eyes sparkled as he asked me to ask him for anything.
Perhaps knowing I would ask Su-bin for an unreasonable favor, Ye-rin swallowed a groan with effort and chided Su-bin, but despite that, he didn't change his mind until the end.
"Su-bin-ah, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you listening to nuna like this? You were listening so well just a few days ago."
"Please understand, nuna. In a situation like this, I can't remain a child who only listens to nuna forever, can I?"
Perhaps Su-bin's appearance was unfamiliar to her, Ye-rin was visibly flustered.
At that, Su-bin held her hand and appealed to her that he needed to become an adult.
'His confidence is just overflowing, overflowing.'
I turned my head so Su-bin couldn't see and let out a hollow laugh.
It seems he gained confidence after catching a few zombies and is saying such things, but he seems to have forgotten whose help allowed him to catch those zombies in the first place.
Would Su-bin be able to say such things even after taking off the Full-body Suit?
I could bet all my assets that he wouldn't.
Moreover, the timing couldn't have been worse.
Right now, Ye-rin's mind was practically in tatters due to my rape and Lala's control.
In such a situation, far from providing stability with his usual self, he was causing confusion with his changed appearance.
From Ye-rin's perspective, it was definitely not welcome.
"Nuna, you can understand, right?"
"...Yeah."
As expected, Ye-rin didn't say a single positive word; she just nodded weakly.
Despite that, Su-bin didn't notice anything strange and was simply happy.
Did he think her blushing face and weak nod were a shy reaction, newly smitten by his own maturity?
Unfortunately, the reality was different.
Her face was flushed because of my butt caress, and she nodded weakly due to sorrow and disappointment.
Reading her thoughts through Lala, I found that Ye-rin was currently anxious that Su-bin might grow up and leave her someday, abandoning her to go somewhere else.
'Chance.'
Rape is good too, but I still preferred pure love.
I couldn't miss this chance to build affection just like that.
"Su-bin-ah, you've grown a lot as a man. As a fellow man, I congratulate you. I'm sorry to say this at a time like this, but could you go tell Teacher Choi that you'll join the Scavenging Team?"
"Huh? Yes, I understand. But what was the favor hyung was going to ask?"
"I'll tell you that after you go and come back, when we go out to scavenge."
"Understood. I'll be right back."
Su-bin, who thought Ye-rin was newly smitten by his mature charm, left the staff room without much thought.
At the same time, I,
"W-wait a minute! What are you trying to do again, mmph!"
I pulled Ye-rin into my arms and pressed my lips against hers.
Right on cue, Lala assimilated her with love for me.
"Ye-rin-ah, don't worry. I will never leave your side."
"What is that, mmph! *Smooch!* Wait, don't kiss me right now, hawp! *Smooch!* I feel, I feel strange, chwurup!"
At first, Ye-rin adamantly refused the kiss.
But as I looked straight into her eyes and whispered that I wouldn't leave her side, and wouldn't let her go either, she slowly began to entwine her tongue with mine.
After a while, by the time Su-bin was about to return,
"Hawp *smooch*♥ *Lick* chwuuuu♥"
She was like a lover, clinging tightly to my neck and actively kissing me.
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Not long after Su-bin returned, we immediately left the school.
While jumping between buildings to find a place to scavenge supplies, Su-bin subtly approached and asked me.
"Hyung, you didn't scold Ye-rin-nuna again, did you?"
"No, I didn't."
"But why is Ye-rin-nuna trying to distance herself from hyung like that? Even when I returned, she was surprisingly startled. Could it be because she thought I might have caught her being scolded...?"
"No, it's not like that."
She was greatly startled when Su-bin returned, not because she was being scolded, but because she thought he might have caught her kissing me, and her current attempt to distance herself from me was due to embarrassment and confusion.
But Su-bin, who had no way of knowing that, didn't withdraw his suspicious gaze from me.
Although I didn't particularly like that gaze, considering his contribution to creating the best chance, I decided to leave him be.
He's already unknowingly having his woman NTR'd, wouldn't it be too pitiful if I didn't even allow him that? Don't you think?
And in NTR, a suspicious gaze was nothing short of the best seasoning to add a thrilling flavor.
"Well, if hyung says so. But hyung, what was the favor you were going to ask me? We've set off, so tell me now."
"Shall I?"
I momentarily stopped the group.
Seul-bi and Ye-rin, who were ahead, approached me with puzzled expressions.
I spoke without unnecessary delay.
"You remember how I used a skill to share Ye-rin's Skill-Fire Affinity with Lala, right?"
"Yes, I remember."
"What kind of skill did you create that makes something like that possible?"
"That's right, hyung. That skill is too much of a cheat."
"It's not just the effect of that one skill. It's thanks to several skills creating synergy. Anyway, when skill sharing succeeded, I thought: If skills are possible, wouldn't Special Abilities also be possible?"
The moment I said that, the party members, without exception, gaped with their mouths open and froze solid.
To that extent, what I said, the sharing of Special Abilities, was absurd.
*Gulp!*
"I really hope it's possible. If it is, our survival rate will increase exponentially."
"Is that all, unnie? If we do it right, we could even rule the world! Hey, Kim Minsu! Try it quickly, quickly! I'm so curious I'm getting dizzy!"
"That's right, hyung! Try it quickly!"
"Then, without further ado."
At the urging of the party members, I quickly tried Ability Sharing.
The Special Ability I would attempt to share was Ye-rin's Flamethrower.
This was because I already had a successful record of skill sharing, and unlike Seul-bi's and Su-bin's Special Abilities, it would be clearly noticeable if it succeeded.
*Squish! Squish!*
Lala rooted her parasitic tentacles deeper into Ye-rin's body and increased the assimilation rate.
At the same time, Lala also increased her assimilation rate with me.
However, she didn't root parasitic tentacles like she did with Ye-rin.
This was because Lala and I were already deeply connected through our relationship as summoner and summoned creature, and through Skill-Telepathy.
'...I think I get it.'
The method to spew flames from my body.
As the assimilation rate with Lala increased, that method, as if it were a way of breathing, was naturally imprinted in my mind.
I extended my hand forward.
Following that, a massive flame that seemed capable of incinerating everything in the world,
*Pop!*
did not appear.
"Uh, well, it's a success, at least."
"No, unnie. What kind of success is this! Even a candle flame would be hotter than this!"
"Hyung, surely this isn't your full power? It's not, right? You're joking, right? Huh?"
At the extremely faint flame that shot out from my hand, the party members couldn't hide their disappointment.
But what to do about this?
It's still too early to be disappointed.
"Ugh."
"Minsu-ssi!"
"Hey! What's wrong with you all of a sudden!"
Mid-flamethrower, I collapsed weakly like a corpse.
My head was too dizzy; I couldn't stand up at all.
Seul-bi and Ye-rin, who quickly embraced me, soon looked at each other and spoke.
"Unnie, this seems to be because of that, doesn't it?"
"Yes, it seems his mental strength is depleted from using his psychic ability."
"To think his mental strength is already depleted just from spewing that much flame."
"It seems like Ability Sharing will be too difficult to use in actual combat."
That was true.
As I thought, the sharing of Special Abilities was possible.
However, there was a side effect I hadn't anticipated: its efficiency was simply too poor.
"Ah, not yet. Psychic abilities might be too much, but Physical Body Enhancement might be different."
While psychic abilities, which have mental strength as a cost, might be difficult to use, Physical Body Enhancement, which has no cost, could be a different story.
I didn't give up and ordered Lala to increase the assimilation rate with Su-bin.
My prediction,
*Flex! Flex!*
"Oh! Ooooh!"
was accurate this time too.