How to Drink Water
I had a brilliant idea. Pure genius, brain fully engaged.
"Let's eat first."
"Huh? Already?"
"What do you mean already? It's lunchtime. I brought lunchboxes too."
I pulled out the lunchbox container I'd stored in my inventory. "And we need to feed Han Chaei as well. She hasn't eaten anything since turning back into a human."
It had only just occurred to me. The timing was perfect.
"You're right! We should get something in her. Hurry and get down."
But Lee Hana wasn't one to be easily swayed.
"No, let's eat in the car. It'll be more comfortable."
"Comfortable? In this cramped space?"
It was a fair point. It really was tight in here.
"Since we're having lunchboxes anyway, wouldn't eating outside feel like a picnic? That'd be nice, right?"
I agreed with that sentiment, but this was a crisis situation! Even now, Han Chaei was squirming against me, rubbing her body against my cock.
"There isn't a safe place to eat outside anyway. If something happens and we need to move quickly, this is better. Let's go on a picnic next time."
"Hmm, I guess that's true. But we will go on a picnic, right?"
Lee Hana nodded, then gave me an expectant look while still driving.
"Yeah, sure, let's go."
I was trying to answer when Han Chaei suddenly shifted her hips, grinding against my shaft.
This feels insanely good.
The thrill was overwhelming. It felt like we were doing it behind Lee Hana's back, which multiplied the sense of taboo by several times.
I handed a lunchbox to the short-haired girl, and Lee Hana and I started eating too.
"But how are we supposed to feed Chaei?"
I tried to feed her, but she turned her head away. Still, she needed to eat. She was human now, not a zombie. She couldn't survive on nothing like one could.
Nom.
Then Han Chaei suddenly grabbed something and ate it. It was a grain of rice I'd dropped with my chopsticks.
"Ah, Chaei, don't eat that. It's dirty. Spit it out, spit it out."
Lee Hana tried to stop her in a panic, but she'd already swallowed it.
"Is this because... of my saliva?"
If I assumed it was due to the zombie instincts still lingering in Han Chaei, it made sense. Her aggro had been fixed entirely on me, showing an incredible level of obsession. I hadn't thought much of it before, but now the pieces were starting to fit together.
Come to think of it, it was strange how she could find my location even though she couldn't see or hear.
Maybe the prolonged aggro had intensified her fixation? Putting the hypotheses together, I reached a conclusion.
Both the instinct to obsess over me and the instinct to try to eat me remained in Han Chaei. But since she'd become my slave, I was an unattackable target, so she couldn't bite me directly. Instead, she'd eaten the grains of rice that had my saliva on them.
"Can't be helped. Should I mix my spit in it?"
"What the hell are you saying?!"
Lee Hana snapped at me.
"Well, what else can I do? I can't exactly feed her mouth-to-mouth."
Lee Hana's jaw dropped again as if she'd been hit with another shock. That was her fourth shock today. I'd unconsciously started counting how many times she got shocked.
She's not going to ask me to feed her too, is she?
I didn't say that out loud. I was afraid of the consequences.
Let's just get her to eat first.
I lightly licked a clean spoon, then scooped some rice and side dishes onto it and offered it to her. Han Chaei pulled back slightly from me.
"Nom."
Thankfully, she accepted it.
"This much is okay, right?"
"It can't be helped, so I'll overlook it. Let's find another way next time."
It was a cheerful and pleasant mealtime.
BOOM!
The mutant that had been thrown from the rooftop to the ground stood back up. This time I'd crippled both its legs but left both arms intact. As if it didn't care that its legs were ruined, it crawled toward us at incredible speed.
"I'll be right back."
"Fighting!"
With Lee Hana's playful cheer, I immediately ran off.
Tatatatat!
Han Chaei was still clinging tightly to me. I could feel the full softness of her breasts pressing against my arm.
"Oh, right. I haven't given her water yet."
She'd been sweating earlier but hadn't drunk any water once. At this rate, she might get dehydrated.
I tried pouring water onto the spoon like before, but she just licked it. At this pace, it'd take forever for her to finish.
"Come here."
I pulled Han Chaei behind the fire truck. I took a mouthful of water, pressed my lips to hers, and fed her directly.
Slurp.
Gulp. Gulp.
She sucked it down urgently, as if she didn't want to waste a single drop. Even after she'd drunk all the water, Han Chaei didn't pull her mouth away. Then, as if she'd finally discovered something delicious, she eagerly tangled her tongue with mine.
Chuuup, chuurup, jjoop, chup.
An incredible wave of pleasure and thrill washed over me. An unspeakable sense of taboo completely took over my body. Naturally, my hand moved to her ass.
"Mmmh, huum, ung."
When I squeezed her butt hard, Han Chaei let out a moan. I was insanely turned on. My fully erect cock throbbed as it rubbed against her stomach.
Chuurup, jjuup, chuuup, jjop, chuuuup, chup.
I slightly bent my waist and slipped my cock between her thighs.
Smack!
Old habits die hard. Without thinking, I'd slapped her ass. Han Chaei trembled.
"Huuuuu."
She let out a nasal sound that seemed to say it felt good.
Ah, fuck, I'm so horny. I want to fuck her so bad.
If Han Chaei and I had been alone, I wouldn't have been able to hold back. Just then, Lee Hana finished off the mutant, so I quickly pulled away.
"Uuuung."
When I separated our mouths, Han Chaei kept trying to kiss me again with a look of disappointment, which was awkward. Especially since Lee Hana was coming back.
I barely managed to pry her off and ordered her not to touch my lips. Even so, Han Chaei kept sending me longing glances. Those looks felt good too.
A girl this pretty is desperately wanting to kiss me and doesn't know what to do with herself. Fuck, that's hot.
Whether it was because she liked me or because of her instincts was a question for later.
"Good work, Hana."
"Yeah! And an item dropped!"
"Oh, what is it?!"
"A cure!"
"Nice! Another one. As expected of you, Hana."
Now we had one extra cure in reserve.
"They're coming this way. Let's head back now."
"Okay. Hehehe."
Lee Hana, excited about getting another cure, got into the car. I summoned an Altar beneath the abandoned mutant corpse, burned it, then climbed in with Han Chaei. Before leaving, I dragged one more mutant over.
Bang!
Shweeeek—!
An arrow from the longbow flew to its maximum range.
"Floor it."
"Yes!"
And then I turned on the siren.
Weeeeeeeng— Weeeeeeeng— Weeeeeeeng—
Last time we didn't have enough time to find a new mutant, but in this area, I could still see a few. One wave, one mutant—I couldn't pass that up.
On the way back, I summoned towers at intervals to buy time, luring them all the way near the apartment. And then—
Ziiiiiii—
The moment the red line was drawn across the sky, the game of tag was over.
KWAAAAANG!!
The mutant was crushed beyond recognition.
"Whoa.... No matter how many times I see it, it's terrifying."
"Why are you scared? It's protecting you."
"Still, doesn't it give you chills? It's like getting bombed or something."
"Maybe. Anyway, you don't need to be afraid of it. It's a tower that protects you. Just think of it as reliable, yeah?"
"Hehe, yeah, you're right."
She probably wouldn't be scared anymore.
I'll check what dropped later.
We returned to the apartment first. The swarm of zombies that had gathered was handled by the raid members. This battle's main goal had been to let the new recruits gain experience.
"Ugh, damn...."
In the end, no item dropped from the mutant. Well, it didn't matter. There would be plenty more gacha chances anyway. I had no idea how many we'd kill before the first wave ended.
"Good work, Hana."
"Yeah, you too, Suhyuk. Ready to head back?"
"Yeah, let's go."
But what about Han Chaei?
"Should I take Chaei with me?"
"I'd appreciate it if you could."
She showed no signs of letting go.
"Can't be helped. I'll take her."
"Um, in that case..."
Lee Hana trailed off hesitantly.
"Should I... help take care of her too?"
What was she saying? No way.
"You're saying you'll come to our house?"
"No, but it can't be helped, right?! Chaei needs someone to look after her!"
As expected, Lee Hana was kind. She was offering to help because it would be hard for me to take care of her alone. But—
"Ah, it's fine."
I didn't live alone.
"Wait, you're not planning to do weird stuff to her just because she's not mentally all there, are you?"
Guilty as charged.
"Of course not! What do you take me for?!"
There were so many things I felt guilty about that I didn't even know where to start.
"That's not what I meant. I just meant it's fine because my sister is there too."
"Ah...."
Lee Hana flinched at my words. Why was her expression like that?
"Okay then, see you tomorrow. If you need any help, just tell me anytime!"
She was clearly speaking brightly with a smile, but she didn't look happy. She seemed a bit lonely, if anything.
Lee Hana waved and headed home.
No way. Why would she feel lonely? She has her brother.
When I thought about it again, it seemed like I was overthinking. Come to think of it, she still hadn't met Yeonhee noona. Should I introduce them later?
No, that somehow feels like a bad idea.
I quickly dropped the thought. The three years I'd survived in the apocalypse were sounding alarm bells in my head.
Yeah, I'll think about it later.
I looked down at Han Chaei, who had her face buried in my chest.
"Chaei, can you let go a bit? We need to move if we're going home, right?"
She was hugging me from the front, making it hard to walk.
"Han Chaei, put your feet on top of mine. No, one at a time."
She'd tried to put both feet on my right one, so I made her do one at a time. This was why coding was important.
I took one step, then another, just like that. It looked like we were imitating a couple who couldn't dance in a movie.
How do they dance in movies anyway?
The constant soft sensation was keeping me from going soft. Maybe a piggyback ride would be better.
"Han Chaei, get on my back."
She immediately jumped on as if she'd been waiting for it. She seemed to like pouncing on me like a zombie.
Damn.
A piggyback ride wasn't exactly a great idea either. You had to bend forward for those. But—
I'm gonna get a hernia at this rate.
The overwhelming sensation of her massive breasts pressing and rubbing against me made it impossible to straighten my back. Somehow, we made it home. I deliberately took the stairs. It was quite a rewarding experience.
But how the hell am I supposed to explain this?
Just thinking about explaining made me feel like the world was going dark.
I knocked on the door.
"Suhyuk?"
"Yeah, noona."
She opened the door. Noona greeted me with a bright smile, then tilted her head with a 'Who is this?' look on her face.
"Suhyuk. Who's the girl you're carrying on your back?"
"Hahaha, that's a long story. Can we talk inside?"
"Sure, come in."
Contrary to what I'd expected, she didn't seem upset or like she was about to ask why I'd brought a girl home. Or so I thought—until I heard her murmur as we passed by, "This girl is incredibly pretty?"
Someone save me.
My survival instincts, honed over three years in the apocalypse, were screaming at me to run.