The Skilled Evasion Tanker
As planned yesterday, I headed out to hunt mutants with the squad leaders and Chaei.
I'm sorry, Hana! But I need to level up the squad leaders to make things easier for me.
Hana's disappointed face flashed through my mind.
Still, it couldn't be helped.
Going separately was far more efficient.
"Briefing before we start."
"Yes."
I explained everything just like last time.
This time, I'd be taking on the role of evasion tanker.
I really don't have time for this shit.
Me? Dodging one-on-one against dungeon bosses?
Honestly, against mutants I could dodge using nothing but raw stats even without movement skills.
I've killed enough of them in WAW to know.
I had their attack patterns and timings memorized perfectly.
"Start by chipping away at the swarm."
"Yes."
"Chaei, help them out."
"Okay!"
Maybe because they'd faced zombie swarms yesterday, they didn't look particularly nervous.
She's already level 4. Just how hard did they push her?
Now I understood why she'd looked so exhausted yesterday.
"Why'd you push Chaei so hard?"
I tapped the eleventh squad leader who'd gone hunting with her yesterday.
"It wasn't like that! Chaei kept saying she wanted to fight more…"
"Oh, really?"
"Yes!"
It felt like she was overdoing it.
Was there any need to go that far?
I felt both proud and a little worried.
Clearing out the swarm went incredibly fast.
The secret to that speed was the squad leaders creating openings at the perfect moments for their swords to swing, letting Chaei slice through zombie necks one after another.
I simply watched in leisure and burned the corpses using the Altar.
"Alright, now it's time for the mutants. Stay focused."
"Yes!"
"Watch how I dodge the mutant's attacks and learn the timing."
"Understood!"
"We'll do our best!"
They must have heard about it from the squad leaders who'd experienced it firsthand.
That someday they would have to lead their own members in raids.
"Starting now."
I hurled my javelin at the mutant.
Whoosh!
"Graaaawr!"
"Damn it."
It missed by a hair.
The creature charged at me with murderous intent, ready to tear me apart.
Whoosh—
I left an afterimage at the perfect timing and stepped aside.
Boom—
Its massive arm smashed through the afterimage.
With a mutant's attacks, if you dodged the first strike cleanly, the rest became easy.
"Over here."
Two steps behind where the afterimage had been scattered.
When it pulled its left arm back and swung it forward, I moved two steps in perfect sync.
Whoosh—
Fierce wind whipped through my hair.
I'd need to cut it soon.
The arm swinging back again.
Matching the rhythm, two more steps.
Whoosh—
The squad leaders fighting zombies started glancing back one by one.
Whoosh—
Seeing me dodge without using any skills, they gaped in shock.
"Hey, you guys focusing or what?"
"Sorry!"
If they hadn't been holding shields, the zombies would have overrun them.
Well, with their stats they could've shoved them off, but still.
Whoosh—
Chaei was watching with an anxious expression too.
When I gave her a light wink, her face suddenly turned angry.
Wait, why?
The mutant finally bent its legs.
I jumped sideways in sync with its off-beat timing.
Swoosh—
I lightly dodged the full-body charge.
My bullfighter-like movements left the spectators completely stunned.
"You still not paying attention? It's already been over twenty seconds."
"Ah! Attacking now!"
"Going in!"
Since it had come to this.
"Hold on. Just watch and learn the timing."
"Huh?"
"Learn the dodging timing. You'll all have to do it eventually."
"What?! How are we supposed to copy that?"
Why did these guys keep saying weird shit?
"I'm not telling you to copy me. Just learn the timing."
"Ah, yes! Understood!"
I hadn't expected them to dodge without skills anyway.
Still, learning the timing would let them dodge with skills later.
I spun around lazily and toyed with the mutant for a full five minutes.
"Alright, finish it."
"Yes!"
"Going!"
Might as well land a hit myself.
Whoosh—
After dodging an attack that would've torn my upper body apart,
Crunch!
I slipped into its guard and stabbed the melted shadow right under its armpit.
Then I ducked low and slipped out the other side.
Crack! Thud! Crunch!
And just like that, the mutant raid was over.
Tsk. No item drop.
"Is it doable?"
"Yes?"
"Hey, what's with that half-assed answer?"
"It's doable!"
"Right?"
I'd just spent five minutes doing that pathetic little dance. If they said it wasn't doable, what the hell were they going to do about it?
The reason I'd gone this far was because I wanted to dump this responsibility on them as quickly as possible.
Once they hit level 10, they'd start raising the other raid members themselves.
We ran two more raids before lunch.
Because of that, the squad leaders' eyes looked completely dead.
These guys didn't even fight the mutants.
The squad leaders were currently level 9.
I needed to get them to 10 today.
We had an expedition tomorrow, after all.
Hana's squad leaders would probably hit level 10 around today too.
I'd watch the squad leaders run their own raid tomorrow morning, then head out on the expedition.
It was a bit of a rushed schedule, but it couldn't be helped.
We still needed to get the skill book for Chaei, and with the upcoming patch we had no idea what might happen, so we had to build up our strength in advance.
"Chaei, let's go eat."
"Okay! It smells amazing already! As expected of Yeonhee unnie!"
She drooled at the sight of the lunchbox I pulled from my inventory.
Chaei and Yeonhee noona seemed to get along incredibly well.
She'd even said they'd eaten lunch at our house yesterday.
I should invite Hana too. Otherwise it feels like we're leaving her out.
Maybe we could have a proper dinner party at our house tonight?
We ate lunch inside a suitable restaurant.
"What?"
I asked because Chaei was staring at me intently.
"Feed me…"
"What?"
What the hell?
Suddenly asking to be fed?
"Here, ah—"
Bring your mouth over here.
She was too cute to refuse.
But Chaei didn't stop at eating the side dish I offered. She sucked on my chopsticks, licking them clean.
Why is she doing this? It's turning me on.
A scene suddenly flashed through my mind.
Even when she was a zombie, she'd sucked on my spoon like that.
Could the habit still remain?
Slide.
Chaei's hand stroked my thigh.
With her face flushed bright red, she was seducing me so aggressively?
"Chaei, is the Vitality Essence effect still lingering?"
"…I don't know."
What was going on? I couldn't read her at all.
"You already took them off?!"
"Idiot, hurry up…"
I tossed my own clothes into my inventory too.
Plap, plap, plap, plap.
"Ahng! Hng, Oppa, I love this!"
Chaei's sweet moans made my climax rise dangerously fast.
In the end, I stopped eating midway and dragged her into the staff lounge.
Even though her memories had returned, this level of aggression was still a bit strange.
"Oppa, my butt too."
"What do you want me to do to your butt?"
"Don't make me say it! Hng!"
"If you don't tell me, how am I supposed to know?"
Squish, squelch, stretch, thrust.
"Hng, my butt… spank it."
Apparently she really liked the spanking.
Smack!
"Ahng!"
"Chaei, do you like getting your ass spanked?"
"I don't know, idiot!"
"Why? Tell me. So I can make you feel even better."
Maybe out of embarrassment, she desperately tried to hold back her moans.
But when her pussy clenched that tightly around me, it gave everything away.
As always, Chaei was terrible at hiding things.
Plap, plap, smack! Plap, plap, smack!
"Uht, ahk! Uuuu, ahhng…"
"You don't have to be embarrassed. Just say it."
"J-just… huu! Because I remember. Yeah!"
Even while speaking, her panting voice was incredibly arousing.
"Remember what?"
"Huu, when I was a zombie… it keeps coming back to me."
"What kind of memories?"
Fortunately, since I'd brought her in early, she shouldn't have many bad memories.
"The good ones… The pleasure from when you spanked my butt keeps flashing through my mind and I can't hold it in."
"Isn't that a good thing?"
A chuckle slipped out.
"Because of that I can't sleep at night! Hng."
Thrust, thrust, squish, thrust.
She'd been complaining, but when I drove in deep she twisted her whole body.
"So that's why you seduced me like this?"
"No!"
"Sure it isn't."
Smack!
Every time I slapped her ass, she clamped down hard on my cock.
It was so cute that it triggered my sadistic side.
Plap, plap, plap, plap, plap!
"Ahng, suddenly— uht, too rough!"
Smack! Smack! Smack!
Red handprints bloomed across her ass.
It was starting to feel hot to the touch.
"Hng! Oppa! Uuuuung!"
From Chaei's reaction, she looked ready to cum any second.
I was at my limit too.
"Chaei, I'm about to cum."
Chaei simply nodded without a word.
I grabbed her voluptuous hips and thrust into her roughly.
Thump thump thump thump thump thump thump!
"Uuuuuuuung!"
Smack!
"Ahk!"
At the final spank she clenched her pussy violently and started to collapse like a broken doll.
I held her up so she wouldn't fall and kept thrusting hard until I finished.
Thump thump thump!
"Aguuuuk!"
Chaei let out a dying moan.
Her stimulating cries made it impossible to hold back any longer.
Splurt splurt splurt splurt! Spluuuurt! Spurt! Spuuuurt!
The overwhelming pleasure made my vision flash white. I felt dizzy.
But with Chaei entrusting her body to me, I had to endure.
The squad members wore dead expressions.
So did I.
Of course, our reasons were completely different.
We were supposed to start raiding right after lunch, but it got delayed.
In the end we couldn't stop at one and ended up doing two more.
I couldn't eat any ginseng to keep going, but skipping it left me drained.
It felt like a waste, so I just endured.
The squad leaders looked completely exhausted in both body and soul from the Spartan-style raids.
I was the one doing the evasion tanking. Why do they look like that?
It was almost ridiculous.
Among the group heading back to the apartment, Chaei was the most energetic.
No, she seemed even more energetic than before.
That little vixen.
Had she absorbed my life force or something?
"Oppa~"
"Not now."
She clung tightly to my arm and acted cute.
She clearly wanted to do it again.
"Tch."
It seemed like every time Chaei killed zombies, her sexual desire boiled over.
I wasn't sure why.
Maybe the Vitality Essence wasn't completely resolved?
It was possible.
Still, there was no real problem, so it should be fine.
No, actually it was good.
There was nothing bad about having her cling to me and act this cute.
"Good work, everyone."
"Good work!"
Their faces clearly said they were finally free.
Only then did the squad leaders smile.
Sorry, but this is just the beginning.
Now that they'd hit level 10, it was time to grind.
At least they could rest for now.
Tomorrow was going to be brutal, though.
"Good work, Hana."
Hana had just finished her raid and returned as well.
"Good work, Suhyuk. Must've been tough, right?"
"Huh? Yeah. It was tough."
Though in a completely different way.
"The squad leaders have gotten really skilled now. They hit level 10 too."
"That's good. We can leave the raids to them starting tomorrow."
"Will that be okay? It seems dangerous."
That's why I'd planned to supervise in the morning before leaving on the expedition.
"It's fine. There are a few people with talent for evasion tanking."
"Even so, I'm still worried."
"We'll check tomorrow. For now, let's go to my house."
"Huh?"
She widened her eyes in surprise at the sudden invitation.
"There's someone I need to introduce you to."
"Ah."
It was a bit late to be making introductions.
Hmm.
But why did the atmosphere feel so awkward?