You've Opened Your Eyes
When I opened my eyes that morning a month ago, I still wondered if I was dreaming.
I had woken up in a world where every kind of demi-human you only ever saw in fantasy novels—elves, orcs, and the rest—lived side by side.
The real problem was the gender ratio: a perfect 1:10 female-dominated world.
And the punchline? The measure of strength in this place was something completely ridiculous called Sex Power.
The place I opened my eyes was a village that had grown up around a massive labyrinth at its center.
I had no idea how it happened, or why. Right now I was just fighting to survive one more day.
"Hey! Kim! Two fried rice sets, hurry it up!"
"Yes! Frying them now!"
And at this very moment I was in a shabby adventurer tavern, frying rice even harder under the barked orders of the tavern owner who also ran the kitchen.
I had dreamed of an amazing overpowered isekai adventure, but…
If I didn't work like this, I would simply starve to death.
For nearly a week after first setting foot in this world I scraped together every coin I could and finally got my skills appraised.
I wasn't even an adventurer. Just an ordinary human. No—lower than a regular villager.
"Um… Sister. What's this covered-up part?"
I pointed at the section hidden on the paper and asked the elderly priestess.
"That is your Awakening. If you fulfill certain conditions, you might learn what it is… but the vast majority of people never awaken before they return to the Goddess Sylvia's embrace. Do not lose heart. Most people live and die that way."
After hearing those words, I tried every job I could think of—except dying.
Carpenter. Farmer. Porter… even adventurer.
The party I joined was an all-female harem party except for me. To adventurers whose bodies were their fortune, nothing mattered more than their lives.
"Taeyoung. Just leave."
I got kicked out of a party on the same day I joined. And still no Awakening in sight.
Which brought me to working as kitchen help in an adventurer tavern, and still not so much as the first letter of "Awakening" had shown itself.
Should I just try dying for real? And if that doesn't work either?
"Fuuuuck."
"Hey! Kim Taeyoung! Quit muttering 'fuck fuck' and keep going!"
"Ah~ Yes ma'am!"
"Four more portions of Killer Rabbit roast!"
"Ah~ Fuck!"
"I said quit it!"
The moment the head chef and tavern owner bellowed, laughter rose from the female adventurers sitting out in the hall.
"Kyahaaha. Taeyoung's working hard again today and still getting yelled at."
"He should just go sell himself at the brothel."
"Still a virgin, right?"
"Then I'll buy that virginity for ten gold."
"Then I'll go twenty…"
A gloomy mage with her hood pulled low doubled the bid.
"Hah… Look at this bitch. You even have the money?"
A half-naked barbarian warrior, blue tattoos covering her body, stamped her foot in irritation.
"That's why I'm doing this. If I had money I'd already have…"
Countless lecherous gazes locked onto me. I might look clueless, but I knew. I felt every single one of them.
Don't care. I'm just going to keep frying rice here.
Even that conversation topic didn't last long. At the tables they started noisily arguing over their own empty pockets, that day's adventures, the hardships of life… and my situation… while getting steadily drunker.
The dwarf tavern owner held out money with her stubby hands.
"Taeyoung. Good work again today. Here's your daily wage."
-Clink.
A single silver. Even that was big money. A D-rank adventurer only made about two silver a day. Honestly, this was pretty decent pay.
"Thank you for today as well, boss."
"Tch… There's night work too if you want it… You need money, don't you?"
"Heh heh. I'll pass on that."
The 1:10 gender ratio was said to be a curse laid upon all of humanity, demi-humans included. Because of it, men were treated like gold—but I still wanted to refuse becoming a male prostitute.
Sometimes female adventurers would bring male whores along. Watching those men wasted away after only a week, I decided early to give up on that dream. Keep getting pounded like that every day and you'd be dead in a few months for sure.
Of course, if you had a handsome face you could become a high-class male courtesan and live in luxury. But I knew myself well. No—I knew my face well.
I looked at my reflection in the mirror hanging in one corner of the tavern. Long, sharp eyes that were terrifying just to look at—sanpaku eyes. Thin lips and corners that twisted into a creepy smile whenever I laughed. A muscular build and tanned skin on top of it all…
Back in my old world people had called me "Geumtaeyang," the blonde bastard, after my name Kim Taeyoung.
I headed for my lodging along a quiet alley. Both moons were full, so the night road was as bright as early evening.
I could have stayed at the tavern, but I didn't want to spend my entire one-silver daily wage on a room. Truth was… the place I slept wasn't a lodging at all. It was a stable on the outskirts of the village.
So what? There was water to wash and drink, a soft bed of straw, a roof to keep off the rain. And it was free. Free really is best, right?
People said it was dangerous for a man to walk alone at night, but the full moons made it brighter than usual, and the commercial district around the Adventurer Guild still had lights blazing. What could possibly go wrong?
That thought was my mistake. Of course it was.
Two shady-looking women called out to me.
"Oppa. All alone at this hour?"
"Hey, you crazy bitch. You're gonna scare the kid. What's with the 'oppa' at your age? Keke."
Two clearly drunk elves stood in front of me.
"Yeah, young oppa. Where you headed? We'll walk you."
My future was already bleak enough without these damn pointy-eared bitches picking a fight. Ignoring them was the right move here.
"Aaaang~ Oppa~ Come with us~."
I walked as fast as I could to put distance between us. After walking for a good while I finally reached the alley near my lodging and let out a breath.
Haah… I thought I was gonna die of fright for real.
In this world the most dangerous things to a powerless man like me weren't dragons or natural disasters. Those two were dangerous enough in their own way, but they were just the kind of old-maid adventurers you tripped over in the street. These crazy bitches didn't hesitate to kidnap or rape anyone who looked weaker than them.
I leaned against the wall to catch my breath.
-Swish!
In an instant the two elves from earlier appeared. Goddamn it. Magic.
My heart, which had just started to calm down, began hammering like crazy. This time I felt a real threat to my life.
"…This fucking short-lived bastard keeps ignoring us elves to the end."
They blocked my path in a flash.
"W-What the—!"
"I'm so tired… Stop… running…"
"Kekeke! Look at this bastard's face!"
One of the pointy-eared bitches thrust two wet fingers right in front of my eyes. A fishy smell hit me hard.
"How about it? I can't hold back anymore. We were going to follow you home like proper ladies, you know? But I can't wait. Should we just eat you up right here?"
"Me too… Me too… I can't take it anymore…"
The breath that suddenly washed over my face reeked of alcohol so strong it was nauseating.
"H-Help! Elves are attacking people!"
No matter how loudly I shouted, no one came. No one even looked this way. Despair settled over me.
"Why yell so much it hurts your throat? Who said we were going to kill you? Let's just have a good time, okay?"
I kept scanning the surroundings, but strangely, not a single person glanced our way. No—looking closer, a faint, semi-transparent film had been stretched across the alley where the three of us stood.
This must be that barrier thing I've only heard about!
"Uuuugh… Aaaah! No! My first time can't be with old elf spinsters! I refuse!"
"This little shit? Listen to the way he talks…"
Before I knew it a dagger that looked wickedly sharp was pressed against my waist. The slightest resistance and they would gut me and start an unscheduled organ show.
-Squish squish.
Without me even noticing, one of them had already stripped off her short leather pants and pulled her shabby old panties to the side. The crazy elf scratched at her crotch with her fingers, and only that lewd sound filled the air.
-Squish squish.
Hot breath touched my neck, then a tongue licked up from my throat to my ear. The wet, slurping sound of her tongue rolling saliva around my ear made my head go fuzzy. Maybe it was the two tongues persistently licking both my ears and the nape of my neck. Disgust? Pleasure? Goosebumps raced from the base of my spine all the way to the top of my head.
"Hnn… Hmm? Let's feel good together? Hnn…❤ Look. I'm this wet already."
"Aang…❤ Mm… Me too… Touch me here… Mm…"
When the two elves pressed tight against both my sides and started moaning, I was still a man. I couldn't not react.
-Sliip.
Slender hands slipped into my pants from both sides. Every time those thin fingers stroked up and down, the thing between my legs lifted its head high. I felt the last threads of reason slipping further and further away from me.
Damn it. Fuck. This is the worst.
Maybe it was a reaction to people teasing me as "Geumtaeyang." I never wanted sex like this. I wanted to share real love with a woman I loved. I wanted to lean on each other's warmth on a cold night and stay up talking about nothing important.
"Hic… I don't want this…"
Hot tears rolled down my left cheek. Then came hot breath and the smell of liquor, and an elf's soft, sticky tongue licking away the tears.
"Nngh… I like it❤"
I didn't even notice when the other elf pulled my pants down. She was already shoving her ass toward me, trying to take me in.
"Ah~❤ Aang~ It's. Go. Ing. In."
My rock-hard cock was swallowed by hot, soft flesh walls. It slid in so easily, and a cry of pleasure burst out of her.
"Ah… Aang~❤"
An intense pleasure gripped me from the base of my spine and climbed upward. The male instinct carved into my genes since the beginning of time was telling me to move my hips. Hell, I might have already been moving them before I even heard that voice.
"Nngh… Ah! Human… cock… So, so big! … Ugiiiit!❤"
And then white glowing letters appeared before my eyes.
It was an Awakening.
At last, my chance had come.