05. Exploration, Rest, and Comfort
05. Exploration, Rest, and Comfort
After Laila made equipment for me, we began our exploration to climb up the layers.
- "Grrr... Roar!!"
"Haah!"
Wielding the dagger Laila had made from a monster's teeth, I slashed at the lunging wolf-type monster.
Perhaps this attack was fatal, as the monster collapsed and couldn't move. Wary, I approached and finished off the bastard.
"Laila, please."
I said to Laila, who was clinging to my body. Having absorbed my mana and the monster's mana, Laila was gradually growing stronger, and could now change shape and move much more proficiently.
Clinging to my body like that, she aided my movements, defended against enemy attacks with her tentacles, and healed my wounds on the spot as we fought together.
After hunting a monster, Laila would swallow it. It had become our familiar hunting routine before we even knew it.
"Laila, do you think a safe zone is going to pop up soon?"
- "Kkyuu...."
The labyrinth always changes its form. However, there are spaces that do not change during that process.
Safe zones and gateways. Adventurers exploring the labyrinth record the locations of unchanging safe zones and search for gateways that allow them to pass through and move to other layers.
We were searching for a gateway to escape this labyrinth. However, since we couldn't breakthrough a labyrinth whose paths changed every day all at once, we had to find a safe zone first, and when it was time to return, head back to the safe zone to explore.
Even though I didn't know how many days it would take. Even though I didn't know how deep it was, so I might not be able to get out until I died.
Still, being with Laila made me feel like it was possible.
- "Kkyuung!"
"It's fine. Let's explore only up to here for today and head back. We caught a monster too, so it's not a bad harvest."
In truth, it was a comfort incomparable to ordinary labyrinth exploration. Because this wasn't the usual situation where one had to suffer due to drinking water and food contaminated with demonic energy.
Entrusting my body to Laila, I could maintain pleasant cleanliness and eat food purified of demonic energy.
'And since I didn't have any reason to feel embarrassed in front of Laila...'
At first, I was embarrassed by the Nutrient Fluid taken in through tentacles. But since Laila had no lewd intentions, and the sweet taste and fruity scent were wonderful, I even found myself looking forward to meal times.
'If anything, the one filled with lewd thoughts... might be me....'
Ever since I was injured by the wolf last time, Laila stopped leaving my side. Laila, who had carried me back on her back after I fainted upon defeating the wolf, discovered the miserable scene of my self-comfort.
When I woke up, the cleanup was already finished. Laila seemed to think that I had shed those 'liquids' because I was having a nightmare.
Seeing Laila stroke me with her hand as if telling me not to worry and that she wouldn't leave, I desperately hid my blushing face.
Thus, even out of consideration for Laila staying by my side, I ended up enduring and refraining from comforting myself.
"Haah♡"
- Sreureuk.
A new safe zone, different from the hollow we stayed in before. At the stronghold we moved to while exploring to find the gateway, I was being washed by Laila.
"Hㅡng, mm...."
Having finished our exploration and returned, we were washing up just like usual.
Laila's soft tentacles wrapped warmly around my body. I could feel Laila's weight climbing up onto my lying body.
I liked this warm weight. I liked the comfort that covered up the cold and fear as if I would collapse if the wind blew.
- "Kkyuung?"
"Hit♡ Hwaang, mm, it's not because it hurts. Don't worry, hikku♡"
Instead of unpleasant and cold dampness, a warm and sweet sensation licked my chest and thighs.
I could feel Laila's mana connected through our skin. Mana that had grown a bit more today by catching monsters. And mana that had taken on the same color while being with me.
Little by little, mana flowed out from my body, which was flushed red with excitement. And Laila carefully stroked and swallowed it.
The emotions of gratitude, affection, and a touch of worry were conveyed through the connected mana.
- "Kkyuueu?"
The critter seemed to think that giving my mana was a painful thing for me.
The sight of me always blushing, moaning, and trembling. That it wasn't actually because it hurt.
Would she know that it was a vulgar instinct craving the sweet pleasure she gave?
"Kyaat, hit, heuㅡuk♡"
Hesitating for a moment, Laila soon stroked my body as if craving my mana.
Just as I had craved and licked the Nutrient Fluid given by Laila, Laila, falling into the temptation brought by the hero's mana, ravished my body.
"Ang♡ Haah, Laila♡"
- Pwyut, jureureuk.
Soon reaching the climax, I trembled and spurted out juices. The fluid gushed out forcefully, as if expelling the ugly desires within me.
However, refusing to allow those desires to fall to the ground, Laila's tentacles sucked up all the juices.
"Kyaat!! If you suck like that♡ Heukak♡"
Laila's tentacles, completely covering my lower abdomen and groin, licked my vulva and clitoris as if finding them sweet.
Before my mind, gone to pleasure, could even return, I climaxed once again.
"Hikku, hut♡ Fuueeuu...."
- "Kkyu?! Kkyuueeuu.... Kkyuing!"
To me, lying in disarray while feeling the lingering afterglow of the climax, Laila apologized as if startled.
Saying she didn't know it would turn out like this either. That she instinctively couldn't hold back. That she was sorry for hurting me.
'Even at times like this, you... worry about me.'
I hugged the flustered Laila and gently stroked her.
"It's fine... I'm glad my mana was transmitted to you well. It doesn't hurt, so you don't have to worry."
- "Kkyuueeuu...."
I could feel an even greater increase in mana from Laila nestled in my arms. An increase in the amount of mana on a level incomparable to the usual 'bath' or 'meal'.
'If we cross the line, Laila's mana will be far more...'
We had already crossed the line, but if we went beyond that even further. What would become of us?
Was I longing to cross the line?
Desperately suppressing the answer I unconsciously knew, I turned my thoughts away.
"Laila, it's fine, so will you eat and go to sleep now?"
- "Kkyuu...."
Laila still seemed shocked by what had just happened. Stroking Laila in my arms, I said,
"That just now... wasn't because it hurt, but because it felt good. Because women become happy when the person they like touches them. That kind of voice comes out, and their face turns red..."
Words tumbling out as if making excuses. If someone saw this, they would whisper that I had gone mad. A mad hero sells her body to a monster. There is a slut uttering mating cries while being violated by a monster.
- "Kkyuung?"
Laila reacted as if puzzled. But seeing my appearance, she stroked my head as if telling me to rest easy.
"Ah...."
Was it because she was worried about my rambling excuses? A warm emotion of care was transmitted.
"Mmm.... Don't worry.... Let's eat quickly and go to sleep."
In the end, we ate dinner very late that night.
Preparation for sleep was finished, and we lay down on the bed together. A bed as fluffy as a mattress made by Laila using moss and mucus.
Lying upon it, I hugged Laila into my arms.
When I smelled the sweet lilac scent in my arms, when I felt the warm warmth, my anxious feelings finally faded away and I could fall asleep.
In Laila's warm embrace, I didn't have nightmares.
Not the corpses of soldiers killed by monsters in the war. Not the comrades dying right before my eyes.
And neither the dream of being hit by Iris's arrow, nor the dream of being burned to death by Selena's magic. None of them appeared.
"Laila?"
- "Kkyung!"
The labyrinth's Alteration is noisy at first, but once the split paths disappear and the passages close, a very quiet silence soon arrives.
Then, only the two of us remain in the silent room.
The sound of water droplets falling from stalactites and the sound of wind blowing through the passage disappear.
The sound of clothes brushing, inhalation and exhalation. Just around the time the sound of my heartbeat could be heard in the stillness.
You, having entered into my arms, listened to the beating of my heart against my chest.
When I once asked you the reason, you answered something like your mind becomes at ease when you hear this sound.
Because the loneliness contained in your cries was sad. Because I didn't want to be sad anymore. We spent the night feeling each other's warmth.
"Laila. What is something you want to do if you go to the surface?"
And then we talked about the future.
- "Kkyuung... Kkyu? Kkyukyu!"
Then you brightheartedly told me your wish.
I want to see the blue sky.
I want to see the starry night sky together with Lily.
I want to go see the lilac flowers Lily told me about.
And go together to Lily's home.
You, unaware of the hidden truth due to my selfishness, spoke full of anticipation.
I couldn't say it because I didn't want to disappoint you.
The fact that we have to live running away for the rest of our lives.
That the surface is not beautiful.
Perhaps, I, who understood your words, might already be turning into something no longer human.
Perhaps, because you are the Demon King's seed, all humans on the surface would raise sharp swords and spears to kill you.
Fearing that if I spoke, it would ultimately end up like that, I, a coward, could not say it.
- "Kkyuueung...."
Listening to your stories, as you dreamed of going to the surface like usual and looked forward to what monster we would hunt tomorrow and what we would see, before you knew it, you were fast asleep.
"Good night, Laila."
Confirming that you had fallen asleep like that, I brought my hand down to my already sticky vulva.
The sweet scent I felt while being with you. Since when had I become a lewd woman who soaked her vulva just by smelling this scent?
Being washed, being fed, my body was turning lewd.
Unlike your pure heart, your flesh is a monster born in the labyrinth.
The mucus for healing makes the host's senses sensitive and makes them dependent on the master.
As one eats the sweet Nutrient Fluid, at first one becomes addicted to the sweet taste.
Before long, just smelling the scent makes one crave that sweetness, gradually making them dependent.
The tentacles would easily toy with a woman's most precious parts, and the violated woman would break and spill her own mana.
Just as I was licked by you and spurted out juices, I would forget my dignity as a human and spew out mana while moaning like a beast.
Then the tentacles would absorb that mana and grow even stronger.
Ravishing women like that, the strengthened tentacles would become the Demon King and burn the surface.
Because that was the prophecy regarding the Demon King preserved in the Church.
"Hut...♡"
I don't want to see my precious you become the Demon King. I like your gentle self.
So, I have to protect you, but.
This vulgar body keeps getting in the way of my thoughts.
Already, I was in the process of turning into a female who grew aroused just by smelling your scent.
"Hit♡ Heu-up...."
Unwilling to be caught making shameful moans, I trembled while holding back my voice.
Rubbing my soft vulva, I pinched my flushed clitoris.
Just as you ravished me today. A bit rougher. More persistently.
The flesh that had been neatly closed was softly crushed by my touch.
Your mucus that had remained on me dug inside, transforming into a hot, sensitive, and vulgar body.
"Hik?♡"
Recalling the moment I climaxed while having my mana sucked by you, I whipped my heated body.
My body, trained by your tentacles, reacted as if my own touch was not enough.
Even so, I spurted out juices along with a small climax.
I desperately suppressed the impulse lifting my head, saying, just a little more.
"Heuk...."
The worry that you, sleeping on my chest, might have awakened belatedly surged over me.
Fortunately, you were sleeping without seeing my disgraceful sight.
When you woke up, you would probably scold me again for making a mess of the blanket.
But soon you would stroke my head and comfort me, saying it was okay.
Then I would force a smile to hide my vulgar and shameful appearance.
Until when, I wonder, will I be able to endure this temptation?