The Inventory Is a Cheat!
I decided to test the inventory while I was at it. The standard way to test an inventory in genre novels was simple: stuff multiple copies of the same item inside, or put in something hot and check whether the temperature stayed the same after time passed.
I left the hot water inside for now, grabbed a handful of pencils from Si-yeong’s desk, and tossed them in. Fifteen pencils slid neatly into a single slot.
Wow. This is straight-up broken.
I still didn’t know the exact limit, but it was clearly an overpowered skill—probably because it was a first-clear bonus. If the hot water stayed warm, this inventory would be the ultimate cheat. The only problem left was the girl who still hadn’t come out of the bathroom. I had a lot to do today.
Bang. Bang.
“Hey. You jerking off in there again? Or did you die? Why are you taking so long?”
“Yes, oppa. I’ll be right out—”
There was only one way to check whether that “yes” was honest. I flung the door open.
“Kyaaah—!”
“You’ve already shown me everything. Hurry up. Oppa’s busy today.”
She was holding the showerhead between her legs, rinsing her pussy with intense focus. The lewd sight made my cock twitch and harden again. Looked like I’d be leaving a little later than planned.
After dragging Si-yeong out of the shower and fucking her once, I was now half-reclined on the sofa receiving a thorough cleaning blowjob. Slurp. Gluck… Chuuup.
With her hair still damp, Si-yeong worked my cock with eager devotion. A pleasant sense of satisfaction washed over me as I watched her. I started asking the questions that had been bothering me since yesterday—why she’d been masturbating on the first floor, how often she usually did it, and so on.
Even while sucking me off, she answered every question diligently.
“Mmph, nghuh—!”
“I can’t understand you. Take it out when you talk.”
“Cough. You were holding my head so I couldn’t pull back…”
“What?”
I narrowed my eyes and gave her a sharp look. She immediately averted her gaze like a puppy who’d been caught misbehaving. I made a mental note to try dog cosplay on her later.
“That’s enough. If we fuck again I really won’t make it out today.”
“Okaaay. But oppa… can I ask you one thing?”
“What is it?”
“Oppa… what’s your name?”
Oh shit. I’d been pounding her since yesterday without even telling her my name. Then again, I’d only learned hers through the status window, so it was fair. A small pang of guilt hit me.
Name, age, where she used to live… and the fact that she’d been released from prison yesterday. When I explained, Si-yeong looked startled for a moment, then subtly pulled away. I had no choice but to give her the full story.
After hearing how I’d gone to prison for castrating a man who tried to rape an underage girl, she relaxed again.
“You’re not scared of me?”
“Hehe… I know you’re not that kind of person, Jin-woo oppa.”
“What are you talking about? I basically forced myself on you yesterday. And you think you know me after one day?”
“But… you didn’t force me… and I… I felt good too…”
Si-yeong kept nodding cutely between my legs, only saying the sweetest things. There was still something I needed to ask.
“So you were planning to go look for your dad?”
“Yes… He’s alone in the countryside. I thought if I went, he’d feel more at ease.”
“You know that’s realistically impossible right now, don’t you?”
“Yes… I know…”
“Good. Once I get stronger… Ah. You probably don’t know yet.”
Since Si-yeong didn’t even know about status windows, I pulled out the warm water I’d stored in the inventory earlier and showed it to her. It was still hot. That proved the cheat inventory was already loose in the world.
“There are people with abilities now. So you have to be more careful. Once I’m strong enough, we’ll go look for your dad. Got it?”
“…”
Si-yeong stayed silent, stunned. Then—
“C-can… can I awaken too?”
Now that she mentioned it, I was curious. Awakening itself didn’t seem hard—just killing one zombie should trigger it.
“Let’s go outside.”
“O-oppa! W-wait a second!”
Apparently the gap between how easy I thought it was and how she felt was huge. She clung to my cock for a long time, trying to calm herself. Fuck. My dick wasn’t a slime. She kept kneading it for comfort, but unlike a slime’s squishy texture, my cock went from soft to rock-hard under her pale little hand.
The contrast between her snowy-white, slender wrist and my flushed cock was so erotic it only made me harder. Haa… I have to hold back. I really have a lot to do today.
I grabbed the claw hammer I’d given her and headed down to the first floor. The glass on the front door was still shattered from yesterday. The minimap showed no monsters nearby, so I didn’t bother being overly cautious. I walked up to a lone zombie a short distance away and smashed its head in.
Zombies stayed alive as long as their heads were intact, so I picked up the severed head and kicked it toward Si-yeong like a soccer ball.
“Hiiik— oppa…”
The lesson I’d given her before coming out—no screaming—had worked. She glared at me quietly, then looked back and forth between me and the zombie head. After a deep breath, she squeezed her eyes shut, let out a small grunt, and swung the hammer down on the severed head.
Crunch.
Whoa… It hadn’t felt that way when I did it, but watching from a third-person view made it look pretty brutal. Still, I didn’t feel any pity for the zombie. I just silently wished it a peaceful rest in the next world.
“So? Did the awakening notification pop up?”
“No…”
“Hmm… Is there a requirement? Or is this also first-come-first-served? I have no idea.”
“Hng… I’m sorry… I wanted to awaken and be useful to you, oppa…”
Her pretty face scrunched up as she hung her head. I walked over, squeezed her ass, and said,
“It’s fine. All you have to do is be a good cumdump for my cock.”
“Haa… Yes… Jin-woo oppa… Should I go inside and milk one load out of you? ♡”
“Ugh. You’re seriously too fucking hot.”
I didn’t fuck Si-yeong again once we were back inside. Instead I pulled down my sweatpants, bent her over my lap, and gave her ass ten solid smacks while lecturing her.
“If you!”
“Act cocky!”
“You won’t!”
“Be able to do what I tell you to do!”
I controlled my strength, but her snow-white ass still turned bright red. The real problem was how wet her pussy was getting between her cheeks. Her expressions were even worse. Every smack made her yelp “Hii!” “Hya!” “Hah!” yet her face looked like she was enjoying it. She was a hopeless pervert.
I decided to continue her true pervert training another time and left the house. After practicing storing a sword in my inventory and pulling it out smoothly, I set off.
Kwaaaah— Kiiieeeek—
Even on the second day, the scenery was already familiar. I swung the shabby sword, cutting down zombies as I advanced. It had come out as a two-handed sword, but my increased strength made one-handed swings more comfortable.
My destination was the pharmacy. Today’s plan was pharmacy, house, large supermarket, house—going back and forth to stockpile supplies. Since there was a shop system, the pharmacy had relatively high priority. I needed to secure it before people came to their senses and started scavenging, or before the early-stage zombies were cleared out and movement became easier.
I used the minimap to its fullest, taking the best route while killing mostly zombies and goblins on the way. When I finally reached the pharmacy—
“Haaah… Ngh! Stop… please stop…”
“Shut up, you bitch. We cleared out all the zombies around here for you. The least you can do is pay the price. Shut your mouth and squeeze that cunt properly!!!”
Thud. Thud.
What the hell was this?
The area around the pharmacy had already been cleared of monsters. I crouched low and observed first. This was where the minimap showed one of its weaknesses: it didn’t display men. I’d thought male information would be useless and hadn’t paid much attention, but a space that should have held only a woman—the female pharmacist—was surrounded by several men inside the store. They were raping her.
I thought about joining for a second, but the men looked filthy, like they hadn’t washed in days. Blood from the recent fight was splattered on them and they hadn’t even bothered to wipe it off before venting their lust. My appetite vanished instantly.
One guy was standing watch outside, but he was being careless. The fact that he still hadn’t noticed me proved it. Well, it couldn’t be helped. The world had only changed recently, and in an exciting situation like this, people moved purely on instinct.
I quietly approached the lookout and drew a thick red line across his throat with my shabby sword.
Ugh. First time killing a person. I felt a slight urge to vomit, but it wasn’t that bad. They were all trash anyway. I hoped they wouldn’t feel too wronged and would just move on to the next hell.
Thump.
The sound of the corpse hitting the ground was a little loud, but the noises coming from inside were even louder. If they were going to do it, they could at least close the windows. Were they trying to give passing zombies a free show? I shook my head at the men filming a live-action rape video in real time.
Three left. Better to thin them out one by one. They were in such a hurry they hadn’t even pulled their pants all the way down; the waistbands were caught around their knees. Their movements would be restricted.
Before opening the door, I threw a dagger I’d bought with one hand and charged in swinging the sword with the other. A clean horizontal slash.
“Aaargh! What the—?! Who the fuck is this guy?!”
But it was too shallow. The first rapist clutched his bleeding neck and staggered back. The second came to his senses and took a stance. Damn it, my eyes. I’d tried not to look at what they’d been doing, but I still took mental damage. Impressive. Did their team have a mage?
“Snap out of it, you idiots—urk!”
I forced my dizzy mind to focus and rewarded the guy scrambling for a weapon with a thrust. The rest was easy. All three—the one hit by the dagger, the one whose neck I’d cut, and the one I’d just stabbed—were injured. I held an overwhelming advantage. Especially since the three of them had been too busy groping tits to hold weapons.
Squelch.
After delivering the final confirmation kills, the messages appeared.
You have hunted a Hunter. x2
You have hunted a Normal Human. x2
You have leveled up.