Maid
Kayla’s blue mana—my private nickname for it was White Flower Mk.2—drew two very different reactions.
“...”
The A-class Keepers were left speechless by the sheer force White Flower Mk.2 had unleashed.
William Park, on the other hand, wasn’t stunned by the power itself. He was stunned by the person who had used it.
“Was Lady Kayla an S-class as well?”
“No. Kayla’s about A-class. What just happened was the same kind of thing I did. You know White Flower, right?”
“Ah, White Flower. As expected of Jungmin’s magic teacher.”
I found it a little unfair that he immediately switched it to White Flower, but by now the name had stuck to my own tongue too.
Ah, I’d really wanted to keep calling it White Flower…
“That’s right! She’s my teacher. An incredible woman.”
Kayla was incredible.
Thanks to her, my shoulders somehow felt a little higher—but well… she and I were practically one body at this point, so it was fine, wasn’t it?
“So, is it over now?”
“About that…”
The Necromancer’s energy was still draining away.
Straight toward the heart of Death’s Land.
The magic circle was gone, but not everything had been resolved yet.
“I’ll explain that part.”
Kayla, who had been receiving Elena’s care, rose with her support. Her skin was still pale, but her expression was the same poker face as always.
“The magic circle has been completely erased. The skeletons will not rise again.”
“No respawning either?”
“These skeletons belonged to the magic circle, not the Eternal Gate. With the circle gone, there’s nothing left to respawn them.”
“Any chance the circle could be restored?”
“The Eternal Gate is the same as any other Gate. Changes inside it don’t reset. New monsters can still be generated, but skeletons are not monsters the Eternal Gate produces.”
“Perfectly clear. So we can head back now?”
“Yes. But I may have missed something, so it would be best if we stayed here for about a week.”
“Understood. We’ll adjust the schedule, then.”
“Our party alone will be enough, so please keep that in mind as well.”
“Got it. For today, let’s rest here. Everyone except Lady Kayla can take watch, right?”
Elena and I both nodded at William Park.
Inside the Gate, dusk had already begun to settle.
We’d entered in the morning by outside time and moved for half a day, so the Gate ran about six hours ahead. Or maybe eighteen hours behind—either way.
The scouting team pitched the tents they’d brought and began preparing camp.
Kayla and Elena would share one tent; I got one to myself.
After a bit of setup, we all gathered in the large tent first.
“Kayla? What are you doing right now?”
“...Not enough mana. Mana. Now.”
“...I just gave you some.”
Right after using White Flower I’d transferred mana to her.
We’d been outside, so there hadn’t been any sexual contact.
Kayla had still felt pleasure equivalent to sex during the transfer, of course.
“Not enough. I said it’s not enough.”
The moment I stepped into the tent and sat down, Kayla climbed onto my lap and pulled me into her arms.
She ground her hips against me right there, sending a clear signal of invitation.
“...Hold on, even so, right now…”
We were supposed to gather for dinner in ten minutes.
And Elena was in the same tent.
Elena was watching us with a motherly smile, but still.
“...Then tonight, right?”
“Obviously.”
“Okay.”
Kayla slid off me.
Finally we could start the internal meeting.
“The Necromancer’s energy is still leaking out even now. That means the Maid is still alive, doesn’t it?”
“Most likely. The Maid seems to have completely merged with the Eternal Gate.”
“So what happens then?”
“Unlike the skeletons, it’ll keep coming back. There’s even a chance its knowledge will be inherited.”
A terrifying thought.
An already S-class-level opponent growing even stronger.
“Is there a way?”
“The simple answer would be to close the Eternal Gate itself… but as far as I know, no such method exists. In my world the Eternal Gate has never closed.”
“Elena?”
“In our world the Eternal Gate has closed before. But I don’t know the details well enough… I can’t be of much help.”
“It’s fine. Then what do we actually do?”
“You can sense the existence of the passage, so we should start from there somehow… what do you think?”
I closed my eyes and focused my thoughts on my left shoulder.
Following the passage where the energy was draining, I tried to expand my senses.
The energy flowed somewhere and, just like before, merged with another energy.
It wasn’t the massive energy from last time.
And that was as far as I could go.
Knowing the flow and the presence of the energy.
“If I could reach it, I might be able to change it… but at your current level it would be difficult.”
Would it be possible if I had magical proficiency beyond Kayla’s?
Still hard.
The nature of the power was completely different.
If I could handle the Necromancer’s power myself, that would be another story.
Even if I started training like crazy from now on, there was no telling how long it would take.
“If it really comes down to it, I can cut the passage with my sword. You’ve gotten fairly used to channeling Holy Power Rank 4 through it, after all.”
We could do it Elena’s way.
The whole reason we’d come this deep was to sever the Necromancer’s energy.
The Maid would keep respawning, but stationing a couple of S-class Keepers here would solve that problem.
That was the Association’s concern.
Since the Association was still reeling because of me, I was willing to lend Elena out for a while as a moral responsibility.
“Alright. Let’s watch a little longer for now. We’re staying a week anyway, right?”
“Yeah. If the Maid respawns after a week, we can just say there was nothing we could do.”
Wasn’t there some way?
If possible, I wanted to deal with the Maid too.
I had the kind of ability that might actually be able to handle it now.
We ate combat rations for dinner.
These days the rations were pretty decent, so it was reasonably satisfying.
The conversation during the meal being nothing but praise for Kayla probably made it taste even better.
Everyone lauded her beauty, her power, and her knowledge.
And why were my shoulders rising?
Because I made sure to add that I was the one who got to have her.
Damn right. I was the winner here.
Kayla finished her meal quickly and said she was going to rest first, heading into the tent.
As she left she sent me a message.
Elena had been assigned first watch, and Kayla clearly intended to use that window to have sex with me.
After dinner we had a short tea break.
Under William Park’s lead we traded various small talk with the Keepers, and it felt strangely surreal.
They were all people I’d only ever seen on TV or in articles.
Only after that did I return to my tent.
Kayla was already waiting inside.
“Haa… hnn…”
“What? When did you—”
“Jungmin… you’re late… ah…”
Gate suits felt a lot like wetsuits—tight against the body, but with a bit of thickness.
Normally, with bags, vests, belts, and combat boots layered on top, they didn’t look particularly sexy.
Someone with breasts on Park Sena’s level could still draw every eye no matter what she wore, but Kayla usually dressed modestly.
Right now, though, she looked extremely lewd.
She had pulled the zipper between her legs down and spread her thighs, fully exposing her labia minora.
The pink inner flesh glistened with her juices, and her pale fingers were moving between her clit and her entrance.
“Jungmin, hurry… here…”
She took my hand and guided it to her pussy.
The moment my fingers reached that wet place, they reflexively slipped inside the cave.
“Ahhk… ah, more… hnn.”
She must have been close already; Kayla leaned into me and trembled.
Her face was already flushed, her eyes full of raw desire.
I decided to answer that desire.
“Hnn… churp, chup.”
Her lips were always sweet.
While my tongue swam through her mouth, I pulled down the zipper at my crotch and freed my cock.
The half-hard length rose to full attention the instant I released my control over lust.
“...Want it?”
“Yes, I want it. Pound me full, fill me with yours, make me yours… haa-euk.”
I lifted her and set her on top of me.
Visibility wasn’t great, but with practiced experience I sank into her perfectly.
She buried her face in my shoulder and let out a moan.
“Ah… it’s so big… ahhk.”
Maybe because we hadn’t done it recently.
It really did feel a little tighter than usual.
Or maybe my cock had gotten bigger.
“Hnn, ang, haa-euk, no…!”
Even so she began moving her hips, riding me in a steady rhythm.
In this position she had to move if she wanted to be fucked, and she controlled the tempo herself.
Thud, thud, thud, thud.
“Good, so good, Jungmin… I… I…”
Like a train that refused to stop, she only kept increasing the pace.
And then she came all by herself.
“Haaaaa-euk!”
Her pussy clamped down hard around my cock as her whole body convulsed.
Pressed tightly against me, trembling, she looked so lovely.
I felt like I should reward her, so I whispered into her ear.
“Kayla, I love you too.”
I detonated my lust.
I felt the thick ropes of cum surge out, and she came apart instantly.
“Aaaang!”
She arched her back and neck, crying out.
She stayed frozen like that for a long while before collapsing against me again.
“Haa… haang… haa…”
“Feel good?”
“Yeah… haa… good. I love you…”
“Satisfied now?”
“No. More. Give me more. Love me more.”
She slowly rolled her hips on top of me.
We were still connected.
Her insides contracted, squeezing my cock hard.
It took less than a second for me to get hard again.
“Alright. Then…”
I turned her over onto her hands and knees.
Then I drove forward into the pink flesh exposed between the open suit.
Thud.
“Ahhk!”
I gripped her hips like handles and slammed in with everything I had.
Thud, thud.
“It’s so deep! Too… haak, too good!”
I loved it too.
A pussy that clenched and released in perfect time with my rhythm, thick soft ass that cushioned my pelvis, and that melting voice that made my ears happy.
And one more thing.
I could see exactly how aroused she was, how desperately she wanted me.
Lust rose from her entire body like steam, turning the inside of the tent into a sauna.
I matched it, pulling my own lust higher.
On the lifeless ground of Death’s Land, in the quiet night where everyone except Elena had fallen asleep, lust exploded.
“Hnnng!”