#54. Jinhyuk and Jinhee (3)
In the distant past, Elena was climbing the Tower of Struggle.
She met and parted with countless players, living day by day, one day at a time.
“Awakening?”
“Yeah. I heard about the awakening method on the third floor. Want to hear?”
One of Elena’s comrades, Pery, patted her modest chest proudly, boasting about her own achievements.
Elena and her teammates listened attentively.
As guild-less newcomers, this information was precious above all else.
“The underground dungeon consists of three floors,” Pery explained. “We’re operating on the first, but once we grow stronger, we can head down.”
She detailed the structure, trials, and the process.
“Look for randomly generated stairs on the second floor to descend. That’s where the awakening trial is. Every player faces a different awakening trial, and most are incredibly tough—by the time you finish, you’re exhausted.”
“How tough?”
One of Elena’s teammates, a human female mage, asked.
“I don’t know. I just heard about it, so I couldn’t possibly know.”
“Aigoo…”
“Ever since I learned about the trials, I’ve been asking everyone I meet. But the people who actually know just shake their heads.”
Leaving the disappointed human female mage behind, Pery kept talking.
It felt more like showing off what she knew rather than sharing information.
To Elena, it just looked adorable.
“I’ll have to get stronger first.”
She needed to grow stronger to reach the third floor, then she could worry about the trials later.
Elena’s party grew stronger every single day.
Their composition clicked surprisingly well, and the teamwork among members far exceeded that of other parties.
……
Though there had been casualties, the players adapted quickly to the Tower of Struggle.
If grief over a friend’s death bound you forever, you might never recover.
Players had to master emotional control.
Elena made a name for herself on the third floor.
An offer from a guild came her way.
“Thank you for the offer, but I’m good.”
She only belonged in the Alvheim Central Knight Order.
Elena made her decision.
Eventually, it might even be better if she created her own.
She was already thinking that far ahead.
“Should we start challenging the trials?”
The human female mage suggested cautiously.
Since she mentioned the trials at all, Elena judged it safe.
They descended into the underground dungeon.
Finding the entrance to the third level was surprisingly difficult.
“You need some luck. The location changes every day.”
“What?”
She was stunned.
Of course—if the location was fixed, someone would have sold the info.
Since no one touched it, they probably believed the location was unknown to everyone.
Elena’s party explored the third floor in preparation for the demon-king slime raid.
They needed moonstone anyway, so it wasn’t entirely pointless.
And then.
“Whoa!”
They found the stairs leading downward on the second floor.
They had almost given up.
“This is it. I remember now. Next time, I’ll find it much more easily.”
Pery nodded vigorously.
She acted as if she alone could be trusted.
Elena’s party entered the trial.
And failed.
It was a complete breakdown—sobbing, wailing, everything.
The human female mage, abandoned and betrayed.
Pery suffering pain as a slave trader’s slave.
And Elena, struggling in the glory of her ancient past.
They knelt before the trials.
“Next time. Next time we’ll do it right.”
The challenge continued.
If they missed the awakening and climbed back up, they would fall behind.
Elena’s party never gave up.
One by one they passed, until only the human female mage remained.
Her human super-powered male teammate watched her with pity.
And then, one day.
“I did it! I cleared it!”
The human female mage had won the trial.
How?
“Kids! My kids appeared!”
The mage tenderly stroked her lower belly, as if a baby was growing inside.
***
“You’re going to get Dahui pregnant?”
“I saw it with my own eyes. A woman who feared being abandoned by her lover was overcoming the trial thanks to the child in her belly.”
Elena spoke seriously.
It looked so sincere that Elena couldn’t argue.
“I must be missing some trick too.”
She’d read the novel but couldn’t remember it.
There were holes everywhere, so she had to fill in the gaps herself.
“Still, it’s worth challenging.”
Elena wouldn’t lie.
Under that assumption, Yoo Dahui could also overcome the trial through pregnancy.
“Dahui-ssi must get pregnant as soon as possible. That way I can have a child too.”
“Huh? What does that have to do with anything?”
“It has everything to do with it.”
Elena muttered.
“A harem’s hierarchy matters. That’s why it’s so important. You have to breed in order if you want a healthy harem.”
“Aah. Really?”
“I’m an elf, so my pregnancy chance is already low. And I have to use a human’s seed too, so it drops even more. I need to prepare early.”
“Ohhh.”
Elena was already making her strategy.
It wasn’t about Dahui’s awakening plan—it was her own pregnancy plan.
“The one who sowed the seed said nothing, but if you just do it yourself, is that okay?”
“……It’s fine.”
Elena shot her a deadly look.
Instantly, killing intent flooded the air, giving her goosebumps.
“At that point, use brute force. Yeah, get me rock-hard every day and pump your seed deep into my womb. It’ll happen eventually. Your seed is healthy.”
“Ooh, ooh…”
Should she get pregnant with Dahui?
The thought left her uneasy.
“Well, just kidding.”
Elena laughed lightly, changing the subject.
“Ever since I regressed, I’ve been thinking about the weight pregnancy carries.”
“Really?”
“A baby grows in your belly, time passes, the child is born. Then you regress. What happens to the child?”
Sodahui had panicked over pregnancy.
She’d been taking birth control, but by pure coincidence she got pregnant and discovered it in time.
“If I regress, the fetus disappears too.”
Not death, exactly—but the existence never happens.
Only surviving in Sodahui’s memories…. After that, Sodahui is extremely careful about pregnancy.
She never skips birth control.
She must be even more careful now.
“Get Dahui pregnant, pass the trial, then regress immediately.”
“That way… the mental burden will be lighter.”
From a certain viewpoint, it’s just a cell, not life itself.
“Let’s go with that. I’ll start tonight.”
That night came.
Normally Yoo Dahui and Isilia would share a room, but Elena sent Isilia to her own.
Right now Dahui was lying alone.
Elena quietly opened the door and slipped inside without knocking.
“Isilia?”
Dahui lay in bed and turned her head.
Her eyes widened as she recognized her.
“Kim Jinwu?”
Elena grinned and approached.
Dahui naturally made space beside her.
“Perfect. Sleeping alone felt a bit lonely.”
Wearing only a thin slip, she patted the spot next to her.
The fluffy negligee teased her groin.
Her pants bulged and swelled.
She took Dahui’s hand and placed it right on top.
Dahui let out an incredulous laugh.
“You’re not planning to just let it slide, are you?”
She slipped her hand inside naturally.
The slick, slippery heat made her harden further.
“Good?”
“Yeah. Your hand is the best.”
“That’s a very grateful thing to say.”
Dahui’s hand squeezed firmly.
The right pressure—she knew exactly what Jinwu wanted.
“Mmm… hah…”
Elena pulled her close and kissed her deeply.
The sticky kiss lasted a long time.
Their tongues tangled, exchanging saliva, licking each other.
As her breathing grew rougher, Dahui’s eyes grew hazy.
“Haa… why are you doing this?”
“What?”
“So soft and slow… but somehow it feels precious.”
“So you don’t like it?”
“No, I actually like it.”
When their lips parted, Dahui smiled wickedly.
Elena slowly peeled off her slip one piece at a time.
Her pink nipples hardened and poked through the fabric.
“Cute. You’re expecting this, right?”
“Anh… don’t be noisy…”
Embarrassed, she turned her head.
Her nape flushed oddly red.
Slowly descending, Elena took one nipple into her mouth and licked it.
“Huuu…”
Infusing her Sex Technique, she flicked and pressed the hard nub relentlessly.
Dahui’s hand rested on her nape, a faint moan escaping.
Slowly stroking her head, she gently rubbed the hardened length.
“Haaan…”
Elena bit and released her breast, leaving a string of saliva.
She descended again.
As their positions shifted, Dahui’s hand drifted away.
Her toned abdomen came into view.
Smooth, warm belly—Elena pressed her lips against the skin.
“Ahh… why are you doing this…? Why now, of all times…? If it’s because of the trial, I’m fine with it…”
It wasn’t just the trial.
Looking at Dahui with pregnancy in mind, the feeling was completely different.
She couldn’t keep her eyes off that soft, tender belly.
She kissed it as if handling precious treasure, placing her lips on the womb.
Smack—smack—
“Huuu…”
Dahui, who had been pushing Elena’s head away, now accepted her lips.
She simply held her hand and intertwined their fingers.
She offered her belly and womb.
Slowly descending, Elena felt the already soaked folds.
“Smells so lewd.”
“……You made it this way. Take responsibility.”
“Ahh!”
She rubbed the tip against her folds.
She circled the sensitive clit with her hard head.
“Huuuuek!”
Dahui’s hips jumped.
Her juices soaked her thighs.
Approaching climax weakly, Dahui reached out.
Elena caught her hand and held it tight.
“Dahui.”
“Mmm…?”
“I love you.”
Their eyes met.
Dahui trembled and turned away.
Tears gathered at the corners.
“Click—”
“I don’t know what I’ll see in the trial, but…”
She pushed the tip inside and moved her hips slowly.
Dahui’s walls clenched tightly around her, as if she was nervous.
“I like you.”
Even if selfish, she couldn’t help it.
From the hard childhood days until the day she fulfilled her national service as a South Korean man.
For so long she had walked with Dahui.
She had read the novel by putting herself in the protagonist’s shoes—how could she dislike it?
Puuk!
“Me too, me too…”
Dahui struggled and hugged her tight.
Her voice, thick with tears, rang in Elena’s ear.
“I love you too, Jinwu.”
***
Dahui challenged the trial.
To clear the Tower of Struggle, she had to break through the gate somehow.
Inside the trial, Dahui’s mind was manipulated by the System.
It felt like correction.
Intense emotions were adjusted, unpleasant suspicions amplified.
The feelings she had before the trial were useless inside it.
“Jinwu, look at this. Isn’t it cute?”
“Yeah, yeah… it’s cute.”
“Here, I’ll give it to you.”
“Ah, no thanks.”
Elena watched Jinwu dismiss her lovingly made bracelet with a cold reply.
He refused even the ones she offered eagerly.
“Try this. What do you think of the taste?”
“It’s fine.”
Dahui couldn’t hide her disappointment.
“Uek, it’s too salty?”
She tasted her own dish and gulped water.
She shrugged her shoulders watching Jinwu eat her cooking roughly and leave.
That was how Dahui was buried inside the trial.
Inside the trial, on the ninth floor of the Tower of Struggle.
Pregnant Elena and Isilia were writhing with Jinwu.
Even after giving birth and feeding, they still planted seeds, as if not enough.
But she didn’t touch Dahui.
“Sob…”
Sobbing in loneliness, she was crying when a small voice came from beside her.
“Mom, why are you crying?”
A girl peeked out from next to her.
Not a blonde elf or white-haired dragon—a black-haired human girl.
Her eyes, nose, and mouth were luckily similar to Dahui’s.
“Hehe, who made Mommy cry?”
Though she looked like Dahui, the mischievous smile was unmistakably Jinwu’s.
A boy popped up beside her.
Grinning while swinging a toy sword.
“Mom, who did you hit?”
“Kim Jinhyuk! What did you just say?!”
“Just say it! I’ll scold that guy for you!”
“Where did you learn such mean words? You said it before Dad?”
“Yeah, I’m not scared at all. Kim Jinhee.”
Uha ha ha— the boy laughed boisterously while the girl wailed cutely.
Dahui felt something rising inside her.
“Yeah… right now this is…”
The trial, the trial for awakening, the fake world.
Crack—crack—!
The world shattered.
Elena, Isilia, and Jinwu, who had been rolling on the bed, turned to dust and disappeared.
“Mom! I’ll meet Jinhee later, bye!”
“Cheonma, Kim Jinhyuk is going! Going! Pung going!”
Even the children who called themselves Kim Jinhee and Kim Jinhyuk….
“Ah, aaah…!”
Dahui waved her hands helplessly.
She reached for the children, trying to grab them.
But she couldn’t touch them.
[You have cleared the trial.]
[‘Yoo Dahui (3★)’ ▶ ‘Yoo Dahui (4★)’]
In the dark underground cavern, stars rose.
Lying under the bright light, Dahui smiled faintly and stroked her lower belly.
“Baby… Jinhyuk and Jinhee are inside me.”