Chapter 321: Guwon’s Counterattack
Chapter 321: Guwon’s Counterattack
“I’m exhausted. For some reason, I feel more drained now that I’m back than when I was at the castle.”
Night had fallen, and I sprawled out on the bed as I spoke.
“Hehe. You worked hard.”
Leia, who had just finished her shower, came and sat gently beside me, stroking my hair.
“I really did. So you have to soothe me, Leia!”
“Oh, my. You’re being such a baby today, Guwon.”
Despite her words, Leia gently pulled my face into her chest.
This right here is the oasis of my heart.
Alright. Tonight, I’ll just let Leia… ah, come to think of it.
“Leia. I have something I’m curious about. Can I ask you a question?”
“Hm? A question? What is it?”
“Yesterday, when Johan asked for help, you told him to go to the temple for something like that. What did you mean?”
With one thing after another, I’d completely forgotten to ask about it.
“Ah, th-that’s…”
In a rare moment, Leia hesitated, unable to answer me right away.
Seeing that, I became more certain that my guess was correct.
“It has something to do with that place called the education hall I stumbled into when I got lost in the temple, right?”
“That… yes…”
“What exactly do they do there?”
“Well… at the temple, in accordance with the Goddess’s teachings, we provide guidance to those who are still inexperienced so that they can lead proper sex lives. To be precise, we guide those who are level 10 or below.”
“When I was there, it looked like it was only for men.”
I might have missed them, but I couldn’t recall seeing any women when I was lost in the education hall.
“Usually, the subjects are men. Women do come occasionally, but they only need guidance for the first few times, and after that, they have no reason to return.”
That makes sense. This world was indeed a harsh place for men.
I’d expected as much from the moment I heard that sex was the means of leveling up, but the more I learned about this world, the more I realized how unforgiving it was for men.
Think about it. You only level up by making your partner feel pleasure.
So what happens if two virgins have sex?
The man will always finish, but the woman almost never will.
A gap forms right from the very start.
And what if they have sex again after that?
It’s a level one versus a level two.
You expect a guy who just lost his virginity to be able to pleasure a partner who, even if she’s only level two, is a higher level than him?
It might not be completely impossible, but for the most part, you’d have to assume it is.
So, does he try to seduce another virgin of the same level?
It would be far easier to pleasure an experienced level-two woman; making a virgin feel pleasure is nearly impossible.
In other words, the system was structured so that, with the exception of a few truly talented individuals, it was almost impossible for men to level up purely through sex.
That must be why the temple offered these lectures as a form of salvation.
I suppose I could thank the temple’s education program for the fact that the average level of adult men in this world was even in the low teens.
The question was, what kind of lectures did they give?
Well, I had a pretty good idea.
Leia’s reluctance to speak, the excited faces of the men I’d seen at the temple.
And above all, the education hall was a place packed with tiny rooms, each barely large enough to fit a single bed.
Priests considered it taboo to show the act to others.
Putting it all together, the answer was already laid out before me.
But I decided to ask Leia anyway.
“What kind of lectures do they give?”
“W-well… through practical application…”
“…Just as I thought.”
“Ah! But please don’t misunderstand! I never did it!”
“Yeah. I know.”
After all, Leia had been a virgin when we were first together.
Hm? Wait a minute. But if I remember correctly, Leia’s level was in the high teens from the moment we met.
She was a virgin, but her level was that high?
Of course, Leia lived as a priestess at the temple every day, so she might have gained some levels through her job duties, but was that enough to get her into the high teens?
No matter how I thought about it, that was strange.
If that were possible, then ordinary men would also be in their high teens.
The men I’d seen weren’t all in their twenties; even those in their thirties and forties were mostly in the low teens.
So how did Leia…
“It’s true. The guidance in the education hall is handled by low-level volunteers…”
As I fell into thought, staring silently at Leia, she must have thought I was doubting her, because she spoke in an urgent tone.
“Volunteers? Knowing your personality, I’m sure you would have volunteered.”
I didn’t mean it as an accusation; it was just that she had a pure desire to help others.
Even now, she seemed to be using her share of our earnings for the orphanage and the people in the slums.
“W-well… yes… I did volunteer… B-but! I really never did it. A low-level priestess is assigned to prevent the people who come for education from being unable to do anything and just finishing, but that doesn’t mean an inexperienced person can provide the training. Before being assigned, we have to be educated ourselves first. We receive a general lecture on how to conduct the training, and at the end, there’s a final check through a practical session… and that’s when I…”
She must have turned into a Gumiho.
With that, all the mysteries were… no, almost all of them were solved.
No wonder there were hardly any low-level priests.
“Still, practical education… According to the Goddess’s teachings, sex is best between people who love each other, right?”
“Yes. That’s why we assist them, so that they can have happy sexual relations with the ones they love. What we do with those who come for education… we just think of it as our duty as priestesses.”
“In any case, should I say I’m glad you didn’t have to do it… or am I being too selfish?”
Considering the reason she couldn’t do it was because she turned into a Gumiho, it was hard to be openly happy about it.
But inwardly, I was truly relieved.
“No. Just hearing you think that makes me happy. It makes me feel loved.”
Despite my selfish words, Leia smiled gently, looking pleased.
The question of why Leia’s level had been so high from the start still remained, but for now, I decided to be content with this.
To lighten the mood, which I had inadvertently made a little heavy, I threw out a joke.
“Feeling loved over something like this? You’re not trying to tell me you don’t usually feel that way, are you?”
“Oh, my. If that’s what you think, then you must have a guilty conscience, right?”
Sensing my intent, Leia responded with a playful tone she rarely used.
“What?! I cherish and love you so much all the time!”
“Kyaa!”
I shouted as I pounced on top of her.
Making no effort to hide her smiling face, Leia let out a clearly feigned scream and willingly lay back on the bed.
As her body sank into the mattress, the towel wrapped around her spread open, revealing her magnificent figure.
“Leia.”
“Yes, Guwon.”
Without a word, we brought our lips together.
“By the way, about that education thing.”
After a long moment of our tongues exploring each other’s mouths, I pulled back and looked at her.
“Yes?”
Leia looked bewildered, likely wondering why I was bringing up a topic she thought we had finished.
“You said that before being assigned, you get a general lecture on how to conduct the training, and then a final check with a practical session. The part where you got stuck was the practical check, right?”
“Yes…”
Leia’s face fell slightly, as if she was remembering the incident where she turned into a Gumiho and killed a man.
Oops. Should I not have brought this up?
No, since I’d come this far, I might as well see it through.
“Then that means you’ve already heard the general lecture on how to conduct the training, right?”
“…Oh, you…”
From just that, Leia seemed to realize what I was getting at.
Her perked-up ears folded down, and she turned her body to the side, her tail starting to slap against my stomach.
Leia. I know you’re using your fluffy tail because hitting me with your hand would make a slapping sound and hurt, but this just looks like you’re trying to seduce me.
“You have heard it, right?”
“Y-yes…”
When I asked again, Leia nodded with a bashful expression.
“Then will you do it for me?”
“W-what?”
“I mean, it’s a waste to let that knowledge go to waste. So, how about you try it on me…”
“Is that really why? Is that the only reason?”
“Sorry. I just want you to do it. Please!”
As Leia looked at me with her beautiful eyes, I couldn’t keep up the lie and confessed honestly.
“You’re really something else, Guwon…”
The assault from Leia’s tail on my lower abdomen grew just a little stronger.
“So… is that a no?”
Instead of answering my question, Leia turned back to face me directly.
Then, she wrapped her arms around my neck and gave me a soft kiss.
Is she trying to brush it off with a kiss?
Well, I guess it didn’t matter. I couldn’t force her to do something she didn’t want to.
Besides, kissing Leia was pleasant enough on its own.
Whenever we kissed, those two magnificent hills of hers would press against my chest, doubling my happiness.
Just as I was thinking that, Leia, still holding me, rolled her body to the side.
With a half-turn on the bed, our positions were reversed.
Leia was now on top of me.
Pressing her ample bosom against my chest as she kissed me, she shifted her lower body slightly to the side.
“Mmm… mwah. W-well then… shall we start with the basics of holding back?”
After a deep kiss followed by a light peck, Leia pulled away and spoke, her body pressing down on me from a slight angle.
Then, she slowly reached a hand toward my Dick.
She wrapped her hand around it, all five fingers making full contact, and began to slowly stroke up and down.
“Since this is education, you can’t use skills to hold back, okay? Ahmm…”
With those words, she kissed me again.
Above, Leia’s soft lips pressed against mine. Below them, her breasts, still completely covering one side of my chest and asserting their heavy presence even as she lay at an angle, swayed with the movement of her hand, setting my chest on fire.
And further down, Leia’s warm touch gently stimulated my Dick.
The stimulation was too intense.
No, the moment she started kissing me, I knew this wasn’t how the actual education was done.
Well, it felt good, so I didn’t care.
My Dick twitched reflexively, and Leia stopped her hand, gripping the base tightly.
“Hah… Not yet. If you can’t hold back longer, you won’t be able to please a woman, you know?”
Leia spoke as if she were chiding a child, but her voice was far too sultry for that.
“You can still… hold back longer, right?”
“Y-yeah.”
“Hehe. Good.”
My heart pounded at her unusually seductive demeanor. As I replied, Leia smiled sweetly and released her grip on the base of my Dick.
I thought she was just letting go to get a better grip, but her hand didn’t move back to the middle of my shaft.
“Ugh! L-Leia?!”
“If you feel like you’re about to come… you have to tense up here and hold it in. Got it?”
Leia said, raising a single finger and gently stroking the area near my ass in a circular motion.
“Ugh! Yeah!”
“Good. Then, again…”
Resisting the unfamiliar sensation of being touched there, I nodded desperately. Only then did Leia gently grip my Dick once more.