Paizuri
"Wh-what are you—!"
I hastily yanked the hem of my t-shirt back down and glared daggers at that crow bastard.
I'd known for a long time he was a horny little animal, but never in my wildest dreams did I think he'd pull this kind of stunt on a former squadmate.
I genuinely wanted to tear him limb from limb.
"What's the problem? I just wanted to double-check that what I saw was real."
"……"
"So? How is it? Between friends, I mean."
Friends, my ass.
What kind of friend on this earth ambushes someone, flips their shirt up, and inspects their chest?
I stumbled backward to put a safe distance between us, then steadied my trembling body and ragged breathing with a deep breath.
"G-get out……."
"Huh? You're telling me to leave?"
"Yes."
"Nah, don't feel like it."
"……"
"Isn't it a little funny, someone who broke in here with a baseball bat telling me to get out?"
Fine, I had intended to raise a certain amount of hell, but the plan was to scare him and run.
At worst, I figured I'd break a few things.
The bat was for self-defense; the goal was a warning.
I had never planned on standing here locked in a standoff, holding a conversation.
"So the reason you never said a single word all this time was your voice, huh?"
"……"
"You hated the idea of being found out as a woman that much?"
Bullshit.
When I first met the crow, I was a man. I just had a hard time talking to people, that was all.
"Not answering again? Fine, whatever. Guess I'll just drop this location on the gallery and cut ties with you."
"N-no, don't!"
The crow hooked the GPS device onto his finger and spun it around lazily, then abruptly yanked off his mask and tossed it aside.
"First time seeing my face, right?"
"……Yeah."
I'd expected the crow to be shifty and ugly, but his face turned out to be surprisingly on the handsome side.
Soft features, neatly kept hair.
He looked like a delinquent pretty-boy, the kind who lived off gullible women.
"I've seen your face, so as a matter of courtesy, I've gone public too."
Non-combat personnel in the mercenary trade always hid their faces behind masks.
The reason was simple.
We didn't want to make enemies or invite retaliation.
Given our rear-line position, we were physically incapable of subduing an opponent if we actually ran into one.
Call it the survival strategy of cowards.
Showing someone your bare face, then, was proof that you trusted them deeply.
But if that wasn't the reason……
then it meant the other person was weak and harmless enough that showing your face posed no risk at all.
"My real name's Baek Woon."
"……"
"Hey, you heard my name, so aren't you supposed to give me yours?"
"D-don't want to."
The crow—Baek Woon, that is—was a real loose-lipped bastard.
Not that having your real name leak out in a dead world carried any particular downside.
Still, some instinct told me that if I gave this bastard my name, I'd somehow end up dragged into some deep shit.
"Keep hiding it and I press the button?"
"Tch……"
"I'll press it, you know?"
"E-Eun Yuyeon……."
"Hm. So that wasn't a lie."
I had no intention of lying, anyway.
Like I said before, giving out my real name wouldn't change anything meaningful about my situation.
I have no friends.
Sad to say, that means even if I went around broadcasting my full name, nobody would come looking for me.
……Speaking of which, how did he know I wasn't lying?
"You've got that face. The one wondering how I could tell truth from lie."
"A little……"
"Second Awakening ability. In exchange for losing the ability to lie myself, I can tell whether other people's words are true or false."
If this were pre-apocalypse, I'd have marveled at what an absolutely broken ability that was. But in a world overrun by monsters, anything that didn't help in a fight was treated as garbage.
"I can only use it three times a day, though."
"O-okay, I get it……. S-so can you leave now?"
"Already said no."
Baek Woon dragged my computer chair over uninvited, parked it right in front of me, and sat down.
My precious chair, which no one but me had ever sat in, now occupied by a piece of trash like him.
"You used your ability to force me to watch that disgusting turtle sex video, so you've got to pay a fitting price."
"Th-that was……! You posted the gallery stuff first——"
"Yuyeon, the math doesn't work out in your favor here."
Seriously, fuck off with that 'math doesn't work out' crap!
The bastard who'd leaked my personal information without permission was sitting there shamelessly spouting that garbage, and I was beyond speechless.
"Honestly, how famous is Cat in Gangwon Province, really? A few turns on the trending board isn't the end of the world."
"……"
Excuse me? The view count broke two thousand and there were twenty comments?
I got a little stung by his blathering about something he clearly knew nothing about.
Bastard's never even made it onto the trending board once.
"Alright, I'll return exactly as much as I received, then I'm gone."
"Return what……"
"What do you think? Take the shirt off."
Repulsive bastard.
When I shot him a look of pure contempt, he just grinned back at me.
"Come on, you really think I'd fuck you?"
"Then why are you telling me to take it off……"
"I told you, didn't I? I'm paying back what I got."
"Huh?"
"That turtle video earlier? Genuinely made my skin crawl. You know I can't stand reptiles, and you did that on purpose, right?"
"N-no, I didn't……"
"That's a lie."
"Ugh."
A while back, I'd gone to an aquarium with him on a job.
A tank glass had shattered in an accident, and a turtle came crawling out onto the floor.
I still remembered the way Baek Woon screamed his head off the second he saw it, shrieking about how disgusting it was, like he'd laid eyes on a monster.
Yes, I'd prepared that revenge video while reminiscing about that incident.
Damn it.
Of all things, the System had to grant a lie-detector ability to that particular piece of trash. System, are you out of your goddamn mind?
"Anyway!"
Clap—!
Baek Woon pressed his palms together and clapped once.
"I'm going to do one thing I know would absolutely disgust you, Cat…… ah, no wait. Eun Yuyeon."
"I-I'm sorry……. Don't……"
"Apologies are meant to be paid with the body. Take it off, or the button gets pressed. Your call."
If it weren't for that goddamn GPS, I'd have lunged at him and settled this in a brawl.
Out of options, I took off my t-shirt.
Then I wrapped both arms over my chest to hide my nipples.
Regardless of what gender I was, I'd always hated exposing bare skin to other people.
Even back in school, when it was time to change into gym clothes, I'd lock myself in a bathroom stall to do it.
So having to show this debased, feminine body to the guy I hated most made my face burn.
"Arms away. Hands down."
"Ngh……"
Again, Baek Woon rested a finger on the button and gave me the look.
Swallowing my tears, I slowly lowered my hands—my last line of defense, my last shred of dignity.
"Whoa……. Goddamn, those are some insane tits."
He let out that vulgar exclamation, then pointed at the floor with his finger.
"Come over here and sit."
Refusing would obviously just earn me another threat with the device, so I complied meekly.
"There's something I've always wanted to try. My own little bucket list?"
"……What is it."
"I've dated a fair amount, but I've never once been with a girl with tits as huge as yours."
My breasts were big, and they were pretty, sure.
If the world hadn't ended, they might've been designated a national treasure and put under state protection.
Any man would want to get his hands on them at least once.
So there I was, baring my chest for him to appraise, drowning in self-admiration, when—
"Paizuri."
A word that rang like a bell through my skull shot out of Baek Woon's mouth.
"……What?"
So his goal hadn't been to touch my chest at all.
He wanted me to stick his dick between my tits and move up and down? Now?
Even with a futa beauty this would be a hard sell, and he wanted me to sandwich his filthy trash-dick between my breasts and grind away?
"N-no way……!"
"Like hell."
Ignoring my flat refusal, Baek Woon pulled down his zipper.
The sight of it—two or three times bigger than my junior from my days as a man—made me flinch for a split second.
Then a system window materialized in the air, and my brain flatlined.
[ Awakening Ability (Feminization) is being enhanced ]
[ Condition achieved: Witnessing a cock ]
[ Reward granted: Scent Fetish ]
Witnessing a cock? Scent Fetish?
Awakening abilities were only ever enhanced by investing points. I'd never once heard of a condition being met and the ability changing on its own.
And the reward was a Scent Fetish?
While I stood there with question marks swarming my brain, Baek Woon's palm settled on top of my head.
"What are you doing, spacing out? Surprised by the size?"
"N-no……"
"Oh please, every girl I've shown looks shocked."
When the system window vanished, all that remained before my eyes was Baek Woon's cock, standing there all by itself.
Bitter as it was to admit, he wasn't lying.
It was fucking huge.
"Now, put it between your tits."
Baek Woon ordered, tapping the tip of my breast with his fingertip.
My helplessness, my predicament—it was all just as repulsive as the cock in front of me.
Dredging up memories from porn videos, I pressed my breasts together with both hands and wrapped them around that rigid, straining shaft like a vise.
"This is insane…… Just do it right on your own. You make me cum once and I'm out of here."
"Fucking……"
Better to take the beating early.
That's how I'd always lived, but the beating I was about to take this time was one I wanted no part of. It was agony.
But what choice did I have?
To protect my precious home and sanctuary—this bunker—I had no alternative.
I slowly tightened my chest and began sliding up and down.
I'd worried skin grinding against skin would hurt, but the copious amounts of precum that had leaked out acted as a natural lubricant, and there was no pain at all.
"Ugh……, this is unreal……"
My face burned at the live commentary.
There was one more thing gnawing at me, though.
The smell of his cock, wafting up in curls from between my cleavage.
A musky, sour, animal stench……
and somehow, that smell was starting to feel addictive.
Like the scent of a cat's paw pads, that jelly-like sweetness.
"Hnnn……, hah……"
I drew a deep breath in through my nose and let it out slowly through my mouth.
It was like the air was laced with an aphrodisiac, and holding onto my sanity was getting difficult.
Left to my own desires, I wanted to bury my nose against that pillar and brand this smell into my brain forever.
But this was Baek Woon's cock.
Get a grip.
If I planted my face there, he'd read it as an unmistakable signal of sexual interest and try to rail me on the spot. Guaranteed.
Hold it in, Yuyeon. Hold it in.
"Hnn……, hah……"
The reason a cock that should have repulsed me had me swaying dizzy and half-lost in it had to be that godawful reward from the system earlier.
I refused to surrender my dignity to some passive skill the System had slapped onto me.
But……
taking a few sneaky little sniffs couldn't hurt, right?
Keeping as straight a poker face as I could manage so Baek Woon wouldn't notice, I worked my chest up and down with everything I had.
As I pressed my breasts down and dragged them back up, I made sure to pull the scent along with them.
And so, while I was pouring every ounce of effort into my secret little side operation—
"Hnn……"
"Hey."
"Wh-what?"
"Are you sniffing my cock right now?"
"N-n-n-no? No way……"
"That's a lie too."