Chapter 8
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Kang Seoyoon looked at me as if she'd seen a ghost.
"When did you learn Japanese?"
"Kyaa. The old hag's jealous again."
"Who's an old hag? Who?!"
Now I could understand the two of them bickering without any trouble.
I could even tell that Luka's first 'thank you' had been in Japanese, while the 'thank you' she'd said afterward was clumsy Korean.
That was some translation spell.
In reality, it was less like learning a foreign language and more like communicating through magic.
I understood what they meant, and then I could intuitively sense a particular arrangement and set of rules.
The structure I sensed was probably what you called a language.
Compared to magic, language was such an inefficient means of communication.
Was the magic I'd learned something from a far more advanced civilization?
Or was it a blessing from a forgotten ancient age?
"I guess… I just kind of knew."
"There it is again. 'Just.'"
It was a way of speaking Seoyoon hated.
"You mean you learned it through magic, right?"
Nod.
Seoyoon seemed to have learned by now that when something implausible happened, it was magic.
"Om nom nom, nom nom."
The gyaru happily ate the fruit I'd let her have.
Her face was small and pretty, but her chest could give the fruit a run for its money in size.
But her breasts… were so imposing they could rival watermelons.
"You're just like a cat I raised."
"Neko (ねこ)?! I wanna be the neko you raise, Oppa♡"
This girl was openly asking to be tamed.
"You're spoiling her. Seriously."
Kang Seoyoon chimed in.
"Assistant Manager Seoyoon said she'd share with you if we gathered more. Thank her."
"Eh, really~? I don't believe you."
"……."
Seoyoon was crouched in front of the campfire, lost in thought.
Luka tilted her head at the sight.
"That's weird. Did something happen to that unnie, Oppa?"
"We ran into something scary in the forest today."
"Scary~~ Luka can't go into the forest alone."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Everyone goes out gathering, but Luka's scared. I wanna stay by your side, Oppa."
She really was like a cat I was raising….
"I'm so happy I can talk to you, Oppa!"
"……!"
Even though her new bikini was slipping off and one breast was popping out, she didn't care as she hugged me.
She was practically rushing to repay me for feeding her.
She rubbed herself against me with a radiant smile.
"I love you so much, Oppa."
Surely she was acting because she was getting food from me, but she was so forward that I couldn't help thinking maybe she genuinely liked me…
She was that brazen.
"While that Korean unnie's feeling down today, can I have Oppa all to myself, okay?"
"Haha…."
I wrapped an arm around Luka's waist and hugged her.
Even though I couldn't hide my erect cock and was subtly rubbing it against Luka, she just smiled.
If anything, she rubbed herself against me again and again, as if she were sure her charms were working.
She kept stimulating my cock without a break.
This was getting a little dangerous.
Luka definitely knew she was pretty.
For now, she was just a cat I was keeping, but if I failed to put a leash on her, she might end up leading me around.
"Hss. Hold still…."
"Ooh, is Oppa the tyrant type? The type who spanks his kitty?"
"Haha…."
She really was a brazen one.
Now that I could understand her, I could see even more clearly why Seoyoon had been dumbfounded by her.
Her personality was the exact opposite of Kang Seoyoon's.
She wasn't just shameless—she was using a woman's weapons to their fullest.
Survival? She didn't need to know anything about that.
She was stubbornly pushing ahead with the strategy of marrying a man who could take care of her.
I knew what she was after, too, which was why I was subtly getting handsy with her like this……
"Oppaaa, Luka's thirsty."
The moment she said it, the paid service began.
I used magic to fill a bottle with drinking water and let Luka drink.
I fed her and gave her water, too.
Luka was satisfied, clung to me, and shared her warmth with me.
Whisper, whisper.
"Oppa, let's stay together."
"…You don't like me getting along with the Korean unnies?"
"It's not that I don't like it… They nag Luka."
Luka whispered to me as if telling a secret so the others wouldn't hear.
Being pretty, young, and busty was one hell of a weapon.
Every bikini on this beach was part of her collection.
The airhead blonde gyaru, changing into a different bikini every day, was so pretty and made it so obvious she liked me that it was a problem.
No…
Good was good.
"You know, Luka's really open-minded, so I'm okay with being your mistress, Oppa…♡"
"How old are you?"
"Nineteen!"
The world's gone mad.
Wait, nineteen?
"Are you underage?"
"No~~! I'm all grown up~ I can get married~!"
"……."
Ah, Japan uses the international age system.
That startled me……
Though, I wasn't sure what exactly had startled me. We were on a deserted island, after all.
It wasn't like the police were going to come arrest me….
Anyway, Seoyoon's guess that Luka was practically a kid had been right.
She's almost… seven years younger than me?
Not exactly an age gap you could ignore.
If I'd been doing this with a busty blonde gyaru seven years younger than me back in society……
It made me feel a little dizzy.
"I can marry Oppa. Mwah."
"What's so great about me…."
"Your face is Luka's type, and your personality's Luka's type, too. You're cute."
Cute?!
"I like how you're such a gentleman that you hold back for Luka, even though you're this hard♡"
"……."
At least she understood that much.
"You two are whispering so sweetly. A Korean-Japanese couple is born. How wonderful."
Seoyoon had perked up and interrupted us.
"Eh~ I'm just thanking Oppa for giving me fruit and something to drink."
"Why don't you contribute somehow instead? You should think about doing something useful and earning what you get."
"But that unnie and I are both doing nothing~?"
Han Jia, who'd been lying down, flinched. Her shoulder trembled.
"Hey. Don't say that to Manager Han."
"Oppa, sorry-sorry~."
It was annoying that she only apologized to me, but she was cute.
Assistant Manager Seoyoon looked like she was boiling inside, but……
What could she do when the girl was clinging to me and saying she liked me?
Since I liked going with the flow, I didn't resist and just went along with it.
Rub, rub.
Warm and soft….
The blonde busty gyaru's whole body was soft.
"Manager Han at least did the laundry, but you really don't do anything."
"Eeh, I'm on the important mission of comforting lonely Oppa, okay?"
"……."
Assistant Manager Seoyoon held her head in her hands.
Looks like I wasn't the only one who had someone else come along who wouldn't back down an inch.
That confidence and shamelessness of hers, relying on youth alone.
Assistant Manager Kang Seoyoon glared at her, looking like she wanted to teach her a lesson.
"Korean unnie, if you scrunch up your face like that, you'll get wrinkles~. Scary."
"Sigh."
Luka had gotten what she wanted in the end.
A position where she could stay pressed up against me without anyone stopping her.
It was like I'd taken in a cat.
"Oppa, Luka's body feels soft and nice, doesn't it?"
"It does, but…."
"Let's sleep together tonight♡"
Luka ran her tongue over her lips and met my eyes.
"You want Luka beside you when you go night-night, right, Oppa?"
"Um…."
"What are you planning to do to a young girl, Mr. Kim Woojin?"
Assistant Manager Seoyoon hadn't given up.
She shot Luka a piercing glare, wary of her.
"You can't sleep with that girl. There's already a serious moral breakdown happening here."
"If we're being precise, Luka isn't a kid. She's a proper adult…."
Gasp.
It'd been a while since I'd seen that look of contempt from Assistant Manager Seoyoon—not since the company.
"So you want to roll around with a blonde Japanese woman under the same tent where Manager Han and I sleep…?"
"Haha….
"Korean unnie, you're so fierce~ Kyaa~."
"Can't be helped. Luka, sleep with Seoyoon-unnie."
"What?!"
Kang Seoyoon looked at me in bewilderment.
She must've been surprised I'd suddenly passed Luka off to her.
"Should I?"
Luka stood up with a playful smile and approached Seoyoon.
Seoyoon tried to push Luka away as she clung to her.
"Ugh, why do you keep getting all up close when you talk? You do this to men and women alike!"
"Let's be friends, Korean unnie. I was wrong earlier today."
"Jeez, you're so shameless……! You're planning on sneaking your way into our group like this, aren't you?!"
"Correct♡ First, I'm gonna win you over, unnie!!"
You two will be friends in no time.
Even a bad relationship was still a relationship.
I was a little concerned that Manager Han Jia had been quiet for a while.
'Is she thinking about her family…?'
I didn't know whether I should leave her alone at a time like this or show her some concern.
My usual conclusion was, it's a hassle, so let's not bother her.
Go with the flow───
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Day 5 of being stranded, 08:30.
Tick, tick, tick.
The sound of my wristwatch's second hand was clear as I woke up.
I felt much more refreshed than yesterday.
Ever since my constitution changed because of mana, I felt like my other senses were getting sharper, too.
I also felt like my muscles were a little sore….
And my lower half was so fucking horny I could barely stand it.
"Mmm, Oppaaa."
By morning, Luka had somehow rolled over beside me and fallen asleep there.
Wow, those boobs……
The feel of those enormous boobs was unreal.
Luka was lightly tapping my morning wood, which had been sticking out of my pants after I'd stayed hard all night.
She was clinging to me as if I were her dakimakura.
"Amane…."
I called her name and tried to wake her, but Luka either pretended not to hear me or was mumbling in her sleep…
"I love Oppa…."
She said that while lightly tapping my cock with her thigh.
Gasp….
"P-please put that away already!"
Kang Seoyoon, who'd noticed my predicament, shouted with a bright-red face.
"Y-yes…."
"What are you doing?"
"It's a bodily function."
With loose pants on, it really stood out…
Half of it was sticking out, twitching.
"……I see. A bodily function, huh."
Kang Seoyoon scanned the bulge in my pants for about two seconds, then sharply looked away.
"Why is it so big…. Did you take the wrong herbal medicine as a kid or something?"
"Uh, it's rude to comment on someone's size, Assistant Manager."
"Ugh…. I'm saying it because you're showing it off first thing in the morning."
So that's how you want to play it?
I looked at the braless assistant manager's breasts and said,
"Then you're always showing off your big ones too, aren't you, Assistant Manager?"
"Ah……. Ngh."
When I turned the tables on her, the assistant manager honestly admitted it.
"I'm sorry for judging you so carelessly, Mr. Kim Woojin."
"Well, men like being told they're big, actually."
"……That size must make everyday life inconvenient."
"Are your big ones inconvenient, too, Assistant Manager?"
The assistant manager matter-of-factly rubbed her shoulders and said,
"My shoulders ache, and they're heavy. And during that time of the month, my breasts swell and get even bigger……."
"Mine gets bigger all the time, too, so it's hard."
"It gets bigger all the time?"
"Yes."
Never thought I'd be having a conversation like this with the assistant manager.
Maybe it was thanks to the past four days of island life.
I decided to joke around a little more suggestively, too.
"Especially when I keep seeing your braless breasts, Assistant Manager, I get like this a lot."
"That must be hard."
"It is."
"……."
"……."
The conversation went no further.
"W-what? When you say it's hard, you're not expecting me to do something about it, are you?"
"I didn't expect anything."
"Men can, um, take care of that themselves, right? If you say you're going to the bathroom, I'll pretend not to notice."
……That was a very considerate arrangement.
I wondered if it was proof I was starting to lose my mind that I wanted her to just jerk me off herself.
I looked back toward the shore.
The rescue team was nowhere to be seen today, either.
"Let's go exploring today, too. We've got another mouth to feed—or rather, another cat."
"…Sigh. Someone has to put a stop to this kind of moral breakdown…."
"Is that really something you should say, now that you've gotten comfortable going braless?"
Kang Seoyoon turned away, embarrassed, and muttered an excuse.
"Well, in extreme situations, the old order sometimes falls apart."
Fuck, I wanted to share my senses with her so she'd know how horny I was right now.
Was there any magic like that?
Every time the assistant manager's tits bounced, every time she carelessly exposed her smooth-shaven armpits, I was fighting a pretty intense battle over here.
"Anyway, about exploring…."
"What time should we go?"
"Hmm…."
Seoyoon hesitated strangely.
"Should we take today off?"
"What?"
Take the day off? Was that even an option?
This was the first time I could remember super-workaholic Kang Seoyoon suggesting a break.
"Why are you so surprised?"
"I'm surprised because you're suggesting a break, Assistant Manager. Don't tell me……."
Was she still scared?
Had she started not wanting to go into the jungle?
"Um…."
"I-It's not what you're thinking."
Doesn't it seem like it is?
Even in the jungle, she'd probably cling to me and refuse to let go.
"I said it's not! Fine, let's go!"
"You don't have to push yourself, Assistant Manager. This time, I'll go alone…."
"N-no. I want to be useful."
In the end, her workaholic instinct came out.
But… she'd really been trying to avoid going because she was scared?
Did the jungle now look like a demon's lair to Seoyoon?
That's when it happened.
"This time, I'll go with you."
Han Jia stood up, raising her hand.
It seemed she'd been listening to our conversation.
"Manager Han?"
Seoyoon and I both turned to look at Han Jia.
Neither Seoyoon nor I had naturally included Manager Han in our jungle explorations. It was something we'd silently agreed on.
It was elder abuse……
Calling it elder abuse felt a little too pitiful.
Anyway, it was more like an instinctive consideration, since Manager Han didn't look like she'd be good at physical work.
She'd broken that assumption by volunteering to do the laundry, and now she was saying she'd go herself.
"Mr. Woojin, will you go with me?"
She even picked me as her partner.
"Uh… Manager Han."
Neither of us could happily agree right away.
Seoyoon was probably thinking the same thing I was.
It made me feel a little guilty to find myself weighing whether bringing her along would be a plus or a minus.
"I won't hold you back. Assistant Manager Kang can rest today."
But the manager's resolve was firm.
"Umm…."
The assistant manager trailed off, uncertain, but I'm not the sort of person who tells someone not to do something when they want to.
"Then you guard the camp today, Assistant Manager."
"…Manager, are you sure you'll be okay?"
"Yes. Don't worry."
I looked at Luka, sleeping soundly without a care in the world.
"Assistant Manager, put Luka to work for you. If she doesn't listen, you can tell her Oppa will give her a spanking."
"Sigh. I just hope she doesn't throw herself on the ground and wail that she doesn't want to do anything."
"Haha."
The manager and I packed our bags and headed into the forest.
"What got into you all of a sudden?"
"We should be fair. I'm older, and I can't use being the manager as an excuse to avoid it~."
"It must be hard for you…."
"Don't worry. Hehe, who knows? Maybe I'll do better than Assistant Manager Kang."
"Hmm…."
I followed the lipstick marks Assistant Manager Kang had left along yesterday's route.
I was walking as slowly as I could, but after about thirty minutes, our group's pace seemed to be slowing down.
I turned around.
"Hoo…. Hooo…. Haa…."
If I said anything after seeing that, I wouldn't be a man.
Manager Han was already carrying a load. A very large one on her chest……
Firm, beautiful breasts.
Since she was tired and had undone her buttons, her breasts were jutting out aggressively, showing off their power.
"Hoo, haa… Please… don't mind me……."
"…Let's take a little break."
Manager Han was dying.
I stopped and filled a bottle with water for her.
Jia took it right away and gulped it down, eyes squeezed shut.
"…Can you tell me why you're suddenly doing this?"
"……."