Chapter 10
Wait, what… Why am I suddenly S-rank?
My original plan had been to reach A-rank, enjoy myself for a while, then cash out when I got bored.
But then it suddenly became S-rank, and ‘Heroine Netori’ came to an end.
I had been pounding away, but when I came to my senses, I was just fucking the air.
Damn it, these characters were far too good to send away like this. How did this happen? Did Yuna do something?
I brought Siwoo on the trip to bring him and Yuna together. Originally, Yuna was supposed to accept when Siwoo confessed.
Once they became a couple and I was in full wishful-thinking mode, I planned to show Siwoo Yuna and me having sex.
But who would have thought Siwoo would be such a loser that he couldn't confess at that perfect opportunity… For all he was the protagonist, I was deeply disappointed.
So I decided to think about it the next day, and while the three of us were happily spending the night together, an A-rank completion notification popped up.
On a whim, I peeked through the door and saw Siwoo spying on us. While masturbating, no less.
Thinking this was fine in its own way, I focused on the sex, but Siwoo suddenly ran out of the villa, and a few hours later, an S-rank completion notification appeared.
There had still been plenty left to enjoy, so all I was left with was regret.
Whew… Still, it couldn't be helped. It was already over.
[Mission Clear!]
[Result: S Rank, Points Earned: 26100]
[Achievement Unlocked: ‘Receive a Confession from a Supporting Heroine’]
[Achievement Unlocked: ‘Have a Threesome with the Heroines (Including the Main Heroine)’]
[Clear Reward: ‘Cooking’ Skill]
Oh! That's over 20,000 points. Is it because of the threesome achievement? Or maybe the reward last time was small because that was only the tutorial.
And a ‘Cooking’ skill… The theme of this round of ‘Heroine Netori’ really was cooking. Yuna owns a bakery, Yena's family runs a food company, and Siwoo had a talent for cooking too.
[Cooking Lv. 1 – You become good at cooking.]
That's a very simple description, but I'll have to test it later.
[Erogenous Stimulation Lv. 5 – You can stimulate sexual pleasure through physical contact. The more contact involving the genitals, the more easily sexual pleasure can be stimulated.]
[Affinity Farming Lv. 2 – Makes it easier to gain Affinity.]
Looking at the existing skills listed above Cooking, I noticed that Erogenous Stimulation had changed.
It looked like a new function had been added when it reached Level 5. Would it now make it easier to give someone pleasure through sex?
Unfortunately, Affinity Farming hadn't increased by much.
Erogenous Stimulation had been easy to raise, but I had no idea how to raise Affinity Farming.
I had only raised it by 1 even after seducing two heroines, so maybe I needed another method.
And now I needed to check this…
[Using the ‘Heroine Netori’ ability.]
I wasn't planning to leave for a new story right away. I just wanted to check in advance. I was too curious.
What could I do with points, and what could I choose?
[Select the genre you want.]
Fantasy, light novels, martial arts, modern fantasy, romance fantasy, and so on—the genres I'd seen in web novels were listed there. But they all cost 100 points.
What? That's really cheap. Since they all cost the same, I guess the choice itself is what matters.
When I chose Fantasy, a new list appeared.
Classic hero story, wastrel-possession story, isekai high-schooler story, I Alone Survive, and so on—there were topics I'd seen in web novels again. But these had different prices.
The wastrel-possession story cost 500 points. The isekai high-schooler story cost 1000 points. The classic hero story was… 0 points?
Why? I had no idea. I was thinking of choosing the classic hero story next time anyway, so zero points was great.
When I chose the classic hero story, subgenres appeared.
Harem, comedy, bleak, humanity, and so on… Wait, what the fuck is humanity?
Baffled, I checked, only to find that choosing humanity let me receive points instead of spending them.
Was I really supposed to choose the humanity genre to earn 10 million points? Did that genre even have heroines in it…?
…A horrifying thought came to me. What if my gacha had failed and I'd ended up in a humanity genre instead of a harem light novel?
“Urk… fuck.”
I gagged.
From now on, no matter what happened, I was never going to do something insane like roll the gacha within a genre.
But did I really need to earn this many points?
Choosing Harem cost 500 points. Fantasy, the classic hero story, and Harem came to 600 points altogether—did I really need 10 million points? It wasn't as if I could raise my stats. I decided to move on for now.
[Select the character you want.]
0-tier, 1-tier, 2-tier, 3-tier, 4-tier, 5-tier… What was this, a reroll tier list?
When I pressed 0-tier, I saw a Demon Lord at the top of the list that popped up.
[Demon Lord: 100 million points]
Ah-ha! Now I understood. That's why 10 million points were necessary. I'd have to get my ass eaten ten times to become a Demon Lord. The position of Demon Lord seemed incredibly high-ranking.
Besides the Demon Lord, I saw the Hero of the previous generation (50 million points), the Mage Tower Master (30 million points), and the Dragon Lord (70 million points).
It looked like, instead of paying points to choose one of them, I had no choice but to pray the gacha would give me one.
Kings and popes appeared in Tier 1, while Tier 2 had nobles such as dukes and counts, along with guild masters.
Tier 3 had apprentice adventurers and apprentice knights, Tier 4 was the lowest of the low, and Tier 5 was practically nothing more than an extra.
Even Tier 3 had a minimum price of over 10,000 points, while Tier 4's maximum price was 2,400 points. Every Tier 5 character cost 50 points.
The rational choice seemed to be a Tier 4 character at minimum, or a Tier 3 character at most.
It was possible to roll the gacha for zero points, but… that was taking too big a gamble.
[Select the items to use this round.]
This time, the item list appeared right away. Once again, the items near the top of the list had absurd prices.
[Death Regression (Single Use): 10 million points. If you die, you return to the day before your death instead of being forcibly settled.]
It cost 10 million for just one use. That was one whole ass-fucking. The going rate was terrifying.
Come to think of it, I really could die in a fantasy world… I hadn't even considered that.
Fortunately, the description of Death Regression said that dying in ‘Heroine Netori’ didn't mean I would die in reality.
[Time-Stop Device (Single Use): 10 million points. Press it to stop time, press it again to resume time, and the device will be destroyed.]
Once again, one use cost one ass-fucking. It seemed like it would have plenty of uses, but it was a shame it was single-use. And it was far too expensive. Even reaching S-rank didn't earn me 30,000 points, so the inflation was insane.
As I scrolled down looking for cheaper items, I saw some that read ‘???: ??? points. ???’
They seemed to be items that hadn't been unlocked yet, but I had no idea what I needed to do to unlock them.
Oh… These look affordable enough.
[Inventory (3 Slots): 10,000 points. Can hold up to three real-world items or items from ‘Heroine Netori’. Items can be taken out or brought in. (Disappears when ‘Heroine Netori’ is settled)]
[Pause Ticket: 1000 points. Pauses ‘Heroine Netori’ and lets you return to reality. Points must be paid every time it is used. (Up to three ‘Heroine Netori’ stories can be in progress at once)]
Inventory… This is an absolute bargain.
With this, even if I could bring back just one artifact from a fantasy world, I could leave my studio apartment right away.
And if I brought my smartphone, I could film my netori firsthand and sell it on the deep web. I could probably make quite a bit of money.
The Pause Ticket was great too.
It was a shame it cost 1000 points each time, but I could return to reality and empty my inventory whenever the slots filled up. And if I got bored, I could take a short breather by doing another ‘Heroine Netori’.
The really good stuff had all been at the bottom. I absolutely had to buy both of these.
And it seemed like it would be fun to buy a few of these just to pass the time.
[Random Box: 100 points. It's a random box.]
You never know.
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“Aagh!”
After planning out my ‘Heroine Netori’, I went to the bathroom to wash up and take a short break, only to find an ugly guy there.
“Ah, fuck, that’s me…”
It was me.
After spending several months as Butler Gam, I had forgotten what I looked like.
When I became another person through ‘Heroine Netori’, my appearance was adjusted somewhat to match the character, and as Butler Gam, I had been extremely handsome.
My slumped shoulders had been straightened, and even my dark circles and skin blemishes had all disappeared.
It wasn't as if my basic features had vanished entirely. Butler Gam's face was basically my pre-unemployment prime after a few rounds of plastic surgery.
“What a fucking pain…”
If I'd never had it in the first place, I wouldn't have known what I was missing, but having it and then losing it was infuriating. After living as a handsome man and returning to my old self, I didn't want to live anymore. Could I somehow improve my looks with points?
[Spend points on Appearance? 10 points per use]
This was possible?
What? Did this mean I could raise my stats now?
[Points cannot be used on Physical Stamina.]
Apparently not.
I couldn't raise my stats, but I could enlarge my dick and improve my looks? Then what about my virility? I'd already felt that my sexual stamina was lacking while having threesomes. It would be nice if I could raise that too.
[Spend points on Virility? 10 points per use]
It can? Then what the hell determines it? Could I only raise abilities that were useful for ‘Heroine Netori’?
[Intelligence increased by 1.]