Chapter 56
A collar is fastened around her neck.
It had merely been placed around her neck.
A red glow rippled across the collar and gently encircled her white neck.
Click!
With that sound, the buckle locked into place.
Sonya, seemingly unaware, kissed my body.
With her lips.
With her tongue.
And with her teeth.
Saying she would leave her mark on my body.
The sensual sensation made my head spin.
Honestly, if not for the situation, this would have been arousing.
A woman running toward me, saying she liked me.
And she was one of the Seven Heroes, the city's most prominent figures.
A sight like that—a woman sniffing my scent in my arms because she liked how I smelled—was hardly something one saw every day.
“Mr. Mincheol, answer me. I want to have you. No. Don’t answer. I’ve already decided……. You’re mine. My male…….”
She was running wild.
Her possessiveness had developed into lust, and then into sexual desire.
Sniff, sniff.
It was just as she was about to press her nose against my body and smell me.
After confirming that the buckle was completely fastened around her neck, I uttered the command the manager had given me.
“Stop.”
“Huh? What is that supposed to…….”
Zing-!
The collar flashed brightly.
At the same time, Sonya’s body, which had been pouncing on me, froze as if someone had flipped a switch.
“Uh, wha……?”
At a dangerously close distance, with her tongue just short of touching my collarbone, she merely rolled her eyes in confusion.
Sonya looked at me with her eyes opened wide.
Thank you, Manager.
You saved my life.
I had nearly lost both my chastity and my life.
Was it really my life, though?
I quietly slipped out of her arms and put some distance between us.
“M-Mr. Mincheol? What did you just do?”
I heard Sonya’s flustered voice.
She seemed shocked that I could move while she could not, and stared at me with her teeth clenched.
“Ms. Sonya, you’re running wild because you’ve been consumed by your own desires.”
“W-what are you talking about? Running wild? I’m perfectly normal like this. My body is fine, and my mind is fine, too. I may be a little excited, but this isn’t enough to call it running wild, is it?”
Even as she grunted and struggled to move her frozen body somehow, she pleaded as though she had been wronged.
“I like you this much, so how could this be strange? I cleared the seventy-third floor thanks to you, and I cleared this seventy-fourth floor with a record time thanks to you, too! I can’t do anything without you, Mr. Mincheol. So……. Stop this and hug me…….”
Seeing her beg with tears gathering in the corners of her eyes was somewhat pitiful, but.
‘Don’t be fooled.’
The orange glow of madness still dwelled in her eyes.
Even though she looked fine, she was still being consumed by her desires.
“You were about to pounce on me just now. Would the usual Ms. Sonya have done that?”
“Hehe, you’re saying strange things, Mr. Mincheol……. You seduced me first. You treated me so well and complimented me all the time……. You weren’t afraid of me, were you?”
Crack, craaack!
It was then.
As though she were forcibly trying to break through the restraint Jinjo had created, black sparks began snapping around the red collar.
“Mr. Mincheol, did you know? Your body is incredibly sexy right now. Those bite marks I left on your pale skin……. They’re so lewd. So…….”
Sonya finally extended her trembling hand and tried to pounce on me again.
“Let me leave just a little more of a mark.”
I suddenly remembered seeing a post like that on the internet.
It said that someone trying to rape another person could exert seven times their usual strength.
‘Is this…… some kind of awakening?’
This won’t do.
‘At this rate, it’ll really snap.’
Simply stopping her body was not enough.
-Seal her movements by force while exposing as much of the World Tree’s power within your body as possible. Then she will calm down quickly.
That was the advice the manager had given me.
To expose as much of the World Tree’s power as possible, I needed direct physical contact.
But embracing a rampaging beast that was trying to break through its restraints with my bare hands would be no different from suicide.
Even now, wasn’t she going berserk trying to break free of the restraint?
To her as she rose and tried to approach me.
“Sit!”
I immediately shouted the second command.
“Woof!”
“…Pardon?”
Thud.
Along with the inexplicable barking sound that burst from Sonya’s mouth, she, who had been trying to break free of the restraint, knelt and sat demurely on the cave floor.
“…Huh?”
Both Sonya and I were stunned.
Still sitting, she looked back and forth between her body and me.
“W-what happened……?”
Her face turned bright red.
It was far redder than the eyes of the monsters we had encountered on the seventy-fourth floor.
I cautiously approached her as she trembled with embarrassment.
“Stay still. Then I’ll come to you first.”
“……”
After confirming that her body had frozen again, I cautiously approached one step at a time.
But.
The more I looked, the more lewd this seemed.
A wolfkin woman with all her shirt buttons torn off and the front completely exposed, her clothes half ripped apart.
She was kneeling and looking up at me at a single word of my command.
The confusion in her eyes.
The tears glistening faintly.
Her face was red as a persimmon, and her body trembled as though she had no idea what to do.
And beads of sweat on her skin.
Not just a little.
It was incredibly lewd.
In other words.
One of the Seven Heroes was now utterly helpless at a single word from me.
No matter what I did to her, she could not resist.
If she was even aroused by me, did that mean she would be all right with anything I did?
This was like one of those time-stop stories, a time stop……
Crack!
A sharp pain struck, and blood trickled from the corner of my mouth.
I came to my senses.
‘You crazy bastard, get a grip! Do you know what I was just thinking?’
I had nearly been consumed by my desires like Sonya.
If I hadn’t bitten the flesh inside my mouth, I might have gone berserk and embraced her right then and there.
“Whew…….”
I closed my eyes and meditated for a moment.
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
Amen.
Amitabha.
Hallelujah.
I have no sexual desire.
I must have no sexual desire.
I’m a eunuch.
I have to be a eunuch to survive.
When I opened my eyes again.
“M-Mr. Mincheol? Are you okay?”
I saw Sonya looking flustered as she stared at the blood running from the corner of my mouth.
“Ms. Sonya.”
“Yes……”
“From now on, I’m going to touch your body.”
“…M-Mr. Mincheol, you understand my feelings after all!”
“No. This is for treatment. I’m helping you return to normal.”
“Hehe, I told you I’m normal. See? I haven’t broken anything. Hehehe.”
“You like smelling me, don’t you?”
I ignored her words and continued speaking.
“……”
“If you don’t do anything while I touch your body, I’ll let you smell me.”
“Why would I? I’m stronger than you, you know.”
“Then try moving.”
It was true that she was stronger than me.
There was no denying it.
But I had the collar the manager had prepared beforehand.
As long as that collar was fastened, she could never defeat me.
“……”
And Sonya knew that, too.
She knew that the collar around her neck was forcing her actions.
“Good girl.”
I stroked Sonya’s head while she was unable to move against her will.
As though I were training a puppy.
I stroked her head, and.
Saaaah-.
I felt it.
When I stroked her head with my hand, a strange power began seeping into her body.
‘Is this the World Tree’s power?’
There was no way for me to know, since I could barely sense mana.
But one thing was certain: it did not seem to be having a negative effect on her.
“Ugh……. D-don’t.”
As I stroked her head, she writhed from side to side as though trying to resist.
And every time she did.
“Stop.”
I forced her actions to stop once again.
Flinch!
Her body jerked, and her fingers twitched.
“Good job.”
She had listened well, so I had to praise her.
As my hand brushed over her hair, her sharply pointed animal ears trembled.
This time, I lowered my hand a little farther and gently stroked her chin.
Just as one might scratch beneath a puppy’s chin in praise, I lightly scratched upward with my fingertips.
“Mmm……, ugh…….”
A heated moan slipped between Sonya’s clenched lips as she tried to endure it.
I didn’t know whether it was because of pleasure or the strange sensation caused by the World Tree’s mana seeping into her.
But one thing was certain: every time my hand touched her, the orange light in her eyes grew a little fainter.
“P-please stop…….”
She was breathing heavily.
And to her, I said.
“You endured well, so I’ll give you a reward.”
I held my hand out toward the bridge of her nose.
Sniff.
Her nose twitched as she smelled me.
“Since you like smelling me, this should calm you down today.”
“Haa, haa. M-Mr. Mincheol, that’s too much. If you do this…….”
“Didn’t you say you liked my scent?”
“I-I do, but…….”
Her body heaved.
She was trying to break free of the restraint again.
Sonya opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue.
As though she were trying to bite the hand held near her face.
As she opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue, I said to her.
“Stop.”
“Ugh!”
“Ms. Sonya, you can’t just move however you want, you know?”
“M-Mr. Mincheol, I-I think I’m really going to go crazy like this. P-please unfasten it…….”
“What if I unfasten it and you go berserk? The dungeon hasn’t been fully cleared yet. That means you’re still running wild.”
“Nnngh, th-that’s not it…….”
She twisted her body from side to side.
Apparently, she needed a little more contact.
Just stroking her head was not enough.
I needed to spread the World Tree’s power across her entire body.
“Now, let’s loosen the knots, too.”
I withdrew the hand that had been stroking her chin and moved it toward her back and shoulders.
“Huh? W-what are you going to do?”
“I’ll loosen your muscles.”
I’ll spread the World Tree’s power across your entire body, so don’t worry.
Her shirt had half fallen away after its buttons were torn off.
I pressed my palm against her smooth, exposed nape and shoulder line.
Her skin was so soft.
…….
Get a grip.
“Eek!”
The instant my hand touched her bare skin, Sonya’s shoulder shot upward in an exaggerated jerk.
“Stop.”
I said it firmly while kneading the area around her trapezius muscles with both hands.
They were hard.
The battles she had fought one after another.
The stiffness in her muscles caused by her rampage.
On top of that, as she resisted the collar’s force, her muscles had hardened like lumps of stone.
I applied a little force and pressed my thumbs down along the line of her spine as I moved lower.
“Ugh, hngh! W-wait, th-there…….”
As the area of contact grew wider, Sonya’s reactions became increasingly intense.
She trembled all over.
“Hieet!”
Her ears stood sharply upright, and so did her tail.
Her fur stood on end as though it had been struck by lightning, and her face turned so red it looked ready to burst.
“Haa, ugh! M-Mr. Mincheol! Please, stop now……!”
“I haven’t loosened everything yet. Stay still.”
After confirming that her muscles were definitely loosening, I moved my hands a little more boldly.
I ran them down her back and continued the massage, squeezing the area around her waist that had contracted with tension.
Aside from her trapezius muscles, which had been exposed when her clothes tore, I continued massaging her over her clothes.
“Hieeuk……!”
Sonya squeezed her eyes shut and lowered her head.
The strongest of Taepyeong City’s Seven Heroes.
That powerful wolfkin warrior was unable to do anything but panic at a single word from me.
Her clothes were half torn off, a red collar was around her neck, and she was panting and savoring every touch as I massaged her back and waist……
Let’s not think any further.
What a pointless desire.
“Ah, ahh…….”
Sonya’s black ears fell completely backward.
Her tail curled between her thighs and drooped.
“I-I’m strange. M-my body……. M-Mr. Mincheol? P-please stop…….”
“Bear with it a little longer. We’re almost finished.”
Finally, I pressed down repeatedly on her waist.
Now, if I loosened the knotted muscles near her coccyx, where her black tail grew,
I would have loosened the muscles throughout her upper body.
“Eek! N-no!”
In an instant, Sonya’s body arched tautly like a bow.
Mincheol did not know this, but for beastkin, the area near the tail was the most sensitive part of the body.
When the World Tree’s mana and a male’s touch suddenly intruded into that spot, she could no longer endure the shame and dizzying sensation and finally tried to spring to her feet.
Crack!!
At that moment, red sparks flew violently from Jinjo’s collar.
I have to escape.
‘Not here.’
Sonya desperately used all her strength to escape Mincheol’s touch.
She did not know by what principle the collar bound her body, but if she could somehow overcome it with sheer strength,
she would surely be able to break free.
Sonya’s waist writhed as she tried to avoid Mincheol’s touch.
And at that moment.
“Lie down!”
She heard Kim Mincheol’s voice, and.
A powerful force pulling at her neck made Sonya fall flat forward.
“Yip!”
Crash!
She fell forward in the very posture she had been using to flee.
Because her body had been lifted slightly, she ended up in a position a little different from lying flat normally.
With her hips raised high, her back arched, and her chest pressed against the floor, she lay face down.
Her hips and tail were left completely exposed.
“Ah, ahh…….”
Sonya groaned with her nose pressed against the floor.
With her shirt already half removed and her skin exposed, lying face down made her curving figure stand out even more prominently.
Until now, she had been subjected to one thing after another by Kim Mincheol and felt extreme shame.
At first, she had been driven mad by the desire to have him and pounced on him, but now the roles were reversed and she was the one being pounced on.
‘No…….’
Wolfkin society was generally matriarchal.
They were a race that considered it natural for the stronger to dominate the weaker, so it was common for the relatively stronger female wolfkin to dominate the male wolfkin.
For a female to cover a male in her pheromones.
For a female to leave her mark on a male’s body. These things were possible because they formed a matriarchal society.
Even Sonya, who had never belonged to a pack, knew this instinctively.
When her possessiveness surged.
When it developed into lust and sexual desire.
She had thought of making Kim Mincheol hers because he was a male weaker than she was.
But.
Even though Mincheol was clearly weaker than her, she could not resist him in the slightest.
She wanted to pounce on him.
She wanted to leave her mark on his body.
She wanted to make it an established fact.
But this mysterious collar had ruined everything.
Instead, she was restrained by Kim Mincheol and subjected to his every whim.
When he told her to sit, she sat.
When he told her to stop, she stopped.
As though she had become his possession.
She could not resist.
At first, she had tried to resist.
Because she wanted to ravage him as she pleased.
She had tried to pounce on him according to the instincts of a wolfkin.
And she wanted to take the lead in everything.
She wanted to paint everything in her own colors.
-Pounce on him.
-Make him yours.
-That man is yours.
-No one is here.
-No one is watching, so why do you need to worry about what they think?
The voices said so, too.
They said that would be enough.
That if she had Mincheol, she could suppress all her destructive urges.
Once her possessiveness was satisfied, did she need any other desires?
That was how it had been.
Crack!
The collar around her neck blocked all her thoughts.
The voices gradually grew quieter.
The voices telling her to make him hers began to disappear.
“Good girl.”
When he stroked her head.
Sonya trembled at the strange sensation she felt for the first time.
Her head tingled.
Her chest tingled.
Her lower abdomen tingled.
The urge that had made her pounce on him to make him hers gradually subsided.
But.
“Ugh!”
The sensation of having her head stroked and her ears gently touched was too intense for a virgin like her to endure.
After stroking her, Kim Mincheol held out his hand and let her smell him.
Sniff, sniff, sniff.
She instinctively smelled him.
That scent that had aroused her.
The scent of the male that had driven her crazy.
A male’s body odor.
Pheromones.
Did Kim Mincheol know?
Did he know that what he was doing
was driving a female insane?
That making a species with a sensitive sense of smell inhale such a scent
was no different from tying her up and caressing her.
He did not know.
That was why he was doing it.
Stimulation born of ignorance.
That drove Sonya crazy.
And then there was the massage.
‘Mr. Mincheol, I’m really going to die at this rate.’
She could not speak.
She could only struggle in an attempt to escape.
But even that.
“Lie down!”
Was stopped by that single command.
“Getting up suddenly is dangerous. The muscles around your tail haven’t loosened enough yet.”
“S-stop……. Please stop…….”
Sonya’s black ears fell completely backward.
This is too much.
I really can’t take any more.
I-I feel like I’m going to cross the line.
“I-I’m perfectly fine……. Look at my eyes. The orange light is all gone……. So please, let me out of this face-down position, hngh, please…….”
Sonya pleaded desperately.
She felt as though she might open eyes that should never be opened.
But Kim Mincheol was firm.
“It hasn’t all faded yet, Ms. Sonya.”
“N-no. Haaah!!!”
When he gently massaged the area near her coccyx.
Sonya felt something inside her snap with a pop.
It felt as though something condensed inside her body had burst.
It felt as though he had scratched an itchy spot until the irritation finally eased.
At that moment, she felt as though she were floating gently above the clouds.
“Whew.”
She heard Kim Mincheol let out a relieved sigh.
Then she felt him gently stroke her hair as she trembled on the floor.
“Treatment’s finished. Good work, Ms. Sonya.”
His voice lingered sweetly at Sonya’s ear.
She could not even answer.
She was too distracted savoring the strange sensation filling her body.
A voice rang out with it.
-Being obedient feels good, doesn’t it?
-That’s your instinct.
A new desire that had been lying dormant deep inside her raised its head.
But it was extremely faint, so small that even Sonya herself could not recognize it.
At the same time, a new message window appeared before the two of them.
[You have successfully cleared the 74th floor.]
[Clear time: 7 hours 37 minutes (New record)]
Yusera’s record for the seventy-fourth floor was 1 day, 17 hours, and 42 minutes.
A record that completely surpassed it.
More messages appeared one after another.
[Calculating contributions to designate the main conqueror.]
[Conquest contribution ranking 1st: Kim Mincheol]
[Conquest contribution ranking 2nd: Sonya]
[The main conqueror is Kim Mincheol.]