Chapter 42
#42. Gate (7)
“Hey.”
“...”
“Are you ignoring me?”
“...”
Inside the cramped tent, Choi Hye-na kept her back turned and remained silent the entire time.
I had nothing to say, even if I had ten mouths.
Not only had she acted on her own and nearly gotten Kang Hyeon-woo killed when the Wendigo attacked, but she had even kicked the man who had saved her life.
Twice... No, considering the time she had nearly been attacked by the White Yeti as well, I had effectively saved her life three times.
And yet she had been so consumed by her shameful memories that she had ended up resorting to violence against her benefactor.
“...Sorry.”
“For what?”
“For acting on my own, and for kicking you... All of it...”
Choi Hye-na’s deferential attitude made me hesitate for a moment.
‘Should I let this slide?’
Even though it had been absurd to get kicked, I was long past the point where a woman’s kick—without even being imbued with mana—could hurt me.
In the old days, it would have been no more than getting hit by a cat’s paw.
Still, after going through hell to save her life, getting kicked out of nowhere was unfair no matter how I looked at it.
“Just with words?”
So she was going to pay me back with mere words after saying she was grateful?
I casually tossed out a remark that subtly pricked Choi Hye-na’s conscience.
I had to tease her while I could. Once we got out of the Gate, I might never see her again, so when else would I get to vent this injustice?
“In all my life, it was my first time nearly dying after being pierced by a shard of stone, and I went through hell saving you with everything I had, only to get kicked in the solar plexus.”
“...”
Choi Hye-na looked at me with a heavy, somber expression.
“I admit it. This was entirely my fault. And you are my benefactor, having saved my life three times. As the heir of the Seongbuk Choi family, I owe you a debt that nothing could repay.”
A deep blush bloomed across Choi Hye-na’s face.
“I-I’m willing to do anything you want.”
“Really?”
I deliberately moved close to Choi Hye-na and looked her body up and down.
“You really mean anything?”
“Eek...”
There was no way someone as quick-witted as Choi Hye-na could fail to understand what my actions meant.
“...All right.”
With trembling hands, Choi Hye-na took off her thick fur coat.
Her expression looked as though she might burst into tears at any moment, and the addition of that resolute gaze made the scene nothing short of comedy.
I had teased her enough.
“Then get me some decent magic equipment later.”
“What...?”
I had considered asking for an elixir, but as someone who received buffs from the app, I honestly had little need for one.
On the other hand, even money could not easily buy high-performance equipment without the right connections. If it came from the Seongbuk Choi family, one of the great magical houses, they should be able to obtain equipment I could never get myself.
“...That’s really all you want?”
“If it bothers you that much, you could let me have you.”
“...”
An awkward silence settled over us at my joking remark.
‘...What? Why is it suddenly so quiet??’
Normally, Choi Hye-na would have hurled a stream of curses at me or strangled me, but all she did was blush without reacting at all.
“...I’m going to sleep.”
“Huh?”
I felt awkward for no reason as I watched Choi Hye-na curl up in the corner of the tent and try to sleep.
Is this why people say even a barrage of curses is better than indifference?
With no other choice, I curled up in the corner of the tent as well and tried to sleep.
Fortunately, I didn’t hear any monsters crying out tonight.
***
“‘Ring of Desire Reversal’...?”
“It’s an artifact. Its effect is to reverse the target’s strongest desire.”
When dawn broke, Choi Hye-na seemed to have sorted out her thoughts overnight and was no longer avoiding me.
I told Choi Hye-na as little as possible about the app and explained how I had dealt with the aftermath of yesterday’s incident.
“You carry around an artifact...?”
Choi Hye-na looked at me as though she were watching a poor man from a hillside slum drive a sports car.
It wasn’t hard to understand why.
Magic tools included quite a few inexpensive items, and their overall prices were low enough for ordinary people to afford them. Artifacts, on the other hand, were essentially cash-shop items that could only be obtained as Gate rewards or made by a truly exceptional handful of craftsmen.
Even for a mage, it wasn’t something a man she had treated like a beggar until recently should be carrying around.
“I didn’t steal it. There were circumstances.”
“It was just surprising. I never thought you stole it.”
“That’s very touching. I’m in tears.”
Anyway, I gave her a rough explanation of the Ring of Desire Reversal’s effect and how I had dealt with the aftermath of what happened yesterday.
“...Sexual desire, you say.”
“It’ll probably stay that way until we remove the Wendigo from your body.”
“So that’s what happened yesterday...”
Perhaps she was recalling what had happened the day before, because Choi Hye-na’s face quickly grew red enough to burst.
Even so, perhaps because she had relieved her sexual desire somewhat last night, she was still relatively lucid.
But that was obviously only a temporary effect.
[Ring of Desire Reversal]
[Target: Choi Hye-na (Wendigo)]
[Reversed Desire: Murderous Urge > Sexual Desire]
The Ring of Desire Reversal was still reversing Choi Hye-na’s desire.
As time passed and her sexual desire built up, she would inevitably go into heat again, just as she had yesterday.
“Anyway, act as usual, but tell me right away if you think you can’t hold back. If you keep it to yourself because you’re embarrassed, something really bad could happen.”
“...I said I got it!”
Even after telling an unmarried virgin, ‘Report to me immediately if you feel like masturbating,’ Kang Hyeon-woo remained utterly shameless.
***
We were still staying in the hideout we had made beneath the slope of the snowdrift.
We had considered moving somewhere else because it was so cramped, but that idea was rejected because the risks were too great.
If we happened to encounter a high-ranking monster on the way, we would be in truly dire trouble. Still, aside from being too narrow, it was reasonably livable.
The problem was that the number of monsters appearing around the hideout seemed to be increasing day by day.
It wasn’t just my imagination; Choi Hye-na could feel it too.
‘...I hope nothing happens.’
At that point, approximately three days and seventeen hours remained until the entrance opened.
Today, too, we were exhausted from hunting the monsters that had been roaming around the hideout, so we returned to the tent to regroup.
While we were preparing a simple meal and taking a short rest, the thing we had feared finally happened.
“Eek, ngh...”
She seemed to be trying to hide it in her own way, but she couldn’t fool me.
Choi Hye-na’s condition had been strange for a while.
She was breathing heavily and rubbing herself between the thighs, looking much like she had when she had gone into heat last night.
“Hey.”
“W-why?”
“...”
“...Fine! I’m in heat! Happy now?!”
Like a thief who gives himself away, Choi Hye-na had tried to play innocent, but I only had to stare at her steadily to make her confess.
“Come sit in front of me.”
“Ngh...!!”
You could learn just how red a person’s face could become by looking at Choi Hye-na.
She was gradually becoming the very embodiment of a red-faced person.
“If you’re that embarrassed, think of it as medical treatment.”
“As if that would work...”
Choi Hye-na settled in front of me with a face about to explode, then relaxed her body as though she had given up on everything and leaned against me.
“We’ve already seen everything there is to see between us.”
“...You’re a virgin, aren’t you?”
“What the hell are you talking about? I have two girlfriends.”
“Y-you should at least keep your bragging within reason.”
“Believe it or not, that’s none of my business.”
I slowly undressed Choi Hye-na.
Since I had already undressed her once before, it wasn’t particularly difficult.
“W-wait!”
“What now?”
“You d-don’t have to take my clothes off...”
What a fussy customer, demanding all sorts of things.
With no other choice, I gave up on taking her clothes off.
Instead, as I had last night, I slowly stroked her from the thighs upward and slipped my hand beneath her dress.
I could already feel the moisture.
I caressed the inside of her thigh, slick with moisture, as I watched her reaction.
“Haa, haa, haa...”
Her breathing grew increasingly ragged.
Her face had already been red, but her eyes were growing hazy. She was clearly in heat.
I cautiously rubbed the mound of her pussy through her thin, ornate panties.
“Eek, ahh... hngh...”
Even though I was only gently stroking her with one finger, alluring moans flowed from Choi Hye-na’s lips.
“If you’d stopped making excuses and asked me to rub your pussy, I would have done that.”
“N-nooo...!”
“With that much of a nasal tone in your voice, you expect me to believe you when you say no?”
Seeing how desperately she wanted to hide her reaction stirred up a sadistic impulse in me, so I pulled her panties to the side.
I gently rolled her clitoris with my middle finger while rubbing her pussy with my ring finger and slowly slipping it inside.
She was so wet that the mattress had already grown damp from barely touching her.
“I’ll finish quickly, so don’t hold back for no reason.”
“Hk, hng, haaah...”
She nodded while covering her mouth with her hand, as though she wanted to hide her moans. It was cute.
I wished she had been even half this cute in everyday life.
I traced upward along her vaginal wall with my middle finger and searched for the slightly indented spot. It was her G-spot, where fluids automatically came out with a mere press.
“Don’t... don’t...!!”
I easily subdued Choi Hye-na as she resisted by thrusting her hips from side to side.
After finding her G-spot without difficulty, I persistently rubbed it with my middle finger, drawing even better moans from her.
Pssht, fwoosh, pfft!
“H-haaah...?!! Ngh-hngh...!!”
She even gave me a refreshing squirt.
The stream burst out with such force that it could have been urine, flying into the distance and soaking the area near the tent entrance.
“Haa... haa... Hk, hng...”
Choi Hye-na, bent over and drooling, was so lewd that no other word was needed.
Moreover, watching her eyes grow completely unfocused made me pinch her swollen, flushed clitoris without thinking.
“Hyaaaak?!!”
Her reaction was far more intense than I had imagined.
Choi Hye-na’s lower body trembled from the stimulation to her clitoris, and she came again, releasing another magnificent gush.
Even the curve of her arched back looked lewd.
“Please stooop...”
“If I stop halfway and you pounce on me like yesterday, I’ll be the one suffering, okay? I’ll make you come just three more times, then stop.”
“N-nooo... Hng, nghhh?!!”
Kang Hyeon-woo’s words were closer to a declaration than a conversation.
Choi Hye-na struggled to escape the strong arms restraining her, but with her brain overwhelmed by pleasure, it was impossible for her to summon mana.
As she imagined the future in which she would be forced to reach climax repeatedly while restrained, Choi Hye-na felt as though the memories of last night were coming back.
She was even afraid that she would once again see her own lewd, vulgar self, repeatedly passing out and collapsing from exhaustion until she could think of nothing but pleasure.
Choi Hye-na’s final struggle to escape was stopped by thick fingers pinching her clitoris and raking inside her vagina.
“Hngh...!! Ngh?! Nghh...!! D-don’t torture my clit...!! No, no, nooo...!!”
“Nghh... ngh... ah, nghh?!! I don’t wanna come...!! Hoooh...!!”
“Hk, hng... Haaah... Please let me gooo...”
·
·
·
After that, Choi Hye-na could finally rest only after coming six times in a row.