The Depths

With Han Sohee tucked under my arm, occasionally fondling her breasts as we came outside, I found Kim Yoorim and Joo Ahyeon approaching us with smirks.

"You acted all high and mighty, but you finally did it, huh?"

"Good for you. Now we can all enjoy ourselves together."

"Yoorim unni, what are you talking about? We have another competitor now."

"Huh?"

"But why are you still wearing clothes, Sohee? You’ll be doing it with Oppa all the time anyway, so just strip down and stay naked like us."

Seeing Joo Ahyeon, who wasn't even wearing panties, Han Sohee's eyes turned cold.

"…You seem to have misunderstood. I did not do what you are thinking."

"Aww, are you embarrassed because it was your first time? It's okay. We're pillar sisters, so you don't have to be shy around us."

"I am telling the truth."

"Yeah, yeah."

"……."

Han Sohee's face crumpled as she desperately tried to clear up the misunderstanding, but Joo Ahyeon didn't listen to her. No, she didn't believe her.

Instead, she was more interested in Han Sohee's breasts than in anything she said.

"But Sohee's areolae are huge. Can you see them, Unni?"

"Wow, those are incredibly lewd breasts."

"That's what I'm saying."

As expected, she was a Big Pie. The aggro was off the charts.

Han Sohee hurriedly pulled down her top. I pulled the fabric back up and displayed her breasts to the two women again.

Han Sohee grabbed at her clothes and said,

"What are you doing? Stop it."

"Do you really want me to stop?"

I tapped her ring lightly, and her brow furrowed at once.

A contract was a contract. I gave her a meaningful look, and Han Sohee bit down hard on her lips before releasing the hand clutching her clothes.

"All right."

I pulled her into my arms from behind and tightly seized both of her breasts, deliberately showing her off.

I kneaded her large areolae and squeezed milk from her breasts in front of the two women as if milking a cow.

At the same time, I pressed my stiff dick against her buttocks again and again, and Han Sohee's ears gradually reddened.

"Ngh. You may do as you please with my breasts, but could you keep your thing in check? It's poking my butt."

"It's a physiological reaction, so bear with me for now."

"What a convenient thing to say."

"Come on, you two. Help out a little."

When I asked for their help while squeezing her breasts, Kim Yoorim and Joo Ahyeon approached, each taking one of Han Sohee's breasts into her mouth and tugging on it.

"Hngh. Th-that's enough. Will you stop this at once?"

"Sohee, we have a contract, remember? You have to stay still."

"Damn it."

As the two women tormented her breasts this way and that, Han Sohee didn't know what to do.

'I need to train her regularly. Otherwise, she'll claim she only wants to do it when we're alone and try to back out.'

"Wow, what beautiful breasts!"

"Ooh, I'm jealous. Since I'm jealous, I should bite down hard."

Crunch.

"Hic?!"

Her firm breasts were stretched and ravaged this way and that by the two spiteful women.

"Please, aah… Anything but biting me with your teeth… Have mercy."

"Like this? Is this how you want me to bite you?"

"Nngh?!"

"Slurp, slurp. You want me to pull them this hard? There! There! Come on, go! Go because you were born with such lewd breasts!"

"N-no! Stop! Aaaah!"

After playing with her for about twenty minutes, Kim Yoorim and Joo Ahyeon finally backed off with satisfied expressions when Han Sohee reached climax through breast stimulation alone.

"Aah. Hngh…."

Twitch, twitch.

"Phew. So, Mr. Minjun, what is our schedule for today?"

"Come on, it's obvious, Unni. Eat, have sex, eat, and have sex again, right? Isn't that right, Oppa?"

The women's daily routine had become eating and fucking. Unfortunately, that wasn't happening today.

"From now on, we're going to search around the stage."

She froze.

"The stage? Why there?"

The women shrank back. Their playful mood from moments earlier vanished completely, as though they had remembered what happened in the past.

"Because we're going to look for the remains."

"There's no guarantee they'll be there."

"That's true. But we've searched everywhere else thoroughly."

Kim Yoorim and Joo Ahyeon had been wandering around for eight days, while Han Sohee had spent a full twelve days. There was no reason to continue searching the middle level.

"That's true, but… There are so many Specters there, so I'm not thrilled about it…."

"Don't worry. What do you have to worry about when I'm here?"

Ah…. Only then did all three of their faces brighten.

It seemed that displaying my strength in front of them over the past few days had paid off.

"But do we really have to go today? Can't we enjoy ourselves today and go tomorrow?"

"Ahyeon, do you think so too? I was just thinking the same thing."

There was a simple reason I wanted to go today.

The reason was that the two women's mental fortitude was gradually reaching its limit.

Although wearing the accessories had raised their magic resistance and made them safer than before, signs of trouble were beginning to appear.

"Instead of that, let's have one round before we eat, Unni."

"Yeah, good idea!"

That was obvious just from looking at them right now.

The two women valued their sexual desire more highly than escaping this place.

They craved pleasure more than they craved food.

Rather than focusing on survival or resolving their crisis, they were becoming completely absorbed in pleasure by any means necessary. That was definitely not a good sign.

'I can't let the connections I went to the trouble of making fall apart.'

If they escaped this place, rested in the shelter, and basked in the sunlight, there was still a chance they could recover.

Of course, calling the Saintess over and having her cast a healing spell would solve the problem instantly.

'If I let Shin Seoyeon and the Saintess see these women for no reason, who knows what might happen.'

More importantly….

I lowered my gaze.

While I was briefly lost in thought, Kim Yoorim and Joo Ahyeon had pulled down my pants and were sucking my dick and balls as they gave me sidelong smiles.

This kind of aggressive behavior was a problem too. If the Saintess saw it, she might be so shocked that she would break up with me.

"Come on, cum for me. Shoot it into Yoorim's mouth."

"Come in Ahyeon's mouth-pussy, Oppa."

'Our relationship is close enough now.'

We'd built a strong enough bond through sex, and I'd molded their pussies to the shape of my dick so thoroughly that they couldn't forget its taste.

So now it was time to send them to the shelter.

I called Han Sohee over while she was still twitching and savoring the afterglow of her climax, then had her suck the remaining ball clean.

"I'm coming."

With all three women still clinging to my dick, I fed each of their mouths breakfast in turn before heading toward the chapel.

***

Saaaah—

The chapel was shrouded in darkness and fog.

The fog flowed down like waterfalls from the five-tiered seating galleries on either side, densely covering the area where the stage stood and blocking all view from outside.

But I knew. There was an entrance leading down to the depths in there.

"Ugh. Oppa, do we really have to go today?"

"For some reason, I don't feel like I'm in good condition."

"……."

The three women shrank back and tensed up so much that it was hard to believe they had been rushing at me moments ago, asking to have sex.

"And the fog is so thick over there that we could get lost. That happened before too. Why don't we prepare a little before we go?"

"You don't need to worry about that."

I pulled a rope out of my backpack. Ah, Kim Yoorim let out an exclamation.

"You're incredibly thorough with your preparations."

"Something like that."

Fog was a common feature in trial areas. That was why I had prepared all the necessary equipment in advance.

I handed each person a rope and said,

"You could get separated, so stay right behind me. Don't let go of the rope no matter what happens. If a Specter approaches, don't recklessly engage it. Tell me, and I'll deal with it."

We advanced farther into the chapel.

Scuff. Scuff.

The fog grew thicker as we approached the stage.

Ten meters, five meters, three meters…. At last, even the distance of one meter was swallowed up, and we continued straight toward the heart of the fog, using the glimpses of seats and the slope leading downward as landmarks.

「Aah….」

We encountered Specters from time to time, but by now they posed no threat to us at all. Even so, the group's expressions were far from cheerful.

"Ugh. Another corpse…."

Countless corpses lay scattered here and there, hardened like fossils.

We had already seen more than forty bodies along the way.

Taking into account the corpses hidden by the fog, there might have been hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of bodies lying around this chapel.

"Look at this, Unni. All the corpses have their chests smashed in. Do you think an alien lives here?"

"Don't even say things like that. I was terrified of that movie."

Kim Yoorim, trembling despite being a soldier, clung tightly to my back. I snorted and looked around at the corpses.

'Looks like Isera swept through here too.'

It was clear that it was the heart area—not the chest—that had been smashed in every case. She might even be roaming the depths by now.

'In any case, the entrance should be around here.'

I had heard from Isera that there was a hole in the floor. I walked around the stage covered in fog, searching the floor.

But perhaps because it was so enormous, it was difficult to find anything.

'The chapel is bigger than a soccer field, so of course the stage is enormous too.'

At this rate, it would take forever. While I was wondering what to do, someone tapped me on the shoulder.

"This way."

It was Han Sohee. She strode ahead and tugged on the rope.

When I followed after her, pulled along by the rope, a square entrance hidden on one side of the stage really did appear.

Goooo—

Although the surroundings were dark, that hole was darker still.

It looked as though a deep abyss had opened its jaws.

"…It doesn't look like somewhere I want to enter."

"Yeah. It gives me the creeps, Unni."

I climbed onto the ladder leading down into the hole. A creaking, ominous shriek rang out, and the chilly air pierced through my gloves and burrowed into my skin.

I handed the three women spare leather gloves I'd brought from Earth and said,

"I'll go down first, so follow right after me. If you dawdle and attract a Specter's attention, it'll become troublesome."

Nod.

We descended the ladder one step at a time.

Clack. Clack. Clack.

The ladder was long.

We couldn't tell where the bottom was.

The sounds of my footsteps and the women's footsteps echoed softly into the darkness.

Even so, I could soon feel that we were nearing the bottom.

「I need blood…. More….」

「Light… why have you forsaken us….」

Along with rustling beneath my feet, I heard the murmurs of wraiths inside my head.

"Oppa, this…."

"Don't worry. If we can't see them, they can't see us either."

The skeletons and Specters here relied solely on their vision.

I didn't know why, either.

What I did know for certain was that it was a penalty given because this was the first trial.

Later on, they wouldn't rely only on sight. They would hear footsteps, smell you, and detect a player's location and charge the instant they sensed even the slightest trace of life.

Those dead would be impossible for even me to take lightly.

'The important thing is that if you recklessly light a fire just because you can't see ahead, you'll ruin your life.'

「…We did not die. We… are alive….」

After confirming that the dead one's voice had faded, I continued downward.

Thud.

"Okay, we've reached the bottom."

I stepped away from the ladder so the others could climb down, then surveyed the surrounding area.

'A cave?'

A cave about ten meters wide came into view.

It stretched to the left and right, swallowed by dense darkness.

At the edge of the darkness, I could see a red light. Since it appeared very small, it seemed to be quite far away.

Even so, like a lighthouse illuminating the night sea, it shed enough gentle light to make out the surrounding landscape.

I looked around and clicked my tongue.

'Interesting. The floor is dirt, but….''

The walls were made of dirt mixed with something else.

"Hmm, what is this… Huh? Aaaah!"

"Wh-what is it? Ahyeon, what is it? Eeeek!"

The two women screamed when they realized what it was.

The thing forming the walls, buried in mounds of dirt, was a skeleton.

Countless skeletons were embedded in the walls, grotesquely frozen in dynamic poses and expressions as if they were about to burst out.

'So this is what they meant by an ossuary.'

Just then, a notification informed us that we had reached a new area.

[You have entered the depths of <Lair of Evil Spirits>.]