Chapter 21: The Onahole Collection (2) [R-18]

[Ordinary Orc Onahole]
[An onahole created by embodying the personality of a beastly Orc. Characterized by its rough texture.]
[Rarity: C]
[Tightness C+ | Durability C | Warmth D | Response D]
[Personality does not collapse (100%)]

[First Orc Onahole collected!]
[Strength +3]
[Agility +3]
[Dexterity +3]
[Stamina +3]

[Orc Onahole (Well-made)]
[Rarity: C+]
[Tightness C+ | Durability C+ | Warmth C | Response D]
[Personality does not collapse (100%)]

[You have collected an Orc Onahole (Well-made).]
[Strength +2]

“Open Onahole Inventory.”

Unfortunately, there were no masterpiece-grade drops.

Hena squatted down and started picking up the onaholes with me.

“It looks cute. It’s trembling, prrr, prrr.”

“…”

Yuuna, seemingly disgusted by the thought of touching them, just crossed her arms and looked away.

She was the normal one here. It wasn’t like I was eager to touch them, either.

I was only collecting them because they were byproducts of my power.

Still, the bonuses from the onahole collection were too sweet to pass up.

“If you’ve gotten the collection bonus, do you really need to scrape up all the rest?”

“You’ve got a point. It’s not like I’m going to use them.”

“Then let’s just leave them. How are we supposed to find and carry all of these?”

They were all mixed up with the orc husks, and picking them out was becoming a pain.

I agreed with Yuuna and stood up.

“The leader should be nearby.”

Yuuna was right.

In a nearby chamber, an orc with the build of a warrior was waiting for us.

[Orc Champion]
[The leader of the orcs. Possesses more refined combat skills and a massive body.]

“Guwooooork!”

Bang!

I immediately fired my Glock. But the creature swatted my bullet away with its sword as if it had seen it coming.

Damn, the system really hates guns…

Anyone could see that was a system-assisted block.

It was as if the game itself was saying, “No ranged cheese allowed~.” I saw the orc’s arm move the exact moment I pulled the trigger.

“Don’t worry. We’ll make an opening for you.”

Just then, Yuuna dashed forward to set the stage for me.

“I’ll break its stance! Hena, follow up!”

“Okay!”

I simply lowered my gun and watched.

“Guooork!”

Yuuna leaped, fluidly dodging the Orc Champion’s wide swing, then slashed its thick thigh, forcing it to its knees.

As if on cue, Hena struck the orc’s upper body with a magic bullet, turning the beast into a dazed target.

“Kuuuk!?”

“Now! Kim Sang-hyeok!”

Paying my respects to their teamwork, I aimed my Glock.

‘Excretion’ tab.

Bang! Bang!

“Kngh!?”

The Orc Champion collapsed, excreting a personality jelly.

Heh…

I lowered the muzzle and struck a pose.

“Be freed from the shackles of the mortal world… and become an onahole.”

Poof.

The Orc Champion’s jelly sublimated into a masterpiece.

“If you didn’t have that handsome face, that line would be a crime.”

“Become an onahole! Hiyah!”

“See? Now Hena’s copying you.”

“What’s the big deal? We’re all adults here.”

I collected the final onahole that had dropped from the champion.

I had a good feeling about it the moment I picked it up.

[Orc Onahole (Masterpiece)]
[A masterpiece-grade Orc Onahole that appears once in a thousand. The jelly quality is high as it was obtained from a champion. Its rough texture and powerful tightness are superb.]
[Tightness B | Durability B | Warmth C | Response D]
[Personality does not collapse (100%)]

[You have collected an Orc Onahole (Masterpiece).]
[Dexterity +5]
[Agility +4]
[Strength +5]
[Mana +3]

[Your level has increased.]
[Your level has increased.]

[You have earned the achievement 《Orc Onahole Conqueror》.]
[Strength +3]

[【You Never Thought You’d Become Holes, Did You?】 collection bonus achieved!]

Aaaah.

Sweet. So sweet!

“So? Do you like the Glock?”

“Aside from the fact that it jams all the time.”

“That’ll get better as you raise your Dexterity.”

‘Dexterity,’ huh…

I also needed the strength to pull monsters off Hena. Maybe I should prioritize Strength second.

“You said you could buy stats, right? Can I buy them from the Demon Merchant?”

Yuuna stared at me as if she’d seen a ghost.

“Demon Merchant? How does a D-rank like you know about that?”

Her tone wasn’t one of looking down on me for being D-rank, but rather one of pure shock, as if to say, ‘There’s no way a D-rank would know about something like that.’

“I read that one appears in this dungeon.”

“…”

Yuuna’s expression turned serious.

“Did I say something wrong?”

“No… I’ll tell you later.”

Rumble, rumble, rumble.

Just then, the dungeon began to vibrate.

[Condition 『Orc Annihilation』 met.]
[Golden Domain strengthening… Dungeon rank has risen to B.]
[Additional rewards added.]

The underground ruins suddenly rose to the surface.

We were in a desert, under a scorching sun.

But the stage wasn’t the only thing that had changed. The bodies of the orcs we had killed were coated in gold and began to rise again.

“Hena! Over here!”

“Okay!”

All the orcs we had killed were resurrected.

But I extracted their personalities.

Their movements were mindless.

It was as if they were being controlled by someone.

[Activating 「Insight – Red」.]

[Golden Orc]
[Rank: B]
[A magical beast reborn under the control of the Golden Domain. It has grown stronger.]

[Golden Orc Champion]
[Rank: B+]
[An elite magical beast reborn under the control of the Golden Domain. It has grown much stronger.]

“Stay right behind me!” Yuuna said, her expression tense as she raised her sword. “We’re up against B-rank monsters. I might not have a chance to protect you, so stay sharp.”

The battle began instantly, with no time to prepare.

Hena immediately fired an invisible magic bullet, but the Golden Orc’s body didn’t budge.

“Ah…! My magic… it’s not working…”

Yuuna swung her sword, felling the approaching orcs like autumn leaves.

From here on out, it was Yuuna’s show.

Personality Excretion could still be useful, but…

In this situation, I might accidentally hit Yuuna in the back.

That thought kept me from jumping in carelessly.

For now, I fell back, focusing on protecting Hena.

“You’re doing great, Kim Sang-hyeok.”

“Princess! I believe in you!”

“I’ll show you why I’m a B-rank solo.”

She was more than just a tough high school girl fighting in her uniform.

Is this what a pro looks like?

Even as the vicious golden monsters swarmed her, Yuuna didn’t flinch. If anything, she seemed to shine even brighter.

The sword skills she’d shown when blocking the passage earlier were just the tip of the iceberg.

Her 「Ink Wash Slash」 covered a wide area.

Her 「Frenzied Dance」 instantly shredded any enemy that got too close.

Yuuna’s A-rank attack skills shattered the Golden Orcs’ tough bodies.

“One’s headed your way!”

Hena immediately used her magic, but it only seemed to enrage the Golden Orc further.

“Eek!”

Terrified, Hena clung to me.

“S-Sang-hyeok. We have to run…!”

“No.”

Now that the mobs were tougher, I could finally strike a real pose.

If you jam on me now, I’ll really resent you, En-chan.

Please let me look cool in front of the heroine…

I aimed the Glock and fired three shots into the Golden Orc’s chest.

The Mozambique Drill was a standard two to the chest, one to the head to increase stopping power.

But…

The Excretion Drill is two to the chest, one to the stomach.

The shot to the stomach was the decisive blow.

Bang, bang! Bang!

Since the orc was being controlled by the golden power, there was no amusing reaction.

[Your level has increased.]

But it went down easily.

I had wondered what it would excrete without a personality to expel, and a golden jelly came out.

But the jelly soon vanished along with the orc’s golden coating.

It must have been some kind of pseudo-personality used to control the orc.

And I had made it excrete even that.

“It’s okay now.”

“It’s okay…?”

Hena hugged me tightly, looking up with teary eyes.

Mm. This is what being a protagonist is all about.

It was cliché, but it was sweet.

As sweet as the warmth and softness of the breasts pressing against my body.

Soon, Yuuna had nearly cleared out the other side.

And then.

She finally faced the leader.

“Kngh!”

This time, even B-rank solo Yuuna seemed to be struggling.

Her opponent was an enhanced B-rank boss. Just breaking its stance wasn’t easy.

“Yuuna! Can you handle it?”

“Of course… I can!”

It was amazing that she could match it in a contest of strength, given her small and slender frame compared to the orc’s.

Truly incredible.

Soon, her blade flashed, and Yuuna’s Ink Wash Slash, which split the wide space into three, found its mark.

“Krrrk!?”

“Dihrit… you bastard!”

Haha…

With a battle cry befitting the class president, Yuuna cleanly finished off the B-rank elite boss.

[Dungeon Cleared]
[Contribution 71% | MVP: Nakamori Yuuna]
[Others – Kim Sang-hyeok, Henna Isis]

“Wow. Yuuna, you’re amazing,” Hena said in awe.

Yuuna was the hero this time, too.

The sight of her walking toward us, dignified and proud after felling a mountain-sized monster with a single sword.

I never thought I’d find a girl walking with her school skirt fluttering so cool.

“Good work, Yuuna.”

“You managed to rack up some contribution this time, huh? Kim Sang-hyeok.”

“Thanks to the weapon someone bought me.”

Yuuna, looking thirsty, found a water bottle in her bag and gulped it down without hesitation.

“Want some?”

Maybe it was the hot sun. We had all started sweating quite a bit after coming outside.

I accepted it without protest and took a drink.

“Is it going to be dismantled soon?”

“Not yet. If what you said about the Demon Merchant appearing is true…”

What was the big deal about it, anyway?

“Is there a problem?”

“First, let me distribute the earnings.”

[Leader Nakamori Yuuna has initiated a trade.]
[Henna Isis – 960 Coins]
[Kim Sang-hyeok – 1,188 Coins]

“Less than I thought.”

“This is a huge haul for a single B-rank dungeon. For reference, I got 2,000 Coins.”

So the leader gets to decide the distribution…

“If you have any objections, speak now.”

Hena just shook her head back and forth.

“This is my first time ever getting a share… I’m so happy… Ehehe…”

“…”

Yuuna’s gaze sharpened.

“You… did you stiff her on her pay?”

“I-I don’t know what you’re talking about…”

I tried to play dumb, but Yuuna’s suspicious glare didn’t fade.

“You know you get blacklisted in the Hunter industry if you rip people off, right?”

“First time I’m hearing it, but I have no intention of ripping her off…”

“Y-Yeah… It’s okay if S-Sang-hyeok takes it all. I’m…”

“It’s not okay even if you say it is! That’s the law!”

Given Yuuna’s personality, she would have given me more if anything, not shorted me.

In fact, I transferred 400 of the coins deposited on my student ID to Yuuna.

“I’ll pay you back right away, Yuuna.”

“I already deducted it from your share.”

“Was my contribution that high…?”

Yuuna couldn’t meet my eyes.

“Well. You did better than I expected… Just consider it payment.”

“Though I was thinking about choosing something other than a gun, like you said.”

“It definitely suited you more than a sword.”

It seemed she had recognized my combat style.

A style based on hand-to-hand combat, supplemented by an easy-to-handle pistol.

“I-I’m sorry I wasn’t much help at the end…”

“Is this about your contribution score? Stop fidgeting! Straighten your back.”

Yuuna gave Hena’s slumped shoulders a firm pat.

I’d gotten one of those, too.

“But… it really was low…”

“The main dealer always sweeps the contribution score. That’s just how it’s structured. But the person who gets the most respect in a party is the one who provides good support.”

“If it weren’t for Hena, I would’ve been rolling around on the floor with that orc.”

“…”

As I joined in on the praise, Hena’s cheeks turned bright red.

I rolled up my sleeves and looked up at the brightly shining sun.

It’s getting hot. I kind of want to go back…

Just as I had that thought, I saw a small human figure in the distance, its body and face covered in rags. It carried a bundle on its back that was larger than its own body.

Is that him?

“I’ll answer your question from before,” Yuuna said.

“It’s true that you buy stats from the Demon Merchant. The Demon Merchant sells everything that exists in this world, and even things that don’t.”

“I need to buy a ton of Dexterity.”

“I-I need Mana…”

“This is the first time for both of you, right? Meeting a Demon Merchant.”

It was for me, obviously, and Hena nodded as well.

It seemed the Demon Merchant didn’t appear in low-rank dungeons.

But why was Yuuna so wary?

She didn’t have this expression even when the B-rank elite boss was charging at us with a horde of Golden Orcs.

“Don’t think that just because he’s a merchant, you’ll get service equivalent to the money you pay.”

“What do you mean?”

“The Demon Merchant is an unknown entity that only occasionally appears in dungeons. I’ve heard its actual combat power is comparable to an S-rank monster.”

“…”

So, if that thing suddenly attacked us, we’d be helpless?

“If we were on the verge of starvation, he’d probably try to sell us a single bottle of water for 500,000 Coins without batting an eye.”

“Oh, my. We are not so wicked as all that.”

The figure that had seemed so far away against the horizon was now right next to us.

Yuuna jumped back in surprise and shut her mouth.

“A pleasure to meet you, dear aspiring hunters.”

[Activating 「Insight – Red」.]

[Goblin King] [Demon Merchant]
[The one who commands the magical beast 『Goblin』. His power, which once defied a god, is comparable to an SS-rank Hunter.]

I’d better not mess with him…

His build was that of an ordinary goblin, but the information from Insight was ominous.

He was not an opponent I could handle with my current strength.

But there was no reason to fight, was there? If we could just make a reasonable trade, it might be fine…

Or maybe that was just me being too optimistic.

The nerve I had to talk back to a goddess might come in handy here.

On behalf of the frozen Yuuna and Hena, I returned the Goblin King’s greeting.

“Hello, Goblin King.”

“Ooh, how long has it been since I was greeted with such polite courtesy? I am moved, Mr. Kim Sang-hyeok.”

…I never told him my name.

Then again, he never introduced himself as the Goblin King either, so I guess we were even.

“Since we have met like this, it must be fate. I shall lay out my wares and exchange them for your coins.”

He seemed surprisingly easy to talk to.

“How much for Dexterity?”

“Dexterity~~~ I’m not quite in the mood to sell that right now.”

“Aw, come on.”

“I cannot. It is not a Dexterity mood. Regrettably…”

What the hell is he talking about…

“Then Strength?”

“Ah, the weather is far too sunny to sell Strength.”

“Stamina?”

“To sell Stamina, when I watched such a sad drama last night.”

…For fuck’s sake. What does he want me to do?

“As it happens, I am in the mood to sell Mana. Now, looking at your stats…”

That would be for Hena.

“Sell it to Hena.”

“I shall take a mere 5,000 Coins per point.”

“What!” Yuuna shrieked.

“The standard market price for Hena’s Mana stat should be 200 Coins!”

“But my price is 5,000 Coins.”

“…Ngh…”

Hena mumbled hesitantly.

“I-I don’t have that kind of money…”

“Haha. What a shame.”

Hmm.

I was starting to get how this Demon Merchant system worked.

For example, let’s say there was a student who inherited hundreds of millions of coins before entering the academy.

To raise their stats, they’d have to clear a high-difficulty dungeon and meet the Demon Merchant. But what if that guy demanded 10 billion for a single point of Strength?

To make a reasonable trade with the Demon Merchant, you need power.

In other words, we couldn’t buy anything right now.

“Do you happen to purchase useful items as well, Goblin King?”

“Ooh. Mr. Sang-hyeok. Of course, of course. Have you found something good?”

“I’m just asking just in case, but you don’t deal in things like precious metals, do you?”

“…”

The Goblin King’s expression twisted.

His mouth curled into what looked like a vicious smile.

“If you inquired about selling me items only to offer such trash, I may have to impose a penalty, Mr. Sang-hyeok.”

“…”

“Now, now, what is it you wish to sell? Do you know what could possibly interest me, who possesses all things?”

“S-Sang-hyeok…”

Yuuna grabbed my sleeve.

She looked genuinely frightened, a rare sight.

“Let’s just stop talking to him…”

“I have something to sell.”

Who did he think he was threatening?

I had something that couldn’t be found anywhere else in the world.

Even before I took it out, I had a certain kind of conviction. ‘Isn’t this how you’re supposed to use this?’

“Open Onahole Inventory.”

I showed him an ordinary goblin onahole.

“Wh-What…”

The Goblin King’s expression twisted and smoothed out over and over again in rapid succession.

“Something like this. How about it?”

“This is… the personality of my kin, so cruelly treated!”

“It’s just a tool, so don’t get so worked up.”

“Kuuuooooooh!!”

The Goblin King took the onahole I offered and fell to his knees.

“BEAUTIFUL! GORGEOUS!!”

The Demon Merchant held up the onahole I gave him like an idol and screamed.

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Translated By: Meher (RaidenTL)

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