14. Uncharted (4)

I fell into a trance and approached Jung Yewon, who was standing blankly like a doll.

Her clothes were already damp from the humid air and fog.

The pink underwear faintly visible through her white tracksuit made it hard to know where to look.

“It’s not cool to make her masturbate when someone might come.”

I could confidently answer the question, ‘Then why did you make Jung Yewon do it yesterday?’

It’s Jung Yewon’s fault for getting caught masturbating, I didn’t do anything wrong!

Of course, it sounds a bit trashy to say it like this, but the biggest obstacle was that we didn’t know what kind of threat we might face now that the information about the additional task had been revealed.

If I had my way, I’d want to have a sticky, hot sex with Jung Yewon right away, but what can I do when the situation is like this?

So, for now, it was best to suppress her desires.

I pondered over what kind of hypnosis I should use to preserve Jung Yewon’s unique personality while preventing her from suddenly going wild.

I don’t know how she ended up eavesdropping on Won Harin and my sex, but it’s clear that Jung Yewon is jealous of Won Harin.

Even though I told her to come if I changed my mind, the fact that she mentioned that we had sex and half-threatened me was proof that she cared a lot about Won Harin.

I can see her thoughts to some extent without having to ask her directly, so I think I’m qualified to have a harem now.

If I could use this feeling of jealousy well, wouldn’t it be possible to capture Jung Yewon in an instant…

If I gently probe her without making her give up, she will definitely take the bait.

She’s already addicted to perverted masturbation while thinking about me, so if I add a little jealousy and hypnosis, I’m excited to see how Jung Yewon will change.

“[She cannot express her jealousy of Won Harin in any way, and can only relieve it when she is physically touching Lee Jihu. Also, she cannot reach climax by masturbating alone.]”

The emotions that she can no longer release and will have to suppress in her heart can now only be resolved by me.

It is now forbidden for Jung Yewon to demand masturbation from me under the pretext of having sex with Won Harin, or for Jung Yewon to masturbate alone full of jealousy.

She will only be able to relieve the emotions that boil up when she subtly grabs my hand, or when she openly hugs me and touches her skin against mine.

Honestly, I’m a little worried that the side effects might be serious… but I guess it’ll be alright somehow.

She wouldn’t forcibly pounce on me because she can’t climax by masturbating, right?

“And I want to see Jung Yewon asking me for it even more.”

Imagining Jung Yewon’s face flushed red as she timidly comes to me and asks me to have sex makes me nod my head involuntarily.

She wouldn’t cling to me as soon as her trance is over, so I expect that her desires will build up to some extent by tonight.

I pressed the button to wake Jung Yewon up, and her eyes refocused. She hurriedly tried to say something, but then she flinched and trailed off.

“Masturbate… Ah, ah… It’s nothing. Forget what I just said…”

I gently took her hand at her embarrassed reaction, and Jung Yewon trembled as if she had been electrocuted.

The jealousy that had been dominating her until just now melted away, and instead, she probably felt her heart filled with happiness.

“L-Let go of my hand, Jihu-ssi…! If you’re done resting, let’s hurry up and leave…”

“Okay. Tell me if you want to hold hands again.”

At my words, she bowed her head without answering and started walking forward.

Her reaction was so cute that I couldn’t help but smile.

* * *

“Oh, Jihu-ya! Did your team not find anything?”

After walking for a few more minutes, as we reached the center of the forest, familiar faces came into view.

Seeing Ryu Shin-i greet me happily made me feel a little relieved without realizing it.

Is this the power of the protagonist…?

When it was just Jung Yewon and me, I was walking in a state of tension, worried about being attacked, but with the number of people increasing and a strong person next to me, the atmosphere naturally became more relaxed.

“We couldn’t find anything, how about you guys?”

But our team’s performance was 0.

Unlike my worries about being attacked, we didn’t find any traces of ruins, let alone people, so we ended up coming empty-handed.

“Actually… we’re the same. If we had at least found a monster, we could have followed the path to find something, but we couldn’t even find a single Giant Rat.”

I was a little relieved that Ryu Shin-i’s team didn’t seem to have achieved much either, but that didn’t mean I could be happy about it.

In any case, the team that clears the additional task first will get the highest score, and there was still one more team moving separately on this island.

“Then should we wait for Won Harin to come first, and then move on to the next area?”

“That seems like the best thing to do. The forest is a bit wide, but I think we can barely explore it today, so let’s focus on identifying the location of the ruins first. It would be really great if we could find the last team of people too.”

I still don’t know where the other team is, but now it was a top priority to know the other team’s information.

I nodded at Ryu Shin-i’s words and was about to sit down on a fallen tree trunk, when suddenly a woman’s scream was heard from a distance, and I hurriedly turned my head.

“Kyaaak!”

A short, high-pitched scream like a death cry.

I can’t be sure of the identity of the voice, but it’s clear that something happened.

“Jihu-ya, this way!”

“Everyone, let’s go for now. It might be a bigger situation than we thought.”

Ryu Shin-i quickly found the source of the sound with his excellent hearing and immediately started running inside.

We also hurried to follow Ryu Shin-i, not wanting to lose him.

Could it be Won Harin who screamed?

Until yesterday, no monsters had appeared, but if Won Harin, who has weak combat abilities, encountered a monster, it would be a very serious problem.

She has a loyal fan named Oh Donghun by her side, but in a situation where I don’t know much about Oh Donghun yet, I couldn’t fully trust his abilities, so I moved as quickly as possible.

After running at full speed for nearly 10 minutes, we were able to find Won Harin, who had lost consciousness and was lying on the floor.

‘Hoo… At least she looks safe on the outside.’

But that doesn’t mean I can relax just yet.

Oh Donghun, who had been following her around, is not visible now, and above all, a chilling cold was pouring out from the front, which was obscured by dense trees.

It was clear that something was happening in front of us.

“Yewon-ssi, if you have any healing abilities in your Arcana, use them on Won Harin right away. You know this isn’t the time to worry about personal feelings, right?”

“…I know. I know that much.”

Jung Yewon approached Won Harin, who was lying down, with a displeased expression.

She put her hand on Won Harin’s forehead and said to me in surprise.

“Her body is too cold. I think she has hypothermia, we need to start a fire quickly… Ah.”

If we recklessly started a fire in this dense forest, we could all die, so she trailed off, realizing that.

Is that the only way after all…

I know what Jung Yewon thinks of Won Harin, so I really didn’t want to say this, but since I don’t know when the rescue team will arrive, I had no choice.

“Yewon-ssi, I’m really sorry, but… I think you’ll have to hug her to raise her body temperature.”

“Y-Yes…? This woman… You’re telling me to hug her? Wouldn’t it be better for Jihu-ssi to hug her? You were like that all night last night… Heop.”

“I have something else to look into. It’ll only take a few minutes, so just close your eyes and think of me. And Ryu Shin-ah, I can’t see because of the trees, but can you check if there’s anything in front?”

“Okay. I was feeling something strange too, so I’ll just check what it is from a distance.”

I assigned Jung Yewon, who has excellent support abilities, to treat Won Harin and deal with other crisis situations, and Go Ryu Shin, who has the best physical specs and is good at detection among us, to check what happened in front.

And finally, Pira Hyun.

From what I’ve seen, her abilities are truly endless.

From absorbing all the surrounding fog to storing various items with almost no capacity restrictions, and I guess she even absorbs the faint ‘traces’ scattered in the atmosphere.

I recalled the words that Pira Hyun had subtly said to me after the sex with Jung Yewon.

‘Hehe, I can smell it. A very strong smell…’

I didn’t completely trust Pira Hyun.

She had been suspicious in many ways since entering the school, and I felt more suspicious than happy about her being friendly to me right now.

But I thought that she was the only one who could find the traces of Oh Donghun, who was not here now.

In any case, Pira Hyun is also a student of Arbadellin, and she knows the meaning of being an Awakened, so I decided to trust her.

“Pira Hyun, find out where Oh Donghun disappeared to. You can find traces with ‘Absorption’, right…? Right…?”

“Heung, I don’t think I’ve ever said that my ability is ‘Absorption’ with that exact keyword.”

Oops.

Pira Hyun gave a meaningful smile.

“Well, okay. I can do that much. More than anything… it’s Jihu’s request.”

“Thank you. And about ‘Absorption’…”

“Let’s talk about that later. When we get back to school, just the two of us.”

I felt a strange sense of unease, but I nodded at her answer for now.

After Go Ryu Shin and Pira Hyun left and completely disappeared, I walked to a distance where Jung Yewon couldn’t sense me and muttered in my heart.

• Alice, it’s an emergency.

It’s always best to leave the work of monsters to demons.

The Great Devil of Temptation appeared from the shadows.