Chapter 44

Chapter 44

Otherworld Cheat Harem.

Episode 44: Dark Mage (1).

Whoosh! In the darkness, unidentified tentacles flew toward her. However, since the monster also couldn’t see ahead, its accuracy was very poor.

Bang. The flying tentacles smashed into the wall, and light streamed in through the shattered wall. Only then could Ilone clearly see the monster’s shape.

‘A slime…?’

It was a gigantic slime. However, it was different from the common slimes usually found in the dungeon.

The size was so enormous that it filled the warehouse, and its body was pitch black and opaque, as if it were made of sewage.

“What the hell?! Damn, why did that thing wake up?!”

“Call the boss, quickly!”

Voices were heard from beyond the broken wall. They must be the criminals residing here.

‘Damn it, if only the magic tool hadn’t broken…’

However, there was nothing she could do. She quickly leapt over the shattered wall and ran.

The criminals who spotted her shouted and charged towards her, but it wasn’t luck or cunning that got her the position of captain of the guards as a woman.

She earned the position fairly through skill. Her physical abilities were ranked among the top in the guards, regardless of gender.

She ran. Just by doing that, she escaped their grasp in an instant. Once she got out of the building, she could fire the signal flare.

‘Just a little more…!’

Thud.

As she sprinted, she tripped over something. She managed to get up quickly, but as soon as she stepped down, she fell again.

‘What the…?’

Turning back, she discovered her severed leg far behind. And at that moment, her mind went blank.

‘Why is my leg…?’

The pain arrived belatedly the moment she became aware of it. She screamed a wordless cry not fit for a woman’s mouth, clutching her severed leg.

A pain that shouldn’t have been felt beneath her empty thighs surged through her—a burning agony in her legs, a splitting pain in her head.

As she gagged on the pain and rolled on the ground, a man in a robe appeared. Dajian clicked his tongue at the wrecked warehouse.

“I said you could cut off her limbs as long as you didn’t kill her. What is this mess for failing to catch one woman?”

“S-sorry, boss…”

“Sorry? So you admit this is your fault.”

Dajian immediately blew off the head of the man who had begged for forgiveness. Then he tossed him to the slime wriggling in the distance as feed.

Watching the slime wriggle and digest the corpse, Dajian approached Ilone.

He took out a magic tool from her arms and grinned as he looked at her face.

“A guard? How did you get in?”

“Ugh, do you think I’ll tell you?”

Spitting blood, Ilone spat towards Dajian. After wiping it off, he placed his hand on her head.

Then he began chanting a spell.

“Interestingly, the human body tries to be happy even when it’s very sad and painful.”

Dajian didn’t know it was an instinct to maintain homeostasis, but what he did know was that it made for an excellent ingredient.

“Ahhhhh!!”

As the brain’s internal drugs that eased the body’s pain disappeared, Ilone groaned in pain and rolled on the ground again.

“What’s wrong? It’s a fun magic time. It’s a very valuable lecture that ordinary people like you will never hear in your lifetime.”

Her body convulsed in pain. Her brain, mistakenly believing that the dose of drugs it had sent was insufficient, released internal drugs once more.

Dojin seized them again.

Ilone screamed once more…

“Oh dear, did she faint?”

Eventually, she surpassed the limit. To prevent shock-induced death, her body shut down consciousness. But it was fine. There were many ways to extract drugs from an unconscious person.

While pondering how to move her, a commotion was heard from outside.

“B-Boss! The guards are outside…”

“The guards?”

Hearing this, he clicked his tongue lightly. All the magical tools attached to her body seemed to have been destroyed by the barriers installed in the building, but it appeared they couldn’t prevent a direct tail.

Feeling a tinge of regret, Dajian tossed Ilone’s severed leg to the slime.

Watching the slime feast on her leg as if it were delicious, he cauterized the severed section to seal it.

“Screwing over someone else’s business.”

As a parting gift—telling her to go to hell—he left Ilone crippled and swiftly vanished from the building.

Moments later, the guards rushed in and found the injured Ilone.

“Captain! What is this…?!”

A few of the guards who had found Ilone were assigned to escort her away. There was also a practical reason for not killing her.

After all, saving a comrade who was still alive always required more manpower than recovering a dead one.

Sensory Sharing has been acquired.

‘Sensory Sharing…?’

Awakened by the notification of acquiring a new skill, I kneaded Aram’s buttocks, who was mumbling in her sleep beside me, like kneading dough.

Feeling my touch, she cautiously sat up and rummaged through the table for her glasses.

“Aren’t you not wearing glasses anymore?”

“Oh… right. I forgot.”

Aram, who used to wear glasses, had her eyesight restored to normal after leveling up, so she tossed them aside.

And from then on, the Class President’s beauty began to stand out…

Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she lazily stretched, subtly showing off her magnificent chest.

“Haaam…?”

While stretching, she realized that I was staring at her fiercely and understood her current state.

Her upper body was bare, with only a blanket barely covering her lower half.

The moment she realized it, her face flushed red first. Then, like a boiling kettle reaching its peak, heat surged through her.

“Kyaaah!”

“…So noisy.”

Seoyoon, never a morning person, slowly stirred at the sound of her scream. Pushing herself up with her arms, she trembled slightly before collapsing back onto the bed with a thud.

“Ah… hey, come up and give me a massage…”

“Suddenly?”

“Because it feels good when you do it, I can’t help it…”

The moment I heard those words, I stroked my twitching lips before climbing onto Seoyoon’s back.

Caressing her soft skin, I slowly pressed down on her lower back. She let out moans in rhythm to the pressure.

“Ugh… huh… there… hmm… good… ahuh.”

Whether she was doing it on purpose from the morning or it was an instinctive coquetry, listening to her moans, my member naturally became erect and nestled between her buttocks.

Seoyoon turned her head and slyly smiled, perhaps aware of my member wedged between her buttocks.

“Why? Feeling horny in the morning?”

“…….”

I couldn’t answer and could only rub my member against her buttocks. If I tried to insert it, she would stop my movements with her ability since I hadn’t given her an answer.

“Do you want to put it in?”

“Horny.”

“Hm? I can’t hear you well.”

“I said I’m horny. Damn it.”

“Heh, I see.”

Upon hearing my answer, Seoyoon slowly turned her body. Then she began to slowly press down on my member with her foot. But since I was already aroused, I started to feel it even through her kicks.

“I can’t just let a body this aroused be touched.”

“What do you want?”

“Hmmm… a leg massage first?”

Hearing those words, I began to slowly spread Seoyoon’s legs. Aram, who was watching from the side, had a lewd expression, and it seemed like a second round was about to start from the morning…

Knock, knock.

“…Excuse me. A guest has arrived.”

A servant knocked on the door, calling us. I got dressed, annoyed internally, and stepped outside.

“Who is it?”

“They say they’re the guards.”

“The guards?”

The only guard I knew was Ilone. And there weren’t many reasons for her to come looking for me in broad daylight.

I gave Seoyoon an apologetic look for the interruption and followed the servant to the reception room.

And there I encountered a guard I had never seen before. It was a man.

“Who…?”

“I came after reading a note left by Captain Ilone. Are you Dojin?”

“Yes, I am.”

“Captain Ilone has collapsed. She instructed us to come here and seek help if she ever fell into a critical condition.”

“…What did you say?”

Wheeze. Wheeze.

Watching Ilone breathe heavily on the bed, I let out a sigh. The guard standing beside me reiterated her critical condition.

“Her severed leg is so severely tainted with magic that regeneration is impossible. She might have to suffer from the pain forever…”

“And you?”

“Pardon?”

“What did you do?”

“We stood by for support.”

“Sounds like you did nothing.”

Gently, I placed my hand on Ilone’s head. As if she were having a terrible dream, her face involuntarily frowned.

It was a serious injury. An injury that would burden her with lifelong disability and pain… It wasn’t an exaggeration to say her life was over because of this.

This world was cruel to the weak— even more so to those with disabilities. For someone like her, who once wielded strength as the captain of the guards, losing her legs didn’t just mean losing her job—it meant losing everything.

‘Because of me.’

She went on the mission because I gave her information. What if I hadn’t given her that information? She would have proceeded with the investigation very slowly, eventually realizing that the opposing organization was extremely dangerous.

She would never have gone in alone. Even if she had, she wouldn’t have been injured in this way.

“…There was a mage. A dark mage. That’s why the communication magic tool was smashed.”

“Didn’t you think there might be a mage?”

“Practically speaking, we can’t conduct investigations with such thoughts.”

“So, it’s only natural that Ilone ended up like this?”

“That’s not what I meant…”

“Alright, please leave.”

“Yes, understood.”

I observed the face of the man leaving after saying those words. I wondered why he was acting so submissively, and then I realized he was the duty officer I saw when I headed to the guards with her.

He probably thought Ilone and I were a couple.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t her lover.

“…Aram.”

“Are you really going to do it? No matter what, this kind of injury is…”

“It’s okay. Just trust me.”

At my call, Aram, who was standing behind, stepped forward. She frowned slightly at the sight of Ilone wrapped in bandages, but she slowly raised her hand.

And I placed my hand behind her shoulder.

“Sh-shall we begin?”

“…I’m ready.”

Her ability was to return whatever she touched to its original state. A localized time regression ability.

It was easy to reverse the time of inanimate objects, but if it was a living being… That is, if she reversed an injury or revived a dead person, the ability carried the penalty of transferring the reversed injury to her entire body.

Now, having leveled up, she could handle fractures as minor bruises. But if she were to heal a severed limb, she would have to bear considerable risk herself.

No matter how much of a connection I had built with Ilone, I couldn’t impose such a burden on Aram.

Originally, I wouldn’t have even asked her for such a favor…

‘It’s okay now.’

The ability I had gained by forming relationships with Seoyoon and Aram—Sensory Sharing allowed me to fully take on the burden Aram would receive.

“Phew…”

Aram exhaled as she reversed Ilone’s injury. Her injury transformed into damage of the same level and struck Aram’s body.

And I bore that burden faster than that.

Crack, crack!

‘Ugh!’

I heard the sound of bones throughout my body slowly shattering. The injury, divided among my whole body, was not easy to endure.

‘It’s okay.’

Invincible Body is activated.

The broken bones were slowly hardening. Diamond is unbreakable, so it doesn’t get damaged beyond repair.

Extreme Yang Body is activated.

My body was hot. Due to the sudden injury, intense heat was emitted from my entire body. It was an injury severe enough to fry my brain, but I couldn’t lose consciousness like this.

I knew that the moment I let go, this pain would be directed at Aram. Thinking that way, I couldn’t collapse.

Master of Women’s Heart is active!

Your body evolves into a better form to dominate women.

Creak, crack!

The bones throughout my body began to fracture gradually. However, as much as my body broke, Ilone’s injuries gradually disappeared.

The process of metamorphosis begins.

When Ilone’s injuries were completely healed, I lost consciousness.

Knock knock.

Late at night, after dealing with an unexpected event, Deokgu was resting in his room when he heard a knock at the door and spoke up.

“Who is it?”

The person did not respond to the question and opened the door. After a moment, seeing the person who entered, Deokgu grinned.

“Are you awake?”

Deokgu took out a paper he had prepared in advance from under the drawer. The man who entered put the paper into his pocket and turned around.

“What? You’re not eating?”

At those words, the other person cautiously turned his head. Then he scribbled on the paper on Deokgu’s desk.

Deokgu let out a chuckle as he watched the man waste paper and leave abruptly.

“Ha, who does he think he is, Guan Yu?”1

Then he put down the paper that Dojin had left behind.

─I’ll be back before dinner gets cold.

ED/N: A famous Chinese general from the Three Kingdoms period. ↩️