Chapter 60 – Floor 9. Shock and Horror

“Ugh…”

Of all things, I couldn’t resist when the slime provoked me.

As the master leading the onaholes, I absolutely couldn’t tolerate being pushed around by the once-worthless slime, making me now the party’s weakest?!

This should have been enough education for it.

As I raised my upper body after sleeping directly on the ground without laying anything down, I realized I was still naked.

Honestly, I had thoughts like “at this point…” but still, for a civilized person, wearing clothes is common sense, right?

“Did I overdo it? My waist feels a bit…”

While my abnormal recovery ability and physical capabilities seemed to extend to my virility—perhaps another thing that Anonymous guy tampered with—giving me an inexhaustible feeling, excessive ejaculation still left my lower body aching.

Tapping my waist, I turned my gaze to look for clothes, only to see a fidgeting movement.

The thick hood, stuffy just to look at in the burrow still warm from residual heat, revealed its identity.

The Suspicious Merchant.

They were squatting with their back turned to me, their hands fidgeting with something so intently that they didn’t seem to notice I had woken up.

What are they doing?

“Hey, merchant.”

“Hieeek!!”

At my call, accompanied by a tap on their shoulder, the merchant jumped as if startled, and something they were holding fell to the floor with a thud.

Wine-colored hair with an antique feel, and noticeably voluptuous curves, though the proportions were slightly different from the original, with a black blindfold covering the eyes.

A familiar appearance.

What had fallen from the merchant’s hands was Kali, in a state where all her equipment had been removed for “fuel recharging.”

Strangely, though I remember amply injecting semen into Kali as well, she somehow looked clean.

“What’s this, did you clean her up or something?”

“…”

The merchant, still turned away and not looking at me, fumbled around their face area for a moment before turning around.

“…”

“Why aren’t you saying anything?”

Gulp-

Though not visible due to being covered, along with the sound of something going down their throat, the merchant who had been maintaining silence rubbed their throat as if it was a bit dry.

“…That’s right. I just did a little maintenance on the child that was being used so roughly by a violent customer, because it looked pitiful.”

‘Do onaholes need maintenance…?’

Of course, it seems some sensations are fed back even in the onahole state, but basically, the onaholes, which seem to receive a durability bonus, didn’t look like they would break from a bit of rough use.

Being in a living state, even if they get a little injured, they would recover, after all.

From the beginning, I’ve been controlling myself so they don’t tear or break too much.

The merchant picked up Kali with somewhat awkward hands and put her in the backpack.

“…I’ll be outside. The air in here is too full of the customer’s scent.”

“Oh, sure.”

“And customer, you’re too careless.”

After the merchant made this cryptic remark and went outside, I could examine the burrow in detail.

The fully inflated golden blob, traces of wetness all over the floor, Severa more securely tied and hanging from the ceiling instead of a lamp, displaying her anal plug, and Kali who had just been tucked into the backpack.

‘By the way, the slime, this thing looks exactly the same when it returns to normal. Well, it’s amorphous, so it’s not strange.’

Placing the evolved slime on my palm and shaking it, it still moved like a water balloon, sloshing around.

“Human mating is quite interesting. Not bad for alleviating boredom.”

“Keck.”

Blue Tongue, still curled up in the corner, greeted me with a broad yawn as a morning greeting.

Being a lizard yet having so much interest in the human body, I, currently naked, felt quite uncomfortable and hastily covered myself with my hands.

Finding this amusing, Blue Tongue made a snickering sound as she rose from her spot.

“You’re being strange, human. After showing that all night long, are you now going to say you’re embarrassed?”

“No, that wasn’t by my will…”

It was quite intimidating to have Blue Tongue, a head taller than me, looking down at me with her blue mucous membrane wide open.

A drop of sweat ran down my spine.

Slap!

“ARGHHHH!!!”

At that moment, her red tail struck my back.

Feeling as if I’d been hit with a club, I felt all the air escape from my body as I collapsed – thud.

“To fill my burrow with the scent of a mating male after just staying one night. I can’t even imagine how long it will take for this smell to disappear.”

“Th-that’s… sorry, but it wasn’t my intention? You saw it too! I’m just fodder!”

Like a cheap Chinese game advertisement kneeling and doing an anal show promising 200 free pulls, I had no choice but to kneel before Blue Tongue.

Do you feel the difference in power?

I am the more pathetic trash fodder idiot.

Krook- Krook- A sound reverberating from the organ under her jaw.

Blue Tongue made such a sound as if I were amusing and shifted her gaze to the backpack containing the onaholes.

“Human, you are strange. I have lived quite long, and humans who come to this remote place each had extraordinary abilities, but human, I have never seen anything like you.”

I bet. I didn’t expect to have such an ability either.

“Even if you are slightly weak yourself, if you use those, no one in this jungle would be fearsome to you.”

“Unfortunately, my goal goes beyond that.”

I tried to quickly put on clothes while her attention was on the backpack, but unfortunately, her tail wrapped around me, foiling my plan.

KYAAAAAAAAAK!!!

It’s hard! But it’s soft! What is this!

“A goal. Can you tell me, human?”

“To reverse-bury that bastard called extinction who’s going to destroy the world, and to go home safely.”

“Extinction…”

Upon hearing my answer, Blue Tongue looked up at the ceiling, flicked her tongue a few times, and then unwrapped her tail.

And somehow, I saw the corners of her mouth lift slightly as if she liked what she heard.

I wondered if a lizard’s facial muscles had such a range of motion, but then again, what’s the point when the skeletal structure itself is different from a regular lizard?

“Excellent. With such grand dreams, you show the qualities of a Great Warrior.”

“Huh? Going home is a grand dream?”

How fucked up is this crazy world that going home is considered a heroic feat? Where the hell did you send me, you 112.311 bastard!

Next time, let’s go with a drum full of crabs.

“Isn’t stopping extinction such a thing? A miracle that might be beyond reach even if all beings combined their strength, let alone a single human. The humans who traveled with the wizard always said such things.”

“They failed in the end, right? I don’t think they really believed they would succeed in the first place.”

Perhaps there were some who truly thought they would succeed and proclaimed wealth and honor, but the scale of the world’s end is not something people can easily grasp.

Isn’t it a common cliché in movies and novels?

People denying reality when the world’s end suddenly approaches.

“They just did it because they had to.”

I said this while putting on my t-shirt, which had somehow become clean.

“Some might have stepped up out of a sense of duty, some might have done it for money, some might have thought it was an honorable task, and some might have been pushed into it against their will.”

“Human, what about you?”

“Me? I was just thrown in without warning by some crazy bastard and had no choice but to be pushed into it.”

At that answer, Blue Tongue made that growling sound again, as if amused.

“You’re an interesting one, human.”

“Which part? Let me in on the joke too.”

But as if she had no intention of sharing the punchline, Blue Tongue just made a mysterious growr- growr- sound.

“I didn’t want to be a Great Warrior either. I was just the strongest warrior in the village, so I was pushed into taking the role. It’s just troublesome and labor-intensive for me.”

‘So the Great Warrior position was just dumping responsibility.’

I thought it was quite a respected position, but I guess it’s just a role they assign to the strong.

“When is the hunt?”

“Let’s go after filling our bellies first.”

Blue Tongue, with a satisfied face, flicked her tongue near my face a few times, then turned around as if to leave the burrow.

Taking that opportunity to quickly grab my pants and pull them up, I─

Failed to enjoy the benefits of civilization as Blue Tongue’s tail came between my legs with a tap.

“Human, you are an excellent male. But if you have females in your arms, it seems better to love them equally.”

“What?”

“Isn’t that merchant human also your female?”

Knowing that the merchant’s true identity was a demon, I was about to say, ‘Wouldn’t it be a bit problematic if that one were mine?’ but I managed to hold back.

Come to think of it, a dream demon. That is, a succubus. So haven’t I been doing something quite dangerous?

I felt a cold sweat running down as I realized the meaning of what the merchant had said when leaving the burrow. At this rate, I might almost be dehydrated.

“Human, I spoke because it looked quite pitiful to see her munching on your seeds in her mouth instead of being serviced by you.”

“Don’t tell me that…”

My gaze naturally turns toward Kali in the backpack. This explained why Kali looked unusually clean.

Would even a succubus go that far?

While contemplating how I should view the merchant waiting outside, Blue Tongue’s voice continued.

“Fortunately, since you produce a lot of seeds, there’s no worry about there not being enough for me.”

“What?”

To that short question filled with doubt, Blue Tongue left the burrow without answering, silently gathering her spear and dragging her tail on the ground.

“Hey, hey! What exactly does that mean?!”

KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!!

I was engulfed by an indescribable terror.

***

“…Well, let’s depart.”

“Okay.”

“How about staying in the village for one more day if we finish quickly?”

Despite having eaten a full meal in the village, I felt drained of energy from the morning, the merchant who, unlike yesterday, didn’t meet my gaze even once, and Blue Tongue, who led the way with leisurely steps, formed a party that left the village to subjugate Alraune.

‘Let’s run to the 10th floor right after catching Alraune.’

An escape plan formed in my head.