episode_0016

16. Mentoring Program (2)

Boom bang bang!!

After returning from the union, I had dinner with Sia at the dorm and was resting in our respective rooms when it was almost time to go to bed, so Sia came to see me.

When she was giving a massage, she whined and asked for help because the bad water wasn’t coming out well, so I kindly showed her how to give her a massage again and pulled out all the bad water. I made her fall asleep right away and held her in my arms, rubbing her chest as I was sleeping, but I was woken up by a knock on the door in the early morning.

“Oh my… What is this, starting at this early hour..”

Squeak-

“Cain!!”

“Huh? When did Mr. Hawk come?”

“That’s not important right now!”

I opened the door and looked to see who was there, and it was Mr. Hawk, a short man with a thick beard like a dwarf’s, calling me in an urgent voice.

“No, that’s why…”

“Right now!! Let’s go, Cain, okay?”

Looking closely, his face was swollen as if he had been hit by someone, and his weapon, an axe, was nowhere to be seen.

“What the hell is going on..”

“Claude is caught too, hurry!”

“No shit, what were you two doing…”

At that moment, Mi-on’s face, which had a strange expression on it when she talked about the patchwork party, suddenly came to mind.

“By any chance, the two level 1 people you mentioned were both women?”

“That…”

“Cheers..! Dude, I told you. I don’t mind taking you to Claude’s rice cake shop, but please take good care of me so I don’t get involved with those gold-diggers.”

“That’s right…”

“Haa… Let’s go for now.”

Fortunately, Sia did not wake up, so she carefully packed her purse and dagger, changed her clothes, and left the dorm with Mr. Hawk.

“Is this the right place?”

“That…yeah.”

“Really… Move quickly.”

I grumbled as I followed Mr. Hawk through the dark alleys of a slum on the outskirts of the city, where the sun had not yet risen.

“How did even an old man get tricked? A gentleman who has been rolling around for 15 years.”

“Ahem!”

The Labyrinth City was treated like an independent country under the pretext of supervising and managing the Labyrinth to prevent monsters from overflowing, but public security was not very good.

The thinking of the people above who manage the city is that they only need to keep the magic stones from leaking out of the city and not allow deep attacks or monsters to overflow, so they only maintain the minimum level of security and do not bother to touch this underworld, but just tolerate it.

The worst of them are the so-called ‘party breakers’, the gold diggers who come into parties to break them up, demand money or do other things…

“What did you say?”

“These are the new faces I saw a few days ago…”

“This is driving me crazy.”

When I was awakened and taken to the shelter, Claude and Hawk said that the new faces of the brothel that they had been running around and sucking all night had applied for a makeshift party.

Usually, the pimps in this city were like freelancers, so the pimps or bosses did not have absolute authority, but rather supported each other and provided appropriate protection.

Are the female prostitutes who support the bodies of the explorers whose levels rise and whose statuses increase ordinary people? No, most of them are female explorers who entered the labyrinth and gave up on conquering it.

Women who have been granted protection but have been granted sexual powers, ambiguous powers that are not necessary for exploration, or powers that are only detrimental to exploration, such as constant horniness, flow in here.

At least she has status that is better than women who don’t have any protection and no level, so she has a body that can withstand the fucking of explorers.

And it is said that they live a life of compromising with reality and being satisfied with the income they earn, which is more than what prostitutes in other kingdoms or empires earn.

You can remove the oddity by visiting the cult’s aid station, but the initial removal costs 1 gold, and the cost increases exponentially as you repeat the process of removing the oddity, so this is a job mainly chosen by low-level female explorers who have a large financial burden.

“No, what happened that you were caught?”

“Hmm… that’s…”

I grabbed my forehead at the old man’s subsequent words.

Claude, who had a long night and a hot night with the new face, said that the girls were still level 1 and were scared, so they started this side first, and asked if it would be okay if they could take him to the labyrinth just once.

Some crazy woman came all the way to the labyrinth city and said, “I’m going to be a professional prostitute!” and was given a level and got a job at a rice cake shop right away. How many women do you know who innocently fell for those words? Claude seduced Mr. Hawk and matched them up for a makeshift party.

For some reason, when I asked him about it when he woke up in the middle of the night, he seemed flustered.

Eventually, he entered the labyrinth, but after less than half a day, the women started whining that it was scary and he wanted to go back, so he built a hideout to avoid the monsters, slept for a day, and planned to return right away. However, those women secretly mixed an aphrodisiac into his food and burned incense in his sleeping bag, which made him horny and made him have sex for three days straight in the labyrinth.

“So, you didn’t even notice that the girls were being raised as promising prospects in the store and you just went out to the labyrinth for 3 days and had sex?”

“I’m sorry… No, I didn’t know you’d bring potions and other things from the labyrinth…”

“I was having fun eating and couldn’t get my magic stone and came out to the city, and now I have a strange feeling towards girls?”

“….”

I came out after eating only rice cakes for three days, that’s understandable.

Even though Mr. Hawk has been going back and forth to the first floor as a patchwork party vanguard for 10 years, he may never have encountered a female explorer who deliberately rushes in with elixirs or such.

The problem is that when the women finished their first labyrinth run and came out into the city, they developed a strange habit.

One of the common ways to do this is to come in with a grudge to destroy the party, or like these guys, the owner of the establishment shows up and demands compensation for the mental(?) damage suffered by the kids because they were eaten up in the labyrinth, and demands a certain amount of money.

Now that you have a quirk, you might wonder, “What a coincidence.”

It’s up to the director whether or not he’ll erase the girls’ quirks, but even if he can’t, he now has an excuse to extort 1 more gold from each of them.

Eventually, upon returning to the city, he was taken away by the people at the window who had been waiting and beaten all day long before they released Mr. Hawk and sent him to me.

“ha….”

“I’m sorry, Cain.”

He just likes women, but when we were matched for mentoring, it was Mr. Hawk who taught us most of the knowledge and know-how we needed while exploring the labyrinth, so I barely held back from stabbing him with a dagger right away.

To me, who was looking at the mentoring program itself with a slightly skewed eye, I learned most of the survival skills from this guy, such as how to avoid getting stabbed in the labyrinth city and how to explore… Shit.

“The uncle will pay for the trouble himself. Is this the right place?”

Squeak-

“Hey, you little punk, what are you going to do now that you’re here?”

“Ka…Cain… Ugh…!”

When I arrived at the empty warehouse-like building, I opened the door and went inside to find Claude tied to a chair with his face covered in bruises.

“Are you…Claude’s guardian?”

“….”

“We are suffering losses like this. Do you have any settlement money?”

“How much?”

I’d like to turn it over, but no matter how fast Claude grows, he’s still level 4.

The current known Explorer Guild Leader’s level is 9.

And the average level of people who run miscellaneous shops or stores is 3 to 5.

The heads of people who work in the shadows like this are around level 7 or 8, and even the leaders or executives of an organization, like the man standing in front of you right now, are likely above level 5.

The city’s underworld has already built its own castle.

In a situation where it is possible to move forward with some flexibility as long as the city officials do not cross the line that they are reluctant to cross.

There was nothing our party, which had only been active for two years, could do.

It’s not like I have any connections with higher-ups either.

I’ll go to the union and ask.

When arranging a party match in the union, only the opponent’s level and quirk are provided.

Afterwards, they meet each other face to face, share general information, research reputations, and conduct interviews, and then the party leader decides whether to enter the labyrinth together.

“Let’s see… Our kids have a quirk, but it’s a quirk that has a physical defect… Including the cost of removing the quirk, it’s 3 gold.”

“… Old man’s money.”

“Ahem.! That’s…”

“No?”

“Only 50 silver…”

“I’ll write a loan agreement later and give you everything I have.”

Jangle jangle-

So, after emptying Mr. Hawk’s pockets, 58 silver coins came out.

“I’ll consider it as lending 1 gold and taking back 8 silver.”

“Thank you…”

“And there? 3 gold here.”

Whoosh-!

I threw the money bag with a lot of force, putting a lot of emotion into it, but the kid standing in front of me lightly grabbed it and checked the money inside.

“Oh… It’s neat. Mr. Claude, go see him.”

dump!

“Ugh!”

The man who checked the amount of money in the pocket releases Claude.

Claude, who was lying on the floor groaning, squirmed for a moment before finally getting up.

“Hey, since I gave you the settlement money, there are no more problems, right?”

“Yes, that’s right~ What if we let the kids get to this point?”

I clicked my tongue and opened the door in the corner, where I saw two girls shaking and squirting semen from their vaginas.

One of them had a strange odor, like a bloody smell coming from his body. And the other one had something like a tentacle thicker than his forearm growing out of his back and writhing around in a disgusting way.

“No matter how much you like a woman, you do that for 3 days and nights….”

“ Okay, I have a favor to ask. Can you do it for me?”

“What is it?”

“Feed this kid and the old man some black.”

“Black?”

“No trespassing, that’s what I’m saying. I know you did the dirty work there, you know it, we all know it. Don’t just pretend not to know. You sucked enough for 3 gold, so just ban me for 3 years.”

When I spoke frankly, the man’s expression changed strangely and he burst into laughter.

“Hahahaha!! Well, that’s something I can handle within my authority.”

“What…what! Ka…Cain!!”

“Shut up, fuck, or should I cut your dick off?”

“Ugh!”

When I pretend to be very angry and glare at Claude, he lowers his head and avoids eye contact.

If we go our separate ways without Sia, we’ll have a lot of accidents big and small, and then eventually something big will happen.

I can’t stand seeing you making excuses about being weird and having sex with prostitutes.

Claude’s love for the window has already spread among the explorers, so now is the time to start managing your reputation so that you can grow a little more and become a high-level explorer and have other female party members.

Not only is Sia sad, but I guess the NTL protection will still work if he steals a woman, so I was planning to convert Claude into an NTR launcher in the future, but now I have an excuse to keep him from going to Changgwan, and I can save money, which is good.

In addition to public funds, we also need to readjust the distribution of profits. We need to tighten the purse strings and gradually apply pressure to the point where people will bow and say thank you if you buy them a beer every now and then at a ratio of 9 to 1.

The three of us, who escaped from that old warehouse, stopped by the union early in the morning to report our return to the patchwork party, got Mion-ssi notarized and wrote a loan agreement to lend 1 gold to Mr. Hawk, and then returned to our lodgings.

While writing the loan agreement, Ms. Mi-on, who had been smiling strangely, looked at the appearance of Claude and Mr. Hawk and then looked at me with an apologetic expression.

I guess he expected to be criticized, but he couldn’t say anything because of the ban.

It was only natural that Sia, who was shocked to see Claude’s bloodied face upon returning to her lodgings, burst into tears and made a scene while using the healing spell.