Chapter 296: Demonic beast appearance

Wednesday of the 4th week of Lustbound began with delicious kimchi stew.

I arrived at the meeting place on time for the morning taboo investigation. The plan was to gather with the squad members first and then move to the operation point Liliana had designated.

"Heungheung~. Heung~."

That was the sound of Mira humming.

Even after I left the house, the goddess kept flying around me annoyingly, asking, "Which pussy are you going to have Soul Excretion sex with today?"

Just like Serena hadn’t been able to see Mira the first time, it was a pity that the goddess remained invisible to everyone else.

"Ah! How about that mob heroine? If Ren-nim hits on her, I think she’ll have sex right away! She’s even a virgin!"

"What’s the bargain? A virgin?"

"Ah! How about that F-cup girl’s pussy? She’ll lick Ren’s cock deliciously!"

"..."

Every time she spotted a pretty girl among the passersby, she let out an "Ah!" and poured out perverted suggestions.

"Is that good?"

"Please do it over and over again and enjoy it. Please inspire me. Right now I’m excited because I feel like Ren and I are finally in sync."

"I’m starting to slightly regret matching that wavelength."

No way. I had thought a pretty goddess following me around would be a good thing.

Had she come straight out of a kinky-sex association?

"The perverted Lustbound Ren form is crazy!"

I snatched the flying Mira out of the air and stroked her hair.

"Yes!"

"I have to work today."

"Yesterday in the dungeon you ate the female students like a dog."

"Am I going to be like that every day?"

Today, could I finally enforce some Goddess Discipline?

"If you keep messing around, your personality will be confiscated."

"..."

Mira shook her head vigorously.

"I’ll be good!"

With a small bang the blonde goddess disappeared.

It seemed the synchronization wave was working; she was actually starting to listen.

It was still annoying, but also cute.

If I hadn’t liked her in the first place, I wouldn’t have kept talking to her like this.

"Ah, Ren! Over here!"

"Yuna."

Yuna was waiting for me in full hunter clothes.

She wore a harness — the kind used to secure yourself to a rope — over shorts and a T-shirt that were easy to move in. The way the straps crossed her body made it look like she was tied up, which was strangely erotic.

"I came out as a hunter today, not a student."

"It suits you."

Elle was also wearing shorts today.

Even her plump, strong thighs looked soft and inviting.

And her breasts? No matter what Elle wore, the contours of those heavy breasts always showed through.

Still that narrow waist.

"Hello, Elle."

"Yes, Ren."

I stretched out an arm and gently kneaded Elle’s cute belly.

My confident voice and their pretty faces — these were my cute girlfriends.

They were also regular members of the Fleshlight Squad.

"All of the Fleshlight Squad have gathered."

"It’s new, but are we really going with that name?"

"What else would we call ourselves?"

Elle raised her arm high and shouted in my place.

"Make a cute Fleshlight!"

"Yes!"

In this kind of situation the response was always good.

Yuna, who still had normal sensitivity, didn’t understand at all.

"You’ve got a completely perverse sensibility now, Elle. You idiot."

"Elle originally loved Fleshlights."

A red-haired head poked out of the Fleshlight inventory.

It was Nami.

"Have you been talking about me?"

"It’s about Fleshlights, not about you."

"I’m the older sister of the Fleshlights."

"Nami. You can’t go outside without staying invisible. That’s a public indecency crime!"

After being warned by Yuna, Nami quickly retreated back into the inventory.

Today, as usual, there would probably be a chance to call Nami out and let her play an active role.

"Did everyone eat well?"

"Huh!!"

Yuna replied with a bright smile.

"Marathon!"

"Marathon first thing in the morning...?"

"Tteokbokki is the best, and malatang is divine!"

Was this the average taste of an academy girl?

"Elle?"

"Uh, huh? Me? Salad... some pasta..."

"Looking at your usual diet, it seems like you two have completely different body types."

Why was Yuna still so skinny?

"I do a lot of activity. I have to pour in carbs just to maintain my weight."

"Today is truly going to be an ’activity,’ though."

"Isn’t it a taboo investigation?"

I nodded.

I took out my cell phone and contacted Liliana thirty minutes before the appointment time.

"Liliana. Where are you?"

It was a bit noisy on the other end. There seemed to be a lot of people around her.

"We’ve already entered. You guys are the support team. Go to the location I sent."

It was Liliana’s voice.

"You’re recognizing today’s attendance, right?"

"Of course. It’s a mission entrusted to you by the country. Do it diligently, but don’t overdo it."

"Great."

I opened the Hero app and started moving with the two of them.

It was an ordinary alley, but there were no people.

Yuna looked at the row of shuttered shops and said,

"Everyone evacuated."

"Is it serious enough to evacuate?"

"If people can already see the mist, that says everything. They would have sent an emergency disaster message."

She meant the thin fog the news had mentioned.

"It’s a harbinger of vicious gravitational waves. In Korea it’s been almost five years since the last one."

"Is it rare? Or frequent?"

"Compared to other countries it’s rare. But it seems difficult to say our country is safe now. Just like ten years ago."

I still didn’t fully understand why the mist was so dangerous.

Inside the alley there was a clear reason people had evacuated. Half-destroyed buildings lined the street.

’What?’

Only this area was horribly broken.

At this level of destruction it should have affected the surrounding streets as well, but the damage was limited to an area about the size of a playground.

There were already hunters present.

’I don’t see any academy uniforms.’

I hadn’t worn mine today either.

I wasn’t the only one who had come out in a simple coat, but these people looked unusual.

"I see some familiar faces."

"It looks like a place where hunters and heroes are collaborating."

To be honest I couldn’t tell just by looking.

They looked at us with interest as well.

"It’s the Fleshlight Man."

"Fleshlight Man..."

"The one who uses Soul Excretion?"

Sure enough, my vulgar hero name was being mentioned.

A little embarrassing, but bearable.

It seemed the pervert inside me had become quite hardened — to the point where I wouldn’t even flinch when people called me "Fleshlight Man" on the street in broad daylight and gossiped about it.

"Does everyone know?"

Yuna poked my side and laughed happily.

...I suddenly wanted to princess-carry her and run straight to a wedding hall.

Knowing that Yuna would blush just from hearing those thoughts made me feel even happier.

"Why are you smirking? It’s a handsome face, though."

"..."

Elle hid behind me and refused to come out.

I stroked her trembling back, trying to calm the overcrowding anxiety.

When were we moving? What started from here?

"I’m a Fleshlight Man fan!"

"Please sign this!"

Suddenly a fan-signing event started.

I had neither paper nor a pen.

"Write with this."

Yuna rummaged through her inventory and pulled out a signature pen.

"Why do you have something like this?"

"Is it strange that a student carries a writing instrument?"

"..."

"I was going to use it when I become a master hunter who can give autographs someday!"

I received requests from fans and signed T-shirts. Even though it was only a plausible scrawl of my name, people seemed happy.

Hmm, that felt surprisingly normal.

Did I have to think of something cooler?

Pretty female hunters also started gathering.

"Please fill me up!"

"Fleshlight punch, please feed me!"

"Idiot. It’s a Soul Excretion punch. Didn’t you read the Fleshlight Man settings?"

Fleshlight Man settings?

I had never made anything like that.

"Because I joined the fan café!"

"I have a fan café?"

They laughed at my words and gathered among themselves.

Anyway...

"Soul Excretion, please!"

"This is Soul Excretion!"

These days I often pressed iron plates against my girlfriends’ and mother’s pussies while shouting "Soul Excretion!"

I couldn’t help feeling ashamed when a woman I didn’t even know asked me to do it in broad daylight.

Yuna and Elle watched and giggled.

As for Elle...

"Soul Excretion smash!"

Even if the worst perverted hero in Seoul only brought his fist to the womb of an unknown woman as a stomachache service, people still gathered around me without moving away.

"Aren’t they still kids? Can they come out and earn money?"

"What kind of hero gets attention on Twitter or YouTube?"

"There are a lot of kids like that. They’re all one-season wonders."

Then I heard some bad words.

"...Stay there. I’ll go and punish them."

What was she planning to do? I grabbed Yuna’s arm.

Yuna looked back at me with a sigh.

"He said bad things about you! That makes me angry."

While I comforted Yuna, I took out my smartphone again.

[Hero Alert!]

[Anomalous gravitational waves occurring in area A-3]

[A-Rank Mission]

[Quick removal of the demonic beast]

As if everyone received the emergency disaster message at the same time, the sound of smartphone notifications started all around me.

"Anomalous gravitational waves?"

"Here it is!"

Soon a shimmer of distorted space appeared right in the middle of the place where hunters and heroes had gathered.

The "Magic Beast" that emerged was a naked, alien-like witch beast with long arms and pure white skin.

Its face was so ugly it didn’t look human at all.

About five meters tall...

A giant?

"Perception/Red"

[Galaxy Miner]

[A+ Grade Beast]

One of the members of the universe. [They look like drifting invaders, but they are actually miners harvesting resources.]

’...A+ grade.’

It had broken through the gravitational waves?

"Masuda!"

Everyone had come here to fight, but no one was in a hurry to step forward. The identity of the opponent was completely unknown, and no one knew what would happen the moment they touched it.

It was exactly like discovering a time bomb in the middle of the city. The appearance of the witch beast made everyone freeze with anxiety.

We took out our weapons first without waiting for anyone to give the order.

Elle prepared her wooden-wall staff that enhanced her magical power, while Yuna drew the Ebony Blade and Yukihime into her hands.

I holstered the Python and Glock and pulled out the Benelli.

This was the best choice for monster hunting.

’Is that thing humanoid and does it have a personality?’

From the outside it didn’t look that strong except for its size.

"Should we touch it first? How high is the rank? I can see it, Ren."

"It’s A+ rank."

"Hehe."

Elle and Yuna were both very nervous.

"What are you all doing? Didn’t you see the order? Get rid of it quickly!"

At that moment a bold and courageous woman stretched out her hand before anyone else toward the thing I had compared to a ticking time bomb.

I noticed her the instant I saw the red hair.

"Hilaria?!"

Yuna’s eyes went wide with surprise.

Hilaria appeared, dressed lightly, brandishing a sword right in the middle of the destroyed street, and chopped at the alien’s head.

"Haaa!!"

"Hey, you know what’s going to happen and you still touch it first?! Let’s read the situation!"

"Oh, it’s Hilaria. Hilaria from Veyron Academy!"

At first glance it seemed Hilaria’s attack had gone well.

But telekinesis... or something like it.

An invisible, intangible shield blocked Hilaria’s strike.

"Where do you think you’re going!!"

After landing, Hilaria rotated her body and cut again!

The alien couldn’t fully block it and staggered for a moment after being struck by her sword.

Koo Goo Goo!

Rubble from the buildings rose into the air and dust filled the street.

Hilaria looked invincible.

The fact that Hilaria was here meant...

"Keep an eye on the distortion rate, Hilaria."

A black-haired first-year girl with glasses.

I had seen her before — the one who had bowed her head and asked to stay at the lodging when I was the most powerful person in that Gapjil village.

They were in the same squad!

"That’s right. The distortion rate is pretty high."

"I’ll watch the reaction."

"Ah. Husband! Is your husband here too?"

’Did the two of them receive the request as well?’

Well, it would have been strange if their names hadn’t appeared in this game.

"Look ahead, not at me! Hilaria!"

"Okay. Let’s say hello later!"

Hilaria jumped again.

Cybele exclaimed in surprise.

"Hilaria! I thought you were going to observe the reaction first!"

"This is faster!"

"Ugh, really...!"

The alien creature rose, shaking off building debris.

Its elongated arm aimed at Hilaria, but she brushed it aside and swung her sword again.

She was doing great, but she was barely getting through its defenses.

"Let’s go. Dive anxiety... of course we won’t have any!"

We also ran forward and broke into the fight.