## Chapter 45 – 활로 (A Way Out)
Once the floodgates opened, Seo-hee and I grew close rapidly.
We went everywhere together and worked together.
Except when I went to get my balls drained.
Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack.
“Ugh. Soyoung, I’m gonna cum!”
“Ugh. Hng. Student Woojin, please, outside…”
“I’ll put it directly into your womb like usual! Lift your butt!”
Spurt. Spurt. Spuuuurt.
“Hngh. Ugh. Haaagh.”
“Hoo. Mina-ssi. Could you clean my dick? Please do a thorough job.”
“…….”
Of course, the twins’ power was still strong, so Seo-hee became aloof whenever we were at the settlement, but if I took her outside under the pretense of helping with work, she would treat me kindly again as if nothing had happened.
As we spent more time together, we started having normal everyday conversations.
“But you really live diligently.”
“Me? Did I?”
“You’re moving almost every day without rest.”
…That’s true.
To increase the time I spent with Seo-hee, I kept going outside, and even on days when I didn’t go out, I was busy relieving my sexual desire.
As a result, I was constantly on the move without staying in the settlement.
“I didn’t know you were working so hard to feed people. This isn’t right. Other people should work too.”
“Even Yuri and Yejin?”
“Yes.”
Uh… I didn’t expect Seo-hee to say this.
I was planning to make people work anyway. It’s just that it was temporarily postponed because I was hitting on Seo-hee.
I scratched my cheek and said,
“It’s still a bit early. Everyone looked terrible when they escaped here. They were on the verge of starving to death. They’ve only just recovered their energy. Let’s suffer a little more for now.”
Seo-hee blinked a few times and smiled gently.
“Woojin, you are a truly considerate man. I respect you.”
Anyway, my relationship with Seo-hee had progressed considerably.
We became close enough to not only have everyday conversations but also to badmouth someone together behind their back.
“But shouldn’t you go back and check on your classmates?”
“Forget it. Those guys are trash. A friend they’ve been with for three years disappeared, and instead of going to look for them, they even hindered me when I said I would. They’re not friends.”
Every time I confirmed that we were getting closer, I approached her a little more.
For that purpose, I freely told her my secret.
“If I catch and insert it like this, it gets converted into cash. I use that to buy food.”
“I see. That’s a really amazing ability. But is it okay to tell me something like this?”
“What does it matter? I trust only you, even if I don’t trust anyone else.”
“!!”
As I showed that I trusted her, Seo-hee, who was proud and always put up a wall, slowly began to open her heart.
“Are you worried about something? Why do you look so unhappy?”
“Hoo. It’s about Yuri and Yejin. They said they won’t talk to me until you’re completely healed. I don’t know what to do.”
Now she was even starting to tell me her worries.
Even her innermost thoughts.
But the last wall still remained clearly.
I needed to break down that last wall to get Seo-hee into bed, but there was no sign of it breaking.
Feeling a little frustrated, I asked directly.
“Seo-hee. What do you think of me?”
“I think a honest and capable man like you isn’t bad. I’d like to be close to you as a friend.”
Ah. As a friend.
It seems I’m a very good friend to Seo-hee right now.
“Why are you spacing out? Like a fool. Let’s go back to the settlement and eat, Woojin.”
Maybe her romance cells… no, her feelings for the opposite sex just weren’t developed at all.
Just looking at the fact that the only people she’s been close to are the twins, doesn’t it seem that way?
‘The twins were exactly like that.’
I suffered so much because they wouldn’t even get wet when I touched them.
I ran to Seo-hee, who was jumping up and down on the beach and waving at me.
“But if your boobs are that big, doesn’t it hurt when you jump?”
Her breasts were almost going from her head to her belly button.
“It’s a little uncomfortable because they’re big, but it’s okay. I’m used to it now.”
Seo-hee said, fondling her breasts.
To be sure, the size itself was smaller than Kim Yeonju’s, but they were still quite large and pointy breasts. Should I say they were elastic?
“Woojin. Aren’t you staring too much?”
“Ah, sorry.”
I quickly changed the subject.
“I’ve been wondering, why do you talk like that?”
“Ah. It’s a habit.”
According to Seo-hee, she was adopted and formally learned Korean, but after that, she hung out with her adoptive father, so she became accustomed to the way older people speak.
She thought about changing it, but she liked that it had a sense of gravitas, so she’s just sticking with it.
“Is it too weird?”
“No. It’s unique. I like it.”
“Hoo. You speak so prettily. What else are you curious about me? Ask me if you have any questions.”
“No. I have a lot of questions, but I won’t ask them because I’m afraid you’ll be troubled.”
“Puh-ha. Are you copying my answer now?”
Seo-hee says with a bright smile.
“That’s delightful.”
Then Seo-hee walks next to me.
This is like a childhood friend feeling. Like the answer she gave earlier, she was treating me as just a close friend.
There was absolutely no atmosphere for developing into a romantic relationship.
‘How can I get closer than this?’
Of course, you can suddenly get close while being friends.
For example, by borrowing the power of alcohol.
But there was too high a possibility of unexpected problems popping up.
I couldn’t gamble after coming this far.
‘It was a mistake to get close in a same-sex way instead of getting close as a man and woman in the first place.’
Should I have confessed that day instead of cola? That I like you?
No, no. If I had, I could have ruined the atmosphere like pouring cold water on it.
‘Hoo. Then how on earth can I get her to take off that last layer?’
As I was worrying, something suddenly flashed through my mind.
I grabbed Seo-hee’s hand tightly.
“Seo-hee.”
“?”
“Teach me how to fight.”
***
What was the reason I became close to Seo-hee?
It’s work.
To be a little more precise, it was the moment when one side was teaching and the other was learning.
I was focused on teaching her what yuri was, and when Seo-hee was absorbed in learning it, we were able to get closer to each other.
‘At that moment, we were able to put down the walls we had and approach each other.’
Of course, what I’m aiming for isn’t just getting closer.
I’m already close enough to Seo-hee.
The task left for me is to become a precious existence to Seo-hee.
‘People inevitably pour affection into what becomes theirs.’
Not all pets in the world are cute.
It’s just that my own baby is cute. That’s why I take pictures and brag about them.
A disciple who received my teachings.
A protégé I raised with time and effort.
For a teacher, a top student is like an adopted son. You can’t help but pour affection into them.
It’s like investing in stocks and thinking about them day and night, always keeping your mind on them.
Even if the disciple does something hateful, you can’t kick them out like you can’t pull out your investment in the middle of a loss because you’re afraid of losing money, and you fall into a love-hate relationship.
‘The more effort you put in, the deeper the affection will be.’
That’s exactly what I’m aiming for.
She’s proud and has clear standards, but if we become a teacher-student relationship, I might be able to reach the depths of her heart.
“Teach you how to fight?”
“Yeah.”
Seo-hee stared at me intently. It was a serious expression I hadn’t seen in a while.
After staring at my eyes and face for a long time, she turned her body and moved her feet.
“…I’ll think about it.”
But the answer didn’t come back right away.
The atmosphere was quite subdued, so there was no conversation between us for a while.
‘Did I make a mistake?’
The silence continued until we arrived at the settlement.
Seo-hee was still silent.
Her face brightened up for a very short time when she saw the twins’ faces, but she soon became sullen when the kids ran to me and hugged me, passing her by.
Squeeze, squeeze.
The twins grabbed my left and right index fingers and pulled.
“Okay, okay. Let’s eat and eat strawberries. Seo-hee, let’s go eat.”
Nod.
Now Seo-hee was eating at the same table with us.
Since Seo-hee’s whip was the twins anyway, there was no need for the homeroom teacher and Kim Yeonju to step in.
“Here, this is for Yuri. This is for Yejin.”
The little ones immediately took the strawberries I gave them and put them in their mouths.
Munch, munch.
Their cheeks were so full they looked like squirrels.
Looking at how eagerly they were eating, I felt like it would be really dangerous if I starved them of strawberries for a few more days.
‘I was quite startled this morning.’
When I opened my eyes with a strange feeling, the twins had broken into my sleeping place and were pulling down my pants.
They firmly believed that if they sucked my dick and drained my balls, strawberries would come out as a service.
‘The education is good, but it’s a little dangerous anyway.’
I looked at the twins.
Swish.
The twins, who had finished eating the strawberries, raised their heads and peeked inside my top.
Then, when they saw the bruises, they sighed heavily as if they had lost their strength.
‘The bruises are almost gone, so I can’t stop playing with them now.’
One way or another, I had a reason to finish working on Seo-hee as soon as possible.
“Woojin-ah.”
Hmm. To do that, there needs to be progress quickly.
“Woojin-ah?”
“Ah, yes. Teacher. Did you call me?”
“Shouldn’t we get rid of those things somewhere else? There’s too much piled up.”
The homeroom teacher pointed to the center of the settlement. There was a lot of 2-liter water bottles there.
They had been buying them continuously while clearing daily quests, and there were already over 300 of them piled up.
“It’s getting more and more piled up, so it’s getting in the way and it’s uncomfortable whenever we walk around. We were just going to move it ourselves when you weren’t here, but we thought we should get your permission anyway.”
“I think we should move it too. Let’s move it to a spacious place upstream. Let’s do it right now after we eat.”
As we were about to pick up the water bottles to move them to a point 50 meters away, Seo-hee said.
“Woojin, you asked me to teach you how to fight earlier, right?”
Oh. Is she finally giving me an answer?
“Are you going to teach me?”
“I will teach you. But fighting is ultimately something that requires physical strength. Right now, your physical strength is too low.”
She wasn’t wrong.
It’s been a concern lately.
That’s because my physical strength has decreased because I’ve been having too much sex.
I’m not just saying that, the ‘physical strength stat’ in the status window has actually decreased.
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〈Status Window〉
Name: Jung Woojin
Strength: 10
Agility: 11
Stamina: 11
Physical Resistance: 8%
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Originally, my stamina was 13. But now it had dropped to 11.
It was a moment of realization.
My stamina is dropping on this deserted island? Isn’t this really dangerous?
“When I first saw you, I felt that your stamina was a bit weak, but it’s been especially bad lately. You get tired too quickly, and the rest intervals have become shorter.”
Seo-hee was accurately diagnosing my condition without looking at my status window.
“Right now, your activities are too focused on strengthening your cardiovascular system. You’re not carrying anything heavy because you’re putting it in some kind of subspace, right? That’s probably the reason for the decrease in stamina. You need muscle strength.”
However, she didn’t know the reason why my stamina had dropped.
She couldn’t even dream that I was going to the science side to have threesomes whenever I had the chance.
“Move all of that by yourself.”
“Huh?”
“And don’t go anywhere else until tomorrow and get plenty of rest. From now on, we’ll do work in bursts. Work hard, and then rest well afterwards.”
“…….”
“I’ll go to the classmates’ side to deliver it myself, so you can rest at the starting point.”
She’s really taking care of me sincerely….
No, but even so, she’s telling me to carry 300 2-liter… that is, 2kg bottles of water by myself?
The homeroom teacher protested from the side.
“No way. What if Woojin hurts his back!”
Kim Yeonju also shouted along from the side.
“Not his back! Anything but his back!”
The twins also joined in.
Flailing.
They’re probably afraid that I’ll get hurt again and the period of time they can’t play with me will be extended.
“Anyway, absolutely not!”
Seo-hee showed embarrassment as if she hadn’t expected everyone to strongly object like that.
“I’ll do it.”
But I calmed people down, saying I was okay. The homeroom teacher came up to me and stopped me.
“Woojin, don’t do it. That’s really ridiculous.”
I know it’s ridiculous.
But I have to do it.
Finally, a way to reach the depths of Seo-hee’s heart has opened up.
A moment has come when I can become a special existence to Seo-hee.
‘If I accept this, I’ll become an irreplaceable existence to Seo-hee. I’ll become a precious person.’
Is that all?
A way has opened up to get on top of that short-cutted white horse, pull her hair, ejaculate a lot of cum, and make her pregnant with my child.
Then this much effort is nothing.
I happily took the water bottle that the homeroom teacher was holding.
But at that moment, I heard a sound, *Ting!*
‘Huh?’
I opened the quest window at the familiar sound.
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[Daily Quest 2] Complete one of the given quests.
Choice 1: Catch 10 or more clams
Choice 2: Obtain 600ml or more of drinking water (2,000/600ml)
Choice 3: Make clam soup of grade E or higher
Reward: 2 points + bonus points depending on score
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The daily quest score for Choice 2 had gone up.
‘The score went up even though I didn’t buy new water? Why?’
I couldn’t understand. When I threw it on the floor and picked it up again before, the score didn’t go up.
But why did it go up this time?
Then, something suddenly flashed through my mind.
‘The day I first went to dig up clams.’
When I was trying to familiarize myself with what clams were and deliberately didn’t clear the quest and reset the score.
When I threw it into a burlap sack, it strangely didn’t reset, but when I handed it over to Kim Yeonju, it reset.
‘At that time, I vaguely thought there was some concept of ownership, but is that principle being applied now?’
I couldn’t believe it.
Just handing it over and receiving it is enough to recycle water that has already been used to clear a quest once?
‘Isn’t this a cheat?’
No, what if it’s a cheat? It’s enough for me to go easily.
“We’ll help too, Master!”
“Yeah, Woojin!”
“No. I’ll carry it all by myself.”
I waved my hand, telling the people who were offering to help not to come forward.
Then, I said to Seo-hee, who was sending me an unexpected look.
“Instead, Seo-hee. If I lift that all up by myself, I might really sprain my back. So, would it be okay if someone else lifted it and handed it to me? Physical training is important, but so is condition management.”
“Okay. But you have to carry it by yourself.”
Thus began the work of receiving water from my women and moving it.
My steps were very light.
Is it because I can clear the daily quest without spending money?
Ah, of course, that’s also true. But carrying 2kg in each hand and walking 50 meters is too tiring to be happy about that.
In fact, there was another reason why I was excited.
‘Let’s aim for S grade this time.’
The S-grade reward that I couldn’t confirm in the end because the requirements were too high.
Since there are 300 bottles of water, I was going to check the conditions and rewards this time.
“Woojin, good luck!”
“Master, good luck!”
I started testing little by little while carrying 2 liters of water by myself.
‘I’ve tried up to 9 before, but only A came out.’
This time, let’s start with a generous 14.
I cleared the quest with 14 bottles of water while sweating profusely.
[You have completed ‘Daily Quest 2’.]
[2 points have been awarded.]
[4 additional points have been awarded as an A-grade achievement bonus.]
Again, it was A.
Then the next time, I’ll challenge it with 20.
’20 is also A.’
’24 is also.’
’30 is also….’
Hoo. Hoo.
It’s hard. I’m only carrying 4kg of water, but it’s several times harder because of the island’s heat.
But I didn’t give up and kept challenging.
There’s still a lot of water anyway. I kept carrying it until the desired reward came out.
‘This time, 40.’
And finally, when I carried 40 2-liter water bottles.
[You have completed ‘Daily Quest 2’.]
[2 points have been awarded.]
The change came.
A slightly special and dramatic change.
[As an S-grade achievement bonus, stamina increases by 0.1.]
