## Chapter 108 – Orca. Bad Friend # 1
The academy infirmary wasn’t equipped with the best medical staff and facilities, but it had enough to treat injured students.
Usually, it was a small space used by couples for secret rendezvous or to treat minor injuries from simple colds or sparring.
But now, the inside of the infirmary was filled with the desperate screams of students attacked by monsters, creating a scene of utter chaos.
Adriana, however, wore a serene expression, as if she had nothing to do with the commotion.
With her arms crossed and her back against the wall, she directly questioned Saruk, who was lying on a bed.
“Explain from the beginning.”
Saruk, wrapped in bandages all over his body, swallowed hard and, glancing at Number 25, began to explain everything that had happened in the meantime to Adriana.
He explained that he had heard people screaming, found monsters, and only thought about stopping them before the casualties increased. Adriana’s expression, listening to Saruk’s explanation, was endlessly serious.
Of course, there were false parts. He had tried to embellish the part where Number 25 had directly defeated the monsters, so there were some awkward parts in the story, but all the circumstances pointed to a false truth.
Adriana thought that Saruk was too disoriented due to the injuries he had suffered from the monsters, so his words were disorganized, and she nodded without much suspicion.
“I see… It will take some time to investigate why monsters suddenly appeared inside the academy, but you did well. If it weren’t for your sacrifice, there would have been more damage.”
Adriana turned her body after finishing her words. The sound of her shoes echoed cheerfully in the infirmary, and Adriana left without looking back.
After Adriana disappeared, Number 25, who was sitting next to the sickbed, checked Saruk’s condition again.
He could see the cuts and wounds all over his body. Number 25 lowered his head and bit his lip for a moment.
Saruk spoke first to Number 25, who couldn’t raise his head out of guilt.
“You don’t have to make that face. I’m okay. Ah, even though I look like this, I’m pretty tight-lipped, so don’t worry and go.”
That wasn’t what Number 25 was really worried about.
He was afraid that Saruk’s feelings towards him would change after witnessing his power, and that their friendship would be ruined.
People naturally feel awe and fear towards powers that are beyond their comprehension. Unless they are in a horizontal relationship, can they truly be called friends?
Number 25 didn’t show it much and gave a forced, sad smile. He desperately hoped that his slightly raised lips would look like concern for his injured friend as he said goodbye.
“Okay, see you tomorrow.”
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Number 25, who returned to District 2, didn’t go straight to the tower but headed deep into the forest.
He had one more task to solve.
The movement of Orca that suddenly came to mind when facing the monsters. He had only clumsily reproduced it, but he could easily deflect the monsters’ attacks and land his own.
Saruk might not notice, but one of the academy’s professors might notice Number 25’s attribute, and for that, he had to refrain from using magic as much as possible.
If his body was restricted in using magic, it would be better to train in martial arts, and the person Number 25 knew who was at the peak of using the body was undoubtedly Orca. It would be better to get her help for a smooth academy life, but…
There were more than a few things to worry about.
Orca’s residence, which he arrived at while thinking about various things.
It was a place that was just a shabby tent, hardly even worth calling a residence, but she was definitely here.
Number 25 carefully opened the tent entrance slightly and looked inside, wearing a hollow expression like someone who had seen a deep abyss.
Orca was lying naked, scratching her stomach, and stretching her arms and legs in all directions as she slept.
The way she was sleeping, even snoring, made her look like a primitive beast that only moved according to instinct, not an intelligent person, a demon king who should have dignity.
He was a fool to come to such a woman for advice. His confused mind was barely organized, and he was about to leave.
Orca, who had already woken up, stood behind Number 25 wearing only a thin pair of panties and scratching her messy hair, opening her mouth in a voice that still seemed half-asleep.
“You came? You haven’t shown your face since then, so you still have feelings for me, right?”
Number 25 frowned in disgust at Orca’s mocking appearance.
“Ugh…!”
Orca put her arm around Number 25’s shoulder as he tried to run away.
The heavy weight felt from her thick arm full of scars pressed down on Number 25.
She laughed heartily and then opened her mouth while touching Number 25’s soft cheek.
“Don’t run away like that. You came all the way here, so you have something to say to me, right? Let’s talk slowly inside, there’s still plenty of time.”
Orca said, pointing to the sunlight that occasionally came in even in the dark forest.
It was true that he had returned from the academy earlier than usual because of a series of disturbances. Even if he talked to Orca for a little while, Rowe wouldn’t think it was strange.
And it was definitely true that he needed Orca’s help.
“…Just a little.”
Number 25’s expression, biting his lip tightly as if he was resentful, was similar to that of a tenant farmer’s wife who was inevitably being sold to a nobleman to pay off her husband’s debt.
Orca, who came inside the tent, suddenly lowered her body in a posture as if she was sticking out her butt and rummaged through something among the piles of junk.
She was only wearing a thin pair of panties, so there was no place to put his eyes.
Even when she moved her body, the thin part of her panties was occasionally pushed aside, and her tightly closed pussy, which he didn’t want to see, was clearly revealed.
Not only that, but her breasts were violently dangling every time she rummaged through her luggage, it was a defenseless appearance in many ways.
Number 25 turned his head to the side with a disgusted expression and said to Orca in a coldly cooled voice.
“Hey… shouldn’t you put on some clothes first?”
“What?”
She raised her upper body at Number 25’s words and turned her head, smiling slyly.
“What’s wrong? Did you get a boner? I can let you touch it if you want? Ah, if you don’t like that, how about we masturbate together? I don’t think it’ll be a pretty good experience?”
Orca roughly rubbed her breasts to the point where her fingers were buried and took a pose to appeal to Number 25, rubbing the crack that was slightly revealed between her panties with one hand.
He refused to expose his genitals in front of such a woman and entrust his body to instinct to masturbate. He wouldn’t show her even one naked body part even if she gave him a billion dollars.
When Number 25 turned his head and sighed repeatedly, Orca took her hands off her breasts and genitals as if she was bored and moved her gaze back to the side where the piled luggage was.
What the hell is in between those things that she doesn’t even give him a glance even though a guest has come?
Number 25, unable to contain his curiosity, asked Orca cautiously.
“What are you looking for so much?”
Orca didn’t even answer and held up a bag of jerky as if she had finally found it among the luggage.
She offered a piece of jerky in a brown bag to Number 25 and suggested.
“Still not interested today?”
He already had a trauma about the food she had prepared. Just as he was about to shake his head, Orca opened her mouth again.
“I don’t use drugs anymore. It’s not fun to do it easily, right? And if I force myself on you, Rowe will kill me, right?”
No sooner had she finished speaking than his stomach growled loudly. Perhaps because it was a quiet forest and they were the only two in the tent, the sound even felt louder.
Number 25 blushed as if he was embarrassed and said, receiving the jerky from Orca’s hand.
“Th, then just a little…”
After a little hesitation, he put it in his mouth, and a rich meaty aroma spread instantly. It felt a little hard, but the more he chewed, the more juice came out, right? It became so soft that he even had that illusion.
Orca, who saw Number 25’s expression change, grinned.
“It’s delicious, right? It’s made from wyvern. Ah, in a way, are they your kin?”
It seemed like she brought up the word “kin” to provoke him, but it wasn’t a word that greatly resonated with Number 25, who had never seen his family, let alone his kin.
He chewed the jerky, as if he was going to chew up Orca’s smiling face.
In the meantime, Number 25, who had gotten away from Orca who was subtly approaching him, swallowed the jerky in his mouth and said curtly.
“Why do you keep coming to my side?”
“Why do I come to your side, it’s obvious because I like you, right?”
His head starts to hurt at Orca’s appearance of honestly revealing her feelings.
He can’t tell whether what she’s saying now is true or false.
Number 25 pressed down on his throbbing temples.
“Don’t act familiar.”
Orca frowned slightly as if she was upset.
“Act familiar, aren’t we pretty close if we’re at this level?”
He can say with certainty that he has never become close to Orca. There was nothing more wretched than taking a relationship that was created by her own delusion and blabbing about it as if it were the truth.
Number 25 took the half-eaten jerky out of his mouth and said in a colder voice than before.
“Don’t be mistaken. I haven’t forgiven you yet.”
At Number 25’s words, Orca opened her eyes wide and tilted her head as if she didn’t understand.
“Forgive? Did I do anything wrong to you?”
He thought her actions were only those of a beast, but was her memory also in the realm of a goldfish?
Number 25 still couldn’t forget that day two years ago. Orca’s violent sex, where she gave him drugs, raped him to the point where he felt like his body was breaking, and eventually broke his spirit, still occasionally appeared in his nightmares.
Number 25 clenched his hands tightly and glared at Orca while biting his lip.
“That day two years ago, you tried to kill the Demon King… and my body…”
Orca reached out her hand before Number 25 could finish speaking and blocked his mouth.
Seeing that her usual playful face was gone, it seemed like she had something serious to say.
“Wait, leaving aside the fact that I fucked you, I killed Acer? What kind of nonsense is that? Isn’t that a common fight between close friends? We used to fight and play even more severely than that in the past. Why are you arbitrarily empathizing and misunderstanding our relationship? Didn’t you forget that I’ve known Acer longer than you’ve known Acer?”
A hollow cry flowed from Number 25’s mouth at the unexpected reaction.
“…What?”
“Well, the fight that time was better than usual. It was a little cowardly, but thanks to you, I finally won one victory against Acer, who I had never won against in my entire life.”
Orca, who was immersed in the memories of that day, nodded her head a few times with a satisfied smile.
Her gaze turned back to Number 25’s face.
“And you liked it too, right? The opportunity to do it with a woman like me is rare, right?”
He felt nauseous at her attitude, which showed no remorse at all.
Orca, who had already come to his side, put her arm around his shoulder while speaking in a friendly manner.
“I’m kidding, I’m kidding. I’ll apologize for forcing you that day, so cheer up, okay? I don’t want to be hated by a man I like either.”
If it was a heart that could be relieved with such a light apology, he wouldn’t have suffered until now. When Number 25 kept his mouth shut and fixed his gaze on the floor, Orca scratched her head and sighed.
“Looking at you now, you seem to be more angry about the fact that I made Acer suffer than the fact that I raped you that day, right? Am I right?”
Orca’s words hit the nail on the head.
It was true that being raped was also painful, but that was solely his own wound. It was something that he could somehow endure on his own with the saying that time is the best medicine.
What truly tormented Number 25 was Acer’s appearance, who had suffered unwanted pain because of his weakness. The fact that he had become a burden to her, let alone protect her as her servant, was still weighing heavily on Number 25’s shoulders.
Orca went back to where the luggage was piled up, put on her clothes, and said in a slightly different voice.
“If I want to get along with you properly in the future, I have to untangle this knot first.”
Before Number 25 could say anything, Orca began to rattle on about her and Acer’s past.
