## Chapter 98 – No. 25. Uninvited Guest # 3
No. 25 subtly shifted his gaze towards Orca.
She was dressed casually, a stark contrast to the suit she had worn before.
A black crop top that clearly revealed her six-pack abs, enough to make any man envious, with a red jacket thrown over it.
Like the top, she wore short shorts that fully exposed her thighs, with the thin straps of her underwear peeking out.
The sunglasses she always wore were off her head and casually stuck between her breasts.
Looking at her body brought back memories.
Not good ones, of course. He barely suppressed a gag and straightened his posture.
Orca stretched, pressing and extending her body, and asked No. 25,
“Don’t you need a weapon or something? You’re not planning to go bare-handed, are you?”
He had only come out for some air, so he hadn’t brought any weapons.
He had no intention of fighting Orca properly, but he wouldn’t last a moment without at least a basic weapon.
Seeing No. 25 hesitate, Orca sighed briefly and nonchalantly tossed him a spear from who knows where.
“Use this, then.”
The unique, heavy feel of steel, different from the wooden spear he usually used, transmitted through his hand.
It was a bit heavy, but he quickly adapted after swinging it a few times as usual.
Seeing No. 25 handle the spear skillfully, Orca smiled in satisfaction.
“Then let’s start.”
With the signal to start, Orca took a stance.
As if defense was for the dogs, an all-out offensive stance that looked like she would charge forward at any moment.
Her body was leaning forward to the point where her balance seemed precarious.
The moment the mud Orca was standing on splattered in all directions, her figure disappeared from sight.
He couldn’t even react.
All he could feel was the tearing sound of the wind ringing in his ears.
Her body, which grazed No. 25’s cheek, easily crushed a thick tree behind him as if it were soft tofu.
Kugugung – With the sound, the tree, which had been stretching high into the sky, fell to the ground.
Orca slowly raised her upper body and scratched her head with an awkward expression.
“It’s been a while, so it’s not working as well as I thought.”
Cold sweat soaked his body.
If Orca had been in her best condition, it wouldn’t have been the tree that was crushed, but his head. Thinking that, he didn’t even feel like fighting.
The will to fight, once taken away by the fear of death, never returned.
Since then, No. 25 could only manage to avoid Orca’s punches and kicks.
He never even swung the spear he was holding.
With one gesture, the bark of the tree flew off, revealing the flesh beneath, and the ground was dug up.
With two gestures, the ground under the mud cracked, and the tree fell.
And when it came to three, human blood and flesh splattered in all directions.
He desperately moved his body, so he didn’t allow a fatal blow, but his eyes couldn’t help but notice the small wounds all over his body.
And then he realized.
Even though he had become stronger through training, he had actually dodged all of Orca’s serious attacks?
That didn’t make sense.
Only then did No. 25 belatedly realize that he wasn’t dodging Orca’s attacks, but that Orca was deliberately missing.
One exchange, two exchanges… it was embarrassing to even call it that. Orca’s attacks also became simpler as time passed.
The smile gradually disappeared from her face, which was losing interest, and boredom began to fill its place.
“…Getting bored.”
After finishing her words, Orca took a step back and pulled her fist back with an exaggerated motion.
The motion of gathering energy seemed to openly declare, ‘I’m going to attack like this.’
He could clearly see the force entering Orca’s stepping foot.
Muscles twitched, and the power that started in her leg spread throughout her body.
After that fleeting motion ended, Orca’s body shot towards No. 25 like an arrow.
Compared to the flashy preparation, the speed was not much faster than before. If anything, it was slower. It was by no means fast.
Moreover, unlike before, it was an endlessly linear attack, and even No. 25 could react to this much.
‘What is this?’
It was such a simple attack that he couldn’t even imagine it coming from Orca, who had been relying on instinct and launching erratic attacks like a beast.
No. 25 straightened his spear and thrust it forward at Orca as she charged.
Kwajik!
What he heard was not the sound of flesh piercing and blood splattering, but the sound of metal breaking miserably.
No. 25 stared blankly at the broken tip of the spear.
No, what No. 25 was holding could no longer be called a spear.
It was a brief moment, but he clearly saw it.
Orca’s fist, which had shattered the sharp part of the spear, didn’t stop there, but crushed the shaft of the spear, turning it into dust beyond scrap metal.
No. 25, who had lost his weapon, took a step back to regroup, but his body was soon blocked by the trees that densely surrounded him.
His back was blocked, and death was slowly approaching from the front.
Orca’s expression was neither the smile of a victor nor her usual hearty expression, but an endlessly cold one.
His heart was beating fast. He couldn’t breathe, and a stuffy, strange sense of déjà vu washed over him.
Yes, that was the feeling.
The feeling of death that had always lingered around him since he was young.
No. 25 sensed it from the way Orca’s fist twitched once.
‘I’m going to die…!’
His brain screamed.
The muscles in his body convulsed.
The moment Orca’s hand approached him, everything in the world felt slow and clear.
He could see every single strand of the leaves fluttering in the wind in detail.
Was this the last scenery a person sees before death?
Hwoong!
Orca’s fist, scarred and stained, stopped right in front of his eyes, oblivious to No. 25’s thoughts.
The wind pressure created by simply throwing a punch was enough to completely flip No. 25’s hair back.
Unable to withstand the aura of death that had come so close, No. 25’s trembling legs could no longer support him, and he collapsed to the ground.
Orca, who had withdrawn her fist, tilted her head and asked in a frustrated tone.
“No, this isn’t the feeling. Why aren’t you doing it properly?”
Not doing it properly?
No. 25 had moved desperately every moment, every moment.
Rather, it was Orca who wasn’t giving it her all.
As evidence, the flames that flickered around her when she fought Aser were nowhere to be seen.
He thought he had become stronger by catching countless monsters, but he was still a frog in a well.
“You’re the one who’s not doing it properly….”
No. 25 trembled and vented his frustration.
Orca bent her knees, met No. 25’s gaze, and opened her mouth in a calm voice.
“No matter how much I think about it, there’s no reason for you to spare me. I know you hate me. It doesn’t make sense that you would miss such a golden opportunity to kill someone you hate without anyone knowing, right? So, it doesn’t seem like you spared me….”
Orca, lost in thought, clapped her hands and raised her voice even higher with an expression that she had realized something.
“Right…! You still don’t know how to use your power? Yeah, that makes sense. This is a bit of a waste, isn’t it? You have the power to send the Demon King away in one blow, but you can’t even use it properly. There’s no point in fighting like this.”
Orca, who had come to a conclusion with her own questions and answers, got up again and dusted off her clothes.
Frustrating.
Perhaps the first time he had felt this emotion.
The power he had barely gained through strenuous effort to protect others and not be a burden to Aser didn’t even reach Orca’s toes.
At this rate, he would only become a burden again.
No. 25 raised his head and looked up at Orca.
The end of a loser is death. No. 25, who knew that fact better than anyone, asked Orca with a puzzled look.
“More than that, why did you save me?”
“Why save you? I don’t want to die yet.”
“You don’t want to die?”
“If that old hag finds out that you were hurt because of me, it won’t end with just my arms and legs being cut off. No, it would be a cheap price to pay if it ended like that.”
Orca shrugged with a disgusted expression.
Accordingly, Orca’s breasts, which were close to being 폭유, bounced up and down, but he wasn’t so indiscriminate as to get excited by her breasts.
Rather, he roughly wiped the blood from his mouth and said in a sarcastic tone.
“Why? If you like fighting so much, why don’t you go to Lord Low and pick a fight? That’s what you’re good at. You fought the Demon King in such a cowardly way.”
Orca, hearing No. 25’s words, which were close to mockery, spoke in a much more serious tone than expected.
“I wouldn’t do something pointless like picking a fight with someone I can never beat, no matter how hard I try. Can you even fight him in the first place? He can kill people with just a word without having to move.”
“Kill people with just a word?”
No. 25 had witnessed countless times how Low used his power.
Judging from the way he crushed monsters to death or compressed their mountain-like corpses into small chunks of meat the size of a fist, he thought he must have the ability to control gravity.
Orca, who had put on her sunglasses, widened her eyes as if surprised to see No. 25’s thoughtful expression.
“What’s with that face? Don’t tell me you don’t know anything about Low after living with him for two years?”
“Shut up. He doesn’t usually talk about himself.”
If it were the current Low, he would answer anything No. 25 asked, for example, the detailed size of his chest or butt, his erogenous zones, what he wanted him to do or say during sex, etc., all the trivial and secret things, but Low before they had a relationship had never brought up stories about himself first.
But seeing even the ignorant Orca react like this, he was curious.
Orca, reading his expression, preempted the question before it came.
“Low’s real ability is language. What he says is the law and power of the world. If he puts magic into the word ‘die’ to the opponent, they will cut their own throats and die. Would you want to fight someone like that?”
A more heinous ability than he had imagined.
No. 25 had another opportunity to steel his heart so that he would not offend her.
As if she had nothing more to say, Orca grabbed No. 25, who was sitting on the ground, with one hand and dangled him in the air, dusting off his clothes.
He struggled at the attitude of treating him like laundry, but it was useless.
Orca roughly put No. 25 down and turned towards the tent, saying.
“Now go.”
“I was going to go even if you didn’t tell me to.”
Orca, who laughed heartily at No. 25’s still cold attitude, opened her mouth again.
“Oh, come again next time. It’s a bit boring here alone.”
What was she saying? No. 25 immediately spat out the question he was feeling to her.
“Come again next time? Aren’t you going back to District 6?”
“My district runs much better without me anyway, and I’m planning to stay here for a while, so why?”
It was like a bolt from the blue, and he almost lost consciousness. To have to live with the fear of running into Orca every time he passed through the forest was a nightmare.
It must be a joke…. Yes, it couldn’t be otherwise. There was no way Orca, the Demon King of a district, could leave her district so easily.
That’s what he was thinking, but everything she said was possible because she was the unique existence called ‘Orca’.
No. 25 asked back in a trembling voice.
“So… why are you here for a while?”
Orca answered coolly without even thinking about it.
“Would you believe me if I said I came to see you?”
He couldn’t understand her. Orca grabbed No. 25’s cheek, who was hanging his head and despairing, and forced him to meet her gaze.
“Everything’s fine… but I don’t like weak men, so it wouldn’t be a problem to modify you a bit to my taste, right?”
How heinous would he have to be to not be a weak man in Orca’s standards?
It was obvious that he wouldn’t be able to find it among ordinary demons. It would be better to have an ogre living in the forest as a lover.
“Oh, this is a gift.”
He felt like he had been receiving gifts frequently lately….
But Orca had nothing in her hand.
All he could see was Orca’s lewd smile, and as soon as he saw that smile, Orca suddenly stole No. 25’s lips.
No. 25 barely escaped from the kiss, which was close to violence, by kicking her body or pushing her face, etc., doing his best to resist the violence of violently stirring inside and arbitrarily biting his lips.
“Ew!”
After the kiss, No. 25 spat out saliva with the sound of “Tweh tweh” and erased Orca’s traces.
Orca, who patted No. 25’s drooping back hard enough to make a “Pung!” sound, laughed heartily and lifted the bottom of her crop top to reveal her chest, saying.
“I’ll be here every day, so come find me if you’re bored. I’ll do something better than this kiss next time.”
No. 25, who had wiped away all the saliva left in his mouth, finally straightened his disheveled clothes and shouted in a prickly tone.
“I’m going to the academy anyway, so I don’t have time to deal with someone like you?!”
“Academy? Is it already the admission period? No, the spring entrance ceremony must have already ended…? Well, if Low puts you in directly, it’s not impossible.”
Orca, instead of saying goodbye to No. 25’s departing back, just kept rambling on unnecessarily.
“You’re not going to use the dormitory anyway, right? There’s nothing to do here but have boring sex with women, and I’ll make you a little stronger, so come visit me from time to time. Honestly, is that such a bad condition? The opportunity to be trained directly by a sexy and strong Demon King like me doesn’t come often, you know?”
No. 25 didn’t say a word to Orca’s gradually diminishing words and headed to the tower where Low was waiting.
After walking for a while and arriving at the entrance of the tower, he saw Low outside first.
“Lord Low? Why are you out here?”
Low, who approached No. 25 with a worried expression, hugged him without saying a word.
That one gesture was enough to dispel the fear that Orca had planted.
No. 25 didn’t panic and put his hands around Low’s waist, entrusting himself to her for a moment.
“You’re a little late. I was just about to go look for you….”
No. 25 answered with his face still buried in her arms.
“I’m sorry. I got lost in the forest… The… the wound was from being scratched by a tree.”
Perhaps because he was worried about what Orca had said last, he didn’t bother to talk about her.
Low didn’t even think that No. 25 was lying to her, so she nodded innocently.
“Okay, be careful next time.”
Only after being comforted by Low for a long time did No. 25 finally lift his face, and what he saw was Low’s benevolent smile.
She gently stroked No. 25’s hair, which had been disheveled during the fight, and delivered good news.
“While you were gone, I got a call from District 1. They said they would send all the small items you’ll need in the academy tomorrow, so you can go the day after tomorrow.”
