Chapter 48 – Beginner Killer
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I woke up feeling a warm sensation in my arms.
Before my eyes was Noah, sound asleep.
Noah was sound asleep, and ‘naked’.
My already stiff morning wood was now fully erect!
I had a strong urge to do some smata play on Noah’s thighs and release one to start the morning refreshed, but I decided to exercise patience.
I looked at Noah’s peacefully sleeping face.
Noah, sleeping comfortably, was incredibly cute.
I took my hand out of the blanket and poked Noah’s cheek.
The soft texture of his cheek felt good.
Let’s poke it a little more.
Poke, poke, poke, poke.
What should I do?
My finger won’t stop.
“Umm… umm…?”
Perhaps because I kept poking his cheek, Noah, who had been sleeping, slowly opened his eyes and woke up.
Before Noah fully opened his eyes, I quickly put my hand back under the blanket.
“Rent…?”
“Good morning, Noah.”
“Huh? Huh!?”
Noah’s eyes widened as he abruptly sat up.
“Wh-where is this!? Ah, it’s my room… Huh!? I’m naked! And Rent too! Huh? Huh??”
It seemed Noah wasn’t quite grasping the situation.
Noah, flustered and confused, was also cute.
“Calm down, Noah. I just moved you here. I didn’t dress you like last time, though.”
“Then why is Rent here too?”
“Because I wanted to sleep while hugging Noah.”
Whoosh.
Noah’s face turned bright red.
Cute.
“O-okay…”
Ah, there was something I needed to tell Noah.
“Oh, right, Noah.”
“What?”
I made a V sign with my index and middle fingers and said to Noah,
“I received the reward for winning the bet.”
“…Huh?”
“You said yesterday that if you got knocked out, I could do whatever I wanted afterward. Knocked-out Noah was very enjoyable.”
“Ah… come to think of it, I did get knocked out. Ugh… even after ranking up, I still can’t beat Rent…”
“Hehehe, you shouldn’t underestimate my stamina, Noah.”
“…Hey, Rent. You did it even after I was knocked out, right?”
“Yeah.”
“W-what did you do?”
I thought it would be better to just mention the key points here and tease Noah a little, rather than going into too much detail.
Mostly because I enjoy seeing Noah’s cute reactions.
“Noah, you have quite a variety of reactions when I touch your tail.”
Noah quickly turned his hands behind his back, covering the base of his tail.
“What did you do!?”
I mimicked Noah’s giggling smile when he was being playful and said,
“Hehehe, it’s a secret, Noah.”
“Really…”
I think Noah, when embarrassed, is cute.
Come to think of it, is Noah okay right now?
“Ah, Noah. Is your leg okay? It’s not wobbly or anything like last time, is it?”
I was worried he might suffer from muscle pain again and be unable to go to the dungeon.
“Ah… it’s fine. I don’t feel any muscle pain or anything like last time. Is it because I ranked up? …Though I still couldn’t beat Rent.”
“That’s a relief.”
That meant it was okay to keep going until Noah passed out again today.
Shiver.
“Huh? I feel a slight chill down my spine?”
Noah rubbed his arm and shivered.
Was he cold because he was naked?
“Really? Then lie down a little longer, Noah.”
I pulled Noah’s shoulder down to make him lie down, then got out of bed.
“…Rent’s thing is still lively even in the morning.”
Noah, who was under the blanket, stared at my proud manhood and said.
“I remember it being very active even when I was awake…”
I leaned my waist forward slightly and grinned.
“I’ll say it again, I’m confident in my stamina. Enough to knock Noah out.”
“Ugh…”
I put on the clothes I had left on the table and said to Noah,
“I’ll go down first and order food.”
I couldn’t let Elsie find out that I was in the same room as a naked Noah if I went down too late.
“Okay. I’ll be down soon too.”
I wanted to kiss Noah or tug his tail a little before leaving his room, but I refrained because I thought my sex drive would immediately switch on from the morning.
It was a huge shame, but I desperately held back!
I opened the door and stepped into the second-floor hallway.
Fortunately, there was no one passing by in the hallway.
Before going down to the first floor, I went into my room.
I told Noah I was going down to the first floor, but my thing was fully erect right now!
I couldn’t go down in this state.
Then there was only one thing to do!
Quickly pull down my pants, grab some tissue, and start a super-fast session!
I closed my eyes and chose a subject for my handjob.
I had enjoyed Noah and Tina in the flesh yesterday, so they were out.
The most vivid and explicit fantasy I could imagine right now…
It was Solishin, who felt so real.
I felt that pulling and tugging during sex with Noah yesterday was very good.
I imagined Solishin in a doggy style position, and in my fantasy, I pulled on Solishin’s arms instead of her tail and went into a storm of piston action!
In my head, I used the sound effects of my skin colliding with Noah’s from yesterday to add more realism to my handjob.
“Ugh!”
Pshoo!
Speed handjob time, about 5 seconds.
It’s not that I’m a premature ejaculator.
This is a skill.
I threw the tissue with my semen into the trash, calmed my thing down with suppression magic, and went back into the hallway and down to the first floor.
On the first floor, Tina was doing her morning cleaning as usual.
“Hi, Tina.”
“Ah, Mr. Rent! Good morning!”
Tina wagged her tail and gave me a bright smile.
Her smile seemed especially bright today.
Was it because she had enjoyed my muscles to her heart’s content yesterday?
“You’re going to have breakfast, right? Please sit over here!”
I sat at the seat Tina guided me to and ordered breakfast.
This time, I ordered not only for myself but also for Elsie and Noah.
And as I was waiting for my meal as usual, Elsie and Noah came down to the first floor.
“Good morning, Elsie, Noah.”
“Yes, Rent, good morning.”
“Rent, good morning~.”
“I ordered for Elsie and Noah in advance. Is the breakfast recommendation okay?”
“Really? Thank you, Rent.”
“I’m fine with it too. I’m actually grateful that you ordered in advance.”
Elsie and Noah also sat at the table with me, and soon the food arrived, and we ate.
There was a moment when Noah sent a sly smile to Tina, and Tina’s expression slightly hardened, which made me sweat, but thankfully, everything went smoothly.
After finishing our meal and going back to our rooms to get ready, we received our lunch boxes from Tina and left the Fox’s Rest and headed to the Adventurer’s Guild.
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“Huh?”
The moment we entered the Adventurer’s Guild.
I could feel that the atmosphere inside the guild was different from usual.
Various adventurers were whispering in a grim or downcast manner throughout the guild.
“Is it true…?”
“Yeah, there’s another victim.”
“I heard the victim this time was a C-rank.”
“What floor was it found on?”
“This time it was the 12th floor.”
“Last time it was on the 8th floor, right? Damn it… we can’t catch his trail.”
“W-what if we’re targeted next?”
“D-don’t say such ominous things!”
“Isn’t the guild doing anything about it?”
“I heard they were preparing to solve the problem last time…”
“Come to think of it, they were giving something out to beginner adventurers today?”
The atmosphere was definitely not normal.
“What’s going on?”
Noah, standing next to me, said with a displeased expression.
“Ah, it happened again…”
“Noah, do you know something?”
“It’s the Beginner Killer.”
“Beginner Killer?”
“Yeah. For the past few months, there have been cases of beginner adventurers being found dead in the dungeon. If they were just corpses, we would think they were killed by monsters…
But the corpses had various arrow marks, knife wounds… and the female adventurers had signs of being violated.
There hasn’t been any activity for the past month… but it seems there’s another victim.”
Beginner Killer.
It seemed to be a cruel criminal who committed crimes against beginner adventurers.
Judging from the surrounding conversations, even a C-rank adventurer was a victim, so it was likely a criminal with considerable skill.
These kinds of hard and dark stories were best left to fantasies, but in reality, things even worse than fantasies sometimes happen.
“That’s scary…”
Elsie gripped her staff tightly and trembled slightly.
The best thing to do in these situations was to reassure her.
“It’s okay, Elsie. If the Beginner Killer appears, I’ll take him out in one shot, just like I do with monsters.”
I made a muscle and smiled as much as possible to reassure Elsie.
“…Yes. I feel safe when Rent is by my side.”
Elsie’s anxiety seemed to have eased a little, and she stopped trembling.
“That’s right, Rent is super strong, so he’ll blow the Beginner Killer away! More importantly, let’s go get a quest!”
Noah, also concerned about Elsie’s anxiety, agreed with me and changed the subject.
We approached the reception desk where Lenny was.
“Hello, Lenny.”
“Hello, Mr. Rent. Hello, Ms. Elsie and Mr. Noah as well.”
“Hello, Lenny.”
“Hello, Lenny.”
Lenny was still wearing her business smile, but she seemed a little less energetic than usual.
Let’s get a quest as usual for now.
“Um, Lenny…”
Just as I was about to speak to Lenny, she said with a slightly serious expression,
“Mr. Rent, Ms. Elsie, Mr. Noah. There’s something I need to tell you today.”
“Something to tell us?”
“Yes. Please take this.”
Lenny placed three bracelets with beads on the counter.
“What are these?”
“These are magical tools that the Adventurer’s Guild has been preparing for the past few months. It has been decided that they will be distributed to all adventurers below C-rank starting today.”
Was this the measure that the adventurers were talking about earlier?
“What kind of magical tools are they?”
“I’ll explain. First, please put these bracelets on your wrists.”
As Lenny said, we put the bracelet-shaped magical tools on our arms.
“Now, please put your fists together and say ‘link’.”
As Lenny said, we put our fists together and said, “Link.”
““Link.””
Then, beams of light shot out from the beads, connecting to each other and forming a triangle.
“Your connection is now complete. Now, I’ll go into a full explanation.
These magical tools are location-tracking devices created by the combined efforts of the Adventurer’s Guild, the Mage’s Guild, and the Blacksmith’s Guild.
These magical tools can track the location of the person you are connected to. Specifically, if you say the name of the person you are connected to while touching the bead, it will indicate the direction they are in.
Mr. Rent, please say Ms. Elsie’s name once.”
I touched the bead and said Elsie’s name.
“Elsie.”
Then, a number 0 appeared on the bead along with an arrow pointing towards Elsie.
“The arrow indicates the direction the person is in, and the number 0 indicates the floor you are currently on.”
“The floor we’re on?”
“These magical tools are also linked to the dungeon’s warp devices. If the person is on the 1st floor of the dungeon, the number 1 will be displayed, and if they are on the 4th floor, the number 4 will be displayed.”
“So, since we’re on the surface now, it shows 0.”
“Yes, that’s correct. …As you might have guessed, the production of these magical tools began the moment the Beginner Killer incidents started. We went through many trials and errors to finally complete them, but to think… the incident happened the day before…”
Lenny’s expression darkened.
It seemed Lenny was also very frustrated by the incident that happened today.
“Lenny…”
Lenny immediately put on her business smile and apologized to us.
“I’m sorry, everyone. I said something unnecessary. Are you going to hunt Kobolds on the 3rd floor again today?”
“Ah, yes.”
“Then, is the same quest as yesterday okay?”
“How about you, Elsie and Noah?”
“I’m fine with it.”
“I’m okay with that too.”
“Then, I’ll write your names on the quest list. Mr. Rent, Ms. Elsie, Mr. Noah… I hope you all stay safe today as well.”
After receiving the quest, we left the Adventurer’s Guild, which was shrouded in a dark atmosphere, and headed towards the dungeon.