Conquest Complete, So Why Is the Affection Dropping? - Chapter 48
The raw sensation that flowed through my skin was incomparable to when I had been caressing him through his clothes.
The flesh that clung tightly to my palm writhed and throbbed as if it had a will of its own. Unlike its obedient owner, this part seemed to have quite a strong personality.
“Does it feel good when I stroke you like this?”
“Haa, Shin Joo……”
“Answer me, Kaint. Does it feel good?”
“……Yes……”
I almost laughed seeing how he’d grit his teeth in shame one moment, then honestly nod his head the next. At this point, I felt foolish for trying to seriously fight with this man.
I put my lips close to Kaint’s ear and whispered softly.
“It would feel even better inside me.”
“……Kugh!”
His member swelled greatly in my hand, and something suddenly spurted onto my chin. A strong scent of chestnut blossoms wafted through the air. Kaint had cl*maxed.
‘I knew he got excited easily, but I didn’t expect him to finish so anticlimactically.’
Well, he is a virgin after all. I wiped the fluid off my chin with the back of my hand and leaned back to sit on the desk.
This time I could comfortably face Kaint without getting poked by pens, having seated myself properly.
Still gripping the armrests with veins bulging on the backs of his hands, Kaint was breathing heavily with thoroughly dazed eyes.
His upper body was still impeccably wrapped in his white uniform, but the heaving chest muscles threatened to pop the buttons at any moment.
‘And below……’
Despite having cl*maxed once, his red member showed no signs of subsiding, standing stiffly at attention while dripping whitish fluid.
Seeing him, usually so neat and proper, with his trousers’ front stained so messily gave me a strange sense of perversion.
“Admiral.”
“……”
“Kaint.”
“……Shin Joo……”
He looked at me with a somewhat dreamy expression. Seems he hadn’t yet emerged from his first taste of ecstasy.
Just as I was debating whether to help clean him up or perhaps do it properly one more time, I heard the sound of crashing waves from somewhere.
The moment I realized what that sound meant, a translucent blue-green window appeared between Kaint and me.
[Kaint]’s current affection: 99 (MAX)
To release the limit, the special event [Wedding] must occur.
Ah, right.
I hadn’t come here intending to pursue Kaint. I came to fight the system standing behind him.
Once the reason to fight disappeared, I got carried away by waves of desire and came too far.
Event condition achieved!
Would you like to proceed with the special event [Wedding]?
Yes / No
‘What should I do about this?’
To remove the penalty, I needed to release the limit, but after coming here furious about Chloe’s request to marry him, it felt wrong to just click ‘Yes’ so readily.
Well, Kaint might not know, but after getting so angry at the system, it would hurt my pride to just proceed smoothly now, pretending to forget all past grievances.
‘Let’s postpone it for now.’
I tried to click ‘No’ to close the window. But suddenly, I felt dizzy and my vision started spinning.
‘Huh?’
I haven’t clicked anything yet, so why is my vision going dark?
The question didn’t last long. My consciousness was quickly swallowed by darkness.
***
It felt like finally reaching shore after struggling in deep water.
Kaint blinked while steadying his rough breathing. As tears clinging to his eyelashes fell, his blurry vision gradually became clearer.
He could see Shin Joo sitting in front of him.
He was in an embarrassing state with his trousers undone, while Shin Joo’s clothing remained completely unruffled.
Kaint in the chair, Shin Joo on the desk.
Despite Kaint’s large build meaning their eye levels weren’t that different, somehow he felt as if a supreme being was looking down at him from far away.
She who had been breathing together with him in his arms while giving him pleasure suddenly felt incredibly distant.
Kaint moved his stiffened hands to quickly fix his appearance. The overwhelming shame that had nearly driven him mad subsided surprisingly quickly once his clothes were properly arranged.
“Shin Joo.”
Kaint called out, but Shin Joo didn’t respond.
She who had been shining as vividly as the sole sun illuminating darkness now strangely felt like a doll made of inorganic materials.
Just like the others.
‘No, that can’t be.’
Shin Joo is different. She alone was different.
Isn’t she the only being that shines in this empty world? Kaint shook his head and stood up.
Being tall, he could look down at Shin Joo when standing, but strangely, even though his head was pointing down, his neck hurt as if he were looking up.
Kaint spoke slowly, not showing his discomfort.
“Shin Joo, I want to be with you.”
“……”
“Please stay with me from now on.”
Perhaps these weren’t appropriate words for this situation. After all, fixing his appearance couldn’t erase the shameful display he had just shown her.
But he wanted to say it. It felt like if he didn’t say it now, he would never be able to hold onto her.
“Shin Joo……”
“What are you saying, you mere piece of data.”
The cold words pierced his chest like a dagger.
“Shin Joo?”
“Stay together? Are you telling me to live in a game, abandoning reality?”
She was supposedly responding to Kaint’s confession. However, Shin Joo wasn’t looking at Kaint. Strangely, despite her sharp voice, her face was completely expressionless.
“This isn’t funny. Know your place.”
“Shin Joo. I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
“Do you know what they call people who abandon reality and lose themselves in virtual worlds, addicted to games?”
This wasn’t a dialogue.
Though Shin Joo’s responses were clearly answering Kaint’s words, she was speaking in a way that would be impossible if she considered him a ‘conversation partner’.
Just like someone talking to themselves while reading a signboard.
Indifferently, and cruelly.
“Mentally ill. Or hikikomori.”
“……”
The sharp words from her mouth floated around like shards of broken glass.
No, they weren’t glass shards. He had mistaken them for glass because of the small glints of light.
Semi-transparent green numbers.
They varied in size, but oddly, they were only composed of 1s and 0s.
1 and 0.
Put together they make 10, Shin Joo’s favorite number.
“Even digital storage devices often don’t last 10 years, so why make someone terminally ill? I don’t understand getting excited over such nonsense.”
“……”
Kaint couldn’t say anything.
Though Shin Joo’s words were difficult to comprehend, they weren’t incomprehensible. But once he understood her words, he found himself unable to respond at all.
A world heading toward destruction.
He himself, belonging to that world, would ultimately cease to exist without Shin Joo, the savior.
That’s why he needed Shin Joo.
Then, Shin Joo saves this doomed world.
The ‘god’ of this world, where did she come from?
“Shin Joo. You……”
“What’s with these endless bugs? This is why I didn’t want to bring anything Joo-ah made.”
Shin Joo muttered incomprehensible words with an expressionless face. At the same time, pitch-black darkness descended above her head, and unfamiliar letters appeared in succession.
Save data error detected.
Would you like to proceed with the patch?
“Proceed!”
As Shin Joo gave her firm answer, her head dropped down.
***
It seems seeing a handsome man when waking up from fainting has become this game’s golden rule.
Even in my half-conscious state, I’m not sure if I should be happy about seeing a handsome face in front of me, or if I should mourn for my heart that’s throbbing from receiving a handsome man attack without preparation.
“Kaint……”
“It’s been a while, Shin Joo.”
Has it been a while?
I tried to recall what I was doing before I fainted.
I was already annoyed that Kaint’s route was locked and I couldn’t meet Hexion, and then I got hit with a penalty that prevented me from going out. When I was about to be forced into marriage, I stormed into Kaint’s office in anger to have it out with him.
I was prepared to even cancel the conquest route and have a big fight, but surprisingly Kaint yielded easily. So I lost my fighting spirit and was stunned.
After that, things escalated quickly with something like harassment disguised as an accident that would only appear in adult eroge games.
“How long was I out?”
“You were unconscious for about 3 hours.”
When he said it had been a while, I thought I’d been out for days. Why say it’s been a while when it’s only been 3 hours, which isn’t even that long?
