Chapter 82: The Sea god’s dungeon ii

For the ones that kept coming, we mixed in martial arts so Elle could keep casting safely.

"Ren!"

"I’m fine. Focus on your magic!"

[Enemy movements discerned through martial arts]

[Your level has risen.]

[Martial arts level has increased.]

Who knew higher-rank monsters were so generous with exp?

I slipped past a spear thrust and smashed my fist into the scaly monster’s head.

"Soul Excretion Smash!"

All the scattered jelly immediately turned into Fleshlights.

The martial arts the student council president forced into me were proving extremely useful.

My style of mixing guns and close combat was becoming clearer with every fight.

Elle’s magical support felt great too.

The moment my eyes met Nami’s, we switched seamlessly into Fleshlight Doppelgänger Martial Art.

"Master!"

"Confirmed!"

Nami kicked a Herringfolk and followed up with a punch.

"Kugeek!?"

When it staggered back to counter, Nami’s attack exploded from behind again.

Then she launched herself at the off-balance Herringfolk.

"Soul Excretion Dropkick!!"

*BOOM!!*

There was no way a regular Herringfolk could withstand the same dropkick that had once made Regina tremble.

The Fleshlight Doppelgänger Martial Art executed perfectly.

When I finally caught my breath, dozens of Herringfolk lay sprawled around us.

I had collected a huge number of handmade Fleshlights.

[Merfolk Fleshlight]

A merfolk Fleshlight with a glistening, scale-covered exterior. The interior ridges are highly developed and provide excellent stimulation.

[Tightness: C+ | Durability: C+ | Warmth: D | Sensitivity: D]

[Soul remains intact (100%)]

[Merfolk Fleshlight (Masterpiece)]

A merfolk Fleshlight with a glistening, scale-covered exterior. [Ridge stimulation has become even more remarkable.]

[Tightness / Durability / Warmth / Sensitivity: D]

[You have collected the Merfolk Fleshlight!]

[Collection Bonus]

[Strength +3]

[Agility +2]

[Stamina +2]

[You have collected the Merfolk Fleshlight (Masterpiece)!]

[Strength +4]

[Agility +4]

[Stamina +4]

Yes! Finally!

My level jumped by five, raising my core stats.

I also received collection bonuses and additional growth in martial arts, Fleshlight Doppelgänger Martial Art, and firearms proficiency.

Definitely a high-ranking dungeon. The gains were excellent.

"Phew!"

Aria returned looking a little sweaty.

"Aria, good work."

"Did you two manage to hold them?"

"The invisible Fleshlight helped a lot."

Nami, still only visible to me, made another cheerful V-sign.

"Should we take a commemorative photo with Nami?"

I released the concealment. Nami immediately pointed toward the beach.

"It’s not over yet."

The sun was setting. Where she pointed, another gravitational wave was forming.

[You have passed the Sea God’s Test.]

[Accept the Sea God’s invitation to venture deeper.]

An anomaly had appeared.

If everything so far had been C+ level,

whatever waited beyond that gate would be B+.

It was a dangerous challenge.

But with Nami here and everyone still in good condition, it was worth attempting.

"What do you want to do, Ren?"

Aria asked for my opinion.

"Let’s go. I still haven’t met the Demon Merchant."

"Ah. So we’re selling all the Fleshlights?"

"Of course. That’s my main income."

Nami flinched and grabbed my arm.

"Nami?"

"...What are you talking about? Master, are you selling me?"

Aria and Elle both laughed.

I felt a little mischievous.

"Didn’t you know? Being a Fleshlight Collector means creating them and selling them."

"So you brought me here to..."

"The goblin gentleman really loved the last batch. What happens after they’re sold isn’t my problem. Sorry."

"Nami, I had no idea. It’s currently Ren’s Fleshlight sales period."

Nami’s face went pale and she clung to me tightly.

"Hueeeeng!"

"Uh, whoa."

"Please don’t sell me! I’m so sorry!! I apologize for being cheeky to your girlfriends!"

"I’m sorry, but could you become my coins instead?"

"Should I go completely naked? Huh? I’ll work even harder at pleasing your cock! Please reconsider!"

Ah, I couldn’t take it anymore.

Feeling genuine pity for the way she was clinging, I hugged her tightly and comforted her.

"It was a joke."

"Ueeng... Being sent to the Correction Headquarters is better than being sold to a demon merchant!!"

"Why would I sell you? I’m never selling you."

"Even for ten thousand coins?"

No. Even if I were going to sell her, it wouldn’t be for that cheap.

"Is that the limit of your imagination?"

"A hundred thousand coins! Even if someone offered a hundred thousand, you wouldn’t sell me, right? You’d keep me by your side so I can keep servicing your cock, right?"

"I wouldn’t sell you for even a million coins."

I gave her butt a light pat.

"Nami, do you really think Ren would do something like that? What if you’re just being tricked?"

"Villain unnie... so naïve..."

"I thought... I thought Ren might actually do it..."

"Really? Ren seems like someone who got pushed into a harem against his will. He could never do something that cruel."

"But there was a time when Ren turned me into a Fleshlight and pushed his cock deep inside me."

I covered Nami’s mouth immediately.

There were way too many things she shouldn’t say today!

"Mmph!!"

"It was an accident, right, Nami?"

"...Huh? Turned into a Fleshlight and pushed deep inside? What are you talking about?"

Aria tilted her head in pure confusion.

In reality Nami had basically said everything.

The only reason Aria didn’t immediately understand was her innocence.

Even though I had shown them how to make Fleshlights from magic jelly dozens of times,

Aria and Elle had never once considered that my power could be used on them. They acted as if the terrifying possibilities simply didn’t exist in their minds.

Their purity probably came from an unconscious belief that "Ren would never do something like that." Maybe they had never even imagined jelly being applied to their own bodies. Because of that, any follow-up scenarios like lewd acts with a Fleshlight felt completely "impossible" to Aria.

Liliana, on the other hand, had been extremely cautious of my soul-manipulation ability from the start. As a heroine of justice she had thoroughly evaluated the potential for abuse.

In short, the deeper someone understood the mechanism of "soul manipulation," the more their mind became tainted.

In other words,

I didn’t want to explain the details of this part, even if it meant protecting the heroines’ feelings. I also didn’t want to fully accept that I could turn a girl’s soul into something that existed only for a cock.

The more I understood the dark, vulgar intentions of Mira, the goddess of *Lustbound*, the deeper that comprehension sank in.

I realized the vulgarity of Lustbound was far from ordinary.

’I should be the only one who knows that.’

So please package it nicely, Nami. Beautifully. Understood?

I trust you. Our Fleshlight!

Only we need to know about that dark side of the world.

"That is... um... it’s like a part of Master’s body has been etched into my soul," she explained carefully.

"That sounds kind of romantic."

Aria laughed innocently and looked at me.

"I’m envious. Darling, could you engrave something like that onto my soul too?"

Yikes!

She wants me to do *that*. The Fleshlight Apocalypse is getting closer!!

Absolutely not!

Protect my heroines. Protect my girlfriends!

"For now, just be satisfied with a kiss."

"Mmm~~."

Aria puckered her lips.

I kissed her immediately.

Elle slipped in beside us, joining the hug and sharing the kiss as well.

"I feel like this kiss has been etched into me."

"..."

I couldn’t hold back anymore.

I kissed Aria even more passionately. We sucked on each other’s lips, tongues intertwining, saliva mixing freely.

Aria grinned and enjoyed every second of it.

"Ha... whoo... If you keep feeding me like this I’ll be full before lunch. Doing such a perverted kiss with your girlfriend..."

"You’re the one who started calling me ’darling’ first."

"Um... you noticed that...?"

My cock was throbbing hard. It was becoming a real problem.

It might not be a joke that I would need Nami to take care of my urges while still at the academy.

"Shall we go now?"

*Chew.*

She gave me one last sweet taste.

It would be a disaster if the additional dungeon closed while we were taking our time like this.

We stepped into the anomalous version of Star Coral Beach.

The B+ rank dungeon welcomed us.

The interior of the dungeon looked like a giant aquarium. Even though the map was set beneath the sea, there was none of the dark, oppressive feeling of the real ocean depths. Sunlight filtered through everything in soft, radiant beams.

Invisible cave-like walls limited how far we could move. Between them, corals glowed like stars, hanging like the stalactites you find inside real caverns. The sight was genuinely beautiful. The sea goddess had to be female.

The entire atmosphere,the lighting, the arrangement of everything was completely different from the dungeon Cleo and I had cleared before.

"...It’s so beautiful," Elle and Aria murmured, eyes wandering in open admiration.

"I’ve never seen a dungeon this stunning."

I, on the other hand, felt uneasy. Even if the place looked like a perfect date spot, it was still a B+ rank. There was no telling what might suddenly appear.

’Nami, you’re the reliable one in situations like this.’

There was a time, back in a residential area, when I had assumed she was just a pitiful villain caught in my strange martial arts. But the calm, steady way she had conducted herself since then made it easy to imagine what she must have been like as an academy student.

"There’s a monster ahead, Master."

Aria looked a little tense as she stared at the creature covered in green scales.

"That’s a Greenfish. Be careful, it fights a lot better than the Bluefish."

Greenfish?

Named that way because of the green scales?

It certainly charged us more aggressively than the blue ones had.

"Duck your heads! Covering your ears might help too!"

I immediately drew the Glock.

"Nooo!!! The gun won’t pierce those scales. Let me handle it!"

Just as Aria predicted, the bullets bounced harmlessly off the thick green armor.