Raising A Hero – Chapter 40

Ch 40: Back Alley

“How was it?”

Kidd, cutting off all the preamble, asked the captain, who was slurping his soup, directly. Ji-hyuk raised his eyes and glanced at him for a moment.

Of course, he knew what that bald guy meant. But for now, he pretended not to know.

“What?”

“Oh, you know.”

Kidd clicked his tongue. Ji-hyuk’s eyes narrowed slightly.

“Don’t make me the bad guy.”

“Oh, who said you’re the bad guy? I’m just curious about how it was.”

“There were unavoidable circumstances.”

“No, not that. The feeling, the feeling.”

Kidd tapped the table lightly with his palm, as if frustrated. Ji-hyuk finally told his impressions of last night, as the bald man wished.

“It was good. Okay?”

“Shi-bal, I’m jealous.”

The bald guy laughed slyly. His eyes showed that he knew this would happen. It’s strange that a man and a woman share a room and no fire is lit.

Ji-hyuk now completely ignored the guy. After all, it’s not the first or second day that mercenaries say nasty things.

The lizardman, Kayak, who had been listening quietly, asked about the future schedule.

“What are you going to do now, Captain?”

Ji-hyuk tapped the iron bowl lightly with the spoon he was holding. He was lost in thought for a moment and then said:

“We’ll leave as soon as Ya-el recovers. We’ve only come halfway.”

Then Kidd chimed in again. Having traveled all over the continent, he knew the geography better than anyone else.

“But…, there seem to be two paths here. Above and below. Which way are we going?”

Because of the huge mountain in the middle, they had to go around the mountain range, whether above or below. There was no gorge here, so they couldn’t go straight through.

The paths were north-west and south-west. You might think it doesn’t matter which way you go, since there are only two paths, but strangely, the environments of those two paths were drastically different.

If you go up, there’s a snowfield, and if you go down, there’s a desert. So you had to choose well. If you chose the wrong place, you could suffer a lot.

“Right, I was about to ask for your opinions, so it’s good. …Which do you prefer, cold or hot?”

“Hot is betterㅡ! Shi-bal, I hate the cold.”

Kidd quickly waved his hands, saying he didn’t like the cold. Gorsh and Kayak also said that they would rather be hot.

“You might have to walk through the desert. …Well, it won’t be that long.”

“Still, it’s better than being cold. …Have you ever seen snow, Captain? If your feet get stuck in it, your toes become numb. They say you have to cut them off if you’re not careful.”

Gorsh, who had never seen snow in his life, seemed curious about it. But he still didn’t like the cold.

Kayak cut off the unnecessary talk in the middle and told the captain to make a decision.

“Well, anyway…, the captain decides. Which way to go.”

In the end, the choice was up to the captain. Even if he ignored all their opinions and went up, they were obliged to follow obediently.

“Since you all prefer the heat, okay…, let’s go down.”

“Alright.”

Kidd laughed slyly. His eyes showed that he had other intentions.

“The desert women there are all beauties. You can even see the dancer’s c*nt taste. I couldn’t eat it because I didn’t have money in the old days.”

“Hey, even after you suffered so much in the gorge, you still can’t come to your senses? You realize that true happiness lies in abandoning your sexual desire.”

Orc Gorsh spoke in a boring way like a bald middle-aged man. Naturally, Kidd said he hated it because it was a terrible thing to hear.

“Shi-bal, I’d rather die. F*cking is the meaning of existence for a male, you Orc bastard.”

Ji-hyuk and Kayak laughed. Gorsh looked at Kidd pitifully, as if there was nothing he could do.

“Anyway, since it’s been decided, everyone prepare well. You still have money, right?”

“…Uhm, Captain.”

The bald guy scratched his smooth head and laughed impudently.

“Let’s buy some supplies, can you give me a little more money?”

“You used it all?”

“The prices are high here. I emptied my pockets after going in and out of a whore’s c*nt a few times.”

Ji-hyuk stared at Kidd for a moment and took out two gold coins from his inner pocket and put them on the table.

“This is the last. Don’t use it for anything unnecessary now.”

“Oh my, Captain, is there anything else?”

The guy grinned, showing his yellow, smelly teeth, and swept up the gold coins.

“Alright, if you’re done eating, disband.”

And the four of them scattered to take care of their business.

· · ·

Two days later, early in the morning.

Ji-hyuk’s party left the metropolitan city of Palachinio. The moving carriage carrying them headed southwest.

Ya-el had remained silent ever since getting on the carriage. She felt strangely embarrassed to see the team members. After all, they couldn’t have not known what happened that night, when she screamed like that.

Dawn was slowly breaking. The sunlight slowly began to illuminate the tall city walls of Palachinio, from the top, and came alive again. It was a spectacular sight. Ji-hyuk, with his gaze fixed behind the moving carriage, watched the scene for a long time.

The carriage moved without rest for a long time. And after the sun rose and stayed up for a while, they took a break. They all got out of the carriage and turned their bodies this way and that, trying to loosen their stiff bodies after sitting for a long time.

Ji-hyuk and Ya-el also got out of the carriage. They had to take care of their business and drink water.

He knew that her attitude and mood had changed subtly since some time ago. It seemed to be the influence of a few days ago.

Having used a lot of drugs when he was a gang leader, he knew in detail the process of a personality change. It wasn’t the first or second time he had seen such a case.

That’s exactly what Ya-el was like now. Even though she acted as usual, her eyes, her actions, and things like that were subtly different. Of course, it was a subtle difference that you wouldn’t notice if you didn’t know it, but it couldn’t deceive even Ji-hyuk’s sensitive eyes.

“How’s your stamina?”

“I’m fine now.”

She answered as if nothing was wrong. However, she couldn’t hide the hot energy hidden in her eyes.

He knew that a fire that wouldn’t go out until she died had been lit inside her. That was common to all drug addicts. If it had only been a spark that barely survived in the ashes before, now it had become a blazing flame. …The events of that night must have been the decisive reason.

Of course, Ji-hyuk couldn’t be completely free from the blame either. However, most of it was something she had brought upon herself. …In fact, it was hard to call it self-inflicted. From the moment a person becomes a drug addict, their end follows a predetermined fate, and you could say they follow a fixed destiny. It’s just a matter of whether it’s faster or slower.

In fact, Ji-hyuk didn’t care about that kind of thing. Whether she was a drug addict or not, it was enough if she became a high-level magician. If she was useful, he was willing to offer his penis ten or a hundred times.

Rather, in a way, it could be better for Ji-hyuk. A relationship based on money can break at any time, but a relationship based on the body becomes much more intimate than that. If he could keep a high-level magician with just his penis, it was a gain for Ji-hyuk, not a loss.

…But, it’s the first time I’m trying to raise a magician.

Magicians are originally smart people, so Ji-hyuk also had a hard time handling them. Moreover, magic wasn’t even his specialty….

However, even if he didn’t know the theoretical part, he was an expert in magic combat. It was an experience of having worked with numerous magicians for a long time. He knew better than anyone else, at least, how magicians should fight.

Let’s leave the part of increasing mana efficiency and magic power entirely to her. Instead, let’s teach her how to fight.

Ji-hyuk made up his mind. Originally, he was going to let her gain experience and learn on her own, but her skills didn’t improve as fast as expected. Now, her role would become more and more important in the future, but he couldn’t just wait endlessly, twiddling his thumbs.

“Ya-el.”

“Yes, Captain.”

“From now on, let’s train together often when you have time.”

“Training, you say…?”

Since Ji-hyuk had never interfered with Ya-el’s training until now, she seemed a little surprised.

“Of course, I don’t intend to touch the theoretical part. I don’t know that either. But you need to know how to fight.”

In fact, Ya-el was a little lukewarm about that part too. Her current method was unsystematic. It’s just all about casting fire magic from behind.

“Yes, I understand.”

Of course, she also had impure intentions. If men and women train like that, wouldn’t they naturally make eye contact and touch bodiesㅡ!

Even now, she was already desperate to taste the Captain’s penis. It was like an addiction. So, every time she saw him, her saliva kept flowing and her lips dried.

It was painful.

Still, she was a lady who had grown up nicely, but she had just turned into a s*ut who only thinks about his penis at that moment. In the gap of that extreme change, she wandered and was distressed.

Because she kept suppressing her desires, she started having bad thoughts later. …It felt like her reason had been destroyed.

Hold back. Hold back.

Now, holding back her desires had become her usual. Sometimes, she felt impulses like a seizure. There were times when it almost led to a bad deed.

Ya-el became a Captain enthusiast. Her heart pounded just by looking at the Captain. And she had lascivious thoughts. …She liked him so much. She wanted to stay by his side.

Penis, Captain’s penis…

Every time she thought about it, she swallowed her saliva.

But, she had to be faithful to the role of a rational and intelligent magician.

…Because Captain would want that too.

They arrived at a certain village in the late afternoon. It was a village with a beautiful scenery with a river flowing next to it.

The group finished their simple dinner and went to their respective rooms. This time, Ji-hyuk and Ya-el shared a room again. Now, that became natural.

Her heart was about to burst and she felt like she was going crazy. She could only think about the penis. There was really nothing but the penis on her mind.

It was almost the limit. But, she had to hold back.

Hold back. Hold back.

She had to hold back.

She shouldn’t look like a s*ut to Captain.

She spread out her magic book on the table. But she couldn’t see any of the letters. Her head was full of thoughts of the penis.

It’s a big problem. It’s a really big problem. What do I do. What do I do now, really.

“Are you going to read more?”

“Yes? Ah, yes. I, I’ll read more and go to bed.”

“Don’t go to bed too late. We have to leave early tomorrow.”

“…Yes.”

Ji-hyuk went to bed first. She was sitting in a chair, her head bowed under the flickering candlelight.

Ah, ah….

Her body trembled even though it wasn’t cold.

She wanted to suck his penis.

She wanted to suck Captain’s penis, which tasted so delicious, again.

…But, that wouldn’t do.

Then she’d be scorned.

She’d be called a lewd woman.

And then he wouldn’t give it to her again.

She was distressed.

She wanted to regain herself, who had been destroyed.

…But, she couldn’t even catch a sense of how to fix it anymore.

After struggling with such distress for a while, she closed the magic book and got up from her seat. And she slowly climbed onto the bed where Captain was.

Haa, haaㅡ.

The face of the Assistant from just before was now gone. Only the face of a s*ut was left there.

With a flushed expression, she bit her tongue slightly and gasped, looking at his face for a long time. She felt like she would go crazy wanting to suck those tempting lips.

Captain, please, please, help me…!

Ya-el, in the end, couldn’t do anything and quietly lay down next to the Captain. She gazed endlessly at his sleeping face.

Her body became unbearably hot.

Her hands went to her chest and groin on their own. And she began to touch them.

She closed her lips tightly and swallowed her moan. Her rough breath came out with a hiss.

Captain, Captain….

The drug addict did something bad. A bad thing, playing with her hands with Captain next to her. If she got caught, it wouldn’t just pass with a warning. …Still, she couldn’t stop.

Now, reason and morality could no longer stop her actions. Everything she had learned up until then was useless in front of pleasure.

She couldn’t leave her mouth, which wanted to suck something, alone. So, she raised the hand that was fondling her chest and sucked on her own finger.

But, it didn’t taste like the penis.

She wanted to suck the penis.

She wanted to be fucked in the penis.

…Captain,

Please, just,

Help me.