17 - Chapter 15: Slime Queen
But for the time being, that didn't seem likely to happen.
For one thing, I hadn't been captured nearly long enough to reach the average time it took for a slime's victim to die.
"Ahaha."
More than anything, the Slime Queen seemed to have taken quite a liking to me.
She approached me again with an ecstatic expression.
The newly born, female-shaped slimes followed her lead.
Surrounding me, they gently lifted my body, which was so exhausted I couldn't even stir a finger.
Suspended in the air, enveloped in jelly, I was dragged into a cave on Stone Hill.
As the light from the entrance grew smaller and smaller, a foreboding thought crossed my mind: if I got dragged any deeper, I might never see the light of day again.
Not that there was anything I could do about it.
After being dragged to the deepest part of the cramped cave, I was pinned to the floor once more, crushed by the heavy, dense mass of a slime's body.
Even in this situation, it felt bizarrely considerate of them to spread a layer of gel on the ground so my bare skin wouldn't get scraped against the rough stone floor.
Once they finished gently restraining me, the new slimes transformed their flat crotches into pussies and took turns fucking me.
With things turning out like this, a passage from my Monsterology class back at school came to mind.
[It is common for slimes to play rough with their victims for three to four hours before slowly killing them. However, some victims catch a slime's fancy and are dragged back to its lair. There, they receive the slime's care and spend the rest of their lives as breeding machines—much like the queen in an ant or bee colony.]
Their behavior clearly fell into the latter category.
Buried in jelly inside the cave, I was squeezed by the slimes until my cock physically couldn't get erect anymore.
By then, even though the effects of the aphrodisiac had mostly worn off, my head was spinning and my vision was a blur.
My consciousness gradually sank. My eyelids fluttered shut. My entire body was drained of strength, and I couldn't even stir a finger. My stomach was empty yet bloated, leaving me with absolutely no appetite.
Even so, as my consciousness faded, my stomach let out a low growl.
Hearing my stomach growl, the Slime Queen chuckled. She reached her hand between the rocks and scraped something out.
'A sweet smell... honey...? Is it rock honey...?'
The Slime Queen shoved her hand, covered in a dollop of rock honey, into my mouth.
Tasting the sweetness of the rock honey, my survival instinct kicked in, and I instinctively began to suck on it.
The Slime Queen climbed on top of me once again as I suckled on her hand like a baby. Then, as if storing away a precious treasure, she carefully housed my flaccid cock inside her jelly pussy.
Trapped in the pitch-black cave, my sense of time was completely shattered.
With my brain barely functioning, my sense of time shattered, and my grasp on reality slipping, I genuinely felt for a moment that I would be trapped here forever, living as nothing more than a seed-spreader for the slimes.
The sudden thought terrified me, and a single tear trickled down my cheek. The Slime Queen tenderly absorbed the tear with her fingertip.
"Mom..."
I didn't know why I was calling out for a woman whose face I couldn't even properly remember at a time like this.
Cradled in the Slime Queen's embrace, I fell asleep, my face etched with exhaustion.
Though a faint, continuous pleasure still throbbed in my lower half, my overwhelming fatigue made even that feel cozy.
How long had I been asleep?
My consciousness, which had drifted deep below the surface, was violently dragged back up by the echoing roar of gunfire.
"...!"
When I snapped my eyes open, I saw that the Slime Queen and the other female-shaped slimes had been blasted into mush by heavy rifle rounds.
And I was covered head-to-toe in their splattered jelly.
The splattered jelly wriggled and began to coalesce.
Seeing this, Jeong Hae-in shouted.
"Hey! We took down the Slime King, so let's get the hell out of here, quick!"
But after being gang-banged and milked so dry that I couldn't even stand straight, the best I could do was painfully push myself up and stagger forward.
"Ugh, seriously!"
In the end, unable to stand my pathetic state, Jeong Hae-in ran over, slung my limp body over her shoulder, and bolted.
How long did we run across the fields after escaping the cave?
"Kyaaaak!"
Having reconstructed her body in no time, the Slime Queen chased after us with a demonic expression.
"Kyahaha! Ahahaha! Hey! That thing is absolutely pissed!"
Whatever she found so funny, Jeong Hae-in just giggled and laughed, even as the Slime Queen's elongated arm whipped right past the back of her head.
"Skree! Skree!"
The Slime Queen seemed capable of attacking much more violently if she wanted to, but she appeared to be holding back, clearly worried that I might get hit while slung over Hae-in's shoulder.
After running for what felt like forever, we finally reached the exit and escaped through the dimensional gate.
Fortunately, the gate had opened in a remote area, so the only person around was a lone official from the Portal Management Department.
Confirming that the gate was closing, Jeong Hae-in handed the Performance Proof Scroll back to the official and said,
"Could you grab some clothes for him to wear?"
"Ah, yes. Just a moment."
While the official went to fetch some spare clothes, Jeong Hae-in set me down on the ground, now that I had regained a bit of my senses.
Jeong Hae-yeon approached and took off her track jacket to drape it over my shoulders.
"Cover yourself with this until the official brings some clothes. You must be freezing."
Jeong Hae-yeon seemed to have mistaken my trembling for being cold.
A moment later, I put on the clothes the official brought, returned to school, and reported our results along with the hybrid mermaids.
We ended up getting an A on the group project.
Fortunately, the scent of the slime left on my body smelled a lot like body wash.
Instead of heading straight home after class, Jin Seo-yun headed to the self-training facility.
Since she had originally aspired to be a baseball player, training had become second nature to her. Being diligent by habit, she often stayed behind alone like this to practice at the range.
Arriving at the facility, Jin Seo-yun activated the range equipment. Then, she shouldered her primary weapon—an eight-round, semi-automatic shotgun with a pistol grip.
As she calmly pulled the trigger and peppered the moving targets, someone stepped up to the lane beside her.
At the sound of a metallic clack, she glanced over to find Jeong Hae-in, famous for her mermaid blood, prepping her own firearm.
"Hi, Seo-yun."
"Hmm? Oh, hey."
Jeong Hae-in greeted her amiably from the adjacent lane and began her own target practice.
For a long while, only the thunderous cracks of gunfire echoed through the facility.
After emptying their respective magazines and repeatedly reloading, their timing happened to coincide, prompting Jeong Hae-in to speak up again.
"Hey. Want to see something awesome?"
"Something awesome?"
"Hold on."
Seeing Jin Seo-yun's serious profile, Jeong Hae-in was struck by a sudden mischievous urge. Grinning, she pulled out a photo.
"Ta-da!"
At the sight of the photo Jeong Hae-in held out, Jin Seo-yun's poker face instantly crumbled.
It was the photo taken in the amusement park photo booth the other day.
Although the face was cleverly covered by Hae-in's thumb, the naked body and the ejaculating cock were otherwise on full, stark display.
"Wh-what on earth is this...?"
Her usually stoic, almost ascetic face flushed bright red with embarrassment.
Amused by such an innocent reaction, Jeong Hae-in tucked the photo away with a satisfied smirk.
"You should take a break and look at stuff like this once in a while."
"Th-thanks...?"
Leaving Jin Seo-yun dazed and confused, Jeong Hae-in packed up her gear and headed out.
"Haa..."
Having been blindsided by such a lewd photo, Jin Seo-yun finally let out a long sigh once Jeong Hae-in was gone.
Even though it certainly wasn't her first time seeing something like that, the image refused to leave her head.
'But... that body looks strangely familiar... Is it just my imagination?'
Did she subconsciously recognize Han Su-hyeon despite his face being covered? Unable to fully trust her intuition, Jin Seo-yun remained unsure.
'Well, it must be my imagination.'
Since agonizing over it wouldn't bring any answers, she forced herself to dismiss it and focused back on her shooting.
'Come to think of it, my group project is over, and Su-hyeon's should be finished too.'
The thought occurred to her out of nowhere as she absorbed the recoil of another shot.
She didn't really know why Han Su-hyeon had suddenly popped into her head, but she decided not to overthink it.
'Since he turned me down last time because he already had plans, maybe I should ask him out early for this weekend?'
It seemed like a solid plan.
Once the thought of making plans with him took root, it completely consumed her attention. A sudden, anxious urge gripped her—if she didn't ask him right now, someone else would snatch up his time again.
"Ah."
In the end, after missing her target for the very first time, Jin Seo-yun cut her training short, even though she still had rounds left in her magazine.
Packing up her gear and leaving the range, she clutched her phone, her heart pounding with a mix of excitement and anxiety.