I looked at the scroll in Zoe's hand.
[Curse Removal Scroll]
I pretended not to know and asked.
"What's this?"
"It's a scroll that can remove curses."
Zoe told me.
Lucy, who was listening next to us, grabbed my arm with wide eyes.
"Ikan!"
"We'd need to appraise its rank for details, but since it came from an abnormal dungeon, it should be able to handle your mana regeneration curse."
Zoe seemed quite confident.
I scratched my head.
"How much... would this cost?"
Zoe pursed her lips and tilted her head.
"Hmm. How much was it again? I think a B-rank scroll sold for about 1 billion at the auction last time."
"1, 1 billion?"
While I was blinking in surprise, Zoe stuffed the scroll into my backpack.
"Let's remove the curse with this. Remove the curse and rise to S-rank."
"I'll have to work hard to earn money to pay you back."
"Why are you saying such disappointing things?"
Lucy hit my arm.
Zoe smiled.
"You don't have to give me my share either."
I scratched my head.
"Still..."
For conscience's sake, I should at least pretend to refuse this much.
Lucy slapped my butt.
"Hey. We survived thanks to you.
You should let us do this much.
Otherwise, you'll go around showing off for the rest of your life like, 'Ah~ I saved them in that dungeon, you know.'"
Zoe smiled warmly.
"That's right, Ikan.
A hunter shouldn't be indebted.
Just take your fair share. This is the virtue a hunter should have.
Otherwise, rumors will spread strangely, and you won't be able to form parties later."
As expected of S-ranks, they're generous.
Then.
Drrrrrr-
The dungeon exit opened.
"Wow, we're outside!"
Lucy ran out.
When we came out, it was a hill.
Zoe quickly took out her phone.
"Hey guys. We're in signal range. Internet works too."
We successfully cleared the dungeon and escaped safely after two weeks.
As I breathed in the air, it finally felt real.
"Huh, what's this?"
Lucy, who was checking her phone, looked confused.
"We definitely entered the dungeon on Friday afternoon. But now it's Sunday? Only two days have passed. Is my phone weird?"
Zoe shook her head.
"No. Mine's the same."
"Mine too."
I pretended to check my phone from my pocket.
I had seen this in the novel.
Rarely, but there are dungeons where time is distorted like this.
There was even an episode where the protagonist Samuel caught a villain hunter who used this to commit murder in a dungeon and create an alibi.
Zoe said.
"Let's return to the academy for now."
When we checked our location on the satellite map, it was near the academy, not far from the dungeon entrance.
After returning to the academy, Zoe immediately tried to contact the 'professor', but I stopped her.
"Isn't it strange? Did the exploration team really not know it was an abnormal dungeon? Did the 'professor' not know either?
I think we should report to the Hunter Association first."
Samuel and Sarah didn't return to the academy.
The priority was to send an investigation team to the cleared dungeon to find the two.
"Ikan, I think you're right."
While Zoe took care of the aftermath, Lucy and I returned to our respective dormitories.
I entered my room in the dormitory.
I flopped down on the bed.
"Ah, I'm dying."
As the tension released, fatigue hit me all at once.
I blinked.
For a moment, my vision went dark.
***
When my vision returned, I felt a sense of familiarity.
I was in the space of the Goddess Leah.
Click. Click.
She approached me.
Wow. Her side boob is insane.
A thin silk dress following the middle of her chest, barely covering her areolae.
Her nipples are almost visible underneath.
Show them.
Four-eyed vision!
Can't see.
Leah looked at me with disdain.
"Good job."
"Leah."
"Yes?"
"Can I fuck you now?"
She, who had been expressionless, closed her eyes tightly.
"It's better to joke at the right time and with the right person, Ikan."
"Why did you call me? I was about to rest."
"The flow of the story has changed with your dungeon escape.
The heroines' love for you is also very deep."
"Don't tell me. A reward?"
Leah lightly moved her finger in the air.
Suddenly, buttons appeared before my eyes.
[Skill Draw 1 time]
[Item Draw 1 time]
"A draw?"
"I'd like to give you exactly the skills and items you need, but.
That would affect plausibility too much, so it's not easy.
This time, with Holy Explosion, Mana Regen Inability, and Mana Absorption, wasn't it not too difficult to conquer the heroines?"
"It was."
"I gave them to you custom-made because it was your first time.
I pushed myself a bit.
From now on, you'll have to conquer with randomly acquired skills.
Skills drawn from the gacha affect plausibility less."
"I see."
"Oh, and.
I'll take back the Mana Regen Inability curse and the Mana Absorption skill."
Oh? Only taking those back?
That's good, but.
"You're leaving Holy Explosion, right?"
"I can let you keep using that much.
It'll be useful to have."
"Yes. It's good to have."
Then I don't need to use the curse removal scroll.
This simplifies things.
"You don't need the D-rank Spearmanship either, right?
I put it in for plausibility."
"Will it be easier for you if I remove it?"
"Right?"
"Then remove it. I don't mind."
"Okay."
[Skill Window]
ᐉHoly Explosion[S+]
The skill window became clean.
There are hidden ones, though.
[Mana: 100 / 100]
The mana seems to be the same.
It's filled up to exactly 100 since the mana regen curse disappeared.
"So, do you want to draw either a skill or an item?"
"How many times can I do it?"
"Since you saved Zoe and Lucy and earned their love, I can give you 2 gacha tickets, 1 for each."
"Is it possible to use both on skills or items?"
"Yes."
"...Um."
"Yes?"
I scratched my temple.
"Is there anything guaranteed for a first-time draw?"
"Ikan. This isn't like the games you used to play."
"It looks exactly like a game, though."
"What do you want to draw?"
"Is there maybe a probability table, or ranks, or what comes out when you draw..."
"I'd like to tell you, but it's under the jurisdiction of the 'God of Gacha'. It changes every time, so I don't have information either.
And getting it randomly also prevents damaging plausibility when entering the world."
"So it's literally random."
"Yes."
"The skills or items I acquire can be taken to other worlds when I move later, right?"
Leah nodded.
"Then shall we draw?"
I pressed the [Skill Draw 1 time] button in front of me with my mind.
Tararararara-
Skill names spin rapidly like a slot machine.
I opened my eyes wide to see what skills there were.
As the speed gradually decreases, the skill names become visible.
[Helicopter][A]
[Cooking][C]
[Health Recovery][B]
[Hehe Pee Spray][D]
[Vajra][S+]
What's Helicopter?
Cooking... Health Recovery... seems decent.
Whatever Hehe Pee Spray is, please don't come out. I'll use the skill on Leah right away if it does.
There's Vajra too.
The speed of the slot gradually decreased.
Ding.
The skill was decided.
[Gaze Rape][C+]
I stared blankly at the screen in front of me.
For a moment, I couldn't believe reality, so I massaged my brow and opened my eyes again.
[Gaze Rape][C+]
What I saw was undoubtedly correct.
I looked at Leah.
"Leah."
"Yes?"
"Is this right?"
"It seems like you got a pretty good one to me?"
"What?"
I checked the skill.
[Gaze Rape][C+]
[Can rape with just a gaze]
The explanation is fucking lazy.
Hmm...
Still, I want to try it.
I looked at Leah.
"What are you looking at."
Intently.
I leered at her breasts and butt lecherously.
Leah, with her arms crossed, chuckled.
"You think a skill like that would work on a goddess like me?"
"I guess not."
"Draw one more. Either skill or item."
There's so little information that it doesn't seem to matter what I choose.
"I'll draw a skill."
At a glance, the chances of getting something good don't seem high.
Skills are intangible so it doesn't matter, but if I get an item that's fucking useless, I feel like I'll get a reality check every time I carry it around.
Tararararara-
The list of skills spun.
Once again, I opened my eyes wide to see what skills there were.
[Remote Rape][D]
[Astrology][C+]
[Persuasion][B]
[Immunity to All Poisons][S+]
[Floor Masturbation Expert][F]
Remote Rape?
Fuck. Yeah. Given that Gaze Rape came out too.
As long as Floor Masturbation doesn't come out, it's fine.
Diriririririk.
Dirik.
Dik.
The slot stopped.
[Vajra][S+]
I opened my eyes wide.
Unable to believe it, I looked at Leah.
"Hmm?"
She seemed surprised too.
I knelt down and cheered.
"Woooooooooooo!"
This is fun.
A dopamine rush not from sex for once.
This is it. This is the game, no, life.
[Vajra][S+]
[The culmination of external martial arts, adding flexibility and softness to hardness.
Ah. You know Vajra.
It's. Really. Hard.]
I immediately activated [Vajra].
I looked at Leah with [Gaze Rape].
'Ah- I want to fuck Leah with my Vajra dick.'
Leah sighed and shook her head.
"Give up on useless actions."
"Leah."
"Yes?"
"How old are you?"
"Huh? ...Why? T-twenty."
"What? We were the same age?"
"Don't speak casually. Are you the same as me? I'm a goddess."
"Hmm. Okay. Got it."
"I told you not to speak casually."
"If I use Vajra and Gaze Rape, does it feel different from just using Gaze Rape?"
Leah blushed.
"I don't know.
Go try it on normal humans."
"Ah."
"What else."
"About this Gaze Rape skill.
Can you make it [Hidden] like the other skills?
It's too embarrassing.
I think it might be C-rank because of the embarrassment."
"I can do one."
"Not Vajra?"
"Two might be a bit difficult.
I'm already hiding three, and with Gaze Rape it would be four."
"Is there no way?"
"If you keep saving heroines and earning their love, I'll get stronger too.
Then I might be able to do it later."
"Then I must have gotten a bit stronger from saving Lucy and Zoe?"
"Thanks to that, I'm not taking back the Holy Explosion skill. And I'm hiding one more skill."
Ding.
[Skill Window]
ᐉHoly Explosion[S+]
ᐉVajra[S+]
ᐉ[Hidden]Gaze Rape[C+]
ᐉ[Hidden]Addictive Body
ᐉ[Hidden]Huge Dick for Training
ᐉ[Hidden]Large Capacity Pleasure Semen
Two S+ skills.
Maybe I'm quite strong now?
Leah said.
"Skills without ranks are blessings I put in you, so they don't matter.
But for skills with ranks, you can only have a maximum of 5.
Keep that in mind when you draw skills later."
"I can keep the drawn skills and swap them when needed, right?"
"Yes. You've decided to speak casually completely now?
There's a cooldown for swapping. Once you swap a skill, you can't swap any skills for 24 hours, so remember that."
"Okay."
"Then shall we choose which novel to go to next?"
Leah smiled. It's a smile that enchants people.
"There are still two more heroines left in IBVNA though?"
"If you want, you can continue with IBVNA."
"I'll listen for now."
Leah recited web novel titles one by one.
"Shaman's Descent
The Black Knight Swore to the Blind Saint
Became an Extra at Magic School
Girl Group Return Manager
Skill Level Up Hunter..."
Somehow it feels like a non-existent wife reciting the porn video list I secretly watched.
I smiled awkwardly.
"All novels I've read. Hehe."
"If you know the content, you'll understand why I picked these?"
Indeed, they're all novels where the heroines didn't receive good treatment.
"Do I have to choose one now?"
"It would be nice if you did.
You might think you're acting alone in the novel, but I'm watching and helping you too.
If you choose, it's easier for me to prepare."
"The fastest to clear would be the Blind Saint.
Since there are only two heroines.
I'll go with this one."
"Okay. I'll prepare it.
From tomorrow, you can enter whenever you want.
But remember, once you move worlds, there's a 24-hour cooldown."
"When I move, the other worlds are paused, right?"
"Yes. To be precise, you go and come back in a split second.
If you say you'll spend time without interacting with the heroines, time skips are possible too."
"Got it."
"Then. Go on."
Leah flicked her finger.
Suddenly, my vision turned white.
***
Leah sent Ikan back to the IBVNA world.
"Ugh."
Her legs gave out and she had to grab the railing of the stairs.
"I-impossible..."
Clear liquid dripped onto the floor from under her silk dress.