Chapter 144: Being a Manly Man!
"By the way, Hina-chan, can you use your Ghost Eyes to check the dungeon?"
Leo-kun scratched the back of his neck.
Laughing awkwardly as he tried to maintain his "alpha prodigy" stance.
While standing two inches away from a terrifyingly dark abyss.
"Not because I’m scared or anything! Just, you know... standard tactical caution. Yeah. Maximum caution."
Sure, Leo. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Hearing that, Sera-chan’s shoulders visibly slumped under the heavens.
For a glorious, fleeting five seconds...
She’d actually thought this guy had finally grown a pair.
She was already mentally preparing the cheers.
Ready to watch her crush act like a real man.
But nope.
True to form, Leo had managed to completely sabotage his own manly moment before it even began.
"Tsk, tsk."
Sera crossed her arms, her foot tapping aggressively against the dirt.
’And of course he has to ask that bimbo for help! Hmpff!’
In Sera’s mind, Hina’s Ghost Eyes weren’t some legendary, high-tier bloodline limit.
They were just a convenient excuse for the girl to blink her big eyes.
Look helpless, and make everyone look at her ridiculous, over-inflated chests.
She hated it.
Absolute garbage-tier behavior.
Kaizen stood slightly behind them.
His lawless smirk twitching as he watched the thick wave of toxic jealousy roll off the gym girl.
Keeping his face completely blank, he casually activated his Mind Reading skill.
[Sera’s Thoughts: Why does everyone always cater to this bimbo?! Oh look at me, my eyes glow and my bubble butt shakes when I walk! Ugh! It’s just a fucking hole in the ground, who cares! If Leo was a real man, he’d have grabbed me by the waist and jumped down already. What a waste of a good mood!]
Kaizen barely stifled the snicker threatening to burst out of his throat.
He looked at Sera’s toned, athletic thighs tightly wrapped in her gym gear.
Then at her fiercely annoyed face.
’Man, I’ve really been slacking.’
’I haven’t even properly broken in this athletic bitch yet’
’And she’s been right in front of me this whole time.’
It was a valid point.
Ever since that first dungeon incident.
Where he’d deviously groped her round ass from behind.
While she mistakenly grabbed his massive, rock-hard python.
Completely convinced it belonged to Leo.
He hadn’t made a major move.
He’d just let that delicious psychological damage simmer in her head for the future.
Well, the future was right now.
Time to start cooking this tomboy.
Was Kaizen actually going to jump into the dark abyss himself to show Sera what a "real man" looked like?
Absolutely not.
That would require actual physical effort and unnecessary jumping.
Which completely went against his lazy, trash-protagonist grindset.
Why put in work when you have an oblivious, room-temperature-IQ beta male to do the heavy lifting for you?
Besides, there was a very specific, highly illegal reason.
He’d engineered this entire group field trip to the perimeter walls today.
The dungeon wasn’t a surprise to him at all.
It was the perfect, enclosed playground with zero witnesses.
Kaizen glanced down at Hina’s trembling, skin-tight leggings.
Then over at Sera’s tightly bound sports top.
An evil plan instantly forming in his handsome, lawless brain.
’Leo, my boy... thanks for the setup. Your women will be taken care of.’
In the original game lore, the Ayura Estate arc was strictly mid-game content.
The difficulty scaling was no joke.
When Leo originally stumbled upon this hole, he was already a Rank B powerhouse.
Which meant one thing.
This was a brutal, high-tier Rank A dungeon.
Kaizen knew the exact danger levels.
It was honestly a miracle he hadn’t died yet.
He had arrived at the estate way too early in the timeline.
His own strength was still the pathetic, rock-bottom Rank F.
’Well, that is exactly why I brought my tools here today.’
Kaizen smirked.
His eyes drifted directly over to Hina’s trembling body.
’Heh heh. Time to farm for this papa, Hina-chan.’
’Let your master get a massive power-up while sitting on his ass.’
Lost in his glorious delusions of passive leveling, Kaizen didn’t even realize he was openly staring.
He just stood there, burning a hole through Hina’s skin-tight leggings, smirking like a total maniac and nodding to himself in approval.
Seeing this lawless predator check her out so blatantly, Hina’s legs vibrated violently.
’Gaaah!! He’s looking right at my assets and smiling!’
’He definitely planned something incredibly perverse for the dark zones!!!!’
A fresh wave of heat hit Hina’s sacred valley.
Her hands flew behind her back, frantically trying to squeeze her own bubble butt to stop the rhythmic, lewd shaking of her flesh.
Her face was practically radiating steam.
Sera saw Hina shaking and let out a sharp, aggressive scoff.
"Look at her, shivering already. If you’re that scared, bimbo, go back to the kitchen!"
"I-I am not scared!"
Hina snapped back, her chest bouncing violently with the sudden movement.
"I am just... preparing my mana!"
Meanwhile, Kaizen finally looked away from the catfight and stared down into the yawning abyss.
’A Rank A dungeon versus a pathetic Rank F scrub...’
Obviously, if Leo tried to solo this thing right now, he’d get turned into paste within three seconds.
He was simply one D ranker.
But what about a party of four Rank D characters?
More importantly, what about the absurd, logic-defying Protagonist Halo currently protecting Leo’s room-temperature-IQ head?
Leo was currently flexing his mediocre biceps, completely oblivious to the doom below.
"Don’t worry, girls! My sword is ready for anything!"
’Perfect.’
Kaizen thought, his lawless smirk widening.
That thick layer of plot armor would force a victory.
And Kaizen was more than happy to sit back.
Let the system suck up all the experience points.
And reap the rewards while the protagonist and Hina chan did all the physical labor.
"Ghost Eyes!"
Kaizen internally slammed the skill active.
His eyes flashed with a faint, eerie light as he scanned the abyss.
The result? A ten-meter drop and a massive, pitch-black cave. Nothing else.
’The high-tier magic from the Rank A dungeon is jamming my vision. As expected.’
But he knew the game lore like the back of his hand.
There were zero monsters at the immediate entrance.
The coast was completely clear for his brand of absolute lawlessness.
Kaizen spun around, completely cutting off Hina before she could even blink her glowing eyes.
"Nah, screw the caution. We’re going in right now!"
Sera’s eyes instantly lit up.
Still furious at Leo for acting like a prissy pussy and begging the bimbo for help, she let out a wild, aggressive cheer.
"Hell yeah, Kaizen! Now that’s what I’m talking about! Be a real man!"
She thrust a brutal thumbs-down directly into Leo’s face.
Her sports top straining violently with the motion.
"Show this absolute loser how it’s done!"
Leo’s jaw hit the dirt.
His heart physically wrenched in his chest.
"S-Sera-chan..."
"Hmpff!"
Sera whipped her head away.
Her ponytail smacking Leo right across the nose.
Mind you, the room-temperature-IQ protagonist just stood there, rubbing his nose and blinking blankly.
His plot-armored brain literally couldn’t process the cuckoldry happening in real-time.
Kaizen didn’t waste a single millisecond.
He casually strode straight into Sera’s personal space.
With a lightning-fast movement, he locked his thick arm around her toned, athletic waist and violently yanked her body flush against his chest.
Smack.
Her firm, gym-honed curves collided hard with his frame.
"What the—!"
Sera gasped, her breath catching.
Her rock-hard abs pressed right against his stomach as a violent, explosive blush painted her cheeks.
"Hold on tight to this manly man, Sera-chan!"
Kaizen laughed evilly.
He didn’t give her a single second to react.
He didn’t care about Leo’s wide, stupid mouth.
He didn’t care about Hina’s sudden, furiously jealous glare as her enormous assets bounced in anger.
He absolutely did not care that he was stealing a man’s girlfriend right in front of his face.
With a lawless smirk, Kaizen launched them both straight down into the pitch-black hole.
"KYAAAAAAA—!"
Sera’s scream echoed through the heavens.
Her arms instinctively locking around Kaizen’s neck as they plummeted into the dark.
Leaving the two prodigies eating dirt at the rim.
They plummeted through the dark.
Thud.
Kaizen landed perfectly on his feet, his high-tier trash protagonist balance saving them from breaking any bones.
The impact sent a heavy vibration straight up through his legs.
"Damn, that was fun, right?"
Kaizen chuckled.
Squish. Squish.
Kaizen let out a breath of relief.
Then he paused.
Squish. Squish.
The sound echoed loudly in the damp, quiet cave entrance.
It sounded exactly like someone repeatedly kneading a pair of incredibly firm, high-tier stress balls.
"Umm... Sera-chan? You okay? Why aren’t you talking?"
Sera kept her eyes squeezed shut, her arms still locked tightly around his neck.
Her body was flush against his, but a massive, violent vein was suddenly popping on her forehead.
Her teeth clicked together in a tight grind.
Kaizen blinked in the dark, his fingers sinking deeper into the incredibly soft, yielding flesh beneath his palms.
Squish.
"And what is this squishy thing anyway, Sera-chan?"
Kaizen asked, his voice dripping with absolute, textbook innocence.
"Wow. It’s seriously so perfect for squishing. Like, high-tier premium rubber."
Smack!
Sera violently slapped the back of his head, her athletic arm swinging with maximum velocity.
"You absolute idiot!"
She shrieked, her face exploding into a thermonuclear blush in the dark.
"You’re literally grabbing my ass with both hands!!!"