Chapter 52: Finally Above Average (R-18)
Usually, Zerena was the first one to disappear into the bathroom after they finished the day’s routine.
She had good reason.
Her breasts and armpits were still damp from Max’s relentless enthusiasm, her lips felt dry from all the kissing, and after several days of repeating the same routine, washing up had quietly become the unofficial final step of every session.
Today, however, Max beat her to it.
"I need the bathroom," he blurted out, already halfway to the door.
"Urgently."
Zerena looked at him for a long second before letting out the sort of exhausted sigh she’d practically trademarked over the past week.
"Go."
For once...
He wasn’t lying.
Apparently, the duck hadn’t reached an agreement with his stomach.
Nature was now demanding an immediate renegotiation.
Still, that wasn’t the only reason he’d rushed inside.
The moment the bathroom door clicked shut behind him, Max’s attention shifted away from his protesting stomach and toward the familiar notifications waiting inside his vision.
The completed tasks.
Those were what he’d really wanted to check.
[Forbidden Act: The New Normal has been completed.]
[Target: Zerena Falkner]
[Routine Analysis Complete.]
[All selected Forbidden Acts have been repeated continuously for 5 consecutive days.]
[Condition Met.]
[Target no longer perceives the completed Forbidden Acts as unusual.]
[Rewards being calculated.....]
[Calculation complete.]
[Condition Met: Target shares a close relation with Host.]
[Reward Multiplier Applied (×2).]
[Total Reward: 1,600 Forbidden Points granted.]
[Task Complete.]
[Total Forbidden points : 1624]
A slow grin spread across Max’s face.
With this...
He could finally increase his length again.
If everything went according to plan, he’d officially graduate from slightly below average to the far more respectable category of above average.
Progress.
Real, measurable progress.
The system, unfortunately, had decided to become a little greedier since last time. The cost of adding another centimeter had gone up, though not enough to make Max reconsider.
It was still well within reach.
Increasing his girth, however...
That was another story.
The price remained painfully expensive, even though he technically had enough System Points to afford it.
Still, there wasn’t much urgency there.
He’d started out just under thirteen centimeters in length.
His girth, on the other hand, had never really been the problem, sitting comfortably above four centimeters in diameter.
For now...
He decided that was good enough.
[To increase length by 1 cm: 200 Forbidden Points]
[To increase girth by 1 cm: 1,000 Forbidden Points]
Without wasting another second, Max selected the first option.
The world went black.
Only for an instant.
By the time his vision returned, however, he wasn’t looking down just yet.
Experience had taught him there was something even more important to check first.
The price.
Sure enough, the cost had changed again.
The upgrade for girth remained exactly where it had been.
Length, on the other hand...
Had doubled.
[Increase Length by 1 cm: 400 Forbidden Points]
Max’s grin widened. He still had more than enough. Without the slightest hesitation, he bought another upgrade. Darkness swallowed him for the briefest moment before his vision returned once more.
Naturally, the first thing he checked wasn’t himself.
It was the menu.
[Increase Length by 1 cm: 1000 Forbidden Points]
[Forbidden Points: 1024]
"...Ouch."
The system had apparently decided that each additional centimeter deserved to be treated like a luxury purchase.
He still had enough.
Barely.
The problem was that spending almost everything here would leave him with practically nothing for the other upgrades he’d been curious about ever since discovering the body enhancement menu.
There were still plenty of options he’d wanted to experiment with.
Strength.
Endurance.
The rest of the body’s enhancements. Common sense quietly suggested he save the points.
Unfortunately...
Common sense and Max had spent most of their lives maintaining a strictly professional relationship.
Meaning they acknowledged each other’s existence from a distance and rarely interacted. His gaze finally drifted downward. A slow smile spread across his face. It was... impressive.
Well beyond average now.
Long enough that, for a fleeting moment, Max found himself comparing it to his own hand with the sort of solemn concentration usually reserved for life-changing decisions.
"...Just one more." Famous last words.
Darkness claimed him once again.
Only for a heartbeat.
When his vision returned, Max immediately looked down.
A slow, thoroughly satisfied grin spread across his face.
Now...
That was undeniably well above average.
Back on Earth, something like this would’ve comfortably placed him somewhere around the top few percent. Rare enough that most people would never naturally reach that size.
For the first time in his life, Max had managed to rank among the top three percent in something that wasn’t related to an embarrassingly specific porn game, an obscure adult streaming website, or some equally questionable corner of the internet.
Honestly...
It felt strangely validating.
His previous-life self would’ve celebrated that achievement with entirely unreasonable enthusiasm.
Max was just about to enjoy his moment of triumph when another notification suddenly appeared before his eyes.
The moment he read it...
He almost burst out laughing.
[Forbidden Act: The Willing Hands]
[Target: Zerena Falkner]
[Description: Make the target use her worn panties to make you orgasm.]
[Reward: 100 Forbidden Points for each orgasm.]
[Time Limit: 2 days]
[Note: The panties must have been worn for at least three hours before they can be used, and they must be wet with the target’s arousal for the reward to be granted.]
"Hahahaha...!"
Max burst into loud laughter.
Perfect.
Absolutely perfect.
If these new tasks were really replacing the old ones, then there’d be no need to keep inventing excuses just to stretch out the previous routine.
Better yet...
He still needed Zerena to grow even more comfortable around him before anything further became remotely possible.
This solved that problem almost by itself.
All he had to do was tell her the old tasks had disappeared and that the system had assigned new ones instead.
From there...
Whatever came next would simply become today’s routine.
The thought alone made the grin on his face impossible to hide.
Practically bouncing with excitement, Max hurried out of the bathroom.
He found Zerena exactly where he’d left her.
Still naked, she stood beside the table with a glass of water in one hand, taking slow drinks while waiting for her turn to clean up.
Hearing the bathroom door open, she glanced toward him.
"What took you so long?" she asked.
Max barely heard the question.
A broad smile stretched across his face.
"Two new tasks just appeared," he announced.
For a split second, Zerena simply stared at him.
Then...
To Max’s surprise—
A smile spread across her face as well.