My On*Hole Academy [EN]: Chapter 425

EP.423 Half a Person (2)

“Heuk, heuk!”

Regina, who was hiding with me behind the building, was panting heavily.

“Shouldn’t we make the guards do some physical training?”

I said with a smile, noticing how she was clutching her blackjack tightly in her hand.

“How can, heuk, they keep up with, heuk, an S-class hero’s running?”

“Come to think of it, we’re naturally speaking informally now.”

“You’re speaking informally too… When you think about it, I’m older than you!”

With that small body, she’s calling me ‘hyung’ [older brother]… How adorable.

In any case, it wasn’t difficult to shake off the one-legged guy.

What I learned after sprinting through was that the Correctional Headquarters had become a den of Half-People.

Is the trigger for the transformation killing?

Or, like the name ‘Domain of Sin,’ is it broader, does “assault” also fall into the category? Difficult…

It’s just a typical shitty game.

“What are you going to do? What are those things anyway?”

“Even S-class heroes don’t know everything.”

I confidently said that being by my side is the safest place, which is somewhat true.

But unless we can get rid of those things, it’s impossible to break through head-on. If getting bitten is out, and committing a sin is out…

“En, that bastard… Did you install some weird mode in this eroge [adult-themed game]…?”

“Huh? What did you say?”

“No. Just talking to myself.”

I know it’s not En’s fault.

Even though En sometimes goes wild, that’s only in perverted ways; she’s not a goddess who would suggest such a harmful game to me.

In other words… the game master of this domain is another god.

And she has more powerful authority than any enemy I’ve faced so far.

‘Will she let me go if I honestly go to the exit?’

I turned to Regina.

Regina is looking at me with desperate eyes. She probably wants to be rescued as soon as possible.

That’s what I thought, but unexpected words came out of her mouth.

“…The fact that there are so many villains running around means the underground security system must be broken.”

“There’s an underground in the Correctional HQ?”

“It’s a villain detention center. There are four floors underground in the Correctional Ward. My colleague was supposed to go check the security system on the 4th floor…”

“……”

If this place is a den of Half-People, then the underground must be hell.

“It must be a difficult situation now. According to the manual, someone has to reactivate the security system to prevent the villains from getting out.”

Watching Regina make courageous remarks even in the midst of fear, I was slightly moved inside.

“…Come to think of it, you were a guard too.”

She has the physique of a child, but her sense of duty is clear.

“What do you mean, ‘you were a guard too’? I’m a proper Level 1 Guard.”

“I just thought you were a cute girl who likes to harass Jellies…”

“You’re saying nothing but rude things.”

“……”

When the forced-tension small talk ends, it becomes quiet.

The sound of Half-People hopping around can be heard.

Regina’s slender arms, clutching the blackjack with both hands, were trembling.

“D, do heroes ever want to run away?”

“Of course…”

I fucking want to run away right now…

The game master of this area is going to try to turn me into a Half-Person without mercy.

If that happens, it’s not really living, is it?

I don’t feel like being happy that a new content has opened up by installing a horror mode.

It’s too hard…

There’s no rule that eroge protagonists have to be handsome. In fact, there are often cases where they are monsters or ugly.

But among those many variations, Half-Person is out of the question.

No one wants to see a Half-Person hooking up with a woman…

What does that mean?

…Harem collapse.

Ona-Aka [adult entertainment company] will go out of business as the genre changes.

‘Damn, the aftermath is more terrible than I thought…’

“When I think about it, I didn’t become a hero because I wanted to…”

“But you’re an S-class hero?”

“I got dragged to the student council president because of demerit points, and that’s how it happened.”

“What? What is that?”

It sounds absurd to say this now, but that’s really how it was back then.

“Back then, I wanted to be a hunter. Because I could make money.”

I thought that being a hero was something that required a sense of duty, which I wouldn’t dare to do.

But Isabella later said that she knew I would be good at being a hero from the start.

When I asked her what she saw in a failing 2nd-year D-class student full of demerit points, she said it was because that hopeless student knew how difficult being a hero was.

“But I don’t think it’s a good idea for us to go underground alone.”

“Y, yeah, that’s right…?”

I look outside. It’s quiet now.

The Half-People are not visible either. But…

If we go underground, we’ll definitely encounter a large number of Half-People in a narrow space, and there’s no guarantee that I won’t use my hands.

I do have the ‘Ona-Hole Domain’ as a special move, but…

‘The compatibility is too bad?’

Even if my girls are strong in combat, they are weak against enemies with special gimmicks like this.

If pregnant Nine and Velstedt’s bodies transform, I won’t be able to summon them because it’ll haunt my dreams forever.

‘The risk of even confirming whether at least assault is possible is too high.’

The transformation was really instantaneous.

Even if Shione is there, I’m hesitant.

“Regina. Which way is the exit? I’ll go check it out.”

“I, if you’re going, let’s go together! Are you going to leave me in a place like this?”

“You were talking like you’d go underground alone…”

“I know my life is precious too…! I think it’s a wise idea to get out quickly and request support…”

Regina said with a bright face as if something had flashed in her mind.

“Ah! We shook them off just now. Why don’t we just go over the fence and go outside? That would be much easier, right?”

“You thought of that so late. It’s already blocked.”

“Eh!?”

…It seems she doesn’t understand the ‘Domain Expansion’ state.

“Support requests are impossible. We’re trapped on an island called the Correctional Headquarters right now.”

“Why!?”

“We’re isolated from the outside world due to the mischief of some nasty external god who wants to play a horror game here.”

“Could it be… abnormal gravity waves?”

It seems she understands the situation properly now.

We’re caught up in a natural disaster. If we could just cross over and go outside, we would have done so already.

“My guess is that we’ll turn into monsters if we commit a sin inside here according to the rules.”

“You mean become a Half-Person?”

“Yeah. Put away your weapon. You might be surprised and swing it around, and then become a monster.”

“……”

Regina listened to me and quietly stored the blackjack in her inventory.

Maybe it’s because she’s small, but she’s cute no matter what she does…

“What are we going to do now? We can’t go outside.”

“This might sound strange, but I’m not trying to go to the exit. I’m going to see if there’s something near the exit.”

“Something?”

“A clue for the next game, or something like that…”

If she didn’t intend to give us something like that, she wouldn’t have bothered to block ‘only part’ of my authority.

“Okay… I’ll wait.”

“Wait a second.”

「Sands of Time」 activated!

It’s okay if I’m just going to take a look. Because I can control space-time!

I slowly moved towards the exit that Regina told me about, while checking the location of the Half-People.

“This guy is stopped in mid-air…”

……

Does it only have one eye…

Like a bizarre optical illusion artwork, the eyeball seems to be following me.

Maybe it’s because I’m nervous, but my whole body is soaked with sweat.

Because time is stopped. It’s okay.

The sunlight is shining so clearly, and the enemies are clearly visible.

An unidentified sense of crisis stickily wraps around my body.

「Was this really okay?」

“Kkiikk…”

“Kki…”

I turned around.

……

Three Half-People are crawling on the floor, looking up at me.

‘Were those… there from the beginning…?’

Am I being paranoid?

There’s no way a monster can move while time is stopped…

What was that sound just now that sounded like it was laughing?

“……”

I aim my gun.

Knowing that such an action is meaningless, I watch them…

Then I turn back and walk a little further.

“Kkik…”

“Kkigik…”

“Damn it…”

I can definitely hear it… Is it a hallucination?

The eyeballs of the Half-People follow me. When I turn around…

Those three are still in the same place. Was it just my imagination after all…

“Woah.”

“Aaaaargh!!”

Because someone surprised me from behind, I fired the gun as it was.

Bang! Bang!

“Aha ha.”

Wh, what is it… Damn it, you scared me!

I thought I was going to faint because you came out at the perfect timing to die a meaningless death in a horror movie!

“Hello. En’s partner.”

“Who…? Huh?”

Time is stopped, so how are you moving?

I stared blankly at the goddess in front of me.

Busty breasts and a well-proportioned body in a tight black dress. A navy blue pointed crown floating above her head like an angel’s halo.

Sky blue shimmering eyes and glossy black hair…

“…Goddess?”

“Surprised?”

“Are you the boss of these Half-People!?”

“Heh heh.”

The goddess gave a captivating smile.

Ah, I want to rub her breasts.

I didn’t know I would miss Ona-Aka’s perverted sex this much.

Already in my head, I was making grandchildren with the goddess in front of me and going to a public piano lesson…

I have to keep my mind straight!

“I guess I know why En likes to play with you… It’s fun.”

“I’m scared to death, so stop it. No. Please stop.”

“Was it fun? How much did you figure out?”

“I don’t know anything?”

The goddess smiles pleasantly.

To be honest, if she was the boss of these Half-People, I thought she would be a really nasty bitch.

The goddess in front of me was an absolute beauty who could melt a man’s heart with just one giggle.

“I thought you’d say it’s too difficult and unfair, so I came to introduce myself and tell you.”

“Are you really the boss of the Half-People?”

“If you’re asking if I’m the owner of this domain, then yes, I am.”

“……”

That’s right!

“Who are you.”

“Let me introduce myself.”

On a bright day, a woman darker than night spread a shower of light around her as she spread her arms.

“I am Akasha, the goddess of sin and punishment.”

“I see…”

“Huh? What?”

“This situation is the karma for all the pussies I’ve fucked…”

Tears welled up.

I cried in my heart. I knew it all along. That if I lived by the eroge-style rhetoric that rape soon becomes consensual sex, I would pay a big price someday.

“Ah, don’t misunderstand. I didn’t come to punish you…”

“……”

“Heh heh heh. Are you pretending to be bright to suppress your fear? Are you scared of me?”

How could I not be scared…

“I just came to play.”

“…That’s a brutal game. Starting with casually massacring hundreds of people.”

“Massacre? That’s a wrong judgment. I didn’t kill anyone…”

Didn’t kill anyone?

I see… They’re just living as Half-People…

That’s scarier than dying!

“I appreciate you showing up when I don’t know what’s going on. But I have no intention of holding hands and playing with a goddess I don’t know?”

“That depends on the outcome of the game we’re going to play from now on.”

“…I said I have no intention of playing…!”

At that time, a blonde goddess appears with brilliant starlight.

It was En-chan, appearing in perfect goddess mode.

She doesn’t have the ridiculous star she usually wears on her head, and she doesn’t shout ‘En-chan is here’.

“Akasha. Swear in front of Sanghyuk, just like you did to me earlier.”