I told Chastity Sister-nim the whole story.
She probably knew everything already, but there was still such a thing as procedure.
「"So, I'm severely lacking in Contribution Points."」
「"To what extent?"」
「"...A lot. I need three times the amount I've gathered so far."」
I could hardly lift my head.
It was only natural, considering she was Chastity Sister-nim.
While her fellow immortals were being devoured, she had endured for 300 years, biding her time and sharpening her resolve.
A woman like her had placed all her bets on a single, decisive match, putting all her faith in me.
And yet, I had only managed to gather about 25 percent of the necessary points at best.
How disappointed must she be?
My heart was heavy with guilt.
However, she simply gave a gentle smile.
「"Child, I know you have done your best. I have not the slightest intention of rebuking you, so please, set your mind at ease."」
「"...But."」
「"Ascension, crossing the wall, is an arduous task. Knowing that, how could I possibly blame you?"」
「"......."」
She was actually comforting me.
It made fluids flow from me, both above and below.
「"Still, it's all over now."」
Of course, reality hadn't changed.
Dirne-nim's interference was becoming more sophisticated by the day.
As I had confirmed earlier, even the Imperial Palace was no longer a safe zone.
My only hope was to hit 10 points in Virility and go give her some "true education" sex.
But even that seemed hopeless now.
It was literally the end...
「"I have a way."」
「"......?"」
My despair lasted only a moment.
I blankly lifted my head.
Sister-nim patted my cheek.
「"Did you truly intend to solve everything by yourself, child? I told you, didn't I? I will protect the path that remains."」
「"No, you said it was something only I could do-"」
「"I will rely on you at the end of that path, but it is my role to lead you there."」
And then, she spoke.
「"Embrace me."」
「"Huh? No, what!?"」
She wanted to have sex? With her?
No, even if we did, it wouldn't mean anything.
What increases through sex isn't Virility, but Level...
「"I shall give you my Karma, what you refer to as Contribution Points."」
「"Gasp!!"」
Contribution Points could be transferred?
As expected of Chastity Sister-nim.
I knew I could count on you, damn it.
「"Then, right now...!!"」
A smile naturally formed on my face.
But for some reason, Sister-nim didn't smile back.
「"In exchange, child, you must know this. For an immortal, Karma is synonymous with cultivation."」
「"...Huh?"」
「"Perhaps several thousand years of cultivation will go to waste. If I become that weak, I might not be able to protect you."」
「"My god."」
I was rendered speechless.
I was only in my mid-twenties, yet she was talking about several thousand years of cultivation.
The weight of it pressed heavily on my shoulders.
「"Is it a burden?"」
「"...Honestly, yes. How could I have the nerve to just take all that?"」
「"There is no need for that. Compared to what the Connected One gave you, this is but a speck of dust."」
But Sister-nim didn't seem to care.
She spoke of someone called the "Connected One."
She said the one tied to me by fate had given me something...
「"...Could it be, the Vertical Slash?"」
The words suddenly left my mouth.
Sister-nim gave a bright smile.
I was right.
「"That is the Authority of the Connected One. It is the thing that pulled you, whose energy had developed deformities because of Dirne-nim, up to the complete Half-Immortal Realm."」
「"The Connected One? Who on earth gave me such a Fortuitous Encounter?"」
「"It is only right that I tell you. Now, lie down here. I shall tell you an old story."」
Sister-nim then laid me on her lap and began to speak while stroking my hair.
A story about a bond formed without my knowledge.
And... a story about a bond that had been severed.
「"There was a fool like no other in the world."」
On a remote mountain lived a fool.
A child who was slow of speech and so slow to understand that she couldn't even count properly.
She was a child who couldn't even comprehend that she had been abandoned by her parents.
Fortunately, she wasn't sad.
Instead, she swung the sword in her hand around.
A wooden sword she had been clutching tightly. A third-rate martial artist, who had anticipated her end, had given it to her as a self-defense weapon, telling her to at least take that.
「"She said swinging it was fun. So much so that she never grew tired of it."」
She swung it.
She swung it endlessly.
Since she had never even learned swordsmanship, she just swung it from top to bottom, exactly as she had seen somewhere.
「"......."」
'Autism.'
A certain diagnosis came to mind, but anyway.
After that, she lived on the mountain.
When she was hungry, she picked fruit, and she quenched her thirst with stream water.
Even the predators didn't touch her, as she had nothing to eat.
In her spare time, she did what she loved.
That is, she swung her sword.
「"She began to gain fame around the time I had just started my cultivation."」
Several decades passed after that.
The Vertical Slash she had practiced her whole life reached a state of perfection.
The number of people coming to see her also increased.
Some mocked her as the world's greatest fool.
If she had put that much effort into learning even the Triple Talent Sword Style, she could have become a first-rate warrior.
Since she hadn't, she was the world's greatest idiot.
An idiot who knew nothing but how to strike down vertically.
In short, a Sword Idiot.
「"Most people said that... but to me, she looked different."」
Chastity Sister-nim took an interest in her.
It wasn't that she saw her as someone to help.
Rather, it was reverence. Admiration for someone who had dedicated their entire life to a single thing.
She felt so strongly that she stayed by her side for nearly ten years.
She took care of her meals and attended to her.
「"Thanks to that, I saw it."」
Time passed like that, and on one fine day.
At the moment when the woman, who had now become an elderly person, swung her sword and Chastity Sister-nim was watching.
「"The moment she placed the sword in her mind."」
A single Vertical Slash.
Not a single bit of internal energy was loaded into it.
But Sister-nim saw it.
The expression she made at that moment.
The joy of crossing the wall.
「"After that, she entered the Immortal Realm. Leaving behind only a cliff that had been split in half."」
The result of the most foolish person devoting her entire life with foolish persistence.
She reached a realm where she could cut all things with her mind.
As Sister-nim later realized.
It was something even immortals found difficult to do.
「"That is why I call her this. Not a Sword Idiot, but a Sword Saint. One who became a War Immortal with a single sword."」
「"Aha."」
'So that person was the immortal in charge of the Gunner Mode?'
After hearing this much.
I nodded my head vigorously.
Since it was someone I didn't know, I wasn't deeply moved, but it was only right to express my gratitude...
「"And it seems the Connected One took a particular liking to you. To the point of giving you not only her insights but even her soul."」
「"...Her soul?"」
Wait, stop.
The story suddenly got serious.
「"Weren't the immortals dead?"」
「"Their souls remain. Bound by immortal arts, they are being torn to shreds and suffering. Waiting for the day they will eventually be released to reincarnate."」
「"If it's reincarnation, could it be...."」
「"The Connected One gave up on reincarnation. When you obtained a fragment of the Innate Talent, she passed her insights along with her soul into you."」
「"No, what does that mean."」
If it's a fragment of the Innate Talent, that's Ariel-nim's blessing.
Normally, it should have been useless to me.
But she grabbed it by the collar and made it useful?
By even annihilating her own soul?
...But why?
「"She must have liked it quite a bit. The time she spent dwelling inside you, child."」
「"......."」
No, this is cheating.
Every time I fired the railgun, I was shouting things like "Uryat, uryat, cumming!" and "Get pregnant!"
The person inside me was watching that from the front row.
And then she even sacrificed herself.
What does that make me?
「"Um, well, uh."」
「"Do not pay it any mind. You didn't even feel the presence of the Connected One, did you? There is no need to trouble your heart."」
「"How can I not care? A fellow countrywoman annihilated herself for me."」
「"If you truly feel sorry, just swing your sword whenever you are free. The Connected One would like that best."」
「"Sssss... I understand for now."」
The long story came to a somewhat abrupt end.
You know you got that Sword Qi for free not because of the mode, but because of the Sword Saint's sacrifice, right? So you'd better do well.
To summarize, it was exactly that.
「"Then do you understand now? The reason why I am handing over my Karma, my several thousand years of cultivation, to you?"」
「"Because if I lose like this, her sacrifice will become meaningless?"」
「"The Connected One even gave up on reincarnation; do you think I would just stand by and watch the child she dwells in fall into trouble over something as trivial as my cultivation?"」
「"...If that's the case, I will accept it gratefully."」
My heart was a bit heavy, but it was already opened and non-refundable, so what could I do?
Right, let's just bow and eat.
The price for getting the realm and Virility for free...
'I can just pay it back by giving that Kkan-peu brat a true education!!!'
「"Then Sister-nim, please take off your clothes. I will show you heaven."」
I asked, hardening my resolve.
It would probably be Chastity Sister-nim's first time having sex as well.
What would I have to do to repay her?
I'd have to give her a very deep flesh offering.
Just you wait. I'll show you a feat of strength with my 9 points in Virility.
「"Puhuhu, your heart is commendable at least."」
Ttak-!!
Chastity Sister-nim snapped her fingers.
Immediately, her clothes vanished.
Her inverted nipples were revealed to the world.
My mouth watered at the thought of making them stand erect and stiff.
「"Embrace me."」
「"Yes!"」
I also threw off my clothes and embraced her.
Her internal baby-milk-suckers were crushed against my chest, and my balls and dick pressed firmly against the flesh over her womb.
'Galactic Authority-level Dick ON!'
One more thing.
I turned on all my obscene skills as well.
The things that had nearly killed women even when I was at 4 points, now with my current specs of 9 points in Virility.
An ordinary woman would face instant death, but...
「"Hmm? This is Dirne-nim's magic."」
「"There's nothing better than this for feeling good."」
「"Indeed, I do not feel any wicked energy. Your heart is truly pious, child."」
See, she was still relaxed.
To make someone like her cry out, 'I've lost half my immortal life-!!♡', I desperately needed the help of my skills.
Without worrying, I reached out my hand.
First, I would raid those breasts.
I intended to turn those shyly hidden pink nipples into start buttons for an automatic leg-shaking pussy-juice dispenser.
「"First, some foreplay-"」
「"Puhuhu, that's enough. Move it away."」
「"...Huh?"」
But for some reason, Sister-nim laughed and refused.
It was a laugh that seemed to find me laughable.
「"I know you like a woman's breasts, child, but now is not the time. Let us first talk while you slowly take in my Karma."」
「"But it'll hurt if I put it in right away."」
「"It is not I who should be worried about that."」
「"Eh?"」
「"Stop talking and try putting it in. You will see."」
「"No, at least let's go to the bed."」
「"Hurry."」
She even lay flat on the floor and spread her legs.
Why was she reacting like that?
I couldn't understand it at all.
...Until the moment of insertion.
「"Then, excuse me... Heuuuuugh!!??"」
The moment my glans touched Chastity Sister-nim's "purity."
My waist arched like a bow.
My Galactic Authority-level dick, which should have been able to do anything I set my mind to with 9 points in Virility.
Before I even put it in, it started spraying man-seed everywhere.
-Du-dung.
[Acquired 121,000pt of Contribution Points....]
「"Ooooogh!!? Ugh, keu-heup!!!"」
'Is this how my wives felt!?!?'
Byureut, pyut-!!!
Man-seed erupted from my swollen glans, which hadn't even been fully inserted.
It only cut through the empty space in vain.
Perhaps it was just my imagination, but the semen that scattered seemed to be less in quantity than usual.
「"Ooooogh... W-what is this...."」
「"I am sorry. You were so confident that I expected a little, but it seems it was too much after all."」
Seeing that, Chastity Sister-nim.
She laughed as if she had known this would happen.
She laughed, as if I was laughable.
「"Ufufu, making such a cute expression. It is only natural that you cannot last long since it is your first time. Do not pay it any mind, child."」
「"......."」
Wow.
For the first time in my life, I was treated like a premature ejaculator.