Chapter 119
The next day.
I woke up before it grew dark again and ran into Aba, who was wandering around the hallway.
"What are you doing?"
"Ah, Dekal!"
Aba brightened and ran over to me.
"Where did everyone go? I've been looking for you for ages. I thought you'd all left without me."
"We got separate rooms.
We didn't want to wake you while you were sleeping."
"Looks like you talked until pretty late?"
They had been together until late.
That was what she seemed surprised about.
Well, I didn't know about Karen, but Diana and Stia didn't seem like the kind of people who would permit something like that.
"They're all my women."
"……I'm starting to think it's really true now."
"Who exactly is your woman?"
Stia appeared from behind me.
"Did you sleep well, Stia?"
"My head hurts. I really can't handle alcohol. How could I have been sleeping in a state like that……."
"A state like what?"
"Hmm. It's nothing."
When Aba asked, Stia mumbled and changed the subject.
"More importantly. Today is going to be a busy day. You know that, Dekal?
Come with me to destroy the Red Soulstones."
"All right."
"Then I'll patrol and see where the Red Soulstones have spread."
"After that, we'll all gather and clean up. ……We'll need tools."
My first thought was bleach.
But there probably wasn't anything like that in this world.
This was exactly when I wanted to use the automatic cleaning function of the Eight-Colored Shell Castle—or rather, its reset function.
But unless I brought a god here, that wouldn't be possible.
In the end, we'd just have to spend the time and do it ourselves.
I had no desire to clean up corpses, but we couldn't leave them there.
It was something someone had to do, and if you asked who should do it, it ought to be those most deeply involved in the matter.
Well, I was planning to make the surviving bandits handle the dirty work.
They should at least do that much in return for being allowed to live when it wouldn't have been strange for them all to die.
"If that's what you're talking about, we already took care of it before coming out."
Stia said this.
"Diana and Karen said they would prepare enough tools for everyone."
"I wonder if they'll manage without porters."
"There won't be a problem. You don't think of those two as merely frail women, do you?"
"Well, no."
As far as Karen was concerned, she was actually stronger than most frail men.
She claimed it was because she had trained her body in close-combat skills.
She had greater physical strength than ordinary women, so there shouldn't be a problem.
Diana, on the other hand…….
She was the sort of young lady who found ordering others around more natural than doing manual labor herself.
But judging by what had happened yesterday, the two of them already seemed to have grown quite close.
They would cooperate with each other somehow.
"When did those two get so close?"
"Hehe."
Stia gave a meaningful smile, as though she knew exactly why.
"I've completely surrendered to Karen, too.
Once she decides to become friends with someone, she doesn't hesitate to approach them.
Thanks to that, I was happy to make a friend as soon as I came to Melbrit."
"Karen's characteristic sociability, you mean. Is it because of her breasts?"
"……Do you really think so? I mean that Karen is a good girl."
Come to think of it, Stia and Karen had always been together in Melbrit, even though they weren't roommates.
Stia's roommate was Ekaterina.
She was the witch who had helped me greatly by earning points through internal ejaculation.
"Shall we go, then?"
"See you later, Dekal."
Aba waved her hand.
"All right."
Today, while destroying the Red Soulstones, I had decided to ask how she had been doing lately.
As I left the village with only Stia by my side, I asked about Ekaterina.
"I don't really know.
We don't take the same classes, and more than anything, I got the strong impression that she didn't want to talk about herself."
"A mysterious type?"
"I can't really talk about other people, either. It's not that I have a shameful past, but I generally don't like telling people about things that have already happened."
How could I say it so easily?
That I had absorbed a Soulstone and that my crazy father had destroyed my family.
Now I understood why I hadn't been able to tell Diana back then.
Having overcome such a painful past, Stia Harpe had grown into a beautiful and spirited young woman.
"Shall we go a little farther out, Dekal?
I want to find a wide, unobstructed place so that no one gets hurt by the aftermath of the magic."
"Sounds good."
We left the village and walked for about ten minutes.
When we reached an empty lot, Stia stopped.
"This should do."
Stia took a Red Soulstone from inside her clothes, then hesitated.
"Why?"
"Dekal. There's something I want to ask you."
"Yes?"
"About what happened yesterday……."
"……What about it?"
Stia spoke with a serious expression.
"It was a mistake. It was partly my fault for not being able to stop drinking, too. You don't have to feel guilty, Dekal."
Guilty? I didn't feel anything like that.
It seemed that Stia's memories had been distorted somehow.
She believed that we had lost control after drinking and slept together.
I placed a hand on Stia's shoulder.
"Ah, no."
Stia reacted strangely sensitively and stepped backward.
I followed her and embraced her.
"Ah—ah. Dekal, don't do this. What happened that night was a mistake."
"I'm completely sober right now."
I held the fidgeting Stia tightly, feeling the warmth of our skin and the breaths we shared.
"And it wasn't a mistake, either."
"……."
She pulled away.
"Don't say things like that. Understand?"
"……I understand."
Stia puffed out her cheeks and grumbled sulkily.
"Yesterday, you clung to me and acted so spoiled, like a child.
But today you're so mature. I don't know which one is the real you."
"Obviously, both are me."
"Then you're an unbelievable pervert. What I learned as a noblewoman's night etiquette wasn't anything like that."
"A noblewoman's night etiquette? What's that?"
"I learned it from a book my mother gave me. I-it only showed the normal positions."
Normal positions?
It wasn't as if we'd had sex in any particularly abnormal positions…….
"You mean doing it from behind?"
"……It was extremely shocking."
"Penetrating from behind is easier."
"That has nothing to do with whether it's easy or difficult. It just looks like animals mating."
"That's what makes it good. It's arousing."
"……."
Stia stared at me intently.
"Dekal. You absolutely cannot teach things like that to a child."
"A child?"
"If I had your child, I would want to raise it as the legitimate heir of the House of Harpe. ……If you're all right with it, I want to reveal who the father is."
"Why would we hide it? You can reveal it."
Perhaps her worry had been resolved, because Stia smiled.
"Yes. Hearing you say that makes me feel relieved."
"But we don't know whether you're pregnant yet."
I embraced Stia again and gently fondled her buttocks.
Stia tensed in surprise and softly pushed me away.
"A few more times, just to make sure you get pregnant……."
"W-what are you thinking about in broad daylight like this? What kind of man are you, anyway?"
"Let's have sex. Sex."
"You can't act spoiled like you did last night again."
This time, I leaned over and nestled into Stia's arms.
"Dekal. Someone might see us. We can't do this here."
"No one will see us. We came all the way out here for a reason, so let's have sex."
Perhaps she couldn't bring herself to refuse when I acted spoiled, because Stia held my head and spoke gently.
"All right. But we have to finish our work first."
"Good."
My enthusiasm rose on its own.
"Let's get it over with quickly."
Stia took a Red Soulstone from inside her clothes.
The Demon King's Soulstones, which we had obtained far more easily than the difficulty of acquiring them that I had expected before the mission.
They had been carried by the bandits Seoyeon Park had killed.
How had the bandits obtained these Soulstones?
Were they products of the northern front?
Nothing had been uncovered yet, but these Soulstones were dangerous.
Just as Isti had done, it was my turn to destroy the Soulstones.
"Throw it on the ground."
"We don't know what might happen when it breaks. Let's do them one at a time."
"All right."
Stia threw one of the Soulstones onto the ground.
Nothing had happened when Isti broke one, but it was better to prepare for anything than not to.
With a tense expression, Stia glared at the Soulstone as if it were her mortal enemy, then drew her smallsword.
She looked as solemn as if she were about to fight an evil spirit that would emerge from the Soulstone.
Shall I blow it apart cleanly?
"Fireball."
I cast Fireball with a silent incantation.
The Focusing Bracelet reacted violently.
I overcharged it to increase its size, then compressed it at the same time.
It had the same power as the attack I had used against Seoyeon.
We had secured more than enough distance for safety.
All that remained was to aim accurately and fire.
I pointed with my hand and launched the condensed Fireball.
"Ugh!"
As clouds of dust rose, an immense blast of pressure engulfed us.
The heat was blocked by the curtain of wind, but the force of the explosion pierced through it and made our skin tremble.
I used a spirit to make the wind blow once.
The cloud of dust cleared, and I checked to see whether any remnants of the spirit stone remained.
Stia approached and examined it carefully.
“It’s broken.”
The few fragments that remained were quickly crushed beneath Stia’s feet.
It probably no longer possessed that ominous power from before.
“I was surprised at the mansion too, but you really are an incredible mage, Decal. Just as I heard from Karen.”
“Me?”
“Yes. Even someone without talent would have difficulty reaching this level no matter how hard they worked their whole life.
It feels as though I can see all the time you’ve spent working hard.”
I had worked hard.
But it wasn’t as incredible an effort as Stia imagined.
Thinking back on it, it wasn’t even enough to call it hard work.
“It wasn’t that difficult.”
“It wasn’t that difficult, huh?”
Stia gave a hollow laugh, as though she didn’t believe me.
“If that’s true, then you’re almost like a hero, Decal. Someone who crossed over into this world with absurd talent and saves people……”
“……”
That’s right. Sometimes I almost forget.
I was a transmigrator who had crossed over after receiving all sorts of special benefits from a goddess.
My circumstances were the same as a hero’s. The only difference was that I hadn’t shouldered the heavy responsibility of saving the world like one.
Park Seoyeon was the same.
She must have received special benefits from another god who had intervened in this world.
That was why an ordinary woman who had lived in the modern world could go around cutting down bandits with a great sword in hand.
I expected Park Seoyeon to have crossed far more perilous bridges than I had.
The audacity to face Stia and Karen simultaneously—two people I couldn’t defeat in close combat.
The durability to endure my Overcharging Fireball and escape with nothing worse than minor injuries.
She would surely be much stronger the next time we met.
“Decal?”
“Hm? Ah. I had something on my mind.”
“I’m sorry if I offended you.”
“What’s there to be offended about? It was actually praise far beyond what I deserve.”
“……You were thinking about that woman, weren’t you?”
“Mm.”
Was it that obvious?
I couldn’t help thinking about her.
The me who hypnotized women so I could enjoy myself had never hesitated.
But I still found it difficult to forgive the me who had hypnotized that woman in order to make her unhappy.
“Stia~.”
I leaned forward and embraced Stia.
Stia was flustered, but she hugged me back.
“Comfort me.”
“……It can’t be helped. When we get back……”
“Here.”
“Here? But this is outside……”
I gently fondled Stia’s buttocks.
Stia’s cheeks flushed as she stared intently at me.
It seemed she was trying to determine whether I was being serious.
Of course, I was serious.
Sex outdoors.
It was probably difficult for Stia to imagine.
“Can’t you hold it until we get to the inn……”
I rubbed my erection against Stia’s body.
I was an animal through and through.
“I want to have sex.”
“All right. Calm down. Whew…… I feel like I’ve ended up with a fully grown child.”
I lifted Stia’s skirt, pulled her panties aside, and carefully slipped my fingers between her legs.
If I carelessly poked around with dry fingers, I could hurt her since the area was so sensitive.
Stia’s pussy was already moist, but it wasn’t dripping wet like it had been yesterday.
Thinking she needed a little more foreplay, I slowly caressed her breasts while kissing her.
“Mmph. Hnn…….”
Stia seemed startled, as though she hadn’t expected it, but she soon adapted and accepted my tongue.
As I kissed Stia while she moved her tongue timidly, I gently stroked over her pussy with my fingers.
With the hand that had been fondling her breasts, I ran my fingers along the small of her back and took my time touching her.
Stia still wasn’t accustomed to sex.
If I suddenly did it outside, there was a good chance her body would tense up stiffly and things wouldn’t go as intended.
After taking enough time to relax Stia, I led her to a suitably tall rock nearby.
I took off my pants.
“We’re doing it from behind again……?”
“Like animals mating.”
Stia seemed embarrassed that I had said what I didn’t need to say.
“But it’s better than lying or kneeling face-down on the dirt.”
“……”
Unable to find anything to refute that with, Stia obediently placed her hands on the rock and stuck her butt out toward me.
I lifted Stia’s skirt and exposed her buttocks, then
pulled her panties aside.
I placed my penis against her sufficiently wet pussy.
“Decal. What if someone sees us?”
Perhaps it had begun to bother her, because Stia looked around for no particular reason.
Of course, there was no one around.
No one would go out of their way to come all the way to a place this empty.
I could have used the “Veil of Concealment” to hide our bodies, but……
“Couldn’t you use your magic, Decal……?”
Stia must have thought of it too, because she hinted at it subtly.
But that wouldn’t do.
I pushed my penis into Stia’s pussy.
“Ngh……!”
Stia endured it and accepted my penis.
I thrust my penis deep into Stia’s pussy and said,
“So what if we’re caught?
Let’s show them how affectionately we have sex.”
What would be the point of having sex outdoors if you took away the thrill?