Episode 213
"Lick, lick."
"Pff... I said stop it."
Since Lulu kept licking my face, I tried to stop her while bursting into laughter.
"Hah..."
"...Hah."
But ignoring my words, she removed her tongue from my face and soon after chomped down on my ear.
"Nom nom..."
Then, with my ear still in her mouth, she began gnawing on it gently.
"Ow, ow..."
Normally she would know how much to bite since she used to gnaw on my ears so often, but for some reason that day she was chewing quite clumsily.
"Lulu? That hurts a little?"
So I spoke to her in a soft voice, and she, who had been resting her hand on my shoulder, withdrew her teeth and started using only her tongue.
"...You're quite persistent today, aren't you?"
"Pff."
Thanks to that, I said so with a slightly troubled voice, and she slowly spat out the ear she had been holding.
"...W-woof."
"Pfft."
Then, she made a puppy whining sound in a small voice. Because of that, I forgot I was about to scold her and muttered in a low voice with a sigh.
"You've been making dog sounds for days... Have you become an actual dog now?"
"Woof."
"Pff..."
As I said, for the past few days, Lulu had been repeating the behavior of smiling at me whenever she saw me and making puppy sounds while burying herself in my arms.
Since it was quite cute, I had left her alone, but considering today's incident where she bit the knights and tried to abuse her Magic Eye.
Indeed, it seemed she had become excessively loyal to me since that day.
Well, it feels good to have gained an ally who doesn't incur penalties, but... still, there's a concerning part.
'What if she becomes too loyal... and Lulu gets hurt?'
With that thought, my heart suddenly started trembling.
"Hah... hah..."
"Woof...?"
Since I was breathing rapidly, Lulu, perhaps flustered, started stroking my face.
"Hwah... I-I'm fine, Lulu. I was just, just anxious for a moment..."
Though I said that to Lulu, my heart was still being squeezed tight as if someone had grabbed it with their hand.
"...Ugh."
As I was chewing my lips, I soon lowered my head and fell into thought.
'I don't want... anyone to get hurt because of me...'
Things I thought were distant were becoming reality. Just today, the Imperial family and the Order invaded the mansion, and didn't they leave me in this state?
Moreover, Lulu, Irina, and even Aris and Arianne were interrogated by investigators.
It goes without saying for Serena, and it's only a matter of time before Kania, Klana, and Perrotche are revealed to be on my side.
And if that happens, all of them will become targets of the Demon King.
"...Gritch."
It's not for nothing that the penalty increases as the success probability decreases.
If even one of the main heroines dies, it's game over, and if the sub-heroines die as well...
Furthermore, Perrotche said it was definitely the 'limit.'
Meaning that even the last resort, 'Retry,' cannot be expected much.
'Calm down, let's calm down...'
Just before being crushed by the growing responsibility and burden that came with having more people to protect, I recalled the note with the DLC pattern that Serena had given me as a gift.
I quietly began to take deep breaths.
- Shaaa...
At the same time, my heart became at ease.
Of course, my mental state was automatically restored due to my high mental power stat, but for some reason, separate from my mood, my heart kept beating uncomfortably.
"Lick."
Because of that, I was making a complicated expression when Lulu licked the front of my face.
"........"
Feeling a strange sense of stability and comfort from her licking, I closed my eyes gently, unlike usual, and accepted the licking.
"...Hey."
After quite some time passed, I left my heavy heart behind and whispered in a low voice to her who had been diligently licking my face until then.
"Thank you for saving me. And..."
I thought I needed to firmly warn her so that she wouldn't recklessly throw away her life in the future.
"...I love you."
I, too, had come to cherish her so much before I knew it.
"So please, don't get hurt. Don't act recklessly. From now on, follow my orders."
Because if she, no, not just her but anyone got hurt because of me, I thought it would be so sad.
"Please."
I whispered so with a sincere expression.
"Huh?"
As soon as those words ended, she suddenly stopped licking.
""............""
Thanks to that, silence lingered in the room.
"Hah, hahhh..."
".....?"
It was a moment later that a dazed moan echoed through the room.
.
"Lulu?"
"Hahh... hahhh..."
To soothe Frey, who was making an anxious expression for some reason, Isollet, who had been diligently licking him without realizing it, started breathing roughly.
'C-calm down. I have to calm down...'
Though it was covered by an eyepatch, she had heard Frey's voice right in front of her, whispering that he loved her with such a pure smile.
Because she had once again witnessed Frey's pure appearance that she had so wanted to see.
From her heart and lower abdomen, hot energy was surging up without her realizing it.
'H-hot...'
Because of that, even though she clearly recognized that she shouldn't show it, Isollet was already breathing hot breaths in front of him.
'Why? Why on earth? Why does this happen whenever I see Frey?'
She didn't know, but it was because the affection system had acknowledged that she had been conquered.
That's why, every time she trained recently or thought about wanting to protect Frey, her heart becoming hot was a sign that the potential she possessed was stretching its limbs, but.
"Hahh..."
The heat surging from her lower abdomen was a signal that the nature she had recently awakened was popping out again.
"Churp..."
Therefore, Isollet, unable to control herself, slowly began to lick down Frey's face.
Not imitating Lulu's appearance of licking him to show that she was submitting, being loyal, and being dominated.
But with her whole body dominated by the hot energy surging from her lower abdomen, with just pure desire and lust.
She began to lick Frey stickily and slickly.
".....?"
Because of that, Frey, noticing something was different from usual, started tilting his head.
"Hey, Lulu? Won't you stop now and untie me? I don't have the strength to undo this..."
"Lick..."
But Isollet's tongue, whose eyes had already rolled back, didn't stop.
"Lu, Lulu...?"
Her tongue movements, persistently sticky, descended from Frey's face to his neck.
"Oh? Ohhh..."
"Hah..."
After diligently licking his neck, she went below that. And below that again.
"W-wait!"
When Frey finally cried out in that situation, Isollet, who had been licking him with dazed eyes, soon came to her senses.
"What, what is it?"
Before long, she began to stare at Frey, who was asking with a flustered expression.
"...Gulp."
Frey cannot move right now.
In his firmly locked room, his whole body tied tightly with rope, with even an eyepatch on, sitting in a chair.
Moreover, his colleagues are being interrogated outside the mansion, and even the animals are being investigated for whether they are illegal creatures.
That means only she can control Frey in this sealed space.
The delusion-like fantasy she had every time she lay on her bed to calm her excitement was now unfolding before her eyes as reality.
"Lulu? Why are you like this today?"
Furthermore, he's mistaking her for 'Lulu' right now.
Should she be called his lover? Or a slave? Or perhaps a pet? Anyway, someone with not a high wall for affectionate acts.
- Squeeze...!
Because of that, feeling a sensation of her whole body getting goosebumps, Isollet began self-justification again.
'I, I did save him, didn't I? I saved Frey who was about to suffer something terrible. So, strictly speaking, I'm the one who heard the words of love.'
As she said, she had rushed to the mansion with her eyes flipped over as soon as she heard the news that Frey was trying to create evidence that he had ravished the investigators who came to investigate.
Actually, she was able to stop it just before it happened.
Right now, the two vice-commanders are sprawled unconscious in the room, having fallen from Isollet's blow.
'A, and... this can't be helped. I have to make Frey my, my family...'
And what Isollet saw wasn't just his ravishment plan.
The various operations scheduled to be applied to Frey if the plan failed were too terrible to even put into words.
'Strictly speaking, I'm saving Frey's life. So... he should rather be thankful.'
As a result, Isollet, who had almost completed self-justification in her brain.
"...Hey?"
"Ah."
"I, can you untie me now? If you keep doing this, I'll get mad? It's getting stifling?"
When Frey, tied tightly to the chair, sweating cold sweat, asked with a timid expression.
'Don't know, don't know don't know don't know.'
Eventually, she stopped thinking altogether.
'Now I don't need anything else.'
She now had only the thought of dyeing the sickly boy in front of her in her own color.
- Swoosh...
Therefore, she, who climbed onto Frey's left knee.
"...Churp."
".....!?"
For the first time in her life, she kissed.
During her knight trainee days, when they asked if she had ever kissed, saying she'd live as an old maid forever, she had only blushed at their mockery and thought she would never do such shameless acts.
But inside, she also had a girlish heart that wondered what kissing would feel like.
"Mmm..."
The first kiss was sweet.
"Habup..."
Addicted to that sweetness, she held Frey's hand without even breathing and endlessly explored his tongue.
"Hwbup, up... suffocating... huu..."
Only after Frey started making a painful expression from lack of breath did she remove her lips from him.
"...Gulp."
She rolled around the saliva she had been cherishing in her mouth and then swallowed it.
"Hah... hah..."
"Lick."
Before long, she even licked with her tongue the saliva hanging from Frey's lips, who was breathing rapidly.
- Swoosh, swwoosh...
She slowly began to twist her body and rub against his knee.
"...Uht."
Frey, who had been making a dazed expression, soon realized what that meant and blushed.
"Huu... huuuu..."
Isollet, unable to control her excitement and continuing to twist her body, soon grabbed Frey's hand so tightly that blood couldn't circulate.
- Srrk...
And buried her head in his chest.
"".........""
And the silence that began.
"Huu..."
In that silence, for a while, only the sound of Isollet's breathing echoed in the room as she buried her head in Frey's chest as if trying to imprint his scent.
"......."
In that situation, Frey, who had been making a troubled expression.
"Lulu, are you doing this because of that?"
Soon asked quietly.
"Because I didn't let you make a wish when we made the Oath of Death?"
"......!?"
At those words, Isollet, who had been burying her head in Frey's chest with tired eyes while pretending to be Lulu, flinched.
"You don't need to feel guilty. That was my choice."
'Oath of Death...? What does that...'
Before long, hearing the words 'Oath of Death' again, she, who had been lost in thought with trembling eyes.
"I won't die. I'll try somehow not to die."
".....!"
When Frey spoke in a sad voice, she opened her mouth wide and looked at him.
"I'm looking for a way to extend my lifespan. I haven't found it yet, but don't worry. I'll definitely find it in the end. It's determined that way."
'...Didn't he tell me it was a lie.'
Like that, Isollet, who had been blankly staring at Frey trying to soothe Lulu, whom he believed was in front of him, with an effort to smile.
"So promise me. I'll try not to die too, so you also promise not to act recklessly."
When he spoke in a soft voice like that.
"Quickly, promise..."
'...F, Frey.'
She hugged him without realizing it.
'Is it really, really a limited time? Really?'
And, with her head now calm, she began to think of various possibilities.
'If so, what's the reason he lied to me? What's the reason he revealed such a position to the newspaper?'
"Hey..."
'Frey, what exactly...?'
Like that, she, who had been thinking over and over while looking at Frey in her arms.
"...You, what is this?"
".....?"
When Frey suddenly asked in a gloomy voice, she tilted her head.
"Lulu isn't this big-chested...?"
"...Ah."
At the words that slipped out of his mouth, she made a dazed expression.
"And, Lulu has short hair."
In that situation, when Frey stroked her hair and spoke again, her expression started to turn pale.
"...Is this enough, shall we breach? Let's go in."
"Hah, even the vice-commanders, really. To volunteer."
"Camera ready? Start preparing for immediate distribution."
And at the same time, the signals of the investigators who received orders from the Imperial family and the Order started to be heard from outside.
"One... two..."
"This won't work."
While the investigators were preparing to breach, and Frey, perhaps because the ropes were loose, was trying to escape from the chair in this desperate situation.
"........"
Isollet, who had been silent, made a quick decision.
.
"What batch are you from?"
"4, 456th batch..."
"I'm from the 455th batch..."
"Hatchlings, I see."
Isollet was glaring with a terrifying expression at the vice-commanders who were kneeling against the wall with their hands raised.
"What you've done right now is clearly a fabrication."
"Hey, let's talk separately for a moment..."
"Hem, hm... this wasn't something we wanted to do..."
"Silence. I can exercise my authority to dismiss you immediately."
"...That's abuse of authority!"
According to her explanation, the Imperial family and the Order did this to bring me down.
In other words, the ones who had been licking me and doing affectionate acts until now were none other than the vice-commanders.
"Unfair! I was unconscious here..."
"Silence. I don't want to cause an authority conflict, so just leave for today."
But there are a few questions.
"We can't do this!"
"Shut up!"
First, why is Isollet's face red?
[19+ Event Unlocked!]
[Isollet Arham Bywork's 19+ event routes, a total of 3, have been unlocked!]
Second, why did the affection system, which had just been updated, notify of her event liberation just now?
[These events are lower priority events.]
Third, if Isollet's events are lower priority.
What exactly is the highest priority event at this point?
[Hidden Quest: Remove Serena's Subjugation Curse]
[Reward: ???, ???, ???, ???...]
And finally.
[...Serena's 19+ event liberation & highest priority designation]
What is this?