Episode 229
"L-let go...!
"Tut-tut."
Ruby, putting more strength into Frey's arm as he struggled this way and that, lowered her head with a composed expression.
"...Lick."
And moments later, her moist tongue touched Frey's neck and passed across his cheek.
"Hmm..."
Frey turned his head at the wet, creeping sensation, but he couldn't escape from Ruby who was already pressed against him, cheek to cheek.
"...Nom."
Thus leaving a long trail from his neck to his cheek, Ruby moved a bit further forward and wrapped her tongue around his ear, and soon his entire ear was in her mouth.
"Gah!"
And at that moment, Frey twisted his body with all his might and kicked at Ruby's stomach.
-Zzt...!
But the moment his foot touched her stomach, a barrier formed.
"How cute."
At the same time, Frey's leg lost its strength, and Ruby, not missing that opportunity, grabbed his leg with a soft smile.
"I didn't know you'd be this aggressive."
After that, Ruby wrapped Frey's leg around her waist.
-Squeeze...
Then, pressing down on Frey again, Ruby applied fierce force.
"Stop! I said stop! No!!"
Frey, looking at Ruby with a pale expression, thrashed his legs and screamed, but...
"...Accept me."
Ruby, looking down at him with cold eyes, quietly sealed his lips with hers.
...Gulp, gulp."
And then, Ruby began feeding him her saliva.
"Mmh..."
Frey felt dizzy from the softness of Ruby's tongue mercilessly probing inside him and the sweetness of her saliva.
"........"
As her saliva continued flowing into his throat, threatening to choke him, his eyes became hazy and he started trembling.
"Hah..."
Finally, as Frey's eyes were closing, Ruby slightly lifted her head.
-Drip...
About when the thin strand of saliva connecting their mouths broke, Ruby quietly placed her hand on Frey's cheek.
"Frey."
She asked the still-dazed Frey a question.
"...How does it feel to have your insides violated?"
Saying that, she gently stroked Frey's stomach where the saliva she fed him would be mixing around.
"You're already tainted by me."
When Ruby smiled and said that, his expression changed to one of disgust.
"...Ptui."
Moments later, Frey, whose arms were still held by Ruby, spat on her face.
"...Slurp."
Still keeping her eyes fixed on Frey, Ruby licked up the saliva he had spat out with her tongue.
'For now, the primary objective is successful... I just need to wait for the medicine to spread.'
With enraptured eyes, she continued stroking Frey's stomach, waiting for her saliva to completely violate him.
"...Hmm. It wasn't in the original plan, but."
Then, Ruby noticed the ring on Frey's hand.
"When I see something like this, doesn't it make you want to cross the line?"
Due to his struggles, his white glove had come off, revealing a white ring on the ring finger of his left hand.
As far as Ruby knew, that ring was definitely made of the 'Stone of Purity.'
"Ah, no. No!"
Realizing what Ruby intended to do, Frey kicked at her with all his might.
-Zzt... Zzt...!
But naturally, the kicks were blocked, and Ruby wrapped his weakened legs around her waist once more.
-Swish...
In that situation, with one hand tying Frey's arms above his head and the other grabbing his shirt...
-Rip...!
She tore his shirt open in one motion.
"Ugh..."
Buttons scattered across the floor, and his clothes were ruthlessly torn.
"Hah..."
Breathing roughly, Ruby reached for his lower body and pressed her stomach against Frey's.
"...Good."
His stomach was hot. The saliva she had put in was definitely doing its job.
"Look at that."
With everything going perfectly, Ruby felt deep satisfaction and began provoking Frey.
"In the end, it was just a difference between voluntarily matching navels with me, or being forced to. Nothing more."
"........."
"Your eyes are still alive, I see?"
But Frey's eyes were still filled with hatred and disgust.
"Perfect."
Those eyes that wouldn't break under any circumstances felt more beautiful to Ruby than anything else.
"Truly..."
The pleasure she would feel when those eyes started dying seemed to already be spreading through her body.
'Yes, Frey. Since it's come to this... rather than just isolating you here, I'll completely...'
Looking at Frey who was glaring at her to the very end, Ruby thought this as she pressed into him, but...
'...I'll break you.'
-Zzt!
"...Hah?"
Right at that moment, a very thin barrier formed.
-Slide...
Frey's legs that were wrapped around Ruby's waist slipped loose, the warmth on her stomach disappeared, and Frey's arms were freed.
[Warning.]
[Your current act is classified as 'attack.']
[No matter how much you cover my eyes, you cannot bypass this any further.]
And then, a golden message floated before Ruby.
"...I got too excited."
Because of that, feeling empty, Ruby tapped the thin barrier separating her from Frey.
"Then first... let me calm down a bit... and again..."
She said that with a smile, but...
"Open the door!!"
-Bang bang bang!
"...Hmm?"
When sounds came from the door, her eyes went round.
"...I cast a perception-hindrance magic, didn't I?"
When she locked the magic on the doorknob, she had certainly cast a perception-hindrance magic to prevent anyone from approaching this place.
But what was going on...
".....?"
The room's doorknob was shattered from the impact applied from outside.
How dare someone break through her magic? And completely shatter it at that?
"The door... seems to be open...?"
-Creeeaak...
Seeing that, Ruby realized the door was opening and made a quick judgment.
-Tsk.
She decided she needed to accelerate the operation to isolate Frey.
.
"...So."
The atmosphere in the room was frigid.
"What is this situation?"
Vener, Ruby's guard knight who stood at the front of the passing maids, knights, and several nobles, asked in that cold situation.
"W-well..."
Then, Ruby, who had been tying her disheveled clothes, spoke with her head bowed and a trembling voice.
"I was talking with Lord Frey, but..."
"...And then?"
"H-he suddenly..."
Saying that much, Ruby bowed her head deeply.
"...Enough."
Gently patting Ruby's shoulder and draping a cloak over her, Vener...
-Thud, thud...
Walked toward Frey with a cold expression.
"You know well enough what you've done, I presume."
"Um... cough!!"
And before Frey could say anything, she punched him in the stomach.
"Ugh..."
"Get up."
When Frey lowered his head with slightly unfocused eyes, she grabbed his hair and lifted his head.
-Slap!
She slapped Frey's cheek.
"W-wait a minute..."
"To touch the Hero, you must be out of your mind. I'll execute you right..."
"W-wait a moment!"
Not satisfied with that, Vener grabbed Frey's throat with a disgusted expression, but when someone grabbed her leg, she looked down.
"Y-you need to listen to what he has to say first! Why are you being so unreasonable!"
It was Glare, the very person who had led everyone here.
"...Little girl, move aside."
"Hey! Please don't do this..."
"You don't understand things yet. This person is..."
She desperately grabbed and pulled at Vener's leg, but Vener was adamant.
She who fanatically worshiped justice was an elite who graduated as valedictorian from Sunrise Academy a year ago and was even a former student council president, but she wasn't knowledgeable enough to recognize the Tower Lord's disciple who revealed himself to the world for the first time today.
"Cough..."
"...Filthy."
She had already concluded that this incident was a situation where the Hero Ruby tried to reform the evil Frey, but almost got assaulted by his ugly and disgusting self.
"W-wait! She's the Hero! It doesn't make sense for the Hero to be overpowered..."
"Then do you want to say the Hero attacked Frey?"
Therefore, judging Glare as an interference, she...
"If you don't move right now..."
Reached out to Glare with a cold expression, but.
"I-if she did attack him!"
Dodging her hand, Glare squeezed her eyes shut and shouted.
"If it was the opposite situation, what would you do!"
"......."
At that, a cold silence descended on the surroundings.
"...Pfft."
But that silence...
"Puhahahaha!"
"Pfft... puhu..."
"...How amusing."
Turned into sneers and mockery.
"What, do you have any evidence?"
"Grr..."
In that situation, when Vener asked that question, Glare who was grinding her teeth...
"Ah!"
When someone pulled Glare backward, she fell flat.
"Eek..."
Thanks to that, rubbing her bottom, she tried to get up again, but...
"........."
Seeing everyone around her making mocking expressions and glaring at Frey, she stood with a blank expression.
"Something... something went wrong..."
Therefore, Glare who had a pale expression...
"This isn't right..."
Muttered that, clenched her fist, and tried to stand up, but...
"...Stay back."
"What?"
When the person who had pulled Glare back whispered to her, she hesitated for a moment.
"Hey."
"Who is it now? I don't need any more interference..."
And at that moment.
-RUMBLE!!!
"Kyah!!"
A loud noise rang out in the room.
"...Cough."
Moments later, as the dust cloud that rose in the scattered room settled, Vener was revealed, crashed into the wall.
"You...!"
Coughing for a moment, she urgently drew her sword from her waist as the one who caused this approached her, but.
-Zzt...!
When the opponent also drew their sword from their waist and shattered her sword by striking down on it, she looked at the remaining handle with a blank expression.
"Hero, and Vener."
In that situation, pointing her sword at Vener's neck.
"This is a summons from above."
Isollet, unable to control the hot energy surging from her heart.
"You... this action right now is..."
"And."
With an overbearing aura, she spoke to Ruby.
"Hero, we'll have a talk later."
Looking at her very suspiciously.
"...Vener, come with me."
"But!"
"Come."
After a while, when Isollet left with Vener in tow, Ruby who was chewing her lips with an anxious expression...
"Frey..."
"Hah, hah..."
Seeing Frey who had collapsed on the floor breathing roughly...
"Did you intend all of this?"
She frowned and asked.
"...Who knows."
Frey showed a small smile to Ruby and spoke in a low voice.
"Well..."
Ruby stared at him.
"...Keep holding it in."
She whispered in a soft voice.
"Anyway, you're mine now."
She stroked his stomach gently and smiled.
"...Puhuh."
Seeing Frey turn pale again, Ruby lovingly stroked his stomach once more and left the room.
"........."
And for a while, silence flowed in the room.
"Ugh..."
Even after Vener was slammed into the wall, quite some time passed, but Frey was still sitting on the floor with blank eyes, arms wrapped around his legs.
"...Ugh."
Then, Frey suddenly gagged.
"Eeech..."
With tears in his eyes, he spat out saliva from his mouth.
"Uuu..."
The saliva Ruby had forcibly pushed in created a puddle on the floor.
"Hah... hah..."
Watching this, Frey gagged again and muttered with a trembling voice.
"I'm... not corrupted... you stupid bitch..."
Then, the heat and strange feeling that had been dominating his body began to fade.
"Later... I'll make use of it in reverse..."
Experiencing it firsthand, Frey did his best to vomit out the traces Ruby had forcibly left throughout his body, when...
-Beep, beep-beep!
"...Hem."
When the communication magic tool rang, he fixed his expression and answered the call.
-Frey! What's going on! I heard you had a confrontation with Ruby!
"...Klana."
Then came the voices of Klana and Serena, so very welcome.
-Talking with Ruby wasn't in the plan! What happened?
"...It's nothing, just a trivial matter. Nothing you need to worry about."
"B-but...!"
"I'm fine... I'm okay. No problems at all."
Frey soothed her with a gentle voice, her worry so evident.
"...I love you, Klana."
Closing his eyes, he whispered.
-M-me too.
Hearing that, Klana said so flustered, and...
-Beep.
Frey cut off the communication.
"Ugh... uuugh..."
And he, with hollow eyes again, mechanically vomited out the traces of Ruby inside him.
"Do you know?"
"What?"
"The young master... attacked the Hero, they say!"
"...I'm not even surprised anymore."
Those voices came to his ears from the gap Glare had broken.
"...When does he die? That bastard?"
"........"
Realizing those were the voices of servants who once worked at his mansion, Frey quietly lowered his head.
[Hidden Quest: Corruption]
At the same time, a system window floated before him.
[Reward: Everything]
That system window was glowing redder than ever before.
[Will you accept? Y/N]
"........."
Looking at the acceptance window below, covering his mouth with his hand, unconsciously vomiting saliva...
-Creeeaak...
Hearing sounds in front, he closed the system window and quietly looked ahead.
"...A-ah, hello."
When the door finally opened, what appeared was Glare standing with a trembling expression.
.
"Eeech..."
'I... what did I do?'
Glare, who saw Frey vomiting saliva with dark eyes even after she entered the room, thought to herself.
'What... exactly?'
Though she was outside the door, she heard him making a phone call as if nothing had happened right before entering.
The gagging sounds that followed. And the maids' harsh conversations passing by the corridor.
And she was looking at the figure of a man who looked more miserable than anyone else.
"Hey, oppa."
Glare, who had been watching Frey for a while, carefully approached him.
"...I'm sorry."
And bowing her waist, she said tearfully.
'If only I had asserted myself more back then...'
She was regretting quite a bit.
'I'm so stupid...'
Not making a stronger claim that Ruby had attacked Frey in the earlier situation.
"........."
But in truth, there was nothing Glare could do.
Because Ruby was looking at her suspiciously.
If she became the target of her magical power powerful enough to make even herself shudder, she wouldn't be able to help the Hero, and she would have no way to stop her, so Glare couldn't be more forceful.
Of course, given that no evidence worked due to Ruby, the fact that she went that far without any photos or video recording devices was already impressive, but.
"Hey, oppa."
Glare, who had been clenching both hands tightly, carefully approached Frey.
"Why... why didn't you tell the truth?"
"What?"
Then Frey opened his eyes wide.
"I... I saw. That person called the Hero, she was..."
Saying that to Frey with a serious expression...
"Get lost."
".....!"
When Frey pushed her away, her eyes went round.
"...Don't get involved with me."
Watching the ring sparkling on her left hand, Frey said that.
"........"
And silence flowed between them.
-Thud, thud.
Glare, who had been standing with wide eyes, slowly took steps.
"Don't acknowledge me. Leave, I said... eek."
When Frey tried to push her away again, he flinched as Glare had already bowed her waist, reached right in front of him, and extended her hand.
-Swish...
But Glare merely placed her hand on his cheek.
"...I told you to apply cream."
Moments later, Glare's soft and warm hand stroked his cheek.
"The wound will get worse. Stay still."
Even though it was covered in saliva and quite dirty, without showing any sign of dislike, she stroked his cheek and...
"My dream was... to protect others."
She said with a trembling voice.
"Long ago, my life was in danger... but someone saved me."
"........"
"This ring was also given by that person. Look, it's really cool, right?"
When Glare said that and held out the ring shining on her left ring finger to his face, Frey's eyes trembled.
"So, I wanted to protect someone like that person too..."
Watching him, Glare lowered her head.
"...I don't think I'm qualified for that."
Quietly bowing her head, looking at Frey who was in tatters.
"Were you threatened? Or, for some other reason..."
"...It's because I'm bad."
"What?"
"Because I did something wrong. A very ugly and disgusting act. That's why what just happened was a just act. No problem at all."
Quietly watching Glare, Frey stood up.
"So forget about today, kid. Don't get involved with me anymore."
Leaving those words, he headed for the room's exit, stumbling with Glare behind him.
".........."
Because of that, Glare made a dejected expression and lowered her head.
"Hero... I..."
With trembling eyes, she grabbed the ring on her ring finger.
"Oh, right."
Frey, who was about to open the door and go out, stopped and turned around.
"...Thanks for the cream."
And then, he showed a gentle smile for the first time in a long while.
"Thanks for helping, kid."
Leaving those words for Glare who had opened her eyes wide, Frey quietly opened the door and left the room.
".........."
And for a moment, silence flowed in the room.
"...Right."
Pushing the ring she had taken off her fingertip back onto her finger, Glare broke the silence by muttering.
"First, let's start by helping. If I can't even help, there's no way I can protect anyone."
With determined eyes, she muttered.
"So I need to... somehow help that person."
Chewing over her newly set goal.
"A-and..."
Of course.
"...Another goal too."
Stroking the ring on her left ring finger, she chewed over the wish she couldn't voice out of embarrassment earlier.
"It's interest on the debt I owe the Hero."
That day, Glare shined with an exceptionally bright white light.
.
Meanwhile at that time.
"...What is this?"
Frey, heading to the bathroom ignoring people's stares to finish vomiting Ruby's saliva...
"This is..."
He was genuinely flustered seeing the window that floated before him right after refusing the Corruption quest.
"What on earth is this?"
[Quest: DLC]
[Description: ???]
[Achievement Condition: ???]
[Reward: ???]
A magnificent 'white' window with a design he had never seen before was floating.
It was a moment when coincidence connected to inevitability.