The night before last, I enjoyed a “virgin play” with Myale, who came to my guest room late at night.
This was an advance payment for Myale’s efforts to save the acting governor, Baron Shuze Nikolai Von Hylandora, whom she had a crush on, from the trap of lust and appetite.
At that time, my usual nosiness led me to release an elixir into Myale’s uterus to help her recover from her illness, but she, now full of energy, drained me of all my semen with her services.
This was… an unforeseen event.
In the end, I spent yesterday in bed.
And now that I’ve somehow recovered enough to use “healing magic,” I’ve decided to sneak into the former lord’s mansion to scout the enemy.
Initially, I considered asking Mai, who excels at undercover work, or Sharon, who is agile and skilled with hidden weapons, but I was concerned about the possibility of an encounter with a demon, so I decided we should all go together.
Of course, fully armed.
But I wonder how Myale managed to know about such a highly secret passage?
Currently, we are walking through the town of Ribidoon, with Myale leading the way.
No, she’s completely recovered and sticking to my side, directing us.
“Hal-sama, Hal-sama, we’ll reach an intersection in a little while, so please turn right ♪”
“What in the world… I gave up my turn for the night duty, yet to be treated like this puts a bad taste in my mouth.”
“Really… me too. My turn… is gone too.”
Kylika and Mai are complaining behind me.
As their attitudes clearly show, Kylika was supposed to have her turn for the night duty on the night I enjoyed “virgin play” with Myale.
And Mai’s turn, who is in agreement, was supposed to be yesterday.
Mai can break into my bedroom even if it’s locked, but I guess there was nothing she could do since I was sick in bed.
Furthermore, some of the party members from the “Princess Harem,” led by Alicia, are frowning at Myale’s blatant flirtation.
The other party members also seem very interested.
I feel like I’m some kind of rare specimen being stared at… it’s uncomfortable.
In reality, Myale is just a commoner’s daughter, so she’s like a new toy to the party members.
It’s easy to get rid of her, so perhaps she’s being allowed to run loose for now?
I also don’t think she’s someone who warrants a “slave contract magic” binding.
“I… might offer my virginity to Hal-sama as well…”
Sharon, a quasi-party member who had been observing the situation, sent me a sidelong glance, feigning nonchalance.
Looking back, the situation is strange.
Sharon Hasshishin, who originally belonged to the “Assassin’s Guild,” had a profession of “killing her own kind” to eliminate traitors.
The incident began when she happened to discover that Mai, Killing Doll No. 46, and Liliana, Killing Doll No. 49, who were supposed to have been decommissioned, were still alive. She contacted us according to the Assassin’s Guild’s internal rules to dispose of them.
Both Mai and Liliana should have died during their missions, and there was no way they could have survived.
Naturally, Sharon, who was merely a hidden weapon user, was no match for us and was captured, with her life and death left in my hands.
If she had been a purely ruthless assassin, I could have just executed her, but I decided to give her a chance to reform, as she secretly wanted to leave the “Assassin’s Guild.”
I also recall threatening her at the time, saying something about scattering her virginity if she resisted…
She was sent to St. Agnes Abbey with the daughters of former demons and apparently came to admire them like an older sister.
So, when I called for her, she was quite mentally stable.
Sharon has a keen sense of smell, so she’s likely picked up on the benefits of having sex with me.
I want to save Sharon too, this unfortunate, beautiful girl.
I’ll leave it up to Sharon’s own volition whether to perform the “First Night Ritual” on her.
After all, if Sharon wanted to, she could easily sneak into my locked bedroom like Mai.
Looking around, Edele seems to be deep in thought about something.
She’s probably contemplating the liberation of the northern kingdoms.
Unexpectedly, through Ain’s mouth, they received revelations from Lucialurei, the goddess of light, and seem to be pondering their own futures and the fate of the world.
Myale then interrupted their thoughts, being the troublemaker.
“Hey, hey, Shera! Turn into ‘Elder Sister Shera’ with two fox tails already!”
Chop, chop, chop, chop.
“That’s right, I need mine too. Then… Elise and I will be the heroes who defeated the Demon King.”
Chop, chop, chop, chop.
“Hmph, I’ll *never* do it! My fox tails are the source of my magic!! You won’t get them!!”
To my right, Shera, with a greatsword on her back, was being pestered by Elise and Freya.
It seems that because Shera was found to have the potential to become a Demon King, the two of them are teasing her under the pretense of preventing her from transforming.
Incidentally, both Elise and Freya were holding scissors and opening and closing them, showing their serious intent.
Shera, on the other hand, was guarding her pure white and fluffy fox tails behind the blade of her greatsword.
Elise was shocked when Lucialurei called her a “bloated shrine maiden.”
As revenge, she’s now tormenting Shera.
Naturally, Freya, who is Elise’s rival, also joins in.
Poor Shera, whose Demon King potential was exposed, will just have to endure until Elise and the others get bored.
But, was there really a future where Shera would become a Demon King?
Would she have become the Demon King if she had continued to be a guest of the bandits after not meeting us?
Shera is generally timid, and while she can be cunning, she’s also lazy. Unless there’s a very compelling reason, I don’t think she’d try to become a Demon King.
“Where do you think the burial site of Sariand Waiyar-sama is, Liliana?”
“Well… there are several places associated with the Sword Hero, so it seems we’ll have to search every inch of Ashurai, the former capital of the Waiyar Imperial Kingdom.”
“That’s right… He’s the founding king of the great Waiyar Imperial Kingdom, yet his burial site can’t be identified… It’s completely hidden.”
“Yes, it is. It’s also one of the corners of that barrier…”
“This is going to be a difficult search.”
On the other side, Ly and Liliana were discussing the burial site of Sariand Waiyar, one of the ancient heroes, renowned as the Sword Hero.
This discussion had taken place before, but it reignited after Lucialurei pointed it out.
In this way, Lucialurei’s words were causing various ripples.
If it had been mere fortune-telling, I might have dismissed it, but this was from Lucialurei, a high-ranking God Clan and the supreme god of light.
It’s understandable that her influence would be immense.
We left the inn, Weathercock, and, guided by Myale, passed through the commercial district of Ribidoon, crossing bridges and going through the downtown area, before reaching a quiet residential neighborhood.
This appears to be the district where the vassals who served House Viscount Romaneil reside.
“Myale, are we there yet?”
“We’ll see the entrance if we walk a little further.”
Myale was heading towards a communal kitchen on the outskirts of town.
“Is there an entrance here?”
“That door you see there leads to the tunnel of the aqueduct network that extends underground.”
As expected, the secret passage seems to connect to the former lord’s mansion underground.
While some ancient ruins and relics related to God Clan often involve spatial transfer via teleportation magic circles, for human-made structures, creating underground passages was the best they could achieve.
No, for ruins from the Ancient Magical Civilization Era, it’s possible they achieved it with technologies beyond our knowledge.
And what was found beneath the Portland Castle Ruins was related to Dentemetina, the Earth Mother Goddess.
We plunged into the dimly lit aqueduct network.
In the town of Ribidoon, water is drawn from a nearby river for the aqueduct.
The tunnels for the aqueduct and the sewage from the residents crisscross, forming a kind of labyrinth.
Well, it seems no magical beasts inhabit it, but it’s a difficult area where first-time explorers are guaranteed to get lost.
Stone passages were built on both sides of the flowing aqueduct underground.
Coincidentally, moss that emits light was planted on the stone walls, so although it was dim, it wasn’t completely dark, creating a mysterious atmosphere like walking under a starry sky.
And since it was an aqueduct, the absence of foul odors from sewage and filth was a great relief.
“I never knew Ribidoon had such an underground tunnel network…”
“Isn’t it amazing, Hal-sama? This is the glory of the historic Waiyar Imperial Kingdom.”
Myale seemed proudly like it was her own accomplishment at my exclamation.
In the rear, Ly, who had her thunder stolen, sighed.
Liliana and Tirna comforting her is a common sight.
We walked in a long line along the narrow underground passage.
However, the Holy Spirit Serena and the three vampire sisters, who had their seals broken and transformed into beautiful girls, were acting separately and were supposed to be following behind.
Meanwhile, Astarotte and Sharon were with us.
“Myale, how do you know this place so well?”
“Actually… I’m friends with the daughter of the lord who was publicly beheaded by the Espana Imperial Army… and she told me in absolute confidence. So, I was serving Shuze with the intention of revenge… I never thought I’d fall in love with Shuze, my enemy… Life is truly unpredictable.”
“What kind of relationship did you have with that young lady?”
“The young lady, a Viscount’s Daughter named Roserita Floral de la Romaneire… was my milk sister.”
Then Myale told me about her memories with Lady Roserita.
Although they were milk sisters, Myale, who was 17, and Roserita, who died at 13, were born in different years, so they didn’t grow up together from infancy.
Strictly speaking, Myale’s younger brother and Roserita were brother and sister due to nursing, but since Myale was also raised on the same mother’s milk, they were milk siblings in a broad sense.
When Myale’s mother started working as a wet nurse at the lord’s mansion, she was brought along with Myale when Roserita started babbling with “Ahhh” and “Uhhh,” around the time she began speaking.
For the sake of her emotional education, the choice fell upon Myale, who was of the same gender.
In the end, her arrogant younger brother didn’t get along with Roserita and they grew apart, but conversely, Myale and Roserita became close.
Roserita had fluffy, curly hair the color of sweet pinkish rose gold and lovely sky-blue eyes, making her an adorable beautiful girl.
Her smile, like a rose, was apparently a symbol of peace.
However, their peaceful lives came to an end when the Espana Imperial Army suddenly invaded.
As the Espana Imperial Army relentlessly advanced, Viscount Romaneil, Albert Sultana de la Romaneil, was gravely wounded and died in bed, as I had heard from Dodge, the reseller and information broker. However, the explanation of Roserita and her mother, Viscountess Tanatoria Anastasia de la Romaneire, being publicly beheaded was more detailed.
Myale’s memory was a humiliating one, as she could only watch from outside the fence.
After Tanatoria was beheaded, Roserita’s steps were heavy as she was led to the execution platform, held by lecherous executioners from either side.
Her attire was a simple prisoner’s uniform, a far cry from how a viscount’s daughter should be treated.
To make matters worse, her mother, Tanatoria, was beheaded right before her eyes, and she seemed to be in a state of shock.
On the execution platform, there was a wooden stand for the head, and an executioner holding a beheading axe was waiting.
The executioner was a stout man with a potbelly, and his face was covered by a triangular black hood.
Roserita, placed on the execution platform, was blindfolded, and guided by touch to the beheading block, was asked to place her head.
The common people were sympathetic to Tanatoria and Roserita, and the beheading was carried out amidst shouts of anger.
When the young Roserita’s severed head fell into the basket, spattering bright red blood, the people’s grief was immense.
Incidentally, the bodies of the vassals who were beheaded before them were immediately cremated, but their bodies were taken away and displayed next to the town’s main gate, though Myale herself did not verify this.
She probably didn’t want to see the mangled bodies of those she was close to.
Myale, who had finished speaking, desperately held back her tears.
Behind me, Alicia was crying along, and everyone else also had tears in their eyes.
I understood it was meant as a warning, but the tragic end of a beautiful girl made my eyes well up.
Thank you for reading.
Episode 48-12 “Is it a banquet of wine and meat?” is scheduled for release on March 15th at 00:00.
