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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Mod7
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“When we were first sent to pursue that witch, I was certain we would die… but luckily we encountered a careless witch and I was able to behead her.”
Elicis shared her tale of how she received this church and how she managed to capture the witch, laying out her heroic story.
The more details I heard, the more I understood she wasn’t simply a credit thief who had stolen Master’s achievement.
However…
‘Without Master, it’s impossible to imagine she could have achieved this.’
The fact that she, a rookie holy knight, was able to behead the witch was 99% thanks to Master. If not for Master, the army pursuing the Fire Witch would have killed her, and the reward would have been split among countless people.
Considering that a crusade of holy knights had failed to hunt the witch and suffered heavy losses before the army was dispatched, it’s questionable whether that army would have actually succeeded in hunting the witch.
The fact that the Fire Witch happened to be there, and that she was too distracted to notice Elicis – all of this was thanks to Master.
In that case, shouldn’t Master technically be the owner of this church? And as her legitimate disciple, shouldn’t I have some authority here too?
With these thoughts, my attitude instantly became arrogant.
“…Johan? Why are you suddenly acting different?”
“I just realized I have no reason to be so humble.”
“I’m not sure what you mean… well, anyway, the reason I asked for your time is this-”
Elicis said this while pulling out a necklace from her clothes. A necklace too ornate for a clergy member to carry.
It used to have a large jewel set in the center. Now the center where the jewel had been was empty.
“What happened to the jewel?”
“Here it is. Just as she said, it shattered immediately when I did as instructed.”
She said this while pulling out the jewel, now split in half, from her clothes. Though it was a flawless beautiful jewel, seeing it broken like this made it look like a glass toy.
Though it had lost all value, Elicis, being a member of the clergy, didn’t seem to have brought it out to discuss its worth…
“Back then, she told me to grip this and pray if anything threatening her happened. I did so, and at that moment the jewel shattered.”
“…Is that so?”
“Yes, that’s what I wanted to ask about. Have I fulfilled my duty with this? Or did it break because my grip was too strong?”
“Hmm…”
I didn’t really know either. But with my dignity as Master’s disciple on the line, I couldn’t say that. Finally, after receiving the necklace and jewel from her, I casually said:
“I’ll ask Master.”
“Yes, would you do that?”
“Is this all you wanted to ask?”
“Ah, there is one more thing I wanted to say.”
“What is it?”
After collecting the necklace, Elicis spoke with a hardened expression:
“If I’ve fulfilled my duty, then my life debt is cleared- next time we meet, we’ll be enemies. Witch’s disciple.”
“…Shouldn’t you confirm that first before saying such things? What if I lie and say your duty isn’t finished?”
“Th-that’s…”
“Be honest, you’re just saying this because you don’t want to fight Master, right? Trying to ease your conscience by having me say you still have obligations…”
“…You may leave now.”
As if struck right where it hurt, Elicis immediately threw me out. Outside the church, I realized more time had passed than I expected.
By now, we should have already been eating breakfast. Including the time needed to prepare breakfast after returning, we would be starting our meal much later than usual.
‘Master must be hungry.’
When I quickly returned to the cabin with Marguerite’s help, surprisingly Master, who was weak in the mornings, had gotten up by herself and was sitting at the table.
“Master? You’re up? I’ll quickly prepare breakfast…”
“Johan.”
“Yes? Yes. What is…”
“Come here.”
I approached her hesitantly, walking meekly when called like a pet.
And as if she really did think of me as a pet, Master pulled me into a tight embrace when I got close. Led by the irresistible grip of this beauty into her arms, Master buried her face in my neck and took deep breaths repeatedly.
“Sniff- haah, sniff… haah.”
“M-Master?”
“Stay still.”
“Y-yes…”
After sniffing for a while, Master seemed to notice something disturbing and stopped breathing in entirely, starting to stare at me intently.
“Johan.”
“Yes…”
“Where have you been and what were you doing?”
“Ah, I went to the city to buy ingredients…”
“I see. Then why do you smell like another woman?”
Another woman’s smell? Not understanding what she meant, I tilted my head and asked if it wasn’t Marguerite’s scent.
Master looked up at me with lifeless eyes.
“I see, so Johan is trying to deceive even his Master.”
“No, that’s not it, really… I haven’t done anything…”
“Then are you saying your Master is lying?”
“W-well… probably not?”
“So you admit you lied to me?”
“Um… is that what this means?”
Something felt off, but since it was Master saying it, it couldn’t be wrong. When I nodded, Master quickly got up and led me toward her room.
Even as I was being pulled along, I kept glancing back at the dining table hesitantly.
“Ah, but- I need to prepare breakfast…”
“Do it later.”
“But…”
“Is breakfast more important right now? When you’ve deceived me?”
“No, that- I didn’t deceive… oh, did I? What’s happening?”
My head was spinning. I couldn’t think straight. As if possessed by something, my mind wouldn’t work properly.
In the midst of this confusion, Master wielded her firm will over me.
“You need to be punished, don’t you?”
“Punish… ah, punishment… do I need it?”
“It’s common sense that wrongdoing deserves punishment, isn’t it?”
“That’s true but… did I do something wrong?”
“…So you’re saying deceiving your Master wasn’t wrong?”
“It was wrong. I was wrong, Master.”
Only after admitting this did I feel my head clear. Master’s words were truth, and having committed a wrong against her, I had to follow what she said…!
However, being afraid of pain, I carefully opened my mouth:
“Um, Master…”
“Whaat?”
“Since I don’t like pain… please make it a punishment that doesn’t hurt…”
“…Are you in any position to make such requests?”
“Ah, you’re right. Was I not supposed to do that? Then I take it back.”
Perhaps because I kept changing my stance after agreeing to punishment, Master looked at me with an expression of disbelief.
However, she finally succeeded in leading me into her room. As I squeezed my eyes shut, trembling in fear of what punishment awaited, I felt my body float up and get thrown onto the bed.
Feeling the soft mattress support me, I carefully opened my eyes. Was this the punishment? Being thrown onto the bed?
Unfortunately not. Master quickly straddled me after throwing me on the bed. If I hadn’t braced myself for her jumping on top of me, I would have let out an involuntary groan.
“…Johan?”
“I wasn’t thinking anything strange. Really.”
“What? Why suddenly… never mind. You need to be punished, right?”
“…Yes.”
“Don’t tremble so much. Your punishment is- this.”
Chu-
Master lowered her head and kissed my neck. After kissing me, Master’s face turned red and she started trembling.
“H-how’s that? You have to stay here with me all day! And I’ll cover up all those other women’s scents on your body!”
“A-all day!?”
“Yes! All day!”
“Can’t I at least eat?”
“…No. You can’t.”
“Not even use the bathroom?”
“No, you can’t- no! Your beautiful and lovely Master is offering to stay with you all day! Is that the only reaction you can give!?”
“But… this is a punishment, right? I can’t enjoy punishment…”
“Ah- right, that’s true.”
It was common sense that one should suffer while being punished, but Master seemed to want me to be happy about receiving punishment.
That wouldn’t make it punishment.
Master seemed to realize this belatedly, as she scratched her cheek before kissing my neck again. It was hard to believe this was the same person who had fainted from just a kiss on the cheek a few days ago.
Chu chu- Each time Master’s kisses covered my body, each time those soft lips touched my skin, my heart pounded. Burning desire aroused excitement.
“Master.”
“Y-yes?”
“I’m hard.”
“Wh-what? Why suddenly…”
“It’s so painful I want to devour Master right now, but I should endure it, right? Since it’s punishment.”
“Ah, I don’t think you need to endure that…”
“What? But shouldn’t I be suffering for this to be punishment? Otherwise it becomes a reward instead of punishment? I’ll endure it.”
“Ah, no- that… yes. Endure it. Endure until the end.”
When I mentioned being painfully aroused, Master became inexplicably depressed. Could giving punishment to her disciple be that distressing for her?
Seeing Master so troubled just from punishing a disciple who had done wrong, I couldn’t stay quiet as her disciple.
“Master! Don’t worry! No matter how much I suffer! No matter how excited I get! I absolutely won’t lay hands on you!”
“No, if it’s too hard you don’t necessarily need to…”
“No! Even if my balls explode and I die! I will!! Absolutely!!! Not touch Master!!!”
Hearing me shout this, Master sighed deeply and buried her face in my neck.
Master, who had been glaring at me while sucking on my neck, was now sucking so hard it almost hurt.
It hurt, but I could endure it.
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The next day.
As dawn broke and I came to my senses, I realized I hadn’t been in my right mind yesterday.
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