I Was Sucked Into a Shady Gender-Reversal Novel – Chapter 19

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Teottry
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“I am sorry. I didn’t have time to wipe off the blood,” she said.

“Wh… What happened? Yes? What was it! Were you hurt…?” I asked.

“It was not my blood,” she replied.

“Ah…?”

“Pilmark was looking for you. I tried to persuade her in my own way, but she resisted to the end.”

Neiva said that and walked all the way to my bed. The acrid smell of blood wafting from her was enough to make my head dizzy.

Thanks to that smell, scenes began to play back in my mind about what kind of [persuasion] she had come from doing. Imagining Neiva beating Pilmark to the extent of being covered in blood was not a pleasant thought.

‘S-still, she did it for me, so…’

I forced a smile and looked up at Neiva. My body was instinctively retreating due to fear, but still, she was Neiva, who was helping me…

And, and! Imagining things like this was a bad habit. How could I know what Neiva did?

There was no way kind Neiva would interrogate so mercilessly!

“Delrin. I am sorry. It seems you have to meet Pilmark directly to fix your leg.”

She looked down at me with sad eyes. Was not being able to help properly something to be so sad about?

“With my ability… it seems I cannot help you. I am really sorry.”

“What nonsense! You’ve already helped plenty! You’re helping me even now. Please don’t talk like that. The ankle issue isn’t your fault, Pilmark is the bad one! I’ll go and settle things directly with her and come back. Please take me there.”

“Then. Ride on my back.”

Unlike the front part which was bright red, her back was still as it was. As if she had only received the blood in the front for me.

“Yes.”

I got onto her back again. A back that, more than the strong smell of blood, felt more of her hot body smell from finishing hard work. My head was dizzy from the very captivating scent, but I probably wouldn’t get an erection this time. Her face, stained with blood, was holding onto my reason…

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Neiva walked under the moonlight with me on her back. The moonlight of this other world felt a little bluer, a little colder. Under the guidance of that blue moon, we headed to where Pilmark was, and on the way there, a chilling coldness lingered for some unknown reason.

The place we finally arrived at was a tower-like structure guarded by many knights. They saluted Neiva respectfully and opened the heavily closed door with difficulty.

-Grrrrrind

The door, so heavy that it dug up the ground as it opened, perhaps showed the firm will of the knights to completely isolate the space inside.

“That’s enough. You worked hard,” Neiva said.

But Neiva didn’t wait any longer and opened the thick door with one hand, then soon entered the dark interior space and pulled the door shut again. In that dark interior, a spiral staircase led downwards. Neiva, carefully descending the stairs, instructed me on a few things with a serious voice.

“Pilmark is a dangerous person. Although her strength is already sealed, the words she utters from her mouth are just as dangerous, so please be careful.”

“I understand.”

“Also, as I saw while [interrogating] her, Pilmark is strangely obsessed with you right now. Aim for that point and ask her to heal your ankle injury.”

“Yes. I’ll keep that in mind.”

Fuck… The endless stairs and continuously receiving Neiva’s very serious words were making me so anxious I felt like I would go crazy. It felt like meeting a final boss.

“If you kill her, the injury will never heal for life, they said. You have to fix your leg before she is escorted for execution.”

“Do-Don’t worry. I also have my own thoughts.”

Still, it was alright. Pilmark was confined now, and I had the Save & Load ability…

I would try to persuade her, repeating it several times. To find a way back to my original world, I had to have both my legs healthy first.

“Have you finished preparing?”

“Yes. I am ready.”

The end of the stairs. A heavy stone door. A sealed stone door with a very complex magic circle drawn on its surface.

As Neiva placed her hand on it, the blue magic she used soon spread from her hand, and that blue magic began to fill the gaps within the magic circle.

The magic I saw briefly when she wrapped the bandage on my ankle earlier…

-Creak-creeeeeak

The incredibly thick stone door gradually rose upwards. When that stone door, which had been blocking the long, narrow entrance, finally went all the way up, something pitch black was visible at the edge of my vision.

‘What is it?’

As Neiva walked carrying me on her back, it gradually became visible in more detail. Upon closer inspection, wasn’t it Pilmark with an incredible number of stakes driven into her arms, legs, back, and thighs?

‘Good heavens…’

She was also completely covered in blood, and perhaps because she was extremely exhausted, she was slumped over. To be more precise, she was in a state where thick iron chains connected to her arms were forcibly holding her up, preventing her from falling completely forward.

“Delrin.”

The first thing that came out of her mouth was my name. I got goosebumps at her voice calling me as if she had waited hundreds of years.

“Delrin, Delrin… You finally came. Delrin…”

-Clang, clang

The thick, blue iron chains that bound her body shook. Following her as she raised her head to see me, they shook.

“Delrin. I was waitin’… Come closer. Quickly…”

Neiva seemed to glare at Pilmark for a moment, then soon slowly walked towards her. Naturally, me on her back too…

“Neiva… You leave.”

“Delrin can’t walk properly because of your dirty ability, s…”

“Leave! Leave, I said! Get away from Delrin!”

The small space was filled with Pilmark’s agitated voice and the unpleasant sound of the iron chains. Seeing that sight, I involuntarily became afraid. I became terrified. I wondered if I could even call that a person.

“If ya are near me, ya can walk, so, Delrin… Walk over yerself. Quickly…”

Still, since my legs had to heal… I swallowed hard and whispered quietly into Neiva’s ear.

(“For now… I’ll go from here by myself.”)

“Neiva. Ya turn ‘round and get lost. I’ll never fix him if yer here. Get out and close the door,” Pilmark ordered.

Neiva turned her head and looked at me, then soon carefully lowered me to the floor and slowly retreated.

“I cannot close the door. I have a duty to protect Delrin, a…”

“Don’t call him Delrin! Don’t call him that! I’ll kill ya!”

“I have a duty to protect Delrin! You dirty bandit bastard, I will behead you like this and…!”

“I’ll kill ya! I’ll kill ya! If ya don’t leave, I’ll kill ya first!”

“You will never get out. Pilmark. The only day you get out is the day you die.”

“I’ll kill ya. Definitely. I’ll definitely kill ya. I’ll definitely kill ya, I said!”

Their shouts from front and back echoed as if to tear my eardrums. The walls of the small space couldn’t absorb those spiteful sounds and just bounced them back, so it even felt as if the world was ringing constantly.

“Ne, Neiva. It’s alright. It’s alright, so… Close the door, please.”

“Neiva…?”

Pilmark soon thrashed as if having a seizure, then glared at me with her right eye stained red and yelled.

“Delrin, what did ya just say…? Neiva, ya say! To that dog-like bitch, why! Why were ya talkin’ like that! Don’t tell me, ya, did ya perhaps already… with that bastard! Ya!”

At that crazy struggle, Neiva immediately rushed towards me and blocked me, then walked even faster and plunged her foot into Pilmark’s stomach.

-Thud

“Kkeu…Hueuk…”

Pilmark, unable to fall forward due to the iron chains, poured out thick blood, then looked up at Neiva and began to giggle.

“Poohut… Kuep… You foolish bitch… Pretendin’ to be a knight and actin’ up…”

This time, Neiva’s fist struck Pilmark’s face directly. The sound of terrifying pain scraped my ears.

“If you utter one more word, I will kill you right here.”

“Ahat, Ahahak! In the end… A foolish bitch who can’t protect anythin’, huh? Kill me if ya want… In the end, ya won’t be able to protect anythin’ this time either. Ya were goin’ to make him live as a leg cripple for life, weren’t ya? As expected, our Neiva is amazin’. For real…”

Merciless violence continued. The sound of bone crushing bone, the sound of blood splattering everywhere, pain mixed with laughter, and the sound of punches full of malice…

I involuntarily stumbled back from that murderous scene and fell.

“Huu, Huu…”

Perhaps having heard the sound of me falling, Neiva soon stopped punching and turned around to look at me. However, I couldn’t look into her eyes. I couldn’t properly look into those eyes that had just finished violence and sadism. If I did that, I felt as if my hidden thoughts would be conveyed to her.

“Delrin.”

“Ye-Yes…”

“You will be alright now. I will wait outside, so please call me when you are finished.”

Neiva finished speaking and walked towards me as if to help me up, extending her hand. However, perhaps having soon realized that her hand was covered in blood…

“Hmm…”

She withdrew her hand and walked outside.

“Save…”

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