I Was Sucked Into a Shady Gender-Reversal Novel – Chapter 20

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Teottry
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The door closed. At the point where I had saved to fix my ankle, only Pilmark and I remained.

“Uh, excuse me.”

Blood was leaking a lot from Pilmark’s mouth. Her body was all bruised and swollen from Neiva’s punches, except for her mouth.

“OMG, oh my… This is too…”

It was too much. Even though she was a bad bitch, this was too much.

“Ugh…”

I opened my eyes narrowly and examined Pilmark’s condition. It was a state where it wouldn’t have been strange at all if she had just died.

“Kueuk… Keck…”

Yet her breath was still clinging on. It was a miraculous vitality.

“A-Are you alright…?”

“Ah… Delrin…”

She looked up at me with a smile. Her eyes were bloody and her vision was out of focus.

“Aye, ’tis naught but a scratch… I’ll nae be dyin’ from the likes o’ this… I’ll be mendin’ right quick again, ye ken…”

But she ended up puking up some dark, thick blood. The blood clotted on the floor, and that stank like death.

No. I wouldn’t feel pity for something like that! This person was a criminal, and Neiva, who was trying to help me, had simply disciplined her. Yes. That’s it…

“E-Enough. You’re going to die anyway. I’ll just get to the main point. My ankle, fix it quickly…!”

Anyway, since I’ve already used my save, I’ll try every method I can think of to quickly heal this ankle and get out of here…!

“Delrin.”

Huh? Was it working right away? Her voice became very gentle.

“Aye, if ye help me unlock this right now, me hearty… everythin’ will turn out bonnie. As long as ye unlock it, ye ken…”

There was no way it would work. Pilmark let out a frustrating sound.

“Unlock it? After trying to kill me! And then asking me to unlock it for you! If you were in my position, would you unlock it!?”

“Delrin… I’ll be tellin’ ye one last time, lad… Help me now. And then… Let’s flee far away together and live quiet-like… Aye?…”

Her appearance, grinning broadly with split lips, was utterly absurd. And somewhat frightening.

“No. I have no intention of living with you. From the beginning, we aren’t in any kind of relationship…”

“Nae…! We’ve got somethin’ special between us! We love each other, we do… Aye?…”

“Ugh…!”

The sight of her writhing with her dying body made me unconsciously recoil in fear, and I found myself backing away.

“Ach, ahh… come closer, lad. Aye?… Hurry now… I’m nae tryin’ to frighten ye. Come on then…”

“E-Enough, just fix my ankle as quick as possible! I’m in a hurry!”

I had to fix my ankle quickly so I could go around and get information and find companions!

“Why should I fix it? Aye…? It won’t hurt if ye stay close to me… It’ll just hurt if ye get a wee bit far away…”

“Haa, really…! Hey! It’s annoying as fuck, so please just stop it! You caught me and just…! You raped me like a complete animal, and what? Love? Are you really crazy!? Why do I have to stay by your side!”

Unable to bear it any longer, I yelled. Anyway, since I had a save point, there was nothing to fear. It seemed I should just curse at her to my heart’s content while I had the chance. She was pitiable after being beaten, but as she kept babbling nonsense, my blood was boiling!

“Swooop… Delrin… I can smell yer scent, lad… Mmh… Swooop… Haa…”

Fuck! What the hell was she doing?

“St-Stop that and fix my ankle quickly! You’re going to die anyway, so stop being a nuisance, fix it and die!”

“Aye, I ken. Aye… I can hear it all too… But it’s gettin’ harder to bear, ye know… Let’s do it just once. Right now…”

“You crazy…! You crazy bastard!”

Was she really crazy? I figured she wouldn’t fix it easily, but she was just babbling like having some loose screws, so even I was getting dizzy.

“Enough. You crazy bitch… I’ll just live as if I don’t have an ankle!”

“Aye. Aye… If ye live usin’ only one leg, ye’ll always be thinkin’ of me… When ye climb the stairs, when ye go down them… Even when ye cannae properly take a wee walk ’round the village… Every single day…”

Pilmark laughs. That laughter, as if she’s overjoyed and thrilled, echoes through the prison.

“Aye, then I’ll be content… I love ye. I mean it…”

“You, you are… crazy. You’re just crazy.”

It seemed things went wrong.

Back to the beginning.

“Load!”

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Persuasion.

“If you just fix my ankle, I’ll try to persuade Neiva not to beat you anymore. You can’t keep living getting beaten until you die…! If only you fix my ankle…!”

“I love ye. Ye ken how I feel, aye…?”

“Haa… Load.”

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Threat.

“If you don’t fix my ankle right now, Neiva will come and beat you tomorrow…! Like today! She’ll come and beat you each day! Can you bear it!?”

“If it’s just thinkin’ of ye, I can bear anythin’, aye… When I get out of here later, let’s flee far away together…”

“Argh, I won’t! Load!”

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Despite trying persuasion and threats about fifty times each, changing the lines and conditions very desperately, Pilmark didn’t budge. I simply couldn’t understand what this bastard was thinking. Right. From the moment she did this kind of thing to my ankle, this bastard was hopeless. No. It was back then. From the time she caught me and raped me, she was a completely hopeless bitch.

I absolutely couldn’t fix my ankle with this kind of talk. So…

Anger.

“Fix it quickly! Stop acting like a dick and fix it now!”

“I love ye. Mmh. I also… I mean it…”

“Haa, Fuckk…! Load!”

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Having gotten mad at her, filled with frustration, anger, and irritation, dozens more times. By the end, I was so mad I even hit her, but she didn’t seem to feel my punches and kicks and even chuckled. She even seemed to like it. Dog like Bastard.

So, finally…

Request.

“Please, can’t you fix it? It’s really urgent… Please… I want to go back quickly…”

“Me, ye see. When that bitch hit me, I protected me belly as much as I could… ‘Cause later, when I get out, I need to have wee ones too…”

“Aahk… Please just…”

Having faced this crazy bitch hundreds of times, I simply had no strength left. I was someone who couldn’t even be bothered to reroll to get an S-rank character while lying on a bed, and using the Save or Load ability seemed no different. But I had to do it. This wasn’t a game, it was [reality] where my life was at stake…

Ah? But thinking about it… Did I choose the save point wrong? I should have just immediately saved first.

Fuck.

-Swooop…

No. The save point I made most recently was inside the carriage, so at that time, the poison was already in my ankle.

Right… If I had known this would happen, I would have just saved one more time at Neiva’s house. Idiot… Was it more advantageous to put the save at the very beginning? Because that way, I could try various things. But then again, there was the problem of giving up all the relationships I had built and going back, making the things that turned out well into nothing. But still, would that be more advantageous?

“Haa…”

Anyway, I had to use it more carefully. Because if I chickened out too much and spammed saves, I could end up in a hopeless situation. Only now did that fact sink in.

As expected, humans seemed to only learn after experiencing things once. Anyway, since I had made a save point, I had to resolve the ankle issue somehow.

“How do I fix it? Yes? Just say something. Whew…”

“Mmh… Tell me ye love me…”

“Alright. I love you. I also love you.”

“Aye, I love ye too… We, we’re… destined, ye see. Aye… That’s right…”

Destined?! I simply couldn’t accept her unpredictable changes. The sight of her knee-kicking my stomach was still vivid in my eyes, and after seemingly protecting me a bit from other bandits, she then tried to kill me…

And now, confined in prison, waiting for the day to die, she was babbling about destiny and love…

“If you love me, don’t do this kind of thing to my ankle and release me quickly. What is this…”

“It’s ’cause I love ye… Delrin… Ye still don’t understand how I feel…?”

“Haa, seriously…!”

Tears finally burst out. No matter what methods I used, I couldn’t persuade Pilmark. This fool. Idiot. An idiot who couldn’t even use an ability properly. I tore at my hair fiercely, sobbing. There was no answer. It seemed better to just leave it as it was and hope for the next time.

I shouldn’t cry. It’s alright for now… It’s not all over, and my ankle isn’t permanently unusable. There’s still plenty of time. It usually took several days to persuade someone…

Even though I had Loaded so many times, from Pilmark’s perspective, it was a situation happening for the first time…

“Enough. I’ll just leave today. Still, if you really loved me, you should do good things for me, not cause this kind of nuisance. You should cherish me, care for me, and be considerate. This isn’t love.”

“Delrin…” Pilmark looked up at me.

“Yes. I also might have opened my heart to you towards the end. But, in reality, you were the one who ruined it. I don’t want that kind of love. I’ll leave now.”

When I confessed my honest and true feelings, somehow her attitude felt quite different. Had my sincerity been conveyed a little?

“Live well in the next life.”

“Aye. Alright then. I’ll fix yer ankle. But… till they hang me, will ye come visit me…?”

Pilmark’s words began to be interrupted by sobbing. Had the story about love that I had uttered after hundreds of reloads, my attitude of giving up and trying to leave. Had these things changed her?

“I can do at least that much.”

“Aye, then come closer…”

My emotions also softened a little in her somewhat softened atmosphere. I carefully stepped closer to her, one step at a time.

“I’ll fix it, so… really, honestly, just once, let me kiss yer lips… I’m beggin’ ye…”

“Is that true?”

“I swear it. I stake everythin’ I have… Just once, let me feel yer lips one last time…”

Pilmark finally shed a tear from her one remaining eye. That single tear that flowed down beyond her blood-stained face was quite mellow, making me feel pity and regret for her again. Perhaps she just didn’t know what love was. Even if that was the case, it was way too late. Still, couldn’t I at least give her a kiss at last?

“Please keep your promise.”

I lifted her chin up, met her eyes for a moment, then slowly pressed my lips against hers. Her lips felt quite cold and sticky. Her tongue tried to enter my mouth for a moment, but after lingering before my tightly closed lips, it eventually returned back to her mouth.

However, even though it wasn’t a kiss with tongues touching, that kiss was very affectionate. Unlike the long, deep kiss we shared in the hideout, it was just a kiss where our lips met for a moment…

Despite being a lighter kiss, it felt heavier than the kisses we had shared before.

In the end, my heart opened up to that kiss. I opened my lips and accepted her.

A somewhat long kiss followed. During that awkward moment when our tongues met, we both shared a final kiss. Knowing this was the last time, I let her have my tongue as she wished.

A desperate kiss, one that continued so long and passionately that my tongue gradually felt like it was losing strength… A kiss that felt like it was paralyzing…

Huh?

“Huu…”

She pulled out her tongue and was the first to break the kiss. Our lips were connected by long strands of blood and a purplish liquid.

“Auu.. Uuu?”

Strange word just uttered from my mouth. My slurred pronunciation came out just as it was. My tongue stopped functioning.

“Euu…! Euuueu!”

Her one remaining eye, placed right before my vision, was stained bright red, perhaps because I had poked it. But as if she could see me very well with that eye, with a very deep and profound gaze…

“Ye cannae Load… now, can ye…? Pull out the wedges driven into yer body right now. If ye don’t want to live without Load for the rest of yer life…”

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