I Was Sucked Into a Shady Gender-Reversal Novel – Chapter 21

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Teottry
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“Ohh! Ohheuht…!”

My pronunciation was slurred. Even when I tried to shout ‘Load’, proper pronunciation wouldn’t come out, making it all useless.

My tongue hung limp in my mouth as if it had fainted, losing its function and freezing up.

Panicked, I put my hand in my mouth and tried to move it, but it was useless.

My tongue showed no sign of moving, as if it had been stiff from the very beginning.

I had only tried to show pity and grant her one wish, but one thoughtless, foolish action had brought about an irreversible result.

“Eyiik…!”

I glared at Pilmark with a sense of betrayal.

However, Pilmark responded to my contemptuous gaze with a smile in her eyes.

“We’re one now, aye…?”

Anger shot to the top of my head, and my body trembled violently. At the same time, tens of thousands of thoughts flooded my mind due to this unprecedented emergency.

What was I supposed to do?

Should I call for Neiva?

“If yer thinkin’ of callin’ that knight bitch, ye’d better drop it… If I get even a wee bit more pissed off, I’ll lose me head and beat her ’til I kill her, ye ken…? Heh… To kill a great sinner like me ’cause she cannae control her own emotions…? She’d be tortured and die in me place…”

No. That was just a lie.

Who would kill someone of the rank of a Knight Captain like that?

I shouldn’t listen any more and quickly, before the situation worsened, call Neiva…

“There are probably ower a hundred nobles who want to capture me and kill me themselves, aye…? And it’s not just the nobles. The queen from the neighborin’ country and his eminence the great cardinal and… the archbishop…”

Forget it.

No.

Neiva wasn’t a person who would ruin things because of her emotions… was she.

Ugh…

Or was she?

“Think carefully… Well, bein’ stupid is yer charm, so I won’t stop ye… Pfft… Yer cute… really…”

The furious expression I had seen earlier lingered in my mind.

Could it be that the events between them, which I didn’t know about, had left a considerably deep grudge?

Not a simple relationship, but more like bitter enemies… was that their relationship?

If so, then really, if by some chance…

“Ah, ahat! Ahahaha! Delrin, Delriin… Ye think that uptight bitch would kill me…? Huh? Why are ye thinkin’ so seriously… If she killed me, ye’d have to live as a mute and a cripple for the rest of yer life… Pffft…”

W-was that so…?

Right, she was someone who helped me so much…

No, wait a minute! Why was I getting swayed by her words again!

“hu hup!”

Shut up!

“Aye. Don’t be angry… I was just sayin’ it ’cause yer cute… But, think carefully. Can ye live without yer Save & Load ability? Huh? The moment ye call that bitch, the chance to fix it will be gone forever… ’cause I’ll never fix it…”

Instead of an answer, I glared at her strongly once more. I didn’t want to answer, nor was I in a situation where I could answer properly.

“Ye tried hundreds of times just now sayin’ ye’d persuade me, but in the end, ye couldn’t do it properly, could ye? Right? If so, ye should give up by now… Delrin… Don’t make things difficult and choose the easiest path… These wedges. Pull ’em out.”

“Ugh…”

“Ye can’t live if ye just walk out of here, so what are ye hesitatin’ for… So stupid. Really… Heh… Heh-heh… Ahahahahat! Ahheuk… This is so funny I could die…”

I wanted to spew curses at her mocking face, but my mouth wouldn’t open.

However, what made me angrier than my mouth not opening was, that every word she uttered was the truth.

“Ye know what’ll happen if ye leave just like this, aye? A boy, all alone, livin’ as a mute and a cripple in the Kingdom of Albator without any connections… If ye can do it, go ahead. I’ll cheer for ye. Sincerely…”

Hah…

“Ughhh…!”

I pulled one wedge with all my might.

It was driven in so firmly that I had to summon every last bit of my strength to finally pull just one out.

“Keuk… Aye… That’s right…”

At the pain of pulling out the wedge that had dug into her flesh, Pilmark grimaced and let out a groan.

By now, several ugly, pierced holes dotted her body.

It was a physical state where it wouldn’t have been strange if she had died…

“The last one, quickly… pull it out…”

“Heup! Eup! Eueup!”

This wasn’t the time to worry about such things.

I immediately went to her face, presented my lips and ankle, and signaled for her to fix them quickly. I kept my mouth firmly shut, angry, because I hated speaking with a slurred pronunciation.

“Eut! Ee-eut!”

“Hurry now… If I die like this… ye’ll never be able to fix it… I’m gettin’ dizzy…”

Shit.

It didn’t seem like an empty threat, as her pupils were gradually losing focus.

I could not look at her properly because the hideous holes in her body were so unpleasant to see, but the problem seemed to be the enormous amount of blood gushing from them.

In fact, it was an amount that would not have been strange even if she had already died…

Right. First, I had to pull it out before she died.

If she died like this, I would be really fucked!

“Keu…heuk…”

-Shluk

The last remaining wedge finally came off her body.

Soon, Pilmark seemed to mutter something, and then she began to spew a purplish liquid from her mouth.

I watched it in silence…

That purplish liquid flowed down her skin, and when it touched the wounds, the pierced holes healed, new flesh sprouted, and the bleeding stopped in an instant.

It was really a marvelous ability. I could feel with my own body that this was a fantasy world.

“Ptooey ”

This time, she spat that liquid toward the iron chains that bound her.

And this time, even those mysterious iron chains began to melt away!

“Now I can breathe a wee bit. Huu…”

Pilmark once again stood firmly on her own two feet.

“oo hain! hain bih!”

You lying! Lying bitch!

Her body, moving for the first time in a while, seemed quite stiff, so she was stretching here and there. I approached her, opened my mouth wide, and pointed at my tongue. Fix it quickly!

Ah, I had to fix my ankle too.

“Hih i! Hih i!”

Fix it! Fix it!

I pointed at my ankle and got angry again. Fix this too!

She soon looked at me, grinned, and then…

“Delrin. As I figured, yer…”

She wrapped her arms around my waist and suddenly poured a kiss on me!

“Eup!”

That sticky deep kiss continued for a very long time.

I tried to push her away with all my might, and I also tried to bite her tongue that had entered my mouth, but in the end, I could only be held in her arms and have my tongue toyed with.

She ruthlessly violated my tongue, which could not even properly tense up.

“Chyuu… There ye go. All better, aye?”

Only after she was satisfied with the amount of tongue-wrestling did Pilmark let me go.

I was so annoyed by the fact that I had been held by her and subjected to a kiss I didn’t want, that I immediately pushed her away and once again pointed a finger at my tongue and ankle.

“Hih i hao!”

Fix it now!

“What. Weren’t ye askin’ me to give ye a deep kiss? That’s what I figured.”

“Haaah…”

My head grew dizzy at her nonchalant words. If I were just a little stronger, I would have smashed that bitch’s face in!

“Hold on there, lad. First, we need to get out of here. There’s nae need to treat ye right now. I never said I’d be releasin’ ye right away, either.”

This fucking bitch!

“Hei! Hih i haoo!”

Hey! Fix it now!

“That’s plenty now, step aside. Me poison’s painin’ me a wee bit.”

Pilmark soon left me behind and stood in front of the thick door.

“Aye, they tried hard this time. Looks like they really intended to finish me off. Dinnae worry, Delrin. Yer nuna doesn’t die from somethin’ like this.”

Who decided you were my nuna?

Just because you’re taller, does that make you a nuna?

“Now then…”

Pilmark brought her finger to the door.

Soon, her finger melted the door and went in very deep.

The hole it melted seemed to grow larger and larger, until it was soon big enough for a person’s head to fit through. After a little more time passed, it became just like a cave.

Pilmark went inside, put her ear to the wall, and after a moment, she grinned with eyes full of murderous intent.

“Now yer dead. Ye fuckin’ bastard.”

Wait a minute. Dead?

“hap! haahp!”

Stop! Stop!

What was she trying to do to Neiva!

I immediately ran towards her. However, Pilmark subdued me far too easily with one hand.

“Just stay put. I’ll teach ye a lesson later… I’m busy right noo. I need to kill her first so there’ll be nae problems later.”

“Hoo! Honk ho ih!”

No! Don’t do it!

“Ach, for crying out loud…! Keep still! I told ye it’d hurt if ye touch it!”

Right in the middle of the struggle, a blue light came on at the doorway.

It seemed Neiva was trying to open the door to check the situation inside.

“Shit!”

Pilmark soon lifted me, who was clinging to her thigh, and slung me over her shoulder.

Then she put her hand under the door that was beginning to open and started to spray something.

It was a liquid of an even deeper purple than the one I had just seen.

“Ugh…!”

Even I, who knew nothing about magic or abilities, could instinctively sense its danger.

If it touched you, you would die. And not just die, but die very painfully.

“Heh-ah! Geh ahay!”

Neiva! Get away!

“Delrin! What is happening!”

Neiva’s voice seeped through the gap under the door.

“Cohe he hoohr!”

Close the door!

However, my words and intentions were not properly conveyed to her.

“Emergency! Emergency!”

Neiva shouted.

The door continued to open.

“Cough…!”

Yet fortunately, Pilmark’s poison spray was cut off at a moment no one expected.

I did not know what effect the wedges had, but it seemed they were properly interfering with her ability.

In other words, she could not freely use her ability right now!

“Sh…it.”

Pilmark pressed down on her own trembling hand and quickly stepped back.

Soon, she looked around the middle of the prison as if searching for something.

Then she placed her palm on one of the walls and recited something at a very fast speed.

“Hoo!”

No!

I struggled on her shoulder, yelling for her to put me down, but even that desperate struggle could not interfere with Pilmark.

-Driiip

The wall which her palm touched began to melt away very quickly.

The prison wall and ground, melting in an upward, slanted path like a passage, soon poured into the prison like a waterfall.

After a moment, a round passage leading to the surface was created.

“Let’s go.”

She pulled me and squeezed into the hole.

“Hoo!”

No!

“Haa… Do ye still not ken what’ll happen if ye don’t follow me noo!? Ye really… Yer dead when we get out of here. Just ye wait, lad. How can ye be so bloody disobedient? Ye’ll see. Mark me words.”

My desperate struggle to hold onto the wall was in vain, and just as I was being dragged into the hole by her hand…

“Kuhuk…!”

Neiva, who had waded through the pool of poison, grabbed my leg.

“You… bitch…”

A curse flew from the mouth of that noble Knight Captain. Her eyes were boiling like the pain of the sizzling poison, and that fierce gaze, which could pierce even a boulder, was aimed at Pilmark.

“Ach…! Yer a pain in the arse to the very end. Just piss off, will ye!”

-Thwack, Thwack

Pilmark kicked with all her might at the face of Neiva, who was barely holding onto my leg.

However, Neiva did not let go of me.

Clenching her teeth so hard they might break, she endured all that pain and held onto me.

“Keu heuk…”

She eventually lost consciousness.

However, even as she fainted, the arm holding me did not lose its strength.

“Captain!”

The knights began to flock in.

“Haa, shiiit…”

Pilmark glared at the fainted Neiva for a moment as if to kill her.

Then, with a sorrowful expression, she shifted her gaze to me and spoke.

“I’ll come back for ye soon enough. Hold on there. And remember this. Me name’s not Pilmark, it’s Rico. Delrin…”

With those words, Pilmark put me down and disappeared.

It seemed she had climbed up that hole and immediately escaped.

Was it because she thought she could not escape with me in her current condition?

“Captain, Captain…!”

The knights who had quickly gathered checked on Neiva, who was holding me, and shouted urgently.

“Chase Pilmark! Quickly! Block off the entire surrounding area!”

Their loud voices echoed inside the prison.

“Hee-euh…”

However, my voice still would not come out of my mouth properly. Only a muffled sound leaked out powerlessly.

In this suffocating situation, my stupid and stuffy head, which usually did not work well, suddenly started to turn.

A great sinner had just escaped, and the one who was with that sinner until the very end was me.

In that case…

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