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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Teottry
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One does not easily regain consciousness.
“Ugh…”
I had seen many characters who infinitely regressed through endless deaths, but I had never deeply considered the pain they felt at the moment of death.
My head was numb, and my body twitched from the aftereffects of pleasure.
The body had returned to its previous state, but the mind, which had been soaked in pleasure, had not yet recovered to its function.
A sense of powerlessness and fear, like having a nightmare, continued.
Tears leaked out from an unconscious reflex, and the non-functional lips and tongue simply let the saliva from inside the mouth drool out.
“Urk…!”
He was day dreaming. No, perhaps it could be said that certain scenes were replaying in his brain.
Several images flashed in succession, brushing past his mind. Most were images related to pleasure so intense it turned his vision white. A woman’s breasts, a purplish afterglow, a languid hand…
However, what was shown after those images passed was the place from the dream he had in the carriage.
“Rin!”
After crossing a path piled with flowers, there was a garden with flowers fluttering in front of it.
And his future self, or the self in the dream, without the leisure to worry about stepping on those flowers, for some reason kept looking back while running.
There was nothing behind him, so he didn’t know why he was looking back. Before, he thought he was being chased, but looking at it again now…
He was hesitating.
In the middle of the flower field, hesitating like that…
The being he had seen before, again…
“Delrin! Shit…”
He remembered.
And his consciousness returned.
“Del… Kehek…”
The first thing that came into view was Pilmark, struggling with rattling chains.
In front of her was Neiva, strangling Pilmark’s neck.
Holding his throbbing head, he thought. His brain was a bit stuck and the speed was considerably slow, but still, he could easily derive one word.
‘I’m back…’
Pilmark, who had been struggling and trembling, became quiet. The blood gushing from her neck clearly showed that even her remaining life had all disappeared.
Neiva’s grip had gone beyond strangling Pilmark’s neck to crushing it.
“Ugh…”
But the back of the female knight, who didn’t even say a word, who had become like a machine, felt unreal.
Something that gave him the creeps.
He simply had no way to express it in words.
“Uh, uuh…”
Seeing someone killed right before his eyes would have been a considerable shock, but with the afterglow of pleasure still ringing in his head…
Delrin ended up stepping backward and running away. A reflexive action caused by the survival instinct.
Neiva’s quiet back felt more terrifying than Pilmark, who had exploited him to the brink of death.
“Sa, save me…! Someone save me!”
After exiting the narrow passage, a circular staircase came into view.
He remembered. He had definitely come down these many stairs on Neiva’s back.
But now, those stairs had become an obstacle blocking his way…
“Heu, heu-euk…”
The female knight, approaching one step at a time with her pretty hands dripping blood, called him with a rigid expression, her emotions impossible to read…
“Delrin?”
“Aaaah! Save me!”
Panicked, Delrin rushed up the stairs. He could no longer make rational judgments.
Not even realizing that Neiva could easily catch up if she just ran a little, not even realizing the curse engraved on his ankle,
“Kkeu-a-ha-a-a-ak!”
he collapsed from the immense pain that rushed in as if crushing his ankle.
“A-hak! Ugh-heuk! Kkeu-heuk!”
Not being able to balance himself properly in the middle of the stairs, his body began to tumble down the stairs due to a very natural law of physics.
And the point where his fall ended was right in front of Neiva’s feet, who was standing still at the beginning of the stairs.
“Kki-heu-euk… It hurts…”
There, crying and clutching his ankle, Delrin could no longer run away and just trembled under Neiva.
“Heuk, heuk…”
I’m scared…
He didn’t have the courage to look up at her.
It couldn’t even be compared to a horror movie. This eerie sensation, where every cell was screaming to run away, polluted his entire mind and made him cry like a child.
“Delrin…”
However, she paid no mind and called his name repeatedly. The cold pressure of her voice wrapped around his heart.
He simply didn’t have the courage to look up.
“God has given us another chance. Delrin. He has bestowed mercy upon us and given us a chance.”
She muttered something and placed her hand on his head.
Pilmark’s thick blood on her hand trickled down his forehead.
He couldn’t even move and just trembled, debating whether to shout Load or not…
“Our merciful goddess has given me a chance… A chance to protect the untainted Delrin. Ah. Phenola.”
What the hell is she talking about…
Is she misunderstanding? No way…!
Does she think she regressed?
“Delrin. Raise your head. I will not harm you.”
“Re, really…?”
On her face, which he struggled to look up at, a considerably bright smile was present, unlike just a moment ago.
Relieved that the unrealistic killing intent that had made him tremble, wondering if she would kill him too, had disappeared, I let out a sigh of relief and clung to her leg.
“Ne, Neiva! I didn’t mean to run away. I was so scared…”
“Shh. It’s alright. I suppose I showed too harsh a side of myself. I’m sorry for startling you.”
Thank goodness…!
Just forget that Pilmark died! I have to live…!!
“And, I am sorry. Now, we will probably both die.”
Eh?
Why?
“Because I couldn’t control my anger and killed that trash… In the end, everyone will hold me responsible.”
“Th, that’s right…”
“You too, Delrin… You won’t be able to live properly without me. It’s a harsh world for a delicate person like you to live in.”
She pulls me into an embrace.
Wait a minute… this is a bit…
“Let’s make love one last time and go together. I’ll send you off without pain, so wait for me on the other side.”
“Ne, Neiva? Wait…”
“I love you. More than anyone in this world.”
“Wait a minute! I think you’re misunderstanding something…! Ugh!”
Like that, the two pressed their bodies together in the cold underground.
For Delrin, who had been taken for a considerably long time, that sticky copulation was not particularly welcome, but how could he resist under the strongest sword of the Albator Kingdom, Neiva?
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After that poignant last sex ended…
“Delrin. I love you.”
“Wa, wait a minute! Neiva! Wait a minute! Listen to me. First, calm down and put that sword dow…”
-Crunch
Without even feeling the pain, Delrin’s head is completely crushed.
Like that, Delrin meets death once again…
[You have died. You will be automatically restored to the last saved point.]
He returns again.
“Kkeu-ahak! Heok, heo-eok…”
Shit.
Shiiit!
My head… head.
Ah… it’s attached…
“Ke-heuk, kkeu-heuk…”
Pilmark?
“Shit… It hurts so much…”
Her eyes meet his. Both of them, with the afterglow of death not yet faded, intuit what will happen next.
-Grrrrrrr
“Delrin… Shit… Untie this… Quickly!”
The seal on the heavy stone door is released. The narrow passage slowly reveals itself.
Me, and Pilmark, only after experiencing the last two events do we finally understand the system of the Save & Load function.
If I die, I return to the save point…!
“Qui… keu-heuk… Quickly…”
Pilmark, having returned to the body from when she was being tortured, vomits blood in succession and grimaces…
“Sh… No! You die alone! If she knows I’ll come back like this, Neiva won’t kill me…!”
That’s right!
Neiva, who seems to be regressing with me due to the rise in favorability, probably killed me before, but this time she definitely won’t!
Why?
Before, she thought it was a chance that would never come again and killed me, but this time it’s the second time!
She’ll definitely be kind to me again!
“This… shit…”
Not far from my prediction, Neiva, who came in through the open door, looked at me and Pilmark alternately with a surprised face, then soon limbered up and strode towards Pilmark, beginning to beat her mercilessly.
The dull, sticky sound of a face and fist colliding filled the prison.
Even if I blocked my ears, that eerie sound was quite frightening, but I was just sincerely grateful that the one being hit was not me.
The simple yet fierce venting of anger, with blood and sweat flying, continued for a few more minutes, and was stopped just before Pilmark’s life was cut short.
“Huu…”
Shit…
It’s over now, right?
You’re not going to rest and then hit her again, are you?
So scary…
“Phenola. Thank you. I will dedicate my entire life to you. I will always live engraving the broad tolerance and grace you have shown this foolish me once again.”
Neiva knelt reverently and offered a prayer to the god of this other world.
After that.
“Delrin. Let’s go home. I feel like I might make an irreversible choice if we stay any longer.”
“Ye, yes…”
She lifts me up and strides out of the underground prison.
It’s all over now.
I escaped from that terrible situation…
Ah. Wait a minute.
“Uh, there. But what about my ankle…?”
“Ankle?”
“Uh… Yes. My ankle.”
“Don’t worry about it. I’ll bring you everything you need.”
Huh…?
I feel like I’ve heard this somewhere before…
“Th…? What does that mean…”
“You don’t need to go out. From now on, you just have to stay by my side. You don’t need your ankle. Inside the house, if you need anything, call the other maids. If you want to go for a walk, you can just get on my back. You don’t need your ankle, do you?”
“Eh…?”
“Like this, forever. For life. I’ll do everything so you won’t be inconvenienced without using your legs, so you don’t need to fix it. Rather, it’s a good thing. The outside world is dirty and dangerous, but our house is safe. I’ll protect you so no one can bother you anymore. Right. Now I know. In the end, that’s why she left me too. I should have locked her up more tightly. It was because I let her wander around. You, Delrin, are even more fragile than that child, so don’t even think about going out from now on. Living at home will be happy enough. From now on, I’ll come home every evening, so let’s make love every time I come back. Like this, forever. Until we die. For life. No. Just that much won’t be enough. Since it has come to this, let’s make it so we can live forever… Right. Let’s cross the sea to the God’s Garden that the Demon King is guarding and pray that we both live forever. No. Even our children. Let’s ask them not to grow old. That way, we can whisper love forever…”
“Load!”
[You have loaded to the save point.]
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