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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: TushChen
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“You, you… H-How!”
When scared and flustered, her clumsy historical drama speech came out, exactly like the novel’s setting.
This innocent constellation didn’t seem to realize that it made people even angrier, unable to grasp her own situation.
“Whether I can or not, I’ll prove it to you now.”
I took a threatening step towards Gaunis, who had collapsed on the floor.
“Lo-Loser, you think you can beat me? Th-This is just a coincidence anyway!”
While trying to act strong, Gaunis was busy fleeing backwards, dragging her bottom.
Paralyzed with fear, she could barely control her hands and nearly fell several times.
“Wasn’t your power turning coincidence into luck? If even the blessing of coincidence disappears, what are you?”
“Th-That…! A mortal like you doesn’t need to know the noble intentions of a constellation!”
Gaunis picked up whatever was piled on the floor and threw it at me.
This time, the object didn’t miss widely but flew directly at me.
Thwack.
I lightly knocked it away.
An empty paper box that had desserts rolled lightly on the floor.
“…Ah.”
By this point, Gaunis seemed to realize that the power acting on her – the blessing that turned all causality into luck – had disappeared.
Her already pale complexion became even more ashen.
I slowly approached Gaunis.
“Kyaaah!”
Gaunis screamed and tried to run away again, but this time it wasn’t difficult to catch her.
“Let go! How dare you touch my body! Pervert! Stupid pervert! You’re the hero I chose! So you should listen to me…! Aaah!”
I forcefully threw the struggling Gaunis onto the bed.
Gaunis, who had rolled chaotically on the bed, looked up at me, panting from the impact.
She still had her eyes raised defiantly, though they were moist.
Gaunis immediately got up and ran to escape.
Bonk!
“Kyaah!”
Her spirit was good, but the result wasn’t.
Gaunis, who had hit her head hard on an invisible wall, fell back onto the bed helplessly.
“Ugh… It hurts…”
That wall was a magical barrier I had created.
Perhaps because I had sealed the largest part of the constellation’s power, I was able to use some magic.
It was no trouble at all to create an invisible barrier around the bed to prevent Gaunis from escaping.
Gaunis, rubbing her forehead, turned her head to look at me.
“Wh-What are you doing? Trapping me on the bed? You, d-don’t tell me…”
“Don’t misunderstand. I have no interest in your body at all.”
“…What?! Do you know how much of a beautiful girl I am! You can’t say you’re not interested!”
Gaunis flushed with anger at my words.
Then suddenly, she brought her hand to her mouth and smiled arrogantly, just like before.
“Hmm. I see. Well, I suppose it would be difficult for a mortal to properly appreciate my beauty when they see me. No one lusts after a perfect work of art, right?”
“Sigh…”
This is why dealing with her gave me a headache.
I wanted to beat her up right now, but I held back for the moment.
“First, answer my questions properly. Depending on your answers, I might let you off. Understand?”
I said that, but I had no intention of letting Gaunis off from the start.
Still, I could at least give her a chance to reduce her sentence, couldn’t I?
I didn’t want to start off with too hostile a relationship with a constellation if possible.
However, misunderstanding the opportunity I had given, Gaunis suddenly burst out laughing.
“Ah~ So that’s it? Aha. Ahaha! You can’t hit me, right? That’s why you’re just threatening me with words? Loser. Loser~! You’re actually scared, aren’t you? A coward worried about the aftermath! You’re doing this because you know my power will return soon anyway, right?”
Whether it was her intuition as a constellation or not, Gaunis seemed to know that her power hadn’t completely disappeared and came out brazenly.
Then she grabbed the hem of her nightgown and slightly lifted it.
As the nightgown rose, her white, plump thighs with soft curves were revealed.
“Or is it because I’m a beautiful girl that you can’t hit me? You can’t help being shy!”
It seemed my earlier comment about not being interested in her body had bothered her, as she kept repeating such provocations.
But to think her lack of situational awareness was to this extent.
How could she provoke me like this in this situation?
It was set that all constellations were crazy, but experiencing it myself was a different story.
This wouldn’t end at this rate.
I leaped onto the bed in one bound.
Gaunis looked a bit surprised at my movement, but undeterred, she put on airs again.
“Hmm. Try something. Go ahead. I might forgive you if you apologize now. You know you can’t do anything anyway, right? Apologize. Apologize. Super loser! Hurry! Eek!”
Without a word, I pushed Gaunis down and thrust my sharply raised sword towards her as she fell on the bed.
Thunk-
“Hee… Heek?!”
Gaunis’ finely trembling eyes were fixed on the blade stuck right next to her.
If it had been just 1cm closer, it would have been enough to slice her ear.
“…Don’t test my patience.”
I spoke in a low voice with cold eyes.
Shaded by my shadow cast over her, Gaunis trembled violently.
Facing such a situation without the protection of luck must have been unfamiliar and terrifying to her.
I thought this was enough of a threat.
I thought Gaunis would have understood my words.
However, Gaunis took it one step further.
“You’ll be punished by heaven! Do you think other constellations will stand by and watch if they know a mortal treated a constellation like this?!”
Gaunis, trembling with indignation, still argued stubbornly.
It seemed I needed to break that spirit once to make the conversation easier.
And Gaunis’ words were right.
It was a grateful reminder.
As long as I didn’t intend to kill Gaunis, I needed to give her a shameful memory she couldn’t tell others about.
So a flick on the forehead wasn’t enough.
Something more than that.
Something that could give extreme shame she couldn’t tell anyone about.
“Now, ten times.”
I pronounced to Gaunis as if sentencing her.
Gaunis furrowed her brows as if to say ‘what are you talking about?’
“Ten… ten times? What do you mean?”
“You said I can’t hit you, right? I have to refute that too. Exactly ten times.”
I sat in front of Gaunis and used magic to lift her up. Then I forcibly made her lie face down across my lap.
“Wh-What are you trying to do?”
Gaunis struggled, finding this position shameful, but she couldn’t escape from the state where her body was pressed down by magic.
It would be fine to hit her like this, but… I spotted a water bottle Gaunis had been drinking from and used magic to bring it to my hand.
When I poured water from that bottle onto her bottom, Gaunis let out a high-pitched “Eek!” and shuddered.
The wet white nightgown clung to Gaunis’ body, clearly revealing the curves of her softly rounded bottom.
Of course, I wasn’t doing this for lewd reasons as Gaunis had said.
It just hurts more when wet. (TL/N: Sure buddy, whatever you say.)
“You, d-don’t tell me…!”
It seemed Gaunis had finally realized what I was about to do.
I thought I would finally see a proper scared reaction, but once again an unexpected response came.
“H-Hmm. You were pretending earlier…”
Even at this point, she started to act tough again.
“P-Pervert. Lewd pervert. Unable to touch directly and resorting to this, just like a shy guy. Go ahead and hit me? It won’t hurt anyway.”
Though pretending not to be, her voice was trembling severely with fear.
I had no intention of listening anymore, so I raised my hand high.
Whack!
“Huk!”
Surprised by the unexpectedly large impact, Gaunis swallowed a gasp instead of screaming.
From the shock to her bottom, Gaunis’ waist arched inward greatly.
Her limp legs bounced up, and Gaunis’ hands stretched towards her bottom.
“W-Wait…! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts much more than I expected!”
I grabbed both of Gaunis’ slender wrists as she tried to rub her bottom and forcibly pulled them back above her head.
“One.”
And I whispered coldly into Gaunis’ ear.
Smack!
Once again, a dry sound rang out.
Gaunis fluttered her body and made a crying sound.
“I-I’m a constellation…! You really won’t get away with this! After doing such a thing…!”
“Two.”
Whack!
“Idiot!! You brute who can only treat women with such barbaric acts!”
Smack!
Gaunis twisted her body violently.
Gradually, a red glow began to surround Gaunis’ bottom.
“You… You…! Hic…! You, y-you hero candidate, how dare you do this to a constellation…”
“Three.”
Smack!
“I, I… I’m a constellation. I’m definitely a constellation, so why am I being treated like this by a hero candidate I chose…!”
“Four.”
Smack!
Gaunis attempted to resist violently.
Of course, I could subdue her immediately.
“Stop it! It hurts! It hurts, I said! You, when I recover my power, I’ll properly punish you! If you want forgiveness, stop now!”
“Five.”
Smack!
“I told you to stop! Huuung… What is this…! If you’re a hero, you should listen to a constellation! That’s how it’s supposed to be, right?!”
“Six.”
Smack!
“S-Sorry. I’m sorry! I, I lost, so…! I was wrong!”
“Seven.”
At Gaunis’ declaration of defeat, shouted while twisting her waist, I paused my hand for a moment.
Finally, tears began to pour from Gaunis’ eyes.
Her white cheeks were gradually soaked, wetting the bed.
“Hic… Hic… Hic!”
I watched Gaunis cry uncontrollably for a moment.
By now, Gaunis’ bottom had turned red enough to look pitiful, visible through the thin wet clothes.
Gaunis was already unable to breathe properly from the pain.
In fact, this was an expected result.
The constellation Gaunis had been protected from almost all physical pain since birth.
A girl who had never felt proper pain even once.
Naturally, she had become infinitely vulnerable to physical pain.
So this pain must be the greatest pain Gaunis had ever felt in her life.
“You were wrong?”
I asked kindly.
“I-I was wrong. I was wrong… So please don’t hit me anymore. Please.”
Gaunis, though shedding tears profusely, somehow managed to lift her head and look at me.
The trembling that started from her bottom seemed to spread throughout Gaunis’ entire body.
“About what?”
At my question, Gaunis’ eyes widened.
It was clear at a glance that she didn’t know what she had done wrong.
“…That I’m pretty?”
Gaunis said, sobbing.
She really didn’t seem to know.
“I’ll continue hitting.”
“No…”
Only after receiving the remaining three hits did Gaunis finally have the freedom to bring her hands to her bottom.
Touching her red, swollen buttocks, Gaunis sniffled.
“Uu… Why am I, a constellation, suffering such humiliation? I can’t tell anyone about this…”
Perhaps due to shame, Gaunis’ entire body was heated up.
That heat was transmitted more clearly due to the water I had sprinkled.
“…Hic. Just a hero candidate.”
Thinking it might not be enough, I raised my hand again, and Gaunis fluttered her body as if having a seizure.
“Ah, no. A slip of the tongue! It was a slip! S-Sorry.”
Gaunis’ hand, firmly grasping the hem of my clothes, was trembling finely.
I slowly lowered my harshly raised hand so as not to startle her and gently stroked Gaunis.
“Good. If you had been like this from the start, none of this would have happened.”
As if relieved, Gaunis smiled slightly with her tear-stained face.
“Y-Yes.”
Now it seemed like we could finally talk.
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A little while later.
I sat on Gaunis’ soft canopy bed and put a lemon-scented dessert in my mouth.
The sweet juice melting softly in my mouth was indeed exquisite.
I suppose when you’re a constellation, you can eat things like this to your heart’s content?
“That’s mine… It’s limited edition…”
Apparently not.
Gaunis was sitting on her knees to reduce the contact area, probably because her bottom hurt.
Her moist eyes were fixed on the little bit of dessert left on my fingertips.
“You eat too.”
“C-Can I eat?”
“Yeah.”
“Thank you…”
Gaunis, who had been taught manners, eagerly put the dessert she received from me into her mouth.
Even in this situation, she was eating snacks.
I gently wiped the crumbs from Gaunis’ mouth with a handkerchief.
Gaunis shook her face like a baby, as if my touch was a bit annoying.
Judging by this attitude, it seems she’ll soon forget what happened earlier.
I should quickly ask while she’s still afraid of me.
“The system.”
I opened my mouth towards Gaunis, who was busily eating snacks.
“The system. Why did you create it?”
“Sy-System?”
Gaunis opened her eyes wide.
“What’s that?”
And then she tilted her head with her mouth stuffed full of snacks like a squirrel.
“What?”
I was momentarily speechless at this baffling response.
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