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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Simzy
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The merged ghoul approached, dragging its massive body. It let out a menacing screech.
Gooooooo-
It wasn’t as fast as before since it was still recovering from its wounds, but we were already cornered at the edge of the cliff, with no way to escape.
“Hey, mage, can’t you use that magic one more time?”
“…I can’t.”
“Then we’ll make an opening somehow here. Take the lady and escape!”
“Don’t talk nonsense! Who told you to give me orders like that! I’ll handle this…”
“No! My Lady. It’s our duty to protect you…”
“Shit. Is this the time to be fighting over who’ll do it? Can’t you see it’s coming?”
The heavy merged ghoul slowly approached. It was honestly cheating for it to be recovering when it had been sliced to pieces.
Victoria and the knights were still arguing over who would fight. What a frustrating bunch.
Then, the creature took its last step towards us. Just as it was about to slam down the hand it had formed from gathered ghouls.
“Wait…don’t you hear something?”
Crack-
Cracks formed in the ground. The ground couldn’t bear the weight, as too much pressure had been placed on the edge of the cliff.
The cliff began to crumble from the end. The merged ghoul and we also started falling down below.
“We’re falling!”
The image of the merged ghoul reaching out its hand as we fell was my last memory.
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“Puker! Cough! Hack!”
I coughed up water as soon as I regained consciousness. Had I lost consciousness? I coughed up water with every cough.
I barely managed to focus my hazy mind and open my eyes. I saw a strange man’s face. Oh, it was that knight I was with.
“Where is this…?”
As I struggled to sit up, I heard Victoria’s voice.
“You’re awake.”
Victoria was wringing her wet hair. It seemed Victoria had saved us.
Well, even though she had been severely injured by Huruuku’s iron club, Victoria was quite a strong fighter.
“Did Lady Victoria save us?”
“Yes.”
“Thank you for saving us…but where is this?”
The sky was already turning red, with the sun setting. The knights were still lying down beside me. I thought they were strong, but they were weaker than me.
“I don’t know where this is either. We were swept down the river quite a bit. I somehow managed to pull you out…but because of that, we were swept even further.”
The weather was cold. Victoria was also shivering slightly, as if she was cold. She seemed to be forcing herself to endure it.
“Why haven’t you started a fire yet? It’s this cold already. It will get much colder at night.”
Were they afraid that a fire would lead the enemy to track us? It was better than being frozen to death.
“…I don’t know how to start a fire. I’ve never done such menial labor.”
As expected of a noble lady. I needed to start a fire quickly, even if just for the knights who were still lying down.
Wait. There was something wrong with the knights’ condition. Their faces were pale, like they were dead.
I was shocked and put my hand near their faces, but both of them weren’t breathing.
“Lady Victoria…these two…”
“Don’t say anything. I already knew.”
Victoria’s voice trembled for the first time. I thought all the nobles were just useless, but there were good ones like Victoria.
I guess that’s why the knights were so loyal to her, even risking their lives for her.
“I should at least cremate them. I don’t have a shovel to make graves…”
“…”
Victoria was silent. I was wondering why she was still sitting, but then I saw that her ankle was bleeding and badly swollen. It must hurt a lot.
Kerry collected dry branches and straw from the surroundings.
Meanwhile, Victoria used her immense strength to chop down trees.
In an instant, a considerably large cremation site was created.
Kerry obtained Victoria’s permission and cremated the knights.
Victoria limped over to the cremation site that Kerry had made.
“…Don’t forgive me. It’s all my fault.”
Victoria muttered to herself while staring at the fire. It was as if she was paying her respects to the knights. Kerry also said something.
“It’s better than being eaten by beasts. Knights. You guys were magnificent enough. So, leave the rest to me and rest in peace.”
Victoria stared at me. She seemed a little surprised at the words that I would protect her. Well, I had no choice but to protect her.
I had already had my life saved by Victoria once, and she was also Lina’s former comrade.
I didn’t know what Lina was planning to do yet, but Victoria was sure to play a big role in it as well.
Victoria and Kerry couldn’t leave the cremation site for a while.
The red sunset faded, and night fell. Kerry had to pretend not to see Victoria secretly wiping away her tears.
It was after the cremation. Kerry and Victoria returned to the cave. Victoria limped, but refused to accept Kerry’s help.
She was such a prideful woman. She looked to be just over twenty years old.
The wind was strong at night. We were soaking wet, so it was the perfect weather to freeze to death.
Kerry started a new fire in front of the cave.
Victoria pressed her body close to the fire. As expected, she was cold. It wasn’t human to not be cold.
Even though we had started a fire inside the cave, the cold wind kept coming in. The part of my body in front of the fire was somewhat warm, but the back of me felt like it was freezing stiff due to the moisture.
If we spent the night like this, at the very least we’d get sick. No, it would be a miracle to even wake up in the morning.
Kerry took off his clothes as if he had no choice, even with Victoria in front of him.
“What, what are you doing! You, you just said you’d…protect me…and what not…”
“What misunderstanding are you having? We’ll freeze to death like this. I’m just going to dry my clothes and wear them.”
When Kerry took off his top, his body, trained from his work as an adventurer, was clearly visible. There were scars here and there.
Most of the scars were from low-level monsters like goblins or kobolds, but they still looked impressive.
‘What is with all those scars…this man is definitely not ordinary.’
Kerry hesitated for a moment before taking off his bottoms, but decided it was better than dying. Of course, he didn’t take off his underwear.
Victoria turned her face away, her face flushed. She couldn’t go anywhere else because of the fire, so she had no choice but to turn her head.
On the other hand, Kerry nonchalantly wrung out his clothes and started drying them near the fire.
“…”
An awkward silence filled the cave. Kerry was the first to speak.
“Aren’t you going to take off your clothes, Lady Victoria?”
“Are, are you trying to make me take off my clothes? Don’t even dream of it!”
When the authoritative noble lady was out in the wild, she was like a pure maiden who didn’t know anything.
“Then, are you planning on freezing to death? It’s not a cold wave, but it’s still quite cold. Don’t be too comfortable just because there’s a fire. Even if we get through tonight safely, you might get sick and die tomorrow.”
“…I’m a mana user. I won’t die from this level of cold.”
“That’s what I’m saying. Don’t be overconfident. As a noble, you’ve never experienced anything like this before, right? From my work as an adventurer, I’ve heard countless stories of mana users dying from being stranded.”
“…”
“Let’s say we manage to endure today. What about tomorrow? Can you even walk properly with that ankle? We don’t know how long we’ll have to stay here until your ankle heals or a search party comes. But if you get sick tomorrow, Lady Victoria…”
“…Hmph. So, it turns out that all your words about protecting me were lies. I won’t be a burden to you. I’ll die alone. Don’t worry about it.”
Kerry sighed deeply. She was a childish noble lady after all.
Kerry said with a serious expression,
“Since I’m probably older than you anyway. I’ll think of you as my younger sister and speak comfortably.”
“…You dare to speak informally to me as a commoner?”
“Does it matter if I’m a commoner right now? You’re an benefactor who saved my life. So listen to what I have to say. I’m not as strong as you think I am. I also can’t use the magic that I showed you for a while because of a reason.”
“…”
“But if you’re so unrealistic…I won’t be able to keep my promise to the knights. If you spend the night in that state, you’ll at least get sick and won’t even be able to stand up properly tomorrow. And if some monster or wild beast shows up, we won’t be able to handle it. Don’t underestimate nature. You could die from being complacent as a mana user.”
“I…”
“You have to live. Are you going to make the loyalty of the knights who tried to save you, even at the cost of their lives, futile?”
Indeed. Victoria bit her lip tightly as if she was reminded of the knights’ sacrifice. She was a good noble after all.
Victoria made a decision, and began to take off her outer clothes. Each layer of clothing fell off.
The fair skin hidden beneath her clothes began to show. Beneath her clothes was a great secret weapon.
I hadn’t known because Victoria usually wore clothes that didn’t cling to her body.
To exaggerate a bit, it was as shocking as Kim Jong-un’s secret nuclear weapon being discovered.
A slender waist with a trained six-pack in the center. Going up, her bountiful breasts were revealed.
Of course, she hadn’t taken off her underwear, so I couldn’t see them clearly, but it was certain that they were tremendous.
“What, why are you staring so intently!”
“Sorry. It was involuntary. Ah. And I’ll speak formally again, Lady Victoria.”
Kerry hurriedly turned his head away. Actually, he had already seen everything he needed to see. He had told her to take her clothes off with the intention to protect her, but seeing Victoria’s amazing body made his lust surge.
Men were all wolves after all. Therefore, Kerry was also a wolf. Victoria’s bare skin was enough to awaken Kerry’s instincts.
‘Knights…if you were men, you’d understand, right?’
To reiterate, I didn’t have bad intentions when I had Victoria take her clothes off. If we were going to live, we really had no other choice but to take off our wet clothes.
Victoria took off her clothes and nodded. It was definitely less cold than when she was wearing wet clothes.
It was such a relief that there was a fire.
An awkward atmosphere lingered in the cave. It was natural since a man and a woman were in a small space, wearing only their underwear.
‘Kerry…his face is pretty, but his body is no joke.’
Victoria’s eyes involuntarily wandered to Kerry’s scars and lean muscles. She didn’t have anything else to do either.
Then, she inadvertently looked down at Kerry’s lower region.
“Hup!”
“What’s wrong? Are you hurt somewhere?”
“Ah, it’s nothing.”
‘What is that…that heavy and enormous thing? Is he carrying a rock inside his underwear?’
Even when he was wearing his underwear, the grandeur of his massive size couldn’t be hidden.
On top of that, because Kerry acted like it didn’t matter if she saw, Victoria couldn’t help but stare at him, mesmerized.
‘Are men’s things…all that big?’
Victoria, who was still a virgin, had never seen a man’s penis before. But that was beyond her imagination!
Victoria’s face turned bright red. Yet she continued to steal glances at Kerry’s penis.
Kerry pretended not to notice, even though he knew.
‘Is this her first time seeing a man’s body? Her face is so red.’
If I checked her status with the Eyes of the Goddess, it would definitely say ‘excited.’ It was obvious without even looking.
Kerry used the Eyes of the Goddess. It wasn’t her status that he was curious about, but Victoria’s erogenous zones.
It was a somewhat shocking result. While he understood the other parts, he was surprised that Victoria’s erogenous zone was her toes. She probably didn’t even know it herself.
‘Well, I’m not into feet, so, pass.’
Then, the only remaining target was her ears. Kerry looked at the distant mountains outside the cave.
It was a consideration for Victoria, who had turned red as she was secretly looking at Kerry’s body. Should I start my move soon?
“Ahem…hmm. Cough!”
Kerry started to cough feigning a cough. In reality, he could handle the cold now, but it was a ploy to make Victoria come closer.
“It’s still pretty cold even though I took off my clothes. Is it especially cold today?”
“…I will never take off my underwear.”
“I wasn’t saying to take off your underwear.”
He hadn’t intended to have her take off her underwear from the start. That was too high of a barrier to enter. It was easier to start by passing through the low hurdles first.
The first hurdle was getting Victoria to come next to me.
“It would be troublesome if I caught a cold right now since you’re not moving very well either, Lady Victoria…Is there anything we can do?”
“…”
Kerry pretended to be thinking hard. In reality, he already had the method in his mind.
“Are you really that cold?”
“Quite a bit.”
Kerry even started acting like he was shivering.
I shouldn’t overdo it. A faint shiver at the fingertips would be best. Victoria would definitely notice it.
“…”
Victoria stared at Kerry. In reality, Kerry could handle the cold, but he wasn’t not cold either, so his complexion wasn’t good.
Victoria got up from her spot. Kerry flinched in surprise. She was no joke.
Victoria’s body in only her underwear was clearly visible. But I tried my best to act as if nothing was happening.
Victoria limped over to Kerry’s side. Then, she hugged Kerry tightly.
“….This should be a little better.”
I never expected Victoria to approach so innocently.
“I saved your life, but…you’re also a benefactor who helped our knights rest peacefully. I can’t just leave you to die. That’s, that’s all. Don’t misunderstand anything else.”
So that was it. That was a reason that sounded like Victoria. Kerry also hugged Victoria back.
Victoria’s scent filled his nose. Victoria’s voluptuous breasts pressed against Kerry’s chest.
‘Knights…I’m sorry.’
It seemed that I would be spending a night of blissful depravity.
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