Chapter 35
Translator - Zofu
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Not all espers are the same just because they're called espers. Some can only barely activate their abilities at a minuscule level when under extreme stress or in life-threatening situations, while others can effortlessly burn an entire planet to ash all by themselves. Naturally, the stronger the esper, the rarer they become and the harder they are to artificially replicate.
I've never delved that deeply into the study of esper abilities, so I'm not sure exactly how powerful our Maki is. But seeing how the activation condition for this Domain—'a being more powerful than the activator must be nearby, and the activator must genuinely desire that being'—has been fulfilled, she's clearly stronger than me. I don't know by how much, but if she's stronger than me, why did she let herself get caught by me?
I roughly grab and tear off the black blindfold covering Maki's eyes, staring straight into her azure irises. Since this space itself is an incredibly gloomy place, tearing off the blindfold so suddenly doesn't cause any bright light to assault her eyes. For a while, the two of us simply gazed into each other's pupils without any meaningful conversation.
"Maki, as my servant, you have a duty to speak only the truth, not lies. You seem to have realized that to some extent now, but judging by your attitude, while you may not be telling lies, it seems there are still some truths you haven't shared."
"Th-that's... How could I dare hide the truth from you, My Master..."
"That remains to be seen."
"Huh...?" The moment Maki lets out a dumb sound with her mouth hanging open, a heart pattern is etched into those azure irises. This is my first time using mental domination abilities as a succubus, but it seems to be going surprisingly well. Seeing how I blew away that bitch presumed to be Lilith with a single creampie, maybe I have a talent for this sort of thing after all?
While the Absolute Yin Physique is an ability specialized in physical domination, surrendering one's mind to carnal desires inevitably leads to losing one's spirit as well. Maki, who had managed to maintain her sense of self until now, was finally finished. By the time this interrogation ended, I will have her very mind grasped firmly in my palm.
"Then let's begin the interrogation. Were you a virgin before I fucked you?"
First, I asked the most important question. Even mere food or machinery is worth more when brand new than secondhand, let alone a woman I'll be spending my life with. Though I could guess to some extent from the virgin blood that splattered when I forced the dildo inside, I still wanted to hear from her own mouth whether she was a virgin or not.
Given that she was perfectly fine this morning despite me pounding her all night long to the point of bruising, it's possible she used that incredible regenerative ability to get fucked by someone else before me, then restore her hymen as a trick. That's why this procedure was necessary.
"I was... a virgin. Until I met you, Master... My front pussy, back pussy, mouth pussy, tit pussy... all of them..."
After asking such humiliating questions and successfully confirming that this bitch was brand new rather than secondhand, I couldn't contain my joy. It wasn't reconstructive surgery or a trick using an esper's unique regenerative abilities—it was a real hymen that I conquered with my own hands...! For a moment, I was at a loss for how to express this joy and stumbled over my words before continuing.
"Next, spill your height, weight, three sizes, and bra size. Oh, and of course, the weight is based on Earth gravity."
"Height... 160cm, weight... 39kg, three sizes... 96-59-100, cup size... 70F-cup..."
39kg by Earth gravity standards... Well, everyone in our country lives on the brink of starvation, so malnutrition is basically a default feature. At that weight, she doesn't even qualify as underweight. Though I can't deny it's an optimized weight for anal. Come to think of it, when I was drunk on Atlantia and pounding Maki's pussy, I think I might have grabbed her ass and fucked her that way, but maybe not... Anyway, having an anal-optimized body is important information, so I'll store that in my memory.
By the way, 70F-cup. I may not know about other things, but I sure got the cup size right. Personally, I would've liked them to be bigger, but since Maki is still in her growth period, the possibilities are endless. No need to worry about it now.
"Third question. I don't know if you're aware of this Domain's true nature..."
"Yes... I... knew about the existence of this space... and how to open it..."
"What? You knew? Hmm, well... fine. Anyway, the fact that we successfully forced our way in here was proof that you're a more powerful esper than me. If you knew about this place's existence, this conversation would go faster. So why did someone stronger than me willingly get caught by me?"
Since I've already confirmed the most important thing—her virginity—these questions from here on were just whatever. I was asking to find out how strong this masochistic sow was if she was stronger than me, and whether the reason she got caught was because she was a masochistic sow or if there was another reason. I thought it was less that there was another reason and more that she was just a masochistic sow who didn't even resist my touch and gave up her virginity. But you never know, right? It was kind of funny to worry about 'what ifs' after I'd already gone all the way, but if it became a factor that interfered with me fucking Maki, that could be a serious problem.
In response to this question, Maki began, "As you suspected, I was a more powerful esper than you, Master. Perhaps one in several trillion... But I could perfectly conceal my presence, so I'd lived a normal life until now. It's true that I was born with tremendous esper abilities, but that's not what I wanted. I wanted to live a normal life...""
"But circumstances arose that made it impossible for me to keep hiding behind the scenes."
"What circumstances? If you could perfectly conceal your presence, and if living a normal life was truly your dream, you could've just kept hiding it and lived that way.
Espers who exceed the government's minimum threshold are typically treated as important military assets, forcibly conscripted from a young age, and reforged into dangerous killing machines through high-level training. However, the universe is vast, and even before the Great War, our country's central control over its territories was remarkably weak for a nation that pursued centralization, so many espers like Maki remained beyond the government's reach.
Espers who aren't recruited as special agents by the government often get kidnapped by those after their bounty, cause history-worthy incidents by going berserk without proper training, or get scouted preemptively by foreign governments. But there are also plenty who live quietly like Maki.
And those who finally break that silence usually bring great turmoil to the world. Whether in a positive way or a negative one. Which side will you be on?"
"...The Lucid Empire. At first, I really wanted to live a normal life. Living that way was nice, but one day I wanted to accomplish something with the esper abilities I was given. So recently, I started trying various things."
Ah, the Lucid Empire... I thought she didn't think about anything besides sex, but mentioning those who had set up a governor-general's office in our empire and made us a puppet state, and saying she wanted to do something for others... she seemed deeper than she looks.
While esper abilities can be hereditary, the vast majority are literally just born 'by chance,' so her saying 'I didn't want this' is believable. 'I wanted to live a normal life' is also within understandable limits. But Maki's answer, showing she thought deeper than she appeared, and her masochistic instincts didn't seem to connect well at first glance.
I felt like if I probed this point further, I could find out why she got caught by me, so I hurried to ask the next question.
"Driving out the Lucid people and helping others—of course that was a good thing. Enjoying sex while serving your homeland... very nice. I understand why you went through the trouble of coming all the way to Earth. Though it was now nothing but a radioactive wasteland, it was still our empire's rightful capital planet."
This question seemed like it was going to be a long one, so I paused midway to catch my breath. And I drove a wedge into Maki's tit-cunt.
"If what she's saying is true, shouldn't you have gone to one of them first—James Adams Quirke, the Minister of War leading the 'Domestic Government,' my father leading the 'People's Government,' or Field Marshal Grozny Atlas Bismarck leading the 'National Salvation Military Government'? Don't you think showing up to a secret party where homosexual acts took place, dressed like that, was a bit off?"
That was the Princess's honest feeling. If she simply wanted to drive out the colonizers and sought cooperation for that cause, shouldn't she have gone to those representing the resistance movement? Wasn't coming to meet me way off the mark?
As for that, the most I could offer Maki... was introducing her to my father. 'Dad, I looked into this girl, and while she looked like a whore, she was pretty smart and her esper abilities were quite powerful!' Then my father could decide whether to take her in or not.
"Ah, at first I planned to go where your father was. But I didn't want to go alone, so I intended to rescue you and your younger brother, who were trapped on Earth, and go with you."
"Me and my younger brother? I wonder what my older brother would say if he heard this."
Rescuing family members I couldn't save—what better way to bond? The logic itself is sound. The only problem was that hearing it from someone bound naked to a cross, breathing hotly, made it somewhat less convincing.
"You were going to rescue us... and then meet my father together? You were already thinking of a formal introduction? You sly thing... But why did you have to come meet me at that kind of place, dressed like that?"
Even though she was in the Domain and had had her mind taken by me, Maki hesitated here. It wasn't that I didn't believe everything she'd told me so far—perhaps she lacked confidence in explaining how coming to rescue someone in see-through wedding lingerie made sense.
To be honest, my believing Maki's words at face value probably meant I wasn't in my right mind either. In that sense, I hoped the answer she finally gave could satisfy me.