Goddess of Exposition's Compressed Explanation Session
Goddess of Exposition's Condensed Explanation Session
"Wait a moment. Just wait a little while, please."
The Goddess, who had just accidentally played a video of a future that might have existed, used a remote control to browse through the video list on the beam projector.
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Shephy, Defeated by Bandits Gang Rape (2)
Shephy, Defeated by Bandits Gang Rape END
Shephy, The Lord's Maid (1)
Shephy, The Lord's Maid (2)
Shephy, The Lord's Permanent Bitch Maid♡
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"Ah, I plugged in the wrong USB."
After checking the list, the Goddess casually swapped out the USB in the beam projector as if it were nothing, and I couldn't help but call her out on it.
"W-wait a minute, that's way too concerning! What is that! Why do you have videos like that?!"
"Don't worry about it. If you worry, you lose. It's already a past future anyway, right?"
Past future.
That contradictory statement resonated with me unnecessarily.
"Ah, here it is. Look, Shephy."
Not even glancing at me, who was feeling down for no reason again, the Goddess played a new video through the beam projector.
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Rage, END 2 I Swear Loyalty to My Beloved Demon King♡
Rage, END 3 I am, no, I am Leira. I am Leira, the elf prostitute of the Adventurer's Guild♡
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Of course, the video list on the newly inserted USB also had dizzying titles, but the video the Goddess played was so shocking that I quickly forgot about them.
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- "No! Not yet! Pull yourself together! Please!"
- "In this era without heroes or champions... the day the demon race seizes hegemony over the entire Atroxia Continent is not far off...!"
- "Your Majesty... why... how could someone as mighty as Your Majesty fall to such a pathetic disease!"
The video the Goddess played again showed a very familiar-looking elderly demon man meeting his death on a bed.
- "I suppose this too is the fate ordained by the Goddess... I was too afraid because the hero was not visible... this illness found its way in through my weak heart..."
With those final words, the old man slowly closed his eyes and accepted death.
Even though the demon race had been confronting the multi-species alliance we humans belong to for hundreds of years, watching an old man accept his death with such reverence, even just on video, made me feel a sense of solemnity.
☆ CLEAR! ☆
[Rage, END 1 I am the hero Rage! The hero Rage who defeated the Demon King!]
If only that flashy effect that filled the screen the moment the old man died hadn't been there.
"...The real Demon King?"
"Yes, the real Demon King. There's a portrait in the Adventurer's Guild, you know?"
I don't know when it was hung, but that portrait was now so old and worn that it was unrecognizable, and no one paid it any mind. However, I remembered passing by it a few times, and the face in that portrait was definitely that of the elderly demon who just died—the Demon King.
"Wh-when? When did he die?"
"This morning. He held on for about 20 years but finally died."
It was shocking.
Because the idea that humanity's eternal nemesis died from a mere illness was utterly absurd.
But right now, I had a more pressing question.
"But what does this have to do with me?"
The Demon King died of an illness.
I've never even met a demon, let alone the Demon King, in my entire life, so I figured his death had nothing to do with me.
I wondered if maybe just the Demon King dying was enough to clear the game, so I asked, but
"No. If you guys hadn't killed him, the future leading to END 1 route of the sequel would have just disappeared."
Apparently not.
"You might question this death... but if you really, really insist on nitpicking, you can't say you didn't kill him."
"So why!?"
"Because the illness that killed the Demon King was a plague that spread from your and Rage's village."
"...What?"
From the Goddess's subsequent explanation, I understood the Demon King's death was a butterfly effect.
"Originally, when your parents died from the plague, Seyra would have visited your village, purified it, and taken you in. That timing would have been much earlier too."
I didn't understand why Seyra's name came up suddenly, but anyway, Seyra never came to our village.
The first time I met Seyra was long after coming to the Adventurer City, after I had already become a prostitute.
"I suppose it's because neither you nor Rage visited the Adventurer City when you were children."
"Ah! Right! Shephy had that setting!"
I recalled the memories from the game I reincarnated into.
Indeed, the original Shephy, who is my current self, had a setting where she loved pestering her parents to take her to play in the Adventurer City, the largest city nearby, since she was little.
And always by her side was her childhood friend and neighbor, Rage, who was two years older.
But the reincarnated me had no particular interest in the Adventurer City, and since I, her childhood friend, was like that, Rage also never went to the Adventurer City.
"However, just because you two didn't go doesn't mean the villagers didn't, so the plague spread to your village, which was quite far from the city, albeit belatedly, and by the time it was realized, it had reached an irreversible situation."
"...Yeah."
Even though I was reincarnated, the villagers I spent 15 years with since birth were precious people to me, and losing those villagers... and mine and Rage's parents to the plague was still a sad memory to recall.
And thinking that even villagers who shouldn't have originally died ended up dying because I, residing within Shephy, lived a different life than Shephy, made my heart ache even more.
"Tsk, Shephy. If you worry about every little thing like that, you'll only suffer more in the future. I won't go so far as to say it's all in the past... but you didn't deliberately kill those people, so don't torment yourself too much."
"Yeah, thanks."
Sure enough, she was a Goddess. After reading my mind, her words of comfort made me feel at least a little less guilty.
"Anyway, because such trivial connections were lost, the ensuing storm ended up killing even the first demon, the Demon King, who was originally human."
"Human? The Demon King was?"
"If you think about it, since he was originally human, he must have been susceptible to human-only diseases."
I had just heard a massive spoiler, likely revealed in a sequel I hadn't played, from the Goddess's own mouth: that the Demon King was originally human.
"Anyway, you killed the Demon King with the plague from your village, you maintained a high affection level between you and Rage, and lastly, the NTR Gauge, which should have been kept below a certain threshold, is now completely shattered because Rage doesn't care one bit even if you have sex with other men. So, achieving this incredibly forced END 1 fulfills all these conditions. Hahaha! Congratulations! I sincerely congratulate you!"
Clap clap clap clap-
In the desolate space where everything had stopped, only the Goddess's hollow applause echoed.
"Thanks... but there must be a problem, which is why you came to explain all this, right?"
"Yes, that's right."
It was a clear, even an END 1, so you could say it was the most stable ending content. But if that were all, the Goddess wouldn't have gone through the trouble of coming here to scold me; she would have congratulated me and given me a reward.
"Your Karma is insufficient."
"...Karma?"
"To put it in terms you can understand, your story progress is insufficient."
"Ah..."
The game I played, Lewd Adventurer Shephy, was a text-based game with no voice acting, yet it was a major title exceeding 4GB in size.
Even though it was just a porn game, most H-Scenes were tied to story progression, so to advance the story, you absolutely had to go on adventures outside the Adventurer City.
But since I came to the Adventurer City at 15, I have never once left for another city.
"So, does that mean I just kept repeating the Adventurer City H-Scenes, which are only about 5 percent of the story...?"
"Hmph! You've fucked pretty much every guy available here, so it's probably around 10 percent."
"W-well, yeah..."
I want to believe the ending condition isn't achieving 100% story progress, but even if it's not, it's clear that 10% is definitely insufficient.
"But a clear is a clear, so you've received part of the reward in advance. Now go and accumulate Karma with it."
"You mean me getting younger and that bastard Rage becoming Seyra?"
"No. The part you received in advance is just you getting younger. For your information, that youth will wear off if you don't continuously receive creampies until you achieve a proper clear."
"Really? Well, not that I care, but..."
38 years old—in a fantasy world, that's an age considered quite old.
Because of that, the women living in the Adventurer City, compared to Korea where I lived, women around their 40s looked even older than 50-year-olds in Korea.
However, whether it was protagonist privilege or due to my ability, I had the appearance of someone in their mid-20s, or at worst early 30s, so even if the effect was temporary, I could maintain my youth quickly just by taking customers at the brothel.
'Anyway, because of Semen Growth, from now on I'll need to do lots of creampie sex...'
An 18-year veteran brothel worker has plenty of ways to keep fresh semen in her womb.
"By the way, regarding Rage's situation then... ah."
Thinking about it, the title of the sequel game where Rage is the protagonist is 'TS Lewd Hero Rage'.
That means, in the sequel, Rage definitely undergoes TS at the introduction, or at least in the early part.
"But that's fortunate. Originally, it was an absolutely irreversible curse, but Seyra must have cared for Rage so much. Oh my, there's not much time left! Listen carefully, Shephy! Rage is!"
The subsequent explanation about Rage's current situation consisted of four main points.
1. He can use the Semen Growth ability on others besides himself who have a certain level of affection, but the efficiency at that time is 1/10 of the original.
I have this too.
2. The NTR-enforced trait that such Semen Growth cannot be used on the person who provided the semen.
I also have this.
But now, neither Rage nor I care about that at all, so it only means we can't engage in macro-like growth sex by endlessly repeating sex with each other.
3. The moment the ability is used, pregnancy is impossible for one year, and the ability cannot be used during pregnancy.
I'm getting tired of saying this, but I have this too, but Rage has one more addition.
4. Unlike the original where TS was permanent, Rage's current TS state can be turned ON/OFF at will whenever Rage himself desires.
Because of this, the one additional point for Rage regarding point 3 is that if Rage gets pregnant even once, he can never return to being a man.
"Whew~ Whew~ Explanation over! Well then, I'll be going back now. From now on, I probably won't intervene like this until you and Rage have accumulated all your Karma."
The Goddess's body, having barely finished the explanation, began to fade slightly, and the colors of the world were returning.
"Thank you so much, Goddess."
"What thanks? I never thought you'd keep this up for 38 years, so I'm just glad we could meet like this now!"
"That's... ahem, sorry."
"Apology accepted. Well then, this is really goodbye. Please, please achieve a proper ending..."
Without finishing her last words, the Goddess disappeared.
"Shephy!?...Huh? Shephy? Weren't you just crying and suffering a moment ago?"
The world began to move again.
And the figure of Rage, who looked like Seyra... no, looking closely, the face was very similar, but the breasts boasted a size incomparable to Seyra's, so it definitely felt like a different person.
"...Hey, Rage."
Looking Rage's figure up and down, before explaining in detail what I had just heard from the Goddess, I had one question I wanted to ask first.
"If you could get stronger like I just did by fucking like crazy in that body, would you do it or not?"
"Huh? Really? Then of course I'd do it! My physical condition has gotten amazing since I got this body, and you're saying I can get stronger like you just did? I'd go get a brothel license right now if I could!"
'Sigh, I knew he'd say that.'
The middle-aged adventurer Rage, who should have originally become a hero.
For him, TS was a blessing that transformed his old self into a blonde elf goddess, not a curse by any means.