Dreams Drawn by the Lord Himself, and Dreams Not (Illustration Added 6/21)
The Dream the Lord Himself Drew, and the Dream That Isn't (Illustration Added 6/21)
Originally, it would have been at most a few years,
but Actuare, who had just recently gone to sleep for a full 20 years, entered the dream world once again to escape from the sordid reality he had created.
"...I'm back, Shephy."
"Master! Welcome back!"
Actuare had made it so that whenever he fell asleep, he could only dream of a 'certain dream' that he himself had created.
In that dream, there was always a Shephy from the regression—the one who, in each successive regression, was endlessly regretful over 'a certain event' that had occurred just once long ago—waiting to welcome him.
"You seem a bit tired? A bath is the best for that! Um... would you like to join me... for the first time in a while? ♡"
This Shephy was quite different from the real one.
She was a dream entity modeled after a pure Shephy from a world where she had never allowed anyone but him to have her body, a world he himself had bound to ensure it stayed that way.
'I know it's a futile endeavor... but even so, I find comfort in you.'
"Master?... Kyaaah! ♡"
However, knowing full well that she was just a dream Shephy created from his own memories, he let out a bitter smile and pulled her tightly into his embrace.
"Sure, why not. Let's enjoy ourselves with a bath."
"E-enjoy ourselves?... Yes ♡ I'll do whatever Master desires ♡ Aahh ♡"
And so, even though he knew it was just a dream, Actuare was sufficiently comforted and gained the confidence to meet the Goddess the next day and have it out with her.
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The next day, at the Guard Unit near the Adventurer City's guild.
Just as the guards were deliberating over Shephy's (the one Actuare had personally ordered to be given maximum convenience) demand to register Chris as a slave and take him away, versus his own order to capture Chris on sight, Actuare himself visited the Guard Unit.
'Tch, it's certain. And even...'
Entering the Guard Unit and confirming Chris's appearance firsthand, Actuare realized that he was a creation directly forged by the Goddess, and moreover, that it wasn't just a trace of the Goddess within him—the Goddess herself, having transcended the mortal coil, was residing inside.
"I'll take him for a moment. Is there an empty room?"
Seeing no need to inform the city's residents that the Goddess had descended to the mortal realm and, hiding her identity in a male body, had been going around raping numerous women, Actuare decided to take Chris into an empty room in the Guard Unit to talk.
"Oh! I believe I overheard that you are this city's Lord! My, my! As expected, even the famous Lord of the Adventurer City sees my potential..."
Chris began prattling on his own after a brief standoff.
'Skills of this type usually... are dispelled immediately if you kill the host.'
While it was questionable whether this rule would apply to the Goddess's Authority, looking at Chris prancing about before him brought back the humiliation from last night, and Actuare raised a hand quietly without further hesitation to choke the life out of Chris.
Right at that moment
[- "Stop."]
A feeling of the space around him being cut off from the world, accompanied by a voice heard both in his ears and resonating within his mind, reached him simultaneously.
"...The last Dragon remaining on the earth, Actuare the Foresight Dragon, pays his respects to the Goddess-nim."
- Hmph, you were just trying to kill me, and now you tremble so skillfully.
The Goddess, creator of the continent and the world's only god, had descended before Actuare.
- So? Why have you created this situation, last Dragon?
An overwhelming energy, unlike anything he had ever dared to feel despite living through infinite regressions and an immeasurable length of time, emanated from the being who was Chris—whose form had now completely transformed into that of a sublime Goddess with beautiful, flowing golden hair.
"I would rather ask you."
- Ask what
"Why have you come to Shephy's side in such a form, engaging in such behavior...?"
- Th-that's...
'Hm?'
The Goddess seemed to be hesitating and pondering, much like a human, a mortal.
'...No, I should stop with these needless suspicions.'
Actuare felt a sense of incongruity from the Goddess, but even so, he understood better than anyone on earth that the Goddess before him was a supreme being he dared not approach, so he dismissed his stray thoughts and calmly waited for the Goddess's answer.
- 'Is that fucker suspecting me right now? Heh, did he find out my power is gone?'
In truth, the current Goddess was merely a hollow shell, having had all her power stripped away by the world's will and Shephy, leaving only the title of Goddess. Unaware that if Actuare so wished, while completely destroying her might be impossible, he could at least break this endless chain of regressions.
- ...I was observing the mortal world. Mainly Shephy.
Judging that she could not manipulate Actuare as completely as before, the Goddess decided to come clean with the truth.
At least when telling the truth, she wouldn't be suspected.
"Shephy, you say?"
- Yes, everything, including events in the closed village you never witnessed.
And so, the Goddess explained the circumstances that led to her descent to earth more elegantly and beautifully than anyone else in the world could.
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- And that's how it happened.
"...I see."
'So even the Goddess is just a woman of Artroxia, after all...'
But ultimately, stripping away all the embellishments and getting to the core, it meant that after seeing Shephy and Leira running the gamut of carnal desire, she herself wanted to have sex and descended to earth.
On top of that, she was scared to suddenly have sex in a female body, so she descended in a male one, and even that was too much for her, so she inserted a pseudo-personality and hid within it, going around raping women.
- ...Don't misunderstand. I didn't order him to lust after women. Chris did it on his own...!
"Yes, I understand. I'll take it as that. Then, can we leave future matters to Shephy?"
- ...Do so.
The Goddess was furious at Actuare for cutting her off and proceeding with matters on his own, but she simply endured silently and answered.
"Understood. Then, since Shephy is waiting, I shall take my leave. Please restore the space to its original state, hasoseo."
- I shall do so...
The fact that she had to mind the moods of that insignificant little lizard Actuare, whom she could once tear to shreds with a flick of her finger, was more humiliating than anything else for the Goddess. But continuing the conversation further risked this unnecessarily perceptive lizard finding out she had lost her power, so she quietly acquiesced to his request.
'Hmph! You insolent newt bastard! Just because you're a bit handsome!? Take this! Yap!'
However, her pride simply couldn't let it slide, so the Goddess used the Authority she had originally left behind to give hints through dreams to Shephy and those around her to secretly manipulate Actuare's dream.
'You too... you get a taste too! See how I felt!'
Ping!-
Actuare, having received an Authority that could never be detected by anyone not of the same rank as the Goddess, naturally did not notice this fact.
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After branding Chris with a Slave Brand and handing him over to Shephy, Actuare exchanged a few words with her before returning to the lord's manor.
'It ended more easily than I thought. Perhaps this is thanks to Shephy's help...'
Thinking that he had managed today's meeting with the Goddess safely and without incident thanks to the dream Shephy, Actuare headed to the bedroom to see her again tonight.
Completely unaware that he had already fallen victim to the Goddess's trickery.
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The Lord, having fallen asleep in reality, awoke in the dream within the dream lord's manor as usual.
As per usual, he tried to get up to meet Shephy, but felt a strange heaviness in his body.
"What is this... Ugh!? Who's there!?"
A suddenly heard, unpleasantly high-pitched female voice, as if an adult woman was imitating a child.
But there was no one around except himself.
"C-could it be... Hic!"
Realizing that this voice must obviously be coming from his own throat, Actuare looked down at his body and was immediately so startled he felt his breath catch.
'B-because of my breasts... I can't see anything...'
His eye level and the height from the ground were incomparably lower than usual.
Even so, by lowering his gaze just a little—literally without even needing to lower his head, just by looking down slightly with his eyes—he could catch a glimpse of huge breasts and perky nipples that didn't match them.
"A dwarf? A halfling? No, this is..."
It couldn't be a dwarf, as there was none of the abundant body hair dwarf women possess, and it couldn't be a halfling, as the body was plump in various places.
Above all, she had breasts larger than any woman of those races could ever have, breasts that were at least twice as large as Shephy's, which he usually fondled to his heart's content.
"The shortstack Shephy told me about... did I become something like an O-raf or an O-dle?"
A purely imaginary race created solely to fulfill male sexual fantasies, which he had heard about from Shephy and Hanako, beings from Earth he'd encountered during his regressions.
"A supreme being like me... becoming such a vulgar race..."
Just as he despaired upon realizing that he, in this dream, was that sexually optimized race,
Bang!-
"Still not up, Are!?"
A frivolous-looking blond man kicked the door open as if to break it and barged uninvited into the bedroom.
"A-Are? Is that what you're calling... Kuk! Y-you!?"
The man was Chris, the vessel of the Goddess he had seen that afternoon, and his dick was dangling glistening with cloudy semen, as if he had just finished enjoying rough sex.
"...You?"
Then, suddenly like a psycho, Chris began glaring at Actuare with a ferocious aura completely different from when he first entered.
"Hic!"
'Wh-why me all of a sudden?'
Actuare, who normally wouldn't have been bothered at all, found his whole body trembling and frozen with fear under the pressure from this man who was, after all, just a guy with a slightly handsome face.
"Did you just dare say 'you' to me, Are?"
Squeeak-
"Ggaaeuk! Ack!"
And then, grabbing the large horns of the terrified, cowering Actuare, he lifted him up and brought his face close to his own, asking again with Actuare's face right before his eyes.
'Sc-scared... scaredscaredscaredscaredscared...'
"Hic, kuk!"
No words came out.
Whether it was because he had become a weakling of a sexually optimized race, or because it was a dream,
instead of telling the Goddess's plaything, who was only good-looking, to stop, he just shed chicken-shit tears drop by drop, utterly terrified.
"Seems like you need some re-education..."
Chris stood facing the sniffling Actuare for a moment in silence, then let go of the horn he was holding.
"Aheuk!"
As Actuare fell to the floor, a huge dick, smeared with someone's love juices and, obviously, Chris's semen, was thrust right in front of his face.
"Suck it."
"Hic!... Hit, kkeuk!"
He couldn't speak, couldn't move.
The terrified Actuare couldn't even think of sucking the dick thrust before him, let alone wipe away the tears overflowing so much they made his face bright red.
"So that's how it is, huh? Then your Master-nim will personally give you a thorough re-education, so be prepared, Are."
'Master... nim?'
An utterly unacceptable word coming from Chris's mouth.
Shloop!-
"Uut, boop! Ugh! Hueup!"
But before he could deny that word, the huge dick that had arbitrarily invaded his mouth carried a strangely familiar woman's scent.