Huh? I'm About to Get Railed...?
"W-wh-wh-wh-what are you saying right now?!"
Flustered by Queen Anaris's matter-of-fact declaration, I stammered out the question in a total wreck of words. Beside me, Valeri's face had gone beet red at the Queen's words, and she kept her head buried low.
"I mean exactly what I said. As for the difference between the account you gave me of what happened with Freesia and my previous experiments, there are a few. But the biggest one is that I am not a futanari."
The words 'what happened with Freesia' and 'futanari' in her explanation made me flinch, and I shot a look at Valeri. She was just fidgeting with her fingers, head hanging low just as before.
So... she heard everything, huh...?
"That's why I intend to enlist the help of Valeri—a futanari—for this experiment."
"W-wait just a moment! How do you know all that, Your Majesty?!"
"I always use detection magic on anyone I meet for the first time, to know what kind of being they are. It lets me assess their physical condition and armaments."
So it's basically a see-through glasses kind of magic... She's been looking at everything since the moment we walked into the cabin.
Wait a second! That's why she knew I was a man so matter-of-factly! So that explains it...!
"Returning to the matter at hand—I suspect that the activation condition for your Holy Sword's power is light emitting from your cock, and that the sexual act with Freesia the futanari was the cause of that light.
Why exactly a futanari is the condition... even I can't form a hypothesis on that."
Oh, I've got a pretty good idea about that part...!
The face of that damn Goddess, smirking in my memory, floated up in my mind.
"In the end, this is about proving the most plausible hypothesis. If this succeeds, we can also resolve the monster horde problem with the Holy Sword's power."
"Um... I understand what you're saying, but... in the end, that... the act you're asking us to perform is ultimately...!"
"The specifics of the sexual act are yours to decide. Since oral sex produced an effect, direct penetration isn't necessarily required."
This person—from the start, no, this elf! Has been spitting out these perfectly clinical yet somehow mortifying words like it's nothing...!
"A-a-after everything, though, that's way too much for us to just—"
"To the bed."
Before I could even finish my sentence, her sharp, ice-cold gaze subdued me, and Valeri and I sat ourselves on the edge of the bed together. Sitting beside her made me so self-conscious that my whole body went stiff.
"I'll step outside, then. I'll muffle the sound with magic, as I did before."
"So you are leaving..."
"I know that much courtesy. I'll check on you with see-through magic from outside."
You're still watching, though!!
Before I could even raise the objection, Queen Anaris shut the door and was gone.
In the silence that followed, the sun had all but set, and the room was awash in the color of dusk. Valeri and I sat side by side on the bed, neither of us moving a muscle.
I snuck a sideways glance at her.
Valeri was still wearing the pure-white silk dress from lunch. The way it flowed down her body gave her a cuteness so unlike her usual self. Her soft, bare arms were on full display, and at the end of them her fingers clutched the long hem of her skirt, fidgeting restlessly.
Her toned legs, always on show in her trousers, were now hidden by the skirt, which only drew my eyes more to the slender dip of her waist.
When I looked up, Valeri was still scarlet-faced, lips twitching as she stared at the floor. Her small, vividly pink lips and the faint upward tilt at the corners of her eyes—until now, her fierce red hair and attire had given her the image of a strong, beautiful warrior woman, but with the cute dress and that shy expression, she looked every bit the proper young lady.
Just as I was agonizing over what to say, my eyes met Valeri's as she peeked at me sideways.
"Eep!" "Gwah!"
Eye to eye, we both startled and let out ridiculous noises.
"Y-My Hero!"
"Y-yes, ma'am!"
Is it happening? Is it happening? Wait, I'm not mentally ready for...!
No, no, what am I saying, me?! Why is doing it the default assumption here?!
A-and what even is the default assumption?!
S-something we've already done?! Or, or don't tell me—!!
"Um... there is something I must tell you!"
"R-right..."
Crushed by the wreckage of my runaway thoughts and by Valeri's momentum, I just answered meekly.
"I... I want to apologize to you, my Hero."
"Huh?"
Startled, I looked at her face, and the red flush had faded, replaced by a serious, faintly melancholy look.
"To start with this morning... the reason I didn't wait outside the cabin and went in after you—yes, I was worried about you, but the truth is... I was hurt! Something happened between you and Lady Freesia, and the fact that you wouldn't explain any of it to me... I felt wounded by it..."
"Valeri..."
"And also... I was jealous of Lady Freesia... For getting so close to you. The elves helping us are only doing so thanks to Freesia as well, and it made me feel like I was no help at all. That's why, even in the middle of the hunt, I... I let myself be jealous of her..."
Valeri's expression crumpled little by little until she was on the verge of tears. Her body faced me, but she kept her eyes down, refusing to meet mine.
"I am truly sorry for showing you such an unsightly display!"
With that, Valeri bent at the waist and bowed her head to me.
"No, I'm the one who's sorry, Valeri."
"...What?"
Valeri lifted her head and looked at me.
"I'm... I'm the Hero, and yet all I ever do is rely on everyone else, and I can't even use the Holy Sword's power properly... I've been so down about it."
"That is not your fault, my Hero!"
"Thank you for saying that, heh. Turns out we were both just avoiding a conversation we needed to have, huh, even as first companions... So from that angle too—I'm sorry!"
This time it was my turn to bow my head in apology.
"P-please raise your head, my Hero! For me, your servant, to be the one receiving an apology—!"
"That part too."
"...What?"
"Like I said before... I think of you as a comrade, Valeri, not a subordinate. So... I'd like it if we could talk to each other as equals, and honestly."
As I spoke, an embarrassed warmth crept over me, and I gave an awkward smile.
Right, come to think of it, Valeri was the first companion I'd gained in this world, and I never once really tried to understand her feelings or thoughts, never once brought my own troubles to her.
We're comrades on an adventure, after all—this conversation was something we absolutely needed to have!
"Honestly..."
Valeri pondered my words for a moment, head lowered.
"A-actually, there is one thing I haven't told you!"
"Go ahead, tell me!"
"I want to kiss you!"
"...Huh?"
"I-I have been thinking about it for so long, I swwear...!"
Valeri squeezed her eyes shut and forced the words out in a strangled voice.
A kiss...?
"I... I mean... if you want to... that's... that's fine..."
I turned my head away as I said it. I could feel my face burning.
Valeri was, without a doubt, exactly my type of unff... and hearing something like that as a man was flattering, and...
It's not like I have any reason to refuse, right...?
"R-really?!" "Kyah!"
Valeri suddenly grabbed both my shoulders, and I let out a bizarre yelp. With her hands on my shoulders, she closed the distance between us, and I became acutely aware of how small my body was.
"S-so, nngh..."
At my answer, Valeri, wearing her trademark excited expression with pursed lips, drew her face closer and closer to mine. Caught up in a complicated, fluttering tension, I lifted my chin slightly and closed my eyes.
Smooch.
Valeri's lips touched mine. They were soft, and tender.
Shlrp.
Wait! Your tongue?! We're using tongue?!
My shoulders, held in Valeri's hands, trembled. I had no thought of escaping, but even so, pinned as I was, her tongue pushed into my mouth. Her tongue clumsily swirled around mine and through my mouth. That tongue, those lips, savored the inside of my mouth with relentless, single-minded attention.
"Pwah... haah...!"
Between the escaping breaths, a moan slipped out of me. And it wasn't just because of the kiss.
My belly's getting hot! I'm resonating with Valeri's lust!
But this time it's different...!
My stomach... the inside of my body is burning up!
My body shuddered at the unfamiliar but intense sensation, and in that moment Valeri pulled her lips away.
"Haah... haah...!"
Through my wavering vision, I saw her flushed, excited face. She looked a little startled. I quickly realized why—my face, slack and woozy as the strength drained out of me.
"I'm sorry! It's just that I went too f—mmph."
I covered Valeri's mouth with my hand before she could apologize again.
"The experiment..."
"...What?"
"It's for the experiment of the Holy Sword's power, so... you can go... a little further..."
That's right. This is an experiment of the Holy Sword's power.
It's something we need to do.
And above all... depending on what we do, I might still be able to protect my manhood!
That's right... even if Valeri takes off my top... the man in me survives!
Mwah!
"Hyah!"
Having carefully stripped off my top, Valeri pressed her mouth to my chest.
"What are you doing?!"
"This time, it is I... who shall serve you, my Hero."
"W-wait, hold on, ngh—!"
Shloop! "Ngh!"
Mwah. "Ah..."
Shluuurp! "Nnghaaah...!"
Am I... feeling it right now, from my chest? From my nipples?
There's nothing remotely manly about this...!
Grab.
Valeri's free hand seized my other breast. My bochu body—petite but soft and springy, with a little puff of pillowy flesh gathered at the chest.
"Nngh...!"
It's not manly, but...! Still...!
It still feels good!
Before long, Valeri pulled her lips from my chest with a wet pop. Moaning between hot breaths, I tried to cover my face with my hand.
"Next... I shall attend to this part."
Saying that, Valeri gripped the waistband of my pants.
"T-taking those off is my job—!"
"Please, leave it to me."
"Ah!"
As I moved to stop her from pulling down my pants, Valeri yanked them down in one swift motion. Dodging my hand as it reached for her arm—whether by her own dodge or her pulling, I toppled backward onto the bed.
Whump.
I landed flat on the bed with my pants caught around my shins, legs thrust straight up at the ceiling.
"I'm sorry! I'll have them off in a moment!"
In a frantic voice, Valeri flung my pants clean off into the air from that position. My freed legs kicked wildly a few times before dropping down over both her shoulders.
Wait! This position is—!
Me, sprawled on the bed. Valeri, positioned right at my bare, upturned rear.
My legs draped over Valeri's shoulders, and her eyes gazing down at my naked body from above.
My cock, leaking ropes of precum, the balls beneath it, and beyond them, hoisting the fabric of her silk dress up high—
Valeri's cock.
It's going in...
It's going in...
With a cock... with a futanari cock...
It's going in my ass...!