The Morning Confession
Washing her, dressing her, and changing the sheets. Somehow I’d ended up doing everything Elphy had done to me before… At least the mattress stayed dry; that was the only silver lining. Of course, the memory of the staff staring at me like some kind of perverted beast when I awkwardly asked, in my broken otherworld tongue, if I could get new bedding still burned behind my eyes. Haah… Whatever. I wouldn’t be seeing those people after tomorrow night anyway.
What worried me far more was how the hell I was supposed to explain everything tomorrow. How this girl would react once she woke up. Haah… What am I even supposed to say?If I just tell her it was all a dream, would she buy it…?
“…”
She wouldn’t believe that. The clothes I’d shoved into the washer probably wouldn’t even be dry by morning, and on top of that I still had to drop the Dalwini bomb… I was already bracing myself for the absolute shitstorm tomorrow was going to be.
I let out a long sigh at the mess I’d created and racked my brain for any excuse that might possibly work.
First… the thing that happened today with her heat was actually a dream.
The clothes change… you drank way too much last night and had an accident…
As for the Dalwini thing…
“…”
Sleep crashed over me like a wave. My thoughts grew shorter and shorter until I finally closed my eyes. I couldn’t fall asleep like this… I needed some kind of plan…
“Ugh…!!”
That was the last thought I had before passing out. Something slammed into my chest with a heavy thud, jolting me awake like I’d been electrocuted. I shot upright, eyes wide with panic, scanning the room—only to find a very familiar face sitting right beside me, pouting.
“…”
“Uh… good morning.”
“Good morning? After the way you brutally railed me yesterday, do you have any idea how much my stomach and back hurt?”
“…”
I was so fucked. She remembered everything.
I tried to defuse the situation with an awkward smile, but the moment she said it hurt because I’d shoved it in without a word, a massive wave of guilt surged through me.
“I’m sorry! You were so horny last night I couldn’t help myself!!!”
“Huh?”
“…”
Fuck… Even I couldn’t believe the words coming out of my own mouth. No wonder she immediately started kicking me while I performed a perfect dogeza. When I cautiously lifted my head to check her expression, it looked like her mood had improved slightly.
I subtly shifted from dogeza into a proper seated position, but… this girl’s face was weirdly unreadable.
“I was the horny one…?”
“…Yeah.”
“Right. Then there’s nothing that can be done about it. I’ll forgive you.”
“…?”
Just like that? Ha… As expected, you really are the only true wife I’ll ever need in this life. A stupid grin spread across my face before I could stop it—until she added that there was, of course, a condition.
“…What condition?”
“How about two free rape vouchers?”
“Two free rape vouchers?”
“…”
My brain blue-screened at the crude wording. I could only stare at my grinning slave. Rape vouchers? Me? I was the one who’d be doing the raping?
“No? You’re the sinner here. Obviously I’m the one who gets to rape you…”
“Oh… I thought I was the one raping…”
“…”
“Huh?”
She declared that one day she’d wreck me just as hard, face to face, and that she wouldn’t be holding back anymore… So all this time she’d been going easy on me out of consideration? Just imagining what was in store for me made my prostate tingle. Still, that wasn’t important right now.
I steadied my breathing, put on a serious face, and told Elphy I had something important to say.
“Something to say?”
“Yeah. So stop eating for a second and actually listen to me.”
“…”
Please. Put down the bread and butter and focus.
The moment I took the bread and butter away from her, she gave me a look that screamed What the hell is this guy’s problem, throwing a fit first thing in the morning? But once she heard what I was about to tell her, she’d understand exactly why I was acting like this.
I stared at my slave with a dead-serious expression.
“…What is it? Why are you setting the mood all dramatically?”
“It’s not about the mood. This is seriously important.”
“Then what is it…”
“The… place where I’m going to work… I thought it was in Ferid, right? But actually…”
It turned out I’d been assigned to some backwater shithole called Dalwini that I’d never even heard of before. I watched Elphy’s reaction carefully and gave an awkward laugh, adding that at least it showed up on Google Maps… Wait, why wasn’t she surprised?
“I know.”
“Huh? You know…?”
“You idiot? I was at the same drinking party yesterday.”
“…?”
Well, yeah, but you were passed out. Weren’t you completely blacked out after drinking by the pair?
I stared at her, completely dumbfounded.
“You’d need to drink about ten pairs before you black out.”
“Until alcohol is circulating through your whole body instead of blood…”
“Wait. So you heard every single thing I said at the lodging yesterday?”
“Huh? Ah… no…! I really was asleep then…”
She claimed she’d been so out of it that she wouldn’t have noticed even if someone carried her away. This was ridiculous. Then suddenly this girl started clutching her waist.
“Ah~ Ah~! My waist suddenly… ugh…”
“It feels like someone forced themselves on me last night…”
“…”
This bitch… Just how long had she actually been awake? No matter how I thought about it, it seemed like she’d been conscious ever since I started sucking on her chest. Which meant she’d been pretending to sleep the entire time I was sucking, thrusting, washing, dressing her, doing every last thing—and had even planned out the two rape vouchers this morning?
Wow… Fuck… I almost got unfairly raped twice by this girl? Her acting was straight-up terrifying.
I looked at my slave with pure contempt.
“No… I really was asleep, I swear!”
“Yeah… Sure. Then the two rape vouchers from this morning don’t count, right?”
“No! You still did it without my consent…!! So at least…”
Let’s settle on once… Even I couldn’t believe the words coming out of my mouth. Ha… Fine. Then just go easy on me when you use them.
Elphy grinned brightly.
“Okay. Then I’ll make it a heat-induced one. Deal?”
“…”
Heat-induced… Fuck… Wasn’t that the exact word those doujin old men used to rationalize their crimes? They always said if you cum while sleeping, remember that day as the day you got taken by heat frenzy… Just hearing the word made me feel dizzy.
“By the way, if we’re leaving tomorrow morning, we still have today, right?”
“Haah… Yeah. Things are going to get busy soon, so we should rest at the lodging—”
“…”
That would be a problem. There was no computer at the lodging, and the TV was boring. She’d been fiddling with condoms since morning… If the two of us were stuck there with nothing to do, the mood would definitely turn weird again.
I racked my brain. Was there anywhere we could kill time that wouldn’t be too tiring or exhausting?
Maybe a café…?
Drinking coffee, eating cake, sitting like idiots watching YouTube—the thought already had me excited. I told Elphy about my grand plan, but she seemed more interested in somewhere else.
“…The bookstore?”
“Yeah. You said it’d take a while before the internet works.”
“Since we’ll be stuck inside the lodging for a while with nothing to do…”
She wanted to buy a few books to pass the time. Plus, she said we’d need actual books if she was going to teach me the otherworld language little by little. I nodded.
“Okay. Then let’s go to the bookstore.”
“Where’s the closest one from here…?”
I simply searched Google Maps for the nearest bookstore and drove there… Who could have guessed that an otherworld bookstore would be this ridiculously huge? I only learned later that this place was Ferid’s most famous tourist attraction and one of the largest bookstores in the entire otherworld—Elphy’s explanation.
“Hey. What was the name again? This bookstore?”
“Piode…”
“…”
What? Piode? Piohod…? These otherworld bastards really love twisting their tongues in weird ways. I have no idea how they even pronounce it, but it’s too hard to imitate, so I’ll just call it Piode.
Elphy and I parked the car and walked toward the bookstore—or rather, the building that looked more like a massive library. Wow… This thing was enormous. In terms of size, it rivaled the National Assembly Library back home. The architecture wasn’t modern at all; it was pure otherworld fantasy. And the most shocking part? It was carved from a single giant tree.
“Wow… For real?”
“Yeah. See that tree covering the entire Ferid sky? The biggest one died a few hundred years ago… They built the bookstore from its remains.”
They hollowed it out, reinforced the interior, and stacked the pieces together like a patchwork. Ferid’s bookstore, Piode, looked like the moving castle from a cartoon and a miniature wooden village at the same time. Yet instead of seeming old and shabby, it felt harmonious and strangely beautiful.
“I’ve wanted to visit for a long time. It’s famous for having tons of incredibly old books…”
“Really… But don’t they avoid selling books that old?”
“Who knows…? They probably do. Unlike the human world, the concepts of national treasures or cultural heritage aren’t really a thing here.”
If someone wants to buy, they buy. If the owner wants to sell, they sell. I guess it’s similar to how antique auctions work overseas…?
“So. Are you going to look at the ancient books?”
“No… I can’t go inside. But they know how valuable the collection is, so they’ll still do a simple inspection.”
“Identity, name, belongings… They’ll definitely make you take off your hat.”
“…”
I see. Yeah… You don’t have to say it. I know better than anyone what happens if you take that hat off. I nodded and asked if she had any specific books she wanted.
“Hmm… But you don’t really know the otherworld language, do you?”
“I don’t know it well, but I don’t completely not know it. If you write it down, I’ll try to find it.”
“Really? Then I have a favor to ask.”