Chapter 5
A few hours earlier. The hour when the sunlight bleeds red.
Da-gi-dak, da-gi-dak.
The sound of horses galloping across the blue pasture carried on the wind.
“It’s hunting time! Capture every milk cow you see!”
“Yes, Team Leader!”
Apparently the boss had clumsily borrowed the rank system the Heroes used. The title of Team Leader still felt awkward on my tongue, but I had to admit—it suited me just fine.
Whoosh, whoosh. Shhk.
My subordinates threw their lassoes with practiced ease, snagging the milk cows by their necks and hauling them in tight.
“Ghkk—!”
The cows thrashed about, strangling, no doubt in agony from the ropes cinched around their throats.
“Team Leader, what should we do with those cows over there?”
One of my men pointed at the four-legged cows and asked.
“New recruit?”
“Yes! That’s right, sir!”
I ripped into the idiot’s joints.
“You drink our company’s milk every single day, and you still want to sip milk from some four-legged cow like that?”
“B-but we could slaughter them for meat!”
“No time for that. We’re only taking the two-legged ones.”
We’ve run this operation before—so who the hell put an untrained rookie on my team?
While I grumbled, my men finished rounding up every cow in sight.
Half of the six mobile cow-prisons we’d brought along specifically for the hunt were already full.
“Half of you head back to the pen. The rest of you come deeper in with me. From here on out, a Hero may appear—everyone stays sharp!”
“Yes, Team Leader!”
Hunting was forbidden during the interregnum, when no Hero walked the land. Ever since word came of an oracle announcing a new Hero’s arrival, I’d been waiting for this very moment.
To capture more cows and bait the Hero out, we had pushed all the way to the walls of the kingdom’s capital.
“Kyaaah! Run!”
Barely after we’d resumed the hunt, a bell began to toll.
Dong, dong, dong, dong.
“The ranch is under attack!”
I could see those kingdom soldiers on the move. A kingdom army with no knight order left to speak of didn’t frighten me one bit.
“The kingdom’s got nothing left to scare us with! Everyone except the capture squads, prepare for battle!”
The operation was proceeding smoothly when I saw it—a man vaulting clean over the city wall with nothing but his bare body.
“The Hero! The Hero’s here!”
My men wavered at the Hero’s arrival.
“Tear off the Hero’s hood! No need to wound him—just get the hood off!”
My men swarmed in, attacking.
Wham!
With a series of dull thuds, my men went flying one by one. That sound did not belong to a human fist.
Wham!
It was my first time seeing a Hero in the flesh, and it was far more terrible than the stories.
Wham!
“Don’t you dare retreat! The Goddess will save your souls! We’ll all meet again in the hunting grounds of the afterlife!”
Wham!
Before I knew it, the Hero was right in front of me.
“You the boss? Where’s Kotori?”
“Hahaha! You think I bother learning the names of cows that breed like flies? Ptooey!”
I spat at the Hero, and the Hero stomped me into the dirt.
“Kuh-hk—!”
Squeezing out the last dregs of my strength, I swung my sword at him.
Swish.
The Hero dodged it easily—but his hood, the thing hiding his face, must have fallen outside the range of his evasion. I couldn’t make out his features, but I caught a glimpse of hair.
“This Hero has black hair….”
Those were my dying words.
Kwajik.
I killed every enemy in sight. I checked every last person locked inside the mobile prisons, but there was no sign of Kotori.
Where on earth is she?
The Guide quest hadn’t told me her location. Tracing the trail the bandits had come by, I spotted wheel ruts in the ground.
I wedged my face more snugly behind a fallen soldier’s helmet and my usual hood, then climbed onto the horse the man who seemed to be their boss had ridden. I’d learned horsemanship as part of my education, so riding posed no problem.
Then, for a moment, Eun-ah crossed my mind.
She must be waiting for me…. I need to hurry.
Forcing down the urge to rush to her, I spurred the horse forward.
After following the wheel ruts for about an hour, a small village came into view. As I approached, a swarm of men dressed exactly like the bandits from before poured out and readied for combat.
“That horse is the Team Leader’s! Everyone, prepare for battle!”
The remaining bandits were a ragtag rabble—I cut them down with ease.
Inside the village, the abducted women stood in a single line. I examined their faces one by one, and at the very head of the line, I found Kotori.
Were Kotori-ssi’s breasts always that big?
Kotori’s breasts had swollen larger than her head, and with nothing covering her upper body, she was barely concealing them.
As I drew near, she spoke to me.
“Sob… My prince… please, help me….”
With those words, Kotori lost consciousness.
You have completed the quest.
Along with the completion notice, a single paper bill marked “10” materialized out of thin air.
The kingdom uses coins—what is this thing?
So the Heroes who couldn’t even save the world apparently had quite a lot of things they wanted to do instead.
I covered Kotori’s upper body with a cloth and let her rest—and in the far distance, I could see the kingdom’s soldiers approaching.
“Are you the Hero? Thank you, truly.”
The man who appeared to lead the soldiers offered his thanks, then set about rescuing the abducted citizens of the kingdom.
“We’ll be taking this woman with us.”
When the soldiers tried to take Kotori as well, I hastily stopped them.
For Eun-ah’s sake alone, I wanted to leave Kotori with the soldiers and hurry home—but a notification that popped up before my eyes wouldn’t let me.
[Quest: Wait until Kotori regains consciousness.]
[Reward: $10]
The soldiers departed with the kingdom’s citizens, and after waiting roughly an hour, Kotori stirred awake. It was deep in the night, and only starlight and moonlight fell over the two of us.
Once I confirmed it was dark enough that Kotori’s face was invisible, I pulled off the stifling helmet and hood.
“My prince….”
Kotori called to me.
“I’m not a prince. I’m the Hero.”
“Actually… I know that. But the way you came to save me, Hero, is just like the prince from the fairy tales my parents used to read me as a child…. If it’s not too presumptuous, may I call you my prince?”
“Sure. Go ahead.”
Kotori was awake now, so I made to return to the kingdom—but suddenly she clutched at her chest and began writhing in pain.
“Uuuh…. My prince, it hurts so much….”
She was suffering so badly that I couldn’t afford to waste another minute, and so, left with no choice, I seized her breasts and squeezed them hard.
“My prince. Please, milk… milk me. Please. Uuuh.”
There was no more time to delay, so I wrung her breasts with all my strength.
“Aaaahng! Uuuh! You’re too strong! Gently—uuuh! Gently, please, my prince!”
It was my first time milking someone else, and I struggled to control my strength. Instead, I tried to knead and circle her breasts as if caressing them, coaxing the milk out.
“Uuuhnn! Yes! My prince❤️, that feels so good❤!”
Kotori’s whole body shuddered.
“Haah…. Haah….”
Only then did Kotori seem to regain some of her composure.
“….”
“….”
In the wake of what had happened so abruptly, only an awkward silence hung in the air.
Kotori broke it, gazing down at her own swollen breasts.
“My prince…. I’ll never be able to have an ordinary kind of love now, will I…? Who could ever love a woman with breasts as grotesque as these…?”
“….”
I couldn’t find a single word of comfort for her.
“Ever since I was little, my dream was to meet someone like the prince from the fairy tales, marry him, and live happily ever after…. I suppose I might have to give up on that dream now….”
“Princess, you are beautiful enough right now, just as you are.”
I called her princess because she and I had never formally exchanged names.
At those words, Kotori began to weep.
“Hnngh…. Sob, sob.”
It seemed the word princess was what had moved her. Perhaps all Kotori had ever wanted was to be the princess who married a dashing prince.
Kotori pressed herself close against my side.
“My prince…. If you could accept someone like me, please take my first time…. Please…. I won’t be a burden, I promise. Even if I have a child, I’ll raise it alone, so please, I’m begging you….”
Kotori’s mind seemed to be badly shaken. I felt sorry for her, but Eun-ah was waiting, and I had to go.
[Quest: Comfort Kotori immediately.]
[Reward: Sturdy Mask]
It seemed the great Guide disapproved of my wanting to leave for Eun-ah’s side.
What happens if I refuse a quest, or fail one?
I wanted Eun-ah to be my first lover…. Well, nothing to be done about it.
I gazed silently in the direction of Kotori’s face. It was too dark to tell exactly where it was, so I had to grope my way down to her chin and catch it gently in my hand.
“Uuh.”
When Kotori reacted, I caressed her lips with my thumb, then slipped the finger lightly into her mouth.
“Haah…. Haah….”
Kotori’s body was heating up all over again.
“My prin—….”
Perhaps she’d forgotten my finger was in her mouth—she tried to call my name and ended up biting down on it instead.
What a genuinely innocent person.
“Sorr—.”
Ah, she bit me again.
Kotori tried to apologize on reflex, and bit down on my finger a second time.
“A princess who bites another man’s finger—now that’s a very naughty princess. I suppose she needs to be punished?”
I withdrew my thumb from between her fingers and slid my index and middle fingers into her mouth instead, and her tongue welcomed them eagerly. I pinched her tongue between my fingers, traced the roof of her mouth in a slow stroke, then pressed down firmly on her tongue again and again, ravaging the inside of her mouth. While her mouth was toyed with by my fingers, she began touching her own nipples.
“Hnnah…. Hnnah….”
Perhaps it was a side effect of her enlarged chest—the instant she touched her nipples, Kotori’s whole body convulsed and she came.
“Princess, aren’t you a quick-triggered little pussy?”
“Nooo I’m nooot❤️! Hnnah…. Hnnah….”
“Shall we check and see?”
The knight who should have guarded the princess’s most secret place had been torn to shreds by the prince’s merciless hands. Through the shredded panties, Kotori’s royal pussy wept openly, desperate to meet her prince—no, her princely scepter—a single moment sooner.
Watching her like that, I couldn’t hold back any longer. I freed my cock and laid it down atop her royal pussy. As I gently rubbed myself against it, the lips below pressed kisses against my shaft, seeming to beg me to hurry up and put it in.
“Uuuhnn! My prince, I can’t take it anymore! Put it in… please!”
Apparently the lips up top felt the same way.
I eased in just the head.
“Uuuh. Ah… m-my prince! Uuuh, wait a moment! It hurts!”
“It’s all right. I won’t move. Just feel it like this for now.”
To give her virgin pussy time to adjust, I stayed still with only the head inside, feeling her warmth around me.
Ah. So this is what Kotori-ssi feels like.
Once Kotori seemed to have adapted, I pushed a little deeper. If I buried myself to the root in one thrust, it might actually hurt her, so I advanced toward her baby room one careful step at a time, letting her adjust along the way. At some point my cock touched her womb—there was room to go deeper, but I held back, wary of crushing it.
“I’m going to move now.”
“Yes… uuuh! My priiince❤️!”
I began to move my cock, pressing against her womb.
Thap! Thap! Thap! Thap!
“Uuuh! Uuuuh! You’re too biiig! Hnngh!”
“Does it feel okay?”
“Yes! My prince❤️! It feels—uuuh, so good!”
Every time I thrust, Kotori’s pussy clenched tight around me as if refusing to let my cock go, then tried to drag along with me when I pulled out—and that was all it took to break the last of my restraint.
Thap! Thap! Thap! Thap!
“Aaaahng! It feels weird! Aah! Aaaah!”
Fssshhh!
Kotori’s back arched as if her spine would snap, and her whole body trembled violently.
Thud.
And then she simply passed out.
But I haven’t come yet….
So she really was a quick-triggered pussy. I felt uncomfortable thrusting away into an unconscious Kotori, so I carefully withdrew.
Even her facial muscles had gone slack and limp, milk dribbling from her breasts—I used Kotori herself as my aid and finished alone.
Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack.
Fsssshhhhh!
I sprayed my semen across her breasts.
Passing out first was her own fault.
