19.
"Shiz, you see...
Not content with the position of a nation's king, he began a war of conquest, deceiving even himself with the excuse that he was saving the suffering people of other lands.
One by one...
They knelt before Shiz, who bore the divine authority, and that child eventually became the emperor of an empire that united all the human kingdoms."
"Huh? Are you saying that Shiz was the emperor of the Archean Empire?
The very emperor who built a massive empire in an instant, but ultimately lived a life of debauchery, drowning in lust, and was murdered by his own son?"
"Yes... that is the story of that child.
Shiz's need for recognition grew uncontrollably, until it reached the point where he made people worship him as a god.
But...
The greedy desire that swelled without end could never be satisfied, and soon it began to slowly devour Shiz's soul.
Then one day...
Shiz finally invaded, declaring he would swallow even the Elven kingdom.
The land of the Elves, protected by a barrier of ancient magic that humans could never reach.
But before Shiz, who had grown up there, such a barrier was utterly useless.
Before Shiz's vast army, our fate was as good as sealed.
The noble Elves could never bring themselves to praise Shiz as a god, even falsely.
In the end, nothing remained for my people but to be annihilated or dragged away as slaves."
Lina gently squeezed the Queen's trembling hand.
Feeling Lina's warmth, the Queen continued her tale in a low voice.
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Even when the heroes of the past ran rampant and brought the world to ruin, our Elven nation had been safe.
No matter how corrupted a hero with the power of Demonic Energy might be, they could not approach the Elven land protected by the ancient magic barrier...
Because of me...
The Queen's voice trembled.
My noble people, preparing for their fate with faces of resignation.
Not a single one blamed me.
"Let go of me!"
"Princess, where do you think you're going alone!"
"This happened because of me. I will go and try to persuade Shiz."
"That child is no longer the gentle child we once knew. We cannot let you go!"
"But if we stay like this, everyone will die or become slaves. But if I go, at least there is a sliver of possibility..."
Father, Mother. And the elders and the people all stopped me.
They blamed neither Shiz nor me.
They simply accepted this as an unavoidable providence and were quietly preparing to take their own lives.
Poison was placed even into the small hands of children who knew nothing.
For the noble Elves, death was a blessing compared to being dragged away as slaves.
Because of me...
Because of my compassion...
"Irene! If this too is the Goddess's will, we must accept it."
I could not accept my father's words, spoken with a sigh.
"I cannot possibly understand the Goddess.
Goddess! Are you watching us now? Protect us with your almighty power! Save Shiz from evil!"
I looked up at the sky and demanded of the Goddess.
What are you doing now, after placing such a heavy burden upon Shiz!
I resented and hated Her for not intervening in any way.
"Just... just give me a little time!!!"
I shook off the hands of those trying to stop me, left the firmly shut castle gates, and ran to Shiz.
The ancient forest that protected us from the outside world.
It was not just a forest.
The spirits dwelling in all of it resonated with us, beings whose souls were connected to ours.
It is said that when we, who live for long ages, meet death, we return there and become spirits of the forest.
"Good heavens..."
I could not speak at the horrific sight.
The ancient trees of that lush forest had been ripped out by the roots, utterly and miserably destroyed.
An army too vast to count had trampled that sacred forest into a wasteland.
Because of me...
Because of my petty compassion...
My entire race had been brought to the brink of annihilation,
And the souls of my ancestors had all been cruelly violated.
"..............."
But at that moment, I had lost even the strength to express anger.
Countless soldiers stretching endlessly out of sight.
Before the overwhelming might emanating from them, armed with armor and spears and swords of cold iron, my body trembled violently.
A massive army came into view.
Humans, who unlike Elves had become the most prosperous race through vigorous reproduction.
The power of Shiz, who had united them all to create a vast empire, was enough to evoke the illusion that it was akin to that of a god.
Facing the endless procession of troops, I felt that truth anew, piercingly and painfully.
A massive army of tremendous scale.
Perfectly controlled and well-trained, they opened a path for me in unison.
The path to Shiz opened in an instant.
But the road reaching him was endlessly long and treacherous.
Step, step...
Their hot and lewd gazes pouring down upon me.
Before the countless men, my legs buckled and my mind grew hazy.
But to preserve the pride of the Elves, I bit my lip until it bled and moved my feet forward, one step at a time.
"Hah, hah..."
The end of that path I walked, pretending to be dignified, putting on a brave front.
At last, I was able to approach Shiz, who sat leaning deep into an arrogant throne.
Shiz's gaze, commanding countless soldiers as he looked down at me with an expressionless face.
That tremendous presence overwhelmed me so instantly that I nearly knelt on the spot without realizing it.
That baby who had been abandoned and crying sorrowfully.
That child who had smiled brightly with an innocent face and called me 'Mother'...
That child who had gripped a wooden sword with his tiny, fern-like hand, saying he would become a knight to protect me...
That child who, even after returning from the terrible and grueling pilgrimage of containing all the Demonic Energy within his body, had smiled brightly in my arms...
No longer...
Did he smile at me.
So much so that I could have mistaken it for Shiz's soul having already been extinguished.
As I stared blankly at that child, a thunderous voice rang out toward me.
A human attending Shiz shouted at me.
"How dare you stand before His Imperial Majesty! Kneel and pay your respects at once!"
Even at that rude behavior, Shiz did nothing to stop it.
He simply watched me quietly, looking down and observing my actions.
Countless people were looking at me with lewd eyes, humiliating me.
It seemed their minds were already filled with thoughts of violating the Elves that very night.
Feeling shame under the vulgar gazes they cast, I was seized by the impulse to end my own life right then and there.
But...
I had to save my people, so I bit my trembling lips hard and knelt before Shiz.
Only then did Shiz descend from his throne and approach me.
"Sh-Shiz...!!??"
As I tried to call out to that child with a trembling voice, I froze in an instant.
Facing Shiz up close, his eyes were so terribly unfamiliar and frightening.
My Shiz, who had always looked at me and smiled gently and affectionately, was not there.
Instead, there was only a deep, empty darkness that seemed to have no end.
Within that pitch-black void lurked a fierce and greedy power, as if it would swallow everything in this world.
That void, which seemed to have already devoured Shiz's soul entirely, overwhelmed me as if it would swallow my soul as well.
---.
But within the darkness filled with endlessly greedy emptiness, a light began to flicker for a moment.
Shiz's soul, which I thought had already been completely consumed by the Demonic Energy, began to emit a faint light.
Deep within Shiz's heart, a new desire he himself was not even aware of was beginning to bloom.
That need for recognition, which even world conquest could not satisfy, was transforming into another form.
— Into an obsession and possessiveness... directed at me.
To think that hidden within the heart of that child who had followed me, calling me mother, there had been romantic feelings toward me.
A fact that neither that child nor I had ever realized.
In an instant, the fragments of emotion within Shiz distorted and twisted madly, and a lewd smile spread across his lips.
And he murmured lowly toward me.
"Mom. Want me to save you?"
That baby who had sobbed and looked at me pitifully, begging me to save him, was now saying such a thing to me with lewd eyes.
Shiz's gaze, which had been frighteningly cold and icy, became so intense in an instant that it took my breath away.
The desire that filled him blazed hotly, as if it would swallow me whole.
He seemed excited that a new desire had arisen within his inner self, which had been filled with nothing but emptiness for so long.
"Mom, you have to answer."
"Shiz. Please, go back."
"That's a bit... I think my subordinates would be terribly disappointed... Right now, their crotches are already about to explode."
A manner of speech so rough and vulgar that it was hard to find any trace of his former gentle self.
Shiz, who had led rough, beast-like men and fought his way across battlefields, had become a tyrannical alpha male in just a few years.
But still, there seemed to be a glimmer of hope.
Because Shiz, who had looked down at me with indifference as if I were an insect, was now showing interest in me, I began to cling to him, using that as hope.
"Shiz. Please..."
"Ha... really, you're putting me in a difficult position."
Shiz smiled a lewd smile and caressed my cheek.
"Hik..."
A sound like my breath stopping escaped me without my knowing.
How had the touch of that child, once the warmest in the world, become so chilling and horrible?
At my reaction, Shiz, as if finding it interesting, brought his lips close to my ear and whispered lowly.
".........!!!!??"
The moment I heard the words that flowed from his mouth, I thought I would rather die.
His proposal was no different from telling me to abandon my dignity and commit psychological suicide.
My whole body trembled uncontrollably.
Under the tremendous shock, as if I might lose control of my bladder, my mind went completely blank and burned white.
"Hah, hah... Shiz..."
Shiz walked to the throne, leaned deep into it, and sat down, then looked down at me again with the face of an arrogant emperor and said.
"Mom, I can't give you much time. Choose quickly."
I couldn't possibly believe how that child, who had been so gentle and kind, had become broken to this extent, but I had to desperately force my frozen mind to work.
Shiz's absurd and cruel proposal.
My people would obviously oppose it to the death.
It was clear that rather than see me suffer such disgrace, they would choose to die together with their children.
"Hah, hah..."
My heart pounded madly.
But soon, I saw Shiz's face hardening. I saw him about to make a gesture.
It was clear that with a single gesture from him, the soldiers, like starving beasts, would march toward the Elven walls.
Desperately, I squeezed out my voice and answered.
"I-I'll do it. Hik..."
"Hoh..."
Shiz twisted the corner of his mouth as if surprised, smiling a lewd smile.
"Ha... To think the princess of the noble Elves would make such a choice. It's certainly worth trading for a whole nation, isn't it? Keheheh."
To save everyone, I ended up accepting the devil's proposal.
As a result,
I was walking.
No, should I say crawling?
In my kingdom.
Before my people...
And before my parents...
With my neck bound by a leash held in the hand of Shiz, who had been my son.
I was crawling on the ground like a dog.
"P-Princess....!!"
"Hik... Hnk... No. Please, don't do this!"
"You, Shiz! How dare you!"
Countless people, unable to bear opening their eyes, wept tears of blood and wailed.
But...
Shiz, as if finding all of it amusing,
Was enjoying that horrific sight and leading me like a dog.
Roughly yanking the leash, he trampled and violated me like a mere beast before my people.
Everyone was trembling, but we Elves were powerless.
For Shiz, who wielded the power of Demonic Energy, had neutralized the magic of us Elves.
They could do nothing but watch my shameful promenade.
"Hah, hah..."
"Mom, keheheh. I'm getting a faint memory of walking this path holding Mom's hand in the old days, you know?"
Under the unbearable shame, my mind burned white and my consciousness grew hazy.
But my humiliation did not end there.
Before being dragged here...
Shiz had made me drink a bellyful of aphrodisiac.
To turn female Elves, who have virtually no sexual desire, into sex slaves, his army had prepared a great quantity of a special aphrodisiac.
He had made me drink that filthy drug, which would have been discarded and unused because of his contract with me.
The effect of that aphrodisiac, force-fed until I vomited, was truly horrific and potent.
When I was suffering disgrace before my people and crawling on the ground like a dog...
At that time...
I, for the first time in my life, climaxed.
The pitiful Queen.
Her pitiful body, made as lewd as could be through horrific training, could not withstand the intense stimulation brought by that shameful memory.
Just by recalling that humiliating moment from hundreds of years ago, she once again fell into climax, her hips bucking.
Twitch, twitch.
"Hahhht!!..Ah,,♥ Aaahht!! Ooohhok!!♥"
Pshuuut, chiiiik
Hahhhnk.... Hoooooohk!
"Hwaaaht! Hoot--! ♡"
Pfft pfft pfft, slurp slurp, sssuuup
"Aaaaah... Ungh..♡ Ungh..♡
Ah~♡ Ahng~♡ I-I'm, coming~~♡"