Chapter 16
Chapter 16
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 16
Chapter Title: How to Steal the Protagonist's Woman
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Crash!
Someone landed with a thunderous boom.
His name was Rian.
The one called the Hero in this world.
"Viola!!!"
Rian arrived at the hideout that only the two of them could enter and immediately shouted his sister's name.
The moment he called her name, he detected a scent wafting through the air—one that absolutely should not be here.
A man's scent.
'Kuh... why...'
This was a secret space accessible only to Viola and Rian.
A hideout built by gathering the world's greatest archmages and architects.
It was fortified so solidly that even the mages who created it couldn't breach it.
Yet he could clearly sense it.
'There's... more than one in the room!'
"Viola!!!!"
A presence emanated from Viola's room.
He shouted once more in front of her door.
"Viola!! If you're in there, answer me!"
While living with his sister, Rian had never once entered Viola's room—not even a single time.
It was because he wanted to protect everything about her.
Viola had to remain pure, even from him, until she married.
And yet... someone was in Viola's room.
'Which bastard is it!'
"Viola!!!"
Unable to hold back any longer, Rian kicked the door down. It shattered and scattered across the floor.
But there was no one inside.
The presences of two people he had felt just moments ago had vanished completely.
"Wh-what?! They were definitely... kuh!"
Suddenly, a pungent, stabbing stench assaulted his nostrils, forcing Rian to cover his nose with his sleeve.
'What is this smell!'
It was a scent he'd never encountered in his life, one so overpowering it clouded his mind.
But even in that moment, Rian's first thought was of his sister.
Regaining his composure, his eyes turned toward the bed—and he spotted something odd.
"...Blood?"
On the pristine white bed, where even a speck of dust would stand out, a vivid bloodstain marred the sheets.
Rian's head felt like it was about to explode.
'I'll kill them!!'
He assumed the blood came from his sister's wound.
His mind filled with thoughts of killing the one who hurt her.
'Teleportation, maybe? Then they couldn't have gone far!'
Rian headed to the central hall to search for his sister.
But on the usually spotless dining table sat something.
A cheap scrap of parchment.
A single line was scrawled on it.
"Wh-what is this?!"
The Village Chief screamed as he stared at the safe.
He'd opened it to check after a long time, but inside was nothing but Crystal Pearls.
"That bastard dares!"
There was only one culprit in the Village Chief's mind.
The nameless merchant.
Furious to the tips of his hair, the Village Chief rushed downstairs to catch him himself.
Click, bang!
"You son of a bitch! It was you! You bas—huh? Wh-what..."
The sight that greeted the Village Chief, who had come looking for the merchant, was not the merchant.
It was the Hero, who should be rampaging on the battlefield right now.
Rian.
He was in the room where the Village Chief had lent space to the merchant, reading a piece of parchment.
Cold sweat poured from the Village Chief's forehead as his entire body trembled.
"Wh-what brings you h-here..."
"..."
Rian didn't respond at all.
He was reading the letter he assumed his sister had left behind.
The contents read: 'Thanks for everything,' 'I've found someone I like, so I'm leaving,' 'Be happy.'
And at the end...
A firm declaration.
In truth, that last line was something Seong Suho had added on his own, but Rian had no way of knowing that.
To the Village Chief's eyes, Rian's expression was that of a raging demon.
He wanted to run, but his legs gave out, and he collapsed on the spot.
Rian had no interest in who else was in the room right now.
His mind was consumed with killing one person.
Beneath Viola's letter was another one, written in the same handwriting.
It was content that would make any ordinary person clutch their neck and faint.
But Rian was misinterpreting the letter.
Having shown no interest in any woman besides Viola his entire life, he couldn't fathom using "delicious" in that way.
'An illiterate bastard... can't even distinguish between "pretty" and "delicious"? But both letters are from the same guy...'
That last thought was a desperate rationalization.
'Viola was definitely kidnapped!!'
Hoping for any clue to her location, Rian slowly opened the box beneath the letter.
'Kuh!'
The moment he did, the same stench from before assaulted him—repulsive enough to quell his rage momentarily.
Inside the box, a sapphire rested atop a piece of white silk.
'A sapphire? And below it...'
The white silk was stained with filthy fluids and blood.
Rian had no desire to touch that soiled silk with his hands.
'The sapphire... could it be?!'
In his mind, Viola hadn't left willingly—she'd been abducted.
Desperate for any hint, Rian activated the sapphire immediately.
The image projected from the sapphire onto the wooden wall of the room.
The Village Chief gasped at the bizarre phenomenon he'd never seen before.
"Wh-what in the world is this?!"
Ignoring the startled Village Chief, Rian focused on the screen.
And the scene that appeared was Viola in a wedding dress.
The problem was that her alluring breasts on her upper body were blatantly exposed.
"B-breasts!"
"Don't look!"
"Grahhh!"
In an instant, Rian drew his sword and slashed out the Village Chief's eyes.
"Grahhh! My eyes!"
The Village Chief clutched his gushing eyes and wailed.
Rian ignored the screams and turned back to the screen.
He couldn't tear his eyes away from Viola's breasts, which he'd never seen in his life.
"Hah... hah... Viola... so beautiful..."
Rian was entranced by her figure.
He simply gazed in admiration.
Then Viola began speaking toward the screen.
"?"
Rian desperately tried to deny it inwardly.
'No way... it can't be...'
There was no way Viola, whom he knew, would understand the term "first experience."
How much had he suffered to keep her pure all this time?
"There's no way Viola would know such vulgar words... You're just pranking your big brother, right, Viola?"
"Grahhh..."
Beside the Hero, utterly smitten with Viola, the Village Chief crawled around, blood pouring from his eyes.
Suddenly, the sapphire's view shifted downward.
"Viola?"
Seong Suho was the one holding the sapphire, but Rian had no way of knowing that.
And the scene that entered Rian's eyes was shocking enough to burn into his brain forever.
His sister's pussy.
"Kr... ha... ugh... V-Viola."
Rian turned his head to avoid looking, but his eyes stayed glued to her pussy.
And then, a filthy object that had no business being there entered his view as well.
Viola positioned her pussy over the filthy thing and slowly lowered her hips.
And voices from the man and woman on the screen rang out.
"N-no... no... Viola... you can't do that..."
Tears streaming down his face, Rian lunged toward the screen as if to pull Viola out of it and stop the scene.
But Viola ignored his state entirely, flashing a seductive smile directly at Rian.
Viola opened her mouth.
"Vi... Viola."
"N-nooo!!! Fuck!!!!"
Viola inserted the filthy object into her pussy.
And began shaking her hips.
The Hero screamed and wailed at the sight.
"No!! Viola! That's not the guy!!!"
But despite his cries, Viola didn't stop moving her hips.
If anything, she seemed even more aroused by Rian's screams.
"You fucking bastard! Viola is mine!!"
Rian exuded killing intent, yet he couldn't tear his eyes from the couple's union on the screen.
On the contrary, his cock swelled to bursting, precum leaking profusely.
Rian could have stopped the recording at any time.
But the writhing desire inside him prevented it.
His beloved's first time.
Having it with another man.
Rian's brain twisted his reason amid the excitement of watching Viola's first experience and the fury of her being stolen.
As his cherished sister coupled with a strange man, Rian began falling under the sway of perverse lusts he never knew he had.
"Nooooo!!!!"
"Grahhh!!"
With Viola's climax, filthy fluid dripped between Rian's legs.
Viola fainted. The sapphire zoomed in closely on her pussy.
Her pussy was a mess of blood and love juices, and from between... semen leaked out.
The man off-screen wiped her pussy clean with her fresh white panties and showed it to the screen.
Then the man's voice rang out.
"Kr... graaaaaah!!!!"
Rian dropped to his knees and screamed.
Two figures made their way through the pitch-black forest, illuminated by a glowing Mana Stone.
A Militia Member and an old woman.
"Damn it, calling someone out in the dead of night..."
"Hey, we can just drink together—it's not bad, right?"
"What does a scrawny punk like you have going for him to tag along? One smack to that honey ass and you'd topple over."
Seong Suho would have been pissed hearing that, but he wouldn't hear it anymore.
The Militia Member flashed a greedy smile and shot back.
"Sheesh, Granny. You just don't get the appeal of frailty. Heh heh."
Seong Suho would have felt a chill hearing that, but fortunately, he wouldn't.
Before leaving, Seong Suho had given the two different instructions.
To the old woman: dig under the tree with the ribbon.
To the Militia Member: head east from the old woman's hut, and he'd be there.
Since they'd met up anyway, they figured they'd check it out.
It wasn't long before they spotted the tree with the ribbon.
"...He hasn't shown yet?"
"Let's do what that guy said first. Dig this hole here."
"What, did he hide booze or something...? Easier to just yank the whole tree."
"What nons—hiiik!"
Grrrrrind! (Tree: UwAhhh-ak! I'm being tree-juiced!!!)
The tree was thicker than an adult man's torso at minimum.
The Militia Member wrapped her arms around it and uprooted it entirely.
Her thick arms were coated in sap.
She tossed the uprooted tree aside.
Bam... (Tree: Fuck... that's not what I saved my sap for...)
"Heave-ho."
"Damn crazy..."
With the tree gone, a buried bundle came into view.
"What's this?"
"What is it?"
Opening the bundle revealed a trove of jewels and parchments.
The Militia Member's eyes widened in shock as she looked at the old woman.
"Whoa~ This is huge, isn't it?"
"Never mind that—what about those parchments? Can you read?"
"I'm a former royal guard despite appearances, so yeah, I can read."
"Then read 'em. I can't."
The Militia Member's face hardened with each line she read, relaying it all to the old woman.
The final parchment held just one sentence.
"If word of this gets out, it'll be a headache..."
"I... have to spread this."
"...Won't be easy."
Exposing the dirty secrets of the world's admired hero wasn't simple.
But that wasn't what mattered to the Militia Member.
"Wait! He said he'd come—did he ditch me!?"
"Damn it, you crazy bitch! Is that what matters now?!"
"It matters to me!! Raaaaah!!!"
Boom!!
A massive explosion rocked the ground.
The old woman thought the Militia Member had used magic while yelling.
"Damn it! What the hell did you do!!!"
"I-it wasn't me... L-look over there..."
"Wh-what is that..."
The two could see the village engulfed in massive flames.
"Armonia."
"Yes."
"Thanks for saving me."
"Just doing what needed to be done."
Armonia replied expressionlessly.
Armonia and I exchanged a brief rundown of recent events in my office.
According to Viola, the Hero was due in three days.
But that was in the past now.
I'd become a monster who traversed in one day what used to take three.
So how had Armonia arrived a full day early?
By schedule, she should have arrived the next day.
Any trouble en route would have delayed her further.
But she explained that they'd luckily rendezvoused mid-warp voyage with a Zodiac comms ship and turned back immediately.
If even one second of that had gone wrong, I'd really be dead.
"Still, thanks."
"..."
Armonia remained stoic, offering no reply.
After a moment of silence, she asked me something on her mind.
"Why leave the letter and Crystal at the Village Chief's house? The central hall would have worked too, I think."
"Ah, that..."
I dropped the smile I'd been giving her and flashed a cruel one instead.
"Talking shit to me was his mistake."
"?"
The Village Chief's words upon first seeing me.
Those words still lingered in my mind, so I couldn't just let him off.
"Understood."
"If I had my way, I'd have killed him myself."
"Then why help the Militia Member and the old woman?"
"Wasn't really helping them. Just thought they were suited to spreading word about the Hero."
The jewels were tossed in as a bonus, basically.
Despite the events, I didn't feel fondness for them.
I'd used them because I needed to—not out of altruism.
"Armonia."
"Yes."
"I won't help anyone needlessly unless they're truly on my side, like you or Viola."
"Understood."
"Was that too trashy?"
I glanced slyly at Armonia.
But she remained impassive as always.
"Not at all. If I were that hypocritical, I never would have summoned you or started this in the first place. If anything..."
"?"
"I'm glad I summoned someone with that mindset. It's a stroke of heaven's luck."
"Heh... as expected of my partner."
And so, our first mission wrapped up with unexpectedly great results.