The Forest Guardian, Luna (2)

The operation to block the path by collapsing the ventilation shaft had failed. Fortunately, by striking her chest with the tip of my staff, I managed to confirm Luna’s level. Lv.80. She was only five levels above me. Even if she was a 4-star rank, considering her racial traits, I could still gain the upper hand in this fight.

"Ughhh!" Luna’s staff lunged toward my eyes. I swung my own staff, desperately parrying the blow.

"Hup!" Luna pivoted her body and kicked upward. It was a clean, roundhouse kick that I would have loved to applaud, but I had no intention of letting it connect with my ribs.

"Haa!" I planted my staff vertically. Luna’s heel shattered the staff in two and slammed into my side.

Thwack!

It hurt. A stinging sensation pierced through my skin, shaking my entire mass of visceral fat. But this level of pain was nothing.

"It’s white, huh?"

"!!"

Luna tried to retract her leg in a hurry, but I suppressed the pain and grabbed her limb. She pulled back so quickly that I couldn't grab the spot I wanted, but I managed to snag her ankle.

"Y-you!" Luna thrashed her leg, trying to break free from my grip. I was pushing with pure physical strength, while Luna was augmenting her power with magic. Our raw strength was evenly matched. The only difference caused by our level gap was speed.

"Haa!" With a shout, Luna kicked up with her other leg. I panicked, raising my arms to guard against the kick aimed at my head.

Thwack!!

"Ugh." My arm felt like the bone was about to fracture. Luna sneered at me for guarding so clumsily. However, thanks to enduring that pain, Luna was left suspended in the air for a brief moment.

"Hehehe!" I grabbed her other leg. Realizing both her legs were caught in mid-air, Luna’s brows furrowed.

"Pfft, you idiot—"

"Huuuup!" Idiot or not, it didn't matter. As long as I could eat! With all my might, I held onto her legs and slammed her downward.

"Ugh—"

Just before she hit the ground back-first, Luna quickly tucked her chin. Boom! I tried to smash her into the floor, but she landed on her entire back to cushion the impact.

"Hmph!" And as if that impact didn't even hurt, she sneered at me once and gripped the staff in her hand.

"Ughhh!" I let out a roar, threw my leg over one of hers, and turned around. Thanks to forcing my body to rotate, Luna’s body was flipped over, nearly 90 degrees.

"What are you—!"

"Haaap!" I squeezed out every ounce of strength I had left to flip her over. Luna tried to counter-attack, but her body was completely inverted. Thud! The end of her staff struck the back of my knee. My stance collapsed, and I fell to one knee.

"Kyaaak?!" But it wasn't me who screamed; it was Luna. As my knee gave out, I sat down hard ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠on her buttocks. Crunch. I felt something that shouldn't have been broken being crushed, but I didn't miss the opportunity.

"This is the Gargoyle's revenge!" I tucked her ankle into my armpit and arched my back. As I lay down behind her, Luna’s lower body was lifted into the air.

"Kyaaak, you, you crazy—it hurts!" Luna reached back and struck my side. She even tried to push off with her soles to escape my armpit, and in the process, my armpit felt like it was being shredded by her toenails. I had to maintain this positional advantage. I planted my feet on the dirt floor and rose slightly— Thump! I slammed my hips back down. With the press of my entire body weight added, Luna’s strength momentarily gave ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠out.

"Kuh-huck." Luna let out a death rattle and coughed. I tucked her ankle back into my armpit—it had nearly slipped out—and reached forward to grab her knees. A scorpion lock. I was sitting on an elf’s back in another world, bending her waist. What would happen later didn't matter. I had to win first. She was higher level and had more stars, so gender and race were irrelevant.

"Y-you cowardly...!" Luna pounded the ground, her fists clenched. Before her fist could reach my side, I lifted my body slightly and sat on her shoulders.

"Ugh-kuh?!"

"Wow, the cushioning here is killer because of the breasts." Her chest armor, which looked like it was about to burst, was pressed firmly into the floor. Luna was choking, enduring the pain.

"Surrender!"

"Just... from a hold like this, ugh!" The harder I bent her waist, the more Luna gasped for air. Elves, after all, were no different from humans, except for their long ears.

'Since I can't win in a fair fight, I'll win with joint locks.'

Fortunately, Luna didn't know what kind of technique I was using, so it was worth enduring the pain to pull it off.

"Kk, kuh-huck, k-kuh-huck!" Luna’s breathing grew increasingly ragged. Over her shoulder, her pointed ears were flushed red, as if they were about to burst.

'She might die, so let's knock her out.'

Killing her like this would be too much of a waste. Since she killed my gargoyle, she had to pay the price of a gargoyle. To break her waist and make her unable to move, I lifted my body high.

"Huck—"

And at that moment, force began to return to the sole of the foot caught in my armpit. Sssss—! Just as I had pressed down on Luna with my weight, Luna used my weight as a fulcrum, pushing off with her sole to pull me in.

'If I hold on—'

I couldn't. I had to go over. The moment I instinctively tried to hold on, Luna pulled a trick from below.

"Oh, Goddess!"

"You sh—"

Green magic erupted from below. The specialty of elves was magic. A cluster of green light burst forth and swallowed my body.

"Kuuuugh?!"

The light swallowed me from below. I tried to hold on until the end, but Luna’s strength was now two or three times greater than before.

"Haa—ap!"

With a shout, Luna pushed off with her soles. Because I had subconsciously tried to hold on, Luna straightened her folded legs, trying to slam me into the ground. At this rate, my face would be the first thing to hit the floor. But Luna, buffed by the Goddess, was far stronger than me. Now it was impossible— Squish.

"Hiiik?!"

Luna screamed and released her strength. Before I could bury my head, I managed to stretch my arms to the floor, preventing a disaster.

'Why?'

For what reason did Luna release her strength? I lowered my head, and I soon found out why.

'Don't tell me it's because we touched?'

My hot spear was piercing Luna’s ilium. I quickly grabbed Luna’s ankles and stood up.

"You, you, crazy—"

"Is 'crazy' the only word you know how to say!"

I flipped our positions. I ended up in a position on top of Luna, and in the process, Luna ended up lying flat, looking up at me.

"Hmph, foolish..."

Luna, who had been about to strike my solar plexus with a knife-hand, shifted her gaze to my crotch. Just as Luna was ready to strike me, I was ready to strike Luna with my weapon.

"Surrender! If you don't surrender...!" I lowered my head toward Luna’s face and threatened her.

"Even as you die, I will plant my seed inside you!"

At my absurd threat, Luna’s face turned bright red. The glans was just about to touch Luna’s lower abdomen.

"W-wait a minute!"

Luna even relaxed her body and shook her head. At that, I cheered inwardly.

"W-wait! I am an elf! I’m an elf!"

I had found her weakness.

Crunch, crunch, crunch.

The slimes began to diligently gnaw at the walls of the collapsed cave. Without even a moment to digest, they excreted the dirt from their rears, and the ghouls swiped the dirt backward with their long arms.

"......."

Ryun gripped her bow. Thanks to her master, she had successfully grown into a High Elf, but Ryun possessed neither the power to wield wind spirits nor the archery skills to shoot a bow properly. Her practice was certain. In practice, she was better than anyone else. But every time she entered a real battle, Ryun couldn't perform properly, as if something was lacking. That half-baked life began to change after meeting her master. If her master were to ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠die, and if someone—perhaps this elf—were to kill her master, what should she do?

Grind.

Ryun gripped her bow tightly. Her eyes, staring at the cave wall, were sunken and dark.

Even humans were reluctant to have sex with monsters. How much more so would an elf be? It was only because Ryun was the first elf I’d met that I thought this, but Luna’s reaction was likely the norm.

Swoosh.

I lowered my waist slightly. Luna let out a long breath, pulling her stomach in sharply.

"Ugh...."

If she didn't exhale, it was the exact position where the glans would touch her navel. Luna was holding her breath to avoid breathing again, biting her lower lip hard.

"......."

The look in Luna’s eyes as she stared up at me was filled with humiliation and rage. She was wallowing in self-loathing, having been pinned down by a being far weaker than herself, and being on the verge of being violated by a monster.

"That’s why you shouldn't have engaged in close-quarters combat, right?"

"Sh-shut, ugh...."

It’s harder to exhale and hold still than it is to inhale and hold your breath. I lifted my waist slightly, and Luna let out a sigh of relief, inhaling deeply.

"You...!"

"Come to think of it, it’s unfair. Why should I have to die by your hand?"

"......?"

Luna asked back with a look that said, 'Why are you asking something so obvious?' But I decided to remove the reasons Luna had to kill me, one by one.

"Ryun."

Twitch.

At the mention of Ryun’s name, Luna’s brows furrowed. The start of the misunderstanding was obviously my provocation, but I intended to resolve it for now.

"Ryun is alive. I didn't eat her in the first place."

"......What are you saying?"

"I was protecting her in this dungeon."

"????"

Luna’s expression turned bizarre. She must be wondering what on earth I was talking about. She must be dumbfounded, wondering why I was suddenly wagging my tongue instead of fighting properly. But I needed time. And the means to buy that time was my stream of nonsense.

"Ryun got lost, so I was protecting her here. I met Ryun in the forest, and she fainted when she saw me, so I was protecting her here."

"Bullshit."

Luna didn't believe a word I said. That burden was naturally on me.

"Saying I ate her was a joke. Damn, do jokes not work on elves? You snuck into someone else’s house and aimed a bow at them, so how could I not be pissed off?"

"......."

Luna frowned. Something felt off. Luna wasted precious time trying to figure out the truth of my words.

"Did I touch the Elf Forest? Huh? If you think about it, aren't you the one who raided my home as you pleased? Put yourself in my shoes. If I had entered your territory, what would you have done?"

"......I would have put a hole in your head."

Luna nodded with a complex expression. As expected, empathy is a universal language.

"Right. So, what I want to say now is."

Vwooom.

The subtle energy flowing from Luna’s body vanished.

"You’re fucking stupid."

Squish.

My glans brushed against Luna’s navel. Luna’s expression stiffened as if a bug had crawled over her body, and I pressed down on Luna’s shoulders, pulling my lower body forward.

"Kuh-huck?!"

Luna bit her lip with a look of regret, but I sat my hips on Luna’s waist. The only things Luna could move were her arms and hands.

"Heh, if you used a buff skill that wears off after time, you should have crushed me even if it meant getting touched!"

"A-ah, no, the forest’s curse, ughhh...!"

Luna was terrified of something. My hot, massive spear cracked through the cleavage of her breasts—which were not quite as large as Mei’s but certainly boasted a presence—and burrowed in.

"Ah, ahhh, ahhh—"

Luna was about to scream in shock and terror, and I raised my hand to cover her mouth.

"I made you use magic to try and do something to you, so we’re even, but that won't work anymore."

I tried to suppress her arms before she could make the sign of the cross, but Luna shook her head with a look of utter despair.

"A-ah, no...! The forest’s curse...!"

Luna had been repeating 'the forest’s curse' like a parrot for a while now. What on earth—

"Huh?"

Drip.

White liquid flowed down from Luna’s erect nipples. Luna trembled as if she were about to faint upon seeing her own chest.

"Oh, Goddess...!"

"Whoa, you scared me."

I thought she was using magic again. I grabbed Luna’s wrists in a panic, but Luna was out of her mind, calling out to the Goddess repeatedly.

"I am now going to be corrupted—"

Slap!

I cupped Luna’s cheeks with both hands and slapped her. My palms wrapped around Luna like a sandwich, and Luna looked up at me with a dazed expression.

"Corrupted, my ass. You’re feeling it right now, so you call this corruption?"

"Feeling...? It is only the pain of having committed a taboo...!"

"Ah, seriously. We can't communicate."

I pulled my organ out in frustration.

"What on earth is corruption? Are you going to become a Dark Elf or something—"

"Hiiik!!"

Luna screamed. I asked, just in case.

"......Do you think you become a Dark Elf if you have sex with an Orc?"

Luna squeezed her eyes shut. It was a sign of affirmation, and I was dumbfounded.

"Why?"

"I-if I am violated by a demon... hiccup!"

She was quiet when we were fighting well, but I didn't know why she was acting like this now. I was more confused, but I decided to take advantage of this opportunity anyway.

"Damn it. Do you really think you’ll become a Dark Elf just from that? It’s ridiculous—"

"......Ah, damn, I feel really sorry now if I do this."

I was at the crossroads of a ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠lifetime. Should I turn this blonde, big-breasted, sharp-featured elven beauty into a Dark Elf? My 'dick-compass' was unable to find its bearings.