Mother, Cover (2)
"Shall we head to the bedroom where you and your husband live first, Risanna?"
"Pardon? Why there..."
"You gonna keep me standing out here? I'm your benefactor, you know."
"N-No, that's not it. We have a reception room for guests, so if you'd just follow me there..."
"Heh heh."
I cut off Risanna's words with a grin.
"You think I'm just some regular guest? I'm your benefactor! Your benefactor! If it weren't for me, you all would've still been groveling under that pile of trash, Beelzebub's thumb. You gonna stick your benefactor in the reception room?"
"...I'm sorry. I was short-sighted. I'll take you to the bedroom."
"Ahem!"
I clasped my hands behind my back and followed behind Risanna. When the other two elves tried to tag along, I waved them off.
"You two, go handle your work. I need some alone time with Risanna."
"Yes, I'll take care of our benefactor, so you two get back to your duties."
"Understood. Call us anytime if you need anything."
The two elves bowed to me and Risanna before retreating.
I followed her up the stairs. Every step she took made her hips sway temptingly, like they were beckoning me.
"You don't work at the company or anything?"
"No, company matters were Saint's responsibility. I handled other tasks."
"Other tasks like what?"
"Mostly compiling information on events happening in Dark City."
"So, like an intel officer?"
"Yes."
Risanna's room was on the top floor of the mansion. The Gwen family estate was a massive six-story building, so her room was naturally on the sixth floor.
What kind of house doesn't have an elevator?
My place has one.
"You guys must've lived pretty poor."
"Pardon?"
The presence or absence of an elevator clearly marked the difference between first-class and third-class. First-class homes have elevators; third-class ones don't. The Gwen family was commoner stock...!
"Here we are."
"Oh."
Risanna's room was spacious and luxurious. Paintings adorned the walls, but what really caught my eye was the profusion of potted plants filling the space. It looked like she'd turned the room into a greenhouse.
Click!
I followed her inside and shut the door. Now it was just the two of us in the room.
"Please, have a seat over h..."
"Nah, I like it right here."
"That's..."
"I figured an elf bed would be something special, but it's not much different from mine."
"....."
Risanna had tried to guide me to a chair, but I'd beaten her to it and plopped down on the marital bed first. As expected from a wealthy elf, it was a damn fine bed.
"More importantly, Risanna, I've got something I want to ask you."
"Please, go ahead."
"I'm new to elves, so I don't know much. Could you explain what elves are like?"
"About our race...?"
"Yeah. Since you and Saint are elves, there's a high chance Elis is too, right? So I need to learn about elves now, or I might screw up with her by accident."
"With Elis..."
At the mention of Elis, Risanna bit her lip. Guilt shadowed her face. That confirmed it for me.
She's not without maternal instinct.
Even under Beelzebub's domination, when Saint and Risanna had Elis, they couldn't have been completely devoid of parental love. It was more like they were unable to express it. To this couple, Elis was a fingertip that ached at the slightest touch. Even if it wasn't their will, they'd pushed her mercilessly since childhood. They hadn't uttered a single word of love to a child precious enough to cherish like the apple of their eye. How heartbreaking was that?
"Yes, I should tell you. For Elis's sake... Our elves..."
At the mention of it being for Elis, Risanna dove right into explaining her race without a hint of suspicion.
Hmm.
The elf race wasn't much different from the image I'd gotten from movies and novels. They lived far longer than humans and were all beautiful, men and women alike. They dwelled in forests, loving nature. They revered an ancient tree called the Divine Tree. At first, I thought the Divine Tree was their world tree, a symbol of elves. But it wasn't quite. In other places, world trees were like gods or progenitors to elves, but the Divine Tree was just one old tree. Still, elves worshipped it because being near it dramatically boosted their abilities. Just gazing at it calmed the mind. Crucially, Risanna's original world had no such thing as a world tree—not even the concept.
There were slight differences from the elves I knew, but overall, the similarities far outweighed them.
Once her explanation wrapped up, Q&A time began.
"I see. Hmm... okay. So, what about sex? Do you do it often?"
"P-Pardon? S-Sexual intercourse...?"
Mentioning sex turned Risanna's face bright red. Her hands, which had been still, fidgeted wildly—she was clearly flustered.
"Yeah, sex. Do elves do it a lot?"
"Why... why do you ask?"
"'Cause I have sex with Elis all the time."
"You have frequent intercourse...?"
Her eyes widened at the words. Why the reaction? Did elves not do it much?
"Yeah. Pretty much every day, no days off. At least four hours a day, sometimes all night?"
"Every day... all night..."
Risanna's face flushed like it might explode.
Huh?
Her girlish reaction made my heart pound. This thrill...!
No way—a sexless marriage?!
If Saint and Risanna were truly in a sexless marriage, Risanna probably had no idea what an orgasm even was.
Feeling orgasm from my dick... my mother-in-law...!
-Ahh... my turn...? Erection timeeee-!
Just imagining it had my dick springing to life.
Whoa, whoa~ Not yet, bro.
-Ahh... not yet...? Once I calmed it down, my dick drooped again.
"What's wrong? Don't tell me you and Saint don't have sex? You're married, right?"
"W-Well... originally, elves..."
"Yeah? Elves what?"
"It's... elves..."
"Come on, elves what? Ugh, spit it out already. What's with elves?"
Curiosity armor, descend!
Risanna's cherry lips twitched as she whipped her head away.
"Even for a benefactor, I can't say that!"
"Argh, seriously!"
"Eek!"
Teasing me like this and then refusing? No way. I had to hear the elf backstory. I grabbed her shoulders and shook her back and forth.
Boing~ Boing~
Her bust jiggled up and down in hypnotic motion!
Ahh... soothing.
It was a beautiful movement that calmed the soul. My mind settled.
Right, yeah. I don't need to know about another couple's sex life... No! I have to know!
By status alone, Risanna was Elis's mom—my mother-in-law. A son-in-law prying into his mother-in-law's sex life? Definitely wrong. But I was also her benefactor. The savior who freed the Green Forest elves from the horrific demon king Beelzebub of another world! How many atrocities had those good elves committed under Beelzebub? Now sane, they must want to die from shame. To truly help someone, you have to go all in. Half-assed aid gets you no thanks. As their benefactor, I'd help them thoroughly.
"Tell me! What's with elves!"
It'd start in the bedroom. Sex was a huge part of married life. How many couples divorce over bad sex!
I was pressing her, but I had some tact. What she couldn't say was surely that elves didn't have much sex. Not much sex?! Shocking! I couldn't comprehend it. Sex was amazing! If I left the elves like this, divorce or even suicide might follow.
Suicide...!
An elf's death was unacceptable for their benefactor.
"I told you to tell me everything about elves. This is a request not just as your benefactor, but as Elis's boyfriend. What if sex with me has been hard on her all this time?"
"Ah..."
Elis was indeed her weak spot. Risanna, who'd refused to answer, bit her lip as if resolving herself. Then she spoke.
"We elves... hardly ever have sex unless we're trying to have a child..."
"What?!"
The shocking truth! I'd suspected, but elves really didn't have sex!
"Why? How? Sex is so great—why not?"
"W-Well... more than that, c-could you say 'intercourse' instead of s-sex...?"
"Nope!"
"Wh-Why..."
"I'm not Hong Gil-dong, unable to call my dad 'dad' or sex 'sex'! Is that how you treat your benefactor?!"
"S-Sorry...!"
I yelled, and she apologized to me. Why was she sorry?! She'd done nothing wrong!
"Tell me quick. Why don't elves have sex?"
"It's..."
Her face had been beet red for a while now as she stammered out the reason.
"No way...!"
Hearing it, I fell into profound shock.
Average height 185cm, top-tier looks, top-tier abilities—a broken race, elves. Whether God sneezed making them or loved them too much, elves were peak-of-the-peak across all races, true god's children.
But even perfect-seeming elves had one fatal flaw: their dicks. Specifically, male elf dicks were minuscule! Even fully erect, the biggest barely reached index finger length. The elf with the largest? Middle finger at best. Thus, female elves rarely orgasmed in their lifetime—once was a lot. Plus, elves had low libido overall, so they skipped sex except for baby-making.
I'm Columbus armor!
Like Columbus discovering the New World, I'd found a new frontier. My eyes sparkled.
Who else was so perfect yet so pitiful!
As their benefactor, I can't sit idle! Of course!
Having already saved them from Beelzebub, I now had a duty to save them from sexless misery too.
But I couldn't just pounce on Risanna rashly. Elves mated for life with one partner, never remarrying even after death. Rape by outsiders triggered mana explosion—mutual suicide. Touch her wrong, and I'd alienate our new Green Forest allies.
Brain full throttle!
But who was I? Dark City's top brain. A quick think, and I'd find a safe way to touch her.
Bingo!
See? Found it.
"Risanna. I'm the benefactor who saved you from Beelzebub, right?"
"Y-Yes, benefactor."
My repeated emphasis made her eyes waver uneasily.
"So, as your benefactor, can I ask one favor?"
"A favor...?"
"Yeah. It involves Elis too."
"E-Elis? Has something happened to her?"
She grabbed my hand in panic at Elis's name.
Heh heh heh. Plan's working.
"Looks like Elis really is an elf."
"Pardon? What do you...?"
"Lately, she's been struggling a lot with having sex with me."
Pure 100% lie. Elis rode me wildly, loving our sex.
"Elis is struggling...? Oh no... what to do..."
But cut off from Elis, Risanna couldn't know and just worried.
"So... could you help?"
"How can I assist?"
"Straight up: have sex with me, Risanna."
"...Pardon?"
She froze in shock. Hm. Too direct?