The Priestess's Lewd Indulgence (4)
The Priestess's Lewd Indulgence (4)
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"Weird."
Yuri suddenly muttered while eating breakfast.
"What is?"
"I'm not usually much of a sleeper. But strangely... for the past few days, I can barely stay awake. Why is that?"
Right. I could see it just by looking. Her eyes were all puffy right now. And as for the culprit, Reni... Reni had frozen with her spoonful of soup suspended in midair. Hey, hey, at that rate she was going to spill it.
"Seriously weird. I'd barely ever taken naps before either. I used to just get right up in the morning... When did I start not waking up in the morning? Was it the day before yesterday? After the Goblin Dungeon run ended?"
Yuri kept muttering while staring intently at her soup bowl as if concentrating. Reni's trembling only grew worse.
"Hmm. No, after we got back home..."
Yuri's deduction was gradually inching toward the truth. At that, Reni, on the verge of tears, wiggled her lips and desperately shot me glances.
'Please, please, help me!'
She had forcibly put Yuri to sleep over and over, and now she wanted me to clean up the mess? She couldn't even tell a simple lie, yet she had gone ahead and done it anyway?
...Well, she had done it because she wanted to do it with me in the end. I would cut her a little slack.
"Ahem. Hm. I think I know."
"What?"
"All this time, you've been stressed about the Goblin Dungeon, right?"
"Yeah? Have I? I... dunno? Honestly, not really..."
Yeah! Honestly, you hadn't really seemed all that bothered before the goblins popped out! But if I lost momentum here, it was over. I had to push through!
"Ahem! Anyway! That sort of thing builds up inside you without you even realizing it. Anyway, now that the goblin problem's been resolved, your tension's been released, and so... um... you're sleeping more. I know from experience."
"Huhh... you have? How do you know?"
I licked my lips and kept running my mouth.
"I was the same way when I got discharged from the military... when I was let out. Back in the army, I'd snap awake even on only six hours of sleep a day. But after I got out, for days I slept more than ten hours a day. I think one day I slept sixteen hours. The aftereffects of all that hardship hit you all at once. Once the tension's released, you get that kind of rebound. It'll go back to your original pattern... your normal habits soon. No need to worry."
"Huhh... really? Amazing. You know a lot."
Yuri's eyes sparkled. Phew. Looked like I had managed to slip past it. It was complete and utter bullshit, but if you mixed in some details based on experience, it went down okay.
How about that, Reni? A pretty plausible excuse like that... why was she like that again?
Reni's nose was beginning to sting as she fought back tears. She looked at me with the eyes of a child forced to watch a starving puppy from far away. Th-this priestess was forming another ridiculous misunderstanding!
Anyway, Reni always loaded up the tears the moment anyone talked about the past. Maybe she would cry if I just brought up the word "old days"?
A naive priestess this teary and bad at lying had been acting that wanton last night.
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I had laid the dead-asleep Yuri down on the bed and was about to leave the room when Reni suddenly grabbed my elbow and pulled.
"I-is it all right if you... don't do it today?"
No. I had to. Of course I had to. No wonder she would not leave an empty beer glass alone. It was for this. As expected of Reni. She had not the tiniest trace of a thought of being generous or giving in!
A laugh crept out of me.
"Shall we go to my room first?"
Reni gave a slight nod. Once we stepped into the hallway, she walked while looking around as if embarrassed. All the while, though, she held tight to the hem of my clothing. Such wantonness.
I shut the door, cast Silence, and pulled her into my arms; she threw her arms around me in response. So what kind of play was I supposed to do today?
Hm. Come to think of it, this priestess had said this morning that showering together was depraved, right? Let's see about that one more time...
"Want to shower together?"
"...Ah, I washed just a bit ago..."
That was what she said, but Reni did not look reluctant at all. She merely fidgeted and watched my reaction. She had fled that morning calling it decadent, yet nothing about her present attitude resembled a refusal.
I had to tease her a little.
"Oh? Well, I mean, it is a depraved sort of thing. Might as well not do the kind of stuff that's unrelated to amplification, I suppose?"
"...Ngh...!"
"What do you think, Reni? Is it all right if I do something depraved?"
-Thump-thump.
Th-this cheeky priestess again...!
"Kyaa?!"
I roughly pulled off Reni's robe and dragged her into the bathroom. The bathroom was cramped because it was a single room, but it was large enough for a shower.
...
"Nngh... ah... no! Nooo! Nooooo!!!!"
Reni still screamed meaningless screams.
I held Reni from behind and ravaged her in all sorts of positions: just pinching her breasts, stimulating only her pussy and clit, lifting her up and thrusting in.
"Nngh! Nn! Hahht! S-stop! Stop it! Stooop!"
"Reni! Didn't you pour her all that drink because you wanted to do it like this?"
"I didn't! Hk! I didn't!"
Look at that. Another lie plain as day...
"Liars have to be punished!"
"I'm so'hry! Ahhk! I'm so'hryy!!"
...
"Kyaaah-huuughk!!!!"
...
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"Yoo-jin. You're drooling."
"Urk."
-Slurp.
Well, in the end I had done it until she was half out of her mind, then laid her down properly next to Yuri and come back.
Anyway, now that Yuri had caught on, Reni could not pull the forcible-sleep trick anymore. Reni had become a little downcast, too, seeming to realize that as well.
Poor Reni. Then again, was it really pitiable that her selfish scheme had been thwarted?
Yuri looked back and forth between me and Reni like that, and her voice cooled a little.
"....You two, going off and excluding just me again..."
"Ah, would you all have a moment?"
The innkeeper suddenly came over to us.
"Wh-what seems to be the matter?"
I could not have been more grateful. Yesterday she had just spouted nonsense nonstop and I had wondered when she would buzz off. She had cut in at a perfectly apt moment.
If Yuri had asked what we had been doing while she slept... I had been nearly out of excuses by then, too.
"Did you folks not say you were experienced adventurers? I was just wondering if you might be able to do a job for me, if you aren't too busy."
"What's the job?"
The innkeeper looked a little abashed.
"Well, the thing is..."
The Lamia Clan or whatever—the adventuring party that included the innkeeper's daughter—still had not returned. She said that finding the wizard should not have taken long. They were probably at a nearby Slime Dungeon, she added with a worried expression.
"Yoo-jin. Wait a second."
At those words, Yuri's face tensed and she whispered so the innkeeper could not hear.
"Yoo-jin. If they still haven't come back even now, something might be wrong."
"What do you mean?"
"Slimes are slow, but if one latches onto you... you can't ignore its digestive power. It could be a dangerous situation. We need to go fast."
So she wanted to be an adventurer—she really did know a lot of things. Right. No, maybe the real reason they had not come back was... I collected my thoughts for a second.
"Understood. Let's go have a look. Where's the dungeon?"
The innkeeper's expression noticeably relaxed as she told us the dungeon's location.
Wait. Now that I thought about it, this woman had brushed me off when I asked yesterday and refused to tell me anything, instead spending the whole time bragging about her daughter. Had she been trying to block the competition? How irritating.
"...I see. How do you intend to handle the reward?"
"Yoo-jin?!" "Yoo-jin?!"
The two of them stared at me with aghast eyes. I mean, if you were going to use a person's services, you obviously paid them. Why were they looking at me like that? I quickly pulled the two of them close and whispered.
"Hey, that flier for finding the wizard, it's paying money just for making contact. This is the same kind of job."
"W-well, still..."
"If we do this, we're stuck here losing another whole day today. You okay just throwing money away?"
The two of them made faces that said they had nothing left to say. The innkeeper looked a little dazed, as if she had not expected this.
"W-well, then tonight's lodging and meals free of charge..."
"You'll obviously have to cover those... and we do have our own schedule..."
...
I ended up squeezing out yesterday's lodging fee and wagon fare on top of that. Every time I piled up money, it felt like wine, women, and song were getting closer. I had to buy a house soon and lock the two of them up so they could not get out of bed.
"He's thriftier than he looks..."
"Ah..."
Yuri sighed, while Reni looked as though she had realized something. Soon both of them were looking at me with pity. What on earth were they thinking?
"...Let's go. Fast."
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We reached the Slime Dungeon by following the rough map the innkeeper had drawn.
[Dungeon #7816]
[Type: Slime / Amorphous]
[Monster Status: ▼]
[Normal: 25]
[Rare: 03]
[Boss: 01]
[Special Notes: None]
Given there were no irregular entities or special notes, it looked like nothing was afoot here the way it had been with Bone-Fucker or Goblin-Fucker. But...
"Didn't she say that wizard eats and sleeps in front of the dungeon? There's nothing here?"
"Yeah..."
Yuri scratched her head. Well, it had been a few weeks ago; it would be reasonable not to know.
"Ah, footprints here."
Yuri, who had been scanning the ground, found the adventurers' footprints. The footprints led into the dungeon. Looked like we would have to go in after all.
"I think we need to hurry. If we're too late..."
"Yeah."
Yuri's voice trembled a little, as if she had imagined something frightening. Reni's eyes were anxious, too.
...
"There."
Not long after we entered the dungeon, a slime came squirming toward us.
"You said there's no point hitting those?"
"Yeah."
Yuri did not seem pleased with my laid-back attitude. She stopped us, took something like dried rations from her pocket, and tossed it ahead.
"Look at that. Slimes are transparent, so you'll be able to see what happens."
The slime squirmed toward the jerky, then stretched its body out and swallowed it.
Gulp. I heard Yuri swallow her saliva. We all watched the slime, tense.
...
"Nothing's happening, though?"
The jerky was just bobbing around inside the slime.
"Y-yeah, it's... hehe... heh..."
This girl always let out a stupid giggle when she got flustered.
"Strange... the book said it was a dangerous monster..."
...So she had read it in a book. A real wiki-type expert. In any case, the slime's digestive power did not look like much. Was it because this one was an outer-dungeon monster too?
[Slime]
[Stats: Click to open ▶]
[Details: Click to open ▶]
Nothing special even when I opened the slime's info window. This time I threw a rock and tore the slime a bit, but it soon coalesced again. As expected. They had said it had physical resistance, so with this, neither swords nor arrows would work.
"Step back for a moment."
I tried Holy Fire, but it melted the slime too slowly. I did not want to leave it behind either. In that case, I would stab the Holy Sword into it and use Electric Shock...
-Crackle. Bzzzzzt.
[Ho-ho-ho-ho-holy-y-y-y-y-y!^!$#&&&!#&]
...The Holy Sword was making a fuss again. The last time I talked to it, it had not answered, yet it threw a fit from a minor little electric shock like this.
[!$#&*@%*@^]
[!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
[!#$&&%%^*!!!!!!!!!]
Now it was going completely berserk? Did I have to deal with this every time I used Electric Finger from now on?
-Crackle.
"Ugh. Gross."
"Ah, I'll handle it."
When the slime burst, slime splattered onto my clothes. Reni immediately used Purification. Maybe it was because the output was high, but the slime's traces vanished in no time.
Still, this was a bit of a headache at this rate. Going on like this would take too much time. And it was messy. And I did not want to watch the Holy Sword's nonsense.
We needed a ranged elemental attack, but none of us possessed one. Did we really need to recruit a wizard?
Wait... ranged attack. Right, that was it!
"Kyaa?!"
It worked, as expected. I used Multitasking Hands to flick up the hem of Reni's robe. That was the only place I could think of using it.
"A ghost! A ghost!"
"Wha-wha-wha, what do we do?! An invisible Ghost-type! It's a high-tier breed! In broad daylight like this?! Why is it here?!"
"..."
"Y-Yoo-jin, you said you could tell where all the monsters are, right?! Di-did we stumble into something bad?!"
"Kyaak! Kyaaaak!"
"...."
The two of them clung to each other and shivered. Yeah. I had asked for Multitasking Hands to be visible only to me. So this was bound to happen...
"No. It's just... my new ability. Let's go."
"H-huh?" "Kyaa? Heek?!"
"The thing holding your hair right now? I did that, so you don't need to worry about it."
"H-huh...?"
"If you don’t hurry, I’m leaving you behind, got it?"
"W-wait, wait!" "Don't!"
I left the idiots behind and walked toward the depths of the dungeon...