132. A Prince on a White Horse(?)
132. A Prince on a White Horse(?)
"Become a succubus."
"If you refuse, I'll kill you."
".........."
Threats.
Yuno didn't answer and simply poured her power into the Holy Flame that bound Lilith.
"Such spirited vigor. Good. This is how it should be. If you'd agreed to become a succubus just like that, I would've been disappointed, you know?"
Lilith kept looking at Yuno with a relaxed attitude from start to finish.
She didn't bother trying to escape the prison of Holy Flame.
She simply waited for Yuno, alone, by herself, voluntarily, to exhaust all of her power.
'What do I do...'
Yuno felt it.
That this current situation was a clear and present crisis.
If she withdrew the flames, Merk would be in danger.
But if she kept the flames burning, there was no hope left for herself.
"Are you starting to grasp the position you're in now?"
".........."
A moment of choice.
Without a word, Yuno stretched both hands forward.
─Hwareureureuk....!
"...You will resist to the end, then."
Go ahead, just try whatever you want.
The Queen simply gazed at Yuno with a leisurely smile.
10 minutes...
20 minutes....
"Ugh...!"
About 30 minutes passed like that.
"Now the bars can't even maintain their shape. It's safe to say... this is your limit, right?"
"......Not... yet...!"
"No. It's over now."
Snap──a light flick of the fingers.
With just that single gesture, the bars that had been holding the Succubus Queen scattered into nothing and vanished.
─Hwareureureuk......
"Now, what are you going to do?"
"........"
Yuno quietly clenched her two hands into fists.
Her divine power had been completely used up in binding the Succubus Queen.
So, there was only one thing left.
"I'll endure."
"Pardon?"
She would endure.
But it was a kind of 'endurance' slightly different from just clenching her fists and gritting through it.
"You want to make me a succubus, right? That's why you're still beside me instead of chasing after Merk, now that the Holy Flame is gone."
"So, what exactly are you planning to do?"
"...If I endure without becoming a succubus, Merk will bring Mars back."
"You're optimistic. Do you have any idea what I could do?"
"Eut──!"
Lilith placed her fingers on Yuno's cheek.
Her body shuddered at the chilling touch, but she clenched her teeth and steeled her will.
"I'll never... go down that easily."
"Will you, really?"
"Hut...?! Ng... ngggh...!"
The touch gradually trailed downwards.
Before she knew it, Lilith's hand had reached Yuno's lower abdomen, right where the womb was located.
"In that case, shall we make a bet?"
If you endure to the end, you win.
But if you can't endure and go all the way, it's your loss.
─Chiiiiik....!
"Ngggeut.....!"
A pink-colored crest began to engrave itself right above her womb.
The Carnal Crest of a succubus. A sort of curse, similar to a spell.
If she'd had even a trace of Hera's divinity left in her body, she might have been able to resist it. It was a 'wicked power' that she could have erased on her own later, once her strength recovered, but—
"Hmm... it seems you really did draw out every last drop of power, didn't you? I didn't expect it to be branded so willingly, without a single attempt at resisting."
".........."
"You don't even want to answer? Fuuung... well, that's fine. I was planning to hear your answers not from your lips, but from your 'body' anyway."
"Eut──?!"
Pajijijik....!
From the Carnal Crest etched on Yuno's stomach, a pink electric current began to sizzle through her.
A signal of the start. From now on, it was a battle of pure mental fortitude.
"If you find it difficult, feel free to use this."
"That's....."
Plop, something fell onto the floor.
Soft and elongated in shape, it was──none other than a masturbation tool modeled after a male organ.
In short, a dildo, a vibrator.
"For your information, if you use this, my magic will seep deeper inside and train your body into a 'lust demon.'"
I could just pour my power straight into you and corrupt you into a lust demon that way, but....
"...Because if that happens, you'd end right there."
She had no intention of being satisfied with a low-rank or mid-rank.
At least a high-rank. If possible, a talent that could even reach the rank right below her own.
Since the power of the succubi had been considerably reduced due to this recent rebellion, Lilith's heart was set on securing a higher-ranked succubus.
"Hooooo.....!"
And thanks to Lilith's intentions, Yuno managed to buy time in both a good sense and a bad sense.
The sensation of a persistent, stinging ache near her womb while her mind grew hazy reminded her of when she'd once suffered from a severe cold.
'...But this feeling.... it's a little, strange.'
A strange sense of déjà vu.
An illusion, as though she'd experienced this somewhere before.
"Seu, hooooo....."
Her heart pounded mercilessly.
Her reason kept drifting away, making her increasingly impulsive.
Her lips tickled.
The space between her legs itched.
Her breathing grew ragged, and she felt like surrendering her mind to the pleasant haze. This feeling was....
"....Chrono"
Once before,
when she had gone to a comic café with him,
when their lips had met with a ribbon between them,
the fluttering, the pleasant thrill, the memory of that day.
─Pajijijijik!!
"Heut───?!!"
The moment those memories surfaced,
Yuno's Carnal Crest shone with pink light once more, layering waves of lewd energy across her entire body.
"Eung? You said it would be nothing... have you gotten into heat already?"
"Into... heat......?"
Into heat?
What in the world did that mean?
When she turned her eyes toward Lilith, the succubus shrugged her shoulders and answered.
"Falling into temptation is just like dominos."
If she had completely emptied her mind and focused solely on enduring, it might have been different.
But once she had already given her body over to desire, turning back was no longer possible.
In other words──this was the start of a forced event that occurred if you had even an NTR Rank of 1.
"That's right. Who did you think of that made you go into heat?"
Presumably, the man you claimed was your boyfriend, Ter?
No. It wasn't him.
Because your gaze for him wasn't the gaze for a boyfriend, but more like the look you'd give an immature young boy.
"If that's the case, it means you thought of someone else──so who exactly did you think of?"
"Ah... no... no!"
A reflexive denial.
But as if she couldn't hear it, Lilith picked up the dildo placed right in front of her and laid it over Yuno's Carnal Crest.
"Here, try to picture him. Who was it that you thought of while you grew wet between your legs?"
"Ah..... aah......!"
No.
I mustn't think of him.
At least, right now, in this moment, I can't...!
[Yuno.....]
"Ah...."
Chrono.
Chrono appeared.
What had been a black, ink-colored dildo just moments ago now transformed, appearing fully as Chrono, stark naked with his lower half erect.
"Huuung.... it looks like you favor a man who looks like this? And seeing this form... have you actually seen it in person before?"
"Ng... ngggh.....!"
No.
I haven't, yet....
So, absolutely, Chrono....
[Yuno....]
"Hut...?!"
Chrono's voice.
Even his eyes, his way of speaking.
[I love you.... Yuno....]
"Ng.... ngggh....."
It was revolting.
It was shameful.
But at the same time, there was a part of her that was happy, a part of her that wanted to open her legs.
[Can I put it in...?]
"Huggit...?!"
A hand placed on her leg.
It naturally delved inside, and before she knew it, her underwear had been stripped away and tossed aside.
'No, stop...!'
She had to refuse.
She had to reject him.
Yuno forcibly pulled her reason back together and tried to kick the 'fake' in front of her.
But....
[Yuno......]
"Ah, ng, geung....!"
She couldn't do it.
She couldn't kick him.
She couldn't reject him, she couldn't resist.
The sight of him looking just like Chrono,
with the same eyes as Chrono,
desiring her with Chrono's voice, kept crumbling the walls around her heart.
"Easier than I thought?"
The effect of the Carnal Crest.
It was a power that made one more faithful to their instincts.
Because for Yuno, the 'fake' she saw before her, the 'fake Chrono,' was never an 'opponent she wanted to reject.'
[I love you, Yuno....]
"K...rono......"
Her already hazy reason was consumed by emotion.
Before she knew it, Yuno was sinking into a dreamlike fantasy, her body surrendering without her realizing it.
And at the edge of that dream, 'it' spoke.
[I love only you, Yuno.]
"Ah."
And those words were,
[I'll never let my eyes wander to another woman.]
".........."
for her, words she had so desperately wanted to hear, yet
[I'll only love you.]
".....Hahap!"
a statement that the real person would never say.
"Really, how laughable."
[....?]
And with that, her reason returned in reverse. Yuno──kicked the fake Chrono between the legs with all her might.
─Peoeoeok!
[───?!!]
Since it was an amorphous form, the 'fake Chrono' didn't feel pain, but the impact was great enough to distort its shape.
Ultimately, its body crumpled and reverted back to its original dildo form. Watching from behind, Lilith let out a light sigh of admiration.
"You overcame that? Sure enough, is it because your vessel is different?"
"..............."
Could this really be called overcoming it?
Actually, for Yuno, the situation could only feel quite absurd.
'To think she'd snap to her senses at the words 'I love you'...'
If the opponent had been someone else, maybe she wouldn't have.
But not Chrono. The Chrono she knew was never someone who would say, 'I will look only at one person and love them.'
If he'd told her to confidently become a concubine instead, she might have been shaken. But precisely because the fake said the exact opposite of Chrono, reflecting her own desires, she was able to come to her senses.
...If a certain someone somewhere heard this, they'd probably ask just how trash her opinion of him really was. But in any case—
"Well, it doesn't really matter. Even if one gets ruined, there are still a few more left."
"......Hu...!"
Several dildos emerged from Lilith's bosom.
Just like the one before, they began to mimic Chrono's form.
[I love you, Yuno.]
[I love you.]
[I can put it in because I love you, right?]
"Chrono would never say things like that."
"Yes. I know that now."
But that's no longer the issue.
"The Carnal Crest has been sufficiently activated, and Yuno's body has been 'developed' enough to accept my magic."
"What does that──eut... wait, no...!!"
[Yuno.....]
[Yuno's virgin...!]
[I'll, ravish Yuno....!]
The fake Chronos surged towards Yuno.
They flaunted their dildos as fake Chronos, forming a formation around her.
"Now all that's left is to inject my magic and it's over. You've used up all your divine power, and you're a woman lewd enough that your Carnal Crest has activated so strongly, so this should be quite easy to finish!"
"R-rules...! That's against the rules! This is, this is cheating!"
The terms of the bet were strictly about whether Yuno could endure.
But now she'd changed the rules and was trying to force a rape?
This was clearly a violation──but,
"And what problem is that?"
"Wh-what......."
"There's no particular reason I have to keep it, is there?"
"..........."
Those words were exactly right.
Lilith was a monster, an entity standing at the antipode of humanity.
There was no reason to make a bet with a mere human, and no reason to honor a bet either.
"Now then, it's time for a succubus party where everyone gets happy~♬"
"N-no.... don't do it.....!"
[Ravish...!]
[Impregnate...!]
The fake Chronos grabbed Yuno's arms and legs tightly.
Her legs were forcibly spread wide, and in that instant, Yuno felt something blunt press against her precious place.
"Ah..... aaaaah........!"
It was going in.
It was tearing her apart.
'I hate this....'
She was going to lose her virginity.
An ending where she was violated by force, not by the person she loved, but by strangers.
'Merk.....'
When was she coming back?
I, I've endured so much already...!
Yuno tried to cling to that last remaining hope, but—
"If you're waiting for that little thief, I can only say I'm sorry for you."
"!.....No way...?"
"The people outside? Bring her in now, please."
".......Ah... aaaah....!"
Even her sole hope was—
"Sorry.... I couldn't escape."
"Merk....!"
"Did you really think I'd have come here all by myself?"
In truth, she'd been subdued by the other succubi before she could even depart.
Ultimately, it was the moment when no hope remained at all.
".....rono..."
"Excuse me?"
Yuno whispered quietly.
She knew he couldn't possibly hear her.
But despite that—
Desperately hoping that if miracles existed in this world,
that the Main Gods in the heavens might answer this prayer—
"Chrono....!"
She called his name.
She called out his name.
And then—
─Taaang!
[Ah───?]
".....?"
The fake Chrono's head burst.
The body of the fake Chrono collapsed, tumbling to the floor.
"I was searching all over the place to find where you were..."
And the figure revealed behind it.
"Even so, isn't it a bit much to ask me to find you in a corner warehouse on the 3rd floor?"
".......Chrono."
Chrono had come.
Chrono, who had no reason to be here, who was supposed to be at the Athena Guild—
─Pururureung!
"Eheh, you're one to talk, since you couldn't find it either."
"........."
He had appeared on a white horse.
....A white horse?