134. Let's Take It Easy
134. Let's Take It Easy
The virgin heroine of an NTR game
Just that phrase alone already reeked of danger,
but a virgin heroine of an NTR game (+ Carnal Crest) (+ an NTR villain right next to her)?
I didn't even need to look to see how that future would play out.
No matter how much I wasn't acting as an NTR villain right at this moment, since the Carnal Crest had already been carved, eventually she'd have to do 'that sort of thing' with someone.
And regrettably? Or fortunately?
The original Protagonist, who was supposed to reach a pure love ending with Yuno, was rolling around with succubi on the floor above.
And he was rolling around looking very satisfied indeed.
'Does that bastard know what he's doing?'
A succubus was a monster fundamentally built on the motif of energy drain.
And when succubi appear in NTR games or any of the countless common BF (Battle Fuck) genre games, what did people think that meant?
There was that dogshit system called [Level Drain] that anyone in the know already knew about.
Since this game didn't have a [Level] system, there wouldn't be any experience points to drain, but instead, [Divinity] would be drained, and you'd suffer stat penalties for a set duration as you progressed.
And in this game, where even a single slip-up could open an NTR flag, a small stat loss would likely have to be repaid with the heroines' virginities...
"If he's a regressor and has some stats built up, it's not impossible, but..."
There were indeed H CGs specifically for succubi.
In fact, the illustrations were pretty enough to rival any decent heroine, and you could even recruit them as companions by offering up stats at regular intervals.
So he was probably aiming for that, rolling around with succubi──but as I said earlier, this was a game where a single stat point could decide the existence of the heroines' virginity barriers.
Plus, succubi were monsters.
No matter how well you raised them, unless you unlocked every last one of their CGs to the very end, they'd betray you immediately later on.
Saying they'd drained you dry, so there was nothing left to see, and they'd stab you in the back.
"Hnngggh... You look delicious, you know? Even more than Jupiter... you're giving off a richer, lewder scent♬"
"Crazy bitch."
Thus, that was a river that must not be crossed.
A pink-haired NTR beast that could not be trusted.
As the saying went, pink hair was harmful hair, so I immediately raised Agape and put a bullet into Lilith's head.
─Taaang!
"...Oh my, someone's in quite a hurry, aren't they?"
"Well, yeah."
She turned her head back around as if nothing had happened, even after taking a bullet to the skull.
She was a Queen after all.
A Named Boss and an Easter egg too.
I didn't think she'd die just from eating a few bullets.
And seeing as she even said 'Jupiter'...
"You even made a 'Contract'?"
"To think you know about 'Contracts' too..."
A Contract.
It didn't hold much significance in itself.
It was easiest to think of it as the relationship Mai and I had right now.
The slight difference, however, was...
"If you wish, I can form an even higher-grade contract with you♬"
"Ugh."
As if to prove this was an NTR game, there was even an event where Lilith herself gets NTR'd.
Really, a production company unnecessarily devoted to NTR.
Not wanting to listen to Lilith's bullshit any longer, I pumped bullets into Lilith's body.
"Hnngggh...! Hot yet chilling──are you an Evil God? Or one of the ancient Main Gods?"
"Tch."
This time I even infused it with Divinity and shot her, and that was the response I got in return.
If that form was her 'main body,' there was no way she wouldn't feel pain from a divinity-infused bullet, so it was probably correct to consider it a 'clone.'
'If that's the case, her 'main body' must be with the Protagonist after all.'
It was probably on the back of his hand or somewhere around there.
Because in the event CG, a tattoo was engraved on the back of his hand as a token of their contract.
Plus, when she later betrayed him, she would burst out from the back of his hand, extort a portion of the Protagonist's power, and then leave.
"If so... hm?"
While I was mulling it over for a moment,
an oddly sweet scent rose to my awareness.
"Chrono, was it? Seeing you up close, you look even more edible... no, magnificent♬"
"..........."
The sweet fragrance gradually intensified.
My head grew light and floaty, and I felt a rush of blood to my lower body.
'This is...'
An incredibly familiar and incredibly filthy feeling.
Charm.
The mental attack I'd been endlessly subjected to in Siren's dungeon,
and the skill that had gotten me special-delivery smacked by Mai right beside me, halving my Intelligence.
"No... Chrono! Snap out of it! You can't give in!"
It was... not Yuno, but Merk who shouted.
Yuno was already sprawled out on the floor from earlier.
It was only natural, considering she'd been tortured by the Carnal Crest and then mentally tortured on top of that,
but 'I didn't expect Merk to react like that.'
Was even a Bond Rank of 1 still a bond after all?
As I briefly marveled at Merk's unexpected behavior, Lilith smiled coyly and approached me.
"Chrono... make a contract with me? I'll offer you my body, my heart, my everything... So please, hand over your body, your heart, your soul to me..♬"
A face drawing steadily closer.
She reached out both hands to grab my neck and tried to kiss me.
"Chrono... Chrono!"
Merk cried out my name desperately.
"Snap out of it... Please, you're all I have left now!"
When I ultimately didn't move, Merk shouted with all her might,
"If you snap out of it! I'll do anything you want later!"
"Not necessary."
"...Chrono?"
"Lolis aren't my thing."
"You...?"
Lilith's body flinched.
Lilith, realizing the Charm hadn't worked at all, tried to back away quickly, but—
"Don't tell me Charm didn't work on you——"
"—Hold on, everyone just freeze for a second."
I stopped time.
Color drained from my vision, and the world filled entirely with shades of gray.
I climbed back onto Mai's back once more.
"You know that place where the blond guy was earlier? Let's head there."
─Purureung...?
A look asking what I was planning to do.
I had my reasons, so let's just go for now.
...
..
.
The topmost floor,
Lilith's room.
When I opened the large crimson door and entered, just as I'd seen before, the Protagonist was in the middle of banging succubi.
"Kyaa... How many is that?"
Just counting the succubi collapsed on the floor, fluids dripping between their legs, there were roughly six of them.
It looked like he was determined to make up for all the action he hadn't gotten up until now in one single day.
'This is probably also the succubi's power at work, but still.'
The fluid leaking out there was likely not semen, but rather essence in which the Protagonist bastard's stats had dissolved.
Giving up stats for a fleeting pleasure. His intention to tame succubi was a nice thought, but his actions clearly showed he hadn't completed the previous playthrough to the end.
"If he'd gone all the way to the end, he couldn't afford to do this kind of shit."
Even if he could, it was a playstyle you'd only attempt after at least your 4th playthrough.
Probably because the total stats required to push the succubi's CGs to completion was close to 600, and if you calculated it, that was an amount you could only build up in the very late game.
They were stat-devouring hippos that demanded all those stats, so how the hell did he plan to do it in just his 2nd playthrough...
"Ugh, not my problem."
The original story was already derailed anyway, so whatever happened, happened.
I took Squite in hand and walked right up next to the Protagonist.
"Is this the spot?"
What I was aiming for was right in front of the tattoo.
I transformed Squite into──its [Anti-materiel Sniper Rifle] form and raised it.
"I couldn't do it last time because I lacked Points,"
but I was going to settle my grudge from the Cave Ant incident right here.
I aimed the sniper rifle at the back of the Protagonist's hand.
And then—
─Taaaang!!!
"That feels so gooood, being mine like th──Gyaaaaargh?!!!"
I pulled the trigger immediately after releasing the time stop.
An insanely loud blast. At the same time, the bullet fired from the sniper rifle began tearing through the back of the Protagonist's right hand.
─Kagagagagagak!!!
"T-this, guh, ah, aaaaarrrgghh!!!!"
Normally, a bullet that should have already passed through.
But since this was the spot where the 'Contract' was engraved, the tattoo itself deployed a barrier to try and stop the bullet. However, it was an anti-materiel sniper rifle, fired with that very contingency in mind.
────Pakang!
─Kwadeudeudeudeuk!!!
"Urghk.......!!!"
Ultimately, the barrier burst, and the bullet tore through the back of his right hand as is.
Simultaneously, I activated Squite's 'Skill.'
[Trace of Time]
-The 'time' of the struck target can be manipulated.
"Scope is the tattoo where the 'Contract' is bound."
Let's roughly be generous and freeze it for about 10 seconds.
─Deudeudeuk!
"...That's done."
The tattoo where the contract was engraved was dyed in gray tones and lost its light.
The nullification of the contract.
The principle itself was simple.
A contract was, by nature, a two-way street.
If one side unilaterally severed the contract, then the contract ultimately had no choice but to be dissolved.
And as I'd said before, since space and time were connected──if time stopped, space stopped, and if time flowed one-sidedly for only one party, the connection between the two was severed.
The point was that I'd cut off the two-way communication.
And the result of this...
"───?!!,...the...contract....?!"
"Looks like it's been severed?"
I could find out by stopping time again and returning to Lilith's front.
"Since the contract was severed, the 'core' must have returned to your body, and now if I kill you, you'll just stay dead, right?"
"...They say a beautiful rose has thorns, but I didn't realize they'd hurt this much."
"You've got a long tongue."
Let's just die.
I pulled the trigger right away.
─Taaang!
"Kyaaak.....!"
Unlike before, the arrow properly embedded itself.
"Hngh, hah... haah... Did you really think I'd fall from just this much?"
But since she was a Queen, a single shot wasn't enough.
Lilith burned with hostility towards me, rallying all her demonic energy as if she wouldn't hold back any longer.
"I won't... go easy on you anymore!"
"Yeah."
Truthfully, I wasn't planning to hold back either now.
"D——"
"—Stay still."
I stopped time once more.
"I confirmed the bullet hit you, so now I should end this."
Before, I kept putting it off, thinking I mustn't let the time stop be discovered.
But now Minerva had figured it out. She'd figured out that I was Cronus's apostle.
And once you'd been found out by one person, others finding out was only a matter of time.
On top of that, knowing the original story was already broken, wouldn't not using it make me a dumbass?
So that's why,
"Let's take it a bit easier."
Under the stopped time,
I pulled the trigger all over Lilith's body.
Since time had stopped, the bullets remained frozen at the moment they were fired, but once time resumed, they'd likely swarm Lilith's body immediately.
"Phooow....."
A body densely covered in bullets.
"A total of 100 rounds... you think you'll endure that?"
I snapped my fingers.
With that, time began to move once more, and—
─Tukwaaaaaang!!!
─Tubabababababak!
─Kwadeudeuk, kwajik, deudeudeuk!
─Peobeobeok, peoseok!
"────────!!!"
Her head was pierced by bullets,
her arms and wrists burst open,
the muscles of her calves, the shape of her internal organs were grotesquely distorted.
"............Ah...?"
Thud. The succubus queen──Lilith──collapsed onto the floor.
This lump of meat, too ambiguous to even be called a corpse, ended up unable even to let out a single dying gasp as it gradually turned into Garu and began to scatter into ashes.
"Easy."
I should've done this ages ago.
I lightly flicked the muzzle and turned around.
"........I love you."
Merk confessed.
....No thanks. You're flat-chested and a loli.
As an aside,
"Huh? What's this now?"
While the body was turning into Garu and scattering into ashes, a single pink gemstone had fallen amidst the remains.
Hoping it might be some ridiculously high-grade magic stone, I checked it.
[Essence of the Succubus Queen]
-If offered to Hermes, he might give you a special gift...?
"......?"
What was this,
this blatant yet subtle demand.
I slowly raised my eyes towards the sky.
[An Oracle has arrived.]
[Main God─Hermes: Try it, try it!]
".......Uhm."
It's fine, right?