29. I'm Not a Virgin
29. I'm Not a Virgin
Bond Rank 10 (Max)
A sign of completely possessing that heroine, something that could barely be achieved by sacrificing an entire semester.
This carried many important meanings, including the strengthening of Blessing Skills and unlocking of Awakening Skills, but the most crucial point among them was──it was like a guaranteed check that said, 'I will be safe from now on.'
"Haaaaa....."
Absolutely never NTR'd.
Never surrenders her body.
Unless the person herself directly told her to sell her body to someone else, she would not let anyone lay a hand on her body under any circumstances.
That meant NTR was defended against not only from ordinary NTR villains, but also from named ones like me, and even from the monsters of the Abyss.
Ah, for reference, in the case of dungeons, NTR was defended against, but sex still happened.
Simply put, it was a case where 'even if the body is defiled, the heart cannot be defiled' actually became reality.
Anyway, a heroine who had been conquered to this extent would even acknowledge the harem and say, 'But still... I love you!' even if you cheated right in front of her eyes.
For reference, if you pulled that crap at Bond Rank 9, you'd get slapped.
On top of that, the NTR resistance stat would plummet endlessly, completing a pushover heroine who could be conquered by anyone, or so they say.
...To summarize, the fact I wanted to state was this.
"Mars... surely she won't go to the Protagonist, right?"
No, there was one certain method.
Netorase.
The act of handing your girlfriend over to another man with the boyfriend's permission.
It was said to mainly refer to an act that a boyfriend with a netorare fetish requested from his girlfriend...
"...Fuck."
That was the one thing I absolutely could not tolerate.
First of all, a prerequisite for doing that was that I would have to be dating Mars, and if I did end up dating her, I was certain I would never let her leave my arms.
Never.
Absolutely never.
I'd already been NTR'd plenty through the game, and now I was going to personally enact netorase in reality?
'Just thinking about it is disgusting'
Unfortunately, the netorare fetish had not been developed.
I had no intention of developing it, and it must not be developed.
I shook my head and set out to find another alternative.
"What method...."
Another method...
Ignoring affection, ignoring Bond Rank,
If someday Mars just casually drifted over to the Protagonist──well, that would also feel kinda shitty...
"....Tsk."
I didn't want to admit it.
Admitting it felt like losing somehow, and it was an emotion I shouldn't admit in the first place.
In the first place, three years from now, the Protagonist had to step up and fight in this Ragnarok thing or whatever it was.
For that reason alone, I shouldn't step forward, and as dangerous as it was, I also didn't want to step forward.
...But, should I say that not wanting to step forward and not wanting to be robbed are two different things?
"No, what am I, some NTR bastard?"
Since when was Mars mine?
Mars was Mars's, when did I ever say I had her?
'But you'll feel uneasy if Mars actually goes to that Protagonist bastard'
Yeah.
That's true.
How did it come to be that after wiping her ass, rather than being repelled, I only got more turned on...
"Tur! Turned on! Not turned, turned on!"
Only turned on! Would it!
"Haaaaaa....."
It seemed my reason was currently being dominated by sexual desire.
Should I go see Ur tomorrow?
I lay on the bed and pulled out my phone.
Me: Ur. Are you there?
Ur:
Ur: I'm working right now♭
"...?"
This is... intentional, right?
Me: Ur, can I jerk off to your photo?
Ur: No♪
Why?
Ur: Wanna come to my place on Sunday?
Me : I will hold it in for a week.
Ur: You got this♬
Starting today, no-fap let's go!
"...Huh?"
I felt like I was forgetting something──well, it'll be fine!
***************
A few days later.
Lunchtime after morning classes had ended.
Just as I was nodding to myself that at least the academy cafeteria's fried chicken was something you should skip, a shadow cast over my tray.
"You... got any time on Sunday?"
"Suddenly?"
Interrupting someone while they're eating, jeez.
I continued picking up my spoon and answered.
"No."
"What's this guy saying, a guy with no friends."
"It's true."
On Sunday, an incredibly important event was waiting for me.
An event that absolutely could not be missed, a very, very important event.
It didn't matter when I went, but it was an event I wanted to go to even a day sooner.
To put it metaphorically, it was like the warm skin of a woman waiting naked under the blanket for her lover──ah, is that not a metaphor?
Anyway, I had an appointment that was far too important to me.
Therefore, Mars.
"Don't bullshit me. You don't have plans, right?"
"I really do."
"....Not a lie?"
"Yeah."
"Proof."
"......."
Proof, well, I had it.
Right here in my pocket.
It was clearly there on my phone, so saying there was none would be a lie.
However, to confidently show it as proof...
'...Will it be okay?'
I was a bit conflicted.
If we were talking proof, there was no better proof than this, but.
"Why. Scared now that I'm asking for proof? This is why you bluff-filled chump bastards are all....tch."
"...Hah!"
Now I don't even care anymore.
I just held up my phone and showed her the text messages.
"Here, proof."
"Oh. It was real, I... see...?"
"Satisfied?"
I immediately turned off my phone.
Anyway, she would have seen all the important parts.
I finished the rest of my cafeteria meal and stood up.
"Well then, I'll be going now?"
"Wait."
"......."
Mars stopped me in my tracks.
Soon she asked, directing it at me.
"That... it's not what I think it is, is it?"
"............"
What exactly was it that you think?
I stood still in my spot, only turning my head to answer.
"I'm not a virgin."
"───!!!"
A deeply distorted face.
Pupils filling with tears in an instant.
The hand gripping my shoulder tightened with a clench.
"Aaaack....!"
"! S...Sorry...."
At my cry of pain, Mars flinched and pulled back.
But she quickly regained her senses and grabbed not my shoulder──but my clothes and yanked.
"You.... youuuuu....!"
"...What."
It's not exactly something I shouldn't do.
In the first place, apostles and devotees who received the gods' blessings were extremely rare in this worldview.
They were literally living guaranteed checks. Those permitted a harem under the nation's recognition.
Because it was that kind of worldview, no one said anything even if the Protagonist publicly engaged in harem activities, but that's something to deal with later.
"There's nothing particularly strange about it."
"....Bad guy."
A crude curse that didn't suit Mars.
Rather, it was filled with that much more sincerity.
"I... I was, my first time...!"
"Hey. Watch your mouth. Everyone around us is misunderstanding."
It was a kiss, not sex.
Plus, I clearly told you I did it strictly to save someone, so don't misunderstand.
To put it bluntly, I wanted to say the one who misunderstood was in the wrong...
"Yeah. That's how you're gonna play it, huh?"
".....What?"
Before I could finish, Mars glared at me.
"A harem? Well, I guess that's possible. A king of beasts can have several females, after all."
Grriiind.
Mars gritted her teeth.
Soon she slowly clenched her fist and showed it toward me.
"But, if that king of beasts is, fuck, weaker than the females, he can't do harem shit, right?"
"Wait. Wait a moment, please."
There's one contradiction in your words.
I am nothing more than in that kind of relationship with Ur, I'm not in that kind of relationship with you!
"Since when were you my girlfriend!"
"Shut up! You kissed me before!"
"Then would you do that shit with your dad?"
"Talulla is way out of line, you motherfucker!!"
Hii, hiiieek!!
Perhaps genuinely angry, Mars swung her fist at my face with full force.
I hurriedly crammed time into time and ducked my head down at triple speed.
Paaang!
"Whoaaaack?!!"
As a price for dodging the attack, a cadet walking behind me collapsed after being hit by the shockwave.
An air punch with one swing. What kind of ridiculous monstrous strength was this.
"Hoo! Hoooooo....!"
"....Gulp."
With an appearance that seemed about to immediately start a rampage while emitting the energy of Ares in strands, I quietly inhaled and tensed up.
Oh yeah?
Coming again?
The moment I resolved that if it started again, I would run away without looking back,
"Fuck."
"....?"
Mars slowly lowered her clenched fist.
She exhaled and shut her eyes tight.
"Fine. You're not wrong. Since you're a bastard who doesn't lie much in the first place."
"....Mars."
The answer that came out unexpectedly was affirmation.
Mars herself affirmed her own mistake.
"It's actually good. If you had tried to deceive me even with a lie, then I really would have thrown a tantrum, but since you spoke honestly, I actually feel a bit better."
"....Mars?"
But somehow her eyes were a bit strange.
How should I put it, though her words said she felt relieved, her eyes looked like they could devour me at any moment.
Mars trudged toward me and pressed something into my hand.
"Take it."
"....This is.."
A ticket.
A movie ticket.
A romance film, no less.
"Make time on Sunday."
"....I have plans──"
"─Postpone the plans."
"..........."
"You didn't set a specific time anyway."
"Well... that's..."
But still...
There was such a thing as implicit courtesy, and rules.
"Or what, are you saying you can't even spare a little time? Huh?"
Mars threatened, baring her canines.
Rather, that appearance made me want to ask in return.
"If I said... it's hard?"
"If it's hard? Then, well, it can't be helped."
To this, Mars answered obediently.
"I'll just kidnap you right now and drag you to a motel."
"Wow....."
Was this that?
A declaration that she was going to (tap) that?
To this, I spread both arms and said.
"Do it."
"Ha, you think I can't?"
"But know that on the day you kidnap me, your asshole's getting pierced."
"Ah, I told you to stop with the asshole talk!!"
Mars burst out in anger.
"You think I'm lying?"
".........."
I'm a man who's capable in many ways.
Perhaps sensing that my words were 100% pure sincerity, Mars flinched back slightly in the face of a madness greater than her own anger.
Without missing that gap, I spoke to Mars.
"Telling someone who has plans to postpone those plans and play with you is strictly a nuisance. No matter how cute you act or how much aegyo you do, no means no. That's what a 'social contract' is all about.
You get me or don't you?"
"....Then just not doing it would make it fine. If you don't."
Son of a bitch.
Fucking bastard.
Really, really really bad bastard.
Mars roughly snatched the ticket from my hand and turned around.
Mars hung her head low as if she didn't want to show her face to the surroundings.
Though since she was somewhat tall, everything that could be seen was seen──I continued speaking to Mars.
"Let's hang out on Saturday."
"Saturday?"
"I don't have plans that day."
"Who said they'd hang out with a bastard like you?"
"Fine if you don't want to."
".....It's just because the ticket would be a waste. Don't get the wrong idea."
With that, Mars trudged out of the cafeteria.
'...Cafeteria?'
Something flashed through my mind.
I slowly, calmly, glanced around the surroundings.
"""""..........."""""
"Wo..ah."
Countless eyes laid upon the surroundings.
Among them, one, Merk, approached me and spoke.
"Chrono, you were actually a player, huh?"
"No I wasn't.....!"
There was no way I was a player!
I wanted to assert my own innocence.
"Chrono."
"Yuno!"
Yeah, if it's you Yuno...!
"I think it's not good to let your eyes wander to other women."
"Cough....!"
I, I was...!
...To try to deny it, too many people had already seen.