Struggle for Supremacy (2)
Struggle for Supremacy (2)
The prophecy that a Demon God had awakened meant more work for mercenaries.
However, most mercenaries refused to answer the Empire's call to action.
This was because the survival rate of mercenaries who participated in the two previous Demon God subjugation campaigns—against Demon God Avaritia and Demon God Acedia—was far too low.
Mercenaries risked their lives for work, but that didn't mean they were truly prepared to die.
Thus, as Melanie's party headed toward Smalion, they saw almost no one else traveling in the same direction.
On the other hand, they passed by refugees an excessive number of times.
"There are so many refugees......."
"During the Acedia incident, an entire city almost disappeared completely, so of course everyone would want to flee."
Lili and Pia muttered as they watched the seemingly endless line of refugees.
Meanwhile, Hilda naturally moved closer to Melanie.
"It seems a necromancer is still running rampant in Smalion. I hear they've revived an enormous number of corpses to create an army. That would make it the perfect battlefield for me to shine, wouldn't you say, Melanie?"
"Uh, uhh......."
Melanie felt burdened whenever Hilda got this close.
She knew exactly how much Hilda resented and hated her.
Lili frowned upon seeing this.
Then, she moved even closer than Hilda, tightly wrapping her arms around Melanie's arm.
Pressing Melanie's forearm deep into the cleft between her breasts.
"Li, Lili? There are people watching..."
"Hilda. Why are you pretending to be friendly with Melanie? You can't even do this properly."
Hilda stared at Lili for a moment, then tried to hug Melanie's arm just like she had.
But even if it was an act, it seemed she had no desire to perform acts of affection with this disgusting subject.
In the end, Hilda lowered her hand without touching Melanie.
"I'm not pretending to be friendly. I merely wished to discuss matters on a strategic level. You all have experience dealing with necromancers, do you not?"
"We can just beat the crap out of them and call it solved."
"Corpses revived by a necromancer will just regenerate no matter how many times you kill them. It will be difficult to fight without a priest."
"We've managed just fine without a priest until now, haven't we?"
"Then, once we arrive, why don't you try without me—"
"W, wait a second, Lili. We really need a priest's help. Don't be like that."
When Melanie took Hilda's side, Lili made an expression as if deeply hurt.
In contrast, Hilda twitched the corner of her mouth, intoxicated with a sense of victory.
"Melanie, are you, are you taking another male's side over mine right now?"
"Th, that's not it, it's just that if we're not careful even for a single moment, it could be dangerous..."
Just thinking back to the Acedia incident, they would all be dead if Hilda hadn't used the Sacred Artifact.
They would have fallen into a sleep from which they'd never awaken.
Moving as a party without a priest was an extremely dangerous endeavor.
Lili gritted her teeth, released Melanie's arm, and approached Hilda.
Their faces came so close they were almost touching, their full breasts pressing against and crushing each other.
"Hey there, Saintess-nim. It seems like you're wagging your tail where you don't belong because you lack the confidence to win the bet..."
"You're the one who wouldn't need to interfere with me if you were so confident—"
"Euk......!"
As the two struggled, Melanie's body swayed slightly.
Pia, noticing this, quickly approached Melanie.
"Melanie? What's wrong?"
"No, I just missed my step..."
"Let me take a look."
"Eh, w, wait......!"
Pia skillfully lifted Melanie and sat her down on the ground.
Only then did Hilda and Lili notice the situation and turn to look at them.
Pia removed Melanie's boots and socks.
Her feet, white and pretty like sculptures, were covered in blisters.
"I knew it. You've never done any march training, have you? Why did you endure with your feet like this? You should have said we needed to rest."
Pia, who knew exactly how much her feet must have hurt, let out a sigh.
Melanie was about to reply that she had undergone march training, but then remembered that was in her past life and said something else.
"We, we have a long way to go......."
There wasn't a single carriage heading to Smalion, so they had no choice but to walk.
Unlike Lili and Pia, who had excellent physical abilities, Melanie's relatively frail body wasn't accustomed to such long hours of walking.
Hilda crouched down and took hold of Melanie's foot.
A faint light flowed from her hands and began to heal Melanie.
"What a foolish and stupid woman. Why didn't you ask for healing?"
"I, I thought you might not like it......."
"Of course I'm not pleased, but the fact that someone of my ability left a patient unattended by my side is even more disgraceful."
"Sor... no, you said not to apologize...... I'll speak up next time......."
"......Very well."
Hilda was stroking Melanie's toes, but Melanie didn't find it strange.
She merely assumed it was a necessary part of the healing process.
Soon, Melanie's feet returned to their original clean and vibrant state.
"Melanie, climb on my back."
Pia turned her back toward Melanie.
It was a knightly gesture that made a lady's heart flutter, and Melanie's face turned red without her realizing it.
"Then it would be best to leave your feet bare and let them air dry."
"Uhh... W, we mustn't be late, so excuse me......."
"Th, then I'll carry all the luggage!"
"Thank you, everyone......."
Pia stood up with Melanie on her back, and Lili lifted the luggage for all three of them.
Melanie felt genuinely happy.
Even if they all treat me almost like a tool during the Holy Treatment, they're so considerate normally.
There were times I thought my mind would shatter, feeling like I'd truly been reduced to nothing but a public onahole after getting caught up in Luxuria's schemes.
But that was just thinking too harshly.......
Melanie closed her eyes, breathing in Pia's scent.
* * *
"The rules are as agreed. For the next three days, we'll take turns during rest periods. The one who brings Melanie to climax the fastest gets 3 points, the one who makes her lose consciousness the fastest gets 3 points. For every time Melanie ejaculates after the first climax, 1 point."
"Once you ejaculate, your turn is over. The person with the highest total score gets priority rights to use Melanie. Remember that."
Of course.
Inside the tent set up for a short rest after lunch.
Melanie, laid out naked, closed her eyes and steadied her mind.
If I keep assigning meaning to this, I'll only hurt my own feelings.
It's just an act of close people touching each other's bodies.
It's not an unwanted act being forced upon me.
It's absolutely not a humiliating trampling of my dignity.
"......Then today is Lili's turn. Since you volunteered to go first, don't later make the excuse that you were at a disadvantage due to accumulated fatigue."
"Heh-heh. Of course. I have to take this disadvantage to make it a fair match for Hilda and Pia."
"Fair? What an arrogant thing to say."
Stripping off her clothes with a flourish, Lili looked back at Hilda with a confident expression.
"In physical relations, mental excitement is also very important. And Melanie can't help but get much more excited with me than with you. Because Melanie loves me the most♥"
"......."
Hilda shrugged and sat down on a folding chair, crossing her legs.
Lili, as if telling her to stop dawdling and get started, grabbed her angrily throbbing cock and climbed on top of Melanie, who was lying down.
"Look at this♥ Melanie♥ It got this big just from seeing you, my love♥"
"Euk......♡"
A forearm-sized meat club, covered in grotesque veins, was impressively engorged.
Lili's cock was the largest of the three males.
Its size blatantly expressed just how sexually aroused she was by the sight of Melanie.
'Just from looking at my body, it's this......♡'
Having such undisguised desire thrust toward her made Melanie's whole body tingle.
But Lili, as if still insufficient to express her feelings, continued stroking her cock, inflating that terrifying monstrosity even larger.
"......I trust you haven't forgotten, but foreplay beyond insertion is prohibited."
"Touching Melanie is what's prohibited, right? I'm just touching my own cock?"
"I'm just saying this as a precaution."
"Hoo, hoo......♥ I'm going in, Melanie♥"
"Li, Lili, at least use some lube——"
"You look already soaking wet, you brazen bitch♥ Hhuueeuuuhh♥"
SMACK!!!!♥♥♥
"——NGGOOOOOHHHHHK?!♡♡♡♡"
FSSSHHHHHHHT!!!!♡♡♡
Melanie, throwing her head back, ejaculated spectacularly like a fountain.
Hilda, who was watching and heard the sound of insertion, flinched in surprise.
It was a destructive sound effect that made her worry if something had broken inside.
It was a sound more easily explained by someone punching through the vulva with all their might and directly striking the uterus.
"Keut......♥ You saw it clearly, right?♥ Climax from insertion alone♥"
"A, are you sure she climaxed and didn't break?"
"O-gok♡ Oooohk♡"
The shock of her uterus being crushed made Melanie moan with her eyes half-rolled back and her tongue hanging out.
Hilda inadvertently found herself thinking that, more important than the bet right now, she needed to check if Melanie had suffered internal injuries.