Chapter 23
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 23
Chapter Title: Face-to-Face with the Lion (1)
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Thud.
Huh?
A sound she'd heard countless times as a healer—the noise of a human body losing control and collapsing.
The moment that sound reached her ears, followed by the pressure of about 5kg weighing down on her chest, May Luina could guess what had just happened in this hospital room.
Did Stay... collapse?
Just moments ago, Stay had been boasting so shamelessly about how he'd come to knock her out with orgasms, and how he'd easily brought Dain Adamas and Mir Ryuin to climax with Portio development and anal training.
For a man like that to just drop without any warning, even a veteran hero like May Luina couldn't help but go on high alert on instinct.
What is this? Did someone attack Stay? Ugh, w-what do I do? Right now, I can't even twitch a finger... I'm basically a vegetable...
But the current May Luina wasn't the famed Saintess or World Hero Ranking No. 3—she was May Luina, trapped in a vegetative state by a curse.
What the hell happened...! At least I can feel his hot breath on my chest where his face is buried. Good, he doesn't seem dead. Ugh, so he just passed out? Still, I can't let my guard down. Knocking him out suddenly means they could kill him suddenly too. I have to stay vigilant.
And so, with Stay passed out clutching her breasts, his face buried in her bra-clad massive tits, May Luina trembled in terror and helplessness at being unable to do a thing in this dangerous situation.
B-but what can I even do to stay vigilant right now? I can't do anything in this state. The one person who can cure my curse is right in front of me in danger, and I can't even see what's going on. Ugh... I've never hated my body this much. If something really bad happens to Stay, I'll have to live like this forever, in this darkness, unable to talk to anyone...
She, who had earned the title of the Saintess who descended to the surface after hundreds of years, possessed unrivaled talent that left everyone else in the dust. She had always been surrounded by followers no matter the time or place.
A life filled with people adoring and praising her had become utterly natural to May Luina, and the attention and passion from her followers had become an indispensable part of making her life richer and more meaningful.
That was why, when the curse turned her into a vegetable and trapped her mind and soul in her body, May Luina learned what solitude truly was for the first time in her life.
A pitch-black isolation where no one could hear her voice, where she couldn't see a thing, a world utterly unchanged yet leaving her completely cut off from everything.
That horrific sensation was solitude, and for May Luina—who had always lived bathed in attention, affection, and devotion—it was more terrifying than anything else.
N-no, not that! Stay can't die, absolutely not!
That was why the moment May Luina sensed Stay was in danger, she fell into panic at the thought that the solitude she'd barely escaped thanks to him would swallow her again—forever.
The man who had stopped her month-long sobs of loneliness from a month immersed in despair couldn't just vanish less than a day later. It was something that couldn't happen.
If Stay's gone, no one will listen to me or lift my curse! So please, someone save Stay! Please!
Before becoming a vegetable, she'd just used Stay as an emotional trash can, but now he was more important to May Luina than anything else.
He was her sole channel of communication. To prove she wasn't alone anymore, the one person in the world with the Status Window ability had to stay alive.
But the current May Luina was a helpless vegetable who couldn't do anything alone. All she could do was scream her unheard inner pleas desperately in her mind.
Please, someone save Stay! Please! Without him, I'll be alone again! I absolutely hate that! It can't happen! So please, please, someone save Stay...!
After about ten minutes of these futile, unheard cries, May Luina suddenly sensed something was off.
Huh...? But why isn't anything happening? If you knock someone out, shouldn't you do something next? There's no point in just knocking them out and vanishing.
While May Luina had been desperately pleading inside for someone to save Stay for a full ten minutes, the target of her cries—Stay himself—was fast asleep with his face buried in her soft, squishy massive holy-power-storing tits, his right hand clutching those enormous breasts.
The hot breaths leaking into her cleavage maintained a steady rhythm without faltering, and the grip on her massive tits flexed occasionally, enchanted by their softness, signaling that Stay was perfectly fine.
The moment she realized this, May Luina felt her face heat up as the truth she'd overlooked dawned on her.
N-no way. Is this guy... just asleep?!
What is this? This soft, squishy, warm, pillowy thing.
Feeling something irresistibly soft, squishy, and warm pressing against my face—something I wanted to bury myself in forever—I came to my senses.
Much as I wanted to stay like this, my nose and mouth were blocked, making it hard to breathe, so I had no choice but to pull my face away from this bizarre object.
"...Ugh. Mmph, pha! Huh?"
This is... May Luina's massive tits?
Once I pulled my face away, I could see exactly what that mysterious soft, squishy, warm, pillowy thing had been.
It was May Luina's firm, jiggly massive tits.
My right hand was conveniently gripping one, so I kneaded those massive tits while recalling what had happened right before I passed out—how I'd ended up waking with my face buried in this holy power repository.
Oh, right. Even after the alert that I'd be incapacitated if my yang energy ran out, I couldn't stop myself. I squeezed May Luina's massive tits hard, depleted my yang, and blacked out.
The sensation from my palm—squishy, soft, warm, like it contained all the happiness in the world—was indeed so incredible it was worth passing out over.
But right now, the point wasn't how amazing May Luina's massive tits were.
Well, sure, that's important too, but what really mattered to me was that I'd kneaded these tits, run out of yang energy, and fainted.
Come to think of it, what I'd done to treat May Luina, Dain Adamas, and Mir Ryuin wasn't about fainting orgasms—it was yang energy infusion.
I'd gotten so caught up in their intense reactions—their earsplitting moans and fainting climaxes from a single touch—that I'd forgotten.
I'd been knocking them out with orgasms to infuse my yang energy smoothly and efficiently.
Forgetting that goal and pumping yang wildly, it's no wonder I passed out...
"Did I really think I'd faint after using up all my yang? This feels so unfair."
I'd been fine right up until it ran out, but the instant it did, I dropped. It was the epitome of bullshit.
If the Awakener Association's Central Intelligence Department had shown up for a surprise inspection at that moment, I'd have been caught passed out with hands on May Luina's tits, Dain Adamas's lower belly, and Mir Ryuin's ass.
Just imagining it gives me chills. They'd chop my head off and hang it in the town square, and no one would bat an eye.
Picturing that nonexistent but possible horror sent a chill up my spine, making my body shudder involuntarily.
So I buried my trembling, chilled hands in the warmest, coziest, most reassuring bundle of happiness nearby.
Squish! Squeeze!
Groping those massive tits that overflowed even in both hands calmed my racing heart.
"Phew, now I feel at ease."
They say petting cute animals eases anxiety, but petting these massive tits once would do more than petting a cute animal a hundred times.
From now on, whenever I'm anxious, I'll grab May Luina's highly effective massive tits, I decided. Then I pondered how to solve this yang depletion issue.
"First things first, time for the face-to-face with the lion."
To find a solution, it seemed like the four of us—me, May Luina, Dain Adamas, and Mir Ryuin—needed to get together and talk it out.