Ep.7 - Raven
Ep.7 - Raven
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"I—I enhanced it. Really..."
"Then why is it the same? Ha... I told you not to bullshit me."
"It—it's true... really... enhancement doesn't always work, there's a probability..."
"Does it make sense that we did it five times and it never worked? Huh?"
"I'm telling you it's true, hyuk... sniff..."
"Don't cry and just Load. We're doing this until it works."
The two repeated this for a long time, striving for the soul bond, but breaking through a 3% success rate was no easy feat.
Back when I enhanced Kaede, I was incredibly lucky and succeeded two times in a row, but now while trying to enhance Riko, I had already attempted enhancement 20 times...
"Hic, sniff... I'm telling you it's true..."
"Ha... take it out. Pull it out."
"It's true! I'm telling you!"
After even one failure, Riko naturally grew suspicious of Delin and began handling him more roughly.
"Let's see who wins. You're pulling this stunt because you're afraid I'll mess with the others if you strengthen me, but if you don't do it properly now... we're all dead. Keep doing it like that, okay? Keep doing it just like that, got it?"
"Euhg, sniff, sob... I'm telling you it's true..."
Riko, for a thief, had lived with a certain romantic streak.
But she had never learned how to treat the one she loved.
She had simply adopted the deeply distorted [Rogues' Rough View on Love] that other thieves and her subordinates had chattered about.
On top of that, she was already furious because a subordinate she had trusted as a lifelong comrade had just betrayed her, so her mind naturally turned in a negative direction.
"If I hear you failed this time again, you're really... huh? You get it!?"
"Sniff, soob..."
Even as she left nail marks all over Delin's delicate body and smeared him with sticky sweat, she raged.
Complexly intertwined emotions,
clung tightly to Delin, devouring him.
"Open your mouth, fuck... I said open it!"
"Euhp, huk..."
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Thus, by the time the enhancement finally succeeded,
I had already Loaded dozens of times and endured several hundred ejaculations.
"Heh, he-eh... hiic..."
It wasn't just enhanced once.
The first time the enhancement activated, she thought Delin had finally surrendered, and in her spiteful heart, she ravaged him even more mercilessly.
After that, when the enhancement 'coincidentally' activated right away, she crushed Delin with the terrifying logic of [You could have done it all along, but you were holding out?].
And from then on, when the enhancement wouldn't activate again, she got furious, shouting [Are you resisting again?], leaving her own marks all over his body and swallowing him without hesitation.
"Hoo..."
Thus, the status displayed in the status window
had finally surpassed Kaede.
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[Riko] +3
(Your) ejaculations: 114
(Partner's) climaxes: 27
Remaining enhancements: 0
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"Did it enhance?"
"Yes, ye-et..."
"...You should have just done it from the start. Tch."
She sat on the edge of the bed and lit a roll of herb infused with hot mana once more.
The two of them were now
staying in a room at the [Bam Dalbit] tavern.
Riko had no qualms about exploiting the Save and Load,
and continuously made Delin into a cripple, dragging him along, then thoroughly educated him in a private room.
Around the 3rd repetition, Delin threw a fit at the door and clung to the frame to resist.
By the 6th repetition, realizing he'd be dragged in anyway, he knelt and started begging.
By the 15th repetition, he no longer resisted or begged, just cried and wailed, giving in to resignation.
"Not bad, actually?"
And she
prepared for battle to deal with the assassins invading the room for the 19th time.
To grasp precisely how much her selfhood had grown stronger, she fought in the same way as always.
Took out a blade from her ankle and threw it.
Ran and kicked the door open.
Grabbed the incoming subordinate's arm and twisted it backward.
"Hoo-"
How much stronger would she be this time?
Riko inwardly anticipated as she threw the blade.
The 19th blade.
Not only did it slip through the door and pierce the first woman's head, it flew right through the entire wall.
She ignored how far it flew.
And through the gap, when the sound reached her.
"Go in!"
She walked lightly and kicked the door.
Even without running, the speed was similar to before.
Now, she felt she could win no matter who charged at her.
Paaang-!
From Riko's foot kicking the door came an eerie sound no human could produce.
Kicking at a terrifying speed that felt like even the surrounding air was kicked away, the force sent the second woman crashing through the wall.
Next, a subordinate's poisoned dagger approached her neck,
and she gently seized that slow attack,
and to exact the price for daring to betray her selfhood, she flicked a finger...
"Aaaack! Akyaaack!"
The arm bent backward.
There was no need to strike down now.
"Nice. Starting to get manageable."
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Riko
headed back to the save point,
and hoisted up Delin, who had collapsed from the accumulation of spiritual pleasure, then slipped out of the inn.
Even after repeating dozens of Loads, the mage, the knight, her younger brother, the wolf, and the archbishop remained asleep as she carefully scanned them...
"I wonder what kind of faces they'll make."
Honestly, she hadn't expected to monopolize Delin this quickly.
After all, she'd thought they would wake up after a few Loads.
Considering the Load she'd experienced before, it was easy to deduce that they would return to their [bodily state at the save point], but what she had worried about was their [mental and spiritual state].
Because after she had been hit by the queen and then Loaded, a shock so great she couldn't move for a while had struck her.
She had judged that the sleep state, which she considered [mental and spiritual rest], would cause the other women to wake up regardless of Load.
However, it seemed her hypothesis had been wrong.
Not one of those despicable women had opened her eyes.
They just remained lost in sleep.
"What should I do to let off some steam, hm? What should I do with all those bitches?"
Riko imagined a pleasant future as she smothered Delin's cheeks with kisses.
Her mood had improved again.
Now that she could finally monopolize Delin, there was no need to hate them.
Anyway, from here on, the two of them would just go to the Demon Continent, keep enhancing, reach God's Garden, and then revert everything from that state.
The end.
"Let's finish everything before the baby comes."
She'd be carrying for about 10 months.
So just finish everything before then and set up a place to live with the kids.
Ah. Would God grant that if I prayed?
"Easy."
Thanks to Delin's Save & Load ability, things had become considerably simple to handle.
A truly incredible ability. Really.
Even more, if you set a Save when young, you could live without aging or dying forever.
Now it was as good as all over.
Only fun things remained.
The two of us.
No, not just the two of us.
Because she'd be having quite a lot of them from now on.
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First, she headed to
a dark main street where not a soul wandered.
Standing there blankly, she flicked a gold coin she had swiped from Kaede's pouch with her thumb...
"Just a Dragon matter."
Someone who had concealed their full selfhood emerged from the shadows.
"Your boss has been looking for me. I came to die, so take me. In exchange for letting my subordinates go."
Ting-
When she tossed the gold coin, the being stood still for a moment, gazing at Riko, then soon disappeared back into the shadows...
and cautiously asked.
"What's with the male?"
"Ah. Don't mind him. Just think of it as a burial. He's a kid who can't live without me anyway."
"..."
And then, as if for the first time, all human presence completely vanished.
She would probably deliver Riko's words just as they were to their leader Kirem,
and if she did, Kirem would undoubtedly summon Riko to the Raven hideout.
Because she wasn't strong enough to face all the assassins alone.
She wasn't a woman who could defeat the entire world of shadows.
Even if she killed fifty.
No, even if she killed a hundred.
As long as she beheaded Philmark in the end, it wasn't a losing deal.
"Follow me."
As expected.
Just as Riko had thought, they took her to their hideout while being considerably wary.
Getting her subordinate to attempt an assassination was likely nothing more than a [warning] or [message].
That woman Kirem never did a losing deal.
So, one way or another, she would have tried to bring her to the hideout and settle the match.
Since she'd never be dragged there by force, she must have inscribed a [Death Mark] on her subordinate's neck as a warning.
One was killed right before her eyes as a warning.
Come find Raven if you don't want the remaining four dead too.
"Haaaam~"
But Riko came to the hideout herself before all her subordinates died.
She had already thoroughly punished the one who dared to betray her selfhood, so she no longer cared.
Even if their lives were at stake, they broke the oath of the past days where they swore never to betray her, so she had to make them pay with death,
but with their unnie's lives on the line, they must have been desperate.
How desperate must they have been to attack knowing they couldn't win?
Well.
Even so, there had to be a price for daring to point a blade at her.
Because if she let it slide, they'd just climb up again.
"Philmark."
Someone spoke from the darkness.
At the same time, a light shone on Riko.
"The queen wants you."
"Haven't seen you in a while."
"You don't need to know, just die quietly."
"No manners. Kirem."
The shadow thinned slightly,
and Kirem revealed herself.
"As chatty as ever. Philmark."
"As filthy ugly as ever. Kirem. And why is it so dark here? This isn't exactly a place to bring a boyfriend for a date."
"You'll go on your date in the afterlife."
"Enough. Where are my subordinates?"
"I'll send them right after when you're dead. Then you can meet those bitches in the afterlife too."
Finishing her words, Kirem began to disappear back into the shadows...
"...Keoheok."
But she collapsed forward onto her knees, tumbling under the light.
"Then that means they're still alive."
In that instant, every member of Raven lurking around for an opening couldn't even comprehend what had happened.
For their leader to suddenly collapse like this.
"You were trying to catch me, so all sorts of bastards must be gathered here, right?"
Riko calmly walked forward and gently lifted the fallen Kirem's head.
A hole was already pierced through her forehead.
"Found a pretty button on the way here, thought I'd gift it to you, but seems your boss can't even take a gift properly, am I right?"
The woman carrying the drooling man on her shoulder
rummaged through her pocket and took out a few needles...
"Who's next?"
She held them in her hand.
That day, a crime syndicate that would have dominated not only Khalid but the entire world vanished.
Rumor had it that a monstrous woman annihilated all 352 members with a single button and eight needles,
but no one believed it.
They said such a thing was impossible.
Anyway, everyone sang songs of a legendary, righteous hero who had saved the imperiled Khalid,
and that day was designated as a day of crime eradication, celebrated for generations to come.