Chapter 8
Translator - Zofu
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"I... I really think I need to work hard to save this world."
"Ah... hoo-hoo. As expected of the Hero♡"
Hildear smiled brightly.
She rejoiced, saying he would become the best Hero, not knowing what had spurred his resolve. Even if she knew, she might have been happy anyway, but Si-woo thought it better not to say anything.
'Still, there seems to be more to learn than I thought.'
Hero and party, magic power, abilities, semen, virgin, etc.
The correlations seemed unexpectedly complex and intertwined.
It seemed better to go to the Hero Training Center with the mindset of erasing what I already knew and learning anew. Relying solely on my lower half and leaving everything else to my comrades made the future seem uncertain.
For Si-woo, this was the perfect world to truly enjoy life, but that was only possible if the world continued to exist while he was alive. But if he lost in the Final War that could happen in at least 10 years, everything would be over.
'Still, as a regressor, I should carefully select the best comrades possible.'
Comrades with both skill and beauty, the very best.
"Good. You said we're going to the Training Center in 3 days, right?"
"Yes, that's right. Ah, the distance to the Training Center doesn't matter. We'll all be moving through magic gates."
"Where is it?"
"It's in the center of the continent. More precisely, below that, but in the Glayzer Empire, the strongest nation on the continent."
"Glayzer Empire..."
As expected, this much was the same as the first round.
There were more than 10 countries on the continent. Among them, only three were Empires. There were nations that were equivalent in power despite not being called Empires, but anyway, there were three places called Empires, and the strongest among them was the Glayzer Empire.
A nation firmly seated in the best land, the center of the continent, enjoying immense power.
Just seeing that the allocated Hero support quota was 10 people made one feel Glayzer's power.
'The actual national power isn't three times that of Palania's, I suppose. The number of Heroes must have been balanced in its own way.'
Anyway, Heroes quickly gather at the Training Center. The country that becomes the summoning location has the advantage of prior information and familiarity, but even then, there's a limit to what you can find out and become friendly with in less than a week.
'In the end, many go to places that provide a lot of support and have many comrades from there... Hmm, I need to think about this and that in advance.'
I don't know what information is helpful and what knowledge has changed.
That's why Si-woo needed to write down everything he knew. Because human memory has its limits. If I get a separate artifact, security should be guaranteed to some extent.
'Of course, before that...'
His hand moved and began to grope Hildear.
"Kyah, Hero♡"
"Hildear."
"Yes?"
"Let's do it."
Si-woo said that with a serious expression. How could he hold back knowing she was a virgin? He wanted to take the first time of the blue-haired beauty before his eyes right away, and plant his seed deep inside her. Only then could the two rounds' worth of semen being digested in her stomach achieve enlightenment.
"D-do it?"
Hildear, whom he thought would be delighted, had an unexpectedly awkward expression. Si-woo, having misunderstood her meaning, spoke again, more directly.
"Let's do it. Let's fuck. Let's have sex."
"......."
"I don't think I can sleep if I don't do it with you today."
"Th... I'm sorry...."
Hildear bowed her head, apologizing to the point of tearing up slightly. That made it even more shocking.
"No, why?"
"Well... you probably can't do it."
"What?"
"My hymen... breaking it."
"......."
Dumbfounded, Si-woo shut his mouth. Words that contradicted what she had said earlier. But Si-woo furiously racked his brain, pondering the meaning of her words. He preferred being a gentle, manly man rather than a sex-parrot who only shouted about sex. Then, one idea clicked.
"You mean your hymen is stronger, not at the level I'm thinking...?"
"Yes. Probably... even the Hero would need to awaken his magic power."
"Ah, fuck."
He cursed without realizing it, but it couldn't be helped. Magic power wasn't something that just anyone could use.
Even in the first round, it took him over a year to awaken his magic power. Using magic power was one of the conditions for the Hero exam. He had fulfilled all other conditions but couldn't become a Hero because of this one thing. Even after passing the exam like that, he was only E-rank.
'But they want me to awaken my magic power? Does that make sense?'
Would he have to wait another year?
'I can't let that happen.'
Si-woo's eyes blazed with passion and will. He lacked talent, but he had memories of handling magic power for over 10 years. Though his body didn't remember, his mind, his soul knew the sensation. He remembered hearing that magic power was a mental domain as much as it was about talent.
'1 year? Don't make me laugh. I'll finish it within a month no matter what.'
"Th... I'm sorry. I'm too strong...."
"...sigh, no. It can't be helped. Rather, thanks to that, I can be the one to take your first time."
"Hehe."
As he saw her foolish smile, Si-woo was about to smile back when a question suddenly came to mind.
"Hey, Hildear?"
"Yes?"
"No, it's nothing. Never mind."
This time it was Si-woo who wanted to ask her something, but he soon gave up. When he thought about it, everyone had different levels of strength and yang energy. So there was obviously a way to deal with what he had thought was strange.
'I almost asked a stupid question.'
"Sigh, I suddenly feel deflated."
"Umm...."
"Then you should go in and rest now. You must be tired too."
"Um, Hero?"
"What."
"Then tonight... would you sleep with me?"
"...What?"
"While touching my breasts?"
"......."
"Uh, uh, i-if you like breasts! The men here don't really like them, so...."
"I like them."
"Huh?"
"I fucking love them. I love you, Hildear."
"...Neat, I love you too, Hero♥"
In the end, that night, the two slept together in one bed.
Si-woo was disappointed that he couldn't act as he metaphorically wanted, but it felt awkward to try when he was told it would be difficult without magic power. If he forced it and it worked, great, but if it didn't, it would be embarrassing. To insert his dick but fail to break the hymen and give up—there was no despair like that.
Until bedtime, they continued talking in his room. It wasn't Si-woo asking about this world and Hildear answering, but rather a time of truly trivial and personal conversation.
Hildear was extremely interested in Si-woo, who would become her husband and Hero. The love that began in Felacio was love if you could call it that.
"Wow, so the Hero still has military experience left? An army with only men... that's really the complete opposite of here."
"It's a terrible place."
"......?"
Si-woo also quite enjoyed talking about himself. A story from the distant past that he hadn't been able to tell anyone for over 10 years. Thanks to that, there were many times when he couldn't remember and slightly diverted the conversation while groping for memories. He wasn't very close with his parents, and not much time had passed so there wasn't much attachment to family, but he missed his friends a little.
'Come to think of it, they said they'd send me back to Earth as a wish after defeating the Demon Gods... I don't know. I'll think about that when the time comes.'
In the first round too, at first he wanted to return to Earth, but around the middle, his goal changed and becoming a B-rank Hero became his top priority. He remembered taking drugs that affected his lifespan because of that.
'Everything feels like ancient history.'
Si-woo also asked Hildear various things and learned a lot about her. Mainly things like family lineage and relationships. There were many unexpectedly changed points.
First, the captain of the Royal Guard changed from father to mother. If the parents hadn't each TS'd, the roles might have switched like Queen and something else, but he had never seen Hildear's mother, so he was very curious about her face.
Also, it was peculiar that her younger sister became a knight. In the first round, Hildear's younger sister was a typical noble lady. She had never properly held a sword since birth. It was amazing that such a girl became a knight.
And thanks to this, Hildear's burden as heir decreased. He thought that might be why her personality was slightly different.
'This is kind of interesting.'
Unfortunately, they couldn't bathe together. Si-woo suggested showering together in the bathroom attached to his room, but she refused, saying she wasn't mentally prepared yet. Thinking about it, it wasn't much different from a woman proposing to a man, yet she talked about mental preparation—Hildear was truly unique.
Afterward, he washed up, and touching the breasts of the female knight who returned and crawled into bed, Si-woo was able to have a comfortable sleep for the first time in a long while.
And the next day, rumors spreading was as obvious as seeing fire.
"To bring Sir Hildear in proudly on the first day and spend the night together...."
"They say Sir Hildear was even yawning."
"Really? Wow... the Hero really is different...."
"He's still a candidate, but for him, the Hero exam would be a piece of cake."
"......."
As he walked down the corridor following the maid sent by the Queen for breakfast, he heard the whispering of various maids and servants. The few manservants looked at him as if they had seen something strange.
'What the hell, why are the women here so loose-lipped...? If it's a reversed world, shouldn't it be the opposite and heavier?'
With a somewhat sexist remark, Si-woo made a displeased expression.
"I apologize, Candidate. I will punish them all later."
It was what the maid said at the door as soon as they arrived at a different dining hall from the previous day.
"No, it's fine. It can happen. More than that...."
"Please speak comfortably."
"Everyone seems awkward with Heroes. You said they're summoned every 6 months, shouldn't they be used to it by now?"
"Well... it's because the Palania Kingdom is a Hero-weak nation...."
"Aah, so you've only gotten unimpressive guys until now."
The maid's cheeks flushed slightly at Si-woo's words, nodding and summarizing briefly. It was embarrassing but true, so she couldn't refute it.
In fact, that wasn't the only issue. It was true that previous candidates had been unimpressive, but there had never been anyone like the candidate before her eyes. To do such things with a female knight from day one and end up spending the night with her as a comrade.
No matter how much they knew that candidates came from a different world, awkward was awkward. Of course, it wasn't that it was bad or negative, just fascinating.
Male Heroes, even perennial candidates who couldn't become Heroes, were like dreams to the women of this world. Recalling the words of women who occasionally got lucky enough to spend a night with them made her lower abdomen throb right away.
"By any chance, among those from here—no, what is the highest rank among Heroes currently belonging to Palania?"
"B-rank... from what I know."
"Hmm, I see. Thank you."
"Yes, then I shall let you enter."
"Alright."
Entering the dining hall, Si-woo compared the situation from the first round with the present in his head. Even back then, the Palania Kingdom was a Hero-weak nation. But there was at least an A-rank Hero, whereas the situation here was more serious. He couldn't know if they were the same person or if that A-rank had gone to another country, but there were quite a few differences in Hero-related matters.
'Should I consider staying in Palania if possible?'
It wasn't out of affection, but it was a country he knew well from having been there for a long time. It seemed like it would be fun to mess around within the weak nation and act as a reverse tank toward powerful nations.
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