Chapter 179
Chapter 179
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 179
Chapter Title: Sun and Moon - 5
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‘……Where am I?’
Blink, blink. I blinked a few times before cautiously lifting my eyelids. The fluorescent light on the ceiling poured bright light through my opening eyes.
I couldn’t help but furrow my brow, and then urgent voices came from beside me.
“Honored guest! Are you coming to?”
“Have you opened your eyes, honored guest?”
It was such a familiar sight that for a moment I thought I was back in reality, but the booming stereo voices of Floretta and Luna ringing out from both sides told me otherwise.
‘Yeah. No way that’d happen.’
I chuckled self-deprecatingly to myself as I tried to sit up, only to flop back down from the pounding pain in my head that felt like it might shatter.
I slowly looked around. A shower room visible through glass. Wallpaper giving off a strange, sensual vibe. Candles lit in various spots. A space with almost no other furniture, just one massive bed.
It was the exact same place where I’d been rolling around with the popes just this morning.
While I scanned the room, the popes approached right up to the bedside and knelt down. I felt a soft sensation in my hands. I glanced down.
I thought it might be their breasts again, but fortunately, it wasn’t. Floretta and Luna had each taken one of my hands from either side and interlaced their fingers with mine.
“……What happened?”
“You mustn’t try to sit up on your own yet, honored guest.”
“We’ll help you up, so please bear with us just a moment.”
As I stubbornly tried to rise, the popes carefully supported my back. Their slender arms crossed behind me, each grabbing the opposite side of my waist.
With their fingers interlaced and their other hands propping up my back, their arms and breasts naturally pressed against me. There was a soft squish, like plush water balloons.
With the popes’ strength, even one of them could easily support an adult man. I relaxed and leaned into them comfortably. Floretta and Luna sat on the edge of the bed as well, pressing their breasts firmly against me.
“Are you feeling alright? We did perform divine healing right away, but…….”
“I’m fine. Just a bit of a headache aside.”
“That’s a relief. Honored guest, what’s the last thing you remember before losing consciousness?”
Hearing that, I retraced my memories.
After both Luna and Floretta failed to communicate with the god, I’d tried as a backup plan, and it worked. Seizing the moment, I’d bombarded it with all sorts of questions.
—Not yet. The time has not come.
‘…….’
Right after that, along with the voice saying the time hadn’t come yet, my body went limp and my consciousness cut out. Since the memories connected smoothly, it didn’t seem like anything was missing.
‘Do all long-lived beings end up like that?’
My first thought upon recalling was a complaint.
The World Devourer, the Sun and Moon gods of the Holy Kingdom—they were all the same. Why did they all talk like that green-haired cat beastkin? Was that just what happened when you lived too long?
If they’d just tell me what “that time” was, I could at least try to meet the conditions. Did I need to see the ending or max out faith and divine power at 99 first?
“I remember everything. There’s no gap in the middle.”
“……I see.”
Luna let out a sigh of relief. Thud. Something leaned against my left shoulder. I turned my head. Floretta had rested her head on my shoulder.
“……You’ve woken up. Thank goodness. I was so afraid you might never wake again.”
A similar sensation came from my right shoulder. Luna had rested her head there too. They must have been terribly worried because of me—their bodies were trembling so much I could feel it.
I started to reach up to stroke their heads, then hesitated, realizing they were still gripping my hands tightly.
Even if they let go, with their heads on my shoulders, my arms wouldn’t reach that far.
But if I left them like this, they were definitely about to burst into tears. The trembling was getting worse. I even heard a small sniffle.
‘……No helping it.’
I lifted our interlaced hands as they were.
“Huh?!”
“H-Honored guest?!”
Then, I slipped my hands under their breasts. Floretta and Luna, on the verge of tears, jolted upright at the sensation of their breasts being lifted and jiggled.
Taking advantage of their loosened grip, I quickly freed my hands and grabbed one breast each. Then I began to knead them gently.
It felt like soft dough made from the finest flour. I’d touched them countless times already, but I’d never get tired of it. My fingers sank deep into the overwhelming mass of flesh between them.
“Ngh…… mm…….”
“Ah, honored…… guest…… w-wait…….”
As I massaged their breasts, rubbing their nipples a few times with my palms, all traces of sadness vanished from their faces. In their place rose excitement and pleasure.
Breathy moans escaped their slightly parted lips. Whether I’d made them this way or they’d always had a lewd side, I wasn’t sure.
Probably the latter.
I stopped kneading just as their pleasure-soaked breaths grew rougher and they started rubbing their thighs together. Someone let out a disappointed “Eek?” that echoed through the room.
Of course, I had to stop before going all the way. My goal was just to calm them down. No need to stimulate them further unnecessarily.
‘Calming them down by groping their tits so they don’t cry…… even I think I’m insane.’
Though whether groping them while they’re sniffling is normal is another debatable question.
Still, compared to watching Floretta and Luna cry out of worry that I might die, this was way more comfortable for me.
“I’m fine. I didn’t die. See? Alive and kicking. So no need to cry.”
“……Yes, honored guest.”
“Under…… stood.”
‘Why do they look disappointed now?’
The tears were gone, but it felt like I’d flipped a switch, and now I was a bit worried about what came next.
I tried to ignore their emerald and sapphire eyes gleaming with desire. I’d only meant to calm them a little, but I’d overdone it, veering into different territory.
“Just to check, I’m the first person to faint while talking to the god, right?”
“We have no clear comparisons, but yes, for now.”
“Even excluding the popes, the fact that someone else attempted to speak with our gods—and was accepted—is unprecedented in the Holy Kingdom’s history…….”
Floretta trailed off slightly.
“And I’ve never heard of the Moon speaking directly and eliciting such an intense reaction.”
With Luna’s addition, the popes’ expressions darkened a bit.
They probably didn’t know why their gods were acting that way toward me and feared they might have to choose between their faith and me if things went wrong.
“I get what you’re thinking, but no need to worry. That pillar of light from the sky? I got confirmation it came directly from them. If they bestowed power like that, they can’t hate me, right?”
“Ah…… That truly is fortunate.”
“As expected of the honored guest. You are under their divine care.”
Judging by how their faces brightened instantly, my guess was spot on. I turned my attention away from their hands starting to creep between my legs and opened my mouth.
“One more thing. Before I passed out, I heard something weird. Can you interpret it?”
“An oracle from the god?”
“Probably. It definitely wasn’t your voices, or Stella’s or Selene’s.”
“Please, tell us.”
Floretta and Luna looked at me with sparkling eyes. An oracle directly to me wouldn’t be a small matter for the popes.
“Not yet. The time has not come.”
“…….”
“…….”
The popes pondered while kneading the insides of my thighs. I didn’t know why they had to massage there specifically, but I let it slide for now.
‘The restriction on Nyx…… it really was from the Holy Kingdom’s gods?’
I had my own thoughts too.
When I’d confessed the past events to the popes, I’d deliberately omitted that I’d gotten answers even on questions related to Nyx.
The fact that some kind of restriction was on Nyx, placed directly by the Sun or Moon, was something only Nyx and I needed to know.
‘Why?’
I racked my brain for a reason, but nothing came up.
In Bren 4, the Holy Kingdom and black mages had no particular connection. Neither had reason to bother the other.
The same went for the witch NPC that was Nyx’s original. No documents or lore mentioned gods watching black mages or any link between them.
‘But…….’
Things were different here. The god worshipped in the Holy Kingdom had directly admitted placing the restriction on Nyx. Whether Sun or Moon.
What crucial information were they hiding from me that they’d go that far?
“I’m not sure. I’m sorry, honored guest.”
Luna’s dejected voice pulled me back to reality. The popes shook their heads as if clueless.
Of course, their hands stayed kneading my inner thighs. No, they were getting even bolder. I desperately fought the blood rushing southward.
“It’s fine. Oracles are vague by nature.”
“But honored guest, you’ve interpreted one before, haven’t you?”
“…….”
I shut my mouth. I couldn’t exactly say it was because that one was from the game and this was my first time hearing something new.
“……Kinda late to ask, but how long was I out?”
I changed the subject.
It was a question I’d have to ask eventually. It had just been pushed back due to higher priorities.
‘If it was like a week, I’d need to head back to the territory right now—‘
“30 minutes.”
“……Huh?”
“Precisely 30 minutes and 17 seconds, honored guest.”
Just that much? The thought came naturally. They’d rushed over like I was about to cry, so I figured it’d been at least a week.
Reading my expression, Floretta and Luna pressed harder with the hands stroking my thighs and added,
“It was like a bolt from the blue for us, honored guest.”
“Exactly. It’s not the duration of unconsciousness that matters, but the fact that you collapsed.”
It was touching, knowing they cared that much.
Aside from their hands inching toward my crotch.
“Got it. Thanks for worrying.”
I quickly slipped out of their embrace. Floretta and Luna reached out with slightly panicked looks, trying to grab me.
“Honored guest? You’ve only just woken up. Wouldn’t it be better to rest more?”
No. If I stayed there, I definitely wouldn’t rest.
“Indeed. You mustn’t leave the bed so soon. At least two days…… no, four days of rest.”
Seeing days jump from two to four confirmed it. Even after last time’s marathon, they’d planned for four more days.
“No, thanks for the concern, but I’m really fine now. Headache’s gone too.”
I left the room quickly, leaving behind Floretta and Luna with their heartbroken expressions.
No choice. If they caught me now, given the mood, I’d end up back in bed for sure—and from Luna’s words, at least four days this time.
But the report to Aurora said I’d wrap up in two days max and return. We’d already passed that, and I couldn’t make her wait four more days.
If I firmly refused, they wouldn’t push. Neither was the type to force it if I said no.
‘Sure, but…….’
Honestly, I didn’t have the resolve to firmly shut down Floretta and Luna staring at me with those pitiful faces.
Their bodies felt that good, after all.
‘Am I getting influenced by them too?’
Lost in that odd worry, I stepped into the hallway. Stella, who’d been guarding both sides of our door, greeted me with a bright smile.
“You woke up super early? Feeling okay?”
“Perfectly fine. Just fainted briefly.”
“I thought my heart stopped when you collapsed, honored guest. Glad you’re unharmed.”
Selene’s face was full of relief too.
“What happened? Weren’t you talking to the god?”
At Stella’s question, I gave a brief summary of the conversation with the popes.
Of course, I omitted calming their teary selves by groping their breasts and nearly ending up back in bed. That was just between us.
“‘The time has not come,’ huh? No idea what that means.”
“Same here.”
Stella and Selene shrugged it off casually. In the Holy Kingdom, only popes interpreted oracles, so it made sense.
No guilt over something so natural.
“By the way…… honored guest, weren’t you with the High Pontiffs?”
“We were. Why?”
Selene, who’d asked the out-of-left-field question, stared straight at me.
“May I ask why you’ve come out already?”
“…….”