Farewell Greeting
Goodbye
Actually, I'm not just leaving Mari and Reed's party without reason.
I also need to survive in this world.
And to maintain my own dignity, becoming stronger is essential, and clearing Dungeons to raise my Level is the best method.
Though in reality, it's just about gaining strength so I don't get raped.
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Level: 12
Health: 2
Mental Power: 7
Stamina: 8
(Creampie Point: 2)
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So, like this.
Even feeling self-loathing, I invested in my stats.
From now on, I decided to just think of Creampie Points simply.
That I had no choice but to accept it inside me to become stronger.
Of course, this was just self-consolation through rationalization.
But if I don't think like this.....
'Being fucked by Reed would almost become consensual, not rape.....'
I had already given him a blowjob and swallowed his semen of 'my' own volition, but it was better for my mental health to think that only sexual intercourse, sex itself, wasn't something I wanted.
It might be a 'truth' I'll have to face and acknowledge someday.
But I don't necessarily have to think about it right now.....
To solve the problem and move on right now, I've already done too much, and even if I'm just avoiding it so my heart doesn't break right now.
Anyway.
In other words, my leaving the party wasn't a choice I made impulsively.
While it's good to raise my Level by temporarily joining Mari and Reed's party.
I realized at some point.
That by only hunting weak and easy monsters, my Level wouldn't rise quickly.
Raising my Level means, in other words, becoming stronger.
The stronger I became, the less experience I gained from monsters.
Perhaps, though it was a thought as tiny as a speck of cosmic dust, I even considered Creampie Points as a way to become stronger more quickly.
No, that must be the truth.
'But this isn't it.'
If it were a game where I controlled a character named Lunia, I might have already become stronger by giving my body to various men.
Because that would just be a means to enjoy the game.
But now I was Lunia, and Lunia was me.
I think, I eat, I live.
Someone might say to just sell my body, earn money, and get stronger,
But unless I was a woman before being transmigrated, the act of giving my body was truly not easy.
Seriously.
So, there were two reasons I left the party.
One was the certainty that as Mari and Reed's relationship changed, I would only be a burden if I stayed between them.
And the other was,
-*Rustle*.
This letter.
The content was simple.
If you want to learn magic, find me.
Receiving such a letter from someone I'd never seen before was bewildering enough, but wasn't the content of the letter even more absurd?
A letter with no recipient, no sender, and no indication of its purpose.
But what was certain was that it was stuck in the door of my room.
From that, I could tell it was aimed at 'me'.
The innkeeper said that no one had come up to my room.
Moreover, the person who had used my room before was a traveler passing through Riverrun, completely unrelated to magic.
Still, this letter told me where to go.
Except it simply said,
-To The Capital.
And nothing else.
Thus, my next destination was,
decided to be The Capital.
##
"Noooo! My, my muse...!"
"That's a shame, Valley Madame."
Inside the clothing store run by the Madame.
While the outside of the store displayed clothes for anyone, regardless of age or gender, the inside was a place where only women's clothing was exhibited.
There, I was enjoying a very brief tea time, sipping from the teacup the Madame had prepared for me.
And the Madame, who started wailing when I told her I was leaving immediately.
I wonder if she's sad because I'm leaving, or sad because of the inspiration I gave her.
Still, the fact that there was someone other than Mari and Reed who was sad that I was leaving made me a little happy.
"Even so, if you ever visit Riverrun again. Please, do stop by my shop. I'll have tons of underwear that Lunia-ssi will be satisfied with...!"
-*Slurp*.
"Yes, I'll definitely stop by. Still, since I'm going to The Capital, I might be able to come often..."
"The Capital? The Capital?"
At that moment, the Madame interrupted me and questioned.
"Yes? Yes..."
"Is it the Trion I know? The one that takes 3 hours by magic carriage from Riverrun?"
"Y-yes, it is..."
Trion, The Capital of the Trionne Empire.
The three major cities in The Empire are Trion, Riverrun, and Habeum in the Northern Region.
It takes 3 hours by carriage from Riverrun, the closest major city to The Capital.
I said I was going there, and the Madame asked again if it was really that place.
"I, I'll follow you to The Capital too!"
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"Um, Madame. Even so, just for me..."
"No. Lunia-ssi, do you know what my main source of income is?"
Why are you asking me that? How would I know, woman?
"N-no?"
"It's the noble ladies! And where are the most noble families?"
"Th-The Capital, I suppose?"
"Alright! Whenever the ladies have their subordinates buy clothes, they always tell me to come to The Capital."
Valley Madame took a deep breath, then,
"So, since things have come to this, I'll close my shop in Riverrun and reopen in Trion!"
"Uh... are you sure it's okay to decide so casually...?"
"Of course. If my muse and the nobles are in The Capital, then it's only natural for me to go to The Capital."
Was this person really making such a crucial decision about her future so carelessly?
Such doubts arose, but her words weren't wrong, and it wasn't a decision I could argue about either.
"So, are we going together?"
"No, I need to close my shop and look for a suitable place to open one there. You go ahead. I'll tidy things up and follow later."
Indeed.
After all, even if you set up a shop in Incheon and then suddenly decide to move to Seoul, you can't immediately open a shop in Seoul.
You'd have to find a house, move your belongings, and look for a building to use as a shop.
-*Slurp*.
"Then, when you open your shop in Trion, I'll stop by."
"Yes."
For now, let's just enjoy tea time with the Madame.
Since it's free time I finally got.
##
"Hello."
"*Tsk tsk*, you've come exactly a month later."
"...*Ahem*."
It wasn't that I was visiting this place after a month.
Because whenever I returned from a Dungeon, I always stopped by to restock the items I had used.
But the purpose of my visit this time wasn't the usual one; it was a slightly different 'purpose'.
I hugged and carried away one bottle of familiar-looking items... no, three bottles.
As for the price.
I placed down the exact silver coins before the owner even spoke.
"Oh, so you're leaving Riverrun."
"...Yes. That's how it turned out."
"But if you're buying this much, wouldn't it be better to just buy condoms by the basketful?"
"Co, con..."
So that rubber thing exists here too.
But...
"...I can't do that."
Stop a guy who's about to rape me and tell him to use a condom because I might get pregnant?
He would never listen.
And if he was determined to rape me, he'd abandon me whether I had a child or not.
Because this world is medieval, not modern.
Such things happened quite frequently.
"So that's not possible either. Your situation must be complicated. I'll give you one bottle as a service, just take it."
"What? But..."
"If you feel that sorry, just think of it as payment for looking after Mari and that Reed fellow. From what I've seen of you, you don't seem like the kind of vicious bitch who'd go around selling her body."
"Ah..."
What is this feeling?
It felt like I was being understood and comforted about a story I couldn't tell anyone.
My head felt numb.
It wasn't that she saw through my situation; even though I was simply empathized with a situation she didn't even know, could my heart feel this warm?
"Th-thank you..."
I quickly left the general store.
I shoved the two bottles I was holding into my Inventory, and chugged the remaining one on the spot.
"Next, next is Mari and Reed, I guess."
I tried hard to change the subject and ignore the recent situation.
Because otherwise, it felt like tears would come.
##
Since transmigrating into this world.
I've desperately realized one thing.
Even though this place is set in a medieval era, because it was made as a game, there's soap and even flush toilets.
However, despite that, it's not a modern-era setting.
If you're wondering what confusing thing I'm talking about, it means that even if there's soap, flush toilets, and even teleportation devices made with Mana Stones and Magic Circles—things that shouldn't exist in the medieval era—electronic devices like cell phones and TVs, which exist in the modern era, do not exist here.
Naturally, there are no computers either.
In other words, there are no 'entertainment' facilities in this world.
In a world without such entertainment facilities, if a young man and woman, who have just become adults, start dating, only two things can happen.
The first is going on dates as lovers,
and the other is...