Chapter 57
Chapter 57
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 57
Chapter Title: Twin Sisters (6)
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1.
"Ah, it hurts?!"
I first smacked Alena on the head.
I carefully controlled my strength so it hurt but wouldn't kill her or anything like that.
"Ugh... You should stop with the violence! The pain I feel gets shared with my sister too, you know?! She already climaxed once more because of what you did to me earlier. If you keep going, it won't just hurt me!"
"Hm."
Of course, I wouldn't go any further than that.
If my guess was right, this girl had a special magical ritual inscribed on her body that shared sensations with her older sister.
It was probably something innate from birth.
Elves rarely had twins, but these two sisters were such a rare case that even the Transcendents took interest.
They were the first case to defy their predetermined "fate," which was enough to draw their attention.
Thanks to that, the girls even received the World Tree sapling as a gift.
In any case, the pain this one felt was transmitted entirely to her sister Elena. So if I physically harmed her, the sister would suffer too.
That's why I decided to put my fists away for now.
I couldn't drag an innocent person into this, so I needed another method.
Probably what happened to Elena earlier was because this girl had been doing something lewd by herself in here.
The sweet scent when I entered the room made it obvious.
...Sweet? Why?
No, I didn't really want to know. I was curious, but I didn't want to find out.
"I know that."
Even so, due to those circumstances, hitting her was off the table.
If I couldn't hit her, it might be good to toss her to the tentacles, but they weren't in my subspace right now.
I'd locked them up in the cabin with Lewis.
Besides, this was a world cut off from the outside, so teleporting—even if I pushed myself like before—was impossible.
I could break through a wall blocking the path forward somehow, but if there was no path at all, it was pointless.
Only the two Great Sages could freely come and go from here to the outside, but one of them couldn't use teleportation right now.
And this one wouldn't cooperate with torturing herself either, so there was nothing to be done.
'Come to think of it, half a day must have passed already. I can just leave them for another day or two and head back.'
Plus, the sensations of being tentacled would transmit to her too, so it wasn't much different from hitting her.
If anything, it might torment Elena even more.
In various ways.
Anyway, that was out too. So what should I do...
-Clatter!
"?"
As I pondered how to deal with her, my eyes suddenly caught a rectangular piece of furniture.
'A box?'
Upon closer inspection, it was quite a large box.
I'd thought it was a chair until now, but it turned out to be a box filled with stuff inside.
Compared to its size—big enough for an adult man—the contents seemed to be small, lightweight things.
"Ah, wait, that's—"
-Crack!
Especially large and intriguing, I broke the lock and opened the box to see what was inside.
-Creak!
And how should I describe this?
I doubted my eyes for a moment when I saw the contents.
The box was filled with handcuffs, collars, ropes, whips, mysterious long rod-shaped toys, and so on...
Why were these here?
Some looked like things I'd only see on Earth, though the rest could plausibly exist in this world too. Still, it felt unnatural.
Or maybe I was just ignorant about this field?
"Uh, those were... prepared for you... originally..."
Ah, right. Yeah, she was a Great Sage.
By their lore, they knew about cultures from other worlds and such, so it wasn't strange for her to know about them.
Plus, her alchemy skills rivaled any dwarf's, so she could probably make them herself after seeing them.
The furniture in this room had some Earth-like stuff too, like that television over there. Probably the same case.
But she prepared these to use on me?
I imagined myself bound with rope, gagged, lying on the bed.
And her beside me...
Ah, stop.
Disgusting.
"D-don't look at me like that! I put a lot of effort into preparing them!"
Well, finding this was an unexpected gain.
Honestly, I didn't want to touch most of it, but the handcuffs, gag, and ropes could be pretty useful right now.
-Click!
I took out what I needed and closed the lid.
"Wh-what are you going to do to me with those...?!"
"What else? Punish you."
Recalling what I'd seen in videos, I decided to try those out.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ A little while later.
"...So that's what you did?"
Elena, staring at the ceiling, asked me. When I first returned to the room, she'd collapsed unconscious, which worried me, but she seemed fine now.
Or maybe she was used to it.
"Yeah, that much shouldn't affect you too badly."
Looking up at the ceiling, I was quite satisfied.
Wasn't this a pretty ingenious method?
It punished her and kept her from mischief without specially affecting her sister.
"Mmph! Mmmph~!!!"
An unintelligible voice came from the ceiling.
The owner of that voice was the younger sister, Alena.
"Certainly... that makes sense..."
I'd tied Alena with rope and hung her from the ceiling.
To prepare for her yelling, I gagged her and handcuffed her so she couldn't untie the ropes.
That's why she couldn't speak properly.
She thrashed in agony, but showed no sign of getting free.
'...She can't get out alone.'
She could probably escape easily with magic, but since she couldn't use it for a while, she'd have to stay like that until the poison wore off.
"Now I see you have that kind of inclination too."
"What are you talking about?"
"...Nothing."
Well, it might look a bit odd to others.
I wasn't used to tying people up, so her chest and lower abdomen ended up emphasized.
Now that I looked, it seemed a bit erotic.
Plus, her drool dripping from her mouth down her chin to the floor was a bit messy.
'And why are her panties wet?'
But what could I do? I couldn't stomp her or toss her to tentacles.
Anyway, that was settled, so I ignored it.
With some leisure now, I drank the tea she'd brought.
'Sweet tea. Good stuff that warms the body.'
Then, I quietly opened my mouth.
I'd wasted too much time already, so it was time to achieve my purpose here.
"...Now that the nuisance is subdued, let's get back to the main topic. I heard Great Sages answer any one question for those who reach the top of the tower. Is that right?"
The Great Sages had a setting where they answered any question for those who overcame all the forest's trials to reach them.
"Yes."
Whether it was the truth of this world or vague things like the reason for living beings' existence, they gave only the "correct" answer to anything.
...Only the correct answer, to anything.
It was an intriguing setting, but unfortunately, in Novel Online, the questions you could ask were limited.
⚙ GREAT SAGE - ALENA ⚙ "You have been deceived." It was about the truth of this world.
The most critical spoiler for Novel Online came from their mouths.
The hero (player) from another world who slayed the Demon King.
That hero finally succeeded in defeating the Demon King.
However, he was betrayed by the "Saintess" he trusted, who had overcome hardships and trials with him, and suffered a fatal wound.
Not content with that, the Saintess brainwashed the soldiers and comrades present with some power and began killing those not brainwashed.
In the end, exhausted from the battle with the Demon King, the hero was driven to the brink of death.
⚙ GREAT SAGE - ELENA ⚙ "The Demon King was not your enemy. She only sought to protect the world she loved. If she had been sincere, you would have been killed before you grew strong." His comrades who'd fought together were brainwashed by the Saintess and turned their swords and spears on the hero.
Seeing that, the hero realized he'd been deceived, but it was already too late.
In the end, as he closed his eyes in resignation—
-Crackle!
The Demon King, thought dead, appeared before the hero.
Now even the Demon King had revived? No hope left.
The fatally wounded hero wouldn't even be allowed a death cry, and originally, he should have been torn apart by the Demon King's hands...
⚙ GREAT SAGE - ALENA ⚙ "Or perhaps she received a prophecy of the future from us and chose you as her final bastion." However, the Demon King, who should have hated the hero—who massacred those she loved—more than anyone in this world, used her last remaining power to teleport him to where the Great Sages were, to save him.
And she added one final word.
⚙ DYING DEMON KING - SILMARION ⚙ "This world... I entrust to you..." That was the story transitioning to Chapter 2 of Novel Online.
As the existence of Delatros—the culprit behind all this tragedy—was revealed, players learned that everything they'd done had accelerated the world's destruction.
⚙ GREAT SAGE - ELENA ⚙ ⚙ GREAT SAGE - ALENA ⚙ "Then, let me ask once more. What you wish to know from us is about the Fallen Transcendent Delatros, correct?" ...The truth of the world here meant learning about Transcendent Delatros.
Of course, I already knew all the truth, so I didn't need to ask the same questions twice.
What I wanted to know was this.
"Then I'll ask. Can you tell me what the place written in this letter is?"
It was about the letter tied to the arrow that flew at me—the meaning of "Land of the Forgotten Mother" in it.
"Let me see it. Ancient Frost Elf language... The place where the Mother of the World was born..."
Elena took the letter and fell silent for a moment.
She even showed a surprised reaction while reading it.
A letter with content that surprised even a Great Sage... Then the one who sent it was surely...
"...This, we cannot answer."
Wait, what?
"What do you mean? Surely you don't not know?"
I asked again in disbelief.
These girls who answered anything couldn't answer? It was like a genie refusing a wish.
After all the hardship to get here...!
"I cannot answer this. Nor can my sister Alena. ...But I will arrange for you to meet someone who can."
"Wait, I never said I wanted to meet—"
-Crackle!
"Ugh...?!"
At that moment, my legs gave out, and I collapsed.
'What is this?'
Suddenly, my body felt strange.
Sensation left my limbs, and my vision blurred.
Was it the tea I drank earlier? But something like a sleeping pill shouldn't work on a demon...
-Crackle!
"That's right. Neither I nor my sister can answer this."
"You...?! How!"
Alena was even standing behind me.
I didn't know when, but the girl who should have been paralyzed and unable to use magic was free.
How?
'Damn, I messed up.'
This was my carelessness.
These were Great Sages who'd lived for tens of thousands of years.
They even appeared before the player if they failed to defeat Transcendent Delatros, destroying the world alongside him.
I shouldn't have let my guard down, but the earlier events made me drop my caution against them.
I tried to stand, but no strength came.
The more I moved, the hotter my body got, tormenting me.
"Kh, haa...?! Ngh?!"
Against my will, my body heated up.
My arms and legs wouldn't move, yet the sensations grew hypersensitive.
Even brushing against objects made me twitch.
"...If you meet the Master, give him our regards."
"Ngh?!"
Suddenly, Alena wrapped her arm around my neck.
Her hand brushed my lips, then moved to my eyes.
A warm touch entered my vision.
-Crackle!
A small spark appeared, and my vision vanished completely.
The room's scenery disappeared, replaced by an unknown space.
"...Surely, she's been waiting for you to come."
"Hah...?!"
Then Elena whispered in my ear.
Her cool breath entered, reaching my mind.
Strange sounds began.
Someone was calling me. For quite a while now.
Thus, I let go of the thread of consciousness I'd barely held.
"Master...? You mean that guy... Kgh!"
In the end, I collapsed before finishing my words.
Until my consciousness fully faded, my heightened senses made me emit embarrassingly pathetic noises.
Sounds I'd never make normally, thanks to these damn girls...
Haa, I want to kill myself.
-Thud!