I'll Forgive You
I had no idea what I truly wanted. That was why, for now, I intended to follow the storyline of Fairy Masters and become emperor. Once I sat on the throne, surely something I actually wanted would present itself.
"Dreams, huh... Honestly, I don't really know."
"You don't?"
"Yeah. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. I don't even know what I want to become later on. So for now I'm just focusing on getting stronger. Having power beats being weak, right?"
Whatever else I became, I kept the emperor part to myself. Telling anyone I planned to take the throne would have earned me nothing but a snort of laughter — it was that absurd. And for all I knew, Kanisia might turn out to be the type who was fiercely loyal to the current emperor.
"Is that so? Hmm... then do you want to come with me?"
"Huh?"
That was when Kanisia said something I hadn't seen coming.
"I actually have a dream."
"What kind of dream?"
"Um. You won't laugh if I tell you, right? Promise?"
What kind of dream needed this much buildup? Well, well. Her face had even gone a little red.
"I won't laugh."
"You swear?"
"Yeah. Besides, I don't have a dream, remember? It'd be pretty pathetic for someone with no dream to laugh at someone who does."
"...I guess that's true."
"So? What's your dream?"
"Well... I want to travel the world."
"Travel the world?"
"Yeah."
It was a far cry from her usual boisterous self. She looked almost painfully timid. I had a feeling someone had laughed at this dream of hers before, and that was why she was like this now.
"This world is huuuuuge, you know? I want to wander every last corner of it. I want to visit other cities, eat mountains of delicious food, and meet all kinds of people. Life's too short to spend it stuck in one little city."
"Travel the world..."
Maybe I was imagining it, but Kanisia seemed to sparkle like a star. Talking about her dream, she looked genuinely magnificent.
"That's a wonderful dream."
"Really? You really think it's wonderful?"
"Yeah. It really is."
"Heehee!"
The moment I nodded, she lit up like a child.
"Then, um... do you want to come with me?"
"Huh?"
That was when Kanisia made a proposal I truly hadn't expected. I stared at her in surprise, and the joy vanished from her face as if it had never been there, replaced by something painfully anxious.
"I-it's just... going alone would be boring. Ah, well, Abraham would be coming too, but traveling is more fun with a bunch of people, so... and you said you don't have a dream. If you wander around enough places, maybe you'll find one, right?"
"....."
Kanisia rushed to explain herself, terrified I might turn her down. She looked like a puppy scrambling to soothe an angry owner, and I couldn't help smiling.
"So... you'll come?"
She must have taken the smile as a yes, because the corners of her mouth began to lift, little by little. For a fleeting second I wondered what face she'd make if I refused — but she might actually sulk, so I swallowed the urge to tease her. However hearty her personality, she was still a woman. And getting a woman to un-sulk took a lot more than groveling on your hands and knees.
"Yeah. Let's go together."
"Wait, really?! You mean it?!"
I nodded, and Kanisia lit up like a child all over again. Was it that exciting? Well, her happiness was infectious. I found myself in a better mood too.
I'd have to visit other cities anyway if I wanted to follow the storyline.
In Chinnimoni, you could only grow as far as three-star. To climb any higher, you had to move on to a city with higher-ranked dungeons. I'd already planned to leave Chinnimoni once the Blood Axe King was dead and I'd grown as far as I wanted here, so tagging along with her wasn't a bad deal at all.
She was a powerhouse with a future worth watching. And if I gave her a little help, she could grow to the level of the fairies I'd used as my main force back when I was playing Fairy Masters in my previous life.
"Now then..."
"Hm?"
The childlike delight vanished as quickly as it had come, and Kanisia snapped back to the woman I knew. A smile curved her lips — the kind of smile a succubus might wear — and she threw the blanket aside and climbed on top of me.
"Oh my. We went at it all night and you're still standing at attention? Did you like my body that much? In that case... we can go one more round, can't we?"
"Uh... Kanisia, hold on."
I tried to stop her, panic rising fast. My cock already felt like it was about to be torn off at the root. Another round of sex on top of that and something was genuinely going to break. In the worst case, I might actually die.
"You sent me to Hong Kong at dawn — Hong Kong, right? That's what you called it — so this time I'll send you to Hong Kong!"
"Kanisia, no—!"
If I went to Hong Kong right now I might not come back!
A wet, filthy sound filled the room.
"Haaahn~ It's filling me up again! It's hitting all the way inside!"
Kanisia, utterly deaf to my suffering, lined herself up and dropped her hips. My dick hurt like hell... and yet, with cruel irony, the inside of her still felt incredible.
"...Fine. I give up."
Giving up was easier. Always had been.
"Then I'll start moving, okay?"
Kanisia winked, planted her hands on my chest, and rolled her hips.
Or rather — she was about to, when a tremendous crash erupted from the living room.
"Huh?"
"What was that?"
The sound of something shattering in the other room made Kanisia and me look at each other at the same instant. Then, as if we'd rehearsed it, we both sat up, threw on robes, grabbed our weapons, and headed out.
"Please compose yourself, Lady Aquaril."
"Shut up! Give me my Master, you miserable bastard!"
What greeted us outside was Aquaril, clutching her head and blazing with fury, and Abraham trying to calm her down. The drinking table we'd been eating and drinking at last night had been split clean in half, reduced to wreckage.
"Aquaril? What's going on?"
"Master? Ah... Master... you're unharmed... Thank goodness... you're... sa...fe..."
"A-Aquaril!"
The moment she spotted me, Aquaril let out a long breath of relief. Then her eyes rolled back and she collapsed. I lunged forward and caught her in my arms.
What the hell had just happened?
"Ah... we're fucked."
"I did tell you we ought not to use the drug, did I not?"
I turned around to find Kanisia wearing a pained, guilty smile.
"Drug? Are you telling me you used a drug on Aquaril?"
"A-Alan, calm down! I'll explain everything!"
"....."
The word drug made my face twist, and Kanisia waved her hands in a frantic panic. My expression, however, stayed carved from stone.
If Kanisia had fed Aquaril anything strange, I wasn't going to let it slide — no matter how much I liked her. I'd also be dropping any thought of recruiting her as a companion.
"...That's what happened."
"I must apologize, Lord Alan. I ought to have restrained my Master more firmly... The fault is entirely mine. You may strike me until your anger is spent. I only ask that you find it in your generous heart to forgive my Master."
"Haaah..."
I clutched my head as Kanisia's explanation drove a spike of pain through my skull. Was this the hangover, or was it this ridiculous woman? And hang on — why the hell were the two of them kneeling in front of me?
"So, in other words... you slipped Aquaril a sleeping pill so you could fuck me while I was passed out drunk?"
"Uh... w-well, yeah?"
"....."
I stared at Kanisia's awkward smile like she'd grown a second head.
Watching me treat Aquaril as an equal — as a person — had sent Kanisia's affection meter through the roof. In cruder terms, she'd gone into heat, and she'd cooked up a thoroughly wicked little scheme so she could spend the night with me.
That scheme was exactly what I'd just said: spike the drinks with sleeping pills and put both Aquaril and me under. She'd only put a tiny dose in my cup, since she needed me to wake up soon enough. Aquaril got a full dose, just in case she caused a scene. So while I was in the bedroom busily pumping Kanisia's pussy full of cum, Aquaril had been dead to the world until morning.
Then, just now, Aquaril had woken up, realized her drink had been drugged, assumed Kanisia was trying to hurt me, and smashed the drinking table to kindling.
"If you wanted to sleep with me, why didn't you just say so? Did you really have to go this route?"
"Come on... how was I, a woman, supposed to just ask you to sleep with me?"
"....."
That still seemed like a better option than slipping sleeping pills into someone's drink.
"You obviously would have said no."
"...What? What is that supposed to mean? Why would I obviously say no?"
Why on earth would I turn her down?
Kanisia was no ordinary woman. She was tall, curved in every place that mattered, and stunningly, almost unfairly beautiful. A woman like that asking me to sleep with her — I hadn't been shot in the head. Why would I refuse?
Kanisia glanced at my face, gauging my mood, and opened her mouth.
"Well... you're a Master. There's no way you'd want to have sex with me. I'm not even a fairy..."
"...Okay, but why would you assume I wouldn't want to have sex with you?"
"Huh? Because you and I are both Masters. That's why."
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
I couldn't make sense of what Kanisia was saying, and Kanisia couldn't make sense of why I couldn't make sense of it.
"No, I mean..."
Kanisia explained it to me again. And once she had, I finally understood why she'd drugged Aquaril and me — and why she'd been so sure I would turn her down.
What the fuck is this...
In this world, Masters only had sex with their own fairies. The reason traced back to some notoriously woman-chasing Master who'd had his cock cut off during sex with a human woman, and the story had spread like wildfire.
Who in their right mind wanted to lose their genitals during sex? That went for men and women alike.
So Masters, regardless of gender, only slept with their own fairies. A fairy would never harm their Master, after all.
Even when kings married kings, or great houses sealed alliances with wedding vows, they apparently never consummated anything.
Of course, this only applied to Masters. It had nothing to do with ordinary people — the ones who had never received the Divine Selection, who couldn't see a status window at all.
Fairy Masters. This world is so much more unhinged than I ever gave it credit for. Shock and horror, one after another, you absolute lunatics!
Still, I'd learned a lesson from all this.
Have sex with fairies whenever possible. And if you were going to sleep with another human being, make damn sure it was someone you trusted with your life.
Wait a second.
And one more thing.
That means I can have sex with Kanisia whenever I want, doesn't it?
Kanisia was an incredibly attractive woman. Last night I'd slammed my hips like a man possessed because I'd thought I'd never get to sleep with her again... when there had never been any need to hold back in the first place.
Oh, fuck. Jackpot.
There was no way I was giving up sex with Kanisia.
"Um... hold on a second!"
Kanisia, who'd been about to say something, jumped to her feet and disappeared into her room. She came back a moment later carrying a small box.
"I'm sorry I gave you the sleeping pills."
"...What's this?"
She held out whatever she'd brought from her room along with the apology. I looked up at her, and the answer I got was more than satisfactory.
"They're the Lower Growth Stones I've been collecting. I don't need them anymore now that I'm three-star, and Abraham's Strength and Stamina are already maxed out, so they don't do anything for him. But you and Aquaril can still use them, so they're yours."
"Lower Growth Stones?"
I opened the box at those words, and sure enough, it was packed with Lower Growth Stones, just as she'd said. Ten that raised Strength, and six that raised Stamina.
"You're giving these to me? Do you have any idea how expensive these are?"
Growth Stones were always in far higher demand than supply, which meant they sold for a fortune — even the lower-grade ones. And the higher the grade, the more the price punched through the ceiling and kept climbing into orbit.
In Chinnimoni right now, a single Lower Growth Stone averaged a million Gold. Strength stones, which close-combat classes couldn't live without, went for 1.2 million. Stamina stones, which every class needed, ran close to 1.5 million. Each. For one stone.
Which meant the Lower Growth Stones Kanisia had just handed me were worth a staggering twenty-one million Gold.
"Yeah... I'm sorry I drugged you."
"...Kanisia."
"Yeah?"
I stood up and stepped in front of her. She flinched, still convinced I was angry. Kanisia was stronger than me, but I had a few inches on her in height.
"I'll forgive you for the sleeping pills. But don't ever do that again. Understood? And if you want to have sex with me, just say so. I like sleeping with you too."
"R-really?"
"Yeah. But this kind of thing can't happen again. Got it?"
"Yeah! Of course not!"
I forgave Kanisia with a heart as wide as the ocean. Ah, you adorable thing.