The Sword Saint's True Form
It was a bit chilly.
Probably because I'd died and come back to life, I was hungry, and my stomach churned from the sensation of being reassembled.
Above all, it was embarrassing to stand exposed like this in front of someone else. Especially in front of a woman, not a man..
“No, why are you staring like that? Interested?”
“I'll admit it. You...”
“What? What did you say?!”
As expected, mine was big enough for the Sword Saint to acknowledge! Did the Sword Saint have a skill to gauge levels?
“There are eyes watching, you know?”
“...”
“I shall take you as my disciple. It's not what I particularly desire, but your talent is decent.”
“That's a shame, but... sounds good!”
Ah... so he wasn't talking about mine... I felt a bit dejected, but it was fine. That could happen. The Sword Saint just didn't recognize it.
It must have been because of the cold weather. If it had been hot, things would've turned out differently.
“Let's take a bath together later.”
“Shut up, disciple.”
“I won't ask how you survived inside the Blue Flame. Everyone needs to keep an ace up their sleeve.”
An ace up their sleeve? I immediately noticed the Sword Saint had more fraudulent tricks hidden away. As expected of the Sword Saint... he existed on a completely different level from other humans.
Yes, and he removed the flames wrapped around his body. The blue flames slowly seeped back into his skin.
As the surrounding flames gradually disappeared, the Sword Saint's appearance was revealed.
?Huh? Huh huh? Huh???? No, what the fuck is this? Why is the Sword Saint like this? This can't be real..
He... The Sword Saint, who I naturally assumed would have a middle-aged face and white hair, was nothing like what I'd imagined.
Not a single detail matched my expectations. Had the novel ever described the Sword Saint's appearance...?
It had...! The Sword Saint was described as having white hair. And his age was said to be well over fifty..
..If it's the Sword Saint, of course he's a man, right?
That's right. The Sword Saint wasn't a man, but a woman with breasts. And not just any woman with breasts..
I was surprised again after the flames on her face seeped into her body.
Fuck, this is really not okay.. The Sword Saint being a woman is one thing, but.. Fuck, I can't handle this.
The Sword Saint was a young woman. At most, she looked about Maria's older sister's age.
Finally, after all the Blue Flame surrounding her body disappeared, I couldn't help but be shocked once more.
“Wow, fuck”
The Sword Saint wasn't even human. She was an elf, a race that resembles humans. It was fortunate she wasn't an orc. I felt drained from the sheer absurdity.
“Still.. this is.. not right”
I grumbled, lamenting the situation.
Give me back my imagination! Give me back the kind middle-aged grandfather who strictly followed the rules that I had imagined!
“In.. in this country, they say you don't hug your disciples..? Come here”
He.. no, she stretched out her arms and made a gesture to hug me. Her face turned red from embarrassment.
Cancel what I just said, Grandfather, stay as you are.. This doesn't seem so bad.
God's Hand
The cooldown didn't seem to be over yet, wait a second.. stop!
Just like with Lucy last time, my hand moved on its own.
There was no strength left to stop my hand from moving by itself. I could only follow along with its movements.
She drew her sword and charged at me like she wanted to kill me.
Thud-
I just got beaten. It kept going until the end.. It was especially humiliating because I was completely naked.
“You foolish child!!.. Did you look at your master like that?! You shameless bastard!!!!!”
“But if you're angry, just be angry. Why is your face turning red?”
“Sh.. shut up!! My face is red because I'm angry!”
“Stop hitting me..!”
As expected, no heroine message appeared. She didn't seem to be a heroine.
That was how I found a teacher to supplement my software. The Sword Saint, one of the five strongest beings in this world.
“By the way, noona, why do you look so different?”
I expected a normal answer like “I just take after my dad.”
“...”
“Yeah..?”
“I'm adopted. When I was little, my grandmother found me in a collapsed building near a gate while she was clearing one.”
“...I'm sorry.”
“It's fine.. Thanks to that, I get to enjoy things other people can't, so I'm satisfied in my own way!”
She gave a bitter smile. It was a genuinely sincere expression and tone, completely different from the aphrodisiac state.
We talked about various things while waiting for the Sword Saint to get the car. At first, she hadn't wanted to speak with me at all, but now she was obedient enough to grant most of my requests.
Was this the effect of the NTR state.. A faint sense of loneliness lingered.
“Noona! Wait.. should I call you senior sister now?”
“Senior sister?”
“Yes, please take care of me, senior sister.”
“Sure, junior brother!”
“That's not it, kek”
“A~ Then what is it!!”
The Sword Saint returned just then. Getting out of the car with it, she spoke.
Maria had fallen asleep in the car, looking tired, and the Sword Saint called me over separately.
“If it weren't for you, I would've just taken Maria with me.”
“Sword Saint, I'm sorry about that.”
The Sword Saint seemed rather petty. I hadn't expected her to be like this.
She also seemed to hold grudges.
“Forget it. Disciple, call me master.”
“Master.”
The Sword Saint turned around. Then her body twitched. Why? The Sword Saint's ears had turned red. Did elves handle heat worse?
“Are you hot, Master?”
“...”
The Sword Saint's ears twitched again. It seemed like she reacted to being called “Master.”
“Master?”
“N.. no!”
I grabbed her shoulders and turned her around. The Sword Saint was now facing me directly. Her ears were flushed, her cheeks burning red.. a faint blush spread across her face.
“How dare you! Touching your master's body so carelessly!”
Even though her words were threatening, they weren't threatening at all. With that cute teenage girl's face and the blush, she actually looked adorable.
“Master.. are you a pervert? You like being called master, you pervert.”
“I..! I'm not a pervert!”
The flustered Sword Saint was so cute that I wanted to tease her more. I slowly brushed her white hair back and approached her.
“W.. what are you doing, disciple..”
“Why are you talking like that when you're the pervert, Master?”
Every time I said “Master,” the Sword Saint's face grew even redder. Now she was so red she looked like a tomato.
“Master.. are you looking at your disciple that way?”
“No.. ah!”
She couldn't even speak properly anymore. I got close enough that I could almost touch her face with my fist.
“Haa..”
I could feel the Sword Saint's breath. It was warm.
“Master..”
“Y.. yeah, disciple..”
Looking up at me, she carefully leaned her face a little closer. We were close enough that our lips would meet if either of us lost balance even slightly.
I touched the Sword Saint's hair. It was incredibly soft. It flowed down like touching a fluffy pillow.
“Master..”
“Say it already! Disciple”
“You didn't brush your teeth.. kuhk”
So that's why she turned red, worried I'd notice she hadn't brushed! There was no smell, but from the way she kept covering her mouth and blushing, I could deduce it like a detective.
Seeing her hit me after being caught, I was certain.
“Master..! You have to do it three times a day..!”
“Disciple, do you want to die again?”
Blue Flame appeared from somewhere and transformed back into armor, covering her.
“M-M-M-Master..! Calm down..!”
***
(The day before Maria's kidnapping)
“Is this.. the gate with the fountain?”
A cool breeze blew from deep inside the cave.
The surroundings were nothing but forest, literally just a dense forest full of trees. Since I couldn't find the exact location, I wandered around looking for the cave with the gate and finally found it after a full three hours.
The description about the location of the Fountain of Hypnosis was only one line.. the mountain name, the peak name, and that the cave was at the end of the mountain. It took three hours to find it with just that single line.
There wasn't a single person on the mountain, not just around the gate. Coming to a mountain like this was basically offering yourself as food to the starving monsters that had escaped from inside the gate.
I was no exception. I only came because I absolutely had to visit the Fountain of Hypnosis..
The protagonist survives every time thanks to his protagonist buff, but I didn't know what would happen to me.
“Grrrk”
Starving monsters were scattered throughout the mountain. Because of the dense trees, the monsters weren't easily visible.
“As expected, beast-type monsters? They're instinctively hiding and waiting for an opportunity.”
Presences rose simultaneously from all directions. They were beast-type.. monsters that looked like tigers, but.. small.
“If the monsters were huge.. that would've been a problem.”
Usually, a monster's strength was proportional to its size in most cases. But that wasn't always the case.
I took out the dagger I'd brought from home. It had been a while since I'd held one.
After rolling the dagger a few times on my hand, it felt familiar again.
“I've swung daggers so many times, a tiger or whatever won't take long to kill now.”
Thanks to the rise in my NTR value, I'd already surpassed human limits.
With the help of skills, it would even be possible to tear apart a tiger with my bare hands.
“Roughly ten..? Fifteen? I don't want to waste energy before even entering the gate, but.. I have no choice.”
I took my stance. Both hands raised, legs crouched, ready to slash quickly.
“Grrrr”
The first monster to charge. It tried to jump high and attack from behind.
“Ha! A monster that knows how to hunt.”
I adjusted my grip on the dagger and sliced straight through the charging monster's abdomen.
“Shhhk-”
The sound of flesh tearing rang out as the monster's blood poured down over my head.
The monster failed to land properly and collapsed, dying on the spot.
“Come on, all of you.”
Sword Saint-
