Sacred (1)
Sacred (1)
"......Do you like it that much?"
"Yeah!"
Raize looked at Dojin chewing on the snack while swinging her legs back and forth, a bittersweet smile on her face. Just how starved had he been to be this happy over a single word of praise?
'Just how much was he tormented.......'
But that wasn't something she could do anything about. This place was merely Dojin's past, his dream, not reality.
However, there were many things she could glean from these memories.
Vroom- The sound of a car engine exhaust came from the distance.
"Ah, it's Mom."
Having said that, Dojin quickly ran off. Finally, this exploration is ending too, Raize thought as she carefully tucked Dojin's memories into her embrace.
She had come here for this, so forgetting about it now would be foolish.
"Mom─!"
Dojin, who had run off into the distance, said that and leaped into the arms of the woman who got out of the car. Raize, arriving a little late, stiffened rigidly as she looked at the woman.
"......Dojin?"
"Mom, I got praised today!"
"──."
"Mom."
"And, I ate a delicious snack, and I didn't get scolded, and, and also......."
"──."
The woman gently stroked Dojin's head. Dojin seemed to like that clumsy hand gesture so much, heh heh, he laughed and accepted the touch.
"Mom......."
Raize looked at the woman stroking Dojin's head. She had no face. Had she contracted some illness where her face disappears, having heard she had a serious illness?
'That can't be.......'
There were a few facts she learned while studying dream magic. The human brain is less precise than one thinks, and therefore memory is not absolute.
And in dreams, people begin to forget from the less important individuals first.
"Dojin, who is that person?"
"Huh? It's my mom!"
"Your mom......."
Dojin was acting coquettishly like crazy toward someone whose face he couldn't even remember. Raize didn't even want to imagine what the reason might be... but the knowledge already ingrained in her head presented a plausible deduction.
'He was acting.'
He doesn't love his mother as much as he thinks. He just gave his all to what seemed like the only escape route.
His mother was the only person in this mansion not under his father's influence, and someone he could contact to the outside world.
Please save me, please show me enough maternal love out of love for me to pull me out of this hell.
He had been screaming.
And Raize, unable to endure any further, promptly slipped out of the dream.
Dreams are volatile.
Dojin, who opened his eyes, received all the various memories swirling in his head at once. Several days' worth of memories flowed by in mere seconds.
"Ugh...... my head......."
Because of that, his head throbbed. What remained in his mind was, for some reason, the vividly lingering image of Raize in her swimsuit.
Rubbing his head and sitting up, Dojin felt his lower body was strangely damp. And with a "no way" feeling, he pulled up his pants.
Sticky semen was spurted inside his underwear.
"......No, what's with having a wet dream at this age."
"......Dojin, are you awake?"
"Huh, huh? Yeah. Raize. Did what you were trying to do go well?"
"Yeah. I succeeded in copying the memories. With this, we're one step closer to proving the existence of God."
Saying that, Raize began mumbling this and that. Probably something about important magic theory or something like that.
The reason he was remembering it that way... was because from the moment Dojin saw Raize, he was preoccupied with the memory of her buttocks surfacing in his mind.
'Damn... I shouldn't get hard now....'
While his underwear was sticky with semen, the sensation of his erected member scraping together the clinging semen was something that could be described as a thoroughly trashy feeling.
Dojin wanted to immediately take off his underwear and throw it away, but he couldn't because of Raize. How could he say that he, having become a man, came in his sleep?
'No, I didn't even think of such things when seeing her naked, why suddenly.......'
He wondered if Raize had done something to him, but Dojin dismissed it, thinking it was just built-up sexual desire, and straightened his mind.
And then, immediately, his dick shriveled. Dojin had already reached a state where he could fully control his own consciousness.
Thanks to <Immovable Wisdom King>, his body had become one that couldn't even smile when he didn't want to.
This happened because he wasn't very accustomed to handling this Skill yet. If he practiced controlling the ability for a long time, he could probably return to how he was before.
'Not sure how long it'll take though.'
After that, Dojin listened to Raize's explanation of magic theory for a while, and only after 30 minutes passed could he enter the bathroom.
"......Let's throw this away."
The problem by then was that everything—from the blanket to the pants and underwear—had been permeated with the smell of semen.
There are ups and downs.
How could there only be good things in the world? There must be bad things too.
Dojin recalled that adage as he looked at his own bodily condition.
'This Skill...... why is it so strong?'
Immovable Wisdom King. According to Deokgu, it's said to be an apostle of Buddha, also called Immovable Vajra Wisdom King, Vajra Wisdom King, or Immovable Yaksha.
He also said it was worshipped as a main deity in some regions, and just hearing the name was astounding, so he thought its power would also be incredible.
"To think it'd be to this degree......."
Dojin looked at the monsters smashed by his bare fist. Despite confronting dozens of monsters with his fists, there wasn't a single scratch on his body.
'Well, if it weren't to this degree, I would have died unable to withstand the divine power.'
When he had the Skill called Indestructible Body, he occasionally got wounded. That's why he looked for armor. But now? There's no need for that at all.
His skin itself had become as hard as steel. When Dojin stopped by the kitchen and tried to slice his own palm with a kitchen knife, not only did his palm not get cut, but the kitchen knife's blade broke instead.
It couldn't block a Magic Sword, but it meant that it had become impossible to wound Dojin's body with ordinary weapons or skill anymore.
And that translated to an enormous advantage in the dungeon. An immortal knight who doesn't get wounded, and whose swordsmanship has even reached the level of a master? It's an opponent so terrifyingly difficult to face that just imagining it is dreadful.
And that terrifying existence was precisely Dojin.
'Right now...... could I win in a one-on-one fight?'
Recalling the Wolf King, Dojin shook his head. He got confused because it was too easy on the 10th floor, but he felt that from the 10th floor, the ruler felt more like a ruler from the 30th to 50th floors rather than from the 10th to 30th floors.
Meaning, it's a powerhouse he should have challenged only after ascending one more step.
Considering that among Dojin's party, only Dojin and Seoyun had reached Level 3, he had vastly mistaken the level.
'If the 30th floor is like this, just how much are the upper floors, it's already getting scary.'
But there was no need to worry about a future that hasn't even arrived yet. Dojin retrieved the fallen Magic Stones and returned to the mansion.
In front of the mansion, a carriage with the Holy Knight Order's flag was parked. Wondering why it was here, Dojin entered the house and was able to meet Charlotte for the first time in a very long while.
However, since she was still wearing her helmet, Dojin asked her as if he didn't know.
"What brings you here......."
"The Saintess-nim is looking for you."
"The Saintess-nim?"
Iris was aware that she was an utterly un-Saintess-like Saintess, but at least like a proper priestess, she never missed her daily prayers.
Once in the morning, once at noon, once before bed.
Three prayers a day were not a choice but an obligation.
In the midst of her usual morning prayer, Iris felt an electric current flowing through her mind.
According to her long experience as Saintess, this was a signal felt when a God descends. Not long after, she faced the God that had settled in her heart.
"God-isiyeo, what brings You here again?"
─The existence of the star is dangerous. Therefore, do not get close.
"Huh? What does that......."
She expressed her doubt, but God was not a being so trivial as to converse with her. One-sided communication, yet rather than resent God, she tried to interpret the Oracle.
'You tell me to find him whenever, and now You're freaking out.'
There was no need to say who the being God mentioned was. It was Dojin. It was only a few months ago that the Oracle was given telling her to find him. She remembered it without needing to recall.
But suddenly, to stay away from him? Why on earth would He say that?
According to the Saintess's superb imagination, this happened because God loved her too much. Didn't He even refuse to show His own body, bestowing upon her a blessing that was close to a curse?
For God, who bestowed such a blessing to protect her virginity, to suddenly give an Oracle contrary to the one He gave before meant that her virginity was at risk of being threatened.
"Ahh, finally......."
And that meant there was a possibility that Dojin would take her virginity. The possibility of being able to touch her, piercing through the blessing bestowed by God.......
"Lote! Loteeee!"
The Saintess immediately summoned Charlotte. Charlotte ran over quickly, saying she was frivolous, and to her, the Saintess gave instructions.
"Bring Dojin, Dojin-nim! Quickly!"
"......May I ask why you're suddenly doing this?"
"Finally, finally that day has come!"
"So what does that......."
"Be quiet and go quickly! Go quickly and bring him!"
Urged by the Saintess, Charlotte hurriedly left the room, bewildered. Meanwhile, the Saintess began choosing bridal wear she could put on.
"Huhuhuhum, which one would be good... Should I go radical with exposure?"
Lifting up a negligee that exposed most of her body, the Saintess let out a faint scream.
The Saintess's Mansion. Dojin had been here before. Back then, he built familiarity by having various conversations with the Saintess.
'I didn't think I'd come again though.'
That the Saintess summoned him, he couldn't know the reason. Last time it was something about an Oracle or whatever, had she finally succeeded in interpreting that Oracle?
"Saintess-nim. I've brought him."
Jingle-.
A bell rang from inside the room. It was an item prepared because men who hear the Saintess's voice go deaf.
Hearing the bell sound, Charlotte opened the door and went inside. The Saintess, still bundled up tightly, revealed herself.
She looked at Dojin through the veil with a beaming smile. Whether this man would be the prince who breaks her curse, or a monster.
She intended to find out starting now.
The Saintess whispered into the ear of Charlotte, who had approached closely.
"Lote. Wait outside."
"......Huh? But."
"I said wait outside, didn't I? There's no way a man can do anything to me."
"......Understood. If anything happens, please call me immediately."
As Charlotte left, Dojin looked at the Saintess with a slightly flustered expression. What was the point of her, who was supposed to convey the Saintess's voice, going out?
With that meaning, he glared at the Saintess, and she slowly began to take off her gloves.
"Saintess-nim!?"
Startled, Dojin quickly closed his eyes. He thought he saw her pure white bare skin, so was it already too late? Peeking open his eyes to look at the floor, his eyesight was fine.
'What is she suddenly doing.......'
Shhhk, shhhhk.
The sound of the garments the Saintess was wearing being taken off one by one was heard. Dojin used his Skill with all his might to suppress his heart. At this moment, he became a Buddha.
"......Dojin-nim."
The sweet voice that reached his ears, Dojin had never heard such a beautiful voice. A voice seemingly created to enchant men.
They said God bestowed a blessing upon her because He wanted to monopolize everything about her, and that voice made that completely understandable.
"No, O existence of fate."
Shhhhk, Dojin felt a hand grabbing his arm. A soft skin texture was felt, but his body remained fine.
The Saintess, confirming that Dojin's body remained fine, smiled brightly. As expected. She knew it would be like this.
Dragging Dojin to the bed, the Saintess stood on the bed and lifted her hem as if to proudly show off her figure.
"What are you so afraid of?"
Only then feeling something strange, Dojin slowly opened his eyes.
Before his eyes stood the Saintess wearing a pure white negligee.
"It's the first time seeing you beyond the veil. So let me introduce myself again."
It was a dazzlingly beautiful appearance.
"I am Iris, serving as the Saintess."
