Sacred (3)
Sacred (3)
Leveling up strengthens all physical abilities. If one experiences that about three times, they are essentially no different from a Superhuman, enhanced to a degree incomparable to ordinary people.
Charlotte is the same. Her hearing, half-departed from the human category, is capable, if she so desires, of detecting even ultrasonic waves like a bat or dolphin.
'This can't be.......'
As it was a sacred place watched over by the Gods, magical processing was not possible. The room where the Saintess was staying was soundproofed with a thick iron door. However, that wasn't perfect.
At the very least, it wasn't at a level to block Charlotte's hearing. She doubted her own ears at the sound of conversation coming from inside the room.
The Saintess, that Saintess was talking with a man. How in the world?
The Saintess's Blessing was closer to a curse than a blessing, a talent that makes others unhappy like the touch of Midas.
A man who hears her voice goes deaf, if they see her skin they go blind, and if they make direct contact with her, they receive divine punishment and die.
The great God's Blessing bestowed solely to protect her virginity.
If there was someone who could break through that God's Blessing and converse with her directly...... it meant that man was a divine being.
'Unbelievable.'
It was hard to believe. How could a human become a being like a God? Only the now-extinct legendary Dragons of lore could stand against a God.
Aside from them? No being, including Demons, could raise their head before a God.
'How in the world?'
Charlotte had reached a point where she couldn't trust either her own body or the Gods. For a guard serving the Saintess to doubt her own body was absurd, but would a Holy Knight forsake the Gods? That was also impossible.
Caught in this dilemma, a bell sound came from inside. Hearing that sound, Charlotte immediately pushed the door open and went in.
"Saintess-nim. Is something the matter?"
The moment she opened the door and entered, she grasped everything in an instant. But. She deliberately asked again. Judging her superior's opinion arbitrarily was a bad move.
The Saintess gestured to her as always, and Charlotte approached and leaned her ear in.
"...He has left. Please escort him."
"Understood."
Charlotte looked at Dojin. She hadn't said anything to him yet, but Dojin, having finished preparing to leave, got up from his seat.
"...Go."
"Yes."
As she exited the room with Dojin, Charlotte sank into thought. Just what in the world happened. It would be quick to ask him. How did he converse with Saintess-nim.
Thump, Dojin, who was following behind Charlotte, stopped. Charlotte, noticing the footsteps had vanished, turned to look back.
Dojin was looking at her with a slightly serious expression.
"What's wrong?"
"...No, nothing."
Dojin lightly excused himself as if it were nothing and followed Charlotte out of the mansion. Exiting the mansion, Dojin kept trying to start a conversation with Charlotte.
"Knight-nim, since when have you been serving Saintess-nim?"
"Since a very long time ago."
"Hoh, exactly?"
"I don't remember."
"Hmm, Ah. It's a bit awkward to keep calling you Knight-nim, but if I may ask your name......."
"Keep calling me Knight-nim."
As Charlotte also didn't mind opening the floodgates of conversation with Dojin, she responded to his questions and continued the talk.
"What did you talk about inside?"
"...What are you talking about? Talk, you say? How could I, a man, and Saintess-nim."
"Yes, right."
He hesitated. Just from that minute reaction, Charlotte became convinced that Dojin had conversed with the Saintess.
Two circumstantial pieces of evidence had emerged, but this alone wasn't enough. Should I gamble a bit. The moment they reached the courtyard, Charlotte drew her sword and pointed it at Dojin.
"The Saintess said you defiled her body."
"Huh? What's that......."
"She said the room became dirty, so to kill you outside."
She exuded killing intent. Exuding killing intent towards someone she had no real intention to kill was a distasteful task, but for the Saintess, she would do anything.
As if reading that very intent, Dojin raised both his hands and said.
"I did nothing. I didn't even lay a hand on Saintess-nim."
"Are you saying Saintess-nim lied?"
"Isn't it possible that Knight-nim is the one lying? If you truly doubt me, then cut me down. Slice me to death. And leave the judgment of guilt to the Gods."
"...Daring to take the name of the God in your mouth."
But with him speaking to that extent, she, a Holy Knight, could not ignore the name of God and cut him down. All the more so because she herself knew Dojin was innocent.
"If you are truly so, I will let it pass this time."
Tch, clicking her tongue, she sheathed her sword. Seeing this, Dojin began to bring up another topic with a beaming smile.
"Ah, come to think of it, Knight-nim."
"What is it?"
"There was a maid at our mansion. A maid who was very skilled with a sword."
"...What does that have to do with me?"
Her heart sank. The sword-skilled maid, she was talking about her. However, she had never taken off her helmet in front of Dojin until now. She had modified her voice as much as possible.
She hadn't given a single clue that could lead to her being identified.
So why was he bringing this up at this very moment? Charlotte couldn't understand.
"Ah, it might not concern you...... but that maid, when I first met her, drank to the point of being smashed, and allowed her body to many people to earn money."
"That is......! An act against the commandments."
"Right?"
She almost blurted out that no such thing happened, but she barely held back. However, the corners of Dojin's mouth rose even higher.
"What would you say if such a person was not only a Cleric, a Holy Knight, but also a close aide to the Saintess?"
"...Was that person among the nuns at the mansion?"
She tried to evade, but Dojin spoke with a tone full of conviction.
"No, I'm talking to you, Knight-nim. Charlotte Knight-nim. Isn't that right?"
"Wh, what nonsense...."
"My eyesight is slightly better than most people's, you see. If I see a swordsmanship once, I can recognize it the second time I see it."
"...What are you trying to say?"
"Cooperate a bit, Charlotte Knight-nim. Otherwise, I'll spread rumors that the Holy Knight did such and such things."
"That was Saintess-nim who......!"
"Saintess-nim?"
Oops, Charlotte hastily covered her mouth. Trying to hide her own disgrace, she had ended up revealing that it was something the Saintess ordered.
She was foolish beyond foolish. This shouldn't have happened... Biting her lip tightly, she opened her mouth.
"...What do you want?"
"Simple. You're the chief person in charge of the Saintess's guard detail, right?"
"...Yes."
Seeing Dojin abruptly switch to informal speech the moment he gained the upper hand, Charlotte glared at him.
Feeling the murderous intent emanating from behind the helmet, Dojin laid out his plan to her.
"I want to see Saintess-nim often. She's cooped up like a bird in a cage every day like this. I can't see her often, you know?"
"...What do you want me to do about it?"
"Make it so I can see her often, take her outside occasionally. Only you come as the guard."
Seeing her often, what does he intend to do by seeing the Saintess whose bare skin he can't even see? As soon as that thought arose, the thought she had been pondering continuously earlier came to mind.
"You, don't tell me......."
"Correct."
I've secured one internal spy.
Thinking so, Dojin confessed his secret.
"The Saintess's curse doesn't work on me."
Charlotte was engulfed in a shock as if she had been hit hard on the head.
Returning to the mansion, I pondered how I could utilize the Saintess. The Saintess herself was an existence like a cheat key.
Even injuries that Aram couldn't possibly heal, if they were of a different mechanism, the Saintess's ability could likely restore them.
Even if not that, an infinite energy cycle might be possible where Aram absorbs all injuries and the Saintess heals her.
If the worry of getting injured disappears like that, the number of usable tactics increases by tens, hundreds, or more. Wasn't my body already hard to injure easily? From now on, I could use my body even more recklessly.
'She'll probably worry though.......'
This was the heart of a Buddha. It lightly leaps over human thought, common sense. I thought it would be good to carry out the plans I couldn't bring myself to do all this time, and headed towards Seoyun.
Knock knock.
Knocking on the door and opening it immediately, Seoyun, who had been studying Otherworld books at her desk, tilted her head and looked at me.
"What's up?"
"I have something to say."
"What is it?"
"Come here first."
I took Seoyun and headed towards the bed. Seoyun went "Huh?" but was led by my hand. Sitting her down, I sat next to her and opened my mouth.
"I have something to tell only you."
"You said you had something to say?"
"Actually, my ability isn't being good with a sword."
"I know that?"
"You knew?"
This was news to me. Seoyun looked at me as if she couldn't believe I didn't know that.
"Because I didn't think you seemed to have any particular Trauma related to swords, Dojin. If I had to pick, you...... probably have Trauma regarding relationships with women."
"No, how on earth do you......."
"I read a psychology book once out of boredom."
An ordinary person wouldn't be able to notice something like that just from reading a book, but the person before me was Seoyun, the top academic achiever at my high school.
For someone like her, understanding people's psychology from reading a single book would be a simple task.
"Yeah, that's right."
"So? What's your ability?"
"I get stronger by having sex."
"...What?"
"To be precise, it's an ability that allows me and my partner to simultaneously obtain what we desire."
I explained the mechanism of the ability I had figured out. I have sex with a woman. And if it's something both the woman and I desire at the same time, the ability activates, evolving me.
After hearing the story, Seoyun looked at me with an expression asking what kind of ability is that.
"So your penis is also from the ability?"
"Yeah."
"I thought so. It was absurdly big for an East Asian."
"So? Are you disappointed?"
"Not at all? If it was grown by your ability, then that's also your ability."
Seoyun, having guessed to some extent why I revealed my ability to her, slowly took off her clothes and threw them aside.
In an instant, having thrown off even her underwear, Seoyun muttered as if curious.
"So what's your original size like?"
"...About this much."
Turning the ability OFF and reverting to my original size, Seoyun let out a "Hmm" sound and fidgeted with my thing.
While I think it's around the East Asian average, considering it was the size of a black large object fit for an AV, it looked pitifully small.
"It's small."
"This is the average."
"Information I was not at all curious about. Thanks."
However, as if she could love even that small thing if it was my thing, she gave it a peck peck kiss. My thing twitched in response.
"Want to try with this?"
"I don't mind but...... will it be okay?"
At Seoyun's words, I asked her back. If she's gotten used to a big thing all this time and now has to deal with such a small thing, she might feel relative deprivation.
But hearing that, she let out a stifled laugh and wrapped her arms around my neck.
"If it's a loved one, a woman can feel it even with a finger."
Fortunately, my thing was bigger than a finger. I kissed her and lay down on the bed.
And then we shared a heated love.
After one round of lovemaking, Seoyun, in a limp state, only turned her head to look at me.
"...How is it?"
"What?"
"The ability, did it activate?"
"...No. Unfortunately not."
A truly regrettable thing, but it seemed impossible for me to become stronger by aligning words with a specific woman and having sex.
If that were possible, this wouldn't be a Cheat Ability but just omnipotence.
"Come to think of it, how many abilities have you obtained so far?"
"Hmm...... eight."
"Heh, I see."
After saying it, I covered my mouth. Saying I have eight abilities is, in other words, no different from admitting with my own mouth that I've had sex with at least eight people.
"...Sorry."
"It's okay. Yeah. So, with whom?"
"...You're the best."
"I know that too."
Afterwards, so she wouldn't get sulky, I filled her Uterus inside with plenty of baby-making material.