Serazad's Desperate Awakening
Serazad Estevan lay in her chambers, her mind consumed by the image of her barbarian brother. 'The brother who protects me... just seeing him like that is enough...' [Liar!] Every night since losing Cloud, she had been tormented by regret. 'My brother will stay with me forever, no matter what kind of woman I am...' [That complacent thought is exactly why you lost him, Serazad!]
She had chosen the path of the saintess, abandoning any hope of being with Cloud. Years later, faced with the consequences, she bitterly regretted the weak justifications she had made at the time. 'It hurts so much... I miss my brother so terribly...'
A person who was not a god could always leave. One had to make the most of every moment together. Serazad only realized this after Cloud was gone. Only after the one who had always stayed by her side had vanished.
'I can feel it too...! Just like my brother...! Just like my brother who became a barbarian!'
The goddess Selendis answered her. She responded to the saintess's sincere regret. Cloud had returned as Geum Taeyang, the Great Khan of the Mohican tribe. This time, Serazad would not let the opportunity slip away as she had before.
Burning with that resolve, she recalled the vulgar secret tryst between Geum Taeyang and Sophia, convincing herself that her own body was no different from those two beasts. 'Me too...! If I just stimulate myself like this... I've grown old enough to feel it now...!'
Touch...! Rub...! Touch...! She frantically caressed her smooth, hairless virgin pussy, her body writhing. As a woman awakened as a saintess, no hair grew there. It was naturally bare. She desperately wanted to share in the pleasure Geum Taeyang had felt with the Great Mother Sophia. She longed to be with Cloud in his new body.
'Just like the Great Mother receiving my brother's love...! Hnnng...! Like this...!'
Thrust...! Thrust...! Thrust...! Her first masturbation, fueled by desperate longing, would not end with mere fingering. Mimicking Sophia, she rocked her hips, the slender young body trembling with lewd, pitiful movements.
'Hnnng...! It's coming...! I'm coming too...! Haaah...!'
Clench...! Twitch! Tremble...! In that moment, her groin tightened violently. 'Kuhhh...! Woman's juices... Woman's juices are coming out of me too...'
Drip...! Drip...! Drip...! Love juices flowed from her virgin pussy. In the Church of the Goddess of Light, they called it "woman's water." 'I've taken one step closer to my brother...' The noble saintess had spilled her fluids. It was a trivial result, but for Serazad, who had lived her entire life confined as a saintess, it was a courageous step forward.
"How is it? The bed is really nice, right? This is what noble beds are like! Should we put one in our tent too, Sophia?"
Thrust! Thrust! Squish! Thrust! Thrust! Squish! Thrust!
"Tchuuu! Hng! Haaah! Go deeper! Hnnng! The Great Khan's cock is so springy! Hnnng!"
Meanwhile, the next morning, Geum Taeyang, pretending to be Cloud, was already enjoying morning sex with Sophia. The S-rank VIP room bed was wide and sturdy, its mattress full of bounce. How could the barbarian-bodied Geum Taeyang possibly resist making love to Sophia on such a perfect stage?
"Hohoho! Great Mother, you remember her, right? She's Countess Esther's wife."
"Of course I remember, Lady Esther. We had a long conversation about Mortier yesterday."
With that, they seamlessly regained their civilized elegance and began the second day of the social gathering. After breaking the ice at the previous night's banquet, the second day featured more detailed socializing in the vast main temple of the Church of the Goddess of Light.
When Sophia stepped into the garden with Geum Taeyang, the noble ladies quickly gathered around her. 'Then I guess I'll go chat with Nadia. Is she around? She wasn't in the room...'
Geum Taeyang naturally stepped aside. He looked rather out of place. The garden was filled almost entirely with noblewomen. Proper conversations among the men usually happened in the evening, full of posturing. During the day, only attendants and young nobles wandered about, so Geum Taeyang began thinking of ways to kill time.
"Well, I don't do anything particularly special for my hair. I probably do the same things most ladies do."
"I see, Princess Nadia. Yet how is your hair so silky and your skin like porcelain!"
"We simply must invite Princess Nadia to our kingdom. So many of our citizens admire her. Hohoho!"
Geum Taeyang went looking for Nadia, only to find her already surrounded by noblewomen. Normally Nadia Jasmine would have stormed off, but for the sake of the Mohican tribe's craft store business, she was gritting her teeth and enduring the conversation. Glance! Glance! At that moment, Nadia spotted Geum Taeyang and sent him a distress signal. She wanted him to naturally extract her from the situation.
"Hmm...!"
Shake! Shake! Shake! Geum Taeyang shook his head in refusal. He had learned his lesson the day before. If he carelessly intervened in Nadia's situation, he would get dragged into the crowd's vortex himself.
"Then why don't you go hunting with the other gentlemen?"
Camilla Jasmine's voice came from behind Geum Taeyang. "So the advisor has risen as well. Ha... I considered it, but hunting really doesn't suit me."
Geum Taeyang turned toward her. Though Camilla was a duke's daughter, she had come here as an advisor—that is, as an attendant to Geum Taeyang and Sophia. That was why her accommodations were different.
"In a way, I understand. The conversations there would be difficult for the Great Khan to adapt to. The posturing is quite something."
Camilla Jasmine agreed with Geum Taeyang's troubled expression. When proper conversations happened in the evening, what did the gentlemen do during the day? They competed in ranking. And the method was hunting. It was also the pride of the Memphis social gathering, since Memphis had many famous hunting grounds.
"Haha! So that many practical staff members have been making contact? Turns out the advisor was the busiest one among us!"
"Hohoho, it just turned out that way. Not only last night, but several more inquiries came in this morning as well."
Geum Taeyang strolled through the garden with Camilla, listening to her report of events from the previous day's social gathering and that morning. Inquiries about opening Mohican craft store branches kept coming in from the noble staff attending the gathering.
"Those people must have investigated the store in Grace. They know that opening even one store revitalizes a city."
Why were they so desperate? There were various reasons, but wealthy nobles and nouveau riche visited the stores and spent lavishly. In other words, it raised the city's image and had tremendous economic effects, intensifying the competition to attract one.
"Then especially mid-sized kingdoms or mid-sized cities in larger kingdoms must have come in droves."
"That's correct, Great Khan."
Particularly many nobles had wanted to participate in this social gathering, as mid-tier nobles flocked to revive their countries and cities. The official kingdoms of the Pangea continent numbered one empire, three great powers, four medium, and four small, but there were also autonomous states and semi-independent unofficial nations like Tuyranos. Their nobles and royal family members also participated in the gathering.
'Huh...?' While having a rather serious conversation with Camilla, Geum Taeyang spotted someone and made an odd expression. 'That friend also participated in this social gathering?' He had found someone he knew. Who could it be? Geum Taeyang knew very few people at this gathering. 'Another [Otherworld Conquest Record] protagonist discovered!'
Indeed, he had found a main character from [Otherworld Conquest Record]. Yet Geum Taeyang's reaction suggested he had not expected to meet her here at all. 'Floria, the weakest official nation on the Pangea continent and the one with the highest clear difficulty. Its young queen has personally come.'
Floria meant "land of many flowers." Floria was one of the four small kingdoms in the one empire, three great, four medium, four small system—and the weakest among those four small kingdoms. Just how weak was it? 'Whoa... Even though the queen came, no one is approaching her... Not even the autonomous and semi-independent nobles...' Even though the highest authority of that nation had arrived, no one gathered around her. Usually when royalty appeared at a social gathering, like Nadia, a princess would come. Kings or queens could attend, but considering rank, they usually did not show themselves unless it was a special occasion. Yet the queen of the weakest nation had come and was currently being humiliated.
"It's Queen Elizabeth of Floria. I heard rumors she might attend, and she really did."
Camilla had also spotted the Queen of Floria. The queen's name was Elizabeth, full name Elizabeth Manuel Floria. She was twenty-three this year and had become queen at twenty. 'Camilla has every right to say that. It's a miracle she even thought of coming to this gathering.' Camilla had also assumed Elizabeth would not come here. Why had both Geum Taeyang and Camilla thought that?
'She's incredibly timid and easily embarrassed.' The young Queen Elizabeth of the weakest kingdom Floria was a coward. 'Of course, around the middle of the story she awakens and shakes off that timidity. But now isn't that timing. It's a miracle she came to this social gathering at all.'
Most protagonists of [Otherworld Conquest Record] had early obstacles. Leona had trauma, Arthur cross-dressed. So what about Elizabeth, queen of the weakest nation Floria? There was the situation of her weak country, but the biggest issue was her timid personality. Still, Elizabeth's love for her country and people was genuine, and it would bloom, changing her from the middle of the story onward.
"Hmm..."
Glance...! Glance...! 'Look at that anxious gaze. How is that a queen's gaze? She looks as uneasy as her twenty years of age.' The brown-haired Elizabeth sitting alone on the bench kept glancing around with an anxious expression. 'She was the main protagonist character I liked second most after Leona. She gave off a little sister vibe. Seeing her in person makes it even more so.'
Geum Taeyang stared at Elizabeth for quite a while. After all, she was a protagonist-level character, so he considered her important? No, because she was a character he was attached to. Having grown up without family, Geum Taeyang had fantasies about having a little sister, and this girl who stirred his protective instincts was more than enough to fulfill that fantasy. Of course, they were the same age now, but before reincarnating, Geum Taeyang had been in his thirties. 'Okay. I roughly understand why she came here despite that timid personality.'
Grin...! And while thinking about why Elizabeth had come here, he quickly came to a conclusion.
"Let's go meet our Queen Elizabeth."
"Queen Elizabeth?"
"Yes, Advisor."
Having made his assessment, Geum Taeyang headed straight for Elizabeth. 'Eek! Th-the Great Khan of the Mohican tribe is coming this way!' Elizabeth, the timid girl, was startled when she realized Geum Taeyang and Camilla were walking toward her.
"Greetings, Queen Elizabeth of Floria. I am Geum Taeyang, the Great Khan of the Mohican tribe."
Geum Taeyang soon stood before the timid Elizabeth and greeted her with great politeness.
"P-pleased to meet you! I-I am Elizabeth Manuel Floria, Queen of the western kingdom of Floria!"
Leap!! Elizabeth, who had been staring blankly, finally sprang to her feet and responded once Geum Taeyang's greeting came. It was as if a doll sitting still had suddenly had its spring mechanism activated and bounced up. 'Damn, that's cute as hell.' That appearance was exactly to Geum Taeyang's taste. 'Why would such a timid Elizabeth come all the way from the west to Memphis in the south? Elizabeth needs achievements right now. Achievements that will earn her recognition from Floria's nobles.'
Due to her father's illness, Elizabeth had suddenly become queen. She had been intelligent since her princess days, but she was young and her timidity was so famous that there had been much concern. And the result was as expected. Still, things were gradually improving with time, but the nobles had no patience to wait until she developed to a sufficient level. They began pressuring Elizabeth more and more, and she needed achievements to overcome that situation.
'She wants to attract our Mohican tribe's craft store to Floria.' If Elizabeth managed to attract the currently hottest Mohican craft store among the nobles, she could dispel all previous distrust at once. 'But who am I? I'm not simply the individual Geum Taeyang. I'm now the Great Khan leading the Mohican tribe.'
So, because she was a cherished character and that character was in crisis, he would extend a hand? As a leader, that was unacceptable. Geum Taeyang already had three women, and if he included the one he was currently flirting with, that made four. He had to act with responsibility. 'That's exactly why I need to extend a hand to Elizabeth right now. Starting from the point where Morion begins to exert its power, Floria will undergo a complete transformation.'
Originally, Floria's conquest had been part of Geum Taeyang's roadmap. In other words, from his perspective, Elizabeth had come seeking conquest of her own accord. "I wonder if Your Majesty has any interest in the Mohican tribe's crafts."
Thus, Geum Taeyang extended his sinister hand of salvation toward the timid Queen Elizabeth.