Chapter 122
Chapter 122
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 122
Chapter Title: The Hero's Secret Fantasies
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Up until now, I'd heard all sorts of tastes from the various customers I'd met.
From wanting to lose, to wanting to do it with humans of other races, to liking the same sex—even fantasies of getting done in by the golems they'd created themselves.
There had even been someone who, despite being a saintess, harbored a desire to become lewd.
So I'd thought I could fully understand the hero's tastes too.
Arrogant thinking.
As if I could understand other people's tastes.
As if I knew what they were.
'Getting done in by monsters, huh.'
How was I supposed to respond to that?
-I understand. I have the same tastes.
A lie like that wouldn't fly.
-Wow, monsters are a bit...
An honest reaction like that was also a pass.
-Um, uh...
That was the absolute worst.
No matter what I said, it was all a minefield.
Suddenly, a minefield spread out right in front of me.
A minefield that looked utterly impossible to cross.
The words wouldn't come easily.
A naturally prolonged silence.
In the suddenly heavy silence, I could see Niki looking flustered.
Letting this silence drag on would be a problem.
Making a customer who'd come for difficult counseling feel awkward.
Though right now, I felt even more awkward.
'Sometimes, charging straight ahead is the better option.'
When everywhere is a minefield, maybe just closing your eyes and running through is the way.
If you're lucky, you might make it without stepping on any.
"What kind of scenario did you imagine?"
"Pardon?"
Had she not expected a response like that?
Niki asked back in a voice even more flustered than before.
"You said you imagined it. Being done in by monsters. I'm asking how that went down."
"Ah, th-that's..."
Niki hesitated for a moment.
"If it's hard to answer, let's get more specific. What kind of monster was it?"
"Huh?"
"Let's start with which monster you imagined getting defeated by."
"Th-that's..."
Was I being too brazen?
Niki, flustered in turn, couldn't give a proper answer.
But it didn't seem like she hated it.
If she truly hated the question, she would've bolted from her seat right then.
I waited for her to answer.
I didn't say a word.
Any remark from me right now might just make her hesitate more.
I kept silent and waited.
Finally, the hesitating Niki bit her lip and opened her mouth for the first time.
"At f-first, it was an orc we met while adventuring... We were subjugating monsters with the saintess—no, my comrades—and that massive orc was incredibly strong, you know? It used demonic energy, an orc blessed by the Demon King. Without my comrades, I definitely would've lost."
Niki started rambling as she spoke.
"And that's when the thought hit me: what if I'd lost to that orc... That was the beginning."
I listened silently the whole time she talked.
Niki's eyes couldn't meet mine, like a criminal avoiding judgment.
"I imagined the orc grabbing me while I couldn't resist, forcing its thing into me. Me, becoming that orc's livestock..."
Her voice trailed off.
"Th-then, it was with a mimic in a dungeon. I mistook a trap box for treasure... When I saw it filled with tentacles, I imagined what it'd be like if I got trapped inside forever... I even fantasized about losing to weak monsters like goblins or kobolds."
"..."
"There was also this weird stick trap. At first, I didn't know what it was and just disarmed it, but later I found out it was a trap monster with aphrodisiac fluid. I imagined that one too."
Niki had imagined more varieties than I'd thought.
Was she embarrassed after confessing like that?
"O-of course, I didn't start masturbating right away or anything."
She waved her hands, starting to explain like she was making excuses.
"At first, it was just imagination. I was always with my comrades... We slept practically glued together every night. No time for that. But once my duties were done and I was left alone..."
"You gained a bit more freedom."
Niki nodded.
"Didn't it occur to you that you might die?"
"...Yeah. I thought I wouldn't die."
And she probably was right.
Chosen by the Goddess, she carried the Goddess's protection.
Unless it was the Demon King himself, no one could've killed her easily.
That's why such fantasies were possible.
Just getting gang-raped by monsters, nothing more.
"And now, I think even if it really happened, I wouldn't die."
What monster could kill a hero who'd slain the Demon King?
"That's what made it even more exciting."
"What do you mean?"
"...Imagining getting raped by something way weaker than me."
Some people did have that kind of desire.
Getting turned on by someone inferior raping them.
-You're the one fucking me.
Getting excited by that?
In a way, maybe it was excitement from imagining herself corrupted by someone so much lesser.
"The males raping me in my fantasies must feel so superior while doing it to me. Something possible only because I allowed it."
Niki finished speaking and squirmed with a faint smile.
Had she just imagined it again?
"Have you ever thought about actually trying it?"
"...I've imagined it. But I haven't done it."
"Why not?"
"...Because if reality doesn't match my fantasies, it'd feel bad."
Her words made sense, considering reality doesn't always live up to imagination.
If it wasn't as satisfying as imagined, future fantasies would feel even emptier.
"Masturbation lets me make everything happen just how I want."
Niki looked at me after speaking.
"It's weird, right? This kind of thing..."
"No. Desires come in all varieties."
I had been a bit thrown by the monster thing.
But now that I knew it wasn't just because she liked monsters, I could understand a little.
'The heavy burden of being the hero made her want to let go of herself.'
She always had to win.
She could never lose.
If she fell, the world would perish to the Demon King.
Niki said she only imagined it around her comrades, including the saintess, and didn't even masturbate.
But it wasn't just because of them.
It was her inner sense of duty to save the world that held her back.
Only after slaying the Demon King and deeming the world safe could she finally shed that sense of duty.
That's why she started masturbating to monster defeat fantasies.
'She finally started indulging her desires.'
The method was a bit extreme, but I got it.
Having cast off the chains that bound her, she'd found freedom.
Though I couldn't deny the method was a little odd.
"You understand?"
"Yes. I have desires I can't tell others about either. In fact, I think you're far braver for being so honest, Niki."
"Ah..."
She shut her mouth.
'If her sexual desires stem from something like this.'
Rather than half-assed masturbation leading to real monsters, there was a better solution.
'Half-assed relief is just poison.'
Unfulfilled desires pile up, escalating the intensity.
Better to go all out sometimes.
Not with real monsters, of course.
I'd show her a scene that felt utterly real.
An illusion recreating her fantasies perfectly.
"What if you could experience your fantasies directly, Niki?"
"Pardon?"
"There's a way to make those fantasies you described feel completely real."
"...Th-there's a way to do that?"
"Yes."
"F-feeling it like reality..."
Niki bit her lower lip and hugged herself.
Had she imagined it?
Her face flushed slightly.
Her lips twitched in anticipation.
"I-if it's actually doing it with real monsters, I won't. That's a bit..."
"It's not real. It just feels real."
Was she intrigued?
Curiosity sparked in Niki's eyes.
"What is it?"
"I'll show you an illusion. With magic."
"Illusion magic? That won't work."
She was skeptical.
"My constitution resists magic. Not just mages—even demon magic didn't affect me. Not the illusion magic from the dungeon keeper I explored, the one the Demon King—no, even that didn't work on me."
Even the Demon King's illusion magic didn't work?
As expected of the hero—the strongest in the human realm.
But I had illusion magic that could pierce even a hero's defenses.
"Give it a try."
"You sound confident."
"I'm an expert at this."
"...Did you do the same to Yuris?"
"Something like that."
"..."
After a moment's thought, Niki nodded.
"Alright. I'll try it. This illusion magic... I need to see how amazing it really is."
"You'll be satisfied. Way better than just imagining."
I handed her the questionnaire I gave all customers.
The survey sheet.
"The questions are a bit vulgar."
Says the one fantasizing about monster rape.
But with no intention of subjugating the hero, I clamped my mouth shut and smiled.
"It's necessary."
"Fine. I'll do it if I have to. But it better be satisfying."
Answering 'Yes' to the virginity question, she began filling in her preferences one by one.
'Surprising. I figured she'd done it with someone at least once.'
Niki was the hero, but not nobility.
Non-nobles faced fewer shackles on premarital chastity.
Even among commoners, devout ones hoped for purity, but desires don't stop easily.
Unlike nobles living and dying by honor, plenty of commoners had free sex lives before marriage.
I'd assumed Niki did too.
But a virgin?
A virgin fantasizing about monster rape.
'Maybe that's why she can have those fantasies—because she's a virgin.'
Untried things allow for pure imagination.
Maybe that's why she hasn't done it for real with monsters.
"Here. This is what I want to see."
I took the sheet and fell silent.
Pretty explicit.
The hero's tastes are crystal clear.
"I'll prepare it right away."