Chapter 93
Chapter 93
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 93
Chapter Title: Mana Exhaustion and Exposed Fantasies
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Reina and Yuris hurriedly laid the collapsed Max on the bed.
Max, collapsed and drenched in cold sweat, didn't look normal no matter how they looked at him.
His face had gone deathly pale as he sweated coldly and lost consciousness.
Yuris, an experienced knight, immediately recognized the condition.
"Mana exhaustion..."
It referred to the symptom where the body suddenly shuts down due to shock from mana depletion after rapidly using up the mana inside one's body.
It was a condition that could never occur in ordinary people.
It commonly appeared in mages, knights, or spirit users who used a lot of mana.
It happened when one used an overwhelming amount of mana beyond what they could handle.
It was a sickness that rookies—knights or mages whose mana training was inadequate—often suffered.
For Max, who wasn't even a rookie, to suffer this symptom...
It meant he had used an enormous amount of mana, enough to knock out even a grand mage.
'Not surprising at all.'
Maintaining two such intricate illusions simultaneously, adjusting them in real-time—no wonder he pushed too hard.
Even with the help of a magic circle, it wasn't easy.
Not even a skilled grand mage could pull it off easily.
Perhaps because Max had done it so casually before.
She had assumed he'd handle this just as effortlessly.
'What should I do?'
It was all her fault.
Her greed in asking him to do it despite there being another customer.
'He won't think of me as some slut who can't control herself, right?'
Trembling with anxiety, Yuris looked at Reina.
She too seemed flustered by Max's collapse, sweating profusely.
Reina, an elf, was plenty familiar with mana exhaustion.
The high elf and the Goddess of Victory exchanged glances for a moment.
"......"
An awkward silence settled between Yuris and Reina.
They stared at each other's faces.
The aroused, bitch-in-heat faces they'd seen in the illusion.
The voices begging for cock were still vivid.
"Jeez, it was really you, Yuris..."
"And you're Reina of all people..."
Neither could finish their sentences.
Hearing each other's voices brought back the illusions they'd witnessed.
Reina recalled herself and Yuris exchanging marital vows before being ravished by Max.
Yuris recalled the knight captain Yuris and herself as a female knight getting gang-raped by bandits, clamping her mouth shut.
"W-When did you..."
Reina was the first to broach the subject.
"...I don't know. I didn't see your illusion, Miss Reina."
"Oh... R-Right."
Awkward silence again.
Yuris recalled a story her subordinate knights had gossiped about in the past.
—Vice-Captain Jeko, do you know the most awkward moment when you go to an inn with your girlfriend?
—When? Right before entering the room together?
—No. That's actually exciting, not awkward.
—Then what?
—When you're climbing the stairs to your room and run into someone you know on the stairs.
Back then, Yuris had smacked her subordinate's head for talking nonsense.
Now she finally understood why that situation was the most awkward.
'I'm dying of embarrassment.'
It wasn't exactly 100% the same as her subordinate's story.
But she knew better than anyone what Reina had done with Max in the illusion.
She must have stuck out her ass just like Yuris had and gotten fucked by him.
Max had said it.
The illusions shown by the magic circle weren't created from nothing.
They were built on some base information.
That meant the female knight watching Yuris get ravished, the one Yuris had masturbated to while watching in the illusion—the sex between her and Max was all based on the elf Reina.
No wonder even her ass had that faint, sweet fragrance.
"B-By any chance... did you, Yuris-nim, see the same illusion?"
Reina asked her, blushing furiously.
Her face flushed red, she could barely speak properly from the shame.
"W-What are you talking about? I-I don't remember anything."
"I... see."
The two fell silent once more.
The excruciatingly awkward air enveloped them.
"Y-Yuris-nim, you wash up first. I-I'm fine waiting..."
"I can't do that."
"Pardon?"
"I don't know what you might do to Max while I'm away."
"What do you..."
"You're the one who calls humans an inferior species. Who knows what you'd do to him."
"Do I look like that kind of elf to you?"
"As an imperial knight, I'm protecting a citizen. You should wash up first, Miss Reina."
"Hmph! Th-Then aren't you the one plotting something with Max—er, the inferior species—while I wash up first?"
"Pardon?"
Reina squeezed her eyes shut and shouted.
"I saw it! In the illusion, you were the one who first offered to suck Max's cock! Spreading your pussy alone and begging to get pounded..."
"W-Wait a minute. Miss Reina, that's not—"
"Isn't it? You're the weird one. I was receiving it first, and you barged in, didn't you?"
"......"
She couldn't deny it.
She knew there was a customer beforehand, and Max had overexerted because of her stubbornness.
"Ugh, I knew you were a slut, but I didn't think it'd be this bad."
"Pardon?"
"You brought me to this shop once before. You left me alone for about an hour."
"......"
Yuris felt her heart sink.
"N-No way."
"I heard everything. What kind of woman you are."
Her face burned hot.
There had been that one time she couldn't hold back her momentary lust and dragged Reina to this shop.
What illusion she had seen then too.
"I-I blocked it all..."
"You underestimate elven ears too much. Even if you erase it with magic, I heard it."
"S-Stop..."
"Pretending to be a noble knight and Goddess of Victory in front of others while being a total nympho. 'Please fuck me with your cock~! I wanna cum on this worthless pussy~!' We all heard it."
Once Reina started, her words didn't stop.
It was as if she was venting all the resentment from being left alone back then at Yuris.
Spewing out her pent-up grievances, Reina glared at Yuris.
"The imperials would love to hear this. Does Her Majesty know? Probably not—that her own knight is lewder than a succubus."
Vicious barbs flew from Reina's venomous mouth.
Yuris clenched her fists, grinding her teeth.
Not a single word was wrong.
She pretended to be the noble Knight of Victory to others, but she was a slut spreading her legs for Max (even if only in illusions).
Chasing pleasure by coming here was true, and being enslaved to his cock was fact.
Even now, looking at the bulge in his panties below...
'The cock I saw in the illusion is exactly the same.'
She recognized the veins matching the flaccid cock from the fantasy.
With her arousal not yet faded, she even wondered what it would feel like to be fucked by that massive cock just like in the illusion.
But still.
Was that any way for Reina to talk?
"Th-Then what about you?"
"...Pardon?"
"You call humans inferior species, avoiding getting even a little close, scorning and despising them all—yet you gladly take the degrading title 'cunt collar' from Max?"
"......"
"What? Elves don't succumb to lust and pleasure? Ha! The World Tree would laugh. The bitch panting harder than anyone while getting fucked dares claim to protect the World Tree."
"Y-You're insulting the World Tree right now, Yuris-nim..."
"You insulted the Empire first, Miss Reina. Self-defense, isn't it?"
Before they knew it, the two women, brimming with venom, glared at each other.
The initial awkwardness from standing naked had vanished, replaced by fury.
Fury toward each other.
Irritation from not fully enjoying it to the end, from not getting alone time with Max after the illusion ended—they poured it all on one another.
The atmosphere was like thin ice that would shatter with one wrong step.
The tense air.
"What are you doing."
Was broken by Max's hoarse voice.
"M-Max?"
"Inferior species!"
"......"
Max, half-lidded eyes scanning the two, massaged his brow and squeezed his eyes shut.
"Sorry. This accident happened because of my lack of discipline."
Even in this moment, Yuris thought the exhausted, hollow look in Max's eyes held a strange decadent charm.
He exuded an allure that drew her in.
Eyes that seemed to carry a deep backstory.
Yuris stared blankly at Max.
She couldn't think straight about how to respond.
"Uh, so..."
As she fumbled for words, Max gestured.
A blanket flew over, draping around Yuris and Reina's shoulders.
Only then did they realize they were still half-naked.
"I understand. Your secrets you wanted to hide got exposed to another customer—especially since you two know each other. This is my failure."
"......"
"I'll close the shop for a while and focus on personal training..."
Wait, close the shop?
Then no more illusions?
No way.
"N-No!"
Before Yuris could shout something, Reina cried out desperately.
"It was fun, actually."
......What?
"R-Right?"
"Uh, yeah?"
At Reina's words, Yuris nodded with a half-bewitched expression.
"I-I was surprised at first, but since it was a familiar face, it was okay..."
"Are you serious?"
Max asked in his weary, fatigued voice.
His decadent, tired face nearly made Yuris blurt out the truth.
That it was mortifying and she never wanted to go through it again.
No, before that—even in the illusion, she wanted him all to herself.
"That's..."
Yuris couldn't answer.
Max didn't press her.
"I see. I understand your feelings. You won't stop visiting over something like this."
They didn't reply, but everyone present knew the silence meant agreement.
"Still, since the accident was my fault, I'll take responsibility."
"Responsibility means..."
"If rumors start about the videos you two saw today, I'll impose clear punishment on whoever spreads it."
Her opponent was a high elf, and she was the Empire's Goddess of Victory.
Yet hearing Max say he'd punish them made Yuris's heart drop.
'Am I scared?'
Why?
Instinctual fear wrapped around her body.
She had a feeling whatever punishment he promised would be harder than any ordeal she'd faced before.
And Reina seemed to feel the same.
"And this is something I really didn't want to say..."
The weary Max shuddered, furrowing his brow deeply and gritting his teeth.
What was so hard for him to say?
After agonizing for a long time, Max sighed and spoke.
"I won't charge you for today's illusions."
He squeezed his eyes shut like a man who'd lost everything.
"This is my way of apologizing to you both."
"......"
"......"
Wrapped in their blankets, Yuris and Reina had the same thought.
'But I want something else as compensation.'
The two stared into Max's decadent eyes.
They couldn't tear themselves away, as if drowning in a deep lake.
But Yuris couldn't voice that thought.
Asking an exhausted Max like this for another illusion felt wrong.
'With his body right now, even reality might be tough.'
And Reina felt the same.
Perhaps because they'd seen similar yet different illusions.
Reina mirrored Yuris's thoughts like a decalcomania.
Except she was lost not in his decadent eyes, but in his exposed muscular upper body.
The Reina who once lusted after Yuris's feminine beauty and nobility.
'He's so hot.'
She stared piercingly at Max's savage, beastly muscular frame.
A man's body she'd dismissed as insignificant before.
What would it feel like to be held in those arms for real?
It'd feel amazing, to die for.
But fantasy didn't become reality.
Max, propped up on his upper body gazing at the women, looked utterly exhausted.
In the end, Yuris and Reina gave up and returned home.
And that night.
"Hyaah! Hngh!"
Alone in her room, Yuris masturbated thinking of decadent Max.
"It feels good..."
It was her first time masturbating to the real Max.
And the same went for...
"Master! Nngh! Purify me with that sturdy body, the pillar of the World Tree!!"
Reina.