Chapter 83 — Everything Is to Be Loved More (5)
Chapter 83 — Everything Is to Be Loved More (5)
Roan opened his eyes.
Dawn was breaking far away, but the bedroom remained dim.
A presence he could feel clearly even in darkness that ordinary people would struggle to see was Erenier.
Her body, pillowed on Roan's arm and held in his embrace as if she had passed out, was covered in dried traces of semen.
Roan brushed her side hair back behind her ear. Even with the touch of his hand against her forehead and cheek, she continued breathing softly as if dead.
Her noble and composed face showed no trace of the expression that had wept with the stolen loss of her virginity and the throes of pleasure all through the early hours.
A peaceful appearance.
A face he had never once seen on Erenier,
not in the game nor since coming to this world.
Roan smiled faintly, kissed her forehead, and carefully withdrew his arm.
The massive bedroom door opened quietly.
Warm water and a towel had appeared before the bedroom door at dawn. The magic hand warmer exerted its power here too, keeping the water in the basin heated.
At some point, it had become routine.
Roan's dawn routine after spending the night with the women began with wiping away the traces of himself he had left on their bodies.
The Demon King's semen, said to be poison.
No matter how much the women could purify it, leaving such a thing on their bodies felt unpleasant. Nor did it look good aesthetically.
Roan personally wiping their bodies at dawn after nights of coupling had now become a habit.
Seeing their figures, once a mess smeared with sweat and fluids, slowly become clean gave Roan another form of satisfaction.
Roan also felt happiness at the affectionate gazes they gave him when they awoke afterward.
"...Roan."
Erenier's voice was hoarse.
Roan, who had been meticulously wiping each of her fingers one by one, raised his head at the sound of her voice and smiled, kissing the back of her hand.
"Sleep more. It's fine."
"...Mm."
But she did not close her eyes again, instead gazing at Roan with eyes half-open. Her face was slightly swollen, but her beauty remained undimmed.
"To think I would receive this kind of care from you, Roan."
"Do you like it?"
"I'm happy."
As if she had recovered a little strength, Erenier lightly groped and stroked Roan's thigh.
"I fell into a deep sleep for the first time in a while."
"It doesn't seem like you slept long."
"Even so... I slept sweetly, without even dreaming."
"Do you often have dreams?"
Erenier's touch stopped.
Roan, who had been wiping her shoulder, looked at her face.
Erenier's brow slightly furrowed, as if she were recalling the content of a dream.
"Mm... It's an unpleasant dream. Every night, someone whispers to me."
"What do they say?"
Erenier's bright red eyes moved this way and that, as if searching her memories.
"...Unpleasant things. A dream that babbles cunning, sinister, and distasteful content. It's been happening for quite a while, and even magic couldn't stop it."
Erenier smiled toward Roan.
"But I didn't dream it today."
"Hm."
It was a relief if he had been of help.
Roan began to wipe her belly and pelvis. Areas just as messy with semen as her thighs.
As if ticklish or perhaps embarrassed, Erenier giggled and curled up slightly.
"I sense a strange power from you, Roan. During the time we were apart. Are you aware of it?"
It was a bolt from the blue.
His eyes nearly went wide without him realizing, but the Demon King's shell barely managed to filter it.
The Demon King slowly turned back to look at her.
"...A strange power?"
Erenier's red eyes sparkled.
"Before, right before I left for the front lines, there was a time I stormed into your room. I think it's similar to the aura I felt then. Now that I think about it."
"Hm..."
It would be holy power. That was what Erenier was talking about.
Roan thought for a moment, then opened his mouth.
"I acquired a new power around that time."
That was true.
"Ah."
Erenier made a sound of understanding.
"Right. Roan has become stronger..."
She smiled softly, as if proud.
"It's amazing. To become even stronger after reaching that level is truly incredible. Even my father throws fits because his own growth has stagnated."
"Hm..."
"And right now, it's even a little stronger than back then, isn't it? It seems different from the mana I use or the divine power the priests of Merde use... but something... it's similar."
Erenier was sharp.
Someone who has reached a high realm in a field sometimes shows astonishing insight from observing even trivial things.
Her words now were an analysis delivered by the greatest mage in this country.
But then she returned to being a woman.
"At first, it was so unfamiliar that I hated it. It was like, mm, the feeling of someone suddenly pressing something of a different temperature against my back. Heh."
Ah. Like putting ice inside someone's clothes?
Erenier giggled again,
as if just imagining it made the nape of her neck tickle.
"But after enduring that sensation, I became so peaceful. Roan, that aura of yours is truly warm."
Roan gently stroked Erenier's head. She closed her eyes and savored the touch.
The chilly air of a midwinter dawn.
Only the sound of sparks flying up from the fireplace could be heard.
"That's a relief, Erenier."
"I don't want to return to the front lines, but I suppose I must finish what I was doing..."
She had to remain at the front until the ceasefire agreement was concluded. Until the seals of both nations were stamped, she could not remove a weapon that was shaking the enemy camp from the battlefield.
Erenier would return to the front lines when the New Year Festival period ended, and after concluding the ceasefire, stop by her homeland to prepare for moving to Basel.
For a mage like her, there would be a mountain of luggage to pack. Because she had a laboratory.
A few months until they met again.
But even that parting was regrettable to Erenier.
"Let's spend the nights together until you leave the castle."
Erenier's eyes flew wide open.
"Huh? But Grünent is here..."
It seemed even the primary wife had her own sense of principle. Roan laughed at the implication that bed-rights should be granted to the concubine as well.
"Kind Erenier."
Roan's hand, which had been stroking her head, turned a bit mischievous.
"Oof, Roan...!"
Even as she puffed her cheeks and glared at Roan through her disheveled hair, Erenier remained elegant.
"And trying to share the bed nicely."
A cute side no one else would have seen.
"And saying you wouldn't even climax without my permission."
"Ugh, that... Ahh♡"
The only place now not wiped clean of semen was her breasts. And Roan set the towel and basin down beneath the bed.
"More... haah♡ Are you... not going to finish wiping?♡"
Roan, who had buried his face in Erenier's chest, raised his head and smiled with his eyes. An expression like a feline predator.
He was smiling, but Erenier knew just how helplessly she would be violated if he set his mind to it, so she bit her lip and ended up smiling back.
Her lower body began to heat up.
Already, at the touch of his moist and soft tongue reaching her chest, her pink nipples had perked up, waiting for his stimulation.
"I will wipe them. Personally."
And then, as if grooming her, he began licking Erenier's breasts with his tongue.
"Haaang♡ Ju-just a moment, haaang♡"
"Diligently..."
The sound of something wet licking and sucking at skin.
The moan that flowed out with that provocative sound was a cry of pleasure Erenier released with her breath.
"Ah♡ Ahht♡"
"...I have to give you my seed... For another long while..."
"Hahng♡ Roan, hooht♡ I'm in a -hard to- spot...♡"
"We won't see each other..."
Contrary to her words, her body was honest.
Her excited vaginal opening was twitching again, dribbling out the previous night's semen that it had not managed to expel.
"Hoo, Erenier."
Roan's hand burrowed between Erenier's legs. As his fingers touched the skin swollen and sensitive from round after round of passionate sex, Erenier proclaimed her pleasure with a sultry breath.
"Hooohng♡♡"
"I put it inside you all night, and what do you do if you just dribble it all out without eating it properly."
Roan's voice was calm,
as if quietly scolding a child who spilled their food. Erenier's face flushed red with shame.
"Roan... haang♡ you gave me so much... to eat...♡ I can't eat it all...♡"
"What are you saying."
As if he had heard a cheeky remark, Roan furrowed his brow and pulled on her nipple while worrying it with his lips.
"Hngaaaaah♡♡♡ Wai, wait, Roan♡ I, if this keeps up, haang♡ I'm going to, going to go♡♡"
"Hold it. And you should eat well what you are given."
"Hang♡ Because I'm... good?♡"
"Mm."
Roan grabbed her massive breast and lifted it, licking up the skin where the underside of the breast met her torso. He had wiped her body, but in the meantime, sweat had pooled from excitement, bringing a salty taste. Each time his fingers brushed her nipple, Erenier panted heavily.
Even though Roan's hands were large for a man, when he grasped her soft breast, they were simply buried in the flesh.
Satisfyingly kneading the plush breast, Roan gradually realized that his own lower half had also finished its preparations.
"You have to eat everything I give you this time. Erenier."
"Hahhh♡ I'll, I'll try t... Heeeugh♡♡"
His massive penis burrowed between her sticky thighs again. The plump flesh of Erenier's cleft made a sticky, squelching sound as it clung to his member, as if refusing to let it go.
The sun slowly began to rise.
*
The New Year Festival was a holiday period for everyone to rest.
But it seemed Erenier had not been able to rest well.
'Did I torment her too much...'
Roan felt sheepish.
Erenier's face had become several times more haggard than it was before the New Year Festival banquet. Even the thick black cloak she wore in preparation for the winter journey seemed heavy on her, her gait unsteady.
The first day, they went all night.
The second day, at her pleas to please stop, he finally let her sleep only near dawn.
By the third day, after coupling a couple of times, Erenier couldn't endure any longer and fainted dead away.
The week had passed like that.
They had even called in an apothecary and prescribed stimulants and stamina restoratives, but had she reached her limit?
Grünent, who had come out to see Erenier off, stood behind Roan, looking at Erenier with a slightly pale face. Her feelings must have been complicated.
Hadn't she herself been bedridden for days after the night she received me alongside Lisa?
Helen was simply looking at me with eyes of adoration. She was the knight with the strongest stamina among them, but bedplay with her involved corporal punishment. She was the same in that she lost consciousness by dawn.
'Should I clear Diobe's route beforehand?'
The quest hadn't appeared yet, but he would be copying a skill even if he cleared her route in advance anyway.
Would he be able to obtain the quest reward? The 'Star Cloud Shield' had seemed useful in emergencies.
For now, the game had at least calculated it as completing the quest if a target was romanced before the quest was given.
Thinking these various thoughts, Roan watched Erenier exchange farewells with the other nobles. The South Black Territory Lord had already returned to his domain.
He must not have wanted to remain in this castle a moment longer.
"Then, I'll go. Roan♡"
Embracing her, Roan whispered.
"Next time, instead of 'I'll go,' it will be 'I'll be back.' Travel safely. I'll be waiting."
Erenier's eyes went round.
Standing behind him and hearing that conversation, Grünent and Helen smiled.
The smile that bloomed on Erenier's face as she looked back at Roan was a dazzling expression that made everyone involuntarily hold their breath at her beauty.
Erenier spoke to Roan.
"Yes, then. I'll be right back♡"
The witch in black smiled beautifully.