Chapter 49
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 49
Chapter Title: A Hero More Demonic Than a Demon
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The night sky embroidered with starlight.
Ashy and Kang Ajin sat facing each other across the campfire.
As they chatted about this and that, the conversation turned to sex.
"…You sing about sex all the time…. Be honest. You've never done it, have you?"
Ashy asked with full confidence.
The arrow aimed at Kang Ajin flew in a straight, unavoidable trajectory.
Kang Ajin looked at Ashy with an awkward gaze.
"No? I've done it a fucking ton."
"Bullshit."
Ashy cackled and mocked him.
It had been two years since they'd been together.
No one had watched him longer or knew him better.
That was the conclusion Ashy had reached after all that time.
Kang Ajin was a lifelong virgin loner.
He'd blabber on about being a man and all that.
But to Ashy's eyes, he looked like a hedgehog bristling with spines out of fear of getting hurt.
"You're a total virgin loner, you dumbass."
"I said I'm not!?"
Kang Ajin snapped back in genuine anger.
Ashy flinched at his fierce glare.
A single question flashed through her mind.
'…He's really not?'
Kang Ajin wasn't a lifelong virgin loner.
He might not be.
That possibility sparked a thread of unease.
It made a corner of Ashy's chest tingle.
"…I said cut the bullshit?"
Ashy got serious too.
Not the first time?
'…Really?'
Even Ashy couldn't understand it herself.
She didn't know why watching his confident attitude made her feel angry and resentful.
"……."
A brief silence fell.
The awkward tension was suffocating, making the innocent flames leap wildly.
Ashy stared blankly at the campfire.
Kang Ajin glanced at her and frowned.
'No way, he's definitely a virgin.'
It'd be a lie to say he'd never fantasized about his first time.
Kang Ajin had a pure phase too.
He'd dreamed of that simple wish where a boy and girl became man and woman through each other.
This world wasn't so kind.
"F-Fine, tell me. Give me proof you're not a virgin."
Ashy, feeling unjustly wronged, flailed her limbs and yelled in a rage.
Should he say it or not?
The closer he got to Ashy, the higher the chance of awakening.
He couldn't share dick hair counts or asshole hair counts.
But a minor life wrinkle like this seemed okay to share.
"Uh…."
Kang Ajin hesitated a moment before opening his mouth.
Ashy couldn't even speak.
A more horrific experience than she'd imagined poured from Kang Ajin's lips.
Ashy, who wielded power, had rarely had anything taken from her.
Even if someone stronger stole from her, she'd gotten revenge and taken it back somehow.
Unlike Hero Ashy, most people never got back what was taken.
And even if an opportunity arose, it was usually something irrecoverable.
A strange mix of relief and pity seeped into Ashy's heart.
She glanced at Kang Ajin with bitter eyes.
His slumped form looked just like a puppy soaked in the rain.
She wanted to comfort him.
Words slipped out on their own.
"…So that means you haven't done it going forward."
"What?"
"You've never knocked a woman onto the bed and fucked her yourself. Right?"
"……."
Kang Ajin thought back carefully.
He'd been forcibly raped by Gertong and ended up with erectile dysfunction.
He'd gotten all sorts of help from Drake's party, but it didn't matter.
He still couldn't get hard.
His dick was like a cannon that had never been fired, just gleaming with oil.
Ashy burst into full-throated laughter.
"Pfft, virgin after all. Dumbass."
"…Cut the bullshit."
"Fuck, a guy who's only ever gotten it up the ass. And technically, that makes you a lifelong loner too."
"…No it doesn't."
Kang Ajin ground his teeth.
Should rape experiences be excluded from the count?
Of course they should.
It wasn't forward, but backward—and forced at that.
His dick knew nothing of a woman's insides.
It was fine to call him a virgin.
Kang Ajin narrowed his eyes and glared at Ashy.
"…Mine."
"A woman's virginity is different from a man's. The value is worlds apart."
Ashy curled her lips slyly.
It was embarrassing to admit she'd never done it either, but she didn't show it.
Thanks to that, Kang Ajin's mood seemed better.
Not a bad trade, she thought.
"……."
The campfire continued to burn.
"…Feels like a good time to do it."
"Shut your trap, dumbass."
Ashy clamped her hand over Kang Ajin's muttering mouth.
At least after this whole journey ended.
In some quiet little neighborhood then.
'A cabin with this guy wouldn't be bad.'
Intimately.
The rooster crowed.
Meaning morning had come.
Usually, he'd wake to the chirping of annoying birds, but today was different.
The rustic charm of Maroon Village felt nice.
'If I get a house later, raising chickens wouldn't be bad.'
The rooster's crow felt fresher than any hated alarm.
There was a natural taste to waking up.
Ashy was nestled in my arms.
She woke just like me, opening her eyes sleepily to look at me.
We were two full-grown adults tangled up in the village chief's daughter's bed.
It didn't feel awkward anymore.
Having Ashy by my side had become familiar.
I hugged Ashy tightly.
Her soft skin, warm breath, sweet scent.
It made me newly appreciate this isekai life I was enjoying.
'Did I save a country in my past life or something?'
She's a rough woman.
Couldn't call her feminine like other ladies or say she had a gentle temperament.
But her stunning looks offset all the flaws.
Pretty face, voluptuous body, obsessive possessiveness….
'Feels too good to be true.'
Blood rushed to my dick.
The chastity cage suppressed the erection.
The pressure around my crotch felt pleasantly tight.
I could definitely feel my body had gone haywire.
"…Hugging tight every time we wake up isn't bad."
Ashy, freshly awake, buried her face in my body.
She wrapped her arms around my back and flicked her tongue.
Licking and sucking my nipple.
"What are you doing."
"Milking puppy's tits."
"What the hell from morning…."
"Forgot what to do first thing in the morning?"
Ashy growled instead of answering.
I kissed her, then asked again.
"That just now…."
"No milk. Guess that's normal for a guy?"
Ashy swirled her tongue, sucking my nipple.
The unfamiliar sensation made my legs weak.
I pulled back a bit.
"Hey now."
Ashy swiftly grabbed my dick and threatened me.
Ashy full power, about 20%.
'Doesn't even faze me anymore.'
I could withstand about 20% now.
"Come closer."
"……."
That said, I didn't refuse Ashy's command.
I tried to obey most orders as best I could.
Ashy pulled me into a hug and flipped us over.
We'd been facing each other sideways, but the position shifted slightly.
Ashy climbed on top of me.
Clinging to my body, she lapped at my chest.
Nibbling my nipple with wet slurps—goosebumps rose.
What the hell was she doing in broad daylight.
I stroked Ashy's head.
She purred happily, seeming pleased.
We tumbled around together for about twenty minutes.
I went along with Ashy playing with my body.
Knock knock knock-.
─ Hero, are you awake by any chance?
A girl's voice.
The village chief's daughter had come to wake us.
"We'll come down soon, so fuck off."
─ …….
Ashy chased the girl away.
She cut the conversation short with blunt cursing.
Footsteps faded into the distance.
She'd hesitated a moment, then fled.
"Puppy, ass-submission pose."
"……."
Right after getting out of bed, the embarrassing command dropped.
I turned, stuck out my ass toward Ashy, and spread it.
Embarrassing, humiliating, couldn't even open my eyes….
But bearable.
Ashy gently caressed my ass, then buried her face and started licking.
I felt her face from behind.
She loosened my hole—back to normal after the night—with her tongue.
Then she prepped the Aneros, slathering it with gel.
"Ngh…."
She stuffed it in after pumping in plenty of slick gel.
The rod pressed my prostate up, the ring rubbing my perineum.
It didn't hurt like the first time.
Maybe the gel, but there was a strange heat.
And pleasure too.
For a moment, self-loathing surged.
"Catch one demon in Yuteron Barony, then hurry to Alvheim."
Ashy kneaded my ass as she steeled her resolve.
Hero? No sense of heroic duty.
Pure self-interest.
The heroine Hero was driven by one desire: to fuck her man.
And my role in such a Hero's party….
Smack-.
Ashy slapped my cheek and grinned.
I straightened my clothes and thought about my role again.
Ashy's plaything, nothing more or less.
End of stray thoughts.