Interlude (2): "He Even Fought in the Battle of the Mad Plains...!"
"He even participated in the Battle of the Mad Plains...!"
The Battle of the Mad Plains. It was the incident where a hundred demons that once unleashed a storm of blood across the continent were subjugated.
Demons were lifeforms reborn from the blood of the highest-ranking devils. Humans could become demons, and animals could too. They were frenzied, violent, and decadent beings who possessed immense power, to the point that most adventurers wouldn't even dream of challenging them.
"His pre-marriage record is incredibly impressive."
The more he read, the more amazed Duke Neville became. The hero Kang Naru. He'd known the man was skilled, but he hadn't realized the path he'd walked was this extraordinary.
What a fine man.
He was in awe. Naru's current fame seemed vastly underrated. From reviewing the records, Naru deserved far greater renown. The kingdom should be grateful to have such a valuable asset. It was something the entire populace should celebrate.
"I want to step up and promote him myself."
How long had it been since he'd taken an interest in a young man like this? If not for him, Neville wouldn't even be sitting here now. The memory was vivid—of Naru's overwhelming prowess, the heroic splendor as he repelled the assassins.
"I need to meet him more often."
As he reminisced, Duke Neville's face filled with determination to grow close to Naru.
He arrived home. Ashley followed limply behind.
Since he hadn't accepted her advances, she'd been moping in the carriage the whole way.
"You're back?"
April greeted him with a smile. She hadn't left yet and was still staying with him. They were spending sweet days together, just like newlyweds.
"I waited all day."
"Sorry for leaving you alone. It would've been better if there was at least someone at the mansion."
"Wh-who is this woman...?"
Ashley stared wide-eyed, glancing back and forth between Naru and April. Her pupils trembled with unease. She seemed to sense it instinctively—that Naru and April were that kind of couple.
He kissed April lightly on the cheek, right in front of her, as if to say look all you want.
"Let's head to the bedroom."
"Yes."
Wrapping his arm around April's waist, he started toward the room. He glanced back at Ashley. She stared at them in a daze, her face blank. Tears soon streamed from the corners of her eyes.
"Ahh..."
She looked shocked. But she had to accept it. Kang Naru was no longer a man she could have all to herself.
He was being deliberately cruel to drive the point home.
"I love you. Mwah."
"Me too."
They disappeared into the bedroom like that. He ignored the sobbing wails from behind and shut the door.
"Must've been boring alone."
"I slept all day. We went hard until dawn yesterday."
From last night until dawn, he'd devoured her body. He planned to do the same tonight.
"Mmm..."
"Smack."
He kissed her deeply, then stripped off her dress. She wasn't wearing underwear, so her naked body was revealed immediately. Touching between her legs, he found her already soaked.
"I get excited just seeing you. It feels too good."
"Touch mine too. It's gotten bigger."
"Already? Oh, it really has."
"No eggs in your body yet, right?"
"Not yet. Today is a safe day too."
"Perfect."
"I want to get pregnant..."
"I told you. Another woman is pregnant first. We'll do it right after she gives birth."
"It's hard to wait, but... okay."
He laid her on the bed and fondled her pussy. Activating God Touch, he rubbed her a few times, and her juices gushed out, soaking the sheets.
"Hnnng! Hah!"
Her lower body trembled violently. Panting, she gazed at him with an ecstatic expression.
He suckled her nipples and lavished her plump breasts. Her slender hand gripped his cock and stroked it rapidly.
Feeling the pleasure from her soft hand, he licked every inch of her upper body.
"Your technique's improving."
"You taught me."
"Let's see how you suck too."
He stood up and shoved his cock into her mouth. Slurp, slurp. April diligently sucked with her hands and tongue.
"You're good."
Looking down, he smiled contentedly. The mermaid princess had his dick stuffed in her mouth. The fact that they were different species made it even hotter somehow.
He reached out and gently stroked her hair.
"You have to swallow today too."
"Slurp, yes. Gluck, slurp."
Soon, he came in her mouth. As he unloaded, her head bobbed quickly back and forth. She milked him perfectly with her mouth and swallowed every drop.
"Open up."
"Ah."
Peering inside, not a trace of white remained. She'd swallowed it all clean. Good girl.
"Let's do it in your true form today."
"Even without legs?"
"Yeah."
He grabbed the pitcher from the table and poured water generously over her legs. In an instant, they transformed into a fish tail. Her crotch changed into a mermaid pussy too.
"Beautiful."
"Your praise makes me shy."
He climbed onto the bed and plunged his cock deep into her pussy. Squish. The sensation of parting her inner walls felt amazing. It was completely different from doing it underwater. The sticky, chewy tightness made his brain melt with happiness.
But once he hilted it, he felt one regret.
"Last time, thanks to the armor, it was a merman cock, but now it's human-sized, so it doesn't quite reach the end."
"No, it reaches all the way. Hnng..."
"Really? Good."
It was obviously a white lie. A difference between races, perhaps. Annoyingly, his cock was 5 cm longer in merman form. It needed to be at least 20 cm for the tip to kiss her womb.
Slap! Slap!
He rocked his hips, pounding down with his cock. Short or long, the stimulation was undeniable. He was satisfied. She was too.
April's moans echoed without end.
"Haah, ah! Aaah...!"
Jenia couldn't understand her brother. Why did he keep pushing away the woman who'd crawled in on her own?
In the dark elf world, once you claimed a woman, you never let her go. If she didn't obey, you just beat some sense into her.
But this one was obeying. She was begging and crying to be taken back—why ignore her and try to kick her out?
If he really didn't like her that much, make her a slave. Turn her into a sex slave for sadistic fucks, or a breeding sow popping out kids nonstop to produce elite soldiers. Or remodel her body into a powerful chimera and use her like a guard dog. Why do nothing?
He's gone soft living in the human world.
He must've learned something living with Mom and Dad, but he wasn't using it.
Jenia felt a twinge of dislike seeing how he'd changed. He seemed to be assimilating into humans, drifting away.
The brother in her mind was, no matter what anyone said, a proud child of darkness—a dark elf.
Screw the title of Light Hero. Give it to a dog. Big brother would never sacrifice himself for humans. You humans figure out how to survive on your own.
Standing alone in the living room, Jenia moved. Toward the room where Ashley had gone.
Brother wanted to kick her out, but she disagreed. Wasn't she once his possession? What you claim once is yours forever.
She'd better not dream of leaving this house.
"What are you doing?"
Jenia opened the door and stepped in. Ashley was face-down in the bedcovers.
"Kukuku, kekeke. Hehe..."
She was laughing like a madwoman.
"It's all my fault. Hehe... If I hadn't said divorce... Kekeke. Honey... I forgive you. I know you're doing this on purpose to torment me. Huhuhu..."
Muttering and chuckling to herself, she suddenly jerked her head up and clawed at her hair.
"Kyaaah! Forgive me! I didn't know you were betting with Vera! I didn't know you were suffering for my sake! Aaaah! Aaaagh!"
Ashley bolted upright on the bed. She dashed to the dresser, frantically searching for something.
"A wretch like me deserves pain! Where's the knife! Where's the knife!"
She grabbed a sharp makeup tool and tried to stab herself. Jenia lunged, grabbed her arm, and slapped her.
"Snap out of it."
"Gasp...! M-miss...?"
"You can't hurt your body without brother's permission."
Jenia snatched the tool from her hand and snapped it in half.
"Back to your senses?"
"Wh-what was I doing...?"
Ashley's dull eyes had returned to normal.
"You want brother's love?"
"Y-yes. But he already has someone else by his side..."
"So what? Just work for it. Stop whining here and keep showing him your love."
"I don't know how..."
"Why not? I already taught you."
"When?"
"Maid. Act like one, remember?"
"......"
Ashley blinked several times. Then she slowly nodded.
"Yes... I'll do as you say, miss..."
It was all her fault in the end. If she hadn't hurt Naru... If she hadn't divorced him... If, when he was betting with Vera, she'd given unwavering love and full support instead of scorn and contempt...
So do now what she couldn't then. Support him diligently as a wife.
She resolved herself.
But one thing she couldn't get used to.
"Sob sob..."
Tears poured out. Regret, despair, self-loathing—she'd cried all day, yet more kept coming.
From the open door, the moans of the woman who'd entered Naru's room drifted faintly. It hurt her heart.
"You'll hear stuff like that a lot from now on."
Jenia continued with a grin.
"Brother's an amazing guy, so he's popular. You have to accept it."
She added, "I was pissed at first, feeling like he was stolen from me. But I accepted it in the end. A true lord of darkness needs at least a hundred women around him to look the part."