Chapter 91. Today's a Safe Day!
Chapter 91. Today's a Safe Day!
"Haaah, ngh.... Nn, ah......♥"
Who could have imagined it?
That the ever-thorough, utterly unflappable action leader who commands her unit without a single flaw would be reduced to this—utterly helpless at the point of climax.
-Schlick, schlick!
But even as the thought crossed my mind, my hips never stopped moving, and the rising tide of pleasure began to push her deeper into the haze of her own afterglow.
"Da... Dave... j-just... a moment...♥♥ My... my body feels so strange... uuu~ it's... it's too much... A-ahng~!"
Katarina clung to me, letting out the most vulgar mating cries imaginable.
She'd built up a resistance to drugs from a young age, but it seemed she had little immunity to hypnosis that directly tampered with sensitivity.
"...Don't worry. I'm near my limit too."
Painfully near, in fact—more than I could stand to drag this out.
Best to wrap it up soon.
"Your... limit...?"
Had she grasped the meaning behind those words?
Her half-lidded, glassy eyes snapped open with sudden clarity, and her gaze slowly traveled down to the slick, soaked point where we were joined.
"Don't worry. I won't finish inside."
A child would be troublesome for both of us, wouldn't it?
I'm always careful on external missions, but no matter how much I trusted someone, that was a burden I had no intention of forcing onto them.
So I moved to pull out of her.
"T... today is."
But Katarina grabbed my hand as I tried to withdraw.
When I stopped moving and stared down at her, she swallowed hard and looked up at me with a precarious expression.
"Today is a safe day."
"...Katarina?"
"You trust me... right?"
Her face flushed crimson, Katarina was asking me to prove my trust in her.
For a moment I hesitated, unsure how to respond—then I bit down hard and redoubled the act I'd just tried to stop.
"......Damn it."
Under normal circumstances, even when I bed a woman, I do my best to avoid ejaculating inside her.
Safe day or not, it makes no difference; considering the chance her words could be a lie or a miscalculation, pulling out was the wiser course.
But this act had begun as a way to confirm mutual trust in the first place.
My benefactor's daughter had relied on me and even given up her virginity. After all that, there was no way I could simply brush aside her words and carry on.
"Fine. I'll trust you."
I had to trust her.
If she put it that way, what choice did I have?
-Fwoosh—!
The moment the fluid burst inside her.
Her body, lips pressed tight against the sensation, slumped against the wall and crumpled to the ground.
"Ngh, ooh, nn‥...♥"
A pale pink liquid trickled from between her nether lips.
That mixture of blood and semen drove home the reality that I'd committed the two gravest missteps I was most wary of—both at once.
I took my benefactor's daughter's virginity, and finished inside her on top of it... damn, it really is a safe day, right?
"Katarina. Are you alright?"
A fierce surge of responsibility rose up inside me, and Katarina shakily struggled to her feet and faced me.
"Y-yes. I'm... fine. I can still go on......"
"......Katarina?"
"Y-yes. A... a little more."
It wouldn't have been strange to end it right there.
Yet instead, she stood on those trembling legs, turned her back toward me, and forced out her next words.
"To share... trust, this much... might not be enough......"
With limp hands she grasped her own buttocks and slowly spread them apart.
As the thick white fluid dripped from the gap she'd created, my eyes drifted upward to her face above.
"P-please... use this worthless body... to your heart's content....♥"
What stood there was no longer the action leader of the Anti-Human Coalition, nor the virgin ignorant of men.
Nothing more than a vulgar, shameless bitch maddened by lust, wagging her tail for a man.
***
The act stopped only after I had spilled my seed roughly three more times.
By the time we'd cleaned ourselves up and the heat had subsided, Katarina—now fully clothed and armed—faced me and spoke.
"...So that's what sex is."
Her tone was remarkably detached.
Yes, that was Katarina's first impression after finishing her first time—even after we'd intertwined our bodies so violently, so vulgarly that one might exaggerate it as shameless.
"......Are you really alright?"
"Yes, I'm fine. Compared to combat training, it was hardly a hardship."
Well, at some point, never mind exchanging trust, we were simply devouring each other's bodies like dogs.
So much so that even I forgot she was my benefactor's daughter... damn it. I never imagined Katarina, of all people, would be the one to propose we keep going.
"...Let me say this up front. The reason we could finish safely was because I adjusted your sensitivity. Usually, first experiences go badly—pain, inexperience, the works."
Right. If I thought about it, the fact our relationship had veered in that direction was partly my fault.
Even if I controlled her sensitivity, turning a virgin who couldn't even properly masturbate into practically a bitch in heat... it was good that my ability was strengthened by the drug Ymir gave me, but I needed practice reining it in properly going forward.
"I see. That explains why, despite the tearing inside, the pain wasn't severe... You have my gratitude, Dave."
Even when I raised that uncomfortable point out of guilt, Katarina only offered thanks.
There wasn't a trace of malice in the eyes that looked at me so clearly.
No, if anything, she looked like a puppy gazing at its owner while wagging its tail.
"It might be a bit late to say this now that it's all over, but......"
Uncomfortable under that gaze, I pressed her with the question once more.
"Was it really... alright for me to be your first?"
"Did I not say so before? I acknowledged you, and therefore decided it was fine to give you my first."
Katarina nonchalantly brushed her tied-up hair back at my unease.
I'd already grasped that her attitude wasn't simple politeness.
Yes, to keep pressing the point any further would be an insult to the former leader who taught her how to judge people.
"And also, it was... very......"
Just as I was revising my assessment, Katarina pulled her mask down slightly and let her words trail off.
"...Very...?"
"Yes. It felt very good. So much so that, had there been time, I would have wanted to entwine our bodies even longer."
Her gaze flicked toward me.
Beneath that mask, I caught the redness her mask couldn't fully hide, and I could read a hint of regret there.
Though she pretended to be calm, the afterglow of our earlier act wasn't entirely gone.
"But Dave... was it not the same for you?"
The timid question that followed.
To answer honestly, of course it was.
Not just the act itself, but being with her felt relatively easier on my mind compared to the others.
Unlike when I held them...
That was probably because she shared my circumstances.
"...We'll discuss that the next time an opportunity arises. Right now, there's something urgent to take care of."
"Next time... you say?"
"If our cooperation goes well, opportunities will be plentiful."
"Ah, yes. In that sense......"
Katarina belatedly understood my meaning and blushed.
Having hastily wrapped up the topic of our relationship that way, I moved on to the matters ahead.
"You said your subordinates are waiting underground?"
"Yes. After they finish their meal, they should remain in the mansion's bedchambers. They were to stand by until their orders come down."
"What those orders are... no, I don't need to ask in detail. I know exactly what that bastard is after."
He no doubt intends to mentally charm the hero party and use them as his pawns.
To lay the groundwork, he must have identified their identities and charmed a human authority figure to serve as a convenient client—setting himself up in his current position.
"...For all intents and purposes, it's safe to assume every servant in this mansion is under his thrall."
"I can't speak to his leadership or intellect, but his mind control ability alone is the greatest among the demonic race."
Great enough to reach officer rank among demons who specialize in mind control.
His resources were on a level my own—which only worked on a single individual—simply couldn't match.
Of course, that didn't change my assessment that he was a fool who relied solely on his inborn gifts.
The very fact he was trying to pull something against a hero party that hadn't even finished growing was proof of his idiocy.
"The silver lining is that, at least for now, he plans to stop at mere suggestion. I haven't heard the details either, but even if he schemes, I suspect he won't tamper too seriously—given that the other officers are watching the hero party closely."
"Let's hope so."
Yes, I desperately hoped he wasn't the kind of idiotic moron who'd aim for anything more.
I swallowed my anxiety and directed another question at Katarina.
"When does his real operation begin?"
"It's set for after bedtime, for now. A start time has been fixed, so preparations will commence right after I return."
"...Good."
If we had even a little breathing room, we could devise countermeasures.
Having made my decision, I prepared to leave the room and gave Katarina her final orders.
"Katarina, return underground and rejoin your group for now. Don't reveal my existence if possible, and simply play along with the operation as originally intended."
"Leaving aside concealing your identity... if the operation proceeds, harm will come to the hero party. Are you fine with that?"
"Don't worry. I haven't been idly passing my time with them either."
I slowly raised my hand before her eyes.
As if feeling mental pressure from the faint power radiating from it, her body briefly wobbled on the spot.
Yes, since she'd been directly exposed to my power, she would understand—that I, too, had a certain capacity to deal with mind-altering abilities.
"My output is inferior to a demon's, but I can counter it to a degree. If he limits himself to mere suggestion, I should be able to soften its effects."
Completely blocking it might risk detection, so that would be reckless, but as long as I could stop him from running wild, it would be possible without him noticing.
"Yes. You can certainly do it."
Trusting my words, Katarina prepared to leave.
Her body was about to melt into the darkness of the room with her unique infiltration art, but—
"...Dave. One last thing."
Just before she vanished, Katarina stopped and glanced back at me.
"Before we cooperate in earnest... allow me to ask one more thing."
There was a considerable hint of unease in her voice.
Even though we'd already settled things, could that attitude mean she was worried this joint operation wouldn't go smoothly?
"Once you successfully lead the hero party and deal with that bastard... you will return to our organization, won't you?"
No. She was thinking about what came after.
Because so much time had passed since we were last face to face, there was no guarantee our current trust would endure.
"Why do you ask?"
"Because you seemed to be enjoying yourself with them."
"......."
"I only ask on the off chance... but have you grown attached while spending time with them...?"
"Katarina."
A perfectly accurate observation.
I felt a sting from it, but what came out of my mouth was not a firm denial of her words.
"The Anti-Human Coalition is the last bastion for those who can no longer depend on their fellow humans."
I could have denied it with a lie, but I simply stated the facts.
Whether the coming operation goes well, or whatever feelings I might hold for those girls.
"Walking a river I can never cross back over... do you truly think, at this point, I could sincerely be with anyone other than you and the coalition?"
My departure from their side was, for all intents and purposes, already set in stone.