Chapter 174: Revenge
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 174: Revenge
“Do you want to know why?”
“Wh-What?”
“Remember a few months ago, when you tried to rape a woman, failed, killed her grandfather, and ran away?”
“What?! Wh-What are you talking about?!”
“Yes. Looks like you remember. That woman is mine now.”
Sara, who had been standing behind Pots, moved to Guwon’s side.
“It’s been a while. We’ve finally met again.”
“Y-You’re that…woman from back then…?”
Even after seeing Sara’s uncovered face, Pots looked uncertain, as though he wasn’t sure she was the same woman.
Naturally, that expression infuriated Sara.
“You can’t even remember the face of the woman you tried to rape? Just how many times have you done that…?”
Sara raised her hand to strike him, but Guwon hurriedly caught it.
If you hit him now, it’ll leave a record. Just hold on a little longer.
“N-No! Your face is different from back then…!”
I see. Come to think of it, Sara’s level had risen beyond comparison since then.
Naturally, that meant she had become so much prettier that she was almost unrecognizable.
Since I’d been living and growing stronger alongside her the whole time, I hadn’t really noticed the difference.
“Fine. So, how does it feel? To have someone precious to you taken away?”
Sara forced a cold expression onto her face as she questioned Pots.
But her hands were trembling, and her eyes were bloodshot.
She looked ready to tear Pots apart right then and there.
“You…you did that to Kate for a reason like that?!”
But Pots still hadn’t come to his senses, judging by the garbage coming out of his mouth.
“What? You…”
“Fuck! It was only an attempt! You weren’t raped in the end! Some bitch who didn’t even put out thinks she can take revenge…!”
“You killed my grandfather!”
“That crazy old bastard shouldn’t have attacked me! An adventurer like me was offering to raise his granddaughter’s level and give her a better life…”
“Ugh!”
Sara, who had been pretending to stay calm, tried to rush at Pots as though she couldn’t bear another word.
Of course, Guwon hugged her tightly and held her back before she could.
“Sara, calm down. If you kill this bastard here, everything we’ve done will go to waste.”
Sara took several harsh, heaving breaths, then finally burst into tears.
“Well, I’m glad you’re still trash to the very end. It makes corrupting Kate feel all the more worthwhile.”
“C-Corrupting…?”
“That’s right. It’s your fault. She’s become incapable of going even a moment without a man fucking her. If I left her alone now, she might go out naked into the middle of the street and let any man have her. That’s all your fault too.”
“D-Don’t be ridiculous! Kate would never…”
“The only reason she didn’t act that way around you was that I kept her satisfied. Before she did it with you, and afterward too. Especially afterward—she’d get even more frustrated and go wild. Hey, remember how happy you were when Kate was dripping white fluid? That was my semen.”
“Wh-Wh…!”
“And before that, remember when you talked to me while I was in the bathroom? Kate was sitting on top of me then too, moaning her head off. She was begging me to cool down her filthy body because a premature ejaculator like Pots couldn’t satisfy her.”
“A-Aaaaaaah! Aaaaaaah! Fuuuuck!”
After all that provocation, Pots finally seemed to find the strength to get angry.
Yes. Get angry. Your despair is nice, but I wanted to see your ugly face twisted with rage too.
Sara’s anger isn’t going to end with just this.
Neither is mine, of course.
“Go on, struggle all you like. Watch closely as your beloved Kate moans on my cock.”
“Haaah! Aah! It feels so good! Guwon’s cooock!”
“Aaaaaah! Fuuuuck! You bastard! Stop! Stooop! Hey, you! You said you were his woman! Are you fine with your man fucking another woman?! Stop him! Stop hiiim!”
“Of course it hurts. It feels like my insides are being torn apart. But…”
Seeing his pathetic state seemed to ease Sara’s anger a little. She answered coldly, without losing control as she had earlier.
“Watching that trashy face of yours twist into something even trashier makes me feel a little better. So don’t worry about me. Watch carefully as your former woman falls into being a sex-crazed sow.”
“Aaaaaah! I’ll kill you! Fuuuuck! I’ll kill yooou!”
For a while after that, I continued putting on an extravagant show with Kate in front of Pots.
During that time, Pots broke down completely. He tore at his own hair and did nothing but repeat Kate’s name in a deranged voice.
“Kate…Kaaate…Kaaaate…”
Of course, I felt not the slightest sympathy.
In the end, he was just a piece of trash who had never properly regretted his own crimes, grieving only when something happened to him.
What was there to sympathize with?
No, more importantly, would you finally notice already?
How long am I supposed to keep fucking her? Kate’s getting so tired she’s about to collapse.
Your hands are free, you bastard!
You’re tearing out your own hair and you still haven’t noticed?! Come at me already!
Let’s finish this!
This was the final part of our plan.
We would make Pots attack me first.
Of course it was dangerous, but I trusted my Durability and, above all, my Saint skills.
That was why I had held back without coming even once throughout all this sex with Kate.
Even if I received a wound fatal enough to threaten my life, I could heal it with Healing Sex by coming immediately.
That would give me the justification I needed to kill Pots in self-defense.
To be honest, Sara had strongly opposed this last part of the plan.
Not because she objected to killing Pots, of course, but because it put me in too much danger.
But there was no other way to make certain we could kill him.
And leaving him alive had never been an option for me.
You never know what might happen in life.
Even someone like me, who had lived in an ordinary world, could end up in a world identical to the one inside a game.
If we left him alive to suffer for the rest of his life, there was still a chance he might pull himself together and take revenge on us.
And that revenge could pose a deadly threat.
As long as even that slight possibility remained, it was better to end his life here for certain.
Sara suggested several alternatives, such as luring him out and letting monsters kill him, but every one of them was too uncertain.
The only sure way was to kill him with my own hands.
I’d be lying if I said I had no fear of killing someone, but I doubted I would feel much guilt over killing trash like him.
Especially after seeing the attitude he’d shown Sara earlier, my resolve only grew stronger.
So come on, you piece of trash. Attack me already.
“Ghhhhh…a-ah, aaah?”
After screaming himself completely hoarse, he finally seemed to realize his hands were free. He lowered them from his hair and stared at them.
I deliberately pretended not to notice and moved my hips even more enthusiastically.
“How is it? Feels good, right? Keep telling him how it feels!”
“Mmm! So goo—aaah…!”
“Hee, heehee, eeeeeek!”
He grinned at his freed hands, then suddenly produced a knife from somewhere, cut the cord binding his legs, and charged at me.
Good! You piece of trash! This is what I’ve been waiting for…!
“N-Nooooo!”
Just when I thought everything was going according to plan, Kate suddenly raised her upper body and put herself between Pots and me.
“Ghh…kh…ghhh…”
With the sound of the knife piercing flesh, bloody foam began spilling from Kate’s mouth.
Damn it! What are you doing?! I told you beforehand that we were going to drive him mad enough to attack me! Did all that pleasure make you lose your senses?! Fuck!
First, I hurriedly shoved Pots away.
Pots, who apparently hadn’t imagined he would stab Kate, sank to the floor with the knife still gripped tightly in his hand.
“K-Ka…a-ah, aaaah…”
I could see his despair, but I had no time to worry about that now.
Not yet. It isn’t too late.
Fortunately, I had already prepared insurance against a fatal injury.
Of course, I had expected to be the one injured, but that insurance would work perfectly well for Kate too.
My insurance called Healing Sex.
I immediately activated every skill I could and did everything possible to bring Kate to climax.
Fortunately, her body had grown steadily more sensitive, so even in this situation it wasn’t too difficult to make her climax again.
Good. Just a few more times like this…!
“Aaaaaaaaah!”
While I was concentrating on healing Kate, I heard that scream from in front of me.
But I didn’t even look that way. I devoted myself entirely to treating her.
After several climaxes, Kate’s complexion finally began to settle.
“Whew. My heart’s still pounding. Who would have thought something so unexpected would happen right at the end, after everything had gone so well?”
As Guwon muttered and raised his head, another unexpected sight greeted him.
Pots had driven the knife deep into his own ear.
“Sara, what happened?”
“…He took his own life.”
I see. He killed himself before I even had to act.
He had been the worst kind of trash to the very end, but apparently his feelings for Kate, at least, had been sincere.
Did that mean we had taken the ultimate revenge?
Still, the ending left me feeling more uneasy than if I had killed him myself.
Well, what’s done is done.
Even if I’d acted in self-defense, the guild would probably be less suspicious this way than if I had killed him with my own hands.
“Mmm…”
“Kate! Are you all right?!”
Guwon had frozen for a moment at the unexpected outcome, but Kate’s groan quickly brought him back to his senses, and he turned to her.
“A-Ah…G-Guwon…Pots…”
Kate opened her eyes and murmured, her face paling slightly at the sight before her.
“Yes… In the end, that’s what he chose…”
She no longer had feelings for Pots, and she had known we intended to kill him, but a man she had once dated had still committed suicide right before her eyes. It must have been quite a shock. Kate stared blankly at his corpse.
The aftermath was surprisingly simple.
When an adventurer affiliated with the dungeon city harmed another adventurer affiliated with it, a record was left.
Apparently, that system worked the same way when someone harmed themselves.
Pots’s adventurer card clearly recorded his suicide. After a brief guild investigation, the case was closed as a suicide following a romantic dispute.
“Kate, are you all right?”
“Yes. Well, I knew it would end like this from the moment I agreed to help you. Besides, I’m an adventurer too. I’m not as fragile as you seem to think. I see corpses all the time.”
Those are monster corpses, though, not human ones.
But the atmosphere made it impossible to say that.
Today, the face of the lust-crazed Kate who had become so obsessed with sex and pleasure with me somehow looked different.
“Actually, I feel a little relieved too. We worked so hard all this time, didn’t we? It feels like we’ve finally finished something.”
Kate even said that as though she were trying to comfort me.
No, there’s no need to comfort me.
I just think the unexpected ending has left a bad taste in my mouth.
“So…what are you going to do now?”
Kate and Pots had been adventuring as a pair. Naturally, she couldn’t keep adventuring alone, so she must have felt at a loss now that Pots was dead.
“I wonder. What should I do?”
Kate looked at Guwon as though she wanted him to suggest something.
Guwon understood what that look meant.
Strictly speaking, their relationship had only been a matter of cooperating for mutual benefit.
Now that his business with her was finished, he could simply part ways with her without another thought.
But Guwon didn’t think he could reject Kate so coldly.
More than anything, she had protected me at the end. Kate later apologized for ruining the plan, but she was so attached to me that she had instinctively protected me even while out of her mind.
If we parted like this, would Kate really be able to live a normal life?
It wasn’t that I had been so moved by her that I’d developed romantic feelings. But I did at least feel enough sympathy to worry about how she would live from now on.
Still, if we didn’t part ways, what was I supposed to do?
Include her in the party and take her along, as she clearly wanted?
Bring in a mage our party had no need for, just out of pity?
Leaving Sara aside, I had no way of convincing Diana and Leia.
I desperately racked my brain for some kind of compromise.