Chapter 325: Guwon’s Counterattack
Chapter 325: Guwon’s Counterattack
“Alright, I’m starting.”
I pulled Matilda’s body tight against mine and, as if to trick my own guilt, gave myself over to the pleasure.
“Hngh! Ahhn! Hnngh!”
Since both Matilda and I were already worked up to the limit, it didn't take long for us to reach our peaks.
“Khk!”
“Ahhn! Ah, ahh… Hnngh!”
As I came, Matilda’s face filled with pure bliss. She clung to me tightly as she, too, reached her peak.
Even after Matilda climaxed, I didn’t immediately think to check if the curse was broken. I simply deactivated the Saint’s full power and held her tightly.
I couldn't bring myself to do something as crass as checking on the curse right away, at least not in this moment.
“Hah, haah, haah… That was… amazing…”
“Thanks. You were very beautiful, too.”
Matilda, who was in my arms basking in the afterglow, caught her breath a little and then spoke, peppering my neck with kisses.
I could only stroke her hair as she kissed my neck.
Matilda continued kissing me for a while, but as my erection began to fade, she had no choice but to pull away, looking disappointed.
But she still reached out an arm to gently press down on my chest, keeping me from getting up, and slowly moved between my legs.
Then, lying at an angle to hide the left side of her body under the covers, she brought her mouth to my Dick, which was messy with her fluids and mine, and began to lick away the liquid clinging to it.
Right. I might have sweet-talked her into bed with words of love, but I’d already made the objective clear.
And even though she fell for the sweet talk, Matilda must remember that, too.
That’s why, to enjoy this time for even a little longer, she was trying to hide the marks of the curse.
Feeling a pang of pity for her, I simply stared at the ceiling and reached a hand down to stroke her hair.
Judging by the feel of her lips on my Dick, she was probably smiling.
“Thank you.”
After completely cleaning me, Matilda lifted her mouth and thanked me in a small voice.
Then, as if to make a point, she placed a foot on either side of my waist and stood up on the bed.
She was covering herself with her hand, probably not out of shyness, but to keep the semen I’d shot inside her from leaking out and dirtying my body.
Other than that, as if she had nothing else to hide, Matilda confidently showed me the left side of her body.
And on the left half of Matilda's body, the marks of the curse remained, just as they were.
From her left arm, down her torso, to her leg.
The black scars still completely covered the left side of her body.
“That’s a bit disappointing.”
Matilda said with a slightly bitter expression, stroking her scars with her right hand.
“So sex wasn't the way to break the curse…”
“Hmph. How disappointing for you. After all that effort.”
And just like that, Matilda reverted to her usual, slightly aggressive tone, speaking with an arrogant expression.
But it was obviously a front.
I see. So that attitude really was an act.
“Still, you’re better than the others. You’re really not affected by this curse at all. Thanks to that, it seems my curse hasn’t spread any further either…”
“Wait. What did you just say?”
Hearing her words, which I couldn't just ignore, I shot up and grabbed her by the shoulders.
“Ye-yes? What is it?”
Matilda, who had been putting on an arrogant act, was flustered as her expression instantly shattered, but I paid it no mind.
“What do you mean, the curse spreads?”
“W-well… every time another man is affected by this curse, the scars on my body spread a little. At first, it was just this scar on my lower abdomen, but with every man who became a victim, it spread little by little without me realizing…”
As she spoke, Matilda pointed to a scar on her lower abdomen that looked like a coiled snake.
“A little at a time… how much?”
“I-I’m not sure… Just, so faintly that you can’t really tell just by glancing at it.”
“Th-then just how many men have you… made impotent so far?”
“I-I couldn’t help it! How many years do you think I’ve had this curse?! Besides, this curse makes me fall for men easily! Even for someone like you…!” Matilda shouted with a mortified expression.
No, this doesn't make sense even if it were decades, not just years.
For the scars to spread so imperceptibly that they now cover the entire left side of her body, she must have made at least several hundred men impotent.
Don't you dare blame the curse.
I felt a little dumbfounded, but her last statement gave me something else I needed to confirm.
“Matilda.”
Once again, I pushed Matilda down onto the bed.
“Kyaa! Wh-what is it? Your business with me is over…”
“Doesn’t matter.”
Actually, it did matter, but I felt bad for making Matilda feel the same way as before, so I deliberately lied.
“B-but you don’t really love me…”
At that, Matilda's voice became noticeably unstable.
Her gaze grew a little hazy, too. I seriously doubted she could function in daily life.
No, she probably can't, which is why the curse's scars have spread this far.
“At least when I was holding you, it was true that I found you lovely. Or did my actions feel like a complete lie? The pleasure, too?”
As I said that, I used the Saint’s full power again.
And I made a resolution.
If my prediction is correct, then she'll have no choice but to go along with it anyway…
There was no guarantee my prediction was right, but I had a baseless conviction that it would be.
My intuition in times like these is right a surprisingly high percentage of the time.
Yeah. So this should be fine.
Thinking that, the guilt I'd felt until a moment ago lessened a bit.
It might just be self-justification, but at least it wouldn't be a complete lie anymore.
“N-no, it wasn't that… You…”
Matilda's voice turned sweet and coquettish again.
“Right. That's why I want to do it again. You want to as well, don't you, Matilda?”
“Yes…”
I kissed Matilda's neck as I held her on the bed, and then inserted myself into her again.
“Haahng!”
“Matilda. You’re beautiful.”
“Ahh… Yes… Y-you too… Hngh! Very…”
Matilda let out a sweet sigh and likewise started peppering my neck with kisses.
To an outsider, it might have been a slightly ridiculous sight.
The two of us, connected while sitting facing each other, kissing each other's necks instead of our lips.
But we kissed each other's necks with true passion and sincerity.
“Hah! Haang! Hnngh! Wh-what is this… Th-this feeling… Hnngh! Why…!”
Matilda sobbed as if she couldn't bear it, even as she buried her face in my neck and kept kissing me.
Ugh. Hey. Don't move your hips like that.
Your level is high, so if you move like that, I'll finish quickly too…
Of course, there was no need to hold back. I had to cum multiple times to confirm it anyway.
But still, coming first would be a blow to my pride.
No matter how much higher Matilda's level was than mine.
I started using not just the Saint’s full power, but every other active skill I had.
“Hnngh! More… and more… Ah, ahht… Haaanngh!”
In the end, I managed to make Matilda climax right before I came.
“Beautiful, Matilda.”
“Ah, ahh… Ahhhh…”
Hearing my words with hazy eyes, Matilda clung to me with a truly blissful smile.
“N-no! I can't! Haaanng!”
And how much time passed?
Matilda, who had already climaxed more times than I could count, finally passed out the moment she came.
I did it. I did it!
Feeling a sense of satisfaction at having made someone with a much higher level than me pass out first, I pulled out of her.
Of course, I'd also come an incredible amount.
Since I could go on indefinitely with Revived Pride, I didn't even think of holding back, coming inside Matilda whenever the urge hit.
Thanks to that, when I pulled out, a thick, white liquid gushed from her vulva.
The erotic sight made me swell up again, but I suppressed the urge and checked the time in the corner of my vision.
6 PM… So we skipped lunch and went at it all the way until dinner.
I'm in big trouble.
The girls must have thought I'd just be in and out after a quick check.
Well, it's true that I was doing it all this time for the sake of confirming things.
They'll listen to my excuse later, right?
I'm about to drop a much bigger bomb than just being gone for a long time, so there's no point in being scared over this now.
First, I decided to observe Matilda's unconscious body.
And, just as I thought, I could confirm my prediction was correct.
The marks of the curse etched on Matilda's body had receded a little.
The ends of the marks covering her arms and legs, bit by bit.
Even if it was just a little, we'd been at it for quite a while, so they'd shrunk by about the length of two finger joints.
No, maybe I should say they only shrunk by two finger joints after all that.
Anyway, I’d figured out how to get rid of the curse.
In short, it meant that sex was the method to break the curse.
The problem was that I had to have sex as many times as the number of men affected by the curse.
Yeah. I had a feeling it would be something like that.
Perhaps because of the sex I had today, a few of the men who were affected by the curse might have been freed from it.
I'd know for sure if I went to the temple tomorrow and checked.
For now, I picked up Matilda's body and headed for the bathtub in the room.
Matilda didn't regain consciousness even by the time I finished washing her.
I laid her on the bed, covered her with a blanket, and left the room.
I knew it would be gentlemanly to stay by her side until she woke up, but I had things to do.
And it would be better to resolve this matter without Matilda present.
Having her here would probably just complicate things.
Since it was dinnertime anyway, I headed straight for the dining hall.
I'd intended to go first and wait, but surprisingly, everyone was already gathered there.
“You're quite late.”
“Yeah. It took a while to confirm things.”
“Confirm? You weren't just lost in sex?”
Both Diana and Sara looked quite angry. Even Leia was looking at me with slightly anxious eyes.
Of course they were angry. The guy who went in right after breakfast didn't come out until dinnertime. I get it.
“Listen. The thing is, sex was the key to breaking the curse.”
“What?! Then even after breaking the curse, you…!”
“No. But doing it just once wasn't enough. Besides, the curse isn't fully broken.”
“…What do you mean by that?”
“It seems I have to have sex a number of times equal to the number of men who were rendered impotent by Matilda's curse. I've been at it this whole time without a break to confirm that, and the curse marks have only shrunk by about the length of two finger joints.”
“What…?! Then does that mean that many people have been affected by Lady Matilda's curse?!”
Diana looked quite surprised, as if she hadn't known the details either.
Still, after hearing my story, she seemed to understand why it took so long, and her anger appeared to have subsided.
Well, I figured they'd understand since there was a legitimate reason for it.
They were the ones who told me it was okay if it was unavoidable in the first place.
But what I was about to say now was a little different.
I felt my palms grow damp with nervous sweat as I continued speaking.
“It seems that's the case. So, about that…”
As I trailed off, they all looked at me with expressions that said they’d realized something.
“It looks like I'm going to have to take Matilda in, just like Silvia.”