Chapter 387: A Demon God in the Dungeon?
Chapter 387: A Demon God in the Dungeon?
Waking up early again today, I pulled Leia closer and savored the comforting warmth of her body in my arms.
Every one of my girls feels amazing to hold.
And what’s more, each of them felt wonderful in her own unique way.
In Leia’s case, she was endlessly soft and warm. Just holding her like this brought a sense of peace to my heart.
Plus, the soft, full feeling of her breasts pressing against my chest was enough to grant a man infinite happiness.
I’m so happy. Last night was the best, too.
Well, the training to control her Gumiho powers kind of fizzled out because I got a little too needy, but we can always take our time with that.
And I’m sure it wasn’t just me; Leia must have felt good, too.
The way she was grinding her hips in her Gumiho state… there’s no way she didn’t enjoy it.
“Mmm…”
As I was peacefully passing the time, stroking Leia’s long, blonde hair, her eyes fluttered open.
“...Ah...”
“Sleep well?”
“Y-Yes… Did you sleep well?”
Hm? Something about her reaction feels off.
“Leia? What’s wrong?”
“Huh? Ah, it’s nothing… No, it’s just…”
Leia tried to brush it off, but then seemed to change her mind.
Still, she hesitated, finding it difficult to speak.
“L-Leia? Don’t tell me you didn’t enjoy last night…”
“What? N-No! It’s not that! I felt good! It was amazing…! D-Don’t… don’t make me say such strange things. Really, Guwon…”
As she spoke, her face flushed red, and her tail swished up and down, gently slapping against my thigh.
So precious. Well, she’s always like that.
Anyway, that’s a relief. For a second there, I panicked, thinking I was the only one having fun.
But if it’s not that, then what is it?
We definitely had a great time last night before falling asleep.
There’s no reason for her to be acting like this right after waking up.
“Um… Guwon. Actually, there’s something I need to tell you.”
“Hm? Something to tell me? What is it?”
“Well… after hearing what you said yesterday, something occurred to me.”
“What I said yesterday?”
“What you heard from the Hero. About how a Demon God ruled the world in the past.”
And what Leia brought up was completely unexpected.
She has a hunch about that?
“But… Guwon. I know it’s cheap of me to ask this before I even tell you. But can you promise me? After you hear what I have to say… please, don’t hate me.”
Leia looked at me with a terrified expression, as if being hated by me was the scariest thing in the world.
“Don’t worry. I don’t know what this is about, but there’s absolutely no way I could ever hate you.”
I gently caressed her cheek to help her relax and answered with all my heart.
I might be a fickle guy, but I was confident that this feeling, at least, would never change.
I mean, come on. How could I ever hate my angel?
“…You see. When I’m in my Gumiho state, I don’t absorb life force to satisfy my lust. It’s actually the opposite. My lust intensifies as my body prepares itself to be in the best condition to absorb life force.”
Yeah, that makes sense.
Thinking back to the first time she transformed, she didn’t just jump me for sex. She focused on absorbing my life force.
Just through kissing or fellatio.
If it were just increased lust, she would have gone for penetration right away.
“And the reason I absorb life force in my Gumiho state is… to kill my partner.”
“H-Huh?”
“Please, Guwon. Please don’t hate me. I, I…”
“W-Wait. There’s no way I’d hate you. It’s okay. That will never happen. So just calm down and explain it to me slowly.”
Seeing her terrified state, I quickly tried to soothe her.
“Well… because you comforted me back then, I’ve been trying to forget about it… but what we talked about yesterday and what we did last night brought it all back. I haven’t been feeling that way at all recently…”
Huh? I comforted her back then? When?
…Ah. Now that I think about it, there was that one time. Leia was suddenly down after sex, and I told her it was okay.
I think that was… the first time Leia retained her memories after transforming into a Gumiho, right?
So that’s why she was so dejected. She realized she’d felt killing intent after transforming.
And I, completely oblivious, comforted her so earnestly that she was able to overcome it.
“Wait. So absorbing life force isn’t essential for a Gumiho to live, but…”
“No, I do think I need to absorb some life force to live. But I don’t need to absorb that much just to survive. The reason I absorb so much is to kill my partner. My Gumiho state doesn’t end because I’m satisfied after absorbing enough life force. It ends because I’ve exceeded my limit and simply can’t absorb any more.”
Hearing it put like that was chilling. To think the purpose was to kill from the very beginning.
No. I mean, it doesn’t really matter since I’ll never die from it.
Right. Nothing to be scared of. If I act scared, it’ll only make Leia more uncomfortable.
I decided to act like it was no big deal.
“Well, since I’ll never die from it, it doesn’t really matter. And since you’ll only be with me, it matters even less.”
“…Guwon… thank you so much.”
As if she understood why I’d said that, Leia hugged me, her face filled with emotion.
“It’s nothing.”
“I really love you… The reason I brought this up is… I think my race, the Gumiho, might also be a race from that Demon God era. I thought, maybe this could be some kind of clue…”
Ah, I see. So that’s where this is going.
The era ruled by the War God was an age where you leveled up through combat.
In other words, you had to kill your opponent to gain EXP and level up, just like in a normal game.
If that’s the case, then the urge to kill a partner while in Gumiho form makes perfect sense.
Does that mean Leia is also a race from the War God’s era?
The Gumiho’s racial traits fit so well with the Goddess’s world that I’d never even considered it.
They’re a race centered around sexual acts. How could I have ever connected them to the War God?
Oh, wait a minute. If that’s true, it solves another mystery.
The reason Leia’s level was so high when we first met, even though she was a virgin.
What if Sara gaining a lot of EXP from combat isn’t a Hero trait, but a racial trait?
Sure, the Hero skill ‘Hero’s Bloodline’ is part of it, but what if the races from the War God’s era simply still gain a lot of levels through combat?
That would explain Leia’s level from the start.
The men who died trying to sleep with her before she met me. She must have leveled up by killing them.
The High Priestess definitely said they died.
Then it makes sense that her level shot up so much at once.
I probably shouldn’t tell Leia about this, though.
Of course, I can’t be certain she levels up through combat based on that one instance alone.
But I had another suspicion.
A suspicion that it wasn’t the only time she’d leveled up through combat.
After all, Leia was the first of my girls to hit level 100.
I thought it was a little strange back then, but I convinced myself it was because we had sex so much each time. Looking back now, that probably wasn’t it.
Leia usually doesn’t participate directly in combat, but there was one time she did.
In the ant nest, when Silvia was badly injured.
There was no front or rear line in that situation, so Leia must have joined the fight, fending off the approaching ants.
If so, everything makes perfect sense.
So Leia does level up through combat.
In that case, it means I have two people from the War God’s era by my side.
Sara the Majin and Leia the Gumiho.
Wait. Now that I think about it, the Goddess definitely…
“Leia. You said you don’t feel the urge to kill anymore, right?”
“Yes. It’s true. Please believe me.”
“Of course, I believe you. So, about that feeling. Did it fade away gradually? Or did it disappear all at once? If it’s the latter, do you know when?”
“Huh? Well, that was… definitely after I received the Apostle Appointment…”
Just as I thought. The time she started to maintain her sanity completely in her Gumiho state was also right after the Apostle Appointment.
And the Goddess had definitely praised me for giving the Apostle Appointment to the Hero and the Gumiho—that is, Sara and Leia. She left Diana out of that specific praise.
No, to be precise, she did praise what I did with Diana, but that was specifically for gaining infinite life.
I thought it was a little strange back then how she singled out Sara and Leia to praise their Apostle Appointments, but now the reason is clear.
She praised me because they were both races from the War God’s era.
As my thoughts reached that point, another hypothesis surfaced in my mind.
It’s a common trope.
The one where representatives of all the races gather to pray, and a god descends to the mortal plane.
So, what if my role is to find and gather the races of the War God’s era and take them to the deepest part of the dungeon? Something like that?
The Apostle Appointment could even be the act of branding them as racial representatives.
By doing so, the Demon God awakens, and I’m the one who has to finish it off.
Damn it. This means the situation could be even more serious than I predicted yesterday.
I still have to face a Demon God, but now there’s a chance that not only Sara, but Leia too, will be in danger.
In this kind of scenario, the cliché is that the representatives who awakened the Demon God either fall under its control and become our enemies, or they have their life force drained on the spot.
Shit. Can I really trust the Goddess?
“Guwon?”
But the angel before me would surely trust the Goddess unconditionally.
Now that it’s come to this, I have no choice but to keep my wits about me.
No matter what happens, I will stop Sara and Leia from falling into danger.
“Leia. Don’t worry. I’ll protect you, no matter what.”
“Th-Thank you. But more than that… can you forgive me? For hiding something so important until now…”
“What’s there to forgive? You didn’t know it was connected to the War God, did you? Besides, since I can’t die from sex anyway, there was no need to talk about it. I don’t mind at all.”
“Guwon… thank you so much. I can’t even begin to describe what a blessing it is to have met you… It must be the Goddess’s guidance.”
“Yeah. I think meeting you is a huge blessing for me, too. I love you.”
The problem is, I’m starting to think it really might be the Goddess’s guidance.
No. Thinking back to what the Goddess said then, it seemed like meeting my girls was a coincidence.
But with the way things are going, I’m starting to doubt even her attitude from back then.
What if her words and actions were all an act?
Right. Now that I think about it, she seemed too naive for a goddess.
Getting all dejected just because I said I didn’t read the terms and conditions or whatever during the game installation.
In fact, maybe there were no terms and conditions when I installed the game.
You have to love someone to grant an Apostle Appointment.
And if you have to use the person you love as a sacrifice to awaken a Demon God, no one in their right mind would agree to come to this world.
“Guwon… I really love you, too. Mmm… smooch.”
Of course, making sure not to reveal any of my complicated inner thoughts, I gently welcomed Leia’s tongue into my mouth.
“Oh? It moved.”
Of course it moved.
No matter how complicated my thoughts are, when I’m naked and connected to my angel, holding her and kissing her like this, my lower body is bound to react.
I’m not weird, right? This is normal for a guy, isn’t it?
“Um… if you can’t hold back, should we go one more time before we eat?”
I don’t think I need to explain what happened after that.
That’s right! We did it! I was having all these serious thoughts, and I still gave in to my desires!
My angel was tempting me like that! How could I possibly refuse!
It’s all my angel’s fault for being so damn seductive