Chapter 412: The Succubus’s Circumstances
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 412: The Succubus’s Circumstances
After sending Silvia back to the castle, I was lost in thought.
Should I really tell the girls what I just heard from Silvia?
My original plan was to confess to Diana about the bet and nullify my promise to accompany her to the castle.
But now, the situation had gotten way out of hand.
With things having escalated this far, imagine if I tried to say, ‘Sorry. I only said I’d think about it, not that I’d actually have sex with you, right?’ The furious princess probably wouldn’t just let it go.
There was a good chance she’d go on a rampage, not caring about Diana or anyone else.
And if nullifying the bet was impossible, it was obvious how my girls would react when they found out.
They had given me permission to have sex with other women, but only under the premise that it was absolutely necessary.
But this bet with Felicia was something I had provoked for no real reason. If they found out…
Damn it. That Felicia. Making things unnecessarily complicated.
No matter how I thought about it, the conclusion was clear: it was best if my girls didn’t find out.
The only thing that bothered me was that I had just learned this morning the valuable lesson that it’s best not to keep secrets.
Ugh… I honestly don’t want to, but maybe I really should just tell them.
If they find out later, I’ll probably get even more flak.
Right. Let’s just say it.
Once I made up my mind, I acted quickly.
There’s a saying about it being better to get the beating over with, after all.
I immediately clapped my hands and called out in a loud voice.
“Vanessa!”
“…What is it, sir?”
“Huh? Oh, Vanessa? You seem to be in a bad mood today for some reason. Is something wrong?”
Honestly, it was still hard to read Vanessa’s expression, but I felt like the ‘…’ before she spoke was longer than usual.
I was just taking a shot in the dark, but after hearing my question, Vanessa replied as if she had no choice now that she’d been caught.
“Please refrain from clapping your hands and calling my name as if I were a dog.”
So the reason she was in a bad mood was me.
“Sorry, sorry. But isn’t it nice? A puppy. They’re cute.”
“…What did you call me for?”
I tried to lighten the mood by indirectly calling her cute, but of course, that kind of thing had no effect on our super-butler.
“Ah, right. Sorry. I’ll stop joking around. Could you gather everyone here? Sara, Diana, Leia, and Matilda.”
“Understood. However, Lady Leia has just stepped out.”
“What? Already? Alright. Then just call the others. I’ll go get Leia.”
I’d heard her say she was going to the temple during breakfast, but I didn’t think she would have left so soon.
I hurriedly left the mansion to catch up to Leia.
Vanessa said she had just left, so I should be able to catch her in no time on foot.
With that thought, I quickly ran towards the temple.
“It’s the Sa-Saint!”
Not long after I started running, I heard someone spot me and shout at the top of their lungs.
Huh? Oh, crap! Damn it! I was in such a hurry I forgot to put on my robe!
And I don’t know where they were all hiding, but in an instant, a crowd of sweaty men began to surround me.
“S-Saint! When on earth can we be saved?!”
“You said after you break the curse! Don’t we get a concrete schedule?!”
Aaargh! I need to chase after my angel, so don’t block my way! This is so damn annoying!
“Everyone, be quiet!”
I gave up trying to push through the crowd, stopped in my tracks, and shouted.
I can’t take this anymore. Salvation, my ass. They can all go eat shit!
For the record, I’m not cussing myself out here.
“As I have only one body, it is not so easy a task to save everyone!”
“S-Saint! Then…!”
At my sharp rebuke, a wave of agitation spread through the crowd.
That’s right, you bastards. There’s no such thing as free salvation in this world. Shove it.
But if I actually said that here, I probably wouldn’t be able to get away easily.
Of course, I could just force my way through.
Most of the ones wanting my salvation were likely low-level guys.
But with the Pope himself having acknowledged me as the Goddess’s messenger, I couldn’t just act recklessly.
In this world, it wasn’t a joke; I might actually receive divine punishment.
“Therefore! Even while I am in the middle of breaking the curse, I am constantly thinking! How can I, by myself, save everyone! And, I have finally come up with a plan!”
It wasn’t exactly a lie.
I had come up with the idea of filming a sex-ed video before.
“O-Ooooh! As expected of the Saint! Th-Then!”
“However, to execute this plan, there are still too many things I need. There is so much to prepare. The time is not yet right.”
Mainly, I was short on actresses. And more actresses.
“I-If that’s the case! Is there anything we can do to help?!”
Someone threw out that question, but I just shook my head from side to side.
You guys can’t even properly satisfy one woman, how the hell are you going to find a woman to star in a sex-ed video?
Besides, it wasn’t like just any woman would do. There were quite a few conditions.
And among those conditions was that she had to be high-level.
A high-level woman naturally has high pride.
There was no way guys like them could find a woman like that.
“I promise you that salvation will come one day. But for now, you must trust me and wait. The more you block my path like this, the further away the time of salvation will become.”
“U-Ugh! W-We’re sorry!”
When I told them to piss off in a roundabout way, the people finally began to clear a path in a hurry.
Right. If you’d just done this from the start.
Though it was at a significantly slower pace than when they had swarmed me, the street soon returned to its original state.
However, while they were no longer crowding me, every single one of them put their hands together and began praying in my direction.
Stop it. What are you doing, praying to a living person?
Doing that isn’t going to speed up your salvation.
No. In the first place, I doubt if salvation is even possible.
There’s no way I can find a woman who fits those conditions perfectly… huh? Wait a minute. No. But…
“Guwon!”
Just as something flashed in my head, Leia suddenly came running towards me from the front.
It seemed the commotion earlier had alerted her to my presence.
Leia ran up to me and immediately clung to my arm, linking it with hers.
“What brings you here?”
“Ah, well, I had something to tell you, but I heard you’d left the house. So I came after you.”
“Yes? Something to tell me?”
“Yeah. Everyone should be gathered at the mansion, so I’ll tell you when we get back.”
I spoke while savoring the blissful sensation on my arm.
Thinking about how it would be shattered in a little while was depressing, but what was blissful was blissful.
It’s okay to enjoy a moment of happiness, right?
When we returned to the mansion, everyone was indeed gathered.
As Leia let go of my arm and stood opposite me, my heart felt like it was pounding.
I have to tell them I made a bet with Felicia with sex on the line.
Will I survive this?
“I heard you called for us all. What is it?”
“Yeah. Well, I heard the situation from Silvia. I thought it would be best to gather everyone’s wisdom on what to do.”
“Huh? Silvia, you ended up telling Guwon? You wouldn’t answer when we asked…”
“That’s because Silvia likes me so much… sorry. I got a little ahead of myself.”
I was about to get torn down anyway, and here was my big mouth, running its course already.
Alright, so how should I bring this up?
I’d resolved to tell them, but if possible, I wanted to say it in a way that let things pass as smoothly as possible.
“Silvia went back to the castle, right? Did something that important happen?”
“Yeah. To get straight to the point, what Diana said before was pretty much spot on. The princess caused trouble again, and the Queen is furious. They had a huge fight, with the Queen even mentioning not letting her inherit the throne, so Silvia went to mediate.”
“Not letting her inherit the throne? Is that true? If so, this is no small matter. What on earth is the Queen so angry about? You heard about that as well, I presume?”
“Yeah. Diana, you already know, of course, but the Queen had ordered the princess to bear the Hero’s child. But it was discovered that the princess hasn’t been in a relationship with the Hero at all lately.”
“Hoh. Is that what happened? But I do not believe that princess is one to disobey the Queen’s orders without reason.”
Even knowing that the princess had a half-forced relationship with me before, it seemed Diana’s evaluation of her was still quite high.
She did say she had been her teacher when she was young, so maybe she acknowledged her abilities, her libido notwithstanding?
“Um… well… the thing is…”
The time had come.
As I trailed off, unsure how to phrase it, Sara’s eyes glinted sharply.
“…Guwon. You did something again, didn’t you? Spit it out.”
Sara. Why is your intuition always so good?
“Will you promise not to get mad?”
“Did you do something that would make us mad?!”
Answering a question with a question… no, ma’am. I’m sorry.
“Um… look… so… here’s the thing. Don’t misunderstand. What you need to know beforehand is that I had absolutely no intention of this happening.”
“Just say it already.”
As I kept dragging it out, Diana, who was starting to get annoyed, also urged me on.
“…Felicia was coming on too strong, so I told her that if she didn’t have sex with anyone until she saw my face again, I’d think about doing it with her once.”
“……”
As I spat the words out in a rapid-fire tone, a sudden silence fell over the room.
This must be what they call the calm before the storm.
“You, you idiot! This is all your fault!”
“You! Are you an idiot?! Huh? Are you an idiot?! No! You are an idiot! An idiot!”
“Guwon…”
“Are you some kind of idiot?!”
I don’t think I need to say it, but that was the reaction from Sara, Diana, Leia, and Matilda, in that order.
Sara, calling me an idiot.
Diana, isn’t it a bit much to declare your dear husband an idiot?
My angel. I get how you feel, but looking at me with those mournful eyes deals way too much damage.
Matilda. Even you’re calling me an idiot?
There was a lot I wanted to say, but I forced the words down before they could escape my throat.
“B-But…”
“Wait a moment. Then the reason the Queen is so angry isn’t just because the princess didn’t have relations with the Hero, is it?! I thought something was strange. The Queen I know would not bring up the matter of succession over something so trivial!”
Just as I was about to make an excuse, Diana shouted as if she’d realized something.
Ugh. As expected of Diana. She’s sharp.
“Actually, because the princess was ignoring her orders and prioritizing a relationship with a guy like me, the Queen apparently asked what good that would do. The princess insisted it would be helpful, the Queen said what help could it be if she couldn’t even seduce me, the princess insisted she could, and it eventually led to the Queen saying if she can’t seduce me, she won’t let her inherit the throne… I’m sorry.”
Girls. Your faces are terrifying.
Those are the scariest faces I’ve ever seen on you.
Even Leia looks slightly angry.
What is this? It’s scary.
“So what? That woman is planning to hit on Guwon now?”
“So Silvia went to mediate between the Queen and the princess to stop that…”
“Do you think it will work?”
“…No.”
“In the first place! The problem is that you! You suggested that strange bet!”
“N-No! Honestly, think about it! Who would have thought that princess would go this long without being with a man… no. More importantly, I only said I’d think about it. Not that I’d have sex with her, just that I’d think…”
“Do you really think that excuse will work in this situation?!”
“C-Calm down. Take a deep breath. Hee! Hee! Hoo! D-Diana?! Wait! I’m really weak against magic… Keuk!”
Feeling an intense pain in my abdomen, I lost consciousness.