# 009 Still, You Have to Taste It
# 009 Still, You Have to Taste It
Just one day, give me time to prepare.
Sharia said that and left the inn.
I told her I would wait for a day at this inn, then secretly attached a familiar to her.
So that if she were ever in danger, I could rush over and save her.
I breathed mana into it so that no one would lay a hand on Sharia while I was briefly away taking care of "a certain matter."
If anyone did touch Sharia, a signal would come to me immediately, and I could be there in an instant.
'Preparations, perfect.'
I examined my reflection in the mirror.
A black body that would blend in with the surroundings without looking out of place so long as there was no light nearby.
That's right.
I was naked.
Just as an insect used protective coloration to hide among plants, I used my black skin to blend into the darkness.
Now, it was time to go outside in this naked state.
'Invisible.'
I gathered mana and cast invisibility magic.
Not an alchemical stealth potion, but invisibility magic of the sort only an archmage could use—probably still classified as forbidden magic by the Society even now, but what did I care?
That was human law, and I was a dragon.
Creeeak.
I opened the door.
Then I boldly walked down the hallway and descended the stairs.
Murmur, murmur.
It was late at night, so the inn was crowded.
Everyone was talking about the closed dungeon.
"Damn it. Why was a teleportation circle found in a bronze-level hunting ground?"
"It might be a shortcut, so bear with it. Right now everyone Platinum Badge rank and above has gone in to check the dungeon, so we'll find out when the results come out later."
The situation I had staged with a teleport to check their virginity had started to spin in a bizarre direction.
It didn't matter that no shortcut from the humans' so-called dungeon to my lair existed; what mattered was that adventurers Platinum rank and above had temporarily vacated this village.
'In other words, all the annoying bastards are gone.'
I stepped outside the inn.
The door opened on its own, yet no one noticed, and though I stood there boldly naked, no one perceived me.
Crackle!
Suddenly, lightning began to flash in the sky.
It was a bolt from the blue in the most literal sense, but I began to dance in front of the inn, twirling my hands.
Swing, swing.
With the movement of my hips, my cock spun like a windmill in a typhoon, but no one saw my magnificent dancing.
'That settles it.'
No one had detected me under the invisibility magic.
If someone had, upon seeing my mad act they would have screamed, or attacked me while shouting about public indecency, or taken some kind of measure.
The fact that no one did meant that I remained unnoticed.
Slink.
I walked carefully down the main street, making no sound with my footsteps.
I dodged people as they passed so I wouldn't bump into them—
"Kyaaak?!"
"What's wrong?"
"S-something just bumped into me and went past...?"
Flicking my cock furtively against beauties as I went, I savored my freedom to the fullest and arrived at the place I had been heading for without a single hindrance.
The Goddess Church.
The temple where Hudia was.
Step, step.
I strode naked and unashamed up into the temple where people prayed to the goddess.
Thanks to the invisibility magic, no one could see me, and that included the two goddess statues that greeted me at the entrance.
Blasphemy!
'Come down and say that.'
If the goddess, enraged by my actions, sent an archangel, I would violate that archangel.
If the goddess herself came down?
At that point, I would just check whether the goddess was a virgin or not.
'Twin Sister Goddesses two-for-one, jackpot.'
The two goddesses who watch over only humans could not see the dragon who had come to their temple to trample upon humanity.
I entered through the open temple entrance, then followed the same path I had taken when I left.
Hisss, hisss.
The beds were filled with the wounded.
In the very back of a sickroom lined with six curtained beds, Hudia slept, utterly oblivious to the world.
Other wounded lay in the other beds too, but fortunately they were all deeply asleep.
"......."
I released the invisibility magic.
Even though I openly exposed my naked body, lit by the moonlight, to everyone, no one noticed my presence.
'Coating.'
I wrapped Aura around my cock.
Just as Sword Masters and the like were said to clad their swords in Aura, I clad my cock in Aura made of mana.
It felt as though an exceedingly thin membrane had been sheathed over my cock, and I gripped my fully erect shaft and headed for Hudia's bed.
'Silence.'
Silence magic, deployed.
Now, no matter what sounds rang out from Hudia's bed, they would not carry beyond this curtain.
Someone might find it strange to see the bed shaking violently, but I could just moderate that as I saw fit.
Swish.
I parted the curtain.
And there was—
"!!"
A dagger aimed precisely at my heart.
I thrust my hand forward and seized the dagger's hilt along with a familiar hand, gripping it tightly, then extended my other hand forward.
"Urk...!"
"Good instincts."
I seized Hudia by the throat.
"How did you know?"
"K-kack...!"
"It seems you were awake before I came in... and it seems you knew the intruder was me and prepared to counterattack."
I climbed onto Hudia's bed.
"Or did you stay awake all night, waiting? Worried that some other man might lay hands on you, even if it wasn't me."
Then I wrenched the dagger she had tried to thrust at me from her hand, and stabbed it toward her face.
Thunk!
The dagger grazed past her cheek and lodged in the pillow.
"There won't be a next time. That is a warning."
Hudia's body stiffened in an instant, and I pushed the dagger aside, then pulled the blanket that had covered Hudia and wrapped it around her upper body.
"Kyaaaak!! Someone, help!!"
"It's useless. The sound does not escape this barrier."
"S-silence magic...?!"
"Yes. There is no magic more effective than this for raping a woman."
Normally I should have just shoved it in regardless of her screams, but I hadn't secured Sharia yet.
So I had to rape Hudia quietly, very quietly, and leave.
"If you stay still, I will only taste your lower mouth and depart."
"Y-you're insane...!"
"What's insane? I told you. I saved you so I could rape you."
"We made... a deal!"
Hudia shouted, tears welling in her eyes.
"That I would leave you alone in exchange for you fucking that bitch Sharia!"
"Yeah. We did. However."
I forced Hudia's legs apart.
Thanks to the hospital gown she was wearing, I didn't need to touch her lower half separately; I just had to pull her white underwear aside, and that would be it.
"I changed my mind. Sharia is a virgin, right? Since a virgin would be in pain if I raped her, I decided not to rape her."
"W-what the hell are you talking about...! Then what about me—"
"You, on the other hand, have experience, so I'll fuck you senseless."
I thrust my cock forward.
Hudia twisted her lower half and struggled desperately to avoid my cock, but my Aura-coated shaft mercilessly parted her lower lips.
"Ah, aagh...!!"
"Khhh...."
The Aura was protecting my cock, but having shoved it in without any proper foreplay, the tightness was considerable.
It didn't seem like it had been loosened from getting fucked by one man after another, but the moment the glans went in, fluid trickled out from inside—a cunt that had experience receiving men.
"To think I had considered thrusting it in bare. I was insane, heh heh."
I couldn't insert my cock bare into a house that another man's dick had already visited.
So I coated it in Aura and thrust it in.
"Y-you bastard...! In truth, hic, you're a unicorn, aren't you?!"
"A man like a unicorn."
Even if I were to ejaculate midway without realizing it, the mana membrane formed by the Aura would gather the fluid spurting from my cock into a small space and prevent me from cumming inside.
There would be no semen to spill inside a woman who wouldn't look out of place if she had been stabbed to death by a unicorn.
If it came to that, I would much rather carefully hold a virgin, and sprinkle it on her stomach or inside—spilling my seed inside a woman like this was far too much of a waste.
"Lie back and enjoy it. A unicorn stabs its horn into your belly; I, at least, am stabbing your hole."
"Ah, aagh...!"
Still, if there was one good thing, it was that the tightness alone was superb.
Even though only half of my cock had entered, the constriction it conveyed and the sensation from the folds of the vaginal walls were quite electrifying.
"S-stop...! Down there, it feels like it's going to tear...!"
'Shall I just go soon?'
Whether Hudia's cunt got torn by a giant cock or not, I had felt the texture of Hudia's pussy, so now I just needed to take follow-up measures and leave.
I had no intention of ejaculating from the beginning.
Memory manipulation.
High-Level Brainwashing Magic could melt the target's brain if mishandled, but I could not afford to leave loose ends.
Yet killing her would be a hassle, since it might pointlessly entangle me or Sharia.
So instead of seeing human blood—not virgin blood, but a person's blood—from the very start of the journey, if I simply kneaded her memories appropriately and left—
"I see...! Sharia, that bitch sold me out!"
"...Huh?"
Hudia's face, shouting in a triumphant voice, was twisted like a demon's.
"You made a deal with that bitch too, didn't you?! That's why you came to rape me! Sharia, that bitch seduced you with those uselessly overgrown tits of hers! Saying don't rape her and rape Hudia instead!"
"......."
Even for delusions, this was top-tier.
I couldn't forgive her for disparaging Sharia's breasts like that, when they were so very useful.
"A defective bitch who can't even swing a sword properly because of her tits...!"
"Displeasing. Do not speak carelessly of Sharia."
"Shut up...! Ha, you're going to fuck that bitch too, aren't you? Fuck her to death, damn you...! Let her be overcome by the shame of getting raped by a bastard like you, bite her tongue while being fucked, and die of exsanguination!"
"There's nothing you won't say."
I thrust my cock in forcefully once.
Her mouth fell wide open and she was rendered speechless by the strike that stabbed at her cervical opening, yet she had the nerve to tell Sharia to die while being raped.
"I'll pass those words along to you, exactly as they are."
I leaned my upper body forward and pressed down on Hudia's face with one hand.
"From now on, I'm going to send you soaring high into the sky, then cast you down into the abyss."
"Wh-what are...!"
"It's nothing much... heh heh."
Before the sun rose, I had about seven hours.
"When you wake from sleep, I will take from you the thing you cherished most."
"Wh-what does that mean...! What does that mean?!"
"What does it mean."
Squelch, squelch.
"I will make it more terrible than being fucked, more miserable than dying."
Yet, I pulled my cock out.
A look of bewilderment began to spread in Hudia's eyes, and I gathered magical power at the tip of my index finger.
"I once traveled together with the Succubus Queen for about fifty years in the past."
"!! S-Sex Magic?!"
"Oh, you know it?"
Hudia immediately realized what magic I was about to use.
"S-stop! You're planning to gang-rape me with illusion magic, aren't you?!!"
"Oh, my. I'm not such a cruel human. I'm someone who has already learned through hundreds and thousands of experiences that such a thing inflicts no pain at all on a human."
I'd tried it, and there wasn't really much point.
"This will be an experience even more terrible than gang rape."
So I researched and discovered.
A method more effective than breaking their spirit and making them waste away.
"Hey. If you had just meekly said from the beginning, 'I'm a woman with experience, you know?' I would have simply had sex with you once and sent you on your way, you know?"
I was sincere.
"Even if you were a woman who had played around with other men, if you were kind, courteous, and turned me on, I was going to prepare my body and mind accordingly and just have a light bit of fun and leave, you know?"
No matter how much I sought out virgins, it was acceptable if a woman was washed from head to toe by water spirits, underwent ritual purification, and joined her body with mine after I had been sprinkled with holy water and every preparation had been made.
"But you, I cannot forgive."
The act of selling out a comrade.
The act of insulting that kind Sharia.
The act of selling out another woman so that you wouldn't be raped yourself.
"The sin of pretending to be pure when you have been stained black. You have defiled countless chaste women. You nearly soiled the pride of the being called Rapepral, and my cock."
And the act of lying that you were a virgin when you've already done it.
Absolutely unforgivable.
"Do you know what a Sexual Dream is?"
If men have wet dreams, women have sexual dreams.
"From this moment, you will dream. A dream full of a happiness and pleasure you cannot possess, cannot achieve."
"Ah, aaah...!"
"You will know when you wake."
Sssss.
I placed my hand on Hudia's lower abdomen.
"This is the price for deceiving a man's pure heart with lies."
Toward a dream that can never come true.
"Have a happy dream."
For that dream will be one that can never come true.