# 056 Dangerous Being
# 056 Dangerous Being
After showing Leticia yesterday's events firsthand.
Before returning to Shotarape, I prepared breakfast that served as a reward for a night of pleasure, rest, and recuperation.
"......."
Throughout the meal, Leticia's behavior grew markedly more demure.
Her relationship with me last night meant she was no longer a virgin, yet her current demeanor radiated a tension fiercer than a bride on her wedding night.
"Are you that flustered?"
"......."
"I won't have anything to say if you blame me for gobbling you up while you were drunk, but you were the one who said you wanted to try it first."
"...That's true, but."
She couldn't even make excuses.
I hadn't forced myself on her. She was the one who, out of competitive spirit toward Sharia, had said she wanted to have sex for once.
"In this world, there are three things that can never be undone. One is the circumstances of your birth, another is baldness, and the last is a woman's chastity."
"Why does your analogy have to be like that?"
"Because it's the reality."
You cannot change the environment you were born into.
No living creature can immediately overcome the circumstances of its birth.
Hair loss and virginity were the same.
A trace once departed never returns.
No matter the method, these two can never be restored. Not even faith can bring them back.
A tile once placed cannot be withdrawn.
It may not exist in memory, but the event already happened.
"Are you possibly thinking the magic I showed you was fake?"
"...That's not it, but it wouldn't hurt to confirm once to shake off any doubt."
"I see. It's not as if there are no methods to check whether you're a virgin or not."
"Yes. ...Hoo."
Leticia pointed at herself.
"If you thrust a cock in one more time, you'd know whether I'm a virgin or not. Hoo. I'm mentally prepared."
"...What I was referring to was a method involving a unicorn."
"Eh...."
Leticia's face flushed in an instant.
Sharia silently sipped her tea while glaring at Leticia, and I felt truly immense satisfaction watching Leticia blush and lower her head.
'I like her youthful bashfulness.'
When she drank, her lower half had acted all frisky, but sober, she was bashfulness incarnate.
If Sharia was the type of woman who enfolds a man tenderly, then Leticia seemed haughty but was, in truth, pure and delicate.
Truly satisfying.
Enough to make me want to send gratitude and praise to the Heavenly Demon God who sent Leticia to me.
If it had been up to me, I would have given her a particularly special present with my cock, but the Heavenly Demon God still had a husband, so I merely buried the gift in my heart.
"The method for checking whether you're a virgin or not will follow the method you proposed, Sia. In Shotarape, not here, of course."
The time was drawing near.
"I'll change you back into Black Rabbit Sia. Rest assured, having experienced it won't suddenly alter your appearance or anything."
"I'm not worried about that. What I'm worried about is...."
Leticia bowed her head deep and lamented.
"...If the Rape Dragon attacks the city thinking I'm a virgin, what should I do then?"
"Mm."
That was certainly something to worry about.
So much so that even Sharia watched my reaction with a grave face.
Sharia knew my identity, but she also knew of my past notoriety.
Because I was the very one who brought about the destruction of Lost Virginia!
"Rumor has it that what the Rape Dragon hates most is finding out a virgin was actually a non-virgin."
"I truly hate it."
Sincerely.
If you said you had experience from the start, I'd respond accordingly and have sex, but to thrust in and discover she'd already been with another man?
Unforgivable.
That's from my standpoint, of course. From an ordinary person's standpoint, the story changes.
"Suppose the Rape Dragon raided Shotarape. He'd find me, Heavenly Demon Saintess Leticia, and try to violate me, right? If he found out that I'm already experienced...."
The mere thought of it was so horrifying Leticia turned pale.
"...That cannot happen. I cannot allow many people to be slaughtered just because I had sex once and didn't announce it...."
Indeed, a saintess wasn't a saintess for nothing; Leticia worried over her falsehood—against her will—causing harm to people besides herself.
And the only person she could lean on was me alone.
"...Can you really face the Rape Dragon?"
"Of course. Do you think the Heavenly Demon God entrusted you to me for no reason? It's all because I'm strong."
"Can I truly, truly trust you?"
"Yeah. The Rape Dragon is no match for me in the first place."
It was only natural.
"Because I'm Rapepral."
"......."
Leticia stared at me silently.
I once again greeted her with an elegant posture.
"Pleased to meet you, Saintess Leticia."
"......Rape Dragon Rapepral? Your name is...."
"Who uses an alias that reveals their true identity? You obviously use a completely different name."
No one could possibly conjure up the name Rape Dragon Rapepral from Oned Bourbon Jirfangfar III.
"I'm not joking to put you at ease. Because I am that very Rape Dragon you're worried about."
"......."
Leticia just blinked, unable to say a word.
I began to worry that I was somehow screwing this up more and more, and I began to feel conscious of Sharia's gaze for no reason.
"...Don't misunderstand. I didn't plan to toy with you or anything. On the contrary, I intended to protect you."
"But... you popped a virgin's cherry."
At Leticia's words, I felt as if all the logical spears I could wield were utterly shattered.
"No, wait. Did I ever lie to you? I said I'd protect you from the Rape Dragon, and I didn't rape you either."
"But you took my first time."
"Strictly speaking, that's fornication. I didn't force myself on you."
"But you made me a non-virgin."
"........"
I had nothing to say.
And instead of having nothing to say, I quietly felt a surge of confidence.
"You might have to... take responsibility...."
Leticia quietly glared at me as she approached.
"You'll have to redress the unfairness I felt from the fear of being raped or beaten and having my virginity forcibly taken."
"Wait. The promised time has come. I need to return to Shotarape shortly."
"Then let's just make one promise."
Leticia held out her pinky to me.
"......Please protect me from rape."
"......Of course."
I made a deal with Leticia.
* * *
After returning to Shotarape and sending Sharia and Leticia to the VIP room.
I headed for Arvata's workshop for a certain preparation.
"You said you wanted to know about Heavenly Demon Saintess Leticia?"
"Yeah. Anything you know is fine."
Just as I'd done with Sharia, there were many things about Leticia's thinking that I found somewhat incomprehensible.
As long as it wasn't rape, it was fine?
There surely had to be some kind of reason.
"If you happened to overhear anything in the past, tell me."
"Mm.... It's a rumor, but."
Arvata shook his head from side to side, his expression complicated.
"I hear the Heavenly Demon Saintess's mother died a long time ago after experiencing a certain... incident."
"......."
"It was when she was very young, so perhaps she has some kind of trauma in that regard?"
"......Is that so?"
Usually, that would make one cautious about sex itself, but she also seemed to show interest in sex.
That's why she acted that way after drinking; otherwise, she would've just watched from the sidelines.
"Mm...."
"If you have already lain with her, keep this in mind. In the Land of Darkness, the Heavenly Demon Saintess is everyone's idol."
"Idol?"
"It means she's an icon. Her fandom is immense. Unlike other saintesses, the fact that she's the sole 'virgin' is what garnered her tremendous popularity among the people."
"Turning the position of saintess into some sort of...."
"That's how the Land of Darkness is these days. For starters, outwardly she's a beauty, and aren't there people with peculiar tastes everywhere? Even if they can't stake their lives on a showdown with the black dragon, there are legions of crazy bastards who'd challenge a woman who can't forget the black dragon's cock for her love."
"Haah."
The world was going crazy beyond all measure.
"Understood. I'll have to gather more information on the Heavenly Demon Saintess. See that you don't go around spouting nonsense."
"Of course. More importantly...."
Arvata looked me up and down with a cautious face.
"Did you, by chance, do it with another virgin besides the Heavenly Demon Saintess?"
"No? Why?"
"Well...."
* * *
"The Rape Dragon appeared?"
"Yes, that's right."
Sword Demon Saintess Arwyn, who had come to deliver the news to the VIP room, conveyed the information with a devastated heart.
"The young lady Iyelrin, whom Ria fought, has been raped."
Sharia and Leticia's expressions hardened instantly.
As women, the fact that a woman who had been in the arena just a day ago was raped came as a great shock to the two.
And one more thing.
"Is it truly the work of the Rape Dragon?"
"Is there no chance it's a fake?"
"...I don't know. But the perpetrator left behind this phrase at the scene."
Arwyn pulled out a newspaper with a heavy face.
-Rating 3.4. A woman you could have fun with in bed for about 40 years.
"Crazy...."
A phrase so shocking against a woman nearly made Sharia's soul leave her body.
"Is this... the Rape Dragon's method?"
"Yes. It was, in the past. A very long time ago... roughly a thousand years ago, at least."
"......."
The two looked at each other and gulped.
Arwyn gazed at the pair with a calm face and indicated the empty seat.
"So inform Jirfangfar III. The target is a monster who preys on virgins, but if it ever loses control, it could lay hands on every last woman."
"...Understood."
The moment Arwyn left the room, the two conversed with their eyes, mindful of sounds from outside.
The newspaper's content was that a woman who had been a tournament participant last night was violated.
But at that time....
"...Sia?"
"...At that time, that was when."
The moment Leticia had mounted the man—no, the Rape Dragon—and enjoyed dragon riding out of curiosity.
Leticia herself had no memory of it, however.
Shaaa.
A small-framed vampire appeared amid a swirl of magic.
"Hey, Master...."
"What?"
"Did you, by any chance, rate women with stars and stuff way back when?"
"......."
The vampire's face had grown particularly pale.
"Ah, shit."
And then he openly furrowed his brow in irritation.
"He's a fake, that bastard."
"A fake... you mean a fake?"
"Yeah. A truly vicious dragon. A heinous dragon who rapes any woman he pleases and pins the crime on me."
"The bastard's name is 'Nertorian Hurdasucker'."
He was a Rape Dragon of a different stripe from me.
"That bastard is a lunatic who targets experienced women."