"So, I'll accept your duel request and defeat you once again."
Ryuji patted Esdeath's cheek, and under her fierce glare, he turned and headed back to his room, planning to sleep while hugging the soft and fluffy Roxanne.
Right now, Roxanne was in her yellowish-gold hair and dog-eared state. She really looked like a big golden retriever.
He really did like this dog-eared girl.
He wanted to hug her.
Esdeath watched Ryuji's back with unwilling eyes, yet the more she watched him leave, the more she found herself looking forward to their duel.
But once Ryuji was completely gone, Esdeath could no longer suppress the turbulent excitement in her chest. She couldn't help but cover her face with both hands.
"Ahhhh!! So good! So good! Yes, that's the attitude! It should be exactly like that!"
Ryuji's forceful declaration that she was his, his posture and attitude made made Esdeath shiver with exhilaration.
She knew perfectly well that normally, Ryuji was gentle. Even if she caused trouble, he would be tolerant. Sometimes, as long as she pressed his face into her huge breasts, he'd even show a childish side and become quite adorable in a way that made her want to tease him endlessly.
But this... This hunter's stance.
This harsh, unyielding dominance.
"So good!"
Her hand unconsciously drifted toward her lower body, but the moment her pale fingers touched the place that could bring her pleasure, she stopped.
Because the duel hadn't started yet; she couldn't do this.
"Ha… Hahahaha!! Hahaha!!"
She couldn't help but burst into laughter, then jumped off the table and flung open the side door, raveling three elves hiding inside, now illuminated by the moonlight.
Under the moonlight, Olga and Chloe each held a plate, using spoons to eat the thick semen the maids had collected earlier. And the seemingly noble elven goddess was holding a cup full of semen, apparently trying to warm it up before drinking it.
The moment these three saw Esdeath, their expressions turned utterly horrified.
"Hmph… did you think I wouldn't notice the barrier you set up?"
Esdeath licked the corner of her lips, then looked at Olga, who staring at her with fearful eyes and couldn't help but reveal a mocking smile.
She simply couldn't stand women with absolutely no willpower. Although Olga was quite sensible as a slave, it was precisely because of this sensibility that Esdeath could never treat her as an equal.
In her eyes, whether it was Olga or that Elven Goddess, they were her and Ryuji's property. Although she would treated them well, appearing like companions, they were essentially objects.
And it was precisely because Olga and Chloe knew this that they felt fear.
Because for them Esdeath is a monster.
"E-Esdeath… General Esdeath… what do you intend to do?"
Chloe couldn't help but speak up because she saw her mistress, Olga, seemed inclined to run away.
Esdeath didn't care who spoke. She walked over to them, sat down in the main seat as if she owned the place, and crossed her legs.
"I've already learned most of the magic techniques. But I haven't found many books on high-level techniques."
Her lips curved coldly.
"And since I'm going to learn, then I should learn from the strongest people in this world."
Her gaze fell mercilessly on Olga and the sow-goddess.
Olga's body trembled, but in the end, she relied on the courage Ryuji had given her and raised her head.
"Do you really care about knowledge from someone you defeated so easily?"
Esdeath shook her head.
She looked down on Olga's weak will, but she still respected the techniques and knowledge she possessed.
Because even with that pathetic willpower, Olga had still been able to trade blows with Esdeath using those methods.
That alone meant those skills were real.
"Skills and knowledge depend on the person using them," Esdeath said calmly. "And you weren't even at your peak state, were you? Not to mention..."
Then she shifted her gaze to the goddess at the side, whose expression remained perfectly calm.
To be honest, although she was nominally the one who had captured the goddess, Esdeath always had the feeling that this woman didn't care about such things. Even being captured was meaningless to her.
In fact, Esdeath suspected the goddess had surrendered simply because life and death weren't issues for her at all.
Combined with her legends as a goddess and the greatsword she had given Ryuji, which gave Esdeath a dangerous feeling, she wasn't stupid enough to believe that this sow-goddess had surrendered merely because she couldn't beat her.
Therefore, a woman who could rival such a being for hundreds of years, even if weak-willed, must have extraordinary abilities.
"You managed to fight this woman to a stalemate. That means you must have some real ability."
Olga snorted coldly. She looked at Esdeath, thought for a moment, and finally nodded.
She was defeated by Esdeath. Although she now belonged to Ryuji, the ideology of survival of the fittest made her unable to refuse Esdeath's words.
And besides, based on what she'd just witnessed, it was absolutely impossible that Ryuji and Esdeath didn't have something going on.
"Fine," Olga said. "But I can't guarantee you'll be able learn it, since our styles are completely different."
She gave her agreement. And at the side, the sow-goddess didn't even wait for Esdeath to look at her, she simply nodded casually.
"Of course."
She smiled, looking at Esdeath and also at Chifuyu, who was silently watching everything from outside.
"After all, you're all heroes who are going to save the world."
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