"No! We have to get out today!" After showering, watching Lisbeth and Claire drying each other's hair, I suddenly stood up and announced to them.
The cool autumn morning light swayed outside the window… To be honest…
This morning light…
is the tenth morning since my return.
I was determined… to find a house, to go to the library and other places to replenish my lack of knowledge, and then to return to the adventurer's life… to increase my strength through leveling up… But now I realize I haven't done any of those things. For ten whole days, I've been in this cramped room, enjoying mating with my females.
Although Claire still went to church during the day to handle official business the previous week… that was quickly arranged, and she only needed to work one day a week… So, besides eating nearby, we spend all our time…
making love in the room. The room reeked of the pungent smell of a man and woman's intercourse, and even as the odor lingered like a thick fog, we remained lost in our lewd lovemaking.
I'm going crazy… How did it come to this… I was saying, 'Just one more time,' enjoying it, but now… Where did I go, the me who vowed to start working hard from tomorrow on the day I returned to Ladia?
Where did I go?!
"Hmm. Where should we begin?"
"How about we look at the house first? It's hard to examine it thoroughly during the event…" The two seemed satisfied with their ten days of mating, casually discussing where to start.
…Because they spoke so easily, it felt like they'd been indulging my laziness for the past ten days, and for some reason, I felt a little ashamed… Uh… okay.
I can't keep being this lazy!
From today onwards, I'm going to live like a normal person!
"Also, starting today, try not to mate during the day. I feel like my life has completely lost its rhythm, I'm being led by the nose by my desires. I can't go on like this." Hearing this, Lisbeth and Claire turned to look at me, revealing subtle smiles.
"Hmm~ Well, we don't mind~"
"If you find it difficult, please don't hold back, just tell us anytime, okay? Our little female holes are always ready to satisfy their master♡" Seeing those subtly seductive smiles, a strange excitement surged through my body again, and Сock became erect.
Ahhh! Why can't this body see the end of its sexual desire!
No! I really have to restrain myself from today onwards! Suppressing my desires like this, ten days later, I finally had a proper outing.
......
"This is a clean, new building, less than five years old. There are three rooms, and the kitchen and bathroom are fully equipped…"
"The walls seem too thin. The soundproofing is terrible."
"This house is really cheap for its location; the owner is putting it up for sale quickly…"
"Huh? It looks like there's a leak in the ceiling? I can see cracks."
"How about this place? The owner just renovated it all recently…"
"Could this… be a place where someone died? It looks like there's blood seeping through the floor…" She went to a real estate agency, saying money wasn't an issue, as long as the location and size were right… but every house the agent showed her, Kleia pointed out flaws with deadly precision and rejected them.
When I, a divine beast, said money wasn't an issue, as long as the size and location were right, the agent initially smiled broadly, but every time Kleia opened her mouth, he frowned and broke out in a cold sweat.
Good heavens… she's only had her Mystic Eyes for a few days.
How can Kleia, who hasn't even seen a house yet, be so good at it?
"Ha… that agent was no good. Seems like he wanted to rip us off. Besides what I mentioned, those houses all had problems."
After looking at a few places, Claire sighed as she parted ways with the agent.
"Wait… Claire. How do you know so much about houses when it's your first time looking at them?"
"Hehe. It's all thanks to Master. These eyes Master gave me really can see a lot."
"…Like what?"
"Hmm… what I see is quite ordinary… but, in summary…"
As she said this, Claire slowly surveyed her surroundings, as if confirming the power of her Mystic Eyes…
"I can sense the inside of nearby walls or the opposite side… I can feel human emotions more clearly than before. And I can even detect the flow of Ethel… It's like my perception has become more acute and merged with my vision."
She revealed the truth behind this absurdly high-performance Mystic Eyes.
Seeing things even with her eyes closed felt unusual… this was no joke.
Could it be that Claire's perception has merged with her Mystic Eyes?
I can't see people's emotions or the scene on the other side of the wall... For some reason, I always feel that my Mystic Eyes aren't really that great, and there's a subtle sense of regret.
...Two days passed like this. After looking around at several houses without finding anything satisfactory, I decided to take a short rest and go to the library.
After all, I lack knowledge about Esendia in many areas. I need to catch up before any official action.
Kreya isn't used to reading with her eyes yet, so today the three of us immersed ourselves in reading, treating it as her practice.
Unlike before, this time we didn't focus particularly on information about the Divine Beasts, but rather randomly picked various books and read them hastily.
'...Esendia isn't just an energy possessed by living beings, but the energy that constitutes Esendia. This energy can do limitless things, and the best way to train this energy is through meditation...'
'...Skills, in the end, are nothing more than techniques for controlling and releasing the Esendia within. Depending on talent, there are skills that are suitable and unsuitable, but there are no skills that cannot be used...'
'Therefore, talented individuals can even create their own unique skills.' "But this doesn't guarantee its efficiency. If it's similar to skills and their usage methods registered under the Kingdom's skill patents, it might involve patent infringement issues..." "...The warriors who use skills think it's amazing, but it's absurd! What's so amazing about a simple technique without even a calculation formula?! In comparison, magic that converts Ethel into magical energy and imbues it with a calculation formula is truly omnipotent..." Hmm.
After reading a few books, I gradually gained some understanding of skills or magic.
From my current understanding of skills and magic... it's closer to martial arts than fantasy.
Awakening Ethel through meditation, and then controlling Ethel to manifest it externally—that's a skill.
To be precise, it's guiding the flow of Ethel according to the usage method of each skill, and then using Ethel to activate the skill?
Since it can be recorded on adventurer cards, it means the skill has been memorized by the body to the point that it can be activated with just thought... My first priority is to get the skills onto adventurer cards.
As for magic… using Ethel directly has more limitations than I imagined, but converting it into magical energy for spells requiring complex formulas seems to achieve a wide variety of effects.
Yeah… even contraception can be achieved with magic. It's probably beyond my imagination.
So next… wait… 'The Hero's Great Adventure'…? Uh… is this a novel? It feels like a children's novel… but… it's not bad for a short break.
In some… very distant ancient time, when the goddess created the world… evil appeared in the world… at that time, the hero… the hero, in order to capture the Demon King… the Demon King?
"Liz. Liz."
"Hmm. What is it, Master?" Suddenly intrigued by the words flashing before my eyes, I called out softly to Lizbet, who was flipping through a complex magic book.
"Could a Demon King really exist? Since there are demons, there should also be a Demon King, right?"
Since it's a fantasy world, the thought that a Demon King might actually exist suddenly made my heart race.
That's why I asked that… For some reason, not only Lisbeth, but even Claire, who was frowning and struggling with her words beside me, looked at me…
"…Hehe♡"
"Hehe…♡" They revealed smiles I'd never seen before, smiles filled with an eerie feeling.
Those smiles seemed to contain some indescribable desire; their smiles were unsettling.
What's going on?
From the eyes of the two women staring at me… I felt a strange sense of being pierced through… just for a fleeting moment.
The two women revealed smiles that were like succubi eyeing their male prey, chilling smiles… Huh.
Suddenly, they turned into normal smiles.
…What's going on… Was that just my imagination?
"...Hehe. Read some hero-themed novels? Demon Kings don't exist in reality. The demon race is a republic, so they don't have kings. There were some in ancient times, but they weren't called Demon Kings then."
"Demon Kings are fictional beings created to depict absolute evil in novels and fairy tales. Because they've been described for a very long time, the people of Esendia all know the term 'Demon King.'"
They whispered to me, explaining to me with their usual smiles.
It seems those strange smiles I saw earlier were just my imagination.
Hmm...a little disappointing. It would be quite exciting if Demon Kings really existed.
A fantasy world without Demon Kings. It's like seaweed rice rolls without pickled radish—it feels like something's missing.
...Well, there's nothing I can do about it. So, next book...
...And so, I finished reading in the library, ate dinner, and walked back to my dorm in the dark.
I was engrossed in my reading when I stopped at a bookstore, bought a few books, and was walking back when Lisbeth, arm in arm with me, suddenly grabbed my arm as if she'd remembered something.
"Master. Let's buy some condoms on the way back."
"Huh? Condoms?"
"Yeah. Claire used up all the remaining condoms during her ascetic prayers."
"I know that… but is it really necessary to buy them now?"
"They can be used for occasional fun. And we might need them when creating new females later, right? It's good to buy them in advance ♡"
Lisbeth isn't opposed to me adding more females at all. That's really something.
It actually feels like she's looking forward to it… she actually wants to add other women to my female roster. My feelings are a little complicated.
Actually, after taking Claire as a female, I feel like I have enough women around me… but oh well. Anyway, you can't buy them anywhere else, so it's not a bad thing to have some in advance.
"Okay. Shall we stop by the adult store on the way? It should be in that direction..." Recalling the route she'd taken before, she walked towards the adult store for a while.
Located in the southwest of Ladia, a street lined with entertainment venues.
While the entrance was a bustling entertainment district, the atmosphere gradually diminished as she went further in, eventually turning into a slum-like atmosphere... A rather large building appeared before her, with a rabbit-patterned sign next to it.
After so long, she hadn't gotten lost. However... who was that in front of the store now...?
"Ouch! O-that hurts!" A woman dressed as a bunny girl was being dragged along by her hair.
That woman... was clearly one of the employees she'd seen at the adult store before...
"If you don't have enough money, use your body to pay! Shut up and come with me!"
"Help, help me...!"
"This crazy woman, still not calming down!? What are you looking at, you little brats!?" The woman struggled as she was dragged away. The terrified faces of the other employees peeked out from the store entrance.
After the man yelled at the surrounding pedestrians, the onlookers hurriedly looked away.
"Damn it! Stop behaving yourself!?"
"Ahhh!" *Slap!* The shop assistant was dragged along the ground by her braid. The moment the man's hand slapped her cheek.
On the back of the man's hand… a snake-shaped pattern instantly appeared.
The instant I saw that familiar pattern, my body lunged forward without thinking…
"You bastard, let go of me!?" The soccer ball prepared for that scoundrel was ready to be kicked.