Prologue: Lucy : Growth : Departure
One day after completing my tutorial quest, I left the pocket dimension with the help of Mom and entered the main world I had transmigrated into, my exit point from the pocket dimension was a path of land which was between the outskirts of a medieval city and a forest, luckily no one saw me appearing out of thin air, by analyzing my surroundings, I concluded that the world I had transmigrated into was a medieval one, according to Mom if I wanted to know more about this world I would need to buy information regarding this world from the 'Shop' which would cost an amount of SP which I could not afford right now
However, according to Mom it would be worth it to buy it because this information would not only tell me about the various secrets in this world, but it would also inform me if there is a child of destiny in this world, which was a shocker for me for there is such a possibility and when I asked context of information of this world and possible child of destiny, Mom informed me that all the fictional works I had read in my previous world in the White Room could be part of three possible scenarios.
Possible scenario one, one of the various fictional works that I read in my previous world is actually fictional, thus, it is untrue, and that fictional world does not exist and is a product of the imagination of a particular author.
Possible scenario two, one of the various fictional works which I read in my previous world is true, that particular realm or world or universe or multiverse or omniverse or hyperverse or extraverse, etc actually exist inside the current Record and the energy of that particular realm or world or universe or multiverse or omniverse or hyperverse or extraverse etc which also contained information of its place of origin by coincidence entered the brain of a particular mortal in my previous world, who was also lucky enough to survive this encounter or lived long enough that mortal would create a fictional work containing information from the energy which entered the mortal and it's place of origin, which from the mortal now author's point of view is a product of his or her imagination when in fact, it is actually true.
Possible scenario three, which is just like possible scenario two with just one major difference, the energy of that particular realm or world or universe or multiverse or omniverse or hyperverse or extraverse, etc came from one of the innumerable Records in Reality outside the current Record.
Thus, I came to conclusion that all the fictional works that I read in my previous world either may not exist at all or if they exist they should be in this Record or in a Record other than this Record, correspondingly, if there is child of destiny in this world, then there should be world other than my previous world, where a mortal absorbed background energy of this world and received information about this world and child of destiny in this world, who then used this information as piece of fictional work thinking that it is a product of his or her imagination.
As for children of destiny according to Mom they can be of various levels realm, world, universe, multiverse, omniverse, and so on, when these children of destiny fulfill their destiny they are abandoned by fate, for example, a child of destiny with a fate of becoming the strongest cultivator in his or her universe may become one but after his or her destiny is fulfilled fate would abandon this child of destiny and if this child of destiny tried to become strongest in the multiverse that child of destiny may end up suffering a fate worse than death because he or she does not have the backing of fate, additionally, these children of destiny can be opposed and killed even when they have not fulfilled their destiny and have the full support of fate as long as I am strong enough.
After getting this wave of education from Mom, I moved around a bit to get sense of my surroundings and after a few hours of information gathering, I joined a band of mercenaries who had their hideout on the city outskirts, since my identity is suspicious because I just arrived in this world and cannot show my place of origin, I can't become a soldier or a guard without proper identification.
In the end, I had no choice but to join up with a mercenary-band-slash-band-of-thieves composed of people in similar circumstances, with there being only difference major in motivations between them and me, I chose to join them and before even had the thought of becoming a soldier or guard for only one sole reason to become stronger through battle.
"Boss, are we going to chase up that peddler's group or what?"
The one who asked is called Jamie, one of my colleagues, a flip who specializes in acrobatics.
"Of course, a caravan that big doesn't come around these parts that often, they also let go of some guards in the next town over. Getting them is going to be a big catch, women and booze are all up for grabs. "
The one with the hearty laugh is the boss of this mercenary band, a man called Lovano, I think.
We call ourselves bandit hunters but this band itself is an active group of bandits.
My point is, he's the head of these bandits.
Even when quarreling among themselves, none of them came to get me involved.
They knew very well that I have no interest in get-rich-quick schemes or women talk.
In fact, I have no interest in money or women currently, as I wished to get stronger.
On the other hand, not only Lovano but all the members recognized my fighting abilities which were just the tip of the iceberg I had shown them, so they rely on me in combat.
Our mission now is no less than an assault on a large merchant caravan, though they let go of some guards they will have plenty of skilled people with them, even if you only count the merchants there's quite a number of them.
It was obvious that we can't avoid a fight.
"But boss, the caravan would've gone and reached the mountains by now, chasing them is gonna be hard."
Speaking of caravans, I get the image that they are slow, but unlike poor peddlers, caravans equipped with plenty of wagons move with quite a speed.
This was to ward off fake escorts and also at the same time, to shorten the business cycle a little bit by reaching their destination faster, and thus increase their profits.
"I get that, so we're not going to chase them on the roads. We're gonna take a shortcut through Erg forest."
The moment Lovano said so, everyone instantly became quiet.
"Boss… That place is bad news. "
Timidly, Jamie broke the quiet.
"I heard there's a nest of demons inside the forest. "
"I heard evil spirits come out of the swamps."
"Nononono, the story I heard was that undeads writhe all about the forest."
The company started telling the rumors they each heard.
I listened while polishing my weapons.
In the end, all I do was fight whatever enemy that comes out.
"You idiots! Don't go off believing in stupid rumors! You can't even get your rumors straight! Are you all bark and no bite!?"
Lovano didn't believe in the rumors at all, but one of the companies objected.
"But Boss, the rumors sure are sloppy, but the part where lots of people come in and don't come back out is true. That forest is seriously bad news."
But Lovano roared at the underling.
"Shut up! I'm already set on this! Anyone who says anything more gets turned into meatballs for demon bait!"
In the end, the Boss had the final say and the 20-person mercenary company started their raid into Erg forest.
"This is quite a nice forest isn't it?"
That was everyone's impression once we entered Erg forest.
We're already 1 day into the forest now, far from demons or small fry monsters like goblins that usually roam everywhere, not even a bear or a wolf was seen.
What's more, we came across fruits and edible creatures like rabbits a lot.
"If this is a demon forest, then our hideout must be a block in hell."
Everyone nodded.
"If it's like this, then it might be good if we move the hideout here."
"That's for sure. We'll do that."
While they let out vulgar laughter, the scout, Jamie came back with a dubious face.
"Boss, there is a house further along this way."
Everyone stood alert.
There shouldn't be anything like a house this far, two whole days on foot from the nearest town.
And not a village too, but a single house at that.
It's strange even if it's a mountain hut, this place is the demon forest, a place hunters don't come to.
Is it a guard post, or maybe another band of robbers' hideout?
However, the atmosphere was turned around by Jamie's next sentence.
"I tried peeking inside the house, it looks like an incredible beauty lives there."
The doubtful voices now turned to ridicule.
It's strange enough that there's a house here, if you add that there's a beauty living there, it goes way beyond dubious and into delusional.
Everyone laughed, saying he's starved for women and mistook a tree for one.
But still, he frantically called for backup, so while laughing, Lovano had us come along after him as a backup.
It's not like we're taking a detour, and we can laugh at him once we find nothing there.
Meanwhile, as punishment, he was made to carry some extra luggage.
Guessing what Lovano was thinking, the other robbers smiled derisively and came along without complaining.
The whole party proceeded towards the house that shouldn't be there and then…
We got there.
There was a wide open space in the middle of the forest.
There was a wide circular expanse of grass inside the dense forest, and right in the middle of that there was a house.
It was neat, though not very big, yet not small like a storage shed, you could expect a person to be living there.
Surrounding the house there is a well and a small field, it felt like some farm village somewhere, blending into the scenery.
But this is the demon forest, this scenery shouldn't be here.
"Oi oi, are you kidding me…"
Lovano spontaneously spoke, and the other robbers widened their eyes.
But they immediately made a move, if they blankly stood there they wouldn't have become mercenaries or robbers.
Everyone immediately drew their swords, a number of them approached the house, opened the wooden window a little, and peeked in.
"Well, this is rare. Am I having visitors?"
A beautiful voice, like a ringing bell.
Skin white as snow.
And features so beautiful that would be sacrilege to call 'beautiful'.
The woman who could have been a robdess of beauty called out to the men peeking in from the window.
A voice that came out of red lips that stood out from the all-too-white skin.
Not even a sliver of panic was felt from her despite the strange situation where there were several armed men before her, and she calmly started the conversation.
It was the men who were taken by surprise.
They were prepared to see a mountain witch come out, but this is a beauty they've never seen in their entire lives.
In front of the beautiful woman, there was nothing the men could do but stammer some meaningless sounds.
"Fufu, it is you who came to visit me, but why are you so surprised?"
The woman covered her mouth with her hand and smiled.
"I can see that I have a lot more visitors here. I can't show you all into this small and shabby house, so considering manners I'm supposed to greet you at the gate, but because I have a frail body, I can't come out in the sun, please excuse me for that."
"I… that we put into consideration!"
"O… of course we're excuse… allow… pardon… or something!"
The robbers tried to reply to the voice that was like a ringing bell, but none of them has ever had anything to do with polite language in their entire lives, so they just became flustered and gave funny responses, which made me really feel embarrassed that I joined a bunch of idiots.
Hearing that, she once again covered her mouth with her hand and chuckled, the robbers made a face, they are no longer holding a conversation.
"The hell are you babbling! Hurry up and tell me what… …you… …found…"
Lovano was taken aback for a moment, just like his men.
But a fire was immediately lit inside his heart.
She's gorgeous… I never seen a woman this pretty which now that I think about it is the first I have seen a real woman outside of books after all those bastards in the White Room were all stuck-up males. Not to mention, her body is top notch too.
The woman leaning over the window sill smiling at Lovano and his men were clothed in black clothes, her shoulders are likewise wearing a black shawl, and also a black long skirt that reaches down to her ankles.
Despite the minimal exposure, the only skin she shows besides her face are her hands, her large breasts pushed out, jiggling softly each time she moves, and from the stretching of her long skirt, there is no doubt that there is a plump, meaty butt underneath.
"Well, the caravan's nothing compared to this! Chances to get a woman like this doesn't come twice."
Lovano, without asking permission, opened the door and stepped inside the house.
Three people sat down around a table while I stood in front of the door.
The room was nothing but dark.
From the outside, the wall made of light wood and wood logs would let sunlight in through the gaps between them, but the inside was daubed with a sap-like substance made from ashes and wax. The wall was without gaps, such that you can call it solid black.
Even though it's the middle of the day, there was no light inside the room, I would bet that it was hard for the other bandits to even see their own hands, it was only thanks to the slightly open window that some light could go in, that these bunch of idiots could walk without bumping into each other.
If that window is closed, I think this room will become dark like a moonless night, which of course would not be a problem for me as someone who had comprehended vision laws.
There was no oil lamp or candle on the table either. This woman did not have her windows open before we came. What was she doing in total darkness…?
I felt an indescribable chill, but I shook it off with the thought that whatever happens, it probably would not be life threatening otherwise my instincts which allowed me to escape from the brainwashing of the White Room in my early years would have me to be aware and escape.
She fleetingly sent me a questioning glance, after seeing my observant eyes and my slightly smiling face, but her attitude against the men forcibly breaking in didn't change in the slightest, which was weird given that she was a lone woman in a lonely forest with a bunch of bandits who were sexually frustrated by all the travel and haven't had sex in ages.
However, given her fearless attitude, it only further proved my suspicions that she was no ordinary woman who was living in a dangerous forest all alone as a woman far away from any presence of human settlement.
"I'm unable to entertain you well since this is a one-woman house."
"Nah, don't need it. Just looking at a beautiful woman like you is the best entertainment there is."
Without any self-restraint, Lovano ogled the woman's entire body, which from my point of all the weird signs this woman was giving, might as well be a death wish.
His men surrounded the house and the opponent is a lone woman, she had no way to escape.
There is no point in having restraint or so these idiots thought.
"Oh my, I'm happy to be told that."
Not minding the glances, she smiled lightly and meekly continued.
"Well then, what might you be doing in a remote place like this?"
"We came here because we were taking a li~ttle shortcut. Then we found a lone house standing right in the middle of the forest. So I guess our 'reason' is that we want to check it out."
Lovano leaned his body forward, pressing toward the woman.
Even the dumbest in the group of bandits could understand that he was swelling with lust, the fact that the woman had no way to escape was also clear.
"Anyway, what's your name? I don't think we ever caught it."
The woman appeared rather taken aback, but that was probably an act.
"That was bad manners of me to forget to give my name, I'm Lucy Yuktovania."
Everyone instantly became tense.
The fact that she had a family name in a medieval world like this means that this woman is a noble, or something similar to that.
However, even the name of a noble with power in town has no use whatsoever out here in the forest far away from any human settlement.
Lovano himself attacked a troupe of nobles and took their fortunes and women once.
I really wonder, why Lovano the leader of these dumbasses has not thought why does a lone woman with a family name live alone out in this place which only points further to her weirdness, he is the leader of this group of dumbasses because he is the smartest of them all I guess overestimated him and his group of ragtags.
"A lot of things happened, and I happen to be given this family name, but please just call me Lucy."
My years of learning sociological and psychological knowledge from books in the White Room told me that she seemed like she didn't want to talk about the name too much and changed the topic.
"So, what might this Lucy-chan be doing all alone out here? Not to mention shops, but there are not even people around. I don't think this is a place for a girl to live."
"Since I am a lone woman, I don't use up much food. I live by working the small field and going out to the forest, barely making a living to protect this house."
"Hoo, even with that appearance you turn out to be a hunter! You're quite a strong little lady, aren't you?"
Lovano smiled heartily and patted Lucy's shoulder, deliberately touching her plump breast while doing so.
Still, Lucy did not show any reaction whatsoever and merely smiled which further exuberated her weirdness.
Additionally, there were a few more details that these dumbasses had missed which made her look strange, for example, It's not about her being a woman or a noble, but being a hunter, there's not a bow or arrow to be found in here. To make things worse, the cobwebs in her kitchen looked like it was there for at least 10 days.
I'm sure of it, this woman ate nothing in this house.
I glared at Lovano, urging him to be cautious and not die unexpectedly after all one of the major reasons why I joined this group of bandits for reasons other than for the sake of fighting and getting stronger was learning common sense knowledge of this world after all I had spent most of my life in the White Room away from society, thus, I had a lot of theoretical knowledge but zero practical knowledge and I did not want to stand out from the crowd in the future, but he was so drowned in the woman's charm that he did not notice my glare, what a dumbfuck, there is a proper time for thinking with one's dick and this was not a proper time for him at least.
"I've decided, Lucy-chan. You're gonna be my woman."
Lovano grabbed Lucy's hand and hugged her.
He rubbed her butt through her clothes, receiving the exceptional feeling of its plumpness in his hand.
"Oh my, even if you say that, I have to protect this house."
Lucy still didn't lose her composure and would you look at that even the other dumbasses were starting to feel uneasy, looks like their thickheads have finally realized something is weird about this woman.
She should have been resisting despite knowing it's useless when being surrounded by robbers, or maybe crying while begging to be spared.
But Lovano, drowning in the sensation of a well-fleshed, voluptuous woman, didn't notice this anomaly.
"I'm not asking. You can't run anymore no matter what. Even if you don't like it I'll just burn this house and carry you off."
"I'll be troubled if you do that. This is my important place after all."
For the first time, Lucy frowned, making an expression that shows that she was troubled.
Lovano continued, all the while stroking Lucy's butt.
"To begin with, leaving a woman like you all alone in a place like this is a loss for the world. A good woman is supposed to be held by a man."
At the end of his patience, Lovano raised his hand toward her breasts.
He was about to tear her clothes off but Lucy stopped him with her hand.
"… If you go rough and tear my clothes I'll be troubled. If you would like to sleep with me then I shall accompany you, but can you at least let me take you one at a time."
Lucy seemed like she's finally resolved herself and said that while putting her arms around Lovano's neck.
"If you'll be obedient then I won't go rough on you. No one is going to scratch a pretty gem… Oi, you lot, go outside for a tick!"
At the end of his patience, Lovano took off his half-plate armour while ordering the three of us out.
The two long-standing members smiled and went out, only I hesitated a little bit.
This woman is weird. No matter how you put it or how you see it she's too weird, I don't know what'll happen if she's left alone with Lovano who I considered a tool man for me to observe and learn common sense of medieval society.
But finally, swelling with lust, Lovano yelled angrily.
"That includes you too Endless! I'll let you have her afterward so get out! Get out and tell the other bastards not to peek!"
It's his own choice.
He won't even listen no matter what I tell him, anyway if he dies, I would just find a new tool man.
I made my decision and quickly withdrew.
I'm not interested in looking at Lovano taking his dirty thing out of his pants.
However, after moving a few steps, I sent my intent into Lucy's house, while I was not afraid of her threatening my life otherwise my instincts would have gone off like an alarm long ago, I was curious what would Lucy do to Lovano.
"Now that there are no more annoyances, let's have fun."
Already naked, Lovano was embracing Lucy and was about to put his hand inside to touch her breast, but unexpectedly, her tight-fitting clothes were tough and stretched when he tried to tear it.
"In that case", he thought as he flipped her long skirt over, exposing her silky underwear that looked like a work of art.
Her underwear fit her plump butt tightly, her skin felt amazing when he touched it.
Unblemished, her skin was unnaturally white.
If he were sober he would've realized, her body is beautiful, but it had no body warmth.
"Rod damn this body… First time I've seen a woman this fine!"
Lovano had experienced a number of women, though mostly by rape, but not one of them can compare to Lucy either by looks or by their bodies.
He became erect like a virgin boy seeing his first naked woman, so much that it made a sound, he began rubbing it without thinking.
"Turn around!"
Lovano examined Lucy from behind, slipping her underwear off and touching her thing.
Her naked feminine place opened slightly as if inviting him in.
That womanly hole of hers that looked like a work of art was about to be penetrated by Lovano's black, wart-riddled, dirty member.
"Please wait, there's an order to these things, you know."
Lucy twisted her body and escaped from the overbearing embrace. Facing Lovano, she put her arms around his shoulders.
Hugging each other face to face, Lovano's large body size stood out in comparison, even though Lucy is definitely not small.
"First it has to start with a kiss. The fun will come afterwards."
Hearing the sweet whisper, Lovano moved to forcibly snatch Lucy's lips, but she held his head back with one hand and brought her lips toward his neck.
OH, I would bet Lovano's left nut that she was a vampire taking into account all the weird signs she has been giving off.
Drowning in his lust, Lovano became confused, I could read what was going on in his dumb brain with the help of my comprehension of thought laws.
(A kiss to the neck ain't bad… but how… how could she stop my head from moving with just her left hand.)
Lucy licked his neck with her long tongue and opened her charming mouth.
Then, she bit into Lovano's neck with her long fangs.
It was not the usual feeling of being bitten.
Rupreme pain and Rupreme pleasure, Lovano's member that stiffened to the limit spouted out semen like a fountain, I guess, he has a hidden masochist side.
Then, strength departed from his entire body.
While feeling the sensation of being bitten on the neck, Lovano's consciousness faded to etional darkness.
"Oioi, did she seriously say 'take us one at a time'?"
It goes without saying, that the topic of conversation between the robbers waiting around the house was the beautiful woman from earlier.
"We're gonna do it with that woman too!"
"She's probably going to be all ragged when our turn comes, anyway."
"No matter how ragged she gets you still can't compare her to the whores in town."
"Boss had better not break her!"
Not minding my noisy surroundings, I stood in front of the door, waiting for Lucy to come out curious how things would proceed which might amuse me.
Suddenly the sound of something hitting the wall several times in a row came from inside.
The robbers turned their eyes all at once but immediately turned to laughter.
"Oi oi, Boss is doing it rough."
"I hoped he'd handle her more gently, 'least until we get our turn."
"She's a fine jewel of an ex-noble's girl but she's gonna be all broken like a frog when my turn comes."
I wonder what their expression would be if they found out that things are opposite of what they are thinking and as if answering my thoughts.
The door slowly opened.
The robbers all noticed at the same time, looking with joyful eyes which would not remain joyful for long.
Then Lovano jumped out of the house…
Then landed on the ground, and snapped right in half.
"Wha!?"
"Impossible."
Their thoughts were written on their faces, for this group of idiots the fact that Lovano died is incomprehensible, but the more unbelievable fact for them was that the way he died was wrong. His dead body snapped, making a cracking sound like a cookie crumbling. Of course, this was an expected development for me. However, from their point of view, no matter how much strength you put into smashing or tearing off a person, snapping them neatly in half is just not possible for people like them.
*clang, clang*, I heard the sound of rattling iron.
The robbers re-fastened their loosened armour and took out their swords from their scabbards.
Their years of experience told them that if their leader had died suddenly in such a shocking way and if they fell into disorder here they won't survive and live to tell their tales.
For better or worse, mercenaries/robbers who are used to carnage will do what they need to do.
Their leader, Lovano had died, and danger approached.
Also, they knew who the enemy was.
That was because there were only two people there.
Their swords and spears are all pointed at the door.
I, too, jumped back from the door and stared at what's behind it.
I set up a stance with my greatsword overhead and put strength into my legs as usual, ready to jump in, after all even if Lucy was not threatening to me, my brief experience in the pocket dimension and with this group of bandits told me it did not mean I should be unprepared in combat situations.
Then, the expected person quietly showed up with an unexpected appearance.
The beautiful woman, waving her magnificent blonde hair, appeared in front of the door stark naked.
Her large breasts did not sag in the slightest, her large, springy, plumb butt made me unintentionally want to hold it.
Everyone was taken aback for a moment, but they returned to battle readiness.
Though her good looks could be said to be unparalleled and her body could be said to be within the golden ratio, there were two strange points to her.
She was dyed red with blood from her mouth down to her big breasts.
And her fiery, shining red pupils.
Usually, it was my job to be the first to launch an attack.
But this time is different, my instincts spoke to me even though it did not indicate any danger Lucy might pose to me, it instead indicated the opposite that there might be benefit to me if I acted in a series of steps.
"Jump Back", "Don't fight against her", "damage her house", and "she is beneficial to you," it said.
Instead of launching an attack, I stepped back, opening a distance of about 10 meters from her.
However, one of the idiots wielding a spear thrusted forward.
"No! Don't!"
The other idiot's shout didn't make it in time.
The woman caught the spearhead and pulled it in towards her.
"Doaah!?"
Her ability to catch a spearhead is menacing, but her strength to pull it towards herself is perfectly inhuman.
The man flew towards her, almost as if he was thrown there.
Then, the woman stretched her left hand towards his chest.
*bakin*
The man's lower half went towards the woman, still drawn to her, while his upper half was pushed by her hand and went in the opposite direction.
Then his back folded in the shape of the letter "く" and he fell to the ground, vomiting blood.
""She's not human""
Everyone except me thought the same thing. From their point of view, no matter how much they train or what talent they have, a human woman can't do anything like that, she is an enemy they cannot defeat. There's no other hope of survival besides running away. But could they run? Are her special abilities only her super strength?
Thoughts like these circled in their mind, giving her time for her next attack.
But the woman made no move.
She wasn't leaving the shade of the awning in front of the door.
Taking that good chance, several robbers with bows and bowguns loosed arrows.
She lightly brushed away most of them, but one of the bowgun bolts stuck into her chest, maybe because of an opening.
The men shouted cheers, bowguns were stronger compared to bows, and one being shot from point-blank range would pierce through helmets and armor and reach the internal organs, it's not rare for them to cause instant death.
What's more, the bolt went through the woman's chest.
For humans, that was undoubtedly a fatal wound, even if they survived they wouldn't be able to stand. There's no way anyone could pull the bolt out and throw them back that's what these dumbasses thought.
As if wanting to prove these dumbasses wrong, the wound on the woman's chest healed in a flash and the bowman who got the bolt stuck in his head convulsed and collapsed.
Of course, the encirclement fell with everyone trying to flee, and they all started to retreat.
No matter how many battlefields they've been through, none of them had ever faced a monster of an enemy like this, unlike me who had prior experience of killing goblins and goblin king.
On the battlefield, enemies fell when they were struck by arrows, they die when they are killed.
But even with her overwhelming superiority, the woman did not move from the door.
Only exposing her bare body to the men surrounding her, smiling and standing there.
Inhuman beauty, a dark house, the dried corpse, a regenerating body… If the robbers believe the fairy tales they started to have a rough idea what the woman really is.
"Form a circle and attack! I'll finish her!"
I shouted loudly, of course I was not planning on killing her, I could, but my instincts were telling me if I damaged her house, it would lead to a chain of events that would prove beneficial to me, I decided to follow my instincts considering that my instincts had prevented me from being brainwashed by the administrators in the White Room in my early years and saved me from becoming their pawns, the men obeyed and made a formation on the orders of a 12-something boy. On all things regarding battle, even though the capabilities I had shown were only the tip of the iceberg, I was the person most reliable or powerful in the gang of bandits. That faith was won with blood and victories but unfortunately for them, it was only going to prove to be fatal for them, after all, I only considered them my pawns, it might seem hypocritical of me to consider other pawns when I did not want to be a pawn of the White Room but I couldn't care, I only followed one principle might make right.
The woman looked towards me who was brandishing my greatsword, smiled, and stuck her tongue out bewitchingly.
At that moment, about ten of the men surrounding her simultaneously attacked with their spears and their swords and their warhammers.
Some had their heads crushed before their weapons reached, some were tossed away along with their weapons, some realized as they swung their swords that their hands were no longer there.
In an instant, four men lost their lives, two were thrown away into the sky.
Two men got lucky and their weapons reached, but they had their heads crushed by her hand in return.
The remaining men spontaneously stopped their legs because of the disastrous spectacle.
The battle was over in just several seconds, there was no longer anyone who could fight her square.
But that is enough.
It was all a lure and a diversion.
I had already jumped, brandishing my greatsword.
Both the woman's hands are busy crushing the heads of the last two men bare-handedly.
The sword I brandished in both hands and was swinging down is no longer flicked away or grabbed by anyone.
It was only an instant until the killing blow.
Still, the woman did not show a shred of hurry, partly because I was not using my full strength, otherwise, I don't think she might have had the chance of even expressing her emotions.
Still holding the men whose heads, she crushed, she forcibly brought her hands above her body.
For her, carrying the weight of a man or not makes no difference.
She raised her hand, still holding the miserable corpse, on the path between my sword and herself.
Like this, even if I were to swing the sword down with all my might she'll stop it or she thought.
Nevertheless, I…
…. did not swing the sword down, but swung it with my right hand sideways over the woman's head as my instincts were telling me.
The sound of destruction was heard, the entrance and the awning over the entrance door was torn down.
The awning was strong, made from bulky wood, but it was smashed like twigs before my greatsword.
I landed right in front of the woman who was dumbfounded, unable to deal with the sword who should have been aimed at herself but changed trajectories, I then jumped back.
If you believe the fairy tales, this should've done the trick that's what the idiots thought but I had other thoughts thinking about what benefits this action of mine may lead to.
The woman was unhurt, what was destroyed was the awning.
Then, it was an open space in the middle of the forest, the weather was good and clear as well today
Sunlight streamed down onto the woman.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The woman shrieked, she lost her composure for the first time.
Vampires, are beings with nearly etional life, drinking human blood, possessing power beyond that of humans and afraid of sunlight, or at least that's what the remaining robbers thought this was my goal and what Lucy really is, for sure.
Well, the dumbasses were right about one thing Lucy sure was a vampire
"Vampire!" "They really exist!" "This forest is cursed!"
They all whispered, some even prayed to rob, which was unlike them too.
For vampires, holy water and sunlight, but especially being bathed in sunlight would instantly make them burst into flames and turn to bone that's what is going in the minds of these idiots.
"Uuuuuuuu! What have you done! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!"
Contrary, to what the idiots thought, the woman did not turn into bone nor burst into flames, but kneeled, staring at the smashed pieces of wood and cried out.
She sounded angry, rather than suffering to me.
"How dare you… how dare you, my house! My dear house!"
The situation deteriorated further for the robbers. Nothing they seemed to do seems to go well today.
"Unforgivable! Absolutely unforgivable!"
The moment the angry Lucy raised her head.
The world froze for the bandits. Her flaring, shining eyes shone even more, it was a pressure carrying the weight and sense of oppression of two fiery eyeballs fixed on them. This feeling they never experienced before made them fall to their knees. Their body couldn't move, as if it was stuck to the ground. There was a strong buzz in their ears that made them feel like their head was going to crack. Before long, their vision turned red, probably because of the headache. Their head hurts and their body is frozen stiff. The wondrous feeling of despair and anguish and suffering joining together, whirling. A look that cooked all sorts of negative feelings into a soup. The taste of resignation and hopelessness.
Of course, I was unaffected by Lucy's killing intent as I was more powerful than her.
I glanced at my surroundings, I determined that I was the only one left alive.
The remaining bandits all took their lives, each using their weapons to wound themselves. Those who lost their weapons met their gruesome ends clawing their throats with their fingernails. It was such an amazing sight it took me a few fractions of a second to take it all in, after all this was the first time I saw something like this.
I stared at her, she didn't move a step from where she was standing. However, I no longer saw anger in her eyes.
"Heee… You were able to withstand my killing intent by yourself."
She was back to using the polite tone she used the first time, no longer having any bloodlust.
"I've seen and understood this kind of thing a lot, you see."
"Muu. I don't think it's something someone who's not even an adult should get used to seeing, and understanding though."
She was right in a way that I don't think most children of my age had comprehension of slaughter laws at the master level, however, her sweet tone is different from the first time, like teasing a child.
"You as well, you seemed to be really angry, are you calmed down now?"
"I'm still angry you know! You broke my dear house, I can't put it back together again now that you've broken it like this!"
"Because I'm clumsy!", she said with her arms akimbo, scolding me.
"I think this isn't strange since you killed Lovano and threw his corpse away like that, though."
"Weren't you the ones who suddenly came along! That man too, he touched my clothes and underwear with his dirty hands, and to make matters worse, his blood reeked of alcohol and had some strange disease in it, it tasted so disgusting I couldn't stand it!"
I wonder how Lovano would feel, if he knew after dying in such a pathetic way his blood was treated with disdain.
"Well then, if you'll overlook me for this I won't damage your house anymore and I'll leave this place peacefu…", I attempted to say so that I could get a feel of how she was going to be beneficial to me.
"Not allowed!"
The woman denied me with a stern tone but it was not filled with killing intent or anger.
"If you leave now, I'll be left to fix the house and get rid of these corpses all by myself, won't I?"
Well, she did say she was too clumsy to fix the house herself.
"Well, you are a vampire so can't you think of it like collecting food or something?"
"Please don't say something stupid! Sucking blood off of corpses is the same as eating rotten meat! Only ghouls and zombies do that!"
It looks like she insists on sucking blood off of live victims.
"Well I'm not going to kill you off now, so if you accept my conditions I'm going to let you off the hook, okay?"
"That'll be reassuring . I don't want to die . " as if she could kill me but I will play along for now.
It seems now that I have to spend time clearing all this mess, her naked body becomes quite a dangerous weapon for a young boy like me.
Looking at my manhood react and me averting my eyes, the woman smirked while showing her body even more.
"The first condition is to repair my house! You broke it magnificently so please take responsibility!"
"All right. If you'll lend me the tools I'll try to do something about it."
I could buy the required tools from the 'Shop' with my saved up SP but it would be suspicious of me take things out of thin air and she might bring me benefits but I did not trust her enough now to make her aware of my various abilities.
"The second one is to dispose of your friends! They're splattering everywhere."
This won't take much time, either, I can just dig a hole nearby and bury them there.
"Understood, but since you're the one who massacred them, weren't you the one who splattered them everywhere?"
"I didn't attack you even once you know! I only fought back since you attacked me! Splattering them around was a mistake. The third condition is let me suck your blood every now and again."
"Wait a minute!"
I said intending to reject her, however, before I could continue to voice my objection, my instincts started to tell me that it was not harmful to me but beneficial to me, so, I changed my response and acted as if was afraid of her bloodsucking.
"I accepted your conditions so I don't turn into a mummy like Lovano. Letting my blood get sucked is going to make that moot, no?"
"Of course, I won't suck you dead. I'll keep the quantity in mind and suck enough so that it won't be a hindrance. Right, sucking every once in 10 days will be enough for me."
Doesn't that mean I have to come here every 10 days?
"About the sucking me dry, I have no choice but to take your word for it, but once every 10 days is a no-go. Doing that means I can't move about much. Going here from the nearest town takes 2 days you know."
I strengthened my tone, saying that I won't budge on this, but the woman took up an attitude, as if saying "what are you talking about?"
"Um, I think you're misunderstanding something here, I'm saying that you're going to be living here with me. I'm guaranteeing your life on that."
In other words, I'm going to be a slave for her to suck blood off of, the price for benefits which my instincts are telling me is not cheap as I expected. Even though I personally don't like to be put in a situation like the White Room in my home world, considering that she is not aware of true abilities and I can escape anytime I want with my comprehension of space laws, so, I decided to play along with her and trust my instincts.
"Some harsh conditions you got there."
The words were short, but the weight is heavier than before, giving the feeling that I might escape in a stroke of the sword. It would be too weird or suspicious if I agreed straight away with her.
"*sigh*, I don't like weird misunderstandings so I'll tell you my real intentions here. "
The woman… Lucy looked straight at me.
"From the first time I saw you I thought, 'this boy looks tasty'. I want to have your blood no matter what it takes. I can tell from the smell but you're a virgin, aren't you? A virgin boy's blood… huhuhu"
That was an unexpectedly frank and simple answer.
Unlike before, she was staring with a strange intensity, causing some unknown primal desire in me to become awake and this also further proves my decision to act according to my instincts was right.
"I… is that so."
"Which is why I'm not giving up on this! Think about it. The first blood I had in a long while was a middle-aged man's alcohol ridden blood. He had some VD too, I have to get the bad taste out of my mouth!"
Lucy's mysterious and fascinating aura steadily broke, it's now clear that her intention of keeping me as a slave was false, which is a relief as I really did not like a situation like this, though there is that thing she won't budge on no matter what.
However, I was curious could a vampire like Lucy turn me into a vampire, so I asked this question to both Lucy and Mom
"But I heard in the stories that when a vampire sucks a human's blood they become a vampire or a ghoul. I'm not really keen on having a race change and I absolutely don't want my will to be destroyed."
"You don't want to become a ghoul or a vampire?"
"Of cour…"
"Well, you won't transform so it's okay, right?"
"…se."
"Well, whether the person I suck blood off of becomes a slave or a companion or stays just as they were takes only a small adjustment on my part. If you don't want to I won't change you. Rather, if I made you a ghoul I won't be able to suck your blood any longer so it would be meaningless."
Just as Lucy finished explaining her process of drinking blood, Mom's synthetic but slightly more feminine voice than last time rang in my mind.
*Endless Your body is comprised of Source energy, therefore, it is impossible for even a tier 9 existence to influence your body against your will, unless of course, if you allow it by your free will*
Looking at me who was pondering on the information released by Mom, Lucy's aura became a little heavier.
"That and I wanted to teach you lots of things. There are many things wrong with your lifestyle and you look like you don't have enough common knowledge of this world."
Wouldn't a bloodsucker's lifestyle be more wrong? She says common knowledge too…
Thinking something cynical, I suddenly came to realization, if this was the benefit my instincts were telling me that I could get from her common knowledge of this world, after all she was a vampire and must have lived longer than most mortal humans, thus, she must be very knowledgeable due to her age not to mention she also has a noble background, who are a class of people entitled to more knowledge than most commoner humans.
As I was absorbed in my thoughts, Lucy brought me, who was only a little shorter than her, onto her chest.
"This may not be convincing coming from me, but for a boy your age to see a fight and a slaughter like this and not be fazed is abnormal. I'm sure you've had a lot happen to you."
She tightened her hug.
My face was buried in the soft flesh, and the sweet scent made me go hazy.
I think I understand the reason why the robbers keep talking about women.
Something primal boiled up from within my body.
"There is nothing here. You've been running and fighting all this time, so how about you take a little rest?"
I wrapped my arms around her warmth-less back, returning her hug just a little bit.
There was the next step I was supposed to proceed to after hugging a naked woman, but I had absolutely no idea, how to do it after all, I had only read about sex in books.
"Ah, right. There is the fourth condition as well as the reward for letting me suck blood."
The new condition coming up made my body tense due to a primal expectation.
"Bloodsucking and sex drive go hand in hand. So, once every ten days, coincident with the bloodsucking, sleep with me. Of course, if you want to do it any other time I'll take you on."
The strength of my return hug became stronger at once.
The unbelievable pain in my lower half is probably because of my manhood pressing into my pants.
Being slightly shorter than her, my thing propped right from under her important place.
"I've got lots of things to teach you "
Being naked, there's no way she won't notice the pressure.
She moved her hips, deliberately rubbing her thin silver pubic hair, arousing me.
*pant* *pant*
Just as she said, this virgin boy's reason went flying away.
I gripped her chest, pressed my hips against her, and recklessly fondled her boobs.
I knew it was stupid, but the soft sensation and the sweet scent made my body move by itself.
"Uhuhu, no matter how much you try it won't get in if you don't take off your pants."
Lucy took down my pants and stared, observing my cock that jumped out.
"Right, it's clean. I knew first-timers are great. The shape is good, too."
Having my naked lower body observed by a peerless beauty felt exciting but also humiliating.
Understanding my feelings, my manhood clung to her soft stomach, seeking its first woman.
"Now that you're like this we can't talk properly. I'll take away your virginity first, then."
"Come inside", she said as she carried me, still with my lower half erect.
I'm still a child, but because of my development in the last few, I shouldn't be that much lighter than an adult…
Like that, she carried me inside the house and tossed me on top of the bed.
"Right, let's make you a man now. Do what you like with me."
Lucy rolled on the bed beside me, she said to do with her as I liked, closed her eyes, and relaxed her body.
But since I never had shown any interest in women until now because of my priority of becoming more powerful, I have no idea what to do.
For the time being, I recalled how the mercenaries would do the prostitutes they bought or how they raped the women they captured and tried doing what they did.
I licked her nipple, caressed her butt, and put my fingers inside her hole.
I repeated that several times, and then Lucy burst into laughter.
"Ahahaha, that tickles! The virgin boy shouldn't try to think of anything strange. Your thing is about to burst, there's liquid dripping out of it already. Just push it inside the woman, okay? If you're not confident should I get on top of you?"
Of course, despite it being my first time my pride won't allow a woman doing as she pleases with me.
I went into the missionary position, put my body between her legs, and pushed my penis inside.
I remember the women crying whenever Lovano does this.
I thought it was payback for Lucy who's always wearing a composed look, but…
"Uwaaaaaa"
The voice that came out was mine, the moment I pushed my cock into her pussy down to the root, my glans impacted her womb, a countless number of folds inside of her pussy constricted around my cock so much that it was immensely pleasurable.
I stopped moving and put my cock back into Lucy's pussy to the root again impacting her womb with my glans as if trying to pry open her womb, her plumb thighs were wrapped around her waist while my hands were on her meaty waist which I used as a pivot to keep her pussy pressed against the base of my cock which caused her light sliver pubic hair around her pussy to grind against the grey pubic hair on the base of my cock creating strings of vulgar liquid made up of my pre-cum and her pussy juice.
"Oh my, you're enduring it? Excellent~ But it's over now."
Lucy wrapped her legs around my hips which cause my cock to go deeper into her pussy with my glans pushing violently against her womb, she pressed her breast up to me causing her erect nipples to rub against my chest, and the folds inside her pussy wriggled tightly around my cock.
This time I don't even have the leisure to let out a sound.
"U!"
When my groan came out, I instinctively tightened my hold on Lucy's waist and pressed my cock deep in her pussy to the root causing my glans to tightly press against Lucy's womb, then I started ejaculating, my glans which were tightly pressed against her womb released ropes after ropes of thick, vicious, virile semen into Lucy's womb.
It was an unbelievably pleasant feeling, when I opened my eyes Lucy was gently caressing my head.
"Take it easy, move together with your semen coming out. That way all of it will come out inside me~"
My ejaculation continued and continued, finally, it stopped after about a minute, I had the feeling if I wanted, I could continue to cum in Lucy's womb as long as I wanted but I also continue to fuck her after cumming inside her.
After everything is spent I collapsed on Lucy's chest.
"That was… amazing."
"Good work. You've graduated from your virginity, you're a man now."
I rolled down on the bed in the shape of the letter 大.
I felt satisfied, and proud, as if I just received great spoils after a battle.
Above all else, I had just pumped my semen into the unearthly beautiful woman lying next to me.
My first taste of making a woman mine felt magnificent.
I offered my arm for her to use as a pillow but she was no longer there.
"Hm? Where did… Uwaa!"
Before I knew it, Lucy took my cock in her mouth and moved violently.
It felt amazing, not at all inferior to the sensation from before, in under ten seconds I was about to ejaculate again but she stopped moving at that moment.
"Since you're young you can come multiple times, can you? Let's enjoy this then."
"I was just about to ask!"
Round 2
After regaining my confidence now that I'm no longer a virgin, I put my member inside her once more and moved my hips.
"How's this? Feels good?"
I tried mimicking what the mercenaries would say to the whores.
Lucy stared blankly for a moment but then put on a light smile.
"Ahn! Feels too good, I'm dying!"
It was obviously an act but it still gets me aroused.
"Lucy! You're my woman now, I'm coming!"
"Ahn', you made me your woman. Noo, if you come now I'll really be your captive."
I put Lucy in my embrace and pumped inside her for the second time, but once I'm done she gave me the rotten tomatoes.
"Hmm, you're too fast it's no fun… Well, since you're young you can do it more times so…"
Nothing makes a man feel pathetic more than this.
I felt like I wanted to die but I took up Lucy's challenge to pleasure.
Round 25
"Haa… Haa… I'm think this is enough for today."
"Not yet, I'll suck you so hold on, you are still hard."
Round 49
"Wow, it still can get hard!"
"Ugaah! Wh, what did!"
"Come, let's do it some more~"
Round 115
"Please… Let me go already."
I'm already unable to move my body due to all the pleasure I had received, all I can do is watch as Lucy continues to have her fun riding on top of me, moving her hips, as my cock refuses to go down.
"Amazing, I guess this much copulation and pleasure is too much for your first time sex, even though you are still hard. Well, let's do it one last time! I'm going to get rough so prepare yourself, 'kay"
Unable to taste that 'one last time', I lost my consciousness.
As my senses became dark and fuzzy I thought I heard Lucy's voice.
"Oh? Looks like he fainted. So it's 115 times, huh, if he did not lose consciousness who knows how long he would have kept fucking, one week, one month, one year? A lot came out so he's got the makings of something great. Looks like he's going to enjoy being taught about women."
Something crept along the back of my neck.
Then I felt a stabbing pain and my body going limp.
"Delicious! Not even the blood of a freshly deflowered boy is comparable to his, his blood really is THE BEST! Aah, I want to drink it all, but… . I've got to bear with it, uuuh it's hard . "
Two years later
A little over two years since I met Lucy, the time came all of a sudden.
"There is no longer anything I have to teach you anymore."
She said it in her usual, lovely, voice.
"Therefore I'm allowing you to leave this place sometime soon."
So the time has finally come, my heart was calm.
We've been together for over two years, I easily understood the change in her attitude.
Whether Lucy has some other thing she forgot to teach me or something she has to tell me, after thinking about it over and over again the conclusion is the same.
Then I too will not waver, after all my path to apex had just begun.
"All right, then I will be leaving here soon."
Lucy's face warped into a frown for an instant.
The way I said it, it must have sounded like I had been waiting for the day I leave.
It must have come as a shock to her who thought she knew my heart now that we've joined bodies.
So I continued.
"I want Lucy to come with me."
Her pained face changed into a blank look.
"I know that you think very highly of this place. So I strongly want you to hear my wish, I don't want to be separated from you."
I used honorifics, which I never used on her before. Since I have no experience using it I might've made a mistake, but I'm sure my feelings got through. I enjoyed looking at Lucy's bewildered face for a while, then finally she was able to start talking.
"I'm very happy you feel that way. But I can't go. For me, this is the last remaining place I have memories in."
Unlike her usual playful teasing tone, she clearly expressed her rejection. My feelings were unable to win against her past.
I did have the option of mind-controlling her as I had already marked her with the binder but as she was the first woman I had sex with, I wanted to win her heart by myself and not take any other route. Most important of all, I was already aware of a way to make her heart mine and make her willing to leave this, I was just waiting for her to say, after all, I could not tell her that I had read her mind.
"All right."
I managed to squeeze out a blunt reply, sad over our temporary separation.
"Pff."
Lucy's expression and voice broke.
"Ufu, you're really cute. You know already that I can't part from this place."
"You, you are an irreplaceable woman to me, I wanted to bring you along no matter what."
"In that case then you could have simply refused to leave this place, right? I permitted you to leave but that doesn't mean I'm telling you to leave?"
I wanted to be with Lucy, but I can't render her kindness useless, the choice was never there.
"Is that really true? Would you really be happy if I said I won't leave and will always be by your side?"
Lucy laughed with a puff.
"That's right, isn't it, I won't be happy. I want you to see the world. I want you to live freely in this wide world, especially after knowing your past. I worked hard with that in mind, after all."
"Then I'll be leaving this place very soon, so I can be the me that Lucy wanted even one-day sooner."
"Really, even though you have knowledge and fixed your warpedness, that occasional straightforwardness of yours doesn't change. It's one of the things I like about you, but you shouldn't be missing the joys of life."
Turning around, she flew into my chest.
"You are fine as you are now. Live the way you like. Do what you want to do, walk the path that you yourself think is right. That's what I want from you, for you to be happily walking the path you chose for yourself."
The difference between Lucy's and my height is already clear, her head is resting right on my chest. But even then those words can only be heard as coming from someone speaking from above. The words of someone who had me in tow. There was no need to reply, we could understand just by embracing each other.
Then at the end of the long embrace, I sought to gallantly leave, but…
Lucy pulled my arms and I was toppled down right there.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Her shocked voice was heard.
"Well, I was going to go like this…"
"With no food and no water, well I should not be worried about this aspect considering your monstrous body which makes me doubt who is monster among us, but what about your spare weapons, spare armour and nothing in your hand?"
*…*
Even Mom was speechless with me.
"There is some wide world out there you know. Even though you could use that strange ability of yours to make things appear out of nowhere, but even I can guess it must cost you something"
Lucy was right, it would cost me SP
I sulked and curled myself into a ball.
"*sigh*Let's do some proper preparations. Wait right there."
Lucy rummaged a few things out of the storehouse.
She seems to have had them prepared for some time.
What she had lined up were spare armour, spare gauntlets, and spare boots made of pasted leather, and a spare shield wrapped in chains, they were all in good condition, I was moved considering that she took time for their maintenance.
"By the way, these belonged to people who came here before and were eaten by me, since they're so pretty I thought they might have some use."
Then she lined up small accessories like leather bags containing dry meat or water, gathering a full set of travel equipment, as Lucy knew about my inventory, she arranged all the stuff in such a way that it could be stored in my inventory by taking the least amount of space.
The money I got from the robbers who died when I came here and what I got from Lucy totalled 30 gold coins.
I know well from living here for two years that there's no need for money to live here, so I took it without reserve.
Then, the two essential equipment.
The first one is a spear.
It was two meters long and had a semicircular axe blade for a spearhead, it was a bardiche, that could be used for piercing and slashing.
It was big, the handle was thicker than common ones and the blade heavier.
I think I can say it weighed 15 kilograms, rather than a spear it was more of an iron pole with an axe.
"This is rather an old item but its condition is good, it's really heavy but I'm sure you can use it."
"I'll gratefully accept, but what you said wasn't really convincing by the way you're presenting it with one hand."
The second one is a cloak.
At first glance, it looked to be a jet-black cloak but when I looked closely it had traces of dyeing.
"This cloak is made with my special method. I soaked common white cloth with a certain something."
Lucy puffed her chest, proud. I imagined what she might have soaked it with.
"There's a limit to lewdness, you know, just what did you soak into this?"
"Not that! Blood! My blood!"
So it's a Lucy special, vampire-blood-soaked cloak.
Certainly, it's way stronger than ordinary cloth.
It doesn't weigh too different from ordinary cloth, too.
According to Lucy it wouldn't burn and it is also effective for scaring animals.
Then what's best of all, when I put it on I can feel Lucy.
Now all the preparations are complete, and we finally fell silent.
Staying here any longer would only make me hesitant, so I stood up.
"Let's put your departure three days from now."
That was an anticlimax.
"Why do you want to wait three days."
Needless to say, it would only create lingering affection.
"Who knows when we might be able to meet again you know! So for the last time."
I hugged Lucy, who was looking downcast with her face red, I believe this is something for the man to say.
"Let's have some wild, dirty sex!"
At any rate, she must've wanted something like this.
I had my blood sucked by Lucy for two days without rest.
Even after that we continued to drown in a bog of lust and exchanged so much body fluids that I thought all of them just switched places.
Then came the time I must leave the house.
Parting with a vampire of course happened at night, I put on the armour underneath the moonlight, wore the dark blood coloured cloak, and carried the spear on my shoulder.
"Two years passed by in an instant compared to my long life, but I've never had a rich time such as this. It was really fun."
"As for me, I felt like I've spent my whole life with Lucy."
"Fufu, you've really become a good man. You also got passing marks on your learning about women, Endless the indecent will probably sleep with lots of women from now on."
I thought it was very like her, teasing me with her charm until the last moment.
"For one last time, won't you come along with me?"
"No~pe "
A playful tone, it was the end.
I put my lips on top of Lucy's. Thinking of our separation my kiss lingered longer. Finally, the kiss ended in a bridge of saliva.
"I can't go along with you, but this isn't our final farewell."
Of course, I was aware of that and it was also one of the reasons why I didn't resort to other means to get her heart, I had been waiting for her to say this the whole time.
She whispered.
"Become successful, be a noble, be a king, be an emperor, make this land your own and come here. Because I know you have the capability to do it. If you do that I'll become your wife, I'll be your mistress, I'll even be your whatever you want."
A commoner becoming a noble, much less a king, that's too much of a delusion, it's too impossible. However, this was true only for the majority of the mortal humans in this world. Lucy as someone aware of the fact that I am not a native of this world, also knew of my history and various peculiar abilities and was aware of the fact that if I wanted, I could become noble, king, or emperor.
Either way, as long as you live to aim to be a king, aim high and do your best, use all your strength and come back here, I heard a phantom voice say, and when you climb past that hill, I'll become your woman, only yours, forever, the voice continued.
Of course, it is Lucy's inner thought her oath of love for me.
Maybe her voice would call me to stop from behind me, or maybe she would come and embrace me, I thought as I went on without looking back, but in the end, I uneventfully walked through the forest until the sun came up.
Lucy POV
Lucy watched the back of the man she sent off as he went away.
This was bound to happen some day~, she thought.
It was an emotional moment when the strange boy devoid of common sense, whom she gave knowledge and love and raised became a man and left.
One more now, huh.
Thinking that she became rather sad thinking about the past, but that sadness was soon replaced with expectation for the future.
At any rate, one thing she was sure about was that man would definitely be able to become a noble, king, and emperor. It was only a matter of time. And when he becomes emperor, what should she do? Lucy shivered as she felt a sweet numbness in her belly and returned home. Though the man she embraced was no longer there his scent still lingered in the house, so she'll be satisfied even when sleeping alone.
She'd thought the traces he left would disappear from their house but time would prove her thoughts wrong with his scent and other traces keeping her company until the man returned to her as noble or king or emperor.
From now on she'll suck and kill men who come to her house, but she will not seek any other man than Endless, not to mention unbeknownst to her, the man had left the mark of the binder on her which could detect people with ill intention against her and inform him so that he could protect her from the shadows until one day the man returned to her as the person she expected him to be.