Chapter 4: An Absolutely Unachievable Deal (2)

I make a lot of mistakes. Situations I thought were perfect turn out to be completely different from what I expected, or I end up messing up at a crucial moment.

And now, I’ve made another mistake. A really big one this time.

Let’s think about it. A person needs about six hours of sleep to function for the day.

Now, considering that two heroines spent the entire night screaming in ecstasy and going at it, what are the odds that they’d be awake at this hour?

Only one exception exists: the hero, who’s always entangled with countless heroines by default.

That’s… not human stamina. Truly, the hero has transcended human limits in many ways.

As a result of shaking the hero up first thing in the morning, the dining table now lies in silent awkwardness.

And this hero, who keeps avoiding eye contact with me, either daydreaming or wearing a dark expression… It feels like he’s on the verge of trying to use his hypnosis powers on me.

Honestly, if I threatened him by saying I’d absolutely kill the Demon King and if he actually understood the meaning behind it, wouldn’t he immediately try to subdue me?

Now that I think about it, there are plenty of eroge where it’s not hypnosis but outright kidnapping and training after overpowering someone.

Would that make the genre less of a fantasy eroge and more of a training simulation?

Anyway, my act of revenge for losing sleep was reckless and thoughtless. I need to reflect on my actions.

“…Is something troubling you? If it’s because of what I said this morning, you don’t have to overthink it…”

“It’s just… this adventure still doesn’t sit right with me.”

Of course not, dammit. Sitting back and indulging in steamy sex would make you stronger on its own, so why bother exploring dungeons and such? It’s hard to understand, right?

But what can I do? As long as we’re under the pretense of being a hero’s party, I have to gather as much information as I can about the Demon King’s descent.

Recently, numerous dungeons emitting demonic energy have also been discovered.

For better or worse, the game world is now my reality, and tedious tasks like these are unavoidable.

Not that the horny monkeys with nothing but sex on their minds would understand that.

“…Wait, again?”

When I meet the hero’s gaze, I notice his face suddenly growing serious, his crimson eyes glowing, and an unpleasant headache creeping in.

It’s obvious that his hypnosis ability has activated again.

It’s mealtime right now.

We’re eating breakfast, for heaven’s sake.

Even dogs know not to disturb others while eating.

Seriously? Having sex while eating? Only a sex-crazed beast would even think of that.

Why is it that my worst fears never fail to materialize?

Normally, such headaches would only last for a brief moment, but now it’s lingering so long that I’m starting to feel nauseous.

The hero, still staring directly at me. Damn it. Damn it. If his hypnosis doesn’t work again, he looks ready to just force himself on me.

“Serra, about your neck…”

“Oh, you’re already up? Sorry about that. I overslept a little.”

At that moment, the sound of creaking stairs interrupted the hero’s words, and Natalia descended.

That sound not only broke his sentence but also dispelled the unsettling atmosphere that had been brewing earlier.

For today, this woman knight feels more dependable than ever.

“N-Natalia! You must be hungry, right? I’ll prepare your meal right away, so please wait just a moment!”

“There’s no need for that. As a knight, I should take care of my own affairs.”

“No, no! Please don’t hesitate! I’m doing this because I want to!”

As someone blessed by the sword, Natalia has the physical resilience to match her title.

While she’s not on the hero’s level, she has the highest stamina among the heroines.

Because of this, once a sex scene begins, all kinds of things are possible, making her the first to succumb to hypnosis and corruption.

Still, perhaps because of her abilities, she doesn’t seem to require much sleep.

So, for today at least, I’m grateful for her “born-for-sex-knight” setting.

“If you insist…”

Wanting desperately to escape the current situation, I offered to prepare breakfast.

Natalia seemed to realize there was no point in refusing any further and accepted.

“Hmm, last night was wonderful, wasn’t it, hero?”

Hmm… Seeing her blush as she addresses the hero makes it seem like she didn’t entirely dislike being alone with him.

Despite the constant moaning and lack of intelligence she displays at night, Natalia does have a rather attractive appearance, befitting a heroine.

When she talks to the hero, flustered and unsure of herself, she looks every bit like a girl in love, exuding an innocent and devoted vibe.

And yet, at night, she transforms into a complete animal in heat.

“Serra, um… I’d prefer it if you didn’t stare so much…”

“Oh, sorry. You two look so good together that I couldn’t help myself…”

Yeah, right.

A bitch who goes into heat at night and a hero whose mind is filled with nothing but hypnosis sex.

Truly a perfect pair.

“W-What nonsense are you talking about?! The hero is a fine man, yes, but… marriage is still…”

Wow, damn. Natalia’s already thinking about marriage. Despite being in a sister-wife situation with Laura…

But I feel bad for her.

This eroge has no happy endings like a marriage conclusion.

Only endings where you end up as a slave or public property.

Good luck trying, though.

But seriously, what was the hero about to say earlier? “Serra, about your neck…” What? Considering the intense headache I just experienced, was he about to say something like, “Your goals don’t matter to me!”? Probably something that crude.

If I’d stayed there any longer, he’d probably have forced himself on me.

It’s so obvious. Damn it, even for an eroge protagonist, this guy’s absolutely insane.

I don’t want this… Can’t we just teleport?

“Laura, how far do you think the capital is?”

After everything that happened in the morning, we waited for Laura to wake up.

Before we knew it, it was already afternoon.

To find a suitable inn to rest, we’d have to leave the forest we were in.

But leaving this late meant there was little chance of making it in time, which meant we’d have to camp out.

Camping out is something Laura absolutely refuses, so she proposed teleporting directly to the capital.

Even if she’s a magical prodigy, long-distance teleportation magic—especially for such a great distance—feels incredibly reckless.

“Serra, you never trust me… If it’s Laura doing it, there’s less than a 10% chance of failure…”

Wait… 10%? Isn’t that still a considerable risk?

If it were just a simple flicker in sight, that would be one thing, but transferring something to a place you can’t even see is extremely risky.

When coordinates get mixed up, it’s a given that your body could end up altered or missing entirely.

In the worst case, you might fall into an entirely different dimension you could never have imagined.

Moreover, the farther the distance or the more targets to transfer, the difficulty of long-distance spatial movement increases exponentially.

Unless dozens of mages are collaborating with the source of magical energy as a medium, it’s simply unrealistic.

Even though the failure rate is said to be less than 10%, that also means there’s still a chance of failure.

It’s an incredibly dangerous magic, even for the hero’s cheat-like party members.

“Haah… Natalia, can’t you say something too?”

“Indeed, doing it in the outdoors is a bit…”

Damn it, should this be called brainwashed submission training, or should it not?

Natalia, twisting her body like that, must already be full of thoughts about doing it with the hero, but at least she seems to have some reservations about outdoor exposure play.

Either way, her knightly image shatters completely when I see this, and it’s just infuriating.

Can’t she at least refrain from making such statements in front of me? Damn it.

Even though she seems to use more euphemistic expressions in front of me when she wants to get with the hero, I can’t help but now associate the term “holy sword” with that kind of “sword” instead of the literal one.

Holy Sword Arondight, it’s supposed to be the hero’s exclusive equipment.

But what can you do? It’s a damn eroge.

“Well, that’s unfortunate. Given that we only have two two-person tents… it means someone will have to sleep close together with another person. And that’s just not right.”

“Serra, you’re jumping to conclusions too quickly… I’m small, so with the hero, there’s no problem…”

“As a knight, it’s only proper to endure discomfort!”

When I emphasized the fact that the tent was “two-person” while pulling out the lightweight magical tent from my backpack, both Laura and Natalia quickly changed their attitudes.

Do they want to cling to the hero that badly?

You’d think the tent would shake without restraint, crude voices reverberating vividly without even the thinnest of walls.

Still, with Laura and Natalia competing like that, it means I won’t have to share a tent with the hero, which is fine by me.

“Ah… um, I can sleep outside, so why don’t you all use the tents instead?”

A narrow tent means no gangbang play tonight. So, which heroine will the hero choose?

Thanks to my memories of spending a long time playing this eroge in a past life, I know which heroine aligns with the hero’s tastes.

Observing this is important. I need to stay as far from those preferences as possible.

That said, for some reason, the hero seemed unwilling to mix with the girls tonight.

“What are you saying?! If we make the most of the space, four people can use the two tents!”

“Don’t worry about it, hero… Laura’s small, so she won’t be in the way.”

You were praising the hero’s self-sacrificing spirit just the other day, and now you’re denying it? There’s a limit to how much you can flip-flop.

“Haha, it’s not so much self-sacrifice. Sometimes, I just… want to be alone. And besides, in a place like this…”

“Ah, I see. With tents like that, it’s not much different from doing it outdoors…”

Laura almost had a dangerous thought there…

As the hero scratched his cheek and once again pointed out the forest surroundings, Laura and Natalia suddenly realized what they’d been thinking and turned red.

Seeing those two, who scream through the walls every night, hesitate over outdoor play is just pathetic.

It’s fascinating that these perpetually aroused heroines can make such “normal” decisions. Or maybe it’s just that the hero’s hypnotic power hasn’t activated?

Now that I think about it, after the incident this morning, I haven’t felt any headaches or seen the hero act suspiciously.

Could it be that this guy used up all his daily hypnosis stacks?

Though it’s an eroge, it’s still set in a fantasy world.

That means the hero does require some growth.

While basic stats naturally skyrocket just through sex—because you wouldn’t want the game to feel inconvenient—skills don’t progress that way.

Especially the hero’s hypnotic ability, the “Eye of Enchantment,” which can only be strengthened by obtaining something called magic crystals as the story progresses.

In other words, the hero’s hypnosis ability has its limits at this stage, where not even all the heroines have gathered.

Even with just that, he’s managed to make heroines blindly follow him and enjoy consensual sex to his heart’s content.

But it means he can’t yet perform actions that would induce shameful, depraved behavior.

Without his hypnotic powers, is this all the hero is?

For all my resentment about not being the protagonist and my anger at the nightly screams from the walls, well, it turns out the hero is nothing special without his cheat abilities.

“Haha, it’s quite amusing to watch.”

“Serra, your laugh is a bit unsettling…”

I’ll mock them to my heart’s content while I can.

After all, I have no idea yet that this eroge’s plotline will force me into progressing through its twisted difficulty.

Let me reiterate—I make a lot of mistakes.