Published at 26th of August 2019 6:54 pm

Chapter 2 - Wells, Village of Fire and Water

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The sun was shining overhead, but it was beginning to set in the west. It was well into the afternoon and the heat was beginning to die down.

Tet and Makina took a break on the bank of a pure stream flowing through the plains.

They sat on a rounded rock and checked their map.

“At this pace, we should reach the next village before sunset, Prin-…Makina.”

“Hee hee. You can call me that when it’s just the two of us. I know you can’t help yourself, Tet.”

“I am very sorry.”

“Anyway, are you thirsty? I could go gather some water.”

“I will do that!”

“No, no. I’m an adventurer now, so no special treatment. Please wait here. And I would like to cool off my feet while I am at it.”

“U-understood. Be careful.”

When she asked him to stay, he could not insist on going with her.

They were a princess and her knight, but they were now equal adventurers. Makina was certain she could never complete this journey to save her homeland if she had Tet do everything for her.

“I want to keep walking, but my feet really hurt.”

She removed her boots and high socks and stepped into the stream to cool her exhausted feet. While exposing beautiful legs which were quite smooth and unblemished for an adventurer, she filled a wooden bottle with water from the stream.

Once she had enough for both of them, a fish swam by in front of her.

She let her overheated body cool down and filled her lungs with the fresh air of nature.

“Phew.”

She was enjoying this journey.

She could not treat it like a sightseeing trip since they had a grand objective to pursue, but everything they came across seemed so fresh and new.

She saw sights she never could have seen in the castle. She met people she never could have met there. And she felt the tension of combat she never would have known.

Every day was full of new experiences and discoveries, so she felt like she had grown a lot as a person.

By the time the journey came to an end and she returned to her old life, she was sure she would have grown into someone with plenty of exciting stories to tell. She would be a princess was ample life experiences.

“…Hh…ah…kh…”

“…?”

Sensing a sudden presence, she turned around.

She had heard someone’s voice from beyond the bushes on the other side of the stream.

In case it was a monster, she put away the bottles and prepared her magic staff.

Had some monsters tracked them down like those goblins from that morning?

“Ahhhh❤”

“!?”

Her heart leapt in her chest at what she heard.

This was no monster. Nor was it an animal. She recognized that sort of moan.

A human woman was hiding in the bushes, clinging to a tall broadleaf tree, and raising her voice.

“Ah❤ Stop❤ Help me❤ No❤”

“Not so loud, you dumb bitch. Now squeeze my dick tighter!”

A man and woman had their lower bodies bared while they fucked doggy style.

The woman shook her black ponytail and the ecstasy on her face belied her words.

The brown-haired man wore adventurer equipment on his upper body and had a look of fulfilled lust on his face.

“Wha-!?”

Makina had never even considered doing this outdoors.

The pleasure had to be incredible. The woman’s melted face and moans caused her sex curse to throb.

But she began moving before that could influence her.

“Wh-what are you doing!? Stop that!”

She could not ignore the woman’s cries for help. No matter how horny she felt.

That relieved her somewhat and she wanted to praise herself.

——I proved it was possible to suppress my desire and fight the curse.

She managed to take action to protect someone else.

“Get away from her!”

She swung her staff and produced a small ice spear in midair. She stood in the middle of the stream, so there was plenty of water.

“Frozen Lance!”

She launched a warning shot toward the man raping the woman.

“What the fuck!?”

“Kyah!?”

The man reacted in surprise and the woman also looked surprised as she screamed and dodged.

The pillar of ice shot just past the man’s head and stabbed deep into the side of the tree.

The brown-haired man fell onto his ass and held his hands out to show he meant no harm.

“Whoa! Wait, wait! You’ve got it all wrong!”

“…! How!? What possible other explanation is there!?”

She produced another ice spear.

“Princess! Is something wrong!?”

Tet ran over with sword at the ready after hearing the commotion.

He grasped the situation at a glance and angrily aimed his sword at the pantsless man.

“You absolute scum!”

Before Makina could activate her magic, he crossed the stream to cut down the man.

“Wait!”

The man immediately gathered up his stripped-off equipment and pulled out a short sword.

He used that to block Tet’s sword. Sparks flew and he clenched his teeth to bear with it.

“Calm down! This is all a misunderstanding!”

“How could I misunderstand this!?”

“S-stop this!”

“!?”

The one who tackled Tet’s hips and clung to him to stop him was…the woman who the man had assaulted.

“What?!”

“Eh!?”

Confused, Tet and Makina stopped their attacks.

They had not expected interference from the woman they thought they had saved.

“H-he’s my boyfriend! So it’s okay! Don’t kill him!”

“Ehhhhhh!?”

“Ehhhhhh!?”

Once they knew the truth, everything calmed down.

But Makina and Tet were shocked into silence and simply stood there for a while.

They had been raised in the royal palace, so the concept of outdoors roleplaying was foreign to them.

“I’m so sorry!”

“S-sorry about that!”

Once the man and woman had gotten dressed, Makina and Tet bowed down in apology. They felt bad having attacked over a misunderstanding.

But the black-haired woman smiled awkwardly at these strangers stumbling on her having sex with her boyfriend.

“No, we should apologize for being so misleading! Oh, god, I can’t believe someone saw that!”

“That’s why I said we should head further off the path to fuck, Melissa.”

Melissa, the woman with a long black ponytail, was a swordswoman adventurer wearing the clothing of an eastern kingdom.

She had a slender build with no excess fat or muscle and she had snow-white skin. It was hardly surprising the man would want to do her outside.

“You liar! You were the one that couldn’t wait until we got back and insisted on doing it right here and now, Tact.”

“Oh, shut up. I only asked you to suck me off real quick. It was you that got all horny and started stripping.”

Tact, the brown-haired man, scratched his head and looked bored. He ran a finger through his brown beard and yawned.

He was a tall adventurer with muscular arms and legs, so he definitely had the build to back up the skill he had shown in blocking Tet’s attack.

But most of all, he seemed to be a virile man with skilled sexual technique.

“Don’t talk about me like I’m some cock-starved slut, you manwhore!”

“You are a cock-starved slut, you regular whore!”

“C-calm down, you two.”

“I really don’t think you should be saying that so loudly.”

Makina was unsure how to respond to this lover’s spat, but she was relieved no one was actually being raped.

However, the shocking words being thrown back and forth made the palace-raised pair blush as they intervened.

“God, will that flat whore ever shut up? Don’t you hate when they get all bitchy, bro? Yeah, girls should be all ladylike like this cutie over her.”

Tact placed an arm around Makina’s shoulders in an overly friendly way.

He ran his hand along her bare shoulder and lightly rubbed his fingers on her collarbone.

“Hyah!?”

The ticklish feeling made her shoulders jump.

But Tact only moved his somewhat drooping eyebrows and gave her a flippant smile.

“Oh, you’re a sensitive one.”

“…!”

Makina tensed at his sudden approach. And when she saw that…no, when she heard what he said a few seconds before, Melissa raised her voice in anger.

“Wait! Who are you calling a flat whore!?”

That comment hit her right in her complex, so she prepared to attack Tact.

But before she could, Tet’s hand sharply grabbed Tact’s arm and forcefully lifted it up.

“Ow!?”

“Please do not touch her without permission.”

He threatened the insolent man with even more killer intent in his eyes than when he had attacked with his sword earlier.

“Heh heh. Sorry, no harm meant. I’m not into stealing other guy’s girls.”

Tact spread his hand and waved it in surrender before backing away with a confident look on his face. But he did rub his wrist where Tet had grabbed him and there was some cold sweat on his brow.

“God, Tact, give it a rest for once. Sorry about this, you two. And thanks. You’re adventurers too, aren’t you?”

“Y-Yes! My name is Makina! And this is…”

“I am Tet.”

“Are you headed to Wells? We can’t go with you because we still have a quest to complete, but if we see each other in the village, we’ll treat you to a meal.”

They tried to decline, but Melissa insisted it was fine with a cheerful smile.

“Anyway, see you around, Tet and Makina. I love people who will readily rush in to save someone in need.”

“Bye. And try not to attack too many people.”

“Tact!”

Melissa kicked Tact for his joke.

Then they turned away and walked off into the bushes.

“We should get going too, Prin-…Makina.”

They had lost some time to this unexpected encounter, so Tet quickly turned around too.

However.

Makina was still staring toward the bushes with heat in her eyes.

“Princess?”

“Eh? O-oh! Yes! What is it!?”

“Aren’t we leaving? Or was there something you wanted to do?”

“N-no, no. Let’s get going. Sorry!”

She shook her head and hurried after Tet.

——That was when I seriously considered doing it again. Once could be written off as no more than a bad decision. But twice? Then it becomes a pattern of behavior.

She faced forward with heat in her face, pulled out her water bottle, and took a long swig of the cold stream water.

As if trying to erase the improper thoughts from her mind. As if trying to forget the image of Tact and Melissa doing it doggy style that was burned into her retinas.

The sun was already half hidden behind the horizon and the sky was dyed red.

After continuing north along the riverbank, they arrived at the town before the sun had fully set.

The village was named Wells and it was known as the Village of Fire and Water.

This land was trapped between the mountain streams and an active volcano, so hot water had bubbled up there as long as the village had existed.

It had plenty of water, woods, and even rare minerals from the volcano. Travelers and adventurers had gathered there in search of those resources, so it had become a lively hot spring town.

“It’s full of life even at night.”

“It must have an active downtown area.”

There were innumerable people and open-air shops. The small village they had left that morning was no comparison.

And the size of the town was reflected in the size of its guild hall.

A guild hall was generally just a facility run by the adventurer’s guild, but the one in Wells had lodgings, weapon and armor shops, and even a training ground and church.

“Okay, Makina. You check us in and get some rest. I’ll ask around for any information on a suspicious sorcerer.”

Tet spoke and acted naturally so he would not stand out from the other adventurers and he passed her his adventurer’s ID.

But Makina was a little surprised to see him immediately head out to gather information without even getting any rest first.

“W-wait! You must be tired too, Tet.”

“I’ve barely swung my sword today, so I still have plenty of stamina. What I did today wouldn’t even count as training for a Grandel knight.”

After whispering that, he ran off in the opposite direction before she could stop him.

He trained on a daily basis, so walking from town to town was no more than a light stroll to him.

“Well, if you say so.”

Makina sounded exasperated, but she was proud of her hard-working knight.

While hoping he found some useful information, she opened the door to the guild hall in order to get a good room for his sake.

By showing the guild receptionist her adventurer’s ID, she could use any of the guild-supplied facilities and accept any quests her rank qualified her for.

But without that ID, they would not even see her as an adventurer.

So to an adventurer, that thin plate engraved with their name and rank was more valuable than their soul.

They could not be reissued. If you were incapable of protecting your ID, you were not cut out to be an adventurer.

“Tet Chrom. Rank E.”

Makina traced her finger along the plate engraved with the name and rank of a beginner adventurer.

Her childhood friend had left her with that precious ID.

It warmed her heart to think about what that meant.

She knew she had to live up to his trust in her.

After checking in, she had to get a good room for them to stay in.

“If you want separate rooms, there are gold, silver, bronze, and iron rank rooms. If you would prefer to share one, there are also double, twin, and suite options. You can also select between a normal room, a room with an open air bath, and a room with an indoor bath.”

The young blonde receptionist woman rattled off the various options so fast it sounded like some kind of magical spell.

According to a magical history book in the castle library, magical incantations had been very long before they had been abbreviated in modern times.

“So what would you like?”

Makina realized her mind had been wandering.

“Eh!? Um, uh! H-hmm.”

But she was dragged back to reality and forced to think.

Tet had chosen all their rooms and lodgings before this.

He was always quick to make up his mind and quick to action.

That sometimes narrowed his vision and led to reckless actions in battle, but he was decisive at times like this.

Makina, on the other hand, could think on his level during battles and emergencies, but she tended to be indecisive otherwise.

When ordering food, buying clothes, or choosing a room like this, she would usually think long and hard before going with the very first idea she had had.

“Um, well, wh-what should I choose?”

While she thought, she sensed a quiet aura of displeasure from the receptionist and the adventurers in line behind her.

And the pressure to make up her mind only tangled up the threads of her thoughts.

But then…

“Sorry, but she won’t be using a room. Oh, and I’ll be on their party, so redo their registration for this town.”

Her thoughts were cut off by a voice from overhead.

A hand reached by her side and placed a third ID on the reception desk to reset everything.

“…!?”

She turned to the side and then looked a bit up.

She found Tact, the brown-haired pick-up artist of an adventurer she had met during the day.

She tensed up when he grinned down at her, but the receptionist began talking first.

“Oh, that was quick, Tact. I thought you said you would be gone overnight for your current quest.”

“I couldn’t bear being away from the beautiful flower prettying up this dreary old guild hall. And I can be real quick when I keep my horse moving, so it wasn’t a problem at all.”

“Yes, yes. I know you say that to all the girls. And you certainly are quick down there.”

“Shut the fuck up! You know that isn’t true!”

“By the way, what happened to Melissa?”

“Oh, her… Don’t worry about her. I’m sure she’ll be by later. Oh, and you can count today’s quest as a failure. So like I said, register us as a three-person party that isn’t taking a room. I’ll find us a place to stay.”

“Yes, understood. …Next please~”

“Wait! Um!”

They were all checked in before Makina could get a word in edgewise.

She gave Tact a hash look for his forceful methods, but he kept grinning all the same.

“Welcome to the party, Makina♪”

“Why did you do that without asking me!?”

They were behind the guild hall.

In that dimly lit and deserted alleyway, Makina stood with her back to the hall’s stone wall and glared up at Tact.

But he must have seen no dignity in the young princess-turned-adventurer’s glare because he teased her, saying she was adorable when she was mad.

“Why did I do it? You were having trouble and I helped you out. Only beginners stay in those boring guild rooms. And this town has plenty of hot spring inns to choose from.”

Instead of feeling bad, he actually acted insulted she was not thankful while he teased with his brown bangs.

But Makina refused to thank him and further criticized him.

“And how could you register us as a party without getting my permission first?

What about Melissa?”

“Her? Forget about her.”

“Forget about her!? Isn’t she your girlfriend!?”

“We just broke up. And she wasn’t my girlfriend. Just a sex friend. Same as that receptionist in there. We didn’t really need to formally break up.”

“Eh?”

Makina felt like something hard had hit her in the head.

This sounded like a conversation from another world.

Or like he was speaking some foreign language.

“Y-you broke up? A sex friend? I can’t believe what I’m hearing.”

How could he be so casual about breaking up with someone he had slept with just a few hours ago?

Makina was still fairly ignorant about physical relationships, so this came as quite a shock.

“I was pretty clear up front it was just about sex, but she kept trying to act like my girlfriend. When she said she was gonna quit adventuring so she could support me, I hopped on my horse and fled back to town. It gave me the chills, you know? I can’t stand chicks that have to take everything so seriously.”

“Th-that’s awful!”

“Isn’t she, though? So now that I’m solo again, I thought I’d help out two rookies in need.”

“W-we do not need your help! No one wants you!”

“Liar. I saw you staring at my dick back there. You were practically drooling.”

“…!”

He had noticed back when they met at the river.

When Tact had fallen right on his ass due to her ice magic, Makina had gotten a full view of his erect penis.

And until they corrected the misunderstanding and he put his pants back on, she had been constantly glancing back over at that manly cock.

He had seen right through to the sexuality awoken by the curse.

“And who was it that attacked me for no good reason? Teaming up seems like a good way to apologize if you ask me.”

“I-I do feel bad about that, but…”

Tact’s reasoning did not add up.

She knew that, but she found herself unable to argue back too strongly.

He was right that she and Tet had wronged him.

And working with a more experienced adventurer had its advantages.

“Besides, you you’re the one that dragged me into this back alley where we could have some privacy. I think we both know what you were after.”

“Wha-!?”

Tact had not been the one to choose to talk in this deserted area. She had taken him here.

But only because she had not wanted to bother the other adventurers in the guild hall.

Still, she could have chosen a shop or the crowded city square.

“No! I was just thinking, um…”

She had also wanted to avoid any unnecessary conflict so no one would discover she was the Grandel princess.

She had taken him here so no one would notice their argument. That was the only kind of privacy she had wanted. She wanted to believe it had been nothing more than that.

“Th-that wasn’t why…”

“Wasn’t it, though?”

“…”

She averted her gaze and looked to the ground on her left.

And then his outstretched right arm blocked her view as he pressed his hand against the stone wall.

“…!?”

That forced her to look straight ahead again. His face was all she could see.

He moved so close it felt intimidating.

And yet her heart was racing with an emotion other than fear. It pounded with excitement.

“I-I…!”

And when she looked up and opened her mouth to correct him…

——Tact’s mouth pressed against my pink lips.

“Nhhhh!?”

He had not cast any bondage magic on her, yet she could not move in the slightest.

After a quick kiss that was more of a peck than anything, he pulled back.

“Wh-what are you doing!?”

He grabbed her chin and stole her lips again.

“Nh!? Nhh! Mh, ah.”

He gently held her youthful upper lip between his lips and then sucked on her lower lip.

“W-wait…”

She had her staff, but she could not use any magic.

With his lips sealing hers, she could not even activate the abbreviated incantations.

“Oh, shut up.”

He grabbed her wrists and pressed them against the wall behind her.

And with her arms somewhat raised over her head, he took both her lips between his.

They felt each other’s breaths as they kissed. They kissed like lovers or a married couple.

“Kiss, nmh, ah, hah, smack, nh❤”

“Kiss.”

When he finally removed his lips, she realized she had forgotten to breathe.

“Pant, pant, ah❤”

“Ha ha. You look horny as fuck and all I did was kiss you a little. You’re a slutty little thing, Makina❤”

She gasped for breath and her magic staff fell to the floor. She was not sure if she had opened her hand intentionally or not.

“W-wait. We shouldn’t be…doing this!”

“When a sexy thing like you meets a stud like me, this is exactly what we should be doing. Here, feel this.”

He guided her right hand down to an obvious bulge in his pants.

He pressed her smooth white hand against the erection pushing so hard against the fabric.

“…!?”

She felt it twitch the instant she touched it.

Even through his pants, it was so hot, hard, and thick.

She blushed bright red as she moved her fingers to get a better feel of it. She could not help herself.

“Whoa, whoa. I didn’t tell you to rub it, you lewd girl you.”

She could not believe he could say that after making her touch it.

She was so embarrassed she let go while feeling even more blood rushing to her face.

And then his lips touched hers again.

“Nh!?”

“Don’t let my giant dick distract you so much.”

This time, he stuck his tongue in and began an intense kiss in which they shared their saliva. He sucked up her sweet, feminine-smelling saliva, mixed it with his own, and then let it drip back into her mouth.

“Nh. Here, stick out your tongue.”

“Nh❤ Suck❤ Ah❤ Nh, kiss❤ Lick❤ Slurp❤ Suck❤”

He caressed her soft upper and lower lips and captured her withdrawing tongue with persistent serpentine movements.

Then his long hot tongue tangled with and tugged on her pink tongue. Their tongues were like two lovers tangling their legs together as they embraced in bed.

And he lightly held her tongue between his teeth and lips. Saliva flowed from the corners of her mouth and dripped down.

“How about that? Pretty nice, isn’t it?”

The sticky liquid dripped to the floor. Their arousal had raised her body temperature, so opening their mouths caused a small amount of saliva to evaporate and release sweet-smelling steam on each other’s face.

“…❤”

Every time their lips, tongues, and saliva came into contact, it felt like her strength was being sapped from her. She lost the will to resist.

Just when she was having trouble breathing, he removed his lips so she could get some air. But he resumed the kiss before she could even think about complaining.

“Nh❤ Slurp❤ Lick❤ Lick❤ Slurrrp❤”

Sometimes his kiss was hard, sometimes soft, and sometimes deep.

He skillfully switched things up so she could not focus on anything else. The soft feeling of his tongue on hers, the strong flavor, and the sticky sound assaulting her eardrums all flowed through her body.

“Slurp❤ Hoo❤ Nhh❤ Lick, oh❤”

Tact’s red tongue moved across every part of her mouth. It rubbed at her front and back teeth and even tickled her gums.

He guided the princess’s inexperienced tongue, enjoyed the honey-sweet flavor of her saliva, and tapped his tongue tip against the roof of her mouth. That sent a surge of pleasure up to her brain just before he stuck his long tongue so far back in her throat she nearly gagged. It felt like he was having sex with her mouth.

“Ah❤ Wait❤ Slurp❤ Suck❤”

Her brain could not keep up. She was too surprised to move.

She had never known there were so many different ways to kiss.

Each lewd sound of shared saliva felt like being taught something new.

He was really good at this.

He knew exactly how to fill a girl with pleasure.

The innkeeper had been passionate, but he had only been hitting her with his lust.

But this man, whose long bottom lashes filled her vision, was only matching his kisses to her breaths and satisfying his own carnal desire, yet it felt somehow romantic.

When he kissed her like they had been lovers for years, she felt something melting in her mind.

She felt the beginnings of emotions she could not let herself feel.

“Damn, you’re so cute. I’ve never seen a girl as cute as you. So won’t you join my party? Just while you’re in this village, okay?”

“Eh? What? C-cute!?”

That word caught her completely by surprise.

And when Tact noticed, there was a serpentine glint in his eyes, as if to say “bingo”.

But she was too flustered to notice.

“I swear I’ve never seen a girl as cute as you, Makina. So how about it? I won’t ask you for sex and I won’t ask you to be my girlfriend.”

“M-me? Cute? But!”

No guy had directly called her cute before.

When her parents said it, it came from a place of parental love.

And everyone who worked in or were visiting the castle showered her with flowery praise.

Not even Tet had ever directly complimented her looks. If he said that as her bodyguard, he would have felt guilty enough to separate himself from her.

So when she heard that direct and unadorned compliment, heat gathered in her lower stomach and love juices flowed from her crotch. The sex curse desired the man in front of her.

“We’ll just kiss. I swear we’ll just kiss. Because it’s perfectly normal for party members to kiss. It’s like a form of greeting, y’know? I swear I won’t do anything more.”

“Nhhh! Kiss, ah❤ But❤”

When he whispered to her while continuing to kiss her, her knees grew weak. She just about slid down the wall to the ground.

So Tact propped her up by sticking his right leg between her legs as love juices dripped down them.

His leg came in contact with her wet panties. And each time he moved his leg, unbearable pleasure stimulated her womb.

“Ah❤ Nh❤ Ah❤”

“Damn, you’re sensitive❤”

Her lower body trembled and she wanted to sit down, but the muscular leg in her crotch would not let her.

When she looked up, more loving kisses rained down on her.

“Nhh❤ Kiss❤ Smack❤ Lick❤ Lick❤❤”

She could not move to the left or right with his arms blocking the way.

There was no escape from this cage of pleasure.

“Hh❤ Ahh❤ Yes❤❤”

She could no longer tell if he was rubbing his leg against her or if she was moving her hips back and forth.

“God, you’re hot. You’re the cutest thing ever, Makina.”

He stroked his fingers through her long blonde hair and rubbed her head like he was soothing a child. When he did that and kissed her lewdly enough to produce a wet sound, she felt an indescribable sense of fulfilment in her chest.

(Ah, It’s true. The look on my face is so dirty❤)

The face reflected in his eyes was so loose it was almost unrecognizable.

Purple hearts filled her large eyes, but since Tact did not mention them, she assumed only she could see them, just like the sex curse’s tattoo.

And that sex curse made her sensitively aware of the hot pleasure welling up from the bottom of her stomach.

She found it hard to believe.

He had not directly touched her boobs, butt, or pussy. He had not penetrated her. He had only kissed her and rubbed her vulva through her panties.

She had never before known that stimulation was enough to bring her to climax.

“Ah❤ Kiss❤ Ah❤ Nmh❤ I’m cumming❤ Slurp❤ I’m cumming from being kissed❤ I’m cumming❤ Lick❤”

“Hah. God, you’re a horny slut! C’mon, cum! Cum like crazy while I kiss you!”

He held her head in place with both hands and kissed her so deep it felt like he was trying to suck her organs from her throat. They both stuck their tongues in each other’s mouth.

And then her entire body convulsed while lots of love juices squirted from her vagina.

“Nhhhhhhhhhhh❤❤❤❤❤❤❤”

It felt a lot like pissing herself, so it trampled on her dignity as a princess.

But a satisfied look joined the hearts in her sapphire eyes. And she saw the long silver string connecting his tongue to her mouth.

Her melted eyes continued to stare at that bridge of mixed saliva as it shined artistically in the setting sun.

“Just kissing.”

“Hm?”

“If it’s just kissing…then, um, I will ‘join your party’…while I’m in this village❤”

“Heh heh. Glad to hear it. And I swear to you I really won’t ask for anything other than kissing❤”

Once horny Makina agreed to his terms, Tact smiled like a successful hunter.

Tet was confused at what he found when he returned with some good news.

He had assumed Makina would have completed checking in at the guild hall and would be resting in their room.

But he instead found her at a table in the lobby, chatting with the brown-haired adventurer named Tact they had met during the day.

“Princ-…I mean, Makina?”

“Oh, welcome back.”

“Hey, uh…Tet, was it? Nice to see you again so soon.”

He could not hide his surprise at seeing Tact waving at him.

But Tact acted like he belonged there.

“Sir Tact, was it? I certainly did not expect to see you again.”

“Yeah, neither did I. I came back from my quest and happened to run into this cutie here. Hell of a coincidence, right?”

Tet frowned at how he referred to Makina, but he could not do anything else rude after almost killing the man over a misunderstanding.

“Anyway, we’re a three-person party now. Only while you’re here in Wells, though!”

“Huh?”

Tact reached out to shake Tet’s hand, but Tet only stared with his mouth hanging open.

“What is…going on here?”

“U-um, I wanted to apologize for what happened earlier and, um, oh, right! Tact is a much more experienced adventurer than us, so he should really be able to help us out!”

“B-but!”

“A-anyway, Tet. Did you find any information?”

Tet tried to press the issue further, but Makina asked a different question to change the subject.

“Yes, I did.”

That reminded Tet of what he had been doing.

He was surprised she had made such a sudden decision without him, but he decided it had to be better than working with a complete stranger.

And he had something important to tell her.

“An adventurer in a pub gave me some promising information! A suspicious sorcerer in a black hood was spotted near a place called the Cleansing Basin a few months ago! He might still be nearby or his base of operations could be there!”

“Is that true!?”

Their faces glowed with hope.

They had not even known where to start after leaving Grandel. They had been journeying toward the royal capital in the hopes of finding something but now they had something earlier than that.

They did not know how accurate the information was, but it was worth checking out.

Their quest to revive their homeland was feeling much more realistic now.

“The Cleansing Basin? That’s below a waterfall in the mountain streams area. But only adventurers are allowed there, so I’ll go check for any quests in the area.”

After hearing what they said, Tact stood up and walked over to the reception desk.

After exchanging some friendly words with the receptionist, he returned with a piece of paper in hand.

“Poison Frog hunting in the central mountain streams. This one looks the best for what you want. It doesn’t actually require heading in that deep, but once we’re done with the quest, you can do whatever you want.”

“Sir Tact.”

He handled that like an experienced adventurer. Makina and Tet alone would have taken a few hours or days to reach this point.

Yet he had set them on the right path in a matter of minutes.

He could seem flippant, but his knowledge and experience as an adventurer was real.

“Poison Frog venom is extremely dangerous, but they shouldn’t be tough for skilled adventurers. Plus I’m used to quests in the mountain streams. …I won’t disappoint you, okay?”

Tact showed off his pearly whites and Tet had to reassess the man.

“Sir Tact, I am so very thankful! Please teach us what you know!”

“Hey, lighten up. You don’t need that ‘sir’. We’re all equal members of the party, ‘kay?”

“O-of course! Thank you, Tact!”

Makina smiled as she watched the two guys starting to get along.

But she also felt a prickling in her throat at how she was deceiving Tet.

They accepted the Poison Frog hunting quest so they could go to the Cleansing Basin.

They would leave for the mountain streams area the following morning. Tact guided them through the hot springs town to help cheer them all up.

They had a great dinner at the restaurant he recommended and they were now on their way to the inn he had chosen. He taught them so much along the way.

The guild hall rooms were spacious, but lacking in services. That pub over there has awful food. Adventurer IDs can actually be sold for a lot of money. And even that that brothel over here has really ugly prostitutes.

He revealed all sorts of information, some helpful and some not so much.

Tet acted like an apprentice learning the fundamentals of being an adventurer.

“Oh, this is the place.”

The three of them arrived at a wooden building.

The hot spring inn was small, but Tact said it used a magic engine to draw up spring water from deeper than the other places.

It was a little-known place with much better water than anywhere else.

“Hey, I’m back.”

“So I see. Oh, and I see you’ve brought another one.”

The woman in charge of the inn greeted them.

Her long black hair was tied back and her Eastern clothing shoed off her curvy bodylines. She looked to be in her late 20s, but she had a world-weary aura about her.

Her cool expression and behavior was unsociable in a way poorly suited for the service industry.

“These are the members of my new party, lady. Tet will stay in my room and we’ll rent out the next room over as well.”

“Sure.”

The innkeeper had no change of expression as she handed him a room key.

Tact gave it to Makina.

“Here, this is the key to your room.”

“U-um.”

“Tact, we aren’t all staying in the same room?”

Those two saw it perfectly normal to share a room, so Tact gave them a disheartened look.

“Hey, now. I don’t care how madly in love you are, but I’d rather you weren’t going at it all night in the next room over.”

“N-no!”

“Th-that wasn’t what I meant!”

“Then let’s split it into a guy’s room and a girl’s room. We’re equal members of the party, but some distinctions have to be made. I’ve seen teams start attacking each other over a woman while deep inside a dungeon.”

Tact kept a straight face as he warned Tet you should not allow any chance for mistakes to happen even if there were no feelings between the man and woman.

“Tet, I’ll be fine.”

As a knight, Tet wanted to stay by her side to protect her at all times, but he decided to do things the adventurer way this time.

“Okay, if you say so. Let’s do it that way.”

“All right, Tet! It’ll be just us guys, so let’s drink ourselves silly tonight!”

“W-we have a quest tomorrow!”

“Ha ha. I’m just kidding! You sure are uptight. …Oh, right. Lady.”

Tact called out to the innkeeper and she glanced up in response.

“How long is the bath open tonight?”

“Until 11 PM. It switches between a men’s bath and women’s bath every two hours. We only use the finest water, after all.”

“Sure, sure. Then I’ll take my bath after that. Like usual.”

Tact proudly explained that he had the special right to relax and enjoy the bath just before it was cleaned. Tet was impressed to learn there were privileges like that for staying somewhere long enough.

“…”

Only Makina got his real message, so she felt a throbbing from her sex curse as she opened the door to her room.

That night, closing time for the bath was approaching and most of the guests were probably already asleep.

Makina quietly opened her room’s door and tiptoed down the wood-smelling hallway.

When she turned the corner, she saw the side of the innkeeper’s face.

“U-um.”

“What is it?”

“I-is the bath…still open? I only meant to rest for a bit, but I overslept.”

The innkeeper glared at Makina as if appraising her. Makina shrank back from the anger in her eyes.

But the woman only sighed once and then quietly explained.

“There’s still time before it’s cleaned, so go on in. But unfortunately, you can’t use the main bath. There’s a problem with the magic engine that draws up the water. It should be repaired tomorrow night, but you’ll have to use the shower now.”

A shower was a type of magic engine a wise sorcerer had invented 600 years before. It used magic to send cold or hot water up a pipe and then sprayed it down on you.

That sorcerer had invented many other magic engines that had helped build up civilization, so some people wondered if he had come from another world or from the future.

“I-I see.”

In the present, the princess with a normal level of magic was disappointed.

She had wanted to soak in the natural hot spring, but it sounded like that would have to wait until the quest was over.

But the shower still used some hot spring water, so she made her way to the changing room.

Yes. This was just for a shower.

She was not expecting anything more than that.

She was only here so late because she had overslept.

She absolutely was not hoping for something else.

“E-excuse me.”

She hesitantly peeked inside the changing room.

The same bath was shared by men and women and it was only time that separated them.

But no one responded right now. She breathed a sigh of relief at that silence.

Yes, of relief.

She was definitely not disappointed no one was there.

She placed a finger on her lips while recalling what had happened that evening and heat filled her breaths.

“Ahh, nh.”

No, she must not think about it. She could clear her head with a nice hot shower.

But then…

“Oh, you’re finally here.”

“!”

She gasped.

She had thought no one was in the changing room, but Tact had been hiding in a blind spot from the entrance.

“You took so long I thought I was going to catch a cold.”

His hair was wet and he only wore a thin towel wrapped around his hips.

But the fact that he had just finished bathing made it extra hot.

The sex curse and her womb could not help but respond to the view of the muscles on his arms and stomach.

“If you’ve already showered, hurry up and get dressed.”

But she could not let this influence her. She had to defeat the desire with reason and logic.

Besides, he was the one who had insisted they should not allow any mistakes between men and women.

But Tact made no attempt to get dressed.

“I only got my hair wet. I haven’t actually washed my body yet. …The Poison Frogs we’ll be hunting tomorrow are sensitive to human body odor.”

He was implicitly saying they both had to thoroughly wash their bodies.

If she pointed out the bathing time was over or that she was too embarrassed to take a shower at the same time as him, it would affect their quest tomorrow.

She wanted to hunt down the Poison Frogs as smoothly as possible to give them plenty of time to search near the Cleansing Basin. She had to.

She might find a clue to restoring her homeland.

Not washing herself was not an option.

“Th-then!”

“But I get that you wouldn’t want to strip naked in front of a guy you just met today.”

“…?”

He suddenly started sounding a lot more sensible.

When she looked so puzzled, he gave her a lustful smile.

“So if you’re embarrassed, I have a swimsuit you can use❤”

“I can’t believe this.”

Makina opened the sliding door to the shower room while blushing bright red.

The shower room had seven shower stalls on either side, for a total of fourteen.

They were divided by wooden partitions, so you could not peek on the adjacent stall. You would only be able to see their ankles.

But that did not matter.

The problem was how she was dressed.

As soon as she entered the shower room, Tact whistled from the backmost stall.

“Oh, that’s perfect on you.”

“H-how is this even clothing!?”

She had thought wearing something would be better than going in naked.

But this tiny white triangular bikini top only covered her nipples (and just barely at that) while the rest was pretty much just strings.

The bottom was a white thong that was also mostly strings. Her butt was fully visible and the front squeezed tightly against her labia.

But it was the thin white knee socks that most embarrassed her. They hid about 70% of her thighs, but they were a size too small and her plump flesh bulged out above the sock just a bit.

Altogether, it was much more embarrassing than being naked.

“A white micro bikini and knee socks? It looks so fucking hot on you, Makina!”

“Th-that’s not true!”

“You look cute as hell. No other girl would look as hot in it.”

“…❤”

Once again, she found herself unable to argue when he used those blunt compliments.

He said no one could pull it off like she did and that no one would be able to keep their eyes off of her if she wore that to the beach.

But it was clearly too small for her.

The thin strings dug into her large breasts and the pink of her nipples showed through the white fabric.

The bottom covered so little that the entire sex curse tattoo was exposed (although only she could see it).

The white knee socks were already damp with sweat and she was so embarrassed she thought her entire body would burst into flames.

“P-please don’t stare like that.”

She held her right arm in front of her chest and hid her crotch with her left hand while fidgeting restlessly.

But Tact continued complimenting her so straightforwardly.

“Makina.”

His penis was so hard it pushed up the towel around his hips. And he approached her with his rod pointing up toward the ceiling.

“W-wait!”

She took a step back.

“Listen, Makina. We need to thoroughly wash each other’s bodies and make sure we get rid of all the smell. And I promised I wouldn’t do anything more than kiss you, remember?”

“…”

Yes, they were only making sure they were ready for tomorrow’s quest.

He had already taught her that kissing was only a sign of trust between adventurers, so washing each other’s bodies for the sake of a quest would only be an extension of that.

When she made that excuse to herself, a different emotion welled up inside her.

“Do you…?”

“Hm?”

“Do you really think I’m…cute?”

She looked up at him with damp eyes and asked him with a tremor in her voice.

He gave her a comforting look and gently stroked her hair.

“I do. You’re so damn cute. You’re the cutest girl I’ve ever seen.”

“…❤❤❤”

The desire flowing from the sex curse was already approaching its limit.

She hesitantly lowered her arm from her chest and moved her hand from her crotch.

She exposed her body to him.

And she both mentally and physically accepted what was to come.

“Makina.”

“Ah❤”

They both moved closer.

Her soft boobs squished against his solid chest.

The only thing between her erect nipples and him was the thin and tiny bikini top.

She also felt heat at her lower stomach, but it did not just come from her. His erect penis felt like it was burning her as it pressed against the sex curse tattoo. She could tell that lewd tattoo was delighted by its touch.

“So how about it, Makina? We’ll just be washing each other, okay?”

With their bodies so close, the sex curse tattoo glowed and hearts appeared in her eyes.

The pure princess’s face grew unbelievably horny.

“O-of course. I will clean every last part of your body❤❤❤❤❤”

Taking that as consent, Tact grabbed her small chin, raised her head, and pressed his lips to hers while they looked each other in the eye.

She happily accepted it and stuck her tongue in his mouth.

“Nh, hh, mh. Slurp❤ Kiss❤ Lick❤ Slurp❤ Nh❤ Ah, lick❤”

This was their second time kissing. And while she had been hesitant the first time, the movement of her soft tongue showed just how into it she was this time.

She pressed her tongue and lips against his and sought his hot saliva.

“You’re so fucking hot and cute, Makina. Once you’ve washed my body, I’ll do the same for yours❤”

“Ah❤ Ah❤ Ahh, th-thank you❤❤❤”

When they pulled back for a deep breath, he placed a thick arm around her slender waist and guided her into the back shower stall while her horny body was only covered by a white micro bikini and ultra-thin knee socks.

Her “expectation” had never been higher.

They smiled at each other like lovers and then…closed the stall door.

“Hiyah! Seryah!”

A silver blade sliced through the dark night.

“Phew.”

In the inn courtyard, Tet brushed up hair so black it blended into the night and wiped sweat from his brow.

He had just finished his daily sword training, so he looked up at the nearly round moon overhead.

“Tet! The star you can see over there is called-…”

“Princess, you’ll catch cold if we don’t get back soon!”

He was always overwhelmed by old feelings when he viewed the moon and stars in the night sky. But at the moment, the future mattered more than the past.

“Tomorrow will be the full moon.”

And they would be hunting Poison Frogs that day.

They wanted to visit the Cleansing Basin in the far reaches of the mountain stream area because they might find traces of that dark sorcerer around there.

They had finally found some information on the man they had been pursuing, so he had trained even harder than usual.

“Princess.”

He wanted to restore the kingdom as soon as possible so his beloved master could return to her previous life instead of living as an adventurer.

And to accomplish that, he had to shake free of those lukewarm feelings.

He sheathed his sword and slapped his cheeks to renew his resolve.

“Okay!”

But he still wanted to do something about his sweat.

Poison Frogs were apparently sensitive to body odor, but he had been so focused on training he had missed his chance to take a bath.

He chided himself for being so absentminded as he walked back inside the inn.

“I hope they haven’t started cleaning the bath yet.”

Tact, their temporary party member, was allowed to take a bath outside of the usual hours because he knew the innkeeper.

Since Tet was working with Tact, he hoped he could get the same privilege or at least be allowed to take a shower.

He made his way to the shower room to try his luck.

Inside the small stall, they had to stand close together.

Tact held her close while she only wore a white string bikini and thin white knee socks.

He had already removed his towel and he pressed his body against hers.

“Ah❤ Nn❤”

They rubbed a single bar of soap between their two bodies to work up a lather. This transformed the princess’s soft body into a sponge for Tact’s masculine body.

They continued kissing all the while, with their tongues wrapping around each other.

“Fuck, you’re hot. You’re so smooth and plump everywhere. What’d you eat to get such a fuckable body!?”

“Nhh❤ Don’t say❤ That❤”

They rubbed each other’s body with soapy hands.

The kissing and body contact filled her mind with lust.

“Making out and acting like a soap girl with a guy you just met today? You’re a horny girl, Makina❤ I bet you came here to suck me dry, you fucking slut❤”

“Ahn❤ Don’t be so mean. You were the one who started kissing me first❤”

Even his cruel comments were transformed into arousing compliments by the filter the sex curse placed on her mind.

So instead of arguing or getting angry, she responded like she was entirely brainless.

(He has no respect for women and he throws them out at the drop of a hat❤ So why do I want him so badly?❤❤)

She would normally hate someone as flippant and full of himself as Tact, but his kisses tore down her mental barrier and the hands crawling across her body kept her from thinking about anything but him.

Then his hands moved to her unblemished white back.

He rubbed along her smooth back, traced his fingers across her slender waist, and then rubbed her shapely hips.

And finally, his fingers skillfully grabbed he soapy butt.

“Ahhn❤ M-my butt❤”

“Fuuuck, it’s soft~”

He massaged her plump but tight butt.

The bikini’s thong bottom left nothing to hide the two fruits, so his hands found only sticky soap and her fine skin.

This playboy had his way with a body part she had barely ever touched herself.

“Ah❤ Kh❤ Hn❤ Kyahn❤ If you wash it like that❤ My butt’s shape will be permanently changed❤”

“Then I’ll give your hot ass an even lewder shape❤ Take this❤”

He tightened his grip to sink his long fingers into her butt cheeks.

But when he let go, her butt jiggled back into shape.

He lifted the flesh, massaged it, sometimes rubbed her thighs instead, and then squeezed tightly once more.

“Hhn❤ Ahh, that feels good❤”

“Don’t start moaning just from me groping your ass.”

“I can’t help it❤”

“C’mon, stick out your tongue like a dog. We’re supposed to be kissing like lovers. And if I want to make out, you’d better do it, you dumb whore.”

“I-I’m sorry❤ Ah❤ Ahn❤ Kiss me❤ I want more of your saliva❤”

She had gotten so focused on his hands on her soft lower body that she had forgotten to keep kissing him, so he started insulting her again.

Normally, she would have been angry. She would have told him to stop being so misogynistic.

But right now, she was more afraid of him not kissing her any more. She wanted that pleasure.

“Nmh❤ Ah❤ Ahhh❤ Ngh, oh, gulp❤ Ahn❤”

The kiss was so intense she thought her lips were swelling.

Her tongue was nearly cramping, but she did not want to stop and made sure to swallow all of the saliva they were exchanging.

“There, was that enough to satisfy you, you slut?”

When he ended the kiss and gave her a sadistic smile, she thought he looked pretty cool and gave a limp smile in return.

“Yes❤ So I need to reward you❤”

“Oh?”

She rubbed the soap in her hands to work up a lather.

And then she rubbed it into her breasts which were larger than any other girl her age.

“Hee hee❤ I’ll clean you right up❤”

She grabbed her own jiggling boobs and pressed them against his solid chest.

Then she bent her knees to crouch down.

“Oh, ohh!?”

The two fruits rubbed down along his chest, stomach, penis, and thighs. The soapy tits changed shape with the contours of his body and sent their fiery body temperature to his skin.

Then she stood back up.

This time her sticky and soapy boobs “washed” him in the opposite direction. The fat of her breasts caught on his solid muscles, which tugged them down as if sagging, but once she straightened, they bounced back up.

“Sh-shit! This is incredible❤”

She repeated the process to rub her giant bust all over his body. The ever-changing shape of those soft fruits and the stickiness of her hot body left his penis as erect as it had ever been.

Plus, he felt more than just the soft breasts. The hard erect nipples and the cloth and strings of the bikini top provided the perfect accent to the stimulation. Their nipples touched through the bikini and he felt the hardness of her arousal through the softness and stickiness.

Despite his ample sexual experience, he pathetically cried out at the feeling.

“Ah, kh, that’s so good!”

“Is it?❤ Your cock won’t stop twitching, Tact❤”

Hearing him moan like that made her grin after he had toyed with her body before.

She had meant this as a mild form of retaliation, but the human sponge massage was even more effective than she had expected.

“I-if you started working as a whore, you’d be a goddamn legend! Oh, but I don’t want anyone else touching these huge tits❤ I want them as my own personal fucktoy!”

(I’m so glad❤)

She had always had a complex about her large breasts and butt.

Among the nobility, a flat body with little excess fat was considered beautiful. Especially in the Grandel Kingdom.

She had tried wearing a corset to make her stomach look thinner, but that had only accentuated her breasts and people had started joking that she looked like she should be working at a pub in the slums.

Her parents, Tet, and the maids had cheered her up and told her not to worry about it. They had said she was healthy.

But for a long time, she had thought she was fat. For a time, she had restricted her diet and even accompanied Tet and the other swordsmen in their practice.

“Tact, my body really feels that good?”

“You’re damn right it does! I’d’ve cum already if I wasn’t careful! I don’t think I can ever wash myself without your jiggling titty sponges again!❤”

“…❤❤”

(I’m so glad. I’m so glad, glad, glad❤❤❤)

Someone wanted a part of her body she had thought was ugly. He desired it.

That immediately cleared away all those worries and clouds from her heart, filling her with a pleasant mood.

She also felt true appreciation and love for the man who had done that for her.

Even if he was the kind of person who only saw women as sex objects. Thanks to the sex curse’s effects, that seemed like such a trivial issue.

She wanted to pleasure him the best she could. She wanted to rub her sexual body all over his masculine body.

The lewd princess started feeling like this was why she had been born with this body.

“Then I’ll have to show extra-special care for this part of you❤”

She bent her white knee sock legs and spread her knees as she crouched down again.

And she “took aim” with those breasts she was actually proud of now.

She placed those boobs around the hardest part of his body that was soft at the same time.

“Oh, oh~❤ Goddamn!”

Her cleavage contained his erect penis which was even longer than the innkeeper’s in the previous town and had certainly penetrated countless women before.

“Nh❤ Wow, it’s so big and hot❤”

She was certain his rod would be able to feel her heart pounding with arousal. Her white skin was faintly flushed red as it contacted that grotesquely shaped and colored organ.

When she moved even slightly, the long penis changed the shape of her large breasts, but she made sure to press them together to contain the entirety of his rod. Before long, she had started moving her tits with her own hands.

“I need to get this nice and clean❤”

She had never heard of the word or idea of a titjob, but she just felt like this was the right thing to do. She wanted to do it, so she did.

Meanwhile, Tact was familiar with titjobs and had received them in the past. He should have been accustomed to this kind of pleasure, but he found himself looking up in ecstasy.

This girl’s body was too damn good.

He was seriously afraid no other woman’s body would ever be enough for him after this.

“How should…how should I put it? Makina, your- oh, fuck!❤”

He could not find the words to describe it.

He could only get simple swear words from his mouth and he started thrusting his hips.

“Hee hee❤ I bet you’ve never let anyone else see that look on your face❤❤”

She squeezed the sides of her tits between her arms and looked up at Tact who had lost the initiative.

She gave him an upturned glance while using her enormous boobs to stimulate the experienced dick thrusting in and out of her cleavage.

Then she had an even better idea and opened her mouth wide.

“Ahh❤”

She stuck out her tongue and let hot and sticky drool drip from it. The soap, sweat, and drool created an even sticker lotion that coated the penis head poking out from her cleavage.

When she resumed moving her breasts up and down, his rod twitched pathetically and his face twisted in pleasure.

“Wait, that’s too damn good!”

“Well?❤ How do you like it?❤ Are you about to cum?❤”

She wanted to see him looking even weaker than this. That desperate look was just too cute.

She knew what her weapon was in that endeavor, so she considered how to maximize its effectiveness.

——At the time, it did not even occur to me that I was doing something well beyond kissing.

“Ahh, fuck!”

The soapy cock throbbed between her tits.

She could tell he was about to ejaculate and she knew it was from the pleasure her body had given him.

“Hee hee❤❤ Feel free to cum all over me❤❤❤”

She gave a smile of expectation and triumph as she actively brought a man to orgasm for the first time.

“Oh, is that you, Tact?”

“!!!”

“!?”

They immediately backed away from each other.

Tact turned on the shower’s water to mask the smell and noise.

Makina tried to move to the very back of the narrow stall so her back was pressed against the wall.

But when her back touched the hot water pipe that connected an underground pipe to the showerhead, she just about cried out from the heat and slapped her hands over her mouth.

(Wh-why!?)

The underground hot spring shower poured down on her and soaked her long blonde hair while she kept her hands over her mouth and held her breath to hide her presence.

Meanwhile, she heard Tet’s approaching footsteps and her mind was a complete mess.

The previous arousal, pleasure, and excitement over making Tact cum all vanished in an instant.

Her face went pale and the chill down her spine was so great she could not feel the heat of the shower.

“Tch!”

Tact was also panicking.

He had a habit of bringing women to this inn so he could sleep with them, so he had the innkeeper’s help to ensure no one but him and his target could enter the bath while he was persuading that target.

Yet that innkeeper had allowed Tet in. Tact was certain she had done it intentionally.

(That fucking bitch!)

He could not believe she would do this just because he had not slept with her recently.

(No, wait.)

Looking at it again, this could actually be a lot of fun.

He could teach Makina who was in charge after she tried to take the lead with that titjob.

He was the kind of guy who could not bear being outdone by a woman.

“Sup, Tet. I’m surprised she let you in here afterhours.”

“…!?”

Makina looked up at him as if to ask what he was thinking, but he turned his back on her and ignored her.

The partitions on the left and right of the stalls went all the way up to the ceiling, but the doors to the stalls only went up to the a grown man’s chest.

So once inside a stall, you could not see the neighboring stall, but from the front, anyone could see the person’s head and ankles.

If Tet chose the stall across from theirs, he might see Makina there.

And yet Tact stuck his head out and started a conversation with a smile.

“I asked the innkeeper and she gladly gave me permission.”

“Did she now? Well, she can be cold, but she’s pretty accommodating.”

“Ha ha. So it seems.”

“And does this mean you haven’t taken a shower yet?”

“I lost track of time during some sword training.”

“Oh? Then a quick shower should be enough.”

Makina could not focus on their words.

While she was wearing a swimsuit and knee socks, she was as good as naked.

If Tet saw her in the same shower stall as Tact dressed like this, there would be no talking her way out of it.

(It’s over.)

He thought Makina Grandel was so virtuous and kind, but he would learn she was actually the kind of pervert who stripped for a man she had barely met and pleasured him like a whore.

Even if this was the sex curse’s fault, he would never accept an excuse based on a tattoo no one but her could see.

She pressed against Tact’s large back and trembled while praying Tet would not see her.

She prayed he would not use the stall directly across from this one.

“Excuse me.”

She heard those words and the stall to their left opening.

She slowly let out the breath she had been holding in.

There was a tall partition between neighboring stalls, so Tet was unlikely to notice her presence as long as she did not speak loudly or make any loud noises.

Now she only had to wait until Tet had left.

“C’mon, get sucking. You haven’t finished cleaning it yet, remember?”

“…!?”

Tact turn toward her, grabbed her shoulders, and moved his face in close.

He pressed his forehead to hers, parted her wet blonde bangs, and whispered to her.

She heard what he said just fine, but it took her a few seconds to realize what he meant.

“S-suck what!?”

“Are you shitting me? You can’t get me that close to cumming and then call it quits. Take responsibility for your actions and get me off already.”

“B-but!”

“You’ve already gotten in my way once today. If you hadn’t shown up when I was fucking Melissa by the stream, I wouldn’t have this issue. I haven’t cum once today.”

His argument was barely coherent, but part of her did feel guilty.

But she could not do it. Not when Tet was in the next stall over.

“If you need to get off that badly…j-just do it yourself!”

“I’m a no-fap kinda guy. I’ve sworn to myself it’ll always be a woman who gets me off. So if you keep bitching, I’ll call Tet over and tell him everything.”

“…!”

That alone she had to avoid at all costs.

Thanks to the two active showers, Tet had not heard their whispered conversation.

But if Tact wanted to, he could reveal everything at any time.

However…

“Y-you promised we would only kiss!”

“Oh, right. That. I did say I wouldn’t ask for sex, didn’t I? But I’m just asking you to kiss my dick. Put it in your mouth and make me cum and I won’t ask for anything more. Don’t worry, he won’t notice❤”

“Kh!”

The situation had been reversed. She had to do what he said.

“Y-you leave me…no choice.”

Yes, she had no choice. That was what she told herself.

And he was keeping his promise not to put it in her vagina. So this barely even counted as betraying Tet’s trust, did it?

She was only going to be “kissing” his penis. They had to wash themselves for the quest tomorrow, so this was just one party member helping out another.

“Keep quiet, okay?”

“You too♪”

She once more spread her legs, crouched down, and hesitantly moved her face toward his lower body.

The shower had washed away the bubbles, so his throbbing erection was fully revealed before her eyes.

She was about to suck it. It would be her first ever blowjob.

“Ah, ah❤”

It looked designed for the sole purpose of pleasuring women and its shape contained the overwhelming strength and brutality of a sword forged by a master swordsmith.

It was a collection of male hormones, the proof of an excellent male and a symbol of virility. It had already been washed off in the shower, but a powerful male smell reached her nose.

(I-it’s just so manly❤)

This was what she had held between her boobs? And this was what she was about to accept into her mouth?

The mere thought of it got the pussy juices flowing, the sex curse shined again, and she could not keep her heart from racing even though…no, because Tet was in the next stall over.

“Ah, ahn❤”

She placed her lips on the precum-dripping tip for a light kiss.

Then she hesitantly brought the entire head into her mouth, sucked up the precum dribbling out, and opened her mouth wide. With the entire head in her small mouth, she could feel his throbbing with her tongue and all the flesh in her mouth.

A unique flavor spread across her tongue, but she could not quite decide whether it was salty or bitter. It was by no means tasty, but she did not want to spit it out. In fact, her female instincts wanted that flavor in the back of her throat. And the feeling only grew as a male smell passed through her nose with each breath.

“Yes, just like that. Good. Don’t use your teeth.”

She took the head further into her mouth as instructed.

The penis was inside her mouth. That was the closest as it was possible for it to be “inside” her body. It felt closer to her than it ever could while rubbing against her muscles, fat, and skin. She could feel his body heat and the scorching heat of his cock. She also felt her own sweaty body heat.

“Nh❤ Ngh❤ Oh❤ Slurp❤ Kph❤”

She moved her head back and forth while trying to swallow the long penis even deeper.

The male smell hit her nose even more and the heat and unique saltiness in her mouth dazed her mind.

The rock-hard rod hit the hot and sticky back of her throat, but she gently surrounded it with her saliva-covered tongue and her soft throat.

The pleasure was just as great as a woman’s vagina, so Tact’s hips gradually picked up speed.

“Your mouth pussy is top rate, Makina❤ This is a hundred times better than some cheap whore’s pussy!”

“Hh❤ Gbh❤ Gh❤ Nwoh❤ Oeh❤”

She occasionally gagged as the long cock hit the back of her throat, but she refused to let it go like a child who had been bought her favorite kind of lollipop. She kept her lips locked around it and looked up at him with melted eyes.

That must have pleased Tact because he turned his head to the side.

“Hey, Tet.”

“Yes?”

“…!?”

“Who is Makina to you? If she’s not your girlfriend, than what is your relationship?”

He suddenly started a conversation with Tet.

“Nhh!”

She tried to protest and pull her head back, but he grabbed her wet head with both hands to hold it in place.

“Nh!? Oh❤ Ogh❤ Ngh❤ Nhh❤”

He began moving his hips with no restraint whatsoever. He thrust his penis in and out of her throat like her mouth and her throat were sexual organs.

“Nh❤ Gh❤ Oh❤ Vwoh❤ Gh❤”

Her voice was muffled by his cock, so Tet could not hear her. But that was a good thing.

She had trouble breathing, so she wanted to get Tet’s help. But she could not do that, so she tried to suppress her distressed voice as much as possible. She found what time she could to get small breaths in through her nose.

“Hoo❤ Hoo❤ Nh❤ Oh, nh❤”

“That question came out of nowhere. But let’s see. It is difficult to describe in a single word.”

“You don’t have feelings for her?”

“It’s nothing as simple as ‘having feelings’ for her. Maybe because I’ve known her for so long and been so close to her. But the Prin-…Makina is undoubtedly my ideal partner and I would like to match her ideal as well.”

“…❤ Nh❤ Ngh❤ Te-…!”

She was so happy that Tet felt about her the same way she felt about him.

If she had directly asked him that, he would have been too embarrassed to give that answer. She knew she could not have if the positions were reversed.

But this conversation was just between the two guys…or so Tet thought.

Tet had let his guard down because he was with a party member he needed to rely on with his life.

“Shit, I’m cumming. I’m cumming, Makina❤ Tighten your throat!”

——Little did he know that “ideal partner” was currently being throat-fucked by another man.

“To me, Makina is- No, I know how to put it.”

Love juices squirted from her vagina.

She wanted to hear this, but she also did not want to. Why did it have to be here and now, while she was accepting a giant cock down her throat?

“Oh❤ Slurp❤ Suck❤ Te-❤ Tet❤ I❤ Oh❤ Nbh❤ Slurp❤ Oh❤”

Tact’s pistoning sped up even more.

The long penis fucked the throat and vocal cords that always called out Tet’s name so kindly. She wanted to tell him her feelings, but she could not. Both because she could not let him know what was happening here and simply because the penis was in the way.

(I’m cumming! I’m cumming with Tet right over there!)

She was cumming in a miniscule swimsuit while being reminded of Tet’s trust in her.

“I…”

And all three of them revealed who they really were.

“I have dedicated my body and soul to her. I intend to spend my entire life serving her.”

“Makina, oh, ahhh!❤”

“Nhhhhh❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤”

The penis pushed as deep in her throat as it could possibly go.

And it pumped lots and lots of semen inside her.

Tact’s thick playboy cum passed through her esophagus and entered her stomach, but enough of it flowed back up to burst from her nose.

Her entire body convulsed from an intense orgasm. She would normally have been moaning loudly, but she managed to suppress it.

If not for the massive member plugging up her mouth, Tet probably would have noticed.

“Hm? Did you say something?”

“N-no. I was just thinking how fucking amazing that was❤ I respect your stance. I think I’m really gonna love being on a party with you and Makina❤”

“Yes, me too! Anyway, I’ll be heading back to get some sleep. See you tomorrow.”

“Sure thing. This was an enjoyable chat❤”

After that, Tet left the shower room.

But Makina could not even confirm that because her hips were too weak to stand.

She sat in a daze with her back against the wall.

“Pant❤ Pant❤ Gh! Cough❤”

She coughed a mixture of stomach acid and semen onto her knee socks.

And the cum dripping from her nose stained her micro bikini even more white.

Her eyes were nearly rolled back in her head and her full stomach felt nice and warm.

“Ah, oweh❤ Heh heh❤ Heh heh heh❤”

She rubbed her belly and laughed.

Was she laughing because of the orgasm or because of that confirmation of Tet’s feelings?

But if the laughter was for that latter reason, then why were their tears in her eyes even as she laughed?

Wells was known as the village of fire and water. The water side of that came from the mountain streams area that gave the plants life and had 5 rivers of various sizes flowing toward the distant sea.

The abundant water meant plenty of plant life, animals gathered there, and the animals had attracted humans who had built the village.

However, the mountain streams area was not an easy place for normal people to go. Where there were plants, animals, and humans, there were also dangerous monsters.

The adventurer’s guild’s duty was to serve humankind and protect the people by managing or slaying the monsters, acquiring resources, and hunting valuable plants and animals.

So the guild-designated field was off limits to anyone without an adventurer’s ID and a form proving they had accepted a quest in that area.

And today, sounds of battle echoed from those who had accepted a quest in the mountain streams.

“Frozen Blast!”

Makina swung her staff and her magic froze the river water to create spears.

A few dozen ice spears appeared in the air and flew toward some blue-skinned frogs.

However, these frogs – known as Poison Frogs – were the size of human children and they hopped out of the magic’s way while croaking with their purple venom sacs.

The pillars of ice failed to hit, but Makina was not done yet and raised her staff again.

“Water Impact!”

She once more used the ankle-deep water. She created several balls of water and fired them at high speed.

These hit all five of the Poison Frogs.

“Croak?”

“Cr-croak!”

“Wha-!?”

But the frogs did not seem at all bothered and in fact seemed pleased with the nice bath she had given them.

One of the Poison Frogs attacked Makina while she was shaken by the failure of her attack magic.

It raised the toxic claws of its right hand and swung them down with enough force to slice through her soft skin.

“Makina!”

But then a black gust of wind blew in.

Black-haired Tet lopped of the frog’s right leg and beheaded it before it could raise a death cry.

“Are you okay!?”

“Y-yes! Thank you!”

“Croak!?”

When the large frog head splatted down into the water and fresh blood flowed from it, it was the other Poison Frogs’ turn to be shaken.

Just then, an arrow pierced the right eye and brain of a frog that took a frightened step back.

“Croak!?”

Two had sunken dead to the riverbed, so only three remained.

And the human adventurers also numbered three.

“Hey, Makina! Water magic is useless against water monsters, you dumb bitch! Try using your head next time!”

“S-sorry!”

Tact insulted her while nocking his next arrow atop a mossy rock.

Tet glared at him for the harsh language, but Tact was not done criticizing people yet.

“You too, Tet! Quit falling back cause you’re worried about Makina! What’s the point of a vanguard if you just let the enemy reach our rear guard!? Remember what your job is here, moron!”

“Kh! I-I know that!”

Tact continued giving borderline-abusive instructions as the three of them spent the next half hour or so slaying all of the Poison Frogs.

“Pant, pant, pant. Just two more and the quest is complete.”

While surrounded by tall trees and soaking up to the ankles in river water, Tact chopped up the defeated frogs, washed off the flesh and skin, and sorted the poison claws and venom sacs with practiced hand.

He sighed and looked up at the other two watching him from a short distance.

“I don’t want to yell at you like that, but a single mistake during a quest can get the entire party killed. Plus, this is our first quest as a party. It’s not gonna be smooth sailing right away.”

He spoke much more calmly than before.

And that behavior left the other two reluctant to complain about his insulting way of giving instructions.

“No, I really was being careless when I forgot to consider the element of my magic.”

“I was wrong too. I was the one and only swordsman on the vanguard, but I kept moving back.”

“This behavior isn’t exactly great either,” said Tact while scratching his brown hair. “You’re clearly new to team play and questing as adventurers, but I think your skill is the real deal. Not many people can fight that well at your age.”

Meanwhile, he found a glowing blue gallstone inside a frog’s body and tossed it to Makina, saying it could be sold for some drinking money.

“Well, let’s do our best and get this done. Our real objective is the Cleansing Basin, right?”

“Y-yes!”

“Yes, that is correct! I will make sure I do not get in your way!”

Tact sighed at how overly obedient these adventurers were.

But that obedience had given him a lot of fun the night before, so he said nothing and began leading the way again.

After a few more battles, the three of them got the hang of it, easily slayed their quota of monsters, and completed the quest before the sun began to set.

But instead of returning to the village, they followed the river further into the mountain streams area and arrived quite close to the Cleaning Basin.

“How about we set up camp here for the night?”

They were by a small stream of purifying holy water that flowed from the Cleansing Basin.

There was a large flat boulder on the bank, making it the perfect spot for a camp.

Tact set down his bow and bag to get some rest, but Tet was not happy.

“The sun hasn’t even set yet. The Cleansing Basin is so close. We don’t have time to rest!”

“The more powerful monsters come out once night falls. The Cleansing Basin will keep them away, but this is the only real place to stretch out and sleep.”

“I can handle any monsters with my blade!”

“Maybe so, but we’ve already used up our magic and arrows on the frogs. Not to mention our strength. What happens if you find the man you’re searching for when you’re exhausted? I won’t pry, but you’re prepared for a fight, aren’t you?”

“Gh!”

Tet’s emotional arguments were rationally rebutted one after another.

Makina understood why he was so impatient, but they could not afford to make a major mistake by rushing things.

“Tet, let’s get some rest tonight, okay? We can search in the morning when we’re well rested.”

“But I…!”

He tried to argue back against his master.

He wanted to bring back everything they had lost. For Grandel and for his princess.

“Gh!”

“Tet!?”

“Hey, what’s wrong, Tet!?”

Tet’s brow was slick with sweat brought on by more than impatience.

He looked pale and he fell down to his knees.

They now saw a reddish-purple scratch on his left arm that he must have been hiding the entire time they were walking out here.

“Did one of the Poison Frogs get you with their toxic claws!? Why didn’t you tell us!?”

“I-I’ll use healing magic right away!”

“Don’t waste magic on something like this!”

“!”

When Tact yelled at her, Makina tensed up and could not do anything.

Meanwhile, he had Tet lie down, washed the wound with water from the stream, and began mixing some kind of medicine.

“The fluids on a Poison Frogs claws and in their mouths is extremely toxic, but if you boil it down, it also works as an antidote. I’m glad I swiped some from the corpses earlier.”

Once the antidote was ready, he rubbed it on the wound and had Tet drink some mixed with a recovery potion.

Tet’s breathing seemed to calm just a bit.

“Anyway, we can’t go any further now.”

Even after collapsing from the poison, Tet continued to deliriously mutter “I swear I will take it all back”.

In the light of their campfire, Tet’s expression no longer looked as pained.

Makina was relieved to see him sleeping more peacefully while wrapped in a sleeping bag.

Tact looked exasperated when he sat next to her on a piece of driftwood.

“Luckily, it was a shallow wound and he didn’t get much of the venom. He should recover by the morning.”

She hesitantly bowed her head toward him.

“Th-thank you…so much. I can’t believe you actually saved him.”

“Hey, now. I might be something of a playboy, but I’m not just gonna leave some guy to die.”

“No, um, I didn’t mean it like that!”

“But, man, Tet really was reckless out there. Has he always been like that?”

“Yes. But he only does it because he’s thinking about me…no, about everything around him. He always has prioritized others over himself.”

“Hmm.”

She sounded a little exasperated, but Makina had a kind look in her eyes as she watched Tet’s face in the firelight.

When Tact sensed the obvious feelings there, he grinned.

“Well, we’ll just have to work extra hard tomorrow for your beloved Tet’s sake.”

“I’ve already told you it isn’t like that between us!”

“By the way, why not go take a bath? It’s looking like a hot night and the Cleansing Basin is right over there.”

“No, I’m fine. I can go one day without a bath. And there might be other adventurers there.”

“Oh, you don’t need to worry about that.”

Makina looked puzzled, so he explained in a self-satisfied kind of way.

“They apparently found some rare mineral at the volcano, so everyone’s gone there hoping to get rich quick. We’re the only adventurers bothering with the mountain streams right now.”

Without warning, he scooted over so their shoulders were touching.

And his hand stroked her thigh between her skirt and sock.

“Hyah!?”

“So let’s have some fun. Okay?”

“…❤”

With the exception of Tet who was passed out from the venom, they were the only two people here.

Makina knew exactly what he was hinting at, but she just barely managed to resist the temptation.

“I-I’m going to sleep!”

She pushed away Tact’s hand, stood up, and walked to her sleeping bag.

Tact grinned at her and said, “C’mon, what’s wrong with a little fun between friends?”

The nights had been hot lately and the humidity was especially high in this watery area.

“It’s so hot.”

Makina felt too sweaty to sleep, so she sat up.

There was no wind and no chirping of bugs, so she could only hear the quiet breathing of the two guys.

“…”

And only one of them could actually do much of anything at the moment.

She quietly crawled out of her sleeping bag while making sure not to wake Tet.

She approached the third sleeping bag and lightly shook it.

“Tact, Tact.”

“Hm? Ahh?”

Tact sounded annoyed and rubbed his eyes.

“Which way is the Cleansing Basin?”

“What? Oh, just head straight upstream.”

“Understood. Thank you very much❤”

She whispered her thanks in his ear.

Then she suggestively lowered her tone to whisper “good night” and left the camp.

It was a holy place that really did feel cleansing.

Holy water welled up atop a sheer cliff several dozen meters tall. It flowed down that stone wall and into the deep basin at the bottom.

It was a waterfall, but it had none of the roaring water Makina had imagined.

The holy water fell gently and the full moon shined beautifully in the basin reflection.

The refreshing atmosphere and tranquility seemed to cleanse her heart just by viewing it.

“It’s so pretty.”

She stripped off her clothing while staring at the beautiful scene.

She placed her witch’s hat, skirt, panties, and magic staff on a nearby rock.

The staff was her weapon, so she made sure it would be within reach. She doubted any monsters would approach a waterfall overflowing with such holy magic power, but better safe than sorry.

Once completely nude, she stood upon a flat stone below the waterfall.

How many long years had it taken for the holy water to wear the stone down to such a flat surface?

She pondered the great age of the world around her as she began washing her body in the waterfall.

The cold and clear water felt nice on her sweaty and overheated body.

“Nh, there we go.”

She lifted her jiggling breasts to wash the sweat from between and below them.

They tended to get damp with sweat during this season, which tended to gather men’s eyes.

(Eyes.)

There was no one else around. She could not hear anyone or sense anyone’s presence.

But what if?

What if some other person arrived at the Cleansing Basin? And what if it was a man instead of a woman?

(Wait, what am I imagining!?)

It was a silly fantasy. She shook her head, which sent holy water flying from her blonde hair. She needed to banish the wicked thoughts along with that water.

And hadn’t Tact said most adventurers were in the volcano area instead of here?

And yet.

What if someone saw her here without any kind of clothing on? What if they saw her here with every line of her naked body exposed below the clear sky?

The thought produced a throb from the sex curse and her hands found their way to her breasts and vulva.

“Ah, kh, hh, uh❤”

She started massaging her large tits and pinching the pink nipples.

She rubbed her clitoris and parted the hidden flesh to insert her fingers.

Even as the holy water fell on her from above, she began pleasuring her sexual body and mind.

“Ah❤ Yes❤ Nh❤ Ah❤”

She realized this was the first time in her life she had ever removed all of her clothing outdoors. A royal could never be naked outside.

But she was an adventurer now, so she leaned back against the cliff wall and looked past the basin to the thick bushes beyond while she masturbated.

——I couldn’t help but picture Melissa getting pounded from behind when I first met Tact.

“I really shouldn’t be doing this…outside, but it feels…so good❤”

She gradually spread her legs to shoulder width.

She knew it was wrong, but she could not resist.

She spread her legs to better shove her fingers up her pussy and masturbate furiously.

A princess could never be seen doing this. If anyone who knew her true identity saw her doing this, she would probably want to kill herself out of shame.

——Yet I wanted to be seen. I wanted someone to watch me exposing everything out in the middle of nature…and I wanted it to turn them on.

She increased her own arousal by imagining someone watching from the bushes and masturbating to her.

“Nh❤ Ah! I’m cumming❤ Ahh❤”

She continued stirring up the inside of her vagina until she convulsed in a light climax.

“Pant, pant❤”

Her love juices mixed with the holy water and flowed into the basin.

But she could not look down on that in satisfaction.

“It’s not enough.”

Her slender fingers and awkward arms could not give her the pleasure she really wanted.

Her lower stomach demanded the heat and size she had felt with the innkeeper.

She wanted the excitement she had felt when Tact kissed her and she wanted the great load of cum that had filled her mouth when she sucked his dick, but she wanted it pumped into her womb this time.

Now that she had learned the pleasures of sex, the sex curse craved it.

“But…”

She descended the stones into the bottom of the basin like they were steps.

Even at the deepest part, the water only came up a bit pat her navel.

And then she noticed something odd.

“Nn.”

The sex curse tattoo on her lower stomach was reacting. No, it was protesting.

It made sense since the curse was a form of dark magic. The purifying properties of the holy water brought a prickling pain to Makina as its host.

But instead of an intense agony, it was more of a pleasant tingle.

“If only it would just disappear.”

But the tattoo did not fade in the slightest.

The Cleansing Basin was not enough to eliminate it.

It had all begun with that sex curse.

That tattoo was what had taken away her kingdom, led her to become an adventurer instead of a princess, and what filled her with such great sexual desire.

She had to defeat it if she was to take everything back.

“I…”

She used the buoyancy of the basin’s water to lie back.

She stretched out her arms and legs, soaked the back of her head, and let her blonde hair spread out in the water like a spider web.

She looked up at the moon and stars and she floated in the water while thinking of her kingdom.

“I want…”

And yet.

Her large, bowl-shaped boobs floated in the water and their throbbingly erect nipples pointed up toward the night sky.

The throbbing in her womb remained and she started toying with her clitoris without even meaning to. The movement grew vigorous enough to create ripples.

“I want cock❤”

The ripples gradually grew larger.

As if to represent her sexual arousal and indecency.

And then…

“Whoa there. Masturbating in the Cleansing Basin? Are you trying to get struck by lightning or something?”

“…!”

She had wanted to hear his voice more than anything right now, so it rang clear in both that holy area and her womb.

She quickly covered her breasts with an arm and submerged herself in the basin up to her shoulders.

She was trying to save face by pretending to panic and hide her body, but her heart was pounding, her womb was throbbing, and her eyes were glued to Tact’s nudity.

“T-Tact!?”

“When I first met you, you seemed like such a pure and proper girl. I sure as hell didn’t expect you to be such a slut.”

His tone made it clear that this was a pleasant surprise.

He walked onto the flat rock she had stood on earlier and started washing himself in the falling holy water.

(Does he have to do that now?❤)

She knew it was wrong, but she could not keep her eyes off of him.

She stared at his muscular chest, his chiseled abs, and his strong upper arms.

But most of all, she stared at his penis which was impressive even when flaccid.

“Phew. Okay, I’ll be heading back.”

“Eh!? W-wait!”

“What is it now?”

After washing off his sweat, he began to retrieve his clothes without even getting in the basin.

It came as such a surprise that she called out to him without thinking.

“A-aren’t you going to attack me?”

He grinned when he heard that.

“Do you want me to?”

“I-I didn’t say that!”

“You’re the one that woke me up. I’d really like to get back and get some sleep.”

That had to be a lie.

He had forced his way into their party without asking when she was having trouble at the guild hall reception desk.

He had taken her lips and worked with the hot spring inn’s innkeeper to have some fun with her in the shower.

That man was always in search of women to fuck, so he would never just leave when an obviously aroused one was right there with no clothes on.

As proof, his dick was throbbing as it grew larger and more erect.

His massive erection was impossible to miss.

“I…I…!”

——I needed it then and there.

She stood up to reveal the body hidden in the water.

She looked even more seductive than usual when she emerged from the basin because the holy water and love juices reflected the moonlight as they dripped down her.

“I-I just want your help.”

“My help doing what?”

“When I, u-um, have s-sex with a man, uh, my magic power grows and I learn new magic.”

The day after spending all night banging that innkeeper, she had learned a form of magic she had never been able to use before.

And after swallowing Tact’s semen, she had felt the magic power inside her growing.

But it had not been enough to learn any new magic.

She had to rely on guesswork, but based on her past experience, she was pretty sure the sex curse did more than just make her horny.

“If you, uh, pump me full of c-cum, my magic will get stronger. S-so…!”

She stated her theory as fact.

Because seducing Tact here – no, getting his help. Yes, just getting his help – would do more than just satisfy her own craving.

By increasing her magical power and learning a new technique, their future quests and adventures would be easier.

This was just a way of making herself more powerful.

“Nah, I’m good.”

“Eh?”

She could not believe her ears.

She had never expected a playboy like Tact to say that.

“Maybe you can power up like some kinda succubus, but I said I wouldn’t have sex with you, remember? I promised to stick to kissing. And Tet’s a nice guy, so I don’t want get in a fight with him.”

“B-but!”

She could not stand it. And she was bad at negotiating.

His cock was pointing up toward the night sky and looked ready to attack her.

And the fierce look in his eyes said he wanted to fuck her and fill her with his seed right that instant.

“I’d really rather not knock anyone up. I like my responsibility-free life as an adventurer, so I don’t need a woman or a kid weighing me down.”

He sounded so incredibly irresponsible.

He had kissed her so much and made her feel so good. He had proven he was such an attractive male with an incredible unit and a powerful libido.

It felt like such a waste that he would not fuck her raw, cum inside her, and knock her up just because he wanted a life free of responsibility.

“But.”

Tact’s eyes crawled along her wet body and he beckoned her with a finger.

“If you promise you won’t ask anything of me if I do knock you up, I’d be willing to help you out.”

“Ah❤”

She could feel her womb throbbing at that compromise…at that temptation.

He would not attack her. But if Makina begged him to fuck her, he would do it.

It was such an unfair method, but she found herself already leaving the Cleansing Basin and approaching him.

She climbed the stone stairs and stood in front of him below the waterfall.

“Um, uh❤ Tact❤”

“Yeah, what is it you want? Out with it❤”

He pressed his blazing-hot and rock-hard erection against her lower stomach. That sensation just about melted her mind.

He was the kind of guy who made the women beg for it and made clear up front he would not take responsibility if he knocked them up.

The princess of Grandel could not spread her legs for someone like that. She should leave this place and never speak with him again.

She knew that, but…

“Please, Tact❤ Today is a safe day❤ So please put your cock in my pussy❤ Don’t worry about knocking me up; just squirt lots and lots of cum inside me❤”

She had no idea if it was really a safe day or not. In fact, the sex curse made her feel like she was ovulating every day.

But she did not care. She just wanted it now. She wanted to have lots of sex. That was the only thing on her mind.

And in a complete change from a moment ago, Tact’s face went blank as he grabbed her shoulders and pushed her against the cliff wall dripping with holy water.

“Sure thing. If a party member needs help that badly, who am I to refuse!?”

He finally revealed his true nature.

He stole her lips with her back pressed against the rock wall. It was so much like when they had first kissed behind the guild hall.

Except this kiss was even more passionate and loving.

“Nhhhh❤ Kiss❤ Smack❤ Slurp❤ Ahh❤ I think I might love you❤”

“Well, you’re loving something about this. Your pussy couldn’t be more wet❤”

“Ah❤”

He lifted up her right leg until it extended straight up. It was like a ballerina’s pose.

Her flexible joints allowed the sole of her foot to point toward the sky and a veritable cascade of love juices poured out of her exposed pussy and down her left leg.

“Makina.”

“Tact❤”

They looked each other in the eye.

They no longer needed words to communicate.

She did not need to check her reflection to know her eyes contained heart marks Tact could not see.

“Let’s get started.”

“…❤”

He placed his muscular left arm around her plump right leg to hold it firmly in place.

Then his right arm grabbed her hip and his masculine spear took aim.

The brutal red head made a wet sound as it kissed her entrance.

His precum and her love juices mixed together like their saliva when they kissed.

“Ahh❤ Ahhh❤ Hurry, hurry❤”

Like a lover anticipating their first lovemaking in a while.

Or like a fiancée who had only just gotten engaged, she eagerly awaited her beloved’s penis.

She realized two whole days had passed since that innkeeper had slept with her.

Her excitement and arousal reached their peak as she waited for her first penis in about 48 hours.

And.

Tact took a deep breath, held it, and then pushed his hips forward.

“Kh!”

Immediately, the head entered her vagina and it took a few seconds for it to reach her womb.

——My brain was fried by the certainty that I would have that man’s baby.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh❤❤❤❤❤”

Her voice echoed across the Cleansing Basin.

His dick made it to her womb in a single thrust. And the ridge of the head rubbed at her vaginal flesh.

She had finally received the length and hardness she had fantasized about since first meeting him.

“Ahh❤ Ahhn❤ Yes❤ That’s amaziiiiing❤

“Whoa! Your pussy is a fucking miracle!”

Tact had never experienced a vagina like this, so he could not stop thrusting.

Their flesh rubbed directly together without any kind of contraception to get in the way, so ecstasy built to a climax quite quickly.

“Ahh❤ Ah❤ Ah❤ Hyah❤ Ahh❤”

“Here comes the first load of the day! You asked for irresponsible cum, so here it is!”

Her womb squeezed with joy at what he said.

Her body only continued to heat up despite the cold water hitting it.

The heat came from the deepest part of her body and not even holy water could extinguish it.

She could only give herself over to the heat.

“I love you❤ I love you❤ I love you, Tact❤”

Her feelings for Tact grew as his hips sped up. No, she may have already fallen for him.

Was it when he kissed her, when she titfucked him, or when he throat-fucked her? She did not know.

But even now, the desire to take him inside her only continued to grow.

She felt it not just in her heart but in her enlarged clitoris.

And in her breasts which were squished to the limit against his thick chest.

But most of all, she felt the incredible pleasure threatening to explode within her body.

And as his penis thrust into her vaginal flesh, she could feel it swelling out with blood and semen.

“Here it comes! Ohhhhh!!”

——It was finally happening.

Their pleasure had reached the peak.

The royal pussy of a princess with 600 years of history behind her bloodline took the cock of a playboy she had met less than two days ago and he pumped her full of so much cum it seemed a certainty she would get pregnant.

“Nghhhhhhhhhhhhh❤❤❤❤❤❤”

It squirted out with such force she thought it would shoot all the way into her womb and even reach the fallopian tubes.

“Ah~ Fuck, that was good!”

Tact let go of her right leg, pulled out of her, stepped back, and smirked while catching his breath.

Makina was barely able to stay standing as semen dripped from her vagina and an indecent look of climax covered her face.

If not for the waterfall wall behind her, she would have collapsed backwards.

“Pant❤ Ahhh❤ Pant❤ Yes, it was wonderful❤”

What had she been afraid of? Why had she been so hesitant?

Hadn’t she already learned that sex brought the ultimate pleasure? So why had she made excuses about “only kissing” or “just washing each other”?

If she had only spread her legs when they first met, she could have been experiencing all this pleasure since yesterday.

As she stood there lamenting the wasted time, he grabbed her slender right wrist.

“Cmon, time for round two.”

“…❤ Of course❤”

He pulled on her hand as if to erase that regret from her mind.

She happily followed after that masculine back.

“Tet! The star you can see over there is called-…”

“Princess, you’ll catch cold if we don’t get back soon!”

That dream was a memory of younger days.

Just like tonight, it had been a full moon with the stars shining in the sky.

She had held a book the king had given her and reviewed the constellations the queen had taught her.

But in that dream of so long ago, he had only watched her as he found her more beautiful and radiant than the stars.

“Nn.”

Tet slowly opened his eyes in his sleeping bag.

The last thing he remembered was discussing where to camp and then passing out.

His master and new party member must have saved him and kept him alive.

He knew he had to thank them and apologize for his failure.

The poison was still affecting him, so he could only move his eyes. Plus, it was late at night and he did not want to wake the other two.

“Nghhhhhhhhhh❤❤❤”

“…?”

He heard an animal cry in the distance. Some kind of creature must have been in heat.

He thought mating to produce offspring was a good thing, but he really wished they would keep it down tonight and let him sleep.

At the same time, the cry sounded oddly familiar.

But his woozy mind was more focused on remembering to thank the other two for healing him when he woke up in the morning.

He shut his eyes once more and returned to the world of dreams.

When they entered the basin together, he held her from behind.

“Ah❤ Nh❤ Tact❤ Hyah❤”

He reached below her arms, groped her tits, and massaged them from base to nipple like he was milking a cow.

The sex curse provided a tingling mixture of pain and pleasure as its tattoo soaked in the holy water.

From further below, his cock rubbed against her swollen pussy lips.

When she closed her legs and pressed her thighs tightly together, he cried out in even more pleasure and thrust his hips faster.

“Kah! Thigh sex in a holy place!? And all these pussy juices! Is this turning you on, you slut!?”

“Nhh❤ You’re the one that made me do this, Tact❤ You rapist❤”

“Made you, my ass. You seduced me, you dumb whore❤”

“Hyaaaahn❤ Ah❤ Yes❤ It’s so thiiiiick❤❤❤”

He entered her again, this time doggy style.

As they fucked in the basin, the thrusts splashed the water around.

He grabbed her shapely ass, rubbed her stomach and back, and groped her tits from behind.

He seemed to be masturbating using her body instead of some paper or a towel.

His movements were rough, but he knew exactly how to pleasure a female body. That combination filled her with satisfaction.

“Ah~ fuck this is good. Can I use your pussy to get off every day from now on?”

“Ohh❤ Y-yesh❤ Ngh❤ Gladly❤ Please, ah❤ Please let me be❤ Kyuhn❤ Y-your girlfriend❤ Ahn❤”

She was leaning so far forward she thought her face was going to end up in the water.

Her shaking breasts did contact the water, creating ripples.

Her brain had melted too much to tell whether her reflection in the water looked the way it did due to the rippling of the water or the pleasure she was feeling.

“I didn’t say I wanted a girlfriend. I just want a living sex toy. All you’re good for is cumming inside of!”

“Y-yeshhhh❤❤❤”

He slapped her ass and she cried out in pain and pleasure.

While continuing to do her from behind, he let go of her hips.

Instead, he grabbed her slender wrists and pulled them back.

“Ah❤”

This lifted her upper body so her face and breasts were pointed forward instead of at the water.

And then he resumed the intense thrusting.

“Nwaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh❤❤❤”

His penis pierced her deep enough to hit her cervix.

Each time, her boobs bounced up and down.

Also, drool and a moan escaped her opened mouth.

It all stimulated her sex curse, which converted every sensation into pleasure and sent that straight to her brain.

As the pleasure grew, she arched her back more, until her eyes were looked up at the starry sky.

“Princess, you’ll catch cold if we don’t get back soon!”

“Just a little longer! I’ll head back soon, so let’s look at the stars together.”

“If you insist. I, Tet Chrom, am your knight after all!”

“Oh…”

The stars had been just as beautiful when viewed from the castle balcony.

Her parents had taught her the names of the stars and constellations.

She had snuck out of her bedroom, viewed the stars with Tet, and ultimately gotten in trouble when they were caught.

That memory came back to her, but she could not remember the names of the stars. She could not see them very well either.

Some other kind of light was sparking before her eyes right now.

“Take this!”

“Hghhh❤”

Just as she started spacing out, Tact slapped her ass and shoved his cock deep inside her.

“Pay attention! Keep squeezing and moan like a whore!”

“Nhoh❤ Ahhn❤ Hghh❤ Ah, ahhh❤ I’m cumming❤ I’m cumming again❤ I’m cumming❤”

“So am I❤ I’m cumming, cumming! Take the second load of my seed and get knocked up with my kid! I’ll never admit it’s mine, but take it all and cum!!”

Her vision grew entirely white.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh❤❤❤❤❤❤”

For the second time that day, playboy DNA squirted into her for what felt like forever.

She arched her back in orgasm.

She looked straight up to see Tact’s upside-down face looking down at her.

“Ah❤ Oheh❤”

“No one’d recognize you with your face like that❤”

Then they exchanged a kiss.

Makina’s upper lip touched Tact’s lower lip and the princess’s youthful lower lip touched the playboy’s upper lip.

When they added tongue to the upside-down kiss, it felt even more intimate than usual.

His rough tongue licked along her lower teeth and tongue.

“Nhh❤ Suck❤ Lick❤ Suck❤ Slurrrp❤ Oh❤ Lick❤ Ohh❤ Nmh❤”

As he sucked up and swallowed her saliva, she saw his Adam’s apple rising and falling right in front of her eyes.

A significant amount of his cum and her love juices was mixed into the waterfall basin.

It really did feel like they were defiling a holy site, but the guilt was accompanied by an odd pleasure.

(Oh, I get it.)

She finally understood part of what was causing the irresistible urge inside her.

She was turned on by the thought of something precious being destroyed.

Like when something beautiful was defiled or holy ground was desecrated.

That emphasized just how beautiful and precious a thing it was.

And when she knew it could never be the same again, she felt great powerlessness…and another powerful emotion.

She had felt it when she saw that sorcerer fucking her mother.

She had felt it when she, a princess, had spread her legs for a common innkeeper.

And she felt it now while accepting the seed of a misogynistic man below a starry sky reminiscent of a beautiful memory.

The guilt burned hot within her, but the carnal desire burned even hotter.

She felt an irresistible, drug-like addiction spreading to every last one of her cells.

When Tet woke the next morning, he still felt a bit sluggish, but he managed to get up.

He cooked some breakfast for Makina and Tact who were still in their sleeping bags and he deeply apologized to and thanked them when they woke up.

Makina seemed a little tired, but she was delighted with his recovery. Tact was in a good mood for some reason, so he cheered Tet up.

Then the three of them began searching the basin area like they had originally planned.

“Thunderstorm!”

“Croak!”

In a stagnant swamp, lightning shot from Makina’s staff and roasted a Poison Frog about the same size as her.

The monsters this deep in the mountain streams area were large and powerful.

But Makina’s new magic dispatched them all so quickly Tet did not need to swing his sword and Tact did not need to waste any of his arrows.

“Oh!” said Tet. “Such powerful magic! Impressive!”

“N-no, this is nothing…”

“That must be the result of your special training.” Tact put his arm around her shoulders, grinned, and whispered in her ear. “Right, Makina?”

“…”

Tet wanted to warn him not to bother other people, but Makina did not actually seem all that bothered by it.

She blushed as if embarrassed, but she also looked somehow happy.

“…? Maki-…”

“Croak.”

“Croak, croak!”

“———! More of them!?”

He guessed the two of them built some bonds of trust as party members while he was passed out.

But defeating the monsters was more important now.

Tet held his sword with a hand still trembling from the venom.

“This looks like the place.”

In the furthest reaches of the mountain streams, they found a cave entrance camouflaged by a fallen tree and some brush.

Few adventurers went this far on quests, so it was perfect for keeping away from prying eyes.

Tact stepped into the dark cave and turned back to face the other two.

Makina and Tet were ready to go.

“Let’s do this!”

“We don’t have time to stand around!”

“Heh heh. If you say so. I’ll follow you wherever this might lead!”

The three of them walked into the damp and dark cave.

They delved deeper using the magic light on the end of Makina’s staff and the glowing bugs that lived in the cave.

The walls and floor were sticky with some unknown substance. That provided a dampness and smell that only added to the overall unpleasantness of the place.

“What a creepy cave. I can’t help but remember what I heard about adventurers disappearing after accepting quests in the depths of the mountain streams region.”

Tact grimaced at the look of the cave while he walked behind Makina and Tet. He grew all the more cautious because of the rumors that adventurers had gone missing in this area starting half a year ago.

“Maybe they simply failed their quest and never made it back.”

“That’s the most likely possibility of course, but it bothers me that they were pretty skilled and their bodies were never found.”

“Either way, we need to be careful in here.”

As they cautiously continued deeper inside, they arrived at a fork in the path.

Right or left?

It was hard to choose when they had no idea where this led.

“Okay,” said Tact. “Makina and I will head this way.”

“Eh!?”

Makina raised her voice in surprise and Tet looked back skeptically.

But Tact rattled off an explanation using his knowledge as a veteran adventurer.

“An archer like me can’t do much in a narrow cave like this, so I need someone with me. But if Tet and I teamed up, Makina would be all alone. …So I was thinking it made sense to split into a one-man vanguard team and a two-man rear guard team.”

“C-couldn’t we all stay together!?”

“That’d be inefficient. I mean, I’m fine taking our time to search, but I thought you didn’t have any time to spare. Isn’t that what you said, Tet? I was only trying to give you what you wanted.”

“B-but…!”

“No, he’s right.”

Surprisingly, Tet was the first to accept Tact’s suggestion.

“I can handle things on my own, Makina. And we can’t waste any time. I won’t let us waste time. …But if something happens, turn back immediately and wait here. Promise me that.”

“Sure thing,” said Tact “If we run into trouble, I’ll make sure she gets out of here.”

Tet looked at Makina just once with a powerful light in his eyes, but then he turned toward Tact.

“Tet,” said Makina.

“Tact. Take care of Makina.”

“Leave it to me, bro.”

The two guys bumped fists and made eye contact to exchange a promise.

Then Tet set off alone down the right path faintly illuminated by glowing bugs.

“We need to get going too,” said Tact.

“Y-yes,” replied Makina.

She could not ignore Tet’s resolve.

She could not bring herself to intrude on the atmosphere created by the two guys, so she took the left path with Tact.

And as soon as Tet was out of view, Tact pressed his shoulder against hers and wrapped a muscular arm around her hips. His large hand quickly got to work groping her butt over her skirt.

“…❤”

When she did not protest or brush off his hand, he moved his hand up her skirt and began rubbing her pussy through her panties. Tremors of pleasure shook her body as they walked deeper into the darkness.

Tet was speechless when he found a wide-open space after following the downward-sloping right path.

The circular room was larger than the guild hall’s reception lobby. There was no furniture or sign of human life there, but the glowing bugs in the air did illuminate something.

Dozens of crystals hung down at about 5m overhead.

They looked like ripe fruits ready to fall and they contained humans dressed like adventurers.

“Croak~♪ Some more children hatched recently, so perhaps I should create about three more to gather more energy, croak.”

Unlike the others, this Poison Frog was as large as an adult man and stood on its hind legs.

However, the biggest oddity was the fact that it used human language, could do arithmetic, and wore equipment likely stolen from the adventurers.

It had its back to Tet and it looked up at the cave ceiling while counting the crystals there.

“Is this what I think it is!?”

The memory was still fresh in Tet’s mind. He could never forget that scene.

And this was similar. No, it was nearly identical.

At Grandel’s 600th anniversary celebration, a man in a black robe had flown into the night sky and created crystals just like these.

That dark sorcerer’s magic had trapped the king, queen, officials, knights, and citizens inside the crystals.

The man had hovered in the sky while the crystallized people glittered around him like stars.

And Tet had failed to do anything but look up at it.

He was supposed to have protected his princess, but something had pierced his head and he had passed out. He was a failure of a knight.

But this was different.

He did not even consider calling for Makina and Tact.

He forgot all about the pain from the venom remaining in his body.

He drew his sword and spoke to the frog.

“Hey, you.”

“Croak?”

The frog turned around to reveal a black pattern on its forehead. Its design was nearly identical to Makina’s sex curse tattoo, but that tattoo was invisible to Tet and he only recognized it as the magic circle that had appeared behind that man as he floated in the night sky.

He had seen this symbol on that day when everything had been destroyed and all of this had begun.

When the Poison Frog turned around and sensed the intensity of Tet’s gaze, it froze in fear despite its human size.

“Who put that mark on your head!?”

“C-croak!? Wh-what is a human doing here!?”

“Answer me. If you don’t, not even I know what I’ll do to you!!!”

Meanwhile, Makina and Tact followed the upward-sloping left path.

There were several holes along the walls, but they walked right past hem since only a child would be able to crawl through them.

And.

The walls eventually opened up, but reaching the floor would have required jumping down a 5 meter drop.

But more than that, Makina gasped at the bizarre scene before her.

Several crystals hung from the cave ceiling so close she felt like she could reach out and touch one. They were like icicles or fruits.

“…!?”

“Wh-what the fuck is this!?”

She recognized them. They were much like the crystals that man had created on the day her kingdom fell.

And just as those had trapped the lives of all who lived in Grandel, there were adventurers sleeping in these crystals.

“That symbol! Who gave it to you!?”

“Tet!?”

She heard Tet’s voice from below.

He faced the talking Poison Frog without attacking or withdrawing.

“W-we have to go help him!”

“W-wait! Wait!”

She knew she had to climb down and join the fight.

But when she started to move, someone restrained her from behind.

“What are you doing!?”

“J-just jumping down from here would be a bad idea! We need to stay hidden and wait for the perfect chance to snipe that thing! A-and that frog has defeated much more experienced adventurers and trapped them in these crystals! W-well, we don’t actually know it was the frog that did it, but I-I’ve never seen anything like it before! This is way too dangerous!!”

Tact’s arms were trembling as he restrained her.

It was true the cave was chilly, but this trembling and shaking had a different cause.

Tact had seen what had become of the missing adventurers. And he knew their tales of heroism, so he best understood the gravity of the situation.

He also felt the very real fear of ending up like that himself. Hence the trembling.

“Kh!”

But because this opponent was so dangerous, Makina knew she could not let Tet fight alone.

The frog held a sword and crossbow, it was about the same size as Tet, and it had the venom sac of its species.

Tet needed help, so she had to climb down immediately.

“I-I’m begging you! Please don’t go down there, Makina!”

“Kyah!?”

Tact pushed her down to the hard floor from behind.

He then climbed on top of her and began covering them both with the goop from the floor and walls.

“Our scent! We need to cover our scent!”

“Crooooak!”

“Croak, croak, croak!”

“Eek!?”

Tact let out a girly shriek.

Countless Poison Frogs crawled out of the small holes on the sides of the pathway.

Those apparently led to the normal-sized frog’s rooms. This cave was a Poison Frog nest.

“Tact! Let go! Get off of me!”

“Be quiet! We’re dead if they notice us!”

He pinned her to the ground while they hid behind some rocks and held their breath.

She considered knocking him away with some magic, but as she watched Tet’s battle, the frog with the mark on its forehead barked some orders at the other frogs.

“You all search the nest, croak! The humans known as adventurers do not act alone, croak!”

“Croak, croak!”

“Croak!”

On the boss frog’s instructions, the others began moving the other way.

The normal ones had little intelligence, so they assumed any intruders would be near the entrance.

That reduced the risk of being caught.

Thinking this was her chance, Makina lifted her hips to stand up. But…

“Hyah!?”

“Makina! Makina!”

Tact’s trembling hands pulled up her skirt.

He pulled down her panties and began undoing his belt.

“Wh-what are you doing!? This is hardly the time!”

“It powers you up when a guy cums inside you, right!? You’ll learn new magic, right!? S-so it’s our only chance!”

He scooped up some goop from the wall, rubbed it onto his penis and her pussy, and shoved his long cock inside her without any foreplay.

“Ah! Wait!”

“Makina! Ahh!”

She gasped and protested, but he began roughly thrusting his hips.

Unlike the night before, he was too preoccupied to use any technique to pleasure her.

This sex was only driven by his fear of being surrounded and killed by the frogs and by his biological instinct to leave behind his genes when death approached.

Was it because the sex curse was not active or was it because Tact was too worried to have sex properly?

Whatever the case, she felt no pleasure and only felt frustrated that he was preventing her from joining the fight. Instead of sex with a lover, this felt like being pinned down and raped.

“Agh! Stop!”

“Ah, ah, ah!”

Before long, he let out a pathetic cry and squirted his semen inside her.

As those tadpoles rushed toward her womb, she was overwhelmed by an indescribable sense of displeasure.

(And it felt so good last night.)

She knew she would have tried to go save Tet even if the sex curse was active right now.

Her own pleasure was irrelevant when that precious knight’s life was at risk.

To prove it, she tried to resist Tact again.

But then that symbol appeared in the air behind the boss frog and it shot rapidly into Tet’s forehead.

The boss Poison Frog was certain of its victory.

It had been given this power – this mark – by a certain individual.

By drawing this magic circle in the air and shooting that, even the most formidable foe could be crystallized.

This black-haired swordsman was fairly skilled. The boss frog had not expected to have its sword knocked from its grasp.

But that had created an opening. Just as the sword took flight, it fired the crossbow into the black-haired adventurer’s left shoulder and sent in the symbol while he flinched from the pain.

“Croa-croak! I am unbeatable, croak!”

Certain of its victory, the frog laughed loudly.

An adventurer of this caliber was sure to make for an excellent energy source.

Then the boss frog would grow even stronger, share that strength with its fellow frogs, and rule the mountain streams with a massive army.

And eventually, it would rule the entire island as the Monster King.

“Where…is he?”

“Croak!?”

The boss frog could not believe what it was hearing.

The magic circle had carved that symbol into the swordsman.

No human should remain uncrystallized after that.

And yet…

“Where is your ‘master’ who gave you this symbol!?”

“I-it can’t be!”

Tet stood there with the symbol still there on his forehead.

His expression and the look in his eyes remained unchanged as he raised his sword once more. Then light surrounded the symbol and it vanished.

“W-wait! Are you his-…!?”

Tet ran forward.

The frog fired a crossbow bolt.

Tet knocked it from the air with his sword without even slowing.

The frog knew he was about to die, so he spat out a mist of his venom.

“Croak!”

“Mh!”

Tet jumped back on reflex. He had suffered enough from this venom the day before.

But just as he stopped, a bolt flew out from the purple cloud of mist.

“Gwah!”

It came from a blind spot, so it pierced his right thigh.

“I-I don’t know anything, croak! I was only given that symbol, croak! A-and even if I did know something, you will die here, croak!”

The boss frog spat out more venom. In great quantity and across a wide area.

Even if Tet circled around to the side, a crossbow bolt could kill him.

Even if he covered his mouth and held his breath, the frog could keep producing the toxic mist until he asphyxiated.

“Kwohhhhhhh!!!”

“Croa-!?

The Poison Frog’s calculations and thoughts had not accounted for Tet’s tenacity.

The swordsman ran right into the toxic cloud.

He ran straight forward instead of trying to circle around.

He raised his sword high and took a deep breath of the toxic mist to gather his strength.

“I have a message for your master!”

The frog was caught entirely off guard, but it still managed to raise the crossbow to defend itself.

But Tet’s sword swung down in a straight line like a bolt of lightning.

“Tet Chrom, Knight and Royal Bodyguard of Grandel, is coming to take back everything you have taken!!!”

From head to crotch, he bisected everything: the symbol on the frog’s forehead, the head itself, and the crossbow.

“Gelwess.”

Tet committed the frog’s final word to memory.

He wiped the blood from his blade and sheathed it.

“Croak!?”

“Croa-croak!”

The other Poison Frogs fled the cave when they saw their boss slain.

And with the symbol’s owner gone, the crystals shined, fell to the floor, and then vanished. The adventurers inside were all freed.

They were unconscious but breathing. They were not dead and would likely come to soon.

However…

“Oh, that wasn’t smart,” muttered Tet.

It may have looked like everything had wrapped up nicely, but his purple-stained face looked troubled.

He realized how foolish he had been when he looked down at the bisected frog corpse at his feet.

“He can’t exactly pass on that message if he’s dead.”

He smiled when he recalled Makina gently teasing him for being kind of dumb.

Then he coughed up a disconcerting amount of blood and collapsed limply to the ground.

With the quest complete, Makina’s party returned to Wells.

Tet had slain the Poison Frog with the mystery symbol who had created that nest deep in the mountain streams area.

They had also rescued all the missing adventurers who had been crystallized by the frog.

Tet and Makina’s efforts were highly praised and they earned the title of Rank D Adventurer. Tact was also promoted a rank, putting him at C.

But it was not all happy.

While sleeping in a room of that hot spring inn, Tet’s lips and the area below his eyes were colored purple and his breathing was shallow.

“It’s a miracle he hasn’t died already,” said the middle-aged man in a white coat sitting next to the bed.

Makina and Tact had called Wells’s most skilled doctor as soon as they were back.

But even with that doctor and Makina’s recovery magic, keeping Tet just barely alive was the most they could manage.

“You said Mr. Tet Chrom had been infected by the Poison Frog venom before, didn’t you?”

“Y-yes. The day before he inhaled the toxic mist in the cave.”

“That must have allowed him to create some small amount of antibodies. But…I can still only call this a miracle. The antidote and other treatments we have available are not enough to fully heal him.”

“That can’t be!”

“I can keep him alive for another 7…no, 10 days, but if this lasts any longer…”

That was the time limit on Tet’s life.

When Makina heard that, she felt regret grip her heart.

She could have gone to help him. She could have prevented this.

If she had only insisted they stick together even if Tet himself opposed the idea.

This tragedy had happened for a reason. Even if she had succumbed to the effects of the sex curse…no.

“This was…my fault.”

The curse was only an excuse. It was all the result of her own naïveté and weakness.

She had followed the temptation, pursued her carnal desire, and indulged in that obscene pleasure.

She had done this despite being a direct descendent of the Grandel royal family, so she could not look Tet in the eye again.

He had been acting on behalf of their kingdom and its people. He had literally given it his all.

“Hey, don’t let it get to you, Makina. What happened to Tet was an unfortunate accident. More importantly, we need to throw a party to celebrate our promotion.”

Tact had been watching the treatment from the wall, but he seemed oddly lighthearted.

To him, this may have been a relatively common occurrence. He had seen plenty of adventurers get poisoned or injured on a quest and not pull through.

But.

When he placed his arm around her shoulders, Makina forcefully brushed it off for the first time since meeting him.

“H-hey, what are you mad at me for? I said I was sorry about that.”

“…It’s not that.”

“Not what?”

“I’m mad at myself!”

She felt pathetic. She felt like an awful traitor.

Tet had always been the best possible knight. And he still was.

Yet she had failed to save him. She had failed to do anything at all in that cave. So the immense disappointment and scorn she felt was directed at herself.

“I apologize for interrupting, but there is a way to save him.”

She turned her tearful eyes back toward the doctor.

But based on his expression, this would be a gamble and the odds were not great.

“R-really!?”

“Have you heard about the rare mineral found in the volcano area lately?”

“Yeah, I have. It sounded like most of the adventurers were out there while we were in the mountain streams area.”

“That mineral is known as Dexite and, while it is valuable as a precious metal, it can also cure most any toxin when crushed into a powder and mixed with some other ingredients. It has long been rumored there was a vein of it in this region, but it was only discovered recently.”

“That’s it! Makina, our next destination is the volcano!”

“Y-yes! But…”

She had no interest in traveling with Tact any longer.

She had desired his body so badly in the Cleansing Basin, but the excitement she had felt had already faded after what he had done to her in the cave and the way he had essentially tried to abandon Tet.

But knowing him, he would find excuses to follow her to the volcano and she would be too busy trying to get away from him to search for the mineral.

She racked her brain to come up with some way of getting rid of him, but then…

“Taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaact!!!”

A ghastly female voice echoed through the hot spring inn.

“What!?” shouted Makina.

“What is the meaning of this!?” insisted the doctor.

“Th-this voice! F-fuck!!” yelled Tact.

He went pale and started panicking.

A woman continued to scream inside the inn while footsteps stomped down the hallway.

“I’m going to murder you, you motherfucker! I’m going to tear off your balls, tie you up, and drown you in the mountain streams!!”

“It’s Melissa! What the fuck is she saying!?”

Melissa was apparently on a rampage after being dumped by Tact, so she must have pursued him here to get revenge.

Sensing a threat to his life, Tact ran to the window, threw it open, climbed onto the windowsill, and smiled at the others who still were not sure how to react.

“S-see ya, Makina! I’m gonna be in a different village for a while! You can ask the receptionist at the guild hall for a quest at the volcano! Oh, and I’m praying Tet gets better! I’m serious! Anyway, say hi to Melissa for me!”

“Wait!”

Before she could say anything he jumped out the window and ran off.

A moment later, Melissa kicked open the door and stormed in, but when Makina and the doctor told her he had gone outside, she ran to the inn’s entrance while looking more frightening than any monster.

“…”

“Well, that was unexpected.”

Tet could not speak because of the venom, but it took even Makina and the doctor a while before they could say much of anything.

But Makina could not just sit around, so she grabbed her magic staff.

“I’ll be going. Take care of Tet while I’m gone, doctor.”

“W-wait! Are you headed to the volcano all on your own!? I heard all the mineral had already been mined and that is a harsh an environment for even the most hardened adventurers!”

“That does not matter.”

Yes. It did not matter.

She had to overcome whatever hardship awaited her.

She might have a sex curse and she might be far from a pure maiden any longer, but she wanted to live up to Tet’s expectations of her. She had to.

He had risked his life to get the word Gelwess out of that frog.

So now it was her turn to risk her life.

“Wait for me, Tet. No matter what happens, I will never abandon you.”

She spoke gently while holding his hand, which had purple-tinged nails.

And she swore to his soul which was wandering on the verge of death.

He had 10 days. She had to acquire the antidote mineral and save Tet before that.

That was what his ideal ruler would do.

That was what she had to be for him.

“I will go to Wells Volcano on my own!”

Her eyes shined with her pride and determination as Makina Grandel.

She pulled her witch’s hat low and left Tet’s room to set out on a new journey.

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