Chapter 45 – Payment

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Editor’s Note

Edited

What I had known as Undine was actually an even more extraordinary being?

The mother of all waters.

Considering that the elegant woman before me was a spirit, “the mother of all waters” would likely mean she was the mother of all water spirits.

Which would mean… the king of water spirits… no, the queen of water spirits?

I thought she was an impressive being, but…

I couldn’t really grasp it.

It wasn’t because she was too grand a being to comprehend intellectually, but literally, I just couldn’t feel it.

Even if she was the spirit queen, in the original game, even regular spirits were hard to find, so a spirit queen… I had no sense of where she stood in the hierarchy.

However, if I consider that the Undine who had been acting somewhat strangely all this time was actually her…

Somehow it feels like her dignity diminishes even more…

“You have a disrespectful look on your face.”

“Not really.”

“T-Teacher!?”

When I responded to her grumpy voice, Aileen, who had been sitting in a daze, turned pale.

She approached me with a startled face, but when she saw ‘El’ with her hand on my shoulder, she immediately shrank back.

El looked at Aileen with satisfaction and praised her in a low voice.

“You seem to roughly know who I am. In their terms… yes, perhaps it’s because you come from a good lineage?”

“…Well, I’ve taken a particular interest in the subject.”

“I like that.”

The conversation between the two continued for a moment.

Aileen spoke with El in a polite and very excited manner, as if she had never pointed a magical tool at me.

…Well, I suppose it doesn’t matter who she really is, this being I thought was Undine.

Rather, if she’s such a remarkable being, she could help me without causing any harm.

As I felt El’s presence, as refreshing as pure water, I recalled what Philia had said.

She had mentioned that I was loved by spirits.

I thought it was a bit ambiguous to call it a cheat, but this seemed like an incredible cheat.

Yes, if I was arbitrarily put in this place, naturally there should be something like this to make it a fair deal.

Somehow I felt better.

As I smiled inwardly while looking at the two of them(?), their combination was also… somehow pleasing to the eye. Was it because one was a princess and the other was a queen-like being?

The last thing I had seen was the pairing of Aileen and Leona, so I felt a bit uneasy, but since that hadn’t happened here yet, there was nothing to worry about.

If someone asks how I can think like this in such a situation… I don’t have much to say.

What can I do about being this kind of person?

…I do wonder if I wouldn’t have been brought here if I wasn’t this type of guy, but…

I don’t know.

There’s no point in making such assumptions now, nor is it a future I particularly want to imagine.

Anyway.

Aileen’s suspicions of me were resolved by the appearance of ‘El’, whether she was the mother of waters or the spirit queen.

Eventually, El, who had been smiling with satisfaction, said in a low voice.

“If your doubts have been cleared, would you mind leaving for today? I have matters to discuss with my contractor.”

Aileen looked very disappointed but nodded obediently and approached me, saying.

“I’m sorry for suspecting you, Teacher.”

“Ah, that’s… it’s fine.”

“But it would have been nice if you had shown this earlier.”

“Ahaha…”

How could I when I just found out myself?

As I awkwardly scratched my cheek, El said to Aileen.

“I would appreciate if you kept my appearance here a secret.”

“…Alright.”

Licking her lips in disappointment, she exclaimed with sparkling eyes, “Let’s find the culprit together!” and then disappeared outside the infirmary.

After confirming she had left, I sighed and sat down.

I don’t know exactly what happened, but things worked out well.

Above all, the shocking thing is that originally, ‘it’ shouldn’t have been growing.

Well, if you think about it logically, that makes more sense. The world I know was originally like that too.

What on earth is happening right now?

If I could figure it out by just thinking about it, I would have already returned to my original world.

“Sigh…”

There is one thing I’m suspicious of.

The additional content that was unlocked just before I came here was very suspicious. I can’t think of any other cause.

But if it’s related to that… I felt a bit nauseous.

If that’s the case, doesn’t it mean I really entered the game?

Thinking that someone unknown might be watching me from outside the monitor…

I felt sick.

“What is our contractor thinking with such a face?”

“Eek!?”

When I looked up, I saw El with her face right in front of mine.

She was so close I could see her long eyelashes fluttering.

When I inhaled at her otherworldly appearance, she giggled as if finding something amusing and stroked my cheek.

Her touch, which I expected to be cold, was somehow warm.

I suppose it makes sense considering that hot water is still water.

But feeling that warmth made my nausea subside a bit.

The clearly felt sensation and temperature.

A feeling too real to be generated by a graphics card.

Another sigh, who knows which one, escaped my lips.

Nothing is certain yet.

This place could truly be a game made of electrical signals.

Or perhaps it’s another world that resembles the game.

There were so many things I didn’t know, making it difficult to make a judgment.

And the prime example of that is the being currently putting her face in front of mine.

Perhaps I’ll find out as I unravel the clues with Aileen.

Let’s not think too hastily.

I calmed my mind.

Surprisingly, it was easy to settle down.

…I thought that perhaps I secretly enjoyed living here.

Except for the suddenness, honestly… it was good.

If female students having ‘it’ grow is ‘abnormal’.

If we solve that, it might become so much better that I might not want to go back.

I’m like… a reed.

I don’t know, maybe it’s because I’m in a woman’s body.

Then I looked at ‘El’ who had her face in front of me.

She looked at me with a somewhat sensuous smile.

Apart from my face heating up, a vague expectation arose that she might know something.

And just as I opened my mouth to ask her a question.

The finger that had caressed my cheek now gently pressed against my lips.

As I blinked in confusion, she said.

“You haven’t yet paid the price for earlier… that would make me very sad.”

Come to think of it, she did say something like that.

What does she want?

Undine seemed to take my energy.

Seeing my puzzled face, El lifted me from my seat and led me behind the partition, saying.

“Since you were my contractor, even temporarily, it was enough for my subordinates to receive your energy.”

Sploosh!

After seating me on the soft bed, El closed the partition and continued.

“If I were to exercise my power in that manner, you would spend more time with your eyes closed than open.”

“…Is that so?”

“Indeed. That’s why the contract between ‘us’ is a bit special.”

All I could do was nod at what she was saying.

…I really didn’t know anything.

Wait, but did I actually make a contract in the first place?

“Excuse me—”

“Let’s talk again after settling the account first.”

“Mmph!?”

My question was blocked by her lips.

Yes, lips, not hands.

In the darkness, her white face approached, and she quickly sealed my mouth with her lips.

A soft sensation touched my mouth, which was open to speak, and soon something cool and gelatinous entered my mouth.

“Mmph?! Mmmmph?!”

It felt like being underwater.

Startled, I tried to pull back, but I couldn’t because she held me firmly.

Something cool and soft, presumably her tongue, darted around inside my mouth, then eventually entwined with my tongue. Strangely, something sticky wrapped around the space between her tongue and mine.

“Mmph, mmmm…!”

In this sudden situation, my awakened mind became hazy. My breath, my breath was being cut off, and my vision gradually blurred.

Then I heard El’s voice in my head.

Can’t you breathe through your nose?

Only then did my breathing clear, but I couldn’t… be calm. The sticky kiss that seemed like it would swallow me whole.

When I closed my eyes tightly, El’s tongue movements felt even more vivid.

Gulp.

I swallowed some liquid, whether it was her saliva or something else, and gasped for breath.

El licked, sucked, and suckled on my tongue as if it were a sweet candy.

It was hard to stay conscious with that unfamiliar sensation.

I didn’t have the girlish notion that my first kiss had been stolen, but I couldn’t help feeling confused by this situation.

Even in my dazed state, my head was full of stupid thoughts like “It’s okay because El didn’t originally exist, right?” or “Is gender important for spirits too?”

…Perhaps I was deliberately filling my head with such thoughts to calm my increasingly sensuous and twitching body.

How much time had passed like that?

“Aah…”

“Kaghk…”

As El’s face, looking satisfied, pulled away, I could see a long silvery thread connecting her and me.

Even with her face away, I had to gasp and catch my breath for a while.

El looked at me with a pleased expression, as if she liked the trace she had left, and spoke.

“Now, is there anything else you wish to ask me?”

“…”

Still panting, I carefully shook my head.

…Let’s ask slowly, slowly.

It’s not urgent, right?

I decided to stop because I felt that if I asked more today, it wouldn’t end with just a kiss.

At my action, she smiled slightly, kissed my forehead, and then disappeared as if vanishing into my mind.

I felt a refreshing energy from my forehead.

– Call me whenever you need. I am willing to take action for you anytime.

And then you’ll take your payment, right?

I couldn’t tell whether this payment was cheap or normal.

With a somewhat troubled body and mind, I left the infirmary to go home.

As I opened the firmly closed door, I saw someone hurriedly approaching the infirmary.

…I wondered who it was.

It looked like Philia.

It must be her, as she was the only one with long, pointed ears.

Somehow, I had a bad feeling.

Editor’s Note

See guys?! She’s being thoroughly extorted and pushed around by a being more powerful than her! The glorious dark tag…I can taste it.