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119 – The Hero Might Have Turned into the Demon King

119 – The Hero Might Have Turned into the Demon King

“Thank you for your hard work.”

Helen, still seemingly caught up in the afterglow, said while nestled in my arms.

Even though we had returned to reality, she treated me as if I were a professor and she a graduate student.

“I’m glad you seem satisfied too, Helen.”

“…”

She looked at me for a moment and asked:

“Even though it was an illusion, we really did it, right?”

“…Yes, that’s right.”

As I had told her before we started, I too had entered the illusion along with Helen.

If I had been the administrator outside the illusion, I wouldn’t have had to do it directly, but once inside, I was also subject to the illusion magic.

In other words, I was in a similar position to Helen.

Helen’s face turned red upon hearing my words.

“It, it was pretty good.”

Helen whispered, burying her face in my chest as she lowered her head.

After saying that, she went to take a shower.

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“Sigh, I did it again.”

I sighed as I listened to the sound of Helen showering.

Originally, I hadn’t intended to do it.

But I couldn’t just ignore someone who wanted it so badly.

Especially since she was a regular customer who had been coming to our shop almost from the beginning.

‘That’s true, but…’

I too had succumbed to desire, just like Helen.

How could I just walk away from a woman begging me to do it right in front of me?

A noblewoman, and even from one of the most prestigious families in the empire.

On top of that, she was considered one of the greatest geniuses at the Imperial Academy.

‘And she’s beautiful too.’

At least any man wouldn’t have been able to just pass her by.

‘I shouldn’t get too addicted.’

The sex I had with her, and the acts before that, were only possible because it was an illusion.

If it were to happen in reality, it would be an incident that would cause issues in many ways.

I hoped Helen wouldn’t become too fixated on this illusion after this experience.

I created these illusions for people to enjoy pleasure, not to become obsessed and addicted to them.

“She’s a smart girl, so she’ll handle it well.”

Having finished my thoughts, I cleaned the magic circle that Helen and I had dirtied.

The room was filled with an erotic scent from the bodily fluids of a man and woman.

‘…’

Even though my body should have been tired from the forced march of the past few days, it reacted upon smelling the erotic scent.

“Is this also thanks to exercise?”

My stamina hadn’t run dry.

How strange.

For a magician, I had an unbelievable amount of stamina, so maybe it was natural.

Thinking that, I wiped up the piss stream Helen had spilled as a final touch.

I struggled to suppress my erection.

Helen returned home.

Thump thump.

Her heart was still pounding.

Just recalling what had happened in the illusion made her lower abdomen heat up.

The instincts that Max had awakened gradually subsided as she returned home, but her body was still reacting as a female.

‘It’s a shame.’

She wanted to do it one more time.

She had hoped Max would handle her a bit more roughly.

She had wanted Max to prove with his body that she was nothing before him.

Max had finished things quite gentlemanly(?).

When she heard the sound of Max’s heartbeat as he held her tightly, it made her feel very calm.

Of course, it was closer to being lifted up than embraced, but Helen didn’t mind that.

After all, she had faced Max in that position and had sex while looking into his eyes.

“I want to go again.”

While in his arms, that is.

Just as she was about to whisper that…

“My lady, you’ve returned.”

The butler’s voice was heard.

D-Did he hear?

“Ah, butler…”

“Did you enjoy your time at the bakery?”

“Ah, yes…”

“It seems you did. Your expression looks good. And you even want to go one more time… I can see why it’s popular among the young ladies.”

“Uh, yes?”

It was fortunate.

It seemed he had misunderstood her desire to “go again.”

“Th-That’s right. I want to go again. Ha, hahaha.”

Helen sighed in relief and stroked her chest at the butler’s words, which had understood “wanting to go” in a slightly different sense.

That was a close call.

As she stroked her chest, Helen felt her heart racing with a strange sense of guilt.

If the butler had properly understood what Helen meant by wanting to go again, what kind of expression would he make?

‘I’m sorry, butler.’

I had indulged in fantasies that lowered the dignity of House Silvesta.

This was all because of the teacher.

Max, the lewd man who had made her like this.

Max, who skillfully used illusion magic and drove her crazy.

Whose bespectacled appearance was just her type.

Helen secretly swallowed as she briefly imagined Max.

It seemed she wouldn’t be able to sleep easily tonight.

Yuris, who had received the Empress’s order to check on the Hero, headed towards Hero Nikki’s house.

-Even though she returned to the capital, she didn’t come to see me.

Although the Hero was a free-spirited person, this had never happened before.

Whenever Nikki came to the capital, she would at least pay a courtesy visit to the Empress.

But she hadn’t come this time.

This wasn’t something that could be simply overlooked.

It meant there had been a change in her circumstances significant enough to make her forget what she always did.

‘I heard that among past Heroes, some went mad from too much power and became monsters.’

There had even been cases where past Heroes, after “sealing” the Demon King, wandered around looking for opponents to fight, unsatisfied, and ended up awakening the Demon King again.

They needed a worthy opponent, it was said.

Some had fought the Demon King with all their might, finally sealing them before dying.

There was no guarantee that the current Hero, Nikki, wouldn’t do the same.

The Demon King had already been completely subjugated, so there was no chance of them reviving.

However.

‘Nikki herself could become the Demon King.’

That must be what the Empress was worried about.

That a being might emerge to replace the now non-existent Demon King.

If Nikki showed signs of becoming the Demon King, the implication was to kill her without hesitation.

Although Yuris thought, ‘Surely the Hero wouldn’t become the Demon King?’

The Emperor’s foresight was deep and broad beyond the understanding of an ordinary person like Yuris.

There was always a good reason for Her orders.

So following them was the natural course of action.

Yuris headed towards Nikki’s house.

“Where is this place…”

While checking the map and heading towards Nikki’s house, Yuris found a splendid house located outside the capital’s outer wall.

This was land far more remote than even the outskirts of the capital.

A mansion gifted to the Hero by the Empress.

Originally, the Empress had intended to build a huge mansion on the most expensive land in the center of the capital, but Nikki had refused, saying a moderately sized house on the outskirts would be sufficient.

She said that since she would be living alone, a larger house would only take more time to manage.

-I prefer a quiet space. The less people around, the better.

Rejecting even the outskirts of the capital, she had acquired a house in the cheapest area outside the outer walls, where farmers and laborers mainly lived.

She said it was better because people didn’t come there.

People who heard this anecdote were all impressed by the Hero’s exemplary behavior.

Saying that’s what you’d expect from a Hero.

‘She is different from others.’

She was an unusual person.

Despite going on many adventures together and sharing various battlefields, she was a woman whose inner thoughts were hard to grasp.

She seemed to rarely reveal her true feelings.

She was a difficult person to deal with, in a different sense from the Saint.

-It’s okay.

-You all eat first. I’ll eat separately.

-Ah, I’ll go ahead. You don’t need to follow. I prefer being alone.

She was someone who oddly kept people at a distance, except for the Saint.

Although she acted casual on the surface, she rarely showed her deep inner feelings.

Even now, Yuris didn’t know exactly what her past had been like.

Yuris knocked on the front gate.

“Lady Nikki, are you there?”

There was no answer.

“Lady Nikki?”

“…”

There was still no answer.

Had something happened?

He could sense a presence inside.

“I’m coming in.”

Confirming that the door wasn’t locked, Yuris opened the gate and went inside.

As Yuris passed through the well-maintained garden towards the main entrance, an unfamiliar sound reached his ears.

“Haa, haa.”

Rough moaning sounds.

He heard a woman’s rough breathing and moist moans.

‘What is this?’

What could cause such intense moaning and heavy breathing?

‘Could it be? Has she been ambushed?’

No.

There’s no smell of blood.

And no signs of battle at all.

“Stop… Hnngh!”

Nikki’s desperate voice.

She was earnestly begging for it to stop.

Then perhaps…

-Be careful, we don’t know what might happen.

The Empress’s words about her possibly turning into a Demon King came to mind.

What if Nikki was fighting an inner Demon King in there right now?

If that’s why she couldn’t visit the Emperor and was suffering alone?

Leaving her like this would surely lead to disaster.

The Hero who had uniquely subjugated and annihilated the Demon King turning into a Demon King herself.

That could potentially become an issue that might stake the empire’s very fate.

The demons and demon race they had subjugated so far might be revived, causing an unprecedented calamity.

‘I have to stop it.’

He had to prevent the Hero from becoming the Demon King at all costs.

Though he wasn’t a Hero himself, he was a knight who had fought alongside her.

He was the empire’s strongest knight, aside from the Hero.

If they fought, he wouldn’t lose easily.

Yuris grabbed the doorknob and pulled.

Crack!

The magically reinforced door broke open helplessly.

Bang!

“Hero!”

Yuris violently opened the door.

For Nikki, who might be suffering alone, resisting corruption.

And upon entering, Yuris saw…

“Hnng! S-Stop it! I can’t take any more. Haaah!”

Nikki, straddling a grotesque-looking dildo he had never seen before, doing smut.

“H-Hero?”

Nikki’s eyes, hazy with climax and gasping for breath, met Yuris’s frozen gaze.

“Ah…”

Her face turned as red as a tomato.