episode_0078

The time of the secret meeting with the self-immolation was early morning.

I had nothing to do until that time, so I was just lying in bed and wasting my time.

At that time, the window opened and someone came in.

“Rupiah?”

The identity of the uninvited guest was Rupiah.

Now that I think about it, I guess it’s almost time for Lufia to come.

[Skill: Time independent activation.]

I quickly activated the time independence skill.

“Zeke, what are you doing here?”

Rupiah asks with a voice full of doubt, anxiety, and worry.

Before coming here, you probably stopped by the crazy management office first, so it’s natural to be worried.

“So aren’t you on an expedition right now?”

My short but long life together with Rupiah came to an end not long ago.

This is because the second expedition has begun.

“I have a little time left. I flew here because I wanted to see you.”

“Ah, there’s a little time left.”

Who in the world would travel across continents just because they have a little time to spare?

It was an excuse that didn’t work, but I didn’t bother to point it out.

“The management bureau was in disarray. Isn’t this a serious situation? What are you doing here again?”

“Don’t worry. Because I’m ‘working’.”

“Ah… . I see.”

Even when I say this, it is astounding.

The current state of the management bureau is so messed up that it’s almost cute to say it’s a mess.

But they say there is no problem and don’t worry.

But Rupiah won’t point it out.

Since we started living together, Rupiah has been able to understand any situation when I tell him that I am working.

Since Lufia knows about the ‘quest’, she probably thinks that whatever nonsense I do has something to do with the quest.

“Is there anything I can help you with?”

“It’s okay. Because I have to solve it with my own strength.”

“…Okay.”

Lufia did not ask any more questions.

Instead, he held my hand tightly and looked at me with faint eyes and said.

“I’m on your side. No matter what happens, I believe in you and will fight for you. So if you need my help at any time, please feel free to let me know.”

I nodded and answered without saying a word.

After that, it always follows the same pattern.

We share a deep kiss, and if there is a bed nearby, we pound there.

If you don’t have it, it’s as if it wasn’t there.

But this time, a saboteur appeared.

“…Sir, what are you doing here?”

Gordon, a special engineer like Rupiah, came to the room.

His face was covered in bandages, probably due to injuries sustained in the fight with Ker.

“That voice… . This is our junior who suddenly took a vacation. Why is the face shaped like that?”

Gordan was promoted to special engineer relatively recently.

He is a distant junior to Rupiah, who became a special engineer six years ago.

“…That’s because there are circumstances.”

“Really? A knight whose body is his wealth will use it if he gets hurt.”

He seemed like a senior who advised people not to get hurt just by listening, but his accent was quite sharp.

Are you upset because your alone time was interrupted?

“What’s going on, senior?”

“What happened..?”

Lufia shoots a bright look in her eyes.

Afterwards, Gordon’s clothes were crumpled by Lufia’s telekinesis.

He seemed to be resisting the force, trembling and lowering his posture.

“Are you saying that after knowing who this man is?”

“Ugh… .”

“Answer me. What were you doing with my boyfriend?”

Even as I watched from the side, I could feel an evil energy.

Is this life?

I don’t even feel like I’m jealous usually, but I’m really angry this time.

“The obligation to answer… None.”

Gordon stood up.

If he can resist Lufia’s power, he must be a special knight after all.

Amidst tense tension,

“Wait.”

I got caught between the two.

“Rupiah. As I said before, I’m working right now. This whole situation was my intention.”

“……Is that really true?”

“Yes. So no need to worry.”

As if Lufia’s power had worn off, Gordon’s clothes began to flutter again.

I looked at Gordon and laughed at him.

“……”

Gordon looked at me with complicated eyes.

“Junior? I think the misunderstanding has been resolved. Would you please leave soon? Get rid of all the rats that are secretly listening. Please do me a favor?”

Rupiah asks a ‘favor’ with a venomous smile.

At this, Gordon left the room without saying a word.

“Nothing cheap.”

“Zeek, do you think so too? Me too.”

As if she was happy that she had the same thoughts as me, Lufia, whose anger from earlier had disappeared, took my hand and led me to the bed.

“The disruptors must have disappeared, it’s been a while… . How about it?”

It’s been a long time, but you came and fucked me two days ago.

I turned back time and made it never happen.

Anyway, I have no right to veto.

Still, how is it not rape?

*

*

“Zeke. You really don’t need my help?”

After doing something too frequent to be a big deal and a bit grandiose to be a minor incident, Rupiah, who was lying naked on the bed, asked me.

“The time may come when it’s needed, but for now it’s okay.”

Basically, I try to avoid relying on heroines whose walkthroughs have not been completed.

Especially in cases with overwhelming power like Lufia.

The first reason is that the uncaptured heroine may change at any moment, and the second reason is that the main character of the event must be me for the strategy to be complete.

It is common to borrow the power of heroines in strategy.

Rather, it is rare for me to proceed with the strategy alone without the heroines.

But even in such a situation, I must be the one who leads the event and stands out the most.

That way, the people involved in the event will feel like I solved it.

In short, to defeat a level 100 boss, the concept is to form a party of level 8 to 90 and lead it.

In this case, even if you have excellent stats, victory or defeat will depend on the leader’s capabilities.

But what if Rupiah steps forward?

The level 50,000 world No. 1 player played a level 100 raid, so who would think that the conductor’s capabilities were outstanding?

That’s why I can’t borrow Rupiah’s power.

Especially in the case of heroines like Ariel or Banshee, whose strategy is to prove their abilities, if you include Rupiah, the strategy is practically a failure.

Tribute.

Lufia touched my stomach.

I poked, stroked, and pinched my unsightly stomach, which had no abdominal muscles and was only flesh, as if it were curious.

‘Is it surprising that this muscleless body exists because there are only knights around?’

When I gave her a look telling her to stop, Lufia smiled mischievously and started touching me even more roughly.

“It tickles.”

“I said it to tickle.”

Only when I held his hand tightly did he stop teasing me.

Then Lufia nodded and started making fun of her hands, not her stomach.

“Zeke. Do you love me?”

Lufia asked in a serious voice.

This is a question I keep getting asked lately.

You may not know it once or twice, but if you ask it almost every time you meet, it means there is a good reason.

‘Am I anxious?’

I remembered the last panic.

Rupiah started to feel severe anxiety when I spoke informally to her.

What on earth made Lufia like that?

As expected, something must have happened in the disappeared past, or rather, in the disappeared route.

You will find out more as you proceed with Rupiah’s strategy.

So I just have to give a certain answer and that’s it.

“Of course I love you.”

*

*

Time went back.

Before Lufia came.

He didn’t reveal his true colors, and he didn’t rape me, but looking at him turning back time like this, it seems like he doesn’t have enough time left to come see me.

Eventually I have to hang out again until dawn.

If Gordon came to visit, we could have gathered information and talked to him to kill time. For some reason, after turning back time, Gordon did not come to visit.

‘Did you come here because you sensed Lufia’s presence?’

What on earth is that guy’s presence?

I will never know until this game is over.

“Haam… .”

I opened the system window and entered the heroine’s profile.

[Heroine profile]

Name: Rupiah

Height: 163cm / Difficulty: S

Progress: 40% / Like level: OVER

There are a few things I learned while living together.

One of them is that the more I get closer to Lufia, the more progress I can make in my strategy.

‘Actually, it’s the same for all heroines.’

I intentionally kept my distance from Rupiah.

First of all, the pressure of being an S-class heroine, and the anxiety that I might get screwed if I clumsily get close to her because she is too conventional.

Due to complex reasons, I was wary of getting closer to Rupiah.

However, as we were semi-forced to stop talking, and as we started living together and fighting against each other, the distance began to quickly become closer.

Thanks to this, the progress of the strategy, which had been hovering around 20%, immediately rose to 40%, and Lufia, who was like a psychopath, became much more docile.

‘…I’ve really become a lot gentler.’

First of all, Rupiah no longer rapes me.

Maybe it’s because they’ve officially lifted the ban on sexual intercourse, but if they want to do it, they can confidently ask for it.

Of course, since there is no right to veto, it is no different from coercion, but it is still a positive development in that people ask.

Also, perhaps because it is more satisfying to share one’s feelings with each other rather than being forced to do it, the number of times has been reduced from the default of 200 to around 20 at most.

Actually, this is a lot, but for me who is accustomed to doing 200 times a day, it is acceptable.

In addition, the things that used to come every day now come once every 2-3 days, and the massacres that used to be a part of everyday life are now tolerated as much as possible.

Of course, there are times when I can’t stand it and explode, but if you think about the past when fireworks were set off with corpses in the air, that’s about it.

‘What kind of change of heart occurred?’

Since she can turn back time, Lupia, who used to relieve her stress by literally doing whatever she wanted, starts to behave more calmly after living together.

No, not even after living together.

To be more precise, it is after the first experience.

After officially mixing it up, Lufia was much more relaxed than before and seemed comfortable in many ways.

‘Is it because there isn’t much left until it’s a fait accompli?’

You won’t suddenly get pregnant like this, right?

I need to be more thorough in the after-processing.