episode_0077

Frowning, Ermel replied in a blunt tone.

“You’re in the same boat.”

My body, buried in the soft bed, was also completely naked, just like Ermel’s, not wearing a single thread.

“W-what is this…”

I had no recollection of taking off my clothes.

After showering with Ermel’s magic, I had simply thrown myself onto the bed, not even thinking about taking off my clothes or tidying myself up, overwhelmed by the surging drunkenness and fatigue.

Unable to comprehend the situation, I tried to raise my body to get Ermel, who was straddling my waist, off of me.

“Ugh?!”

But my body, pinned to the bed, couldn’t move, as if it were tightly bound to the bed with tough leather straps.

Ermel, who had been calmly watching me struggle to get up from the bed as if I were an inanimate object, slowly opened her mouth.

“Let me introduce myself again. My name is Ermel.”

As Ermel recited her already known name once more, the corners of her lips subtly curved upward.

At the same time, ominous purple, sticky magical energy began to twine around her body, and a pair of thin demonic wings unfurled from behind her waist.

“I’m a succubus.”

“A succubus?!”

It was a race I had often heard about in the rumors of drunken bar patrons or the tall tales of mercenaries.

They were one of the demonic races said to infiltrate human dreams in the form of enchanting women, making them have lewd dreams while stealing their vital energy.

“C-come on… stop joking.”

But I thought it was Ermel’s joke going too far, so I awkwardly laughed and desperately denied the fact that she was a succubus.

There was no way Ermel, the advisor to the Hero who was subjugating the Demon Lord, could be a succubus, one of the demonic races.

“Believe it or not, think what you want.”

However, she showed her boredom with a shallow yawn, as if my words or opinions held no interest for her whatsoever.

“I’ll just do what I need to do.”

Ermel, perched on my waist, stretched her hand between my legs, where I couldn’t move even a fingertip or a toe to resist.

And as if to show this wasn’t her first time, she skillfully stroked my penis smoothly from base to tip.

“Eugh!!”

Her thin fingers, strangely warm and pleasant, gently wrapped around my penis.

At her delicate and soft touch, my hips twitched involuntarily, and despite the bewildering situation, my member stood stiffly erect.

“Hmm… For a small fry, you’ve got a good one.”

As Ermel fondled my erect member as if appraising it, a faint flicker of interest shimmered in her otherwise emotionless, sunken eyes.

“Ugh-gh-gh-gh!!”

If Ariel were to catch me in this state, I wouldn’t be able to face her.

Gritting my teeth until they felt like they’d shatter, I struggled desperately to get my body to move.

But the invisible force binding my body showed no sign of loosening even slightly, instead holding me firmly in place without a tremor.

“Hmph.”

As if my futile struggle was utterly trivial, Ermel snorted and lightly lifted her hips right before my eyes.

Then, with skillful and alluring movements, she slightly parted her labia and aligned her vaginal opening with the tip of my erect member.

“I’ll enjoy this.”

And with a nonchalant greeting, as if for an everyday meal, she slowly lowered her raised hips.

Though she had a small body, as if to prove her succubus nature, my member slid smoothly and without resistance into her vagina.

At the same time, her flesh, wet with lewd moisture, squelchingly enveloped my member so deeply it was beyond words.

“H-ugh-gh-gh!!”

As soon as I was inserted, her flesh seemed to gently suction my member, as if urging me to climax immediately.

*Crack…*

The sensation of ejaculation surged instantly, boiling up to the very tip of my penis, threatening to release at once.

But perhaps it was thanks to my gritting my teeth, desperate to escape her binds.

The moment I exerted all my strength to hold back, my molars cracked, and the sharp pain filling my mouth forcibly suppressed the surging urge to ejaculate.

“Hmm… Not bad, are you?”

Ermel’s lips twitched as she looked down at me, still impaled, as if amused that I had managed to hold back.

Thanks to my broken molar, my mouth was full of sharp pain and blood, as if I had chewed a mouthful of glass.

“Can’t you stop?!”

Completely bound by an invisible force, I could only try to stop her actions with words.

But predictably, Ermel shrugged, as if demonstrating that my words held no necessity or value, and began to move her hips smoothly back and forth.

“S-stop… ugh!!”

Each time she moved her hips back and forth, her undulating flesh began to gently massage my member, which was inserted into her.

Unable to even utter a word of refusal, holding my breath tightly, I could only desperately resist the pleasure that massaged my penis, urging me to climax.

“Hmm… You’re even better than I expected… You’re… truly delicious.”

Unlike me, who was barely breathing and enduring desperately, Ermel, being a succubus, moved her hips smoothly as if savoring my member.

“Ah… this is serious. I think I might genuinely enjoy this.”

After rubbing her hips back and forth about six times, Ermel paused her movements, looked down at me, and let out a slightly excited sigh.

When she stopped moving, I finally found a moment of respite and exhaled sharply, glaring at Ermel.

“What in the world do you want from me?!”

She was a succubus, but she was also the Hero’s companion and advisor.

I couldn’t possibly understand why she had attacked me, someone who had just joined the Hero’s party today.

In response to my question, Ermel continued to gaze silently into my eyes for a few seconds with her emotionless gaze.

“Well… since I like you, I’ll give you a little spoiler.”

At the same time, the corners of Ermel’s hitherto expressionless lips curved upward, forming a faint smile, as if she was anticipating my future reaction.

“This is the process of severing a connection.”

“A c-connection?”

Unable to understand her words, I frowned and asked again.

Then, as if she thought it better to show rather than tell, Ermel began to wave her hand in the air like a Hero.

“Ta-da…”

After waving her hand around and tapping something in the air a few times.

With a still emotionless and flat sound effect, a translucent, glass-like screen appeared before my eyes.

“W-what is this?”

Startled by a phenomenon I’d never seen before, I stared at the translucent window floating before my eyes.

It was filled with words from another world that I couldn’t read.

The only things I could read with my own eyes were a heart-shaped symbol and a number floating in the center of the window.

“This is the connection between you and Ariel. In other words… your affection level.”

Ermel pointed at the heart-shaped symbol and the number below it.

The number she pointed to was 78, and next to it, a blue arrow pointing downwards was blinking.

“And this… is the connection between Ariel and Sanghoon.”

Following that, she pointed to another heart-shaped symbol and number below it.

The number was 22, and next to it, a red arrow pointing upwards was blinking.

“What… does this have to do with the current situation?!”

At my question, the mocking smile on Ermel’s lips deepened.

“Succubi can steal others’ connections and transfer them to someone else.”

“W-what?!”

Now that she mentioned it, I had heard about this in one of the folktales that circulated in various villages while I led the merchant guild.

Succubi absorb vital energy from men through lewd dreams.

And the absorbed vital energy was passed on to incubi, and incubi, I’d heard, used that energy to enchant women.

They were said to be a demonic race that caused great discord and conflict among villages and people, throwing them into chaos.

What if that vital energy, in this case, was the connection linking people together?

And that stolen connection was what incubi used to enchant other women.

“If you succumb to pleasure and ejaculate… what do you think will happen to Ariel?”

Ermel tapped the translucent screen floating before my eyes with her fingertip.

At the same time, the affection level between Ariel and me decreased from 78 to 77, and the affection level between the Hero and Ariel increased from 22 to 23.

“S-stop it…!!”

Only then did I belatedly realize Ermel’s intention.

With a pale face, I tried to resist somehow… but even gritting my teeth until they felt like they’d shatter and straining with all my might, it was impossible to break free from her binds.

As if my pathetic and desperate resistance was interesting, Ermel’s eyes, looking down at me, sparkled with amusement.

“Then, shall we make a bet?”

“A bet…?”

At the prospect of a clue to escape this situation, I stopped resisting and looked at Ermel, who had proposed the bet.

Ermel lightly flicked her fingers in front of me.

Then, a small hourglass appeared by her side.

“If you can hold back from ejaculating until all the sand in this hourglass runs out, I’ll quietly withdraw. How about it?”

“An hourglass…?”

“The time it takes for the sand to run out is roughly 2 minutes.”

It was a short time if you considered it short… but recalling the intense pleasure I’d felt just from insertion, two minutes could feel incredibly long.

True to her infamous succubus nature, even with her seemingly immature, small body, Ermel was delivering a pleasure I had never experienced.

However, as a result of gritting my teeth desperately to resist that pleasure, my molar had cracked, and the immense pain lingering in my mouth made me forget even that pleasure.

“O-okay. If I endure until all the sand in the hourglass runs out, you’ll withdraw, right?”

“Yes. I have my pride too, so I won’t change my words or promises.”

Swallowing the sour blood that seeped from my broken molar and pooled in my mouth, I glared at Ermel, as if vowing never to lose.

In response to my reaction, a faint but small smile appeared on Ermel’s face, which had remained expressionless until then.

“Then… it starts now.”

At Ermel’s signal, and as she flicked her fingers, the hourglass beside her flipped, and the sand began to flow.