596 Afterword – The Hero’s Melancholy (1)

596.

I feel strangely melancholic these days.

Nothing is as enjoyable as it used to be.

Even if I roam the forest and slaughter every monster I encounter, or have sex with my wives with whom I’ve grown even closer, I don’t feel the same excitement as before.

Ennui.

The word ennui seems to suit me best right now. Could it be that I’m getting a little tired of life in the forest mansion?

Hmm, but it’s not like I’ve been living exclusively in the mansion. I’ve gone on vacations to the beach and enjoyed dates in nearby villages too.

This feeling of boredom and frustration, I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from.

“Why don’t you try a new challenge?”

“A challenge, huh…”

I’ve become too strong to take on challenges. Compared to my omnipotent power, even a Demon King-level enemy is no different from an ant.

Of course, I could try something resembling a challenge by restricting my power… but you couldn’t call that an adventure.

“You don’t look too keen. Well, Hero-nim is too strong, after all…”

“No, there’s clearly an area you haven’t challenged yet, isn’t there? We’ve all experienced it, but you’re the only one who hasn’t tried it.”

“Huh? What is it?”

At Selena’s words, Liel and Blade seemed to immediately understand what she was talking about. What are they talking about?

Selena pointed to her belly, which had recently been confirmed to be pregnant again, and said.

“Pregnancy, I mean pregnancy. You haven’t done it even once yet, have you? We’ve been getting pregnant constantly, while you…”

“Uh… P, pregnancy…? I, I’m not going to! Me, pregnant…”

Of course, I have no intention of getting pregnant. My role in this mansion is to get others pregnant, not to be the one getting pregnant.

I said that, but I was somehow imagining myself getting pregnant. My belly swelling with the seed of one of my wives, and finally giving birth to a cute baby…

Just imagining it makes me feel a strange sense of happiness. Conceiving a new life. I knew that sense of fulfillment and reward, even if only indirectly.

There were quite a few cases of giving birth in IF. Of course, there were also miserable endings as a result of humiliation. But even if the beginning was humiliation, there were cases where having a child itself led to happiness.

“You were imagining it just now, weren’t you? With that relaxed face… Why don’t you try it out? I’ll help you.”

“I, I wasn’t imagining anything! And trying out pregnancy, how irresponsible… You say you’ll help, but you just want my body, don’t you!”

“You caught me. But as I’ve said before, I want to get you pregnant too. We’ve lived together this long, isn’t it about time you got pregnant?”

Oh, this is dangerous.

It was supposed to be a place for me to share my worries, but somehow it turned into a place where Selena was urging me to get pregnant. Liel and Blade seemed to be subtly agreeing with Selena.

“That’s right, Hero-nim. It’s a wonderful thing, more than you can imagine. It’s like feeling acknowledged by the world and the person you love? S, so… please leave your first pregnancy to me. I’ll do it very gently, and make you feel good…”

“I, I’ll nominate myself too. I don’t know if you know this, but the probability of fertilization is much higher with an elf’s sperm compared to a human’s. If you want a guaranteed pregnancy, come to me anytime…”

“W, wait a minute…! W, what are you all saying…? S, surely you’ve been thinking like that all along? That you want to get me pregnant…?”

Suddenly, my wives’ eyes look scary. No, maybe I’m just getting scared for no reason because I’m becoming aware of pregnancy, even though their eyes are the same as usual. Selena calmly placed her hand on my shoulder.

“Of course. Every moment, I’ve been fantasizing about filling your belly with semen and getting you pregnant.”

“H, hiiiiiek…!”

Wasn’t I the apex predator at the top of the pyramid in this mansion? In terms of the ecosystem, I should have been like a lion or a shark… I thought everyone acknowledged that in their hearts.

But that wasn’t the case? They’ve actually been hiding their desire to fuck me senseless and get me pregnant? The moment I realized this terrifying truth, I could no longer be the relaxed master I had been.

“Hero-nim… what do you think? Hmm?”

“U, ugh…”

The three of them are now bringing out their hidden desires without hesitation and approaching me. The look in their eyes was no longer that of gentle wives.

It was the eyes of hyenas trying to exploit the fatal weakness revealed by the lion, the violent ruler of the savanna, that delicious wound.

“N, no way…!”

I hurriedly ran away from that spot, feeling like a helpless prey.

Come to think of it, I didn’t feel any more ennui.

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“Are you alright now? Hero.”

Seeing Beru’s always calm face puts my mind at ease. I had run away in a hurry and ran into Beru, who was sitting on a garden chair.

“What on earth happened to make the Hero run away like that? Tell me. Perhaps I can offer some wisdom, even if only a little.”

Kuh, as expected, the noble Dragon Lord is different. With age and mature wisdom, he seemed like he could soothe my anxiety and provide a clear solution.

“W, well, you see…”

I told Beru the whole story. Starting with the fact that my companions had been harboring pregnancy desires towards me for a long time, and that it, which I thought had completely disappeared, was vividly alive and wriggling.

“Hmm, hooh. I see, indeed…”

Did he realize something? After finishing the story, I was waiting for the Dragon Lord’s wisdom.

“Pregnancy, indeed, I had overlooked that. Because you are such a reliable husband, I sometimes forget that you are also a definite female. If the opportunity arises, I must also…”

“Kkyaaaaak…!”

I trusted you, I trusted Beru so much…!

I left the garden with twice the speed I had when I ran away earlier. I felt like I couldn’t trust anyone anymore.

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“Hehe, you’ll be safe here, Master-nim.”

“R, really…?”

“Of course. Who would expect anyone to run away to the training room on their own? Ah, you were trembling so much… were you that scared?”

“O, of course… Pregnancy… I’m everyone’s Master-nim and… a wonderful husband… If I get pregnant… that’s completely… completely becoming a female!”

Elena gave me a warm smile as she listened to my half-sobbing words. Is it thanks to sharing the same body? The one who truly understands me is…

Click.

“H, huh…?”

I feel the cold texture of metal on both wrists. It didn’t break with just a light force. Wait, this, could it be the orichalcum handcuffs I specially ordered for genuine bondage play before?

“Hehe, I never imagined you’d come here… It’s like a dream, Master-nim. To think you’d choose me as a pregnancy partner, even while putting on such a foolish act…”

“H, hiiiek…!”

Elena, who had lifted the skirt of her perverted maid outfit, had a huge cock like a monster’s horn rising from her lower body. Perhaps because I was too scared, the orichalcum handcuffs on my wrists wouldn’t break easily.

“N, no, noooo…”

“Hehe, your acting is top-notch as expected. If you really hated it, you wouldn’t have come to the training room, would you? And you could easily break those handcuffs if you wanted to, Master-nim… Now, let’s begin the depraved master-servant role reversal pregnancy sex…”

“Over Exceed Drive…!”

The handcuffs, which had felt so solid, broke like rotten rope. Elena, who had been carelessly hit by the released power, was upside down in the corner of the training room, dangling her unnecessarily large cock.

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“-Does that mean you’re forbidding any courtship behavior from now on?”

“N, no! What I want to say is, don’t look at me with a ‘I want to get you pregnant’ face!”

I pounded the desk in an agitated manner. The wives surrounding me exchanged glances with expressions that said they didn’t understand.

Due to the commotion earlier, the ‘1st Hero Pregnancy Countermeasures Committee’ was launched. Within it, I am now continuing my lonely fight for my dignity.

“I wish you would provide a clear standard. What exactly does ‘I want to get you pregnant’ face mean? It’s hard to grasp.”

“T, the face you’re all making right now… that’s it…”

I’m sitting at the center desk, and the others are sitting in a semicircle in front of me. With the same faces they had when they were chasing me earlier, like they were looking at prey.

It’s really fortunate that I don’t have the ability of mind reading among my abilities as a god. If I were to directly read the obscene content about me that they’re thinking under those gazes, it would be difficult to even maintain consciousness.

“But Hero, we don’t know if you say that. Expressions can be interpreted differently depending on the person looking at them, right? I think it’s right to regulate only clear verbal expressions. Like ‘I want to plant my seed in Hero’ or ‘I want to see Hero’s pussy and get them pregnant’.”

Selena is doing that on purpose. She wants to see my reaction when she hears stimulating keywords… I endured the shame and answered.

“T, that’s obviously forbidden…! W, what I want to forbid is your faces that don’t show any respect for me as a husband…! Just like right now…! S, so don’t look at me like that…!”

I couldn’t bear everyone’s lewd gazes. Seeing my bright red face with tears welling up, everyone was casting even more intense gazes at me.

What on earth is going to happen to me from now on…