Ch.168Frill (4)

After the after-party, we decided to just sleep at the hideout.

Ding-dong!

At that moment, the doorbell rang.

“Oh! Mika. You’re here?”

I said to Mika.

“Ugh. Did you tell her our hideout location?”

Umi made a displeased face.

“Yeah. Otherwise Mika would be lonely by herself.”

I replied.

The life of a harem master is tough. You have to keep everyone satisfied to maintain it. I didn’t want to leave Mika out.

“Well, now that everyone’s here… let’s all take our clothes off.”

I said nonchalantly. This was my chance while Madoka was asleep.

“Hey!! There are people here!”

Sasits shouted.

“Y-yeah! How embarrassing!”

Frill blushed.

“Do you people from the other world reproduce asexually?”

I asked.

“Most create clones, but… originally we reproduce sexually like humans.”

Frill said with a red face.

“Then what’s there to be embarrassed about!! We’re just following behaviors encoded in our genes!”

I immediately embraced Eri.

Seriously… Eri gets prettier every day. Who was the guy who called her Umi’s concubine?

Well, her beauty had blossomed compared to before. They say women become more beautiful when they’re in love… that seemed to be true.

“Honestly… every time I see Eri, I just want to get her pregnant.”

It was hard to hold back. As soon as she turned 20, the baby factory would be in full operation. That was my resolution.

“I’m… having trouble holding back too.”

Eri said.

Anyway, Eri was first. We decided to determine the rest of the order flexibly.

And so, without much thought, we immediately intertwined our bodies.

Mika became next in line after Eri.

It’s a bit too explicit to go into detail, but Mika seemed to have been looking forward to this so much that she was already soaking wet. Today I learned that Mika produces a lot of fluid.

Well… if she kept begging like this, Mika might get dehydrated. So I embraced her next.

“Did you want it that badly?”

I asked while stroking Mika.

“W-well… it was the best experience of my life. I want to quit writing novels and just do this all day…”

Mika said with a flushed face.

“No. You still shouldn’t give up your career.”

I said with a bitter smile, patting her head.

“Mika is really cute. I want to have you all to myself.”

I spoke a line that came straight from my heart.

“Heeek… you think I’m cute.”

Mika’s face immediately turned red.

She’s surprisingly vulnerable to this kind of thing, Mika is.

Mika had stepped to the frontline of youth when she became a high school freshman. This was her first experience being the object of such desire from a man. That’s why it was fun to make her embarrassed.

———

Anyway, we were all enjoying our passionate lovemaking as slaves to desire.

“I-I can’t believe they’re actually doing it…”

Sasits seemed surprised, squeezing his eyes shut.

“……..”

Frill was also blushing intensely.

“F-Frill. I’m sorry. Shota… that guy is no different from a monkey…”

Sasits tried to salvage the situation.

“N-no. It’s okay… but I… I think I’d be okay if it’s with you, Sasits.”

Frill suddenly began closing the distance between them.

“…Huh?”

Sasits’s eyes grew enormously wide.

“Sasits… hold me.”

Frill immediately deployed her ultimate technique. The legendary move no man can resist… offering herself.

“A-are you sure?”

Sasits asked.

“Silly. Of course… it’s okay.”

Saying that, Frill nestled tightly in Sasits’s arms.

After that, caught up in the mood, they also began to intertwine. Both Sasits and Frill seemed to be first-timers, giving off an awkward and innocent feeling. But that was nice in its own way.

“Ohoho. It’s getting hot over there too. We can’t lose either.”

Tina said with a laugh.

“No. It’s not really a competition.”

I retorted to Tina.

“Come on… hurry…”

Tina immediately embraced me tightly.

“Won’t you release the hero’s holy sword?”

Tina said something that annoyed me in various ways.

“Okay!! Holy sword release!!!”

I immediately pinned Tina down.

“Kyaa! Hero!! So intense!!”

Tina giggled.

Anyway, we all enjoyed a happy sex party.

———–

Afterwards, we fell asleep as if passing out.

Of course, even in sleep there was no rest. I opened my eyes in the dream dungeon.

“Sasits. Should we take a break today?”

I said to Sasits with a sly smile.

“I-I’m fine.”

Sasits said with a blush. He had spent hours confirming his love with Frill.

“You called me a monkey, but you seemed pretty monkey-like yourself?”

I put my arm around Sasits’s shoulder.

“How is it? Addictive, right?”

I was definitely feeling like a delinquent student leading an honor student down the path of evil.

“Well… it’s good. But I don’t want to do it with multiple women like you. I… only see Frill.”

Sasits said.

“Whoa!! That’s hot!”

I patted Sasits on the back.

“S-shut up!!! Let’s get to training!”

Sasits said, trying to head toward the dungeon.

“Hey. Ahem. Your upper body.”

I immediately said to Sasits.

“I was going to do it without you telling me.”

Sasits clicked his tongue and immediately took off his top. This guy was completely being transformed into a weirdo. What a cute fellow.

——-

So, I headed to my usual dagger dungeon. I planned to build up a certain amount of proficiency before switching to another dungeon. Building proficiency increased speed stats, which was quite nice.

While strength is important, agility is also crucial for a swordsman.

I could switch to the axe dungeon after raising it sufficiently.

“Hello!! Green monster friends!!!”

I immediately entered the orc fortress with my dagger in hand.

“Human!! Back again without getting tired!! Tweeeek!!”

“Slaughter him!!”

The orcs immediately charged at me.

“Let’s play!!!”

I closed the distance toward the orcs with my dagger.

“Uryaaaah!!”

Swoooosh-!!

The fight began as I decapitated an orc in front of me.

———-

Only after hunting orcs to my heart’s content did I come out. My dagger proficiency had increased quite a bit. The speed stat that came with it, though small, was a nice bonus.

Sasits seemed to have come out earlier and was sitting at the dungeon entrance, resting.

“Sasits. How was it?”

I asked him.

“Hmph. I’ve reached the level where I don’t even get hit once against orcs.”

Sasits said as if he’d been waiting to say it.

This guy… how badly did he want to brag?

But it was worth bragging about. The protagonist really was the protagonist. His growth rate was unbelievable.

“I need to get stronger to protect Frill.”

Sasits said.

Is this… the power of motivation?

Anyway, we punched our attendance cards at the dream dungeon and wrapped up the day.

——–

That night.

It was another full party monster hunt. July’s dungeon was quite challenging, and we needed to level up to 60 to clear it safely. That would allow us to clear it reliably.

Actually, with the psycho-robo combination and the right items, we could clear it at level 50… but I didn’t want to take such a risk. This was reality, and surviving, even if it meant being cautious, was important.

Frill had now completely integrated as a party member. Having another psycho-robo user definitely made battles easier. I didn’t even need to bring out Pinocchio. Frill’s Pink Teddy could tank just fine. Plus, Pink Teddy even had a self-heal skill. While it couldn’t draw aggro as well as Pinocchio, its survivability was overwhelming.

Pinocchio was just a weakling in comparison.

“Master. You just had a very disrespectful thought, didn’t you?”

Pinocchio looked at me with half-closed eyes.

“N-not really…?”

This guy has good intuition, I’ll give him that.

Anyway. I was planning our route to sweep through the old town area when…

Whoosh!!

Suddenly, an incredible killing intent swept through.

“Everyone get down!!!”

I immediately stepped in front of my companions.

Swoooooooosh-!!!!!

Clang!!!

I raised my sword to deflect the incoming sword strikes one after another.

The other party members were all dumbfounded behind me.

“Wow… I guess Earth’s mortals can’t be underestimated. To think you’d detect such subtle killing intent.”

There was a sound of applause.

And there… stood a man with pink hair. A strange fellow carrying numerous swords all over his body.

Whoosh! Whoosh!!!

Soon, companions appeared around the man. All of them had pink hair.

One dandy-looking man who seemed to be the leader.

One swordsman who had sent the sword strikes at me.

A guy with a lizard on his shoulder.

A seductive-looking beauty.

And a muscular, fierce-looking woman.

Ah, is this that classic shonen manga trope? Somehow the number of enemy officers always matches our party members. Each companion facing off against one enemy is a kind of formula.

Leader versus leader, swordsman versus swordsman, fighter versus fighter – that’s also the rule.

These guys… they were subordinates of Pink Beard who appear in the game. Their significance in the game is… zero!

“Y-you!!!”

Frill’s expression hardened.

“Frill… you seemed quite proud of stealing the core, but too bad.”

The leader-type guy said as he pulled out a core.

“What…!!”

Frill’s expression froze.

“Seems you don’t understand the situation. What you stole was a fake. Did you think our father wouldn’t anticipate that?”

The man said with a smile.

“Our Gevanni copied the magic core. Perfectly.”

The man patted the shoulder of the swordsman.

“Ah!! If it’s Gevanni, that makes sense!!”

I reacted without thinking. He’s the same guy who copies the Death Note perfectly. How could he not copy this?

“What are you talking about…”

Half-human Umi didn’t seem to understand my reference.

“Then…!”

“Yes. Father could destroy this magic core and kill you anytime he wants.”

The man said.

“You… Slave!!!”

Frill looked at the man with a voice full of anger.

“But… Father is giving you, a traitor, one more chance. You’re an excellent specimen among clones after all.”

Slave said with a smile.

“Father wants you brought back alive… to be used as material for creating new clones.”

At Slave’s words, Sasits immediately reacted.

“Material… does that mean Frill will die?”

Sasits said.

“She’ll be reborn. Becoming a part for father’s ambition. Isn’t that a glorious end? Mortal.”

Slave said with a smile.

“I won’t allow that!!”

Sasits shouted.

“…….”

Frill seemed to be in anguish.

“Oh, and… if you come quietly, I won’t kill these people now. That’s father’s mercy.”

Slave said, driving in the final nail.

With that, Frill seemed to make her decision and stepped forward.

“Frill…!!!”

Sasits tried to grab Frill.

“Sasits… don’t stop me.”

Frill said with a resigned expression.

“And… don’t look for me.”

With those final words, Frill walked toward Pink Beard’s subordinates.

Woooooong-!!!!

As a dimensional gate opened, they all disappeared at once.

“Frill…!!”

Sasits muttered with a despairing expression.

“……..”

All party members looked at Sasits with concerned eyes.

I approached Sasits.

“Shota… what should I do…!”

Sasits looked at me with pleading eyes.

And I clenched my fist tightly.

Wham-!!

I immediately threw a punch at Sasits.

“Guhek!!!!”

Hit by the punch, Sasits rolled on the ground.

“Eeeeeeh?!!!! W-what are you doing?!”

Umi, Taiga, and Tina looked at me with incredulous expressions.

“Snap out of it!! You idiot!!!”

I shouted loudly at Sasits.

At those words, Sasits’s eyes opened wide.