Ch.308Understanding NPCs. (5)

“Krgh. Ah, Lize!!”

“Ugh… G-Green Doll?”

“Miho!! Miho?! Wake up!! Miho!!”

“Oww, you’re the one who needs to wake up, sis. Stop touching my chest…”

A massive maw that covered the sky had descended upon them. Green Doll had shielded Liselotte, and Chikuyo had wrapped herself around her younger sister Miho, both feeling that as humans, they had no way to block this surprise attack. Now they were busy checking on each other’s condition.

“Thank you. I survived thanks to y… Wait. Why are we safe? And, Green Doll, why is your leg between my thighs…? W-wait!! Mmh…♡”

“Hm? Oh, now that you mention it… Huh? What, what is this? Eh?! N-no!! Why is my leg moving on its own…!!”

“Sis, get off! I appreciate you trying to protect me, but!! This is no time to be fondling my chest?!!”

“Kyahung♡ Miho, you’re so mean to the sister who protected you!! More importantly, Miho?! Your tail is actually touching my crotch… Kyah…♡?!!”

“Eh, EH?! Sis?!! Ahh♡?! Y-your tail too…!!”

Though they weren’t particularly entangled, the group found themselves caressing each other’s bodies, caught up in a strangely sensual atmosphere. As they shouted in confusion, the heterochromatic-eyed demon who had been quietly watching them finally couldn’t hold back her laughter.

“Kuku!! You’re the bad ones. This is punishment for daring to neglect me and my [daughter]~?♡”

“Ugh?! Hey, demon!! What have you done to us?!”

“Haahn?!…♡ L-Luxuria?!! Is this your doing?! G-Green Doll!! Stop!! There are other people around…!!”

“Hey! Demon!! Stop this right now!! This isn’t even my will, doing this to my sister…!! Ahh♡?!!”

“S-sis, I’m sorry!! Somehow my tail and hands are moving on their own to your chest…?! Ah, why are you taking off my clothes?! Stop it!!!”

“Fufu. Should I let you all play until your hips give out, all wet and sticky~? Hmm~♡? How about it?”

Everyone screamed and moaned simultaneously, shouting for her to stop what she was making them do to themselves, but Luxuria showed no intention of stopping as she mocked them all with a seductive tone. The first to detect something strange about her behavior and speak up was Chikuyo.

“You, you!! You’re the old Luxuria, aren’t you?!! I’m going to tell Jack! I’ll tell him you were playing with us!!!”

“…My, that wouldn’t be fun, would it?”

-Swish…

Luxuria’s expression stiffened slightly at Chikuyo’s words, and she extended her hand to release demonic energy toward the group. Surely she’s not planning to do something to us here just because we threatened to tell Jack?! Huh?!!

“Hmph! It’s just a prank, a prank! Stay still. My daughter wielded her power hastily, so you’ve all been invaded by my demonic energy. I’m just removing it.”

“Mmh♡?!”

“Hnngh…♡!!”

“Kugh?!!”

“Haanh♡?!!”

As the demonic energy enveloping the four bodies slowly moved and caressed their entire bodies, everyone let out high-pitched screams of surprise. After making them emit what sounded like moans for a moment, the demonic energy was completely retrieved and fell away from everyone’s bodies. They all hurriedly fixed their clothes, and Luxuria chuckled again at the sight.

“Luxuria, do you find this funny? Do you want to be purified?!”

“No, I’ll just cut her down.”

“I’ll stab you too.”

“No, we should tell Jack about this. Make him really hate you…”

“Geez. When a demon saves you without asking for anything in return, shouldn’t you say thank you first? You’re all so harsh.”

Despite the four’s murderous words, Luxuria merely shrugged her shoulders, spread her wings, and floated up slightly, crossing her seductive legs. Her claim that she had saved them made everyone pause momentarily.

“…Saved us? You’re not mistakenly saying ‘tormented’ instead?”

“My, look at you? Don’t you remember how Gula’s maw was trying to swallow this entire area earlier?”

“You mean that giant mouth falling from the sky earlier?”

“Yes. I don’t know how long it had been setting up around here, but it had been preparing for quite some time. If you had been hit by that directly, you all would have been gulped down by it in an instant.”

“…I thought demon powers could be detected as soon as they activated? That’s what the original Luxuria told us.”

“Normally, yes. But in a pre-prepared ‘demon domain,’ even that becomes difficult. That’s why in the demon realm, the Seven Deadly Sins generally don’t enter each other’s domains. They might end up like you just did. That’s why my daughter didn’t notice until right before it activated.”

The former Luxuria, resting her chin on her hand and looking around, began explaining the situation.

To defend against the power activated by the enemy, the demon of Greed, her daughter—the current Luxuria—had hastily deployed her own power, covering the area around these outer walls. Because she focused on covering as much area as possible to protect as many humans as she could with her power, it resulted in the uncontrolled state of arousal they had just experienced. Thanks to this, she was able to protect quite a number of humans who were nearby.

“Wait. But how did you come out? I thought you couldn’t emerge for a while…”

“I didn’t want to come out either. Haah! My daughter is so weak that I was about to get dragged into death with her, so how could I just sit still? So I had no choice but to tear off a piece of my soul to force my way out. …Really, this is my last chance.”

“Huh? What did you just say…”

“Talking to myself.”

“Then, what about the original Luxuria?”

“Thanks to me using all my strength to emerge, she’s currently snoring away in here.”

In response to the saint’s question, the former Lust, who complained about her incompetent daughter while fondling her own chest where the current Lust resided, irritably looked around.

“Tch, we’re screwed. Greed has become too powerful. The human souls he’s consumed aren’t just in the hundreds of thousands.”

“Isn’t that obvious? The forces he sent alone numbered in the hundreds of thousands.”

“…What? Really? Then we’re truly fucked.”

“Didn’t you already know that?”

“I’ve been resting in the core until now, how would I know about outside affairs?!”

“But you know now and came out, didn’t you?”

When Miho and Chikuyo remarked that Luxuria’s reaction seemed strange, she explained that she had jumped out in surprise when her daughter, the current Lust, hastily drew on demonic energy to activate her power, allowing her to sense the outside situation.

“So now that you’re out, can you locate Greed?”

“Huh? Oh. Where Greed is? What’s there to find? You’re already looking at it.”

When Luxuria answered Liselotte’s question, everyone’s expressions contorted in confusion. Shrugging at their reaction, Lust pointed to the sky and bluntly stated:

“We’ve been eaten, all of us. This is inside his stomach. When my power dissipates, we all die.”

It was only natural that the group’s expressions twisted again at her answer.

*

“…I understand your power saved us. But why is this happening?!!”

“Well, can’t be helped, right? You four are one thing, but those ones are too weak to be used at full strength.”

“You said it was your power! Can’t you just free them like you did with us?!!”

“Sorry, but before it’s my power, it’s my daughter’s power. I just added strength to it. I used my separate demonic energy to free you earlier, remember? Besides, my daughter who initiated the activation is sleeping now, so what can I do?”

“Wake her up!! Then wake her up!!!”

“That’s right!! Wake her up!! At this rate, we’ll all collapse from exhaustion!!!”

“Come on, be reasonable. How can I wake someone who’s unconscious from the forced collision of souls and cores? And don’t complain about running for just a few minutes. Would we really get tired from this much?”

“””””You’re flying!!”””””

Green Doll, the saint, and the beastkin sisters were shouting at Luxuria, who was floating while they ran at full speed. Covering her ears as if their shouting was annoying, she replied that they complained too much.

“What, should I come down and run with you? I’m already struggling just to maintain consciousness, and you’re complaining that I have wings and can fly? If I exhaust myself, the power will dissipate, you know?”

“That’s not what we’re talking about!!”

“Right!! We don’t care if you fly or crawl!! Do something about ‘those Ponia soldiers chasing us’!!!”

-Ratatatatata!!!

When Chikuyo shouted with an angry, almost tearful voice, Luxuria looked back while flying. What came into her view were the soldiers of the country called Ponia, the humans that her daughter, the current Luxuria, had tried to protect. And now they were…

“Woman!! Woman!!!”

“Breasts!! Sex!!!”

“Haah!! Elf!! It’s an elf!!!”

“Thighs!! Thighs!!!”

“”””Sex!!!””””

They were chasing after the group, thoroughly aroused and devoted to ‘lust’ after being steeped in her power. Well, if they want me to resolve this, I could just kill them all?

“Don’t kill them!! You saved them, so why kill them?!!”

“Then what should I do? If I use my demonic energy to release them, I’ll be depleted and the power will dissipate. Then we’ll all die, you know?”

“Still, don’t kill them!!”

“Ah, but running away like this won’t solve anything either. What is it, elf? Do you have a fetish for watching your woman get raped? I’ll protect those two beastkin somehow since they’re Jack’s women, but if you two have that kind of preference, tell me quickly.”

“We don’t!!!”

“I don’t like that at all?!!”

When Green Doll and Liselotte shouted simultaneously, Luxuria frowned again as if they were too noisy. Meanwhile, Miho and Chikuyo, who were running hard, stepping on walls and trees, shouted at her again.

“Wait!! Why are they only chasing us?! There are other women over there, so why us?!!”

“Hm? Oh, that woman over there is quite strong but she’s lusting after that elf man. Look, she’s kicking away the men who try to approach her. And around that area, weak females and males are having an orgy. Why? Do you want to see?”

“If you show my sister something weird, I’ll kill you!!!”

“Hmm~ Your body and clothes are so provocative, yet you’re so pure? Alright, alright. Calm down.”

Seeing Chikuyo draw her sword as if she would really kill her, Luxuria waved her hands and put her finger to her chin thoughtfully.

Hmm, what should I do about this? If I really release them, I’ll fall asleep again. Then my daughter and those beastkin will all die. Haah.

“Ah!! Really!! Elder! Miho!! Let’s jump from that tree ahead to the wall!!”

“Eh?! I-I can’t jump that high… Kyah?!!”

“I’ll create a magic platform!! Time it yourself, but jump as high as you can!!”

Green Doll, who had picked up Liselotte in a princess carry, gave instructions, and everyone jumped as high as they could from the tree in front of them. Then a whirlwind erupted beneath their feet, giving them a double jump that carried them up the wall.

“Haa! Haa! Damn it. What are we going to do about them?!”

“Damn, we can’t really kill them all. Can’t we at least lead them to that orgy place or whatever?”

“Nope, can’t do that~ They were there too, but they left because there’s an absolute shortage of females. There seem to have been quite a few female soldiers, but there are just too many men.”

“Wait. Are those people all forcibly… with the women…?”

Seeing the saint’s eyes widen in surprise, Luxuria chuckled and waved her hand dismissively.

“Both women and men are all aroused and busy enjoying themselves, so there’s no suffering or anything? Well, if they survive this, the population lost to war will increase quite a bit, so isn’t that good for humans~?”

“…Having children who don’t know who their fathers are isn’t a good thing.”

“Then, is it better to become undead who have lost their magic and souls after being digested by Greed~?”

Faced with a surprisingly difficult counterargument, even Green Doll was at a loss for words. Chikuyo and Miho simultaneously thought: After all, Lust is still a demon. If Jack weren’t around, she probably wouldn’t care and would just leave those aroused humans as they are. In the end, both Greed and Lust are no different as demons of the Seven Deadly Sins. Feeling they should definitely tell Jack about this later, the sisters changed the subject.

“Is there a way to escape from here?”

“Or a way to defeat Greed?”

“There’s no way to escape. Unless someone from outside summons me, I can’t do it alone. And as long as my power is maintained, we can defeat him. Lucky or unlucky, it seems his main body has also entered my power’s range.”

“Then do you know his location?!”

“Roughly? To be honest, I don’t know for sure. He’s also one of the Seven Deadly Sins, so he won’t come under my control. It’s just a feeling that he’s around there?”

Saying this, Luxuria pointed to the edge of the black demonic energy wall. In other words, we’re trapped, but we’ve also caught an opportunity to defeat him.

“…But to get there, we need to do something about those people below.”

However, an opportunity is just an opportunity; they couldn’t move because of the Ponia soldiers still shouting about sex and chasing them in their aroused state below the wall. The saint asked if there was any solution to this desperate situation, but naturally, none of the group had any ideas. As time passed without progress…

“Hmm, well. It’s not like there’s no way.”

Luxuria spoke again, resting her chin on her hand, and everyone silently widened their eyes, waiting for her answer. Enjoying their reaction, Luxuria curled up the corners of her mouth and continued.

“We can use bait. But, is anyone among you willing to be bait? It has to be a female, and you’ll need to strip. They’ll follow where there are more women, but they’ll target a naked woman first. I need to track and guide us to Greed, and the saint needs to use her holy power to capture Greed. So one of you two has to do it?”

It was only natural that the beastkin sisters simultaneously cursed at the solution proposed by the demon of Lust.