When I opened my eyes, my vision was blurry.

    But I laughed, because even with my blurred vision, I could still see sand-colored, dark brown, and light brown.

    “This kid is laughing.”

    Although tears are welling up in his eyes, he smiles and jokes, and somehow he moves his hand to gently caress Hoyo’s cheek.

    “Are you okay?”

    “No, honestly, I regret moving my arm.”

    When I was unable to retrieve my hand that I had raised with difficulty, Bam and Bandi carefully lifted my arm and put it back in place.

    “I’m sorry, Ain. We couldn’t protect you.”

    I blinked a few times and saw the gloomy expression on the night.

    “Night, don’t say that. Hoyodo, Bandido. Don’t be overprotective… Ugh, I told you.”

    When I take a deep breath, my ribs hurt on both sides, so I take shallow breaths and say, “I’ve never felt this sick in my life.”

    “But…”

    “From now on, anyone who blames themselves will have three generations of baldness.”

    Bandi’s mouth, which was about to say something to me, closes.

    “Ain!”

    I thought I heard a thud, and then Ion and Lulu appeared at the door. I was happy to see them again.

    “Hello?”

    “Haa, that’s not hello. Don’t you realize that you’re not well? Or don’t you know what hello means?”

    Lulu approaches the bedside with Ion, shouting wildly.

    “What’s wrong with his face, hoyo?”

    “I guess he fought with the boss there. He got sunk.”

    Ion asks Hoyo, looking at the bandages covering half of my face. Hoyo answers in a crawling voice.

    “That’s disappointing.”

    “Ion.”

    As I tried to get up, thinking that she was scolding the three members of the study group, Ion held me down and continued speaking.

    “No, I’m not talking to them. Bamdo, Hoyodo, and Bandi must have tried hard. I’m the one who’s disappointed.”

    She continued speaking in a calm tone.

    “When I heard the news, I vaguely thought that if it was Ain, it would be okay. I backed off too. If I think about it calmly, there’s no way a kidnapped male would be okay.”

    Her expression was relaxed, but her fists were clenched so tightly that the gauntlets she was wearing screamed.

    As I moved my hand to wrap my hand around the gauntlet, Ion finally released the strength from his hand.

    “Nothing happened. Seriously.”

    “What are you…!”

    Lulu shouts with a fierce expression as if she finds my words ridiculous.

    “Look at you! If you were a normal male, you would have died from shock or been traumatized for the rest of your life. But you say nothing happened? Are you still going to say things like I’m overprotective?”

    “Lulu.”

    Lulu is very angry and snaps, but when Ion shakes his head, Lulu can be seen having a hard time controlling her emotions.

    “…This won’t just go away. After Ain gets better…”

    Lulu was trying to make a threat, but the sound of the door opening again made the five females, including me, turn our heads.

    “Elfin.”

    Elfin walks in front of me with a hardened face, accompanied by Chesha and a female rabbit, the Night Raven, whom I have never seen before.

    “Ain.”

    “Yeah.”

    Elfin made a pitiful expression for a moment, then returned to the cold expression he had before meeting me.

    “Academy, quit. I’ll quit too. I’m going to the palace.”

    “Elfin!”

    Her bombshell announcement made the bandits groan in horror.

    “Don’t stop him. Ain can never be safe from females. How can you guarantee that something like this won’t happen again?”

    Elfin looked around at the females with a voice that contained anger. They were speechless, as if they were secretly agreeing.

    “I don’t want to do this either. But it’s better to leave Ain in the castle than expose him to another threat.”

    The females couldn’t refute it. If we judge it objectively and coolly, the safest place in the Perion Empire is the Imperial Palace.

    “Elfin.”

    I got up. The females were surprised, but the healers’ skills were certain, so even though it hurt, it wasn’t something I couldn’t endure.

    “Ain…! Lie down.”

    “You’re not going to take me to the palace, are you?”

    “No, I’ll take you.”

    Elfin frowned at my words and immediately replied, but when I stared at her, she averted her eyes.

    “Ha, but it’s dangerous…!”

    “It’s okay. I saved you.”

    Elfin shut his mouth at my words.

    “Because Bam, Hoyoga, and Bandi saved me. Do you know that?”

    When I ask, the females just look at my face silently.

    “The reason I resisted with the determination to die. It was because I was sure that my pack of females would come to rescue me.”

    “Ain…”

    Bandi made a sobbing sound.

    “If I didn’t believe, why would I have resisted and gotten beaten like that? I would have just quietly given her that first experience and acted cute. To survive.”

    Hoyo, who had seen me covered in blood after being beaten to a pulp by the boss while naked, gritted his teeth at my words.

    “So let’s not talk about overprotection, taking her to the palace, or quitting the academy anymore. I’m really fine.”

    The females remained silent for a moment at my words.

    “Excuse me, Princess. Even the pretty lady says this~”

    “That’s right, Princess. Calm down.”

    As Chesha and the female rabbit spoke, observing Elfin’s stiff expression, Elfin closed his eyes for a moment and relaxed his body.

    “Chesha, Alice. You can go out.”

    “Deposit!”

    At Elfin’s direction, Chesha and Alice quickly close the door and leave. That white female rabbit must be the Alice that Chesha mentioned last time.

    “But what day is it today?”

    “It’s Tuesday.”

    Bandi answers my questions.

    “Oh no, it’s the last day of the festival.”

    “What does it matter? Just lie down.”

    Lulu said with her lips pursed, but I put my hands on my body.

    “[Setting time and space in the current and normal dimensions, target body completely retrogrades to the specified time. Starts the activation of ‘Advanced Healing’. Number of entities 1, whole body in the specified range. Base time 259,200 seconds. Consumes two level 3 spell slots in return for retrograde]. ”

    “What, what…?!”

    Lulu screams, and my body is enveloped in light.

    The light dimmed and I felt almost completely healed. With the first aid and the healer’s treatment, I had enough stamina to use magic, so I used my own healing magic.

    “Oh, that’s a little better.”

    When I took off the bandages covering the most suffocating half of my face and got up, the females went wild.

    “No, no! If you wake up now…?”

    But when they saw me get up and start flailing my arms and legs, the females looked dumbfounded.

    “Don’t you know? He’s a male who’s been using recovery magic since before he entered school.”

    I tried to act like a real man with a lot of swagger. Lulu let out a sigh as if she couldn’t stop herself, and Ion and Bam brushed their (large) chests as if they were very lucky. Hoyo and Bandi hugged me with tearful eyes again.

    “Wow, thank goodness!”

    “I thought you couldn’t wake up!”

    I smiled and patted Hoyo and Bandi on the head, then hugged Bam, Ion, Lulu, and finally Elfin.

    “Are you relieved now?”

    “You, haa…”

    Elfin hugged me tightly, then shook her head as if it was absurd and snickered.

    “There’s no other male like you in the world.”

    “I agree.”

    Because no one else is trapped in this game except me.

    “How have you been, boss?”

    In a dark dungeon, I speak to the hyena boss who is lying crumpled and covered in blood.

    “You… You… Are…”

    The hyena boss, who must have been beaten up pretty badly, turns his one remaining purple eye toward me.

    “It’s nice to see you again.”

    “Ts…beol, are you here to make fun of me…”

    The hyena boss is writhing, but his body is so weak that it is literally trembling.

    I reached through the bars and turned my palm toward her.

    After reciting the spell, a light appears and the hyena boss slowly raises his body as if in disbelief.

    “Why me…?”

    “Oh, I have a bad habit.”

    Open the iron bars with the key you received. Since the boss’s entire body was bound in chains anyway, he couldn’t do anything other than get up.

    “Does this sound familiar?”

    When I showed him the necklace in my hand, the hyena boss opened his purple eyes wide and lowered his head.

    “…That would be better than… dying. Hehe.”

    She had experience with kidnapping, so there was no way she wouldn’t know this.

    This necklace, with a red jewel in the center, is the most powerful magic among the necklaces used to bind slaves.

    I have heard from the Duke of Knight Sustained that these bloodstone-encrusted binding collars are used on slaves who are difficult to control or of the utmost importance.

    “Neck.”

    The boss, who had been motionless for a moment at my command, slowly raises his head.

    When she raised her head again, what she saw in her eyes was fear and resignation. She probably never dreamed that she would be the one to wear this.

    “Duke of Night Sustained, I received you from my mother-in-law. You are now mine.”

    Click, and the restraints are put around her neck. Unless I release them, they will stay on her neck until she dies.

    “My bad habit is giving second chances to people who have done bad things.”

    As I said that, I looked at her naked body, which had become a piece of rag.

    “Well, I liked it. What’s your name?”

    “… …Hella.”

    “That’s short.”

    As I put my hand on the restraint and lifted it, the hyena boss, Hela, easily came up with a “kekeke” sound. This is one of the many functions of the restraint.

    And when he pressed the bloodstone embedded in the restraint, Hela screamed and writhed.

    “Gyaaaah, kkaaaah, kkuh… I’m, I’m sorry…! Gyaaaahhhh!”

    As soon as she released the Bloodstone, Hela fell to the floor and started to thrash again.

    “Hell, I think it is greater for an evil person to be born good than for an evil person to be born good.”

    Then he squats down and looks straight into Hela’s face. Her face is covered in tears and spit from the pain, and she’s probably even incontinent.

    “Do you understand, Hela?”

    “…ugh, yes, yes…master…”

    I smiled with satisfaction.

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