episode_0197

“Eh.”

Lucretia Hael. An Awakener known as the Saintess of Europe, she was, like Seol Hayeon, a figure who reached S-rank at the young age of twenty-two.

“Eh…?”

She walked with a dazed expression. Her steps lacked strength, making it seem as if she were being forcibly dragged somewhere.

Lucretia slightly parted her lips and stiffly raised her head.

“Oh.”

And then she let out another bewildered sound. She frantically looked around, like a greatly flustered meerkat.

Before she knew it, she had entered one of the few intact buildings within the devastated city.

It looked like a private residence, its owner seemingly having abandoned the house and fled long ago.

Lucretia gazed down at the bed in the middle of the room, her expression blank, as if her soul had left her body.

Although monsters had torn through various parts of the city, fortunately, they hadn’t reached here. The bed was clean and intact.

She even thought that if she were to lie down as she was, she wouldn’t feel uncomfortable.

However.

“…No, that, h-huh?”

Only then did Lucretia recall why she had come here.

With her uncontrollably trembling golden eyes, she looked back.

Following her in, a young man was now behind her, the door closing with a *clunk* behind him.

He had hair faintly mixed with silver, and mysterious bluish-white eyes.

His name was Lee Hyunjin, his origin was Korea. And he was the individual with whom she had to cooperate to permanently eliminate the monster that had ravaged this city…

“…W-Wait a moment.”

Lucretia instinctively recoiled in fear, stepping backward.

Her mind hadn’t caught up to the conversation, which was why she had ended up coming in.

But that didn’t mean she had truly agreed to engage in relations with the man before her.

At the still very young age of twenty-three, she had never once had an experience with a man.

However, fantasies about relationships she might form in the future certainly existed. Perhaps even more so because she had no experience.

She… wished that if she were ever to bare her skin to someone, it would be predicated on love.

“I-Is your special ability really like that? That you can only copy abilities by having sexual relations with a woman?”

Naturally, a situation like the current one was not what Lucretia desired.

Far from love, in this situation, wouldn’t only a sense of duty prevail?

Thus, Lucretia stammered her words, sounding utterly desperate.

“It’s not, right? Right? If you’re teasing me, fine. I’ll understand. The desire to covet a Saintess’s body must be present in any man, so, uh.”

“…”

“…So, please tell me the truth now. We’re not exactly in a relaxed situation, are we? You need to quickly acquire my ability…”

But Lucretia’s face simply grew paler and paler the more she spoke.

This was because Lee Hyunjin’s expression, as he listened, seemed incredibly subtle and bitter.

‘It’s true…?’

Lucretia, turning pale, took another step back.

*Thump!*

“…Ah.”

She then tripped over the bed and fell onto her rear, but before she could feel shame, her eyelashes trembled rapidly.

Evasion did not exist in her vocabulary. In a critical situation like this, if offering her body would be beneficial, she would do so without hesitation.

Such courage and resolve were certainly inherent within her, yet…

“Hiccup.”

Feeling afraid, however, was another matter entirely. If one were to add another emotion, it was a sense of futility.

Was there truly no other way?

Of course, it was she who had drawn Lee Hyunjin in. Therefore, she knew well that she couldn’t back out now.

However, even though her mind acknowledged this, she couldn’t help but feel hesitation in her fingertips.

After all, he was a man she had just met today.

They hadn’t even exchanged many words.

‘To such a person, my first time…’

Lucretia teared up slightly. No tears fell, but it was clear that her emotions were welling up, making her feel distraught.

“Hmm…”

Naturally, Lee Hyunjin had been continuously observing her reaction.

Thus, it was only natural for him to feel uncomfortable.

He had followed along, thinking ‘alright’ when she first told him to take her ability, but he hadn’t expected her aversion to be so strong.

‘No, is it actually obvious?’

A thought flashed through his mind, and Lee Hyunjin fell into deep contemplation with a strange expression.

Who would welcome a sudden intimate relationship with a man they had just met?

In reality, perhaps the women who had been intimate with him until now were the abnormal ones.

Those women, each overflowing with sexual desire to the point of possessing perverse qualities, those…

Lee Hyunjin felt a strange deflation and scratched the back of his head. After all, if she reacted like this, he had no intention of forcing her.

Having quickly sorted out his thoughts, Lee Hyunjin looked at Lucretia and carefully spoke.

“Perhaps we should just try killing the monster until it dies, together with Eileen…”

“…N-No!”

And an unexpectedly strong reaction came back. Lee Hyunjin looked at Lucretia in surprise, and she lifted her head, clenching her teeth.

“You don’t understand… I can see it. That monster, there’s no limit to its division. No matter how many times you kill it, it won’t end.”

“…Hmm.”

“There’s no other way. With any power other than my divine power, which annihilates a monster’s soul, merely holding it back would be the best you could do.”

He wanted to retort that one wouldn’t know without trying, but Lee Hyunjin simply gazed at Lucretia for now.

To directly deny someone who speaks with such conviction… it felt a bit much.

So, Lee Hyunjin decided to be bold.

“So… what do you want to do?”

“…Huh?”

“Are you going to do it, or not?”

At his blunt words, Lucretia’s expression stiffened once again.

She hadn’t forgotten, but indeed, the choice was binary.

Either send Lee Hyunjin out, or lie down together on the bed.

“Ah, ahh.”

Lucretia covered her flushed face with both hands, letting out a strange sound.

Yet, her eyes, peeking at Lee Hyunjin through the gaps in her fingers, shone with heat.

She had to make a choice. Between her purity as a woman and her duty to save this city, the value she ultimately chose was…

“…I, I understand.”

In the end, it was the latter. Lucretia finally slumped her shoulders in resignation, then hesitated before reaching for her top.

It was her exclusive attire as the ‘Saintess,’ a blend of white and gold harmoniously mixed, which could almost be called a nun’s habit.

She had never once removed it in front of others, but—

Now, an exception had to be made.

Lucretia still didn’t like this situation. But if there was no other way, then it was indeed unavoidable…

Soft clicks…

“…”

Slowly, she unbuttoned her top one by one. Swallowing dryly, Lucretia slowly began to expose her bare skin.

The Saintess’s attire lost its tension and flowed down, finally revealing her fair skin beneath.

With a persistent blush on both cheeks, Lucretia demurely raised her head.

Receiving such a pathetic gaze, Lee Hyunjin involuntarily flinched.

“…Why are you looking at me like that? You’ll just make me feel guilty.”

“I’m looking at you like that precisely for that reason…”

“Excuse me?”

“Then, at least you’ll be as gentle as you can be. That’s what I’m thinking.”

Lee Hyunjin reflexively pressed his lips together. Lucretia’s eyes trembled nervously at his lack of response.

“Y-You will, won’t you…?”

“…”

“If you hurt me, I’ll—I’ll just bite you, I swear…!”

Untying her bra and setting it on the floor beside the bed, she hugged her adorable breasts tightly with one hand, then bared her small canine teeth as if in a feigned threat.

Lee Hyunjin’s pants swelled significantly, and at that moment, his reason snapped as well.

“A yelp!?”

*Wham!* He roughly seized both of Lucretia’s wrists and laid her down on the bed.

Feeling a subtle surge of excitement, Lee Hyunjin spoke in a calm voice.

“Don’t worry.”

“Wh-What…?”

“Though this has happened due to unavoidable circumstances, I will at least strive to ensure it doesn’t become a bad memory.”

“Hah, hah?”

At his low-pitched voice, Lucretia’s bare skin flushed red all the way to her neck.

But soon, she sharpened her gaze and snarled in a deliberately fierce voice.

“H-Hmph. Don’t bother with that. I know what you’re thinking, but no matter what you do, I doubt I’ll feel anything.”

“Oh, confidence.”

“Well, since it’s come to this, do your worst. Though I’m not sure how much pleasure your… *organ* will bring me?”

Lucretia twisted her lips in a provocative manner, and Lee Hyunjin silently unbuckled his belt.

Speaking like this, it felt as if he had become some kind of trashy man in the world.

Nevertheless, there was one thing he could state with certainty… Lee Hyunjin was extremely confident in his ability to satisfy women.

Under the premise that it wasn’t forced, that is.

“Spread your legs.”

“…Ugh.”

And since Lucretia was the one who had made the offer first, Lee Hyunjin decided that since things had come to this, he would definitively satisfy Lucretia sexually.

While also enjoying himself.

“…”

*Thump, thump.*

Gazing at Lee Hyunjin’s ‘thing’ slowly approaching her lower abdomen.

Lucretia felt an unknown thumping in her chest, accompanied by a chill down her neck.