Chapter 22 - Volume 3 (1/2)
Chapter 2 : Abode of Traitors
Hajime felt his whole body being wrapped by something warm and soft. It was a very nostalgic feeling. This is the feeling of a bed. A cushion was gently catching his head and back. The softness of feathers wrapped his body. His dozing consciousness was thrown into confusion.
(What is this? This is supposed to be the dungeon…Why is a bed…)
He was fumbling around as his consciousness was not fully awake yet. However, he couldn’t move his right hand. It was wrapped in a soft feeling that was different from the bed. His palm was also wedged into something warm and soft.
(What’s this?)
Hajime moves his hand while he was still blank. He felt a certain elasticity between his hands and it was squishy when he touched it. Just keen on the feel somehow and it becomes a habit to keep touching…
“…Ahn..”
(!?)
For some reason a seductive gasp could be heard. At that moment, the first visage of his consciousness came back to him.
Hajime noticed as he raised himself in panic, that he really was in a bed. The bed had a pure-white sheet and it felt luxurious and it even had a canopy. It seems the bed was on a stone pavement in a terrace atrium. A refreshing breeze blew by Hajime’s cheeks and the canopy. His perimeter was surrounded by pillars and a thin curtain. Can you imagine a bed in the center of a Parthenon shrine? The whole space was filled with a warm light that he hasn’t seen in a long time.
He was confused, just a while ago he was in a desperate struggle fighting against the Hydra in the dungeon.
(Where is this? This place…don’t tell me its the afterworld…)
In this place that felt so solemn, an ominous thought crossed his mind. Hajime thoughts were interrupted by an amorous voice next to him.
“…Hn…Hajime…Au…”
“!?”
When Hajime was confused, he turned over the sheet. While not wearing a single thread of clothing, Yue clinged onto Hajime’s right hand and slept completely naked. He finally noticed that even he was naked.
“Indeed…is this the morning chirp…that’s not right!”
The confused Hajime did a Tsukkomi on himself for his stupid thoughts. Yue started to wake up a little.
“Yue, wake up. Yue.”
“Hn~…”
When he tried to wake her up, she curled up and shook her head to fret. His right hands were between Yue’s thighs and it was approaching a dangerous place.
“Ku…Don’t tell me this is really the afterworld…is it Heaven?”
Hajime he was saying those stupid things, he tried to free his right hand, but everytime…
“…Hn…Hn…”
Yue panted seductively.
“Ku, calm down me. No matter how old she is, her appearance is still of a child. Impossible for me to get excited! I am absolutely not a lolicon!”
Hajime tried to persuade himself of this, while his expression was on the brink of looking like a pervert. He gave up trying to free his right hand, and instead tried to wake up the cause but no luck.
Gradually, he started to get irritated. Hajime could not swallow the situation and confusion, and he had a blue vein popping out on his forehead at her leisurely sleeping there.
His irritation culminated…
“That’s enough, get up! This natural erotic vampire princess!”
He invoked his “Lightning Clad”. Electric discharge started to gather in his right hand.
“!? Ababababababa”
Yue was shocked by the discharge. She released Hajime’s arm and finally opened her eyes, while she twitched a little.
“…Hajime?”
“Yeah. It’s Hajime-san. Sleepyhead, wake up…”
“Hajime!”
“!?”
She woke up and widened her eyes when she saw Hajime. The next moment, she jumped towards Hajime. In the nude. Hajime trembled.
Yue buried her face into Hajime’s scruff. and he noticed she was sniffing. He decided there was no helping it, and just stroke her head with a smile.
“My bad, seems like I worried you a lot.”
“Yeah…I was worried…”
It seems she didn’t want to stop clinging for a while. He let her do it until she was satisfied because she did take care of him. Hajime continued to stroke her head gently.
When Yue calmed down after a few minutes, Hajime asked about what happened. By the way, he made Yue cover herself with the sheet.
“So, what happened since then? Where is this?”
“…After that…”
She said that after the battle, she felt dizzy from her magic depletion and snuggle right next to the collapsed Hajime. Then the double doors in the room automatically opened. Reinforcements? Yue stayed vigilant but nothing ever came. When she started to recover bit by bit, she decided to enter the door.
The sacred water was healing Hajime little by little. Still, he was in a dangerous state with all his serious injuries. His tough body had escaped death, but she didn’t know when the sacred water would lose to the poison. Both of them would be finished if a new monster appeared. Therefore, she had to check it out.
And in the depths of the door,
“…Abode of the Traitors.”
Inside was a vast space with a good looking house in the center. Then, she confirmed it wasn’t dangerous. Yue confirmed there was a bedroom and took the unconscious Hajime to it and nursed him. Recently, the God’s Crystal extract was decreasing considerably. Hajime had kept drinking the sacred water.
The sacred water finally beat out the toxins, and it was able to display its usual restorative prowess. Yue became exhausted eventually.
“…I see, you took care of me. Thanks, Yue.”