Chapter 224: The Bird That Flew for Consolation at the Cuckoo's Nest (8)

"This concludes the speech. Thank you to the servants and knights who gave up their valuable rest time."

The Queen's voice dragged me back to reality from the Paradise of Lust. Had I really been fucking Erina for two hours already? I wasn't the only one brought to my senses by the Queen's voice. AA, who had been trembling with a bizarre mix of shame, anxiety, and excitement, also came to her senses and shoved me away with a startled expression.

"Eok!"

Pushed back by AA's overwhelming stats, I rolled on the floor. My first thought was how unsightly it was to roll around with my pants off. AA dashed past my fallen body.

"I-I won't do it! I won't do it, I tell you! I-I'm a man!"

AA shouted like that while staring at me from outside the room door. Her soaking wet pants and flushed red face held no persuasiveness whatsoever, but she stubbornly made the appeal that she was a man. Her expression was already fully that of a bitch, so did she not realize it? Was she pretending not to know? Or was it an appeal to fuck her in the rear like a man next time? For me, either option was fine.

"Haa, haa..."

Erina collected herself and threw my pants toward me. She seemed to have no intention of even saying sorry to AA anymore, busy gathering her own clothes.

"Leave here at once! I-I must go check on AA."

I could tell for sure from that sight. Erina's love for AA was already cooling down little by little. She was saying it was good on the outside, but she was already slowly changing her mind starting from deep inside her heart.

"Princess."

"What is it? Just get out quickly!"

"You like me better, don't you?"

Erina's face twisted awkwardly for a moment. A brutal silence followed, as if someone had touched a sore spot at a drinking party and brought it to ruin. Erina stared at me blankly, then shook her head and trembled.

"...No, I... I only have AA."

"But I'm better at sex, too. And I'm bigger. If you came in as my concubine, Princess, I'd fuck you as much as you want. Can you really be satisfied with Sir Hero's fingers?"

Erina's shoulders heaved. The lingering feeling of our intense sexual intercourse from a moment ago still remained on her face. Erina looked at me with a tearful face, then gritted her teeth and spoke.

"I, I... I mean...!"

Of course, what Erina opened her mouth and spat out was merely a combination of words, not a sentence implying any opinion. She was unable to do one thing or another. I loved Erina's simplicity as she weighed the other man's cock against her husband, and her honesty in being unable to hide that fact. And I loved AA's goodness, unable to bring herself to kill me even though I was fucking her wife however I pleased.

"It's a joke. You should live happily with Sir Hero, Princess."

Erina's expression changed subtly. Of course, my words telling her to live happily with AA were sincere. They would both become my women, after all. Wasn't it a natural desire as a human being to want my women to live happily?

I put my pants back on and moved my steps back to the Queen's Room. The servants who had drained away like the ebb tide were flooding back in like seawater at high tide. The servants, slotting into the empty spaces one by one like parts of a machine, carried out their duties and began to run the daily life of the royal palace once again.

I managed to enter the Queen's Room at a precise, razor-thin timing. Fortunately, there were no servants inside the room. I directed my steps toward the secret passage. It was a shame I didn't get to fuck AA, but I could fully tell the fact that she was on the verge of opening her legs for me. Since we were in a relationship where we had to chase Evangeline anyway, the moment would definitely come when AA and I would be alone together. And in that moment, AA would be pinned beneath me and become a single vixen.

To create that situation, I needed to become stronger than I was now. Even if the situation presented itself, I wouldn't be able to respond if AA just shoved me away with her strength like she did a moment ago.

"Dragon sex. Hero rape."

At the very least, my strength needed to reach a level comparable to AA's. There were still two dungeons left on the map I received from Ati. One pointed to the western coastal area, and the other pointed to the dwarf kingdom. I planned to monopolize one of them to observe the growth rate, and if that was enough, I would bring AA to the remaining dungeon.

No matter how much hero rape was the goal of my life, defeating Evangeline was also important.

"Lord Lusiuuuuus!"

I heard a familiar voice from the far end of the secret passage. Salina was running down the passage barefoot. I had deliberately left without saying a word to her, and she seemed hurt by that. She clung to me tightly while on the verge of tears. Was this emotion also created by brainwashing? Salina wrapped her arms around the scruff of my neck and spoke.

"Lord Lucius! Even so, how could you just leave without saying a word to me! You're so mean!"

"No. You can do well on your own, can't you? Hm? Even without me, you can follow the orders I gave you and lead Ahildern as usual, right?"

"Yes! But it's too boring without you, Lord Lucius. I'm thinking of just handing the queen's seat over to Erina and following you."

Salina shook her head like a puppy. She was so cute that I wanted to put a collar on her and take her for a walk. Taking her for a walk through this secret hallway naked even just once would be quite fun, but I barely brushed off the temptation and patted her head as I spoke.

"But you're still the queen responsible for all of Ahildern. The queen shouldn't quit so easily. Because you're a queen who can do well on her own. Right?"

"That's right, Lord Lucius! I can do well on my own. I'm incredibly smart, you know?"

"It's reliable to hear that you're smart. You must have read a lot of books, too."

"Yes! I was once called the greatest genius to lead Ahildern since Epsilon Meiga. I've even memorized the entire book collection in the Ahildern National Library!"

This bitch acting like a fucking idiot in front of me right now was that much of a genius? It seemed she had excellent memorization skills and political power, but utterly lacked any magical talent. Originally, the intelligence stat was a value that represented the total sum of mana, magical talent, and actual intelligence.

I left her behind and climbed back into the carriage. From beside the carriage, Salina began to explain how to use it once again.

"It's designed to naturally absorb mana once you infuse it with just a little bit of mana for ignition, so you won't need a mage's preparation or anything like that. If you want to use it more quickly, there's a method of fast charging it using a magic stone, but it consumes a massive amount of mana, so I don't recommend it. Instead, for the return point, it'll be better for later use if you draw this magic circle that's currently laid out on the floor."

Salina spoke while pointing at the magic circle currently on the floor. There was also a blueprint of that magic circle inside the carriage. Soya would draw this for me later, so it wasn't something I needed to worry about.

"Alright. Thank you."

I was checking the dashboard that I hadn't noticed when I first rode the carriage. The dashboard was attached to the trunk of the carriage, and there were points shining with a blue light on a map of the entire kingdom. Salina approached my side and taught me the controls.

"Now, if you press this point like this, it shows the locations you can currently move to."

When Erina pressed down firmly on the map, a blue light stretched out in lines and shone in all directions.

"There aren't many places?"

Surprisingly, there were only a few spots that could be traveled to using the Carriage of Alio Festa. It was a carriage that had been used since ancient times, so shouldn't there be more than this? Salina spoke.

"We wipe the points every 100 years. Since the places you can go to are virtually limitless depending on the location when inputting a point... According to the calculations of a certain ancestor in the past, the number of cases for destinations you can move to with this map is 16,006,190,323, but honestly, I don't know if that's a number that can even be quantified. Anyway, it gets too messy when the movement coordinates accumulate. That's why I'm telling you it's better to draw a magic circle. If you draw a magic circle, you'll be transported to the nearest magic circle when you select that region."

"You're saying that if I make a mistake, a mishap could occur where the carriage drops into the middle of a water source or between the hallways of a mansion, right?"

"No. Something like that won't happen. It's a skill that moves to a specific location among the paths the carriage has traveled before, so it unconditionally lands on a path. But it's irritating if you press it wrong and arrive somewhere a bit away from your destination, isn't it?"

Thinking about it, it sounded like it would be quite irritating. It would be annoying to arrive awkwardly at a place about 15 minutes away. I understood and nodded my head. Looking at the map, there were a few more coordinates marked besides my territory where Erina had gone.

The capital city of the human kingdom and the capital city of the dwarf kingdom. And one strange coordinate located in the southernmost outskirts. I asked while pointing at that spot. It was because the coordinate was in far too random of a place.

"What is this place?"

"It's where your mother lives, Lord Lucius. Your father's grave is also located here."

"What?"

Looking at the location, even though it was in the same southern region, it was quite a distance from my territory. It was a location that could only be reached by cutting across the Amur territory, but with this carriage, it seemed I could come and go easily.

Meeting the body owner's biological mother was a very dangerous act as there was a possibility our conversations wouldn't align. In a situation like this where I was curious about this body owner's past, it couldn't be helped. Just what kind of brainwashing had Lucius received through the Oath of Meiga? Now that the owner had changed, I couldn't find out even if I went to see Ati. The only person who might know the circumstances was Lucius's biological mother.

I decided to visit her once later and memorized the location. It was now truly time to return. I moved the blue point on the carriage to my territory and climbed back into the carriage's seat. Salina spoke while pointing at the lever inside the carriage.

"If you pull this lever, you'll be able to return to your territory now. But Lord Lucius. Are you really going to leave me behind?"

Salina showed off her cutesy charm to me. I stroked her cheek and fell deep into thought. Just what kind of reaction would this girl show if she regained her memories? Leaning my body back in the chair, I pulled the lever. I hadn't noticed while having sex, but the moment I pulled the lever, blue sparks flew throughout the entire carriage and it floated up smoothly. When I looked out the window with a slightly flustered face, Salina was smiling and waving her hand.

"It's fine. It's supposed to do this!"

It seemed I had been truly immersed in the sex. Listening closely, I could even hear a sound in a low voice.

"Initiating movement. 215510565 - 3867592 - 284756 - 27512..."

Along with that dry voice, the world slowly began to change. As if a planetarium had spun around once, the familiar sight of my territory entered my field of vision. And in that place, there was—

"Husband!!"

Eve, who embraced me tearfully the moment I appeared. What is it? Fuck, what is it this time?