Chapter 178 - 176 "Shinobi" and "Kunoichi"
When I went to the Adventurer Guild, there was a bit of a commotion.
"What a troublesome bunch!"
Guild Master Mario was unusually angry.
They were people from Kieff Country and Hazard Country who came from the north, but strictly speaking, that seemed to be incorrect. Both Kieff Country and Hazard Country were, more accurately, people of the Kieff Tribe and people of the Hazard Tribe.
"I'm not from the Kieff Tribe!"
"But you came from Kieff Country, right?"
"There's no such country!"
It came to light that they only said that because the Kieff Tribe was the largest. It seemed the same was true for Hazard Country. For Guild Master Mario, it didn't matter either way, but for them, they insisted their own tribe was different. It was probably a matter of identity.
(So that's what they were fighting about. How troublesome. Is it really okay when we're leaving in three days?)
I didn't mind who I teamed up with from whatever country, but I hoped to avoid guys who would cause trouble.
Guild Master Mario came back and let out a sigh.
"I finally understand what they mean by the Northern Nations Alliance, but it's a trivial matter to me. I'm exhausted..."
The increase in traveling merchants and adventurers was causing a huge stir, and that was probably the biggest headache for Mario-san. So he asked me to handle the team formation.
"There are already teams that have individually contracted with traveling merchants. So, could I ask you to handle this? Would you be willing to select about two teams?"
"In that case, could you let me interview them tomorrow morning? It doesn't matter if they join as a team or as individuals."
It was decided that I would interview one representative starting tomorrow morning.
After that, I went to the back entrance to pick up Jessica and returned home with our arms linked.
After dinner, I put the child to sleep, took a bath, and then it was bedtime.
"Pamper me plenty tonight too!"
She appeared in a sheer baby doll.
"Of course I will!"
"I'm happy!"
We enjoyed ourselves until dawn, and the next morning, I headed to the guild with my arm linked with hers.
When I entered the guild, people were overflowing outside, unable to get in.
"Lord Shivans! Please choose us!"
"Us, right! We'll devote ourselves to you!"
They were so noisy that I headed to a prepared separate room. The representatives came in one by one and fired questions at me, but I proceeded while also reading their thoughts.
Among them, an interesting team appeared.
"For convenience's sake, they call it Hazard Country, but I am Alpha of the Koka Tribe. We were forced into a poor life near the border of Kieff Country and came to this country to earn money. How about it? My team has five members including myself. Please, make us your companions."
He had an ordinary, good-natured face, but his physical skills were outstanding. When I read his thoughts, it seemed he came to assassinate me.
(So I've finally become an assassination target for the Duchy of Walujava too. Alpha is probably just a code name or something. These guys are likely professionals.)
In terms of shinobi, they felt like lower-ranked ones.
"That sounds good! Please, by all means, become my companions!"
"R-Really? Thank you very much! I'll introduce you to my companions later!"
Having a face that looked like the prey came to him, you're still second-rate, Alpha-kun. They probably have companions at their hideout and are preparing tools to kill me.
And another team was also targeting me.
"My name is Anne. I am from the Iga Tribe of Kieff Country. I grew up in a poor mountain village on the border with Hazard. We are all women, but we will be of use to you, Lord Shivans."
She was around 20 years old and seemed confident in her face and body. She had an exotic face, long silver hair, and showed off her beautiful white legs up to her thighs while smiling.
(They seem skilled with poison. Sending assassins like this is quite interesting! I'll prepare something that surpasses their poison and illusions and have some fun with them!)
They too were sent on orders from above without being told who requested it. Probably from Prince Jason of the Duchy of Walujava.
"Understood. Then please, by all means, join us!"
"Yes! Of course! I'd like to make this a pleasant journey with you, Lord Shivans!"
They probably brought many companions with them too.
If they intend to use women as weapons, poison, and hidden weapons to kill me, then I must prepare as well!
Normally, I could have ended the interviews here, but I thought it would be rude to the people who were waiting in line, so I continued.
"My name is Nadja, and I'm 17 years old. I'm alone and don't belong to any team. Because of this appearance."
She had a spider tattoo from her cheek to her neck and back.
She was a girl with an eerie atmosphere and a dark shadow clinging to her.
"Why do you have that tattoo? If you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to..."
"Please listen!"
Nadja lost her family when she was 7.
The cause was bandits attacking her village and wiping everyone out. Nadja, who survived, was 7 years old at the time, and the bandits, finding it amusing, branded her with a spider tattoo.
"Those bastards are a famous bandit group called the Dark Poison Spider in the western region. They all have spider tattoos, and there are several villages that have been destroyed. I hate them! For these past 10 years, I've survived by eating rats, snakes, bugs, and weeds. Because of this tattoo, I couldn't enter villages or towns and lived in caves! Please! Lend me your strength!"
It seemed she grew her hair long to hide the tattoo and then left the cave to start moving around.
(Quite an interesting bunch has gathered, hasn't it!)
"Alright! Please, by all means, join us."
"Thank you very much!"
The interviews ended, and it was decided that 11 people would act together with me.
When I reported to Mario, he was overjoyed.
"Thank you very much! Also, the blood drain and butchering is all finished. What would you like to do?"
I told him to sell the magic stones and meat since they would sell well, and that I would take all the tanned hides and blood. He smiled, saying, "You're always so generous to me!"
When I immediately placed a large order for blood drain and butchering, Mario rubbed his hands together, his expression softening.
First was Nadja.
I took her to the White Castle, erased the spider tattoo, healed all the wounds on her body with 'High Heal', put her in the bath to make her sparkle clean, then threw her into the beauty salon and called Harrier.
"I'll be adventuring with her for a while. I want you to prepare her clothes and educate her. You only have two days, but can you do it?"
"Understood!"
I went to the academy's research lab, intending to make something nefarious using the sex pheromone secretion extracted from the Orc King and Orc Queen.
(I'll render those assassins useless with this!)
I further improved the aphrodisiac and Love Lotion. I'll use them on the enemies trying to assassinate me.
The aphrodisiac I'm about to make will be something that arouses lust even more than before! I don't know how long the effect will last, so it'll also be good experimental material.
When I mixed the sex pheromones extracted from the Orc King and Orc Queen into the aphrodisiac and Love Lotion, it displayed 'Super-Strong Aphrodisiac'. I planned to use that on those assassins, so I used alchemy to create a large amount of it.
(His Majesty and Klaus will probably want this too eventually!)
When I noticed, the sun was about to set completely, so I hurried to the Adventurer Guild and spent time with Jessica.
The next morning
I acted like a lovey-dovey couple, flirting with Jessica as I accompanied her to work. We parted at the back entrance, and when I went around to the front, I heard someone say, "We're leaving tomorrow morning!"
The adventurers who weren't chosen by me were trying to sell themselves to the additional caravan that had arrived.
I quietly slipped away and headed to the academy.
When I went to the Student Council Room, only Chris was there, but when she saw me, she looked happy and stared at me intently. She knew I would be gone from tomorrow, but since I didn't show up yesterday, she seemed anxious.
"What's wrong, Chris?"
"It's Senpai's fault... because you didn't come yesterday..."
She spread her legs a little, lifted the edges of her miniskirt, and showed me her hairless pussy, which began to drip droplets.
"I... I masturbated a lot! Even yesterday! I couldn't sleep, thinking only about Senpai the whole time..."
She knelt in front of me, rubbed the front of my pants, and kissed me over the fabric.
"I... I can't hold back anymore! This is what I wanted! This... I've wanted it since yesterday!"
When we entered the secret room, she opened the front of her uniform, took off her skirt, pulled down my pants, and immediately extended her tongue and started sucking.
"Chris... it feels great when you give a blowjob while playing with your clit! It really excites me!"
"Me too! I get excited when Senpai calls me a naughty Chris!"
I had told her I liked Chris making slurping, splashing sounds and drooling, so she tried her best. When my thing got big, she spread her legs wide and said with a face like she was about to cry, "Teach me sex! I don't want to hold back anymore! Please! Put Senpai's dick into Chris's naughty pussy..."
I cast a contraceptive spell, applied 'Pain Resistance' and 'Fear Resistance', and inserted it slowly.
"As expected, it's really tight."
"Because Senpai is my first! Does it hurt the first time..."
Thanks to the Pain Resistance, it didn't seem to hurt that much.
"Senpai! Senpai is inside me... it feels like a dream! It's big but it doesn't hurt at all and it feels good... Senpai is gentle!"
She seemed moved by the feeling of me entering her, but this was just the beginning. When I broke through her hymen and went deeper, sweet moans began to escape her lips.
When I sucked on her breasts, she hugged me happily.
"Somehow, Senpai is like a big baby! So cute! I want you to suck and lick Mama's breasts more! Mama feels good being sucked!"
But when I started stimulating her G-spot, she began to change from Mama to a woman, and her moans grew louder.
"To think you're feeling good from having your lewd pussy pounded by my dick! You really are a naughty Chris."
"No! I've been thinking about Senpai the whole time! It's because it's Senpai that I get this excited! I only get naughty for Senpai! I don't think about anyone but Senpai..."
When I stroked her head and kissed her, she calmed down a little.
"I get excited because Chris shows her naughty side only to me! If Chris got naughty with another guy, I might cry."
"Don't cry! I'm only naughty for Senpai! Because! It feels this good! I only love Senpai! I love you so much! I want you to do more♡"
She hugged me tightly and started to cum lightly.
"Chris's naughty pussy feels so good!"
"Really? Me too! I didn't know my first time having sex could feel this good! I should have let Senpai hold me sooner♡"
Chris gradually started moving her hips too, saying "Ahh♡ It feels so good!" many times, and then said, "Senpai, it's kind of scary. My mind goes blank!" and hugged me, trembling.
"You came for the first time! You've become a woman now!"
"So this is what cumming feels like? It was amazing! I've been made into a woman♡"
I kept pressing on her G-spot, making her cum many times until her uterus descended.
"I'll make you even more of a woman! Because I want you to be a naughty Chris!"
She nodded shyly and said in a small voice, "I'll be only Senpai's woman♡ So make me naughty!"
When I asked, "Where should I put it?" she seemed unsure.
"If I put my sperm inside, you might get pregnant, you know?"
"It would be a problem if I got pregnant now... but I am Senpai's woman..."
When I whispered in her ear, "If you get it inside, you'll become even more of a woman. Because it feels good," she said, "If I can't get pregnant yet, put it inside me♡"
I thrust deep and came inside her, pumping it all out.
Chris arched her back and squirted a little.
"Amazing... it felt so good... I'm happy you put it in me! I don't mind if I get pregnant now♡ Put lots of it inside me♡ Make me even more of a woman♡"
She also learned cleaning fellatio, and it seemed she came to think of it as normal. Apparently, her first time having sex was quite good.
"I finally understand! Everyone has fiancés, but I always wondered why they made lovers at the academy! So everyone was doing something this good... I didn't know because I had no lover or friends. I feel like I missed out!"
"Chris, if you'll only get naughty for me, how about we have sex whenever we have time until graduation?"
She nodded, saying "Yeah♡ I want to have more sex♡!" and hugged me.
After doing it many times, her body gradually got used to it.
As I slowly accustomed her, her body began to respond and she would cum even when I thrust hard. By noon, her hip joints were sore, but her heart seemed fulfilled.
"Senpai... let me rest a little... if you become really perverted, it's tough if you're not trained..."
She seemed to keenly feel her lack of stamina.
I used Instant Movement to take her to her room and put her to bed.
"I'll come see you off tomorrow! Thank you for having sex with me today!"
She said that and fell asleep with a smile.
I went to the research lab and continued my work from yesterday. After repeated trial and error, I managed to create something that even I was satisfied with when I appraised it.
When I looked at the grounds, I saw Aristo practicing riding a bicycle with the students.
"As I thought, Grandfather said no to the escort request. Shivans is lucky. You get to travel to all sorts of places. I want to go too! I might meet some beautiful ladies along the way, right?"
Is that the most important thing? I can't talk about others, but this guy, just like Windam, is going to lose his life over a woman someday.
"Well, you can buy prostitutes."
"I'm jealous. Hey? Will you travel with me someday?"
"When that time comes, I'll gladly accompany you."
This time, I'm traveling with assassins, you know.
Then Aria also came.
"You'll be gone for a while, right?"
"Do you have time now?"
"Of course! Let's make it an intense time♡"
This time, I held Aria in a room at the Wizard Hotel. When I told her I had held Chris, she warned me, "I suppose it can't be helped. That girl has been really down lately. But if you only hold her, I'll get angry!"
"Of course! Come see me off tomorrow morning!"
"Obviously! I won't forgive you if you die! Make absolutely sure you come back alive!"
By the time I satisfied Aria, it was evening.
I sent her back to the academy, kissed her, and then flew to the White Castle to check on things.
I told Harrier, "I'll come pick up Nadja early tomorrow morning, so please finish the preparations," and he said, "Leave it to me!"
When I flew to the Adventurer Guild, Jessica was still working.
"Busy, huh?"
"It's finally tomorrow. You should probably listen to the briefing too, you know?"
That was true.
The wages paid to us were 2,000 G per day. Well, honestly, I didn't care. The two teams that would be acting with me had the simplistic team names 'Shinobi' and 'Kunoichi'.
Members of 'Shinobi':
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Sigma — five people.
Members of 'Kunoichi':
Anne, Due, Trois, Quatre, Cinq — five people.
(Those probably aren't their real names, but it doesn't matter. These ten people are enemies, but I'll make them realize they are not my enemies!)
Then an adventurer who knew both teams came up to me.
"Lord Shivans, don't you know?"
"Know about what?"
It seemed the Koka Tribe and the Iga Tribe were at each other's throats.
"Of all things, being in a team with those two... it's terrifying..."
A young man who seemed well-informed told me, looking scared.
This is getting more and more interesting! I wanted to say I love that kind of thing, but I just thanked him, saying, "Thank you for your kindness."
I learned that there was an insect user among the Iga Tribe.
In plain terms, it was probably something like a poison bug.
(I'll tame them right away so they don't attack me.)
If they try to attack me and can't, they'll probably panic. My anticipation just keeps growing. The Iga women seemed to have poison hidden in their back teeth, so I swapped it with my aphrodisiac using Instant Movement. They're dangerous types who might try a suicide attack, so they'd probably kiss and die together.
Finally, the Adventurer Guild quieted down, and it seemed Jessica could go home.
"Sorry to keep you waiting!"
"It's fine! I got a lot done while waiting."
"Really? That's good then! I'm hungry!"
When we returned with our arms linked, her father had baked a lot of bread and was waiting.
"Teacher, you can store a lot, right?"
"This helps a lot! I'm really happy about this!"
I thanked her father for his thoughtfulness and quietly left five large silver coins and a large amount of wheat flour. I thought he wouldn't accept it otherwise. Also, it would be useful if anything happened to Jessica.
When I told him I would be away from the Imperial Capital for about a month, her father brought out some alcohol and said, "Teacher! Let's drink a lot tonight!" but he drinks every night and falls asleep quickly.
"As expected, he fell asleep right away."
"Yeah. I'll carry him to bed."
"Father really likes Master too! Let's go to bed as well!"
Jessica was more intense than usual.
Even her sucking during fellatio was stronger than usual.
"Tonight, your pussy is even more slippery and the sounds are amazing! And your nipples are this hard too, right?"
"Because... thinking this might be the last time I'm held... and also, I feel like tonight might be the night for our second child! Put lots of it inside me!"
I'd never once pulled out, so I thought it was a bit late for that.
"I won't let you sleep tonight!"
But she was gasping for breath and ended up falling asleep anyway.
The next morning
It was hectic from early in the morning.
I fixed Jessica's hair and did her makeup.
After that, she fed the baby and helped prepare breakfast together. Her father had already left for work.
"Dad! Eat breakfast!"
"I'm a baker! I'll work while eating bread!"
It seemed he was being considerate so as not to get in our way.
"I'm off, Dad!"
"Teacher! Please come back safely!"
I linked arms with Jessica and headed to the Adventurer Guild. The caravan's wagons were already starting to gather. After kissing Jessica and parting ways, I headed to the White Castle.
"Preparations are already complete!"
"As expected of Harrier!"
"You flatter me."
Nadja had become beautiful.
"They sure know how to say 'clothes make the man'!"
"How cruel! The material is good! But really, thank you so much for doing all this for me!"
She bowed deeply to Harrier and the servants, tears in her eyes.
The dark, eerie image she had was completely gone.
"Everyone's waiting, so let's go, Nadja!"
"Yes! Lord Shivans!"
She had become like a loyal subordinate.
When we arrived at the Adventurer Guild, 'Shinobi' and 'Kunoichi' were in a huge fight.
"What do you mean 'Kunoichi'! Don't get in our way!"
"Hmph! You scumbags call yourselves 'Shinobi'? Don't make me laugh!"
When I appeared and used 'Intimidation' without saying a word, everyone fell silent and turned to face me.
"If you want to fight, go ahead. I'll leave you behind."
The ten people trembled at my words.
"N-No, that's not it, Lord Shivans!"
"Th-That's right! It's not like that!"
Alpha and Anne clung to me.
"Let this be the only time, okay?"
At my words, they reluctantly reconciled.
When I introduced Nadja to everyone, the men of 'Shinobi' said, "Was there a cute girl like that?" and smirked, while 'Kunoichi' looked displeased. But when Nadja humbly said, "If I'm lacking in any way, please let me know right away!" she was well-liked.
The caravan master was Wesson, one of the head clerks of the Cielo Trading Company.
"If anything happens, please let me know right away, Lord Shivans!"
"It's fine! Our duty is to protect you, Wesson-san!"
I deployed 'Shinobi' and 'Kunoichi' on either side of the lead wagon to stir up their competitive spirit. Since Nadja had good eyesight and was good with a bow, I had her keep watch from atop the lead wagon.
I walked slowly at the rear as usual.
The Imperial Capital was as lively as a parade, with everyone seeing us off. Surprisingly, there were many people waving at me even in front of the academy.
(It's probably the effect of the novel.)
When I smiled and waved back, three beautiful women were waiting in the shadows. They beckoned me, lifted their miniskirts, and showed me their wet, beautiful, hairless pussies.
"Don't forget that such good women are waiting for you!"
"I know, Aria! I'll come back safely!"
I kissed Kate, Aria, and Chris, and left the Imperial Capital.