Chapter 48 - 48: Before the War
At last, the day of Namibia and Kaoz's execution arrived.
I had imagined them being skewered by spears or burned at the stake, but it was different.
The populace was made to throw stones at them, used as a means of stress relief. They gradually weakened, and in the end, exhausted their strength and died. It was cruel in a certain sense. Crows flocked to the corpses, and their original faces became unrecognizable.
(A warning to the nobles...)
A warning and an example to the nobles who would now be gathering. Seeing the gruesome corpses, they would likely tremble in fear. I understood it was a threat, saying this is what happens if you don't want the same fate.
His Majesty's example was still merely a prologue.
The day Namibia and Kaoz fell. It arrived suddenly. The greatest power that had been weighing on his mind vanished, and His Majesty, seeing this as his chance, issued a rallying cry.
[The Academy is now a hotbed of traitors!]
'Those who mock and deride the loyal retainers who died for the Empire! Cowards who hide their forms and refuse to give their names! I declare to the rebels who scorn me! The sin of scorning me is grave!'
The morning after this proclamation from His Majesty was published in the newspaper.
The knights of the Imperial Guard Knights descended upon the Academy in large numbers.
"Arrest the rebels who sided with Kamuri!"
Students were captured one after another, crying and screaming.
"No... that's not... I didn't have such grandiose intentions!"
"That's right! I just went along with it on a whim!"
The knights sneered as they declared.
"We'll hear your excuses later. Take them away!"
Not only the students, but the Principal was also arrested, and the teachers were captured and subjected to questioning. Of course, Lion, Indigo, and Frank's girlfriend had been given advance notice by the knights so they wouldn't be caught and were overlooked.
Over 200 students were taken away.
In the newspapers day after day, they were exposed by their real names as 'noble students who, without studying, engaged in acts of treason against His Majesty.' The most surprised were the students' parents, who hurriedly came to the Imperial Capital. Karina and Julia, having nothing to be ashamed of, carried themselves with dignity, but many students were still in a state of constant fear.
Lion was one of them. She trembled in my arms.
"If you're that scared, why not just have Markun help you?"
"I can't possibly say that... he'd hate me..."
More than that, I wanted to say he'd hate you more for sucking my dick. She's probably being creampied almost every day, so her period must have stopped by now.
"I'll do something to help you!"
"Thank you! I'll do anything!"
The only plays left with this woman that I haven't done are in the realm of extreme perversion. But, it seems like she'd do them if I asked. When I blindfold and bind her, she starts to show her true masochistic nature. She's gotten better at begging, becoming a convenient woman who accepts anything.
"Ufu. Hey? When my hands and body are tied and I'm blindfolded, it feels incredibly erotic! My pussy and nipples get super sensitive... and I cum right away! You made me into this kind of woman, so help me!"
Since she begged me, when I said, "I said I'd help you, didn't I?" she devoted herself even more.
Just a little teasing of her clit makes her scream "I'm cumming, cumming, cumming!" with a great reaction. She's become quite fun to play with.
One day, that Markun guy came and, in front of everyone, started to say, "Lion, you weren't involved in the bullying, right? Someone is saying, 'It wasn't just me! Lion was too! Arrest him too!'... If that's true, then I..."
"Oh? Markun, do you not believe your girlfriend? Do you believe what some unknown person says?" I covered for her, and he asked, "Who are you?" Everyone whispered, "He's the Devil," but he didn't seem to understand, so I introduced myself.
"Shivans O'Brien. I have been granted the Quasi-Knight Title by His Majesty."
He was surprised by those words, but I was more worried about whether this guy actually came to school. Since he doesn't even know me, he probably has no interest in bullying or anything like that. So, I guided Markun and Lion to the Student Council Room.
There, while I was asking Kate to put on a little act, Markun introduced himself.
"I'm Shiomachi, a third-year and the eldest son of Viscount Marvellous! I know about you two! You're the daughter of the fallen Duke Namibia, Karen-san, right? And you're the miniskirted slut they call Junna-san, right? I'm quite knowledgeable, aren't I?"
He was listening with a grin, but he must be a natural airhead. Julia, a little angry at having her name mistaken, provoked him: "You're that famous idiot son of Marvellous, ranked dead last in the year, aren't you? I didn't want to meet you, but what do you want?"
"So, Pa... Shivans-kun, why did you bring something like this to the Student Council Room?"
Karina, you almost said Papa. She must be pissed that her name was mistaken. Even being called 'something like this,' Markun just kept grinning; maybe he's a bit of a painful guy. Anyway, so Markun is Shiomachi?
"Who said that I was being bullied by Lion-san? Was it Shiokombu-san? Not being able to believe your girlfriend, you're not much of a boyfriend, are you, Shiokombu-san?"
As Kate lightly made a sarcastic remark, Julia and Karina grinned.
"I'm not her boyfriend. I'm her fiancé."
I could see on everyone's faces that they wanted to say, "Is he stupid? Or is he not stupid?" Then Aristo, unable to watch any longer, spoke up.
"So, your fiancée was insulted, right? Called a liar? Who said that?"
Markun looked flustered, not knowing who it was, and looked at Lion with a troubled face.
"Heeh... So you believe the words of some unknown person and complain to your fiancée?"
"How rude! Who are you?"
Aria introduced herself as the Imperial Princess and Aristo's wife.
"So you were the Imperial Princess! I've seen you for the first time!"
Everyone wanted to say, that's not the point... "Hey? Is that what you call love? Is that right?" I asked Lion.
Apparently, Markun had been hospitalized until a month ago. When he finally came to school and greeted his fiancée Lion, he had been staring at her cleavage the whole time, and their conversation didn't really mesh. Even so, they had become engaged when they were young, and he had only heard good things about her from his side, so it seems he was brainwashed.
In other words, it seems they hadn't met at this Academy for two years.
"What is this... Everything that had been beautified until now is crumbling with a tremendous crashing sound. Hospitalization... if his head is that messed up, isn't he at a level where he shouldn't be discharged yet?"
However, surrounded and unable to escape, she said with an expression of despair. While Lion and I were whispering, things had gotten strange.
"Alright! Lion! Go on a date with me tomorrow!"
"Huh?"
When Lion gave a stupid reply, Markun took it as consent and proceeded with the conversation on his own. After the two left, Kate sneered.
"So that's her fiancé. He's in a different category from David, but it's a sufficient punishment for her bullying! Ahahaha! That girl... a lifetime of hell!"
Kate said it so only I could hear.
"You've really gotten the hang of being a wicked woman. Indeed, it will probably be a lifetime of hell. With that, the Viscount's house will definitely be ruined."
"A wicked woman. Indeed, that's right. I've devoted my body and soul to the Devil! You would understand, wouldn't you? Because I killed my ex-husband mentally too!"
And, it seems she was laughing at the memory.
"You saw David's face of despair, right? It was the best!"
"And so you masturbated, right?"
"Of course! There's no way I wouldn't with such good material!"
As we were whispering, Aristo approached.
"Shivans, are you participating in the Eastern Expedition?"
"Of course. We have to make the enemy think they never want to attack again!"
It seems Aristo wanted to participate too, but was opposed by Aria and his family, and wasn't permitted.
"I know that even if I went, nothing would change..."
I understand his desire to participate, but as Aristo is now, the danger is too great. After all, he lacks various kinds of experience.
(This can't be helped... I'll have him give up.)
The Next Day
In the Student Council, yesterday's story was the only topic. It was about Lion and Shiokombu. I decided to have the bird that was usually assigned to Kate follow Lion instead to observe the situation.
In the morning, they seemed to have arranged to meet in front of the school gate.
"Hey, good morning Lion! Your boobs look great again today!"
Markun, already looking at nothing but boobs... I wonder about that greeting.Then, naturally, Lion sighed, "Haa..." However, without caring about Lion at all, he started boasting.
"Look at these clothes of mine! They're expensive! They cost 30,000 G! I wonder if you can understand how good they are?" He said it boastfully, but Lion seemed fed up.
(It's all about himself! My clothes cost many times more than that!)
I could see that Lion wanted to say that. Looking at accessories at a street stall, he said with a smile, "Your family is poor, so how about something like this? Shall I buy it for you?"
"I'm quite fine, thank you!"
Lion refused with an angry face. When she stopped Markun from trying to buy a 1,000 G glass trinket, Markun dragged Lion along and took her to a seedy love hotel.
"Eh? No! A place like this!"
"I heard all about it from my uncle, so it's fine! Leave it to me!"
I had the bird enter the room with them. Once inside, Markun attacked. He suddenly pressed on her with enough force to tear her clothes, and Lion got angry: "They'll tear! These are incredibly expensive!"
"My family can buy them right away! How much?"
"Just the top is 120,000 G!"
It took him a long time, counting on his fingers, to realize, "That expensive?" Once Lion finished undressing, he immediately pushed her down. He kissed her, groped her chest, and then prematurely ejaculated.
"Enough! Don't kiss me! Your breath stinks!"
When the angry Markun tried to force her to give him a blowjob, Lion naturally refused. Then, for some reason, he slapped Lion.
"What are you doing!"
Lion slapped him back repeatedly.
"That's strange... Uncle said being forceful was better..."
He muttered that, but forcibly shoved it into Lion's mouth and immediately prematurely ejaculated again. Lion choked and coughed, "Disgusting..." looking like she was about to vomit, but without caring, he tried to insert his revived member into her pussy.
"I-it hurts! Idiot!"
"It's just like Uncle said, a virgin hurts at first!"
Markun prematurely ejaculated near the entrance and looked satisfied. On the verge of tears, Lion washed off the filthy semen in the dirty bathroom. When she got out of the bath, Markun was sleeping contentedly.
She woke him up forcibly and left the hotel, where they ran into the thugs from the other day.
"Who the hell are you?"
The moment he was threatened, Markun abandoned Lion and dashed away.
"Big Sis... did that guy assault you? We'll get revenge for you!"
"It's fine. I'm okay."
Several of them chased after him, but despite being a bit plump, Markun's fleeing speed alone seemed to be fast. And so the date ended quickly. Escorted by the thugs, Lion returned to school.
Lion came to me immediately.
"Ravage me senseless!"
She pleaded while crying, so I flew to my room and held her until she calmed down. Once she settled down, she started complaining.
"His kiss tasted fishy... and when he came in my mouth, it was so disgusting I felt sick and almost threw up! Also, he forced it into my pussy when I wasn't even wet, came right away, and laughed saying, 'Uncle said virgins feel pain.'"
Lion's family's barony is apparently next to the Marvellous family's territory.
"That guy... knowing my family is in debt, he called my 'house poor' and tried to buy me a glass accessory!"
She was indignant at being made a fool of. And then, to top it off, she told me that when they left the love hotel and ran into those thugs from before, he abandoned her and ran away at full speed.
Her image of him until now was completely shattered, and she seemed so sad she wanted to cry, thinking she had been deceived by her own parents and would be married off to such a crazed lunatic. So, why is the Marvellous territory so wealthy? The answer, Lion said, is a mine.
"I see. I have a good idea. Want to hear it?"
She nodded and made an excited expression.Right now, His Majesty's spy is inside the school. First, to get the spy's attention, we'll have the thugs cause a disturbance in front of the Academy. The thugs will spread the information that Lion was raped by Markun so that the spy will notice.
"That way, Lion's parents will complain to the Marvellous family that their daughter was harmed before marriage. If it goes well, the debt will be wiped clean. And then, you'll marry him as planned, but Lion can effectively take over the Marvellous family."
Lion sneered at this devil's whisper.
"That plan is incredibly good! I'm getting so wet♡ Kiss me to cleanse my palate!"
When I gave her a light kiss, she said, "No! Love me more!" and leaned over me, clinging to me herself, inserting her tongue and kissing me fiercely, as if devouring me.
And then, she finally confessed that her period hadn't come.
"If you ask whose child it is, I'll punch you!"
"Is it okay if it's mine? You're just a sex friend, right?"
"You cum inside me that much and say that? If I didn't love you, I wouldn't have sex with you, and I wouldn't let you cum inside me... Are you going to make me say everything? Even the butt stuff, the binding, the semen ingestion... well, I was excited too, so it's fine, but still!"
She murmured quietly that she did it all because she loved me.
"Shivans's semen is incredibly delicious... but his was vomit-inducingly bad. I wonder if love and affection really do have something to do with it?"
"I think it means our bodies have good compatibility," I said, and she replied, "I can understand that!" grinning happily.
"This pussy has already been made exclusively for you! I've learned that no other dick will do! When he came on me, I went straight to the bath and washed it off!"
When I muttered that she was a virgin until recently but has become a complete slutty pussy, she complained, "You're the one who made me into this kind of woman!"
"Hey! Tie me up right now! I want you to make this slutty pussy cum over and over! Please, Shivans! Make me your wife, just for now!"
When I tied her up and performed cunnilingus, she screamed, "My beloved husband is licking my slutty pussy! Aaah! I'm cumming, cumming, cumming!" When I put fingers in both her butt and pussy, she squirted like crazy and screamed, "I've been cumming the whole time! I'm going to die!"
While gasping for breath, she asked, "Won't you regret getting me pregnant?" So I said, "We don't even know if you're pregnant yet, right?" and she honestly answered that it might just be late and we don't know yet.
Then, she begged me to say it, just once.
"I love you, Lion, so carry my child and give birth!"
"Yes, darling! Cum deep inside me lots... I love you!"
She got into cowgirl position, and while crying profusely, she let me grope her proud boobs and shook her hips violently. She begged me to cum inside her, and when she came, she murmured with a happy face, "I'm happy."
That evening, I found the thugs and gave them instructions regarding the Shiomachi matter: "Make a big scene." And, I placed a Slave Mark on Markun as he slept in his room and whispered to him, "You are a sexual predator who wants to violate any woman with big boobs you see."
The Next Morning
When a huge commotion broke out near the school gate, the Military Police rushed over immediately.
"We ain't done nothin' wrong! We saw the sex fiend run into this school! Is it okay just 'cause he's a noble!"
Based on the thugs' words, Markun was captured.When he was taken away, he confessed everything about dragging Lion to a love hotel and slapping her. Then he was thrown in jail, and word was immediately sent to His Majesty. Coincidentally, the Marvellous family and Lion's father were in the Imperial Capital to participate in the war.
"What! At a time like this, that fool...! Why was he discharged from the hospital?"
Learning that his son had been arrested by the Military Police, he was stunned. Also, hearing that he kept saying, "My uncle taught me," he became furious: "That idiot of a younger brother! He taught him like he was training an animal to do tricks!"
His Majesty also pressed him, "What is your son doing at the Academy!" and his participation in the war was decided.
The Marvellous family's rape incident was widely known throughout society. This was because the newspaper had already run an article about 'A Mad Noble Who Cannot Be Reasoned With Commits Assault on a Woman.'
(Indeed, he should not have been discharged!)
And when it came to light that the victim of the rape was Lion, her father, Baron Edinburgh, came to lodge a fierce protest with Marvellous.
"Even if they are engaged, what is the meaning of this treatment?"
"N-no... that is... anyway, I am terribly sorry!"
Marvellous was made to promise to take full responsibility after the war, and when he said the debt would be "treated as if it never happened," Edinburgh smirked inwardly.
Meanwhile, as Markun was being taken away by the Military Police in tears, he became a laughingstock at the Academy, and everyone watched. We were watching from the window too, and Lion, next to me, waved with a smile.
"With this, I won't have to see Markun for a while! I confirmed with Father, and he said, 'Everything went perfectly!' Thank you!"
She smiled, saying the child she conceived with me would inherit the Viscount's house. After seeing Markun off, she immediately asked me to hold her, so we went to my room.
Once completely naked, she asked to be blindfolded and tied up. When I did as she asked, she opened her mouth, stuck out her tongue, and drooled, saying, "Hurry! Let me suck your dick!"
"Hey! My slutty pussy is drooling too, right? You made me into a perverted woman who gets off on being tied up! Call me your cute wife! I'm a woman who has devoted everything to you! My mouth, my pussy, my asshole, everything is yours♡ Love me lots."
Lion had already laid everything bare and devoted it all to me.
"I love you!"
Crying, she clung to me, saying, "If I weren't a noble, I think being a mistress would be fine." She cried, saying she hated her position as a noble's daughter right now. She probably couldn't help but say it, even knowing she was asking for the impossible.
Meanwhile, the Rhodesian army was stuck, unable to move from the fort.
"Any contact from Ivan? What about the messenger we sent? Has there been any word from the messenger sent to the homeland? What about the General?"
No additional soldiers or food came from the homeland. Messengers sent to the homeland with inquiries didn't return. Of course, there was no contact from Ivan of the Kaoz army either, and none of the messengers they sent out returned, so everyone felt a deepening sense of isolation. The General in the Territory Capital, whom they believed was the only one they could contact, had actually not received their messages either.
"Let's observe the situation a little longer."
The messengers were Vel's subordinates, who had been impersonating officials and sending them from the Territory Capital to the fort.
"What shall we do, Apollo-sama? We only have about ten days' worth of food left."
"I know that! But... there's nothing we can do!"
They never dreamed that this fort would be attacked when their food ran out, but now they had no choice but to keep waiting for word that the Kaoz army had taken the Imperial Capital.
There was nothing around the fort.
"I want to go home soon..."
"Yeah. I want to get out of this place where we can't even eat properly..."
The soldiers at the fort had their meals restricted and lamented daily, going hungry.
A vast plain, unsuitable for farming, stretched out before their eyes. The soldiers spent their days staring blankly at it all day long. They never imagined that this place would soon become the main battlefield.