Chapter 67 - 67 Summer's End
The Terrifying Etiquette Instructor Appears
At first, everyone participated just to try it out, but the next day it was half, and the day after that, it was half again, so by the fourth day, only six people remained.
"Young girls these days! You're not disciplined at all!"
After being rigorously trained, by the fifth day only Limone remained.
"Is she a masochist or something...?"
She attended the lessons with such a smile that everyone worried about her.
"Because! You can receive lessons for free! Don't you think that's something to be grateful for? And it's the upper class I've always admired!"
The women all showed respect for Limone, who said this with a smile.
Hearing that, when asked if a girl from lower nobility who had nothing to do with Aristo this time could also participate, the instructor happily welcomed her, saying, "Girls with motivation are welcome!"
Around that time, in a corner of the imperial capital... at a desolate tavern on the outskirts of town, a single beauty was drinking at the counter past noon. Her exposed thighs overflowed with sensuality. A man who looked exactly like a failed adventurer approached her. He was approaching middle age, but he suited this shabby tavern.
"Welcome."
When the master called out to him, the man didn't even give a proper reply, walked up to the beauty, sat down next to her without asking, and ordered a drink. The interior was small, but despite it being past noon, there were about ten customers.
None of them were drinking; they all had the sharp gaze of people who wouldn't miss a single move the man who entered made.
The beauty remained silent and smoothly slid a single silver coin across the counter to her neighbor. The man happily took the silver coin and gazed at it with a smirk.
"From now on, what I'm gonna say is just me talking to myself."
Saying that, he received his drink from the master.
"The guy I'm looking for is someone who calls himself the sixth son of the former Viscount Bakuchi, a guy who boasts about it himself, but he's a suspicious one. I've never seen him go into the mansion, after all."
He laughed with a hehehe and downed his drink, and another silver coin slid over.
"That guy's name is Guzuro. I don't even know if it's his real name... Where was it he lived again?"
Saying that, he drained his drink, and another silver coin slid over.
"Whoops! I remembered! He should be sleeping at a cheap inn near the Adventurer Guild. If he ain't there, he's probably at a cheap inn near the Northern Dungeon, using drugs to assault some woman or something, right? I talked too much to myself today!"
He left without even paying his bill.
The beauty turned around to look at the customers and asked, "What do you think?"
"He makes his living as an information broker, so you can trust him. However, there's a possibility he might also sell information about Lily-anego to other failed adventurers, so I'll escort you."
When Liliana paid the bill and left the shop, five men immediately appeared.
"Oh! It's true! A beauty you just want to sink your teeth into!"
"And what a sexy body you've got! Oi!"
However, the five men were captured by Lily's guards in the blink of an eye.
The thugs who had been tailing the information broker apologized, saying, "We're sorry! We lost him..."
They had been having the information broker followed, but it seemed he had sold Liliana's information to the five men and disappeared.
"We're sorry, anego!"
"It's fine. I will return and relay the information from just now to my master. You all go and corroborate the information on Guzuro."
Saying that, she handed over silver coins, and the thugs became eager.
Immediately, Guzuro became a wanted man in the underworld.
Capturing him alive was 100,000 G. Furthermore, if he talked about the rape incident, the drug matters, his companions, and his connections, it became 200,000 G.
Two days after that. In a certain underground room, the captured Guzuro was being tortured, forced to gulp down truth serum.
"Hey? It was you, wasn't it? The guy who used drugs to rape a student who came to the dungeon this summer and then called himself 'I am Aristo'?"
"So what if it was! Because of that bastard's old man... Red Crow was annihilated! And on top of that, he went and destroyed Kaoz-sama and Namibia-sama!"
Red Crow was a group of adventurers formed from the sons of good-for-nothing nobles. Their biggest sponsors were Kaoz and Namibia. He said his companions had scattered. The question was, was the group that raped Liliana Red Crow?
"Wahahaha! You ignorant fools! You're just thugs after all, huh? Don't you know Bloodstained Crow-sama, the grandson of Count Zande?"
It was nothing special. He just had a thing for virgins, used drugs to rape them, and dyed his dick with blood.
Hearing that story, they let out scornful, bitter laughs.
"So? What about him and his companions? How did you get the drugs?"
When asked, Guzuro told them everything.
Zande Territory was west of what is now Gran Territory and had a port. They seemed to have procured goods from pirates as well, and the ruined Naar family had been cultivating their own, but they also seemed to have procured from Zande.
"Where are Crow and his remnants?"
"I-I don't know... It's the truth! I've already spilled everything I know, so let me go soon! Rape's not that big a deal, right? You guys have done it too, haven't you..."
Mid-sentence, his head fell off with a thud.
I had swiftly cut off Guzuro's head and turned to face everyone.
"Well then, everyone. For Crow, we'll put out a bounty of 500,000 G, captured alive! For Crow's companions, even if they aren't Red Crow members, we'll put out 100,000 G!"
The thugs were surprised and delighted at the same time.
"Hey? When did the boss cut off that guy's head just now? It was too fast, I couldn't see it at all..."
No one had seen it, but one of them said, "That's what happens if you go against him. We gotta be careful too! More importantly, it's 500,000 G! If we catch his other companions, 1,000,000 G isn't just a dream!" and they got fired up with their comrades.
After this, the Crow hunt gradually became famous, and even people at the acquaintance level were captured and judged by truth serum as to whether they were companions or not.
After that, I went to report to the first-year student named Carla that her pregnancy had been undone, and she was comforted by Aria and the others.
"I see... So I was... by that guy called Guzuro..."
Bitterness seeped through, but when I told her I had put his head on public display, she laughed and said, "That's just what you'd expect from someone called a devil!" Encouraged by Kate, Magira, Torenoa, and Emma, she cheered up. Then Aristo appeared, asking, "Don't you have anything to say to me?"
"I was thoroughly... scolded by your father!"
"That's true. I apologize for that. But Aristo-sama, you deceived many women using marriage as bait, didn't you? Not even remembering anyone's name... How heartless!"
When the women said things like, "He's right! So heartless!" and "That's a dirty trick!", Aristo said, "Th-That and this are separate matters..." but he couldn't bear it and fled as if escaping.
Carla was encouraged by everyone and said, "I wasn't the only one who went through a painful experience. I'll do my best too!" and worked hard with Limone under the etiquette instructor.
I went to the palace and told His Majesty and Klaus about Count Zande's drug matter.
"Fool! He ran off pursuing his own self-interest!"
His Majesty seemed to have decided to destroy Zande as soon as the evidence was corroborated.
Around that time, an announcement was made in the imperial capital about the academy's entrance exams for next year. Everyone would learn about it through the newspaper.
[The maximum enrollment capacity, which had no limit before, is scheduled to be significantly reduced this year. His Majesty embarks on reforming the privileged class consciousness of the nobility. A shift to meritocracy?]
[Until now, nobles were passed with conditions close to no examination, but this time there will be a document screening in autumn, an interview for the secondary exam. The third exam is a written test. The fourth exam is swordsmanship and magic. The fifth exam is another interview. Furthermore, even if the quota is not filled, unsuccessful applicants will not be moved up. Also, even commoners can take the exam if they have the ability. At the same time, an Etiquette School will be established, which seems to serve as a safety net for unsuccessful applicants.]
In reality, there were no longer people flaunting their status at the current academy. Even at the training camp, people started mocking others, saying, "That guy's a boorish country bumpkin who can only throw his weight around with his parents' power!" and in fact, I was the only noble at the school. Moreover, since the Knight Academy students were all being defeated, if you were challenged to a duel, you had no choice but to die. That's why I was disliked, but...
There were also people whose popularity was skyrocketing.
Magira, a third-year, had previously been unremarkable and didn't stand out.
"I didn't really know Magira, but I feel like she's gotten prettier."
"She's gotten kind of sexy, hasn't she? Should I try asking her out once?"
And Torenoa, a first-year, was thought to be unfriendly and only interested in swords.
"When she smiles, she's super cute! It's like a healthy beauty, you know what I mean?"
"I get it! Those huge tits and ass! And she wears a miniskirt with that! Promising future!"
Similarly, Emma, a first-year, had only given off a scary impression.
"What is it? She was actually a beauty, huh..."
"Yeah. That alluring body is arousing!"
The popularity among the male students was rapidly rising, but all three ignored invitations from men. They thought, "You never gave us the time of day before."
Those three were now completely lewd girls. Magira loves having her head held and being face-fucked. When I ejaculate deep in her throat, she gets so happy she wets herself, so she always comes without panties or a bra when performing fellatio.
"Because... Master praised me, saying this way is more obscene!"
Torenoa is always completely naked. And she loves being completely naked and bukkake'd. If I asked for it, she seems ready to strip even outside.
"Swallowing is good too, but... you praised my beautiful body, right? And you said you like lewd women who get excited being covered! When I thought... I was being marked by Master, I got so excited! I end up masturbating a lot!"
Emma simply loves 69.
"I want to learn anal faster than anyone! When I think about being trained into a super pervert, I get so happy! Please... play with my ass more!"
All three had become adorable women who repeatedly professed their love for me.
Crow and his gang were not in the imperial capital. Saying they were probably in Zande Territory if anywhere, the thugs flocked to Zande's territorial capital. At the same time, His Majesty's spies also arrived.
"This is terrible..."
There wasn't even a need to corroborate. The feudal lord had allowed drugs to spread in the territorial capital and was even exploiting his own people. The slums were expanding, and even though the harvest autumn was near, every farming village was deserted.
(Is he an idiot? There's no way you can manage a territory like this, right?)
Not just me, everyone was thinking the same thing.
A while after that, Count Zande's mansion in the imperial capital was seized, and all important documents were confiscated. The military and doctors were dispatched to the territorial capital. Count Zande's family was captured, but they had all gone mad from drugs and were beyond reasoning, so they were to be executed.
Around that time, Crow and his gang somehow slipped out of the mansion, but knowing they were being pursued, they discussed escaping by sea.
"Pirates should be able to do something for us!"
Holding onto a single thread of hope, they went out to the port, where thugs told them, "Aren't you Crow-san and his friends? We respect you guys! Let us treat you to a drink, won't you?" which put them in a good mood.
They gulped down alcohol laced with sleeping pills, and when Crow said, "The women we've violated? We can't even count 'em, right?", they laughed heartily, saying, "Yeah, yeah! If you include the past, it's over 200... no, probably over 300! Gahahaha!"
"What about your other friends?"
"Huh? Why do you ask that? We're scattered, so I don't know, but there probably aren't any left alive, right?"
After drinking heavily, when Crow and his gang woke up, they were inside a carriage. They were tied up and gagged.
"Awake now? You're going on a trip to the imperial capital from here, so you'll live a little longer."
Told this coldly, they understood everything.
Crow and his three companions, brought to the hideout, were made to face Liliana.
"Who the hell are you? No... I've seen you before! That's right! You're Liliana, aren't you? It's been two years since then? No, three years? I see! You wanted to be held by us again... so you went to all this elaborate trouble to find us!"
I wanted to say "as if," but her body was frozen with fear and she couldn't move, so I cast Fear Resistance on Liliana. Crow began to boast to the thugs around him as well.
"It was before Liliana entered the Imperial Academy, right? We heard there was a cool woman who partied hard at night! When we used hypnotics and drugs on her, this chick was actually a virgin! Ahahaha! And yet, she went wild! Every night she craved dick, moaned in ecstasy, and became a lewd woman! Even now, there's no woman quite like you, right?"
His companions also chimed in, "Yeah, yeah! Even we, who get bored quickly, could hold her for days!" I cast Pain and Fear on them and stripped them naked.
"What the hell are you doing!"
I informed Crow and his companions that I had cast magic on them.
"I cast a spell that exposes your sense of pain. With this, you'll be assaulted by pain to the point you can't even walk or sleep, and on top of that, you'll be trapped by fear."
Then, suddenly, everyone started jumping around, shouting, "It hurts! It hurts!" When they fell, intense pain ran through their entire bodies, and they writhed in agony.
"Hey, Liliana? What do you think will happen if we hit these guys' dicks with this?"
When I showed Liliana a wooden stick, she said, "Please let me do it, Master!" and went to strike them.
"Stop... Stop it... Please stop..."
"When I said that, crying and screaming, do you remember what you all said? 'Like hell we'd stop! Stupid!' You said that and sneered. I understand your feelings from back then perfectly now! Kyahaha! Come on! Try to run away."
Even wanting to run, the four couldn't move due to the intense pain in the soles of their feet. Even without being hit, just being poked with the wooden stick made them writhe in agony. Dominated by fear, the four cowered and screamed, while Liliana laughed and beat them. Even when they wanted to faint, the pain revived them. It was a hellish torture.
"When I think of the women whose hearts were broken by scum like you and who died without being able to clear their regret, I can't forgive you! Suffer more! More! Don't think you'll die easily!"
Saying that, she continued to beat them, and they gradually weakened. In the end, all four let out groans with expressions of agony and said, "W-We're sorry..." but she finished them off, saying, "I won't forgive you!"
Normally, the bounty would be 800,000 G, but when I said, "Take care of the cleanup," and handed over gold coins, the thugs happily took care of the aftermath for me.
When I instantly moved to my room, Liliana immediately took off her clothes and passionately sought me with heightened emotions.
"Don't say just half a year... I want to serve Master forever... I want you to dominate this body forever! I'll become more and more lewd! Don't throw me away!"
She continued to seek me through the night and into the morning. Even when she was sleep-deprived to the point of having bags under her eyes, she still performed titty fuck fellatio and masturbatory fellatio, striving to get me erect even a little sooner. She seemed to be appealing that she wanted to stay forever by devoting herself.
When morning came, I changed clothes, took her back to the dormitory, said, "Sleep a little," and cast Sleep on her to let her rest. I also took a nap, and when I went to the Klaus family house before noon, only the Lady was there. When I asked, she told me that Klaus was at the palace dealing with the aftermath of the Zande family and hadn't returned for a while, and that Windam and Aqua had apparently returned to their territory three days ago.
Even though it was almost autumn, the daytime was hot. The Lady was lightly dressed in a bewitching outfit, probably because she had been waiting for Klaus. When I complimented her, saying she was beautiful, she made a happy face.
"You may leave us. Withdraw."
She ordered the maids and personally made tea for me. Then, she told me how, thanks to me rejuvenating her, she was exercising, and even in the neighborhood, people would say, "Aristo-sama's mother?" and no one called her an old lady anymore. Then, she gradually took off her clothes, and when she was naked, she asked, "Am I beautiful?"
When I said, "Of course! You are incredibly beautiful," she told me to undress too, came beside me, and gave me a deep kiss. With a melting kiss, I got slightly erect, and she started sucking.
"Shivans, where do you want to come? Right now... Marino is easy to impregnate."
"Inside... I want to come inside."
Saying "alright," she straddled me in the front-facing seated position, lowered her hips, and wriggled as if savoring it inside her vagina.
"It feels... incredibly good, Marino!"
"Me too! I'm already coming...!"
After a slight spasm, she began to shake her hips slowly this time. When we kissed like lovers, she pressed my face against her chest and pleaded, "Suck my nipples!" When I made slurping sounds, her hip movements quickened, and she screamed, "I'm coming, coming, coming!" and squirted.
"Do you like Marino? If you like me, come inside!"
"I'm coming, Marino!"
We hugged tightly, kissed, and when I pulled out, she performed cleaning fellatio.
"There's a thrill here, but is it not relaxing?"
"You're right. Let's go to the room."
After that, we enjoyed ourselves in the rear-entry seated position and missionary position.
"I won't get pregnant unless it's with a man I love! Since I'm saying it's okay, don't hold back and come inside me a lot!"
By evening, Marino had her womb filled completely. Klaus wouldn't be returning tonight either, so we had dinner together, took a bath, and I held Marino until morning.
The Next Morning
When the treatment ended, she happily said, "Did I get younger again?" While I was having breakfast with Marino, Klaus returned. He immediately started talking about work.
"Really now! Meals are meant to be enjoyed deliciously!"
Scolded by the Lady, he reluctantly stopped talking about work and ate.
Klaus, looking pale, began to speak: "The negotiations with Rhodesia are not going well..."
If that's the case, how about using the newspaper to sway public opinion?
If they leak content about how the king waged a pointless war without addressing noble conflicts or subjugating bandits, only to suffer a crushing defeat, and how he started a war without even a declaration of war, angering the Altmea Empire, and how he still hasn't apologized or paid any money, and that's why the many soldiers taken prisoner haven't returned—then the people's anger would be directed at the king and the nobles engaged in pointless conflicts.
"Furthermore, if you incite them by saying that if they don't make peace quickly, they'll be destroyed if attacked by neighboring countries, it will be even more effective. In fact, they haven't even been able to drive off the bandit group 'Salvator the Demon God.' If you write that he lacks the ability to make decisions and govern, I feel it might be resolved surprisingly quickly. Also, if you gather soldiers at the border, the king should be pressured to 'Make peace quickly!'"
Klaus chuckled and said, "That's good!", but I started to worry about whether the neighboring countries on our side were okay. To the north, there was a collection of small countries called the Northern Nations Alliance, and to the west, there was the Duchy of Walujava, a country with past ties.
"Do you have any ideas?"
"It might be good to place diplomats in each capital and have them send pigeons if they obtain any information."
If they can't be placed openly, they could pose as merchant houses to gather information, or use taverns or brothels. In fact, with the latter, suspicious individuals coming and going wouldn't be suspected.
"There's also the matter of Aristo. I must give you some kind of reward. Do you have any wishes?"
Told not to hold back, I consulted him again about Liliana's matter and my desire to help the three who were working hard. Magira, Torenoa, and Emma. All three were working hard, but they seemed to have no money and were struggling with tuition. Moreover, Magira's family had lost her father in the war and was likely to be dissolved, so I conveyed that it would be appreciated if they could be helped.
"Are you yourself fine? What about money?"
"Everyone in the Klaus family and His Majesty have treated me very well. If what I just requested is granted... I am satisfied with that!"
As for money, I couldn't say I was extorting it from the ruined nobles... but I wasn't strapped for cash. Klaus made a troubled face and said with a bitter smile, "You say that's enough, and I can't just say 'yes, is that so'... but well, fine."
"Also... if possible, how about dispatching students to support Count Zande's territory under the name of extracurricular activities? They could see for themselves what happens when you easily get involved with drugs. I think it would be good for them to witness it."
After thinking for a moment, Klaus also said, "That's a good idea too!" and we parted ways.