Chapter 61
“Hehe, hehe…♡”
Iris felt a tingling pleasure from the feel of the collar around her neck.
‘Ah… this feels so good…♡’
At first, she’d been flustered when told she had to come to the academy. Worried, too.
But.
‘If I could meet a man like this on my very first day, I’m so glad I came.’
It wasn’t as though she’d had a choice anyway; she had to go wherever the Pope decided.
‘Maybe I could even have a real relationship with this man!’
Right?
He must have suggested this kind of play out of the blue because he liked her too, right?
So.
“Don’t try to rush this. Let’s just take our time like this!”
“No, I get it, but would you let me take this off already? This collar is a special item that no one but me can unlock.”
Why Gilliam said that: because no one but him really could.
Iris’s misunderstanding: I want to be the only one who can put a collar on you and take it off.
Iris blinked.
“We’re not quite at that point in our relationship yet, are we?”
She liked it.
But they’d only just met today!
Iris, for all that, was the type who thought romance should progress one step at a time.
No.
Seriously.
She wasn’t lying or putting on airs; she genuinely meant it.
“Shouldn’t we take our time getting to know each other? So we really should go for a walk. The park here is pretty, too. Would you take the leash and show me around the academy?”
“Wouldn’t I have to take the collar off to show you around the academy?”
“Damn, what is with this guy, seriously?”
Roy Edgers, who already had a hobby of occasionally sitting alone in the park, happened to run into the two of them.
“What the hell, Everchess, you—”
Roy swallowed the words he’d been about to say.
Because he saw Gilliam with a red collar around a woman who was clearly an important figure in the Holy Church.
Smiling, he said instead of what he’d originally intended:
“You really should die soon.”
“Roy, it’s a misunderstanding.”
“You really should die, then be reincarnated, die again, be reincarnated again, and die again.”
Roy walked away. Iris went, “Ah!”
“Is he a friend of yours, Gilliam? Would you introduce us?”
“Please, just let me take off the collar—”
“When you put one on, you can do whatever you want, but taking it off is another matter!”
“You really are a strange person….”
Just as Gilliam sighed—
A message appeared before his eyes.
【Warning】
〈Fate: The possibility of <Tyrant of Ruin> has increased by 17%〉
【73%→90%】
“What the fuck, where did this come from all of a sudden!?”
“Eek!?”
Iris really did cry out in surprise, but he didn’t have the time to worry about her right now.
Seriously, why is this happening all of a sudden!? It jumped 17% when I didn’t do anything!?”
‘Was sending her home alone really that huge a mistake!?’
Should I have walked her all the way to her door once we started flirting? I should hurry and check on her, even now!
“There’s no time! Hurry up and take it off!”
“N-no—!”
Iris opened her eyes wide.
“No! I’m not taking it off!!”
“Damn it…!”
Looking back, at this point he should’ve just tossed Iris the leash handle and told her to wait.
But at the time, his mind wasn’t working well enough for that.
As a result—
“Then run with me!”
“Eek!?”
The delinquent ran!
With the Saintess on a leash! Across the park and into the dormitory!
“H-how is this a walk!? We’re supposed to go slower and make it romantic!”
“There’s no time!”
“What do you mean, there’s no time!?”
【Warning】
〈Fate: The possibility of <Tyrant of Ruin> has increased by 6%〉
【90%→96%】
“I really don’t!!!!!”
There was only 4% left! The bad ending was right around the corner!
He yanked the leash.
“Run faster!”
“Eek!?”
The commoner cadets’ shared dorms were the first buildings they came to. At the loud noise from one side, several cadets went to the windows and shouted.
“W-what is that!?”
“Some crazy man is dragging a woman around on a leash!”
“What!?”
Commoner cadets crowded the windows, thinking up ominous words like report, criminal, and eliminate.
And reflected in their eyes was a distinctive head of silver hair.
The Everchess family delinquent, now famous enough that anyone at the academy could recognize him from his silhouette alone—
“Kyaaaaaa!”
“Run!!!!”
He was running with a red leash around the neck of a woman who looked like a high-ranking member of the Holy Church.
“Ah.”
“Phew….”
The commoner cadets relaxed.
If it had been any man other than Gilliam, they would’ve immediately gone out to catch a criminal.
But.
“So it was the young master of House Everchess….”
“I thought something terrible had happened.”
“I hope you die I hope you die I hope you die I hope you die.”
The same thing happened in the nobles’ housing district.
“W-what on earth is that!?”
“What kind of freakish—oh, what, it’s Everchess.”
“Phew….”
“That startled me.”
The noble cadets thought to themselves.
‘I thought he was a criminal trying to kidnap a woman, but it was just Everchess.’
‘I thought something terrible had happened, but Everchess is just training a woman….’
‘Hmm… I hope he dies.’
Had the whole academy gone strange by this point?
Iris, who had only arrived today (and so hadn’t been corrupted yet), sensed something odd about the atmosphere, but she didn’t have the time to worry about it now.
“Hah, haaah…! But do we really have to run this fast!? Can’t we slow down a little!?”
“No! I told you there’s no time!”
“What time—”
“We’re here!”
“Hah, haaah… Where even is this—”
“Elettra!”
“Elettra is, haaah, who exactly, haaah…!!”
And.
Elettra.
“H-hhh…♡ G-Gilliam!?”
She’d been sitting in the entryway, experiencing all sorts of emotions and sensations, when she hurriedly got to her feet in surprise.
‘Why did he suddenly come here? Did things not go well with the Saintess?’
In other words.
He’d left her, with her belly warmed up, to flirt with another woman—and after failing to seduce that woman, he came back to her?
That was….
Totally….
“Gilliam…!♡”
How adorable!
How exciting!
Yeah, I really am better, aren’t I? I’m your main wife, right!?
‘Gilliam, Gilliam, Gilliam, Gilliam, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you—’
In a hurry, she wiped her slippery fingers on the inside of her skirt, then flung open the front door. The cool night air poured in.
“Gilliam!♡”
However.
A scene Elettra had never expected unfolded right before her eyes.
Gilliam was holding a leash.
It was the same leash she’d seen before. The red one he’d put around the neck of one of his women with especially large breasts, the big-breasted milk-boy—Lucy Merhantia.
This time, the leash wasn’t around Lucy’s neck, but around the neck of the woman she’d just seen in the park.
“Hheek, hheee….”
“Hah… E-Elettra… hah….”
Elettra blinked. What on earth was going on here?
He hadn’t failed to seduce the woman—he’d seduced her, put a leash on her, and brought her here…?
Gilliam braced himself against the wall, sweating.
“I-I don’t know what happened, but….”
He really had no idea why Elettra’s likelihood of becoming a tyrant had suddenly risen.
And at times like this, his strategy was to speak from the heart.
“…Please don’t become a tyrant.”
It was an out-of-nowhere word. Tyrant.
But strangely, it didn’t sound out of place.
‘Me, a tyrant?’
Maybe…
Without even realizing it, had she been drawing closer to a future in which she became a tyrant?
And had Gilliam noticed a future even she hadn’t realized was coming, and come to stop her?
It was a strange thing to say.
But somehow, it was strangely convincing.
Elettra whispered.
“…Gilliam.”
Sweat trickled from his panting forehead, down the nape of his neck.
‘He really does look sexy.’
Elettra felt the urge to fuck this man like an animal and reached out. Should she grab the nape of his neck? His hair?
“Whew… Elettra, hold this for a moment… I’m sweating like crazy.”
The leash handle passed into Elettra’s outstretched hand.
“…?”
Elettra and Iris’s eyes met.
“Ah… hello?”
“…Nice to meet you.”
Elettra gave the leash a tug.
Iris flinched.
“Eep….”
“…Mmm.”
She tugged again.
“Heh, hehe…?”
“……Mmm.”
Right.
So there was another way to do this.
Being the main wife didn’t mean she had to wait until they got home.
“Gilliam.”
“?”
When he lifted his head, this was what he saw.
Iris, still bent over catching her breath. Wearing a collar.
Elettra standing proudly at her side. Holding the leash.
“I understand now. Thank you.”
“…?”
What on earth did she understand?
【Bond Quest: 〈Joint Reign〉 Complete!】
【Connection to the Tyrant of Ruin (LV.3) awarded as a reward!】
〈Connection to the Tyrant of Ruin (LV.3)〉
Effect: Praise Points earned from holders of the Tyrant of Ruin trait are multiplied by ×5.
“??”
Why did this clear all of a sudden, too?
‘I really don’t know.’
A lot of things happened tonight that I didn’t understand.
Still….
‘In the end, did everything work out…?’
I went on a date with Elettra, too.
We became something like a couple, too.
I cleared a Bond Quest, too.
The Iris I’d feared most wasn’t a transmigrator.
Her tastes were a little strange, but we seemed to have gotten closer anyway.
More than anything.
〈Fate Probability〉
Tyrant of Ruin: 89%
This dangerous number was continuing to fall. 87%… 85%… 83%….
“Phew….”
The intense relief made my body go limp.
Now I’d go home, shower, and go to sleep.
“But this place kind of smells sour and a little fishy—”
Elettra smacked Gilliam.