Chapter 32
Before they knew it, the carriage had reached a forest near the Kingdom of Tiranis.
They couldn’t leave the carriage in the middle of the road, so they’d come into the forest to let the horses rest a little, too.
And they’d heard they would reach the kingdom tomorrow morning.
Everyone was getting ready to camp here for the night.
Well, for now, we were just sorting through our things inside the carriage.
We didn’t have much, though.
Anyway, while we were getting ready like that…
“Hmm, something’s suspicious……”
Yubel folded her arms and stared intently at Se-on and Riella, who seemed to be watching her out of the corners of their eyes.
She stared so hard that a crease formed between her brows.
Why do they keep avoiding my eyes?
Whenever Riella saw Yubel, she kept gagging and rushing in and out of the carriage.
Se-on, too, would make an indescribable expression and look away whenever their eyes met.
So of course Yubel had to find it suspicious.
Ah, could it be……
Are they ostracizing me?
But why on earth?
“Hmm……. What’s the problem?”
Yubel thought carefully about why she might be getting ostracized.
Only one reason came to mind.
Maybe it’s because I’m hogging Eva, who makes refreshing drinks.
Tch, Eva’s mine.
Still, if it’s for the sake of my standing……
Yubel made up her mind.
“Hey, you guys? Try drinking this.”
Swish.
She held Eva out toward Riella.
Riella turned her head and recoiled in alarm.
“Urp! I-I just need some fresh air……!”
She dashed out of the carriage.
“Huh?”
Yubel was bewildered.
Riella kept gagging and running away.
How suspicious was that?
Yubel narrowed her eyes.
Then she slowly thought through the situation.
The nonstop gagging.
And that slightly bulging belly.
Could it be……?
Pregnant.
Yubel’s foolish brain had managed to come up with such an absurd word.
Her already pale face turned even whiter in an instant.
‘I-I’m screwed!’
A curse slipped out instinctively.
That was how indescribable Yubel’s feelings were.
From an outsider’s perspective, they might wonder, ‘Why?’
After all, she hadn’t thought much of it even when the Hero learned Invisibility.
But that was only because she’d expected it. It had just happened a little faster than she thought.
This, however, was different.
‘Because the Hero doesn’t just need skill points to get skills!’
That was right.
The Hero’s higher-tier skills required several hundred skill points.
Among them, his ultimate skill, [Common Sense Alteration], had a separate condition for unlocking it.
That condition was {Get one of the heroines pregnant}.
“Th-This fucking……”
Was it because this was a world where kissing could get you pregnant?
My complacent thought, ‘There’s no way she’d get pregnant that easily,’ had made things spiral out of control.
The Hero must have seduced Riella, who knew nothing about pregnancy, and done it with her.
Grind.
Yubel trembled with rage.
How could anyone do something so horrible?
When she turned her gaze, she saw the Hero still avoiding her eyes.
And he was acting so calm, as if he knew nothing.
“Phew……”
Yubel let out a deep sigh, filled with seething rage.
With that, she felt her head growing clearer.
Then, with her mind clear, she calmly reminded herself of her goal.
‘I only have to accomplish one thing.’
Stop the Hero from gathering skill points as much as possible, while taking the new Demon King’s head at the Demon King’s Castle.
Then the Hero would be forcibly sent back to his original world.
In other words, if she kept getting in the Hero’s way, she would win.
A perfect happy ending.
—or so Yubel thought.
The problem was that even her assumptions were wrong.
First of all, Yubel thought she’d been away from the Demon King’s Castle for quite some time.
So she assumed one of the Four Heavenly Kings had become the new Demon King in her place.
Of course, that wasn’t the case.
For one thing, the Demon King wasn’t chosen based on strength.
But Yubel had the mindset that might makes right. Tsk, tsk.
Anyway.
One way or another, Yubel was still the Demon King.
And that fact would never change.
“Yubel, let’s get out, too.”
“Oh, right. We should get ready now.”
Outside, the adventurers were already setting up simple tents.
We had a tent of our own, too, so we needed to get ready before nightfall.
And so the sun began to set.
***
“Phew……”
Riella and Se-on had spent the whole time in the carriage trying to compose themselves, and it hadn’t been easy.
Who would’ve thought Yubel had lived such a difficult life?
And Riella’s belly was bigger than it had been when they first met.
She’d kept eating because her head hurt, so it made sense that her belly had stuck out like that.
“I can’t believe Yubel has a hobby of drinking pee! I was so shocked for a moment!”
“Haha, yeah……”
But Riella and I had one big difference.
Riella didn’t know about Yubel’s past.
She probably just thought Yubel had that sort of hobby.
“……”
Putting together what I’d learned about Yubel’s past so far…
First of all, Yubel had been born with a deformity among the beastfolk.
According to the beastfolk’s customs, a child born deformed like Yubel was supposed to be abandoned immediately.
For some reason, though, Yubel wasn’t abandoned. Her parents raised her instead.
That was the beginning of her misfortune.
All that time, Yubel’s parents had used her to satisfy their desires, beating her or making her drink their urine, among other things.
As a result, Yubel never even received basic sex education and developed twisted sexual proclivities, taking pleasure in exposure and violence.
Eventually, she was either abandoned by her family or ran away from them.
By a cruel twist of fate, she met me, the righteous Hero she believed in, deep in a remote forest.
“Damn it……”
How could one person’s life be this cruel?
Grind.
Se-on quietly ground his teeth.
Having grown up in such harsh circumstances, love must have been nothing but a fantasy to Yubel. She must have developed a trauma around being abandoned, too.
Now I finally understood what drove Yubel’s actions.
And yet…
To have such a kind heart despite all that……
Could Yubel really be an angel?
“Yubel……”
From now on, I’ll make you happy.
No matter what happens.
“Hero! Let’s get ready for bed.”
“Yeah. I’ll come in, too.”
When I entered the tent, I saw Yubel in her bikini and Riella already sprawled out on the ground.
It seemed she was exhausted after spending so long in the swaying carriage.
“Kyao!”
And Eva was nestled against Yubel’s chest, too.
‘Hmm, is it okay to raise that thing?’
For some reason, Se-on didn’t like how Eva stuck so close to Yubel and no one else.
Why was it clinging to her chest like that?
“Wow, this is my first time camping in a tent instead of a sleeping bag.”
Yubel ran her slender hand over the ground as she spoke.
It seemed she was checking the ground to avoid the spots with rocks.
“Sorry. If I’d only been a little better at making money……”
“Huh? Oh, no. Sleeping bags are comfortable, too. What’s wrong with them?”
Yubel gave an embarrassed little laugh.
She must have had complaints, but she was as kind as ever.
Even with such a heartbreaking past.
“Yeah…… Thanks for saying that.”
“Uh, y-yeah.”
Se-on looked at her with wistful eyes.
Yubel frowned at the sight.
No, what’s with him?
Is this some new kind of bullying?
This is creepy as hell.
“Eva, lie down here, too. I found a good spot.”
“Kyao!”
Maybe it felt grateful, because Eva rubbed against Yubel with great enthusiasm.
That’s right.
Be sure to appreciate everything I’ve done for you.
And someday, you’ll become a monster capable of stopping the Hero.
“Yubel, let’s go to sleep now, too.”
“Sure. Then I’ll— Hey! I’m sleeping over there!”
“Huh? Wh-What?!”
Roll, roll.
Yubel rolled Se-on, who had already lain down, over to the corner.
Se-on looked at Yubel with hollow eyes.
But Yubel’s gaze was a sharp glare.
Se-on immediately lowered his eyes.
Wait, was he trying to sneakily lie down next to Riella?
He must’ve been planning to take advantage of Riella while she slept.
If Se-on had heard that slander, he would’ve jumped up and gone berserk.
“Haha…… All right. I’ll sleep here.”
“Hehe. Good choice.”
I’ve already figured out your little scheme, Hero.
From now on, you’re not getting any more skill points, got it?
Flop.
Yubel immediately lay down at an angle beside Riella.
Ugh, what’s with that belly? There’s no room to lie down.
“Huh? She’s already asleep?”
“She must be really tired. Yaaawn…… I’m getting sleepy, too.”
She must be tired after the Hero did all that crap to Riella all day.
Disgusting bastard.
“Kyao! Kyao!”
Eva fussed restlessly, unable to fall asleep.
“Hm? You can’t sleep? Can’t be helped. I’ll do that for you.”
Slowly, slowly.
Yubel climbed onto Eva, who was lying still.
She was going to use what she’d learned from Behemoth.
“Y-Yubel? What are you doing right now?”
“Huh? You don’t know this, either? When they’re little, you pounce on them like this when they’re getting ready to sleep.”
The Hero sprang to his feet.
Then he stared at Eva and me with his mouth hanging open, as if he’d lost his mind.
No, what’s his problem?
Does he have a problem with it?
Yubel couldn’t understand Se-on’s behavior.
The Behemoth-style parenting method Yubel had learned about.
She’d been taught that when a young dragon couldn’t fall asleep, you climbed on top of it and covered it like this.
The comfortable weight helped the child fall asleep.
So what was wrong with her climbing on top of Eva like this?
“Y-You pounce on them like that before they go to sleep?”
The Hero asked again, his voice trembling.
“Yeah. Mother said this was right, too. You should watch and learn, too.”
You’re so lacking in common sense.
Well, I guess that’s because all you think about is dirty stuff.
“Kyaooo……”
Press, press.
Yubel was busily pressing down on Eva with her sturdy hips.
Maybe the pressure was making it more comfortable, because Eva was purring softly now.
But from the side, the sight looked a little…
Well, like that thing men and women do in bed.
And Se-on’s reaction to the sight?
“I can’t forgive your parents……”
“Huh? Wh-What do you mean by that……?”
“Those bastards. I’ll never let them get away with this.”
No, why were you going after my parents?
Geez. Unbelievable.
Just when I thought I’d gotten used to him, he showed me another crazy side of himself.
Yubel marveled at Se-on’s psychopathic tendencies.
He really was amazing.
As Yubel thought that, Se-on clenched his teeth, thinking of the trash who were Yubel’s parents.
He’d never imagined he’d hear that they pounced on Yubel every time she went to sleep.
He wanted to find them right now and tear them apart.
But Se-on still didn’t know.
That Behemoth-style parenting didn’t end here.