The Tutorial Boss Is Conquered

"Uncle?"

Elena shook my arm.

Phila's smooth groin still lingered before my eyes, but I shook my head to clear it away.

The monstrous cock Phila had thrust into Elena did not exist in this world.

'Was what I experienced in the game wrong? No, it wasn't.'

Everything that had happened with Phila rewound until I was back at the moment we first met.

'Do you verify the effect by drinking it yourself?'

'Yes, well. Since many people don't trust an aphrodisiac made by a woman, I have no choice but to drink it myself.'

Phila had said she would drink an aphrodisiac despite not having male genitalia.

When I realized the truth behind the remark I'd brushed off because I thought Phila had male genitalia, something in my mind seemed to unlock, and everything became clear.

'Was that what Phila was making back then?'

Distracted by the shocking truth, I stared blankly until Elena shook me hard.

"Uncle."

Only then did I come to my senses.

I was back in my room.

Sitting at the table, I stared blankly at the soup Elena had scooped up.

She held it out to my mouth.

"Say ah."

I opened my mouth and swallowed the soup.

The pleasantly warm soup traveled down my esophagus and warmed my empty stomach.

"It's good, right?"

"Yes, it's good."

Elena scooped up more soup with her spoon and blew on it to cool it.

"Ah~."

"Stop. I'll eat it myself."

I took the spoon from her and ate the soup myself.

Because I'd lost the duel, I had to grant her a wish.

"So, what's your wish?"

"I want you to get plenty of rest tomorrow, Uncle."

"That's not a wish. Pick something else."

"I knew you'd say that, Uncle."

The corners of Elena's mouth rose.

"I'll think about it and make my wish later."

***

Eck's lodgings were quite small for an A-rank adventurer's quarters.

It was a cramped, shabby space containing only a bed, a table, and a cupboard. Not long ago, empty liquor bottles had been piled on the table, with more rolling around in the corners.

Eck's daily routine had been to fall asleep fully clothed on the bed without even a blanket.

Now that the place had been cleaned, it was relatively tidy.

As I cleaned, I decided to look into various things. Though this world was set in the Middle Ages, it had made some effort to popularize magic.

If you had the money, you could imitate modern life with magical devices.

For example, running water and sewage systems.

Elena's back as she washed dishes in front of the kitchen's old sink caught my eye.

Elena was dressed in a thin tunic.

The sound of water and the clatter of dishes filled the cramped room.

Each time she swayed while washing dishes, the contours of her body tantalizingly peeked through her loose shirt.

The protagonist who had once been skinny and unimpressive, tearing into bread in the corner of the guild. The protagonist from that adult game who had been gang-raped by orcs, trolls, and countless monsters and used as an outlet for their lust.

Now she had risen to A-rank in a short time and was washing dishes for me with her own hands.

With Elena's current abilities, she could leave me and live comfortably on her own. Of course, fate would never leave her alone, but even so, Elena had stayed by my side.

A woman who remained delicate despite growing stronger, still not having completely shed the air of a girl.

Her blonde hair fell to her waist and swayed.

Her clothes and blonde hair moved with each motion as she scrubbed the dishes.

Each time, the curve between her waist and hips stood out between the folds of her clothing.

The longer I watched, the more the outline of her round buttocks rose through the fabric, and my gaze was drawn toward the increasingly distinct cleft between them.

Gulp.

I swallowed hard.

The heat of the aphrodisiac still pooled in my stomach and surged up my spine into my brain.

My heated gaze persistently licked over her curves against my will.

I wanted to get off the bed that instant, seize that slender waist from behind, and pull her toward me.

If I buried my nose in that white nape and inhaled roughly, I felt I would become intoxicated just imagining Elena's sweet scent.

I wanted to grab her waist and hips and thrust myself inside her.

The impulse throbbed through my veins.

That small, slender back.

It stirred a sadistic desire in me.

The contrast between her being a genius swordswoman who would save the world and looking so terribly fragile drove me mad.

My vision flashed red.

'Crazy.'

It was a side effect of the aphrodisiac.

Phila's aphrodisiac kept the infinite-stamina effect going the longest and also improved concentration, so I'd been drinking it without hesitation.

But it had one drawback.

My sexual desire surged fiercely.

I could suppress it by exercising, but Elena's buttocks were especially fixed in my field of vision, and I couldn't shake them away.

My breathing grew ragged.

When Elena finished washing the dishes and turned around, my gaze rose from her crotch to her waist, breasts, and neck before stopping at her lips.

The impulse battered my reason.

"Get out."

My voice rasped out like an animal's growl.

"What?"

"Get out of my room right now."

Elena flinched.

"That's enough for today. Go back."

"Uncle, your face is red."

I clenched my fist tightly.

The Ring of Endurance reacted.

It let me know I was doing well.

"I said get out."

"...."

But even after hearing me, Elena remained standing in front of me.

"Can't you leave?"

"I don't want to."

Her face had turned sulky.

She stuck out her lips like a sulking child.

"If you won't leave..."

"Uncle."

Elena's blue eyes calmly pierced me.

"Why are you holding back?"

My breath caught in my throat.

"I know that drinking an aphrodisiac makes it hard to hold back. But why are you holding back? It's just you and me here, in this room."

"It's..."

I barely held on to my senses as I explained the reason.

"I drink aphrodisiacs for a reason. When a man drinks too much of one, he can gain infinite stamina."

"Infinite stamina?"

"Didn't you wonder how I fought dozens of high-level monsters during the Monster Wave and kept fighting without running out of stamina?"

In the original game, the male villain charged in despite being human, with toughness rivaling that of a monster.

I had thought it was a game mechanic allowed for the sake of balance, but there had actually been an explanation in the setting.

I had wondered about it after becoming Eck, and sure enough, it was exactly as the setting described.

"I don't know anything about that."

But Elena took another step toward me and thrust her breasts right in front of my face.

She clasped her hands behind her back, leaving herself defenseless as though inviting me to touch her.

"What I want to know is why you don't touch me."

"S-stop."

"If you wanted me, Uncle, I could accept it as much as you wanted. When I heard that you used to chase after women all the time, I had already prepared myself."

Elena placed a hand on her own breasts.

"Is it because my breasts are small?"

"Elena."

"Do you dislike that my buttocks are small?"

"Elena."

"Was I ugly?"

"Elena."

I held back.

I had to endure.

I couldn't touch Elena.

Virgin playthrough.

She had to remain a virgin for us to reach the true ending.

The world waiting at the end of the true ending.

A world where monsters did not rape women.

A world that was not an adult game.

An ordinary fantasy world.

The only way to reach that peace was to send Elena to that ending.

If I hadn't known the method, I wouldn't have even tried.

I would have taken the normal ending route and lived a moderately comfortable life.

But if I knew, how could I not do it?

".....Elena."

When I called her name with difficulty, Elena's eyes reddened as she leaned in to listen.

"You have to be a virgin."

"......Yes?"

Elena's expression hardened.

"Why?"

"There's a reason you have to be a virgin. Everyone can survive only if you remain pure."

"W-why does my virginity have to mean that?"

I knew how insane the words coming out of my mouth sounded.

Even so, I couldn't stop.

I didn't want to hold back either.

But once a greater cause was mixed into it, my desire amounted to nothing more than a petty personal matter.

"I'm sorry."

Elena's lips trembled.

"But if you don't preserve your purity, I don't know how I can live an ordinary life in this world. How am I supposed to live normally in a world with monsters that depend on humans for reproduction?"

I exhaled.

That ordinary life included the option of starting a family.

Even if I raised my children well, how well could they really live?

If my daughter were raped by a monster, turned into breeding stock, and imprisoned in a cave for days on end, I would spend the rest of my life regretting that I had failed to protect Elena's virginity.

Even if Elena's virginity seemed utterly trivial now, it was a sanctuary that must never be violated.

I couldn't know such an obvious future and simply dismiss it as none of my concern.

"Elena, I was using you with your virginity as my goal."

It was a stark confession.

"So please."

I clutched my head.

"If you feel indebted to me, please don't tell me to rape you."

I buried my head in my arms so I wouldn't look at Elena, hear her breathing, or smell her.

Silence.

Elena stared down at me without saying anything for a long while.

She wasn't surprised or angry.

Instead, only her calm gaze remained fixed on the back of my head.

Then she opened her mouth.

"Then..."

Elena's voice lowered.

"What about you, Uncle?"

"What about me?"

"You don't have to hold back, do you?"

My heart sank.

"I'm the one who has to remain a virgin. You don't have to hold back, do you?"

Elena took another step toward me.

"I like that you're holding back because I'm a virgin. I'm happy enough that you're trying this hard for me."

"Elena."

She pulled my head into her embrace.

My splitting head was wrapped in warmth.

"But, Uncle. I don't like seeing you suffer because of my virginity."

Elena whispered to me.

"I'd rather give up my virginity."

"No."

I rejected it immediately.

"Absolutely not."

"If I'm saying I'll give it up, can you stop me?"

"But if you do that..."

"I'm fine. So don't hold back."

Elena stroked my head and back.

She comforted me as though soothing a child throwing a tantrum.

"Did you know? As long as Uncle is happy, I don't care what happens to me. You've done enough for me that I could give you gold and jewels just for stroking my head. Uncle, you've done that much for me."

"But that's..."

"Uncle, you run yourself ragged every day to help me. Even after obtaining enough treasure to live on for the rest of your life, you gave it up for my younger sister. Even if it was to protect my virginity, you risked your life. Even with a reason, that's not something just anyone can do."

Elena rebutted my opinion point by point.

I couldn't refute a single thing she said.

"I can never ask you to hold back. And I don't want to. If all I have to do is protect my virginity, we just have to avoid penetration, right? I'll do anything I can besides that."

.........

"Don't hold back, Uncle. That's my wish."

"....Elena."

I lowered my head.

I couldn't think of anything to say in refusal.

Both my arms wrapped around Elena's waist.

I settled her buttocks against my lower abdomen.

"You've worked so hard for me."

I pulled Elena tightly into my embrace.