Chapter 16
After finishing the bath that nearly turned my life upside down, I was in the changing room, casually patting myself dry with a towel.
“Ria. Put on these clothes instead of those.”
“…? What kind of clothes are these?”
“The clothes we wear when training. They dry sweat well, so they’re suitable for training.”
Karina handed me a thin set of training clothes as I dried myself.
“Thank you!”
“Don’t mention it. We’re family.”
Since I was too tired to argue whenever they called me family now, I put on only my underwear and a camisole before trying on the training clothes.
Nothing squeezed me anywhere, and there was no discomfort restricting the movement of my arms or legs.
If I had to describe exactly how they felt….
“…These are as comfortable as my ragged clothes.”
They were just as comfortable as the beloved rags I’d worn when I was homeless.
“…….”
Karina apparently couldn’t understand why I’d chosen to compare them to the clothes from that humiliating period, and her expression crumpled with sadness.
“…You’ve been through a lot.”
“Huh?”
She approached me, hugged me tightly around the shoulders, and patted my back.
Why? What’s this about?
That time wasn’t all bad in its own way!
“Acard and all my sisters have plenty of money…, so from now on, you can live like a rich person and eat and play to your heart’s content.”
“….”
Still, it would be nice to eat whatever I wanted and be able to spend money recklessly….
Like hell—I’m not a wife, am I?
“I’m not a wife, though…?”
I corrected her because I felt I was about to be forcibly inducted into the harem party, with my status upgraded from family member to wife.
“Hmph…! Don’t lie, Ria! I saw you having sex with Acard in the bathhouse!”
As if emphasizing that she had seen the bathhouse incident with her own two eyes, Karina made a hand gesture that euphemistically represented sex.
“…Th-that was an accident!!”
“Everyone starts with an accident.”
“No…! We didn’t even have penetration in the first place!”
“Even putting in just the tip counts as penetration, doesn’t it?”
“It was only the position! There wasn’t any penetration, and we didn’t even have any contact….”
It wasn’t entirely true that our genitals hadn’t come into contact at all, since Acard had fallen and his long cock had slickly brushed over my genitals.
“Ahem, ahem… Yes, if Ria says it wasn’t, then it wasn’t.”
Perhaps she had mistaken my silence for something suggestive, because Karina smiled and patted my head.
…I’m screwed.
It seemed my image had been completely fixed as some kind of tsundere.
In this situation, no counterargument would get through at all, so I supposed I had lost.
“…Sigh.”
In the end, I drooped my shoulders, waved my hand as if to say she could think whatever she wanted, and left the changing room.
“Ria’s one of our wives now, too?!”
“At last, fate is moving forward!!”
“Our sisterhood has grown…. Heehee.”
As I walked down the distant corridor, the voices of the three women reached me from behind, making me shudder.
…I’m not a wife.
….
After that pointless emotional drain, I found myself in the mansion’s underground training ground.
“…What kind of place is this mansion?”
I let out an awed exclamation, overwhelmed by the size of the enormous training ground, which was about as large as four soccer fields joined together.
From the outside, the mansion just looked like an ordinary rich person’s house.
But the more I explored it, the less it resembled an ordinary mansion and the more it looked like a headquarters that superheroes operating in the shadows of the world might use.
“I’m really going to train with people like this….”
Just as I began wondering exactly how great Acard’s group’s martial strength and wealth were—
“Ria~! Have you been waiting long~?”
“Sorry to keep you waiting, Ria.”
Right on cue, the three women made a spectacular entrance into the training ground.
“Here, take this.”
Mira approached with a soft sway of her purple hair and pressed something into my hand.
“What’s this?”
“A mana detector.”
“A mana detector…?”
This tiny, cheap-looking pebble was a mana detector?
“Yes. Your mana gets analyzed when you grip this little thing tightly.”
“Ooh….”
Despite its cheap appearance, it had an incredible function built in, and my eyes lit up at finally doing something that felt suitably fantasy-world-like.
The moment I grip the stone, my mana will run wild and this ability will be…?! SSS-rank mana?! Is that how this works…?
Then, if I just get tested with this stone, I’ll be able to deal with thugs as easily as Acard and the others, right?
“Hehehe….”
“…?”
As I indulged in the sort of pointless fantasy men usually have and gripped the stone tightly—
Fwoosh—!
“Urgh!? My eyes!!”
An intensely bright, pure-white light poked out between the fingers of the hand gripping the stone.
“…?! What is this light?!”
Karina seemed to realize what the light was and exclaimed in amazement while shielding it with her hand.
“…!”
Vika squinted, her mouth hanging open.
“This is…! Saintess mana?!”
The moment Mira cried out what kind of mana it was, everyone was startled.
“…Huh.”
Since the actual saintess was our Roxanna, I found it strange and released the hand I had been gripping tightly.
“Saintess mana…?”
After the beautiful, warm light that had illuminated the training ground vanished, my voice filled the awkward silence.
“…Ria. What in the world are you?!”
Karina strode over, grabbed my shoulders, and began shaking me.
Yet the corners of her mouth were raised, and the look in her eyes was less serious than that of someone who had found an amusing new toy.
“Saintess mana…! Is that why you joined the church, Ria?!”
“I-I just joined because I didn’t want to sleep rough…?”
“Don’t lie! With such pure and pristine mana, how could the church have failed to notice all this time?!”
“I-I’m telling the truth… Eek!!”
As exchanged glances once again seemed to ask whether I really was an ex-homeless person, Vika sneaked up behind me and suddenly began kneading my breasts.
“So that’s why your breasts are so big, Ria? They say big breasts are a saintess’s basic qualification~!”
“No…, ahk…. Please, just listen to me….”
“You really were destined to join us!!”
“Mira, you…! Your face is in my breasts…. Hyaaah?!”
With the three women ravaging my breasts without even an explanation, my eyes gradually glazed over.
If you keep fondling my breasts like that, they’ll be trained to climax…!
Especially you, Mira—why do you keep pinching my nipples like a maniac?!
“Please stop touching me!!”
“Peep!!”
I felt like I’d become a pathetic body that climaxed from having its breasts touched, so I smacked Mira hard on the crown of her head and told them to stop.
“Why only me…?! Peepyaa….”
Fortunately, the hands ravaging our breasts stopped, allowing me to catch my breath, but I couldn’t hide my flushed face and panted heavily.
“Please explain instead of talking about things only you understand…. What is saintess mana?”
When I asked them because I needed to know what this pure-white mana actually was—
“Saintess mana is saintess mana.”
“Saintess mana is saintess mana~!”
Karina and Vika answered in unison, and the neurons working so hard in my brain came to a creaking halt.
Saintess mana is saintess mana…?
How is that any different from saying that one lemon contains one lemon’s worth of lemon?
“…Ahem. To explain saintess mana simply, it is pure, uncontaminated mana.”
Leaving Karina and Vika, who were spectacularly bad at explaining things, behind, Mira, who was well versed in mana, took the lead and gave me an explanation at my level.
“Mana takes on a unique color because of the impurities each individual human possesses, but…”
Mira wrapped her violet mana around her hand and created a geometric flow to demonstrate.
Karina, in turn, drew her rapier and showed off her red mana.
Vika spun her dagger with a flourish and displayed her green mana as well.
“But your mana contains no impurities, so—”
“—it’s pure white, is that it?”
I interrupted Mira and asked if I had understood correctly, and all three women nodded simultaneously to indicate I was right.
“Then pure-white mana without impurities is called saintess mana?”
“Yes. Until now, everyone with pure-white mana has invariably become a saintess.”
“…But I’m not a saintess?”
I understood the explanation perfectly, but there was already someone occupying that position, so it made no sense to call me a saintess.
“We have our little one.”
“…Roxanna?”
“Yeah. She’s the saintess.”
“…Peep?”
Mira staggered with a peep, apparently so dumbfounded by my words that her wits had briefly left her.
“Wait a second… If Roxanna is the saintess, then that means Ria isn’t a saintess…?”
Vika hugged Mira tightly to keep her from falling, apparently just as flustered, and muttered to herself, but—
“In any case, a good thing is a good thing. Enough idle chatter. Let’s begin training.”
Before the situation could become even more chaotic, Karina clapped her hands, hastily wrapped things up, and began stretching.
“We’re going to run laps around the training ground now, so get ready.”
“…Got it~!”
“…Yes, Sister!”
At the suggestion that we focus on training, the three women regained their professional composure and each began warming up in her own way.
Taking the hint, I also finished stretching, showing off my swimming-instructor form for the first time in ages.
“Thirty laps today.”
“…Wait, what?”
“The last one to finish will be responsible for cooking today, so keep that in mind.”
“W-wait a minute!!”
They left us with the warning that last place had to make the meal, then started racing around the enormous training ground in an instant, and I belatedly chased after them.
Fortunately, they weren’t nearly as fast as I’d imagined, so I caught up quickly,
but the slightest slackening in my legs made the distance widen, so I ran while matching their pace as closely as possible.
“This is strange…. Normally, only one saintess appears in an era….”
Mira, who was moving her feet at an incredible speed, clutched her head and groaned, apparently bothered by something.
…She’s shorter than me, but she runs well.
“Mira~. Could it be that thing? Like, saint’s mana or something~.”
“Only men can possess that mana, Sister Vika….”
“I’m kidding, I’m kidding~! It’s not like Ria was a man or anything, so how could she have saint’s mana~?”
“…!!”
The moment I heard Vika and Mira chatting breezily without even getting out of breath as they ran, all the strength drained from my legs.
Whump—!
“Oh my?! Ria! Are you all right?!”
I fell onto the dirt floor of the training ground and slid along it.
“…I-I’m fine.”
Hearing their conversation had cleared up the entire mystery.
“Um…, what exactly is saint’s mana…?”
“Hm~? When a man possesses pure-white mana, it’s saint’s mana~.”
“……”
“Now that I think about it, it is strange~. When a saintess appears, a saint should appear too, after all~.”
“Hic.”
Despite being blessed with inborn pure-white mana, I had the misfortune of being an outsider from another world—and a ‘man.’
…So the pure-white mana I possessed was being classified not as a saintess’s, but as a saint’s.
Since more than one saintess could not appear in the same era, and a saint was certain to appear whenever a saintess did….
There was no choice but to conclude that I, whose soul was one hundred percent male, had been born with saint’s mana….
“Don’t worry about it, Ria~. It just means your mana is that pure~!”
“…Ahaha.”
Having somehow become a saint (woman), I broke out in a cold sweat.
“L-let’s just keep running for now.”
“Okay~. Be careful not to fall~!”
I felt genuinely proud of myself for deciding not to reveal that I was a man.
What if I had admitted I was a man…?
I would have been subjected to a group beating at the very least, then called a witch who had disrupted the order of the world, hauled up onto a stake, and turned into crispy Ria roast.
…Even if I was a two-month-old newbie from another world, I knew that blasphemy was a serious crime.
Originally, I had planned to come out to Acard about the fact that I had once been a man and had transmigrated into this world.
Now, instead of merely coming out, I was in a situation where I might be banished from this world if I made a mistake, so from now on I had to play the role of a perfect woman.
If they found out I had saint’s mana….
“…Aaargh!!”
“Oh, Ria!! You’re full of spirit!”
A shiver ran down my spine, so I increased the speed of my footwork and shot past the three women.
….
“Haaah…. Haaah….”
“Impressive…. Even though this is your first training session, you kept up with our pace….”
“That’s our Ria…. The best~!”
“I’m last again toda—Pyaaah….”
As I ran in a trance to organize my increasingly complicated thoughts, I accomplished the feat of coming in first, leaving everyone behind.
Thanks to that, I felt as though I might cough up blood and vomit, but….
Well, at least I’d accomplished my goal of emptying my mind, so I panted and sprawled spread-eagle on the training-ground floor to catch my breath.
“…It’s hottt.”
Most of the heat in my arms and legs escaped thanks to the training clothes’ excellent ventilation, but my body felt hot because of the one area where the heat hadn’t escaped.
“My chest feels stifled….”
The heat just wouldn’t escape from my enormous breasts.
“…Whatever.”
Fearing that my chest alone would end up bright red from the heat, I pulled up the top of my training clothes and exposed my breasts.
“Ria? Why are you taking your clothes off all of a sudden?”
“My chest is so sweaty and stuffy….”
“Then I’ll take mine off too~!”
“M-me too….”
Karina, who had relatively small breasts, was the only exception; apparently Vika and Mira were in no better condition than I was, because they also removed their tops and began cooling their breasts.
“….”
Karina’s red brows rose slightly at the sudden topless protest.
Then she inconspicuously glanced back and forth between her own breasts and ours.
“…M-my chest is hot too.”
As if she refused to lose to us, she exposed her bare breasts and sprawled spread-eagle on the floor beside us.
“But you’re not hot, Karina~.”
“…I am hot too.”
“Sister Karina, you never said you were hot until now!”
“…N-no.”
“Don’t tell me, Karina~. Are you jealous of our breasts~?”
Their unspoken thoughts, which they could only have sensed through their feminine intuition, led to a subtle battle of wills and a war of nerves.
“Come here~!! We’ll make your breasts bigger!!”
Vika suddenly latched onto Karina’s breast and began suckling it like a baby.
“Schluuurp…!”
Mira then latched onto the other breast and began suckling too—
“Stooop?! Suck all you want, but I won’t produce breast milk…!!”
Karina’s face turned bright red as she struggled to pull the two women off.
“…?!”
I turned my head when the commotion suddenly started beside me and was flustered to see an extremely lewd scene unfolding.
But that…. In that situation, would it be all right for me to join in too?
“Ooh…! If you bite with your teeth…!”
Seeing Vika and Mira make room for me to join in without a word, I decided it really must be okay for me to take part too.
“…Even you, Ria? Ohhock?!”
I had only ever touched Mira’s breasts before, so at the realization that I could touch Karina’s bare breasts too, I buried my face in her cleavage like a hyena, drooling with excitement.
“Sniiiiff….”
I sniffed her, savoring the subtle scent of roses tinged with sweat.
“Oh?!”
I also took hold of the breast Vika and Mira were eagerly suckling and kneaded it firmly with my hand.
…It feels exactly like pudding?
Mira’s had felt like a water balloon filled with oil…, but this one has a different sensation altogether.
“Kyaaah~!”
Thinking I might as well assess Vika’s breasts too, I placed my hand on them and began kneading.
They felt like the pillow I’d thrown myself onto when I stumbled into the house, exhausted, and collapsed onto the bed.
Hmm. Vika has top-tier breasts.
“Everyone, stop!!!”
“Huh…?! Kyaaah?!!”
I was planning to feel Mira’s breasts too, like going around a roulette wheel, but Karina suddenly displayed monstrous strength, sending Vika and Mira flying before pinning me down—the only one who hadn’t been thrown away.
“My breasts…! Only Acard is allowed to touch them!!”
“What~? Why are you suddenly acting like this, Karina?”
“I-I….”
“That’s right! Sister Karina is always fondling our breasts, but she won’t let anyone touch hers!”
“I-I….”
“My breasts are precious, that’s why!!”
“Please, just let me go….”
Pinned beneath Karina, who had uncharacteristically begun to whimper, seized by an inferiority complex, I could do nothing but gape and look around like an owl.
“What good are breasts this huge!?”
“Hyeuk?!”
No…! Vika and Mira started touching and sucking breasts first, so why am I the only one being blamed?!
“Small breasts are more convenient!”
“Stooop—ngh?!?!”
“Breasts as huge as these don’t have any advantages….”
Riiip—.
Just then, a miracle happened.
“…do they.”
“Ri…, Ria…?”
“…Peep.”
Even though I wasn’t pregnant.
Even though my breasts had only been played with a little forcefully by hand.
“I told you to stop…. Waaah…!!”
Milk spurted from my breasts and drenched Karina’s face.
At the sight of that miserable scene, nothing short of a miracle, Karina, Vika, and Mira all broke into a cold sweat at once.
“Girls! I brought sna……cks….”
Acard came in carrying a basket of fruit and juice, smiling brightly with a face irritatingly handsome enough to make me angry.
He witnessed the three wives with their breasts exposed and sweating cold sweat, while the outsider (friend) covered both eyes with her hands, milk streaming from her breasts.
Thud—.
He dropped the basket he had been clutching tightly onto the training-ground floor.
The cool white yogurts inside spilled across the floor like the breast milk streaming from me.