Ruril

The extermination of the Demon King's army was over.

We managed to rescue everyone who had been undergoing torture, but unfortunately, we couldn't save those who had already been transformed into demons.

Their minds had been destroyed by sexual torture that had already gone beyond all limits, so Cecilia offered a prayer and sent them to heaven.

Cecilia said that since the demons had forcibly transformed them, God would forgive them, but I still couldn't feel at ease.

Finally, since another demon might come looking for them, we decided to destroy the base itself.

Only after searching through the base as thoroughly as possible until the very end and confirming that no one was left inside could we blow it up.

Of course, rather than blowing it up, it was more like erasing all the research materials and traces left behind in the base.

By the time we'd finished cleaning it up so thoroughly that no one could possibly mistake it for a base belonging to the Demon King's army and arrived at the village with the people we'd rescued, it was already midnight.

We handed all the rescued people over to the guards, then completed the quest we'd originally received by showing them evidence of the defeated monster.

I'd been worried that we'd have to explain the situation in detail, but fortunately, they seemed to have enough flexibility to simply let us go.

However, one problem still remained.

Ruril. Ruril, that is.

Hadn't I explained that the poison had effects even more outrageous than the one the Hero had suffered from, and that the moment Ruril regained consciousness, she would inevitably become a monster that attacked everyone she saw?

No, perhaps it was an even worse poison—one that would kill her if she didn't relieve her sexual desire within a few days.

You might think that sounded like complete bullshit, but you haven't forgotten, have you?

This is an eroge.

It's amazing how simply describing it as an eroge satisfies the requirements of plausibility..

You might say that the purification miracle should have cured her, but the poison's weakening effect and the lust caused by the poison were two different things.

The latter couldn't be cured even by the purification miracle.

You might wonder whether that meant the miracle had been pointless, but if we didn't resolve the poison, she would turn into a monster that tried to squeeze someone dry over and over again.

It was a terrifying poison that slowly killed its victim while making them crave an endless, insatiable lust..!

The fact that we could resolve that problem at all was no different from saying that the poison had been purified.

No, what the hell am I even talking about..?

I had no idea why it wouldn't go away, but I was reminded once again that you shouldn't expect anything like realistic plausibility from an eroge.

Damn it.

Anyway, worried that she might become a monster driven by lust, I used a Sleep spell to keep her unconscious and prevent anything from happening as much as possible, but we couldn't keep her asleep forever.

One way or another, we'd eventually have to wake her up.

But if we woke her without making any preparations, something could go wrong with Ruril.

To be honest, I was relieved that she'd lost consciousness immediately after being poisoned.

The poison was incomparable to the one the Hero had suffered from, so no one knew what would happen..

In any case, we couldn't stay there forever, so we decided to return to the inn first.

Judging by how the Hero carrying Ruril flinched several times, he was clearly afraid that she might wake up at any moment.

I understood how he felt, but every time I saw her breasts swaying as she hung from the Hero's back, along with the way he reacted to them, I felt irritated.

Every time I looked at them, I thought the same thing: Ruril's breasts were simply too large.

Personally, I preferred breasts that were beautiful in proportion over ones that were just absurdly large.

Liking something solely because of its size wasn't any different from believing that more was always better, was it?

As the saying went, too much was as bad as too little. Moderation was always best.

Cecilia's were fine, but Ruril's were so large that I found myself thinking she could probably afford to share a little with someone else.

Of course, I wouldn't want them myself. If my breasts grew that large, I felt like moving around would become difficult.

And..

‘Hmm..’

What was this strange, inexplicable feeling..?

Before, I would have looked at the Hero and felt envious, but now I didn't particularly feel jealous of him.

I simply felt something strange, like a prickling pain inside my heart.

“...”

No, it couldn't be that kind of feeling.

The Hero was only my benefactor, after all..

Of course, he was someone I was supposed to love someday, but.. ugh.

Love.. huh..

I still didn't know.

I didn't want to think about anything more complicated.

I shook my head.

Anyway, after arriving at the inn, we laid Ruril on the bed and moved to the room next door.

It was the same room where I'd done those sorts of things with the Hero only yesterday.

“...”

Thinking that Ruril was lying in that room made me feel a little strange.

Even now, when I thought back on it, it felt like a dream.. Although this was a serious situation in which we had to discuss what to do with Ruril, thoughts of the Hero kept filling my head.

What was wrong with me?

Something was strange.

‘Phew..’

Please, get a grip.

Before anything else, I needed to think about what we should do with Ruril.

The poison's effects had definitely been removed, so the only thing left was figuring out how to relieve Ruril's lust, which was about to explode.

For men, ejaculating was enough, but for women, it meant reaching orgasm.

It was true that lust could be relieved by masturbating, but that was nothing compared to having someone do it to you, and since Ruril was currently asleep under a spell, she couldn't even take care of it herself.

As expected of a pure-love game pretending to be a harem game..

There was something vicious lurking everywhere.

You could tell just by looking at how most of the heroines afflicted by the poison were unconscious, or by the fact that the game explicitly mentioned that their lust had to be relieved, right?

It's telling me to have sex with them while they're unconscious!

Since it was a pure-love game pretending to be a harem game, of course it was a trap!

There was even a route where the Hero drugged the heroine and raped her himself, so I suppose it was only natural..

The game had mentioned that this sort of quest-related act would be most effective if the Hero—in other words, the protagonist—took charge, so it was almost certainly meant to be handled that way.

However, even if the company was devoted to pure love, it seemed to have some conscience, since it allowed things up to the point of medical treatment.

After all, there were curses and poisons that would kill someone if their lust wasn't relieved within a few days.

However, as I mentioned earlier, it only overlooked things up to the point of medical treatment, so it was fine as long as we didn't do it directly.

But penetration was absolutely off-limits.

I had no idea why, but that was how the game's setting worked, so it was probably how things would work here too.

I wanted to avoid bringing up the game as much as possible, but that was the only knowledge I had.

Anyway.. to put it simply, as long as no one did it directly, it would be best for the Hero to step in.

If we did only that, Ruril would probably regain consciousness by tomorrow.

However, another problem arose.

As everyone knew, in order to defeat the Demon King, the Hero had to follow only my pure-love route.

Didn't I say that medical treatment was allowed?

That wasn't the problem.

The problem was that I didn't know that fact myself, and I didn't know whether the Hero knew it either..! In the game, the setting worked because the Hero had originally been the only person who could step in, but things were completely different now that this was reality.

I didn't know whether that setting still existed or had disappeared, nor did I know whether the Hero was aware of it.

What was even more frustrating was that I wasn't in a position to ask him.

I couldn't exactly tell the Hero that I knew how to defeat the Demon King.

The Hero was in the same position, so he couldn't give me a proper answer—or even properly discuss it with me—and was merely wasting time wondering what to do.

If we left it to Cecilia, she was a saintess, so she knew nothing about those things.

No, she had learned about them, so she knew in that sense, but..

She only knew how children were made. She had never done it herself, didn't know the details, and was the very definition of an innocent virgin.

Of course, since Cecilia's religion was one that came from an eroge, it was extremely open-minded about homosexuality too.. But turning an innocent girl who knew nothing into a yuri girl seemed a bit much, didn't it?

“...”

If I ruled Cecilia out through process of elimination, that left only me.. But I couldn't act rashly when it meant violating Ruril.

How should I put it? I knew it was for Ruril's sake, but how could I just touch her body however I pleased?

The Hero, too, wore an expression full of hesitation.

“What should we do..”

I couldn't see any solution.

Of course, the pure-love route only required me to max out Lumia's affection and get her pregnant, so since this counted as medical treatment, there wasn't much to worry about.

Even if the system recognized it, a truly hardcore pure-love fanatic who devoted himself stubbornly to one person based solely on his own convictions would avoid that risk altogether anyway..

Of course, I wasn't talking about the Hero.

‘If it really comes to it, I'll step in..’

Even so, there was no reason the Hero had to do it himself.

If the poison wasn't one that would kill her within a few days, there was no need for the Hero to step in immediately.

She'd wake up within a few days anyway.

However, aside from being stuck here, the problem was that Ruril would suffer throughout those days and grow weaker from being unable to eat properly.

The Hero probably didn't want that, and neither did I.

Still..

“...”

The thought of the Hero touching Ruril however he pleased made my chest feel tight.

It made me think that perhaps it would be better if I did it, or that it might be better to keep her asleep for several days and let the passing time suppress her lust.

Or perhaps it would have been better if I'd been the one afflicted by the poison..

...

“Um.. For now, wouldn't it be better to go out tomorrow and examine Ruril? We don't know what kind of poison it is, after all.”

The Hero seemed to have the same thought as Cecilia, because he nodded with a frustrated expression.

Yeah, it would be better to do that for now.