Chapter 99

Having sex with a mermaid in a back alley while wearing the Archdeity Church priest's robe was giving me a strange sense of pleasure.

The sexual 'feel' wasn't even that great, and she was a clumsy mermaid with awkward moaning sounds, yet despite that, I had a very satisfying sex.

The mermaid, her face flushed bright red, held back her moans as if suppressing hiccups.

She covered her mouth, watching with a look of wonder as my cock toyed with her cunt.

When I ejaculated, she too writhed and reached her orgasm.

It seemed the mermaid was also quite satisfied with our sex.

Brushing the scales from my clothes, which were covered like a cutting board in a raw fish restaurant, I looked at the mermaid again.

She was tempting me with her flushed red skin and panting moaning sounds.

I wanted to fuck her one more time, but I sensed a presence.

"I'm going to press your lower abdomen for a moment. Do you understand?"

"Y-Yes..."

The mermaid nodded with an ecstatic expression.

Her cunt, made extremely sensitive from one round of sex, started leaking vaginal fluid mixed with semen the moment I placed my hand on it.

Ignoring her excited face looking up at me, I gently pressed her lower abdomen.

"Haaahk..."

The mermaid let out a moaning sound and writhed.

I was about to entrust her to the Knight Order, and if she was gushing semen, the knights might 'misunderstand' me, so what I was doing now was a necessary procedure.

As if squeezing out salmon roe, I gently pressed down on the mermaid's lower abdomen.

The mermaid's lower mouth was spitting out concentrated semen in streams.

I wiped it off roughly with my hand, cast Clean Magic once, and repeated the process several times.

"Hnngh... Haaah... Nngh..."

Fuck, it felt like I was giving a handjob to a fish.

The mermaid lay her tail on the ground, her body trembling.

After casting Clean Magic one last time, I carried the mermaid on my back and headed for the Knight Order headquarters.

The location of the Knight Order was easy to find since I had confirmed it during the last dungeon exploration.

As it happened, Karin was at the Knight Order.

Today, too, despite not being a princess, she sat on a chair, showing off the slender and dignified posture of a princess knight.

Her lovely figure, visible through the gaps in her armor, stimulated my lewd thoughts.

She had a surprised face at my sudden visit.

Karin asked.

"My Lord Lusius. What brings you here? If you had contacted me beforehand, I would have prepared a reception for you."

As she said that, Karin started boiling water in a teapot.

Was she going to offer me a cup of tea?

I made a point of refusing and said.

"No, Karin. Thank you for your generosity. I came today because I have a personal favor to ask."

"A favor...? You are part of the Hero's Party that saved the kingdom. I will help you with anything."

Even as she said that, Karin didn't stop boiling water in the teapot.

Looking to the side, I saw there was already a dented teapot.

The one unusual aspect was that she was boiling water but not bringing out any cups, but it wasn't something worth worrying about.

She'd handle it on her own, I was sure.

Karin said she would help with anything.

At her words, I briefly considered asking her to put out, but I decided not to risk my image on such an adventure.

It might have been different for the old, wholesome, and clean Peta Lusius, but now I had too much to lose.

Karin seemed to have belatedly noticed the mermaid I was carrying on my back.

She demonstrated a sensitivity befitting an otherworlder and asked.

"Is this a target for interrogation? I will help you."

"No. She's just a mermaid. I liberated her from slavery, so please return her to her hometown."

"I'm sorry, but as I too belong to the Royal Knight Order, it's a bit difficult for me to go all the way to the sea myself. I can have the soldiers..."

"No. Please send her yourself."

I can't trust those bastard soldiers.

It's a world where mermaids aren't treated as human.

Since the mermaid couldn't send a letter upon reaching her hometown, there was a high possibility they would sell her to a brothel or a mage along the way.

It was because of that risk that I sent Cellu out of my territory.

"But the sea is a bit..."

Karin made a troubled expression.

Her haughty face distorting had a unique charm.

The mermaid on my back cautiously asked.

"Um... You only have to take me as far as the river..."

"The river?"

"If you take me to the river that connects to the sea, I'll swim there myself."

"If you mean the river in the capital city that connects to the sea, you must be talking about the Yupse River that flows through the center. If you are going there, I will take you."

And so, the handover was complete.

The mermaid bowed her head again and again, expressing her gratitude.

Her eyes were sparkling as she said to me.

"There are good people among humans, too. Thank you so much."

"Not at all. It's my duty as a worker of the Archdeity Church."

I nonchalantly ignored the look in the mermaid's eyes.

The look in her eyes was overflowing with more love than when Eve or Cellu looked at me.

Honestly, if Eve hadn't been my wife, I wouldn't have even thought of saving her, so receiving such pure love felt a bit awkward.

I asked Karin.

"So, are you going to depart right now?"

"Ah, could you please wait a moment."

Karin picked up the teapot, which was boiling furiously and steaming.

I wondered if she was going to drink tea, but she wasn't.

Perhaps intending to make cup noodles, she took the teapot into the next room.

Sizzzz

"Gyaaaaaaah! Gyaaaaaaah!"

"You'd better confess your remaining sins. You peerlessly vile rogue."

"I-I really don't know! I-I'm innocent...!"

Fuck. Just hearing that sound, I could imagine the situation.

A thief was probably tied to a torture rack, with Karin pouring water on him.

That sound must be the sound of flesh cooking.

Sizzzzzz

"Gyaaaaaah! H-Hot! Kill me!"

"Tell me the truth, and I'll let you die."

"Huuuuh... P-Please save me... No... Please kill me... I'm begging you... I-I don't know anything..."

Karin came out of the room, shook the remaining water from the teapot onto the floor, and shook her head.

She started refilling the teapot with water to boil it again.

Seeing this, the mermaid's face turned pale, and she began to tremble.

As she clung to my arm on the verge of tears, Karin smiled and said.

"What's wrong? The blade of the Royal Knight Order is aimed only at criminals. Those who have not committed sin have nothing to fear."

"Ah, yes..."

A little more time passed, and Karin took the boiling water back into the room.

A scream rang out along with the sound of flesh burning.

Fuck, she's a crazy bitch. For real.

Even I was getting goosebumps, so how much worse must it be for the mermaid?

She was looking at me with a pitiful gaze.

That gaze was saying.

Please don't leave me with that crazy bitch.

But I didn't have any more time.

Even though what Karin was doing was a little scary, she was a very kind and proper young woman.

Since she told me she would take responsibility, she would surely send the mermaid safely to the river.

I stroked the mermaid's head and said.

"It'll be okay. Understand?"

At those words, the mermaid trembled, then, as if having made a decision, she held out her hand to me and said.

"...Please just hold my hand once."

As I took the mermaid's hand, she kissed it.

Then she smiled broadly and said to me.

"Please remember me. Please be sure to visit the sea. I'll be waiting."

"Don't come. And stay as far away from the port as possible."

Meeting her again as a [Weeping Mermaid] statue in some western coastal village would be fucking terrible, so I really hoped she wouldn't wait.

No matter how much I thought about it, it was too demonic of an idea.

Just as I was getting up, Karin came out again, shaking the water from the teapot.

She clicked her tongue and said.

"The criminal has lost consciousness. Let's use this opening to go quickly."

Karin reported the criminal's horrible current situation in the same tone of voice as an office worker saying, "The bus is late."

I didn't want to be in this place any longer.

I smiled at Karin and said.

"Yes. I'll leave it to you then."

"It's nothing, My Lord Lusius."

Karin smiled and encouraged me on my journey.

If she only showed that face, she'd be such an angel of a woman, but her actions were worse than the bastard murderers from a splatter film.

But that's her charm.

After handing over the mermaid to Karin, I stopped by a grocery store and other shops.

The Northern Lord might not provide me with goods, so I had to prepare a minimum amount of supplies.

I packed items like ropes and a small shovel.

After getting resupplied with food, it was time to leave.

I got on the carriage and re-evaluated my plan.

I would go up to the Northern Region and, first, have a greeting with the Northern Grand Duke's successor in the most peaceful way possible.

Then, I'll get a map and explore the Northern Mountains.

If I really can't find him, I'll just pick up some random clothes, insist they're a trace of the hero, and assume he's dead.

Honestly, by the time I get up there, the hero will have been missing in the mountains for over a month.

At this point, shouldn't I just assume he starved to death or froze to death?

The best-case scenario would be that when I arrive, the hero's corpse is found in the mountain range, or the hero has returned and is sipping tea at the Northern Lord's Castle.

It would be awkward to face each other then, but at least I wouldn't have to go through fucking hell in the mountain range.

No matter how much of a grudge the hero holds, he wouldn't start a knife fight with me in the lord's castle.

So I was sincerely hoping for the hero's return.

I didn't want to go down in history as the rapist who raped the elf princess.

I stroked my mace and prayed that I could return safely from the Northern Region without any incidents.

But fuck, it seems like whenever I pray, things never work out.

What kind of fucking awful situation is going to happen?