Dungeon Defense (WN)

“It’s okay. Everything will be okay now.”

I leaned back comfortably on the sofa. I stroked Ivar Lodbrok’s back as I pressed her face against mine. I naturally ended up covered in her tears.

I couldn’t stop lying yet.

“It may be slow like a camel walking through a desert……but every last step will be taken with no corners cut. Dawn will always arrive no matter how long the night is. Everything will be okay.”

I whispered to her as gently as I could. I was like a shaman that was trying to hypnotize a child. I made it seem like I would accept her entirely.

“Everything, everything will be all right. Ivar Lodbrok, O prideful vampire.”

“…….”

The girl looked up at me for a moment with her tear-filled eyes. Our surroundings were completely dark. The candles only made the darkness darker. My face was the only thing that was reflecting off of her purple eyes.

The girl muttered quietly.

“……Your Highness.”

I wasn’t dull enough to not know the implication of her gaze.

A pair that understood one another. Two people who have vowed to walk together. A dark night, a candle-lit room, and the scent of alcohol that melted one’s senses. I nodded. I slowly brought my face closer to hers.

“…….”

Ivar Lodbrok closed her eyes. Her light pink lips looked soft. However, I didn’t go there. I instead gave her a light kiss on her small forehead. Ivar Lodbrok blinked at me in surprise.

“Why……?”

“I am not so barbaric that I would embrace a precious lady such as yourself while under the influence of alcohol, Ivar Lodbrok.”

I gave her a thoughtful smile.

Her already red face became even redder as she blushed. Ding, a sound effect rang loudly.

「Vampire Ivar Lodbrok’s affection has risen by 14!」

Her affection genuinely went up for the first time. The affection of a heroine who was among the highest tier of demons went up by a whole 14. This was definitely the influence of breaking the affection limit.

Ivar Lodbrok avoided my gaze and started to babble.

“Uh……this one, didn’t mean it like that……I apologize, but I was, uh…….”

“Come to think of it you, you’re rather cute.”

“……!”

Her face went red again. It felt like she was trying to show how far someone could go to reach the color red. Another notification appeared telling me that her affection had risen by 2. This was quite literally an affection festival.

Ivar Lodbrok moved her arms around in order to get away from me. Although her struggle was useless. She was drunk, so her movements were sluggish. This made her attempts to push me away fruitless.

“Y-Your Highness, it is very late now. So this one will……. This one━hbb!?”

She couldn’t finish her sentence. I blocked her before she could.

Pushing the other person away gently when they approach and chasing after them aggressively when they try to back away. This was my favorite tactic. Ivar Lodbrok’s eyes opened wide and she flailed her arms because of this unexpected assault. It was way too weak to say that she was putting up a resistance.

“Mm……gbb, haa. Wait……mm.”

Our lips overlapped and our tongues intertwined. A hot breath of air would linger between us every time a momentary gap appeared between us. The inside of Ivar Lodbrok’s mouth was sweet like the wine we had drunk all night. Before long, the arm that was trying to push me away lost its strength.

After confirming this, I slowly drew my lips back.

I whispered to her teasingly.

“How was it? Have you sobered up a little now?”

“…….”

Ivar Lodbrok dropped her head. She muttered incoherently.

“I-I’ll be in your care.”

Even her embarrassed tone was tinged in red.contemporary romance

When a girl gives consent, it’s important to distinguish whether she’s doing so genuinely or because she’s going along with the mood. This doesn’t matter if I intended to only spend a single night with this girl, but if I’m going to continue spending time with her for a very long time, then I have to make sure there are no regrets in the beginning.

It’s normally very difficult to discern this. Especially since we were both drunk. Nonetheless…….

「Vampire Ivar Lodbrok’s affection has risen by 14!」

There was a person who could see through someone’s true feelings through an incredibly strange method. And that person was me.

“Mm…….”

I stroked the girl’s cheek as I kissed her again. This time, she didn’t try to push me away at all. We naturally let gravity take hold of us as we laid on the sofa.

That night, the girl who had forgotten the touch of a man for thousands of years was thoroughly made to remember how pleasure felt.

* * *

Ivar Lodbrok was laid out on the sofa naked.

“Mm, m……hggh…….”

She must have still been feeling the aftereffects of the pleasure as she would occasionally moan while sleeping. Traces of our intense intercourse could be found flowing down her thighs, hair, and crotch. Her pure white body almost looked blinding as the candlelight occasionally glimmered off of it. I stroked her head a few times before getting up.

“Hooo.”

I took a puff from my pipe.

“……Was I a bit too rough on the girl who had just returned to being female?”

I felt like I had gone a bit too far with her.

I honestly admitted my mistake. My standards had increased after being with Laura for so long. Laura, who had surprisingly reached S-rank in her Sex Slave level, would have intercourse with me all day even if she passed out one or two times during it.

On average, Laura and I would do it for at least 6 hours. I forgot to be considerate to the other party and went wild because I was so accustomed to that. Darn it, I should’ve been considerate to Ivar Lodbrok since she had just returned to a female body after thousands of years!

The result was obvious. Ivar Lodbrok passed out completely.

“Ugh. I ended up giving her a rather intense memory as her first experience.”

You stupid foolish idiot.

Of course, Ivar Lodbrok wasn’t actually a virgin. The reason she had sworn to get revenge on a Demon Lord was because of her past lover, after all.

But thousands of years had passed. In other words, there’s an expiration date on not being a virgin as well, so if she hasn’t had any experiences as a female for the past few thousand years, then it would only be right to treat her as a virgin. Like how thousand-year virgin Brother Beleth is still a virgin.

I should’ve been considerate. Damn it. Seeing one of the heroines from the game panting in front of me ended up destroying my breaks completely. Something had burst.

I scratched the back of my head as I looked at the girl lying weakly on the sofa.

“……I should at least wash her.”

I lit the fireplace.

I found a reasonable-looking container to fill with water and dropped a stone that was heated by the fireplace into it. Steam started to emerge as the water was heated. Hot water complete!

I tore a bit of my mantle and turned it into a temporary towel. I dipped this towel in the hot water and carefully, while making sure to not wake her up, cleaned Ivar Lodbrok’s body.

“Hmhmhm, hmm.”

I unconsciously started to hum.

This wasn’t a particularly laborious task. On the contrary, it was fun. I guarantee that there is no man in the world who would refuse to earnestly clean the body of a beautiful girl.

“Mm……ha…….”

Ivar Lodbrok moaned every now and then. I paid it no mind as I earnestly washed her slender arms, legs, and slightly hilly chest with the warm towel.

This was an utterly natural form of decorum.

Imagine what would happen if a girl were to pass out after an intense bout of sex. If she were to wake up and find herself completely covered in a film of sticky and slimy liquid, then it would end up being the worst wake-up call in her entire life!

“Uuuu.”

Dear God, it’s terrible just picturing it…….

I pray that every woman in the world is able to have pleasant mornings.

As someone who went wild last night and failed to be considerate, I’m obligated to present her a ‘good morning’. Well, even if it was intense, people who wake up pleasantly end up believing that ‘last night was amazing!’.

In other words, I’m doing prep work so that the other party would have a good impression of me.

“Cleaning done!”

Ivar Lodbrok became clean shortly after. Her skin became milky clean from her fingertips all the way down to her toes.

I laid her down properly on the sofa and put my hands together as if I were praying.

I lowered my head solemnly.

“Thank you for the meal.”

“Hnng……kuh…….”

“It was really delicious.”

I offer my gratitude to the Goddesses up in Olympus for providing me with another meal for my daily life.

Gamigin yesterday, Ivar Lodbrok today, and Paimon and Sitri tomorrow. What else could this possibly be than the blessings from the Goddesses?

As the humble servant of Aphrodite, I will execute and cultivate my love according to the order you have given the world. Please forgive me if you find that I am lacking and provide me with a greater blessing if I am worth being praised.

“Amen.”

I drew something like a cross in the air due to the influence of my time as a priest.

Not only was I actually the priest of Artemis and not Aphrodite, but ‘amen’ wasn’t something that you would say to Artemis. Furthermore, Aphrodite is actually the guardian of maidens and purity━and yet, I reformed the goddess’ will, translating it as the following: ‘look after and harvest every maiden and purity in the world’.

It’s common for all forms of religion to be reiterated and reformed over time.

“Mm, I’m done. Perfect.”

I gently placed my mantle over Ivar Lodbrok like a blanket.

I then left the firm while feeling like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders.

“Hmhm~. Advance, sons and daughters of our nation~.”

Was this the aftereffect of faithfully following the Goddess’ merciful will?

My feet felt incredibly light and I felt utterly refreshed after I left the merchant building. I walked with a swagger as I smoked my pipe. The cool morning air mixed together with the fragrant herbs created a great sensation.

“Grabs your spears, comrads~. Urara, stand at the forefront~.”

The sunlight shined fully down on my body.

It was in times like this that I believed I shouldn’t take the world more seriously than necessary.

Isn’t the world beautiful?

* * *

“……!”

Ivar Lodbrok let out a gasp as she raised her upper body.

She looked around the room as if she were possessed by something, but there was nothing there. Ivar furrowed her brows as she tried to remember what happened last night, but she was hit by a sudden headache.

“……Ugh.”

She had a hangover.

It was then that she noticed the bottles of alcohol that were littered on the floor. Thirty, fifty, seventy bottles……the habit she had built as a merchant came alive as she counted the bottles, but her headache was interfering. She counted up to seventy-two bottles before giving up.

Her head was refusing to work.

Ivar Lodbrok knew through years of experience what she had to do in situations like this.

“So……I met His Highness Dantalian and…….”

She started to talk out loud instead. Ivar borrowed the strength of the words that were coming out of her mouth to slowly recollect everything that happened last night.

“I made a bet……we drank for a while……and then…….”

It was then that she remembered. What she had done.

“…….”

Ivar Lodbrok grabbed her head with both her hands and let out a soundless scream.

What has she done!?

Was she crazy? How could she sleep with the most dangerous individual currently in the Demon Lord army?! You may have been drunk, but how could you have been so foolish, Lodbrok!? You idiot!

“……No, no. It wasn’t an ‘exchange’ with only losses.”

The girl talked to herself anxiously.

“That’s right. Creating a deeper bond with His Highness Dantalian will allow me to intervene in the Demon Lord army from a different side. I have to use this from now on……. Okay. I’ll act like a maiden who had fallen in love and…….”

Did she move around too much?

Something slid down her body and fell to the floor. Ivar Lodbrok looked down and saw a rather expensive-looking mantle on the ground.

“…….”

Ivar picked up the mantle. She remembered this as well. It was His Highness Dantalian’s mantle. She spread the mantle out with her arms and stared at it for a while.

Ivar Lodbrok slowly brought her nose to the mantle and sniffed it quietly.

“…….”

Fortunately, there was no one watching her.

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TL Note: Thanks for reading the chapter. I wasn’t sure if I should put the NSFW warning at the start of this chapter. It isn’t exactly explicit like the other ones. I think it should be fine to not put a warning for this one. Well, if people think it’s needed, then I’ll add it later depending on your response.

I’ve been grinding it out on Lost Ark. I know Elden Ring came out, but I was never a huge fan of the Souls games to begin with. I’d play them, but they weren’t things that I’d get really excited for. I’ll just wait for when the game goes on sale or something :^)

I’ll see you guys in the next chapter.

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