Chapter 140
Translator: Lizz
Proofreader: Xemul
The atmosphere changed right after that .
Lapis was holding Loren up and watching Gula’s massacre unfold when she noticed the change and reflexively tightened her hold on Loren .
“…Do you want to strangle me to death?”
“S-sorry . But…”
“Seems like something is ing . That smell is… getting stronger . ”
The smell Loren mentioned was the sweet scent that was making him lose his mind, and probably was what had stolen the soldiers’ and villagers’ awareness . It had suddenly bee stronger .
“Isn’t it better to make me unconscious now before it’s too late?”
Feeling that his senses were going hazy again, Loren prompted Lapis . Lethargy attacked his whole body, his awareness flickered, and he lost the ability to move . But if he did something strange or blurted out something weird while being held by Lapis, he would mentally die later .
Hearing Loren’s proposal, Lapis looked down at him with a troubled expression . He was in a quite battered state now . Even though it hadn’t e to anything fatal due to Gula stopping in the mid of his rampage, the backlash had definitely caused damage to his body .
“But in this state, just a single blow might kill you, won’t it?”
“How e the first thing you think of is knocking me out?”
If it was only to make him unconscious, a spell would be sufficient; there was no need for a blow . Even though Loren’s magic resistance was high, if he himself didn’t wish to resist it, magic could work on him with no problem .
“You want me to use a sleeping spell?”
“Can I ask you to? I feel like it’ll bee dangerous if I continue like this . ”
Loren just wanted to quickly fall unconscious before he could do anything strange . But Gula came and placed her palm on his forehead before anyone could notice .
“Hey?!”
“I’m giving back what I bit off before, plus a bit of interest . ”
Gula’s hand clutched at Loren’s forehead lightly . From that hand, Loren felt something he couldn’t prehend pour into his body . He immediately tried to shake her hand off, but Gula didn’t let go and held on tight with a strength that made Loren unable to move even his neck .
“What are you doing?!”
“Heh, all done . Don’t you feel more fortable?”
Gula smiled cheerfully and quickly let go of Loren, who was still trying to rise up even though his strength was no match for hers . He wanted to plain, but immediately noticed the changes in his body and swallowed the words down . The fatigue he had been feeling since Gula showing up had disappeared, and he didn’t feel the haze in his mind whenever he inhaled that sweet scent anymore .
“I munched on you a bit when you were going berserk to make you behave . I’ve just returned it, and I’ve also enhanced your resistance to the phenomenon happening in this place . ”
Still keeping his eyes on Gula’s smiling face, Loren got up from Lapis’ arms . The pain has receded pletely and his mind cleared up . The feeling of sickness and fatigue vanished from his body .
“Are you alright, Loren?”
Lapis asked, as she followed Loren and stood back up . He silently nodded .
He didn’t really understand what Gula meant by munching on him, but he guessed it was about his stamina and life force . She had taken away some of them to stop his rampage .
Her returning that force back to him was conceivable, but he couldn’t understand her intention of enhancing his resistance .
“What the hell are you thinking about?”
“Right, I wonder how will things progress from here? Well, in the worst case, I have returned enough stamina for you to run away . The aftertaste will be bad though . ”
“Aftertaste?”
Lapis wanted to clarify Gula’s remark, but she didn’t elaborate any further . Her gaze turned away from them to somewhere beyond the remaining naked men .
“Since the scent has bee this heavy, you must be over there . ”
“Gula-chan… I feel so sad . ”
Hearing the voice, Loren frowned in confusion . Lapis’ eyes widened, and she looked around restlessly, as if she had bee suspicious of something .
“I’ve just woken up and spread my love around here, you know . Seeing my lovely captives being gobbled down like that makes me really sad . ”
[What love?]
Loren wondered while his sixth sense, cultivated through countless battles, rang a spectacular alarm bell in a corner of his mind .
The speaking manner was similar to one of an aged woman, who could be found in a tavern or brothel . Yet no matter how much his brain refused to accept it, the deep voice seemed to belong a man .
“Hey Lapis, is there something wrong with my hearing? Somehow I hear a man’s voice…”
“Loren, your hearing is probably alright . Because I also heard a man’s voice . ”
Gula’s gaze didn’t shift .
Seeing the figure slowly e out from behind the naked man, Loren unthinkingly fixed his grip on his greatsword, and Lapis clung to his arm as if she was hugging it .
“Love… It’s beautiful yet ugly, fleeting yet powerful, fragile yet strong… And, without a doubt, has faults . ”
The naked men made Loren feel extremely unpleasant, but if he were to be asked who was more unpleasant, them or the newly-appeared figure, he wouldn’t be able to answer right away . The newer was that kind of existence .
First of all, the height was taller than that of the naked men by two heads . The hair gleamed glossily as if it was bed through with some kind of oil . And the face was, unmistakably, the chiseled face of a man, with a small mustache and a cleft chin .
Shifting his gaze downward, Loren saw a neck as thick as the waist of a woman . Further below was a brawny torso packed with muscles that was, for some reason, straining in a black mesh shirt .
“Ugh… Blergh…”
Perhaps because the sight was so shocking, Lapis began to get sick while still clinging to Loren’s arm . He rubbed her back and shifted his gaze further down .
His eyes met a pair of tight leather pants hanging so low that they could barely be called low-rise . The muscles squeezed into those pants made the legs’ outline clearly visible . Moreover, he could clearly see a very noticeable bulge in the middle . Unwilling to believe what he had seen so far, Loren turned his gaze back to the face .
“Really?…”
“Oh, I can feel a very hot gaze on me . Have I charmed you, dear boy?”
If this was a mental attack, then the sweet scent from earlier was no match for it; Loren thought with a shudder . He began to think that he probably would have gone crazy right here if he hadn’t received that resistance power from Gula .
“It’s understandable . Everybody yearns for this attractive body of mine after all . ”
“No, I think you’re so gross that he’s bee immobile due to the mental damage . Look at the priestess next to him . She’s trying so hard to not vomit, isn’t she?”
“Ah, forgive my rudeness . It’s alright, cute priestess . I… swing both ways, you know . ”
Lapis screamed and hid behind Loren .
Loren, despite being used as a shield, was also filled with the desire to run away from this place as soon as possible, but he couldn’t . In addition to the revolting feeling for the being in front of him, Loren could also feel the heavy pressure of facing another entity similar to Gula, a so-called Evil God . If he didn’t play well here, an easy escape wouldn’t be a choice at all .
“Stop making heart eyes, you idiot . What the hell are you doing here?”
“I’ve decided to build a love nest . ”
“What love nest? You just call people here with no discrimination at all . It’s started to bee a big mess, you know?”
“It’s alright, I’ll wele anyone who gathers here . I’m a philanthropist . ”
Loren desperately tried to control the nausea brought about by all the wriggling muscles and asked Gula:
“H-hey, what the hell is that…?”
“You’ve understood somewhat, haven’t you? I don’t really want to admit it, but he and I are the same kind . ”
“Now, excuse me, but what do you mean by ‘don’t really want to admit’? Being jealous of my beauty, are you Envy?”
“Have you gone senile while sleeping? I’m Gluttony . And you are Lust . ”
Hearing that the muscle head who used feminine speech in front of them was an Evil God, and of Lust no less, both Loren and Lapis stiffened up .
Paying no mind to their reaction, Gula continued her explanation:
“Luxuria Lusterity, Evil God of Lust . He’s a queen who calls himself a philanthropist just because he’s fine with both genders . And there’s no age limit for him . Upper limit is dying grandpas and grandmas, and the lower limit is… I can’t really say it out loud, but his range is extensive . ”
“There’s no limit for love . Nice to meet you . ”
Lapis, who was hiding behind Loren, pressed her forehead into his back and desperately tried to suppress her nausea and scream . That was quite painful for Loren, but he couldn’t move even an inch . All he could do was looking-back and-forth between a grinning Gula and a winking Luxuria .
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