Chapter 61 – Chapter 60 – Glory to the Queen (2)

Hernán got out of the laundry basket containing the blankets.
Now that you’ve finished rinsing, it’s time to squeeze out the water and hang it out.

Marina, who was washing her clothes and towels next to her, opened her mouth looking at Hernan.

“Is that Potty’s quilt?”

“Yes. It was probably hairy, so I washed it separately from her others.”

“It certainly was.”

Even the clothes and towels Marina is washing now belong to Forti and her son.
The amount of hair shed from her ears and tail was considerable, so there were not a few hairs floating in the water.

Is it shedding season?

Thinking of a slight laugh, Hernán pulled the blanket out of the tub and dumped the water.
As he rolled up the quilt and prepared to wring her out, Marina glanced to the side of her.

As Hernan followed her, his gaze moved, and he saw Carine, far away from her, pulling off her dry clothes.

She was still wearing clothes that exposed her buttocks or breasts even if her body moved a little.

Marina said in an emotionless voice, she said calmly.

“You are better at lyrics than I thought, hero.”

While she was adventuring, she had quite a few things to do homeless, and thanks to that, everyone knew how to do basic laundry and cooking.

So, the fact that the saintess praised her simply meant that she was not at the level of knowing how to do such things.
Rather, it means that it is like a person who used to do this professionally.

Ernan replied with a bitter smile.

“Karine… She has done more housework than I thought.”

Marina was about to ask something more, but she shut her mouth.
But she soon opened her mouth again and asked the question.

“Hernan. Are you on the lesser side of relationships with women these days?”

“… Why are you asking that?”

“Because doing the laundry will make you feel better.”

It seems that Marina managed to figure it out, even though Marina would have done less laundry herself as Karine had been working lately.
Hernan sighed inwardly and hesitated to answer.

Marina then slipped her body towards Hernán, dragging her washtub.
She just happened to be carrying her baby in her cloth, and even though she only moved a little, her child whined and tried to wake her up.

Marina skillfully soothed her child, and Hernán started washing beside her.
She spoke quietly so Karine couldn’t hear.

“I am asking because the number of people who still need to have sex periodically because of sexual desire suppression magic seems to be less than before. Are you sick anywhere?”

“Not like that.”

“Then there must be a psychological problem.”

Marina made the sound of water splashing with the laundry, confirming that Carine’s laundry had a long way to go.

Hernan wondered how far her saintess would have come up with, and she listened to her words quietly.

“Or is it because of the relationship with the girls here?”

“I won’t deny it.”

Hernan thought that the saintess might have more political sense than she thought.
She is also the one who tried to target the head of a group, so is it not a blind man at all?

Marina made a louder water noise and asked one more question.

“Is it because she carelessly got pregnant and the class of women will change?”

“That’s right. I couldn’t care less.”

Now, everyone except Karine has gone through one pregnancy and one birth.
That is, they all have the same score.

Now that the ranks have been divided from queens to mistresses simply by who scored first, the ranks can change at once if even one of them becomes pregnant first.

Even as a queen, the highest rank.

Hernán continued to speak, wringing out the covers as if they were about to burst.

“There hasn’t been a fight over the right to wish or bullying anyone over rank, but it’s just in case you don’t know.”

Neither he, who is the highest rank here, nor Shapi, the queen, were particularly tyrannical with their ranks, so there was no such atmosphere.
However, it was questionable whether it could be maintained even after the owner of the rank of queen changed.

For example, if the queen is taken by Karine over there…

Karine suddenly turned her head, as if she could feel the gaze looking at her.
When her eyes met, Hernán was able to identify the warrior’s face, which was stained with fatigue as her days passed.

He looked at Karine gloomily, and finally looked at her first.

She works quietly like that now, but when she was sure of her position as the leader of the warrior’s party, there were numerous acts of violence.
I didn’t want to let that happen again.

While he thought about it and ignored Karine’s disappointed face, Marina spoke in her coy voice.

“Then, does Hernan really want the class to become fixed like this?”

Marina is the lowest rank.
She is in the same situation as Carine, who has given birth to a child but has not even conceived.

Hernan asked back, wondering if the saintess was dissatisfied with that fact.

“Does the saintess want to become the queen?”

“Yes? No, no. What I just said did not mean that I would rise to the top.”

She was startled and stubbornly denied it.

“Doesn’t it take an extra pregnancy and birth to go up? To be honest, I don’t want to get pregnant anymore…”

Marina said bitterly and took her eyes off Hernan.
Hernán hurriedly turned his words away from the sudden surge of sorryness.

“Sorry for making wild guesses. If so, can you tell us what the saintess thinks?”

The saintess threw away the water in her washtub and asked Hernán to pour a new one, and she answered his question.

“Anyway, if things go on like this, the demon king will continue to hold the position of queen.”

“Do you want someone else to be queen instead of Sharpie?”

At Hernán’s direct words, Marina hesitated for a moment before opening her mouth.

“To be honest with Hernan, yes. Please don’t tell any other woman what I think.”

“Of course.”

It’s an out-of-the-way place in the laundry room where no one comes anyway.
If she shuts herself up, no one will know she is.

At least Karine, who is with them, is too far away to hear them, and the loud sound of water continues to come out.
And besides, she must have not heard because she was always a little hazy from her weariness.

Hernán continued the conversation with her voice lowered.

“I personally see nothing wrong with Sharpie keeping her queen. She has never shown any particular sense of authority, and she makes reasonable use of her wish rights and permission.”

“But she is the demon king and the center of the demon cult we are concerned about.”

Hernan was silent when he heard that.
What Marina said is correct.
No matter how favorably Sharpie is coming out here, she is the king of demons.

It’s hard to deny that Sharpie’s influence is also on the demonic faith that Silnia and Potty are getting deeper and deeper into.

And both of those facts can act as a fatal weakness for everyone after they get out of here.

Marina looked at Hernan’s hardened face and opened her mouth.

“If the demon king continues to hold out as a queen, he might later ask for something under the pretext of using the right of wish. I think she might tell you to surrender to the demons or to have the symbol of demon worship engraved on your body.”

“Sharpie…”

Hernán understood that the saintess’ speculation was sufficiently probable and reasonable.
However, he was very wary of the feelings he felt for Sharpie.

Marina said in a somewhat stiff voice as if she noticed that.

“Hernan. She understands that she’s a very attractive woman and she’s had a child with them, so it’s hard for her to be suspicious.
But isn’t she the only woman like Demon King? She’s not the only one with a child or Hernán’s firstborn, Ella.”

She asked a question, feeling that Hernán was left out.

“Great. She assumes that Sharpie is at risk. Then who should be in the rank of queen?”

The saintess had just denied that she would ascend to a high rank with her own mouth.
What about Sylnia?

However, she is hot-tempered and does not think deeply about Silnia.
It didn’t seem like a very appealing choice to Hernan, who had seen what it would look like if someone like that came into power.

But Potty didn’t seem like a particularly good choice either.
She is timid and timid, so there is a possibility that she will be swayed by others.
Her social skills aren’t very high either.

Above all, Hernán, who received her affection, sensed little by little that she was more greedy than she thought.

Marina interrupted her Hernan thoughts and she tried to voice her opinion.

“I think…”

“Hey, El?”

When Marina heard the voice of the warrior approaching, she hurriedly shut her mouth.
Hernan also hurriedly wringed out the blanket and looked back at Carine.

She held out the finely folded laundry with a rather despondent look.

“Is this a wizard?”

“That’s right.”

This is the fact that Hernan told me earlier.
Hernán looked at the laundry, judging that she already knew everything and she must have a reason to ask.

Karine opened her mouth with her smirk.

“Can’t you just let it go? I don’t like it when I go into Fortina Silnia’s room…”

“You already did that. If you put it on the shelf over there, I or the saintess will bring it to you.”

Hernán slowly began to notice Carine’s intentions.
She must be trying to drag her into her room.

As expected, Karine deliberately revealed a little bit of her inner self and brought up a different story about her.

“That, right? Then I have a favor to ask of you.”

She gripped her clothes in her hands and tried to speak in as plain a tone as possible.

“It’s been a while since I haven’t slept well lately, so can’t you hang out with me often? Like the last time you stayed with me until I fell asleep…”

If Karine hadn’t messed up her act of trying to seduce her with her own body like now, she might have done that much to her Hernán.
However, looking at her now, the future when she entered was good in her eyes, and I felt a sense of rejection.

If she goes to her room, she will immediately try to seduce her with her body.
She’ll probably have sex with her ass and she’ll try to keep her in the room.

If she accepts that, women will be angry because she slept with the hero the next day, and if she doesn’t sleep with her, Karine might try to do something unreasonable because of her humiliation.

If so, she had better refuse in the first place.

“Sorry. I made an appointment with another woman because it was time for a headache from the magic of her head.”

“If that’s the case, even if it’s through me…”

“I heard that Potty made sleeping pills.”

At least, Carine’s expression, which pretended to be calm, broke.
She answered, trying to force a smile.

“I don’t like to eat that.”

“Are you going to stay insomniac? I’m too busy taking care of the kids and taking care of women, so I can’t sleep with you.”

“If you just stay with me until I fall asleep…”

The hero gritted his teeth as he spoke, but his words gradually became blurry.
And he bowed his head.

“Okay. I’ll put this on the shelf.”

Carine drooped her shoulders, her energy completely drained.
Lately, instead of getting angry with Hernán whenever he refused, she used to quietly back away, waiting for the next opportunity.

Seeing Carine disappear with only her own clothes on her back, Hernán spoke softly to her.

“Lady. The opinion you couldn’t express earlier is not to say that Karine will be promoted as her queen, right?”

Marina patted the water off her clothes and shook her head.

“No way.”

* * *

Karine felt her stomach ache and she went back to her room.
It has been two months since she decided to take the job herself.

In the meantime, she continued to spend time with Hernán, as before.

She wondered if exposing her body would help, but she did not respond satisfactorily.

Wasn’t this vulgar dress, put up with the coy ridicule and cold treatment of other women, of little help?

Carine let out a melancholy sigh as she sorted out her hand-washed clothes.
At least when I was doing housework, these embarrassingly short clothes came in handy.

She also seemed to feel a little better if she thought that she would not stain her precious warrior outfit.

She sat forlornly on the bed and murmured.

“Today alone… When are you going to sleep?”

Since I have less to talk to others, I keep talking to myself more and more.

The saintess didn’t show a particularly cold reaction, but she did, and as in the past, when she tried to talk, an awkward air flowed.
She doesn’t have Deokji herself to talk to Ernan, let alone other women.

At least, as luck would have it, if the time to do the laundry overlaps, they come closer, but it ends without much profit.

A life of thorough confinement that will continue for years to come.
Social isolation in insomnia.
Nothing she likes, even a virtual breakup with her lover.

It was because of a hobby he had recently picked up that the hero managed to hold on in a situation where it was not too much to collapse at any time.

Karine rubbed her legs lightly, thinking about how she had only slept for one or two hours, but had increased hers to two or three hours.

I’ll have to lie down later…

She felt her face turn red as she finished tidying up her clothes.

She said, by the way, earlier when she approached Hernán and Marina she caught a glimpse of what she was saying about the queen.

Is she Marina or is she going to be queen?

Carine thought she would rather be that way.

She shouted that the ranks given by the Demon God had no effect, but in her heart, the rank system was a heavy burden on her heart.

Fortunately, the demon king didn’t behave violently, claiming that he was her queen, but that was because she was a demon by herself, so she was sacrificing herself.
She can never let go

I don’t even want to think much of Photina Silnia being her queen.

Even now, both of them are only looking for an opportunity to bully them, and it is unclear what they will do if they openly become queens.

Perhaps Hernan wouldn’t grant permission, but she might wish to completely trample on this side.
As she is the lowest class, she has to watch it while washing her hands.

“Cruel…”

This was a harsh place for myself.
It is an environment in which power and the right to wish arise only when you are pregnant, but you should not be pregnant yourself.

Pregnancy of an illegitimate child is too fatal for herself, whose dream is to somehow go out and become a king and marry Hernán.

Of course, there were quite a few other women who shouldn’t get pregnant…

Carine continued her thoughts again, forcing her heart to become heavy.
She wonders how she can find herself sleeping with Hernán again, and regaining her former position.

“No matter how much I think about it, the only thing I can think of is pregnancy…”

She thought of killing the other woman as well as throwing her table at first.
Then Hernan won’t have any women to look at, and she won’t be able to ignore me.

But now the power is gone, and there is no will to do so.
For some reason, she didn’t feel as easy as it used to to attack or kill someone.

Moreover, when the woman dies, the speed of exit slows down dramatically.
Maybe Hernan will hate himself even more.

“Aversion…”

It was sad that she naturally recalled the fact that Hernán hated her.

Carine threw her clothes from her lap onto herself and lay down on her bed.
The more she thinks about it, the more she gets no answers and gets depressed.

She’d better just try to force herself to sleep with the masturbation I was thinking of earlier.

It was at that moment when she thought so and pulled up her skirt.

“Huh?”

A strange thing fell between the clothes thrown over her.

“Men’s underwear?”

The only man here is Hernan.
Of course, these underwear must be his.

Carine was silent and examined it closely.
Judging by how dry it feels, it seems that she accidentally shoved her porcelain between her clothes as she was sorting after washing.

Perhaps, while I was tidying up in the laundry room a while ago, I felt Hernan’s gaze, so I put it in while looking at it.

“…”

Carine glanced at her door for no reason.
No one comes to her room.

Little by little she brought it to her face.
She finished washing, so of course she didn’t smell anything.

But strangely, I had the illusion that Hernan’s warmth and body odor were transmitted.

“Huh…”

She ran her fingers between her already damp legs.
The underwear of a man who loves but refuses to come to the same bed anymore.

The reason is unknown, but the fact tickles her brain.

“This is vulgar…”

Holding a man’s underwear and masturbating.
It was an unimaginable dirty thing for her, who hadn’t even known masturbation properly two months ago.

But, but she just can’t stop sniffing her now.
Her fingers were constantly teasing her clitoris and vaginal opening.

The sound of rubbing her bare skin had now been replaced by the sound of water splashing.

“Huh… Uh huh uh huh… !”

Karine groaned at the growing pleasure from her, and she recalled Hernán’s body and warm actions stored in her memory countless times.

“Huh! L…”

She bounced on her back and shivered all over.
The final blow was that she fantasized about undressing him and burying her face in his cock.

Karine breathed in, feeling at least briefly comfortable with the lingering aftertaste.
And soon she felt a deep sense of emptiness.

Even now, in some room, Hernán and a woman might be mixing their bodies, but he was doing something like this.

Karine got annoyed and pushed her underwear off the bed.

But right away she picked it up again and stared at it.

“After all, it just smells like cotton…”

Hernán’s body odor, which he had been entrusted with earlier, was also an illusion.
Her illusion alone makes me feel like this, but what if it’s real?

Her pride and reason sounded a warning that she shouldn’t do this, but she was plotting to steal her unwashed clothes.

It was honestly miserable.
But if you go out, you can pay it all back.

So Karine quietly teased her fingers again.

On one side, while they were contemplating who to raise as queen, on the other hand, a hot night was passing by when they were thinking about how to get the underwear of the man they love.