Chapter 149 – The Curse

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Her appearance had changed so much that until I saw her eyes her closely, I would never be able to tell who she was. Of course, her fundamental side has n’t changed. She has brown hair and green eyes. And, she inherited the characteristics of a handsome man even without looking closely, and she is a compliant beauty.

If you go in and compare each item, one item at a time. Certainly, it was clear that traces of her original appearance her remained somewhere.

But everything else.

She did n’t yet have a strong physique like Cleon, but her masculine body her, which was developing little by little, became so soft and slender that I could n’t tell where all her muscles her had gone. In contrast, his developed chest and thighs were so swollen that he could no longer claim to be a man.

His jawline was tapered, and his slender fingers were his. And thick, protruding lips. Eyelashes. Wavy long hair that goes down to the back of his.

In addition, if he wears clothes that cling to his body like this, he, as a man, will of course have unsightly bumps.

As if there was nothing underneath the rubber clothes, there was only the mound of Venus.

“Eustes…!?”

When Cleon called out his name her in a voice full of astonishment, he staggered back and tried to step back, but then back. Putting his feet on the ground, he looks back and closes his curtains. Aruru and Iona, who were surprised by the fact they realized and couldn’t continue talking, just looked at him and put on a puzzled expression.

“Did you come to find me? Cleon.”

For the first time, a voice came out of her—no, his. The voice was so thin and high that it did not prove at all that he was originally a man. Eustes himself hears his own voice and frowns as if he is tired of this.

“As expected, Eustes. That figure is-“

At Cleon’s question, Eustes glances down at her body and bites his lip as if indignant. There were even tears in his eyes.

“Ah. As you might have guessed. It’s the work of a succubus. Not just me, but all the non-succubus people who work here. They’re the ones who forcibly turned the men who were originally adventurers into women.”

The fact that was conveyed from his mouth was enough to astonish everyone gathered here.

And, with that, it was a story that was not enough to know where the men of the adventurer’s guild had disappeared.

“First… Sit down. It’s a shop like this, so even if you don’t go back, you won’t be suspicious.”

When Iona said that and patted her side of her, Eustes went to her seat her with a little awkward steps and sat down. He seemed to be unaccustomed to walking as a woman. Cleon asks a question as he slowly sits down on the chair and watches him sigh as if his shoulder her is straining.

“…What happened?”

“Haha… That’s an ugly story.”

Eustes speaks with half-dead eyes. In his eyes his, there was a mixture of anger and frustration at his own powerlessness his.

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Eustes, who had been transferred while being tied to the tail of the pink-haired Umma-Kamala, let out a moan of pain as his body instantly floated, and the strong shock he received as he hit the wall hit his body his.

“Kuh…”

First, what is visible is a dark prison-like space. Dirty, sticky, and smelly, of course—

What made him even more displeased was the reverberation of sticky black magic that spread throughout this space. No, it must be that there is still a high concentration of dark magic around here.

It was difficult for him, who originally had low aptitude for magical power, to perceive the aura of black magic. It’s a bit unpleasant if it’s about the density that spreads out in the alley. And, when I came to this place, I felt like my body was melting away from my skin, and I felt sick to my stomach. Then, the Mistiltein on his waist somehow spreads the remaining magic power around him, trying to stop the erosion of the dark magic.

At that time, when she turned her eyes to the sound of the metal bars coming from her side of her, she saw that Kamala was locking the door to the place where Eustes was-in other words, the prison.

“Lilim sister ~ ♡ Nice timing! You showed up just right! She almost got sent back to hell!? Can you see the lump on the back of her head!?”

Whether or not Eustes crawled on the ground and raised a voice of pain. Kamala, who brought her to this place, is the dark horse succubus who saved her. She clings to ‘Lilim’ and shows aegyo and fawning to the fullest. If you look at her appearance her alone, Lilim looks younger than Kamala, but there was a huge difference in the size of her power her that the two couldn’t compare.

To put it simply, is it the difference between Cleon and Eustes?

Lilim pushes Kamala, who is clinging to him, with her hand her. Her face was completely expressionless, but her hand gestures she showed a mixture of disgust and annoyance.

“Mmmm~ I’m shy☆ That’s cute too…”

So says Kamala, and she wags, wags, her tail. Her appearance was like that of a pet dog treating its owner.

“…Now, I’ll go… Ishtal, I’m waiting…”

“Yes yes~! Be sure to tell Ishtal-unnie my regards from this Kamala!”

As if ignoring Kamala’s words, Lilim waved her hand and opened her dimensional door.

Eustes managed to get her body up and raised her voice towards the girls behind her bars.

“Wait…! You guys… Why are you in the capital…!”

Lilim then looks at Eustes for a moment, then turns her head away as if she doesn’t care, and disappears through her portal. When Eusthes sees that and says ‘Kuh …’, Kamala shakes her hand to see her off her until her lilim, she disappears-

“Hey. Garbage.”

In an instant, she changed her attitude and whipped her tail at the grate to which Eustes was clinging.

Caang! When sparks flew along with a sound that hurt her ears, Eustes took a step back without realizing it.

“You did a good job of giving me a painful experience earlier… ☆ I unknowingly ate one of the pitiful younger siblings around me… “

She always spoke with a smile on her face, but her voice and demeanor conveyed that emotions close to uncontrollable madness were swirling inside her. No, it’s a story from a human point of view. Perhaps, for the race of demons, this might be a natural emotion.

She still smiled, and approached him, who had moved away from her iron bars her, dancing her tail her wriggling like a snake as if it were crawling through the air.

When Eustes steps back, feeling threatened by her actions. She feels her back against the prison walls.

“Hmm. A half-penny warrior. Skill and potential are half-penny. The possibility of blooming is low.”

“Gahwa…? What are you talking about…!”

Kamala let out a sigh as Eusthes raises her voice once more at the meaningless words that follow from her mocking self her.

“If I knew it would be like this, I’d bring the kid next to him… Well. You’re useful as you are.”

“Kuh… Answer the question properly!”

Eustes gets angry at Kamala’s attitude and picks Misteltein. The body-shaving magic production that had stopped earlier due to Saint Princess and Lubera’s invasion started again. If Mystiltein, who has regained her strength with it, shines strongly—

“Why should I do that? There’s no reason I should obey the orders of a weakling like you☆”

Kamala laughs and pulls her tail open. Within it, it emits a higher concentration of magic than the concentration of dark magic in the air.

“Keugh…!”

With that alone, all the magic power that went into the holy sword had to be converted into a thick wall to protect Eustes’ skin.

If you are exposed to that magical power, your body will literally melt while you are still alive.

“Ahaha~! It’s fun to see him somehow enduring with poor mana control and a low amount of mana☆”

Gazing at her giggling as if he was genuinely enjoying himself, Eustes felt his insides her boil. As she said All he can do now is to endure this condition.

However, how much longer the mana squeezed out of life force would last. Eustes needed to act somehow to get out of here.

“…What are those eyes? No way. Do you still think there is hope?”

Looking at Eustes like that, it seemed that he didn’t like that he didn’t despair. As Kamala looked at him with a serious expression, Eusthes felt goosebumps run down her spine. For her eyes her were no different from those of a child disappointed that his toy her did not move as he wished.

And, those kids usually do. He was taking his anger out on the toy.

Kamala’s tail her whips like a whip. This time, instead of being threatened by her iron bar, it was really aimed at Eustes’ body on her. Eustes hurriedly lifts Mistiltein to block it, but Kaang! When the sound echoed again, a powerful shock was sent to Eustes ‘hand his. Her tail her coils around the hilt of the holy sword, snatching it from Eustes ‘hand her.

“Mistil-aaaaa…!!”

The moment his mother and his sister’s keepsake his, Mistil Thein, fell out of his hands his, Eustes hurriedly tried to grab his sword his. At the same time, he collapsed on his knees in a burning pain all over his body. As the protection of his holy magic his disappeared, his body his was completely exposed to black magic. The pain was as if dozens or hundreds of bugs were crawling all over him and biting his skin.

Haha! If the holy sword is gone, they’ll kneel down right away! As expected, half-penny or not, warriors are the same as they were then and now!”

Looking at it, Kamala raises her voice as if having fun.

In the dungeon, only Eustes’ screams of pain and Camilla’s laughter resound.

Those confined to other cells cover their ears and tremble, or peer through the bars to check the condition of their new victim.

“I can roughly guess why you entered this back alley. You must be looking for the lost adventurers?

She laughs again as she whips with her tail at Eustes’ body of her, which she cannot answer because she screams.

Laughter. Laughter. Laughter.

Eustes, in his fading consciousness, regrets his own recklessness and folly his. And, at some point, she realizes that she has been a little conceited. Slowly, gradually. When even his spirit is about to dissipate her, like her melting body her. What you see in your memory. The video of the illusion like a kaleidoscope. Her her own father her, who was like her trash her, and her mother her, who tried to reform him but eventually gave up. Rubera. Tio. Uncheck. And-

“…Leo…I…”

Hearing the voice coming out of Eustes’ mouth, Kamala stopped. And she wags her tail. The fact that Eustes’ consciousness still remains, which would not be strange even if she had already melted away.

“Hmm? What is it? Are you calling someone you love by name?”

And in that act of calling someone important by name instead of asking for help. I felt something strange and my tail stopped for a moment.

Just like his lightning bolt his, Eusthes pulled out the iron longsword made by the two great bolts that hung from his waist his.

With his free hand, he grabbed the tail that had hit him and pulled it.

Staring only at the front with sparkling eyes.

He thrust his sword through the iron bars.

Kamala’s face was dragged close to the barricade, caught by his tail as her as the sword pierced through the wind and passed through a thin gap. Aim for the front

Eustes also had thoughts. Normal swords cannot hurt demons. However, if the opponent is a devil, he has thought of countermeasures to some extent.

He couldn’t rely only on Mistil Tane. So, before leaving. This sword has been coated with holy water.

The sacred energy subtly dwelling in it mercilessly burned the devil’s skin. If you succeed in piercing her head her.

No matter how powerful the demon is, it will take so much damage that it will have to be evacuated.

However-

“Keuh…!?”

Suddenly, the power that went into her whole body was momentarily drained. What? What happened?

Feeling of being smaller. Also, the arms her become thinner and the body feels out of balance.

The body collapses forward, and the sword’s trajectory goes astray.

Finally. The sword just brushed past the bewildered Kamala’s cheek her. Of course. Even with that alone, Kamala was tormented by the holy water and spat out a voice like ‘Kuu…!’, But if she lightly swept the area with dark magic, the wound would disappear in an instant.

And, the fallen Eustes. It didn’t take long for her to realize that something strange had changed in her body.

Not only did the sticky dark magic fall off his body her, but his arms his were slender, and his clothes his seemed to have grown a bit somewhere. And, heavy chest and buttocks.

“Kuh… Fuh… Kuhhh… Kahahahahahahahahaha!!!”

The demon in front of me laughed madly. Then, when she snaps her fingers, an ice mirror made of magic appears next to her, showing Eusthes its appearance her.

At that place-

There was a figure of Eustes who became a woman.

“What… Hey… This is…!”

“Ahahahahaha! Well, what the hell! That’s your appearance as a female! Originally, you injected dark magic that was so dense that it melted, but you overcame it with your will! Congratulations! That’s you from today!”

Eustes, stunned by Kamala’s obviously mocking voice her and by her changed self her, stumbled and reached for her missing sword her.

“Ah~ah~ What are you doing? You can’t even swing a sword properly with that body. The only thing you can hold is a customer’s cock. Or, a food cart.”

However. With her foot her, Camilla kicks away Eustes’ prized sword.

“Kuh… Who, would do such a thing…”

“… Whoops. But. It was good just now. No matter how weak I was, I couldn’t believe it was such a heart-wrenching crisis. I never thought I’d feel it for a scumbag like you.”

Camilla smiled pleasantly as she ran her fingers over her bruised cheek her. That expression was full of emotions that ordinary people find difficult.

“But. In the end, garbage is garbage. It’s a pity☆ Your book of adventure has disappeared from here~”

Looking down at Eustes with her sneer her, she sighs as if exhausted from her laughter and brings her face closer to Eustes.

“…Would you give me a chance? You. And, I can free adventurers like you from here.”

“…”

“Of course. I can’t just do it. I have to work. Starting tomorrow, I’ll work at our shop and collect the necessary energy, then I’ll release it. Oh, of course, I’ll give you back the holy sword.”

As she said that, she carefully wiggled Mistil Thein, which she held by her tail.

“A job…?”

“Yes. Simple customer service, and then. It’s an incredibly pleasant thing that can be done with that body…☆”

With her eyes shining, smiling at the despairing Eusthes, she was once again ringing the dungeon with a high-pitched laugh.

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“…So, that’s why you were working here wearing that outfit.”

“Yes, that’s right. It’s already been a few guests since morning… I haven’t even gone up to the second floor yet. …I know. That’s a good assortment of temptations. But, if I don’t cling to it… I…”

Eustes said so with her shoulders drooping. In the meantime, Aruru was judged to be ‘no problem with the food’ by Iona and had ordered things.

“… The other clerks, too?”

“Yes… These are male adventurers like me who have become women. …For some reason, it seemed that they gradually forgot that they were men and became enslaved to the succubus. The customer who took them to the second floor was exhausted. I’m going to hand it over to the succubus after Shiki.”

Upon hearing the answer to Iona’s question, Cleon and Aruru fell silent for a moment. Memory and brainwashing Things that happened at the academy came to mind naturally.

However, Iona shook her head and spoke as if to reassure them both.

“Probably, it’s not Demiurge. It’s probably the process of being gradually contaminated by the magic that succubuses possess.”

“Could it be that I’m going to be like that…? It’s getting more and more natural that I’m a woman, and I’m getting closer to a woman in body and mind… Did I fall under that curse…?”

Eustes speaks while trembling with a frightened face. However, she shook her head and let out a sigh.

“…I’m sorry, Cleon. I couldn’t stay still after hearing your story, but… That was my arrogance. It wasn’t something I could handle.”

He said that and apologized. There was an uncontrollable mixture of regret and regret in his voice.

What is the warrior of the holy sword? What is Noblesse Oblige? He was just an idiot who had no choice but to hold others back like this.

He was arrogant in thinking that he had changed. I’m still helpless.

“…Through painful experiences. If that leads to growth. Failure isn’t necessarily negative.”

However, Cleon shook his head. Then, while holding Eustes’ trembling hand, they talk.

“… First of all, let’s escape from this place. We have to free the others as well, but… Before that, we’ll have to get your holy sword back.”

Eustes raised his head at Cleon’s words. Iona and Aruru, who nodded at Cleon’s words, also seemed to be thinking of rescuing him from here.

“Cleon…!”

“But. You don’t know how many demons are around… And the clerks here could be used as hostages. So it’s better to wait a little longer.

[If it’s a sign of the holy sword, I’ll chase it~ It’s weak, but I can feel it~]

At Caliburn’s words, Cleon gave a small smile. Did Eustes feel that as an expression of confidence?

“Yes, yes! Of course…! Thanks, Cleon. I’ll do my best.”

It made a face of longing for Cleon, and its eyes her were shining.

And, two people looking at it from the side. Iona and Aruru whisper quietly.

“… Iona.”

“…Yes, I don’t even know myself. Little by little, the way I talk is becoming more like a woman. This… Might not be good.”

Noticing subtle changes in Eustes, he could n’t hide his anxiety.