Chapter 52 – Obscene Weed (02)

“Keeeeek!!”

Deeply.

Before the Goblin Shaman could escape, Inori made the first move and plunged the Assassin’s straight sword into her chest, piercing her heart like a needle with such precision that the Goblin Shaman tried to stop the green blood gushing from her chest of her. While struggling, she lost her life.

This happened while I was too embarrassed to see clearly, but while Inori was wiping the green blood from the assassin’s straight sword with a cloth, I checked the status window of the fallen goblin.

– Goblin slave –

“It’s not him!”

“Yes?”

As I focused my attention on the goblin running away with the incense burner, I saw a green health value in the red status window next to her face and a blue mana value below it.

“That guy is real!”

Inori tried to kill me with a single blow using [Shadow Ninjutsu], But as the fire became more intense, the surrounding light sources shook and the shadows became disorganized, and Inori gave up [Shadow Ninjutsu] And started running with me.

“Keeeeek! Kieeeeek!!”

Extra points if you catch that guy. Of course, I had no intention of just letting it go.

Bang, bump, bump!

Even as he was running away, he was holding the incense burner dearly, but there was still an ember left inside, sparking sparks in the weed field made up of lewd weeds.

‘What is that incense burner…’

Even while running, he concentrates his mind and checks the information on the incense burner that the disguised goblin shaman is carrying.

– Old incense burner –

– It’s so old that it doesn’t seem to be very useful –

It seems to be just an incense burner.

Pot!

Inori started sprinting ahead of me with great agility. Watching him move almost like a swallow flying while sticking to the ground, I was able to realize how important it is that it is not just the agility value, but individual skill.

Right now, Inori’s agility is higher than mine, but even if she had similar abilities, compared to her nimble movement skills her her, I was just running according to the techniques I learned in school, so the distance was greatly increasing.

The goblin shaman was running away, but not even five seconds later when Inori caught up with her and drove the assassin’s straight sword she was carrying into her body.

“Kuheh!!”

A clean blow, like a bee stinging past, pierces the goblin shaman’s neck.

Her blade her, which was stuck just enough to take her life her, was retrieved by Inori as it exited her as cleanly as if it had injected her, leaving the goblin shaman lying face down in the same position she had fled from her of, placing his incense burner on her floor. It was poured out.

Grumbling…

As the embers and hot ashes remaining inside the incense burner pour out, the already dry weed field begins to burn.

“Inori! It’s dangerous!”

The fire currently in the goblin village was caused by Ophelia’s fire magic, so there was no damage to us, but the fire created by the goblin shaman was applied as a hostile attack, so it could cause burns to Inori.

“Master! This way!”

“Huh?”

“Fire is coming from behind!”

I thought it was Ophelia’s fire magic and was trying to stay still, but suddenly I got scared by the burning smell I felt from the back of my head and started running as fast as I could.

“Aaaaah! What is this? Wasn’t it Ophelia’s magic?!”

Apparently, the fire that broke out at the rear of the village was not Ophelia’s fire magic, but a fire intentionally set to prevent the goblins from chasing Ophelia and Marian, who were attacking from the front.

Just as the goblin shaman tried to escape by deliberately dropping ash and sparks from the incense burner and setting fire to this dry grassland!

‘Damn, this is going to be a forest fire!’

In addition, Ophelia was setting fire from the front, so this field was now a complete sea of ​​​​​​fire.

“Kellokkelock!”

“Master!”

Ophelia’s flames were treated with a special system so that they were not dangerous to us, but the flames set by the goblins were simply burning the surrounding area, telling anyone to die.

In fact, this obscene weed field was so dry that it felt crunchy when I held it in my hand, so the fire that started with a few sparks was growing rapidly, and as soon as I arrived, Inori dug into the surrounding ground with his straight sword and the flames started to spread here. They were trying to stop him from approaching.

“Inori, get out of the way!”

When I commanded Inori with a ‘voice’, she stepped right out to the side and I took out her wooden sword, tilted it towards her floor and spun around on the spot.

Kwa-ga-ga-ga-ga-!!

As if plowing the ground with a drill, the ground touched by the 99999 reinforced wooden sword was plowed, turning the surrounding ground over, and the moist soil came out, creating a space for me and Inori to take refuge.

“Cough! Inori, at least you hide in the shadows…”

“The shadow is always under the light. Don’t say that.”

‘No, I was trying to call the guards who were watching and ask them to put out the forest fire…’

Still, because there was nothing to ride around, there was a huge amount of smoke rising, but there was no danger of us burning to death right now.

The only problem was the acting.

“Cluck!”

Spicy, spicy. It felt like my lungs were being smoked.

“Master. This.”

Inori took off his mask and gave it to me.

“No, we just have to hold out for a little while. The fire isn’t that severe and we have secured a safe zone, so all we have to do is wait until all the dry grass burns… “

“It is a mask that protects the respiratory system and prevents toxic fumes.”

Oh, was it something like a gas mask?

“Cough… It’s okay. This is Inori…”

“Master.”

Inori, who was putting a mask over my mouth with a stern expression, had a stern expression on her face as if she would not listen to my commands for now.

The mask was put on me without having to turn it over, and it seemed to be an item that could be used on either the front or the back without any problems.

‘Looking at me like this, Inori looks like a sister…’

Inori is attending the academy by lying about her age, so she is actually my older sister.

If Marian is a kind older sister who pampers her younger brother, I would say Inori feels like a somewhat strict older sister.

“Cough… If Inori becomes dangerous, I’ll change it right away.”

“You don’t have to worry about me, my lord.”

As he fixed the mask over my mouth with a slight smile, the pungent smoke that had been bothering me just a moment ago was definitely diminishing.

When you breathe in, as if filtering through an air purifier, you only feel a little hot, but it doesn’t feel like spicy smoke like before.

I thought it was just a simple mask, but it has this function, it’s a fantasy world…

‘Ophelia and Marian… Are evacuating well.’

As the fire was growing, I was worried about the two people and looked around. From afar, the pink heart gauge appeared to be very small and was getting smaller, so it seemed like they were retreating from the goblin village.

“Cough… Inori? Are you okay?”

“No problem.”

Inori was expressionlessly protecting me from the fire and being alert to the surroundings. Even though the smoke was getting worse than Aga, she seemed fine.

‘Okay… It’s a bit narrow…’

The hastily created safety zone was a little narrow, so I ended up leaning in a shallow hole with Inori. Thanks to that, I was able to immediately check whether Inori’s condition she was okay or not.

‘There’s a problem’

As time passed, Inori’s expression she became a little more stern and she started frowning, so I was about to take off her mask.

“Inori, put on your mask again. Let’s take turns. We should both get out safely.”

“Wait a minute… Master…”

Something felt strange about Inori’s eyes.

A dark heart pattern was visible deep in her pupil. The fact that the heart shape, which was supposed to be visible only briefly when the affection level rises, was visible in the pupil was as if Marian thought of me as her younger brother her her …

‘Uh…? Why…’

Of course, the heart was smaller than Marian’s and hard to see unless you looked closely, and it was only slightly visible inside Inori’s black pupils.

Moreover, she didn’t show any strange behavior, such as suddenly trying to attack me.

However, Marian’s precedent came to mind, and I looked around and saw that colorful obscene weeds were burning and spewing out acrid smoke everywhere. I picked up the strand of obscene weed that remained in my hand and checked the information.

‘If dried and burned, it has a mild stimulating effect… Ah!’

In other words, this place was now a hot pot of stimulants made by burning obscene weeds.

“Inori! Use this quickly!”

“I don’t like it…!”

“No, it’s dangerous if you breathe in this smoke!”

“No. My lord’s safety comes first.”

When I tried to take off the mask, Inori held me down by pressing down on the seams of my mask with her hands. It seemed like she was trying to prevent me from giving the mask back to her from the beginning.

I couldn’t just look at Inori like this any longer when I saw the drool slowly flowing out of the corner of her mouth, the hearts in her eyes her growing little by little, and the little bumps here and there on Inori’s body her as she sat on top of me. .

“Inori. I command you as my lord.”

“If it’s about safety, I won’t listen.”

“Is this okay?”

I grabbed Inori by the back of her head and pulled her to my face.

“Master…?”

With Inori’s eyes shaking widely in confusion, I kissed her lips with the mask on her.

‘It works!’

When Inori took off her mask and handed it over to me, she placed her outer side in my mouth rather than the part that she normally used to touch her mouth. I attached it.

In other words, this mask had an air purifying function in the fabric itself, not that the front and back worked differently.

So, there is no problem even if you kiss each other and use both sides together like you do now.

‘The fire is over quickly because there is nothing to burn.’

The end was the junk brought by the goblins, a small village, and an obscene weed field in the vicinity.

Thinking that this was all I had to endure, I held Inori’s face her and breathed together under the mask’s effect, and continued to blow purified breath into Inori’s lips her her her.

The lewd weeds were so dry that they burned up within a few minutes and no longer gave off smoke. When the black smoke around them began to clear, I let go of Inori’s lips.

“Ha…”

Inori’s lips were moist, perhaps because they slightly exchanged saliva through the masks.

Looking at his noticeably red face her, I took off the mask and tried to hand it to Inori, but Inori was only lightly smeared with it, but I was covered in saliva, so I couldn’t give it back to use right away.

‘I guess I should at least wash it with a water bottle and then return it…’

“Are you okay?”

“Master…”

Inori tried to reach out to me, but he suddenly cupped his face and tied his own arms her with [Shadow Ninjutsu].

“No, to the shadow… To my lord… These feelings…”

“Inori?”

“We…Are just loyal…”

She suddenly started acting strange, so I checked her heart gauge to see if it was due to the smoke from the lewd weed she drank earlier.

The heart gauge, which not even Marian had ever reached before, had almost filled its fifth mark and was about to reach the end.

“Please…Don’t be…Kind to me any more, my lord…”

Unlike usual, Inori was trying to move away from me, looking like she was about to cry.

“Please, keep a distance so that this lowly shadow doesn’t get mistaken…”

When I tried to reach out for her hand, Inori moved further away.

“Even if you don’t do this, you can take my body and throw it away as you like, so please do it this way… So that you don’t mistake it for the shadow theme…”

I thought that as Inori’s affection level increased, she felt a bit of distance or hesitation.

‘Was it something like this?’

Since public is public and life is private, that is, in a master-servant relationship, one can offer one’s body without hesitation when ordered, but one must not harbor affection?

“My lord… You have a precious lover… I understand that, but…”

She bites her lip as she cries, and Inori’s sadness is conveyed with each word.

“If you give me just a little time, I will show my lord my normal self again… Just give me a moment so that you don’t have the illusion that you are favored like you are now, and that you don’ t harbor any impure feelings towards your lord…”

No, but I think it was necessary for our relationship to go this far… I only cared about her too much, and since Inori has a sensitive constitution, that alone made her go up, so her affection level went up, but it I felt like I was playing with her, and she didn’t show any affection either. Was it because I was worried because my heart was shaking?

‘If you ask me this, I’m a bad person…’

When I think about it, I think I would go crazy if I were bullied like I was by Inori. I reflect once again.

Since they accepted each and every one of them, I unconsciously thought that Inori would be okay.

“You can embrace it.”

“…Master?”

“What’s so bad about that?”

I woke up in the middle of the burning forest.

“They said it was their destiny to serve and protect me as their lord according to the family rules.”

“Yes. That is the fate of the Shadow Family.”

“Why not add a little personal selfishness to it?”

When Inori heard those words, she pressed her heart with her hand and flinched.

“If Inori likes it…”

To be honest, the words didn’t come out easily because I was embarrassed to say this directly, but I answered with a shy smile.

“I guess I’ll be a little happier.”

Ah. The heart…Filled all five spaces.

“Huh…?”

Suddenly, I felt the ground beneath my feet disappear, and my body tilted and I was buried in the shadows.

‘Ah… This way again…?’

But I think it would be cheap to get hurt by Inori.