Chapter 187 – Fetch – 5

“Uh, you can hit me until my hip bone breaks! I can hold back my screams if I have to, just please…”

Her round outline was revealed, barely covered by a thin layer of tights, wiggling right in front of me. I was at a loss for words as I stared at her.

After laying down for a bit, Fetch, noticing I showed no intention of hitting her, pleaded with an even more desperate voice.

“Uh, is it because I’m still wearing clothes? Should I take them off to make it easier to hit me—”

“Wear them.”

“Yes, yes!”

Just as she was truly about to toss her tights aside, I commanded her to wear them immediately as soon as half of her crack was revealed. Fetch quickly pulled up her tights at my command.

To be honest, whether she wore or took them off made little difference. Even now, the plump skin beneath her bottom was clearly visible.

But the fact that she was wearing something was crucial. There was an enormous difference between wearing something and being completely naked.

Sometimes, wearing something could even make the situation feel more dizzying, but that was an exception.

‘This is ridiculous.’

This sentence compressed my feelings perfectly. I thought I had left her in good hands with Lize, so why had she transformed into a masochistic pig was beyond me.

I turned my gaze, wondering what on earth had happened. Nix was fidgeting with her fingers in front of her chest, glancing at those beside her, and Lize, the likely suspect, avoided my eyes.

“Lize. What have you been doing here? Spit it all out, step by step.”

“W-what do you mean?”

Lize feigned innocence with a startled expression, but she seemed to realize it was too late to deny it, and her face turned awkward as she made eye contact with me again.

“Well, you’re right, Delta. It’s my fault.”

“What on earth did you do to make her… plead like this?”

I almost said, ‘This is a request that sounds just like something you’d do,’ but I stopped myself. Since I had indeed pulled off such acts with Lize before, I barely held back from saying it.

Thanks to that, there was a pause between my words, but Nix seemed not to care about it at all, while Lize was too busy rambling justifications to pay attention. It was fortunate.

“No, no. I haven’t done anything too outrageous, okay? You asked her to do this, so there’s no way I would have!”

“So, you’ve done something, just not too much.”

“Well…”

Lize approached with a flustered expression. She seemed unable to deny it out of a sense of conscience. Meanwhile, Nix hurriedly followed behind her.

“……”

As I showed no intention of hitting her and began a conversation while leaving Fetch unattended, she cautiously lifted her head. Her hot pink pupils slowly scanned me.

“Um, um. Delta, my bottom—”

“Hey, are you quiet? Who tries to sneak in spanking play like this? I haven’t even done that many times!”

“Eek! I’m sorry!”

Fetch buried her head back into the ground. But her wiggling bottom remained unchanged.

Initially, I was too flustered to notice, but now I saw her back was quite hunched. It looked like she was trying to protect her knees from pressing against her belly.

“Why did spanking play randomly come up?”

“Even if we say we’ll do it as I mentioned, you wouldn’t really hit me hard enough to break my hip bone, right? That would be spanking. And I assure you, having been hit by you, that it feels oddly good. I almost lost myself!”

“……Forget it. I’ll refrain from talking. Just explain what you did.”

I awkwardly changed the subject.

It wasn’t wrong. I had no intention of hitting Fetch, but I certainly had no intention of breaking her hip bone either. And I had no confidence in winning a verbal spar with Lize over dirty talk.

Continuing this conversation would only be detrimental to me.

“As you mentioned, we prevented her from leaving here, and I was going to give her some appropriate training during that time. No matter how much all of this was Delta’s intent, she still scammed us, after all.”

“I understand that far. But?”

“We shouldn’t let her get hurt, right? So I was just fooling around with her and throwing potions at her to drink, and once she drank all the potions, I would fool around again and throw her another potion to drink…”

“Potions? The ones I bought for her?”

“Yeah. I told her to do whatever she wanted with them since I wouldn’t use them anyway.”

While there were moments I needed health potions to recover HP when using the Blood-Stained Sword, now that I had gained a thirst for blood, I had no use for them anymore.

So I mentioned it was okay to use them loosely.

‘…Wait a minute.’

Suddenly, I felt I understood why Fetch had those looks.

“How many did you give her?”

“Let me see. I didn’t count from the middle, but… about twenty bottles? No, was it more than twenty?”

“It’s exactly fifteen bottles. Hehe. I just counted them.”

Nix pointed to the glass bottles rolling around in one corner.

Using the potions themselves was fine. Although they were bought with my money, I didn’t need them anyway. They were just items I bought to fulfill event conditions.

“You controlled your strength properly while hitting her, right?”

“Do you think I can’t even do that?”

“So, no injuries, yet you gave her that many potions?”

High-grade potions didn’t heal all wounds with just a few drops. The volume of potions was surprisingly well standardized. Both the Empire and Holy Kingdom had regulations.

The volume of the high-grade potions I bought from Fetch was 150ml. Generally, it was a drinking amount that would be divided over 2 to 3 doses. But you mean to say she drank fifteen bottles of that?

Just from simple calculations, that would amount to over 2 liters of liquid, so it was a miracle her stomach hadn’t exploded yet.

“There might be an injury you wouldn’t notice, right?”

Lize flashed a sly grin. It was clear she acted knowing everything she was doing.

As a knight commander of her skill and standing, it was impossible she wouldn’t be able to use her hands on someone like Fetch, and she certainly knew that potions consumed without injuries were merely water.

Although it was all intentional on my part, it still felt bad that they had tried to scam me, so I had to pay them back. But since I hadn’t really been harmed in essence, I guess they chose this method to bother me.

Even if it were done without reason, potions were still potions. Even if side effects occurred, they could be cured immediately with potions. I thought to myself how clever that idea was.

‘Now I understand why she’s acting like this.’

I looked at Fetch, who was still presenting her bottom while bending forward.

It made sense that she was in such an awkward stance; her belly was likely sloshing with an enormous amount of potions in it, which was why she was trying to avoid pressing it down.

The fastest way to get rid of the liquid in her belly would be to get injured, so it seemed she had been begging to be hit for that reason. This solved most of my questions.

“Why specifically the bottom?”

“Well? You should ask her, who is lying face down.”

Except for one thing.

If she intended to injure herself to consume the potions, she could simply be stabbed with a knife. Why specifically ask to be hit on the bottom was still unclear to me.

Upon hearing my question, Lize tilted her head. She seemed to be wondering why I was asking her about this.

“Hey, did you hear? Why specifically the bottom when every other area is untouched?”

The blue eyes glanced down at the ground. As the topic turned to her, Fetch timidly raised her upper body while her lower half remained kneeling on the floor.

With her hands positioned near her sides, it seemed like her sides were pulling. Given she rushed over to me, it was understandable.

“Well, getting stabbed or cut really hurts… but I figured the bottom might work somehow, so, yeah…”

That was an even more ridiculous reason than I expected. She didn’t want to feel pain, truly the pitiful rationality of a scammer.

“You said it was fine to hit you until your hip bone breaks. Yet, getting stabbed is too painful, but breaking your hip bone is okay?”

“Well, the hip bone wouldn’t show even if it breaks, you know?”

“You’re really something.”

“Getting hit with a knife doesn’t hurt that much. I’ve been hit a lot.”

Next to me, startled by her absurd reasoning, Lize threw in her own half-joking remark. Despite sounding like a joke, given Lize, it was probably a high chance it was based on experience.

I shot a glance at Nix. If she was afraid of being stabbed, there was a much simpler way. Nix, catching my gesture, unleashed her black flame and poured it over Fetch.

“Aaaah!”

A desperate scream erupted, and Fetch rolled around in the black flames, flailing her limbs. The black flames clung to her body but extinguished in less than three seconds. The screaming abruptly stopped as well.

“That’s enough, Hehe. I’ve burned exactly enough to feel like ten bottles of potions, so you’ll be fine.”

I gently patted her head to signify well done. Nix grabbed my wrist and vigorously rubbed her head against my palm in return.

Watching that, Lize’s eyes narrowed. It was clear her gaze was filled with discontent, wondering why she wasn’t receiving such treatment. My opposite hand landed on Lize’s head, and her expression quickly turned soft and mushy.

“Ugh… it hurts…”

While I was busy petting the two of them, Fetch, letting out a painful moan, raised her body. Thanks to the potions, although her entire body had been scorched, she remained completely intact.

“Huh…?”

Right. She was entirely intact.

“Aaaah! My clothes! My clothes!”

Fetch, who had subconsciously looked down at her body, realized her tights were completely burned by the black flames, leaving her naked. She shrieked and hurried to cover herself up.

One arm covered the top of her breast, while the other hurried down between her legs. At least it was fortunate that her breast was small enough to be covered by one arm. Lize and Nix would find that utterly impossible.

‘Isn’t it practically the same whether she’s wearing something or not?’

While in terms of surface area, her attire hardly made a difference whether she was wearing or not, I decided to let it slide, having seen such common sense bent more than a few times before.

At least if she was wearing something, it would cover her nipples and genitalia.

“Heeek…”

As I seriously pondered the purpose of clothing, Fetch twisted her body and awkwardly scurried backward after quickly picking up her coat.

“I-I feel strange…”

Ending up as a pervert with just a coat draped over her naked body, Fetch’s face turned into a pout. I wondered if she realized that the time she walked around with an open coat was even more revealing than this.

“If you’ve gotten dressed, come over here.”

From my perspective, this outfit was far better, and I beckoned Fetch. She fumbled her way over close enough.

“Fetch.”

“Yes, yes. Delta!”

I considered pointing out the odd title of Delta, but I decided to let it go. Acting like that would help her better recognize her position beneath me.

“At this point, you should realize that I’ve kept you alive intentionally, right?”

“Yes, yes. I know. Thank you.”

Fetch nodded vigorously. Truly, as expected of a con artist, her intuition was top-notch.

“Then, do you know why I’ve kept you alive?”

“…Yes. It’s because you have something for me to do, right?”

“Correct.”

Fetch’s pink pupils momentarily trembled before returning to normal.

“I understand.”

“Alright, what I want you to fetch—”

“I have no intention of selling myself, and I definitely don’t intend to give anything for free… But if my first experience was with such a handsome guy, that wouldn’t be so bad, right?”

“What are you selling?”

“Is the reason you’ve kept me alive just that… Eek?!”

As Fetch rambled on, having made a big misunderstanding, she shut her mouth and shivered when she saw Lize fiddling with her dagger with fierce eyes.

“It’s not that kind of strange request, so don’t misunderstand by yourself.”

“…Eek, I’m sorry. Then what do you want?”

“Just fetch me one item.”

Originally, it was the final reward that signified the conclusion of Fetch’s side quest. To obtain it, about four cons would have to be pulled off on her.

Even in the game, it was an item that could only be acquired through Fetch’s side quest completion, so outside of this route, I had no idea how to get it.

“What item?”

Fetch’s pink pupils shook anxiously. Thinking that the item she had to bring to save her life might be something enormous made her jittery.

“The Golden Key.”

Upon hearing my words, Fetch’s eyes widened in surprise.