Vol 1 Chapter 33 – Going Home

I handed a report summarizing my work to Her Majesty the Queen, spent the night with her, and then returned to my shop.

“I can’t wait to visit the forbidden library.”

I’d gotten the permit to the forbidden library from Her Majesty herself while we were in bed. Now I could enter the forbidden library whenever I wanted.

Hm hm hmm~

Excited about it, I began preparing to open the shop as a clerk for the first time in a while.

“…I guess word got out that I was in the northern lands. The lottery entries are a bit low today.”

Having finished the opening preparations, I operated the terminal while imagining what today might be like.

“E-excuse me…”

Just then, the door slowly opened and a customer entered.

“Welcome. Is this your first time here?”

A new face. The number of lottery entries was low today, so it made sense that a newcomer would have a relatively easier time winning.

“…Th-there really is a man here!”

“That’s the kind of shop this is. Everything here is my personal belongings.”

“O-ohhh…”

The customer who’d entered nodded like a broken machine at my words while looking around. Her eyes went bloodshot at the sight of the products on display, and she started getting a noseblood from excitement.

“U-used items… f-from a man! I-I’d empty my entire fortune for these—”

“Ahaha. Sorry, but… you’re a fairly successful merchant, right? I don’t have enough stock for you to buy everything.”

“Huh!? S-sorry… I got too excited… Y-you’re right. B-buying everything would be… w-wrong, wouldn’t it?”

“That’s right. After all, everything here is stuff I’ve used personally. I can’t use massive amounts in a single day, so the stock inevitably stays low.”

Even with dishes, used tissues I’d blown my nose with, and other things that made me wonder should I really be selling this as merchandise?, everything still flew off the shelves and the stock was depleted in an instant.

Scary, right?

Well, in my past life, I’d definitely buy tissues a girl had used too. Without question. I totally get the feeling.

Not stocking holy water is the last shred of conscience and common sense I have left.

“But in exchange, I make sure to provide proper service… the service at my shop is already pretty famous, so you know about it, right?”

“…H-hanya!?”

The moment I placed my hand on her shoulder, the customer froze and stopped moving. I took her to the bedroom in the back.

Vol 1 Chapter 34 – Bed

It might be the first time in a while I’m using this bedroom.

When I was back home, I naturally enjoyed myself with Ryshia in my family home’s bed. When I was in the northern wastes, I had fun with Tail on the small bed at the forward base. And the first round after returning to the capital was on the luxurious, gorgeous bed at the royal castle.

“I really like this bedroom.”

“I-is that so…”

The bed in this bedroom is incredibly large, but it’s a bit different from the lavishly decorated beds adorned with many ornaments like the ones at my family estate or the royal castle.

No unnecessary decorations. Simple, the kind where you can just focus on what’s happening on the bed itself. I’m quite fond of this bed I made myself using magic. I added all sorts of gimmicks to it too.

“Come on, lie down.”

“…Ah…”

I touched the tense woman’s body and, with practiced hands, reached for the ridiculously easy-to-remove clothing people in this world wear, stripped her, and gently laid her on the bed.

Why the women’s clothing in this world is designed to be so easy to remove—that’s one of this world’s dark secrets better left unconsidered. Let’s not think it’s so it comes off quickly during rape or anything like that.

“Well then, I’ll strip too.”

“…gulp“

The woman, who had been stripped naked by my hands, watched intently as I slowly removed my clothes, swallowing hard.

“‘Purify.'”

Once naked, I quickly used magic to clean only myself.

“I’m getting on top.”

Then I climbed onto the bed and whispered to the woman cowering below while gently stroking her ears.

“So, what should we start with—huh?”

What should we do first?

Just as I was about to ask—

“Aggh!”

A dagger shot out from the mouth of the woman beneath me, piercing the neck of me positioned above her.

“Ghhk…”

Blood overflowed. With my neck pierced, I couldn’t breathe properly or make a sound.

“Ghh… ghh ghh…”

Blood spilled from my mouth, and the strength drained from my body.

My limbs, which had been supporting me, collapsed, and I fell onto the woman’s naked body, now dyed crimson with my blood spatter.

“Gah…!?”

The next instant, a dagger pierced my heart from behind.

The woman who’d stabbed my neck made doubly sure by piercing my heart… This was really bad. Even if I tried to speak an incantation to cast magic, my mouth wouldn’t move.

Casting recovery magic powerful enough to overturn death without an incantation was impossible.

“…”

As my vision was engulfed in darkness, what I saw was the woman’s face—a complete transformation from the expression she’d shown earlier to utter expressionlessness—and then my own face turning pale.