Monster no Goshujin-sama - Volume 10 - Chapter 16

Chapter 16: A Savior Only for One

Shiran’s tender lips touched the back of my hand, but I wasn’t embarrassed at all. I could sense how sacred her actions were. It was a kiss to seal an oath between a knight and savior, and a relationship between Shiran and me, one unlike any other, was born in this moment.

I could feel our joy through that one point of contact, but that wasn’t the only thing I could feel. Our connection through the mental path, which had been so weak before, was deeper than ever. Things didn’t stop there either.

Shiran calmly sipped at the back of my hand. I definitely felt something from this. Her cheerful lips continued making wet noises as she passed her mouth along the back of my hand, tracing my veins—chasing my blood. Undead monsters replenished their mana by ingesting blood, and mine in particular was a feast for Shiran.

Now that I thought about it, although Shiran had sucked my blood before, the first time she’d been out of her mind and the other I’d forced her to drink. This was the first time she did so of her own volition.

Perhaps because of that, her movements were awkward, but I glimpsed the earnestness behind them. Over and over, she pecked at my hand like a little bird. I felt a shiver run down my lower back each time she did.

Shiran raised her face, seemingly unaware of my reaction. She swallowed what was in her mouth, and I could hear the gulp coming from her throat. That sound was etched into my brain now. I couldn’t calm down. Her lips formed a smile as she sighed in satisfaction.

“Haah... That was...delicious,” she said with a slight lisp as she licked her reddened lips.

There was an indescribable allure to how she was acting. The desire for food, sleep, and sex were all tied to pleasure. It was a mystery whether this generally applied to undead monsters, but in Shiran’s case, the fulfillment of her desire was intoxicating. That said, she still wasn’t satisfied, and, embarrassed, her expression went slack.

“Forgive me, Takahiro...may I have a little more?”

She’d forgotten herself in the moment, so her pleading was earnest, yet she couldn’t ignore how shy she felt. This was bad. Really bad. It was a lot worse than I’d expected. Frankly, Shiran was very attractive, and such a diligent girl coaxing me like this had a destructive power all on its own. When compounded with her adorable behavior, it was...well, a bit of a problem.

“Takahiro?”

“Oh, um, sorry,” I said, only noticing that I hadn’t responded until she called my name. “Asarina.”

“Ssster.”

Asarina lightly pierced my palm with her fangs, which would do for now, but blood ran down my finger faster than I thought it would.

“Ah!” Shiran cried, watching the red droplets fall to the floor.

Maybe she thought it was a waste. Springing into action with knightly reflexes...wasn’t really necessary in this situation. She’d probably decided that pressing her lips against the wound would just allow more blood to spill. Instead, she put my bloody finger clean in her mouth.

“Guh, hnngh...” The surprise attack, her licking my finger, made me moan nervously.

“Ah...” Shiran went stiff, my finger still in her mouth. She’d heard me, or maybe she’d felt my finger jerking and knocking her tongue back. “Umm...”

She only realized what she’d done after that. For an instant, her lips pulled back, but after noticing another red droplet, she froze. Disregarding this recent bout of boldness, from an efficiency standpoint, she wasn’t wrong. She hesitated, but in the end, she resigned herself and lowered her eyelid.

“Mm... Mwah...”

She suppressed her shame and began sucking up every last drop of the crimson nectar. She made sure nothing spilled, diligently holding my finger fast in her mouth.

“Haah... Pwah...”

I could tell that she was gradually getting more and more engrossed in the act. Her tongue crawled along the length of my finger. She sucked on it sweetly and swallowed the blood in her mouth with her saliva. I was getting dizzy, and not just from losing blood and mana.

She even started play-biting, perhaps unconsciously, barely sinking her well-lined teeth into my skin. My finger twitched, the numbness spreading all the way to my sense of reason. The sight of her delicate lips devouring my rough-looking finger was poison to my eyes.

I averted my gaze from the stimulating scene, but maybe that was a mistake. Now that I wasn’t watching, I could feel the sensations assaulting my finger even more intensely. My reasoning was falling apart. People often called me overly serious, but I was still a healthy young man.

That wasn’t all there was to it, though. If I hadn’t thought of Shiran in any special way, I’d have been able to maintain my cool a little better, but she was too close to my heart. Plus, she was even more attractive than usual right now, so this was a little too stimulating for me.

“Pwah...”

A short yet long while passed, and Shiran finally released my finger.

“Phew...”

The mana resupply seemed to be working. Her face no longer had the haggard look of a patient on their deathbed. It was like there was a sudden glossiness to her skin or something. With my blood and mana sucked away, I was no longer in any condition to fight, but if Shiran was back in action, then it was a pretty good trade.

I pulled my hand back and clenched my fist the moment I saw my wet fingertip. I was relieved it was over, but at the same time, I kind of regretted that it had ended. I was being an idiot. I couldn’t misunderstand. I was Shiran’s savior, she was my knight, and this was necessary to seal the oath between us. There was no other intent behind it.

I shook my head and expelled the excitement from my brain. We’d finished resupplying her mana, and I had to change gears now. So I thought, anyway.

“Huh...?”

I’d been careless to think it was over, so I couldn’t react as Shiran staggered toward me.

“Takahiro...” she said, her voice entranced. It sounded just like it had that day in Fort Tilia.

“Hmmgh?!”

In the next instant, something soft pressed against my lips. Our noses rubbed against each other. Only after several seconds did I realize that Shiran had sealed my mouth and that her face was all I could see. The light of reason deep within her single blue eye had faded. I reflexively tried to get away, but two arms firmly wrapped around my head and blocked me. I couldn’t escape. On the contrary...

“Hrrm?!”

Her small, cold tongue wrenched my mouth open and slipped in. The sensitive contact heightened its presence in my warm mouth. Her tongue entwined around mine and traced along my teeth. She sucked on my lips.

I had no idea what was going on. Why was Shiran suddenly doing this? She was being far too passionate. I tried to get my stupefied thoughts together, when...

“Mgh...”

I noticed Shiran’s throat move, and it reminded me that undead monsters needed a periodic supply of mana. To Shiran, my body, connected to her through the mental path, was the greatest of feasts. Blood was basically just a body fluid, but body fluids weren’t limited to just blood. I’d been misunderstanding things. That was all. Although, maybe one method was more efficient than the other. Still, if I were pushed to say it, this was less like an undead monster wanting mana, and more like...

Satisfied for the time being, Shiran slowly pulled back from my rigid body. Our tongues separated, but a silver strand of saliva linked our lips together obscenely. The thread broke, and in its stead, the threads of reason reformed.

“Ah!” Shiran’s eye shot open, and she quickly covered her mouth with both hands. “Ta-Ta-Ta-Takahiro, th-th-that was, um...”

I’d never seen her panic so much. She normally maintained a calm demeanor, but at times like this, she resembled Kei.

“Uhh... Um, it’s fine,” I said, holding my hand out for her to stop. Honestly, I was pretty shaken, but seeing a tear in her eye, I couldn’t act flustered. “I get it. That was nothing.”

Unlike when she drank my blood at Fort Tilia, Shiran was aware of her surroundings right now. Awareness had nothing to do with losing all sense of reason, though. Rather, even though I was the one on the receiving end, it had taken me everything to retain my sanity. Reason could fly out the window more easily than a sheet of paper in the wind. Therefore, this was my mistake. At least, that was what I thought, but Shiran’s reaction was different than I expected.

“N-Nothing...?” she repeated strangely, apparently stuck on that word.

“Y-Yeah. That was a ‘meal,’ right? I didn’t think anything of it.”

“You...didn’t?”

I thought I’d understood Shiran’s behavior, but her reaction suggested otherwise. She looked a little sullen, but then she blinked, having noticed her own reaction. She patted her cheeks, finding it somewhat strange herself. Her fingers slowly traced her lips as if she was reminiscing over the feeling of our kiss.

“Oh.” She sighed in understanding and smiled at me cheerfully. Then, as if she’d discovered something invaluable, she said, “I suppose I’ve been in love with you, Takahiro.”

“Huh...?”

“I truly am dense. To think I’d fail to realize something so simple.” Shiran stared at me, seemingly finding the way I froze in shock endearing. “In the end, no matter where I go, I’m still a knight. This is the truth. That said, it doesn’t erase the fact that I’m a girl. If you’re a savior to me as a knight, Takahiro, then to me as a girl...”

Shiran closed her eye and put her hand to her chest, confirming her emotions.

“Hee hee. How simple,” she said. “Even as a girl, you’re my dear savior. Aah, I finally get it now.”

“Shiran...”

Her confession was so sudden that I couldn’t respond. Shiran opened her eye, saw that I was dumbfounded, and then giggled.

“It’s a little mean to act so shocked. I can at least fall in love.”

“No, but, I mean...”

“I’m kidding. I have no room to talk after failing to notice my own feelings.”

Shiran started acting bashful. She was embarrassed, but her single eye remained fixed on me. The expression she made as both a knight and a girl was one she’d only ever show to one person in the entire world.

“I love you, Takahiro,” she said earnestly.

She was more attractive than ever before. At the same time, her expression was the strongest I’d ever seen from her.

“Let’s go, Takahiro. I shall clear away all of your enemies.”