Chapter 7 Frontier Settlement Day Two꞉ The Dark Fairy’s Eye on Fate and Very Dirty Deals
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
It was the second day, and I woke up in the cabin, splashing water on my face to rinse the sleep away. But when I stepped outside, the sight completely stopped me.
”What the hell is this…!?”
”Oh, Shou! Good morning, like, totally!” Ami-chan chirped, her voice sickeningly sweet.
Most of the trees surrounding the area were just gone. Yesterday, it was just the patch around the cabin, but now… the whole place felt naked.
”I had Aion watch over the place and keep working all night! Thanks to that, every single tree in the Dominion has been converted into Resource Points, ya know?”
”Whoa… that’s incredible…. But seriously, is Aion okay?” I fretted.
”I told you she’s fine! As long as she’s supplied with Resource Points, she can keep going forever without any problems!” Ami-chan insisted, sounding totally exasperated.
It really hammered home that Aion was just some different kind of life form who only looked human. No sleep, no food, no bathroom breaks—she’s open for business twenty-four/seven. It’s the kind of labor revolution that could change the world.
Though, she couldn’t leave the Dominion. Outside of it, she wouldn’t get the Resource Points she needed. Her ability to keep working was strictly limited to the area we claimed.
After breakfast, I brought up something that had been nagging me to Ami-chan.
”Hey, so, just checking. I can go back to Japan, right…?”
”Yup! But it’ll cost you, like, a not-small amount of Ego Points. Also, once you go there, it takes a little while before you can come back here. The same goes for going the other way, too.”
Apparently, there’s an interval after a teleportation. You can’t just jump back and forth instantaneously.
”I’ve still got my part-time job… maybe I should head back to Japan first…?” I mused.
”Ugh, really? Shouldn’t you just, like, quit that job already? Or are you seriously still trying to snag the high school girl your manager’s got his hands on?” Ami-chan drawled, dripping with playful scorn.
”No, I am not!” I protested, though my face felt hot. Still, she had a point. Quitting my job might be one of my only good options. My life back home was pretty much over anyway. From now on, it seemed like the path to a fulfilling life lay in an easy, slow-life here instead.
”Well, do whatever you want, I guess? But considering the round trip, you should probably earn some Ego Points first, though…” she shrugged.
”I earn Ego Points by satisfying my own desires, right?” I confirmed.
”Yep! And especially for you, Shou, you can earn a ton of Ego Points by acting in ways that trample on other people’s dignity!”
”Ugh…” I groaned.
If I asked “Why me?” right now, I could already picture her listing off all my personality flaws and utterly destroying my dignity again. Best to just shut up about it.
But as I was considering which desires I could satisfy, my eyes landed on Aion.
I hesitated for a second, but I figured there was no point in hiding anything now. So, I took a leap and asked Ami-chan.
”H-Hey. Just out of curiosity…”
”You’re wondering if you’d get Ego Points for, like, raping Aion?” Ami-chan finished for me, not missing a beat.
”How did you know that!?” I yelped.
Aion, the tireless automaton, had no self-awareness, but her face was perfectly sculpted. If I could actually get down with her, I thought it would definitely satisfy a big desire of mine.
”Aion doesn’t have any holes, silly. Too bad for you, like,” Ami-chan declared with a sing-songy, dismissive tone.
”Oh… I-I see…” That was such a disappointment. I was already picturing the possibilities, like a harem play with a line of maids…!
”Oh, but,” Ami-chan noted, snapping her fingers, “Her breasts are super squishy, and you can totally kiss her. You can have, like, simulated s*x.”
”I… I get it…?”
”Yeah, but she still has no holes, right? So, you can grope her tits, kiss her, get all excited, and then, like, you either do it yourself or have her give you an intercrural finish.” ¹
So, basically, the world’s most luxurious on**i session. That actually sounded really hot, and I bet I’d have a massive cl*max. I mean, I’m a total virgin who’s never even touched a woman, so!
”You’re gonna need practice for the Magical Girl scouting, and you’ll need to do the deed. This would be, like, great for practicing your hip thrusts, wouldn’t it?” Ami-chan suggested, sounding entirely practical about illicit activities.
”W-Well, I guess I should practice that sometime…?” I conceded.
And yeah, she was right. I had to have s*x soon. My lifespan was ticking down even while we stood here talking.
”Either way, we can’t leave this forest yet. I guess I have to look for a Magical Girl candidate back in Japan…”
”Mmm, I’d really rather you try to recruit a Magical Girl in this world, though, ya know?” Ami-chan pouted.
”Huh? Why is that?”
Ami-chan zipped right up to my face, holding up a tiny index finger.
”Because this is our base, dummy. Even if you scout a Magical Girl in Japan, you can bring her back to the Dominion, but you can’t make her live here permanently, can you?”
”Oh…” I realized.
It didn’t matter if I was in Japan or not, but most people couldn’t just drop their whole lives. Balancing a life between Japan and another world would be impossible for most.
”Maybe I could try finding someone like me, who has nothing to lose by ditching their life in Japan…?”
”Well, sure, there are women like that. But how are you gonna find them?”
”Ugh…”
”And also. Do you remember the procedure for scouting a Magical Girl?”
I recalled Ami-chan’s words from yesterday. I’d gotten a lot of new information, but I remembered this part.
”Assault them, and then raise their Affection Level to 50 or higher…”
”Exactly. And for a total scrub like you, Shou, who’s trying to have s*x, you’ll need to make the target horny by kissing them first,” she reminded me, utterly unconcerned with the legality or ethics of the action.
”Don’t just naturally hurt my feelings, man,” I grumbled.
It was the Ego Skill set she gave me: kiss them to arouse them, penetration from the back to raise their Affection Level, and then finish with an internal cl*max. That makes them climax, and my lifespan gets restored.
”Okay, so here’s the problem. Shou hasn’t even used the Ego Skill yet, so you don’t know if it’ll even work, right?”
”Ah… that’s true.”
”In that state, can you really kiss a girl in Japan? What if the skill fails to activate…?”
”…Ugh! My social life would be over, even before my real lifespan runs out…!” I seethed.
If the skill didn’t work, it would be a clear case of a random pervert kissing someone without consent. I don’t have time to slowly get to know someone and build up a relationship in Japan; my lifespan would expire before I ever got to the kissing stage. I have to rely on the skill for a somewhat forceful kiss.
But if that lifesaver of a skill misfires… well, it would be national news on the evening tabloids.
I could claim I have nothing to lose and that I’m invincible, but even then, my pride showed up. Specifically, the reaction of my younger brother, my childhood friend Miyako-chan, and my parents.
They already think I’m a total screw-up, and if I caused a major incident, they’d probably just think, “Yep, figured he’d do that eventually!”
And then, the media would swarm my family home every day. My mother would answer, her face pixelated on screen, and she’d say:
”We cut ties with Shoichi a long time ago. We haven’t seen him in years… when I heard he caused an incident, I just thought, ‘Oh, really?’ What about parental responsibility? Shoichi is a full-grown adult. It has nothing to do with me.“
Self-proclaimed former classmates and all sorts of other people would show up next, spreading every rumor they could think of. And they would revel in their smugness, thinking how much better their lives were than mine.
I’m so much better than that guy. I’ve got decent intelligence and a stable mind. Thank god I turned out better than him.
”Damn you…! I won’t forgive them!” I nearly shrieked, clenching my fists.
”What the heck are you doing all of a sudden!?” Ami-chan asked, startled.
My own imagination had leaked out into a full-blown rage. Maybe I would have caused an incident sooner or later if I’d stayed in Japan.
”A-Anyway, the point is that it’s too risky to try an unused skill in Japan…” I concluded.
”I mean, I think it’ll be okay, but you’d be a lot more comfortable using the skill if you actually felt its effects, wouldn’t you, Shou?” she noted.
”Yeah… I guess so…”
”So that’s why we should try it here in this world first!”
She had a point. If I kissed someone here, it probably wouldn’t air on TV as a “random pervert” incident.
”It’s still a huge hurdle, though…” I muttered.
”It’s better than Japan, though. I mean, this is obviously a sword-and-sorcery fantasy world, right? People have no human rights here, and the public safety is, like, totally post-apocalyptic in some places. From the look of that princess yesterday, I’m getting a strong feudal vibe where the nobles run everything, ya know?” Ami-chan reasoned.
That sounded super likely! Oh, right, Ami-chan was there, too, even though she was invisible!
”So, give up on calling your job for now, and let’s focus on exploring this world for a bit!” she advised.
”Fine, but how are we even going to leave this forest? And where are we aiming for?”
Ami-chan puffed out her little chest proudly.
”Leaving the forest will have to wait until we’ve expanded the Dominion a bit more! By diligently earning Resource Points, we can make better weapons and armor to get through the danger!”
So, the plan was to gear up before trying to leave the dangerous forest.
”As for where to go… that’s where Ami-chan’s Demonic Eye comes in!”
”A-A Demonic Eye, you say…!?” The name sounded so cool! I felt a wave of nostalgia; I was totally a chuunibyou ² with a Demonic Eye back in middle school!
”Both of my eyes are called Sun Color’s Demonic Eyes ³. I can use them to see the general areas where your fate is going to, like, majorly change!” she explained.
I didn’t really understand, but it sounded amazing! Apparently, it could roughly point out places that would affect my future. But she couldn’t tell if what happened there would be good or bad.
Also, ordinary people couldn’t see anything much with the Demonic Eye. But my current situation—with my lifespan at a maximum of just one month—meant that my fate was constantly on the line. She believed that using the eye now would almost certainly reveal a path to extending my lifespan—the locations of women who were potential Magical Girl candidates.
”You’re the best, Ami-chan! See? Scouting a Magical Girl is gonna be a piece of cake! Look for me right now!” I urged, my hope soaring.
”Okay, okay! Here I goooo!” Ami-chan replied, her eyes beginning to shine like the sun.
”………”
”S-So? What do you see…?” I asked, my voice hushed.
”…………”
”……. A-Ami-san…?”
This was a crucial moment that my whole future depended on. I just had to trust what Ami-chan saw and leave the forest. I really believed that. But she didn’t answer for the longest time. Then, the light in her two eyes finally faded.
”Um… hello…?”
”Hooooo. That’s weird. I couldn’t see anything, like, at all.”
”E-E-E-E-EVERYTHING!?” I wailed in total disbelief.
”It was, like, perfectly blank!”
Wait, wait, wait, wait! That solves absolutely nothing! My life expectancy is, like, four weeks! Ami-chan!
”W-W-W-What the hell does that even mean!?”
”Hey, chill, chill. Maybe it just means it’s not the right time yet, is all.”
”I don’t have any time to spare!” I nearly screamed.
”Well, let’s do this instead. I’ll look at your fate with the Demonic Eye every day starting tomorrow. If I still can’t see anything after two weeks…”
”After two weeks…?”
”Then you’ll have to go try your luck in Japan, I guess.”
Ugh… I figured it would come to that.
”Even if you can’t scout a Magical Girl, having s*x and ejaculating inside her from the back will still restore your lifespan. I mean, there are places for that in Japan, so you’ll figure it out!” Ami-chan reassured me, entirely ignoring the moral implications.
”Haa… the pressure from this lifespan thing is totally insane…” I sighed.
It looked like I’d be sticking around to develop the Dominion for a while longer. Day two in the other world ended with me leveling the cleared area, digging a trench, and trying to figure out ways to keep enemies from getting in.
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Summary:
The second day in the frontier brought a shocking discovery: the automaton Aion had, like, totally cleared the entire surrounding forest for Resource Points overnight. As Shou grapples with the anxiety of his short lifespan, he and Ami-chan discuss the dark realities of his survival, including the amoral procurement of Ego Points and the disturbing possibility of simulated s*x with the non-sentient automaton. Facing the difficulty of recruiting Magical Girls in Japan without risking a public incident, Shou relies on Ami-chan’s mystical Demonic Eye to find a path to his fate—only to be met with a perfectly blank vision! Now, with his literal life on the line and only four weeks left, he must focus on developing his base while waiting for a sign.
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Character Insight:
Shou’s internal anxiety and his desire to preserve what little dignity he has are constantly at odds with his base desires, which Ami-chan expertly exploits. His visceral reaction to the thought of his family’s disdain after a public arrest shows that he’s not quite the ‘invincible’ man with nothing to lose he claims to be. Ami-chan, on the other hand, sees his flaws as assets, fully embracing her role as his amoral guide, which she finds super fun, ya know. She is the perfect enabler for his darkest path to survival.
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Behind the Scene:
The rapid clearing of the forest was a tactical decision made by Ami-chan to secure essential Resource Points quickly, highlighting the urgency and danger of the new world. Shou’s focus now shifts from simply surviving to actually building a proper, defensible base, which, for now, is all he can do while waiting for a sign. The two-week deadline set by Ami-chan is a transparent narrative device to increase the already high stakes of Shou’s ticking clock.
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T/L:
1 [Intercrural] refers to the practice of non-penetrative s*x between the thighs, also known as Sodomy or Frottage. In the context of this scene, it is referred to by the Japanese word sumata, which is a specialized term for this practice, often used in adult content. ↩
2 [Chuunibyou] translates to ‘second-year middle school syndrome.’ It’s a common term for a person, usually an adolescent, who harbors elaborate fantasies, like having supernatural powers or a secret dark past. ↩
3 [Hi-iro] literally means ‘sun color’ or ‘scarlet/crimson,’ and in this context, it is used to denote the color and power of the Demonic Eye. ↩
Notes:
• Ami – A palm-sized fairy-like being from a world separate from both Earth and the isekai realm. She has light blue hair tied in a ponytail, mischievous blue eyes, and tiny wings that flutter behind her. Her outfit consists of a provocative high-cut leotard and a short jacket that looks like a miniskirt from the back, leaving her legs bare. Despite her playful appearance, she is actively searching for a contractor who can protect her from dangerous pursuers in exchange for the powers she offers.
• Aion – The maid golem. She has chestnut-brown hair and and a well-featured, but utterly expressionless, face. Looks like Karakuri from certain series.
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