Volume 4 Chapter 58 Phallus of Darkness ① ♡
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
”—I see. So by the end of the year, the great ocean current had vanished.”
”Yes. I heard about the current from Elder Gaius in mid-last month. It must have been there then, but later, when searching westward for Rou’s companions, the current’s influence was gone. We reached the island with ship wreckage without issue, and there we were commissioned by Asterios for cleaning duties and such as a quest.”
”I understand the story. General Asterios is a state secret. With the current gone, it’s tricky to decide if there’s still meaning in keeping the island and the general’s existence hidden, but for now, please keep this confidential.”
The dark elf mage—Circe—said this and peered intently into Kian’s eyes.
She might have been trying to read his intentions from his heartbeat, breathing, or eye movements, but he was adept at lies and deception. Kian, with his habitual lying and ability to convince himself of his own falsehoods to control his psyche and body, had recently become capable of fooling even wolfmen. While conversing inwardly with Talia, repeatedly talking face-to-face with others (and cheating) had steadily improved his deception skills.
Combined with his complete resistance to drugs, this witch, who seemed inclined toward controlling targets via hypnosis or substances, would never pierce Kian’s inner thoughts, no matter what.
’Even I, who share your thoughts, can’t see through you.’
(Flattering.)
’Not a compliment.’
”Of course, I won’t tell anyone. We’ll take responsibility for looking after the general.”
”If that boy throws a tantrum and breaks something, send the bill to me.”
”Understood. Not angering him is best, though. For example, waking him from a pleasant nap could blow up his entire underground lair. I have to be careful too, or I might get charred…”
”So, if we need that boy’s power, we should come here?”
”In principle, yes. But both the general and I might be absent, so there could be times no one’s here. In that case, either catch me and tell me to bring the general, or find him directly. As for me, except when lecturing at the Order of the Lightning Knights, I’m usually at this merchant guild… but I’m quite busy.”
”Understood.”
Asterios was key to national defense, so Kian thought it would be better to ensure more reliable contact, but Circe simply nodded once.
It was also puzzling that she didn’t demand to manage Asterios herself.
It would be easier to seamlessly deploy the ‘kingdom’s ultimate weapon’ against enemies if they personally cared for him at the Order of the Lightning Knights’ base rather than entrusting him to the Kian Merchant Guild.
Kian had fully expected her to demand Asterios back right away.
’No one wants to manage Asterios.’
Talia interjected.
’That dark elf has ties to Asterios, but while sympathizing with him, she sees him as a tremendous nuisance.’
(But he’s an essential piece for winning the war. They’ve got to endure it.)
’Endure? For how many years do they have to keep him confined in the palace? It’s not a temporary endurance. If a private merchant guild says they’ll handle it on personal responsibility, they’d gladly delegate. If he rampages in the castle and harms Crete politicians, it’s no joke.’
(Right. The castle has salons for governance.)
’And living spaces for royalty. As you saw in Asterios’s cellular memories, last time they sent him back to the island frequently. That’s because they didn’t want him in the castle as much as possible. As a result, Asterios got sulky and didn’t respond to summons when needed.’
(Backstory from the war with Azrael ten years ago.)
”I heard from General Asterios that you’re his aunt or something.”
When Kian broached this, Circe made a complicated face.
”He even talked about that. What a hopeless boy…”
”Are you looking after him because you’re his aunt?”
”Not that I’m reluctantly caring for him just because I’m his aunt. It’s because I know him from when he was little. He was a good child back then. But as he grew, he became like a monster… Lacking social skills, eating humans—we couldn’t let such a being live in Crete. It was sad, but we had no choice but to confine him to a remote island.”
”So he’s a victim in a way.”
”That’s just one aspect. But that doesn’t mean it’s okay to destroy others’ things, kill people, or buy disdain with rude words.”
Circe let her gaze wander.
”My sister-in-law and her husband entrusted me with looking after that boy. When he was small, I hand-fed him and played with him. He’s a precious nephew in many senses. —But honestly, Lord Kian, I’m relieved from the bottom of my heart that you’re taking care of that boy. Please treat him well.”
”Does Princess Guria Selda also think it’s fine to leave General Asterios with the Kian Merchant Guild?”
”I want him back immediately.”
Guria lowered her gaze as if probing his inner self.
”But that’s more for defense than wanting to be with… General Asterios. I don’t understand why, but instinctively, I feel like I want to be by his side.”
”The contract’s effect?”
”Yes. I love him. I want to be with him forever. Forever… held by him. I’m probably broken now.”
Her face showed no disgust as she said this.
Like during the parade, no matter how angry, Guria became aroused and melty toward Asterios. Including all the prior events, she genuinely loved Asterios.
Calmly insane—that phrase captured Guria’s current state.
If this continued, she’d soon lose track of right and wrong.
When memories of her actions and thought patterns before the Staff of Universal Dominion faded, that would be when Guria Selda Crete mentally died as a person.
”Lord Kian, while you’re caring for that boy, somehow keep him in good spirits. He’s starting to see us as enemies. With the current gone and corpses no longer delivered, he thinks it’s a royal conspiracy and is sulking.”
”Ah, so the sea burial culture really was…”
”Yes, it included feeding them.”
Circe nodded and continued.
”We haven’t extracted the lightning power from him either. He usually shares it first, but this time he flatly refused from the start. This is a first. —Surely, royal family members like me can no longer heal that boy’s wounded heart. We need a third party without ulterior motives, unrelated to the royals.”
”It’s an honor to be chosen as that third party, but it’s a heavy responsibility… If he stays sulky, won’t it be like Crete lost because of me?”
”Only Scipio would see it that way. Personally, if you fail, I’d like you to replace Asterios.”
”Please spare me. I haven’t done anything wrong to your country.”
”Of course, we’ll plan to fight without him too. If we get reinforcements from the Western Church, Chatillon, Izerland, Castile, and Franz’s royal capital—all of them—we can repel the enemy without Asterios. To ally with these forces, the fact that we summoned the trump card Asterios was necessary. In that sense, Princess Guria Selda’s devotion wasn’t in vain.”
”It sounds tough, but good luck. The Kian Merchant Guild will treat him normally without special pandering. Our contract is just providing lodging and meals.”
”Let’s hope he has a change of heart in the meantime.”
Circe said this and let out a small sigh.
(Guria Selda’s sacrifice, yet this leaves a helpless feeling.)
’After enjoying rampaging in the meeting like that, you say that?’
”I’m sorry, but we’ll station a few surveillance personnel from the Order of the Lightning Knights near this merchant guild. It’s insurance in case something happens.”
”Understood.”
”If that boy demands expensive things or wants to eat humans, be sure to consult us. I know it’s meddling in the contract between the Kian Merchant Guild and Asterios, but if he turns the area to scorched earth, it’s too late. —Have you confirmed the golden chains with spirit script engraved?”
”Yes. My companions are storing them on the Island of the Minotaurs.”
”Transport them here from Underworld Island immediately. And without provoking that boy, get him to wear the chains as naturally as possible. Of course, not forcibly. If he gets in a bad mood and throws a tantrum, it’s meaningless.”
”From what I’m hearing, summoning General Asterios seems like a failure.”
Kian said this with a wry smile, but the dark elf Head Magician shook her head.
”As I said before, the fact of summoning him is important. The first step to allying with western nations. A move to halt the enemy’s assassination offensive. Without him coming, nothing would have started.”
”Diplomacy hinged on General Asterios. Considering all circumstances, being Crete’s Head Magician seems full of endless troubles. My sympathies.”
”Head Magicians in any country bear heavy responsibilities and endless worries.”
Circe said this, but for example, the previous Izerland Head Magician Natasha showed no signs of worry. Priscilla neither. In his opinion, it depended on the individual’s sense of responsibility for the job.
The Head Magician bowed with “then” and turned on her heel.
But Guria Selda remained standing, so Circe looked back.
”Princess, let’s go.”
”No. You go back alone. I’ll wait here for my husband.”
”You want to meet Asterios?”
”Yes, I don’t want to be apart even for a moment. I know what I’m saying. But I want to be with him.”
”Lord Kian, is that alright?”
”I don’t mind…”
”Then there’s no problem.”
Guria said this and grabbed Kian’s arm, pulling him toward the stairs herself.
”Circe, you go ahead. I won’t return until my husband does.”
”Understood. Lord Kian, I’m terribly sorry. So, please take care of the princess as well.”
”Sigh.”
He hadn’t expected to be entrusted with Guria after Asterios.
Perhaps Guria Selda’s value had plummeted due to the mental contamination from the Staff of Universal Dominion.
For public image, even with her two healthy sisters at the royal academy, Guria likely still held first succession rights… but destined to bear a monstrous child and die, her duty might be fulfilled by staying near Asterios and controlling him.
Crete’s royal affairs were utterly distorted.
”Then, excuse me.”
”Yes, goodbye.”
And so.
In the end, Circe left via teleportation gate without suspecting Kian might be Asterios, heading somewhere.
Perhaps even she couldn’t bear to look at Asterios’s face directly. Asterios was a nuisance. If he lacked will, he’d be the perfect weapon—that might be what Circe, King Minos of Crete, and everyone thought.
Considering Asterios’s personality, it was inevitable, but for Kian, it overlapped with his own childhood shadows, stirring unavoidable melancholy.
”Kian, I want to talk with you alone. Is General Asterios sleeping in the basement? If there’s a place where he won’t interrupt, guide me there.”
”Then there’s the large ship your brother gave me.”
Kian pointed toward the private beach.
”I was just wanting to inspect the interior anyway. Want to go together?”
”Sounds good. Let’s.”
”Will you meet General Asterios after?”
Guria shook her head at that question.
”I don’t want to meet him. I’d surely lose reason and crave him. Regardless of my will. That’s terrifying, so I don’t want to meet him.”
”Got it. —This way, please.”
Kian took the girl’s sun-kissed hand and led her into the merchant guild grounds.
* * *
The ship Scipio sent was overall new, with no defects or damaged wood or fittings—an excellent vessel.
It had many cabins, including hammock rooms and a recreation room. There was also a spacious room with a private bed on the deck (likely the captain’s quarters), which could serve as part of the trading house while docked.
If live-in employees increased, assigning those rooms to them seemed fine.
Kian and Guria silently explored the ship for a while before entering the captain’s quarters accessible from the deck.
The captain’s quarters’ window was open, offering views of black rocky mountains, the beach, and the sea.
Guria sat on the bed and patted the spot next to her, so Kian sat beside her.
”Kian, compared to before, am I strange?”
”At a glance, you seem unchanged. Just your expression looks darker.”
”Like earlier, wasn’t my statement clearly odd?”
”I thought it was unstable—saying you want to be with Asterios, then not wanting to meet him.”
”Yes, exactly that.”
Guria looked down at her healthy thighs extending from her miniskirt.
”He insulted my elder brother and Circe horribly. Repeatedly. Even when I asked him to stop, he showed no sign of changing. He treats me like nothing more than a tool for his desires. …But.”
Tears dripped onto her tanned thighs.
”I’m strange. I love him so much I can’t stand it. Just feeling his voice or body heat makes my core hot. Once hot, I can’t think anymore and forgive all his tyranny. It’s like someone is forcibly twisting my thoughts—terrifying.”
”I see… I’m not involved, so I can only imagine. But just hearing your story conveys the fear and sadness.”
”Hey, Kian, you said you’d be my friend even if I changed, right?”
”Yeah.”
”Even if I become strange, will you stay by my side forever?”
”As your last savior, I’ll remain by your side.”
”Kian…!”
Guria clung to his neck. She sniffled loudly and for a while silently rubbed her cheek against his shoulder.
”May I confess something I’ve been thinking these past few days? Feelings I couldn’t tell anyone. I want to share them with someone—with you.”
”…What?”
”I couldn’t forget coupling with you. Recalling your body heat, scent, dreamlike pleasure, I writhed at it being stolen by someone else. Imagining you with Asterios made me shed regretful tears. —Did you climax from Asterios? Did you disgracefully lose control? Please, say no.”
”That’s… Kian?”
Apparently, Guria’s eyes caught sight of his crotch as she pulled her face from his shoulder.
Kian’s crotch was maximally filled with darkness—darkness charged—from imagining Guria driven mad with lust by the bull monster.
”Sorry. Imagining you moaning under Asterios got me like this.”
”W-why are you erect from that!? If it were me, I’d just feel sad, not aroused at all.”
”That’s what arouses me. How to say it… The despair of having someone I like stolen makes my c**k tighten. And seeing my liked one in ahe ahe state is good. Imagining her in ahe ahe from someone else, combined with that tightening, excites me enough to nearly ej****ulate!”
”Heh.”
Guria straightened up.
Her earlier dark expression vanished, replaced by surprise.
”Weird…”
”Hey, do you get aroused if Asterios gets this close?”
”T-that’s a blunt question! Why ask that?”
”I want to know. Are you sexually aroused by me now? I want to compete with Asterios in male appeal. Who excites you more?”
”——”
Guria’s face turned completely blank.
Then, as if recalling something, she clapped her hands with a pom.
”Wait! Kian, that inexplicable reaction—I heard about it from Medea before. I think… netorare desire? There are people who get pleasure from having their lover stolen.”
”Probably that’s me!”
(Well, before that, I’ll completely d**k-corrupt her like Linca so she can’t leave even if she wants, magically remodeling her.)
Linca had her brain fried by a two-hour intense deep-kissing cunnilingus, even bleeding from her nose.
Even the slutty bitch Esther couldn’t forget s** with Kian, abstaining from all other men during his business trips. That was because Kian wielded his c**k to make it so.
In short, Kian was a man who absolutely wouldn’t allow netorare.
In the end, he wouldn’t hesitate to kill everyone except homos.
”F-fuun. Hee~. Fuun… Kian, you’re a pervert. A fine knight, yet.”
”…”
”Ah, then.”
Guria scooted her butt closer with a shadowed smile.
The citrus perfume she wore wafted gently.
The hem of her white miniskirt draped over his pinky to ring finger.
Kian reflexively tried to pull his butt back, but anticipating that, Guria wrapped her arm around his waist and brought her lips to his ear.
”Want me to tell you how General Asterios violated me?”
”——! I-is that okay?”
”Yeah. If it excites you, fine. Talking about the act is pure self-harm. I was thinking of going to some deserted rocky area later and screaming it at the sea since I can’t tell anyone, but if you want to hear, it’s perfect. —Do you really want to?”
”Ah, yeah.”
While saying that, he exposed his p**is from his bottoms with a plop.
Seeing it fully erect and raging, Guria seemed to grasp what he wanted her to do.
”Then I’ll tell you. It’s a secret from everyone else.”
* * *
The girl’s hand, thickened from training, touched the swollen glans.
Her palm covered the slit already oozing pre-c**, spreading the viscous fluid over the entire head.
”Until using the Staff of Universal Dominion, I was terrified of Lord Asterios. But once used, something invaded my mind, making my head fuzzy, consciousness fading. I had a horrible dream, and when I woke, I was surrounded by Circe’s servants, my whole body coated in some drug. I was already incredibly aroused, and just hearing Lord Asterios’s voice made me think I wanted his child. Weird, right? But I really thought that.”
”You get like that just hearing Asterios’s voice? By the way, with my voice?”
”Nothing.”
Guria said coldly.
”Even touching your d**k like this, I don’t get excited like before. I think Lord Asterios is bigger, and the smell, shape, warmth… the level of excitement is totally different. I can’t get aroused by you at all anymore.”
”Kuh.”
First defeat as a male.
Tormented by inferiority.
”Doesn’t touching me feel anything? I’ve really become Lord Asterios’s… Lord Asterios must be way bigger than Kian’s shabby rod.”
”S-shabby rod?”
Regret built.
He wanted to yell that the thing she thought was Asterios’s c**k and the one she was stroking now were the same.
But for the pleasure, he endured the urge to reveal it.
Instead, he slightly replaced his body’s cells with Asterios’s. He could now perform the feat of mutating internally while keeping human form. Astonishing even himself—fear the pursuit of eros.
”Nku!? ♡ …Haa, n…, fuu ♡ Th-then ♡ Lord Asterios’s thick finger ♡ stirred my p**sy inside a lot ♡ a lot ♡ The restraint in my mouth kept me from screaming. But the thick thing writhed inside, rubbing my good spots over and over ♡ melting gooey, with lewd squelching sounds ♡ Th-then ♡ nn, haan ♡ I think my lower abdomen clenched down ♡ wanting Lord Asterios so bad ♡”
”Kuh.”
”Then ♡ after that ♡ I had my p**sy licked by Lord Asterios ♡ I thought something warm stuck to me, then it suddenly entered inside… I clenched my butthole to resist, but it was no use. Lord Asterios’s tongue easily invaded my precious place, swimming undulating inside. While thinking ‘no, dirty, pull out,’ my hips bounced repeatedly… and I came quickly. I thought I could fight on cherishing memories with Kian, but that was just an illusion. I realized I’m just a beast ruled by instincts, which made me sad. But soon the pleasure made it irrelevant. Before I knew it, I was shaking my ass myself, dancing vulgarly begging for cock instead of tongue.”
”Guu.”
The corona was squeezed tightly with fingers.
The sensitive ridge was rubbed repeatedly with the side of her finger.
”Kian’s d**k ♡ even touching it like this ♡ doesn’t excite me at all! Just imagining Lord Asterios’s wonderful manhood makes my lower half go numb like paralyzed, melting all gooey.”
”Kuuuu.”
A white explosion erupted.
Not a full ej****tion, but a light jab shot from inability to hold back.
Guria caught it in her palm, leaking excited breaths “fuu ♡ fuu ♡”.
”Premature ej****ator.”
”——”
”Low volume too. Kian loses to Lord Asterios as a male.”
Losing to Asterios?
Kian?
Defeat in c**k?
No!
No no no no no!
(I won’t lose! Absolutely!)
Kian chanted a courage spell from the abyss.
”Da-darkness, charge…!”
”Nn?”
”Darknesss, chaaarge!!”
With spirit, he circulated the white bull’s cells throughout his body. Appearance remained Kian, but muscles, bones, blood components switched to Asterios’s.
Instantly, Guria shuddered, shrinking her body.
”S-s**k it.”
”Eh? Eeh?”
”Just do it, fellatio! Hurry! The darkness… is overflowing from my c**k!”
”A bit midway but… well, whatever. I’m getting in a naughty mood too somehow. Wait, why am I aroused by a human?”
Looking puzzled, Guria knelt between his knees.
Kian urged her, and she took the rigid shaft into her mouth.
Notes:
• Mag – The wolfwoman under Yelmar—the one who was caught by Kian’s group earlier.
• Linca – Jibril’s favorite girl. High-ranking warrior monk woman from Shin, with strong abilities like ignoring attacks and poisons.
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