Chapter 965: How to Spend the Year-End and New Year Holidays 34
I hadn’t been away from Polka for very long. At the very least, while there were people who’d say 「Welcome back」, there wasn’t anyone I needed to greet with 「Long time no see」. And even though things can get hectic here, it’s still the countryside after all, so nothing major tends to happen in just a few days.
“It’s peaceful here. Even if someone gets a minor injury, it usually heals at the Spirit Spring, so it just ends up as a funny story”
That’s what Kathy, the blonde dark elf who served as the leader of the Cosmos Main Store group, told me.
“So, does that mean someone got hurt?”
“He slipped while shoveling snow, that boy who’s always masturbating and fell. He broke his leg, apparently”
“……A boy?”
My thoughts went blank for a moment, but from a dark elf’s perspective, short-lived races are all just like children. So, upon reconsidering, it was probably Lantz. As for Goto since ogre conveys the meaning more clearly, that’s what I’d call him.
“A broken bone probably won’t heal in just one day, though……”
“Apparently, if you set the bone and splint it properly, it heals pretty quickly? Well, I just heard that from the ladies who come to Leslie House”
“Is that so……”
And apparently, it did heal right away. Once again……the healing power of the spirit spring is amazing. And yet, this doesn’t even make headlines in Polka. Life for Basson’s crossbow squad was pretty dull, too, but if someone suffered a serious injury like a broken bone, the details would inevitably become the talk of the town. Between visiting the person, teasing them, and making sure they don’t re-injure themselves, there’s no way to avoid bringing it up. Thinking about it that way, I can’t help but feel that the residents of Polka’s familiarity with the Spirit Spring might be a bit concerning. Even if injuries heal easily, if you die, of course, there’s no cure. It’s dangerous to become desensitized to risk.
“Well, part of the reason people aren’t worried enough to make a big deal out of it is because he’s the type who’d try to join the peeping tour the very next day”
“Even with a broken leg!?”
……Well, that’s Lantz for you. If he’s that energetic, it makes sense that no one worries about him.
“By the way, I was the one who stopped him. You can thank me with your body if you want?”
You can’t sense his intention to join the peeping tour or stop him, unless you’re in the men’s bath. So does that mean this guy snuck into the men’s bath again? Or rather, even though he could see these boobs up close, did Lantz really try to choose peeping at a random crowd from a distance……? No, I guess the flow of events was that he got in the bath after the peeping tour was organized. In any case, it’s wonderful that I didn’t have to let him do something stupid like pushing himself too hard and breaking a bone that was just starting to heal. ……But.
“Is it really okay to thank you with your body?”
“The older gentlemen have been so busy lately, you know. I haven’t been getting many invitations, so I’ve got this body I don’t know what to do with”
With that, Kathy-san strikes a pose that emphasizes her breasts. I glance around just in case. We’re in a corner of 「Leslie House」 and it’s late afternoon. This place usually serves as a gathering spot for local housewives, but right now it’s just a few prostitutes and some cats having tea. ……No one’s giving us dirty looks. All right.
“W, Well, shall we go to the back room then?”
“♪”
As if to confirm something, Kathy made me ejaculate in sequence, into her mouth, vagina, asshole and breasts.
“This outrageous ejaculation……♪ That’s how sex should be, after all♪”
The volume of my ejaculation seemed to remind her of my legendary battles against the Orcs and beastmen in Talc, as well as the sexual powerhouses who came at me doped up on all sorts of aphrodisiacs and she seemed to really appreciate it. ……Emm, well, I figured she must be quite the sex fiend herself.
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Amid the hustle and bustle of New Year Festival preparations and year-end chaos in the neighborhood, the one person who remains particularly calm is Gloria.
“I’m not drawing anything else this year”
“Why’s that?”
“I’ve drawn way too much! Or rather, I’ve already drawn every single girl who’d be willing to model for me! So I’m taking a break for a while! Long live freelancing!”
Saying that, she’s just lazing around with the hot spring vacation crowd, Naris, Keiron, and the rest.
“I thought you were the type who’d work your butt off as long as you could keep drawing”
“Even creators need to switch between work and rest. Actually, I feel like my sense of reality has gotten all messed up from being exposed to your harem, it’s practically a real-life erotic picture scroll. I figured I needed to calm down and get back to reality a bit, or else I’d drift too far from my readers’ perspective”
“So, you’re still planning to draw and sell those erotic picture scrolls……?”
“Of course. I haven’t produced a work that could become an immortal masterpiece yet, after all”
She’s so ambitious. ……Well, I mean, even I wouldn’t want to just sit around doing nothing for the rest of my life just because I’m rich. For her, who’s spent her life braving the rough seas as an erotic artist, it’s not at all strange that she’s so attached to that.
“If anything, I feel a sense of duty to leave behind these overly erotic, realistic depictions and on top of that, I’m absolutely not about to give up pursuing my perverted imagination”
As she said this with her arms crossed, Naris, who had been listening beside her, let out a sigh.
“As the subject of the artwork, it’s way too complicated for me, though”
“Don’t worry, I haven’t drawn you in my erotic scrolls yet, Naris-chan!”
“If you’re talking about leaving a record of reality, you’ll end up drawing me eventually, won’t you!”
“Well, in terms of sheer numbers, it’ll still be a spectacular sight even without you, so if you want to refuse to appear, I’ll accept that”
“Gununu……but it’s strangely frustrating to think I’ll be erased from history……!”
Naris was torn. And Keiron, who had been listening alongside them, said,
“……This is super awkward for me. Do I really have to listen to this kind of talk?”
Sorry.
“Should I draw one where you’re in it too, Keiron?”
“No way! The only ones who’d be happy about an erotic scroll featuring themselves are Lantz and Goto, right!?”
“…………”
“And Smithson, too, right!?”
No, it’s not like I’d be happy just because I’m in it. I just like Gloria’s art style. And I just enjoy being able to compare her drawings to the real-life models. But before I could voice my complicated protest, Gloria waved her finger.
“Don’t you want to see a beautiful girl based on yourself?”
“Huh?”
“You know, that’s the trend in erotic picture scrolls these days. They take real-life famous men and transform them into beautiful girls while retaining as many of their original features as possible, leaving no trace of their original selves and then subject them to outrageous humiliation”
“Wait, I can’t keep up with all this”
“The beautiful girl versions of Sieg Becker and Igor Alderia, plus the one where Lucas from the Southern Forest was turned into a beautiful girl, those are all big hits. It hasn’t been explicitly stated, but it’s common knowledge among enthusiasts”
“Seriously, what kind of world is that?”
Keiron shuddered. He flatly refused the suggestion that he might be subjected to such a fate. ……Yeah. Well, I’d probably get expelled, wouldn’t I? That’s just par for the course in an industry like that.