「Her Highness has told me about you. I was told you wanted to make a deal.」
「Yeah.」
「I’ll start with this.」
Delphina snapped her fingers. Two men (probably her men) came in from outside the room, put a rectangular box on the table, and went outside.
「What’s this?」
「2,500 pieces of silver. It’s a prepayment.」
「Prepayment.」
「Please use it as a working capital.」
「I guess I could just deliver the goods later.」
「Yes. We can handle anything, so please bring us anything.」
「Okay.」
2500 coins, I hope the 50% discount works out, but if not, that’s eight lottery tickets.
I would have preferred 3,000 coins, but that’s just my own circumstance.
「I’ll gratefully use it. How do I deliver the goods?」
「I’ll send someone here again tomorrow. Please make that person your point of contact.」
「Got it.」
At any rate, tomorrow I’m going to get as much Orikudite as I can and see how much they’ll buy.
「By the way.」
Delphina changed the subject.
「That’s the Eleanor, isn’t it?」
「Yeah? Oh, Helene told you this too?」
「It’s well done.」
My eyebrow twitched.
「What’s that supposed to mean?」
「It means exactly what it sounds like.」
「Are you trying to tell me you think it’s fake?」
「You’re holding it right now.」
「？」
「There is no one in the history of the world whose mind is not controlled by Eleanor. There has never been a person in history who has not been dominated by Eleanor. King Rodotos and Dragon Olga were no exception. Then, the fact that you are actually holding it and are unconcerned about it is the best proof that it is fake.」
I get it.
I’ve heard something similar a few times before, but I guess that’s how unheard of it is.
Well, it can’t be helped.
「Her Highness is still young, so it can’t be helped.」
That hit me hard.
It’s unheard of, so I can’t blame her for being suspicious, but that just hit me.
Does she mean that Helene is being deceived because she’s young and naive?
Does it mean that Helene trusts me because she’s naive?
I felt a twinge.
Let’s punish her a little …….
I held out Eleanor.
「Do you want to hold it?」
「Oh, you don’t mind?」
She has a challenging look in her eyes, like she knows if she holds it, I’ll get found out.
「Yeah.」
Delphina held Eleanor and observed her closely.
「It’s really well done up close, the details…」
Instantly, Delphina’s eyes widen.
Her whole body convulsed, and then a black aura leaked from her body.
The situation was similar to Mari’s.
「That was pretty quick, taking over.」
I was calm. She made me do it, and I was cool with the idea of punishment.
That much was expected, but something unexpected also happened.
Delphina shook Eleanor. Then Tania appeared.
Tania, summoned by Eleanor, is still dressed in her maid’s uniform, but she has turned into a terrifying vengeful spirit.
It’s the same as the first time I saw her in this mansion.
「I see. Tania will go back to being the same. I’ll apologize later.」
It’s a perfect entanglement.
「Uaaaaaaaaaaaaa!」
Delphina screamed. It’s a beastly scream.
Her bloodshot eyes are like those of a beast.
「So? Do you think it’s real now?」
I ask, but there is no answer.
A low moan rumbles from the back of her throat.
「Has she possessed her more than she did with Mari?」
It reminds me of that time. Mari was still asking for help when Eleanor possessed her.
Rather, her body had been taken over, but her consciousness was clear.
I wonder what the difference is, I’ll ask Eleanor later.
While I was thinking about this, Delphina slashed at me with Eleanor.
At the same time, Tania also unleashed her ice magic.
I hadn’t expected a combination of vanguard and rear guard. I avoided the slashes, but the ice arrows destroyed the room.
「Are you all right, Master?!」
I can hear Miu’s worried voice from outside the room.
「It’s okay, I’m going to go out for a bit, just clean my room.」
「Eeeeeh? Yes.」
After telling Miu, I jumped into Delfina’s bosom and lightly touched her before using my warp feather.
I warped into the mountain ox meadow.
The grasslands at night were just wide open, nothing else.
「I don’t think we’ll have to worry about damage here.」
Maybe she’s completely possessed, or maybe she’s warped, but Delphina doesn’t seem surprised at all. On the contrary, she slashed at me in exactly the same way.
Three minutes later, Delphina was lying on the ground, unconscious.
Her clothes were tattered and looked like she had been assaulted.
It only looks like it, but I’ve not done anything.
I just fought it with my bare hands and magic and ripped it to shreds.
「Well, I suppose she’s learned her lesson.」
（You’re a terrible man, to use me conveniently)
「Did I offend you?」
（No, it was fun. One of these days you’re gonna have to let me possess somebody else.）
「I’ll think about it.」
I’m not saying I will.
「Is Tania okay?」
I ask the maid ghost floating in the air.
「I’m kind of tired. …… Can I take a break?」
「Oh, I’m sorry about that.」
「Uun, see you later.」
That one said in a sleepy voice and just disappeared.
I crouched down next to Delphina and tapped her cheek.
「Hey, you okay? Hey.」
Taptap.
「I’m sure I took it pretty easy on you. Hey, wake up.」
Taptaptap.
「Wake up or I’ll play a prank on you.」
「U…… n?」
She woke up.
She looked around slowly with her glassy eyes, looked at me, and then at herself.
She woke up in an instant.
She pulled her tattered and much eroticized clothes together to hide her skin and backed away, zipping over the ground.
Her face was red with embarrassment.
……She has become irrisistable.
「What have you done?」
「Don’t you remember?」
「Remember? We talked in the …… house, and Eleanor… oh.」
Apparently, she remembered.
「Yes, I handed Eleanor to you. You can’t remember anything from that point on? Well, it’s not a big deal. Eleanor possessed you, so I just beat her back up.」
「That’s why you’re dressed like this……」
「That’s the long and short of it.」
「…… Is that sword really the magic sword Eleanor?」
「Do you want to hold it one more time?」
I offer her Eleanor. Delphina shook her head placidly.
「I don’t want to do that again. I’ve had this black cloud in my head …… and I don’t want it to happen again.」
「Black, huh.」
I guess there’s something left of Eleanor.
「Something like that……」
Delphina mumbles.
The result was better than I expected and I was satisfied.
Now that I’ve convinced Delphina that Eleanor is real, let’s go back to the mansion.
I looked at Delphina and saw that she was acting strangely.
She grabbed the hem of the dress she had pulled over herself and chewed on her bottom lip as if she was holding something back.
Her face was getting redder and redder, and if you looked closely, you could see that she was squirming.
「Delphina? 」
「──Ehh?」
Her reaction was sluggish.
I wonder what’s going on.
（So that woman is that way.）
「What do you mean, “that way”?」
（Those who wield my power will experience some kind of side effect. Which one each person gets is up to them, though.)
「What’s the compensation for using the magic sword?」
（My possession.）
I heard a giggle in my head.
「So, what are the side effects for Delphina?」
（Estrus)
「What?」
(Estrus)
「Is estrus that estrus?」
（Which other estrus is there? I haven’t counted clearly, but I’d say nearly half of the women do this.）
「Estrus……」
I looked at Delphina.
That’s all I could see when she said that.
Her face was upturned and she was breathing heavily.
Her eyes are all glassy, and she looks like she’s in pain.
Sure, when you say estrus, it looks like it.
（You’d better get her a man soon. If this is left untreated, every blood vessel in her body will burst overnight, killing her.)
「Hey.」
I looked at Delphina.
This woman, she’s gonna die?
I don’t want that. I may have had to punish her, but I’m not going to kill her.
Rather, I thought it was 「good」 from the beginning, and I thought I would like it.
「Can it be any man?」
（As long as you finish the job.）
「Got it.」
I walked up to the horny Delphina and pushed her down.
I tore off her already tattered clothes at once.
I became an adult.
Surprisingly, Delphina was still a child ──一 and we became adults together.