Going back a few days before Lu-el’s and Kaori’s departure from Daifuku Hot Spring Village: Reiji’s POV.

In the Holy Kingdom of Luvira, women are treated favorably and with high respect, as they were created in the image of the Goddess Luvira herself, earning them the title of Goddess’s Vessel.

Men, on the other hand, are referred to as the Goddess’s Desire—reflecting how women desire to have the highest-quality man as their lover.

Thus, these beliefs set two important customs in the Holy Kingdom of Luvira, which lead to another harsh, inevitable result.

First, women prostituting themselves is considered an insulting tale, rumored to exist only in other kingdoms.

Second, it is a crime of the highest treachery—whether one is a commoner or a noble—for a man to force himself on a woman, or many, in any form such as blackmail or bribery.

Lastly, and most harsh of all, men who do not have a lover have no way to relieve their lust except by touching themselves.

Yet regardless of such strict customs—which could earn him a death sentence by the decapitation of both his head and rod—Reiji is back at his family’s mansion, taking advantage of and forcing himself on one of their maids.

The young maid continued to pleasure Reiji with her mouth as he sat naked on the bed.

Yet despite the maid’s skillful technique—which she was forced to learn while working under Reiji’s father, a noble viscount—Reiji could not get aroused.

The problem wasn’t the maid, of course. She looked so beautiful and enticing that every man in Reiji’s family would fight over who could have her for the night.

In fact, as the 17th son who was barely considered part of the family, Reiji was only able to have the maid for the night after promising one of his older brothers—through a lie—that he would introduce him to Kaori.

What prevented Reiji from having an erection was himself, denying the memories that kept flashing in his mind—the scenes of Sera and Kaori being taken by those he cursed as bastards.

Despite the shame of being cuckolded twice, Reiji couldn’t deny that he became extremely aroused watching the bastard named Lu-el take Kaori, even if he could only faintly see their silhouettes in the dimly lit cave, accompanied by Kaori’s echoing erotic moans.

Even remembering how Croc took Sera in broad daylight excited him.

And worst of all, in those moments, he had actually climaxed despite screaming and crying in despair.

"FUC’ BASTARDS!" Reiji shouted in anger as he finally surrendered to the shame of being aroused by those memories.

He grabbed the maid by her hair and violently pushed her onto the bed before straddling her, spreading her legs and tearing her panties as he took her with his erect 3.5-inch rod.

Reiji pounded the maid relentlessly, treating her as a mere tool for his pleasure while daydreaming that she was either Kaori or Sera, and that his rod was as large as Croc’s or as massive as Lu-el’s.

Without even a full minute of continuous thrusting, Reiji reached his climax and released himself inside the maid.

Pouring a man’s seed into a woman’s womb should trigger the creation of Mana within it. At the same time, it strengthens the man’s body as his rod is drenched with her love juice.

However, that process only occurs if both pleasure and affection are involved during the intimacy between a man and a woman—which is why they are referred to as lovers.

Not to mention, Reiji’s release was of such low quality that it lacked the pressure to reach the maid’s womb, as his rod could not penetrate deeply enough.

As for the maid, there was no way she could feel any pleasure, much less affection, from Reiji.

She didn’t even reach orgasm, meaning her love juice did not drench Reiji’s rod or strengthen his body.

Still, Reiji collapsed onto the bed from exhaustion as if he had experienced the best intimacy of his life. His body only grew weaker as his rod went limp, even after just a single round.

"Get out and leave me alone, you useless whore," he said, insulting the maid before closing his eyes and slowly drifting to sleep—until his mind and body, even his rod, jolted upon hearing a familiar voice.

"Oh my... Did I just witness a crime?"

Reiji abruptly jumped off the bed, only to slip and stumble, his rod and face hitting the floor at the same time.

"Argh..."

Looking around while squirming and groaning in pain, Reiji couldn’t see the maid anymore.

Instead, Sera was sitting on the sofa beside the window, as if she had been there the entire time, watching him violate the maid.

"If Kaori learns about this..." Sera paused, thinking of how Kaori would respond. "Right—she would definitely cut your rod, shove it down your throat, then tear your neck open."

"You w—"

Reiji tried to talk back to Sera, only to cut himself off upon remembering how she had used a Fireball spell to obliterate the head of a bandit who dared insult her. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

"Pfft—Hahaha!"

Seeing Reiji’s terrified expression, his rod shrinking as if hiding inside his crotch, Sera couldn’t hold back her laughter.

"Shut up already!" Reiji shouted, not wanting to be mocked and humiliated further.

"That wasn’t the plan!" he added, reminding Sera of their deal to help him win over Kaori.

He had invited Kaori to hunt in the forest at the foot of the eastern mountain under the pretext of training against cursed beasts and monsters.

In truth, his plan was for Sera to hire a group of thugs to assault them so he could impress Kaori by defeating them all himself.

"That was the plan—pfft!" Sera replied, laughing sarcastically before continuing. "You just couldn’t man up because of how pathetic and cowardly you are."

She had indeed held up her end of the bargain, bringing a dozen bandits for Reiji to fight so he could prove himself to Kaori.

After all, unlike Reiji—who couldn’t see how strong Kaori was despite not having a lover yet to become a full-fledged Huntress—Kaori wasn’t a fool who would fall for a mere act.

Still, Sera had indeed tried to capture Kaori to increase the success of her own plan.

"How do you expect me to fight a dozen bandits when I didn’t become stronger after our intimacy!"

"PFFT—HAHAHA!"

This time, the mocking laughter didn’t come from Sera alone.

Two more hooded figures stepped out from the shadows in opposite corners of the room.

"Intimacy—pfft!" Sera paused, struggling to restrain her laughter before continuing to mock him. "When I barely felt you inside me—Hahaha!"

"That’s the problem with you Holy Fuckers," said what seemed to be a woman’s voice. "You can’t fight without your dick getting aroused—Hahaha!"

While Sera and her accomplice continued to laugh and humiliate Reiji, the second hooded figure made him an offer.

"I heard your story, little guy," said a creepily excited voice. "I can kill that bastard who stole the bitch from you—for the right price, of course."

At that moment, the dimly lit room glowed blood-red as a dozen fireballs appeared mid-air, surrounding the second hooded figure.

"Can we consider this your declaration of war against the Empire, Sera?" said the first hooded figure.

"Go ahead and burn me alive. It’s not like I haven’t fought while my body was on fire before," added the second.

"It’s not like I hate the Empire enough to rebel against it," Sera said, dispersing her fireballs—though it didn’t mean she wasn’t angered by her accomplice’s treatment of the high-quality man she desired.

"But I’m not so weak that I can’t kill everyone in this mansion, including both of you," she added, releasing a murderous aura terrifying enough to make Reiji wet himself as he crawled back toward his clothes on the floor to retrieve his pouch of money.

Reiji’s plan for revenge was to hire an assassin or mercenary to kill Lu-el. However, he barely had any savings left after buying custom-made armor and an expensive silver longsword from his weapon-crafter friend.

He begged his older brother to mobilize their men, only to be refused—unless he first introduced him to Kaori, as he had promised.

Therefore, he wouldn’t miss the chance when someone offered to carry out his revenge, even though he knew nothing about Sera and her accomplices who worked with his father.

"Take this and kill that bastard..." Reiji said as he stood, his voice still trembling with fear even though Sera had already stopped her intimidation. He then tossed a small pouch containing a few gold coins.

"These are far from enough," the second hooded figure replied, catching the pouch and weighing it without even checking its contents.

"The bastard has my armor and sword. Those two are worth twenty times that amount. You can sell them for the full payment."

Upon hearing Reiji’s proposition, the second hooded figure retreated into the shadows and vanished.

"I’ll be leaving as well to execute my plan," said the first hooded figure. "What about you, Sera?"

"Reiji and I still have something to talk about."

As Sera stood from the sofa, the first hooded figure disappeared into the shadows.

Sera slowly walked toward Reiji, carefully avoiding the puddle of his piss.

Reiji couldn’t even move from fear, nor could he resist as she pushed him onto the bed and straddled him.

Seeing Sera in her seductive red mini-dress, Reiji instinctively became aroused—or so he thought.

In truth, Sera was manipulating the mana of the tracking spell she had cast on his rod, forcing it to harden and grow beyond its usual erect size.

"You want to get stronger and bigger, right?" Sera said with a sadistic leer.

"Argh—!" Reiji groaned in pain from his crotch.

He looked down, shocked to see that his rod had grown as large as Croc’s—though still not as massive as Lu-el’s.

"If you help me with my experiment, I can give you the strength and size you could only dream of."

"I will do anything... Just make it much bigger—ARGH!"

***

"WHOA—that’s massive!" Lu-el exclaimed, surprised as he saw something he never thought could grow so large.