At that moment, hearing the sound of a door opening in the distance, Eleonora flinched. She quietly poked her head around the corner to peek at the source of the noise—Shin Seon-dong's house.
As she expected, he was resting at home today, leaving her neglected like this.
Seeing Seon-dong looking disheveled, as if proving he had been lounging around lazily regardless of whether she starved or not, made Eleonora feel a burst of indignation. Yet, simultaneously, she felt her pussy, which had been fluttering ceaselessly, suddenly clench tight.
Squeeze...
There it was.
Over there was the cock, the sperm, the Master she wanted so desperately.
“Haaah... To make me this desperate while he wears such a nonchalant face... What a cruel Master he is...!”
Just looking at him was enough to make a female go into heat. To attach the word 'radiance' to such filth might be a bit much, but to this female’s eyes, he seemed to be practically self-luminous.
“Hauuugh...”
She had merely stolen a glance at his silhouette, yet her heart felt as if someone were gripping it tight. clutching her chest which had begun to pound as if it might burst, Eleonora’s hand unconsciously drifted down to her stiffly erect nipples and clitoris as she gulped down saliva.
Gulp, gulp.
'I want to jump him...! But I can’t. If I did such an impudent thing...'
Do you want to be hated and neglected again?
There isn't much time left anyway; do you want to spend the remainder of it being ignored instead of enjoying it?
I am, after all, the Master's sex slave, serving him without expecting anything in return.
I must be the one being raped.
Only Master can rape me.
I must not forget that I am nothing but a vulgar sow who spreads her legs lewdly, begging for his grace.
“Th-that is only until tomorrow... Since it’s only until tomorrow... just for a little while... Anyway, I’m only a sow until tomorrow...!”
But even if it is for a limited time—no, precisely because it is for a limited time—I must be faithful to the role.
Only then will the Master, whose life will end tomorrow, grant a final reward to me, his commendable sow who followed his orders so faithfully.
Now leaning against the wall with only her head slightly poking out to avoid detection, Eleonora began to fondle herself.
'H-He didn’t order me not to masturbate, but he didn’t give me permission to do so either, so I am a bit worried, but...'
Should I perhaps confess to him tomorrow that I lewdly masturbated on purpose and beg him to punish me?
As if forgetting she had ever been flustered, Eleonora began to knead her own body with a lewd smile and obscene hand movements.
“Yes, tomorrow morning, I will be prostrate on the ground just like today. Master won’t even know he’s about to die, thinking I’ve submitted to him, and theeen...♥”
Her breasts looked ready to burst, and her pussy mound was plump and swollen. Every time Eleonora, shaping her hands as if gripping something, applied a little pressure to herself...
Her breasts squashed into pleasing shapes, and the pink flesh between her legs—which had been gaping greedily as if it never knew how to close—slowly clenched shut along with her mound.
“Huuuugh... My nipples and clitoris poking out between my fingers... The rings are attached, so it hurts, but it feels so good...♥”
This, too, was a mark he—her Master—had personally attached to her.
'It’s goodbye to these things tomorrow as well, so I might as well enjoy them in advance...'
Should I try pulling on the chain rattling against my belly right here?
Just as she thought that, Eleonora flinched once more at a silhouette emerging from Shin Seon-dong’s house and began to stare intently.
“What is that? He should be living alone? And those people coming out from behind him are...?!”
Following Shin Seon-dong out of his house were two humans. At first, Eleonora thought nothing of the men and was about to tug on her chain, but she soon muttered in shock.
“Those are... How are Crusaders here?!”
Crusaders. The Goddess's Holy Knights.
She hadn't seen wrong.
Although their armor was stained here and there with dirt and blood splatter, as if they had recently been in a fierce battle, it was unmistakable.
That unique heraldry, the snow-white armor with the crimson cross traversing the center of the chest plate. Armor bestowed only upon the Holy Knights of the Goddess Church—the Crusaders—armor that only those chosen by the Goddess could wear.
Each one possessed Master-level skills, and since Crusaders were selected only from the elite of the elite, their numbers were few. Eleonora recognized the Crusaders who were now chatting with Shin Seon-dong as he pointed towards various parts of the mountain while they took notes.
'How could I ever forget? They were the ones who slaughtered monsters alongside me during the Great Sweep Operation, where the Kingdom and the Order united!'
They had exchanged names back then, though strangely she couldn't recall them now to call out. But judging by their appearance and voices, it was certain. They were definitely the Order's Crusaders.
Not imposters, but the genuine article.
“Why are they here? Did they... come to save me...?!”
For Holy Knights, who should be loyal only to the Goddess and the Saintess and serving only them, to come to this remote hinterland meant a major incident had occurred.
Furthermore, catching snippets of their conversation, the fact that her name was being mentioned meant this was undoubtedly related to her disappearance.
Eavesdropping further, she gathered that while they didn't know the details, they had been stranded recently. This morning, they detected a massive amount of mana in this vicinity and had tracked the residue here.
They had probably entered his house just to ask for a cup of water.
“Wait, if it’s mana... surely this morning, when I checked my body...?!'
She had circulated her mana excessively because of the mithril rings, but to think the residue of the mana she failed to control back then was coincidentally detected by them?
'If it were simply mana residue, it wouldn't be a problem, but they must have been certain upon seeing my Greatsword here. That I am in this vicinity! Even if they don't know I am right here at this moment, they will undoubtedly conduct a search centered on this place.'
It wasn't even hidden. Like the legend of a Holy Sword waiting in a rock for its chosen master, it was stuck conspicuously in the ground right in front of the pigsty.
“If they were to enter the pigsty... wouldn't they catch me...?! M-Me, being seen in this state... Wait, this is no time for this...!”
Turning pale, Eleonora tore her hands away from her body. She wrapped her arms around herself as if to cover her nudity and immediately bolted into the pigsty like a shot.
-Oink?
-Oink, oink!
The pigs in the sty, preparing for their nap, welcomed Eleonora back from her brief outing. But she had no leisure to respond. She jumped hastily into her pen, clutching her chest and panting softly.
Escape was right before her eyes.
Those excellent Holy Knights would surely see the Greatsword she had planted in the ground and realize it was she who had put it there.
And soon, they would sense something was wrong.
Because the sword, which she, a knight, carried around like a part of her own body, was left behind while she had vanished without a trace.
Soon, they would feel suspicious and begin searching around this farm.
They might have already noticed that Shin Seon-dong wasn't an ordinary pig farmer based on the various rare and strange items from his house to the yard.
Honestly, just looking at his attire, there were one or two suspicious points, and on top of that, her Greatsword was openly abandoned there?
It would be stranger if he didn't rise to the top of the suspect list.
There really was no time.
Perhaps even today, by their hands—
-Then, may we take a look over here first?
-Suit yourself. I’m telling you, there’s no woman like that here.
“!!”
Voices accompanied the sound of footsteps coming from outside. It was the adjacent pigsty. The voices were coming from the other pigsty building one had to pass to get to his house.
Eleonora hurriedly closed the window, pressed her back against the wall, peeked outside, and then, sensing time running out, dropped flat onto the floor.
As if trying to find a blind spot where they could never reach her.
'I-I have to hide...'
Gathering the straw scattered messily inside the pen, she piled it over her body again and again. Trembling with anxiety lest she be discovered, Eleonora suddenly stopped her hands, a question forming on her lips.
"Why... am I...?"
Why was she hiding like this to avoid their gaze when the opportunity for escape had come right before her eyes?
To put it bluntly, regardless of mental preparation or whatever, if she just ran out now, she could escape immediately. She could grasp the freedom, the escape, and even the revenge she had longed for.
So why was she hiding her body so desperately?
Afraid of showing them this appearance of mine? Out of shame?
No, it definitely wasn't because of that.
Then why?
"Or perhaps... do I like this life?"
At that moment, a voice echoed inside Eleonora's head.
Get out. Run out right now and ask to be saved. Naked or not, go before them immediately and beg for rescue. If not now... if not this moment...
It wasn't an unfamiliar voice.
It was a voice identical to her own.
Moreover, it was the voice that had picked her up since she arrived here, instilling in her the courage and resolve to fight against Shin Seon-dong time and time again.
A voice she couldn't forget even if she wanted to.
However, it was a mystery where that dignified, model-knight appearance had gone, replaced now by a whisper as quiet as an ant crawling.
Eleonora immediately retorted as if it were absurd.
“What are you saying? I am Eleonora Croft, the continent's only Grand Master and the strongest female knight. Even without their help, I can escape a crisis like this whenever I please. Hasn't escape come right before my eyes anyway? Tomorrow, that man will die by my hands. And...”
And, at that moment.
-Then, may we check this side next?
-This side has pigs awaiting shipment, so it's a bit of a sensitive sty...
“!!”
They were coming this way.