NotSoHero

This time, when I got up, there were… 17 of them I think? No, one did pass on at an early stage and was given medical care while another was called back in urgency in the middle of the act if I recall correctly… So 19. That goes up to 1937 now, I’m still 1786 off but I’m getting closer.

Mmh oh yes, there was that maid that dropped by to bring some snacks and was mistaken for one participant too...and this one who was jealous and couldn’t make it, so she received her consolation prize afterwards. 1939, we are going forward.

Haha! Who said ‘Beware of lust, it corrupts both the body and the mind.’! My perfect memory refutes the later, while my situation proves the former’s opposite. I’m healthy and well, and it appears I have 3723 legal proof who can testify,  without any need to search for some random stran---first-class witness which are few, or scarce husba--second-class one! 

“Hello? Did you hear me?”

…some of them were first-class too though…

“Hero-kun?”

Ah yes, that’s right, some had this fetish and some even pushed their wife to me first… But!!! I’m not some ugly bastard in an NTR novel, I’m the hero!!! What’s the point if you take all sense of accompli--I mean give me remorse and bad feelings. Okay, maybe when it was forced upon me, without my consent, I wasn't the type to put much resistance and compelled rather quickly. Still! I never started knowingly, even less obliged. And yet, what can I do when some random girl offers herself to me. I can’t check on everyone’s background beforehand can I?  Yes, accidents happen, but I was always the first to ensure they remain unknown.

I NEVER raped anyone, I swear!!, no seriously, I’m not that BAD of a guy ya know.I earnestly never forced anyone at all, and it has often been the other way instead.

Back on topic, it’s not my fault if afterward, some of them still find their way in! I can’t pay attention to all insignificant and burdensome details, even worse when they come along with a group.

“HEY!!!” Bang! 

Something hit my head and as I looked into my interlocutor I saw a fork handle coming from my forehead, blood dripping before my eyes. A dazzling pain… That hurt, that hurt a lot!

“Aïe – OUCH – SACRE BLEU¹french swearword, why would you do that !!!”

Girls nowadays, pay them no attention for even 2 good minutes while thinking about other women, and here we are, instant resort to violence, followed by a nervous breakdown. 

“It’s been 5 minutes! I speak and you give no responses whatsoever, I know that your situation is hard and all, and that you have your mind elsewhere, and that’s bad-taste of me to bring up the topic so quickly in the conversation. Especially when we barely know each other.  But that’s not a reason to be utterly absent minded, not even responding to my important request. If you are to reject me, do so but do it outright!”

Look, I told you so, now she will be all flustered.  

"Here again, your mind is about to go away again and drift, CAN YOU AT LEAST GIVE ME A RESPONSE!"

Again, tch...

The subject of this commotion was a slender girl, rather small in build even for a young adult, with profound dark green long hair.

She wore a cosplay-like attire,  a mix between a nurse and a nun, but that gives a slutty vibe that you can’t even tell if she is one or the other, or just a natural temptress.

A nun’s coif and a white scapular… That covers nothing and exists for the only purpose of adding fabric to the whole. Starting from the neck, bareback up to the butt, then goes down the legs, covering the side of the hips, it completely evades the bust on the front (which is by the way, given her stature, more on the bigger side than the small one.). Joining on the waist just below the navel, the clothes fall along the legs, failing even here to cover something. The sides are left completely open and the legs are clearly visible. 

On top of that, a fitting short black nurse dress with some pink here and there comes replacing the nun tunic under the scapular, mismatched tights, pink fishnet and white one, with a barely visible garter belt that disappears behind the nurse outfit. At last, long semi transparent gloves that go just above the elbow cover the arms.

Ultimately, a mighty staff, excessively fine and imposing, way too long for her build and that even grand priests don't show often, add to the complete outfit a really strange vibe.

Her face keeps giving me the feeling of déja-vu, I don’t know why tho. But let’s not dwell on it. I’m sure if it’s important I’ll remember it…somehow.

“Sorry, a significant matter was on me and I couldn’t focus on you completely. So where were we... Let me get my head straight… Ah yes, after the trial, the court and guild posted an arbitrary paid global request or so, in one fell swoop, asking adventurers to join my party to help me in my obligatory debt rep- permanent quest of wealth, without any notice, even though it was useless and nobody would be willing?.”

“Yes, that’s it!” She was thrilled and stood up from bliss, leaning on the table.

“And you, a junior healer who just got out of a first rate magical school, accepted this request even before it was officially posted, thanks to your relation to one of the guild members…”

“Yes.”

“And so after receiving all of my personal data, localization, a glimpse of all the faces I could take if I wanted to hide and every single noticeable physical distinction that can help you recognize me.” 

Hey! Shouldn’t all of them be confidential information? And the last one is downright private! 

"Plus, an advance payment for service rendu of 500 gold, direct teleportation to where I was last seen by Rana great wizards. And total access and right to a curse that was marked on me without my knowledge and consent, able to pinpoint where I am in real time with less than ten meters of error margin and 0,1s refresh rate?"

The last part’s scary and beyond overkill!! Like I would be able to flee, to where? I am condemned in every single kingdom on this continent, and wanted dead or almost-dead in every other’s. I wonder why almost-dead by the way, especially when that’s where Queendoms are…

“YES!!!!” Delighted, she got close again, so much that our faces were only inches apart. she was now half kneeling on the table. 

“So what's left, I’ve not forgotten anything right?”

“YOU FORGOT MY REQUEST” BANG!

The knife joined the fork on my body and nailed my hand to the table

“ARGFfzjf!!!!”

I should take care of it sooner than later, it hurts as hell!! And I don’t think dirtying the guild is a good idea, they’re capable of charging me for the cleaning, and I don’t want my already absolutely unpayable debt to grow… AS I CARE, event 3 lifetime wouldn’t be enough anyway!! 

Okay, and what was your request again? I lost track at that moment, but I can’t remember, why? Once more, just another oddity.

“Okay, okay, can you please repeat it, I just can’t remember it at al--NO STOP, I was elsewhere and distracted, I’ll take the blame, I apologize, so please, I plead you, PLEASE!! Put down that spoon!!”

“Humph goujat! That’s already the second time you said this you know!” She crossed her arms ostensibly dissatisfied, not letting go of the spoon.

2nd time? Weird, I don’t have any recollection of the first, once again…

“So, for the last time listen well, because it won’t happen a third!”

“Please I’m in love with you, so can you marry me! Or go out with me? Or at least make me pregn- let me help you in your hardship?”

Okay, she got me here. This one, I didn't see it coming at all. fa-thud! I passed out from shock rather than blood loss, or maybe both, I couldn’t feel my hand and I started to see trouble cuz you know…the cutlery was well planted, deep into the bones.

Ah… Maybe I shouldn't have stopped the spoon, this could have saved my brain from the last sentence at least.  I wonder where it would have ended, not like you can cut or plant with that one, can you?? 

As I was leaving for the other side, trying to recall something and refute my statement, a lingering feeling of pain came from one of my fingers, the type you feel after being amputated or chopped something, not that I know what it feels like, but…

Ominous feelings filled me up.