Tales of Harem 3: Chapter 4 - Lover Contract with a Pirate!?

 The commercial city was busiest during the early morning.

That was thanks to all the merchants from nearby mountain and fishing villages setting up mats along the roadside to hawk their wares. They would sell out during the morning and head home in the afternoon.

You couldn’t truly claim to know Lihanera if you hadn’t seen its morning market.

“I’ve gotta admit, this is impressive.”

Naoki had been surprised by how many people were in the city during the day, but this was even more.

But given the early hour, they all seemed more relaxed.

The hawkers’ calls sounded almost gentle in the morning mist.

They were mostly selling fresh foods from the mountains and sea, so the smell had to be powerful indeed for a dog girl, yet Mila seemed unaffected while walking alongside Naoki.

“Sorry for having you join me, Mila.”

“I do not mind.”

He had a reason for wanting to head out alone with her first thing in the morning.

The previous night had been total chaos, what with the succubus sisters and all, but…

“I can’t return to our room until Llusse is in a better mood.”

“They are demons. Her anger is unsurprising,” thoughtfully noted Mila.

“Yeah, but I really doubt they’ll betray us now that I have a contract with them.”
Mila and Filia had accepted Tianne’s explanation, but Llusse had fiercely opposed the idea of letting the succubi join their party.

She had no interest in listening to what Naoki had to say on the matter.

Their discussion (or argument really) remained unsettled and she had finally kicked him out this morning.

He felt bad leaving Filia (who appeared to have a headache) to convince the stubborn elf, but there was no point in worrying about it now.

(I had to stay at the inn yesterday, so at least this gives me a chance to do some sightseeing.)

“I sure didn’t expect to have demon servants. They even call me ‘master’.”

“…”
Mila was not as optimistic as him, but she didn’t want to argue either.

“By the way, what were you hoping to buy today?” she asked.

“Hmm…that’s the thing. I can’t think of anything off the top of my head.”

He had been handed a small bag full of coins before he left, but he understood that wasn’t a large sum of money.

“This doesn’t look like enough to buy a weapon…so I thought we could complete your errand first, Mila. Filia asked you to do something, didn’t she?”
“Yes, she wants me to negotiate with a company.”

“To buy something?”

“Sort of. To secure us a ship. Since the princess might be pursuing us, we decided to leave Lesdea territory by ship instead of on land.”

“Neat! A boat trip always feels like you’re moving on to the next map! But why negotiate?”

“Most ships traveling along the coast are merchant ships…so they do not take passengers beyond their crew. They will demand a fee equivalent to what they would have earned from the cargo space we will take up. So we need to negotiate a fee for five…no, seven people.”

That correction pleased and relieved Naoki since it meant she was counting Lyla and Dorothea as part of the party.

He also understood their situation now.

You couldn’t just hitch a ride on a ship in this world.

There must not have been any regular passenger ships.

The transportation situation may have been similar to the Age of Exploration in his original world.

“Then we really should put off my shopping until later. That sounds tricky.”

But Mila shook her head.

“The companies that own the ships will all be loading and unloading cargo right now, so they would turn us away even if we did show up. It would be best if we spent some time shopping first.”

“Hm, is that so? Then where should we go?”
Naoki pondered that question for a while.

Wandering around like they were on a date sounded fun, but then inspiration struck.

“I know! How much do the cheapest inns in the city cost?”
“Inns? If you aren’t getting anything to eat, probably 4 or 5 coppers.”

Mila looked confused but still answered his question.

“Yes, I have enough! Let’s go.”

 

The inns near the port were meant for the foreign sailors who needed a place to sleep while on land, so this one was much simpler than the one Naoki’s party was staying at.

It looked less like an undecorated inn and more like a dilapidated hut. The room was small and only had a bed and some shelves. There wasn’t even a candlestick.

But a sailor who only got something to drink and slept the night away wouldn’t need one anyway.

Fortunately, it was a lot less dirty than he had expected.

“I see. The place definitely has some cheap inn vibes, but it does have the bare minimum.”

“I’m confused, Hero. We already have an inn, so what is the point of this?”

Mila asked what felt like an obvious question to her.

“Heh heh. This is the point of it.”

“Nh!?”
He grabbed her arm and lifted her long skirt, revealing white panties with a frill of black lace on the front.

“H-Hero!? This is so sudden…ah!”

She grew flustered when he stuck his nose against her crotch and sniffed the powerful female scent there.

But Naoki kept going, licking the crotch of her panties.

“Wait, Hero. These walls are thin…people will hear- ah!”

“Then you’d better try to stay quiet.”

He licked up along the slit faintly visible through the fabric and a tremor ran through her thighs.

“Ahh…”

“Nhh.”

He searched out her clitoris through her underwear and focused his attention there.

Her hips finally gave out and she sat weakly down on the bed.

“Wh-why do it here? We can do it…as much as you want back…at the inn…nh.”

“We wouldn’t be alone there. And this is way hotter because it feels like bringing a girl to a love hotel.”

“What is a love hotel?”
The unfamiliar term puzzled her, but his tongue worked even harder and her panties gradually grew transparent before his eyes.

He could tell that wasn’t just his saliva’s doing.

Mila was suppressing her voice, but she was definitely aroused.

(She looks so cute trying to hide it like that.)
His penis was already swollen to the bursting point, but he chose to take his time teasing her a little longer. He licked at the very top of her inner thighs to get her to spread her legs.

“In my original world, there were inns that rented rooms just for having sex. I’d always dreamed of bringing someone to one, but it never happened. So I thought I would recreate it here as best I could.”

“Ahh, ahh…”

Mila couldn’t respond even though she heard his explanation just fine.

Maybe it was the unexpected sex, maybe it was needing to keep her voice down, and maybe it was both, but she was trembling with arousal and had already had a few light climaxes.

Eventually, she had her legs spread to 180 degrees while seated on the bed.

She put up no resistance while propping up her upper body with her arms behind her and accepted the pleasure Naoki was giving her.

When he moved behind her and embraced her, her cheeks flushed and she asked a question.

“Why me? You have so many other beautiful women to choose from.”

“What, you don’t want to do this?”
He viewed her face in profile and snuck a hand inside her panties.

He used his fingers to provide an even stronger stimulation to her slit and clit that were so sensitive after the licking.

“Ahh…I didn’t say that.”

“I had wanted some alone time with you for a while now. After all, you were my first servant.”

“Nhhh.”

She shut her eyes in embarrassment as the sticky cause of her embarrassment soaked her underwear.

“We tried back at the castle, but we were interrupted. This seemed like a good opportunity and I need to learn what you like if I’m going to be your master.”

He showed off the tangle of sticky strings of love juices on his hand and she covered her mouth with a hand and blushed.

“Heh heh. Damn, you’re wet. Looks like I can add ‘getting fingered’ to your list of likes.”

“…”

She was too embarrassed to open her eyes, but when he moved his lips toward hers, she opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue to accept him. Her body jumped when she felt the softness of his own tongue.

Their kiss grew more passionate and they both began intentionally making as much noise as they could.

Mila was starting to get off on the lewdness of it all. Almost like showing off how horny she was would further arouse Naoki and then he would give her even more pleasure.

“Hero…I need it.”

Her pleading eyes were damp.

“Sure, I’m ready to go whenever. Choose whatever position you like.”

She hesitated for a moment but finally gave an embarrassed nod and got on all fours atop the bed.

“The dog girl wants it doggy style? Wanted to let your master see how your pussy devours his cock, huh?”
“Th-that’s not why…”

She grumbled a complaint, but when he rubbed his dick against her pussy, she gave in and pulled down her panties.

The glistening pink flesh was trembling with its desire for him.

And above that alluring sight, her black tail was wagging side to side in anticipation.

“I’m sorry. I should be the one pleasuring you.”

“Don’t worry about it. Let’s enjoy it together.”

He adjusted the angle of his penis and it slowly sank inside the source of her dripping nectar.

“Nh…nhhhh!!”

She clutched the pillow in both hands and clenched her teeth to suppress her voice during the pleasure of penetration.

She breathed heavily through her nose and her face grew bright red as she tried so desperately to resist.

“Oh, man, I can really reach deep inside in this position. Is that why you like it?”
The squeezing when he poked at her womb was all the answer he needed.

“Nhh! Nhh!! Nh❤ Nhhh❤"

“Is it so good you’ve gotta lift your hips like that? And you’re squeezing so damn tight.”

Her butt rose up with every thrust and she grinded it against his hips.

Having her do that felt good, but it also pleased him as a man.

But as a woman she was embarrassed and afraid he would think she was indecent.

She fully buried her face in the pillow.

(She’s so cute! But I’ve got to get a look at her embarrassed face!)

He blew on her dog ear, making her tremble and lift her head, then he invited her in for a kiss. She twisted her head around and stuck out her tongue in response.

He pressed against her back, wrapped his arms around her, and fondled her breasts while thrusting even harder.

“Ahn❤ Ahhhh❤”

Her mouth still didn’t say anything, but the rest of her eloquently described her sexual state of being.

“Make sure to squeeze hard enough that I can tell you came!”

“Ahh❤ Ahhh❤ Ah♥ Ahh❤”

Her only response was humming nasal moans between her heavy breathing.

And…

“Ahh, ahh, hh…Mila…”

The heat and pleasure of her fully melted pussy finally pushed Naoki to his limit.

“Hero…I…” She noticed and spoke with damp eyes. “I already came several times, so please cum whenever you are ready!”

Her female instincts wanted to receive everything he was offering.

She managed to get up, place her hands on the wall, and proper herself up on her knees with her legs spread.

Her sweaty butt and nectar-dripping pussy lips were fully exposed to Naoki as he began his last spurt.

The lewd display accelerated his approaching ejaculation.

He penetrated her sticky love flesh over and over, knocking on the destination of his seed deep inside her.

“Ugh…I’m cumming!!”

“Nhh❤ Nhhhhhhh❤ Nhhh❤❤❤❤❤”

Mila’s vagina squeezed in climax just as he ejaculated.

The throbbing of his penis and the squeezing of her vagina were in sync.

“Ahh…ahh!”

“Ahhh❤ Ah♥”

He pressed her against the wall while pumping his semen inside her and he held her there until their heavy breathing had subsided.

When he pulled out of her, a waterfall of milky fluid dripped down onto the bed.

But they could still feel the heat in each other’s skin.

She turned her feverish eyes his way.

“Hero, please continue❤”

“I’ll do it as many times as you want.”
He got to work removing her servant’s clothing.

Her undid the ribbon around her neck, unbuttoned her blouse one button at a time, opened the front of the blouse, removed her bra, and pulled the panties from around her knees.

(This is what she was hoping I would do, isn’t it?)
She didn’t move a finger and kept her eyes shut the entire time, but she wasn’t just letting him do as he pleased. Being stripped by him was adding to her arousal.

She was deriving pleasure from being stripped bare, both when he removed the bra strap from her shoulder and when he kissed her newly exposed nipple.

He started undoing the strap holding together the front of her skirt.

“This really does feel like we’re a couple at a love hotel. Thanks, Mila.”

“No, I do not deserve your thanks. It is my duty to serve you.”

She was now kneeling on the bed fully nude with her hands over her crotch and chest, but she blushed and moved her hands when he asked her to.

“You’re so beautiful. I want to see all of you.”

“Of course…”

Then they tangled tongues again.

“Ah♥ Ahn…ah, ahh❤”

She accepted his fingering while her tongue grew more aggressive.

The nectar would not stop flowing as he widened that hole and pushed even deeper.

“Okay, let’s do it here this time.”

After some more of that, Naoki lifted Mila from the bed and stood her up by the window.
“Eh? But people will see us.”

“No one’s outside at this time of day. And we’re on the second floor, so it should be fine.”

When he kissed her again, she stopped resisting.

The arousing effect of his power was in full effect now. The love hotel atmosphere was also getting to her, so she wanted to do something even lewder than normal. She ended up placing her hands on the window.

“Ahh…”

Aroused by how far she was falling, her tongue stuck out at his continued touch.

“I’ll do it doggy style again, okay?”
After seeing her breasts squished against the glass and the voiceless moan of pleasure on her face, he went on to cum inside her again and again.

 

The sun had risen high in the sky by the time they left the inn.

(Man, that felt good!)

Naoki glanced over at Mila walking next to him.

She of course had her clothes back on and didn’t look any different from normal.

But he knew none of that clothing had been on her just a bit earlier and her pussy was full of his cum below that skirt.

None of the other people out on the street could know, but…

(This is a side of love hotel sex I wasn’t aware of. It’s pretty nice.)

That slight sense of superiority put a grin on his face.

He hadn’t been able to buy a weapon, but he had managed to have love hotel sex.

He was extremely satisfied.

“…Wait! Do we still have time!?”

“Yes, this is the perfect time. And Company Street is close by, so we have time to grab some lunch on the way.”

He had been so happy about his long-held dream coming true that he had nearly forgotten about their errand, but levelheaded Mila had not.

“I’m glad you can switch gears so fast.”

After getting a bite to eat, they walked to an area known as Company Street.

Unlike the company stores in the more urban areas, the company buildings here were mostly large warehouse-like affairs.

They didn’t directly sell their products from here, so the buildings were plain and wooden boxes, barrels, and sacks were artlessly piled up around them.

However, every company’s sign bore a detailed design.

Mila explained that the merchants used the design of their sign to display their quality.

“That’s the Sle…dja Company. And this is the Mephnoa…Company?  Heh heh heh. I can read this!”

Awkwardly reading through the writing on the signs was a lot of fun.

Mila checked with several different companies trying to find a ship that matched their needs and Naoki grew more confident about the results of his studies and decided to take them more seriously in the future.

He knew Tianne would be delighted.

“Hero, are you tired? I am having trouble finding a ship with the right departure time and destination. I apologize this is taking so long.”

“I’m perfectly fine! You’re the one doing all the work.”

She was worried, so he waved to let her know he was fine. And he really wasn’t tired at all.

“From what I have heard, it sounds like this next company will have a ship we can use.”

“I wouldn’t know where to begin with negotiations, so I’ll leave that to you.”

What she had heard was correct and the next company they visited had a promising ship.

Mila began the fee negotiations with a shipowner who looked like he knew every trick in the book and she successfully signed a contract for them.

“Wow, Mila! That was incredible! Is there anything you can’t do!?”

“Please. I don’t know all that much about ships and I may have been able to get us a lower fee if I knew more.”

She tried to be modest, but the wagging tail behind her skirt showed how happy his words made her.

“So how much is this setting us back?”
“I already paid some of it up front, so we only need to pay this one gold coin before we depart.”

“Gold!?”
The shiny gold coin she handed him was a size bigger than the copper coins he had been given.

The coin featured an image of the princess smiling happily.

(So this is a Lesdean gold coin. Hm, I’m sure this must be worth a lot.)

But now that he knew what Marie was really like, the coin felt like some kind of joke.

Not that it mattered.

“Is this gold coin the last of our money by any chance?”

Seven people was a large group, but this was still more than Naoki had imagined.

“Not all of it, but…yes, this will use up most of it. We do have enough to last us until we arrive at the ship’s destination, so don’t worry about that.”

Did that mean they would have to find some more money after that?

That was a depressing thought, but he decided to instead rejoice at how much money that centipede had made them.

“Our next stop is apparently Filia’s hometown, so there might be something we can do there.”

“Oh? She said she has a sister, right?”

While they chatted on their way out of the company, Naoki started to hand the valuable coin back to Mila, but…

“Whoa!”

Someone bumped into him and he nearly dropped the coin, so he held it tight and ended up tumbling to the ground himself.

“Hero, are you alright!?”

“Ow, ow, ow, ow. Yeah, I’m fine. But more importantly, is that girl okay!?”

A shabby-looking girl had bumped into him. She looked two or three years younger than him and her small body was curled up on the ground.

“Sorry. I was so focused on talking I wasn’t watching where I was going.”

He tried to help her up, but she sprang to her feet on her own.

(Hm? An elf!?)

Long ears poked out from her tangled brown hair.

Noticing that elf trait was a mild surprise, but her dark eyes were a bigger one.

They were a beautiful dark blue, but they carried a shadow that seemed to reject the light of any and all emotion.

A moment later, she started to run off, but Mila caught her instead.

“You are bleeding. You scraped your knee, so you should wash that off.”

But the girl struggled and tried to escape.

“We are not mad, so you don’t need to struggle.”

The girl still tried to break free of Mila’s grasp.

And soon…

“Oh, what’s this I see? Did you capture her for us? I’d better thank you then.”

A woman calmy walked up from the direction the girl had come from.

“What the-? A-a pirate!?”
Naoki could hardly be blamed for blurting that out.

The woman’s appearance perfectly matched her crude tone of voice.

Fiery red hair fell down her back. She wore a sleeveless justacorps that left her upper arms bare.

Her wide-brimmed tricorne had gold trim and a decorative feather.

The lining of the coat and the feather were both a bright red that matched the beautiful color of her hair.

A saber hung from the sword belt around her hips and she wore a flintlock pistol in a black leather holster, so she matched Naoki’s vision of a pirate perfectly.

“Hey, there’s no need for insults. I follow all the rules…in this kingdom’s waters anyway. Mostly because I’m waiting for the heat to die down after I got a little carried away back at home, but still.”

The pirate’s lips curled up in a daring grin.

When she looked him straight in the eye, Naoki nervously looked away.

Her clothing made her stand out in a crowd, but her impressive figure also left him unsure where to look.

Her off-the-shoulder blouse was tightly bound by crisscrossing straps, but her breasts were too powerful and her cleavage bulged out. The sexy lines of her thighs showed through her tightly-fitting culotte pants.

(Good god she’s hot.)

The dangerous pirate look should have been terrifying, but it came off as more alluring and sexy with her. He guessed that was due to the collarbones glimpsed through her high-collared coat, the slender shoulders and deep armpits left bare by her detached sleeves, and the other feminine parts she made no attempt to hide.

“Maybe it was fate that brought us together, so I might as well introduce myself. The name’s Almera Almiralda, captain of the Lady Shark. Nice to meet you…boy.”

The pirate named Almera greeted him with a flick of her hat’s brim.

“This girl is my slave. I was chasing her down after she ran away. Back to the ship now, Limly!”

The girl cowered, but finally broke free of Mila’s grasp and trudged over to Almera with her head lowered.

“H-hey, wait a second! She’s just a kid and you’re calling her a slave!?”
“Hero, age has nothing to do with it. If that woman has a purchase contract, then the girl is her slave.”

“How can you say that, Mila!? That’s so…”

Mila only sounded so calm because she was simply explaining the situation to him, but he still snapped back at her.

But once he thought about it, this wasn’t the world he knew. Slavery could be a thing here for all he knew.

“But…that’s so depressing!”

“I agree, but…”

Mila wasn’t sure what to make of his unexpectedly strong reaction. She did agree with his assessment, but…

“But only a slave’s owner has the right to free them. There is nothing we can do.”

All they could do was watch the girl trudge away.

“Her owner…that’s it!”

Naoki ran over to Almera and opened his clenched fist.

“Hey! I want to buy that girl with this!”

Almera’s eyes widened when she saw what lay in his palm.

“You would pay a gold for one slave child? A-are you insane?”
“Hero! You mustn’t!”

Panicking, Mila tried to stop him.

Of course she did. They needed that money to board their ship and they needed money for the everyday necessities tomorrow as well.

This would waste everyone’s efforts during their journey, Natalia’s kindness in letting them stay at her inn for free, and Mila’s work visiting so many companies and negotiating a deal for them.

But…but still!
“I know, Mila. But…there were no slaves in my world.”

“No…slaves?” repeated Mila in disbelief, so he nodded.

“Since the girl ran away, she must not like her current situation, right? I can’t just ignore this!”

They whispered back and forth and he found himself more invested in this than he had thought.

Almera interrupted after overhearing his last line.

“Ha ha ha! She’s not really trying to run away. She does slip away at the ports when I’m not looking, but she always waits somewhere where I’ll find her. That isn’t running away. It’s a game.”

“That doesn’t mean-”

He tried to argue more, but Almera stopped him.

“But if you are willing to buy her for a gold, I’m not going to talk you out of it. Although your friend there makes it sound like you can’t afford to spend that money.”

“Uh…”

He grew hesitant when she agreed a little too easily.

“I do not mind,” said Mila out of nowhere. “Use the money.”

“Eh? Are you sure!?”
She answered his surprise with a gentle look.

“I love everything you tell me about the world you came from.”

She lowered her voice so Almera couldn’t hear, but it still carried a firm will. That was unusual for someone so reserved.

“It has love hotels and it has no slaves. I never would have imagined anything like it, so learning about your world opens my eyes to new possibilities. It also builds my curiosity about you as someone who lived in that world…so please do what you feel you must here. Show me what this new path leads to…and teach me more about you.”

“Th-thanks, Mila! I owe you bigtime!” he whispered. “Problem solved,” he said louder, holding the gold coin out again. This time, Almera flinched. She must not have expected Mila to grant her permission.

But like a true pirate, she recovered quickly and roared with laughter.

“Ahhh ha ha. I don’t know what that was about, but it sounds like you aren’t just some ignorant boy. …Fine, I’ll sell her to you. But only after you answer one question.”

“What’s that?”

“Are you one of those people?”

“N-no!!”

She was clearly asking if he was a pedophile, so he immediately denied it.

His strike zone was actually very broad, but this wasn’t about that.

He was entirely serious about this!
“I haven’t taught her any of those skills, so if that’s what you’re looking for, you’ll be disappointed.”

“I assure you I’m not looking for that!”

“So you really are buying her just because you feel sorry for her and want to help her? You must be an absurdly caring person. Not that it matters to me.”

Almera looked exasperated and worked her mind for a bit before sighing.

“Fine. This is a good deal for me, so I’m in. Follow me to my ship!”

She turned around to lead the way.

“H-hey! Can’t we do it here?”

“No, we can’t. Slaves are products and products require certain procedures. Without writing up a contract, we could end up arguing over the terms of the deal later on. You wouldn’t want that, would you?”

“…”

He looked to Mila to see if that was true and she silently nodded.

Apparently the pirate was telling the truth.

(Her ship will be a pirate ship, won’t it?)

That was a frightening thought, but also an exciting one.

Either way, he needed to board the ship if he was to save this slave girl named Limly.

And based on this conversation, Almera didn’t seem like a bad person, even if she was a pirate.

“Then lead the way, captain.”

After making up his mind, Naoki followed the pirate to the port with Mila by his side.

 

They had to board a small boat at the wharf to reach Almera’s pirate ship that was anchored out at sea.

When the boat came up alongside the ship, a rope ladder was tossed down and they climbed that to the deck.

“Welcome back, captain!”

“Whew! I see you’ve got a boy with you. Wasn’t expecting a customer this early in the day.”

The ship had an all-female crew, but as pirates, they all spoke as roughly as Almera and mostly had big, rugged builds.

Everywhere he looked, he saw sunbaked shoulders, arms, cleavages, and thighs.

(Wow, they’re all so big and muscular. Not to mention beautiful.)

Naoki’s lewd eyes were already shining.

With this many sexy pirates around, he was afraid he would forget why he was here.

While most of the women were dressed like sailors as you would expect of pirates, some of them were dressed more fancily.

They wore nice dresses, albeit not as nice as the ones Sidica, Marie, and the other women in Rechebourg’s royal palace had worn. They also had their hair done up and wore makeup, which felt out of place on a pirate ship.

Almera noticed Naoki’s puzzled look and provided an introduction.
“Welcome to the Lady Shark. At each port of call, we do business as a brothel ship.”

“A brothel ship?”

Did that mean they were seafaring sex workers?

That explained the women dressed up so nice.

“Heh heh. You can come visit us when you’re a little older, boy. You’ve never even slept with a woman, have you?”

“Eh!? Well, um…”

She was way off the mark, but he was hesitant to tell the truth here.

When he mumbled instead of answering, the women roared with laughter.

“What’s he doing here if not for that!?”
“You mean the captain didn’t invite him here to take his cherry!?”
“Then how about coming to me for your first time? You’re just my type and there’s so much I could teach you!”

The pirates decided he was a virgin and made fun of him for it.

But he could tell they only meant it as good-natured teasing and they quieted down as soon as Almera told them to.

“Come with me to my quarters and we can draw up that contract.”

She showed him to a small but well-decorated cabin.

He wasn’t a fan of the décor, but he supposed it was piratey: a wall decoration made of jangling animal bones, a taxidermy baby monkey, a compass made of glossy ebony, etc.

A large desk sat in the center of the room and took up most of the space. It had a glass panel on top with a sea chart the same size as the desk held below it.

The hammock over by the window was the only thing suggesting this was where she slept too.

“Now, then.”

Almera sat behind the desk, unfurled a piece of parchment, pulled a quill out of an inkwell made from a skull, and wrote out their agreement in small, flowing writing.

“There, all done. Sign here and Limly is yours, boy.”

She handed the quill to Naoki across the desk from her.

“You keep calling me boy, but I do have a name. It’s Naoki.”

“Then hurry up and sign that name. Assuming you do know how to write.”

“Allow me to-”

“I’m fine, Mila. I can do this.”

He hadn’t expected to find a chance to show off the results of his lessons with Tianne so soon.

That, combined with wanting to prove Almera wrong for treating him like a child, led him to stop Mila and send the quill’s tip racing across the bottom of the contract.

He correctly wrote out he name “Naoki Oikawa” in this world’s writing.

(My name looks pretty cool like this! Studying really pays off sometimes.)

He praised himself for the quality of his signature and handed the contract back to Almera.

The pirate waved her hand to remind him she needed more than that.

“My payment.”
“Yes, of course.”

That money was important, so his conviction wavered at the final moment. But he told himself that saving this girl from a life of slavery was more important and handed her the gold coin.

“And now we have a deal,” she said, making sure to check both sides of the coin.

(Phew, that was nerve-wracking. I never imagined I’d be making back-to-back contracts with succubi and then a pirate.)

But now he could relax.

He turned toward Limly with a smile.

“Let’s leave this ship together!”

But Almera interrupted, her voice low.

“That’s not happening. You aren’t leaving this ship.”

“Huh?” he gasped, surprised by this sudden change. “But I signed the contract!”

The pirate’s lips curled into a smile.

“That you did. But that contract was for you, boy. You just signed on as this ship’s only male prostitute!”

“I-I what!?”

“Imagine my surprise when I write up an obvious joke contract and you go ahead and sign it! But I’m not going to turn down a good deal. You signed on, so let’s do this.”

“You tricked me!”

“I did nothing of the sort. I gave you a contract with the terms written in plain language…and you signed it. Where’s the trick?”

She was right and he had no argument.

“Gh…”

“A brothel ship’s clientele is generally the port guards, but Lesdea’s soldiers are all women. Not as many of them are interested, so business has been poor. But we can make up for that by selling your services to as many interested women as we can find. Starting tonight.”

He was loving this plan already!

(No, wait! I can’t do that!)

If he did that, he couldn’t save Limly or continue his quest to defeat the Demon Lord!
He suppressed the beginnings of a smile.

“Hero, let me handle this!” whispered Mila behind him.

She was fully powered up after their love hotel sex earlier, so she could easily fight off all of these pirates.

But he did not ask that of her.

He instead stopped her and stared directly at Almera.

“Fine. If that will help out some people in need, then you can call me Mr. Prostitute.”

“Are you sure you understand what that job entails?”
Almera had set him up, but she was still taken aback by how readily he accepted.

“Hero!?” whispered Mila, unable to figure out what he was doing here.

“We’re still trying to keep a low profile to avoid the princess, remember?” he whispered back. “We can’t cause a scene here, so you leave and let me handle this. It doesn’t look like they want to harm me, so I just have to stick with it long enough to take control with my Hero’s power.”

“If you say so…”

“Tell the others I’ll be back soon.”

Once Mila had left, Naoki turned his eyes toward Almera’s large chest.

It was time to teach her the power of the Hero Cum that had even won over a pair of succubi.

(I can’t wait to do it with a pirate!)

Of course, this was only so he could escape and rescue the slave girl.

Really. Honest.

 

The sea was dyed red as the sun sank below the horizon.

A voice shouted like it was trying to reach that shimmering heat.

“H-h-hey! This wasn’t part of the deal! Hey!”

Naoki was chained to the pirate ship’s main mast.

On Almera’s orders, the pirates had bound him there and left him for several hours now.

The pirates went about their work like he wasn’t there, but none of them were around now that the sun was setting.

(Is this how they treat male prostitutes!?)

So much for his plans to win over Almera. He was going to die of thirst out here!

“Hey, is anyone there!?”
He squirmed and shouted as much as he could manage.

Someone held a bowl of water out for him.

“Drink this.”

It was Limly.

She stretched up a bit to lift the bowl to his mouth.

He drank it down and let out a refreshed sigh.

“Has water always tasted this good? Did you bring that just for me? Thanks.”

“I was told to,” she said.

Told to by Almera?

“You’re still the one who brought it to me, so I’m thankful all the same.”

The slave girl did not respond. She simply stared up at him.

He realized this was his first time actually conversing with her.

“Oh, I guess I never introduced myself to you. You can call me Naoki.” He smiled at her. “I swear to you I’ll rescue you from this place!”

“…”

She still said nothing.

He had to admit he couldn’t sound very convincing while chained to the mast like this.

She didn’t know about the Hero’s power and he doubted an explanation would be enough for her to be willing to attempt an escape using the power of his semen.

He tried to figure out what to say and then recalled what Almera had said.

“Limly…you do want to escape from here, don’t you?”
He wasn’t going to take Almera at her word when she claimed Limly would wait to be caught after running off, but he was curious enough to ask.

“I don’t know,” she whispered.

“What don’t you know?”
He couldn’t quite identify the look on her face.

“Almera says I don’t know how to run away.”

The pirate had called it a game, hadn’t she?

But Naoki thought she was being too strict there.

“Hmm, if you think you were running away, then I don’t think she has any right to say you weren’t.”

“She’s weird about that.” Limly offered this up without prompting. But instead of opening up to him, it was more like the words she had kept bottled up were breaking free of their own accord. “She keeps telling me to run away if I can and the guards always leave enough of an opening that getting away is easy…but she always chases after me once I get on land.”

“She lets you escape and then captures you again right away?”
That did sound weird.

“I can’t tell what she’s thinking…and she did trick me like some kind of con artist.”

But none of that said whether or not Limly wanted to run away.

“Do you want to stay on this ship?”

If she did, then Naoki was sticking his nose where it didn’t belong.

He didn’t want to hear that after getting his party’s money taken and ending up in this predicament.

“I don’t know. But…”

“But?”

“…”

The girl mumbled something, but she was drowned out by some unnecessarily loud laughter.
“Ahhhh ha ha! Glad to see you two are hitting it off already! But it’s grownup time now, so make yourself scarce, Limly.”

It was Almera.

Limly swallowed whatever she had been saying and scampered away.

After making sure she was gone, the pirate turned back toward Naoki.

“I know we kept you waiting, but don’t hold it against us. We were too busy advertising.”

“Advertising?”

“Advertising you, of course. I had my crew running all around the port telling all the soldiers we’ve finally got boy for them.”

“All around the port?”

Naoki gulped.

“Heh heh. You’ve got a busy night ahead of you. But first…”

She stepped right in front of him where he was tied to the mast.

The sun happened to fully set at precisely that moment.

The day’s last rays of light shined on them, announcing the time of secrets was upon them.

The pirate’s moonlit silhouette kneeled in front of him.

“Ugh,” he groaned at the surprising femininity of the hand on his crotch.

“I make a point of avoiding romantic relationships. But it’s the captain’s duty to teach the Lady Shark’s first male prostitute how to do his job, don’t you think?”
She slipped her fingertips into his pants.

“Oh, you’re already hard. I thought for sure you were just a boy, but this size says otherwise. This might actually be fun.”

She seductively licked her lips and wrapped her fingers around his dick with real passion now.

“Kh…”
He was unable to move and entirely at her mercy.

But her handjob was so good he didn’t need to move.

Instead of just stroking it, she moved each finger like they each had a mind of their own, tickling every last part of his erection.

“I’ll show you such a good time you wouldn’t dream of running away.”
She blew a hot breath on the head, which made him realize she had pulled his pants down at some point.

She breathed an astonished gasp at the size of the cock standing erect before her eyes.

“Heh heh. I’m afraid I’ll forget this is only a lesson.”

She ran her hot tongue up its full length.

“Now melt inside my mouth.”

Once at the tip, she took the tip into her mouth and ran her tightened lips up and down just the head.

She also stuck her tongue out to lick along the bottom of the head.

(Ugh…what a hot blowjob!)

Lyla and Dorothea’s technique had been incredible, but Almera’s conveyed so much more passion. She continued moving her head back and forth, her tightened lips swallowing a bit more each time, until she had finally swallowed the full length.

Then she let inch after inch emerge from her lips, slurping up the precum as she went.

“Phew. How was that? Better than jerking off, isn’t it?”

He hated that she was still treating him like a child, but he couldn’t deny her talent for oral sex.

“Y-yeah…”
“That’s a good boy. If you want to cum, feel free to shoot your load in my mouth.”

She said that because she knew it would turn him on.

Kneeling in front of his cock, she bent her entire body forward to slide the full length of his cock down her throat all at once. Then she got to work, showing him that you could use your full body giving a blowjob.

She had told him he could cum if he wanted, but she clearly wanted it to be on her terms.

She paused to strip his upper body, ran her hands along his chest, and bit his nipples.

She pulled her own clothing down tantalizingly slowly until her breasts spilled out and proved they were firm enough to defy gravity despite their size. Her erect nipples pointed somewhat upwards toward the moon in the sky. She pressed her tits against his chest and slid their soft sensation down his body.

Once his cock had been slotted into place between them, she swallowed it once more.

“Uhhh…”

He didn’t know what had led her to become a pirate, but more powerful than her skill with her hand and tongue was the greedy desire to make him cum. Her deepthroating had him explode in her mouth before long.

“Ahh…boy, your cum is so hot…and there’s so much of it.”

She let her tongue swim through the semen filling her mouth before she finally swallowed it all.

“That really helped fire me up. Heh heh.”

“I-it was…incredible.”

“Now it’s time I taught you how to sleep with a woman.”

She placed her arms around his neck and embraced him in a dramatic way.

He thought she was going to kiss him, but she instead undid the chain holding him to the mast.

“Follow me.”

She took him to the very edge of the stern and jumped into the ocean with him.

“Ahhhhhhhhh!”

He had only expected a romantic viewing of the ocean night, so this caught him completely by surprise.

“Gurgle…wh-wh-what…w-was that for!?”

“I’m teaching you how to sleep with a woman, remember?”
He was desperately trying to keep his head above water, but once she smoothly surfaced, she let him hold onto her for support.

“Heh heh. Remember this. This is how hard you need to hold a woman in your arms. Hold her this tight and the center of her body will start to burn with passion.”

(Really!? That’s good to know. If only I weren’t drowning!)

He held her tight while she skillfully swam over to the edge of the ship.

She held the anchor chain in one hand and kissed Naoki.

“Nh❤”

This kiss was gentle and even maternal, a complete change from the previous blowjob.

That helped him clam down. Only then did he realize her body felt so much closer than anyone’s ever had.

In the calm of their kiss, he could feel her heartbeat through her breasts.

This reminded him of a long-forgotten peace.

But she was quick to remind him there was a wild side to their bodies. She began giving him a handjob in the water.

He also searched out that spot between her legs while she kicked at the water.

(This is a lot different underwater.)

He was calm enough to make observations like that now.

While floating, he had to hold her tight to reach her pussy.

And her thick culottes had absorbed a lot of water, requiring even more force to find the sex organ below.

“Ahn❤ Y-yes, just like that❤ Don’t be shy.”

She twisted her body enough to splash some water on him.

This wasn’t enough for her, so she undid her belt and pulled her culottes down just enough for him to touch her directly. He could feel the stickiness of her love juices even in the water.

Once he had his bearings down there, he pushed a finger inside her, making her lips tremble while a sexual moan left them.

“Ahhhhn❤ Why does a boy like you…know how to use his fingers like that…nhh❤ Y-yes…deeper❤ Make my pussy melt.”

She wrapped both arms around the anchor chain for support and wrapped her legs around him.

“Put it in me❤”

(C-Can I manage that?)

He had trouble maneuvering himself into position in the waves, but he gradually figured it out.

Almera was supporting him, so as long as he didn’t let his fear take over, he could move fairly freely.

He slowly leaned his center of gravity back to move his hips toward hers.

Once the tip touched her slit, she helped out.

She squeezed with her legs to pull him toward her.

“Ah…ahh…your cock is…entering me♥”

Her vagina felt blazing hot compared to the ocean.

(I did it with Tianne in a river that one time.)

But he felt so much closer to Almera since it was too deep for their feet to reach the bottom.

With Tianne, they had only been submerged in water, not floating in it. The rocking of the waves also made a difference.

He began moving his hips in time with the waves lifting his body.

Those movements grew into vigorous thrusts that elicited moans of pleasure from Almera.

“Ahn❤ Ahh…you are a fast learner. Hard to believe this is your first time. Ahh…ahn…I didn’t expect to enjoy it quite this much❤”

“I’ve never…experienced anything like this either.”

The union of their bodies felt so much more significant while floating freely in the ocean.

For Almera, his penis anchored her in place. For Naoki, her pussy anchored him in place.

Finally, the semen flowed out into the water along with some air bubbles, adding a touch of milkiness to the sea.

 

Once back up on the deck, the dripping pirate took Naoki’s arm and showed him to her quarters.

She stripped off her clothing one article at a time on the way across her room.

Once her belt, coat, boots, culottes, and everything else were strewn across the floor, she threw her naked body into the hammock, spread her legs wide, and showed him her fiery pussy.

“Now warm me with that hot cock of yours.”

After stripping off his own soaked clothing, Naoki went for the one thing that could warm his chilled body.

Following the lesson she had taught him during their ocean sex, he held her so tight the hammock’s holes spread wide and he sucked on her large breasts. He rolled her nipple in his mouth, bit it like he wanted to tear it off, pushed it into the soft mound, twisted it, and pulled it back out.

“Ahhn…ahn…ahh❤ I may have underestimated you, boy. I haven’t had it this rough in a while.”

Almera didn’t know about the arousing effect of the Hero’s semen, so she couldn’t believe how much she was enjoying it. The technique he had built up through his harem lifestyle didn’t hurt either.

“Then how about you start calling me by my name instead of ‘boy’?”
He flipped her onto her stomach in the hammock and held her from behind.

“Ahhn❤”

She clung to the hammock net and arched her back.

Her breasts were pressed tightly against the net and he grabbed them through the bottom of the hammock to gently but intensely grope them.

“Ah, ahh…I can’t wait any longer❤ I need it inside me♥”

Her face had fully melted now, so he grabbed her chin, turned her head around, and sucked at her lips.

“Nh❤ Nhh❤”

(This is working out well. But I’m only just getting started.)

He hadn’t expected to be tied to the mast or thrown in the ocean, but it had worked out all right in the end.

He would win over Almera and then leave with Limly.

He rubbed his dick up and down her vulva to tease her.

The frustration of not getting what she wanted grew until her clitoris rubbed against the hammock and she screamed.

“Ahh…ahhn…don’t tease me…h-hurry…nhh…ahh❤”

Her crotch had become a sticky crucible of nectar.

Her pleas fell on deaf ears and he only pumped his finger in and out of the shallow part of her vagina to tease her some more.

(While I’m at it…)

If he was going to tease her, he figured he might as well ask something he had wondered about.

“Limly tells me you’ve been playing a cruel prank on her.”

“A cruel prank? You must have misunder- ahn♥”

“Oh, did you not tell her to run away if she can when you know perfectly well she can’t?”

He punctuated his question by pushing his finger deeper inside her.

“Ahhhhhn❤ N-no, that isn’t what- ah, ahhhh❤”

“Then what is it? You’ll have to live without my cock until you answer me.”

“…”

Almera appeared conflicted. She endured the digital pleasure inside her vagina and clenched her teeth to avoid answering.

(Why’s she being so stubborn about this?)
But once he started poking at her vulva with his penis, she finally gave in.

“Ah, ahhn❤ You’ll put it in me…if I tell you?”
“I will. You weren’t actually being cruel, were you?”

He made a guess based on a hunch.

“Correct,” she confirmed. “It isn’t like that at all.”

He put just the tip inside her to get her to say more.

“Ah, ahh…there it is♥”

“Tell me your real reason. Then I’ll give you the pleasure you crave.”

He moved gently back and forth with just the tip.

He provided just enough stimulation to make her want more.

“Ahh❤ Ahn❤ Go deeper, I beg you♥”

She moved her hips in order to get his cock deeper inside her, but he avoided that using the bounciness of the hammock.

“Okay! Okay, I-I’ll tell you♥ I was…a slave too.”

“Eh!?”

He hadn’t expected that answer.

“I said I make a point of avoiding romantic relationships, remember? A man once tricked me…and sold me off as a slave.”

The red hair flowing down her back and her white shoulders were trembling.

“But I escaped that fate. I started an uprising and took control of the slave ship. Ever since, I’ve lived as a pirate who only attacks slave ships.”

“You mean…to rescue the slaves!?”
“Any of the women I rescue are free to join me if they want. Every member of the Lady Shark’s crew is a former slave.”

“Then why are you still keeping Limly as a slave!? That doesn’t make any sense!”

“I want her to free herself. She’s still a child, she doesn’t know where her home is, and she doesn’t know if her parents are even still alive. So…she needs to grow up on her own.”

“But…”

Wasn’t Almera just taking the role of her parents there?
As cruel as it looked, she really just wanted the girl to grow.

“But if that’s what you want…why not be kind to her?”

“She would grow attached to me if I did. It’s better for her in the long run if she hates me.”

That explained it!

(She isn’t a villain. Quite the opposite really!)

But wait. This sounded wonderful, but he couldn’t let her trick him again.

“Then why did you trick me into this?”
She laughed out loud.

“That’s something else entirely. Attacking slave ships isn’t exactly lucrative work. We can’t afford to eat if we don’t earn some money as a brothel ship. Besides, I honestly didn’t expect you to sign the contract.”

“Gh…”

He had his answers, so now it was time to complete his escape.

He shoved his dick deep inside her like he was frustrated she had outtalked him.

“Ahhn❤ Wow…you are going to be popular, boy! Ahh, ahhn❤”

“I said to use my name, remember?”

“I can’t! Ahhn❤ If I use your name, it feels too much like being in a relationship…ah❤ Y-yes, there❤”

He thrusted so hard he feared the hammock was going to break and she moved her hips to match his rhythm.

“Then what if I’m just your boytoy? You don’t want the customers to be the only one to get this cock, do you?”
“M-my boy…toy? Y-yes, that could work.”

She moaned sweetly and wrinkled her brow.

“And I’d find being the captain’s favorite boytoy a lot more romantic than just being a prostitute.”

Being deceived in the past had left her wary, but that was why she sought romance in sex.

Thinking back, that explained the bold passion of the blowjob at the mast and the sex in the ocean.

(I told Lyla and Dorothea that every woman’s pussy is different, but it’s more than that.)

Every woman had lived a different life and sought different things in sex.

Almera had told him to hold her tight.

She had said that was what women wanted.

But wasn’t it just that she wanted to be held tight?

He propped her up and adjusted their positions so they were facing each other.

“I’ll show you what real love feels like.”

He got on top of her and wrapped the hammock around them to hold them together even tighter. His cock pushed deeper and deeper inside her.

She went wild thanks to the pleasure of his Hero cock and the satisfaction of having the desire hidden deep inside her fulfilled.

“Hh, ahhn❤ Ah, ahh…wow…ahhh❤ I-I’ve never…ahhhn, had it this good before❤ Yes…yes…more, harder…ahh, ahn♥ Naoki! Naokiii!”

She cast off the mask of the rough pirate and let herself simply be a woman while her cutely squeezing vagina was penetrated hard and deep.

Similar to doing it in the water, the unsteady hammock allowed him to spin around and freely change angles once he got used to it.

“Ahh❤ What is this? I-I feel it building…deep inside me…ahhhh❤❤”

She squirted onto the floor.

She trembled against his body in an apparent climax.

But he only sped up his hips.

He pushed up her pleasure again while she was already in the heights of orgasm, sending even greater ecstasy into her.

“Ahhh❤❤❤❤❤ Ah, ahh…I can’t stop it. I can’t, can’t, can’t! I’m cumming, ahhhhn, I’m cumming, cumming, cumming! Ahh, Naoki! Naoki…I’m cumming, ahhh, I’m cumming, I’m cumming, I’m cumming, cumming, cumming, cummiiiiiiiiiiiiiing❤❤❤❤❤”

She reached another climax while his hot juices shot out to fill her womb.

She bounced wildly within the confines of the hammock tangled around them.

Naoki held her in his arms, feeling her breaths on him and enjoying the warmth of her vagina.

And once he did try to separate from her, he discovered the hammock was so tangled he couldn’t get out.

(Oh, no. I was so focused on fucking, I didn’t consider how we would get out of this.)

“Hey, Almera. Almera?”

He tried to ask for help, but her eyes were happily closed and she wasn’t answering.

She must have passed out.

He tried to struggle on his own until the tangled hammock suddenly spun around and tossed him out into the air.

“Ow!”

He landed on the floor, hitting his butt hard. But at least he was out.

“That was way too close. Failing to escape because I got myself tangled in a hammock would just be embarrassing.”

Miraculously, Almera remained wrapped in the hammock, breathing calmly in sleep.

She looked at peace.

He was certain she didn’t just look it.

Having been a slave gave her some of the same baggage as Limly. But having fought and escaped alive might mean her baggage was heavier and more complex.

It looked like sex with her “boytoy” had helped her forget about that weight for the time being.

Sleeping with someone and getting to know them had a way of making you care about them.

(Hm, what should I do now?)

This was his perfect chance to escape with Limly, but it felt wrong to leave Almera like that.

Then someone knocked on the door to the captain’s quarters.

“Captain! It’s almost time! A crowd of customers – all soldiers from the port – have shown up and they’re demanding we send out the boy! If we make them wait any longer, this could get ugly!”

(A crowd of soldiers!?)
His twitched in response to that.

He had no obligation to help the brothel ship’s business since they had tricked him into that contract…but that wasn’t the customers’ fault.

Could he really disappoint so many women who just wanted a good time?

He told himself he could not.

“I might as well, right?”

He would work for this night only and leave in the morning.

 

Three days passed.

“That idiot disappears on us and this is what he’s been up to!?”
Filia and the others had trusted Naoki and decided to wait a while longer, but Llusse had insisted on doing some recon. When the party arrived at the wharf, they saw a long, snaking line of female soldiers waiting for their turn on the brothel ship. And this was in the middle of the day.

They were all chatting about how great the ship’s new boy was.

“First he fucks everyone in the castle and now this!? What happened to keeping a low profile!? He couldn’t be more conspicuous if he tried!”

“I am so sorry for letting this happen while I was with him.”
“Don’t apologize, Mila. This is all his fault! He really will fuck anything that moves, won’t he? Fine, we’ll just have to board that ship and steal him away!”

“That does seem to be the only option,” reluctantly agreed Filia. “But these are pirates. And we need to keep a low profile like you said, so what’s the best play here?”

That was a difficult decision for the party leader, so she tried to find a clever idea.

“I’ve got a great plan,” said Llusse. “Hey, you two!”

“What now?” answered a disinterested Lyla.

She and Dorothea were both disguised in travel gear commonly worn by adventurers.

That was meant to hide that they were demons.

“You’re just using your succubus magic to make your usual clothes look like that, right?”

“Yep. It’s illusion magic.”

“Then you can cast the same magic on us, right?”

“I can…but what good would that be?”

Lyla sounded annoyed at the prospect of having to do that.

“We disguise ourselves as traveling adventurers here to purchase some time with a man. Once we’re on the ship, we snatch Naoki and escape.”

“Please refer to him by his proper titles of ‘master’ or ‘Hero’.”

“Oh, shut up! I’ve known him for longer than you and he’s not my master!”

“Now, now, Llusse. Let’s not argue right now.”

Those two had been arguing the entire way here, so Tianne intervened and calmed them down for now.

“Tianne and Mila, you two stay here. I promise you we’ll return with him.”

“Okay, then Llusse and I will be going in. Lyla too of course.”

Filia tried to end it there, but Lyla interrupted.

“Dorothea is coming too. If I’m going, she’s going.”

“That isn’t your decision! I still haven’t accepted you as part of the party, in case you’d forgotten.”

“I never asked to be part of your party.”

“Give it a rest, you two! We have bigger problems right now!”

Filia had run out of patience with the bickering succubus and elf.

In the end, Lyla, Dorothea, Filia, and Llusse boarded the ferry to the pirate ship. They had used all the money they had left to bribe the pirate in charge of managing the line to move them up to the front.

They were patted down for weapons, but the camouflage magic hid those as well and they were allowed on the ferry.

“What if it comes down to a fight?”

“We don’t stand a chance if they surround us as a group, so I would like to avoid that if at all possible. But we might be able to win if he can power us up first. So that’s our top priority.”

Filia and Llusse whispered to each other and Lyla interrupted again.

“We’re opposed to that barbaric violence stuff.”

“We were never counting on your help there.”

“Hmph!”

Llusse and Lyla turned away from each other.

“Oh, god.”

Filia couldn’t help but notice how similar those two were.

Once they boarded the pirate ship, they assessed the pirates up on the deck.

“They look pretty strong.”

“They do. But they aren’t suspicious of our disguises, so we might not have to fight them.”

But just then…

“Attention, pirates❤ You’re under attack❤” Lyla yelled at the top of her lungs with a beaming smile on her face. “These two ruffians are here to steal your man away from you♥ Yes, these two right here!”

Llusse and Filia’s disguises vanished in a puff of smoke and the pirates all glared over at them.

“They’ve got weapons!”

“Wait!?”

Llusse looked over in disbelief to see Lyla and Dorothea turn into puffs of smoke and fade away.

“We never said word one about joining your party! Our master is our master whether he’s a sex worker or an adventurer❤ It’s all the same to us as long as we can be with him❤ Have fun❤”

“You traitorous #△×◎％!”

“Llusse, help me fight back!”

Pirates armed with cutlasses and short swords surrounded them, so Filia drew her sword.

They had been abandoned and their cover was blown, so combat was the only option left.

“Hahh!”

When the first opponent lunged her way, Filia knocked the pirate out with the back of her blade. She had no intention of killing them.

Llusse had brought her bow, but that wasn’t much help at close quarters, so she drew a knife and held the attacking blades at bay.

Even without a boost from the Hero’s power, the two of them had the skills necessary to be chosen for the party meant to slay the Demon Lord. They were outnumbered, but they stood back to back and worked at breaking through the encircling pirates.

“They’re skilled! Don’t let your guard down!”

“Gyah…th-they’re good…”

The pirates looked intimidating, but they were no match for someone with specialized combat training. More and more fell, clearing a path for Filia and Llusse.

“What do we do!?”
“We’ll have to break through and find Naoki!”

They were interrupted by a gunshot.

Filia’s sword was knocked from her hand.

“Wha-!?”

They looked around to locate the shooter and found her atop the main mast. And she had fired with one hand holding onto the rigging.

“You have guts getting into a fight on my ship.”

The redheaded pirate matched Mila’s description to a T.

That had to be Captain Almera Almiralda.

“That’s our captain! How did you hit her sword from so far away!?”
The overwhelmed pirates recovered and cheered.

Almera confidently looked down on the intruders and flicked the brim of her tricorne.

“I can’t explain why, but I’ve been in top form since that boy arrived.”

“That idiot,” growled Llusse.

That sharpshooting was superhuman. No normal person could pull it off.

Almera leapt from rope to rope as nimbly as an acrobat. After leaping into the air, she performed a flip and landed right in front of Llusse and Filia.

She had clearly been powered up by the Hero.

“I feel like I could take on the world right now…are you sure you want to try it?”
“Kh!”

Llusse made a swift and desperate strike.

But Almera sank down to duck below the attack and circled behind Llusse.

Llusse had predicted that and sent a kick behind her, but Almera swept aside her outstretched heel, sending her tumbling to the deck.

(Now!)

Filia chose that moment to snatch up her sword.

But the pirate captain demonstrated stupendous reaction speed by firing a lead ball at Filia’s feet before she could even move.

“It’s no use.”

Almera blew out the smoke rising from her gun’s muzzle, pulled Llusse to her feet, and restrained her.

“L-let go of me!”
Llusse struggled, but her arms were held in a vise-like grip.

Almera was far nimbler and stronger than them.

A saber was pressed against Llusse’s cheek and the gun’s muzzle against Filia’s.

Checkmate.

The pirate’s lips curled into a grin.

“Surrender…but if you insist on trying this again, I’ll put you in your place as many times as it takes.”