"Um..."
Fujimaru Ritsuka held her right hand.
"Although it's true that I've become Mash's Master, I don't think this is something I should decide."
"Ask for her opinion!"
An unsurprising answer.
Fujimaru Ritsuka was just that kind of kind-hearted existence.
Before, it was just floating on the surface and hadn't been deeply felt, but now interacting face-to-face, this gentle tone was truly somewhat wavering.
I really want to...
Turn her into something like Olga Marie as well.
Hm?
The moment he realized this thought, Ian discovered he actually didn't have much of a psychological burden.
"Um..."
Mash gripped that heavy cross shield and nodded.
"No problem!"
"If it's Ian, then there's no problem!"
After the battle just now, the newly minted Servant Mash obviously had a bit more trust in the man before her who had unilaterally suppressed her.
"His words are worthy of trust."
Such a seed was involuntarily planted in the girl's heart.
"Then Ritsuka, wait here for a moment."
Ian took Mash's hand.
"We'll be back soon."
"Eh?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka watched just like that as Ian pulled Mash out of her field of vision.
Intuition was telling her that something incredible seemed about to happen.
It was that kind of...
Feeling of a group of people having a party and not being invited.
"Secretary Ian..."
"Just call me Ian."
"Then, Ian—"
Mash looked at the alleyway gradually narrowing on both sides and couldn't help but feel nervous.
This feeling...
It was simply like being taken by a senior one grade higher to a business-style private room to do bad things after high school.
"Is this to..."
The man did not answer Mash's question immediately, but simply inserted the blade in his hand into the ground.
"Mash, put your shield down too."
"...Yes."
Thud.
That thick shield smashed onto the ground.
It still had some weight; if Mash hadn't undergone the Demi-Servant transformation, she might really not have been able to lift it.
"Listen—"
Ian cornered the girl who had unloaded her shield in the corner of the alley.
"Next, you might feel panic and helplessness; that is all normal."
"You might resent me, think I am doing excessive things, or even think I am a demon."
"But none of that matters."
"I must do this, Mash."
The power of Slaanesh was not limited to Ian himself.
Olga Marie was the best example.
To be able to become a Hotbed for regeneration at such a time, she must have also received some unnamed revelation.
"Even if you say that, I..."
The girl's words didn't have time to finish before they were terminated in this silent air.
The man forcibly kissed her.
This was actually quite a testing matter.
The underlying logic of Slaanesh is Indulgence—
This meant that if, at the moment of first contact, one could not drag the other party into the abyss of longing together, the desire bred would be difficult to blossom and bear fruit.
In human terms, it meant one had to make the other party generate a physiological reaction they could not resist.
With Olga Marie back then, it was a choice made when there was no way out.
Then facing Mash now, would there be equal luck?
Ian didn't know.
But he understood that if he wanted to maintain this situation he had managed to revitalize with great difficulty, being cruel was a matter of course.
Mash must become the person to "take over" for Cú Chulainn.
Only then would he have the chance to face the final "monster" of Singularity F.
That blackened King, Artoria!
Mash's tongue was evading such a sudden attack.
But Ian would not give her any chance.
In just a few brief rounds, the girl's tongue was controlled by the man like a slave.
But until suffocation briefly separated the two, Ian realized he did not see Mash screaming or shouting.
To be honest, that was a rather "dangerous" thing.
One had to know, once Mash thought this was an evil act, everything hypothesized before would cease to exist.
But she didn't.
The girl just looked at the man with eyes full of shyness; that gaze, so pure it couldn't be doubted, was silently stating one thing.
She did not object to doing this.
"Mash, you..."
"There must be your own reasons, right?"
Before the man opened his mouth to explain, Mash had already given the answer herself.
"I don't think you would be the kind of person to suddenly grope a girl you don't know very well."
"There is definitely... some difficulty!"
This overly emotional statement pierced Ian's heart like a sharp arrow.
Although he had indeed experienced long cycles of rebirth, in Mash's perspective, this girl was witnessing these things for the first time.
But she still decided to do this.
So-called sin, before a sufficiently pure heart, was actually so vulnerable.
"I..."
"It doesn't matter. If you can't confess for the time being, then continue doing what you think is right!"
A faint blush rose on Mash's fair cheeks.
"I believe in you!"
"..."
"Phew—"
Ian laughed rarely because his mood relaxed.
"You will suffer a big loss like this."
"W-will I?"
The girl put her hands behind her back, shyly avoiding his gaze.
"Actually..."
"Forget it, it's nothing!"
With Mash's cooperation, things were much simpler.
A body willing to dedicate itself was always easier to deprave than a soul that resisted even in a restroom stall.
Ian's hand quickly touched a certain place on Mash.
That was indeed an interesting existence like a marshmallow.
Of course, no matter how much she cooperated, facing such a sudden attack, Mash as a novice still seemed not quite sure how to cope.
She covered her lips tightly with both hands, allowing the Demon King to wantonly toy with the slime from the novice village in the palm of his absolute control.
But even so—
The hot air occasionally emitting from her mouth, and her pupils trembling then straightening from time to time, still unintentionally revealed Mash's progress bar.
She, who was like a blank sheet of paper, was simply too easy to corrode.
Finally.
As Mash trembled all over and raised her head at that moment, Ian also felt that aura on her body that was nearly consistent with Olga Marie.
And the affected Mash was also faintly more excited.
The flow of magical energy in the girl's body invisibly became much faster.
However...
"Ian—"
"Mash—"
"Where did you guys go?! It's been a long time!"
Fujimaru Ritsuka's voice rang out at this moment, interrupting possible subsequent casting.
Mash's gaze also met the man's.
It could be seen that even at a time like this, she cared very much about Fujimaru Ritsuka who had saved her at a critical moment.
This was a friendship that could not be ignored.
Ian naturally understood this.
He leaned close to Mash's ear and spoke softly.
"Don't tell Ritsuka about what happened just now for the time being."
"This is—"
"Our secret."
"..."
At such words, Mash's expression became increasingly shy.
"I understand." The girl nodded, then exhaled a breath of hot air slightly.
"It's a secret that can't be told to Mr. Secretary Hiss...
It seems I've obtained a believer even more loyal than Olga Marie.
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