There had once been an internet joke about this sort of thing.
The victim of rape could resist with three times their usual strength.
So then, why did rape incidents happen and actually succeed?
The answer was that the attacker committing the rape could exert seven times that much strength.
And today.
I could feel firsthand that this story was not just a joke, but an undeniable truth.
After all.
"Haa, haa...! Your back... show me your back, An!"
No matter how much of a first-class adventurer she was.
No matter how she was a level 6 vanguard and had naturally powerful muscles.
No matter how much my indoor-researcher body specs were seriously lacking.
Even so.
Was it really possible that, even after dumping all the mana in my body into strengthening my physical power, all I could do was barely resist and hold on?
And on top of that, I was actually getting pushed back little by little in real time.
I was gritting my teeth and desperately holding out with everything I had!
This was insane, absolutely insane!
"U, uuu...!"
"Hee, cute. An, you're really cute. You've got some muscle too. I like it. Your abs are sexy. I like it. I love it. Your slender arms and legs are nice too. I like it. I like it so much. I love you. I like you, I love you, I like you, I love you, I can't hold back anymore, I'm going to eat you, I like you, I love you, I'm going to kiss-kiss and suck you dry, I'm going to eat you all, I like you, I love you, I like you, I love you, I like you, I love you...!"
...No, come to think of it, wasn't this development weirdly plausible?
First-class adventurer wasn't some dog's name, after all.
And the one using that absurdly heavy ultra-heavy Urega as her main weapon was this girl. Where else would all that strength go?
More importantly, Tiona's pupils were totally glazed over right now.
She was in full-blown rampage mode.
Should I call it a berserker state in heat?
At this rate, she really was going to devour me.
My first time being outdoor play, and on top of that, a yandere rape tag?
That filthy kind of pure love.
Would the last conscience of this age, me the romance lover, ever accept that?
No way! I hate it! Don't do it!
In that sense.
Bzzzzzt!
I opened my fake Rinnegan.
Then I desperately brought both hands together in prayer with my palms pressed tight.
"[Shinra, Tensei...!]"
Be released, King of the World!
The real one came from a different series, though.
KWAANG!
"Kya!"
Anyway, I managed to desperately activate the spell and succeed in knocking Tiona off me.
She was sent flying far away by the recoil, but given the danger I had just been feeling, I hoped she'd forgive me for considering this self-defense.
I really never thought I'd experience something this ridiculous twice.
I'd felt fear worse than death for a moment there.
"Ahh, that hurts."
Why are you rejecting me, An!
Fortunately, thanks to the soft sandy beach, she didn't seem badly hurt.
She sprang back up just fine and complained to me with a pout.
What?
What kind of attacker's hypocrisy is this?!
Now that I was on the victim's side, I could feel it deeply.
If the roles were reversed, maybe I'd understand.
Good heavens, how shameless could she be...!
"A lack of conscience is already covered by your goddess alone."
"I-I'll grow, okay! I'm sure if I keep doing all sorts of nice things with An, I'll grow big like my sister and Riveria and the others too!"
"Tiona..."
It was too cruel a reality to tease her with a "you're never going to grow".
I looked at her as gently as I could, with a gaze full of pity.
Yes, the way you'd look at friends in a hair-loss forum whose lives had lost all hope because the things that were supposed to grow on their heads would never grow again.
Grow, hair-chest.
"Uuu...! An, I hate you!"
Then I'm going to pounce on you!
I'm going to pounce and kiss-kiss-suck you dry!
I'm going to make sure you never talk nonsense about my chest again!
"So let's do it!"
Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it with me!
"Oh boy, my head."
Honestly.
I'd been lightly provoking her to calm down because I didn't want to get used to that dangerous pressure, and now the girl had regressed straight into a childlike state.
What was I supposed to do about this?
"Well, the answer's already obvious."
She'd said to act like an Amazon, hadn't she?
Then I just had to treat her like an Amazon.
"[Burn, my blood.]"
I took the Moon Spirit Liquid from my chest and activated it with the trigger phrase.
Tiona flinched slightly, startled by my action.
She probably hadn't expected me to reject her this strongly... no, maybe she hadn't wanted even to imagine that possibility.
It wasn't actually like that, so I wished she wouldn't make such a hurt expression.
It was making this innocent guy's heart ache.
"What are you doing."
"Huh...?"
Get into position, Tiona.
At my words, Tiona made a puzzled expression, as if she didn't understand the meaning.
No, she really probably didn't understand what I was saying.
She must have been wondering what on earth this guy, who had just been showing such clear rejection a moment ago, was doing now.
Still, Tiona.
Like I said before, it's not that I hate you.
It's just, how should I put it.
That kind of one-sided approach is... too lacking in romance.
"You said you'd do it like an Amazon."
"Uh..."
"Then do it properly."
Since when did a jungle warrior start courting the person she liked first?
In other words, that was it.
The process, the order itself, had been wrong.
Sure, I was going to reject her feelings for the sake of my own purpose, my goals, my dreams, and my final romance.
But that didn't mean.
I intended to crush her feelings coldly and without mercy either.
At the very least.
Wasn't it only fair to give her the chance to win love with her own strength?
That was my answer.
My sincerity in response to her sincerity.
My own way of expressing love.
It was a pretty twisted method.
But what could I do?
This was who I was.
"Come at me, Tiona."
If you're an Amazon, there's only one thing to do in a moment like this.
Only then did Tiona seem to realize something, her eyes watering as she made a complicated expression.
And then.
Slap!
"Yeah! I really, really love you, An!"
She slapped her own cheek hard enough to ring, steeling her resolve anew, and stood back up with fresh energy.
Yes, that foolishly spirited look suited her best.
That savage violence hidden inside her innocent nature was the essence of who she was as a woman.
So, Tiona, you too should act like an Amazon.
"Take the man, the lover, and the love."
Seize everything you like with strength.
Fight head-on and claim it.
As the victor, plunder it proudly and greedily.
Ah, what barbarity.
What depravity.
What innocence.
"There's only one rule. The winner takes everything."
"Nice! I like simple!"
"Come to think of it, is this a rematch since our first meeting in the Dungeon back then?"
"I know! This is what you call revenge, right?"
"Even if you lose this time, no crying and throwing a tantrum, okay?"
"It's fine! This time I'm definitely going to win!"
"Hahaha."
"Hahaha!"
"..."
"..."
And with that.
The two of us fell silent for a moment.
As if waiting for something.
We waited quietly without a word.
And then.
"Ooo~i, Tioonaaa~!"
At last.
"Take this, you idiot little sisteeeer!"
Whoosh, KWAANG!
The telepathy of twin sisters.
At the same time the awaited thing arrived.
"Aaaaaaaan!"
Tiona leaped.
With the greatsword Urega her sister had handed her clutched in one hand.
More ferociously than ever before, and with a face overflowing with joy.
With pure violence in her heart.
As a warrior, she charged at me.
"Ha."
I, watching her, simply stood with my hands behind my back, while also holding a faint expectation deep inside as I faced her.
"[Slowly.]"
And at the moment Tiona had almost closed the distance.
"Hm?"
Biiiiiiiiim~
With both hands, which I had already finished equipping with my magecraft gauntlets, I thrust them forward in the shape of a fox and fired a beam.
No, well.
Sure, I had said I'd give her a chance because I had expectations for this.
But I had no intention whatsoever of just standing there and taking it quietly.
Separate from the expectation and the chance... the Tiona from earlier was definitely pretty scary.
In that sense.
"I'm going in with everything I've got."
Bwoooom~
The beam itself wasn't all that fast, but it was a sudden ambush.
And because it was an attack with no killing intent or anything of the sort, Tiona, who had no prior knowledge of the original, was exposed to it directly.
If she had sensed even a little of it, a warrior with her specs would never have failed to dodge.
"First, the debuff."
"W-what, wha, whaaaat is thiiiiiis...?!"
"Relax. You'll just get slower."
For about fifteen seconds?
So in that opening, next came.
Clang!
I threw a glass bottle from my chest to the ground and smashed it.
Of course, the moment the contents spilled out, the spell activated.
"[Poison Dragon.]"
Gurururuk.
"[Hydra.]"
Let's pile on the damage-over-time.
"!, ?"
Shriiiiiik!
Tiona was startled and flustered by the pile of poison in front of her.
But I wasn't going to go easy on her.
I immediately slammed Hydra over her head and coated her entire body in poison.
Chiiiak!
"Aah, it's hot, aaaaah!"
For the record, the poison was homemade.
Think of it as the liquid form of the paralyzing poison used in Golden Sosaijou.
And I hadn't reduced the potency at all.
There was no way I'd do something so disrespectful in a place like this.
"Now then, next."
Shall we widen the distance again?
This happened to be a sandy beach, after all.
There was high-quality sand everywhere around us.
"[Sandstorm]."
Whoooosh!
"[Heavy]!"
KWAANG!
"Guh, ah!"
I gathered sand heavily in my hand, formed it into a whirlwind of a suitable size, and hurled it at Tiona.
She was blown far away.
The moment she hit the ground, she let out a rough breath.
Looking at her, I taunted her.
"What's wrong, Tiona? Is that all you've got already?"
"A-ahh... n-no way!"
This kind of thing doesn't hurt at all!
"Compared to Bache's, this is nothing!"
"That's a pretty disappointing evaluation as the creator."
Though she was breathing a little heavily, her voice was still full of energy, and I snorted with a laugh.
Ah, nice.
This is exactly the kind of teasing I like.
In that sense, let's make it even harsher.
"How about this one, then!"
I pulled a few more reagent bottles and magic stones from my chest and threw them.
The moment the bottles shattered, I circulated mana and wove the spell.
Carried by the spell's mana, the magic stones began circling around Tiona.
Along with that, a magic circle rose into the air.
"Coordinate fixed."
[El Thor]!
Rumble, KWAANG!
After the flashy effects came a thunderous roar, and blue lightning struck down.
Well, compared to how dramatic it looked, its power was far below the original.
It wasn't going to kill or seriously injure a first-class adventurer like her.
But even so, it was still lightning.
If a human took that with their bare body, there was no way it would have no effect.
"A, ga-ga-ga, my bo, body, is, is, numb...!"
"Mm, is that so?"
I'm terribly sorry about that.
Of course, my expression right now didn't have even a shred of apology in it.
Snap!
"Come on, [Doppelman]."
At my signal and call, my shadow stretched long.
And from within it emerged a huge pitch-black doll.
It was a shadow doll golem stored in the imaginary domain connected to my shadow.
I had specially made its appearance perfectly identical to the original.
"Doppelman, beat her up."
"Ki, shishishi!"
The chubby shadow thing pummeled Tiona, who was frozen in place by the numbness in her body.
Needless to say, this guy was a shadow in name only; he had a physical body, so he could exert physical force as well.
Bang, bang, bang!
But that also meant.
Thud!
"U, gyaaaaaaah!"
The opponent could physically interfere with him too.
KWAANG!
After being beaten for a while, Tiona seemed to have shaken off the numbness in her body and grabbed Doppelman by the collar, hurling him aside before immediately launching a counterattack.
"Oraoraoraoraaaaaaa!"
Ratatatatatatatata!
Oh, a rush, huh.
I briefly considered testing my speed like some golden vampire, but it was too obvious, so I stopped.
By any measure, Tiona was clearly faster and stronger.
Then again, I had made Doppelman as a tank from the start, not as a strength type or speed type, so it was an obvious result.
"Ki, shi..."
"Uryaa!"
KWAANG!
Tiona's small but incredibly powerful fist slammed into Doppelman's face, which had already become a ragged, tattered mess.
With that single blow, his face burst apart and vanished.
Fragments flew everywhere.
Anyone looking at that miserable sight would think he was beyond recovery.
But.
"[Transformation, Brick Bat.]"
Pop!
"Hm?"
Sharararararak!
As I'd said before, Doppelman was a shadow doll.
No, if anything, he was closer to a slime than a golem.
And shadows were, in the first place, a concept and substance of the imaginary domain, where physical acts like punching them apart or slicing them with a sword were useless.
"[[[Ki, shishishi!]]]"
Crack!
"Ow! This...!"
"Relax. I'm not going to suck your blood."
More importantly, this was only an intermediate step.
"[Transformation, Black Box.]"
Sharararararak!
Thudthudthudthudthud!
In an instant, the shadow bats split into hundreds of individual bodies, then just as quickly gathered back together into a single square box that surrounded Tiona.
"Ah!"
Creak, thud.
Before she could react, the lid closed.
And I followed up with another hit.
"Mystic Code Summon."
To my hand, [Sudden Impact].
Thud!
With those words, metal plates gathered and gathered over my right arm, taking shape as a massive gauntlet.
It was a strange thing, like a huge stake had been driven in near the elbow.
The ultimate weapon that stirred a man's romance in mecha works, along with the rocket punch.
"Prepare."
Aim.
"Bang."
TUKWAANG!
The pile bunker punch sent Tiona flying, box and all.
Looking at the box, crumpled and distorted as it flew far away, I could roughly guess the impact force.
As a result of that shock, my arm along with the gauntlet-shaped magecraft construct was wrecked too.
Still, it was weaker than Reject, so my arm didn't vanish like Lili's had.
That somehow made it look even more painful.
"Ahh, that hurts."
I immediately stripped away the crushed traces of my arm with magecraft and administered a regeneration potion, restoring a new arm.
Unlike usual, there still seemed to be a faint afterimage of pain, so it looked like the aftereffects of the damage inside my body still hadn't fully healed.
At this rate, I couldn't let this become a war of attrition.
KWAANG!
"I'm, not, done yettttt!"
"Hahaha, as expected."
Tiona burst out of the crumpled Black Box in more or less one piece.
Judging by the half-broken state of the Urega in her hand, she must have used it as a shield to absorb some of the impact.
Though the blue bruises on her arms and hands suggested she hadn't blocked it completely.
But that much was probably just an ordinary part of life for a first-class adventurer like her.
That wild, violent charge that still showed no sign of stopping was proof enough.
"For you, [Slow Beam]."
Bwoooom~
"I already saw that one!"
The instant the beam fired, Tiona quickly stomped the ground and succeeded in dodging.
But she probably didn't know.
"You know something, Tiona?"
Beams were originally reflected by mirrors.
"[Ice Prison]."
Frozen mirror crystals.
Chachachachachang!
And then, several ice mirrors surrounded Tiona.
She noticed something and hurriedly smashed one of the mirrors with her fist, but.
"Too late."
There were multiple ice mirrors, and the beam had already been fired long ago.
Bwoooom~
"Aaaaaaah, agaaaaain...!"
"Fifteen seconds."
And history repeated itself.
Clang! Gurururuk. Shriiiiiik! Chiiiak! Whoooosh! KWAANG!
"Tch, ever since earlier... this is annoying!"
By the time the flow of time had come back around again, Tiona was once more a battered wreck from the magical barrage, and she protested while openly showing her rising irritation.
But I didn't care about that right now.
"That's the point. You're serious, and so am I. Both of us are."
All-out fighting was supposed to be dirty and underhanded in the first place.
Train like it's real combat, and make real combat even more hellish.
"And even after taking this much, you still want more?"
"Of course! Obviously!"
If I don't get close, I can't knock An down!
At this point, the love confession from earlier was practically an afterthought.
The fighting spirit blazing in her eyes made me want to recoil from her, and yet it also drew a faint smile out of me somehow.
Ah, yes, this is great.
This is what a strong woman is.
"Oh? Then I'll make sure to get plenty close enough."
And with both of us taking a brief breath, there was a short silence.
Then once more.
"Taaaaaaaaaaat!"
"[Flame.]"
Between a mage and a warrior.
A scorching blaze erupted between the two of us.
The result of the match was still unknown.
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