CONTENT WARNING: The following scene contains a depiction of sexual assault that may be upsetting to some readers. Please use personal discretion if you are sensitive to content of this nature.
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“You’re sound asleep, huh?”
By Crow’s bed, in the flickering light, the pink-haired young knight, Tiana, watched over him as he slept.
After they’d arrived at the ruined village, the two found a nearby cabin that was still standing and decided to make it their lodgings for the night.
Less than an hour later, after eating the meal Tiana had prepared, Crow had fallen fast asleep. He must’ve been exhausted, she figured.
Gently, she approached his bed as he slept soundly.
“You look so peaceful, sleeping like that,” she said with a soft chuckle, gently stroking his glossy black hair. “It’s cute, what with how stern you usually are.”
Looking at him like this, he seemed like a perfectly ordinary young man. Nothing like the war god he turned into on the battlefield.
Tiana found this both funny and sad.
“You’re just a kid my age. What do you think you’re doing?”
Crow fought so hard he might break, putting the destruction of evil and the bringing of peace to everyone above his own life. And the thanks he got for living heroically was the disdain of the royal family, who were now trying to erase him entirely.
Still, he didn’t shy away from hunting down a dragon as they’d instructed, resolving to face his duty without fear.
“You’re such an idiot,” she murmured.
Upon seeing the overwhelming destruction the dragon had wrought upon the village, he hadn’t so much as flinched. Instead, his fists had trembled in anger.
That’d been when Tiana had understood he’d likely always be this way.
“You have a few screws loose, you know? Even if I told you to cherish your life, you wouldn’t listen, would you? At the first sign of anyone’s suffering, you’d just rush to them, right?”
No matter what hardships awaited him, this broken Condemner would face them, even if he had to fight empty-handed.
“Crazy bastard,” she muttered.
Tiana moved to straddle him, cupping the back of his neck with her fingers.
“It’s your fault that my heart’s a mess. So...you need to take responsibility, get it?”
Slowly, she leaned over and pressed her lips onto Crow’s. A sweet sound echoed softly in the dimly lit room.
“Mm... Oh, I did it... It’s all your fault, you know,” she said, smiling bitterly at the absurdity of her own words.
She couldn’t help it, however. The truth was undeniable.
Tiana had fallen hopelessly in love with this man who constantly put his life at risk to fight with everything he had.
“If you were more of a mechanical executioner, I wouldn’t have fallen for you,” she murmured. “But no, you walked around the city with me. You helped me mend my relationship with my mother. You told a nobody like me that I protected your heart. You said being with me calms you down!”
Their time together had been short, but it had been more than enough. Looking back at the countless memories of tender, caring moments they’d shared made her heart swell.
Crow might have been a broken man, but he’d never lost the humanity in his heart. Tiana knew that, at his core, he was gentle.
“Crow...”
And that was precisely what had attracted her to this man, whose heart had been irreparably broken when his hometown was burned down by an evil villain. To this man, who seemed as though he might burn to ashes in a second if she so much as looked away, she’d offered her heart.
“I don’t want to weigh you down,” Tiana said quietly. “I won’t get in your way. I may be weak and stupid, but I don’t want to hold you back.”
She had no intention of suggesting that he should forget his hatred, stop helping others, and focus solely on her. No, that would have been shameful.
Her love would stay locked away, deep in her heart.
“So, Crow...”
Tiana had made up her mind—she wouldn’t ask anything of him. She would devote herself to him from the shadows.
Resolute, she reached for his clothes.
“We don’t know if you’ll come back alive from the battle tomorrow, right? It would be so sad for you to die without leaving anything behind,” she said.
How tragic it would be if the man she loved vanished from this world without a trace!
She couldn’t allow that to happen. Even if she couldn’t help him fight, even if she was weak and foolish, she wouldn’t sit idly by and let things end like that.
And that’s why—
“Please sleep,” she whispered. “I’ll take your seed.”
With that, she turned off the bedside lamp.
As darkness embraced them, she gently took the man she loved in her arms.
“Hngh,” he groaned. Huh? There’s something soft wrapped around me... It smells nice...
Having misunderstood everything, Tiana went wild.
Indeed, her image of Crow was a complete fabrication. He wasn’t so passionate that he might burn out. Gentle? Not even a little. No, he’d just acted like a big shot! In reality, he was a worthless idiot, hopelessly cursed by his sword!
“Ngh?” Is this, like, a huge marshmallow? Mm, maybe I’ll take a bite...
In the middle of the night, Tiana yelped loudly, no thanks to a certain half-asleep moron’s actions.
“Oh, Crow, Crow! ♡ Even in your sleep, you accept me! ♡”
Coming from the man she loved, even pain felt like a blessing. Unstoppable, she raced to the finish at full speed.
Despite saying she didn’t want to weigh him down, her very nature was gravity itself.
“Zzz, zzz?!” Hngh?! What’s this?! It feels kinda good?!
“Oh, Crow, Crow, Crow, Crow! ♡ If you’re ever injured and can no longer fight, I’ll take care of you, okay?! ♡ Forever!”
In the darkness, their two silhouettes (one-sidedly and explosively) became one.
Alongside this clueless idiot of a man, the young girl—her fevered brain overflowing with lewd thoughts—sped to her limit!
It was the birth of the worst love story ever.
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And thus did an idiot pink degenerate burst onto the scene!