Chapter 4: Awaken! Knight of the Unicorn
“Kuh!”
Swing after swing of the Sword of the Unicorn, the wraiths disappeared, with the glint of a dim light. Since the evil-dispelling shockwave that usually occurred when she kissed the rear end wasn’t coming out, Leina had to strike at them directly.
“Nowa, are you okay?”
Behind the blonde, the half-elf was rotating her staff to generate a holy sound. Although that worked fine to protect her from the wraiths, she couldn’t proactively go on the attack that way. Besides, the magical power Nowa needed to generate the holy sound would unfortunately run out soon.
[If we keep just defending like this, we’ll eventually get overwhelmed by them. And if there’s something this strange happening to the Sword, Fio might not be safe either.]
As pale flames cast lights on her, she got to the other side of the wraiths, and looked at Airi and Melona, who seemed to be talking.
[We have to bring back the enemy’s forerunners to the battle somehow. If we keep leaving them alone, the wraiths will keep attacking in waves, without being afraid of how their colleagues scatter when they receive the slashes from the Sword.]
“Kukuku… how long will you last?”
“When you fall, we’ll take your body.”
The creatures laughed, flying around the heiress. Those new ones weren’t coming as close to her as the ones before. They were keeping their distance, only tiring her out.
“Leina!”
Spinning her rod, Nowa came her way to back her up.
“Nowa, can you still fight?”
“Of course!”
“Then, I have a favor to ask.”
Leina whispered something to her comrade. To overcome the present situation, first they had to break through the wraiths’ siege.
“Got it. Let’s try it.”
The girl agreed with her idea, and jumped on the rail of the air corridor. The blonde followed her as well.
“What are you going to do?”
Their unexpected actions made the wraiths stop momentarily.
“Break through this, that’s what!”
Leina screamed, jumping off the air corridor while holding the vine she had used to jump down in the first place.
***
“Sir Fio?”
Mother Elder reached out to hold the boy when he staggered, grimacing with the sharp pain, and both collapsed on the floor of the assembly hall.
Despite being pushed down by him, the elder still managed to slowly roll him face up.
“What’s wrong?”
[It couldn’t be because he kissed me?]
Alleyne carefully looked at his face. The color was draining from his always white skin, he was looking pale now.
“Alleyne… you can’t possibly…”
Fio could heal injuries unconditionally, but only from maidens with a pure body. If he kissed someone else, he would take on the other’s wounds unto himself.
And Fio had collapsed after the kiss. Mother Elder frowned; the possibility was enough to give her pause.
“Q-Quit it with the jokes!”
The warrior involuntarily shrugged it off.
“You’re right. To think I doubted you…”
The elder apologized, and remembered another possibility.
“My apologies.”
With those short words, she began taking off the clothes of the lying Fio.
“Ah…”
Alleyne’s eyes automatically avoided the proof of being a man, clearly visible after his clothes were removed. Despite her just having gotten a glimpse, her chest beat fast as if magic had been cast on her.
“It appears you still lack some training.”
The elder chief rebuked the maiden, and removed the waist cloth clinging to the towering area to better see the place the other had looked away from.
“Behold. This is the true form of the curse afflicting sir Fio.”
Being told that, Alleyne fearfully opened her eyes.
Something unsuited for his body—what with the slender pretty build he had, like a female’s—insisted on making its big presence known. It stood tall and prominently, like a big snake raising its head, and pulsated red and black, seemingly gathering the blood flow from its whole body.
“S-Should we cut this off?”
“Fool. This is the root of sir Fio’s power, how could you ever cut it off?”
The elder sighed, shaking her head; Alleyne seemed to have lived too much like a warrior. Being a virgin despite having lived more than a thousand years spoke volumes about her familiarity with the opposite sex.
“If you look carefully, you’ll notice how this black ring-like object is tightening around Sir Fio’s body.”
Mother Elder’s white fingertip pointed at the root of the red-black towering.
“We must remove this curse immediately.”
“How can we dispel it?”
“We will use a Soul Drop.”
“That elixir…?”
No wonder Alleyne was surprised. The Soul Drop was an elixir among elixirs that only forest elves older than a thousand years old could produce. Secreted from inside the body, its effects dispelled every curse, and it was even said that it rejuvenated the user.
As far as the captain was concerned, this would be the first time they’d use it for another race.
“All you councilors, you agree, don’t you?”
The others, on the verge of death, unanimously nodded at the chief’s words.
“Our fate depends on whether this person lives or dies.”
The counselor who said this put out a small silver bottle.
“Let’s collect our drops with this. Even if we can’t produce much of it, if we pitch in together…”
All of them cast down their faces, and began passing down the small bottle clockwise.
“Mother Elder, please answer me. Who is this boy?”
The chief made a faint smile at the question.
“For us of the elf tribe, this person, Fiotiel Shelagleed, is the incarnation of a divine ancestor from old, the king of mythical beasts we know very well: a counterpart of the Great Unicorn, responsible for purification and regeneration.”
“Mythical beasts?”
‘Mythical beast’ was a word that alluded to rare animals with magical powers, like unicorns or griffons. Alleyne didn’t see how the kid lying in front of her matched the definition; he only looked like a delicate boy to her eyes.
“You have seen a unicorn before, I presume.”
“Yes…”
Unicorns, white horses with a horn on their heads, could rarely be seen in the elven forest. They hated impurity, and made a habit out of avoiding humans even more than the very elves.
It was a bit hard to believe at a moment’s notice that such a unicorn would take on a human shape.
“The Great Unicorn is their king. Since his power is too strong, he was unable to stay on the surface with his appearance, and was supposed to go towards Heaven and leave his kin with us.”
“Why would there be something that strong here on the surface?”
“There’s only one thing in this world that can make the Great Unicorn and his kin, who hate impurity, relax their guard.”
“What is?”
“Song of maidens. The singing voice of a pure maiden is what they like best in the world.”
“Is that what he’s looking for now, then?”
Alleyne wracked her brain. Nowa wasn’t particularly good at singing. Why would the Great Unicorn be interested in her?
“I don’t know the details, especially since sir Fio lost his memory… however…”
Mother Elder continued talking, as her fingertip stroked the red-black towering to confirm the sign of the curse on Fio’s body.
“The last time we met, he said he was looking for someone to become his ‘pair’. He ought to have found the person he wanted by now.”
[A pair?]
Alleyne blinked unconsciously.
[Would that human fighting with Nowa be that?]
“Alright, the drops are collected. We require your body now, Alleyne.”
The Mother Elder had the small bottle filled with clear liquid in her hand, and instructed the captain to take off her clothes.
***
“Such foolishness!”
“Do you have a death wish?”
With the astonished voice of the wraiths behind her, Leina jumped off below by using the vine as a rope.
“Let’s go, Lou!”
Nowa followed the blonde, vine in hand.
“What the…!?”
Airi didn’t know how to react before their actions. It would be understandable if they were amorphous creatures like Melona—who could withstand any sort of shock—, but that kind of behavior was reckless for humans.
The maid didn’t mind if they fell as a result of the battle after crossing swords with all they had, but if they committed suicide in front of her, it’d only leave a bad taste in her mouth.
Starting from the air corridor, the two kept descending at breakneck speed towards the ground. If they ever let go of the vine, at that speed they would get flattened when they reached the floor.
“Oh my~, gutsy, aren’t they?”
Melona grinned, following their movements closely. She supposed there was no other way to break through the siege of more than 600 wraiths surrounding them.
Like an aerial play by an acrobat, when the vine Leina and Nowa held reached its limit, it began winding back up towards the witch’s servants.
“Ooh, amazing, awesome!”
In the blink of an eye, they jumped higher than their current position. The slime girl went wild clapping.
“So they escaped the besiegement, but that was way too bold.”
The redhead grasped her scythe, a smile on her mouth; having them fight just random wraiths *was* a waste.
***
Fio, still fainted, was helped into a chair by the councilors.
He had lost his consciousness, and his body grew weak by the minute, with only a part of his anatomy challenging the sky, insistent on being noticed.
The reason why that limb stood strong despite him having fainted was obvious: his other half, the Sword of the Unicorn, was still fighting.
However, the weapon had ended up cursed; that was why he couldn’t draw his original power and had fainted. In order to restore the spirit tree and regenerate the elven forest, they had to dispel the curse.
[This requires a specific ritual, it’s not the time to uphold our secretive traditions. Isn’t proof of it that all councilors, Mother Elder included, are actively participating?]
Alleyne tried to convince herself the best she could, and took off her upper body armor. Her breasts jiggled, free from their previous confinement.
The elder chief nodded in satisfaction, and tilted the vial filled with Soul Drop. A thick, transparent liquid flowed over the captain’s rich curves. So as to not touch it with her hands, she slightly lifted her breasts from below, storing it in her cleavage so it wouldn’t spill.
The Soul Drop was regarded as the purest, cleanest elixir in this world, that’s why one’s hands couldn’t be used to apply it to the affected area; the soft skin of a pure maiden was required.
The only one that had been confirmed as a virgin there was Alleyne, so except for her, none could smear the Soul Drop on Fio’s diseased part.
She rubbed her breasts, spreading the drops thin.
[This is treatment, just treatment.]
The elf captain tried hard to drive away the image that kept popping up in her mind, and focused only on her own actions.
However, her body kept betraying her thoughts; the tips of her breasts perked up, hard and pointy with a healthy pink color.
“Kuh…”
She suppressed her own moans by biting her lips.
“Alleyne, it’ll be ready soon.”
Following Mother Elder’s precise instructions, she kneeled down at the feet of the sitting Fio while holding her breasts from below with both hands so that the precious droplets wouldn’t spill.
The position of the afflicted area reached just about the height of her chest.
The captain gently placed her breasts on the tip of the aforementioned area.
“I-It’s... hot…”
Sandwiching the area throbbing left and right, the elf wiggled her body.
“Good going. Never use your hands.”
As ordered, she earnestly used her breasts to smear the Soul Drop on the area.
“Ugh…”
Stimulated as Alleyne rubbed that part, a voice escaped from Fio’s lips.
“Just a little more… you try your hardest as well, sir Fio.”
Mother Elder hugged him from behind over the chair so he wouldn’t slip down. The captain’s moans overlapped with the squeaking from the chair.
“Haa… haa…”
The maiden kept doing her utmost effort to soak the area with the Soul Drop.
***
He could hear a song.
Fio listened in ecstasy, enraptured, to the clear singing voice of the girl standing by the lake.
It was said that very rarely, a human was born with a God’s musical scale. The girl’s singing voice was one of those.
“You came again.”
With a slight turn of her silver hair, the nearby girl called out to him.
“This will be the last time you listen to my song.”
[Why?]
No words came out, though…
“I’m going to a country far away, under the King’s orders. All the way to the south of the desert, he said.”
The girl’s figure blurred.
“For you to stay on the surface, you will need a human appearance.”
Fio nodded, emphatically.
“When I die, I will give you my appearance.”
Her voice pierced Fio’s chest.
“It’s the least I can do to repay my Unicorn, the only one who liked my songs…”
[I see, these are my memories.]
When Fio realized, he looked at the reflection on the water’s surface.
There was a figure of a familiar silver-haired girl there. The only thing that was different was the proof of a man, rising up and pushing on the pure white skirt.
“Ah…”
Something gradually welled up from the depths of that proof.
“Oh… crap.”
He reflexively reached out to his own crotch.
***
At the highest point of her jump, Leina let go of the vine. During her free fall, she tried changing her posture to land beside Airi and Melona, getting out of the enveloping net of wraiths… but, suddenly, the Sword of the Unicorn pulsated violently in her hands.
“Fio?”
It became gigantic in the blink of an eye. The fact it had grown so big now meant something was happening to Fio’s body.
[Of course, this only proves that he’s safe, but…
Nice timing you got there, too!]
Leina clicked her tongue, and exchanged looks with Nowa, who descended like her. The half-elf rotated her staff in midair, and dropped towards the end of the air corridor.
[This’ll work just fine. Even if it’s just Nowa, she’ll get some payback on Airi.]
When the Sword of the Unicorn suddenly changed shape, she lost her balance in midair, and ended up falling in the middle of the horde of wraiths.
With no time to adjust her position, they came rushing at her.
“Sorry, but I have no time to play with you!”
The blonde made a wide swing with the Sword, which had grown to its largest size ever.
The slash raised a gust of wind, crushing multiple wraiths in one swing.
“Borrowing Miss Cattleya’s Giant Killer was the right choice.”
The blade of the current Sword greatly exceeded her height. Its weight remained constant however, so Leina could wield it one-handed and still have strength to spare.
With so much of a reach, swinging it basically had the same effect as the shockwaves from back then.
“Here I go! Prepare yourself!”
Full of spirit, she started rushing towards Airi’s party.
***
“C-Craaap!”
As he screamed, Fio reached for his own groin.
“Kyah!”
The feeling of a comfortable coat of hair came at the same time as the short shriek.
“Eh!?”
He fully awakened, very much surprised at the situation he found himself in.
“Did you awaken, sir Fio?”
A girl as tall as he was hugging him from behind, a comfortable scent of herbs tickling his nose.
And that was when he freaked out, realizing what his fingertips were firmly holding—somehow, he was pressing Alleyne’s face into his crotch.
“I-I’m sorry! To think I’d act like this!”
He scrambled to let go of her.
With a sound like her soft cheeks were tapped, Alleyne was flicked by the towering between his legs and fell on her behind.
“W-Wawawawah!”
A glimpse of the elf’s thighs crossed Fio’s eyes, though he quickly looked away from the leafy underwear covering her private bits.
[Deep breath, exhale slowly. You gotta check the situation you’re in, man!]
After repeated deep breaths to calm himself, the boy looked around… to find he was naked.
“Wha!?”
Being naked before the gaze of the good-looking elven councilors and having his greatly towering manhood touched only made him more embarrassed.
“Is there any pain?”
He felt his face blushing when Alleyne asked him, worry showing in her voice.
[Yeah, there’s no pain. There’s no tightening like I would be torn to shreds either, only a slight feeling of numbness remains.]
“I beg your forgiveness, sir Fio.”
Mother Elder, hugging him from behind, spoke apologetically.
“There were no other means to save you. I do beg of you to forgive us.”
As she apologized, she began putting on his clothes with quick hands, not wasting a second.
“T-That’s okay, I can put them on myself.”
Being naked was embarrassing enough, but being helped to dress seemed like it lit a fire under his face.
“Now that the pain is gone, I’d like to hurry to the spirit tree, is that okay?”
As he put on his clothes, Fio looked at the crystal ball conveying the fight of Leina’s party. The blade of the Sword of the Unicorn had become the largest he’d ever seen, and even if it couldn’t bring out the holy sound, it did still have the power to banish wraiths in only one blow.
“Huh?”
He felt something was wrong. Even with the Sword hitting the wraiths directly and banishing them, he wasn’t feeling the feedback he once felt.
[Is this thanks to the elves’ treatment, or is it a side effect of having the holy sound sealed up?
In any case, I should count myself lucky.]
“Leina… keep giving it your all for a bit more. I will do my part too.”
Even if the Sword’s power was lethal against wraiths, there was no getting around the overwhelming difference in numbers.
[We have to revive the spirit tree as soon as possible. That’s the key to victory.]
“Alleyne, take sir Fio to the spirit tree!”
Acknowledging his intent, the elder chief gave her command to the captain.
***
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