Translate the following Japanese text to English. Paragraphs are separated by ”
”. Output each translated paragraph with the same delimiter in between, preserving the exact number of paragraphs. Translate every paragraph — do not leave any Japanese untranslated. Do not add explanations. Do not merge or split paragraphs.
“For now, considering the value of each jewel, the craftsmanship, and rarity… around 600,000 gold coins, I’d say.”
“600,000? If you include practical value, it could go a bit higher, don’t you think?”
“Just an estimate, but let’s add some leeway… maybe 630,500 or so?”
The weapons shop under the umbrella of the construction union, Trident Company.
The lizardman clerk, with the three-horned Viking helm hanging from his chin by a strap, was staring intently at the items through his small pupils and muttering an appraisal.
Ariel was taken aback by the figure, while Rose and Sieg furrowed their brows slightly.
“I think it could go up to 880,000.”
“I’d… well, even if I compromise a bit, it’s still around 800,000.” The lizardman clerk licked his lips with an expressionless face. It might be hard to tell if you’re not used to it, but this was equivalent to a troubled look.
“It’s getting close to the end of the quarter, so please be lenient. At this time, I need to sell at a price that’s easy to dispose of, or it’ll be a problem for me. Sure, I could try to squeeze a bit more from collectors later, but if there’s too much of a delay, everything would be marked as a loss, and it’d become a responsibility issue.”
“Let’s just say I was being selfish and bought them. I’ll sell them off slowly later.”
“Sister… well, whatever.”
“880,000.”
“Yeah, yeah. Honestly, I don’t know what kind of obligation it is, but I didn’t expect to end up handling the same item twice in one day.”
The jewel knife that was taken from Lyla as payment for her drinks at the tavern had now come full circle and been bought back by the Trident Trading Company.
“By the way, just for reference, how much did you buy it for at the tavern?”
“…180,000.”
“What a rotten deal, huh?”
Sieg poked the lizardman shopkeeper. Well, I’d like to think it’s better than being bought by someone who doesn’t understand its value.
“Uh, um… well, 880,000… is that… in gold coins?”
Ariel looked up at Sieg and Rose with a worried expression.
Incidentally, one gold coin in Celesta currency could buy a drink without alcohol, and ten of them would get you a decent meal at most taverns.
880,000 coins was enough to buy a large house with land in even a city like Talc.
Of course, Ariel’s debt was on a much smaller scale.
“Goodbye, my Jewel Knife…”
“H-Hey, are you sure about this, Sieg-san!?”
“Yes, I’m sure. I can do it. It’s just a hobby item anyway, so no one will mind if I sell it… Ugh…”
Sieg was crying while trying to act tough. For some reason, the lizardman shop clerk was also tearful.
“How much is Ariel’s debt?”
“It’s… 40,200 yen…”
“Well, they’ll probably add interest on top of it, so just give me 70,000 yen for the base gemstone.”
“Sure, sure. You’re quite the man, old geezer.”
“Yeah. I’m becoming a man. But becoming a man… that hurts, you know?”
Sieg was still clinging to his regrets, but he didn’t back down on his actions. The lizardman shop clerk looked at him with a mix of respect (though no expression showed) and patted his shoulder comfortingly.
”…It’s almost like a purchase for freedom.”
Seeing the way Ariel’s eyes widened at the sight of such a large sum of money, Rose teased him.
“Do not speak in such a way that makes it sound bad. First, I will sever Ariel’s ties and have a proper relationship.”
“I see, I see… But you really should understand what it means to hand over a sword and accept one.”
“Huh?”
“Will you offer the money directly? Or will you give me the sword and let that Dark Elf sell it? The meaning is completely different.”
“Mmm…”
Sieg knows the customs, but it’s questionable how far he truly understands their weight.
Stroking his stubbly beard, he looks at Ariel for now.
Offering money directly feels shameful and distasteful, but on the other hand, I’m not sure if I should bind myself to customs I don’t fully understand.
“Well, do as you like, Ariel. At least I’ll take responsibility for the debt. You can consider this the reckless act of a man who’s fallen for you. But if you’ll continue to be with me, I’d be happy. Even if it’s just for a while, give me love in my life. Please.”
”…Even if you say that…”
Ariel makes a troubled face.
Being handed the decision regarding the knife and Sieg’s casual attitude about such a great favor have both thrown Ariel straight into misfortune. But for someone who’s been on a downward spiral, meeting this much fortune and making such a decisive choice in just half a day is too much.
”…………”
Rose had been silently watching Sieg’s seduction, but seeing the tension in the room as Ariel fell silent, she straightened her posture and spoke up.
“That story can wait, okay?”
After confirming with Ariel, I turned back to Sieg.
“I’ll take care of you first. …I won’t let you dodge the fact that you took the knife from me, Becker.”
”…Y-yeah, you’re right.”
“You were kind to that dark elf, but don’t expect the same from me. …Sig Becker, you accepted the proposal, and you knew it. You used that knife for something else. You understand there’s no going back now, right?”
”…Yeah.”
Unlike Ariel, who bears the distrust of humans and men, as well as her own misfortune, and acts like a timid little animal, Rose Aldelia is the former captive princess who comes straight at you with a fastball proposal.
She was probably around 17 when she was kidnapped by the band of thieves. Now she’s 27—well past the age for an Ogre woman to marry, and definitely late in life.
But her status, her demeanor, and the beauty she’s gained with maturity are not something even an Ogre can ignore. She’s not a plain woman who missed her chance by being too slow.
Even though she was smaller than most orcs, her physical stamina was more than enough to send Sieg flying with a punch—more than enough to meet the standards of an “orc woman.” She must have turned down countless offers and waited for the opportunity to propose to Sieg.
“If you want, I can give you that jewel knife again. No, even if you become my husband, it’ll still be yours. Now, Sieg Becker, do you understand that it’s time to pay your dues?”
“Ugh, uhh…”
However, Sieg wasn’t like Andy, who would recklessly throw himself into a fight with love.
He was just an ordinary man who wanted to run when chased and chase when cornered.
Is this really okay?
Is it really okay to get caught by this woman?
Really, is this really okay, Sieg Becker?
A voice, entirely without basis, stirred up unease within him.
Sieg slowly backed away. Rose stared at him.
The lizardman shopkeeper watched with a mix of confusion and excitement, not fully understanding the situation.
And then—
”…Enough already, you useless guy!!”
“Eh, wha— nghhh!?”
Rose’s fist suddenly burst into flames.
Sieg spun through the air, using his face as a pivot point, flying about 3 meters.
He slid across the wooden floor with a thud.
Leaving the stunned lizardman clerk and Ariel behind, Rose grabbed the back of Becker’s belt and hoisted him up.
“You’ve been in the way. Take the knife to my house.”
With a cool stride, Rose dragged Sieg, who was still unconscious, out of the shop.
“Ah, wait, don’t leave me behind!”
Ariel frantically chased after them.
The lizardman clerk watched with an expressionless face, his tongue flicking in and out.
”…I’m kinda not into a wife who hits me.”
It was fortunate that no one heard the harsh words directed at the group president.
When Sieg woke up from his faint, he found himself in a dimly lit room.
“Ugh…”
“You’re awake.”
The ceiling.
The colors of the sunset sky.
A bed.
And three horns.
”…Rose?”
“I apologize. But I made it easier for you to make a decision.”
He checked his surroundings.
The dimly lit room was likely an inn. The furnishings were high-quality, so it was probably a luxury hotel or something similar in Talc.
And in the bed, Rose and I. Rose, half-naked with her shoulders peeking out from under the sheets.
At the edge of the bed, Ariel is sitting. She’s looking at me sideways with a slightly downcast expression.
“So, Becker. Isn’t it a man’s shame to let food go cold? …I don’t know what made you do that back then, but it really hurt.”
“I’m… sorry.”
“But honestly, I’m not that angry. I just thought maybe I’d touched on something from your past… your old love, or whatever.”
“…………”
It’s a bit of a problem when my trauma becomes famous.
And for the most part, he was right.
“I see. It’s just that… I’m not great with affection from someone I don’t really know. I get nervous, wondering if there’s something dark hidden behind it.”
“I…”
“No, it’s not that I didn’t trust you, but it was just too convenient. I couldn’t help thinking about how things went so smoothly back when I was obsessed with that woman. It made me break into a cold sweat.”
That’s right. Sieg is just an orphan, a prodigy who passed the trial without defeating a single enemy—famous for nothing but being a cardboard cutout of a night ace.
Sieg, stripped of his pretense, was just a self-conscious child, but Elza loved him, or at least pretended to love him.
Beyond that love was espionage, and by now Sieg had been thoroughly probed by her, to the point where he could no longer feign ignorance.
If only he had realized sooner that she was a spy, maybe he could have given her a chance to escape before the wounds became fatal.
That regret had tormented and consumed Sieg for years, preventing him from ever fully accepting the simple physical affection of another person.
It all started badly. Too badly.
After becoming so absorbed, in the end he could only kill her while kissing her. It was the ultimate cliché, the worst kind of ending.
”…I’m not old enough to be traumatized and lose control of my body anymore. And yet, I thought I’d moved past all that self-pity when I met Ariel.”
And then… he fell in love.
“So, logically, I should be fine, right?”
“N-no, but… I still don’t know you well enough now.”
“You haven’t changed since ten years ago. From the moment you saved me that morning, from that moment, I haven’t changed!”
Rose sat up abruptly.
He was clad in nothing but a single piece of cloth.
”…………”
”…………”
”…No, I thought you were wearing nice, formal clothes that morning.”
“Ugh…”
“You weren’t just in an apron.”
“Grr, ugh, shut up!! You’re the one who said out loud to that woman, ‘I want to do it!’”
Upon closer inspection, Ariel was also wearing a bare apron.
…It was a state that made it impossible to have a serious conversation.
”…Do it over. The worst man. I demand you redo the worst memory of my life.”
Rose, sulking, with a bright red face, slightly teary eyes, and a hand scrubbing Sieg’s member vigorously.
Ariel was watching this with some tension.
“A-Are you sure? I’m used to this kind of thing…”
“Ugh…”
Sieg’s member wouldn’t budge past half-erect, leaving Rose at a loss.
To be honest, Rose was pretty bad at it.
“Wait, is this your first time?”
”…Yeah.”
Rose nodded. Ariel took Sieg’s member from Rose’s hand and used her hands, tongue, and nipples to tease him while chuckling softly.
“Don’t laugh!”
“N-No, I wasn’t laughing! I just thought Rose-san was so cute…”
“Y-You’re one to talk! If only I’d had my first time ten years ago, I’d probably be at it by now…”
Sieg hooked his fingers into Rose’s small ear and stroked her head as he imagined.
If only Rose had gone with the flow that day and completed her first time.
If only I had expected something like this, I wouldn’t have been thrown into such a terrible situation.
Instead, I might have kept Sieg in my heart as a good memory and gotten married by now.
“Even though I did something terrible, thinking about how you waited for me to become clean makes it feel like it wasn’t all bad luck. For me.”
Rose, who was told she had become beautiful, almost smiled faintly but held back.
That little bit of stubbornness made her seem even more adorable.
“For me, it was bad luck. For ten years, I’ve been wondering why you did something so terrible to me. Ten years. You can’t just take that back, idiot.”
“…Are you sure you want to take it back?”
“Ten years. That’s not a small price.”
“So let’s run away.”
“If you run away this time, I’ll never forgive you.”
“…Then pay up.”
While they were talking, Ariel thrust his hardened member, nurtured by the tricks of a courtesan, right in front of Rose. Rose was momentarily startled, then turned her back and got on all fours, still with that same dissatisfied look on her face and made her request.
“Don’t run away, okay? If you do, I won’t forgive you.”
“Yes, okay… so here we go…!”
In the eyes glaring at me, the remnants of pent-up love began to burn again, filled with a sweet and bitter taste.
It was the first time someone like Rose, who had been longing for me so much, would be entering me.
It was the first time I’d truly connect with someone connected to me through love and affection, not just physically.
“Ugh…!?”
And with that, Sieg finally shed his true virginity.
“Ngh…!”
Sieg clenched Rose’s ample breasts under her apron to suppress the sudden excitement that threatened to make him lose control.
Fundamentally, it was different.
The pleasure of buying a woman and the pleasure of being enveloped in a woman’s love were entirely different.
“Hey, Rose… are you really a virgin!?”
Because of the sheer perfection of her vagina, Sieg hesitated.
Though he’d only ever been with whores before, this was the first time he’d felt a virgin. Rose’s vagina was absolutely exquisite.
From the very beginning, it gave Siek’s member such hot, soft, and bountiful pleasure, desperately trying to squeeze out every last drop.
“Of course it’s my first time… no way!! Don’t mix an orc’s body with a human’s!!”
“So you’re an orc, huh… I-I didn’t realize orcs were like this…”
It was only now that he realized it. Rose was indeed an orc.
Orcs have an extremely high vaginal tolerance. This is because orc males are exceptionally large, and their partners need to be able to handle them.
An orc’s massive member, the size of a human fist, is simply too much for a human vagina. It’s not even a question of whether it could handle it; it just can’t.
Orc women, who must swallow such a member from their first time, have a hymen, but it’s practically irrelevant when dealing with a human member.
But that doesn’t mean it’s loose.
It tightens properly and the sensation is incredibly strong.
While it might be a bit much for an orc to be gang-banged by both humans and orcs in such a short time, an orc woman’s genitals are perfectly suited for humans as well.
The mysterious genitals of that woman, so powerful as to even attract lovers of orgies from other races, had left Sieg suffering under the double punch of her natural talent and passion for intimacy.
“Ugh, damn it… Damn it, you’re too good…!!”
“Ahaha… I’m happy, so happy, Becker-san…♪”
As Rose moved her hips, she gradually grew more honest.
Gradually, she returned to the girl she had been ten years ago.
Her firm tone shifted back to that of a young girl, the casual “Becker” became the formal “Becker-san,” and as she realized the truth of being held by Sieg while her mature body, now beyond return, was in disarray, she lost herself in a powerful grind, devoid of technique, squeezing every last drop of Sieg’s essence.
“Guh…!!”
Sieg endured the pleasure.
It was almost unconscious stubbornness.
And then, as he ravaged her insides up and down, left and right, controlling the pleasure with his breath…
“Nn, kuaaaaaaaaahhhh♪♪”
He succeeded in making Rose climax.
Extract the anomaly from that rose.
Ariel, who had been dumbfoundedly watching the dynamic sex of the rose while the clumsiness of its techniques for pleasuring men with hands and mouth contrasted sharply, bit her lip and pushed him down.
“Kyaa!?”
”…I-I’m… I’m going to… hah, hah…”
Trying to calm his head, which was on the verge of exploding from pleasure, he struggled to form words.
Gently stroking Sig’s hair, Ariel smiled.
”…It’s fine.”
”…………!!”
This girl had accepted him too.
At least not as a courtesan, she was willing to accept his embrace.
Sig, exhilarated by his first real experience, grew even more excited and mercilessly thrust his already slickened anomaly into her genitals under the apron’s front flap.
“Ah, ahn… hehe, as I thought…”
“Wh-what is it… that I’m feeling…!?”
”…………”
Ariel narrowed her eyes.
“Feeling love during something naughty… it’s different, isn’t it…♪”
Ariel felt the same way as Sieg did.
Even if it was messy and chaotic.
When there’s love, it accelerates pleasure.
For the first time in a long while, Ariel, who had been asked for something beyond just her body, began to drown in pleasure with an expression that contrasted with her hips—a truly girlish one.
“Ah, mmm, hah… Sieg-san, do you… love me…!?”
“Ahh… I want to love you… I want to love you over and over, forever!!”
“Fufu… is it okay…? I, ahn… am I really allowed to crave that kind of thing…♪”
“Ahh… as long as it’s with me…!!”
With each thrust, the wet, lewd sounds echoed, and they pressed against each other’s pleasure spots with a grinding intensity.
Rose once again wanted to join in on that sex.
“Becker-san, I also… I want you to love me too… Am I not good enough…?”*
“No, you’re more than good enough… Damn it, this is so fucking amazing!!”
And then, he thrust his hand into Rose’s vagina.
“Kyau!?”
“Here, here, here!!”
Rose’s vagina tore apart with the sheer presence of Becker’s hand, ripping through her hymen.
Rose arched her back, momentarily stunned by the forceful way she was being violated, but even so, she managed to smile through her teary eyes.
“…You idiot… This is the worst… ♪”
Violating the dark elf with his crotch and the ogre with his fist…
Sieg finally lost control of the pleasure.
Connect the two women dressed in aprons to me and climb to the top.
“Aaaaaaaaaahhh!!”
“Mmm, ah, ahhh!!”
“Oohhh!!”
And then, I ejaculated with a loud sound.
It was late at night by the time Ariel, accompanied by Sieg, returned to her rented house in the maze-like slum of earthen walls.
She had also repaid the loan from the moneylender of the Tower Emblem series, eliminating any further worries.
On the way back, they whispered about how to change their lives going forward.
“I can’t offer much hospitality, but I can at least serve tea.”
“Yeah. My throat’s dry.”
They smiled and opened the door, only to find a letter stuck to it.
“This…”
Ariel opens the letter.
Sieg quickly reads the contents of the letter, even faster than Ariel.
It had become a habit during his days as an intelligence agent, but he now regretted not having stopped himself.
“Uh… that person…”
The letter was from Ariel’s ex-lover, who had disappeared after leaving her behind.
It said that the business had finally taken off and they could afford to repay their debts, so they wanted to come pick her up.
From the scribble on the corner of the envelope, it seemed they knew roughly where she was but couldn’t pinpoint the exact location, so they had asked a neighbor to deliver it.
“So…”
Ariel’s eyes wavered.
Sieg could feel Ariel’s feelings as if they were his own.
Even though he had selfishly vanished, their time together must have been more than just a day or two.
Behind Ariel’s determination to work tirelessly without running away, there was still a lingering affection for him.
Sieg can’t do anything about it, and he can’t.
After all, Sieg is nothing more than a man who suddenly appeared this morning, confessed, and wormed his way into Ariel’s heart. He’s just some intruder who only used money and power to get what he wanted.
When you think about it calmly, how much weight does such a person really have?
No.
It’s just a flashy daytime dream.
“Sieg-san…”
As Ariel turned her ear down and looked back for help, there was no one in front of her eyes anymore.
Just as if nothing had ever happened, not even footprints remained.
…………
Sieg stood in an alleyway, gazing at the moon, completely lost in thought.
A shadow cast a mocking laugh at Sieg.
“Kukuku… Aren’t you supposed to sleep in a woman’s bed tonight?”
”…Oh, you guys.”
The trio of ace nights’ bodyguards. They were clad in full leather armor and masks.
“It’s so lame.”
“Not as lame as you, though. After you paid at the tower office, the real debtor showed up. And here you are, sulking all by yourself… Hahaha, hyahahaha!”
“Doesn’t matter anyway.”
”…Our employer even said, ‘I didn’t hire you just so you could be looked down on…’”
“Ah, right. That’s why I’ve been looking for you, Sieg Becker.”
Mighty tilted his head sharply and scanned the room with his eyes.
“I won’t allow anyone to look down on me. If a wandering rat like you can’t take someone out, you’re fired. …Oh, but even though you look so clueless, you’ve got traps, wires, and oil puddles set up all over the place.”
“It’s just a habit. I don’t even think about it—I just end up setting stuff up.”
Sieg spoke in a tone as if he were chatting with a close friend.
Mighty drew his new sword and pressed it against Sieg.
“Your tactics are predictable, and you’ve been overconfident. I’m not gonna let you mess around tonight. I want to see you die in style.”
“Huh? Nah, that’s too much trouble.”
Sieg flapped his hands with a defeated expression.
“Fine, just die already, Sieg Becker.”
Maito leaped. Leon ran along the wall, and Davis swung his mace as if tamping down the ground while smashing traps and charging forward.
Sieg casually stood up and suddenly decapitated Maito.
”!?”
It was as if Maito’s body and head had split apart in a wail of grief. Davis and Leon froze in shock.
Sieg cracked his neck and flicked the bloodied knife with a flourish.
“Well, you know, I said earlier that I don’t kill punks or civilians, but…”
Sieg grinned with wide eyes.
“Lies, you bastards. Don’t come at me when I’m in a bad mood. It just makes me happy.”
The following morning, their bodies were discovered behind the Tower Emblem’s office.
“Haah…”
After having breakfast at Carlos’s residence, Sieg slumped his shoulders and headed to the shared carriage station.
It was about time for him to part ways with Diene and the others, report on Lyla’s existence and Andy’s treatment, and seek instructions from Minister Ashton regarding future activities.
Being alone at a time like this made him happy. He scolded himself internally, thinking, “You can’t just go wild, you’ve got to think about your age.” He decided to take it easy for a while, enjoying the carriage ride.
And then…
“Becker!!”
“Sieg-san!”
As Sieg was about to board the carriage, a hand reached out from behind and pulled him down.
It was Rose. And beside her was Ariel. Both were dressed for travel.
“What do you think you’re doing trying to run away? Marriage isn’t just a one-day event, is it?”
“Um, um… I’ll say I received the knife! Not money!”
”…Huh? What?”
The two of them laughed at Sieg, who was staring blankly.
“The proposal is accepted!”
Now it’s time to make up for the worst possible start.