Chapter 29: Knightly Training -2-

A temporary camp set up by the lakeshore.

Over the crackling bonfire, the rich, salty smell of grilled eel filled the air.

"Kuhahaha! Eel really is best when it's grilled over charcoal! Boy, your cooking skills are absolutely incredible!"

Nobu gnawed away at a thick skewer, sauce smeared all around her mouth as she chewed noisily.

Thanks to her characteristically boisterous personality, she was doing an excellent job as the mood-maker.

The other Servants also seemed completely taken with the taste of the unfamiliar ingredient.

"At first it looked like some kind of insect, but once you put it in your mouth, it's chewy and sweet."

Penthesilea reacted with visible surprise, and Caenis seemed to like it too.

While everyone else chatted noisily and enjoyed dinner, one person alone couldn't focus on the meal and kept fidgeting restlessly.

It was Barghest.

Without even thinking of biting into the huge meat skewer in her hand, she kept stealing glances at me from across the bonfire.

With her large, golden-retriever-like appearance, and her cheeks flushed deep red from either the heat of the fire or something else entirely, she looked especially conspicuous.

"The timing Stheno talked about... it's coming. If I don't make a move first, I might end up getting even less of Master's attention than the others...!"

While she steeled herself inwardly, I rose from my seat with a light stretch.

"Eat up, everyone. I'm going to step away for a moment and take care of something."

As I left the camp and headed into the dark forest, Barghest swallowed hard and quietly rose from her seat to follow after me.

Deep in the forest, in a clearing where only moonlight filtered softly through the leaves.

After lightly taking care of my business and straightening my clothes to head back to camp, a massive shadow suddenly sprang up behind me and blocked my path.

"Whoa. You startled me."

The one standing in front of me was none other than Barghest.

Her overwhelming height, easily reaching 190 centimeters, her breasts so full they looked ready to burst, her slim waist, and the sensual line of her hips were laid bare beneath the moonlight.

"What is it, Barghest? Did you need the bathroom that badly?"

At my teasing joke, Barghest blushed, but remembering Stheno's advice, she forced herself to act calm, puffed out her chest, and stepped closer to me.

"I-it's not that, Master..."

Abandoning her usual crisp knightly manner of speech, she spoke in a soft voice with a strangely nasal sweetness mixed into it as she lightly pressed her full breasts against my arm.

This kind of blatant seduction was something she had never once attempted in her life as a Fairy Knight.

Even with her ears red to the tips and her pupils shaking, she desperately tried to force a sultry look into her eyes.

"M-Master. Tonight... the moon is very bright and beautiful, isn't it? Perhaps with me... a walk alone in the forest... ah, it's hot."

She awkwardly tugged at the neckline near her cleavage, subtly showing off her overwhelming volume. It was exactly as Stheno had advised her: men were weak to visual stimulation, so she should absolutely play up her breasts.

It was such an obvious and clumsy attempt at seduction from the Fairy Knight.

At her desperate and adorable effort, I couldn't help letting out a quiet laugh.

"Barghest. Have you been pent up for a while?"

At my blunt question, Barghest's eyes widened in flustered shock.

"W-what...!"

"Looks like you got some romance coaching from Stheno, but you don't need to force some clumsy seduction that doesn't suit your personality. You're more than beautiful and sexy enough just standing still."

At my plain but sincere praise, the rims of Barghest's eyes instantly reddened.

Giving up the awkward act she had been trying to put on, she began pouring out the grievances she had kept buried in her heart, sounding deeply aggrieved.

"I-I'm hurt, Master. Ever since you were little, I watched over you by your side in the forest of Tintagel. And even after you grew up so quickly... I made it that obvious beside you, and yet for the past several years, you never laid so much as a fingertip on me."

Barghest continued in a dejected voice.

"I can understand Medea, since she herself keeps her distance... but I have never once rejected you, Master! And yet you touched Caenis first, even though she came later than I did..."

She confessed in a voice tinged with resentment.

"Since your childhood, I have watched by your side as you trained brutally and grew stronger. That bloody effort, those drops of sweat, that spirit you gave off as you gradually became stronger... I truly loved all of it, and I came to love you. As you are now, in all of Britain, you are the only man who suits me best... so why is it that you won't confess to me alone?!"

The Fairy Knight's heartfelt and desperate complaint.

I gently brushed the corner of her eye and smiled softly.

"Don't get the wrong idea, Barghest. It's not because I thought you lacked charm as a woman that I didn't touch you. If anything, it's the opposite."

"What...?"

"You're a dependable shield that protects me, and you're the type who likes strong men. So I waited. Until I completely surpassed your strength and your Mana... until I became a real man who could perfectly overpower you with my own strength and protect you. I thought I still needed more training before that. But I didn't know you'd already acknowledged me."

My stubborn, straightforward, considerate tyrant's romance.

Realizing the sincerity behind it, Barghest's pupils shook violently.

The hurt born from misunderstanding vanished as if washed away, and in its place, blind affection and worship toward me surged up beyond control.

"Strength is not merely physical strength alone. It was your unwavering conviction and effort... that made me fall for you..."

That was the moment.

From deep within her, where love and reverence had reached their peak, the hideous curse of Fairy Britain burst forth before she could suppress it: the instinct to devour the one she loved.

"N-ngh...! Ahh... Master... I love you... too much...!"

Barghest's eyes flashed grotesquely as they began turning a blood-red crimson. Breathing harshly, she clamped both my shoulders in a crushing grip like iron pincers.

"N-no... I have to control it...! I want to... eat you, Master...!"

Sticky drool from a beast that had lost its reason ran long from the corner of her mouth.

Tears streaming painfully from her eyes, Barghest forced her mouth wide open to bite down and swallow my head. A beast's maw, lined with gleaming sharp fangs.

But I wasn't flustered in the slightest.

Instead, I let out a faint chuckle and, without a moment's hesitation, thrust my right hand deep into the hot, wet mouth she had opened to swallow me.

"Mnghk...!?"

My hand did not go for her sharp teeth, but for the soft root of her tongue deep inside her mouth. I grabbed the fierce beast's tongue tightly and yanked it down hard.

No matter how savage a hunting hound might be, if its tongue is seized and pulled, the strength leaves its jaws, its whole body goes limp, and it starts gagging. Barghest was no exception.

"Uup...! Khk...!"

In an instant, the strength left Barghest's jaw, and the blood-red madness vanished from her eyes, returning them to their original clear pupils.

The strength left her legs, and she collapsed to the ground.

"I have not the slightest intention of getting eaten physically, Barghest. It'd be too unfair if I died before making you my woman."

I grabbed her massive shoulders as she sat there gasping and pulled her toward me.

"But instead of you eating me... tonight, I'll strip you clean to the bone and devour you myself."

At my blatant, feral declaration, Barghest, who had been clutching her jaw and coughing, lowered her gaze toward my pants.

The massive heat of Pendragon was already swollen to its limit, flaunting its fierce presence.

"Gulp..."

Before the pressure of a powerful male declaring that he would devour her, her predatory urge was utterly subdued and transformed into an intense masochistic pleasure.

"Please... devour every part of me without leaving anything behind... Master..."

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