Vice’s right hand, which had been toying with Kazui’s left chest, reached down to his crotch again. She confirmed the sensation of his manhood, which was clearly starting to harden and grow larger than before.
"It’s gotten quite big already."
With a triumphant expression, she continued:
"I know both your preferences and your sensitive spots, so making this of yours get hard is easy."
Vice stopped caressing him, leaned forward, and brought her face close to Kazui’s.
"Of course, having sex with you... and killing you... will be just as easy."
Hearing her clearly say the word "kill" made Kazui’s face twist in fear.
"You’re so scared... you’re really adorable!"
In a cheerful tone, she went on:
"Since you’re so cute, I could give you a special service and tell you a way you might survive even after being attacked by a succubus... Do you want to hear it?"
"Of course I want to hear it if you’re going to tell me!"
"Then I’ll tell you."
While lightly stroking his manhood, Vice explained:
"In short, as long as you don’t cum inside while having sex with a succubus, you’re fine. A succubus can’t completely drain a man’s Enevitè unless he finishes inside her."
(Now that I think about it, someone once said something like that.)
Kazui recalled a conversation he had overheard by chance at a restaurant for adventurers near the guild hall. Several male adventurers who had been drinking had been excitedly discussing vulgar stories about succubi.
"In short, even if a succubus violates you, as long as you don’t cum inside, you’re fine! Just shoot it outside!"
A middle-aged drunk adventurer had continued cheerfully while downing his glass of alcohol:
"If you do that, she can’t drain your Enevitè, so you won’t die!"
(Was that story actually true?)
Until now, Kazui had dismissed it as the unreliable talk of a drunkard. But since Vice had said the same thing, he was now starting to think it might be genuine.
Of course, there was still a chance Vice was lying.
"Is that true?"
Vice answered immediately:
"It’s true. I can’t completely drain Enevitè unless the man cums inside me."
Her words were the truth. A succubus could only fully drain Enevitè after a man reached climax and ejaculated inside her body.
"Well... whether you believe me or not is up to you, but if you want to survive, I don’t think there’s any other way."
After whispering that, Vice kissed Kazui again. She caressed his chest with her left hand and his crotch with her right.
Both her tongue and fingers were skillful. Even though he was about to be killed, Kazui felt himself melting from the pleasure. His arousal rose, and his manhood grew even harder and larger.
But suddenly Vice stopped caressing him, pulled her lips away, and sat up.
"...We’ll continue after I deal with this nuisance."
As she spoke, she turned to her left — which was Kazui’s right. She had keenly sensed the presence of an intruder.
"Kazu! Are you okay?!"
Suddenly a woman’s voice rang out. It was a slightly low voice for a woman, and one Kazui did not recognize.
"I’m okay!"
Not knowing whose voice it was, Kazui shouted back.
(Who is that? She seems to know me...)
Although his neck was bound by the vines, he could still turn his head. Curious about the owner of the voice, he looked to the right. About a hundred meters away, he saw the figure of a woman who was probably the one who had called out.
She had a good figure, with long red hair tied in a ponytail. She wore a revealing red bustier and short shorts, red gloves, and high-cut red boots.
Kazui did not have a Farsight-type skill, but his eyesight was quite good, so he could roughly make out her appearance. He couldn’t clearly see her face from that distance, though.
The red-haired woman had been secretly approaching Kazui and Vice. But when Vice turned toward her, she realized she had been noticed, stopped, and called out to Kazui.
"Thank goodness! Just wait, I’ll save you right now!"
The red-haired woman raised her voice and began emitting a red light from her entire body.
(Aura... is she a fighter?)
Kazui guessed she was a martial artist. She was unarmed and was releasing powerful aura light from her whole body.
The red light around her body quickly disappeared, but her right fist continued to glow red. With her right fist shining, she dashed fiercely toward Kazui and Vice.
Trailing a tail of red light, she charged at high speed. From a distance she would have looked like a red shooting star.
Her speed was considerable; she was clearly using Aura Speeder or a higher-tier skill of the same type. Like a red gale, she closed the more than one-hundred-meter distance in an instant and, without slowing down, threw a right straight punch.
Her right fist, wrapped in powerful red aura, aimed for Vice’s head. Many humanoid monsters had weaknesses in the head or chest, and destroying those weak points was often necessary to defeat them, so she targeted Vice’s head.
From Kazui’s perspective, the attack was far too fast for him to react to. But Vice responded with complete composure.
"Lux Orbiche!"
She finished the spell by speaking the magic name. From the moment the woman began her dash, Vice had already been chanting at an abnormally fast pace with a calm expression, and she closed the spell with the magic name.
Immediately afterward, the blue-glowing magic circle that had appeared at her feet vanished, and a translucent blue dome of light formed around both Vice and Kazui. It was a defensive barrier with a radius of about three meters, created by the defensive magic "Lux Orbiche."
At first glance it looked like a thin glass hemisphere emitting blue light. However, the barrier also extended underground, making it a full spherical barrier.
The defensive barrier appeared before the red-haired woman’s right straight could reach Vice. As a result, the powerful aura-wrapped punch was stopped by the barrier and never reached its target.