"Wait a moment, don't touch that! That's the Spring of the Drowned Woman!"
From a certain standpoint, I still had a conscience.
If Adam really drank it, not only would Marguerite and Anne not let me off the hook, just thinking about how impactful a female version of Adam would be was something I couldn't handle, so I hurriedly shouted for him to stop.
"The Spring of the Drowned Woman? A gender replacement potion!? "
However, the one who was the most excited wasn't Adam, who hurriedly tossed aside the bottle. Instead, it was Victoria, who had been maintaining her calm appearance.
I paused in surprise for a moment, but then I recalled that back in the day when Kolos and Harloys were together, Victoria had probably heard my promise to Kolos.
Back then, even if "she" saw it and was anxious, she couldn't express it. After all, it was Rose, the venerated ruler of the dark elves, who had turned "him" into "her." The consequences of attempting to remove the God's Punishment would be the same as defying the will of the Gods. The "her" back then wouldn't be able to bear the consequences.
Besides, back then, she was still Rose's priestess, which was a privilege reserved for women. In the dark elf generation where women were superior to men, it was impossible for her to give up on the status and privileges of being a woman.
However, "he" had lived as a man for the past several centuries, and had only lived as a woman for a few years. Mentally, he had always thought of himself as a man. Now that he heard that there was a chance for him to regain his male identity, he was delighted.
"Your Highness Roland, is this for real? You can turn me back into a man? That's wonderful! "
Victoria immediately came over to me. Her gentle and beautiful face was right in front of me, and her faint rose fragrance had a hypnotic effect. This guy was even more difficult to deal with than before. Behind her, her older sister was looking at me with a pleading expression, as if she was waiting for me to give her an affirmative answer.
"This won't be easy …"
It was indeed difficult to refuse an old subordinate's pleading. However, I had already promised Kolos, and she should have arrived by now. That was why I placed the potion on the table. Although Victoria was also quite pitiful, since I had promised her earlier …
"This is the Spring of the Drowned Woman. It can only turn men into women. The Spring of the Drowned Man can turn women into men …"
"Your Highness Roland, Your Highness Roland, I heard you found the Spring of the Drowned Man. Where is it? Where is it?"
At this moment, the one who rushed in with an extremely joyful smile, isn't it Kolos who just arrived? Her joy made her flower-like smile even more radiant. The moment the wild elf entered, she continuously giggled at me.
"I …"
I rubbed my head helplessly. Maybe this was fate. System, you really didn't want to trick me on purpose, right?
[No. Have you forgotten? There are few in this world whose luck value is lower than yours. Do you think that just because their luck is lower than yours, fate will allow them to easily remove the curse? Don't worry, it's the two of them who are doomed, at least for now.]
Kolos was delighted to see that Victoria was here. The two of them shared the same fate, and they had a good personal relationship. They often wrote to each other and talked about many private matters. Of course, she was happy to see her sister here without any prior arrangements.
She then noticed that her sister was looking at her with unfriendly expressions. The wild elf girl's face instantly paled. She realized that the reason why the two of them had such a good relationship was because they shared the same fate. And now, the only antidote was right in front of her.
"Even if we're sisters, this is the only thing I can't give up."
"That's right, Sister Kolos. Let's have a fair competition."
I felt rather uncomfortable hearing the word "fair competition" come out of a dark elf's mouth. But soon, I was able to understand what the dark elves meant by "fair competition."
"Your Highness Roland, 200,000 gold coins, 10,000 Justice Points, and 30 beauties of various species. Please rest assured that this is all my personal property. It's completely legal. If you have any special requests, please let me know. It won't be just money. No matter if it's the beastmen of the northern icy plains or the fishmen of the coastline, I'll satisfy them all!"
Alright then, it was quite fair of me to directly bribe me.
Meanwhile, Kolos opened her mouth wide with an expression of disbelief. In the end, she was unable to say anything and could only look at me with an expression of wanting to cry.
Victoria was the true leader of the dark elves. Not only did dark elf society have a system of slavery, it also had a theocracy and a system of private ownership. From a certain standpoint, all of dark elf society was under her control. Compared to her wealth, Kolos' meager salary was nothing at all.
Besides, this potion was my personal property. It was only natural for me to do whatever I wanted with it.
Kolos seemed to have noticed the difference in wealth between us. She had an expression of despair as tears silently flowed out of her eyes. Meanwhile, Victoria was looking at me in high spirits as she kept raising the price.
I shook my head. This was becoming a farce. I had to say something.
"I promised Kolos before. Although it was only a verbal promise, I don't have the habit of going back on promises."
"Cough, I'm Harloys, Amelia, Eliza, and the opponents that you screwed over in the past … Are you sure that what you just said is convincing?"
"Don't make things difficult for me. At the very least, I have a good reputation in their eyes."
"A beauty isn't moved? When have you ever been able to resist the temptation of money? Haven't you been so poor recently that you're even writing IOUs for food? "
"Hmph, you're looking down on me too much … Fine then, stop laughing at me through our soul connection. I admit that I'm slightly moved. If she had secretly discussed it with me, I might have considered it. But if I agreed so openly, wouldn't I be labeled as greedy and lecherous? Human society isn't dark elf society. If I have a bad reputation, it'll be quite troublesome to do many things."
I took out the red potion and was about to directly hand it to Kolos, who was crying tears of joy. Victoria's face instantly paled, but she was powerless to do anything.
But at this moment, Diana came over. She knelt down on one knee and raised her head to beg me.
"Your Highness Roland, I only have this one younger brother. I'm begging you, I'm willing to pay anything in exchange for your generosity. Please give my younger brother a chance to be a man out of consideration for all the hard work I've done for you for so many years!"
Ptui, what did she mean by asking me to give her a chance to be a man? If word got out, wouldn't people think that I was a pervert who lusted after men? The guards outside were already secretly peeking at us. Are you all going to be unhappy until you ruin my reputation?
I became even angrier, but I really couldn't reprimand this female Knight who had always been so loyal to me. Victoria seemed to have discovered that I was amenable to persuasion but not coercion, so she immediately knelt down as well. She even went one step further and hugged my right leg as she wailed loudly.
"Your Highness, I'm so pitiful, truly pitiful. Nobody can understand my pain for so many years …"
Under Victoria's gaze, Diana was still unable to hug Victoria's thigh. But when Momo saw this situation, she pounced on Diana like a bird. Not only did she hug Victoria's left thigh, but she also rubbed her head against Victoria's thigh and muttered some strange words.
"What an amazing touch. Touch, touch, pinch, lick …"
Young lady? What happened to your honor as a Knight? Even if you don't have any bottom line, you should at least have some moral integrity! Don't, drool, drool!
I wouldn't show any mercy to Momo at all. I unhesitatingly kicked out with my left foot, but I wasn't able to pull my leg away. Instead, she kept rubbing against me. When I reached a critical point, I felt a chill crawl up my back from my heels to my spine.
I took a deep breath and smiled. Momo saw me smile and smiled back. Then, she froze.
My left leg and Momo's were frozen together, but it was already much more comfortable than before. I silently pulled my right leg out from Victoria's grasp and limped over to a chair before silently sitting down.
* Thud! Thud! Thud! *
The sound of my ice Dark Elf Knight crashing against the floor echoed far into the distance. Momo was still giggling foolishly inside the ice. Everyone wanted to laugh but didn't dare to.
Although having a block of ice and a Dark Elf Knight on my leg was rather embarrassing, my anger still made me seem rather dignified in front of my former subordinates.
"Where's that brat Xueti? Didn't I tell him to come? "
Kolos wiped away her tears and shook her head.
"… He came. He heard about the Spring of the Drowned Man and said that he wanted to go to the volcano to soak in the hot springs. He said that he'd come back to see Your Highness after a while."
"That sly bastard. He's clearly a bull, but why is he so sly?"
It would seem that the Spring of the Drowned Man had already alerted Xueti, so he sent Kolos to scout ahead. This was going to be quite troublesome.
But right now, I didn't have the time to care about the bull. Even though it was clearly "their" misfortune, why did it suddenly become my misfortune? Just what did I do to deserve this?
[Both of them have super negative luck. You're no better off. Misfortune will only summon even more misfortune. Since they're together, it's only natural that everyone around them will suffer misfortune. You're just an innocent victim.]
I felt rather helpless as I kept feeling like the two bottles in my hands were hot potatoes.
I didn't really care about anything else. I wouldn't care too much about what Victoria and Momo thought. However, not only was Diana an honest person, she had truly given her all for my career and helped me gain a lot of fame. This was the first time that she had ever begged me, and she was even willing to give up everything she had. If I refused, not only would my other subordinates be bitterly disappointed, I would also feel quite bad about it.
This was what it meant when it was easy to bully smart people. However, if you wanted to bully honest people, you'd have to go through yourself first.
"You guys can discuss it among yourselves. Tell me the final result."
In the end, I could only play the ball. But soon, I regretted my decision to stall for time.
That very night, a dark elf snuck into my bedroom. Not only that, she was the most beautiful dark elf in all of dark elf society.
"My dear Prince Roland, for 'that', I'm willing to give up everything that's most precious to me. I know that you have high standards, but I, the Queen of Darkness of the dark elves, am the best tribute to my species. I can satisfy all of your desires. "
The "young girl" trembled as she took off her clothes. The moment she revealed her fragrant shoulders, I kicked her away with an awkward expression.
"I'm not interested in men! Even if I'm mentally male! I'm not gay! "
And then, the next night, Diana arrived …
I tried my best to persuade the female Knight who had an expression of resolution to sacrifice herself, but I was unable to convince her to leave. She was like an ancient tree that had taken root there. She was the strongest Anti-Holy Knight in the entire world. Even I had no way of dealing with her. But fortunately, she was an honest person. She was difficult to convince but easy to trick. In the end, we talked about the Spirit of Law and the Knight's faith for an entire night, successfully making her forget about the mission that her younger brother had given her. Finally, she yawned and walked out of my room under everyone's ambiguous gazes.
On the third day, I was only half-asleep when I was woken up by a scream outside my door. I saw that Momo had activated a lightning trap, so I had Harloys cast a soundproof barrier on the door before I turned around and continued sleeping. I even had a good dream.
However, the result was the scariest. It was said that Momo screamed for half the night. She was screaming for the first half of the night, but she became quite strange in the second half. During dinner, she even excitedly said that she had awakened a new interest, and was even drooling as she talked. She even talked about the feeling of His Highness Roland's thighs … My reputation was completely ruined.
Another result of my reputation being ruined was that on the fourth night, Krose, who was trembling uncontrollably, walked in wearing a thin white veil, hoping to make up for what had happened … And then, I spent half the night explaining everything to Krose and comforting her as she couldn't stop crying. When she finally calmed down, I sent her out …
And then, the guards saw me carrying a crying Kolos. Even though I hadn't done anything, at that moment, I really had the urge to kill them to silence them.
On the second day, fine then, I was now the rumored "Elven Hunter" …
I was truly wronged!
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