chapter 17

By the boat.

Merlin threw Alice into the boat like a sack of potatoes.

Alice frowned at the pain coming from her butt and secretly scold Merlin for his lack of gentlemanliness.

“Beautiful lady, let’s get down to business, he-he-he~”

Merlin touched his chin, and his eyes flashed with evil intent, both of which makes him look particularly rotten.

If you had to describe a rapist, the image Merlin is currently portraying would be a perfect fit.

Alice, with a pale complexion and a panicked expression, recoiled to the stern, and couldn’t help but tremble.

What now?

Does he want to violate me here?

Will my first time be in such a place…

Alice’s face flushed, and she crossed her arms in front of her chest, her heart in her throat.

“Get away from me! I won’t yield!”

Merlin, looking at Alice’s stubborn appearance, chuckled, “That’s not up to you. You’ll do what I tell you to do, capeesh? If not, then don’t blame me if I throw you into the sea to swim with the sharks~”

Alice choked and became even more frightened.

She turned her head and looked at the scarlet sea, where a frenzy of maneater sharks is tearing dead sailors apart.

In her current state, injured and spent as she is, if she is thrown into the sea, she will die without a shadow of a doubt.

Alice’s expression became even more unsightly. Rather than being eaten alive by sharks, might as well pick up my sword and cut my throat.

“You… what do you want!”

“You don’t know what I want? Okay, enough nonsense, I’m in a hurry. He-he-he~” Merlin rubbed his hands, looking forward to leaving the Death Marshes.

For Merlin, who has never traveled far from home, the outside world is full of allure.

Alice is really scared, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, thinking that there’s a X-rated video about to be stage here, and she’s the female lead.

The proud her can’t stand such a thing, feeling that it’ll be a stain on her soul.

Alice drew her rapier. Instead of attacking Merlin, she put it against her own throat and threatened with sparkling tears in her eyes —

“If you dare touch me, I’ll end my own life!”

“Don’t think that because you’re strong that you can violate me at will!”

“Even if I die, I won’t let you have your way, you sex fiend!”

Hey!

When did it become like this?

Do I look that much like a rapist?

What’s wrong with this girl’s head!

How did such an idiot become a Hero!?

Her Hero predecessors must be bowing their heads in shame!

Merlin’s face darkened. He really doesn’t want to explain things, since people whose head is filled with obscenities see obscenities everywhere.

He kicked the oar next to his foot briskly and smacked Alice in the forehead with it, causing her to drop the rapier.

After all the trouble he went through to catch her, Merlin doesn’t want this laborer to die here. He is still going to rely on Alice to row the oars and leave this desolate place. But once they reach the land of Great Britain, her fate will be of no concern to him.

“Owww…” Alice clasped her red forehead, and her eyes reddened from anger, “Just get to it, if you have to! But is there a need to be so violent!? A guy like you will never get a girlfriend!”

Merlin felt his spirit ache. It seems that his ego was wounded by Alice’s words.

Right…

I have been in this world for so long, yet I still have no girlfriend.

I am clearly handsome. But why is there no girl other than my younger sister at my side?

Merlin remembered his younger sister’s vicious words when he was leaving, and he suddenly had a realization.

No matter how you look at it, I not having a girlfriend is all Lilith’s fault!

Merlin coughed lightly to hide his embarrassment and said —

“You don’t know a dawn thing.”

“I’m going to practice asceticism until I’m 30…”

“And become a wizard [1]!”