“How did this happen?”
Now, I find myself waking up, surrounded by three beautiful girls.
“My King…”
“My Lord…”
“Master.”
Each of them is a different type of beauty.
A classic silver-haired beauty, a red-haired, ponytail-wearing beauty with sharp eyes and no highlights, and a gloomy, black-haired, “troublemaker” type beauty with tired eyes.
It’s the kind of love-comedy event that fits perfectly in a fantasy world.
However, these three…
They’re strong characters that could easily destroy my perfect villainous performance.
This is not good.
They must be here to repay me for yesterday. But earlier, for a moment, I was seriously panicking—
“Enemy attack!!!!! Enemy attack!!!! Player! Enemy attack!!! Enemy attack!!! Aaaaaaahhh!!!!”
Yeah, thanks, Navi.
It’s funny how people calm down when they see someone freaking out more than they are.
Now that I’ve calmed down, alright, let’s begin.
Time to roleplay the villainous behavior I aspire to!
“My King… You are so warm… Not even the winter in the north can freeze your soul.”
“My Lord… Your magic is strange… It’s so… human.”
“Master, I can hear the sound of blood. Ah, what a scent of blood and death, fufu…”
…Their eyes are scary.
If I don’t play the villain role properly, I’m done for…
I can’t lose.
“Who gave you permission to step into my domain, you fools?”
“!!!”
The three, who had been lying next to me with melting expressions, instantly jump away and kneel, bowing on one knee.
I know what they’re up to.
An ambush! A payback! A counterattack!
Too bad.
If that’s your plan, I have no choice but to respond.
“I commend you for finding this place, you three knights.”
“My King…”
“My Lord…”
“Master.”
“Enough, words are unnecessary.”
After a good night’s sleep, my curse power has fully recovered. I didn’t expect a rematch so soon…
This is dangerous.
They broke through the masking effects of the mask, launched a night raid, and even waited for me to wake up—
Naked!!
Psychopaths!! Somebody call for help!!
“Curse activation—”
“Curse! We have come to serve you, my Lord!”
“…Huh?”
“We deeply apologize. You were sleeping so defenselessly, on such a simple bed, that…”
“We thought we should warm you with our bodies…”
“M-Master, if you caught a cold, y-you’d die. Mortals die so easily.”
“…What?”
What is even happening?
Summary:
It turns out, they didn’t come to kill me.
Quite the opposite—
“My King, you accepted my curse. You told us, who had only death as salvation, to live.”
Did I say that?
“My Lord, you looked straight at me and arrogantly declared that I would not destroy the world. You said I could live as long as I stayed by your side.”
Didn’t I, though?
“M-M-Master, Master, Master… Master… You told me that meeting you was fate. You said the curse and hunger were all for the purpose of us meeting!!”
I definitely didn’t say that.
“Thus, we…”
The naked girls kneel before me.
“Domination.”
“War.”
“Famine.”
“We, the three apocalyptic weapons, pledge our lives to you.”
Uh… scary.
These people don’t listen!
They’re the real deal… true evil, unlike me.
I can’t win. I’m still just a mob character.
—Maybe I should have become a villain after all. I should have done that from the beginning.
No! It’s too soon to give up.
Think the other way around.
These crazed, totally broken people with tragic pasts and dire backgrounds…
“My King, your command?”
“My Lord, I am at your disposal.”
“M-M-Master, please decide everything…”
If I made them my subordinates, it would be pretty villain-like!
I’ve decided!
I’m going to make them my allies!
I’ll become the villain who rules over true evil with high intellect and charisma!
Haha, let’s do this! The roleplay of a charismatic villain!
“Raise your heads.”
“Yes.”
“What are your names?”
“Well—”
“No, not your titles. Your names.”
“My King, we have no common names. The moment we realized our fate, we were only given titles.”
The silver-haired girl answers.
Huh… that’s… heavy… Is that allowed? Having no names like that?
No, this is an opportunity, not a crisis.
I can’t be afraid.
“We are merely weapons of our respective species. Weapons have no names. My King, please call me by my title—Domination—as your knight, your weapon, your strength.”
“I don’t need any external power or weapons.”
“…As I thought, I… am not…”
The three of them visibly droop.
Wait, what part of that made them so dejected?
Well, no matter. I’ll recruit them properly.
“What I need are intelligent comrades. Comrades who understand my goals and can help me accomplish great things.”
“Huh?”
“Domination, you have no name? Then I’ll give you one.”
“Domination” is hard to say anyway.
Hmm, white hair… and something about the north…
Think… white, north, domination… horse…
“White… North… White North Sainrider. From today, your name is White.”
“White… My King… You are giving me a name? Oh, my King… sob…”
“W-What?”
She’s crying!!
W-Was it bad? I thought it was cool… “I am White” and all that…
“That’s unfair… My Lord… My Lord, I don’t have a name either…”
“I-Is it okay if I give you one?”
“Eh?”
Oops. I accidentally spoke in my normal voice.
I need to return to my 108 villainous role models and regain my villainous aura!
“Ahem, very well. You are… red, right? Scarlet. Scarlet Elva Creekrider. From today, you are Scarlet.”
“Scarlet… Ah, My Lord…”
The red-haired ponytail elf girl froze, too.
W-Was the name not good again?
“M-M-Master… I-I want one too… It’s not fair, Domination and War got names…”
“It’s White.”
“It’s Scarlet.”
“S-So unfair! I-I’m always left out… just like always… I’m…”
The black-haired troublemaker girl begins to emit black miasma.
It’s starting to take shape. That’s—wait! Isn’t that the curse-stealing technique from yesterday!?
I won’t let you!
Curse power, activate!!
Twelve Zodiac Suppression Technique! Go, mice!!
“Aww, how cute!”
“Ah… how intricate and beautiful, this summoning magic is…”
“A-Ah… ahh…”
“Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!!”
In an instant, a horde of mice bites into the scales and devours them.
What… scary… I didn’t mean for them to eat it.
I just wanted to distract her and then hit her with a curse…
“Amazing… such a clear, and numerous summoning…”
“I… I did it again… Master, Master, Master, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, please don’t abandon me, don’t…”
“Not bad, Kuro. Your… magic? This power. When you summoned those scales, it forcibly drained the target’s magic. Hmm, but since it’s in the form of scales, I bet it has other effects too.”
“Kuro…? Kuro?”
The black-haired girl looks puzzled.
Time to put my high IQ and naming sense to work!
“It’s your name. From today, you are Kuro… Kuro Arkado Hungerider.”
“…Fufufu. Kuro, I’m Kuro from today! Master gave me a name…!!”
The girl smiles brightly.
Oh, did she like it?
Haha, good! Seems like it worked.
—They can be useful. Their powers are perfect offerings for my techniques.
Alright! I’m getting into the groove!
“My King, my name is White… the name you gave me, mine alone…”
“My Lord, I am Scarlet… bound to you by the curse…”
“Master, I’m Kuro, your servant, forever and always.”
The three girls kneel before me.
Yeah, not bad.
Their white skin shines in the morning sunlight, creating a sharp contrast.
Their soft, youthful bodies, still not fully matured, surely hold the fresh firmness of youth…
Wait… naked???
“…Where are your clothes?”
“Clothes???”
Oh no!!
Clothes!! Clothes, clothes, clothes!! I
I need to get them dressed!!
