“Are you really this weak?” I spoke so quietly, that Calypso couldn’t hear.
As those words struck Salicia’s ears, her hands stopped, the blade raised over her head. Salicia was a proud woman, nearing the level of narcissistic. How could she possibly stand to be insulted like that?
“You let others control you so easily. I thought you were a Bandit Queen, but apparently this is as far as a Bandit Queen goes. A minion for another woman.”
Her body shook. At this point, Calypso realized she had frozen.
“What are you doing? Cut her down! Cut her down now!”
“You weren’t strong enough in that dungeon. You failed to accumulate wealth. You failed to save your sister. Now, you’re still failing.”
“Sh-sh-shut up!” Her eyes had turned red, and her entire body was shaking.
It was the first time she had ever spoken while she was under the control of Calypso. Her words seemed to catch the other woman off guard too.
“Ignore him! Just kill him!” Calypso screamed.
“I’m sorry…” Tears began to well up in her eyes, her grip on her sword tightening.
“Salicia, if you don’t help, who’s going to help me defile women?”
Her eyes widened, and then a slow smirk formed on her face. “I guess it can’t be helped.”
Her movements suddenly became explosive, but instead of attacking, she flew back, slamming into the unprepared Calypso. She spun around, grabbing Calypso and holding her in place, preventing her retreat.
“What are you doing?” Calypso cried out. “Get your hands off me, puppet?”
“How can I stop until Master breaks you? If I don’t give him regular sacrifices, then he might take me!”
“Is that what you think of me?”
“Master, please, your speech reached me deep down.” Salicia blushed, her words clearly seeming a bit misleading.
“That worked!” I cried out in surprise, and then coughed. “Ahem… I mean… of course!”
“So, please, have at her!”
“Why do I sound like the criminal now?”
At this exact point, the barrier that had been keeping the other girls in the rink shattered. Lydia leaped up to my side. She immediately pulled out a potion, handing it to me. Having grown used to taking mana or health potions being handed to me, I impulsively drunk it. Then, I looked at it to see that it was actually the gender bender potion. I could feel myself turning back into a man.
“Why was this necessary?”
“So, Master can finish defiling Calypso?”
“Is that what you all think of me? Since, when did I become the breaker of women?”
“There is a precedent for this kind of thing,” Lydia said helplessly.
“Like what?” I responded tearfully.
“Well, there was my mother,” Celeste said.
“That was a special circumstance!”
“Then, there was Elaya.”
“The siren and the giant.”
“Not even Dungeon Masters!”
The girls decided now to give me a hard time, but what did I do to deserve any of it? I was mostly joking with that last line; I didn’t think everyone would take it so seriously. All of my actions up until now had been completely logical. I was just a victim of circumstance. Just because I had seduced several dungeon bosses didn’t mean that I planned to break Calypso. What kind of guy would that make me? I needed to make this clear to my girls.
“Look, I have no plan to violate Calypso! She came on to me. If she didn’t want me to reach inside her and take away her special something… holy crap, I’m defiling her.”
I suddenly felt depressed.