Volume 3 - CH 17

Act 3-17: The Velos Ball 2

Beautiful music echoed across the venue.

If goblins were present in this ball and had heard this kind of music, they would run away as fast as possible to escape this torture. However, that didn’t apply to Goz. Even though his mother was a goblin, he was still of the same race as his father, a human. Music had no effect on him whatsoever.

Various women danced to the tune, all dressed in the most colorful of dresses. They were all beautiful, but none were as beautiful as the woman before him. Indeed, the female human called Kyouka was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, all other women paled in comparison to her. Goz, who had the honor to dance with her, was elated. He could feel all the male humans around him looking at them with envy.

（I never expected that I’d be introduced to the Hero’s little sister, gufufufu.）

Goz happily laughed inside.

The Hero was a strong and handsome man. No man could hide his envy when looking at the Hero. It was no wonder that all the men of this world hated him.

And, as if that wasn’t enough, along with his extreme handsomeness, the Hero was always surrounded by many beauties, all waiting upon him. That alone had already annoyed Goz, but then the Hero had the audacity to aim for his Regena.

That’s why Goz couldn’t forgive him.

However, the Hero was really strong. Though he couldn’t forgive him, he was far too weak to act upon his anger; he knew he couldn’t beat the Hero. The person in front of him now, however, was a woman, and she donned a similar face to the one he hated so much. He felt glee fill him as he imagined all the ways he can torture this woman into submission in bed. He imagined that it must feel the same as him beating the Hero.

Though he understood that doing that would turn the Hero into his mortal enemy, he didn’t care.

Goz remembered that Kyouka hadn’t come with the Hero and his party when they last visited Algore. Thus, this was his first time meeting Kyouka.

But, Goz had seen Shirone before. She was one of the women who came to Algore with the Hero. He had seen how strong she was so he was worried she would notice his intentions and ruin him. However, she wasn’t here anymore as she seemed to have run out for some sort of business. Moreover, her sudden disappearance had left Omiros with no other choice but to disappear somewhere as well, since he had lost his partner.

Though Goz was curious about the matter that forced Shirone to leave the venue, the dance with Kyouka was far more important to him. He shifted his focus to her again.

Kyouka’s dress had a large opening at the ch*st area, from which her bountiful valley could be seen. Though Goz really wanted to fondle Kyouka’s bodacious br*asts, he kept his patience for now.

（This woman doesn’t seem to like me. She seems to only be dancing with me because she has no other choice, However, her attendant hasn’t been around for a while now…）

Goz silently clicked his tongue.

The woman who had practiced dancing with him yesterday had always looked at him with a feverish gaze. Goz recalled how it was easy to invite her back to his room and give her plenty of love all night long.

Currently, he was using the appearance of the beautiful Parsish, which could entice any woman. Yet, Kyouka kept looking at him with a gaze that sent chills down his spine.

（Could it be that she is able to see through my real appearance? Dammit! If that’s really the case, I have no choice but to use the drug in my pocket!）

Goz touched the drug in his pocket. Even if she could see his true face, As long as he used the drug on her, Kyouka wouldn’t have any other choice but to submit to him.

Goz planned to invite her for a drink in a separate room. He wanted to create an opening for himself and let her drink a lot of the drug.

Goz had tried this drug a long time ago. After ingesting it, he couldn’t live without a woman for two days straight, and it took five days for the effect of the drug to completely dissipate. He had impregnated dozens of female goblins during that time.

（This drug will definitely work on this woman.）

The dance came to an end while Goz planned his sinister plot. Once the last music note was played, the other men in the venue all came flocking towards them, their sole aim to dance with Kyouka. Goz came forward to stop them, as if to protect Kyouka.

「My apologies, but Princess Kyouka is planning to have a light meal with me after this. May I ask you to show some restraint?」

Goz acted like a knight trying to protect Kyouka from other men. Of course, that wasn’t his real intention. However, Kyouka didn’t seem to want to dance with anyone else, so there was a high chance she would follow Goz’s suggestion to avoid the other men.

Goz looked at Kyouka, sure of his success.

Yet, Kyouka didn’t even spare him or the flock of men a glance, instead, she was looking at a completely different place. The location her gaze followed also had a gathering of men.

Goz could barely see what was happening through the gaps. But, as he focused, he could see that at the center of this gathering stood a man and a woman, who very much looked like a couple.

A chill ran down his spine the moment he saw the woman’s face.

「Silver… Witch.」

Goz muttered the woman’s name.

Though she wore a different attire than the one she donned the first time he saw her, there was no way he could mistake her beautiful visage and silver hair, which was her trademark.

The woman was definitely the Silver Witch who he met back in the Goblins’ nest.

The next tune hadn’t even started, yet there were already so many men surrounding the couple. Goz would’ve normally noticed if such beauty was nearby, and yet he had failed to notice her presence.

（What is she doing here? Is she coming after me?）

Goz’s back was now drenched in a cold sweat as he recalled the terror he felt when he fought the Silver Witch. Even though he told his mother that he had no intention to be the Silver Witch’s enemy, he suspected that his mother had yet to convey his message.

Goz judged that he should leave this place as soon as possible.

「That person. I get the feeling that I saw him somewhere before…」

Kyouka muttered to herself.

She was looking at the man who was dancing with the Silver Witch.

Goz didn’t have any recollection of that man.

（Just who is that man? For him to be able to dance with that terrifying Silver Witch?）

Goz wondered what kind of identity the man had, but he noticed that it wasn’t the time for that. He had to leave this place immediately.

「Follow me to greet them.」

But then, just as he was about to leave, Kyouka’s iron grip had already seized his arm, and pulled him to come along with her to greet the Silver Witch.

Naturally, Goz tried to resist, but Kyouka’s strength was far above him, he would only tear his arm if he resisted more.

The men around the pair opened a path for Kyouka to pass.

Kyouka was walking straight toward the Silver Witch.

（HEEELP!!）

Goz could only scream in his heart for someone to come save him. But his hope was slowly dashed as they inched closer to the witch.