The Absolute Beings Obsessed with My Defeat Addiction

“Whew, no customers again today.”

The ‘Hall of Illusions,’ a theater showcasing illusions, had not received a single customer today.

Before opening, I went around telling people I was opening a shop that showed desires.

Meiko, my illusion magic teacher, also helped me with the promotion.

I definitely put in a lot of effort into promoting it somehow.

“Why are there no customers?”

It’s going to be unfamiliar.

Showing desires through illusion magic.

I expected many people wouldn’t understand what that meant.

On top of that, the undervaluation of illusion magic is also a reason why customers aren’t coming.

I knew and prepared for it.

“Hmm, but I didn’t think only one customer would come in four days.”

I thought there would be some among the noble ladies who would be interested.

But not a single one came.

Were their religious beliefs really that strong?

Did none of them ever have the desire to secretly play with other noble young ladies?

Are the nobles here all pure-hearted people?

That can’t be right.

“Didn’t my teacher do a proper promotion?”

She was supposed to handle the promotion to the young ladies.

Still, since we developed it together, I thought she had some responsibility.

“Sigh, whatever.  Blaming the person who went down to the countryside for magic development is not something I can do.”

Of course, I planned to properly question her when she returned after finishing her work.

Whether she really did a proper promotion.

If not, then…

“I have to leave mana stone charging to the teacher.”

And make her earn some pocket money through alchemy.

She should take responsibility for her negligent work, shouldn’t she?

Thinking about it, the only customer who came in four days was the iron-blooded knight, Yuris, who came on the opening day.

That was the most unexpected part.

That the knight, who knew only victory, would come to experience defeat.

“She’s later than expected. It’s about time she came.”

I improved the quality of the video for her.

There are still many shortcomings, but I definitely improved on the aspects that were lacking in the first video.

I was confident that she would be satisfied if she watched it again.

But the customer who should have come didn’t come.

‘Would that woman be able to achieve her resolve not to watch it through willpower?’

It was a shame that I couldn’t make my first customer a regular.

While I was thinking that and maintaining the magic circle,

Knock, knock.

I heard someone knocking on the door.

“Is anyone there?”

A stiff, businesslike voice was heard.

It was a familiar voice.

‘She’s here.’

When I opened the door,

“Ah, you were here.”

“Commander Yuris? You’ve come again.”

“I came to check if business is doing well.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes.”

“I thought you came to experience it again.  I thought you said you had enough experience with defeat.”

Avoiding my gaze, she looked around the shop.

“Ahem, there are no customers.”

“It’s quiet, isn’t it? It seems the promotion hasn’t been done properly yet.”

“…Is that so?”

“Come in. Let me offer you some tea.”

“…Is that alright? I don’t want to be a bother.”

“Of course. I haven’t had any customers for the past few days.”

“…”

She looked at me as if she expected that.

“Naturally. Who would use illusion magic? It’s a school of magic even magicians avoid.”

“Are you saying that in front of someone from the Illusion school?”

“Ahem, my apologies.”

After seating her on the sofa, I brought a cup of tea.

I saw Yuris sitting quietly, sniffing the air with a twitch of her nose.

“What are you doing?”

“Ah, no. The tea, the tea smells good.”

“Is that so?”

She seems a little disappointed.

“Have a cup.”

While quietly drinking the tea, Yuris asked me,

“The smell isn’t there like it was when I first came to this shop.”

“Ah, thanks to what you said last time, I cleaned a bit more.  It’s inconvenient to have a smell in a place where customers have to stay for a long time.”

“Is that so…?”

Huh? She’s really disappointed?

Could it be that she liked that smell?

This is unexpected.

That the iron-blooded knight Yuris is actually attracted to pheromone scents.

Yuris, who was drinking the tea I gave her, looked at me cautiously and glanced around the shop.

“There are things I haven’t seen before.”

“I fixed and improved the shortcomings shown in the previous video.”

“Shortcomings…? Were there any?”

She flinched in surprise.

“Yes. Since it was the first video, the video turned out to be more immature than I thought. So I spent four days adjusting the magic circle and adding necessary magic tools.”

“I, I see.”

She glanced at me, her body slightly trembling.

“But why aren’t there any customers?”

“Don’t you know the perception of illusion magic? It’s a school that people mostly ignore.”

“They don’t trust it.”

“That’s right.”

“…”

After a moment of silence, Yuris put down her teacup and glanced at me.

“T-then, I could be your customer…?”

Her face was bright red.

If anyone else knew that the woman called the iron-blooded knight could make this expression, they would be shocked.

“You’ll be a customer?”

“I’m saying this because I feel sorry for you spending your time alone without customers. It’s absolutely not because I can’t forget what happened that time.”

“Ho, is that so?”

So she’s coming at it this way.

Honestly, how customers would come back wasn’t that important.

Isn’t it the mindset of a shopkeeper to be as considerate as possible of the customer’s situation?

But that expression on the iron-blooded knight’s face.

Seeing that expression, which she had never shown to anyone else, made me want to tease her a little.

Like when you see a friend with a fun reaction, you want to tease them.

“If you don’t need the experience of defeat, we need to conduct a new survey to find a new desire.”

“…What? I have to do that again?”

“Through the survey, we need to find a new desire that Commander Yuris wants.  Continuing to play a video you’ve already enjoyed once diminishes the fun of the video.”

“So the video shown afterward will be different?”

“Of course. Since the desires are different, we need to create new settings, from the background to the characters. We can also get more detail about Commander Yuris’s desires. If you have someone you want, feel free to tell me.”

She closed her mouth at my words.

I could see her hands holding the teacup fidgeting.

Yuris, biting her lower lip, cautiously asked,

“I-if I don’t do the survey, what will happen?”

“First, we’ll ‘have no choice’ but to continue with the previous video.”

“Have no choice…”

She pretended to be thinking, quietly repeating my words.

I know.

What she wants.

I gave Yuris, who was still maintaining her composure, a little leeway.

It was a chance for her to retract her words, even if she didn’t let go of her composure.

It seemed a little insufficient.

To completely open up her desires.

‘Then a little push is needed.’

“Will you proceed to the next version of the previous video without a survey?”

“I, I didn’t say anything.”

“As the shop owner, I recommend it.  It’s insufficient to enjoy all of the original genre’s video in one go. Besides, it didn’t end regrettably, did it? You should have your revenge once.”

“…Is that so?”

“Yes. It wasn’t a video planned to wrap everything up in one episode. It would be a shame to end it like this.”

“A shame… a shame… Yes, it would be a little shame.”

She nodded, muttering in a dazed voice.

“Then, please use that video.”

“Alright. Then sit here.”

I placed a cushion on the chair.

“What’s this?”

“It’s a sweat-absorbing cushion. You sweated so much last time. It’s to help you feel a little less embarrassed.”

“Th-thank you.”

Her face bright red, she sat down.

“Then I’ll start slowly.  Like before, you’ll encounter bandits in the mountains. And the next story will continue according to Commander Yuris’s desires. So enjoy yourself.”

I gently grasped her wrist.

Her face flushed crimson.

“I-is it alright to hold it like this?”

“Of course. It’s to enhance immersion more than before.”

“…”

“Remember. The feeling of being held like this.”

“Understood.”

I activated the illusion magic, and light flickered around her.

Whoosh.

In that instant, the world changed.

***

“…”

It’s that forest.

Yuris realized once again that she had arrived at that forest.

Mangor Mountain.

The forest where the bandit who subdued her resided.

Yuris drew her sword again.

This time, she would absolutely not lose.

The reason she returned here was because the humiliating memory of that day was still vivid, but also to overcome that memory and achieve victory.

‘I won’t lose.’

She believes in herself.

Because she, who felt such intense defeat, would never want to feel that sensation again.

She was certain that her desire today was to defeat that bandit.

“What? You’re here again? Did you come all this way because you couldn’t forget my touch?”

Before Yuris, who had firmly resolved herself, the bandit appeared.

The bandit who had humiliated her.

A menacing bandit with an ordinary appearance.

As soon as Yuris faced the bandit, she realized her body was trembling.

‘Am I scared?’

Of that insignificant man?

‘T-this can’t be…’

As she trembled, the bandit approached her.

“Our young lady still wants to play at being a knight, it seems. If not…”

The bandit sneered, raised his right hand, wiggled his middle and ring fingers, and said,

“Did you come to receive affection from your husband?”

It was an insult she had never received before.

“Y-you bastard!”

She approached the bandit, and

Thump!

“Cough!”

She was instantly subdued by the bandit.

As if victory would never be given to her.

The biggest reason was her unusually heavy hand.

So heavy that it didn’t feel like her own hand, she couldn’t even properly swing her sword.

Like a young lady who had never held a sword before.

“This can’t… be.”

Did I want to lose again?

The bandit who had subdued her grabbed her wrist and dragged her away.

At that moment, I felt dizzy from the smell of that cruel man.

‘No. If I smell this scent…’

“You see, I originally intended to send you off politely. But our young lady ignored my consideration. Understand?”

He completely subdued her, holding her wrist, and pushed her against a tree.

And his right hand went inside her pants.

“Fufu, already wet? Did you miss this so much?”

“N-no. I…”

But soon, the man’s hand, which he pulled out, was glistening with slippery vaginal fluid.

“This isn’t your body’s fluid?”

“…”

Fluid from my body?

That shameful liquid… came out again?

Just as I thought it was unbelievable,

“Spread them.”

The bandit looked down at her with a cold face and said.

It was an irresistible voice.

If it were reality, I would have twisted his neck immediately, but she was too weak in the illusion.

Like an ordinary woman.

Are women originally this weak?

The iron-blooded knight, Yuris, felt fear.

“I’ll say it one last time. Spread them.”

Yuris, biting her lip, trembled and spread her legs.

Her pants were wet with vaginal fluid.

Blumies Note:

 The term VIDEO was used because the MC wanted to achieve an illusion like a VR.