Inner Voice: All Heroines Hear My Inner Voice Chapter 1091: Taming a Knight

After Lancelot was defeated.

The barrier she had created quickly crumbled. Before that happened, Athena placed the unconscious Lancelot into her night’s darkness (a sort of personal inventory of hers), and bound her there until she was helpless.

[Athena, Lucretia, you two really know what I like. Your decision to hand Lancelot over to me instead of killing her was spot on!]

[I’ll be the one to teach her a lesson for daring to target my Athena. As for what method I’ll use? Lucretia’s idea is good; I’ll reluctantly use it and gladly make myself look like a bastard.]

Eiji’s inner voice could be heard.

And he’s as shameless as ever.

Erica: Reluctantly? I’m sure you’d be happy to do it. I don’t know what idea Lucretia has, but if it’s something you like... It must be something perverted, right, Eiji?

Mariya: You were already a bastard before this, Eiji!

Ena: As long as you like it, I support your decision, my husband!

Liliana: Wait a minute. What’s really going on? Lancelot? Who is that? Is she a beautiful woman? If so, that’s not surprising...

Luo Hao: I sense the aura of a god I’ve never encountered before. Since my husband calls her Lancelot, her identity is most likely the Steel God and the knight from Arthurian legend. She is King Arthur, but shouldn’t she be a man?

Luo Hao’s knowledge allowed her to immediately guess Lancelot’s identity.

However, she didn’t expect the world-famous King Arthur to be a woman. For the women who had been part of the chat group for a long time, the issue of King Arthur’s gender was nothing out of the ordinary.

After all, there are two of them who are King Arthur in their respective worlds or timelines

And they were women. They were referring to Artoria Saber/Saber-chan and Artoria Lancer.

"...." Athena’s lips twitched. Since Eiji seemed to already know what was happening on his end, she couldn’t surprise him.

She was also a little relieved because earlier, she’d held back from killing Lancelot. Otherwise, her husband would surely be disappointed, right?

Athena didn’t realize that her mindset as the Goddess of Wisdom from the past had changed. She now often thought about how to please Eiji and worried that her actions might upset him.

Lucretia was thinking more or less the same thing.

Both women’s characters had collapsed!

Athena and Lucretia exchanged glances, as if sharing a silent understanding. Then, they walked together toward where Eiji and their sisters were.

On the other side.

Eiji rubbed his nose; anyone could tell he was in a great mood. Ena and Liliana, who were taking turns feeding him cake, weren’t helping either—it made the other male customers at the bakery green with envy!

Who was that guy?

How could he get two women that beautiful to take turns feeding him!?

"Maybe those two women are his sisters."

"Haha, that’s right. Even if he’s incredibly handsome, he can only date one of them."

"Still, dating even just one of those beautiful women is enough to make me incredibly jealous!"

"Damn it! I hope that guy gets stabbed in the back soon."

With their hearing sharper than the average person’s, how could Eiji, Ena, and Liliana not hear the whispers all around them?

However, they ignored it all.

The fact was, they were sharing the same man. Should they say that?

"Sigh..." Eiji sighed; he wiped the lipstick off his lips with a tissue before saying with a smile, "No matter where I go, it seems like a lot of other guys always dislike me. They hate me because they’re jealous of me. It’s not my fault that I’m so charming I can date women as beautiful as you both at the same time, right? Ena, Lili."

[For the 9,999th time... Host. You’re so narcissistic and shameless.]

Miss System, I’m sure you’re exaggerating that number.

[Does it matter?]

Of course.

Hearing Eiji’s narcissism and his flirtatious words, Ena was delighted and Liliana blushed.

"Husband, you really are so charming! Ena agreed. Should he cut off the men who gossip just like those women do?" Ena asked cheerfully, but there was a cold gleam in her eyes.

They say love drives people crazy. And that was true for her—even though she shouldn’t have committed such a wicked act as a Miko, if it was for the man she loved...

The men who were talking about them suddenly felt a chill run down their spines. They also felt a chill in their hearts.

"W-What’s going on? Is there a ghost around here? All of a sudden, I’m really scared." One of the male customers wondered, his body trembling.

Fortunately, Eiji was a kind-hearted protagonist with a heart as vast as the sea of stars. He shook his head and patted Ena on the back of her hand.

"No need. Ena, I actually kind of enjoy this sort of thing."

"You’re enjoying it, husband? All right. Ena won’t draw her sword."

Listening to their conversation, Liliana refrained from asking: How can you possibly enjoy something like that, Eiji!?

Instead, she asked about something else that had piqued her curiosity. "My Lord, I just received a message from Athena through the Master-Servant contract. She said she’s captured someone named Lancelot. Do you know anything about her?"

She couldn’t mention the inner voice of Eiji’s she’d heard, so she could only make up a story.

Eiji knew this, but he didn’t try to expose Liliana’s pretense. "Oh, I know. Lancelot is the Steel God; it seems she was sent by Guinevere to hunt down Athena. Just like what happened to Sun Wukong this time, she failed again. Poor woman..."

Liliana and Ena ignored Eiji’s mockery of Guinevere. They waited for his inner voice to be heard again.

Eiji didn’t disappoint them.

[Speaking of Guinevere, heh... I might as well use this opportunity to demand compensation since she targeted my woman.]

[Fortunately, in the battle against Sun Wukong a few days ago, I only brought Luo Hao with me. That kept Guinevere from realizing that Athena was also one of my women.]

[She targeted her because she’s one of the Heretic Gods; she wanted to steal her divine essence to replenish the energy of the Holy Grail, a divine artifact she can use to awaken her husband from his slumber.]

Liliana and the other women’s curiosity was satisfied.

So that’s it—Lancelot is Guinevere’s subordinate. That evil sorceress still hasn’t given up on her ambitions.

Still, what Eiji said next left them speechless.

[Foolish woman. She could have simply awakened her husband, the King of the End, without going through the trouble of gathering divine essence.]

[She could have simply begged me and offered me a fair price. I could’ve just slapped the King of the End to wake him from his slumber.]

Set aside that last part—it sounded like a joke. (What those women don’t know is that Eiji is serious.)

They wondered what price Eiji thought was fair for him?

[I have no shortage of money or power. So, Guinevere might only be able to satisfy me by divorcing her husband and giving herself to me. Ahem, that’s just a hypothetical, okay?]

The women: Why do I feel like something like that will actually happen in the future? And Eiji, you really like that sort of thing, don’t you?

This isn’t the first time they’ve known he’s lusting after other men’s wives. Whenever he sees a beautiful woman, his mind is always filled with lewd thoughts!

Maybe every day, he thinks of ways to make others’ wives or the women they love get cheated on while he enjoys his own nights.

Eiji truly deserves to be called the person who loves NTR the most. Not as a victim, but as the perpetrator of such acts.

Those women’s guesses were right.

Miss System dared to testify that her host really does think that way.

"I understand."

"Ena understands, too."

"Hmm, what exactly do you two understand? Why do I feel like you’re thinking something rude about me?" Eiji asked.

At that moment, he wasn’t using Leme’s or Rasiel’s abilities to read his women’s minds.

"That’s just your imagination, my Lord."

"Ena thinks her husband is very handsome and knows everything!"

Liliana and Ena panicked a little. In a flash, they scrambled to come up with an excuse so Eiji wouldn’t suspect they could hear his inner thoughts.

Eiji found it amusing; he looked away and said, "By the way, Lili, you don’t need to be so formal. Although I do like it when you call me ’My Lord,’ because it gives me a certain thrill. You can call me the same way Ena does."

"That...! That...! H-Husband..." Liliana shyly called him that.

Eiji was satisfied; thinking about how the women who were supposed to be Godou’s wives in the original work were calling him "husband" didn’t help—it made him feel a sense of accomplishment and a little aroused.

[Hehehe.]

Leme laughed.

As Eiji and the two women continued eating cake. Shortly afterward, Athena and Lucretia arrived. Erica and her other women also gathered around her again. Each of them was carrying a shopping bag.

Athena told him about her earlier battle with Lancelot, and how she had trapped her in the darkness of the night. Eiji pretended to be surprised, but he didn’t forget to praise her either.

"Good job, Athena. I’m glad you didn’t kill Lancelot and captured her instead. But let’s put her aside for now."

"After all, we’re on a date. Next, let’s go see a movie."

As the King of the Harem, Eiji naturally prioritizes his women over the woman who, sooner or later, will become his.

He wasn’t in a hurry to teach Lancelot a lesson.

Athena, Lucretia, Liliana, Ena, Erica, and the others were happy that their date was still going on. This made them look at Eiji with love in their eyes before heading to the movie theater in the shopping mall.

Time passed.

After spending the rest of the afternoon having fun—including enjoying sweet dates and watching a movie together at the theater—Eiji and his group of women finally returned to the mansion. It was late at night, and the relaxed atmosphere in the grand living room shifted once more as Eiji sat on the main sofa with the bearing of a king.

He turned to the silver-haired goddess sitting beside him. "Athena, bring out Lancelot now."

"Yes, my husband," Athena replied obediently.

She extended her right hand, and in that very instant, the shadow of the pitch-black night distorted the living room floor. From within that vortex of darkness, Lancelot’s wounded and weakened body was slowly expelled.

She coughed slightly, clutching her chest, which still felt tight. Her steel helmet had come off, revealing her pale, beautiful face with disheveled blond hair.

Eiji touched his chin.

[Come to think of it, this woman looks a bit like Jeanne, one of my potential wives in the Fate world. Now that I’ve realized this, I want her even more.]

Jeanne: I’m not your fiancée! And Eiji, keep your hands off women who look like me! You, you pervert!

In the world of Fate.

It had been a long time since Jeanne had started to find Eiji’s inner voice interesting to listen to.

However, she never expected that today, she’d hear him thinking about her. Strangely, she was kind of happy, but she couldn’t help but curse him from a distance.

The thought of Eiji doing lewd things to a woman who looked like her made her feel a little uncomfortable.

As her vision cleared, Lancelot looked up and stared, both confused and surprised, at Eiji and Athena sitting side by side in front of her. Her divine senses immediately tingled. Although she didn’t know the identity of the man before her, the magical aura overflowing from Eiji’s body clearly announced that he was a Campione.

He was her king’s enemy!

Under normal circumstances, she would have drawn her divine spear and immediately attacked both of them. But right now, even though she had been freed from Athena’s darkness, she was unable to use her power.

What she didn’t know was that Eiji had sealed her power with a single thought using All Fiction.

Lancelot tried to hide the panic in her heart; she shot a sharp glance at Athena. "Athena... you’ve already defeated me. Why didn’t you just kill me? Why bring me before this Demon King?"

Athena sneered, staring at Lancelot with a look of utter contempt.

"Don’t get the wrong idea, you dull-witted Steel Knight. I didn’t kill you solely because of my husband," she said, then wrapped her arm affectionately around Eiji’s. "Let me introduce you—this is Eiji Seiya, my husband. And know this: you’re very lucky to have been born a woman. If you were a man, you’d already be dead at my hands, just like Perseus yesterday."

Hearing that statement, Lancelot was not only confused but also deeply offended. Why was her gender suddenly being brought up?

"What did you say?! You’re the pet of a Demon King... and you think I’m lucky just because I’m a woman?!"

Before Lancelot could vent her anger any further, Eiji interrupted. "Lancelot, don’t take it personally. To be honest, I’m really glad that the legendary King Arthur in this world is a woman as beautiful as you."

He couldn’t resist teasing the woman either.

Athena fell silent. She doubted that a Steel God like Lancelot would react positively to being teased by a man.

"B-Beautiful!?" Lancelot stammered, and there was also a slight blush on her cheeks. "D-Demon King, what do you want from me!? You—you can’t fool me with your sweet talk! Bah! Bah! My heart and body belong only to my King!"

Athena: "...."

What kind of reaction is that!?

You’re the Steel God—shouldn’t your heart be as tough as steel? Where’s the arrogance and indifference you showed in our previous battle?

Athena was a little disappointed, but she also admired Eiji’s charm. She hadn’t chosen the wrong man.

A man who has conquered her would surely have no trouble conquering the other goddesses.

"Ahem!" Eiji pretended to cough and calmly said, "I’m just telling the truth. Hasn’t your king ever praised your beauty?"

"!" Suddenly, Lancelot looked dejected.

In the past, her King had even been indifferent toward his wife, Guinevere. How could he tease his knight the way the Demon King had done right in front of her?

Not only that, but the other men who had spoken to her in the past had never said anything like that to her.

"My king is not a man who can be blinded by his own lust! He is a true warrior! Eiji Seiya, don’t compare him to a Demon King like you!"

Eiji’s eyes sparkled. Just from Lancelot’s reaction, he knew what kind of man the Last King was. He didn’t seem like the type to indulge in carnal pleasures.

[He’s an easy target for someone who loves NTR like you, host.]

’Miss System, what did you say? I didn’t hear that.’

He pretended not to hear what Miss System said. Then, he sighed.

"It was my mistake; I shouldn’t have brought that up. Let’s get to the point—I know you’ve allied yourself with Guinevere to gather the Holy Grail and awaken your king, the King of the End, from his slumber."

Lancelot furrowed her brow.

She stared at the man in front of her with heightened wariness.

How did he know about that!?

Eiji leaned back against the sofa, flashing a mysterious, confident smile. "I can help you wake him up very quickly without having to go through the trouble of gathering the Grail’s energy. But... I’m curious—do you have something of equal value to pay me with?"

It wasn’t just Lancelot—Athena’s eyes widened as well.

Athena: So this is the method you used to teach Lancelot a lesson, Eiji!?

Lancelot: Is this Demon King stupid?

"Y-You... want to help me resurrect Lord Rama?! Why would a Campione like you want to do something so crazy? My Lord is the natural enemy of your entire race! He is destined to annihilate every Demon King on earth! You should be terrified and try to stop him, instead of offering to help."

Eiji chuckled softly and nonchalantly, waving his hand as if the apocalyptic threat to the Campiones were nothing more than a bedtime story. "I don’t care about the Campione’s outdated destiny. I’m just a little curious how strong that King of the End you boast about really is... and I intend to defeat him with my own hands."

"Arrogant!!" Lancelot retorted with overflowing rage, her beautiful face flushing crimson as she felt her King’s pride had been insulted. "Eiji Seiya, who do you think you are to think you can defeat my King?! As soon as he awakens, he’ll slaughter every single Campione in this world without leaving a single one alive—including you!"

"Are you worried about me?" Eiji asked mockingly.

"N-No way! I hope you die at the hands of my King!"

Lancelot denied it again, but there was panic on her face.

Hmm...

Athena narrowed her eyes.

Was it just her imagination, or was Lancelot a woman who fell easily? No way—did she fall in love just because Eiji complimented her beauty?

...

A/N: I’m curious—do many of you watch *Ranma 1/2* and find the protagonist’s fiancée annoying?