SWNOVELXO chapter 249
Chapter 249. Veronica’s Corrupt/Fallen Ending, One: Flower Demon
Noah wasn’t rushing things, he wanted to see what the young-looking flower demon had planned.
Since this was an eroge, it didn’t matter who lost, there was definitely going to be a defeat play, right?
Just as Noah expected.
The young flower demon was indeed planning to ‘devour’ Noah.
But before letting the giant lily at her feet, filled with milky-white nectar, swallow Noah,
she planned on enjoying him first.
So, she used the vines binding Noah to try and melt his clothes, and to inject a poison that would weaken his resistance through his skin.
You just can’t apply common sense when trying to understand the ecology of monsters.
It was strange enough that a plant girl had popped out of a flower.
That a lily had vines that secreted a fluid that dissolved clothes, and nerve toxins and such, wasn’t *that* surprising.
“Hmph, so you were planning to strip me, huh? Sorry to say, I’m more of a ‘keeping clothes on’ kinda guy!”
Noah had no intention of meekly letting himself be preyed upon.
This princess’s expression was just too confident; Noah was already itching to see that smug look wiped off her face.
So, while laughing wildly, he easily broke free from the vines binding him.
And, kicking off the vines with force, he launched himself like a cannonball.
” !? “
The flower spirit girl, not expecting Noah to be so powerful, was clearly stunned for a moment.
But in that very moment of hesitation,
Noah’s slightly savage, healthy grin was rapidly closing the distance between them.
The launched Noah slammed the flower spirit girl directly onto the white lily petals sprouting around her.
His legs were now coated in the milky-white nectar of the flower’s center.
Of course, Noah’s impact also sent the nectar flying everywhere, splashing large dollops of white onto the flower spirit’s pale green skin.
It looked, well, rather off, to say the least.
“Umm❤!?”
From beneath Noah came the flower spirit girl’s sweet-sounding cry.
Which was no wonder, as Noah had secured her most vulnerable spot firmly in his grasp.
“Haha! What’s wrong! Why aren’t you fighting back? Do you perhaps fancy me?”
Now it was Noah’s turn to say those words.
He looked down at the flower spirit girl, easily subdued beneath him, a villainous smile appearing on his face, unsure of who really was the antagonist.
Noah’s level was nowhere near that of these defeated heroine types, so this outcome was rather straightforward.
But Noah didn’t expect this: the flower spirit girl reached out her two pale, *slightly* green arms, and wrapped them around Noah’s neck, attempting to pull his body even closer to hers.
Of course, this wasn’t because the flower spirit girl took a liking to Noah.
Proof was in the playful smile on the lower half of her face, not hidden by the flower; it was a devilish grin.
“Too bad, Big Bro~ I don’t like people who are all hard, so I’ll just have to make you soften~”
As the flower spirit girl’s teasing voice trailed off,
The lily, larger than a person, that surrounded her began to rapidly close.
Intending to envelop both the young flower妖 and Noah, who she was clinging to, within it.
Noah, at this moment, realized that the words from the girl weren’t about making his body all soft and squishy for her to easily violate and enjoy.
She was planning on using the whole flower bud as a warm bed, turning Noah into her own small, soft form.
Not just reincarnated as a monster, but a gender-swapped one at that.
This was likely the greatest retaliation she could muster.
Too bad Noah couldn’t go over the top, and he can’t leave from the sides either?
“It’s *you* who needs softening, Princess, come on, let your feet get some sun, always being soaked in fluids can’t be good!”
As the white lily’s petals above them gradually closed, Noah didn’t choose to shake off the girl’s embrace.
Instead, he directly ‘uprooted’ her.
Placing her against his own body, he unleashed a punch that emitted something akin to a light beam, blasting through the side of the white lily’s petal and bursting out.
“H-how…!?”
The flower妖’s smile, who hadn’t expected Noah not to flee because there was no need to, vanished, replaced with a pale, horrified shriek.
She could feel her power and consciousness rapidly draining away; she was connected to the flower妖 beneath her via that flower honey, which she used to control and manipulate the vines.
But now, Noah had not only forcefully ‘pulled’ her out, but also shattered the lily petals, directly bursting out of the flower.
“——!”
Sensing the powerful wind pressure from the rapid movement, the young flower妖 let out a cute yet tragic cry.
As if realizing that its ‘head’ had been stolen, the green leaves beneath the white lily, along with the vines in between, all seemed to go berserk.
Trying to drag the fleeing ‘head’ back into the flower.
And if possible, it also wanted to have a ‘double-head’, turning Noah into a green-skinned monster girl, becoming twin flower妖 sisters.
Countless vines, like tentacles, wildly pursued Noah, who was still falling.
It was a terrifying scene that would surely give anyone nightmares.
No one would have imagined that a monster born from the beautiful plant of a flower would become so violent and frightening.
“Hah! Getting all worked up now, huh! But *I’m* the one who should be pissed!”
Even while holding the young flower妖’s delicate body, Noah remained agile, or perhaps he was just naturally floating like a ghost.
So it wasn’t strange for him to flip mid-air and launch an attack against the flower that had lost its flower妖.
—Death Curse, a divine power particularly effective against regenerating enemies.
Its manifestation is to cause the target to rapidly die.
Both the pure white lily petals and the green, thorn-covered vines withered and decayed with frightening speed.
Before even reaching Noah, the aggressive vines lost their green, and like withered husks, lost their vigor.
Within a mere three seconds, the berserk flower妖, having lost its ‘head,’ became listless.
Five seconds until utter death.
But because it’s a demon that shouldn’t exist, both it and the flower spirit girl in Noah’s arms won’t leave behind a corpse; instead, they’ll vanish into magic, disappearing from this world.
“How regrettable, Princess. It seems like it’s my victory again this time.”
Noah looked at the flower spirit girl, who, in reality, had been unresponsive for some time now, and spoke with a sneer.
“…”
The flower spirit girl, of course, gave no response.
She was now nothing more than a part of that demonic flower.
The demonic flower was defeated by Noah, and so she, as a flower spirit, naturally began to dissolve into pure magic particles, starting from her limbs.
But before that, Noah definitely had to remove the flower drooping from her head that seemed stuck to her face, obscuring her features.
It’s a given that a beautiful girl with her eyes hidden will eventually reveal them, that’s just common sense, okay?
Whether it’s bandages, a mask, a veil, or intentionally closed eyes, it’s all the same.
Noah was doing this purely to see the princess’s face from when she was a young girl.
“…Huh?”
But as Noah removed the troublesome white flower, the slight sneer on his face vanished, replaced by a hint of agitation.
Because this flower spirit girl wasn’t Valentina, the original heroine.
Instead, it was Valentina’s younger sister, the original NPC little princess, Veronica!
This is the first time Noah had ever seen a non-heroine suffer a defeat ending!
Could it be… that there was actually an official sequel to the game with Valentina as the heroine?!
And the heroine is little princess Veronica?!