(Recap)

Previously in the world of 200x300:

Mark found out that the large cave belonged to a huge, green dragon. When the dragon named Magnifico the magnificent saw him, a savage battle ensued. A battle of fire and blood, and enormous amount of magic energy. Mark and Magnifico fought for seven days and seven nights. So long, in fact, that the narrator had ran out of dramatic music that he could play in the background. He had to replay the same songs over and over again.

Nevertheless, the battle was really epic, pushing both Malefico and Mark to their limits. It wasn't only a battle of strength, but also of a battle of mind. After the seventh day, both of them came to a stop. It turned out that Malefico didn't even want to keep the princess with him anymore, because he was tired of taking care of her. Mark agreed to take the aforementioned princess with him. There was only one problem, however. The princess was actually an old hag, reduced to a mummy-like state from waiting so long for someone to rescue her!

"Kiss me, baby," the old hag said as her eyes snapped open and looked at Mark.

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Mark shrieked in terror.

"Nope, nope, nope, I'm out," he said, then turned to go. Unfortunately, he couldn't leave: Malefico was blocking the only way out. The dragon arched an enormous eyebrow (do dragons even have eyebrows?) at Mark, clearly not understanding why he was so distressed. Puny humans came all the time to rescue the princess. Wasn't this what every one of them wanted?

"Watcha got, buddy? Any problemo?" the dragon asked, suddenly talking in a different fashion than he did in the last chapter.

"I'm not your buddy, pal," Mark answered.

"I'm not your pal, mate."

"I'm not your mate, buddy."

This continued on for seven days and seven nights and was an epic battle by its own right, but let's skip forward, shall we?

"She is too old," Mark said, finally stating his problem. "I wanted a hot and young princess, not an old hag who'd wither if I touched her."

Although some people might say that Mark was selfish or arrogant or even a pervert, we have to keep in mind that he was destined to be the Harem King. And if he had a choice, it would be a harem of beautiful young women, not old nannies and their cats. Although, that would be interesting too. Quite original. He could—

"NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT!" Mark shouted. He then glanced at the dragon. "Sorry, please ignore my outburst."

"Hmm," the dragon hummed, ignoring his outburst. "I could make the princess young again, I suppose. Make her gorgeous by your human standards as well. But such things always have a price. You see, dragons are creatures of balance. We cannot use our magic to constantly please everyone."

"Can you tell me what the price would be?"

"Nope. Where would be the fun in that?"

Mark looked thoughtful. It would be really good to make the princess young and beautiful again. Not because of him, of course. Mark was a perfect, selfless protagonist. He wanted to make the princess young again only because she must have had a terrible life. She basically missed out on the majority of it, sitting here in the dragon's lair as a captive! It was a cruel fate. She deserved another chance at life.

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Mark slowly edged closer to the bed, and asked from the old crone, "Do you wish to be young again?"

The woman watched him motionlessly for a second before answering. "I may be old, but I heard what you were talking about. There will be a price."

"Yes," Mark nodded solemnly. "So, what's your answer?"

"Of course I want to be young, you idiot! Even if the whole world burned for it, I still wouldn't change my mind! Who in their right mind would decline such an offer?!"

Mark was taken aback by this response, and edged slowly back to the dragon. He wasn't sure if this was the real personality of the princess, or she just became cranky and bitter by her old age. Nevertheless, he got his answer, and he was ready to decide.

"I think that's a yes," he told Magnifico.

"Alright, prepare yourselves!" the dragon said, then magic filled the room.

A sudden cutscene interrupted the view of the cavern, and the nanny's withered and naked form appeared in front of a black background. (The worst parts were thankfully cencorsed.) Light began to cascade towards her as a catchy tune began to play, and the camera zoomed on her feet. The lights enveloped them, and they transformed into young, graceful and petite feet. High heels appeared on them, then the camera went upwards, the light making her leg young as well. One after an other, each of her body parts were enveloped in bright light. (The best parts were sadly censored.)

As the magical girl transformation ended, a gorgeous, blonde haired and blue eyed woman was sitting on the bed in place of the old hag. (Hair color: check, eye color: check, beautiful: check! New character introduced properly.)

"Wow," Mark said with a whistle. "That was something to behold. I'm Mark, by the way."

The princess inclined her head gracefully. "Call me Sebille."

"Now comes the price," the dragon thundered, pointing a claw at Mark. ""

Even before Mark could think I hope it's not what it sounds like, a dark beam of energy struck him right between the legs, hitting him like a kick in the nuts.

"Not only will you be impotent," the dragon explained so that the readers could understand as well, "But your sexual drive will be gone too! This is the price you must pay!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO," Mark wailed, pressing down on the 'O' button of his keyboard for a dangerously long time.

"That's too cruel!" Mark wailed to Magnifico.

"Too bad, what's done is done," he said. "See ya later, fam!"

The dragon then stood up on his hind legs and moonwalked out of the cave.

"WHYYY?!" Mark bellowed. "WHY MEEE!"

Although Mark was awfully distraught by this recent turn of events, this was actually a good development. Mark was destined to have a harem, yes, but we can't let him have sex scenes left and right. That would destroy the story and drive away a lot of readers. What's needed here is a group of women vying for our protagonist (so that every reader could choose their favorite waifu) but these women also need to keep their relative distance somehow. So there were two options: either Mark is impotent, or he is hopelessly dense in the head, not realizing the women's affection for him.

"I guess it's still better than being dense," Mark muttered, then looked up at the sky (the cave had disappeared somehow). "But I demand a raise for this! You aren't paying me enough for this sh*t that you're putting me through!"

Mark didn't get his raise, but he suddenly remembered that he had a princess to deal with. Sebille was still sitting on the bed, looking more and more confused by the moment.

"What was that voice?" she asked.

"Don't worry about it," Mark said. "He's a jerk. Better if you don't pay any attention to him."

Mark then braced himself, expecting to stumble and fall. No such thing happened, to his great relief. Yes. He didn't stumble, but a piano suddenly fell from the sky and hit him squarely in the head.

"F*CK!" Mark bellowed, but he was OP so he wasn't gravely hurt. Probably.

"What are we going to do now?" asked Sebille.

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Find out what they are going to do in the next episode! (Hint: no sex, that's for sure)

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