Chapter 23
I finally received my registration certificate from the Adventurers' Guild.
Since I placed first in the ranking exam, I get to start at Silver instead of Bronze.
To celebrate, I accepted a quest.
“Haa!”
Shraaak-
The enormous greatsword flashed, and the Ocel Bear's head fell cleanly away.
The motionless bear's massive body toppled forward, spraying blood.
“Ah!”
As I was regaining my stance under the sword's weight, I ended up covered in its blood.
“Aris! Are you all right?”
“Ugh, it reeks of blood, but...I'm fine.”
My face twisted into a frown on its own.
Sniff, sniff. Sniff, sniff.
It was fresh blood that had been flowing with life only moments ago, brimming with intense vitality.
That vitality overwhelmed my prized sense of smell, which made me extremely uncomfortable.
But I couldn't go back like this.
“You're covered from head to toe. You need to wash.”
“I can endure this much. We still need to eat our camp meal!”
We had caught a large bear and bought plenty of vegetables, after all.
I had planned to roast the whole piece of meat and eat it right off the bone, but...!
“Even so, the smell will cling to you if you stay like that. Aris's nose is precious, isn't it?”
“Really...it's fine....”
Claude shook his head firmly. But he was troubled too.
“Washing at the inn would probably be a nuisance. The public bathhouse would be the same.”
I had been splashed with more blood than I expected, so people would frown if I returned like this.
Still, adventurers experienced things like this and considered them part of everyday life.
“I'll make some water with magic. Let's wash here.”
“Huh? Um...Master. There's a stream nearby.”
I remembered smelling a stream when we came this way.
It should appear if we went just a little farther upstream.
“You don't need to trouble yourself because of me. Will you get in the water with me?”
“Hmm, a stream? That doesn't sound bad.”
Claude nodded and followed me to the stream I'd found.
The smell of blood had masked it, but the cool, flowing water had a clear, refreshing purity to it.
I quickly stripped off all my clothes.
Claude panicked and glanced around.
“Aris? Wait, what are you doing taking all your clothes off?”
“If I don't take them off, I can't wash them.”
“Still...you're a girl....”
Claude stood there with a hand pressed to his forehead, as if wondering what he was going to do with me.
It's not as though I just take my clothes off anywhere.
“There's no one nearby except you, Master. I don't let anyone but you see me, either.”
“What are you saying...? You're a girl, Aris. You should value yourself a little more.”
He was making a perfectly reasonable argument, but I was beyond caring.
Claude had overwhelmed me with his strength, taken my virginity, and gained the right to rape me whenever he wanted.
Even if he attacked me and raped me right now, there would be nothing I could do.
If I smelled Claude, I probably wouldn't be able to muster enough strength to resist.
“Aris is a female Wolpi who surrendered to Master's power. What you're saying hurts me more.”
“I-Is that...how it is? I'm sorry if I hurt you.”
Of course, I was only pretending to be hurt.
“You spoil your slave too much, Master.”
“Is that really something you should be saying? Seeing how you act even when I indulge you, I guess you're living pretty comfortably, Miss Slave Aris.”
“That's right. Master spoils me too much... Aris is spoiled.”
As I said that, I subtly turned away.
His gaze had been sweeping over my body for a while now.
I covered myself with my tail and walked toward the stream.
“What are you going to do?”
“Haa....”
He shook his head as though dumbfounded.
But I didn't stop and simply stepped into the stream.
After washing myself roughly, I climbed back onto the bank.
I washed my blood-soaked clothes in the running water and spread them out on a rock.
And then...I became aware of Claude standing behind me.
“Are you going to wash too, Master?”
“Aris. I don't know what Livnil told you, but you're being far too provocative.”
“Am I?”
In truth, I wasn't doing this because I wanted to have sex with Claude today.
But I'd always thought about it.
His flaw, or perhaps his strength.
Claude was simply too kind.
I liked the way he treated me, but what would happen when he had to make a different decision later?
What if he encountered a robber on the road, for example?
Of course, I didn't think he would lose to them, but that wasn't the point.
There were too many people who cried, ‘Please spare me just this once!’ and then stabbed you in the back.
Claude would probably be swayed by that sort of person.
That wasn't good for me either.
Claude needed to become the sort of man who could act decisively when it mattered.
I began by thinking about where he could start training.
For example...he should at least be able to take firm control of his own woman....
“Aris. Please don't think too badly of me.”
“Yes. I'm the one who started this, after all. I don't resent you.”
He sat down heavily behind me by the stream.
I didn't turn around, but I could tell from his scent.
He wasn't wearing anything now.
Thump, thump.
“I don't know what Aris is thinking. You're not even in heat.”
As he said that, Claude wrapped his arms around my waist.
He slid his right arm beneath my breast, lifted it slightly, and touched my left breast as he spoke.
“Why do you keep provoking me?”
“Why are you kind to me, Master?”
“Do I need a reason to be kind to you?”
“That's not what I mean. But, Master...Aris doesn't know if it's all right for her to be this happy.”
The fact that Claude was a good person was good for me.
So it was only natural that I couldn't help worrying about it.
But ever since I was born and raised as Aris, I had always lived trembling with anxiety.
The male Wolpis were kind to me, but they were excessively violent toward other males.
And in the end, if they didn't like a female, they would swing their fists without mercy.
I had been beaten once when I was very young.
It had been terribly frightening.
For me, as a modern citizen who had lived on Earth—and, more importantly, because I had a man's memories,
this way of life had been unbearably difficult.
Wouldn't going through military service again have been better?
If I'd maintained a female Wolpi's mindset from beginning to end, I probably would have been fine.
I might have lived held in the arms of some male, giving birth to children just like my older sister.
But I couldn't. Extreme stress and anxiety followed me everywhere.
“What do you mean?”
“Aris has never been happy before now. But suddenly, she became happy.”
I had never imagined happiness like this.
A life where I could fall asleep and wake up peacefully, without anxiety....
Even if this happiness ultimately meant being held by another male.
It was still far more comfortable than living as a Wolpi had been.
“I'm glad you've become happy. But why? Don't you like being happy?”
“No. I, Aris, love being happy. But at the same time, it makes me anxious too.”
I was glad that my anxiety had disappeared. But I was anxious about the anxiety that had disappeared.
What on earth was this feeling?
I didn't know whether I had some kind of mental illness.
Before this happiness vanished, did I want to practice being unhappy again?
If Claude treated me cruelly instead, so that I could leave him later....
I wanted to grow closer to him. But I couldn't really become close to him like a friend, could I?
Perhaps maintaining an appropriate distance as a slave was important.
“I'm afraid this happiness will disappear someday. So...Master.”
“Honestly, Aris, you're a real idiot, aren't you?”
“Mas...ter?!”
Claude suddenly grabbed my breast hard. He squeezed it so tightly that it hurt, and I was startled.
Then he forced me to lie facedown on the ground.
“Huh? Huh...Mas, Master?”
“Aris. Don't think about useless things like whether you're happy or not!”
He said that while touching my buttocks.
”From now on, I'll make you feel so good you can't think about anything else.”
“What?”
He supported my pelvis with his arm and lifted my hips, then...began licking my pussy.
“Ah, ah...?”
“So this is what Aris's pussy tastes like.”
It was the first time I had felt a tongue touch my pussy.
The soft, writhing movement sent shivers through me, yet it was thrilling too!
“M-Master...it's dirty there!”
“Dirty? There isn't a dirty part of Aris.”
Every time his tongue pressed and brushed against my clitoris, it felt as though a lighthouse beacon were flashing.
His tongue pressed and tapped beyond my clit, on my inner labia, while his lips sucked my pussy wide open.
“Hweeeet...!”
Fwoosh- Fwoossh-!
My waist trembled, my womb rumbled, my opening twitched, and my clit fluttered.
“Haa...u, s-sorry. S-something came out. On Master's face....”
“Whew~It's all right. Did it feel good?”
“Y-yes...yes!”
Tremble, tremble... It was such a long orgasm that the aftershocks lingered.
“We're only getting started.”
“Huh?”
He lifted my pelvis off the ground with one hand.
He was probably going to thrust into me like this....
“Hoo, Mas...ter. No. I can't be taken like this.”
I had been thrown into confusion by him suddenly sucking my pussy, but a strange urge to challenge him welled up inside me.
It was similar to the resistance I felt toward a male trying to subdue me.
“Aris? You....”
“Try and fuck me.”
With my pelvis still caught in his arm, I hooked my right leg over his.
I attacked the back of his knee, forcing him to drop to one knee.
“Uah?”
“Gyaaaao...!”
I turned to the right and attacked his face with my elbow.
“Uah! Where do you think you're...!”
Pow-! He blocked it with his right hand, then caught my arm.
Claude's left hand slid between my armpits.
“Ah? Aah!”
“Stay still, Aris!”
He wasn't violent at all. The hand that had slipped beneath my arm seized my breast.
While pinching my nipple firmly, he restrained my right arm and kept me from moving.
“Gyaa! U, yaaak!”
“Aris! Tch, don't move...!”
Claude pressed me down and crushed me against the ground.
His movements aroused me, and I could feel my pussy growing wetter and wetter.
“Ugh, this smell....”
“Hah...hah♡ M-Mas...ter!”
I struggled and beat him frantically with my tail.
He chuckled, pressed down on my shoulders with both arms, and spread my legs with his feet.
“Stay still while I fuck you.”
Claude finally pushed his large, erect cock between my thighs.
But it felt as though the angle wasn't quite right.
I subtly lifted my pelvis.
“You wanton little wolf....”
“Grrr...g, guh...aaang♡”
I liked Claude when he treated me gently. I liked my kind, gentle Master.
But was I ultimately a Wolpi after all...?
When Claude's overwhelming strength pressed me down, I went crazy.
My pussy grew wetter from being crushed like this than it had when he had worked so hard to lick me.
“Hah...hah!”
“Aris is a bitch.”
“Heh...hhe...I, I'm a bitch...a Wolpi...haa♡”
I had always wished to be happy. I wanted to erase my anxiety among those frightening males.
But that had been impossible, so I had come outside.
Even among humans, I was still an outsider. Humans saw me only as a tool.
It was the same even now. I had been purchased as a slave, as a tool.
It was my unavoidable, cursed fate.
But if I could find light and happiness even within this fate....
Bang-! Smack! Thud-!
Claude began pounding me really roughly, just as I wanted.
It was sex bordering on violence, filled with his will so completely that I couldn't move at all.
“Hh, uaa♡ A...aaang!”
“Female Wolpis are...really troublesome! So troublesome! Ugh, but it feels so good!”
“Kk, haa...M-master♡”
Held tightly, I was pounded wildly with my waist restrained, as though I had become a fleshlight.
He came messily inside me at the end, then sprayed my waist as he pulled out.
“Ari...s. How is it? Are you satisfied?”
“Ha...haa...sooo good♡”
I hope this happiness never ends.