Chapter 56
The Goblin King's might was truly impressive.
The strength he displayed while commanding countless goblins was greater than that of most dungeon bosses.
It made me curious enough to wonder about the real boss beyond the door back there.
But no matter how impressive he was, a goblin was still a goblin.
Claude's magic was impossible for them to fend off, no matter what they did.
Clang—! Kaaang!
Wham-wham-wham—! Ruuumble!
The battle intensified.
The Goblin King's magic was quite troublesome, but Claude's responses proved effective.
Each party dealt with the goblin soldiers according to his commands.
And I faced the King alongside Claude.
Without the soldiers getting in the way, he wasn't much to deal with.
“Aris! Guard Break!”
I dashed forward at his shout.
I stepped on the head of an obstructing goblin, then leaped up the tree and over the flustered Goblin King's head!
I knocked aside his enormous ax with my greatsword, opening a path.
Fwoooosh—!
Claude's magic poured in immediately, piercing straight through him.
“Gueaaaargh…!”
The Goblin King dropped to his knees with a scream.
When the ax in his hand fell to the ground, it made an enormous crash.
Ruuumble—!
I could feel that enduring all those collisions with the huge ax had been worth it.
This was the final blow.
I charged at the Goblin King.
Whoosh—! I swung my greatsword and split his torso in two.
I turned away as he fell, spraying blood.
“Awooooooo~!”
I let out a howl, delighted by the battle's exhilaration and the fact that it was over.
Several parties were looking this way, and they all cheered.
“Wooaaaah!”
“Hooray—!”
“Owoooooo!”
“Awooooooo~!”
The howls of the other Wolpi mixed in weren't bad, either.
“Aris! You did really well!”
There were plenty of cheers and voices praising me, but Claude's words were better than all the rest.
But I liked what he said when he came over to me sitting on the floor far more.
“Grrrrrr….”
“Aris?”
“Huh? Ahem. It was all thanks to you, Master.”
A growl slipped out when our eyes met.
Maybe it was because I was drunk on the excitement of battle, but my breathing was ragged and I felt strangely sensitive.
“Aris, will you show me your eyes?”
After every battle with a red monster, Claude asked me to show him my eyes.
The Goblin King also possessed red miasma.
“Hmm, do you feel anything strange in your body?”
“My heart is pounding and it just won't calm down…other than that….”
Claude was mindful of red miasma's effects on female Wolpi.
To be honest, I didn't think it needed to be taken that seriously.
“Your eyes are definitely shining more brightly.”
“Is that so? I'm fine.”
“Come here. I'll hold you.”
It wasn't necessary to go that far, but he put his greatsword into his inventory and picked me up.
People around us said various things, but he paid them no mind.
“Vanguard leader! How are you going to distribute the spoils~!”
“Later! Let's rest for a while first!”
With that, Claude left the battlefield.
I obediently stayed in his arms as he carried me back to camp.
“Master, you aren't hurt anywhere, are you?”
“No. I'm sturdy.”
It wasn't something one would expect to hear from a mage.
I smiled because it was oddly funny.
“Then, Aris. I'll start treating you.”
“Yes.”
I had a few injuries here and there.
While treating my wounds, he also tried to detoxify me.
The substances injected into my body when the slave trader captured me were still there, after all.
“How do you feel?”
“I'm fine, Master. You don't need to worry.”
“Those Wolpi said it too, didn't they? Aris's heat isn't normal.”
I was saying I was fine myself… Did he trust the words of those male Wolpi more?
I thought that was strange.
“Do you believe them? I'm fine….”
“Aris. This isn't a matter of whether I believe them or not. It's an objective fact.”
An objective fact? What exactly was objective about it?
I felt perfectly fine and could live as I usually did…?
“From your perspective, Master, what about me seems unhealthy right now?”
“It's not that you look unhealthy. It's just that you go into heat whenever someone lightly touches you, Aris.”
That wording was a little… Wasn't he making me sound far too easy?
“I'm not some cheap woman.”
“Ah, no…I'm sorry. That's not what I meant. You know how ordinary Wolpi have a normal heat cycle?”
Claude told me what he had apparently wanted to say for some time.
Female Wolpi went into heat only once a month and remained calm the rest of the time.
He said that was a healthy pattern for the Wolpi species.
Of course, I acknowledged that much.
Something in me had gone wrong, which was why I got aroused as easily as a human does.
“But I'm not sick or anything.”
“Robina said so, didn't she? That you never know when or where it might suddenly flare up….”
The little mage's words had certainly been sharp.
By nature, once a Wolpi's desire caught fire, we became rough until it was satisfied.
“Wouldn't it be troublesome if signs of heat suddenly appeared in the middle of the street? Right?”
That was true—if I suddenly went into heat anywhere at any time.
But Claude had gotten something wrong.
“Master. Wolpi don't go into heat that easily.”
“Huh?”
“What do you mean, ‘Huh?’ That's rude. We Wolpi are more wholesome and conservative than you think.”
He laughed, “Heh heh,” and gave me a look that said he thought I was lying.
This was rather unfair, wasn't it?
“There is only one reason Wolpi go into heat: when we spot something that turns us on.”
Since I had once been human, I knew that.
‘Ah~ I'm suddenly horny. Time to jerk off.’
That sort of thing happened.
When there was no particular stimulus, but you simply wanted to do it.
But that didn't happen with Wolpi.
We could do it if there was something arousing right in front of us.
Even then, it happened only during heat… It wasn't as though it happened anytime, anywhere.
“We don't want to mate at any old time like humans do.”
“But…Aris? You, you are…well, you know….”
“Master. If there's something you want to say, just say it.”
Then Claude glanced at me and cleared his throat. “Ahem.”
“This may be a strange thing to say, but Aris, you get wet the instant I touch you.”
“Of course.”
“Of course?”
“Because that's what you are to me, Master.”
I looked straight into his eyes as I said it.
But he didn't seem to understand what I meant.
“I'm that sort of person?”
“W-well, that's….”
Why didn't the smartest person I knew understand?
Why was he asking me about something so obvious?
I lowered my head and said,
“Master…you are someone who turns Aris on….”
“Huh…whoa, what? I-is that so? R-really?”
No one had ever made me wet with just their scent before.
His powerful strength was what had made me this way.
“If it weren't for you, Master…I would have lived my whole life as a virgin.”
“When you put it that way… It feels kind of strange. Hahaha…!”
I felt the same way.
I never thought I'd say something like this to a man!
“Aris…won't you show me your face?”
“No.”
“H-heh, hehe…come on, hm? A~ri~s~?”
He reached out to touch my chin.
I wondered if I should let him catch me, but then I subtly moved backward to avoid him.
“I'm turned on by Aris more than anyone else, too.”
He said it in a flirtatious tone, but that wouldn't work on me.
“I'm not turned on by anything but you, Master. What do you mean, ‘more than anyone else’?”
I slightly raised my head and glared at him.
Claude gauged my reaction, then chuckled.
“Sorry. I'm not turned on by anything but Aris…either.”
“Why are you trailing off?”
I knew men's hearts well enough to understand.
Even when they were with the person they loved most, they could still get turned on by all sorts of strange things.
But here and now, shouldn't he have said that nothing but me turned him on?
When I glared at him, he pulled me into his arms and said,
“Aris turns me on the most! I want to do it with you every day!”
“What? Wh-what are you saying…!”
All of a sudden?
I hadn't meant for him to go off like that.
Claude stroked my back as he said,
“Then! Does that mean Aris going into heat is all my fault?”
“I…well, that….”
“Answer me.”
“Y-yes.”
Apparently pleased with my answer, he stroked my tail and buttocks.
Just a moment ago, he had been talking about curing my heat and whatnot….
What could I expect from a man?
“I'll tell you this clearly now, Aris.”
“Yes…?”
“Aris turns me on so much. I want to do it…right now.”
Claude had never been the sort of person to say something so brazen….
He had always listened to and accommodated his slave's feelings instead of acting like a proper master.
But now he was aroused himself, and wanted me.
“I'm going to make a complete mess of you now. Resisting won't do any good.”
With that, Claude laid me down on the floor.
I undid the hem of my robe for him.
With a soft rustle, I slipped halfway out of my robe, exposing one breast.
As though resisting, I stretched out my legs and offered him a foot.
“Aris is very tired right now… I don't think I can resist.”
He took my foot in his hand.
He began by tickling between my toes with his large hand.
He massaged my sole and licked my toes.
“It's dirty there….”
“It's Aris's, isn't it? Then it's good.”