Chapter 18
Gnn.
“Is something wrong?”
“…I don’t know. My stomach’s felt a little strange since this morning.”
After leaving Huey behind, who had barricaded himself in his room and locked the door the moment we arrived.
I was wandering downtown with Lucy to buy a few things at her request.
“Why don’t you see a doctor, just in case?”
“Hmm… It doesn’t exactly hurt, so I’m fine. I’ve mostly been eating greasy food lately, so that’s probably it.”
I’d been overeating lately, having only recently discovered how delicious meat was.
“If you’re all right, I won’t press the matter. But if anything is wrong, be sure to consult a doctor.”
“Okay. I will.”
I nodded and laid a wing atop Lucy’s head as she wore an unusually worried expression.
“If you’re not feeling well, let’s call it a day and rest at the inn.”
“Are you sure?”
“It’s not as though today is our only chance.”
Lucy looked up at me, clasping the wing atop her head tightly in both hands.
“Then let’s go rest for today.”
“Yes.”
…Now that I look at her this way, she really is cute.
“I’ll come call you when it’s time for dinner, so please get some rest.”
“Yeah. See you later.”
After returning to the inn, I sent Lucy back to her room, watching her look at me with concern like a cat that was usually aloof but came close whenever its owner was sick.
Then I cautiously rubbed my stomach, which had felt strange for a while.
“Did I really get an upset stomach…?”
It was also slightly swollen around my lower abdomen.
And judging by how hard it had knotted up without me even tensing it… was it really an upset stomach?
“Ugh, I’d better eat something light for dinner.”
They say starving yourself when you’re like this only makes things worse.
Planning to have some soup and turn in early, I threw myself onto the bed in the room.
-Knock. Knock.
-Ren, are you there?
I lay on the bed staring blankly at the sky for a while.
Then I heard Huey’s voice along with a knock at the door.
“It’s unlocked, so come in.”
I hadn’t bothered locking it since I wasn’t planning to sleep or anything.
I spoke to Huey as he carefully opened the door and entered.
“What do you need… Pfft!”
“…Don’t laugh.”
One of Huey’s eyes was already swollen and dark blue, as though Lucy had gotten to him in the meantime.
I couldn’t help bursting out laughing.
“Let’s have dinner early. I heard you’re not feeling well, either.”
“Did Lucy tell you already?”
“Don’t even ask. She made a huge fuss about whether I’d fed you some strange food last night. Seriously.”
Honestly, how nice would it be if she showed that side of herself more often?
“Maybe being sick isn’t so bad.”
“If Lucy hears you say that, don’t blame me for what happens.”
“…Healthy sounds better after all.”
That girl.
If she found out I’d said something like that, she was the type who would come charging in to erase what I’d just seen from my memory.
“Anyway, let’s have dinner early. You should at least have some soup.”
“Okay. Let’s go. Where’s Lucy?”
“She went down ahead of us to get us a table on the first floor.”
When I followed Huey downstairs, I saw Lucy waving to us from a corner.
“How are you feeling, Ren?”
“No need to worry. I’m fine.”
“Really? I can trust you?”
“Yeah, yeah. It’s nothing but a little stomach trouble.”
Only then did Lucy let out a sigh of relief, and I stroked her head with a wing.
It was rather refreshing to see her like this after she was always so prickly.
“Whew, that hit the spot.”
After finishing my light meal with a bowl of soup.
“I’m going to look around the market. I heard there are lots of interesting things to see there in the evening, too.”
“Then I’ll go with you.”
“You two go on ahead. I’ll rest a bit and turn in early.”
“All right. Get plenty of rest.”
“See you in the morning, Ren.”
After seeing the two of them out of the inn, I headed back upstairs to my room.
“Ugh, maybe I shouldn’t have eaten.”
I rubbed my lower abdomen, which felt even heavier than before.
“Sigh.”
Since no one was watching, I stretched out a leg to catch the handle and open the door, then entered the room.
I grabbed the bolt outside the door with both wings and fastened it across the door.
…But when had I started caring whether the door was locked?
Well, I suppose feeling unwell was making me worry about even these trivial things.
“Gnn. Let’s just sleep.”
They said I’d feel better after sleeping for a while.
So I surrendered myself to the drowsiness washing over me.
* *
So, um… I think it was probably dawn.
It was a little too dark for morning and a little too bright for night.
“…Ngh.”
As a sudden pain began, I clutched my lower abdomen and curled up.
“Ugh… What’s happening all of a sudden…?”
My physical condition hadn’t exactly been good.
And perhaps it was because my poor condition, combined with the comfortable place to rest, had let me sleep deeply for the first time in a while.
“Haaagh.”
Unable to fully emerge from sleep amid the sudden pain beginning in my lower abdomen,
I could do nothing but moan on the bed, my mind half asleep.
“Ah, ngh!”
All I could do in that state was—
For some reason, instinct told me I shouldn’t be wearing anything below the waist, so I somehow removed my pants and underwear and tossed them carelessly onto the bed.
“Hyaa!?”
And then, without my understanding why, the pain that had been gradually growing suddenly transformed into an unfamiliar pleasure I had never experienced before, engulfing my body.
“W-what is this…?”
I swear I had never felt anything like it even once before.
It was as though something that had filled my stomach since yesterday was trying to get out.
“Haa, hng…♡”
My reason judged that if I left things as they were, something irreversible would surely happen.
I tensed my slackening lower abdomen and blocked whatever was trying to emerge from my body.
“Kgh, ngh!”
But I couldn’t keep holding it back forever.
“H-how am I supposed to…?”
I spent a moment wondering how on earth I was supposed to deal with this situation.
Then I happened to notice the full-length mirror in the corner of the room.
“……Huh?”
For a moment, I doubted my own eyes.
Because reflected there was a girl sprawled grotesquely on the bed with her crotch exposed, tears glistening in her eyes as she let out breathy moans.
“This… isn’t me, right?”
That’s me…?
-Hmm, now that you mention it, that is strange… With this level of development, you should normally be laying an egg once every two weeks….
“…No way.”
Frozen in disbelief, Carol’s voice suddenly flashed into my mind.
….
No.
That can’t be….
“Hng!?”
Just as I shook my head instinctively, trying to deny the thought that had surfaced,
the pain and pleasure surged again, as though urging me to accept reality.
“D-damn it…!”
…I know.
To end this situation, I have no choice but to lay whatever is inside me.
“I don’t want to… I said I don’t want to…!”
I tried to resist, desperately suppressing my body as it continued writhing and trying to expel the foreign object from inside me.
“Hyaaang…!?”
In the end, perhaps I couldn’t hold out any longer.
Something slid down from inside me with a slick sensation.
-Trickle.
A sticky, milky-white fluid ran down between my legs and soaked the blanket.
“Kgh, haa, ngh, sob!”
How pathetic.
If only I could hold a sword right now.
I would have slit open this accursed stomach and ripped out the foreign object inside.
“Damn it, damn it, damn it….”
If I had simply become an ordinary human woman and suffered through menstruation, I could at least have understood it.
But not this.
I couldn’t accept it.
“Huu, haa.”
I was the one who had smashed those fools who strutted around relying solely on their racial traits with nothing but two swords.
As if transforming into someone unable even to wield a sword weren’t enough, I had to disgracefully lay eggs, too.
“…Just you wait.”
I didn’t even know whom I should blame, but I swore
that if I ever found the culprit who had turned me into this, I would have my revenge.
And so, I straightened myself up.
“Damn it.”
If I had no choice but to lay them anyway,
I thought I might as well put an end to this humiliation and get it over with quickly.
“Phew….”
I straightened my back, sat up supporting myself with both wings, spread my legs, and bore down on my lower abdomen.
“Haaagh.”
First, I had to get this one out—the one stuck halfway down.
“Hnn… Hyaaang!?”
Just as I felt the egg, which had been irritating my vagina as it moved back and forth as though caught on a thin elastic membrane, slide out,
-Squelch….
Along with sticky, stringy, milky-white fluid between my legs came the sound of flesh being forcibly pried apart,
and a milky-white egg larger than a chicken’s settled onto the blanket.
“Hah, haa….”
As I desperately cooled the heat in this body, now filled with nothing but pure pleasure after the pain subsided,
I bore down on my lower abdomen once more.
“Haaang…♡”
Perhaps because I was moving it of my own will this time, unlike the first.
A sweet moan escaped my lips on its own, brought on by pleasure beyond what I could control.
…The thought that this was my voice made me want to die from self-loathing.
“Hng… ngh!”
For now, these damn eggs came first.
“Phew, hng… haaagh!”
After briefly watching sunlight begin to brighten the window,
the second egg, unlike the first, slid down relatively smoothly through my vagina.
-Plop.
That made two.
Judging by what I could feel, there was probably one more….
“This is the last one….”
The moment I bore down to push out the last remaining egg, I felt
a huge wave of pleasure utterly unlike anything so far.
“Kgh, haa…!”
It was as though my mind had instantly been engulfed in white-hot flames.
When I came to, I was convulsing, my upper body arched backward from the seated position, drool hanging from my mouth.
“Hah, haa… Hyaaang!?”
Since I could barely breathe, I forced myself to take deep breaths and came back to my senses.
In the lingering afterglow of climax, pleasure surged over me once again, as though it had been waiting for that moment.
-Pssht!
Then came a transparent fluid gushing out as though I were urinating,
and my lower abdomen continued convulsing without stopping.
“Hk, haaah… I-I’m going crazy….”
A strange pleasure far beyond anything I could have imagined.
I had been panting so hard that my breath had practically turned sweet.
…Still, I had to deal with the remaining egg.
“Phew, hng… huff…!”
-Creak.
The last egg must have been slightly larger than the first two.
It began a tug-of-war, caught at the opening and wavering between coming out and not.
“Kgh, ugh… Come out already!”
-Press.
Thinking that, pride or no pride, I had to get this damn egg out quickly, I raised one wing and pressed firmly above my groin.
Without even realizing how foolish that was.
“Huh, ah?”
To put it simply,
I saw stars.
-Trickle….
“Ah, aaah, hng….”
When I came to, I was already wetting myself,
while at the same time I was drooling and making stupid noises.
“…This is driving me crazy. Seriously.”
In the end, I spent a long while staring blankly at the three eggs I had laid myself,
clutching my head and agonizing over how on earth I was supposed to clean up the disaster that had unfolded on the bed.