Chapter 21
The Cheonho was completely incapacitated after attempting to escape.
I extended my tentacles to claim that beautiful being.
"Hehehehe... Once I take her away and train her with my tentacles, she'll be mine... I'll be able to mass-produce lewd tentacle pictures... and raise our sexy, cute Chokchok, too... Hehehehe!!!"
After wrapping my tentacles around the Cheonho's arms and stuffing her into a sack, I was just about to bundle her up and carry her away when a chilling voice came from behind me.
"...What the hell are you doing?"
"Huh? Ahh~ I was collecting a yōkai! It'd be a big problem if she got away..."
Sshk.
The tentacles were severed in an instant.
Then they all began burning so they couldn't regenerate.
"You crazy bastard!!! My tentacles!!!"
Do you know how I raised Chokchok? How many yōkai I sacrificed to raise Chokchok!!!
Thinking that, I glared at the bald man in front of me, but he pressured me with a cold voice.
"I told you not to cross the line, didn't I? I said I'd handle everything. Why do yōkai and humans alike only listen with the backs of their ears when you tell them something? Doesn't it make you curious?"
"..."
"I said, aren't you curious, you fucking bitch?"
BOOM!!!
At a single casual gesture from him, the tentacles I had summoned burst apart.
Injured by the backlash from my familiar being reverse-summoned, I spat up blood and quietly backed away, trying to escape the bald man.
But.
"Domain Expansion: Mountain Lord's Abode."
"Hiccup?!"
The surroundings darkened, and every escape route was cut off.
At the same time, a gigantic tiger appeared behind him and yawned as if bored.
[What is it today, Contractor? Don't tell me you've gotten horny looking at this body again?]
"This isn't the time for jokes, so shut up."
[Your words say that, but your body seems honest. From the moment you entered this place, you started smelling like a horny male. How can you lie?]
"Why are you so noisy today? If you're bored, just block the exit. If that bitch gets out, I'll really fuck you dog-style."
[This lady has no interest in being fucked by a dog. Still, since you, my Contractor, are asking, I suppose I'll indulge you.]
After speaking, the Mountain Lord used her gigantic body to completely block the exit I might have escaped through, then looked at me with the eyes of someone watching a toy and opened her mouth.
[I don't know what wrongdoing brought you into my abode, but this looks like it will be quite enjoyable. The fact that you've come here means that perverted animal lover is genuinely angry.]
"M-Mountain Lord, please have mercy on me..."
[Don't ask me for mercy; ask that pervert. Though it doesn't look like my Contractor has any mercy to spare you.]
The Mountain Lord laughed heartily, then smacked my body with her thick, adorable forepaw. My body flew through the air and landed right in front of the bald man.
"Hic... Hieek??!!"
He wore an expression much like an executioner preparing for an execution.
With a chilling expression on his face, he smiled nastily and mocked me.
"Why are you afraid? Didn't you commit this crime knowing exactly what you were getting yourself into? When you ignored someone else's warning, you should naturally have been prepared to pay the price."
He took three talismans from his pocket and stuck the first one to my forehead.
"The first is <Binding>. Since you can't move while eating the talismans, I'll stick this on for a moment, okay?"
As the talisman containing the power of <Binding> attached itself to my forehead, my body stiffened as if it had turned to stone.
Then he shoved the second talisman into my hardened mouth and spoke.
"The second is <Restraint>. If you eat this talisman, you'll suffer from unrelieved sexual frustration until I dispel its effect, and you won't be able to climax. For someone as lewd as you, it's the perfect punishment."
...No.
Suffer from sexual frustration while being completely unable to climax?
Are you telling me to die?
I glared at him as I thought that, but he shoved the third talisman into my mouth with an amused expression.
"The third is <Prohibition>. From now on, you won't be able to think about tentacles. If you think about them even a little, you'll truly understand just how powerful the second talisman's effect is."
What?
I can't think about tentacles?
Not anything else—you mean you're taking away the pleasure of my life right now?
I have to spit them out.
This talisman... I have to vomit it up right now!
I struggled to spit out the talismans in my mouth, but the <Binding> talisman was already attached to my forehead.
Perhaps it was made of a water-soluble material, because the talisman was slowly dissolving in the saliva filling my mouth.
At this rate, it would be imprinted on me.
Once the talisman's effect was imprinted, I would no longer be able to live my usual life of lustful desire.
...I was wrong.
I really was wrong...!
I won't touch your stuff ever again... Please forgive me! I'm begging you!!!
I looked at the bald man in front of me with pleading eyes, but he chuckled incredulously and mocked me.
"See? You should've listened when I told you. Don't worry too much. Since you used to be my comrade, I'll release you once you've properly atoned."
Before long, the talisman completely disappeared on my tongue. He approached me, grabbed my tongue, and examined it from every angle.
"It's definitely imprinted. I'll send you home like this, so grab your crotch and reflect on your actions. As for the Binding Formation... it'll probably wear off two hours after you get home."
After saying that, the bald man took a water bottle from his pocket and poured its contents over me.
"Oh, and this is a gift. It's a special aphrodisiac made by the Lust Demon Elder, so you'll really feel the second talisman's effect. Well, goodbye, my longtime comrade. Hehehehe..."
He stuck yet another talisman on me and activated its effect, and when I returned home like that...
'Aah... Aaaaaah♡'
A hellish period of pleasure began.
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The Mountain Lord's abode, after the tentacle-crazed shaman had left.
The Mountain Lord curled up and yawned, then pointed at the Cheonho lying beneath her paw and spoke to the bald man.
[How strange. This body is a Cheonho, yet its yōkai power and vital essence are pitifully lacking for its size. And its mind isn't even that of a yōkai.]
"I heard he got caught up in some strange minor god. Honestly, why would a shut-in who never even leaves his house take an interest in some weird minor god?"
[It seems to be a being even I cannot ignore, though calling it a minor god. To turn an ordinary human body into a Cheonho—not even a gumiho—after all.]
"I don't know. It seemed far too insignificant to be called something I couldn't ignore."
The man looked down at his close friend, who was breathing heavily, with a complicated look in his eyes.
"What are we going to do? That crazy bitch seems to have given this guy an unforgettable memory."
[What else can we do? We can either erase the memory or turn it into nothing more than a dream.]
"Erasing it would leave a sense of dissonance, and even as a dream, it'll remain a nightmare that doesn't fade... Still, it's better to leave it as a dream than as a real memory."
[You're surprisingly devoted, for someone who gets so desperate to draw boundaries with everyone else.]
"Of course. This bastard is practically family. It's confusing seeing him suddenly transformed into such a horny form, but... well, we have to solve this somehow."
Either I had to find a way to return him to his original form, or help him adapt and live as a yōkai called a Cheonho.
The former would obviously be the best outcome, but if the time came when I had to choose the latter...
"What choice do I have? I'll take responsibility."
[That smell of a horny male again. Hyeokjin, do you really want to mate with this one that badly?]
"Forget that he's my close friend—the body itself is just too damn sexy. I'm barely holding out because I'm superimposing that pathetic bastard over this body, but if he comes on to me first..."
[You'll mate with him?]
"Correct. If he makes the first move, that means he's overcome his disgust and accepted himself as a 'female.' At that point... I'll give him some proper pure-love sex."
[Before that, what if a squinty-eyed middle-aged man, a blond, tanned punk, or an ugly, fat otaku tries to butt in and NTR him?]
When the Mountain Lord asked with avid interest, the bald man spoke while radiating murderous intent.
"I'd make sure they could never reproduce again. Or I could just drag them here and feed them to you."
[Isn't that a little excessive? I'm not a garbage disposal, you know?]
The Mountain Lord expressed her displeasure, so the bald man chuckled and shook his head.
"
A tiger who loves eating people most of all, and yet you're making a fuss
, huh? Anyway, I'm off. I'll bring some decent prey next time."
[A yōkai, or a human.]
"2++ beef."
[That isn't bad either.]
As soon as the Mountain Lord finished speaking, the dark cave vanished, and the Cheonho and the bald man returned to the house, which had been completely wrecked by the tentacles.
"You really did a thorough job wrecking the place, you fucking bitch."
After cursing at the devastation left behind by the crazy shaman, the bald man took out a peculiar-looking talisman and infused it with his power.
"This was precious, and I really didn't want to use it... But what choice do I have? It's my fault for not coming sooner. <Butterfly Dream>."
As the man's calm voice echoed through the house, the talisman began to shine.
Rumble...
When the talisman's brilliant light reached every corner of the house, the mess was restored to its original state. The furniture destroyed by the tentacles was completely repaired and returned to its proper place.
The Cheonho, touched by the talisman's light, tossed and turned as if she were having a nightmare, but soon smiled peacefully and fell back asleep.
After confirming that everything had returned to the way it was before the tentacle attack, the man watched the talisman crumble into a handful of ash and fall, then smiled faintly.
"Since I saved you, your sexy, fluffy, warm, cozy, glossy, soft tail belongs to me from now on, you bitch."