Chapter 226: What a Demon King's Fragment Is (1)
Bella didn't say a single word while we left the village.
'Is she mad about something?'
"Hey. Can we talk for a bit?"
I had already been watching Bella nervously, so I moved closer right away and replied.
"Yes. What's the matter?"
"I've been thinking, and..."
As soon as we exited the Elf Forest, Bella said she would be leaving the group to return to her hometown.
She wanted to tell her family where she would be staying from now on and how she planned to live, and then she said she'd come back to find me. I wanted to say, "Let's go together," but when I thought about where I would even take her, I was at a loss for words.
'I can't take her to my parents' house...'
I was essentially a freeloader at the Magic Knights Order, without a place of my own. If I wanted to provide a proper home for Bella and our soon-to-be-born children, I needed a residence outside the Order.
'So I need to get a house.'
A home.
A place where Bella and the rest of my lovers could live safely and comfortably. I needed to get a proper house for real this time.
Not just a way to keep them stuck inside the Magic Knights HQ, but a real, comfortable home.
"Alright then... Please come visit once you've said your goodbyes."
"Yes. I'll come soon."
And so, I said goodbye to Bella for a little while.
You could say I was informing my future father-in-law and mother-in-law of the situation before taking their daughter as a bride.
'I should probably visit them later and explain properly...'
"If possible."
"Yes?"
"Don't take too long. Come back soon."
"Why?"
Her question made my face heat up, and I couldn't meet her innocent, rabbit-like eyes.
"Anyway... I'll get a house ready before you come back. I'm a knight, and I said I'd take responsibility. I'll keep my word."
I guess I'll have to take the request money I've saved up so far and go find a place. Somewhere vast and secluded would be best... and hopefully cheap.
"A house..."
As if it just hit her, Bella's face also turned red and she avoided my gaze.
"Ah, right! You do need a house, don't you?"
"Y-yes."
"You'll need a big house since we have six kids!"
"S-si... Six?"
'Wasn't it two...?'
Wait a second... don't tell me, like a rabbit...
Hearing that there were six lives inside that belly that didn't even look pregnant yet felt like my soul was leaving my body.
'Ahhhhh!! That's right!! Unlike other beastkin, rabbit beastkin give birth to many at once!!'
Why did I just assume there would be one on each side?
Even considering rabbits normally give birth to nearly ten babies, having only three would actually be fewer than average, but six...
"Please make our home comfy like a rabbit hole, okay?"
'I can't afford this?!'
At this rate, I really might have to dig a rabbit hole in the mountains... No! I can't let that happen!
"Money... I need money...!"
So, though I had to part with Bella for a while, a huge burden had landed on my shoulders.
"I need to work hard..."
I'll have to take on every mission I can find and travel endlessly.
For my rabbit-like wife and our rabbit-like kids...
And for the other wives and kids who will come.
Creak.
I pulled out the wooden nails by hand and opened the coffin lid.
A pleasant forest scent drifted out gently, but contrary to the fragrance, the condition of the dryad inside was getting worse.
"Is she okay?"
"She's drying out faster than expected. Maybe because the weather's warmer?"
When we were in the Elf Forest, even dragging her around didn't affect her moist wooden skin, but now it was turning dry and stiff like it was sun-dried.
Even though she was sealed inside a wooden coffin, her sap kept decreasing. I wasn't sure if it was evaporating naturally or being consumed as nutrients for survival. I tried to give her water from a canteen, but Pai stopped me.
"If you give her that, her body will rot. Plants die if you give them too much water. It's worse than drying out."
"Really?"
Now that she mentioned it, I had killed plenty of plants in the Order just by watering them too often. So she probably wasn't wrong.
"Then what, just leave her like this?"
"Not just water. It needs to be water with mana."
"...Not spirit power?"
"She already has plenty of that."
As Pai spoke, I glanced around at the others.
Iris was perched on the wagon, scanning the area, and once she saw it was safe, she was taking a break. Professor Pandel had already heard the situation and clicked his tongue, while Shuru tilted her head, not understanding what was going on. Only the horny centaur girl, Yuni, came close in her horse form, snorting at me.
"Prrrh!"
[You're gonna do something lewd, right? Right? You're gonna do it now, right?]
"No, I'm not..."
"Just shove your dick in and pump her full of water. That'll do the trick."
'Isn't that a bit too blunt?!'
Thankfully, the others either didn't hear her or chose to ignore it. Still, I had to shut Pai up, so I silenced her and quietly dragged the wooden coffin into the forest away from the group.
[So you are doing it, huh?]
"Go away."
[Come on~ Let me watch!]
"I'm not doing anything lewd. I'm just giving water to a tree."
When I pulled out the dryad's torso, even though her limbs had been severed, the wounds had closed and looked more like normal skin. Seeing her like that, I actually felt guilty and teared up a little.
"Sniff..."
"Can you not sniff my crotch while I'm emotional?"
"Don't act like a virgin when you're clearly horny."
I was horny, sure, but still...
"You're gonna use her anyway, right? Just ram your dick in her somewhere and pump her full of cum."
When she was a unicorn, she used to writhe in pain just from a man's scent, but now as a bicorn she wouldn't stop spewing filthy talk, and it was exhausting.
"It's fine. I just want to watch."
Then she reached into my bag and pulled out Mollang. After being soaked in hundreds, maybe thousands of ejaculations, she was basically made of cum at this point and apparently loved the scent.
Anyway, I now had to "use" the dryad while being watched by Mollang and Yuni. It made me feel like some kind of pervert (which I'm not — I'm not into dismembered women like some twisted noble in a dark novel), and I wasn't the kind of guy who could jerk off in front of people.
But if I wasted too much time here, Professor Pandel would probably want to leave me behind, forcing me to run after the wagon with the coffin on my back. So I had to finish quickly while he was still resting from exhaustion.
"Let's see... the knot hole... ugh!"
Just from slightly touching the plug, water began to leak. That explained why her sap had been decreasing — the plug in her lower half had loosened.
I pressed the plug back in tightly and tied it off with leather string, but if I pulled it out, I wasn't sure I could reseal it properly. That meant I couldn't use the knot hole for injection.
'Then the mouth?'
I tried to pry her jaw open, but her body had dried out and hardened. Her jaw wouldn't budge. If I forced it, it might break. That left no usable hole...
Glance.
"...Hmm..."
Well, there were two holes left.
No, the arm and leg stumps were filled with solid wood and couldn't be penetrated. What I meant were those two small holes that had grown a bit over time...
'These plugs are still tight...'
Pop.
I gently pulled out the plug from her nipple, and behind it was a moist, soft hole with sap still inside.
Before, I could barely fit a finger in, but now the breast area was especially soft. Maybe...
'It might go in...'
I'd seen inverted nipples before, but I'd never considered fucking one.
Sure, you can stick in a finger or tease it with your tongue, but actually fucking it? That sounded impossible.
Still, I figured I'd try.
The other holes were unusable. I even tried flipping her upside down to insert from above, but that made water leak from her mouth. For sap preservation, keeping her lying flat was best.
'This isn't fucking... it's like watering a plant.'
I just needed to infuse mana, and this was the best way I knew.
"Yeah, it won't fit."
My thumb could slide in, but my dick's head was much bigger. I couldn't push it in unless my cock shrank or I crushed her breast.
'Then I wouldn't be able to plug it again.'
So I decided to just rest my tip against the entrance and jack off.
Fap. Fapfap. Fapfapfap.
Yuni deliberately sat where her pussy was visible as she watched me jerk off, and Mollang tried to come help me, but Yuni held her down.
Normally, Mollang could slip through anything and escape, unless she was sealed in a confined space or caught by a mana-charged hand. Yet now, she was stuck in Yuni's grip.
'They said she lost the forest's blessing but gained something else...'
As a corrupted version of a sacred unicorn, Yuni had powers to bind her targets instead of bless them. She used these abilities to trap lewd beings and devour them. That was the bicorn's role.
'Wait. If she's watching...'
I flinched and tried to pull out, but by then, my dick was already locked in place inside the dryad's nipple hole.
"Huh? What is this..."
My body moved fine, but my dick felt like it was glued in place. If I moved wrong, it felt like it'd tear right off. As I froze, Yuni approached.
"Need help? Don't like this form? I can change..."
Whap!
"Kyaak!"
As she leaned in to put her face near my crotch, I activated my mana circuit and smacked her with my hip, knocking her out instantly.
"Nope. Not a chance. Mollang!"
Freed from the grip, Mollang leapt up and slapped herself over Yuni's eyes like a blindfold, keeping her still and helpless.
"So unfair! You can cum for that wooden stick but not me?!"
"I'm doing this because I have to!"
Drip drip.
I ejaculated much less than when I drank the dryad's sap before, but it was filled with mana, and I could see her skin visibly regain moisture.
I closed the coffin lid again and nailed it shut.
Bam!
"We're going back to the capital. You stay put!"
"Hiiing!"
As chaos unfolded once again, Professor Pandel just stared off into the distance.
Back in the day, he would've gone ballistic the moment I dropped my pants.
"All done?"
"Yes. For now."
"Then let's go."
'If someone acts weird just once, they say he's gone insane... Maybe Professor Pandel has some terminal illness or something?'