Is That an Orc or a Human?
The woman’s physique was so overwhelmingly powerful that it made the extremely rare female orcs I had seen in Eden look pathetic. For a moment, both of us froze at the shocking sight that far exceeded any expectations. As she continued squatting and moving her hips, our eyes suddenly met.
“Ah.”
The moment she stopped with a puzzled expression and looked our way, the thing let out a monstrous roar and charged at us.
BOOM!
“Nyang!”
“Ugh, what kind of strength is that?”
I quickly stepped away from the door to dodge. The thick door panel flew off its hinges and tumbled across the living room floor. The woman with the monstrous body had sent the door flying with a single light punch. She looked back and forth between us as we stood on either side, then snorted and rushed straight at Charlotte.
THUD! THUD! THUD!
“Nyang! It’s a monster, nyang!”
“GRAAAAAHHH!”
She was so heavy that every footstep made the floor tremble. Just then, thunder cracked and a torrential downpour began, turning the whole scene even more bizarre.
The monster woman, moving with incredible speed that belied her massive frame, charged at Charlotte with her brown hair whipping around like a wild mane. The speed was so fast that Charlotte would have struggled to dodge it before, but thanks to the Abaddon’s assistance, she was evading the attacks with surprising ease.
With her expression gone cold from battle focus, Charlotte’s vertically slit pupils glowed fiercely as she dodged the muscle woman’s strikes and countered. At the same time, she dealt with the men who came rushing out after her.
The men who had rushed out naked, their genitals swinging freely while holding weapons, spotted me standing right in front of the door and immediately got hard again. Even though they were under attack, their eyes were clouded with lust. The pathetic way they licked their lips in lewd anticipation made me kick their balls hard enough to crush them and bring them back to their senses.
THWACK!
“GAAAAAH!”
“If you leave your weak points completely exposed while spacing out, of course they’ll get smashed, right?”
THWACK!
“Urgh!”
Only after two of them had their testicles burst did the men finally come to their senses. They screamed in some incomprehensible language and charged at me. I dodged their attacks—crowbars, steel pipes, various tools—and systematically disabled them with counterstrikes.
Then I saw a man pick up a pistol that had fallen from the hand of a strangled corpse and aim it at me. I moved to avoid the predicted bullet trajectories that automatically appeared in my analysis, drove my elbow into the solar plexus of the man beside me to stop his movement, then grabbed his head with both hands and twisted, snapping his neck.
CRACK!
Using the corpse of the man who died without even being able to scream as a shield, I closed in on the one holding the pistol.
BANG! BANG!
The bullets fired with shaking hands from fear and tension—one missed completely, the other hit the man behind me. After closing the distance using the corpse as a shield, I picked up a nearby crowbar and swung it hard at the hand gripping the pistol.
CRACK!
“AAAAAHHH!”
“You shouldn’t fire guns so recklessly.”
CRUNCH!
The man who was clutching his hand and screaming died instantly as the sharp end of the crowbar I raised high and brought down pierced straight through his skull. The crowbar felt strangely comfortable in my grip. I twisted it free from the embedded head and began using it in earnest as a weapon.
CRACK! THUD! CRUNCH!
“Ack!”
“Urgh!”
“Guh!”
The men struck and stabbed by the crowbar—which served as both a blunt and piercing weapon—let out dying screams and collapsed silently to the ground. I wiped the blood splattered on my face with my free hand, hooked the steel pipe of another opponent with the crowbar to deflect it, then kicked the man’s knee sideways with full force, shattering it.
CRACK!
“Gaaah! Kgh!”
As the man collapsed to the left with his leg broken, I brought the crowbar down on his fully exposed neck and crushed it. Perhaps sickened by my merciless brutality, the men who had charged in so aggressively at first began to hesitate and back away, their erections now completely shriveled.
“Hehe~ Is that all it takes for you males to get scared and shrink your little things? How pathetic.”
The sharp clicking of my metal high-heeled boots echoed through the room as the terrified men began throwing down their weapons one by one and fleeing. I turned my gaze away from the men scrambling down the stairs toward the lower floor and checked on Charlotte, who was fighting the monster woman alone.
In that short time, Charlotte must have made a mistake. Her cheek was swollen and blood trickled from the corner of her mouth. With a terrifying, murderous look in her eyes, she dodged the monster woman’s relentless barrage of attacks and occasionally slashed out with her dagger.
The difference in reach was too great for deep strikes, but the mana-enhanced blade still sliced through the tough hide and drew gushing blood. When she sensed me watching, Charlotte briefly glanced my way, met my eyes, and shook her head as if to say don’t interfere.
It seemed she wanted to defeat this strong opponent by herself—the first truly powerful enemy she had faced since choosing to coexist with the Abaddon to strengthen her combat abilities. I decided to simply watch without intervening.
BANG! CRASH! THUD!
She was fighting well, but I kept watching in case she got into real danger. Then a tremendous noise came from the staircase. The stairs, which had been filled with desperate screams, suddenly fell silent. Soon after, my brother appeared, drenched in blood and radiating a terrifying aura.
The intense presence made my skin tingle. When he spotted me standing with my arms crossed, the demonic expression on his face melted away and he returned to his usual self.
“Phew… You’re safe.”
“Were you worried? Your women aren’t weak enough to be taken down by small fry, so don’t worry too much.”
The aura he had given off earlier was so ferocious that even I had felt a flash of fear. I had thought he was only gentle and kind, but it seemed he had that side to him too. The powerful masculine presence made my womb tremble.
“Even so, they’re women, so of course I—wait, what the hell is that?”
With a deeply worried expression and tone, he approached and brushed some flesh off my shoulder armor, only to freeze when he saw the monster woman fighting Charlotte.
“Hmm… Yeah, I guess ‘that’ is the right way to describe it. She was on the third floor. When I first saw her, I thought she was a monster too.”
“That’s a woman? Those aren’t breasts, they’re chest muscles.”
“And those thighs. They look thicker than your waist, brother.”
“How can a human even have a body like… wait, why does Charlotte’s face look like that?”
My brother’s face hardened when he saw Charlotte moving so fast she left afterimages.
He must have gotten angry seeing her face swollen and starting to bruise.
“She got hit once by mistake.”
“With that size difference, where the hell was there even a place to hit?!”
“Just a moment.”
I wrapped my arms around him as he tried to rush forward with his blood-dripping sword and stopped him.
“Charlotte wants to win this by herself. Please hold back and watch for now.”
“Tsk.”
“Thank you.”
Though he clicked his tongue in displeasure, he lowered the sword he had raised, signaling that he would respect my request.
While I used draconic magic to create water and washed the blood off both of us, Charlotte’s battle finally reached its conclusion.
“KUOOOOOOH!”
The monster woman’s eyes had turned blood-red from exhaustion. She had been swinging her arms and legs without pause, but her stamina finally reached its limit and her movements began to slow. The countless dagger wounds across her thick hide, though not deep, were causing blood to pour out and rapidly draining her strength.
Charlotte looked quite exhausted from the fierce fight as well, but she was squeezing out every last drop of stamina to maintain her transcendent speed.
“Was Charlotte always that fast?”
“It must be thanks to the Abaddon’s cooperation. It can manipulate the host’s brain to forcibly remove the body’s limiters.”
“So it’s literally like breaking through one’s limits. Of course that would put a huge strain on the body, right?”
“Yes. Her stamina is probably already at its absolute limit.”
Right now she was moving without regard for limits thanks to brain-secreted drug-like substances similar to doping, but once the battle ended, all the strength would drain from her body as if she had been completely discharged.
“Ah, it’s over.”
When the woman tried to grab her with both arms spread wide, Charlotte didn’t dodge. Instead, she slipped into her embrace. Her dagger flashed once, and the woman’s movements froze. Blood gushed from her neck like a fountain as she collapsed to the floor.
THUMP!
“Nya, nyang. I won, nyang.”
“Charlotte!”
Charlotte looked down at the fallen muscle woman with a satisfied smile on her horribly swollen face, then toppled backward. My brother rushed over and caught her small body before it hit the ground.
Simply looking at it, the monster woman had been more than twice Charlotte’s size with physical abilities to match. The fact that Charlotte had defeated her alone was truly impressive.
After confirming that the muscle woman was indeed dead, I approached my brother, who was holding the unconscious Charlotte that had passed out from excessive stamina consumption.
“Brother, I’ll infuse her with essence first to help her recover.”
“Yeah, okay.”
At my words, he quickly laid Charlotte on the floor and stepped back. I knelt beside her, placed my hand near her solar plexus, and began channeling essence. The essence flowed through my hand into her heart, then spread throughout her body along with her blood. With my other hand, I focused on pouring essence into her badly swollen face.
After filling her with plenty of essence—which was essentially life force itself and specialized in recovery—I stood up.
“Huu~ She should recover quickly now without any lasting issues.”
“Well done.”
“Also… I’ve used up quite a bit of essence lately. Could you recharge me?”
“Haha! Leave it to me. I’ll charge you up plenty, just the way you like.”
I deliberately spoke in a cute tone to lift his worried mood, and it worked. Afterward, we removed Charlotte’s ruined clothes and washed her body with water created from draconic magic. While watching me dress her in fresh clothes, my brother spoke.
“The storm is really raging out there. It’ll be hard to move right away with Charlotte this exhausted, so let’s rest here for a while.”
“In this place? By the way, what did you do with the men on the lower floors?”
“I heard gunshots and was coming up, but they all charged at me like madmen, so I sent them all to the afterlife.”
“Ah, I figured as much.”
Still, it seemed more likely that the men, intoxicated by drugs and pleasure, had seen him not as an enemy but as a man to rape. When I imagined what would have happened if an ordinary man other than my brother had come instead, a horrific scene flashed through my mind and I quickly stopped thinking about it.
While my brother carried Charlotte and searched for a relatively intact room, I remembered the pistol and retrieved it from the corner. During the fight I hadn’t paid it much attention, but now that I looked at it closely, it was a decorative revolver adorned with gold inlays and jewels—quite ornate. The caliber was unique to this world, so I would need to find matching ammunition separately.
My brother found an empty room in the corner of the third floor, swept away the dusty blanket, and laid Charlotte on the bed. The room was sparse, containing only two beds and a large central table, but the beds were high quality and thick, luxurious curtains hung on the windows, suggesting it had once been quite nicely decorated.
While he tidied the bed, I took out an emergency portable stove from my subspace pouch, lit it, and set it up in the center of the room. As the chilly air that had grown cold from the rain gradually warmed thanks to the stove, I took out emergency rations and prepared a meal.
My brother, who had been looking out the window, clicked his tongue.
“Wow, what the hell is with this rain? This is the first time I’ve seen rain in this dimension, and it’s insane.”
“I know. It feels just like the rainy season in Eden.”
“There’s a season like that? Like a monsoon?”
“Similar. Though it lasts a bit longer.”
“Don’t tell me this rain is going to last as long as a monsoon?”
“We can only hope it doesn’t. Everything’s ready. Come eat.”
It was essentially military-style combat rations for hunters, but the taste lived up to its high price. After filling his stomach with the high-calorie, high-nutrient emergency food, my brother checked once more that the door was securely locked, then began removing his armor.
As I helped him organize the armor, I said,
“There’s a high chance firearms are stored somewhere in this building. We should look for them later.”
“I did hear gunshots, but are there really that many guns?”
“Look at this.”
I took out the revolver I had acquired and showed it to him. He looked at the obviously luxurious pistol with a puzzled expression.
“How can you tell there are more guns just from seeing one pistol?”
“In a place close to modern civilization, the fact that someone keeps a decorative revolver like this suggests they’re probably a gun collector. People like that tend to own multiple firearms.”
“Hmm, then shall we look for them? But first, let me recharge my Elisha’s essence!”
“Kyaa~”
I let out a cute scream as his hands suddenly grabbed my waist and lifted me. Unlike when I had served him as a concubine, he began by caressing me first. I enjoyed the careful way his fingers rubbed my nipples and pussy and said,
“Mmm~ I’ll serve you.”
“This isn’t sex as a concubine. This is just normal sex between a man and the woman named Elisha. Let’s just enjoy each other after so long.”
Looking into his burning eyes as he kissed me, the powerful masculine image I had seen earlier came to mind again, making my womb grow hot once more.
Even as we engaged in passionate sex—not service, but an act of confirming our affection for each other—I noticed Charlotte’s eyes open on the adjacent bed. However, the way she covered her face with both hands and peeked out with just her eyes was completely different from the usual Charlotte.
Aha~ So it’s Arin, not Charlotte.
It seemed that because the owner of the body, Charlotte, had fainted, Arin had come out directly for a little while to watch us have sex.