The Monster Awakens
A letter, meticulously wrapped in night-blooming flowers from Lua’s personal garden, appeared before her eyes. The Grand Duke lifted her head and confirmed who had presented it. “Chief Seneschal.”
It was Jeras, the one currently serving as Chief Seneschal in the Grand Duke’s castle. Though he appeared as a young man due to his elven blood, he was an elder who had served the Tanalif family since Lua’s grandparents’ generation.
“I believed Your Highness should at least read it.”
Lua knew what it was without even looking. It was undoubtedly from a child of one of the Grand Elf families—someone even a Grand Duke could not simply ignore. The content would be a request to meet and talk. The ultimate goal would be a political marriage with the Grand Duke.
“I distinctly remember ordering you to politely decline such things.”
“Your Highness. These are not people this old servant can dare refuse.”
“I will take responsibility.”
“The matter of the next generation is also something Your Highness must bear responsibility for.”
“……”
Lua was an elf as well, so outwardly she appeared only as a young woman. She even still carried a somewhat youthful, delicate look. However, by elven standards, she had already passed the typical age for bearing children.
“Please do not dismiss this old one’s words as mere nagging. I simply wish to see Your Highness build a harmonious family.”
“……I have no thoughts of it yet.”
Of course, that wasn’t entirely true. Lua carried deep worries about marriage. The Grand Duke had absolutely no intention of letting the Tanalif bloodline end. To continue the line, Lua had to marry and give birth to a child.
“Please understand that I must urge you. This old servant has already served the Grand Duke’s house for three generations. I swore to your predecessors that I would devote this entire body for the glory of House Tanalif.”
“Haa……”
The Grand Duke realized the Chief Seneschal had no intention of ending this conversation easily. She could not simply brush off the man who had cared for her like a teacher since childhood. She also knew his words were correct.
But Lua could not follow his advice. Because there was a fatal problem with her body.
Lua glanced downward, her eyes falling to her own crotch. Though hidden by magic, a monster slumbered there—one that might rear its head again at any moment.
“You must not have a child too late. That child would ascend to the position of Grand Duke at far too young an age. A stable transfer of power would become difficult.”
“……It doesn’t necessarily have to be my own child, does it?”
“Are you speaking of adoption? That would create issues of legitimacy… Ah, perhaps you mean Lady Sia’s child?”
“Sia? My older brother?”
If Lua did not have children, Sia’s child would become first in line to inherit the Grand Duke title. Originally, Sia had been a man, so he would have needed a wife to bear his children. But now…
“However, in my opinion, it seems extremely difficult for Lady Sia to have a child. I doubt any man would willingly form a relationship with someone burdened by so many curses.”
The Chief Seneschal’s muttering did not reach Lua’s ears.
Sia had to give birth to the child himself? He would have to lie beneath another man, sobbing and crying ♡ while doing those same acts he once did with her? He would have to take another man’s thing into his body, accept that disgusting seed, and carry it inside that beautiful form?
What kind of expression would her brother make then?
Twitch—
Damn it, why is this monster reacting to such filthy thoughts again…!
“If the succession passes not to Your Highness or Lady Sia, but to other relatives, you know very well that an extremely messy power struggle could erupt. Therefore…”
BANG!
“Y-Your Highness?”
The Grand Duke had slammed her fist on the desk and shot to her feet without realizing it. It was the first time Lua had shown such behavior, so the Chief Seneschal was utterly bewildered. No matter how unpleasant the words, the Grand Duke had always listened to the end if she believed them to be right.
“I apologize. This old one has overstepped his bounds.”
“……I’m sorry. It’s not because of you, Chief Seneschal. My head just hurts a little. I’ll go rest for a while.”
“Ah, yes. Understood.”
Lua left the office with her head bowed low. To the Chief Seneschal, the fact that the Grand Duke was drowning in overwork was also a serious concern. He thought it fortunate that his nagging had at least prompted her to take some rest.
“Haa…… haa……”
As she walked down the corridor, Lua struggled to calm her increasingly ragged breathing. The claim that her head hurt was no lie. From the moment she began having those blasphemous fantasies about her brother, a headache had begun to surge in.
Throb—
It was about time to soothe the thing she had hidden with magic.
“Haa…… haa…… haa……”
“L-Lua?”
Upon seeing Lua return to the room, Sia could only be shocked. For some reason, her hair was disheveled and her clothes were in disarray. A Grand Duke should not be seen walking around in such a state. Her eyes were slightly bloodshot, and her cheeks were flushed.
“L-Lua. Are you feeling unwell?”
“……Brother.”
“Ah, i-is it getting hard to hold back again?”
Sia closed the book she had been reading and rose from the bed. The sight of her pink hair dragging along the floor as she approached looked unbearably lovely in Lua’s eyes.
“It’s… it’s gotten even bigger again.”
Lua’s member was already standing tall, lifting her skirt. Sia reached out to touch the massive thing.
Slap.
“Eh?”
But Lua grabbed that slender white forearm.
“……Brother. The Chief Seneschal keeps pressuring me to get married.”
“Ah, yes. That’s… that’s right. You need to find a good husband quickly, have a child, and continue the bloodline.”
“……So you were thinking the same thing, Brother.”
“Mmm……”
Naturally, since Sia was also a member of House Tanalif, he harbored some concern for the family’s future. He knew that his younger sister had already passed the usual age for elves to marry. If he had been even slightly more assertive, he might have stood beside the Chief Seneschal earlier and joined in the urging.
Of course, that would have been before he learned of Lua’s extremely personal problem.
“But, Brother. What should I do? With something like this attached to my body, any husband would probably faint in terror, don’t you think♥”
The expressionless Lua pressed her massive erection against her brother’s lower belly.
Squeeze.
“Hyaat……♡”
The moment her soft stomach was pressed by that hard, unyielding thing, Sia was seized by a strange sensation and nearly collapsed on the spot.
“How could I possibly get married with a body like this? Right?”
“Y-yes, that’s true.”
“And it doesn’t seem like we’ll find a way to remove it permanently. If even Dimaria couldn’t do it, then no one in the world can.”
“D-don’t give up……”
“I am the Grand Duke. I must think realistically. In the current situation where I cannot have children, what would be the best course of action for House Tanalif’s future?”
“Ugh…… th-that……”
Though a member of the family, her brother had always been kept at a distance from its affairs. Now the Grand Duke was suddenly thrusting a major family matter onto him. Lua watched with intrigued eyes as Sia’s gaze spun in confusion.
“To minimize legitimacy issues, the person with the closest blood relation should bear the child. Then I would need to take a wife…”
“You, Brother? A wife?”
Finding an elven noble with same-sex preferences wasn’t entirely impossible, but two women could not produce a child. That would not continue the bloodline. Realizing this, Sia quickly nodded.
“Th-that won’t work. Then I would have to get pregnant—”
Slap!
Sia could not finish his sentence. When he came to his senses, his head had snapped to the side and his cheek burned as if on fire.
“L-Lua?”
Carefully turning his head back, he saw Lua’s face twisted with rage so intense that tears had formed in her eyes.
“How could you get pregnant, Brother? You’re a man.”
“B-but… my body has become female, so maybe it’s possible. Pregn—”
Slap!
The other cheek burned as well. Drops of nosebleed splattered onto the floor.
“Uh…… uh……?”
Overwhelmed by sudden dizziness, Sia tried to collapse where he stood. But because Lua still gripped his forearm, he could not fall freely.
“Never… ever… say that you will get pregnant in front of me again.”
Boiling with rage, Lua’s speech began to stutter just like Sia’s. But why am I so angry? What exactly am I furious at?
Lua knew she was not in a rational state. Even knowing that, she could not control her own emotions. A Grand Duke should not behave this way. Could this also be because of the curse? Wasn’t it only supposed to make controlling sexual desire difficult?
“I-I’m sorry. I was wrong. Please forgive me. I won’t say it again.”
Sia, seeing the blazing look in Lua’s eyes, was overcome with fear.
“Haa…… Look at you. You did nothing wrong, yet the moment you get hit you immediately apologize.”
“Mmm……?”
“How could I possibly send someone like you to another man? Even if your husband got drunk and hit you, you’d clearly blame yourself again.”
Sia could not deny those words. If it were him, he would probably grovel and beg for forgiveness even if beaten. Lua stared at her silent brother with a sticky, heated gaze.
The dark shadows under her eyes from exhaustion, the nose dripping blood, that utterly worn-out appearance looked unbearably attractive.
……Come to think of it, Brother’s outfit is different from usual. He often wore sleeveless tops, but the skirt was much shorter than before. Short enough to reveal those soft, plump thighs completely.
“Brother. Why are you dressed like that?”
“U-um?”
There had been no particular reason. He had simply thought that wearing something more revealing might please his little sister.
“Are you trying to seduce a potential husband by walking around in clothes like that?”
“Eh? N-no, that’s not—”
Sia felt as if the world was spinning around him while leaving him behind. Only after his floating body crashed onto the Grand Duke’s bed did he realize Lua had thrown him.
And in the blink of an eye, Lua was upon him, grabbing his knees.
“Spread your legs!”
“Kyaaaaaah—! L-Lua! Calm down! You’re acting a little strange!”
“Ugh……!”
At Sia’s desperate scream, Lua clutched her throbbing head.
“Y-you’re right. I’m… strange right now. Not a little—very strange.”
“Y-yeah. It’s okay. That can happen.”
But the reason I became strange is because of Brother’s curse. So if I do anything unreasonable, it’s only right that Brother takes responsibility, isn’t it?
“……No one.”
“L-Lua?”
“No one! No matter who it is in this world! Even if it’s the Emperor himself! No one can take Brother away from Tanalif Grand Duke!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaah!”
Lua forcibly spread Sia’s pale thighs and mercilessly tore off his underwear. The scraps of fabric fluttered through the air like cruelly trampled flower petals.
“Brother is mine. Only I can taste you, only I can give you pain, you are mine alone……♥”
Thud!
“Huuuht?!♡”
An overwhelming heat and weight pressed down on his most secret place, forcing a moan from Sia’s lips. Lua’s furiously swollen monstrous cock rested atop the shamefully exposed slit that Sia had revealed in such a vulgar position.