The Cat Beastkin
Luna was waiting for me at the entrance of the hideout. Moonlight had settled gently upon her head, and her gleaming silver hair looked so precious I could have mistaken it for treasure.
Not a single drop of blood stained the clothes of the woman who had carried out my special order. A remarkable talent. I was almost tempted to wonder if her class wasn't actually Assassin.
"Hm? Luna. Who's that woman?"
A leash dangled from Luna's hand, and at the end of it stood a woman bound like a pet. According to the bandit underling, there were no women at the mountain stronghold. More precisely, he'd said there were none because every woman was either sold as a slave or used and then killed. Ah. Then this one had been meant for the auction block?
"She was imprisoned in the basement of the quarters. Judging by her appearance, she seems to be a woman being sold as a slave."
I kindled a light with Light Control. The woman's form, which the faint moonlight had only half-revealed, came fully into view. Like Luna when I first met her, she wasn't wearing a single thread. Dirt-stained skin and dry, brittle hair suggested the bandits hadn't bothered to wash her. Her sunken cheeks hinted she might have been starved as well.
In contrast to Luna's snow-white fairness, this was a woman with a warm brown tint to her skin. What stood out was that unlike Luna's moderately proportioned figure, her breasts and hips were considerably voluptuous. An E-cup, perhaps?
They say the breasts go first when you starve, but looking at this woman, it seemed not everyone followed that rule. Her hips, every bit as generous as her chest, were equally striking. But what drew the eye most were the cat ears perched on her head — and the matching tail at her rear.
"A beastkin, I see."
Solari World is home to various demihuman races, beastkin among them. Elves, dwarves, and hobbits are the best known. By ratio, humans and demihumans sit at roughly six to four, and among the demihumans, beastkin are the most numerous.
In the original game, beastkin are a cost-effective race. Their base stats outclass a human's, and thanks to their unique unarmed martial arts, they pull their weight even without high-grade equipment.
Of course, the trade-off is limited growth potential. You use them well in the early game and discard them later. Depending on the strategy guide, plenty of players never use beastkin at all.
"Hey. Human. Are you rescuing me?"
The beastkin who had kept silent until now opened her mouth in a sharp voice. Judging by the ears and tail, she was a cat beastkin — and her personality seemed equally prickly.
Those voluptuous breasts and hips gave off a considerable air of generosity, which was unexpected. Then again, being captured and slated for slavery by a bandit gang might have honed that edge.
"For now, that's how it turned out. My name is Derick Walker. I'm a slave merchant. What's your name?"
At the words slave merchant, she immediately frowned. An understandable reaction, given that she was currently wearing a collar. She hesitated a moment, then spoke.
"Sera."
"Sera. A good name. Are you the only slave they captured here? If there are others, I'd like to rescue them as well."
"There were others. They're all dead."
Sera's voice was remarkably calm.
"I was a high-grade product, so I survived."
One look at Sera's chest and hips and I understood immediately. She wasn't quite at Luna's level, but her face was more than pretty enough, and those overwhelming curves would fetch three gold at the very least.
"These bandits attacked my caravan. That's why I took my revenge. I've killed every last one of them, so I'll be heading back. Sera. Do you have somewhere to go?"
Of course she didn't. But courtesy demanded I ask.
"No. I left my tribe to travel and got caught like this."
Among beastkin tribes, there are a few that require you to leave upon reaching adulthood. Thanks to that custom, traveling beastkin are a common sight anywhere on the continent.
"Then would you come with me?"
Sera hesitated. My occupation as a slave merchant, no doubt. A reasonable wariness — she'd already been reduced to a slave once.
"I have no particular intention of selling you. My caravan's destination is Coulon. I can take you that far."
"I'm grateful you killed the bandits, but honestly, I can't trust you."
Her wariness ran as deep as a wildcat's. That kind of caution was essential for surviving a world this unforgiving. I didn't press her further.
Selling her as a slave would have earned me a tidy sum, but I didn't need to — I'd already made plenty of money. The thought of making her mine flickered through my mind, but I was in a hurry.
Besides, Solari World was overflowing with beauties. There was no need to be impatient.
"That's a shame. Well then, I'll be going."
When I turned away without lingering, Sera called me back in a wavering voice.
"W-wait!"
"Hm? Something else to say?"
"I can't completely trust you, but... getting out of this mountain alone is impossible. I don't know when a monster might attack. It's shameless of me, but I want to travel with you."
In the end, she made a practical decision. Rationally speaking, it was the right one. And so I returned to the caravan with a considerable haul of plunder and one slave in tow.
The journey after dealing with the bandits went like clockwork. No monsters attacked. As Coulon drew near, I picked up the pace.
"Haaahn...! Haaang~! Nnhhh~♥ Master...! If you keep lapping at my clit like that...!"
"You always suck me off with such devotion. The least I can do is return the favor, no? Heh. How's my pussy-licking?"
"Pussy-licking, you say...?!"
The more I had sex, the more my technique grew. Receiving Luna's breathtaking blowjobs had sent my cunnilingus skills soaring in tandem. At this point, I felt I could melt any frigid woman with nothing but my tongue.
Choosing a carriage with a bed installed had been a stroke of genius. It meant we could fuck freely even on the move. Luna's pussy was already overflowing with nectar. The sight of that delicious, dripping cunt made my cock spring up so hard it pressed against the fat of my belly.
"Ahem... ahem...!"
We had an audience. Sera, her face flushed, was watching our coupling from the opposite side of the carriage. She kept trying to look away, only to sneak glances, so whether "watching" was the right word was debatable — but we made no effort to hide it from her.
In a procession crawling with men, I couldn't very well dump Sera in with the rest of them, so I'd put her in my carriage. That, however, created a problem: Luna and I had sex every single day as part of our training.
It wasn't a serious problem. At first, I'd treated Sera as little more than scenery. We'd part ways once we reached Coulon anyway. She might find it a bit uncomfortable, but I was under no obligation to accommodate her. The fact that I was helping her at all was already generous.
The unexpected complication came from a direction I hadn't anticipated. The cause was that Sera was a beastkin.
"Nnhhh...♬"
A sweet moan spread through the carriage. It was a different sound from Luna's. Having heard Luna's moans to overflowing, I recognized it at once. The voice belonged to Sera.
While watching Luna and me fuck, Sera was secretly caressing her own pussy with her hand. The sight of her slipping that hand inside the clothes I'd given her and masturbating was thoroughly entertaining.
What made it especially amusing was how she did it in secret, conscious of our gazes. She seemed to think she hadn't been caught, but at this distance, there was no way you wouldn't notice someone touching themselves.
Beastkin have a heat cycle. They go into heat year-round the way humans do, but during their actual heat the intensity becomes incomparably worse. The surge in lust is so extreme that a beastkin slave in heat sells for a premium. And Sera was in heat right now.
She was already in a period when holding back her desire was nearly impossible. Watching a male and female copulate furiously right in front of her had apparently pushed her past the breaking point.
"Buhihit! Luna's pussy really is the best. You'll never taste a cunt this snug anywhere else!"
"Fwaaah~! Thank you for the praise! I never neglect my pussy training, all for Master's sake!"
The more I used Luna's pussy, the more it seemed to mold itself to me. I took my fill of her while sliding a glance toward Sera. She had completely lost her reason — no longer even caring that I was watching as she kneaded her cunt.
Pants shoved down to her knees, panties tugged aside, fingers working her pussy: the sight was obscenely erotic. I hadn't intended to train her at all, but I'd ended up conditioning her without meaning to.
After thoroughly enjoying Luna's body, I slowly approached Sera. Even as I drew near, she showed no wariness whatsoever — a far cry from how she'd been at the start. I spoke to her.
"You look rather uncomfortable. Your pussy, especially."
"Nnhhh...! This scent... I can't hold it..."
"What scent?"
"This intense male scent... It's the kind that turns us beastkin into fools... Mother told me to be careful of it, but..."
"Oho. So beastkin are weak to the smell of cock? That's new information."
"We were always taught in the village. If you aren't careful around a human with extraordinary stamina, you'll become a fool who knows nothing but sex... I heard there are many of our kind who ended up ruined that way."
A fool who knows nothing but sex. A fitting title, honestly, for a race whose late-game potential was complete garbage.
There was something about beastkin that stirred a man's instincts. Every time I looked at those soft ears and that gently swaying tail, a fire seemed to kindle in my chest.
"Do you want to smell this cock?"
I brought my still-rigid shaft up to Sera's face. Her gaze locked onto the head of my cock. She looked so much like the village idiot that a small laugh escaped me all on its own. The phrase "a fool who knows nothing but sex" suited her perfectly.
"If I... if I learn a man's cock, I don't think I'll ever be able to go back."
"Hm? A virgin? That's unexpected."
"The bandits said a virgin was worth more, so they didn't touch me. They raped and killed the other women captured with me instead."
A beastkin virgin. That was a considerable delicacy. Beastkin were weak to sex to begin with, so with the power of Power of Sex behind me, I could make her mine with ease. If I boosted her stats with the first-time bonus, she might even serve as a decent combat unit. Beastkin only lost their value in the late game — in the early stages, they were quite useful.
Good.
My mind was made up. The cat beastkin Sera. I'd devour her right here.