The Baby Squirrel
"Kyaaaaah! You pervert! What the hell are you doing!?"
Arme thrashed and screamed, her voice pitched with something close to horror. The way she trembled was almost pitiful. Faced with my wicked hands, she looked like a hamster before a cat.
Poor Arme.
A warrior like Reina might have stood a chance, but a delicate thief like her had no hope of bursting through layers of bindings by sheer force. Calling a thief of Arme's caliber "delicate" was frankly an insult — and yet the fact remained: all she could do was struggle. And the more she struggled, the tighter it pulled, like a rope cinching around her — the desire to torment her, burning hotter with every twist of her body.
Just look at these smooth little breasts. Innocent pink nipples, untouched by any filth, hung like ripe fruit from her chest. The fact that they were small wasn't even a flaw. In my eyes, Arme's breasts were far more precious than those of some whore who'd been rolled through every brothel in the city. A purity so complete it was hard to believe she was a brothel madam's daughter. She'd surely score a Grade 1 on the Unicorn Society's purity test.
"Buhihit! What an utterly irresistible sight! To think the great thief who made Coulon's nobles tremble was such a tiny, adorable baby squirrel! If those nobles you'd robbed could see you now, they'd beat the ground and weep!"
"Kh-hhk! Caught by a pervert like this... I'm so ashamed I want to kill myself!"
"Kill yourself? You think I'll allow you such a comfortable ending? Even if you do, I'll take everything from you first!"
It was almost instinct. I buried my face in Arme's chest and nuzzled. It felt like pressing my face into a wide, open meadow where healthy horses ran free — a sensation of pure, unbridled liberty. The softness of her skin rivaled even Sera's, who boasted a magnificent pair. A sweet, milky scent unique to a girl not yet fully ripened hung in the air.
There is a path for the ample, and a path for the modest. Arme was the righteous way of the small-breasted — the very embodiment of it. The thought of covering these with the smell of my semen made my groin swell to bursting.
"Kyaah! Get off! You pig! Get the hell off me!"
All Arme could do was hurl "pig" at me and let me hear her screams. I gathered both of her little mounds in my hands and took them into my mouth.
The moment my tongue touched her, she jerked as if she'd been shocked. A single tear slipped from a face gone white with terror. The greater the blow to her mind, the hotter the fire in my pleasure burned.
"Waaah~! I'm baby Derick. Gimme mama."
"Kyaaaaah! You pervert! You — please, stop him! This bastard has no shame!"
Arme begged Luna for help, and was simply ignored. She had no way of knowing that Luna and Sera were the original inventors of nursing play.
I worked Arme's nipple with my tongue, rolling it this way and that. She had never known a man. Every time that wet tongue stimulated her, her eyes rolled back and her body convulsed. When I started sucking the entire areola in earnest, she screamed as if the world itself had flipped over.
"Arme! Arme! My name is Arme! Kyaah! Fine! I won't lie! Please, just stop this!"
At last, the truth spilled from a mouth that had been feeding me lies on a thief's stubborn pride. Her disgust toward me had eaten her thief's honor alive. I did not stop devouring her nipple. The fire of pleasure had already burned past any point of restraint. If you wanted to assign blame, it was Arme's fault for making me this way.
Like a newborn latching onto its mother's breast, I suckled her for a long, long time. Arme screamed until her throat must have been raw, then collapsed from sheer exhaustion. In the end, she stopped resisting and simply took it. What a cute little kitten.
"Hhk... A man like this... I'm physiologically, completely... incompatible..."
She'd coughed up the truth under my suckling, but the venom hadn't fully drained; she still managed a line like that. Fine by me. I sat back a little from her and resumed the interrogation.
"So. Ready to talk properly now? Your name is Arme?"
"Hhk... Yeah. It's Arme."
"A good name."
"Hearing that from a pervert like you doesn't make me even a little happy."
Her voice was still sharp as a dagger, still threatening — and that, in its own way, was delicious. I was curious how long she could keep that spine locked straight. Measuring it would be an entertaining game all by itself. I hoped she'd hold out a long time.
"Where do you stay?"
"Nowhere fixed... I was at an inn in Shilling, but I checked out yesterday. I was going to leave here today."
"Here meaning Coulon?"
"Yeah. Your house was going to be the last one. Then I was heading to another city. Hhk... How did it come to this...?"
"Buhihit. Even the great thief who makes Coulon's rich men tremble is no different from a mischievous little cat in front of me. Fine. How many houses have you hit so far?"
"Since coming to Coulon, five... Look. Let's do this. I'll pay a ransom. Let me go."
Arme's mind was already spinning. A thief's thinking, through and through. Perhaps I could play along, just a little.
"A ransom. A reasonable thought. But do you actually have that kind of money?"
"I may not look it, but I've robbed houses of high-nosed nobles. I can cover my own ransom."
"Buhihit! Then let's tally it up. First, you'll need to cover the costs I incurred catching you, plus compensation for emotional damages. Add your ransom on top of that... and we arrive at roughly twenty platinum."
Arme's eyes nearly popped out of her head.
"Twenty platinum!? Are you kidding me!? What kind of insane math is that!?"
"Simple arithmetic. I spent nearly two weeks catching you and got no work done at all. Damages from that, plus the time and physical costs of standing watch, plus compensation for emotional distress — that's about fifteen platinum. And your ransom itself should be worth at least five, no? Buhihit! Then the math is done. Twenty platinum. I will not deal for less."
It was an outrageous calculation. Twenty platinum was money Arme could never possess. It was a large sum even for me. Strip her of every last possession and she'd be lucky to scrape together three or four platinum — and even that was a fortune.
"That's a scam! You fucking bastard! How does that make any sense!? Does that make any fucking sense!?"
Arme gave voice to her feelings with coarse curses she hadn't used until now. Her reaction was, perhaps, only natural. In real-world terms, it was like a fender-bender victim demanding tens of millions in pain and suffering. Granted, Arme's crimes were rather larger than a fender-bender — but from where she sat, it would feel the same.
"Buhihit! Then I suppose there's no helping it. You're already a thief who stole high-value treasures. You said you robbed noble houses — even if you stood trial, you wouldn't escape a death sentence!"
This world had laws and courts, of course. But such was the nature of Solari World: the law was far away, and the fist was close.
Thieves and robbers were liable to be beaten to death before they ever saw a courtroom. And a sinner of Arme's caliber, once she did reach one, would face certain death — or slavery. The rich men and nobles in Coulon grinding their teeth over her were not few.
"That's right, you fucking bastard! Khak! Ptew! You filthy pig! I'll take the death sentence! I'll fucking take it! I'd rather die on the gallows than grovel for mercy from a bastard like you!"
"Buhihit! Still haven't grasped the situation, I see. You won't get anywhere near a courtroom. Luna!"
"Yes!"
At my signal, Luna took a blade and shredded Arme's full-body stealth suit completely. Like a pupa splitting out of its husk, the black bodysuit became rags in an instant. I burned the finely cut scraps with Fire Control. Arme, left in nothing but her underthings, hung her head in shame.
"Kh-hhk! You cowardly pervert!"
"Buhihit! To be called a coward by a thief! Where else would you find a comedy like this!?"
"What are you going to do to me!? I'll say this now — I don't have a bestiality fetish. I'd rather bite my tongue and die than do it with a pig like you!"
"Biting your tongue and dying isn't as easy as you think. Still, I appreciate the advance warning. Luna."
"Yes!"
"Put this... in that baby kitten's mouth."
I stripped off my underwear on the spot and laid it in Luna's hand. She took it, and with that expressionless face, lifted it to her nose. The sight of doll-like Luna doing such a thing was more than enough to leave Arme dumbstruck.
"Master's scent.... is wonderful."
Luna made no attempt to hide her affection. I snorted a laugh.
"Sera likes it too. She takes my laundry every day."
"Actually.... that was me."
Luna dropped that bombshell and approached Arme with my rank underwear in hand.
Arme screamed, her eyes gone wild with horror. It was the face of someone looking at a cockroach. No — several times worse than that. A stinking pig's underwear versus a cockroach. From a woman's point of view, which was more grotesque? I couldn't say.
"Kyaaaaah! Get away! Get that filthy monstrosity away from me!? No! No! Absolutely not! Ggeeeehk!"
Luna stuffed my underwear into Arme's mouth. The expression that filled her face — humiliation and revulsion in equal measure — got me hard all over again. I'd just taken the underwear off, so my proud cock hung out in the open. Luna, having carried out the order, came to me and took it in her mouth.
"I shall serve you."
"If you would."
I was receiving Luna's fellatio when Sera returned from her errand. She watched our play with a bright, blooming smile.
"I came back at just the fun part!"
"Perfect timing. Sera, gag that woman's mouth."
"Yeees~!"
I watched Sera work while Luna's mouth stayed busy. Sera wound cloth into a gag and sealed Arme's mouth over the underwear already clenched between her teeth.
Arme gagged and fought, but a thief had no hope of overpowering a beastkin's strength. She was bound besides; the odds of her resistance amounting to anything were zero.
"Oof! She's putting up quite a fight. Anyway, done~! Tada! A splendid gag."
"Mmph! Mmph! Mmph! Mmph! Mmph!"
"Getting to soak in Master's thick scent like that... I'm so jealous."
"Buhihit! We'll leave her like this and come back in the morning. Arme. I'm going to find out just how far your endurance goes."
We shut the door and left the inn room. Arme's violent screams were stopped up by the gag and barely carried. Once the door closed, there was only silence. We went to the adjoining room we'd reserved, indulged in a long, filthy round of sex, and slept.
"Ggeeehk...!"
The moment morning broke, we went to Arme's room. Overnight, her eyes had gone dead. I hadn't lifted a finger, and I had still crushed her mind to pieces. Until Sera undid the gag, Arme didn't say a word.
"Blaaargh! Uegh! Blaaargh!"
The instant the gag came out, Arme emptied everything in her stomach. She hadn't eaten anything separately, so all that came up was a bowlful of sour bile. After a few more dry heaves, she spoke through streaming tears.
"Uugh.... just kill me."
"Buhihit! You don't even have the freedom to die."
"You fucking bastard..."
The venom still hadn't fully drained. That, too, was part of Arme's charm. Even in the game, the way she snapped at you every time you talked to her was rather cute. Seeing it in the flesh, it was cuter still.
"Buhihit! If you simply pay the twenty platinum, this conversation ends easily."
"There's no way I have that kind of fortune.... Even if I sold everything I have right now, I'd get about three platinum."
That, too, was an enormous sum. But if I'd intended to take the money quietly and let her go, I wouldn't have done any of this. Even if she produced twenty platinum, I had no intention of releasing her.
"Hmm. Then I suppose you'll have to pay the rest with your body."
"Kh-hhk! Planning to sell me to a brothel? How generous! I'd rather work the street as a whore than get fucked by a disgusting pig like you!"
"Still don't understand your position. Well, fine. That's not a bad idea either. I'm not a man who dislikes discipline."
"Ha~? Discipline? Don't make me laugh! You're a garbage pervert!"
"And you're the little rat that garbage caught. First, that wicked tongue of yours needs a lesson. Sera."
"Yes~!"
At my signal, Sera approached Arme and forced her mouth open. Having suffered so badly from the underwear gag, Arme fought with everything her jaw strength had. She could never win against Sera by force.
"Mmph! Mmph! Mmph! I still have tee—!"
"You haven't had a drop to drink, so you must be thirsty. This is this morning's first piss. Drink it with gratitude."
Shhhhhhhhhh!
"Aaaaaaaaaah!"
Arme's hell had only just begun.