Spoils
A frantic voice crackled into Alpha's ear as she clashed with the Association's abominations.
"Alpha! Take the agents and retreat immediately!"
"The agents still haven't returned."
"The Association has joined hands with a Calamity-class abomination. Every last agent has been taken."
"...Understood."
Alpha clenched her teeth hard. The news that the agents she had lived and fought beside for years were now dead in the line of duty hit her like a blow. She forced the grief down and locked eyes with the remaining agents. Headquarters had almost certainly already briefed them on the situation; all that remained was to match their timing.
"Haha! Your attacks have gone soft. Looks like something's changed, hasn't it?"
"Joining hands with a Calamity-class abomination... I never thought the Association had sunk that low."
"Turns out the bastard's pretty reasonable once you talk to him."
They had extracted the information. She would have liked to dig for more, but any further delay was too dangerous. Time was no longer on the agents' side.
Just as she prepared to coordinate the retreat with the others, a dreadful wave of yin energy flooded the entire theme park.
"Th-this yin energy...?"
"The red bitch! The red bitch is here!"
It was an ominous aura none of them had ever felt before, yet the men already seemed to know exactly whose it was. From their shouts, the agents pieced it together as well.
"They even brought in an S-rank abomination?"
The Association's S-rank abomination known as the Red Woman. In truth she was a wild, uncontrollable woman who obeyed no one but the Association Chairman. Every action she took was pure impulse, making it impossible to read the Association's intent through her; the Bureau had long treated her as little more than a free-roaming mercenary the Association could occasionally hire.
Judging by the men's reactions, they had never intended to call her in for this deal. Something must have gone wrong.
"Everyone, retreat...!"
She barked the order the moment the men faltered. The rookies stumbled and lagged a little, but they still managed to put distance between themselves and their pursuers.
"Catch them! We've still got a job to do!"
"Kiiit...! Fine by me!"
The men snapped back to focus and gave chase. With their greater numbers and the rookies slowing the group, the gap began to close again. At this rate they would be overtaken long before they reached the Mammal Zone. The agents drove their legs even harder.
—KWAANG!!
"Kyaah?!"
"Keep your balance! If you fall, we leave you behind!"
Uterus bombs kept exploding behind them. Distance kept the blasts from scoring direct hits, but the shockwaves still sent the rookies staggering. There was no spare capacity to help anyone back up; one fall meant abandonment.
They finally reached the Mammal Zone, yet the men still dogged their heels with stubborn persistence. Someone would have to buy time.
Alpha squeezed her eyes shut once, then spun around, ready to hold the abominations off alone—
—Kuuung!
A completely different aura surged across the entire theme park.
"Th-this is...?"
"Ki-kihihit... Looks like the Calamity just locked horns with the red bitch."
A few seconds later a bizarre sight appeared in the distance: a black hole punched clean through the sky. From that hole tens of thousands of abominations poured out like a waterfall, then swept across the whole of Happy Furry Theme Park in a living tidal wave.
"Sh-shit!"
"Kihit...? Wh-what the hell is that?"
Agents and abominations alike stood frozen, staring. Only when the wave was almost on top of them did every last person scream and bolt.
"R-retreat to the ticket booth!"
"Sh-shit, what even is that?!"
"Ki-kihihi! Run!"
Old grudges between the Management Bureau and the Association vanished; both sides fled in perfect cooperation. Agents subdued any residents who got in the way while the men smashed obstacles. Still the wave was faster. The distance shrank by the second until the men made their choice.
"Ha! At this rate they'll catch us! Bomber! Pull out every last bomb!"
"Kihyahat! Standing and fighting, are we?! Fine! Let's go toe-to-toe with nature itself!"
They had chosen to resist the wave. The agents kept running. Thunderous explosions erupted at their backs, yet a few seconds later every sound died, leaving only the relentless roar of the oncoming tide.
The time those men bought was enough. Just before the wave could swallow them, the agents vaulted over the ticket booth. The moment headquarters confirmed their escape, the Management Bureau sealed the gate of Happy Furry Theme Park shut.
The intelligence officers watching from HQ were white with sheer terror.
Using the Penislime still attached to Yu-mi, I locked onto her coordinates and opened a passage through a nearby gap. Yu-mi slipped carefully back into the Nest and her eyes went wide.
"W-woooow..."
It's gotten quite a bit bigger, hasn't it?
"'Quite a bit' doesn't even begin to cover it."
I had remade the theme-park abomination's core into a Slaveyrynth and then merged that Slaveyrynth with the Nest. The space was now incomparably vaster than the cramped pocket it had once been. The farther the Slaveyrynth spread, the larger the Nest would grow.
"So that's the new subordinate entity?"
That's right.
The Slaveyrynth's core floated above the Well of Resurrection. After the merger it seemed to have become the Nest itself. It supposedly reproduced through Personality Jellies; I would have to analyze its ecology properly later.
But first—
Let's check the spoils.
"Y-yes, sir!"
This battle had netted me quite a haul: the three women the Association had offered, Management Bureau agents, furry residents, and even Medeia. I lined up the empty bodies in a neat row.
Drop the ordinary humans' and furries' personalities into the Well of Resurrection for now.
There had originally been thousands of furries in the theme park, but Medeia's bombardment had wiped out most of them. Roughly a thousand still remained, yet the majority were already serving as Anemone hosts, so only a few hundred were actually free. The furries had once been bound to the theme park itself; once its core became my subordinate, they turned into ordinary abominations. That meant they could now die if I drained their yin energy to the limit the way I used to.
Treat them about the same as humans and it should be fine.
"Haa... How am I supposed to manage hundreds of them?"
They're abominations, so they don't really need managing. Just keep the humans from dying.
Next were the agents. I had already dumped all their gear through a passage; location trackers, recording devices—anything could still be active. Their Personality Jellies sat rolled up atop their heads. Because they were precious sources of Management Bureau intelligence, I had no intention of feeding them to the Well.
And then Medeia.
"Uugh..."
Relax. With her personality gone there's nothing she can do. If you're that scared, try some lesbian play with her or something.
"Eeeek..."
Yu-mi looked terrified, so I suggested rubbing against her to ease the fear; the suggestion only made her face twist with even greater revulsion.
Medeia knew the abomination world inside and out, so the quality of information I could pull from her would be excellent.
Finally I handed Yu-mi several items.
"Th-these are...?"
One phone, one steel womb model, one old book.
Yeah. Looked like gear Association members used. I picked them up off the ground. You need at least one way to protect yourself now.
"Other than the phone, I have no idea how to use any of this..."
Yu-mi turned the phone over in her hands. When she powered it on, a pink background appeared with a white spiral spinning in the center.
"B-but doesn't this have side effects?"
It does—makes your speech pattern weird.
"I don't really feel any change in how I talk..."
Looking closer, the side effect was still there: the phone's yin energy was clearly targeting Yu-mi's womb. But her womb already bore my Subjugation Brand. Even a hypnosis app couldn't punch through that brand and invade.
"I-I survived thanks to you, Master. That speech pattern was seriously the worst."
Same here.
I examined the remaining two objects—a steel womb model and a worn book. I had no idea why they had suddenly appeared, but the yin energy clinging to them told me they had belonged to either agents or Association members. Since I still didn't know what they did, I decided to find a use for them later and turned my attention to Medeia.
The anal plug fashioned from her personality sat atop her head as well. The moment a tentacle touched the plug, Medeia's voice reached me.
So, how are you holding up?
"Oh my? Are you finally paying attention to me?"
I can't exactly show kindness to someone who tried to kill me.
Medeia had attempted to murder me and had wounded Yu-mi. She deserved proper punishment.
"Isn't ending up like this punishment enough for you?"
This is only the baseline state for your punishment. Watch carefully how your body changes from here on.
"If you're going to punish me anyway, how about putting my personality back in first?"
On the surface it almost sounded like a reasonable suggestion. The problem was that she was a complete lunatic whose dopamine system had gone feral. She would simply revel in every pleasure her body felt.
Did you think I wouldn't see through that? You're going to stay right where you are and watch everything in silence.
"...That's a problem."
For a woman who had spent her entire life chasing dopamine, this situation would be pure hell.
Of course, after witnessing her strength firsthand I knew that branding her with a Subjugation Brand would instantly give me an extremely powerful slave. But first she needed to be trained so she would never bite her master again.
For starters... let's begin with childbirth.
Penislimes swarmed over her body.
"Haaang♥!!"
Medeia could only watch in silence as her own body screamed in endless ecstasy.