Happiness Springs from the Anal (2)
"I'm always so ashamed. Visitors to the village have been scarce lately, and honestly, hardly anyone here knows how to do anything besides tourism work…"
"It's all right. This is the village that took my sister and me in when we had nowhere else to go. When the village is struggling, of course we should help."
The woman smiled brightly at the village chief and handed over most of the wages she had earned that month. With so many people in the village going hungry, the chief accepted the money with deep apologies. Still, with this sum, the village would be able to hold on for another month.
"Haa… Looks like we'll scrape by this month too."
She knew full well that if her little sister found out, she would get an earful again. Even so, she hadn't been able to simply stand by and watch, and she returned home with a rather satisfied expression. Keeping the village afloat on her own strength these past few months had been grueling, but at last she felt as though she was repaying the kindness they had been shown.
And even setting that aside, there was one more reason her mood was so good.
She pulled her favorite artist Shiu's newest manga from her bag and began to look through it with a thoroughly happy face. The cover of this new work featured a character who looked like a beastkin, so she was looking forward to it in her own way. Even while pouring most of her salary into keeping the village alive, the one hobby she absolutely could not give up was buying artist Shiu's latest releases. That alone was enough to show just how much she loved his work.
"Is this going to be similar to the breast-development manga?"
The title made it clear that it belonged to the same series. But the main focus of that previous work — breasts — had been swapped out for the anal, so she couldn't quite predict what she was in for. And since "anal" meant the anus, figuring out the actual content was even harder. Still, artist Shiu had never once betrayed her with the quality of his work. And in the case of Happiness Springs from the Breasts, the manga had been so good that for a while her hobby had become breast masturbation. So she opened the book with a fair amount of anticipation.
"Anal sex…?"
Right from the start, the protagonist yearned for anal sex yet agonized over the fact that it was dirty. What on earth was this about? Her head spun a little. So… having sex through the anus?
Ah. So that's why it's dirty.
Even the protagonist who said it clearly understood that it was an unsanitary act — that was why she was agonizing over it. But if she still wanted to do it despite how unhygienic it was, did that mean there was some kind of meaning in it? How good could it possibly feel, to make her want it that badly?
Feeling a flicker of genuine interest, she kept reading.
"Ah, so that's why she solves it herself with magic."
The magic circle was detailed enough that it looked like it could actually be cast. Familiar supply modules were visible, and considering the protagonist had been introduced early on as a beginner mage, it felt perfectly appropriate. That terrifying level of detail — deliberately not using the full extent of his own skill, and instead reflecting only what the character herself could have devised — was so very like artist Shiu. She nodded to herself.
"Ah, so that booklet they handed out earlier was this."
It was a small pamphlet with the magic circle and usage instructions for a spell named Backpussy Magic, written out like the protagonist's personal notes. It hadn't been a pre-order, yet they had given something extra as if it were. Judging by the fact that they had gone out of their way to distribute it, they seemed to be actively encouraging people to use the magic for real.
"I'll just read a little more first."
She could tell what functions the magic circle had just by looking at it. But she still didn't understand why those particular functions needed to be applied. That, she would have to learn by continuing through the work.
"…Development?"
The anal — that is, the anus — was not originally a place meant to take a cock. So it needed to be stretched and developed into a body that could accept one. Reading that left her blank. Unlike the breast version, where it was simply about feeling good, this was specifically for the purpose of getting fucked — but the common thread with the previous work was still there: developing the body for the sake of pleasure.
The protagonist insisted that you didn't even need a cock — an anal dildo or an anal plug was more than enough to feel good — and thoroughly tormented the girl with them. Watching the anus be treated like a sex organ carried a dizzying sense of taboo, and she found herself continuing to read with a strange, itchy sensation around her own rear.
"Whoa…"
Having read so many of artist Shiu's works, she immediately caught the distinctive pleasure-drunk expressions on the characters' faces. And she finally understood what this work was trying to say: that developing the anal felt good.
"So basically, you use magic to wash out the intestines yourself, then develop it while your bowel movements are blocked."
Seeing that the protagonist had even included healing magic just in case of injury, she thought he was an incredibly considerate lead. Of course, she could only think that because the character getting skewered on his cock looked so thoroughly happy. In the end, he had put so much thought and development into making her that happy — wasn't that enough to call him a good person?
"It really does deserve to be called a backpussy."
So the anus could be used like this. Well, she had lived her whole life without knowing breasts could feel that good either — there was no law saying the anal couldn't feel good too. Admitting how lacking her knowledge was in this area, she moved on to the next girl's story.
"…Th-that long thing goes in?"
It was about gradually inserting and developing around a long, wriggling dildo that looked to be half the girl's own height. Watching the girl grow used to it over time until she could take the entire thing all the way in left her in awe. And the most incredible scene of all was when that dildo came flooding out of her ass in one rush, the intense friction against her anal making her collapse on the spot. It wasn't just a face of ordinary pleasure — it was the face of someone whose brain was being shattered by it. She found herself wondering what on earth that must feel like, to make someone look like that.
The girl climaxed right there on the floor, blissfully wetting herself, and the protagonist scattered his semen over that peak of pleasure to close out the episode. There hadn't even been any sex this time, and yet she felt so lewd she almost got the chills.
"This time it's the thick ones."
Watching them keep scaling up the size, shattering every assumption that surely this must be the limit, she was truly staggered by the difficulty of the expansion. Eventually they weren't even using cocks anymore — they were shoving in an entire arm as a cock substitute. And then, into that gaping backpussy hole held wide open, they came as if filling a vessel. That was how the content ended. Honestly, this one didn't make her curious so much as a little scared. At most, it left her thinking, I guess even that is possible.
"…What actually caught my eye was the hot spring, though."
A hot spring had appeared out of nowhere, leaving her with a strange feeling. Apparently it had shown up because soaking in warm water loosened the body and helped with the expansion work. The moment she saw the hot spring, she thought of how her own village had hot springs in several places. A small hope stirred in her — maybe this manga would make hot springs popular, and people would start visiting in droves.
I can't keep feeding this place forever, after all.
The best outcome would be creating an environment where the village could stand on its own. To do that, they either needed to keep leveraging the village's one money-making feature — tourism — or develop some other specialty product.
"Is this the last chapter? Ah, time really does fly."
Artist Shiu's previous work, Witch Academy, had been so long that she had loved it. This one was a more ordinary length, which left her a little disappointed. But that previous work had been the exception, and this was the average — nothing to be done about it.
"Ah, so this is the scene from the cover."
But on the cover, the girl had clearly been a beastkin just like the people of this village — and yet inside the pages she appeared as an ordinary human. Startled, she flipped back to the cover and discovered that the ears weren't real animal ears at all, but a headband. In other words, she wasn't a real beastkin — a human was cosplaying as one.
"Wait a second. Then what about the tail?"
It had been drawn with a slightly blurred double-image effect to show the tail wagging. And she wasn't even wearing clothes, so it couldn't have been hanging from anywhere. How had they done it? Her eyes went round.
"Whoa. Holy…"
And then she pure and simply marveled at the fact that they had made the tail into an anal plug. Just attaching a tail was enough to make it feel like the character's entire species had changed. From there, the story featured scenes of sex with all kinds of animal tails attached. Of course, the stimulation from the anal plug inside the tail was used to make her feel good. Or she would get fucked in her pussy while the anal plug was still buried in her backpussy. All sorts of appealing scenes appeared throughout.
And because the content was this appealing, she realized with certainty that the thing destined to become a massive hit was none other than this Anal Plug Tail. Just like the womb tattoo stickers, it was an item that could explode into a huge trend.
"…This is going to take off."
Separate from her love of artist Shiu's work, the fact that this might be the last chance to save her village made her spend a long time calculating everything she would need. One by one, she checked whether what she was imagining was actually possible.
"Yeah. There's a real shot."
The moment she felt certain about her plan, she headed straight for the city to borrow the funds she needed.