The Dragon's Summons
"I'm sorry! My lady!!" "Tsk."
Luzenda knelt trembling before Helen, pressing her forehead to the floor. The disgrace she had shown in front of Alpha was unforgivable. Following his command, she had licked Helen's breasts, ignored the high priestess's words, and lost consciousness while impaled on his cock. Luzenda had only regained her senses around dinnertime.
'Still, it felt incredible.' Yet she felt no regret. Even if her life as a mercenary ended here, she could die satisfied, having tasted the greatest cock in existence. The mere thought made her wet again.
"Get up, Luzenda."
"…"
Luzenda swallowed hard. What punishment awaited her? She had no regrets, but fear still gripped her. A single word from Helen could bring ruin to her family, who still received her occasional wages. No, it would bring ruin. The noble lady before her was arrogant and brimming with confidence. Even when other nobles visited, her reputation as a genius alchemist allowed her to dismiss them without hesitation. That was Helen Wagner. No matter how long they had been close as employer and employee, that fact would never change.
"Haa… There's no helping it. I'll forgive you. Let's go outside."
"Outside?"
"Yes. I've always said that as long as you don't betray me, I'll overlook minor mistakes. You're my friend, after all. Friends should share good things."
"??"
Following Helen, who spoke words Luzenda couldn't understand, they arrived at a high-end lingerie shop.
"Pick something."
"Pardon?"
"Quickly. He said he'd come again tomorrow. And he told me to think about how to satisfy him. So throw away those strangely thick undergarments and pick out a few new ones here."
"Eeeh?"
What had happened while she was unconscious? Calling him "that gentleman"…! Luzenda was dumbfounded, yet she could somewhat understand. While she had been passed out, Helen must have also tasted Alpha's cock.
'He really is something else.' Any woman would become a bitch in heat and fall in love with a cock like that. Luzenda felt her shoulders unconsciously lift with pride as she began selecting underwear.
And so the next day arrived.
"Ugh…!!" Thud!!
Helen slammed the table once more.
"He said he'd come, didn't he? What did I do wrong, Luzenda? What did I do wrong? Hmm? You tell me."
The sun had set and the moon had risen. Alpha still had not appeared. He had said he would come the next day, yet he never came. After being thoroughly fucked by him the previous day, they had rushed to buy pretty lingerie, stayed up all night without proper sleep thinking of ways to satisfy him—only for it all to be in vain.
"W-well…"
Luzenda couldn't find words as Helen grabbed her shoulders and shook her. What solution could she possibly offer? In the end, the two of them could only spend another day without finding any way to resolve the situation.
*
"Lord Alpha, will you not be going out today?"
"No."
"But yesterday you said you would visit Lady Helen…"
After finishing his duties in the Breeding Chamber and returning, Ertia remembered what he had said the day before and asked.
"Ertia. Did you ask because you thought I might have forgotten something so simple?"
"N-no, I didn't."
Pat pat. I patted Ertia's shoulder and whispered softly into her ear.
"Ertia. That's a good attitude. Always ask when you don't understand. And learn. Understand why I do things this way."
"Yes… I understand!"
"Good. From now on, think before you ask. Everything I do has meaning."
"Y-yes, I understand."
Squeeze-!! After firmly grabbing Ertia's ass, I returned to my seat. I didn't explain it to her, but of course I wasn't going to visit Helen today. Why would an Alpha Male like me go looking for a female? The female should come and serve me. Therefore, I had no intention of going to Helen until she came to find me.
"Did your outing yesterday go well, Department Head?"
When I returned to my seat and began reviewing documents, Elisa soon appeared. After a light greeting, she returned to her desk and started working. Her attire had changed significantly from when we first met, when she had been wrapped up tightly. Ertia had mentioned that she still wore the same outfit when going outside, but it was different here. Her top exposed both shoulders completely, and the neckline was cut so deep that even a slight bow would reveal her entire chest. Wearing a short skirt with garter belts emphasizing her thighs, Elisa's appearance—dressed to seduce me—only made me smile.
"It went well."
"There were no problems with Lady Helen Wagner, I hope?"
Maybe I should plant a bit of crisis awareness in Elisa. Though she claimed it was difficult to come see me, she rarely visited the Breeding Chamber. It seemed necessary to make her a little impatient.
"Yes. She treated me very well. I also liked her bodyguard."
"… That can't be right? That bitch Helen?"
Elisa muttered quietly, but there was no way I wouldn't hear it sitting right beside her. With just that small provocation, she began biting her nails with an anxious expression, muttering endlessly throughout her work.
"That slut. How could she do something like that on the very first day they met… and with her own bodyguard? Crazy bitch. Crazy bitch."
"Ah, right. The Department Head is a commoner. Of course he wouldn't speak ill of the noble Helen in front of me. Heh… It was just lip service~"
After cursing for a while, Elisa suddenly nodded as if realizing something, stopped her strange thoughts, and began organizing documents at a frightening speed.
"Ah! A petition came from the doctors."
"What is it?"
"It says that if they don't wear blood-stained gowns, no one respects them and they get treated as incompetent doctors, so they can't do that."
Ha… I thought doctors of this era, lacking proper education and practicing quackery, wouldn't do such things, but apparently my prediction was wrong. I hadn't expected them to immediately refute the message I sent through Elisa yesterday.
"Aah… Some of them will have to disappear as dew on the execution ground."
There was no choice. I had to make an example by executing a few. If killing one or two could protect the mothers currently exposed to bacterial infections, it would be the same as saving many more lives.
"Ertia? Go execute the doctors' representative on the spot."
"Yes."
"W-wait a moment!!"
At my words, Erika immediately shot up from her seat and shouted.
"I-I understand your thoughts well, Alpha. No, Department Head. But I believe it's unjust to execute the doctors' representative without any dialogue!"
"Unjust? This isn't unjust—it's only natural, Lady Erika."
Currently, my relationship with Erika within the department was one of mutual respect. Therefore, we used honorifics with each other. Perhaps because of that, Erika was the only female in this room who could properly voice her opinion to me. Ertia was practically my slave, and Elisa was nothing more than a female trying to curry favor with me.
"Lady Elisa. Did you show the doctors the contents of this report?"
"Of course. It's a noble's duty to make ignorant commoners understand."
"You heard that, right? According to this report, these are the rates of puerperal fever occurring after doctors and midwives assisted with childbirth. Based on statistics from the past month, the rate of puerperal fever among mothers treated by doctors is over ten times higher. This isn't helping with childbirth—it's no different from murder!"
Puerperal fever occurred when bacteria infected wounds in a woman's genitals torn during childbirth. And the ones increasing the chances of bacterial exposure were the doctors wearing gowns caked with blood that might carry all sorts of pathogens, all to show off their experience. Still, I needed to partially accommodate Erika's opinion. There was no need to antagonize her too much. If I pretended to yield once, Erika would think she owed me a debt, which I could use later.
"Huu. For Lady Erika's sake, I'll give them one warning. Go tell them that if they don't comply, I'll execute two representatives."
"Understood."
At my words, Ertia left, her iron armor clanking. She didn't need to make such a racket, yet she walked out swaying her hips dramatically from side to side. What an incorrigible female. I sat back down and continued my work. Well, there wasn't much work left to do now. Just routine reports about regions suspected of plague outbreaks and death tolls. Days of leisurely handling simple, routine tasks had begun. This state would likely continue until the soap was made.
The doctors, threatened by Ertia, discarded their blood-stained gowns and began treating people after disinfecting with hot water, however inadequate. Then one day—
"Alpha! Lady Melania has summoned you. Follow me."
"… Yes. Of course."
I placed the documents I was reading on the desk and followed Leona. Leona's wolf tail, attached to her waist, swayed left and right, as if pleased that I was following behind her. It looked so fluffy that I unconsciously wanted to touch it. It was a shame. If I didn't have work to do, I would have called her to the Breeding Chamber and enjoyed that tail to my heart's content as a bet reward… But for the sake of what I needed to accomplish, I couldn't summon her to the Breeding Chamber and fuck her. Maybe someday I would, but it wouldn't be anytime soon.
"You've come, Alpha!"
Following Leona inside, Melania—the dragon who usually sat on her throne with an indifferent expression—welcomed me with a bright smile. Looking around, I saw Wellington, the finance officer, and Helen Wagner and Luzenda, whom I had made realize they were females yesterday.
'Fast.'
Given Helen's noble pride, I thought it would take a week, but she had already come this quickly… It seemed I could change this territory faster than I had expected.