Chapter 23: In the Gate (7)
Chapter 23: In the Gate (7)
"Senior! It’s getting really dangerous now! You have to wake up!"
I snapped back to my senses the moment I heard that piercing voice. After floundering in a sea of pleasure, I barely managed to reclaim my reason. In the corner of my blurred vision, I saw Dark Swan hiding.
'This is...'
I desperately searched my memories. I remembered deciding to enjoy mating with the slime for a few more days. Of course, I hadn't intended to stay until the very moment the Gate opened. I planned to enjoy myself and leave with a comfortable two-day margin.
But not long after that, I had lost consciousness. I would black out, wake up panting like a bitch in heat, and then lose consciousness again—a cycle that repeated endlessly. Being able to climax repeatedly without a refractory period was a woman's blessing, but it was also a curse.
To someone as sexually inexperienced as me—this being only my second time taking it inside—the slime’s jelly cock and bottomless stamina were overwhelming. Even an SSS-rank succubus from another world probably couldn't have endured this.
But one thing was certain. Mating sex, driven purely by lust without a shred of affection or fondness, was my natural enemy.
'I held out for a while after that, but... at some point, I just lost consciousness...'
As I pondered this, a sudden chill ran down my spine. Exactly how many days had passed?
I couldn't tell just by looking at the sky. There was no way a calendar or a phone would be here. In the end, the only way to know the date was to ask Dark Swan.
"D-Dark Swan?! By any chance, what's the date..."
"One hour! There's only one hour left!"
...What?
My mind went blank for a moment. I had inwardly hoped that maybe two days had passed, cutting it close. But even if I was drowned in pleasure... four days had passed?
"That's impossible... Hngh♡"
Even amidst my shock, the slime was faithfully thrusting into my pussy. It was as if it were trying to absorb as much of my power as possible before leaving the Gate.
The progression after this was obvious. It wouldn't keep sucking on me forever once it could go outside; at the very last moment, it would use me as a breeding bed and then discard me. It was the slime’s frugal plan for consuming its female.
Blurp— Blurrrp—
"U-Uwah... It already did it..."
The slime also seemed to instinctively realize that not much time was left until the Gate opened. It pumped its semen—no, its slime spawn—into me. Watching my stomach swell in an instant made it feel surreal.
If I were an ordinary person, I would have been on the verge of death from this alone. But a magical girl’s womb could even accept a slime’s offspring.
In reality, slime reproduction ends with a part of the parent's body being placed inside the breeding bed, so it wasn't much different from having the slime's jelly cock inside me.
"To think I'm a mother, this feels..."
"What do you mean, mother?! Are you planning on raising slimes?! We have to run, now!"
"...Come to think of it, Dark Swan, why is your stomach so flat?"
The slime began to move somewhere. And Dark Swan followed us—no, followed the slime and me. She kept a proper distance, as if afraid of the slime, shouting as she followed.
"F-Flat?! What are you talking about, Senior? I was never fat!"
"No, you were pregnant with slime spawn too. Four days ago, you were in that state and then discarded..."
"When? That never happened! Senior, were you dreaming? I was never even caught by the slime in the first place..."
"Then why are you naked?"
When I transform into a magical girl, my outfit is replenished, but that's not the case for Dark Swan. Since her clothes had been completely melted by acid, she had no choice but to remain naked.
Unlike me, Dark Swan must have woken up and regained her senses three or four days ago. It seemed she had finished her own self-justification, deciding to treat everything—from the lewd things she blurted out while drugged to the fact that she carried the slime's children—as if it never happened.
"I'm trying so hard to forget, and you just have to..."
But that doesn't work on me. Even while being toyed with by the slime, I stared at Dark Swan with hawk-like eyes.
The situation had become quite ridiculous. A jelly cock case being carried in the slime's embrace, and a former slime breeding bed running after me.
"Sigh, the spawn... I don't know what happened to them either. Maybe they grow incredibly fast, because when I woke up, they had already grown and escaped from inside me."
"Already independent? Our Swan is an amazing mother... mmm..."
"Is this a time for jokes?! The slime that sucked up so much of your fluids has already grown into a semi-S-rank monster! My legs are shaking just from following it like this! Why hasn't backup arrived yet?!"
"...Do you really want backup to come?"
"That's, well, no."
The naked Dark Swan glanced at me and answered. You're a sight for sore eyes too, kid.
But I also vaguely felt it. The slime, which had spent four days straight devouring my body without a second's rest, had reached a level incomparable to before.
My sweat, saliva, pussy juice... and even my waste. The slime had grown powerful by indulging in every part of my body like a living female vacuum cleaner. Perhaps because of that, my body actually felt cleaner than before.
"For the past four days, I tried to find a way to defeat the slime and save you on my own, but in the end, there was nothing I could do. My abilities don't work on the slime at all anymore..."
"Then why didn't you escape first?"
"T-That's... I'm naked, how could I go out looking like this? Ahaha..."
It was an obvious lie. Soon, Dark Swan lowered her head. I thought I knew the real reason she hadn't abandoned me and escaped the Gate.
"How could I leave you behind and go out by myself..."
"Heh, is that so?"
"I'm still a hero, after all. Leaving someone in danger and running away alone is... A-And! As a fan, I didn't want to ruin your 100% mission success rate because of my mistake..."
"Why would it be your mistake?"
"W-Well... I'm largely responsible for this situation happening in the first place..."
At my two simple questions, Dark Swan quickly looked like she was about to cry.
"If only I hadn't touched you secretly while you were sleeping..."
Dark Swan couldn't easily run away and leave me. Instead, she had lingered around the slime—an enemy she stood no chance against—struggling to wake me up. Even though she would just become a breeding bed again if the slime noticed and caught her.
There were probably many reasons. My reputation, which would be trashed by a failed mission. Her pride as a hero. And the guilt of having performed hypno-sleep training on me.
In fact, if my sensitivity hadn't spiked so sharply in such a short time, I wouldn't have lost consciousness for four days during mating. So, it wasn't entirely without her fault.
'...Well, I don't really mind.'
If anything, I had a great experience thanks to Dark Swan. I didn't just stop at the main dish of the intended defeat play; I even finished the side dish of being sleep-trained by a junior hero, and the dessert of the slime's jelly cock.
The dessert, in particular, was substantial enough to be served as a main course on its own. It was like barely surviving on the edge between a defeat play and an actual defeat. I was curious what would have happened if I hadn't come with Dark Swan.
"But... I've been wondering for a while, where is that slime going?"
"Huh? Where is it going?"
"I've been watching. Until yesterday, it was just standing still, focused on sucking you dry, but then it suddenly started moving in a straight line. Could it be that it knows the way out?"
"It's not 'could be,' that's exactly it."
When it's time for a Gate to open, a fissure that can be seen with the naked eye appears from both the outside and the inside. Usually, fissures appeared when a Gate had gone undiscovered for ten days, allowing monsters to escape immediately.
But this time was different. In front of the fissure, there would be plenty of people gathered for the academy field training site development. In other words, if the Gate opened, a bloody battle would break out between the monsters trying to get out and the humans trying to stop them, centered around the suddenly appearing fissure.
"The slime is heading toward where that fissure will appear."
Did it undergo some kind of awakening while taking my power? There was no way to know, but it was certain that I had to stop it somehow.
'She said one hour.'
Actually, if I set my mind to it, I could easily suppress it even now. At least, that's what I thought. Even if I had to fight while carrying slime spawn in my belly and protecting Dark Swan, victory would be mine.
I've enjoyed everything I wanted to enjoy... I think. By now, I've tasted all the pleasure a slime can give. Unlike the time with the invisible man, which felt a bit lacking at the end, this was the first defeat play I had properly completed.
'But, why do I keep imagining it...?'
But human greed knows no bounds. I became curious about the faces of the people who would see me and Dark Swan the moment the fissure opened and the Gate connected to reality.
Magical Girl Floss, pregnant with slime spawn and having her pussy juices sucked out. Floss's sidekick and rookie hero Dark Swan, who had already given birth to slime spawn and seen them off to independence.
Two women utterly broken, and a boss slime that had somehow jumped from C-rank to semi-S-rank.
What kind of expressions would they make when they saw us? And how turned on would I get the moment I saw those expressions? Having grown accustomed to the pleasure the slime could provide over the past four days, I was thirsty for a new stimulus.
'What should I do...?'
Of course, I knew. If I couldn't suppress my desire here, the precarious tightrope walk between a defeat play and an actual defeat would, at least in the eyes of others, cross over into a complete defeat.
It's fine if only Dark Swan knows. Since she also committed a sin against me, she would keep what happened here a strict secret. But there's no way to take it back once I'm exposed to the countless people beyond the opening fissure. It would spread through the Hero Association, the academy, and even the media.
[Breaking News! Magical Girl Floss suddenly halts activities. Reason reportedly unknown...]
But in the comments of that news, people who already know everything would be talking up a storm. Saying she was fucked by a slime, asking if that's even a hero, saying they knew it since she started showing off her tits...
"Haaah...♡"
The slime's tentacles patted my buttocks as if it felt it had completely conquered me. Dark Swan's gaze trembled with anxiety, saying there were really only 30 minutes left. The fissure was slowly taking shape.
In the middle of it all, I made my decision while stroking my swollen belly.