The Clash of Wills
"Kereuuuuk!"
"Shaa!"
"Kkrrrk!"
As I gathered my subordinates and demonstrated my new technique, a chorus of cheers erupted!
"Gyusassassat! Gyusassat! It’s gotten so much stronger!"
"Qusaaaaat!"
The ones most delighted were, without a doubt, the Kobold engineering platoon. From Gyuil to the rest of the squeakers, they all had their eyes shining and their noses twitching in excitement.
"Gyusassat!"
Gyuil even grabbed his shovel—now reinforced with mana, a Mana Shovel—and sniffed it repeatedly, expressing his intense joy.
What a cute little bastard.
"Hey, you little shit. You like it that much?"
"We can work so much faster with this! Gyusassat!"
When the quality of equipment improves, labor time naturally decreases. If this were a cutthroat corporation, the boss would have looked at the person who finished their work the fastest and barked, "You son of a bitch, who told you to finish so quickly?" before dumping more work on them and forcing them to pull an all-nighter. But I, the Demon King Kimculus, am a man who cares about the welfare of his subordinates.
"If you finish faster, it's Yarikiri!"
"Yarikiri?! Gyusassat!"
"Qusaaaaat!"
"Gyusassassat!"
Yarikiri. It means you get to go home the moment your assigned work is done. There isn't a single laborer in this world who hates Yarikiri. It boosts morale and increases loyalty.
The Kobolds danced around as if they were at a festival.
"Keruk...! My Lord! What about us? Can you reinforce our weapons too?!"
Buril, who had been clenching his fists, shouted with shining eyes.
"Hey! You think it's just weapons? I'll make you armor too, you fucker!"
"Kerrrrrk?!"
It wasn't just weapons anymore. I could make them proper armor, too.
Because Goblins are short, they absolutely must wear helmets when fighting humans. Since humans are taller, they can easily target the head. That had always been a concern, but now it was solved. Even if I made the helmets out of wood, reinforcing them with mana would guarantee durability. They could fight much more reliably now.
Now, I could truly—and I’m not lying—command an army clad in armor. Goblins-at-arms wearing uniform armor? The era of the Demon race was surely upon us.
"From magic spears to magic armor! Just name it!"
"Kereuuuuk!"
The Goblins were ecstatic.
Should I try making pikes or halberds, too? If I reinforced them with mana, it would be perfectly possible even if they weren't made of real iron.
"Us! Make something for us too!"
Seeing this, Serineu shouted with her eyes sparkling. Naturally, I would share the spoils with the Pixies, too. But what should I make for them?
"Of course I will. But Serineu, do the Pixies need anything?"
"Hmm?"
At that, the Pixies started whispering among themselves.
"Do we need anything?"
"We don't even use weapons!"
"What do we need?!"
"Hmm... let us think about it!"
Typical Pixies, shouting out requests without a plan. Well, I’d let them submit their requests later.
"Sure. If you need anything, just let me know. I'll do it then."
"Ah! I thought of it! This!"
"Hmm?"
Just then, one Pixie pulled a stick out from between her overwhelmingly large breasts.
"Reinforce this!"
The Pixie held out the stick to me with a completely innocent expression, looking incredibly excited.
"What is this?"
It was a fairly well-crafted stick. The surface was smooth, and the size was just right. What was it used for? It looked polished and seemed to have a nice scent.
"Ah! That's a great idea!"
"Let's make a bunch!"
"It would be good to have two per person!"
"No! We need three!"
The Pixies started chattering and sharing their opinions. They looked so excited that their massive breasts were bouncing with every movement.
Well, if they needed it, I had to reinforce it.
"Sure. If you need it, I should obviously reinforce it... wait a minute."
A sudden realization flashed through my brain.
This stick.
Could it be...?
"Hey, I'm going to ask first, what is that used for?"
"This?"
At my question, Serineu snatched the stick from the Pixie and explained, bringing it right to her crotch.
"We use it to poke and prod inside our pussies. It feels amazing."
Oh.
"That's right! It's so fun! Since the Demon King doesn't play with us every single day, we play with this!"
"We play with our pussies with this all the time!"
"It's also fun to stand it up on the floor and ride it, shaking our hips up and down!"
"Sometimes we even suck on it!"
...It was a sex toy.
The once-innocent Pixies had now become lewd, lust-corrupted fairies.
"Right... I'll reinforce it."
This was a welfare product, after all. A masturbation tool for the sex-crazed Pixies.
Whoosh.
I immediately infused mana into the Pixies' toys. The Pixies who received them squealed with joy and scurried back to their rooms, saying they were going to head back first.
I guess they were planning on masturbating.
"Do the Imps need anything?"
"Krr...! My Lord! Now that I think about it, we don't know what we need!"
"Krr-krr."
"Krr-rrk."
As the Imp-monkey replied, the other Imps nodded. In truth, since they were ranged attackers similar to the Pixies, they didn't really have a need for specific equipment.
"Then I'll reinforce the spears you Imps use."
"Krr-rrrk!"
Since they were using spears, I had to reinforce those.
The Imps had grown quite a bit lately, and they were starting to look like proper grenadiers. If I reinforced that aspect, they would become truly useful... but since I had grown stronger, I could reinforce the Imps as well.
Let's march toward that day.
"My Lord. Are we reinforcing everything Sharan made now?"
"Of course! I have to reinforce everything!"
"I'm happy because Sharan has more work to do!"
Sharan said with a bright, sunny face!
"Kuh! How can you be this cute! Sharan, come here!"
"Shaat!"
I immediately pulled Sharan into my arms and planted a deep kiss on her face.
"Shaa, that tickles, My Lord."
Unlike the other women I had kidnapped, corrupted, and forced into submission... seeing Sharan, who was purely happy and enjoying herself, was truly healing.
"Hey, Demon King. Aren't you going to do that for me?"
Seeing this, Lumika demanded the same treatment.
"Of course I will!"
"Kyaa!"
I immediately pulled Lumika into my arms and kissed her, and she loved it.
"Hehe, this feels good. Things like this. Anyway, Demon King."
"Hmm? Why?"
"Wouldn't it be nice to decorate the dungeon a bit more with that? Like making bricks to decorate the interior?"
"Oh?"
Making bricks for interior design? That would feel like a real dungeon, so that sounded great. Even if nothing else, we could at least decorate the room we live in like that.
"That sounds good, too! Let's try that next time!"
"Yes!"
Great! I had even more work to do! Usually, having a lot of work is just annoying and tiring, but I didn't care. Because all that work would directly benefit me!
Oh, right.
There was the armor Vanessa used to wear, and the swords I took from the adventurers. Should I try reinforcing those, too?
Would iron even be reinforced? It would be really great if it could.
"Sob, snifff...! Sniff! Sniff! Kuhhh...!"
Sniffle, sniffle.
In the corner of the women's barracks, an angel was sniffling. On top of the angel's head, horns were sprouting.
That's right.
The angel who had been captured the other day had also been demonized.
"...Reika. What should we do?"
"I, I don't know. Should we just leave her alone for now?"
At Irene's question, Reika replied as if she were at a loss. Honestly, she didn't know what to do either.
Because she had been raped all day long by him... the angel had become a demon. The angel, who had woken up a while ago, was incredibly shocked by that fact, and she had been doing nothing but crying ever since.
And he wanted us to take good care of her?
I was literally grinding my teeth.
"Hmm..."
I had said some harsh things, but seeing her crying like that made me feel truly sorry for her. However, because of the harsh words exchanged earlier, it was awkward to be the first to reach out.
The nuns were perplexed, not knowing what to do.
"Still, she's been crying like that for a while... I feel like we should do something."
"Y-yes. As Vanessa said, shouldn't we do something?"
At Vanessa's words, Irene's face brightened.
She had been demonized and was quite a lewd woman, but Irene was originally a kind-hearted and good-natured nun. She couldn't just ignore a woman sniffling all by herself.
Finding joy in helping others was the very essence of being a nun.
"But it's hard to be the first to speak..."
While Reika was agonizing over that.
"I'll do it."
Irene made up her mind.
"Ah, Irene. You aren't going to say something weird again, are you?"
"Liza, what do you take me for? Leave it to me."
The angel had said some quite harsh things, but now the angel was in the same boat. If that was the case, Irene thought it was only right for them to forgive her first and reach out a hand.
Since we're all family now, let's comfort her.
Because we have to live together now.
Swoosh.
Irene headed straight for the corner.
"Sob...! Sob!"
And she reached out a hand to the angel, who was still sniffling.
"E-excuse me. Angel? Are you okay—"
"Get lost!!!!"
"Eh?"
"You filthy whores! How dare you inferior species speak to me! It's noisy, so get lost!"
"E-eh?"
Irene's brain froze at the sudden roar.
"Eh?"
Of course, it wasn't just Irene. Everyone in the women's barracks was shocked, their mouths hanging open. And then Vanessa shouted.
"W-what are you saying! We just wanted to comfort you! That's no way to talk!"
"Shut up! Shut up! I said shut up!!!"
Even so, Liliel shouted, straining her voice. Not only had her most precious anal passage been raped by a demon, but her breasts and buttocks had been caressed, sucked, and kissed, and she had cried out in a pathetic climax, and now, thanks to the evil mana, horns had even sprouted on her head.
It was shameful and humiliating.
She could no longer return to the Great Heaven.
That fact was what drove Liliel to despair.
"You filthy bitches...!"
But for Liliel to curse and scream like that was, by Reika's standards, completely crossing the line.
"Hey."
"Didn't you hear me say shut—"
"Hey, you fucking bitch."
A cold voice.
"...Huh?"
Liliel was flustered.
Seeing that fierce gaze, her brain seemed to freeze.
"Did you like it?"
"What? What are you talking about...?"
"Did you like it when he did that to you?"
"I-it's impossible that I liked it!"
"Then why are you screaming like that?"
"What!"
"'Ah, ah, ah, it feels so good.' You were doing that shit all day, weren't you?"
"That's...!"
"Why don't you shut the fuck up?"
"Why should I listen to an inferior species!"
"Everyone out."
At those words.
"I said get out."
Everyone else had no choice but to follow Reika's orders and leave.
"W-what is this...!"
Only then did Liliel realize.
She was fucked.