Strange Space, Strange Man (1)

At first I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me.

How was I supposed to know a status window straight out of some novel would suddenly pop up right in front of my face?

I was twenty-two, a fresh-faced college student… or so I claimed, though the endless barrage of assignments had left me so exhausted I half-wondered if I was just seeing things.

I should have ignored it.

Any normal person would have.

Instead, I chose YES.

I didn’t actually press anything on the status window. I just imagined myself tapping YES, daydreaming about it.

I mean… who wouldn’t?

Who wouldn’t want to get prettier, more popular, and live a life full of all those fun little thrills?

I did too.

It was the kind of petty, materialistic wish anyone might have, anyone might secretly hope for.

And as the price for that wish, I was sucked into another world.

“Ugh… uhhh… Huh?”

“Hey there. You’re awake.”

“Hnnk! Hnnngh!!”

“Still full of energy today, I see.”

I opened my eyes.

Pure white walls and ceiling, a room so spotless it looked like not a single speck of dust had ever dared settle, an overly bright light glaring down into my face… and one strange man.

Skin so pale it was almost unnatural, hair and eyes so pitch-black they clashed violently with it—more grotesque than mysterious. Even though he was covered from head to toe, his solid, muscular build was obvious at a glance, completely at odds with the heavy dark circles under his eyes.

“Alright then. Let’s give it our best again today.”

“Mmph! Mmmph!! Hnnnnngh——!!”

Whether I struggled or not, the Strange Man’s pale fingers casually stroked the nape of my neck the same as always.

I say “struggled,” but my body was locked down on a hard metal bed, so I couldn’t move much anyway. Both arms were stretched wide, wrists clamped in restraints. My legs were forced open too, leaving the space between my thighs exposed to the cold air of this white room, trembling against my will. My mouth was gagged; I couldn’t speak.

The only times the Strange Man ever removed the gag were when he injected nutrients on schedule… or when he suddenly decided to work off his own lust.

The moment the Strange Man’s hand touched me, the status window appeared before my eyes.

It had been with me even before I was dragged into this world. I’d been staring at it this whole time, yet I still had no idea what it actually was.

“I warned you yesterday… Today I’m adding Permanent to Interspecies Breeding.”

“Hnnngh…”

“I already remodeled your body so interspecies breeding is possible, but it’d be a real pain if you just erased it with Recovery.”

Recovery was the first magic I’d ever learned.

Every time the Strange ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠Man sliced open my belly and rummaged through my organs, he got annoyed at having to waste his own mana healing me, so he forced me to learn it. I don’t remember how. He just kept casting Recovery on me until, at some point, the option to learn it appeared on my status window. Then he checked it, pressed YES, and that was that.

I still don’t understand. Who the hell is this man that he can look at my status window and mess with it however he likes?

“Haa… What’s this? You already wiped Interspecies Breeding again. Did you use Recovery?”

His face twisted in sudden anger as he checked my status window, and he clamped a hand around my throat.

“I told you not to erase it. Why don’t you ever listen? We’ve known each other a while now—why do you keep doing this?”

“Ghk! K-khhk…!”

“Now I have to remodel you for interspecies breeding all over again. Do you have any idea how annoying that is?”

I couldn’t breathe. Drool spilled past the gag, soaking my cheeks and the skin below my neck.

“Disgusting…”

Whether it was the spit on his hand or not, the Strange Man let go of my throat. Instead his hand slid lower and lower until he grabbed my breast.

“Looks like they’ve gotten a little bigger than when you first arrived. Don’t you think?”

“……”

His fingers pinched my nipple hard.

“Hnnip?!”

That damned Estrus and Sensitive Body.

Ugly little phrases the Strange Man had jammed into my status window—nothing good about them at a glance. Because of them my body periodically burned with heat. Right now it felt like my brain would catch fire if I didn’t get something—anything—shoved into my pussy immediately.

“Perfect timing! The status window I sent you back then definitely said ‘Do you wish to become beautiful,’ right? Congratulations. Your breasts got bigger, so you really did get more beautiful. See? I keep my promises.”

What the fuck was he talking about.

I never wanted this.

I… I just… I don’t even know anymore.

My life in the original world already felt impossibly distant. All I could remember was my name—Oh Se-rin—and that I’d been a twenty-two-year-old college girl.

“In a few days it’ll be exactly two years since you arrived here. Time really flies. I never expected it to go this fast.”

…So I was twenty-four now.

If I hadn’t fallen into this place, I’d probably be preparing for graduation right about now…

“Alright, focus. We’re cutting open your belly again today.”

“Gnnngh!!”

The Strange Man’s icy fingers touched just below my sternum and dragged straight down. Tiny beads of blood welled up like bursting bubbles, then my flesh split open with a wet sound, peeling wide.

“Nnnngh!! Nnnnnngh!!”

“Shhh, shhh~ Quiet. You’ve had your belly opened plenty of times already. You should be used to it by now. Come on—Recovery! Use Recovery and it won’t hurt!”

Whatever the Strange Man had done, casting Recovery only drained my mana. Unless he allowed it, the split belly refused to close. It just… didn’t hurt. That was all. No healing beyond that. Whether he couldn’t or simply wouldn’t… probably the latter. He liked giving me pain purely for the sake of tormenting me.

“Haaa~… I went through so much trouble remodeling this… and it’s all your fault, you know? It’s not just hard on me—it’s hard on you too. Look, now we have to go through that painful process from the beginning again.”

When had it been…? My sense of time had been completely wrecked ever since I was locked in here, so I couldn’t say for sure, but he had declared he would remodel my body so humans and monsters could breed with each other. Back then he’d sliced me open, dug ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠through my organs, ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠pulled out my uterus, and carved something unrecognizable into it. After that, Interspecies Breeding had appeared on my status window. When he threw me back into my cell I’d focused on my belly and used Recovery, and it had vanished… for a while.

“Nnnngh?! Hnnnnngh!! Mmph! Mmph?!!”

But today Interspecies Breeding reappeared on my status window.

The Strange Man sealed my split belly shut again.

“Nngh-hnnngh…!!”

“There we go—surgery complete! Hmm, maybe because I already did it once? It finished surprisingly fast this time.”

Even with my mouth gagged, screams still tore out of me. My throat hurt almost as badly as the belly that had just been opened and closed.

“Whoa~ At this rate… I think I can slap Permanent onto Interspecies Breeding today.”

“Hnnip?!”

“Last time I was fumbling around trying to make interspecies breeding possible, lots of trial and error, burned through a ton of mana. But right now I’ve got plenty left… yeah, perfect.”

Permanent.

That fucking word.

The hateful little tag stuck after Estrus and Sensitive Body on my status window. Of course those were the Strange Man’s handiwork too. He claimed he had some grand purpose, but from where I stood he was just stuffing in the kind of perverted phrases you’d see in some dirty game so he could get his rocks off.

And the (Permanent) attached to them was a curse, pure and simple. Unlike Interspecies Breeding, those two couldn’t be erased. No matter how many times I cast Recovery, no matter how hard I focused, over and over until I thought I’d go insane, Estrus and Sensitive Body stayed branded on the status window like a brand.

All because of that damned Permanent.

“Hnnngh! Hnnip!!”

“Alright, enough! No struggling. You’re already down to 21% mana? Just so you know, you’d better give up on using Recovery.”

The Strange Man’s fingers slid lower and began probing between my thighs.

“Mmph?!”

As if he’d done it a thousand times, his fingers casually spread my folds and pushed straight into my entrance.

And there was the status window again.

What the hell was I supposed to do?

When Estrus made my body heat up, the longer it went on the harder it became to think straight, and before I knew it I’d start masturbating. Then Sensitive Body would make the heat even worse, and the estrus stage would climb just like the window just showed. But if I just sat still and endured it, the unresolved heat would raise the stage anyway.

A cock.

That was what I needed.

To escape this fucking estrus, I needed the cock of the Strange Man who was nothing but my enemy.

I wanted him to shove that thick cock into me right now.

But he only stirred his fingers inside me. He never took his cock out.

Then I’d just take it out myself.

If only these restraints weren’t here. If only they were gone.

So take them off already.

I needed these damned restraints off so I could devour the cock hidden in his pants.

My head hurt.

So hurry up and free me.

It climbed again.

I really was going to lose my mind.

Clack!

Suddenly the restraints holding my body sprang open.

I could move my arms and legs freely. The gag came off too; thick drool spilled from my mouth, but I didn’t care.

I had no idea why the ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠restraints had been released, but this was my chance.

I forced my stiff body up somehow and crawled toward the Strange Man. I sat in front of his lower half and yanked his pants down. They slid off without resistance, and the thick, massive cock I’d been craving so desperately sprang free.

“Haaaah~♡”

Just the scent of it made my mind go hazy.

I wanted to bite it. Lick it. Suck it.

Every filthy thought imaginable clawed through my brain.

But by the time those thoughts finished forming, I already had his cock in my mouth.

“Slurp… schlick, schlurp…”

“Feel good?”

I felt the Strange Man stroking my hair.

Feel good?

It felt so good I thought I might float away.

“While you’re out of your mind like this——…”

I heard him saying something, but I couldn’t make it out.

Right now all I wanted was to shove this monstrous cock into my pussy as fast as possible.

“There. Done.”

“Finished. You won’t be able to erase it so easily anymore.”

The Strange Man muttered something else, then lifted me up and laid me back down on the hard bed.

“Time to enjoy ourselves.”

His cock thrust hard into my pussy.