Chapter 21: The Menstruation-Stopping Medicine
"Yaaawn..." Echidna let out a long, lazy yawn the moment she woke up. Had she slept for about three hours today? Even though she was an Alpha Lamia with a body far more robust than any pure-blooded human, three hours of sleep was admittedly a bit lacking.
"So sleepy." But what could she do? Even if she felt a little tired, it was a small price to pay for her nightly amusements with Roen. It was far better to lose a bit of sleep by indulging her instincts than to sleep soundly while living a life of celibacy.
Just look at her now. Only a few weeks ago, her mind had been so thoroughly saturated with Roen's female pheromones that she couldn't focus on anything. Now, however, she had grown accustomed to it, allowing her to resume her research. This was undoubtedly a positive development.
"How far did I get with my research yesterday?" However...
"Ah, right... I was researching whether offspring born from a union between a human and a Lamia are oviparous, ovoviviparous, or viviparous." The biggest change was that the subject of her research had drifted significantly from her usual academic pursuits. Even just two months ago, Echidna would have never dreamed of conducting such studies.
But things were different now. She had broken a taboo. She had shattered a taboo so profound that her nightly somnophilia sessions with Roen paled in comparison. She had creampied her.
Now, Echidna's instincts would treat filling Roen's womb with her semen as the default setting. Going forward, she probably wouldn't even comprehend why creampieing her was supposed to be a problem. She would shamelessly tell herself that as long as she took responsibility, everything would be fine.
Yet, her reason, though submerged deep beneath her primal urges, still exerted a faint influence—and the result of that influence was this very research. What if something went wrong during Roen's delivery? What if both the unborn child and Roen's lives were put in jeopardy? If that happened, Echidna would undoubtedly break down beyond any hope of mental recovery.
As a defense mechanism, she was studying interspecies breeding between humans and Lamias, as well as the nature of the offspring resulting from it. In a way, this research was for the sake of Echidna's own peace of mind. It was a terribly selfish endeavor, but since half of her was a beast, one could hardly blame her for such selfishness.
"Hmm, looking at this..." Just as Echidna was flipping through various books, trying to construct a theory on human-Lamia hybridization, her tongue darted out and back in with a quick flick. This scent...
"Roen?"
"Oh, how did you know? I'm here, Echidna-nim." It was Roen. With her hair still messy as if she had just rolled out of bed, Roen spread her arms wide and gave a cheerful little wave. Echidna quickly stood up, approached her, and took her hands.
"What brings you here? Aren't you usually making breakfast at this hour?"
"Are you telling me I should just be making food instead of visiting your study?"
"A-Ah, no, that's not what I meant..." Echidna gasped, suddenly worried she had said the wrong thing. But then...
"Hehe, just kidding! Why are you so startled? You know I'd never take it that way."
"U-Uh, right..." Along with her heart-stopping joke, Roen snuggled her cheek into Echidna's cleavage, acting incredibly cute.
"Ah..."
"Hm?"
"No, it's nothing..." In truth, it was far from nothing. Her jaji throbbed with intense heat, and she had to use superhuman patience to stop her glans from forcing its way past her penis-covering scales. In the past, she wouldn't have been able to control it, but now that she was regularly emptying herself inside Roen every night, she had a decent handle on it.
"Echidna-nim, actually, I think something might be wrong with my body."
"Oh? What kind of trouble?"
"White fluid keeps leaking from down there... It's like... the color of my ae-aek has changed a bit...? What if there's something wrong with me? My body feels a little more sensitive lately, too..." However... this was incredibly difficult to endure. Roen, a pure-blooded human, was naturally much shorter than Echidna, a Lamia over three meters long. And now, that very same Roen... with a deeply embarrassed blush on her face, was confessing to the jeong-aek leaking from her vagina. Of course, Roen seemed to mistake it for some kind of unusual vaginal lubrication...
"It's probably nothing to worry about. It might just be the medicine that wasn't fully absorbed by your womb leaking back out."
"Is that even possible...? Didn't I take it orally?"
"It's a potion-type medicine, after all. It affects the womb during the digestive process."
"Ah..."
"It's fine, there's no need to worry. Trust me."
"Yes! Of course I trust you, Echidna-nim." Watching Roen let out a soft sigh of understanding, Echidna felt an immense wave of satisfaction at how easily she could deceive her without cracking her poker face. A rabbit so naive she didn't even realize she was living in a snake's den, slowly being digested inside the serpent's maw day by day. Roen's sheer innocence, and herself, using that innocence to satisfy her lust. The sense of superiority born from this dizzying dynamic thoroughly aroused Echidna.
"Then the stuff that came out back then must have been the medicine too..."
"Huh?"
"Ah, on the first day you checked my condition, my ae-aek was a bit white then too. I guess it's just a side effect of the medicine. You should have told me if you were going to use something like this."
"I-I'm sorry... I realized my mistake only after administering it... That's why I brought it up yesterday... I'm sorry..."
"No, no, you don't have to apologize at all! If anything, isn't this proof that the medicine is working? It must be a sign that I'm getting closer to escaping my periods once and for all...!"
"Yes, I certainly hope so." There had been a heart-stopping moment, but this naive little rabbit didn't have a suspicious bone in her body. If Echidna said 'it's this,' she accepted it as 'this,' and if Echidna said 'it's that,' she accepted it as 'that.' What on earth was she going to do with this hopelessly innocent creature? Naturally, there was only one answer. I'll just have to take care of her. Impregnating her with her child and binding them together for a hundred years was the only right path. Having unilaterally decided on their betrothal, Echidna gently stroked Roen's blonde hair.
"You told me before that my hands were pretty, right? And that my skin was nice."
"I did."
"Your hair is incredibly soft too." Especially when it's matted with my semen.
"Hehe, your hair is way softer than mine, Echidna-nim. What's so pretty about me?"
"Huuuh..." She was so gorgeous that Echidna wanted to ravish her right then and there. She wasn't even a fox beastfolk, yet she was wagging her tail like a total temptress.
"Since you're here, do you want to drink some of the medicine? I brewed a fresh batch last night."
"Sure, that sounds good. Like a pre-meal appetizer?"
"Ah..."
"Echidna-nim?"
"N-No, it's nothing. Whew, I just felt a bit dizzy for a second." A pre-meal appetizer. She called a potion made of semen a pre-meal appetizer. God, how did she manage to blurt out such incredibly erotic things so casually? It was enough to drive Echidna mad.
"Phew! That was good. I'll be in your care from now on too! I'll go make breakfast now!"
"Alright, off you go." Having gulped down the semen potion without a single clue, Roen headed back to prepare breakfast. Immediately after she left, Echidna began to lovingly stroke her jaji, which had burst through her scales. It looked like breakfast would be a bit late today.
"Mmm, haaa." Another successful day of feeding Echidna. Today's menu was steamed eggs. At first, she had worried if it would be okay without rice, but somehow they had both gotten used to eating without it. She figured that since Western food culture often involved eating soup or noodles without rice, it wasn't too hard to adapt. Roen herself had grown accustomed to the local diet and found it quite delicious.
"It would have been perfect with a bit of salted shrimp, but seasoning it with salt is a little disappointing." Oh well, she could always make it again if she managed to find spices that tasted more like home...
"Phew." Stretching her stiff body, she brushed herself off and stood up from the floor. That was it for today's yoga. Honestly, with nothing much to do in this massive Desert Mansion, she found herself focusing more on maintaining her figure...
"Ngh..." Drip. More ae-aek leaked from her vagina, soaking her panties. It was driving her crazy. Aside from her nipples being semi-erect from the friction of her yoga movements, she wasn't aroused at all. So why was she producing so much lubrication?
"Sigh, seriously..." She wanted to lament over what had become of her body, but she reminded herself that this was all part of the process to stop her menstruation. Even beasts didn't have periods, so there was no reason a human like her should spend seventeen percent of every month feeling miserable over menstruation.
"Whew, what can you do?" Comforting herself with the thought of enduring just a little longer, she went to sit on the toilet and let the thick, white ae-aek drip out of her.
"Mnh..." She pressed down on her lower belly to force it out, only to accidentally brush against her clitoris and end up climaxing... but that wasn't really a problem. Today was a peaceful day, just like any other. Tomorrow would be the same, and the day after that too. Having this white fluid constantly leaking from her vagina was a bit uncomfortable, but since it was all to escape the curse of menstruation, it was well worth enduring.