When Beatrix Became His Female
When Beatrix realized she was a female, Jincheon headed for a stretch of rocky ground with a hole punched straight through to the depths below.
"Looks like they came out through here."
The rocky region held nothing that looked remotely valuable, so he hadn't even bothered extending his sensory field. Nestled between the stones, however, was a hole large enough to climb down into.
"You're going in? Can't we just seal the hole?"
"We should at least check what's down there. If we're lucky, we might even find a Calsorn Empire relic."
"Well, that's true, but…"
Yesterday's shock still clung to Beatrix. The thought of walking straight into the den of the saber-toothed tigers that had tried to tear her apart filled her with open revulsion.
"Don't worry. I'm going with you, so there won't be a repeat of yesterday."
"O-okay!"
Only after Jincheon stressed that he would be right there with her did she manage a nod. With her consent secured, he dropped into the hole between the rocks.
The rock had collapsed into something like a staircase at human height. Descending it, they found themselves staring into the abyssal dark of the cave's interior.
"It's pitch black. Will you be okay?"
"I got the infrared procedure. I'm fine."
Beatrix could switch her eyes to infrared vision through bio-enhancement, and Jincheon could sharpen his sight with Inner Qi until the dark held no secrets. They had no need for a light.
Bamboo spears in hand, the two of them advanced carefully inward. What greeted them was a long passageway littered with bone scraps—the remains of prey the carnivores had dragged home and eaten.
"This wasn't some passage we stumbled on by accident. These things have been using this tunnel from the start."
Bones this numerous meant they had been hunting through this route for a long time, far longer than either of them had guessed. Looking at the fragments of so many different animals, Beatrix felt the color drain from her face. The thought that she herself might have ended up as one more pile of scraps brought the terror flooding back.
"Haa… haah…!"
"Beatrix."
Jincheon caught her arm and pulled her against him.
"Forget about yesterday. You got ambushed, that's all. Without the surprise, you could have handled those things on your own."
"O-okay…!"
She answered, but there was no strength in her voice. Until she killed one with her own hands, this state was not going to improve.
"Just keep following behind me."
They pressed deeper into the passage. After a stretch of walking, Jincheon found himself looking at a familiar kind of scenery.
"Just as I thought."
A massive iron door standing wide open. Tools reduced to wrecks by the long grind of years. A Calsorn Empire facility.
No one had surveyed the place because the region had no development value. Honestly, how many people would expect a Calsorn Empire facility under an uninhabited island like this?
"Strange. Why would it be on an uninhabited island?"
Beatrix seemed to share the thought, tilting her head. Building on the mainland would have been several times more convenient than sinking a facility under a deserted rock in the middle of nowhere.
"Maybe they were trying to develop amphibious mecha."
"Couldn't they just build it at a port?"
"Hmm. Fair point. So why the hell is this here?"
The Calsorn facility where he had obtained Gareld at least had the plausible excuse of being a training ground. This one offered no such explanation.
"Let's search the interior and see if we can find anything."
If only to answer that question, Jincheon decided to explore and strode boldly inward. Fortunately, light still spilled from fixtures that looked like lamps, so there was no need to strain their eyesight.
"It's been ages, yet the lights are still working perfectly."
Jincheon marveled once more at the Calsorn Empire's technology and wondered, not for the first time, how a people this capable had fallen.
"Ugh. Those damn bastards. They've shit and pissed all over the place."
Carnivores had clearly occupied the facility for a long time. Dried feces and urine lay scattered everywhere. Pinching their noses, Jincheon and Beatrix began exploring, building a map on their network-blocked Bio Devices as they hunted for anything that looked important.
The place was far smaller than the facility where he had found Gareld, and there was not even a device in sight that could update a map.
"It's small-scale, for one thing—but it's obvious there was never any reason for outsiders to come here."
"Yeah. Nothing that looks like amenities for visitors."
Small-scale. A handful of convenience facilities usable only by the personnel stationed here. They had not checked everything yet, but compared to the Gareld facility the difference in length and breadth was overwhelming.
As for other peculiarities—
"Jincheon. Here too."
"Looks like there have been several earthquakes. Walls torn open, holes everywhere."
Powerful natural force had split the walls, and long passages connected beyond the breaches. When they followed one of those passages just in case, they emerged on another uninhabited island some distance from the one they had drifted to.
Earthquakes and layered coincidence had woven an underground network centered on the Calsorn Empire facility. The carnivores had lived here, ranging between the islands, taking just enough prey that the ecosystems never fully collapsed.
They returned to the facility and were about to push deeper when Jincheon felt killing intent and raised a hand.
"Stop."
"Wh-where? Where is it?"
Jincheon's face hardened as he gripped his weapon. Beatrix whipped her head around with a look of pure fright.
"Calm down."
"B-but…!"
"I said calm down."
The trauma kept her panicking. Fed up, Jincheon hooked an arm around her waist and pulled her flush against his body.
"Ah… uuh…"
Feeling his heat, Beatrix finally clawed her way out of the panic. Whether from the shame of showing such a pathetic face or from being pressed so close their body heat was trading places, her cheeks had gone scarlet.
Once he was sure she had settled, Jincheon took a throwing knife made from the fangs of the saber-toothed tigers he had already hunted.
"One in the second room on the right. One in the fourth room on the left."
Only the corridors of the facility were lit. The rooms themselves were black. Perfect cover for saber-toothed tigers with dark hides.
"Take the right. I'll handle the left and then come help you."
"O-okay."
"Hup!"
The instant Beatrix answered, Jincheon flung the knife to the right.
Thunk!
"Kyaaaah!"
A sharp scream tore free as the blade buried itself in the eye of a saber-toothed tiger that had been cautiously peeking out with one eye. The wound would drive it wild for now, but if Beatrix kept pressing from the right they would lock into a standoff, each fighting for position.
In that window Jincheon moved left and swung his bamboo spear at the saber-toothed tiger that burst from the doorway.
"Grruh!"
The one Jincheon faced seemed to be the beast that had fled yesterday. Seeing the bamboo spear, it did not charge. It had learned that this was a weapon that could kill it.
Jincheon could have finished it whether it was wary or not. He deliberately bought time instead.
If she can't even kill a single animal, how is she supposed to fight going forward?
She was going to become his female and stand with him on countless battlefields. If the shock of nearly being eaten left her unable to fight, there was no point to any of this. She had to burn out the trauma with her own hands if she was ever going to become Beatrix, Captain of the Imperial Guard, again.
In a pilot nano-suit, she had no reason to take real injury so long as her face stayed clear of their teeth, and her physical specs were already superior. Pure numbers said she could drop five of them alone without breaking a sweat.
While Jincheon occupied one, Beatrix found herself face-to-face with the other. The killing intent rolling off it set her legs shaking.
"Grrrrr—!"
The knife in its eye only made the saber-toothed tiger's aura more savage, but word of its companion falling to a strange animal with a long stick kept it from charging freely.
"Haa… haa…!"
Every time Beatrix met those murderous eyes and those sharp teeth, the night came back. The grip on her throat and legs. The thrashing head trying to tear her wounds wider. The terror rose with it. The mind that should have been calculating how to strike went blank. All she could do was clutch the spear until her knuckles whitened and tremble.
Jincheon had worked the saber-toothed tigers' bones into keen spearheads and bound them to bamboo shafts for real killing power. One clean thrust, backed by her strength, would have churned a tiger's guts without effort. Yet she was so frightened she could only keep the point leveled to hold it off, constantly turning her body toward its wounded eye.
No choice. If she needs a catalyst, I'll make one for her.
Fed up with her pathetic freeze, Jincheon engineered a situation she would have no choice but to answer.
"Guh!"
"Grrrng!"
He left an opening on purpose, then jammed his bamboo spear into the jaws of the saber-toothed tiger that lunged for him and locked into a contest of strength.
"J-Jincheon!"
Beatrix's eyes snapped to the sight of him under attack. The tiger she had been facing seized the opening and charged in a heartbeat.
"Kyaaah!"
A beat late, Beatrix saw it coming and had a vision of herself being torn open. Then she saw both saber-toothed tigers killing Jincheon as well—and a resolute expression rose on her face without her willing it.
Jincheon is not someone who gets to die because of me!
Only after drifting to this island had she understood that every scrap of hostility she had felt toward him was a misunderstanding of her own making. Remembering how he had protected her when she was terrified, she recognized that this time it was her turn to protect him.
"Uwaaaaah!"
With a raw battle cry she swung the spearhead at the charging tiger's skull.
Crunch!
The thrust she put everything into, powered by bio-enhancement, buried the spear in the saber-toothed tiger's head in a single stroke. Bone shattered. Brain matter churned. It died on the spot.
"Jincheon!"
Whoosh!
She ripped the spear free with raw strength and hurled it at the beast on Jincheon. The tiger had to leap back and open distance.
Thunk!
"Kyaaaah!"
Jincheon rose into the opening and drove his spearhead into the saber-toothed tiger's belly, stabbing several more times to finish it.
"Hoo. Hoo."
The tigers down, Jincheon and Beatrix looked at each other. Beatrix in particular—flooded with the high of crushing her trauma and winning a fight for her life—had stopped thinking and started moving on pure instinct.
"Bea—mph…!?"
She dragged his body against hers and kissed him hard. And in that moment she understood. She had fallen for him from the instant he protected her.
Awkward tongue-work that felt like something learned only from books stirred against Jincheon's tongue.
Heh. Now we're talking.
Outwardly Jincheon wore a look of startled fluster. Inside he was smiling. She had finally spread her legs for him of her own free will.
I could have forced her from day one on this island, but variety in the "pattern" is what makes the fucking fun.
Training a woman into a female was good. Watching her become one because she loved him was good too.
Confirming there were no more life signs, Jincheon discarded his spear and wrapped his arms around her waist and back.
"Nngh…! Hnnngh…!"
When he took the offensive, Beatrix's expression twisted in a cute little panic under the pressure of his mouth.
"Pwah."
"Haaaah…!"
In the brief space they broke apart to breathe, Jincheon spoke.
"I'm basically Heliane and Calsira's husband. Are you sure you won't regret this?"
"I don't care about that! I just need you!"
The kiss had erased even the last thin barrier. Beatrix shoved her feelings forward and closed on him again.
"Ugh."
High on the blood-scent rising from the corpses of the animals they had killed, she toppled him and climbed astride his hips.
Zing—
In a blink she dismissed her nano-suit, stripped her underthings until she was bare, and pulled his underwear free.
Flop—
"Ah…?"
What she found herself staring at was a tower of cock that rose higher than her own face.
"Th-this is… a man's…? Isn't this way too big…?"
"Mine's a special model."
No longer able to hide what she felt for him, Beatrix lifted her hips and set her pussy against the tip of his cock.
Slick— slip— schlick—
"Wh-what?"
A complete beginner at sex, she kept losing the angle; the cock slid away again and again, and her fluster deepened by degrees. At last Jincheon had seen enough. He seized both of her hips in a firm grip.
"Beatrix."
"Y-yes?"
Feeling those large, hot hands lock around her waist, she flushed and answered.
"I'm putting it in."
Schlurp!
"Hyaaaaaaah~~~!!"
The instant she took Jincheon's cock for the first time, the seed he had planted in her body earlier ignited—and turned her pain into pleasure.