The Feast of Gifts
"As you know, we have no intention of recognizing the rebel forces there as a royal house or nobility."
"True, our beastman kin would certainly prefer recognition."
The internal divisions among the beastmen had deepened, yet the royal bloodlines of the beastmen still spread across the Human Realm.
Ultimately, whether to grant recognition to the rebels' beastman factions would become the decisive crossroads.
The opinions of both sides on the key negotiating elements were bound to diverge.
In that case, compromise would ultimately be required.
Or concessions.
...Or rather, a precious gift.
"Perhaps this diplomatic achievement falls short of what you receive?"
"Hmm...?"
Gornakh appeared to sense that the beastmen were preparing something.
"Even if we achieve tremendous results here, they won't be particularly pleasing to Your Majesty the Demon King—or rather, to Lord Gornakh."
A uniquely deferential yet offering tone.
Naturally, the thought of bribery to secure the desired outcome crossed his mind.
"Well, I appreciate the sentiment, but I don't lack for funds."
This was thanks not only to the gold he received as Demon King but also to the females he brought along.
Thanks to being a bitch in heat, Valeria still maintained partial dominion over wealthy city-states.
And Camilla, whose religious order wielded power across the world, was already in Gornakh's hands.
Yet the opposing side showed no sign of panic.
Instead, they struck a posture as if fully aware of the facts.
"Then allow me to offer a gift. Shall we confirm whether it holds the value you seek?"
The beastmen were certain now.
Even now, the orc who had driven his Yin-Mark deep into the women standing beside him and kept them at his side would surely not reject such a gift.
"Um, a gift."
"Yes, please look it over and decide."
"Hey, come in!"
And the secretary beside the servant beastman shouted.
He cleared away the entire table of already-prepared food.
'Were they preparing an all-you-can-eat feast?'
"Second dish coming in!"
Heh heh!
And what arrived as "the dish" was something Gornakh himself had never anticipated: a play?
A female body, naked, served as the plate, atop which a variety of raw fish and sushi were artistically arranged.
And that female...
"Lumina?"
"Indeed, you already knew?"
If finding her was already necessary, to have prepared her so thoroughly in advance...
And on top of that, to add such delicious food atop her delicious body...
This would mean even I could show a touch of corruption in politics.
"Haha, in that case I'll speak well of it as much as possible. Even if negotiations are difficult, I'll report that we've received tremendous help from our beastman lords."
It pleased Gornakh greatly.
Raw fish and sushi were arranged in patterns matching the spectacular peacock designs.
And in the small triangle drawn between the thighs of her unique alluring female form, a valley wine with the scent of alcohol was poured.
"If such a grand welcome is what you offer, then we too will speak well of it."
Heh heh heh!!
In truth, the party's opinion was absent.
"If any food falls from the plate, let me know. After all, you wouldn't want other men watching, so the servants will bring more food when summoned."
"Yes, thank you."
The negotiation reached its peak with this gift.
The beastman who had handled the reception left the room with a satisfied expression.
Now, there was only time to enjoy.
Only Gornakh knew which part of Lumina the eastern chopsticks in his hand would seek.
****
A moment earlier, Lumina.
"W-what are you trying to do?"
Lumina had been led somewhere and was now undergoing appropriate processing.
"Do you know how luxurious the nobles of the Beast Kingdom were?"
Among them, one received special praise in a different sense: simply pouring food atop her body.
Simply that, or the ultimate luxurious meal consisting of the plate itself as service?
The male who prepared to welcome Gornakh had decided on this.
So, after binding the bird in place and laying her down, he prepared a cover to taste the "plate" as well.
"I-I..."
"Ah, don't worry. It's just a mild aphrodisiac."
However, Lumina knew of that aphrodisiac.
A beastman drug that was far too effective.
"Ah, but if a man is present, it gets a bit... the rest will be handled by the females."
The completely unwelcome news made her struggle.
"If I struggle, who knows what they might do?"
Only then did she glance around.
They were all beastwomen—close to carnivorous, and in the natural world of animals, the carnivorous beastwomen who preyed on birds.
Tremble.
Civilized for a long time, yet an innate fear remained.
Beastwomen resembling tigers and cheetahs surrounded her while wearing masks.
"Don't be too worried."
"It'll just feel good."
Lumina's mouth was forcibly pried open.
So Lumina's mouth filled endlessly with dense aphrodisiac liquid nearly as thick as gel.
Meanwhile, carefully, sometimes very roughly, they stimulated her intimate parts.
"Nnngh... ♡"
A pitiful moan escaped.
"Don't hold resentment. Didn't you originally plan to be offered to His Majesty the King?"
"I-I..."
"Wasn't that already past... ♡"
"If we'd kept winning back then..."
Pleasures different from what succubi had once done to her now covered her body.
Their hands moved as if they truly meant to cook her, stimulating sensitivity points she herself didn't know how to handle.
Nngh ♡
Stimulate...
And...
Tremble ♡
They stopped just before the peak.
"N-no way... ♡"
"Yes, we'll keep repeating until you come for the guests."
And she was brought another aphrodisiac liquid to apply to the skin.
Not only the aphrodisiac, but a liquid mixed with a harmless source.
"And since sweat would ruin the food's taste, we'll mix the aphrodisiac and source that's sensitive only to the new beastman and apply it to the body."
Who knew how long this would last.
Her mouth continued to receive aphrodisiac, filling her insides completely.
Twitch twitch ♡
And with a large brush, they painted the skin with the aphrodisiac repeatedly.
"You sweat a lot."
She wiped Lumina's sweat with a cloth.
Shiver ♡
Tremble ♡
The skin already half-cooked with aphrodisiac trembled lightly at the mere touch of cloth reaching the peak.
"W-when will you stop... ♡"
They continued the coating process.
They didn't stop until the sweat's scent changed to the sweet aphrodisiac and source fragrance, not the sweat itself.
"I-I can't take it... ♡"
Now her body writhed not in resistance but with pleasure.
However, at some point a cloth like a gag was stuffed into her mouth.
And the cloth serving as the gag was soaked with aphrodisiac.
If she bit it even slightly due to the peak, aphrodisiac would enter her own mouth.
Tremble tremble tremble ♡
Lumina's peacock eyes trembled endlessly with pleasure, unable to hide her emotions.
With her own words unable to resist, she was surrounded by her natural enemies—the beastmen—and the preparation of the plate was finished.
****
"Quite the long wait."
A king's strategist and one of the Demon King's generals.
The woman who had once been in the Flower Garden now served as a diplomat's plate.
It was amusing, but mocking her openly might require appeasing her grievance, so he held back.
In her mouth was a large apple serving as a gag, giving her an appearance unable to speak: a peacock.
"May I ask if you know how to use chopsticks? If you're not comfortable, I'll prepare chopsticks with blunt ends."
"No, I know."
'First, lightly—'
The chopsticks touched Lumina's belly.
Tap.
Startle!
Puchi ♡
"What? It vanished?"
"Disappointing."
The previously silent Valeria and Camilla, now both Gornakh's bitches, looked at Lumina with their own words.
Half contempt for beastmen using bodies like this.
The other half, their own master Gornakh would surely do the same to them after seeing this.
"After a hundred applications of aphrodisiac and source, it'll be sensitive."
"I'd like to make you come later as my own thing."
"Then—"
The beastman familiarly uncorked a small liquid bottle and poured it into the apple in Lumina's mouth.
Naturally, the liquid flowed down the apple and into Lumina's mouth.
"What is that?"
"A potion that prevents orgasms."
"Oh ho."
That meant Lumina, with her now extremely sensitive body, wouldn't be able to come and would have to endure Gornakh's teasing.
"May we eat it too?"
"Of course."
And soon, the new arrivals—females who would draw Gornakh's eyes even without trying, since they were glamorous bitches in heat.
They might also want to take revenge in advance.
Six chopsticks bound tightly targeted Lumina's body, unable to even struggle.
Lumina, drenched in aphrodisiac yet unable to reach the peak, felt a new kind of fear upon seeing those chopsticks.
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