No Way I Can Raise a Slime Daughter (2)
I tried to clench my fists in tension… but I couldn’t. Rin must have been worried about her split-off body, because she still hadn’t returned control of my limbs to me.
The cold, viscous slime trickled down beneath my thighs. A shudder ran through me as the sticky fluid wormed its way between my legs, searching for an opening.
Scary… I’m scared. I don’t want this. Please, stop…!!
“Ahaha. There, there, my pretty little slave, Lady Kaira. Nothing to be afraid of.”
Even as she said that, the expression she forced onto my face wasn’t particularly cheerful. After all, her personality was similar to mine; she was just as easily frightened and timid. This was probably her first time splitting herself in half, and whether the separated body would successfully find its way inside me was something of a gamble. On top of that, since she had seized control of my body, she would share every sensation—including the foreign, invasive feeling of her own clone forcing its way into my womb.
Hyek?!
Something—something my instincts violently rejected—had found the precious crevice. As if testing whether it was allowed to intrude, the repulsive pseudopod prodded and explored the entrance.
I had been violated by countless men while working at the brothel, but those had been warm, solid human organs—things that were meant to enter there. This, however…
I-I don’t want this… Rin? No, Lady Rin…? This… this really… can’t we stop…?
“Well, you see, Lady Kaira. A-Actually…”
She was trying to stay calm, but I could feel the muscles in my face trembling. There was no doubt about it—Rin was nervous too.
“The moment this child split off, it became a separate existence from me. Ahaha. I do plan to re-fuse with it later, but… right now it has no intelligence, only instinct. Even I don’t really know what it might do. It’s already out of my hands, so I can’t control it! Ehehe.”
How can something like that even exist…
Rin swallowed hard, the sound echoing through my throat.
“So… honestly, I’m scared too.”
And then—
The moment arrived.
Huek?!
“Ughk?!”
A bewildered cry escaped my lips—not mine, but Rin’s. My body, which had risen slightly in shock at the impossible foreign sensation, stared blankly down between my trembling, slightly parted legs.
“I-It’s going in… even though it’s so narrow, it’s forcing its way… prying me open… It’s cold… This feels… really… weird… Ehehe… Eheh… Ehehehe…”
Accompanied by Rin’s deranged muttering, a sickening, squelching sound filled the air. The split creature’s body was disappearing from view. Every time its protoplasm pushed deeper into my vagina, leaving sticky residue behind, my belly pulsed and swelled outward.
“Um, Lady Kaira…? Sorry, but…”
Rin called out to me in a completely dazed voice.
“I’m going to give back the body control and all the senses I took from you… Bye!”
Y-You coward!!
Paying no attention to my mental protests, Rin severed the connection that had been controlling my body and even cut off the shared senses.
The instant Rin vanished, my consciousness burst back into awareness like a rubber balloon suddenly released underwater. I regained every sensation and full control of my body at once.
Dragged out of the prison of my senses against my will, I immediately understood why Rin had fled behind the barrier of consciousness to hide.
Huek?!?!
Cold. The sensation of a frigid mass of protoplasm with no body heat of its own filling my uterus, extending pseudopods in every direction as it searched for a place to settle, flooded through me without any filter.
It felt as though tentacles made of ice were mercilessly stabbing into my abdomen.
“Ugh… u-uu… uueh… u-ek…”
Nausea surged up immediately. The terror and revulsion of having my womb invaded by an alien creature, the foreign sensation of something that was not a baby occupying the place where a baby should be, whipped at my mind. I clamped my left hand over my mouth.
“Ughk…”
Lady Kaira, stay conscious!
The rising nausea suddenly stopped, as if it had been forcibly blocked. My stomach felt as though it had seized up. It was probably Rin’s doing.
With the nausea abruptly halted, my insides felt uncomfortably heavy, as if they had dropped. I could only let out pained, choking groans.
“Kuhk, huek… u-ek…”
No matter how pathetic a female you are, what are you going to do if you throw up already? If you suddenly shock your insides like that, who knows how that child might panic and thrash around? It might turn its entire body into those spiky tentacles you saw before! If you don’t want your abdominal cavity torn apart and to die of shock before you can even rewind time, then hold it in!
…She had plenty to say for someone who had dumped the task of enduring this on me. But I didn’t want to die like this, so I forced myself to regulate my ragged breathing while staring at my grotesquely swollen, writhing lower belly.
The change was so gradual it was hard to notice, but the movements of the cold foreign object inside me were slowly slowing down. Whether my body heat had been transferred to it or my senses had simply gone numb from some toxin it secreted, the cold sensation was fading as well.
It seems to have stabilized a little. It looks like it’s extended its pseudopods and settled firmly into the uterus.
Just moments ago, when she had been controlling my body, Rin’s voice had been trembling with fear, yet now she calmly reported the situation.
This concerns not only your future but mine as well, so I’ll take control of the nerves inside the uterus and keep monitoring both your and the child’s health. If anything unusual happens, I’ll let you know…
“Ah, if you tell me… is there… something I need to do…?”
Ding! There’s nothing you can do! I’ll just warn you in advance so you can mentally prepare yourself. If you react too strongly… it wouldn’t be good for the baby inside you☆
“Haha…”
I let out a hollow laugh at the sheer absurdity, but Rin paid no attention.
Too exhausted to even roll over, let alone move, I lay there staring blankly at the ceiling with my unnaturally protruding belly facing upward, unable to sleep through the night. Occasionally, the slime above my head would squirm, letting me know that Rin was awake as well.
The night I had to spend with an alien creature nestled inside my womb was long. Far, far too long.
When I finally managed to tear my gaze away from my slime-filled uterus and noticed birds chirping outside the window, a knock sounded at the iron door. I had forgotten. Naixon was still here. While I was still trying to figure out how to explain, I even forgot to say “Come in.”
“Breakfast is ready. It’s modest, but… Ah, no…?”
Seeing me lying on the experiment table with my grotesquely swollen belly, Naixon rushed over to my side.
“Karin? Or Rin? Who’s controlling that body right now? What on earth happened?”
“Rin… said she wanted to help you…”
In a weak voice, I explained Rin’s plan: to use my uterus and ovaries to proliferate and create an independent organism that would produce hormone-based “contraceptive pills” Naixon could easily sell.
“Hah, well now…”
I waited for Naixon’s reaction like a condemned prisoner awaiting sentencing. I had half-hoped that this alchemist might sternly scold his creation and brew some medicine to extract the alien from my womb.
“What a clever little thing. Don’t you agree, Karin?”
…Having had my secret hopes dashed, I lost even the strength to argue and simply let my head slump to the side at the alchemist’s typical reaction.
“If you’re going to raise a child, you’ll need nutrition. Normally eating inside the laboratory is forbidden, but I’ll make an exception and bring you some food. I’ll make it into porridge so it’s easy to eat, so don’t worry.”
“Ah. Yes…”
How kind of him. It was consideration I didn’t appreciate in the slightest.
I had often heard at the academy that most famous mages were somewhat unhinged, and it seemed alchemists were no different.
Given that he was a skilled alchemist and naturalist capable of creating such a creature, perhaps Naixon’s sense of ethics deviated quite a bit from the norm.
Still, the fact that he had seen my naked body multiple times yet never once considered violating me meant he was at least a gentleman.
After eating the porridge Naixon had personally cooked and brought me, I could do nothing but lie there limply once more. With this body, even walking was difficult.
Then, late in the morning, a strange sensation began to spread from my abdomen.
It was hard to say whether it was stinging or painful. The discomfort and foreign feeling weren’t intense, but it felt as though an uninvited guest was forcibly intruding into a sanctuary where nothing should ever enter…
The child has begun to move. It’s creating pseudopods and extending them past your fallopian tubes. It’s probably searching for the ovaries to extract reproductive cells and obtain your genetic information.
Rin didn’t miss a beat, explaining what was happening. The way she casually used terms like “reproductive cells” and “genetic information”—words that belonged on Earth—suggested she had adapted quite well to Earth’s knowledge.
“Is that… okay…?”
I did input a basic command not to cause any sudden or fatal damage to you, Lady Kaira, so as long as you stay still… Hmm. Probably?
“Probably… huh…”
It’s reached the ovaries. It seems to be moving its core to extract and absorb some of the reproductive cells in the ovaries… Ah.
“…? What do you mean, ‘Ah.’? What’s going on…?”
The foreign sensation of something minuscule squirming grew slightly stronger, and a needle-like prickling pain shot through both sides of my waist. There wasn’t any severe pain beyond that, but when I heard Rin’s flustered exclamation in my mind, I knew something had gone wrong.
Well… Eheheheh. Um, Lady Kaira. This child…
I let out a long sigh.
“Whatever you’re about to say, it’s probably going to be shocking. But tell me honestly anyway…”
It ate both of your ovaries completely!
“What… what…?”
The original plan was just to extract a few eggs, but something must have gone wrong. Well, it worked out! Thanks to devouring hundreds of thousands of oocytes, it should grow to the level I expected in less than a day. On the other hand, you… how should I put it? Ahaha, right, right. I suppose we could say you’ve reached menopause, or become infertile?
Rin trailed off hesitantly before adding a few more words.
U-Um. Don’t be disappointed. You can still rewind time, Lady Kaira, so… i-it’s fine, right?
“Aha… Ahahaha…”
With a broken expression, I let out a hollow laugh and tears at the same time, then lost consciousness, crushed beneath the weight of exhaustion and loss.