The Village's First Victims
Scratching—.
I and the servant cautiously parted the underbrush in the dead of night, approaching the village.
We had no intention of entering the village itself. We knew a way to slip in unnoticed, but with our numbers so low, using that method now would be too risky.
Our destination was the house of the couple living outside the village, as learned through Elisa.
The couple with twin daughters eked out a living by logging in the forest just beyond the village. Being outside the village’s borders made them our first prey.
‘Found it.’
Guiding myself by the memory of the information, I discovered a small cabin in the woods.
And…
‘Here it is.’
We acquired a hatchet from the place where the couple stored their tools while logging.
Elisa was close friends with the daughters in the cabin, and she knew a lot about them. I gave the wooden pole to the servant.
What I had was a paralysis mushroom hidden in a pouch made from ripping Elisa’s clothes. There was no reason for me to go unarmed with a hatchet in hand.
Whoosh—.
I swung the hatchet through the air. It was heavier than I thought, but not so much that I couldn’t swing it.
Clunk.
Suddenly, a sound echoed through the quiet forest, startling me as I turned around.
“Kiik?”
The servant, stepping on a branch, gave me a puzzled voice. If it were daytime, it would be nothing, but at night with the surroundings so still, it could be a chance for someone to notice our approach.
Just in case, I stopped my footsteps toward the cabin and listened, but I still didn’t feel any unusual presence.
- Be careful.
I told the servant through the mental voice like Seoha was speaking. Monsters created in the dungeon could always sense positions, and like now, they could convey meaning without speaking aloud.
“Kiik.”
The servant nodded weakly, as if understanding.
‘Good, let’s go.’
The cabin door was locked, but there was a window we could enter. The small window was a space an adult couldn’t fit into, but with me and the servant who were small like children, it was more than enough.
Tap.
I and the servant successfully infiltrated the cabin by stepping inside first. The darkness and silence of the house greeted us.
Thanks to our monster nature, our night vision was sharp, and we quickly adapted to the interior.
Before moving in earnest, I recalled the information from using Elisa and reviewed the plan. Inside the house were three women and one man.
First, we had to kill the man. The man snored heavily and slept alone in the room, while the women slept in one room with their daughters, I heard.
Find the room with the man, kill him while sleeping—.
Just as I was about to move to execute the plan, I saw a shadow in my vision other than me and the servant.
“Submit!”
Seoha’s thunderous shout made me reflexively lower my head.
Boom—!!
With a short whoosh sound and a dull thud, something hit. Quickly turning around, I saw the middle-aged man’s axe he swung was embedded in the house’s pillar.
“Shit!”
The man grunted, trying to pull the axe out of the pillar, spewing vulgar curses.
The man?
The husband I was supposed to kill first?
How?
Was it because he woke up from the sound the servant made earlier?
Realizing the situation had changed drastically, I quickly spun my head.
- Kill him!
I changed the plan and ordered the servant.
“Kiik—!”
“Kyaaah!?”
The servant rushed in swiftly, and the man shouted while swinging the axe. Just as I was about to join in.
“Kyaaah—!?”
“What, what is it!?”
In the commotion, two women and daughters who were sleeping in the room woke up. If they were modern women I knew, they would typically lock the door or scream in such situations, but unfortunately, this world’s background was based on the medieval era.
“You monsters!!”
The woman, seeing her husband fighting the servant, ran toward me who was standing there holding the hatchet I had hidden somewhere.
Crazy bitches!
Seeing the couple charging with axes, vulgar curses spilled out. Just from their fierce momentum, it looked like the murderers were the couple, not me.
Quickly, I pulled out the paralysis mushroom pouch from my waist and threw it at the charging woman.
“Mu-gak, kul-luk!? Kul-ro-ek—!?”
The woman’s hand holding the axe whirled in the air as if her vision was taken by the scattered spores, and she fell to her knees. It seemed the paralysis effect had activated, but I knew from experience it was only temporary paralysis.
At the critical moment, I stood at a crossroads of choice.
Kill the woman?
No, that woman needs to be used. Then, hostage?
The servant’s voice continued to be heard from behind as he tussled with the man.
[If you’re going to take hostages, use the daughters instead!]
Hearing Seoha’s shout, I passed the woman and ran toward the daughters in the bedroom who were looking at me with frightened faces.
“Kyaaak—!?”
Fortunately, the daughters didn’t imitate their mother’s fierce spirit and easily neutralized one of them.
While dragging the daughter’s hair to show the hostage, I forcibly pulled her out of the room.
“Die! These monsters—!!!”
The man aiming his axe at the fallen servant on the floor.
No!
My mind flashed, and I reflexively opened my mouth.
“Give… it… to… me—!!”
A moment of silence. Everyone except the servant stopped in their tracks and stared at me.
“Mo… monster… can… speak…?”
“Oh my…”
The man with the axe looked at me with wide eyes, and the woman whose paralysis had worn off also looked at me in disbelief.
In fact, I was surprised too. I thought it was impossible, but in the urgent situation, my instinct opened my mouth, and I realized it was possible.
The reactions of the two were natural. I was a monster, and one of the common sense I learned through Seoha was that in this world, monsters don’t know human language. Higher monsters like lich or vampire could speak, but that was exceptional, and rural villagers didn’t even know that fact.
Swoosh.
“Ki… kill… it!”
In the silence filled with surprise, the first to regain composure was me. I held the hatchet to the hostage daughter’s neck and shouted. The words were a bit slurred but understandable.
“Wai… wait…”
“Ha… axe… down…!”
The man tried to say something, but I shouted first.
“Hik!?”
“St… stop!!”
Clang.
As I pushed the axe deeper into the daughter’s neck, the man lowered the axe he was about to swing at the servant.
- Stun him!
Not missing the chance, I quickly ordered the servant.
Thud!
“Cuck!?”
The servant, with high agility, shot up like lightning and hit the man on the back of the head with the wooden pole, causing him to collapse forward and lose consciousness.
“Husband—!!”
As the woman tried to rush forward, I held the hatchet to the daughter’s neck again as if to say so. A red line appeared on the skin, and blood flowed under the axe blade, making the woman’s face harden.
“You… want… to… give… it… to… me—??”
“St… stop… I… understand… so… stop…”
With a creepy laugh, the woman knelt with tears in her eyes and begged. Watching that, a thrill accompanied by pleasure rose in me. Having someone submit in front of me, lying down, pleading, begging while looking up at me made me feel good. Especially if it was a woman.
As the situation settled, I belatedly noticed the woman’s body. Women in this world gave birth young. Because of that, even after having two children, the woman’s age was young. The woman, who was at most in her early thirties, had no extra flesh because she logged with her husband. Among them, the woman’s two breasts stood out particularly. As the two huge hills that were hard to grab even with an open palm swayed in real time, my narrow-minded thoughts exploded.
She must have raised the two daughters with milk from those breasts? Is there still milk? What would the space inside the vagina that gave birth to the two children feel like? What expression would she make if I raped the two daughters in front of me? How many screams would she show when I filled the space where a human child was born with my semen? Thinking that imagination would soon become reality, blood shot to my lower body.
“Ki… hi… hi…”
The woman flinched at my laughter and recalled her fear. I wanted to fuck that woman in the dungeon as soon as possible. Not just the woman, but the two daughters I captured as hostages too.
[Humans are really animals that cling to unnecessary emotions and can’t think rationally. Why can’t they calculate that they won’t be able to save everyone anyway? Why can’t they think of sacrificing one to save the rest? In the end, their judgment was wrong and they were all exterminated. For us, it’s the best ending, but for them, they’ve lost their lives due to foolish judgment.]
Seoha criticized the couple’s actions of releasing their weapons when their daughter was taken hostage. The tone was calm, but a faint sarcasm was felt. She didn’t criticize my action of taking hostages. She was the one who ordered me to take hostages in the first place.
Is taking hostages a base act? Funny. Can they spout such words after being defeated? Can they say such things while watching their precious ones being killed and raped in front of them? Seoha and I both knew. In the end, the one who survives is the winner. The dead have no words, and the survivors can do as they please with the dead’s words. That was the right of the survivors.
While empathizing with Seoha’s way of thinking, I sensed a slight contradiction in her words and asked.
‘Did you order me to take the daughter as hostage because you understand that irrational thinking?’
[…I only knew it theoretically.]
For some reason, after that, Seoha closed her mouth. I wanted to continue the conversation, but since there were things to finish, I brought my consciousness back to reality.
The man was neutralized. The only woman who could fight was the one who couldn’t move because she was holding the daughter as hostage. One hostage, one in panic in the room. We won.
“Ki… hi… hi!!”
Laughter burst out. All that was left was cleanup. It was time to acquire the spoils.
‘First, the man has to die.’
[Then have the monster devour him. After all, if you’re going to kill him, it’s more effective to raise his stats.]
‘Good.’
I ordered the servant to drag the man outside and eat him. Because if I showed him eating in front of me, no matter how much I said I was holding hostages, I couldn’t know what the women would do in anger.
While the servant ate the man, I paralyzed the three women who lost their will, tied them with ropes, and took all the items in the cabin.
“Ki… hi… ik… kuck!”
A few minutes later, the servant came into the cabin with a cough. After giving the taken items, I looked at his status window.