63. Pistil (12)
63. Pistil (12)
"Hah?"
There's someone asking to be submission trained?
And that lust-filled Succubus bitch is saying this to me first?
I never imagined I'd hear such words from that promiscuous slut who has no restraint, sleeping with both women and men indiscriminately.
"Don't push your work onto me."
Especially not a woman that bitch has already touched.
As Bloodius tried to ignore Lilith and continue on his way, Lilith grabbed him with a pleading voice.
"W-wait a moment."
"Huh."
Bloodius was surprised.
That prideful bitch who never wants to owe anyone anything -
the same bitch who would rather pick a fight with him than ask for help - was holding him back.
Just what kind of woman could make that bitch lower her pride like this?
"I'll at least hear you out."
Seeing this unfamiliar side of Lilith, Bloodius decided to at least listen to what she had to say.
Of course, he only planned to listen - he had no intention of agreeing.
Pretending to grant her request only to cruelly reject it would be the ultimate satisfaction.
Finally, I'll get to teach her a lesson...-
"...She's going to be the Demon King's concubine."
"-Let's get started immediately."
He wasn't stupid enough to pass up the opportunity to be the first to submission train and develop the woman who would become the Demon King's concubine.
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"Heeeing...."
"......."
Lilith kept clinging to me more than usual today.
It was as if she was taking the stance of wanting comfort after suffering some injustice.
But when I didn't respond to her until the end, she lifted her head to check my reaction before burying herself in my arms again and began acting spoiled.
'...Ha.'
To be honest, it was a bit disgusting.
According to the information I'd heard, Lilith was a Succubus who had lived at least several times longer than me.
No matter how such a woman acted, there was no way I could find it cute.
Heck, while I wasn't looking at Lilith's face, my expression as I looked down at her was probably rotting away.
When I still didn't respond, Lilith finally began speaking first.
"I'll be away for about a month because of the Demon King's resurrection. Don't be sad without me, okay?"
No one would be sad.
"Heeing, I really wanted to do the anal and nipple development myself, I wanted to be praised by the Demon King. That bone-bag old man had to ask me of all people...!"
"......."
"Haa, I have to entrust you to that mosquito bastard after all. Sniff sniff. I'm so sad."
Bone-bag and mosquito - they were figures I'd heard about before.
I'm sure she'd happily torn into both of them in front of me last time.
Lilith suddenly lifted her head.
I immediately fixed my expression.
If I'd been caught, I would have been tormented by that hand at least several times.
I sighed inwardly.
"Still, he's definitely the best at specializing in bringing out a woman's charm. You need to receive the submission training well, just follow his words and you'll be fine."
Easier said than done.
Just follow his words.
The problem was, I didn't know what would happen to me if I just followed his words.
That was the scariest part.
If I resisted, the intensity would only increase, and if I obeyed, I would become a slave with no personality left.
"Sniff sniff, don't fall so deeply for that guy that you forget me, dearie..."
Well.
Since they didn't seem to get along, maybe I should act like I've fallen deeply for this mosquito person.
I had that thought, but honestly, the act of being deeply in love with a man was something I found too disgusting to pull off.
'...Ugh.'
Me, who was once a man, being submission trained by a man and acting coy.
Even for someone with a strong stomach, this was too much.
"Ah, and I think your baby will probably give birth in about two weeks."
'...Two weeks?'
Isn't the typical pregnancy period 10 months?
Even if we assume fertilization happened on the day I was kidnapped, it's only been almost three months now.
Two weeks from now would be about three and a half months.
Then where did the remaining six months go?
For the baby to be born healthy, it should stay in the womb for at least eight months.
Without realizing it, I wrapped my arms around my stomach and glared at Lilith.
And for good reason - I'd heard about it before.
That anything from 3 to 6 months is basically a miscarriage.
For a moment, I thought she hadn't kept her promise.
But sensing my gaze, Lilith hurriedly began to explain.
"It's not like that! I accelerated the fetal growth to ensure it's born healthy! That's why the princess's meals weren't enough with just regular food, so we substituted with orc semen. So please don't look at me with those eyes?"
Lilith spoke coyly but seemed subtly restless.
Of course, I wasn't in a position to notice that.
I only felt relieved that it wasn't a miscarriage.
"Anyway, the maids there will help with the childbirth. Don't worry."
Maids?
So it's not the Demon King's castle then?
You couldn't find even the hint of a maid in the Demon King's castle.
Two days passed like that, and then someone came for me.
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Click, click, click.
The sound of heel-less shoes echoed throughout the area.
The footsteps grew closer and stopped precisely in front of me.
'...A person?'
"Hoh. This is quite... seriously prepared."
"Right? But if you get greedy, I'll kill you before the Demon King does, so be careful."
"Hmph, don't think I'm some girly bitch like you."
The man who approached me and Lilith began arguing.
Even at a glance, their relationship seemed terrible.
By the way, that man - at first glance he seemed like a person.
That is, to be precise, he looked human.
But any hopeful expectations I might have had quickly crashed.
"Good, this looks like it'll be fun to tame."
When he finally placed his hand on my cheek and grinned, sharp fangs revealed themselves in his mouth.
In that moment, I realized this man wasn't human.
He seemed to be of the vampire race, something I'd only read about in Imperial Palace documents.
I was certain they said all vampires had been exterminated since 100 years ago.
I never thought there would still be vampires they couldn't kill.
"Then let's move."
The moment the man manipulated the bracelet on his wrist, a black portal appeared beside him.
If I go through this, will I be able to return?
I probably will return without question.
Since I'm destined to be sold to the Demon King, I have to come back to this castle.
But every time I look at that gaping portal, I can't help but worry.
-Whoosh!
"...Ugh."
As I entered the portal, dizziness washed over my entire body and a large mansion came into view.
A single path leading to the mansion.
Along that path, about 10 maids stood on both sides, smiling brightly as they welcomed the man.
"Welcome back, Master!"
Simultaneously, several maids approached and carefully took the man's coat and accessories.
"Raysha."
"Yes, Master."
"Have the basic preparations done and send her up to the study."
"Understood."
With that command, the man entered the mansion with the remaining 9 maids.
And the maid called Raysha began guiding me separately.
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I wondered if "basic preparation" meant listening to her brag about that man.
Raysha sat me on a small chair and began reciting an explanation about that man - no, about a man named Bloodius.
The only problem was that to my ears, it wasn't an explanation but just bragging about how much she liked Bloodius.
While listening with one ear and letting it out the other, Raysha made a pouting expression.
"Really! You're not listening to me!"
"...Uh, um."
How did she know?
"Anyway! I'll begin the basic education that Master commanded!"
Raysha finally began explaining about the man named Bloodius.
About how there would be punishment if I didn't obey commands, about how there was a hierarchy among the maids.
Contrary to my expectation of being roughly 'educated,' she was merely explaining their hierarchical order and basic common sense about the man named Bloodius.
So 'basic training' was this kind of education, not that kind.
For one of the Demon Army Executives, it was unexpectedly not rough methods.
Considering how Lilith had kidnapped me and locked me in solitary confinement for days until I was nearly insane from the first day, this seemed natural by comparison.
"You don't need to worry too much. You'll inevitably come to adore Master too, Jaina-nim."
"...."
Including Raysha, all 10 maids serving Bloodius were apparently his concubines.
To have 10 wives.
As a former man, I felt envious, but 10 was excessive.
Yet Raysha seemed to have no jealousy, as if mistakenly thinking I was a new concubine.
Having briefly overheard her conversation with Lilith, I was only temporarily entrusted to him to be educated into obediently following the Demon King's words.
I tried to talk back to Raysha's mistaken assumption, but my trembling lips eventually closed.
When I tried to say I could never like a man, I was already carrying a man's child in my womb,
and come to think of it, I'd already had relations with men, let alone women.
Of course, it was forced.
.......Sir Evernoir?
Though she was female, she had male genitalia, and since I didn't directly have relations with her, I excluded that from my experience.
While having such pointless thoughts, I found myself arriving with Raysha in front of what appeared to be a study.