## Chapter 305 – Lingering Scent of Flowers
I tried to draw my sword immediately, but my body wouldn’t move as I wished. Pink began to seep into my vision… The world hadn’t changed. It was just pink smoke drifting on the breeze.
“Heh heh heh. Now then, savor the fragrance.”
—Fragrance.
As Alaune had said, a sweet scent stabbed into my nostrils.
An extremely… gentle, comforting fragrance. A smell that perfectly matched the color ‘pink.’ As it burrowed into my brain, the fighting spirit that had surged up began to rapidly diminish.
It’s the same kind of sorcery as the Dryad…!
However, its power seemed twice as strong.
—Throb.
“Shit, fuck…!”
A charm of seduction!
Against my will, my libido surged, and I began to get a serious hard-on. An excitement that felt like it would burst my pants! I wanted to pull it out right now, grab it, and shake it violently!
I have to overcome this, Kim Kat!
“…Ugh!”
Just then, Copson let out a pained scream and slammed his head into the ground.
“Hey, hey! Copson!”
Panicked, I immediately checked his body, wondering if the bastard had died. His heart was beating, and his breathing was steady. It seemed he had succumbed to the charm and passed out.
Thank God he’s not dead.
I almost had a heart attack, damn it.
“Oh? So you can withstand it.”
Alaune, blinking her eyes as if amazed, spoke to me in an amused tone. Copson is passed out, and she finds it funny? Is this bitch into playing dead?
“You possess quite a strong mental fortitude… intriguing. Kuku… But that child seems too weak? He couldn’t even resist the seduction and just fainted?”
“…What exactly are you doing?”
The intense fragrance made my head spin. Gradually, the monster before me began to look like a simple woman.
I desperately clung to my fading reason by recalling Claudia’s naked body and Winia’s breasts. Right now, Kim Kat is standing at the crossroads of life and death… The moment I let my guard down, I’m dead.
There will be an opening.
An opportunity will come.
If she’s been asleep for so long and is now indulging in this leisurely manner, there must be a way out for me. Believing that, I firmly bound my shattering mind and imagined Claudia to resist the fear and temptation.
The moment I give up.
The moment I submit is the moment death arrives.
—Giving up is for after I’m dead.
If I can’t escape, I’ll confront it.
That is who I am, Cheonma Kim Kat.
“What am I doing… Heh heh. It’s nothing much. I just woke up after a long time and want to try everything, and I’m curious about everything. As it stands now, yes. I’m most curious about you, the child before me.”
“You’re very curious.”
“Indeed. It feels like I’ve just been born.”
Is this bitch actually the Queen of Curiosity?
“Now then, I’ll ask you the next question, so answer me.”
Alaune threw out a new question.
Copson was lying face down, breathing regularly, fast asleep. What a carefree bastard… Well, it’s probably better to sleep than to have his mental state constantly chipped away by fear and status ailments.
As they say, a ghost who dies in their sleep has a good complexion.
Originally, dying in your sleep is always a blessing.
“Yes, black-haired child. Where did you come from? If my memory serves me correctly, that hair color is quite rare around here, so did you come from somewhere far away?”
Resting her chin on her hand, she asked with a smile.
It was like she was here for a matchmaking meeting.
“From far away. From the land of the nomads.”
I fabricated a suitable past and told her the story. The vast plains. A land where savagery lived and breathed. A story about a tribe of warriors who rode across the world on horseback, plundering.
She listened intently, watching my eyes until the end, and then smiled again.
“Kuku… Is that so? Is that what you say? An interesting story. Living by constantly moving without a fixed abode… Humans are indeed adaptable creatures.”
She seemed to laugh a lot.
But the more I talked, the more positive her reactions became, and I began to think that maybe I could leave this place alive.
Usually, people who listen to others so attentively are mostly good people. Originally, people don’t listen to others at all and only force their own stories on others.
In that respect, Alaune was more of a good person than most.
—However.
The world was still tinged with seductive colors, and I had to be careful with every word I spoke, lest my mind fly away.
“Oh? You endure well? It’s rare for someone to be able to resist to this extent… I wonder how long you can last. Then let’s start the next story.”
This fucking bitch.
She’s not listening at all.
She just wants to test how long I can withstand this charm.
She kept asking me about historical events. Of course, I didn’t know much about the history of this world, so I couldn’t answer.
“You truly don’t know the Green Dragon, Lergerdaizer Wellostate? That’s quite strange. No matter how much time has passed, this area should still be her territory… I don’t know if she’s given up ownership of the land in the meantime. Is it the influence of war?”
In the first place, dragons and whatever are just stories from another world to me.
Ler, what? The name is so difficult. I don’t even know if dragons really exist, but since she says so, I nodded.
“I’m a foreigner, so I really don’t know anything.”
“Hmm… It seems you don’t know what I’m really curious about. Well, that’s fine. Then let’s hear your personal story again.”
What are you so curious about, you fucking bitch?
I had no choice but to make up another story and talk about the past. Time… is passing. At this rate, night will come.
I couldn’t imagine how this bitch would change when night came. Shit. What am I supposed to do…!
And so the story ended.
“What do you like?”
She asked about my tastes, my favorite things, colors, or foods. She persistently pried, as if she was very interested in my personality.
Of course, I answered each one diligently. She seemed quite satisfied with that.
Then, changing her posture, she suddenly brought up a sensitive topic.
“Yes, don’t you miss your parents? Since you came from far away, you must miss your parents’ faces. Isn’t that right?”
I always think, my father was a slightly bizarre man, my mother had a cleaning obsession, and my siblings were all flawed, but I always miss them.
“Of course, I always miss them. It’s just that the situation isn’t favorable. I miss them so much. My family, and my siblings.”
“You even have siblings?”
“Yes. They all resemble me.”
“Were you close?”
“Well… it was okay in its own way. We used to fight over food a lot…”
As I talked, I felt like I was falling into memories.
In fact, I used to try not to recall memories from Earth as much as possible. The world I was in was so barren and fierce that it was painful.
But these days… well, my fate has improved.
“Judging by your attitude, you seem to miss them a lot.”
“I miss them a lot. My father and mother too.”
Before I knew it, it felt like a counseling session. She persistently asked about my family history and my personality, like a woman on a blind date.
“Ku, kukukut…! Kut! Heu, heuhehe…. Hehehe!”
As I was lost in memories for a moment, a burst of maniacal laughter erupted.
Alaune, who had been listening to my story, began to laugh more violently than she had ever laughed before.
—Gulp.
I swallowed involuntarily, feeling nervous.
I couldn’t understand what she was thinking, so every time she took such unexpected actions, I became seriously anxious, and a black fear filled my heart… I had to endure. I had to suppress it.
“—If you could never… kukuk, kukuheu… forever… euhehe. See your parents again, what would you think?”
…Should I take this as a diss on my parents?
In Alaune’s words, barely suppressing her bursting laughter, there seemed to be a kind of vicious thorn.
“…I’d be really sad.”
As I answered carefully—
“Yes! Of course, you’d be sad. It’s only natural to be sad… euheheheut!”
—Shishishishit!
She even grabbed her stomach and said that.
“This fucking…”
What are you…
Why.
Are you laughing?
“…What’s so enjoyable, Queen? I don’t think I told you any funny stories.”
She glanced at me once, thought about something, and then burst out laughing again like crazy. Is this bitch some kind of laughter evangelist? I’m about to start laughing along with her.
There’s nothing funny about my parents’ story…
“No, don’t just laugh, answer…”
“Keuheuheut… Ah, I’m sorry.”
“…”
Alaune, wiping away tears with her fingers, finally took a deep breath and stopped laughing. As expected of a monster, her sensitivity is extraordinary—
“—How could I not be happy when I’m peacefully talking with those who will become my prey.”
Alaune, suddenly changing her attitude completely, said while looking at me with sharp eyes.
“What?”
Prey.
That word strongly captivated me.
“You will become my nourishment. Until the day I die. Forever. You will have to live miserably, being sucked dry of your energy and nourishment by me. Ah, children of humans.”
…What the fuck is this bitch talking about?
“You were born to become my nourishment, with those thoughts, cultivating those personalities.”
Completely possessed by madness, she spoke in a lecturing tone. I felt goosebumps. With that, the evil charm that had still been tickling my brain completely dissipated.
“To be in the same space as such beings. Kuk… kukukuk… Keukut! Keuheuheuheut! What could be more joyful than this?”
She’s already like a crazy psychopath!
“I’ve been dormant as a seed for so long… As soon as I open my eyes, I’m about to have a gift.”
Alaune, who had been spouting whatever she wanted, had never intended to spare us from the beginning, as expected. As I always say, there’s no such thing as a problem that can be solved through conversation.
I shouted reflexively.
“No, no! Alaune-nim! Honestly, you’re going too far!!! Um… Is there anything I can do to make you spare me! Please! I don’t want to die, Queen!!!!! Was that why you asked me about myself in such detail!!!!”
This fucking!
This bitch was a genuine, crazy monster! That barrage of questions was just to know more about her prey!!!
Too much of a bad taste!!!
“Keuheuheut, I’m sorry. That’s my only hobby. Talking with those who will become my nourishment, and knowing about them… Ah, I really can’t stand it. The fact that their lives become mine is really unbearable…”
She crossed her legs to the opposite side and continued speaking in a very joyful tone.
You crazy bitch!
“Please! Please spare me! I’ll do anything!!”
I kicked off the chair and immediately begged.
“Anything?”
“Yes! I will live as a loyal servant!”
“Hmm… What can you do for me?”
She began to react to my words.
Even if I don’t know anything else, I have to beg to be spared in times like these!
“First, I will deceive the bastards who set foot in the jungle and offer them all to the Queen!”
“Oh? Interesting words? You would betray humans?”
“If you spare me!”
I was babbling whatever came to mind, pushing my concentration to the limit to find an opening. But even though she was sitting in that posture, there was no opening to be seen.
Think… reason, Kim Kat!
I have to live!
“Kukukuk… I like that, but. My children can do that much.”
Children?
“Then give me a grace period!!! There’s no need to make me nourishment right away!!! Just keep me alive a little longer and then eat me, okay? You can take the nourishment later, right!!! It’s better to eat it a little aged than to eat it right away!!!”
“Hmm, that’s true.”
Alaune stroked her chin with her finger at my words.
She seemed to be contemplating, but her posture was too relaxed. She’s just planning to play with me…!
“Well, don’t worry too much. As you said, I won’t make you nourishment right away… I’ve been starving for too long too. Before I make you nourishment, I can at least make some fun memories.”
—Rustle.
Alaune, saying that, took off her leafy bra, revealing her pink nipples. Then, her large breasts, which had been compressed, were completely liberated.
