Chapter 251 – Side Story) Hell (2)
He was kind and kind… But he didn’t suit me at all since I was already tainted by my brother.
He even broke my leg, forgave me for hurting him, came out to look for a job with me, and even became my guarantor when I had no one to trust… With my really good-natured brother…
It didn’t suit someone like me.
Even more so… I ended up losing the job I barely got thanks to my brother’s guarantee, causing trouble to me again.
So, at this point, I was thinking about becoming a hunter too.
I heard it was a risky job, so I never dared to do it in the past, but even that weak Gespa guy was doing well…
Among the satyr race, especially if I was particularly strong, I would be able to adapt to some extent quickly.
Since Satyr’s reputation among hunters will remain the same anyway, he will probably only have to work as a solo artist.
Still, I didn’t know that I could possibly earn more than working at the grocery store tasting section.
In order to participate in this project, I was issued a hunter’s license to temporarily join the Gespa party, so if I work step by step, I will come back someday.
“…Whew. “Never again, what…”
Even in a country like this, I wonder if they would accept you as a guest.
After thinking about that, I gave up thinking that it would be okay to see my brother again as a guest in a country like this.
If we meet again as guests… Then what?
After sighing and ignoring the sounds coming from inside, I was about to go out to check if there were any zombies nearby.
With the sound of the wind escaping.
The sound of something falling came from behind me.
“To? To…? Wow?! “Geez, gesqueuuuuu?!”
Soon after hearing Sia’s scream, I turned back and raised the curtain.
“What… Huh?!”
And, I could see it.
The head of the Gespa, which had been alive just a moment ago, was lying on the floor.
And, there was a being there that wasn’t there just a moment ago.
Without even the slightest hint.
Just as if it had been there from the beginning.
A person who covers his entire body with a black robe.
While standing still.
Seeing Sia, the owner of the scream from earlier, clutching her head, something covered her mouth as she hurriedly raised her magic power and tried to chant to summon her fireball.
It was black and sticky, and before I had a chance to escape, it blocked my mouth.
“Whoosh?!”
It turned its head towards me, whose mouth was covered, and laughed and said.
『Your judgment is a bit slow. If she heard a scream, she should have run away… Or was your lover among you? 』
What I thought was black and sticky, now that I look at it, it looks like nothing more than an ordinary hand.
Although the hands were very dry and twisted.
I was wondering what on earth that thing I had seen just before was, and I was struggling to free myself from its grasp, but I couldn’t.
“Queu, queu…”
On the contrary, I was suffocating even more as my throat tightened even more.
‘What kind of power…’
The satyr’s strength was by no means weak.
Although he was not as strong as the famous Werewolf, he was just not as strong as him, but he was strong enough to not be considered weak.
However…
He was so skinny that his ungainly arms didn’t even move.
“Huh, ugh…!”
Thump, thud.
Even when I swung my foot and kicked him, he didn’t even move, so I looked around and opened my mouth.
『Let’s see… It looks like it’s no longer there. Still, there are four satyrs… So the harvest is good…』
Four…?
Excluding the dead Gespa, how many satyrs are here?
There is, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Only then did I realize that it wasn’t just the Gespa who had died.
Just a little while ago, I could see that all the other satyrs who had been exhausted after having sex for days and had left were all dead with their necks and bodies separated.
Unlike the Gespa’s head, which was the only one standing up and lying on the floor, their heads that were lying down… Were just cut off and left there.
Slurp slurp…
The heads were so cleanly severed that one would not have noticed that their throats had been cut, had I not seen the blood oozing out, like a red seam between the torso and the neck.
What survived-
Eur and Naru were sleeping among the dead satyrs whose heads had been cut off… And Sia, who had been hanging out with the Gespar who had died just a moment ago when their heads fell off.
And me.
All of them were female satyrs.
『There you are… With pink hair. Good. Very good, the pink-haired satyr is even rarer among the already rare satyrs, so you’re lucky…』
What came to mind when I heard those words were slave traders of different races.
Although the world government said that all races were equal, this was not simply accepted.
That’s right, they were all living in different worlds until the worlds merged like this.
Among them, there were, of course, cultures that enslaved other races.
Of course, there were places where people treated other people as slaves… And that was considered natural.
Right now, isn’t that true even for yourself?
The world I lived in was a world where satyrs reigned as nobles, and all other races served them.
The reason why today’s satyrs run rampant like that is because most of them were not yet able to come to terms with the times back then and were unable to break their own habits and committed accidents.
At that time, no one cared if a satyr passed by and attacked someone.
On the contrary, there were countless people who liked it.
Even though they were just starting out in the aristocratic class of satyrs, they were nobles at first.
If they ‘liked’ it, those who were no different from slaves would immediately be able to live a better life than they do now.
It was that kind of world.
In that world, it was a world that changed in an instant.
Just like many satyrs cannot forget that time and end up doing something wrong.
Those in power who enslaved the different races they liked…
Since they had power back then, there were countless cases where many people who are still enjoying power sought it out.
Of course, slavery itself was illegal from the perspective of world governments that called for equality, so if caught, they were severely punished, but that did not mean that they would disappear, and such stories would appear in the news once or twice a month.
Then I could understand.
The reason why all the male satyrs were killed and only the female satyrs were left behind.
Because they were so rampant, their reputation went straight down and into the abyss, but the characteristic of satyrs is that they all have excellent off-white color.
It is comparable to the succubus race, which is sometimes compared because it is a nymphomaniac.
Since satyrs are smaller than succubi, they seem to be evaluated more highly than succubi by people with maniacal tastes based solely on appearance…
However, from his next words, I could see that he was not an understandable criminal like a slave trader.
『You will be a good mother… Okay, so are the witches we caught last time and the satyrs this time. Very nice. I have to be a little grateful to those ignorant damned things who don’t even understand the truth… Thanks to them, I was able to save a lot of females of rare species that are hard to find and females with outstanding abilities…』
Mo, che…?
I don’t know what it was, but the sight of him looking at me with a licking gaze gave me goosebumps all over my body.
It was not the gaze of someone crazy with sexual desire or desire, something I had felt countless times.
It was a view of oneself as a ‘useful object’ or a ‘tool’ that could be used to create it.
‘Slave dealer, no.’
It’s nothing like that.
It was something more terrible than that.
So, I struggled to shake off this hand that was covering my mouth right now.
“Town?! Breathe?!”
『It’s also very energetic. It’s nice to see you looking healthy. If it were you, you could probably give birth to about twenty. But don’t go wild. Because I don’t want to hurt that body… You will be a precious mother to my children…』
Like a mother, or something that can give birth.
I don’t even know what it looks like, but the voice coming from under the robe gave me goosebumps all over my body.
Especially since it was impossible to hear the voice as if it was coming from the living.
Even now, I couldn’t believe how on earth such strength could come from this skinny, thin hand that was covering my mouth.
No matter how hard I struggle.
Even if you hit it with your arm or pull it.
Even if you kick it with your leg.
It didn’t move at all.
『Okay then, let’s go. I will personally take you to your new home, my nest… Well… You will soon like it too…』
Slurp.
Siana, who must have already fainted, was hanging out holding her face, and her colleague, who was on top of her body, covered the sleeping bodies of Eur and Naru without even knowing that her lover was dead. I saw black things crawling and covering me.
Like slime, they are irregularly shaped and slick.
All of them coming out from an unidentified being wearing a robe.
“Chry … These children will be like soon, so be relieved …”
And, I could see them underneath the fluttering robes as they crawled out.
You can see underneath the black robe – numerous pieces tangled here and there.
I could see flesh divided into dizzying pieces that could only be called pieces.
Just like the zombies we’ve caught so far…
Just like that, the bodies of various beings of different sizes and races are tangled together and stuck together—and the space between them is connected by these black things that are still blocking my mouth.
“Wow…”
Degurr, I said.
Between the pieces, I could see an eye that seemed to have rotted away a long time ago.
Even though it was already bruised and full of pus, I could feel eyes looking at me through it.
Psak, I said.
Soon, that gaze disappeared along with the maggots that protruded from the rotten eyeballs.
There was a lot more to the gaze than that.
Grumble, rumble.
Because the number of eyeballs around it were once again protruding from inside the body as if overflowing.
Rather, it made me even more nauseous.
The author, who doesn’t even care whether finger-sized maggots are eating his festering and bursting eyeballs, doesn’t feel like he’s alive at all.
I couldn’t hold back my disgust at the maggots eating my eyeballs, making a crunching sound and leaking out the rotted and yellowed lens.
However, I couldn’t even vomit freely.
Grumble, I said.
Soon, black things covered my body as well.
He spoke to me, who was frightened by the things crawling towards me, with the hand that was covering my mouth, cooing, cooing.
『Do not be afraid. I have no intention of killing you… You are just… A mother that will give birth to the children I created… To fulfill my great wish… Rather, it is truly my intention to become a contributor to my glorious wish. Isn’t this a profound opportunity…? On the path to great evolution… I will fulfill my dream, to become a mother of children…』
Darkness came as my face was covered.
Pitch black.
Pitch black.
Vision is obscured.
I was out of breath, and my consciousness gradually faded.
In that sinking consciousness.
‘Brother…’
Even the face that came to mind for the last time turned black with his breath, almost as if he had been forced to vomit by pressing his stomach.
‘Su, my breath…’
『The children will be busy dealing with the witches they have caught right now, so the order will be postponed to the next time… Well, it will be soon, so don’t be too upset. Those children need to be as active as they come… Maybe your turn will come in a day or two… In the meantime… Don’t get hurt for no reason, just sleep quietly…』
Finally, when nothing came to mind, my hand dropped from the withered arm that I had been holding onto in an attempt to somehow free myself.
‘Ah…’
If I had known this would happen, even if I knew I would be dumped, I would have at least confessed.
‘Bah, it looks like a bo.’
She lost consciousness, laughing at herself for not being able to let go of her regrets until the very end.
