## Chapter 238 – Mademoiselle (7)
(Starting with Chairman’s test image)
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‘It’s strangely quiet…‘
At this very moment, countless Kernel Worms were wriggling and burrowing beneath the royal capital, gathering even the smallest bits of information and piling them up like a mountain.
For some reason, I felt suspicious about Laratina, who was being too quiet.
Vivian, with her keen intuition, had told me that Laratina was about to stir up some trouble, so I had been keeping a close watch on her, with my eyes and ears as alert as possible.
I knew that Laratina basically wanted to take control of the Saint Flansina Academy and was working hard to achieve that goal, but I couldn’t help feeling frustrated by her lack of any particular movement.
‘Dispatching prostitutes, holding interviews, inspecting Mademoiselle?
It’s all the same as usual.
Am I missing something?’
“The brothel district… perhaps I’m thinking something wrong…
Ah… is this a question, perhaps?”
After collecting information about Laratina for a while, I turned to Fina, who was now showing a mechanical classification speed almost on par with a supercomputer, and cautiously posed a question.
Upon hearing my question, Fina pondered something for a moment, then gently touched her lips with her finger and looked up at her tentacles.
“This is just my opinion, but…
At least, the humans I know will do anything to achieve their goals.
They have survived that way, and in fact, the survival of the beastmen as well…
Perhaps it is the result of following such humans.”
Originally, beastmen were a race that was half beast and half human.
But perhaps it was because they were beasts who followed their instincts, like how they had extreme difficulty suppressing their desires during heat, yet they also possessed a strange intelligence and a human-like way of thinking that loved peace.
That was why they were classified separately as “Ains,” something that was not human but similar to it.
Their combat power as individual entities was stronger than that of humans, but humans had constantly created means to defeat them as well as the monsters.
The reason they had survived until now was, in a sense, because they had followed in the footsteps of the humans, the pioneers of safe zones, like a swarm of insects drawn to sap.
Monsters were formidable enemies not only to humans but also to beastmen.
If humans exterminated such enemies for them, they could live with their families in safer areas without having to risk their lives fighting.
“Yes… they really do use any means necessary…”
However, gains that were not earned by one’s own efforts inevitably had side effects.
The beastmen, who were shamelessly enjoying the results that others had achieved, soon became targets of conquest for humans.
The beastmen, who lived lives that were practically no different from those in the wild, formed primitive villages on a scale that was incomparable to that of humans and lived peacefully, only to be captured and conquered one by one.
Perhaps her ego was beginning to become unstable, as her memories flowed backward into my head, digging into every corner of my brain.
‘By Royal Decree No. 13 of the Kingdom Law, we are arresting you.
Those who resist will be executed immediately, so be warned.’
‘Mom…!! Mommaaa…!!’
‘Let go of me!! Delfina!! Delfinaaa!!
What did we do wrong…!!
We didn’t do anything wrong!!
We didn’t even go near the human settlements…!!
Aaaaaagh!!’
The memory abruptly cut off with the image of a white-haired rabbit beastwoman, struggling to avoid being separated from her young daughter, before her limbs were restrained and her body slumped, and my mind returned to its original place.
Was this the current state of the beastmen, living oppressed as slaves?
‘Um……’
“Did you see…?
I’m sorry for showing you something strange…
But please, don’t say anything…”
Wiping away the tears that welled up in her eyes, Fina forced a smile and chuckled awkwardly.
“Hehe… I think it’s about time I forgot about it…
But memories… don’t work the way you want them to…”
‘Fina……’
“I heard… she was executed the next day…
After that, I was dragged to the royal capital and became a slave…
Fortunately, I found a partner I could rely on, and we managed to overcome it together…”
Although she herself rarely mentioned it, she was, in her own way, a married woman.
The only thing she said about her husband was that a human had killed him.
Having been separated from her other family members and neighbors and dragged to the royal capital, she had lost even that precious person, whom she had finally found again.
Perhaps it was not just my imagination that her life felt so tragic.
“On the charge of being the leader of the rebels…
He was just the spiritual pillar of the village…
With such a ridiculous false accusation… sob…
Humans are cruel… they took my mother away like that…
They took my husband too…… I can’t forgive them…
Sometimes, even when I see Miss Vivian, I feel resentful.
If that woman had been outside, she would have been the same as those who separated and killed us…”
‘But now……’
“Yes. I know that’s not the case now.
It’s just… things don’t always go the way you want them to…
So…… please just forget about it…
You are the most grateful person to me.
No matter what happens, I won’t make you feel bothered or burdened.
That’s the best way I can repay you.”
As the tentacles lightly wrapped around her trembling body, she calmed herself and took a slow, deep breath.
Compared to the other females, Fina had very little experience being held by me.
In the special evaluation dungeon where we first met, she had entrusted her body to the tentacles more diligently than others in order to persuade the other beastmen…
After that, perhaps it was right to say that she had survived the hell of the flesh forest alone, under the pretext that she was the only one among the beastmen who had not betrayed my trust.
Since there was no one to trust anyway, and even her own kind did not believe her words.
Perhaps I had managed to grasp the favor she was offering me for the last time.
Moreover, there was the issue of the children she was taking care of, so her daily life was generally 180 degrees different from that of the other beastman females in the lair.
But even for her, the fact that she was a woman, a beastman female, did not change.
The day always came for her, as it did for anyone who could not avoid physiological issues.
Along with a slight blush, her reddening face and body skin were signaling the return of the time of sexual activity.
“I… I’m…
In heat… right now…
If you hug me like that……
Hic… Hicc……♡”
As the rabbit’s characteristic short, stubby tail twitched, her clothes, which were ordinary clothes since she had not yet received Nemea, fell to the floor one by one.
“Since you… Hicc…!! Made me like this……!!
You… have to take responsibility……?
My stomach… is throbbing…
I can’t take it anymore……♡”
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Panting heavily, Fina leaned her smooth body against the tentacles, resting.
I had spread out the tentacles like a mattress so that she could rest comfortably, and I was gently arranging her disheveled white hair, as if she were lying on a waterbed.
‘At least, the humans I know will do anything to achieve their goals.’
But at that moment, the words Fina had just said flashed through my mind, and my thoughts began to race.
‘What is Laratina’s goal?
The survival of the cartel?
Her own luxurious life?’
But in terms of the immediate problem, what could be called Laratina’s goal was clear.
‘The academy, right?’
Whatever her ultimate goal was, it was obvious that what she wanted now was to get her hands on the academy.
In a way, it was so obvious that I couldn’t help but miss it.
I quickly raised my tentacles and stroked Fina’s head with them, as if I had found a small fragment of a clue that had been torn apart because I was trying to draw too big a picture.
“Ah…!! Ugh!! Ahnnn!!
My body… is still hot…
You can’t stroke me……♡”
After finally dealing with Fina, who was once again drawn to the tentacles with glazed eyes, I was able to free myself from that time of pure desire.
Then, as I began to have time to think purely, I began to follow Laratina’s train of thought, racking my brain.
‘Vivian said that the academy’s current problem is that it doesn’t have money.
Laratina is trying to exploit that point and exert influence over the academy.
If the academy is to survive without Laratina’s help…
We need to find a source of money to replace Laratina, right?
Then…… Laratina will naturally try to block the academy’s source of money.
Why haven’t I been thinking about this until now……?’
If she was putting in this much effort, Laratina would struggle to achieve her goal, even if it meant pushing herself a little.
Of course, if influencing the academy was just one of her many plans, there was a possibility that she would give up on the academy without regret.
But if I could somehow interfere with what she was trying to do, it would make it easier for Vivian to move around.
Besides……
‘If I do it right, I might be able to tie them all up at once.’
The tentacles, expecting a big catch to be caught on the cast fishing rod, wriggled its body with pleasant imagination.
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