Master and Slaves

"Ugh! You bastard!!!"

Muriel drew her sword and charged at the giant mantis, trying to stab it.

But the giant mantis leaped backward, and Muriel, unable to stop, slammed into the iron grille with force.

"Guh!"

At that moment the giant mantis raised both arms.

"Muriel!"

I protected her by blocking one scythe with my sword and the other with my arm.

"Master!"

I scooped Muriel up from behind and fled out of the giant mantis’s range.

Tiria immediately rushed over and tried to roll up my clothes.

"It’s fine. I reinforced the fabric, so it’s harder than armor. More importantly, we have to deal with this thing quickly."

I looked across the iron grille.

Ilma was on the other side of the grille, exactly like the giant mantis.

We couldn’t know when Ilma would be attacked next.

"Stay here, Muriel."

"No, I...."

"I know how you feel... Once you calm down, help me."

I told Muriel that and immediately went to the edge of the iron grille.

Then I slammed the sword down on the lock with all my strength.

The lock broke and came off in one hit, but the sword snapped at the hilt.

The iron-grille door was starting to open.

The giant mantis rammed its body into the door; the iron grille burst open with a loud crash.

"Master!"

I turned toward Tiria’s voice and saw her throw the short dagger she was holding to me.

I caught it and faced the giant mantis with the short dagger drawn.

The giant mantis swung its right scythe down.

I blocked it with the short dagger.

Without a moment’s delay, the giant mantis’s left arm slashed toward my side.

I instantly leaped backward.

This was fine.

"Muriel, while you’re still here...."

"Nooooooooooo!!!"

Just as I tried to have Muriel rescue Ilma, Ilma’s scream echoed.

From the corner of my eye, I saw the giant centipede—the giant centipede that had been at the Rade Village ruins—attacking Ilma.

"Ilmaaaaa!!"

Muriel headed toward the iron-grille door, but the giant mantis retreated and blocked her.

"Get out of the wayeee!!"

Muriel tried to slash the giant mantis’s belly, but the giant mantis received her sword with its scythe.

However, the giant mantis was completely focused on Muriel and didn’t seem to notice me.

I circled around the giant mantis and stabbed my short dagger into its belly.

Immediately after, Muriel also swept the giant mantis in two with her sword, cutting it right through.

We immediately headed toward Ilma.

The sight was horrifying.

The giant centipede had wrapped its countless legs around Ilma and was mounted on her.

The countless legs were sinking into Ilma’s skin.

And from the giant centipede’s belly, a tube stretched toward Ilma’s secret place.

I held back the raging Muriel, approached quietly from behind, and stabbed the short dagger into the giant centipede’s head.

"Hiiiiii!!"

Ilma screamed.

I dropped the short dagger, immediately pulled the dying giant centipede off Ilma.

"Giiiiguuuuuu!!"

Ilma let out a scream that wasn’t even a scream.

The tube of the giant centipede slid out from Ilma’s urethra.

Its length was about 20 cm.

The tube was still writhing like a living creature.

And from it, several white round things kept spilling out.

These were... eggs...?

"Ilma!!"

Muriel ran to Ilma and hugged her tightly.

"Ah! Kuuh! Hah, hah, hah... O-Other... ma...ster...."

"Muriel, pick this girl up as she is."

"Yes, yes."

I scanned the surroundings to make sure there was no other danger, then tried to cut the chains binding Ilma with the short dagger.

"Ah... it’s no good... No... nooooo!!"

Ilma suddenly screamed.

I was startled and leaped back.

Muriel continued hugging Ilma.

"It’s... coming... it’s coming!!"

While Ilma strained, a white round thing larger than Ilma’s face spilled from between her legs from her vagina.

Then from her anus, several fist-sized eggs came out one after another.

"Nooooo!! Don’t look!!"

Even while Ilma screamed, more came out.

There was one large egg and about ten small ones.

"Hah, hah, hah, u... uuu..."

Ilma cried while Muriel hugged her.

"...Master, please crush all these eggs."

"Eh... ah, but...."

"Those are demonic beast eggs. Probably the large one is the giant mantis’s egg, and the small ones are the giant centipede’s eggs."

"This is...."

"So crush them."

"Ah, ah. Understood."

I picked up the sword Muriel had dropped and crushed the eggs.

A giant mantis, about three times the size of an ordinary one, crawled out while staggering.

I stabbed it with the sword.

The small eggs I stomped with my foot.

This time the ordinary-sized centipede spewed bodily fluids and became a flat pancake.

After that, I struggled to cut the chains with the short dagger.

A Water Jet would have cut them easily, but Muriel had warned me not to use magic.

When Muriel carried Ilma out of the iron grille and placed her on the cloak spread on the floor, I couldn’t help but feel pity.

It was really terrible.

Her body was falling apart. It was clear how badly she had been damaged.

She didn’t look like a teenage girl at all.

"Um... are you... the one called... Master...?"

Ilma looked up at me and asked.

When I saw Muriel, she quietly nodded.

"Ah. I am. I am Ilma’s Master."

"Ah... I see... please... save me... kill me...."

"What?!"

I was shocked.

But maybe it was only natural.

She had already lived through hell.

I... what should I do?

"Ilma, if you can be of use to Master, will you live?"

Muriel asked Ilma beside me with a motherly expression and voice.

"If I can be of use... I want to live..."

"That’s good. Then try to live as best you can."

Muriel stroked Ilma’s face while tears welled up and said that, then turned to me.

"Master, can you leave Ilma to me?"

Muriel asked me with a serious expression.

Of course there was no reason to refuse.

After all, Ilma was Muriel’s daughter.

"Ah, of course."

"Thank you. Um, there’s one more thing I’d like to ask."

"What?"

"Please give mana to this girl."

Muriel straightened her posture and prostrated herself in a request.

"That’s fine, but...."

"No! ...!!"

Cathy shouted at Muriel, interrupting my agreement.

Cathy’s voice was so loud that it echoed and I and Muriel both covered Cathy’s mouth.

Cathy herself was surprised and covered her own mouth.

Well, we had already made a lot of noise, so making a loud sound now was fine.

We pulled our hands away from Cathy’s mouth.

Cathy also pulled away, then sighed with relief.

"...Muriel-sama, didn’t you say it earlier? Right now Master has little mana, so he shouldn’t use it too much."

Cathy said, somewhat suppressing her voice.

"Yes, I did. But it will help Master later. It will make Master able to recover his mana easily. Master, please. I’ll accept any punishment..."

After Cathy explained, Muriel again bowed her head.

"Punishment is fine. I won’t ask the reason. I’ll trust Muriel. But isn’t it more important to heal these wounds? Also, the giant mantis egg might be inside Ilma’s bladder. If it’s not taken out...."

"To take out the giant mantis egg is better after Ilma’s stamina returns. It will take a lot of stamina. Also, if we heal with Master’s mana, it will be only about the wound on the giant mantis. This kind of injury can be left alone and will heal soon. The others... have become old scars, so Master couldn’t heal them even now. However, if we give Master mana for a long time, they will improve quite a bit. Both physically and mentally..."

She added that she couldn’t restore the missing limbs, but she added.

Missing limbs...

Wasn’t there a way to fix it with magic?

...For now, let’s follow what Muriel said.

"Understood. Then let’s do it."

I answered Muriel and confirmed with Ilma.

"Please..."

Hearing Ilma’s words, I looked at her abnormally large breasts.

My emblem was floating on them.

It was proof that Ilma had become my Dule.

Of course this was the first time I had met Ilma.

So why had she already become my Dule?

...I’d ask later.

More importantly...?

I placed my right hand on the first Dule mark on Ilma’s left breast and sent mana.

"Ga! Gii... gah! ...Guh... ah... aaaah... higii... hiiiiaaa!!!"

The first sound Ilma made was a painful groan.

Her throat was crushed and she was making a hoarse voice.

But it gradually turned into a voice of climax.

Her dark secret place overflowed with love juice, squirted, and milk dripped from the tip of her abnormally swollen breasts.

And she was moaning in a girl-like high voice.

Her face, which had looked dead from our view, lost that look and turned white and beautiful. Because of excitement, it was flushed red.

In an instant her face changed to a healthy teenage girl, and although her belly, which had been relaxed from giving birth, shrank a little, it tightened again.

But her abnormally large breasts, dark areola, thumb-sized erect nipple, middle-finger-sized clitoris, and the spread vagina and anus, and the arms and legs missing from the elbows and knees, remained unchanged.

"...Is it good enough now?"

Ilma’s body was convulsing and climaxing repeatedly, and she looked exhausted. There didn’t seem to be any more recovery, so I asked Muriel, but...

"Master, keep pouring mana into this child as is."

"Eh? But then she’ll keep orgasming..."

"Yes. That way her recovery will be faster, and above all, you can help her sooner."

"...I see. ...Understood."

I didn’t pull my hand back from Ilma.

"Aah... nnn! ...Hiiu!! ...Kuu! ...Aaaaah!! ...Higii... hiiiiaaa!!!"

Ilma arched her back and climaxed repeatedly while looking in pain.

I thought this might be too much, but since it was up to Muriel, I would leave it as is.

Ilma was Muriel’s child, so she wouldn’t harm Ilma.

And she was recovering, right?

Besides, her face looked extremely happy.

Now we couldn’t stay here forever.

"So, what now? I think it would be better to go back up first."

Ilma was already recovered and had achieved her purpose, so Muriel said we should return upstairs immediately.

"Yeah... but there might be other survivors. Let’s check around."

"...I see. Yeah. ...Muriel, can you carry Ilma?"

"That’s fine, but I’ll be unable to fight if I meet the enemy. It would be better to leave this to Cathy or Tiria..."

"No, leave Ilma to Muriel. Didn’t you say it earlier that you wanted to be entrusted with her?"

I said that to Muriel with a fufu laugh.

"That’s... yes, but...."

Muriel looked confused.

"Hehe, I got to meet my own daughter. I’ll hold her tight. Besides, I only have one sword left. I’ll use it."

I picked up the sword lying on the floor and gathered about three pieces of broken chair and table wood from around the room.

"Cathy, please cast a light spell on these."

"Ah, yes. Understood."

When Cathy cast the light spell, the wooden pieces began to glow pale blue.

Cathy handed one glowing piece to Cathy and one to Tiria.

"Now each of you has a light."

The three Dules excluding Ilma nodded.

"Good. Then I’ll lead from the front this time. Muriel, please tell me the direction to go. Cathy, you’re in the rear. Tiria, you’re in the back—leave it to you."