That Left
Kara had built a shelter on a hill away from the slime castle and was observing the entrance to the castle from there.
Although it could be called a shelter, it was a very simple one, with only wooden support poles and a thin cloth curtain that seemed to be useful only as a sunshade.
Underneath, there was a simple table, also made of wood, on which the remaining [Valhari's Blessed Water] was laid out.
There aren't many.
...That fact weighed heavily on Kara's shoulders.
(I want to go help Maria, but this...)
She was able to rescue the captive goddess Fasalina, the new black-haired female hero, and the saint Jenna, using most of the blessed water that was left over from the attack on the basement of the slime castle.
She thinks it was a necessary use…… but.
(Maria, are you okay...?)
Kara had always been worried about that.
Mariabelle, the female hero, heads alone to stop the humanoid.
The opponent is a mutant monster in the shape of a human.
No matter how great a hero Mariabelle is, it is still dangerous.
But now that the number of [Valhari's Blessed Waters] has decreased, she can't go to help her.
(It will slow us down....... Besides, if we think about retreat, we have to leave her behind....... but.)
Still, she's worried.
Kara, praying for Mariabelle's victory, crushes the aphrodisiac suppressant she had brought with her on the table.
"Here. It should make you feel a little better."
"Thank you, Kara-dono."
Kara handed the crushed suppressant wrapped in a thin sheet of paper to the female beastwoman warrior, the fox-eared Julia, who exhaled slowly and looked behind her.
Lying there was a surprisingly... no, frighteningly beautiful priestess and a woman with the same black hair as Mariabelle.
Anri, the raccoon-eared beastwoman, wipes the sweat from their foreheads with a clean cloth as they continue to have small convulsions even though they are unconscious from the excitement of the aphrodisiac.
A little further away are Jenna, Fornelis, and Leticia. Meltia and the rescued women were also lying down.
All of them are women trapped in mucus and rendered powerless by an aphrodisiac.
"It's fortunate that there were no injuries, but... the poison is troublesome after all."
Even though everyone else was unconscious, they were writhing in agony and breathing sweetly over and over again. If there was a man here, they would probably get unnecessarily excited.
Even if they are of the same sex, they may become concerned and look at someone inappropriately.
Especially…….
"I heard that she is borrowing a human body...... but is this priestess a reincarnation of the goddess or something?"
"I don't know... haha."
Julia, who has golden fox ears and a tail, laughs with an ambiguous expression at Kara's lighthearted remark, which can be taken as a joke.
It's only natural that she would say so.
Even Leticia and Jenna are surprisingly beautiful, but Fasalina... Angelica, who lends her body to the goddess, is even more beautiful than those two.
Divine beauty.
Is it because the goddess dwells within?
Kara was surprised by its beauty, which made her feel a kind of sacredness that made it hard to believe that it was a living thing.
"Not only the new hero from the other world, but also the goddess... what's going on?"
(Is that human-shaped slime that dangerous? Or...)
After thinking that far, Kara's line of sight turned from the unconscious and writhing goddess to the entrance of the castle.
From the entrance of the castle, there were probably hundreds of women, but at a glance, it was impossible to count the number of women being carried out.
All of them were either half-naked or completely naked, and were so exhausted that they were unable to walk on their own.
The beastwomen of Grabalt and the priestess of Lishlua lend their shoulders to carry them out, and the elf knights protect them.
"...What was that...?"
Kara, who was preparing a suppressant to weaken the aphrodisiac's effect outside the slime castle, muttered as she looked at them from the side.
A slime that tried to kill her.
――Until now, the slime had captured women in order to [violate them and made them give birth] and was now trying to kill them.
It's clearly different from previous slimes...
"Are you alright? You seem to have been thinking a lot since a while ago."
Everyone avoided talking to Kara, who had a difficult look on her face, but Fenelieka was the only one who didn't read the mood and spoke up.
But that was a blessing for Kara.
Smiling bitterly, she turned towards the direction of the voice.
"It's about the slime from earlier. Even though it tried to kill me, it ignored me and disappeared after that..."
"Ah, that thing."
The red-haired demon Fenelieka descends from the sky, her elegant dress fluttering.
Setting up a shelter on a high ground and looking from a high place were all done to check for the [new slime] that had been born underground but had disappeared after ignoring them.
There are multiple entrances and exits, and personnel are stationed on the sides and back to monitor the surroundings. It would have been suicidal to divide the troops based on their current strength, but it couldn't be helped.
"That slime is abnormal. It's different from anything we've seen before."
A slime born from the goddess Fasalina.
Both Kara and Fenelieka thought that slimes born to women would have almost the same appearance and way of thinking, even if there was a slight difference in their abilities.
In fact, the slimes produced by Queen Leticia, Saint Jenna, and the excellent elf knights are almost the same.
They only use superior magic or have a slight resistance to the miracles of the goddess. Although powerful and troublesome, the difference in ability was not so great.
But.
"It was the same humanoid slime we were chasing."
"Is it the same? The humanoid slime we were chasing didn't try to kill women."
Well, they were violated to the point that they almost died―― Fenelieka muttered in a low voice while looking at Meltia who was being treated.
It reminded her of the time she was attacked in an abandoned mine north of Fonteau.
A human-shaped slime.
I didn't kill women. For it, women are tools for giving birth to children.
"I have one question... why did it ignore us?"
Kara is thinking about what happened underground in the slime castle.
It was a human-shaped slime that attacked Kara and the others right after it was born, but it showed no interest in Kara and the others and left the place as if ignoring them.
They don't know what happened after that.
However, when they heard from the people who were watching over the entrance to the castle apart from Kara and the other liberation troops who headed underground, they said that no one but them had come out yet.
If so, that means it is still inside the castle.
"Well, that's―― because we're not worth killing?"
"…Wouldn’t it make you sad if you said it yourself?"
"Not really. Since I survived, I'm happier that way."
Hearing Fenelieka's words, Kara felt as if her shoulders had been lifted lightly.
The power drains from her expression, so much so that even she can tell it is true.
...That's how scary it was. It was terrifying.
She thought it was abnormal.
It's abnormally dangerous. Human instincts were sounding alarm bells...... just by standing in front of that thing.
"My hands are still shaking just thinking about it."
"Yeah――"
Kara didn't lie to Fenelieka. She didn't even try to fix herself.
She speaks her true feelings because if she doesn't, she'll be overwhelmed with anxiety.
(Maria……)
If it were true, this would have happened much earlier.
The humanoid attacked women and increased in number, and the slimes began to imitate the appearance of other monsters.
Their number may be equal to, or even larger than, humans.
It was natural to feel anxious in a situation where there was no hope in sight――but the presence of the hero Mariabelle had given her hope.
As long as Mariabelle is here, they can win someday.
She has to work hard to reward Mariabelle's hard work.
...Now that she thought about it, she had no choice but to move forward without worrying about it.
However, there was a fear that seemed to be mocking her efforts.
A fear that can only be understood by those who have faced it or seen it.
"Fasalina-sama... it doesn't seem like she's waking up yet."
Kara said this while looking at the terrifyingly beautiful woman who was writhing in agony, and who was easily able to climax just by taking the suppressant.
Fenelieka agrees.
"Yeah, I guess she was severely humiliated. Even though she's unconscious, she can't stop convulsing... It seems like the other black-haired hero is the same way."
"Maybe aphrodisiac suppressants aren’t very effective either…”
"Meltia and the others too."
In a far away place, she saw her companions either unconscious or having no control over their orgasms, even if they somehow regained consciousness.
(Maybe the aphrodisiac effect is getting stronger again...)
"Maybe we need to make the suppressant more effective?"
Aphrodisiacs were originally drugs developed by Kara.
A drug used to arouse the women created for fun at the request of the lecherous priests of Lishlua.
Originally, the effect was so high that it was addictive, and just as she was trying to dilute its effect, it was absorbed by the slime, but the humanoid further enhanced the effects of the addictive aphrodisiac and turned it into a magical drug. It has turned into something that drives women's bodies crazy.
Even though it is still effective enough, the slime is reforming the aphrodisiac with each encounter, making it more and more potent.
(To what extent... should they make fun of women?)
Unwanted pleasure and one-sided climax.
There is no love or affection, just an act of rape to get a child born.
It was an act that could only be seen as making fun of and insulting women―― one of the reasons for this was the drugs she had made, and what's more, this time its evil hands had extended to the goddess and the hero from another world. That's why Kara feels heavy.
"This too... Is our hero okay?"
While Kara was worrying about the aphrodisiac, Fenelieka asked her what the brown-haired female scientist was most worried about.
No, she thinks this was originally her purpose in asking this.
...Kara lets out a sigh and taps the rest of the [Valhari's Blessed Water] on the desk with her fingers.
"With this amount, it's impossible to support Maria. I think what we can do now is save people from underground while she buys us time."
"Yeah……"
However, Fenelieka felt that Kara was the one who couldn't accept those words more than anyone else.
She soars into the sky again, swaying in her elegant red dress, not caring that her flashy red underwear is visible.
There was only one thing to look for.
That strange slime―― a slime that kills women born from the goddess.
(Why did it try to kill Kara?)
There is something that has been bothering her for a long time.
Why do slimes increase their numbers by violating women?
Why did that slime try to kill a woman?
It may be a trivial question, but Fenelieka was very curious.
The Demon King was defeated by Mariabelle's father, a hero from another world, and the number of Fenelieka and other demons no longer increased.
It is the providence of living things.
If there is no longer a Demon King who gives birth to monsters, it makes sense that the monsters will perish.
She thought that was natural, but...
(What on earth is a slime that gives birth to monsters...?)
Is it just a monster? Or should she call it the Demon King?
However, for Fenelieka and other demons, the Demon King is the enemy of humanity.
They are creatures that kill men and women regardless, and slimes are a little different... but.
(Demon King, huh?)
She remembers the human-shaped slime that was just born underground.
(I don't like the idea of that thing being the Demon King......)
After all, it's slime.
Fenelieka thought that she didn't want to honor such a thing as the Demon King.
...Well, what can I say?
It's comfortable. This place.
She says stupid things next to a hero, makes fun of her sister, and is warned by a brown-haired scientist.
She likes that kind of life in its own way.
So Fenelieka wished with all her heart as she looked down on the slime castle from the sky.
"Win, Mariabelle."
――But.
"Ah"
Her eyes caught something.
It's a human-shaped slime.
When it got out from a different place from the knights who were rescuing the women from underground, it continued toward the forest without stopping.
...No, it stopped.
After a few seconds, it looked up at the sky.
“――――――――”
Shudder*.
Fenelieka felt as if her heart was being gripped with fear, and a sticky, greasy sweat appeared all over her body.
The slime was looking at Fenelieka.
...There was a [face] there.
Two eyes, a nose, a mouth, and ears.
The slime monster is trying to imitate the human form.
It's not just the limbs. This time, it's that expression.
The moment Fenelieka saw that, she let out a convulsive scream, even though she was far away in the air.
"W-what is that...?"
That question is natural.
The slime gets a face. That alone is impossible, but as she watches it, it becomes more and more human-like.
The almost black-gray mucus becomes skin-colored.
The eyes and teeth are white, and the inside of the mouth is pale pink.
Blood vessels and bones begin to form within the mucus, and when covered with muscle, the skin color hides the outer skin.
In the blink of an eye, a [human] was created before Fenelieka's eyes.
A blonde man.
Fenelieka doesn't know, but some adventurers probably recognize the man's face.
Alfred.
The slime, Black Ooze, the [first mage it ate].
When that something, which was in human form, changed into human form, a beautiful blonde hair was created.
A naked man―― the next thing it created was a slime suit.
To be exact, the skin changed into the shape of the clothes.
"K-Kara..."
Fenelieka called out the name of her companion, but it did not reach her on the ground.
...In front of Fenelieka, that something, in the shape of Alfred, smiled and disappeared into the forest.
However, its smile looked like a [doll forced to smile] and was simply terrifying. One could even say it's horrifying.
However.
The slime finally got it.
The slime had acquired a human form and expression.
And in its hand was a sword.
A sword blessed by the goddess that a hero should possess, and which Fenelieka is well aware of. Holy sword.
Of course.
In a sense, that something, which was born from the goddess Fasalina, has inherited Fasalina's power more purely than the humanoid and the heroes, Mariabelle and the new hero Akane Shinomiya.
...It makes sense that if something like that were to grasp it, the holy sword would demonstrate more power than ever before.
"Kara..."
All she could do was watch it change into a human form and leave with the holy sword in its hand.
...And finally, after its figure was hidden behind the trees of the forest, Fenelieka spoke again.
However, she has no strength.
It doesn't reach the ground.
Those eyes were no longer looking at the slime castle.
She had no time to worry about the female hero Mariabelle.
“Kara!!!!!”
A strained voice echoed in the air, unlike Fenelieka, who was always carefree and had a somewhat relaxed feeling.
Ahead of her gaze, the forest was moving.
The trees are shaking, the dust is rising, and although she can't see it, she can definitely feel that there are countless beings moving beneath the forest.
――No, all the monster-shaped slimes that were in the forest are gathered around Alfred-shaped slime...
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