Chapter 40
After finishing my meal, I asked them to clear the table and figured out the two women’s menstrual cycles.
“Karen’s is twenty-seven days, and Isti’s is nineteen.”
The fertile period lasts an average of four to five days before and after ovulation.
Menstrual periods vary from person to person, but roughly speaking, having sex during the period when the two women’s fertile windows overlap should increase the chances of pregnancy.
Being elves shouldn’t make any difference.
“Today is the sixth, right?”
Isti nodded.
“Yes. I can get pregnant now.”
“Karen has to wait a few more days. There isn’t much of a difference, though.”
“I don’t really understand what you’re talking about….”
“I’m trying to figure out which days you’re most likely to get pregnant.”
“D-Do we really have to go that far?”
“Then how did you think it worked?”
“I thought we just had to keep doing it….”
That wasn’t exactly wrong, either.
There was also a claim that because sex stimulated hormonal changes in women, couples who had sex regularly were more likely to conceive.
In the modern world, there were so many things to prepare before having a child that I never had the chance to verify it myself, but it probably had some basis in fact.
In the end, what mattered was how consistently and how often we did it.
I wanted to cling to them with the determination of a stud horse.
My enthusiasm was blazing.
“I intend to do it until you have no choice but to get pregnant anyway.”
“…….”
Karen swallowed nervously.
“I need to prepare myself mentally. I also need to bring some clothes to change into. Um….”
“You can prepare at the castle. There’s no need to wait until tomorrow. Let’s go right now.”
I moved to the Water and Grass Inn.
The inn was bustling with quite a few guests.
“Anais. The room we always use.”
“Yes, understood. There are three of you, correct?”
When the guests’ gazes turned toward them, Karen flinched and lowered her head.
“Don’t worry if we don’t come out of the room for a few days.”
“Ah….”
Anais’s cheeks flushed, apparently having misunderstood my words.
Even the guests began to murmur.
“Did you hear that?”
“…That’s incredible.”
Karen fanned herself as though heat were radiating from her body, then subtly pressed herself against my arm.
I slipped my hand beneath Karen’s armpit and seized her breast.
“Here is your room key. I hope you have a pleasant time….”
Isti accepted the key in my place.
Leaving Anais’s farewell behind, we headed as always to Room 3 on the second floor.
A cramped, worn-out room for three people. A hard bed.
But it didn’t matter. I immediately took out the Great King Eight-Colored Clam and set it on the floor.
“This is from the Sin Wolf incident….”
Karen’s eyes widened as though she recognized it.
“It’s a clam that connects to another world. Hold on tight. If you make a mistake, you’ll be flung somewhere you don’t even know.”
When I tried to frighten her, Karen clung tightly to my body.
“…….”
Isti knew I was joking, but she pretended not to and clung to me as well.
Taking the two of them with me, I moved to the central hall on the first floor of the Eight-Colored Clam Castle.
It was the first place I had seen when I came to the castle, and the room where the throne stood.
“Wow….”
Karen was unable to close her mouth, letting out a deeply impressed gasp.
“Welcome, Master. There’s one more now?”
Bella was sitting on the throne with an air of superiority.
Look at that posture. Anyone would think she was the master.
“Bella, get down on all fours and crawl like a dog. Begin.”
“Eek!?”
Bella flopped down on the floor.
I sat on her slender waist.
“Ugh, get off…!”
“You were acting up, so I figured you wanted to be punished again. Karen, say hello. This is Bella, my slave.”
“Hello.”
Karen politely greeted Bella, who had become my chair.
“Aren’t you going to return her greeting?”
“How am I supposed to greet anyone looking like this?”
She had a point.
I sat on the throne and placed Bella on my lap.
Despite displaying every possible complaint through her expression, the way she adjusted herself so she could sit comfortably on my thigh was rather adorable.
“Now that I look at you two, your hair colors are similar.”
“Th-That’s… You flatter me. She’s much more… beautiful and pretty.”
Karen wore an awkward smile and fidgeted with her hair.
Really? They didn’t look all that different to me.
Bella gave a derisive snort as though it were only natural.
“You have a discerning eye. Karen, was it? Your vulgar figure is also quite excellent. You’re perfectly suited to be Master’s cock sleeve.”
“C-Cock sleeve….”
When Karen stiffened as though she had been struck by a shock, Bella turned to me and spoke.
“Master. You haven’t done it yet?”
“That’s right. Karen is a party member. You call that a compliment?”
“Oh. I assumed you had already done it since you brought her to the castle. I was even inwardly tense because I thought I had gained a strong rival.”
Karen placed a hand on her chest and spoke proudly.
“I’m not that kind of person. I’m Oppa’s companion.
I came to this castle for special training so that I can defeat the Lich and become a candidate to be a hero.”
“Special training? What kind of special training?”
“I’m going to have pregnancy sex with Oppa with all my strength!”
“Ahh….”
Bella wore a knowing, suggestive smile.
“I see. Sorry about calling you a cock sleeve. That was a slip of the tongue.”
“You apologized, so it’s all right.”
I sat Bella on the armrest of the throne and stood up.
“Bella. It’s true that we came here for special training. Isti will be our teacher for a week. Do you know of anywhere suitable?”
“Somewhere suitable? There is a training ground indoors. Shall I show you?”
“Indoors won’t do.”
Isti spoke up.
“We need a wind spirit to support the two of them during their training, but a spirit’s power weakens indoors.”
Ah, then it would be better to do it outside.
Bella thought briefly before speaking.
“Then how about behind the castle? There’s a vacant lot that should be perfect.”
“Darling. Can we go ahead and take a look?”
“Take Karen with you. I’ll talk to Bella for a bit before coming.”
“Okay.”
Isti and Karen left the castle, leaving me alone with Bella.
“So that girl is still being educated?”
“That’s one way of putting it.”
“Master. Are you planning to build a harem in the Eight-Colored Clam Castle?”
“Maybe I am. There’s plenty of space here, and with a few improvements, I think we could even raise children here.”
“Gathering women you like as though they were a collection and getting them pregnant, too. Ugh. What an unpleasant hobby.”
She said that, but Bella’s eyes gleamed lewdly, as if she were expecting something from me.
Of course, I knew exactly what Bella wanted.
“What kind of attitude is that toward your master? Do you want to be punished?”
“That’s my charm…. Do you have a problem with it?”
I gave Bella’s buttocks a sharp smack.
“Ah♥”
“The fact that you actually want to be punished is part of your charm, too.”
“That’s supposed to be a secret.”
“What kind of secret is that when it’s so obvious?”
I smacked Bella’s buttocks again.
Smack. Bella pressed her lips tightly together and squeezed her eyes shut.
“What happened to what I asked you before? Tell me in detail about the castle.”
Bella was even catching her breath after being struck on the buttocks only twice.
“I knew you’d ask, so I selected some candidates for administrators. Look.”
At Bella’s gesture, a translucent screen like a status menu appeared before my eyes.
The screen displayed a series of portraits, each accompanied by a brief summary of personal information and special skills.
Were these the people Bella had selected? At a glance, they were all capable, handsome men.
“Why are they all men?”
Bella asked in return, seeming to find my question strange.
“Physical strength is essential for managing such a large castle.”
“I’ve just come up with the first rule of this castle.”
I dismissed the screen and spoke.
“There are to be no men in this castle besides me.”
Bella stared at me and spoke.
“Master. You’re seriously unpleasant.”
“Bella. Do you want to get uppity?”
When I raised my hand to smack her buttocks, Bella’s face relaxed into an expectant, foolish grin.
I sighed at the sight.
“Good grief. A slave who provokes her master because she wants to be punished.”
“I-I’ve never done that.”
I clenched my fist and struck Bella hard in the stomach.
“Ugh!”
Bella collapsed on the spot.
I seized Bella by the hair and forced her to raise her head, then slapped her across the cheek with my palm.
“Eek!”
“Do you want to get uppity?”
“I-I’m sorry, Master.”
“You lied, didn’t you?”
“Yes. I did it because I wanted to be punished.”
“We came here for the two of them today. I’m thinking about things like how to prepare meals and how to handle the cleaning.
You’ll help me, won’t you?”
Bella nodded rapidly.
“This world is a fragment of a world torn apart when two Rank 1 gods fought. I received it as spoils of war, and then I built the residential castle.”
Once I awakened her slave nature, the conversation proceeded smoothly. I should have hit her sooner.
“And?”
“I brought over whatever was needed using dimensional magic. Since it has a function that resets the surrounding environment, there’s no need for cleaning.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
So that was why it was always clean whenever I came here.
“It’s a hassle to leave every time we want to eat, so I’d like to take care of our meals here. How do we do that?”
“I’ll procure the ingredients.”
“Can you cook, too?”
Bella shook her head.
“You said you were a woman capable of handling anything, whether as a slave or a goddess. I’m a little disappointed.”
Bella said indignantly.
“I can do it! Something like that is easy to learn if you just follow the recipes.”
I slapped Bella across the cheek.
“Ngh! …I can do it. Just leave it to me, and I’ll do my best.”
Bella’s expression was gradually changing into that of a horny bitch.
“Good. You’ll be in charge of preparing meals for four people—breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You’ll help out, right?”
“Yes.”
“Get up.”
Should I just make Bella the caretaker?
No. If I looked around, I was sure I could find someone more suitable. Making her the caretaker would defeat the purpose of turning her into a pussy slave.
“Master. About what you hit just now…”
“What? You’re thinking of arguing, even though you’re only a slave?”
Bella pleaded with me, biting down on the slit of her dress and leaving her lower body completely exposed.
“P-Please hit me just one more time♥ My body is that of a goddess, so it’s sturdy.”
“……”
It seemed I had somehow given her a strange habit.
I wasn’t particularly inclined to do whatever a slave told me, but this did seem like it might be fun.
I swung my fist at Bella’s lower abdomen.
Thwack!
“Nghk!”
I struck her hard enough to make her lower body jerk.
Bella hunched her shoulders and clutched her stomach.
“When you take a pose like that, it makes me feel guilty for no reason. Stand up straight.”
“Hngh, uugh.”
“You know the peace sign, right? Make a V with your fingers and hold it out.”
“Yes.”
Thwack!
Bella raised her hand in a peace sign, then bent forward after taking another blow to the stomach.
“Agh! Hitting my baby room is dangerous…”
“You’re so sloppy, sticking out your tongue and drooling. This isn’t a punishment for you—it’s a reward, isn’t it?”
“I’ll work hard for you, Master. Please hit my womb again next time.”
“If I feel like it.”
I tossed out the brief reply and left the castle.
After passing along the coast and circling around behind the castle, I found a neat, open field just as Bella had said.
Karen spotted us and waved.
That red hair and those huge tits really stand out, even from a distance.
“Isti, have you started the lesson?”
“I was going to start when Darling arrived. It’s a really wonderful place, better than I expected. The weather is nice, and the breeze is refreshing.”
“I see.”
Just as Isti had said, a cool sea breeze blew pleasantly against us.
It felt like I had come to a vacation resort.
According to Bella, this place was a fragment of the torn world. So there probably wasn’t anything beyond the end of that sea, right?
“Darling. Are you ready?”
“We can start whenever.”
“What about Karen?”
“I’m ready!”
“I’ll demonstrate first. Watch carefully.”
I focused on Isti’s movements.
I was confident, since I had managed to catch glimpses of Isti’s movements in the black forest, even if only for a moment.
I felt sorry for Karen, but I was the goddess’s representative. My circumstances were different from everyone else’s.
“Did you see that?”
Huh?
She had definitely been right in front of me, but when I came to my senses, Isti was standing about ten meters away.
“When did you get over there?”
“I leaped.”
Isti vanished again.
She disappeared so completely that it was almost unbelievable. There wasn’t even the slightest preparatory movement, like bending her body or kicking off the ground.
Isti reappeared some distance away, then walked back toward us as she spoke.
“To use 〈Spatial Leap〉, you first need a wind spirit. I’ll share one with Karen, too.”
“O-Okay!”
“Feel it. It should have gone over there.”
“There’s wind blowing around my body.”
“If you become strongly aware of the spirit, you can alter the flow of the air or make it obey the wind.
But that alone isn’t enough to use 〈Spatial Leap〉.”
While Karen communed with the spirit in wonder, Isti closed her eyes as if concentrating.
“Isti?”
Suddenly, I felt as though my body were floating lightly.
The space around us twisted sharply, and by the time I came to my senses, I had already moved as though the space itself had folded.
It wasn’t even five meters away, but it was an incredibly fresh experience.
“You need to learn the sensation you just felt. 〈Spatial Leap〉 is a skill that requires you to synchronize with the spirit. You need eyes capable of seeing the path the spirit guides you along.”
“Eyes?”
“You can’t synchronize with it if you can’t distinguish the leap points created by the spirit.”
This was more daunting than I had expected…
“I’ll help with my spirit so the two of you can grasp it more quickly. First, close your eyes and start by feeling the spirit’s outline with your body.”
“Okay, Isti!”
Karen answered energetically.
I would make a reasonable effort, too. I pictured the spirit’s movements in my mind and followed Isti’s gaze.
And so we stood there without exchanging a single word, focusing only on the flow of the air.
…After doing that for two hours, I was bored enough to want to die.
When I glanced to the side, Karen was still concentrating on the spirit’s movements with her eyes closed.
“……”
I fidgeted pointlessly like a student unable to concentrate on class, until I met Isti’s eyes.
Perhaps she didn’t want to disturb Karen’s concentration, because Isti remained silent.
I walked over slowly without making a sound and wrapped my arms around Isti’s body from behind.