Homunculus (1)

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I slowly opened my eyes in the heavy, suffocating darkness that felt like my chest was sinking.

‘Where… is this… a laboratory… what… I, I can’t speak…!?’

The scene unfolding before my eyes was too vivid and ominous to be a dream.

Large glass tubes were lined up around me, densely packed with pipes leading somewhere.

Inside them was a strange, glowing green liquid… and I, naked, was also submerged in the liquid, connected to the tubes.

I couldn’t understand why I was here or how I had gotten here.

The last memory I had was… yes, after being attacked by Francesca’s wing attack.

Then, I froze in shock.

Looking around again, I noticed dolls that looked exactly like me scattered around. All of them had their eyes closed, or their joints were twisted in impossible directions, collapsed powerlessly.

‘The same as me… what are all these…’

I blinked, trying to understand the situation, but my head was just spinning.

Just then, I saw two people standing beyond the glass tubes.

‘That face… Father?’

A very familiar face, one I could never forget, my precious Father. He looked haggard, holding a Carte with a tired expression, and next to him stood a woman with blue hair and goat horns.

‘That person is Headmaster Beatrice?’

The woman was the headmaster of the academy and a master of Creation Studies, Headmaster Beatrice Yellin Plie.

She stood next to Father with a calm, expressionless face.

“##@@##@!!”

I wanted to make a sound, but my throat was blocked, and no sound came out, and I couldn’t move my body at all.

I could only blink and watch their conversation.

Father was quietly muttering and looking at the Carte with a face deeply etched with fatigue.

The static made it difficult to understand the details of the conversation, but the words I could occasionally hear only made me more bewildered.

“The last test subject… is…”

Father looked at me, bound, and said those words clearly, and the words ‘wife’s remains’ also faintly passed by.

‘Wife’s remains… the last test subject…’

Confusion swirled in my mind, and I couldn’t understand the correlation between the two phrases at all.

“This is the last test subject. There won’t be any more chances…”

And this time, Father’s words came to me clearly enough for me to hear.

‘No more chances…?’

“Success always comes with failure, Professor Patient.”

Headmaster Beatrice nodded with a sleepy expression, continuing with a mechanically expressionless face.

It was a worried remark, but it was a dry encouragement that didn’t seem to contain any emotion.

Hearing those words, Father quietly put a cigarette in his mouth and lit it.

‘Father is smoking…!?’

It was very strange to see Father, who usually didn’t smoke and even hated it, smoking.

Watching him, my lips trembled, and I wanted to say something, but… still, no words came out.

“Haa… why are you helping me this much? Headmaster.”

After exhaling smoke carelessly, Father asked Headmaster Beatrice calmly.

Looking closely, Father’s eyes were filled with pain and fatigue, and it seemed that the despair and anguish he was feeling were evident.

“It’s not pleasant to see my student lose the will to live because he’s in distress.”

Headmaster Beatrice shrugged slightly with an indifferent expression.

“That’s a ridiculous thing to say. You, the most evil person in the academy, are doing this good deed out of personal feelings… you must have some ulterior motive.”

“Think what you want. I just want you to know that at least my words are sincere.”

“Yeah, right… By the way, you know this is the last experiment, right, Headmaster Beatrice? There are no more of my wife’s remains left.”

Father nonchalantly dropped the cigarette he was smoking, roughly stomped it out with his shoe, and said to Headmaster Beatrice.

“It’s okay. This Homunculus’s body used the brain, so it should be successful this time. However… I need one ingredient that only comes from the Empire.”

“An ingredient…? You’re saying that even after pouring in so many precious ingredients, you still need something else?”

Father frowned slightly and complained.

“It’s a jewel managed by the Imperial Family. It has the role of replicating and regenerating the memories of the dead. Usually, because of its beautiful appearance, small ones are often used for wedding rings… but the Imperial Family strictly manages the large jewels used for replication.”

“So… you’re saying I have to get that jewel?”

“No. You don’t have to. I’ve already finished the contract. You just have to go and meet the Emperor of the Empire. I’ll tell you the contract conditions and details later.”

I became even more confused as I listened to the conversation.

‘Replicating the memories of the dead…? What are these two talking about?’

Father sighed, looked at Headmaster Beatrice, and took out another cigarette from his pocket.

“Haa… how did you make such a contract while I was away…?”

As Father questioned, Headmaster Beatrice answered with an expressionless face.

“Even if I hadn’t said anything, you would have accepted the contract immediately anyway. Wouldn’t you?”

“Haa… yes, well, I guess so. Because my pledge was to do anything for my wife… for my daughter.”

Father lit another cigarette, looked at the air, and exhaled smoke…

He seemed to be in great sorrow, so much so that he looked like a different person from the Father I had seen so far.

“Hmm… wasn’t tobacco the culprit that killed your wife? You seem to be smoking quite often since the Homunculus experiment.”

“When my daughter is born… haa… I’ll quit. I can’t let my daughter smell the strong smell of tobacco.”

Father quickly inhaled the smoke, dropped the cigarette butt again, put it out, and then took another one out of his pocket.

“Then, Patient. What are you going to do if this experiment fails too?”

Headmaster Beatrice casually asked Father. Father… was silent for a moment before slowly lowering his head.

“If there’s no other way then, I will follow her without hesitation.”

The headmaster raised her eyebrows slightly and tilted her head.

“I might be saying something rude to you… but I don’t understand it well. Is it necessary to go that far with such a short relationship?”

Father raised his lowered head and smiled faintly.

“You, a Demonkin, wouldn’t properly understand human love. To me, that short time was like an eternity of joy. An unforgettable… happiness…”

‘An eternity of joy… a story about Mother…? But Homunculus, test subject…’

An unfamiliar and poignant emotion stirred in my heart. But then, the words I heard in this conversation came to my mind.

Homunculus… the name of an artificial life form that only the pinnacle of alchemists can create.

I don’t know the exact ingredients because Father locked up the data… but?

Locked up? Uh, wait…?

“Then I should prepare to head to the Empire right away. I have to move this facility too…”

With those words, Father turned to leave.

My body still didn’t move, and I could only watch the two of them through my heavy eyelids.

“Wait a moment.”

“What is it… I’m busy. Make it quick, Headmaster.”

Headmaster Beatrice stopped Father once more… and said something.

“What are you going to do with the failed Homunculi? If you allow me, I can take care of them.”

Father answered briefly without looking back.

“Do as you please. A failure is just a failure… my daughter hasn’t been born yet… there doesn’t need to be two of my daughters in one world. And… you would have used them without my permission anyway, right?”

“I was still going to get permission beforehand. Wouldn’t it be rude to you… and Arc Derilla?”

“Thank you for the thought. Then I’ll be going now.”

‘My daughter hasn’t been born yet… there doesn’t need to be two of my daughters in one world…?’

Father didn’t say anything more and quietly left.

I also watched his departing figure and was trapped in silence.

While chewing over the various words Father was saying… feeling only the remaining words echoing like a reverberation…

Once again, as all my senses became dreamlike and blurred… I…

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『Martyr’s Moon – 12th Day (Morning)』

【Empire Invasion – Day 2】

“Hah……!?”

As soon as I opened my eyes, my whole body trembled from the biting cold.

“Wh, where is this…… the sky…?”

After a moment, I realized that I was in the air. In a situation where I was being held by someone in the sky and gliding around the ramparts…

[You’re awake, Captain? Hehe♥]

I raised my head to follow the voice, and the identity was… none other than Francesca.

Yes… I remember now. I briefly lost consciousness from the sweet Scent that Francesca gave off as she approached…

“Ugh… it’s hot and smells…! Where are you carrying me…!?”

[What else could it be? Can’t you tell by looking? It’s a Dick♥ An Enormous Cock covered in my smelly Cock cheese♥ I can’t carry a human unless I do this♥]

When I checked to see that my butt was lifted up by something hot and soft, there was Francesca’s dark black genitals.

She was now… carrying me on her erect genitals, hugging me tightly with her voluptuous breasts, and flying through the sky.

“What… what are you doing! Put me down right now!”

Surprised by the sudden situation, I desperately resisted and shouted… but.

Her strength was so strong that I couldn’t even struggle because she was holding me tightly with her arms crossed.

[Why? Did you have a bad dream, Captain? Hehe♥ Sometimes a child who wakes up from a nightmare does this♥]

“Ugh… th, that’s…!”

Francesca scoffed leisurely and retorted.

I couldn’t help but pause at those words.

Because the dreamlike scene I had just experienced seemed to be deeply related to Father… and seemed to imply something about my identity.

The fact that I was actually an artificial life form created by Father. It was so vivid that it was difficult to see it as a nightmare or an illusion cast by Francesca.

“Stop saying strange things… put me down right now! Do you even know how many people have been invested in the ramparts? If they know I’m gone… they’ll report it right away…”

I shouted firmly, but I suddenly remembered what I had said about the situation of the ramparts.

Francesca laughed at me and said exactly what I was thinking.

[Didn’t you send all those people down to rest? Right now, those guys and the rampart guards are intoxicated with the medicine and tobacco we brought in♥ It was diluted for humans, but it’s very potent because it’s made with Slave Succubus’s bodily fluids♥ No one will know what’s happening to you here]

Hearing those words, I could only move my lips and couldn’t say anything.

I felt like I had been cornered by my own instructions…

I barely swallowed and managed to say to Francesca.

“Perhaps… perhaps I… remember that day… are you trying to take revenge for not being able to help your tribe and detaining them? To that end, you’re…”

But Francesca chuckled at my words and said. Her golden eyes pierced through me…

[That incident has long faded from my memory. The reason I’m doing this is to make you a Servant of the Goddess like me♥ Let’s become Slaves of the Goddess and destroy this Empire together♥]

“Ugh…!?”

–Bureut♥

At that moment, Francesca’s genitals, which I was riding on, twitched, and I felt a hot sensation on my back. On top of that, I felt a vulgar sound and a strange smell…!

[Ah… sorry♥ I accidentally came a little because I was thinking about the Goddess♥ But get used to it♥ This sound, this smell, this sensation… you’re going to experience it all♥]

“What…!?”

I couldn’t say anything more to Francesca’s words, who seemed to be slightly climaxing…

Father… Father… please save me…!

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