Blade Forest – Labyrinth (11)

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‘Should I shave off a bit more…? No. The proportions are off…’

It’s been five hours since I started fiddling with the little Demon’s body. I was sweating bullets while trying to eliminate the disproportionate legs. Copying my past body was fine and dandy, but when I got into the nitty-gritty details, the difficulty skyrocketed. Still, it wasn’t bad for what it was. The little Demon modification operation was smoothly heading towards its end.

I look at what ‘used to be’ a little Demon on the table.

The scrawny boy’s body was nowhere to be seen, and a pretty young girl had taken its place. Long, flowing red hair, a slender waist, and voluptuous hips that didn’t quite match her small stature. And a pair of perky breasts. It was a body modeled after my past self.

It wasn’t completely identical. I reduced the height by about 5cm and slightly altered the face. At first, I was just going to be satisfied with a self-replication level, but when I saw my past self-well, my utterly depressing face-I wanted to fix it somehow.

The perpetually downturned corners of the mouth were turned upwards, the listless eyes, stained with ennui, were made brighter, and the cynical eyes were lifted to create a lively image. This is the work that was born from that.

A slightly ditzy-looking, vacant-eyed pretty girl. I guess they often call it a weirdo? Changing her hair to white doubled the mysterious atmosphere. A face that looks like she’s grinning and planning something shady inside. She had the look of a mastermind.

‘Is this good enough…?’

Hoo. I sigh and slump down. I had a skeleton of myself, but going to the level of creation from scratch made me breathless. I, who wouldn’t even get a headache from moving thousands of kilometers and dropping meteors, was feeling fatigue. It was similar to when I was messing with the boundary.

“Haa… Little Dem, no. Sophia?”

-Ttak!

I snap my fingers.

“Ugh…?”

About ten minutes after snapping my fingers.

The little Demon, whose synchronization with the new body was complete, slowly opened her eyes.

“Awoo… My head…”

“You might have a headache or muscle pain. I completely rebuilt your body.”

“Body, wha, what did you rebui…?”

The little Demon, having said this far, realized the change that had occurred in her body.

“Uh, uh?”

Her voice rose slightly. The little Demon fiddled with her neck and tried a vocalization test, but, of course, the result was the same.

That wasn’t all. The Demon’s unique pale skin had disappeared, and vibrant skin came into view. And slightly lowered shoulders, slender fingers. The little Demon swallowed hard. Come to think of it, her waist seemed to be thinner too.

“Want a mirror?”

The little Demon trembled and lowered her head.

It’s gone.

The thing that was attached was gone. The only thing that proved she was a manly man had disappeared. I created a shard of glass in the air and sent it to the little Demon. The mirror floated gently. The little Demon, who had lost her language ability due to the shock, looked at the unidentified pretty girl reflected in the glass shard and screamed loudly.

“H, how did this happen-?!!!”

“Congratulations. You’re human now.”

The magic is completely gone.

The little Demon, no, Sophia, was now human in the truest sense of the word.

Honestly, I didn’t think this would be possible either. It’s changing the species itself. It’s an act of rejecting the fate given by God and flipping them off head-on. So I’m not sure either. I don’t know what side effects this has.

Or.

It’s a hypothesis, but it might have worked because the little Demon was so pathetic. If she had magic power on the level of Artania or Gaolise, I might have had to touch her brain instead of just overhauling her body.

“No way! There’s no way this is possible!!”

‘Sophia’ shook her hands and threw away the glass shard.

“Q, quick! Put it back the way it was!!!”

“Why would I?”

“O, of course, isn’t it obvious! I was a man! Human!! I beg you! I’ll beg like this! Please, please…!!!”

She even gets down on her knees and begs. I chuckle and cross my legs. It felt strange to see a girl who looked like me doing that.

“You decided to live as a human, right?”

“W, what.”

“Then you have to give up everything you gained while living as a Demon. Even your gender. That’s how you accept a new life. If you live as a man, wouldn’t the habits of your Demon days come out?”

In fact, I was the only one who knew the identity of the Dungeon Master, so it was a near-fallacy. But that’s not what I was trying to convey.

“Are you asking to live while not being able to adapt to even this much? If that’s the case, I’ll personally slit your throat. Just say the word. I’ll kill you without pain.”

Is this the time for you to be picky? You should be bowing your head and thanking me, but you’re coming out with an attitude. I looked at the little Demon with a fierce look.

“Ugh… B, but. In this state, how-“

“How do you live?”

“H, huh?”

“Well. You get used to it as you go.”

Don’t try to act old in front of a pupa.

“Eep?”

I grab Sophia’s hand and examine every nook and cranny of her body. I carefully check to see if there are any parts that were made wrong. The little Demon let out a suggestive moan at the touch that massaged her body, but she couldn’t hide her embarrassment at her changed body.

An electrifying sensation comes when my finger brushes against her nipple. Pressing on her lower abdomen and rubbing her buttocks caused an unknown excitement to come and heat up her face. A ‘pleasure’ that she had never felt before, that she had never felt in the past, overwhelmed the little Demon.

“There’s nothing wrong with your body…”

“S, stoooop…”

“Stop? I have to check that place too.”

Personally, I was very curious to know if she had a hymen.

“Hyaaang-?!! D, don’t go there!!”

“I’ll say it again, you don’t have the right to refuse.”

“Hyaaa…?!”

I bind the arm that was trying to push me away with telekinesis and spread her vulva. It’s also strange that I’m spreading my own private parts. Structurally, it was the same vagina as mine. But if I get pregnant with this body, will it be my child? I don’t know that far.

“Hmm… She does have a hymen.”

“What, what are you… haa…”

I finish all the tests and move away from the little Demon. The little Demon trembled with shame and anger. But there was nothing she could do. All of her magic power was lost while overhauling her body, and even the magic she could use was sealed.

-Ttak!

When I snap my fingers, blue threads begin to tangle and tie together in the air. I was making clothes for ‘Sophia’ to wear. I pick the most plain design from the clothes I used to wear.

Garter belts… It seems too much for ‘Sophia’ yet, so plain over-knee socks. The bottoms were the same frill skirt as mine, but longer. I wonder if it will reach her knees. And the top was decided to be a plain, slightly loose V-neck. The underwear is, of course, for women.

“Okay, get ready to put it on.”

“Wh, what…”

“If you keep trying to get away, I might cut off your arms and legs.”

The little Demon slowly moved backwards.

“…I won’t say it twice. Come here.”

“P, please….”

“Do I look like I’m joking?”

-Kwajik!

I create an ice pick and send it to the little Demon. The sharp icicle grazed the little Demon’s cheek and crashed into the wall, scattering countless fragments. The flowing blood immediately froze and fell to the floor. I looked at the little Demon with eyes colder than the fallen blood ice.

“….”

“A, I understand… D, don’t kill me,”

“….”

“G, give it to me…”

Now you’re talking.

The little Demon, who received the clothes, began to dress with a resigned face.

“That’s not how you put it on.”

“I, I’m sorry…”

“What, you just came to your senses now.”

After struggling with one piece of clothing for dozens of minutes, I couldn’t stand it anymore and stepped in to help. She had a really dying expression when she put on women’s underwear. An eternal farewell to ‘that’ which she will never see again. I ignored the desperate screams on her face and fastened her bra.

“Hmm… Cute. I like it.”

“Sniff…”

“Don’t cry. Isn’t it enough that you’re alive?”

Of course, I had no intention of letting her go nicely.

If the little Demon didn’t come to her senses and repeated her dogshit behavior, I was thinking of injecting a lethal dose of drugs, cutting off her arms and legs, and selling her to a brothel. I’m serious. There was no mercy to show to a Demon. A Demon living in the human world in perfect condition… Isn’t that too unfair? The people who died because of this guy would be gnashing their teeth and raging in hell or heaven.

“…Well, if you do a lot of good deeds, I might turn you back into a man.”

Still.

I’ll dare to give you a grace period.

“R, really?!”

“Depending on what you do.”

I had no intention of turning her back into a man, and I couldn’t do it, but I just said it once. The little Demon, unaware of that fact, opened her eyes wide and clung to me. But there was a problem. She didn’t know what a ‘good deed’ was. Goodness was too difficult a concept for evil.

“Goo, good deed? But, what do I have to do to do a ‘good deed’?”

I stroked her head and tickled her chin. She might have been angry at being treated like a pet, but she was just trembling with a forced smile, probably because the ice pick I had just thrown was still in her mind.

“Make the people around you happy?”

I smirk and say.

The little Demon pondered my words and nodded.

“Make the people around you happy…. I understand!”

She seemed to have adapted to women’s clothes to some extent, and she quickly regained her energy and started bustling around. In the first place, she was a guy who didn’t even wear underwear because of her tail. She seemed used to the wind coming in between her skirt.

“Now we have to get ready, ‘Sophia’?”

“Sophia? What is th-“

“Sophia?”

“…Th, that’s right. I understan, d. Human.”

I install the explosion formula on the labyrinth core and step out of the cave. The core will be destroyed in about ten hours. The labyrinth will collapse three days after the core is destroyed, so the time until escape will be about right. If something goes wrong, I can just use teleport.

Sophia looked at the labyrinth core with wistful eyes, and soon followed me out of the cave. I grabbed Sophia’s hand and said.

“From now on, don’t call me human, call me ‘unni’.”

“…I understan, d. U, unni.”

“Use honorifics.”

“…Yes, unni.”

“Ah, before that.”

-Ttak.

I lightly snap my fingers to create a blade.

“Uh, uh?”

“Wouldn’t you be suspected if you went out with your body intact? Stick out your arms and legs. About seven places… No, um…. The setting of being kidnapped would be more appropriate. Sorry. I’m going to break your legs a bit.”

I’m going to break your legs and crush my arms, so don’t worry too much. Hmm. Is this not a problem? Well, it wasn’t my business.

“H, hieeeek-?!!!”

A shrill scream spreads through the Dungeon Master’s cave.

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Sophia was an unfortunate child.

Her mother died as soon as she came into the world, and her father cursed Sophia, who was still a newborn baby, and left home. Sophia, who was two months old, was put in a bread basket and abandoned on the street.

But God didn’t abandon her, and an old woman picked up the basket and raised Sophia instead. It wasn’t a wealthy environment, but it was livable. She always lived with gratitude. She shared even a small piece of bread with the old woman who had taken her in and smiled together.

However, when Sophia turned ten.

The old woman became ill and unable to move.

Sophia diligently nursed the old woman. She collected herbs to feed her, and she scraped together money to call a doctor. To make a long story short, it was useless. The old woman died. It was a natural death due to old age.

Eventually, in the year she turned fifteen.

Sophia became alone.

But.

The world, far from empathizing with her sadness, gave her an even greater ordeal.

It was when she received a request to collect herbs and went into the mountains. Sophia was digging through the ground and putting herbs in her basket as usual.

Not even knowing that a monster from the labyrinth was surrounding her.

Sophia was beaten to a pulp and dragged into the labyrinth in a semi-dead state. With broken arms and legs, and a hungry, miserable situation. Hoping that someone would come and save her. Holding on to a promise of hope and desperately enduring.

“Such a sad story….”

But the more surprising thing is.

All of this wasn’t true and was a story I made up.

“I’m glad we rescued her now. But, it’s hard to believe that Kankan was actually a good monster….”

“In the end, it was a struggle to protect the Blade Forest.”

“As expected, there was a reason why he was called the landlord of the Blade Forest.”

The Dungeon Master had already lost his life to Kankan, and Kankan had only become violent due to the remaining core. That was roughly the setting. I made up a story on the spot and added plausible plausibility.

But the saying that Kankan was running around to protect the Blade Forest was true. He pounded his hooves and appealed his strong will, saying that he would not leave the Blade Forest. I respected him, and he also let me go.

“Haha….”

At that time, ‘Sophia’, the owner of the story, burst into an awkward laugh. She was a white-haired girl with blood all over her body. Her legs were bandaged as if they were broken, and her eyes were swollen as if she had been beaten somewhere. She was in a relatively good condition because she had received first aid, but when she was first discovered by the rescue team, she was really on the verge of death.

“…Th, thank you for saving me. Y, yo. Oppa.”

I pinched Sophia’s thigh and sent a cold telepathic message.

‘Smile.’