Chapter 109

〈 Episode 109 〉 Things to Do After the Rescue

The condition of the women rescued from the Tentacles was too gruesome to bear. All of them had breasts swollen to the size of a cow’s udder, and some still had Tentacles inside their wombs, causing their bellies to bulge. Their skin was pale from days without sunlight, and they couldn’t even walk properly, so Soldiers had to support their naked bodies.

Thanks to their lack of clothing, Asha, who ridiculously wore Bikini Armor into battle, was less conspicuous. The backs of the Soldiers carrying unconscious women were soaked with Breast milk leaking from their breasts.

As they all emerged above ground, the air was thick with the scent of Love Nectar and Breast milk. The Soldiers, aroused by the women’s soft touch and the lewd smell, had erections. Only the Prince and the Count, with their exceptional composure, managed to maintain their dignity.

Asha, subtly averting her gaze from the Soldiers pitching tents in their pants, briefly checked the map and called out,

“Let’s go to the nearby village! Even if there’s no food, there should be clothes for the women!”

The Count agreed with her and shouted to the Soldiers,

“We’re heading to the village as Asha says. Move out now!”

“Yes, sir!”

The Alsace territory, being a Count’s domain, was not small. Fortunately, the village Asha led them to hadn’t been completely devoured by the Tentacles, with only empty houses remaining. The number of houses was sufficient for the Soldiers and women to stay.

The Tentacles had long since swept away all the livestock and food in the village, but fortunately, clothes and household goods remained in the empty houses. Asha and the Soldiers washed the unconscious women as best they could and dressed them.

After the cleanup, Asha, Lucia, Maximilian, and the Count gathered again.

“Haa… Taking care of them is harder than fighting the Tentacles.”

“We can’t stay here forever, so we need to move, but the problem is when they’ll regain consciousness.”

The Count reported the current situation to Maximilian in more detail.

“After rescuing them, we counted exactly 2,400 people. The Steel Regiment has 1,300 combat troops and 500 reinforcements. Even including the supply unit, we only have about 2,300 people, so it will be difficult to move immediately if the women don’t regain consciousness.”

“Hmm, the Count is right. We keep getting held back for other reasons.”

The women were targets that had to be rescued and protected to prevent the Tentacles from reproducing, but they were also shackles that slowed their progress. Asha realized there was nothing she could do here right now.

“Prince, I’ll go help the other women. Helping them recover as soon as possible will be better for us.”

“Ah, alright. Don’t overdo it.”

“Yes!”

Maximilian stroked Lucia’s head as she stared at him intently. Leaving the two men behind, Asha and Lucia headed to the building where the women were staying.

“Magician, you’ve arrived!”

Asha nodded at the Soldiers’ welcome.

“How are they doing?”

The guard shook his head at Asha’s question.

“They haven’t regained consciousness yet.”

“Can I go in?”

“Of course.”

Asha entered the house and met the women. She asked the Soldiers guarding them inside,

“You might see something unpleasant, but I’m sorry, could you please step outside?”

“Ah, yes!”

The Soldiers, already horrified by the grotesque sight in the Tentacle Lair, quickly left. As soon as the presence of others disappeared except for the unconscious women, Lucia unfolded her arms and approached them.

“Lucy, are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine.”

No longer needing to worry about the gazes of others, Lucia extended Tentacles from her body and connected to each of the women. Like a neural network, Lucia, connected to them, injected drugs into their bodies to neutralize the aphrodisiacs and relaxants that had drenched their bodies.

Even though they were unconscious, they had reacted to the surrounding stimuli on the way here, spewing out Breast milk and Love Nectar several times, but as Lucia took action, their condition gradually stabilized.

Now, Lucia approached the pregnant women. Among the 17 women lying in the house, 3 were pregnant. Approaching them, Lucia looked at their bulging bellies with sharp eyes.

She was the one who, when Lucia was just born, had Asha move the pregnant Tentacles into her Womb and give birth to them instead. But that previous tolerance had long since disappeared from Lucia’s heart. With no intention of saving the Tentacles inside the women’s bellies, Lucia immediately inserted her small hand into their Yonies.

As a foreign object entered their bellies, the women trembled and gushed out Love Nectar, but they didn’t wake up because they had been given sleeping pills through the Tentacles stuck in their navels. Extending her hand through the vagina to the Womb, Lucia extended Tentacles from her fingertips and devoured all the baby Tentacles that had taken root in the Womb.

Kkiiiii!!

The desperate screams of the unborn Tentacles echoed in Lucia’s head, but she didn’t hesitate. Absorbing the living Tentacles, Lucia’s arm twisted strangely and then returned to normal. Her golden eyes turned red the moment she became one with the Tentacles, but it was only for a moment.

After treating all the women in the house, Lucia retrieved all the Tentacles connected to the women and approached Asha.

“It’s all done. Shall we go somewhere else, Mom?”

“Lucy, are you okay?”

Lucia didn’t show it at all on the outside, but Asha, sensing an unusual energy, asked worriedly.

“Yeah. It’s not hard at all. Let’s go quickly.”

At Lucia’s urging, Asha nodded with difficulty.

“Hey, Lucy. You have to tell Mom if it’s hard, okay?”

“Yeah!”

‘It’s not hard at all. Everything I do is for Mom.’

Lucia took care of over two thousand women without rest. Asha helped her from the side, but most of the work was done by Lucia alone.

Treating the women meant completely removing the Tentacles inside their bellies. That day, Lucia devoured over three thousand Tentacles and made them her food. Although they were unborn, those that had even a slight ego were shattered and became part of her spirit and flesh.

“Uh…”

Asha blankly stared at the rising sun. She had been taking care of the rescued women without rest, and before she knew it, she had stayed up all night and greeted the morning. Asha hugged Lucia, who must have suffered several times more than she had.

“Lucy, I’m sorry! Mom didn’t even realize the time…”

“I’m stronger than Mom. I told you it’s not hard.”

“Ah, hahaha…”

Asha, who had made a fuss, felt a little embarrassed, but she was relieved to see that Lucia seemed fine.

‘Yeah, who was worried about whom?’

She had been digging in the ground all day, entering the Lair to rescue the women, and then treating them and making rounds.

“Ah…”

Asha suddenly felt exhausted.

“Lucy, shall we sleep for a bit, Mom?”

“Yeah!”

Asha wanted to sleep with Lucia without being disturbed by anyone, at least for now. Immediately entering the assigned room, Asha fell asleep with her daughter without even realizing it.

“Ugh, ughm…”

Asha, who had fallen asleep at dawn, finally woke up in the late afternoon. Asha, who had fallen asleep hugging Lucia, woke up and rolled around in bed before feeling hungry and getting up. She made eye contact with Lucia, who had already woken up and was staring at her with wide eyes in her arms.

“Lucy, shall we go eat?”

“Yeah, let’s go eat.”

The two left the bed and headed outside to have a meal.

When Asha came out of the house, the Soldiers were busy preparing lunch, having missed breakfast. Those who were able-bodied ate energy bars that Asha had bought from the store, but the rescued women needed a proper meal.

The cooks, who put dried meat and grains into pots and boiled them, were providing meals to those who were still unable to move properly. Among them, Asha noticed people whose gait seemed particularly awkward.

“Ugh, ughm…”

Since the Tentacles’ actions were probably no different from before, there must have been people among them who were originally men but had become women. Asha, whose memories of being a man were now faint, knew all too well the hardships they would face.

“Ugh, ugh… too big…”

Women who kept touching their chests as if they were uncomfortable or women who staggered without being able to balance were most likely people who had been men but had become women. Moreover, the women all had large breasts. It was even harder to adapt.

“Haa♥”

There were also quite a few women who blushed and closed their legs as if the effects of the aphrodisiacs hadn’t completely worn off. Asha ate an energy bar while watching those women.

“Subtle…”

What Asha was eating now was the Soldiers’ food, which she had bought in bulk from the store. This energy bar, which was the same for everyone from Maximilian to the lowest Soldier, was the size of a palm and contained enough calories and nutrients for one meal, but it tasted strangely bad.

‘Honestly, it feels like I’m eating to survive?’

Lucia, who had a strong appetite, hated energy bars. Asha knew that her daughter didn’t necessarily need to eat Western food, so she didn’t force her to eat it. In the first place, if she didn’t have this, it would have been impossible for Asha alone to feed over two thousand Soldiers.

“Ha, haha… It’s ridiculous. Only one Token for twenty.”

Even if the Soldiers ate only 3 a day, they would need over 200,000 energy bars a month. But Asha could feed all these people with just 10,000 Tokens.

The pill-sized food that Asha had bought before cost 1 Coin per day, but this tasteless plate-like thing cost 1 Coin per 7 days. It was 7 times more efficient. If she had bought water, which was 3 liters per Token, Asha would have been short of Tokens, but she could supply drinking water with her Spell.

Even now that the number of people had doubled by rescuing the women, her financial situation was comfortable.

“My current points are… let’s see, 80,000?!”

Even though she had bought two months’ worth of food a while ago, her Tokens had subtly increased. Asha, who was flustered, remembered the Tentacle forces that Lucia had crushed the day before.

“Ah…”

It was Lucia who had squeezed the Tentacles, which Asha and the Soldiers couldn’t kill even if they beat them all day, in one blow. According to the records, a whopping 35,000 Tokens had come in yesterday.

“Destroying the Nests and Lairs gives a lot too.”

She had received 25,000 Tokens for defeating the Tentacles and 10,000 Tokens for destroying the Lairs and Nests. Asha thought that her Tokens would only increase in the future.

“This… can I buy something more?”

Until now, she had refrained from buying things because she had a lot of Tokens but might run out in the future, but as her income increased, the shopping spirit stuck to Asha. Her eyes sparkled at the thought of buying something at the store, which she hadn’t bought anything from in a long time.