Chapter 671: Mid-Summer Islands 1
We’re finally crossing the sea to Lapal. However, since we’re traveling by dragon, there’s not much difference except that it’s hotter than before. If we were traveling by boat, we’d probably get seasick from the waves, get sick of the sticky sea breeze, worry about storms and have all sorts of problems. With a dragon, you can easily avoid a storm even after you see the dark clouds and if you want to, you can even jump over the storm. Also, Lapal is far away at the speed of a normal boat, but with a dragon’s wings, you don’t have to fly for that many hours. Even if you fly after lunch, you can still come back for dinner if you feel like it.
“Is everyone ready?”
“Ho. You didn’t plan to stay here long enough to unpack, did you? As long as you’ve got your clothes on, you’ll be ready to go”
“Are you taking them off again? Why?”
“Ho, I’m sorry, that’s not what I meant. I meant that you should get ready for your journey”
I was surprised. I thought that everyone had put their clothes on to talk to Lady Swallow, but then I thought that they had taken them off again when I wasn’t looking. Just as I was breathing a sigh of relief, Hilda appeared in the doorway of the next room, having put on her traveling clothes (or rather, since she wasn’t going on a proper walking trip, she had just put on a jacket over her everyday clothes. Everyone else was the same).
“I’m not going to take it off until we get in the carriage, you know☆”
“That’s fine, but it’s hard to agree with you right after we’ve just had a talk about moderation!”
“You could have just flatly denied it, but I love you, Andy-kun, for being so subtly honest”
Because actually sitting in the carriage is so boring. It would be such a waste to ban naughty things just because we’ve had a talk about moderation. We can do whatever we like when no one’s looking, right?
“By the way, how’s Gloria doing? Is she still painting even though it’s time to move on?”
I ask Laila. I’m sure she’ll be able to tell me what she’s up to.
“The sound of the brush has stopped”
“Let’s go and take a look”
Laila and I go to see her studio……or rather, her room where she’s staying.
Gloria had finished a group of erotic pictures that were even more powerful than the ones we had seen yesterday.
“There didn’t seem to be this many people here yesterday……”
“Yeah. This feels more like an imaginary 『Feast of the Absolute Ruler』?”
“Absolute ruler?”
“Like a king, but more like someone who does whatever they want to satisfy their desires to the extreme”
“Real-life kings don’t really get to do whatever they want……”
Actually, there are kings who have dozens of concubines, but they also have a lot of other things to do besides having children and their wives also have connections with their families and personal pride. If you just look at the words, it sounds like you can have legally-permitted sex with lots of different women and have children, but there are also issues of stamina and you probably wouldn’t actually be able to experience a full-on erotic festival with dancers like last night. At least it’s impossible with Trot, Celesta and Renfangas. I think it would be easier to achieve it in a talk sex establishment, but even so, a luxurious erotic party with dozens of women would only give you a fleeting sense of satisfaction, so no one would do it. It’s really……well, gathering up virgins for no reason and making them dance naked in a line……. I did something amazing yesterday.
“It would take a lot of work to turn it into an erotic picture scroll, but I’d like to do it. Something on this scale. If you saw something like that in real life”
In Gloria’s picture, there are hundreds of women dancing in indecent outfits with their private parts exposed, including those that don’t fit on the screen and in the middle of them, the 「Absolute Ruler」 is making a young girl shake her hips in the rear-entry position, with the women he has raped and scattered around him overflowing with cloudy white fluid from their private parts. It’s a huge work that’s a wonder it was done in one night.
“But as a reader, I’d like to see more focus on the eroticism of the individual women”
“You’re surprisingly open-minded about multiple partners, but is that different in your drawings?”
“If I’m going to jerk off, I want to focus on the powerful breasts and buttocks and when the characters are this small, it’s hard to tell the nipples and facial expressions……”
“Ah well……I guess so. It’s a shame that you can’t use it to get off, even though you’ve drawn them naked. Even though the situation itself is arousing”
Gloria-san puts her brush in her mouth and folds her arms. Well, it’s also true of my own sex. It would be a waste if I didn’t enjoy myself properly.
“Well, but even though you say it’s an impossible scale, in Donna’s colony, they’re probably doing things just as unrestrained as this”
“……Well, in a way”
This town has brakes called common sense, but the cat beast colony has none at all. It’s an ultimate insane erotic space where both adults and children are all allowed to get pregnant. If you told everyone to go outside and dance naked, even virgins would happily do it. It’s true that no king or nobleman could ever build a place like that. Or rather, if it was discovered that someone with such a taste had built such a village, even the most powerful person would be heavily criticized. ……I did something incredible, didn’t I?
“I’ve heard about it many times, but the more I hear about it, the more unbelievable it seems. That colony”
“There are parts of it that seem a little unrealistic to me every time I think about it”
That said, it’s true that a number of cat beasts have come to Polka and settled there. And they’re planning to get pregnant, too.
“I’m looking forward to Lapal, but I’m already curious about that place”
“Well, if we’re going to stop by on the way back, I wonder if we’ll be taking Lady there too……”
“Ho. I wonder if Bauz will be carrying a new drug addict. If we can get them to let us pass by on that, that would be good”
I can’t help but wonder what they’re doing making such calculations now.
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And so we set off from Sitar. The weather is clear and sunny and the sea breeze is pleasant. I think that from a distance, the four dragons flying towards the azure sea beyond us must look like jewels sparkling in the sunlight.
“It was hot in the desert and in Sitar and I guess it’s even hotter further south”
Anzeros’s eyes narrowed as she let her hair blow in the wind, looking a little fed up.
“I wonder if it’s even hotter south of Lapal. I wonder how hot it gets”
When I suddenly voiced my question, Chibi Laila giggled in my ear.
“Even if it’s hot south of here, it’s only up to a certain point. Before long, it’ll get cold again”
“Is that so?”
“Umm. And it’s actually hotter on land. Even if you’re in the south, it doesn’t get that hot on the sea”
As I listen to Laila’s words, I let my thoughts wander to the far reaches of the sea. The south. The end of the south. What is there? What is there beyond the heat and cold? No, not just there, but the Southern Great Plains, the Eastern Mountains, the Afilm Peninsula, the Western Continent. I’ve told Beatrice and Gloria to 「See the world」, but there are many places I’ve never been to that are within reach. Will I ever go on a trip to see them? Or is it too late to do so once I’ve become a full-fledged blacksmith and am busy working?
“That’s beside the point. Do you do it, or do you do it a lot?”
While I could still see the distant coast of Sitar, Hilda was already starting to take off her clothes. Inspired by her, the other girls in the car also started to reveal their breasts, bumping their shoulders together. They were so sexy that I was a little taken aback, so I pretended to be a little taken aback and then grabbed Hilda’s breasts.
“We did a lot yesterday, so today we’ll just be touching, sucking and rubbing gently”
“That’s fine with me☆”
“Wait, wait, wait! I haven’t taken my clothes off yet and you’re touching me already? Wait, wait, wait! I’m going to take my clothes off, they’ll get wrinkled!”
While I was reaching out to Gloria, who was slightly resisting, I spent a few hours of pleasure-colored time in a carriage filled with skin color.
As the sun began to set, Hilda was teaching Neia the tricks of titty-fucking when Chibi Laila reported that we had arrived at Red Whale Island.
“Hey, hey, everyone, put your clothes back on!”
“I don’t think it’s necessary to put them back on”
“Last time, we showed the pirates what we were like as female slaves, didn’t we?”
“That was a different time! For now, you guys are getting a stern warning! You need to get your common sense back a bit”
While warning Anzeros and Aurora, everyone puts their clothes back on in the carriage as it prepares to land. Then, we land.
“Captain! Captain! There’s a bunch of dragons over there!”
“Calm down! You knew they were coming!”
“But there are four of them, not just the one we saw last time!”
“The black one came once. ……Four?”
When the carriage lands on the beach, Captain Theo and some of his underlings emerge from the cave. I look down from the driver’s seat and decide to get out of the carriage and greet them.
“Captain, long time no see. Have any more drug addict kids come?”
“……You came in person?”
The captain looks a little bitter (he must be thinking about the trouble he got into with his daughter and other things), and after taking a breath, he replies.
“There were a few. Some of Rabbines’ customers came to the fort to buy drugs, but some of them were just running errands for the main group. We fed them to the fish, but we can’t do anything about the slaves they have. There’s a limit to what one ship can do”
“I see”
“It’s going to be difficult to completely eradicate them. If they can’t control their withdrawal symptoms, there are cases where the slaves are thrown into the sea when they’re no longer of any use. We can’t take care of them all that far”
“I know that there’s nothing we can do about some of it, but I want to help with what we can”
“That’s naive. And even if you were to save all of Labyrinth’s victims, there are other drugs out there”
“I know”
In the end, he’s probably trying to say that I’m being hypocritical. But I’m well aware of that.
“Dragons aren’t gods. We don’t want everything to go our way. We just don’t like the dirt in front of us, so we wash it away. That’s all”
“…………”
“I’m going to need your help, Captain”
“I understand”
Captain Theo must be finding this a rather endless conversation. But it won’t be worth anything unless it continues for at least a few years. It was a contract that was made once, on the condition that this island be returned. We will have to keep that. While they were having this conversation, which was fraught with a certain tension, Laila, Maia and Emma returned to their human forms. And then Bauz.
“I’m going to take the last of the girls back to Faral. There’s no point in dropping them off here”
“Ah, I see”
Of the many former drug addicts, the last few. It seems that these girls, who chose to remain in the Lapal Islands, have decided to start a new life in the capital, Faral. They were probably originally from Lapal. These are women who have seen many lands, but have chosen to return to their hometown and start over. There is no one here in this country who can take care of them. I wonder if they will be able to start their lives over on their own. ……I guess it’s none of my business. They have come all the way here, the last of the women we have gone out of our way to help and they have chosen to do so. But I will at least wish them happiness in their future lives.
Then, as I was seeing them off, a slightly sulky, but still girlishly high voice called out to me from behind.
“Hey”
“……?”
I turned around. As I had expected, there was Galatea. She was wearing a simple pirate-style loincloth and a brightly colored obi. As always, her hair was in a single, loose, thick braid and she wasn’t very polite. But perhaps it was the best she could do and she had stuck a tropical flower in her hair and cat ears……or lion ears? It looked a little out of place with her otherwise rather plain outfit, but I couldn’t help but smile when I thought that she had probably been delayed because of it.
“Long time no see”
“……I, I promised”
“I remember. See you later”
“……Yeah”
Galatea suddenly looked happy when she heard my reply, nodded and ran off.
“Hey. ……What was that promise about?”
And as I had expected, her dad latched onto it.
“A, Ah……no, it was a promise to bring back a souvenir”
Yeah, that explanation should be about right.
“What’s a souvenir?”
“Well, it’s an accessory”
There’s no need to say anything about her mother’s necklace or anything like that.
“Accessories, you say……?”
Why are you making such a mad face, Captain?
“……If you want them, I’ll get you as many as you like, but why this man……!”
Oh, that sort of thing…….
“You smell like a bad parent”
“Fathers who are too attached to their daughters are troublesome, aren’t they?”
Irina and Aurora look at Captain Theo with slightly cold eyes. The captain flinches.
“Don’t meddle in other people’s affairs. What do elves know?”
“We know you’re a nuisance”
“That’s not true……!”
Captain Theo is cut in two by Irina. Even against that powerful giant, Irina is able to easily pierce him with her sarcasm. She is truly over a hundred years old. But you have to understand a little. Even if I were a parent, it would be hard for me to see my daughter almost taking a liking to a guy walking around with a harem.