Chapter 723: Looking for a place to belong 1
Back at Polka, girls who haven’t seen each other in a while and girls who are meeting for the first time are gathering, and awkward situations are arising as they try to gauge each other’s distance. For example.
“I’m here♪”
“……Well, welcome. As a future resident of Polka”
Cosmos, the master of prostitutes at Talc, and Dianne. Though they weren’t complete strangers, the fact that Cosmos had come to Polka on a long trip with the intention of getting pregnant by me made it hard for me to brush it off casually. Cosmos, like Hilda, was in her late 400s. Being from the same hometown and of a similar age, she wasn’t someone I could easily confront, but her appearance was oddly youthful—or rather, childlike—which added to the complexity. Cosmos-san seemed to be trying to start a business in Polka right away.
“What are you planning to do?”
Dianne-san and I looked around. Cosmos-san was cleaning up by herself in the yard of an empty house near the central square of Polka. It didn’t seem like she was just preparing to move in, but rather that she was clearly planning to use the yard for 「Something」.
“I’m thinking of starting a light meal terrace as a foundation for now”
“A light meal terrace……?”
“Yeah. Not something as formal as a tavern or restaurant, but a place where people can chat. The taverns here tend to have a vibe that’s a bit too much for local men, right? I want to make it more open, so that wives, children, and people of different races can come and go freely”
“But won’t that lead to a customer base overlap with the tavern master?”
“Don’t worry, I’ve already talked it over with him. Besides, that tavern is already getting too crowded, and this place could definitely use more food options. The dining halls attached to each inn are just an extension of the kitchen, and if we want to increase the flow of elves and Celesta merchants, the demand for services will definitely rise. For now, we’ll focus on Celesta cuisine to differentiate ourselves♪”
“……As a merchant, maybe I’m overstepping my bounds by suggesting this to you, a successful person”
“No, I understand that you’d be worried if someone suddenly came and disrupted the town. Plus, if I were to do it, you’d probably think I’d end up opening a seedy establishment. But Celesta has a different culture, and here, if the baron, the lord of the manor, takes notice of you, your business is finished. I won’t do it right away”
“……What about in the future?”
“Once the population reaches a certain size, I think it’s unhealthy for people to have nowhere to channel their sexual desires, don’t you think?”
……Sounds like a long-term plan. Well, for a dark elf, a plan spanning 10 or 20 years isn’t that long-term, I guess.
“Eventually, I was thinking of bringing the girls from Talc’s shop here for a vacation and having them work here during the seasonal changes. We have girls of various races here, so even the northern elf girls could work here♪”
“But isn’t that going to cause some serious problems?”
I couldn’t help but interject. Yeah. Well, I mean, I’m eventually protected by dragons, but generally speaking, elves who open their legs to outsiders are excommunicated and end up homeless, right? ……That’s what I think, anyway.
“With our secret magic, we can handle birth control and physical care perfectly. Plus, from what I heard from Irina-chan, it seems like the issue isn’t so much virginity as it is the blood being defiled. Besides, why would a long-lived species that lives for a thousand years bother keeping their virginity?”
Well……now that you mention it, you’re right. Even human virgins, while it’s understandable at twenty, keeping it until thirty or forty is kind of weird, right? ……No, that’s not it. It’s the fact that selling your body becomes an issue for hundreds of years that bothers me. But then again, that’s just the short-sighted values of humans, so I guess you could say it’s valid too…….
“…………”
Dianne has a very complicated expression on her face. Oh, that’s right, Dianne has been a virgin for 200 years. Even her three sisters, who have been virgins for 100 years, were getting anxious.
“In any case, our policy is that both the sellers and buyers should enjoy the sex industry, so we don’t hire girls who are just desperate for money and don’t have the right mindset. We have a diversified business plan that includes regular restaurants, so it should be friendly to those girls too, right?”
“……U, Uuh……”
Is that okay? Well, for now, she’s just trying to run a normal restaurant, so no one can complain. But if they find out that this is a stepping stone for a brothel to expand, even someone like Cosmos might get kicked out, right?
“Ah, are you worried that the cat beasts might fall into our clutches? Don’t worry, I’ve already talked it over with Luna-chan and Hilda♪”
“……Eh, no”
I hadn’t thought that far ahead. But now that I think about it, Polka (thanks to Laila bringing them here) serves as the entrance between the cat beast colony and the outside world. So, in the process of trying to escape further, they might end up working at a brothel to make money……that’s the option Cosmos-san’s business provides.
“Don’t worry, if the cat beasts really want to go outside, Laila and the dragons, along with the northern elves, will help them. So, Smithson-san won’t let any of the cat beasts he wants to keep become prostitutes for money. Plus, I want to work with Smithson-san in various ways for a long time, so I won’t let any of the cat beasts he’s attached to become prostitutes for short-term gain♪”
Cosmos winks. Dianne frowns, looking troubled.
“……M, Muu……if I leave Cosmos-san alone, I feel like I’ll end up relying on you and won’t be able to complain anymore”
“Ehehee. Count on me, Dianne-chan♪”
Cosmos-san, who has social skills in a different sense from Irina and Aurora, is the first person I’ve ever met who is so serious and who I can’t handle.
We head for the secret hot spring. We’ve decided to let Shario use it for her hot spring treatment this time. It’s too much trouble to explain why we’re letting her soak in a normal hot spring. Everyone will want to know about Shario’s situation with her missing arm, and if a third party were to learn the details of the Kalwin incident, it would be hard to believe that Shario, who was closest to the culprit, would be taking a hot spring bath in Polka. I don’t want to make a big deal out of it, and Shario wouldn’t complain if it weren’t a public bath, so that’s how it was decided. ……And then.
“Pull your chin in a little more. Push your breasts out. That’s it. Tilt your hips like this. Yes, that pose”
“L, Like this……?”
While Shario soaks silently in the secret hot spring, for some reason, Leda is made to pose naked in the forest while Gloria sketches her.
“Gloria-san……that’s a silver dragon, so using it for nude sketches without permission is”
“It’s fine. She has such a great body, and she declared that she’d be willing to go naked anytime, anywhere for your sake”
“Leda. I told you to stop that”
“It’s a matter of resolve!”
Please don’t make such declarations of resolve to anyone.
“But you brought a new dragon girl, and now she’s calling herself a pregnant slave……how many more are there?”
Gloria, still drawing, looked exasperated. Sister slaves……? Looking toward the hot spring, she saw Leyla and Corti peeking out from behind the wall where the clothes baskets were kept. Are they also going around declaring themselves my slaves to anyone and everyone?
“You two, come here. Sit down”
I called the two over and made them sit cross-legged on the ground. The two of them came out hesitantly, completely naked. Well, it’s a hot spring, so it’s not wrong, but what is this? I’m the only one wearing clothes, and I’m making the village girls strip naked one after another and enjoying it. I feel like a cruel lord. And Gloria, is it your fetish to take off your clothes when you’re sketching nudes?
“Wh, What……are you telling me to lick it?”
“Corti, let me serve him first……”
“That’s not what I meant. Don’t go around calling yourselves slaves when I’m not here. I’m just an ordinary person in this town. There’s such a thing as reputation”
“Why not!”
Corti snapped at me. I don’t know why.
“With four dragons including Leda, wouldn’t it be ungrateful not to become the ruler of this small town?”
“I’d rather spend my time on erotic things or blacksmithing than being dominated by others! Let those who want to do that kind of thing do it!”
“Become the ruler so no one can complain, then do whatever you want! Just leave the work to those who want to do it!”
Corti, despite being naked and sitting in seiza, pointed at me and argued back boldly. I crouched down in front of Corti, brought my face close to hers, and pressed the tip of her small, defiantly pointed breasts with my index finger. I pointed back at her (directly).
“Hyaau……”
“I want to live in a place where there are people more important than me. A town where someone worthy of respect does their job as a lord, where I can live a normal life, and then do whatever I want when it comes to erotic things. Understand?”
While alternately pressing her right and left nipples with my fingers, I gently scolded Corti. Her young breasts were firm and pushed back against my fingers with vitality. Since she had claimed to be a female slave, she couldn’t refuse such a tease and blushed, accepting it. I wondered what Leyla’s breasts felt like. Come to think of it, I’ve never touched them before, I thought, staring at the tips of my fingers still tingling from Corti’s touch, and gazing intently at Layla’s breasts. They were about the size of a child’s head, perfectly round, with pink nipples slightly larger than average, glowing on the icy dragon’s unique white skin. The fully developed dragon breasts were truly impressive. They were mesmerizing.
“……What a rude guy!”
Corti suddenly snaps. I’m taken aback for a moment, then realize that my actions must have looked like I was dissatisfied with the feel of her breasts and had shifted my gaze to the ones next to her.
“What’s wrong? Do you want me to touch them more?”
I gently pinch Corti’s breasts alternately. She blushes and looks down, but whispers softly.
“……Just pinch them?”
she murmurs.
“…………”
……Emm. Yeah. She’s someone else’s dragon. I don’t have a hobby of interfering with other people’s love, and I don’t want to touch someone who has publicly stated that they don’t want to be loved. It’s embarrassing to say, but once I have sex with someone, I want to be exclusive. Especially if they’re a virgin. I can already see myself getting possessive. But fighting someone who’s already dead is pointless.
“What? You’re not going to fuck the sisters slaves?”
Gloria looks puzzled. I guess she can hear my mutterings because she has elf ears.
“If you want to fuck, you can fuck me. It’s been a while”
While facing the easel, she, also naked, wiggles her shapely ass at me.
“Then I’ll fuck you”
“Wait……”
Corti grabs the hem of my clothes as I stand up without hesitation.
“Why!?”
“……I don’t want to touch something that belongs to someone else”
“I said I’ll be your female slave!”
“I want to have lovey-dovey sex”
“……Y, You’re so selfish……”
Am I being selfish?
“Then just be lovey-dovey with me, then……!”
Corti said that, pulled me down, spread her legs, and glared at me with a flushed face.
“……H, Hurry up and do it……I’ll love you……♪”
How much of this is acting? She spread her genitals, her voice filled with shame, yet unable to hide her anticipation and desire, and said that.