Chapter 207 ~ Carnage
<span style="font-weight:400">Ten strong men emerged from the forest, forming a semicircle around the coach.
<span style="font-weight:400">None of these men were equipped in the exact same way. Still, while they were not masterworks, their equipment was not of poor make.
<span style="font-weight:400">The casual way in which they were discussing how to deal with their target and the order in which they would go sounded like they already had their prey in the bag. Indeed, they had done this sort of thing countless times in the past. It would be strange if they had felt worried.
<span style="font-weight:400">They brandished their weapons so their prey could see if they so peeked through the curtains covering the windows. It was a wordless warning; If they do note out quickly, they would be in trouble.
<span style="font-weight:400">In but a few moments, the coach doors slowly opened. And a… girl who might be considered “little” showed up, revealing herself.
<span style="font-weight:400">Her silvery hair gleamed in the moonlight, and her dewy, crimson eyes held a seductive radiance.
<span style="font-weight:400">The bandits could only gasp at the sight of such beauty, unable to so much as muster up the words for praise. In this moment, even their bestial lust shrank away in the face of true beauty.
<span style="font-weight:400">They were hoping to find some beautifuldy of nobility, a high ss one at that given the information they’ve gotten from the coachman, Zack. And they seemed to hit the jackpot.
<span style="font-weight:400">They’ve never seen a woman more beautiful than this before. They doubted that even the golden princess, who was rumored to possess unparalleled beauty, would hold a candle to this “girl” before them.
<span style="font-weight:400">All of them stood in awed daze, except for one.
<span style="font-weight:400">While he was also shocked at her beauty, something more important took his attention.
<span style="font-weight:400">Who was she?
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack had never seen this beauty before. However, the coach was very familiar to him, and the contrast between the two plunged Zack into confusion and left him
<span style="font-weight:400">speechless.
<span style="font-weight:400">Shalltear smiled lewdly as she bathed in the enthralled gazes of the men. It was simply natural, after all. She, who was created to belong to Yuuji-sama, should possess an awe-inspiring appearance, worthy of bing his ything, his cumdumpster, and his beloved.
<span style="font-weight:400">She advanced unguardedly before them and said:
<span style="font-weight:400">“Gentlemen, thank you foring all this way here for me. May I know who your leader is? May I negotiate with him?”
<span style="font-weight:400">All the bandits look towards the same person, giving Shalltear the answer she wanted to know. This only meant one thing; everyone else here was expendable.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...What do you want to talk about?”
<span style="font-weight:400">The man who became the center of attention seemed to havee to his senses after his close encounter with such a beauty. He strode forward.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ah, please forgive the misunderstanding. What I meant by ‘negotiations’ was just a joke for me to learn what I needed to know.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Who are you…?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Shalltear looked to Zack, who asked that question.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You must be that Zack fellow… I will give you to Solution as promised, so could you please step aside for a while?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Some of the bandits sought an answer for their confusion in each others’ faces. However, among them…
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hmph! You’ve got a good body for a brat, don’t you?! And that pristine face… I’d love to see your tears and my cum staining it!
<span style="font-weight:400">The bandit who happened to be standing in front of Shalltear reach out to grope that ample bust of hers, which did not match her age.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then, the appendage tumbled to the ground.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...How dare you try and touch what belongs to <i><span style="font-weight:400">Him</i><span style="font-weight:400">.”
<span style="font-weight:400">The dumbfounded man looked at his now handless arm, and after a moment’s dy, a wail filled the entire area of the darkened road.
<span style="font-weight:400">“AAAAAHHHHHH! My, my haaaaaaaaaaand–!”<span style="font-weight:400">
<span style="font-weight:400">The smile on Shalltear’s face disappeared. Her eyes ring at the wailing man, who was holding onto his bloody stub.
<span style="font-weight:400">“And now you’re screeching like a pig… Hmph, know that you are lucky to die painlessly after daring to touch my body which belonged solely to <i><span style="font-weight:400">Him</i><span style="font-weight:400">.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Shalltear casually flicked her hand as she muttered quietly, and the man’s head fell to the earth as well.
<span style="font-weight:400">How had she chopped his head off with her unarmed, dainty and slender hands? The nightmare before them hardly seemed real. The bandits were terrified beyond all capacity for rational thought, unable to react in the wake of this tremendous shock. However, what they saw next snapped them back to their senses.
<span style="font-weight:400">The fresh blood spurting from the severed portions of the body moved as though it had a will of its own, gathering above Shalltear’s head and forming an orb of blood that eclipsed the moon in the sky.
<span style="font-weight:400">Shalltear and those within the coach knew this was the effect of the skill called [Blood Pool]. However, the first thing these clueless bandits thought as they saw this
<span style="font-weight:400">inhuman ability was:
<span style="font-weight:400">“She’s a magic caster!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Anyone who understood magic should have been able to give a more urate
<span style="font-weight:400">warning. “Magic casters” was a very broad term which referred to many professions and jobs, and the means of dealing with them were just as varied. In particr, one might think of Shalltear — who only wore a dress — as an arcane magic caster, or perhaps a spiritual magic caster. However, none of them spoke a warning like that. One could thus conclude that none of them knew anything about magic. In other words, they thought of anything they could not understand as magic.
<span style="font-weight:400">As Shalltear realized this, all interest she had at these panicking bandits, who desperately raised their swords against her, disappeared.
<span style="font-weight:400">From her shadows, two vampire brides arose.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Go. Clean this mess up. Also, leave this one and that one… understood?”
<span style="font-weight:400">““Yes, Shalltear-sama.””
<span style="font-weight:400">Carnage.
<span style="font-weight:400">In just a few moments, wails of grown men echoed throughout the woods. Bodies fell to the ground, while their blood moved towards the orb of blood in the air above Shalltear’s head, leaving a lifeless, dried up husk.
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack could only smile stiffly as he watched the horrific sight before him.
<span style="font-weight:400">He wanted to vomit as he smelled teh blood which came from the carnage before him.
<span style="font-weight:400">Men had their hands and feet torn off like scraps of paper, and skulls popped between paired hands like ripe pomegranates.
<span style="font-weight:400">A breastte was ripped off and a hand stabbed into the now-exposed belly. When it came back out, it took several meters of gleaming, slippery intestine with it. The fact that the victim was still alive after that spoke of the resilience of mankind.
<span style="font-weight:400">A man was squirming on the ground, trying to flee even with both legs broken. White spikes — his broken bones — protruded through his skin and flesh. He was desperately trying to crawl away with his hands, struggling to get himself away from the source of this horror, wanting to stay alive for just one moment longer.
<span style="font-weight:400">The beautiful girl looked at the man groveling at her feet, and her shrillugh was unpleasant.
<span style="font-weight:400">How had things ended up like this…?
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack thought as hard as he could.
<span style="font-weight:400">His hand instinctively reached for the shortsword he had hidden inside his clothing. But even then, it gave him minimalfort.
<span style="font-weight:400">Why was his sword so small? How could it possibly stand up to these monsters which could twist off men’s arms so effortlessly?
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack hugged himself, as though trying to conceal his presence.
<span style="font-weight:400">The monsters were simply choosing not to attack him at the moment… If he tried to flee, they would most likely do something that would make him regret such hasty decision.
<span style="font-weight:400">Something painful… and nausea-inducing, for instance.
<span style="font-weight:400">Just who was she? Zack did not recognize that silver-haired girl at all. He would’ve definitely recognized such beauty if he saw her before, but no matter how much his rattling mind struggled to jog the memories out to the surface, nothing came to mind.
<span style="font-weight:400">And just as he thought about that —
<span style="font-weight:400">“Zack-san,e this way.”
<span style="font-weight:400">—A gentle, dulcet voice came from behind him,pletely at odds with the cruel scenery in front of him.
<span style="font-weight:400">A familiar voice…
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack looked fearfully behind himself, and saw the maid, the one apanying the old butler, standing before him.
<span style="font-weight:400">Her expression did not match the haughty and argumentative maid that he knew her for. If he had been calm enough, he might have felt suspicious about this, and perhaps attempted to connect the dots that she might be the silver-haired girl’s maid.
<span style="font-weight:400">But Zack — who had been driven into confusion by this bizarre world and the stink of blood — had no energy left to suspect anything.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What are those monsters?!” Zack wailed, his voice cracking, at Solution, the maid who seemed to be of nobility herself and who knew nothing of the world.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Why didn’t you tell me there were monsters like these around?!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Indeed. If he had known about this beforehand, things would not have ended up like this. The bitch before him was responsible for the frightening scene before him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t keep quiet, speak up! Let’s get this straight, this is all your fault!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Anxiety and terrorbined to impel him forward, and a furious Zack could no longer bear it. He reached out to grab Solution by the cor and roughly shook her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...I understand. Please follow me.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You… are you going to save me?!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“No, I simply wish to take thisst chance to enjoy you.”
<span style="font-weight:400">An ivory-pale hand, cold as ice, gripped Zack’s own. Softly, ever so gently. A stark contrast to how the haughty maid had acted before.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You… What are you doing?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“What do you think?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Her eyes suddenly dark… The bright, shimmering shine in the eyes of the young, innocentdy who knew nothing of the world disappeared right before him.
<span style="font-weight:400">All he could see… was the eyes of a monster, on par with the cruel beasts that were tearing up men like dolls behind him.
<span style="font-weight:400">He instinctively tried to pull his hands away, but her hands – with an unholy amount of strength impossible for such a lithe pair of arms – did not let go.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then… his entire hand sank into hers.
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack thought for a moment that her body was so soft that it felt as though his entire hand had gone into her. But as he looked at his hand, he realized that this was not the case.
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack’s hand had literally sunk into Solution’s arms.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What… what the hell is this!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack screamed in surprise and tried to pull his hand back, but he could not budge it. Not only did it not move back, it was sucked further in. It seemed as though there were many writhing tentacles inside Solution which hadtched onto Zack’s hand and were drawing him in.
<span style="font-weight:400">Solution’s beautiful face did not change even under these strange circumstances. She simply watched Zack in silence. Her expression was that of a scientist watching as ab animal was injected with some lethal chemical, blending a cold dispassion with curiosity and excitement.
<span style="font-weight:400">Before bing a subus, Solution relished in absorbing her victims directly into her body. And at first, she wanted to absorb the unfortunate sap before her directly. But doing it that way would require him to touch her chest, which she found now extremely unpleasant.
<span style="font-weight:400">Having been granted the seed of lust and turned into a subus, Solution was reborn both physically and mentally.
<span style="font-weight:400">She now regarded her subi form more highly than her slime form, both to show respect to the Supreme Being who had granted her this new form and power, and because of her new inclination towards favoring beauty.
<span style="font-weight:400">And just like Aika, Albedo, and the rest of her sisters who had been turned into subi, Solution had chosen Yuuji-sama as her “destined one” the moment she became a subus.
<span style="font-weight:400">Her body was now sacred, and the only one who could touch her was her destined one.
<span style="font-weight:400">Even the thought of letting someone other than <i><span style="font-weight:400">Him</i><span style="font-weight:400"> touch her was simply unpleasant.
<span style="font-weight:400">“O-Oi, stop! Let go of me!”
<span style="font-weight:400">He yelled and yelled. A scream that now filled the now silent space as the shouts of agony of the men behind him disappeared.
<span style="font-weight:400">The unreal scene of carnage behind him — forgotten due to his excitement — suddenly shed through his mind.
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack choked back the impulse to scream.
<span style="font-weight:400">Eventually, it dawned upon him.
<span style="font-weight:400">The woman baring her chest to him before his eyes was also a monster.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Did you finally realize it? Then, let’s begin the fun part, shall we?”
<span style="font-weight:400">As she said that, a pain like the stabbing of hundreds of needles radiated from his stuck hand.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Aaaahhhhh!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I am now dissolving your hands.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack could not understand these cold words through the agony which gripped him. This was no longer in the realm of hisprehension.
<span style="font-weight:400">“The truth is, I deeply enjoy watching things dissolve. Therefore, I felt it was a happy coincidence that you wanted to be inside me, Zack-san.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Giiiihh—!! Damned monster, go to hell!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Unfortunately, only one being in this entire world is allowed to be inside me and im my womanly body as his. While you… You’ll simply be a food for me to consume~”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Who the hell are you?!”
<span style="font-weight:400">The agony in his hand was slowly spreading up the rest of his arm, but the fear
<span style="font-weight:400">of impending death overrode his pain, and Zack asked his question even as tears brimmed in his eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">However, the answer made him want to stuff his fingers in his ears to deny it.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I am a predatory Slime. And a subus as well. However, that side of me is only for <i><span style="font-weight:400">Him</i><span style="font-weight:400">. Now then, since time is limited, I will need to swallow you up.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack’s arms were pulled into Solution’s body. So forceful was the suction that Zack could not resist it, even if he were capable of doing so.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Stop stop stop stop stop! Spare me, spare me, spare me please!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Zack cried and begged, but the force drawing him into Solution’s body was still very strong, enough that a human being could not resist it. His arms, his shoulders, all of them were steadily devoured by her body.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Lilia!”
<span style="font-weight:400">With thatst scream, Zack’s face was sucked into Solution’s body. Completely.