The Monster And The Basement
We took a breather after washing our bodies and had our meals.
Even when her body was caressed by the slime, Mayria didn’t get angry for real.
We ended up becoming lovers with a good vibe straight-up though…..I can’t do thiss.
And then, I mixed sleeping medicine into the meal as well.
“Zzzー……zzzー……”
Now, the Female Magician has a sleep-inducing eye mask worn on her anew and is sleeping.
A gemstone is attached to the eye mask as well, and it’ll shine red when she wakes up.
Which means pretending to be asleep will be exposed.
And for her clothes, I wore a white one-piece on her. I also put on her underwear.
Some time after putting Mayria to sleep, I sent a message to Yuri and waited in the room while monitoring her condition.
Yuri showed up after a while.
“Shino, I’m coming inー”
“Kyuー!”
“Go ahead”
I’m acting like I own the place in somebody’s room. I invite Yuri into Mayria’s room.
Yuri, disguised as Mayria until she entered the room, undid her transformation.
“Has everybody, left the mansion already?”
“Probably”
“Have Yuri and Lucy-chan eaten breakfast?”
“We ate. Noble households do be eating good stuff huh, seriously”
As part of the bandit group, did she not have proper meals?
No, I guess it’s just a difference between commoners and nobles.
“That woman, is she sleeping?”
“Aah”
By the way, in the current positioning, Mayria is sleeping on the bed.
I’m sitting at the edge of that bed.
Yuri standing in front of that.
Lucy-chan is riding on her shoulder.
“……did you do it?”
“Aah”
“Hmーm……. This bitch”
‘Bitch’, you say.
“In this situation, it feels like I’m in the position to be berated though?”
“Are you telling me to go against Shino with my position?”
“……well, I guess it’ll be ‘don’t ask for the impossible'”
It seems Yuri has the intention of fully understanding her position.
She’s proclaiming, ‘I’m a sex slave’, after all.
……I end up feeling she’s somewhat smart. Or maybe I could say cunning.
I feel like she knows the how-tos of survival.
If I misjudge Yuri’s treatment, it feels like she’ll straight-up group up with the Princess’ side and try to survive.
I suppose that’s also only natural though.
At this point in time, the case for the Female Bandit to go that far to go into the Princess faction is weak.
But, they do feel like they’ll hit it off after all, Princess and Yuri.
Especially if it shapes up to viewing Demihumans with hostility, rather than me, the Princess is more…….
“What, Shino?”
“……no, it seems Mayria didn’t really have any relationship with men, so I was wondering if ‘bitch’ is the right word. Furthermore, she became my lover after all”
“Loverr?”
“Kyuu!?”
You don’t have to be that surprised.
“Hmmm. Embraced by Shino when she doesn’t even know of other men? Her life is messed up huh, this woman. She probably can’t be satisfied with other men anymore”
“……what does Yuri, think I am?”
You’re putting it like I drugged her or something and violated her.
“You’re the Hero, right?”
“You blurted something unimaginable of an evaluation of the Hero though?”
Well, I mean, I can’t deny it though.
“Haa? ……Shino, you know youu. Aren’t you thinking of yourself, as a normal human or something? You are, a Hero……uun. You’re a monster, you know? Are you self-aware of that?”
“Monster……”
Not a Hero, huh.
“Acting like you’re a normal human, when you have powers like that of a monster, is a bit infuriating, you know?”
“…………hmm”
Infuriating huh.
“Even for that woman, you embraced her using plenty of your powers, right? During sex, you broke her down like crazy, didn’t you? That woman, she probably came a whole lot anyway, right”
“……well”
“Right? If you act like a normal man over there, it’s kinda, you know? Think about it, Shino. If you’re calling her a lover or whatnot, when it comes the time that you want to abandon that woman. What will happen if Shino says 『how about you forget about me and find a normal man or something?』. ……it’s fine if you’re really a normal man. But, women, will have their eyes opened to the fact that there are no men better than you. Being abandoned by you then, will be the worst, will be despairing, and it’ll be brutal, right?”
“……is it something like, take responsibility now that I’ve done it?”
“It’s not responsibility though. It’s ‘stop saying things with the face of a normal human'”
“I see”
It sure is an important perspective huh.
It’s been confirmed that me, I’m clearly not an ordinary person when it comes to this world after all.
……I guess it’ll be infuriating if I talk like a normal human.
It goes for the Princess’ perspective as well, and if she thinks 『it’s repulsive when an Otherworlder speaks like a normal human』……getting her affection level to the highest value, will be all too difficult. I’ll have no choice but to rely on the skill more and more.
If I do that, it’s no different from drugging and having sex with her.
Or hypnosis. I guess it’s both.
……being called a monster is also understandable huh.
“It’d be great if my combat power is also a monster though. In any case, I see. Well, Mayria is needed after all. The direction is the same as well after all. The direction of making Mayria open her eyes and be self-aware that she can’t be satisfied with other men isn’t bad. I was considering the same thing as well after all”
“……you’re not gonna get angry, Shino? Then, you won’t get angry even if I call you womanising shitbag?”
“I don’t really mind, but are you waiting to get punished? Yuri”
“I’m fine with that too”
Yuri sat down beside the me who’s on the bed.
“Shino, this woman is your lover, and I’m your sex slave?”
“Dissatisfied?”
“I am dissatisfied. I was the one, embraced by Shino first, wasn’t I”
“……based on Yuri’s argument, it seems Yuri who was embraced by me also can’t be satisfied with other men though?”
“That’s right. It can’t be anybody but Shino anymore. If I get abandoned by you, I’ll be killed anyway after all”
“I see”
“It’s not like I mean to overstep. I understand that, to Shino, the Princess is number one, a first-class woman. …..but you know. I can’t accept being overtaken by even this woman.
……she’s seriously straight-up, talking to me as my woman huh, Yuri.
Like I said, I’m your father’s murderer.
“Then, Mayria is also my sex slave”
“……you’re dropping her? Is that, acceptable in society?”
Society, huh. Mayria is a noble lady after all.
The Princess is my ‘official lover’, but……according to Mayria, as long as she travels alongside me, society will apparently see Mayria as the Hero’s woman as well.
Which means she’s either my mistress, my concubine, or one of my lovers…….
When I consider Mayria’s renown and popularity, making her a sex slave, is bad for reputation.
I guess it’s better to argue for an official relationship we both consent to, as one of my lovers.
However, if it becomes like that, it doesn’t sit well with Yuri, in her position.
She, quite literally, shouldn’t be in a position where she can argue so much, but……that being said, I guess there’s no reason to not negotiate either. I suppose Yuri understands that I’m at least not proactively trying to kill her.
Which means risking it and requesting to improve her position isn’t a bad move either.
“Then, both Yuri and Mayria are my women. Behind the Princess’ back, sex slaves through the skill”
While hugging Yuri’s waist, I stared into her eyes and told her that.
“Hahaa……. Shino is messed up as well huh? Is it alright for the Hero to be like that? Being promiscuous and whatnot”
“Having killed more than 10 people, I’m not going to give a shit about being a gentleman in sexual relationships, right. It’ll be the worst if I say things like 『how can a woman say something like that』 or 『I want a relationship with moderation』 here, isn’t it?”
After all, ever since coming to this world, I’ve been a murderer, a voyeur, and a number of others.
“That’s right, that’s right. Because Shino isn’t a normal human; hold onto that feeling, alright?”
“Got it”
I kiss with Yuri while saying that.
“Nn……chuu……”
“Kyuu, kyuー!”
Nn? Lucy-chan, while hiding her face with her hands, is looking over here from the gap of her small fingers.
What’s with that, that cliché pose. How adorable.
“Nnn……haa”
“Lucy-chan, come here”
“Kyu?”
I, extend my hand to Lucy-chan who rode on Yuri’s shoulder.
“Kyu kyu!”
Lucy-chan went, ‘tap tap tap tap‘, along our bodies and took her place on my shoulder.
“Kyuー!”
“There, there”
I pat Lucy-chan’s head for her.
“Then, I guess we’ll bring Mayria to the basement”
I carry the sleeping Mayria and leave the room.
Having received my share of the benefit of ‘women’, it won’t be balanced if I don’t help people in this world.
Mayria is a convenient woman to me, and a demon to Lucy-chan.
It sure is problematic how I should treat her huh.
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“What is Shino going to do, with that woman”
“I wonder what I’m going to do”
“As a *woman*, she already wants to stick to Shino, right? How about you make her cooperate normally?”
“That’s true, but……being in the position of a noble, we don’t know how she’ll respond, when she gets pursued about her hidden misdeeds”
“Then, restrain her hands and legs tightly, make it so that she can’t use magic either, and interrogate her”
“There’s the need for that, but if I do that, then the relationship I went through the trouble of building will, you know”
Well, it’ll go down that route in any case though.
We go down the stairs of the basement, in Youmisiria Territory.
“Kyuー……”
“The number one priority is to save Lucy-chan. I’ll go all the way for that, alright”
“Kyuー!”
The basement isn’t particularly hidden.
There’s nothing sorcery-like, nor any hidden doors.
Yuri opens the basement’s door.
“……hmm”
The basement, is a reasonably spacious laboratory? with apparatuses of this era, of this world-ish.
There’s a clock as well.
Mayria had talked a little bit about it as well; there are apparently things the extent of batteryless-type machinery and mechanisms in this Otherworld as well. It seems there’s nothing like ‘scientific technology is obstructed by the law of the world’ either after all, so even if you bring mecha-type into this world, they’ll work.
……in the future, it might tie into something I can do, so let’s keep it in the back of my mind.
Documents that Mayria, compiled? are also being stored neatly on the bookshelves.
And then, at the back is a door as well.
Behind that door……there are Demihumans that had human subject experiments conducted on them huh.
“Kyuー……”
“Are you alright? Lucy-chan”
“Kyuu”
I pat Lucy-chan, who’s clinging tightly to my shoulder, calming her down.
In front of the door on the inside, is a single large corridor. At the two ends of that……are numerous iron grills.
“Hey, Shino”
“What Yuri”
“The maids, you know. They asked me 『what about the meals underground?』. Before leaving the mansion. In other words, it means it was told to this woman, Mayria”
Meals?
“How did you answer?”
“I answered, ‘carry on preparing the share for today’. In other words, in this underground……”
“……there’s *something* alive?”
“I suppose so”
I wonder what’s the direction of Mayria’s research.
Does ‘Demon Lord counter-strategy’ mean it’s a human body’s……Monsterfication?
She’s fond of Lucy-chan after all, so I think there’s no mistake that it’s human body modification-type though.
“The prepared meals, what kind were they? ……were they meals that seemed edible to people?”
“Who knows? I only asked for it. Isn’t it already after it’s been provided?”
Are their bellies filled? I’m kinda scared to go and see.
I mean……the form of the remnants of what was, formerly, a human……is in front of here, right?
It feels like it’ll be harsh psychologically.
Furthermore, if I have no means of helping them……I’ll just simply suffer psychological damage.
“I guess I’ll wake Mayria up and interrogate her first…..”
I, decided to keep the lid on Pandora’s box.
If she’s leaving the meals to the maid, then I guess the misdeeds are being shared.
It seems her trust in the maids is deep.
And then, it’s a ‘she’s not worried that those maids will be attacked’ level of danger?
Well, they might be being chained up on the other side of the iron grills though…….
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I close the door that continued inside for now, and seat Mayria on the laboratory?’s chair.
I carry on firmly supporting her because it feels like she’s going to fall over since she’s sleeping.
I remove the sleep-inducing effect eyemask.
I designated something light for the medicine, so it shouldn’t be that deep a sleep.
The handcuffs are already equipped. I move her hands around to the back of the chair and restrain her hands behind.
The legcuffs are also affixed with a serious magic restriction……with fluffy cuffs and a short chain.
It’s that huh.
The kind where if I roll her onto the ground and connect her handcuffs and legcuffs, I can restrain her in an arched back.
I’m just gonna wrap a rope around her waist・belly part onto the chair, restraining her body as well in a way that it lifts her breasts from below. I wonder if it’s better to emphasise her breasts more?
“……Shino, you know youu”
“Kyuuー……”
I can somewhat hear disapproving voices from the observing ladies.
If I’m going to restrain her, it’s only natural for me to emphasise her boobs, so I’m gonna ignore them.
I lightly slap Mayria’s cheek after I finish restraining her.
“What about that bzzt?”
“Bzzt? The electric shock huh. I’ve made it so that it’ll activate if she tries to harm Lucy-chan”
“Kyuー?”
I continue lightly slapping.
“Uu……?”
“Mayria, wake upー”
This intimate way of calling out to her, despite having restrained her.
I, sure am a ridiculously psychopathic kidnapper huh.
“Uu……uu? Shinta-san……?”
“Mayria, morning”
“Uu? I……?”
“After the meal, I put you to sleep”
“Put to slee-……? Nn!?”
“Kyu!?”
I kiss the restrained Mayria. There’s no resistance. It’s because she still even hasn’t managed to take in the situation. Even when I stick my tongue in……it’s a-okay-ish.
“Nn, nn, nnn!? Chuu……hah, haa……Shinta-san……”
It seems even just kissing feels good.
Drawing a string of saliva, Mayria looks back at me with a dazed expression.
I kinda don’t know how to feel when the other party is clearly feeling better than me.
“Kyuー……”
“Eh? Lucy? H-, huh? This is……”
, after the deep kiss, the Female Magician finally starts comprehending the situation.
“I’ve restrained you. For magic-related things, I’ve sealed them with my skill. ……well, whether or not that’s effective, we won’t know unless we actually test it out though”
“Re-, restrain……is it? Eh? Shinta-san? Wh-, why……”
Mayria, completely changing from her enchanted expression, is in confusion.
She checks out the situation around, her own body, and confirms that she can’t move her limbs.
“Shi-, Shinta-san……what exactly is this?”
“Nnー. Do you have the recollection? Last night, you spent it with me in bed. We washed our bodies with the slime bath in the morning after that. After that, you ended up falling asleep after a short while”
“……I-, I do remember though”
“Uh-huh. In the meal we ate in the morning, I added in a mild sleeping medicine. I wore a mask affixed with a sleeping effect on Mayria after that. This right here”
I, wave the eye mask I removed from Mayria just now and showed her.
“…………why, have I, ended up like this?”
“About that”
I, bring an identical chair over in front of the chair Mayria is sitting in, and I sit in it.
“It’s because I wanted to ask Mayria”
“……ask?”
As expected, because the situation is overly incomprehensible, Mayria had turned into a serious expression. I, lean slightly forward, and stare at those eyes fixedly from the front.
“Rather than ask, it’s interrogate. ……I’m gonna clarify beforehand, alright, Mayria”
“……what is it?”
“My desire for you in bed is genuine. I want to embrace you as a woman, I want you to tag along on the skills’ research, and I also want you to come on the Demon Lord subjugation’s journey”
“…………well then, why, are you doing something like this?
“I guess it’s so that I don’t give Mayria a weird misunderstanding. I said it already, but I’m no Hero of justice. That’s why, for me, it doesn’t particularly matter even if Mayria is a criminal. ……can I have you understand that?”
“……I’m a criminal?”
“Aah, no. I don’t know whether or not you’re a criminal per se. I, don’t know the official laws of this world after all. ……it’ll be the continuation of my skill’s explanation from here on out, Mayria. A section called 『Misdeeds』 is displayed in 【Character Introduction】.
“Misdeeds, is it?”
“Aah. In the misdeeds section, all kinds of details are displayed, like things that are simply legal-wise, things that are humane-wise. There are humans who don’t have it displayed as well. ……as for the standards, I honestly don’t know. And then Mayria’s misdeeds are visible to me as well”
“……what are you saying I have?”
“『Conducted experiments with Demihumans you ordered the capture of as guinea pigs』
『Had connections with the bandit group, and commissioned them for the Demihumans’ abduction』
『Implanted the Demon Lord’s gene on a Demihuman child and turned her into a beast』
……these three.
And, it says in your profile that you’re doing human subject experiments that also encompassed magic research”
“……uu…….”
Maria shuts her mouth tightly and stares fixedly into my eyes.
It’s not like she’s glaring, but it sure changed into a sharp look huh.
“It’s not like I, want to berate you for these. As proof of that, it’s not, but……currently, I’ve had everybody clear out of the mansion”
“Clear out?”
“Aah. Feudal Lord Twight and the maids, Princess Alicia and the Chivalric Order Captain. I had all of them, go to the forest’s villa”
“…………really? How?”
“Using my skill. I can explain how I did it, but……it’s not important, not particularly. I’m capable of that. Mayria is smart, so you can probably understand. Besides, it’s not like I’m taking the Feudal Lord and the maids hostage either. There’s no need to fear that ‘help isn’t coming’ as well. I won’t hurt, I won’t kill, and I also won’t pursue Mayria’s crimes after all”
“……well then, there is no need to restrain me as well, is there?”
“That’s, well, I thought of it. Mayria was obedient to me in bed, and you’ve accepted me for real. …….at the very least, well, I think I managed to have you enjoy the deed. That’s why, well, this is a discussion, and an insurance just in case, Mayria”
“……, ……please continue. As I thought, I probably cannot resist after all”
“Yeah. Your magic has been sealed. ……it’s iffy whether it’s really been sealed though”
“But, magic will get reflected even if I cast them at Shinta-san. ……I, am a human who is magic power-leaning to the extreme and whose Aura is weak. Having my magic sealed, and against an opponent like Shinta-san whom it doesn’t work against……I, am no more than a powerless woman. The match-up is the worst”
As expected, she sure is quick to understand huh, the Female Magician.
“It’s a great help that you’re taking in the situation, Mayria”
“……what does Shinta-san wish from me?”
Time for the main topic.
“I want you to return Lucy-chan to her original form. My skill has said that, as a result of the experiment, Mayria changed a Demihuman child into this form. Cooperate in returning her to her original form and sending her back to her family’s side”
“Lucy to how she originally was……”
“If there are materials you need, I’ll get them with my skill. Returning her to how she originally was, requires the cooperation of a researcher who is detailed in her Beastification”
“…………”
The Female Magician, receives my demand, closes her eyes, and goes into thought.
“I know through my skill that she was implanted with the 『Demon Lord’s gene』 or whatnot, and her body transfigured. As well as that that Beastification is something close to a curse, and it’s something forced. Mayria had been doing human subject experiments using Demihumans”
“……you know even something like that?”
“Aah”
“I see……”
“Let me ask you frankly, if you have the materials and whatnot, is it possible to return Lucy to how she originally was with Mayria’s knowledge・ technique? Or……is it impossible?”
“……who knows, I have no idea”
Aan?
“You have no idea?”
“Kyu……?”
“Since I *did not do* the research of 『returning her to how she originally was』, the current me has no idea. That’s why if we want to return her to how she originally was, there is the need to research it from now on”
“Kyu……!!”
This shitty woman, is she serious?
“Why didn’t you do it……”
“Even if you ask me why, the research has simply not progressed to that stage yet……with time, I will probably reach there eventually”
“Haa? Then, in the first place, why did you do something like that. Did you have a grudge against Lucy-chan or something?”
“I have no grudge against her or whatnot. I simply researched Lucy because she was useful as a *subject*”
“Kyuー……!”
Lucy-chan sure is getting angry. It’s only natural though.
“Subject? Does it have something to do with the Demon Lord’s gene that has seemingly changed her form? What exactly, is the Demon Lord’s gene?”
“Yeah……”
Mayria, closes her eyes and goes into thought again.
“The ‘Demon Lord’s gene’, the only thing I can say is that it is a gene exactly as its name suggests……it is not like it has an official name. Although I understand what the term refers to, I am probably also the only one who can understand that”
Hmm. Is it again, with the complicated circumstances?
“Why, does Mayria possess something like that? How did you acquire it?”
Spare me the Demon Lord’s subordinate punchline, alright? Well, it’s unclear even whether or not the Demon Lord has free will though.
“The place I acquire it, is from the Demihumans. The Demon Lord’s gene, was something Lucy-chan had possessed to begin with”
“Kyuu!?”
“What!?”
I, looked at the Lucy-chan riding my shoulder.
“Kyukyuー!”
The ferret waves her hands vigorously.
Don’t tell me Lucy-chan is the one with the Demon Lord’s underling punchline!?
“The 『Demon Lord’s gene』 is something individuals who fulfilled the conditions amongst Demihumans possess. ……it is likely something individuals who reside near the Demon Country, and have the disposition to begin with getting influenced and possess……that is what I theorise”
A gene Demihumans who reside near the Demon Country possess?
Come to think of it, it feels like I heard something about how Lucy-chan and her family, moved over from nearby the Demon Country.
“No, but it writes in my skill that the gene was 『implanted』 , you know”
“That is also correct. I, extracted it from other Demihumans, and implanted an abundance into Lucy”
“Why did you do something like that……”
“Which stage is that 『why』 question referring to? If it is the reason I implanted an abundance of Demon Lord’s genes into Lucy, I will answer ‘it is because she was the most suitable'”
……Mayria, said she has no grudge against Lucy-chan.
The magic tool didn’t display the reaction of a lie either.
“What’s your objective, for doing the experiments? It’s something necessary for the Demon Lord counter-strategy, right?”
“It is not because it is necessary for the take-down of the Demon Lord. ……I 『tried doing it, because it felt like I could 』”
“Kyu, kyuーー……?”
She tried doing it, because it felt like she could?
“Does that mean, 『I tried doing it, because Beastification felt possible』, and that’s all there is to it?”
“Yes. That is what it is. It is not something compelled by necessity. ……it is a product of my interest”
This woman, is she mad or something. She’s totally mad!
“Shinta-san, what do you think when you look at Lucy-chan?”
“What do you mean what”
“……do you not think she is an adorable ferret? At the very least, she is not a deformed monstrosity, right?”
“……so what?”
“What is the image you associate with the phrase 『human subject experiment』? Is not it a deformed monstrosity?”
“……you are saying it is different?”
“It is different. If my objective is Monsterfication, she will not become such an adorable form. ……that Beastified form is 『a form Lucy is able to transform into to begin with』”
“Kyu?”
To begin with? Lucy-chan and I tilted our heads together.
The person herself looks like she doesn’t know though?
“……continue”
“Eeh. ‘Demihumans’……’Beastfolks’, possess furs・claws・fangs・ears・tails……such animalistic components, but they have an appearance you can nevertheless call 『human』. Wearing clothes, using tools, walking on two legs, having conversations, developing culture……”
Well, even Demihumans have created villages after all.
“Demihumans・Beastfolks, have an appearance that is a combination of human and animal components. It is a combination, you know, clearly. As long as 『humans』 have the appearance of humans, they will be an existence of 『human+animal』. …..and then Shinta-san, your existence proves that as well”
“Me?”
“Kyu?”
Whacchu on about.
“『Humans not residents of this world』 too has the appearance of a human. ……do you get it? It means that 『Demihumans and Beastfolks are anomalies』 even if you have the evaluation standards of *a different world*. This is different from discrimination. We probably ought to assume that originally, their ancestors were humans. That ended up mixed together with animals through some cause. ……in which case, if you can remove the 『animal』 component, are you not able to make them take the form of a 『human』? Or, the opposite of that of changing into an 『animal』 should also be possible……”
“Kyu, kyuー……?”
Uwah. Somehow, this, sure feels like a conversation that goes against the morals of the Otherworld.
“About the 『Demon Lord’s gene』, as I said to Shinta-san, the Demon Lord is not a singular existence. They are a combination of the parasitic plant and the monstrosity’s subspecies……. It is 『something』 that took in a huge amount of magic power and mutated. ……because it is able to give birth to living things itself with magic, able to grow even meat through Healing Magic……if you are able to clarify・preserve the mutation pattern, you will probably be able to conveniently 『transform』”
“Kyuー……”
“Rather than ‘Beastification’, it is an 『Ancestral Reversion』, Lucy-chan’s appearance. That is why, she did not become a deformed monstrosity, but has turned into the form of an adorable ferret. I researched, for her to be able to transform into 『the animal form her ancestor was』 with the blueprint in her body as the foundation. It is a mutation of the physical body, so resources for the sake of that are necessary”
“Which is making her carry a clarified blueprint of 『post-transformation』, inside the body as uncorrupted information. And then, the ability to mutate the body is also necessary. This ability to mutate is where the 『Demon Lord’s gene』 is put to use. The mutative gene……is a resource for conveniently reconstructing the body. By extracting from the other Demihumans that absorbed an abundance of it by residing near the Demon Country?, and gathering them in Lucy, I made her hold onto enough resources to mutate into the animal form from a Demihuman form. ……on that occasion, the maintenance of the Beastified state is included as well, but……that falls under the scope of 『curse』, and I think the Beastification experiment is a success.
“Kyu, kyuー……”
“……the objective of doing that is 『because you wanted to try doing it』, right……?”
“Yes. I want to know if 『Demihumans・Beastfolks’ Beastification is possible』 after researching and boiling it down, and the result of continuously experimenting is Lucy”
“……what about the other Demihumans? In contrast to Lucy-chan, you extracted the『Demon Lord’s Gene』, right?”
“For them, I am observing their progress in the dungeon on the other side of the door over there. As a result of removing the 『Demon Lord’s Gene』 in contrary to Lucy, what will happen? Is it not the influence of this gene, that their ancestors were combined with animals? In that case, if there isn’t that gene, will they gradually, become mere animals, or will they become mere humans. I am having them bide their time in the prison for the sake of witnessing that to the end”
“…………then, the people on the other side of that, didn’t become monsters or whatnot, and are just merely being locked up in prison?”
“That is right. As of now, they remain as mere Demihumans”
“……what have you done to the Demihumans you make die?”
“I cannot observe the progress if I make them die. Because the more samples the better, I have never killed the Demihumans that I procured”
They didn’t die huh.
Speaking of which, there’s no 『murder』 in the mad Female Magician’s misdeeds.
The Feudal Lord is the only one with murder-type misdeeds.
……it begs the question of ‘but so what’ though.
Their misdeeds may be separated, but as long as she had worked together with her father, I suppose she bears the same crime.
I guess I ought to consider that there are things that are still redeemable.
That it is still possible to send them, who were victimised, back to their original lives.
Rather than pursuing the perpetrator’s crime, first of all, rescuing the victims is the top priority huh……
Whether the victims will be contented with that, will come after they return to their original lives, and their safety afterwards is guaranteed.
Even if I try prosecuting House Youmisiria, it’s hard to make a case to Princess Alicia’s faction if the victims are Demihumans huh.
The kingdom-wise, the Feudal Lord and the Female Magician are higher on the priority scale, and they, who are victims, will be forced to suck it up.
Let alone that, there is even the risk that they will be led into even more extreme human subject experiments……
It’s probably no good for a Female Magician this capable to be suppressed by the kingdom.
If I’m going to hand her over, based on the current situation……it’ll be to Princess Sophia.
I sure don’t want anything about this matter to be found out by those in the Royal Castle, the ones I managed to check out.
If I were to rank the priorities,
1. Assurance of the victims’ safety hereafter, their swift return to their original lives, and the care afterwards.
2. Understanding and venting the victims’ emotions. ……in essence, the payback on the perpetrators.
……are things I have to consider huh.
Otherwise……well, problems will stick around.
I’ll have them trust me, thinking that I have an antagonistic relationship with the perpetrators, and I came to rescue the people in the dungeon as the 『Hero』, and have them understand this current situation. I’ll have them be contented with the promise that ‘they’ll be in danger if they pursue the crimes on the surface, but I’ll definitely make the immoral nobles receive their payback’……it will more or less, be compromises that I come up with though…….
“Mayria is, what kind of an existence to those in the dungeon?”
“……meaning?”
“A human who treated the victims kindly, even amongst the kidnappers? Or, the very main culprit herself?”
It’s an important part. What’s the victim’s perspective.
『She was the only one kind to us; please forgive just her』
if they think something like that, then even if I beat Mayria up and drag her in front of the cage, it will leave a horrible image of me on the victims. If I can’t get the victims’ trust, problems hereafter……. They might stick around no matter what I do.
The one to receive the payback, has to be a villain to them huh…….
