Chapter 138: Sudden Invasion
Hm?
The fairies who had been bouncing on my ass suddenly changed.
Ferris-san stopped bouncing and started trembling all of a sudden.
Bonbonbon-san also stopped bouncing and clung to Ferris-san like she was about to jump on her.
"Princess? Are you okay? Princess!"
"Something terrifying is... coming closer...!"
What the hell. Ferris-san’s voice was full of panic. She was trying to suppress her trembling and hugging both arms around her own shoulders.
"Ferris-san, are you okay?"
"...Y-yeah."
"What’s terrifying?"
"I don’t know. But I felt an incredibly powerful force..."
"Princess, is this a new prediction?"
"No. It’s not. Mars, don’t you feel it? This overwhelming power..."
"I don’t feel anything."
Bonbonbon-san shook her head left and right.
What the hell is going on? Ferris-san was breathing heavily and looked really suffering.
I turned my gaze to Shepa. If some terrifying monster was approaching, the dog girl’s excellent sense of smell should have noticed it.
But Shepa didn’t show any sign of noticing anything. She was just holding the fairies to stop them from falling off my ass.
Esty-san also didn’t seem to have noticed anything. When our eyes met, she shook her head left and right a little.
Only Ferris-san seemed to be feeling something.
What the hell was...
"...Eh? It disappeared..."
She raised her face in surprise and looked toward the entrance door.
I followed her gaze. There was nothing special. We had just finished eating, so we had left the door a little open for ventilation, but I was about to close it.
"What do you mean it disappeared?"
"I felt an incredibly powerful magic power... No, I don’t even know if it was real magic power. I felt a power that was so overwhelmingly strong that I couldn’t control my own power anymore... I was like jumping into a river wearing a water dress..."
Ferris-san turned her back.
The wings were gone from her back.
But as soon as the shape of the wings appeared, new wings formed.
I see. The fairies’ wings were made of magic. It made sense because they would get in the way when sleeping at night.
There was an existence with such overwhelming pressure that it erased magic...
"So the power you felt disappeared?"
"Yes, it vanished as if it was a lie. Mars, you really felt nothing?"
"Yes. I’m not as strong in magic as Princess, so I didn’t feel anything..."
Ferris-san looked up at me and Esty-san in turn, trying to read their expressions.
"...It seems only I felt that power."
"Hmm. I wonder what it was. It’s worrying, but since it disappeared, I guess we don’t have to worry about it?"
This was the edge of the forest, so maybe a spirit living in the forest had passed by.
But if that were the case, it would be strange that Esty-san, who had been living in the forest, couldn’t guess the identity of the mysterious existence.
"Hm?"
Shepa shook her ass. I quickly caught the fairies so they wouldn’t fall off.
Shepa got up and turned her nose toward the door, twitching her nose.
"Hm? Hm? Hm?"
"Hey, Shepa, what’s wrong?"
Shepa looked confused. What was going on now?
When Ferris-san seemed to calm down, Shepa started sniffing the outside of the door. Was there something out there?
"I couldn’t tell because of the fish smell... It smells like Baka."
"Kiii! Who is Baka! I won’t allow anyone to insult a fairy!"
Bonbonbon-san started thrashing in my hand.
Because she was about to jump at Shepa, I held her small but heavy breasts to keep her from jumping, with just enough force.
"No, it smells like Baka!"
"If you say Baka, you’re the Baka!"
"No, it really smells like Baka!"
Shepa probably wouldn’t call someone else Baka...
"Ah! It’s Baka!"
The next instant—
Gii gii gii...
While pressing my ass against the door, the capybara girl came walking in backwards.
Her ass shape was round and cute like everyone else’s, so I couldn’t tell who it was from the back, but judging from the situation, it was Lucia the Baka.
She was carrying a pot with both hands. Her face when she turned around was definitely Baka. Since she had been a beautiful girl with divine-like proportions before, she still looked beautiful even after becoming a capybara girl.
"Kemolori-sama ordered me to bring soup."
I see.
Finally, I got a punchline!
...But, I see, that makes sense.
The pot Lucia was holding was steaming. It was freshly made.
The capybara girls probably realized Baka’s true identity.
On the night I rescued her from the cell, she slept with me in the same room and when we woke up in the morning there was one more capybara girl, so of course they would realize.
No, there’s also the possibility that she was so laid-back she didn’t care even if the group increased by one...
But, anyway, Kemolori at least knew Baka’s true identity.
Kemolori had met me and Lucia earlier than the other capybara girls and heard our normal conversations when I was making her bladder release the poison.
Even if she was half-conscious from the poison and didn’t remember anything, since she asked Baka to bring soup, it meant she believed it was possible because Baka was there. She definitely remembered.
Lucia probably transformed into a capybara girl after coming close while still in human form.
That’s why Ferris-san first noticed the magic power of human-mode Lucia, and then Shepa noticed the smell of a capybara girl.
Up to this point, I had instantly understood.
But there was one thing I couldn’t figure out.
Why was the ’Kemolori’ that Lucia spoke of pronounced like ’Oni-tsuji’ from ’Oni-tsuji Kan’...? Are the Upper Capy and Lower Capy still alive...?
I carried the fairies on my head to the door, went to meet Baka, grabbed both her arms, and lifted her up, bringing her to in front of the fireplace.
"Put that down there."
"Hn."
Baka placed the soup pot on the fireplace.
I sat in front of the fireplace while still holding Baka.
"This girl is the capybara girl Baka."
"I’m Esty."
"I’m Baka..."
If she was going to say it so sadly, she should have introduced herself as "Rapini" instead...
While heading toward the next room, Esty-san continued talking.
"I’ve never heard of capybara girls, but in Montvant recently, they call small beastmen capybara girls?"
"It’s not exactly that. It seems they call them beastmen or mixed breeds, so we named them that."
"I see. It’s good that you gave them a name. Only races that have close relationships with humans like horse girls and dog girls get names."
Esty-san came back with a cup she had taken from the basket in the next room.
She poured soup into the cup and offered it to Baka.
"You worked hard in the cold. Warm up."
"I’m full."
Baka shook her head and refused the soup, then pointed at Esty-san’s fluffy tail.
"But I want to warm up with this because it’s cold."
She jumped down from my thighs and stuck to Esty-san’s butt, using her short hands to pull Esty-san’s fluffy tail like a scarf.
Then Shepa covered Baka and hugged her.
It was unclear whether Shepa was trying to warm Baka with her own body heat or whether Baka was using Shepa’s body heat, but the three beast girls became one.
When beast girls warm each other, they also warm the other beast girl with their body heat.