Chapter 150: Esty-san Awakens
Now, about breaking the barrier. I don’t understand it, so I’ll leave it to Baka.
"Baka, there’s a barrier up ahead, right? Can you tell?"
"Yeah. It’s a circle ahead, surrounded by magic."
"Can you break it?"
"Yeah."
"This river has the fairy village right after it, so no big explosions, okay?"
"Yeah. Break it gently."
"Puu. Uku ku ku. There’s no way a beastman like you can break a barrier. You don’t have to put up a show of pretending you’re trying hard."
"Martha!"
"Puu."
Well, Bonbon-san isn’t expecting much either. It’s impossible, since Baka is just a normal-looking capybara girl.
Baka walked with short legs, moving fast.
Then, a few meters ahead, she waved her short hands back and forth.
For an instant, a huge soap bubble appeared and then burst.
Eh?
Suddenly, Esty-san grabbed Shepa’s neck and jumped backward.
Before I could figure out what happened—
"Kyaah!"
"Abababa..."
The fairies screamed, so I looked over. Their wings disappeared from the backs of the two of them. Lucia must have used her power, and that disrupted some kind of magical field.
I reached out my hands below them so the fairies wouldn’t fall.
"Are you okay?"
"..."
Ferris-san was pale, breathing heavily, and couldn’t answer. Bonbon-san had lost consciousness and was incontinent.
"It’s fine."
I called out to Ferris-san again, then turned and said the same thing to Esty-san.
"It’s fine. Huh?"
Eh?
Esty-san had her waist lowered and was leaning forward, staring at Baka.
That was fine, but her tail had become two. No, from the angle it looked like three?
Her clothes had ridden up so much that her panties were visible, and her thighs were exposed.
I burned the sight of her thighs into my memory and circled around behind her.
Then Esty-san’s tail had three.
All of them were fluffy and thick.
What was this? Foxes that gain strength grow tails, so was Esty-san at the third stage?
"Huuu~"
Esty-san kept her eyes wide open, never looking away from Baka, and kept breathing shallowly. Ah. It was the usual pattern of a beastman who feels Lucia’s power and panics...
Shepa flipped over and started belly-surfing with kyuuun kyuun.
"You didn’t wet yourself! Good job!"
I squatted beside Shepa, stroking her belly.
"Good, good, good."
Jopaaah...
Shepa loosened up from my touch and wet herself.
"Um... It’s fine for both of you."
"...What was that?"
"Baka the capybara girl..."
"I won’t be fooled anymore. You’re not a beastman, are you...? When you appeared at the hut I was drunk so I didn’t notice, but that... How did you bring a steaming pot here?"
"Ah..."
I got caught.
Well, it would’ve been worse to hide it, so I’ll explain.
"That girl is a dragon god."
"What?"
"She only transforms into a capybara girl because she thinks beastmen will be scared. Her real self is a dragon god."
"A dragon god? That’s a lie!"
"Hey, Lucia."
I called out from Lucia’s mouth too, hoping she’d explain.
But when I looked, Lucia had vanished.
"Three fluffy tails... fluffy..."
"...!"
Lucia had become human again and was hugging her three tails, mofing them happily.
Esty-san had become rigid and couldn’t move.
"I’m a dragon god... Everyone gets scared when I touch them... It’s lonely... Do foxes get scared of me too?"
"Well... Honestly, it’s scary."
"Foxes are standing up... I can talk. Mofumofu..."
Now that she mentions it, this is the first time.
Except for the unusually dull capybara girl, every beastman who had ever touched Lucia had peed themselves and belly-surfed.
The only exception who didn’t wet herself was Letree-san, but she lay on the ground with her tail curled around her crotch and shook uncontrollably.
Thinking about it, the first time a standing beastman saw Esty-san was today. She was shaking but conscious and could talk.
"Why does everyone get scared of me? It makes me so sad..."
"Ku... Bears and lions... If they’re within ten steps, everyone’s scared. They’ll get eaten... But if it’s a dragon god, there’s no comparison..."
Esty-san spoke in a hoarse voice and swallowed hard. Talking was probably hard for her.
"I don’t eat beastmen. I can even live without eating anything."
"Even if you say that... it’s instinct... There’s no resistance... The power difference is clear. That’s why Shepa-san gave up... She showed her softest belly. That means she’s telling me to eat her and end the fear..."
"If I become a capybara girl, I’ll be very weak..."
"It’s already too late now... The moment you saw me like this..."
"Then I’ll become stronger as a fox."
"Even so, from your perspective, even if I’m weak now, I have three fox tails... If humans see me, they’ll send a magic knight squad to hunt me down... Even then, my instinct tells me I can only be someone’s food."
"Eh."
Pechin.
Pechipachi.
Lucia kept touching Esty-san’s butt. Nice. I want to touch it too.
Pon! Pon!
"Ah. Esty-san’s tails increased."
"Eh? What are you doing?"
"I opened your latent potential."
Esty-san’s tails had become nine. She had become a nine-tailed fox.
"Eh? Ah? What...?"
Esty-san slowly floated up. It was as if too much magical power or aura was overflowing and her body was floating on its own.
"Are you still scared?"
"Eh? ...Huh?"
Mofumofu.
Lucia dove into Esty-san’s paradise of nine tails.
"My back feels a little cold and tense, but it’s not that bad..."
"Then stop being scared."
"Y-yes..."
That’s good.
I dove into the tails too. It was fluffy...
"I became a beast to not scare dogs..."
Shupaaa!
Lucia glowed and changed into a capybara girl form.
She had her usual "I’m an idiot" face and was moping.
I picked up Lucia and left the tail paradise temporarily.
"I’m glad, Lucia."
"Yeah."
"Um. It feels like there’s overflowing power, but..."
"Having nine tails made you stronger."
"Kyuu, nine? That’s impossible. Nine-tailed foxes are said to bring about the end of the country. Ah..."
Fuwofuwo.
Esty-san moved a little and checked her reflection in the water, confirming she had nine tails.
"So you really have nine. What will you do if you lose control of your power and try to destroy a human kingdom?!"
"I don’t have to do anything."
"Then it’s fine, since the dragon god says so."
"That’s too much of a joke..."
"Well, if even one capybara girl gets hurt, Lucia will go crazy and meee them and the kingdom won’t be destroyed."
"Th-that’s true..."
"Yeah. If you hurt a capybara girl, I’ll meee you."
"Meee..."
Esty-san lightly shook one of her tails.
Hyuu.
Shubababa baba baaa!
The river surface split in two. Completely. The sand and stones at the river bottom were visible. Without understanding what happened, a fish jumped out from the cross-section of the river, and then the river returned to normal.
"You saw?"
"Yeah."
"I could do something incredible even without trying hard. I didn’t know..."
"Ah. I understand that feeling. I felt the same way too."
"Really?"
"Yeah. The last time I used fire magic, it got so powerful it looked like it would burn Montvant to the ground, but Lucia stopped it. It was too much..."
"Fire magic that powerful that it could burn Montvant to the ground... I’ll be careful too. I don’t want to do something like that..."
It feels nice to be understood by someone who wields terrifying power. It’s scarier than being praised.
"Hey, Lucia. Why didn’t you give Shepa and the others power too?"
"Because the blessing of Vethu interferes..."
I’d never heard of Vethu, but it’s probably a god that governs something.
"It interferes with the blessing? Like when I received Larm’s blessing from Rafilia-san at the church?"
"Yeah. But the fox didn’t receive a blessing."
"Ah~ Most beastmen get a blessing from a human god when they’re forced into slavery, or they believe in their own god. But I pretended to be human and traveled as a merchant, so I never received a blessing."
I see. Since you were pretending to be human, you didn’t receive a god’s blessing, so Lucia gave you one now.
"For now, let’s go to the fairy village. There’s a forest along the river a little way upstream that’s the fairy village."
"Yes. Understood."
Esty-san looked at Shepa.
Then Shepa floated up and slowly moved onto one of Esty-san’s tails. The tail had become big enough for Shepa to ride. It had become like a mobile with too many trays.
"I’ll ride too."
Baka jumped into the tail paradise and disappeared.
"I became able to do something incredible."
The fairies who had been lying on the stone floated up and landed on Esty-san’s tails.
"Master Masharu, will you ride too?"
"Yes! Yahoo!"
Pyo!
I jumped onto Esty-san’s fluffy tail.
Lucia was naturally obsessed with it. The golden fur felt warm in the sunlight and was fluffy because it trapped air.
My body is sinking...
I want to live here...
"Wait, Masharu-san. Don’t sleep. I don’t have any acquaintances at the fairy village."
"It’s fine."
"More..."
Fuwofuwo.
Esty-san was also floating, so there was no shaking when we moved. It was too comfortable and I got sleepy.
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