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17. Am I the New Groom? (Scene Warning) 050 – Am I the New Groom? #2
━Peet, peeeet!
The creature squirmed beneath me.
Its once cold and composed demeanor was nowhere to be seen, and now, unable to speak, it was like a beast in heat.
The excitement of those who can’t control their urges and commit crimes might be similar to what this creature was feeling right now.
But as it clenched its walls tightly and moved its hips on its own, annoyingly, it felt so good that I couldn’t help but move my hips too.
━Where are you guys? I definitely heard a sound around here. Did I mishear?
From beyond the bushes and trees, Mao’s voice echoed.
Rustle, rustle, the sound of someone rummaging through the bushes could be heard from a distance.
‘They’re getting closer.’
While my lower body was heating up, my mind was turning blank, and I had no idea what to do.
━Heeet, hurry up and give me the seed. Hurry. Ah! Hheuut!
The harpy held onto my body with her wings and shook me as if masturbating.
With a stronger force than I expected, I automatically repeated the motion of thrusting deep into her and pulling out.
‘In this situation, I’ll just finish quickly and be done with it!’
I mobilized all the strength and agility I could muster to move my hips.
━Hah! Haa… Ah! You’re too fast!
Salome, the legendary magical beast, couldn’t keep her composure and tightly embraced me at the level 13 movements I was unleashing.
As if trying to prevent me from escaping, Salome wrapped her legs around my buttocks and constricted my entire body like a noose.
━Inside! Do it inside…!
Although it became uncomfortable to move, thankfully, there was no hindrance to moving my hips.
I gathered all my mental and physical strength to release my seed inside her narrow walls.
Peet, peeeet! Peeerut! Salome kept making loud noises.
Thinking that we might get caught, I covered her mouth with my front paw, preventing her from making even the smallest sound.
━Shh, be quiet!
If someone were to glance at us, it might look like a ferocious beast was raping a woman.
Of course, if I were to explain, this was consensual, and even though I carelessly touched her tail feathers, it was Salome who openly seduced me, so it’s not my fault.
━Salome! Where are you? Are you with the one I brought? Are you taking a stroll in the garden?
The sound of rustling footsteps was getting closer.
My excitement peaked, and my lower body was taut, ready to burst at any moment.
‘d*mn it, why isn’t it coming out?’
But perhaps due to the tension, even though I had already passed the point of climax, the release was delayed.
‘I’m not excited enough. I need to try harder, more!’
Out of caution, I thrust my member into the harpy’s p*ssy with all my might.
To raise the tension even more, I covered Salome’s mouth with one hand and vigorously groped her large br*asts with the other.
━Mmmph…! Mmmph…!
The creature, with its mouth covered, seemed to want to scream something, but my front paw blocked it, and all it could make were foolish sounds.
━Mmmph!
Whether it was the pleasure of stirring her insides or something else, Salome twisted her body and flapped her wings.
‘This really looks like I’m forcing myself on her.’
Thinking that, for some reason, a chilling pleasure and sense of conquest rose up my spine.
What a luxury it is to be able to move a female and silence her, moving my hips purely on instinct.
I had become a bold male.
Truly, the alpha at the top of the species.
It felt like the male instinct to breed and multiply, to ultimately sow seeds in all the females of the species, had truly awakened.
‘You’re my female now.’
I sharpened my claws and made a diagonal scratch from Salome’s right breast down to below her navel.
Salome’s insides convulsed, tightly gripping my member to the point of pain.
━Mmmph, mmmph!
The three shallow scratches swelled up clearly and then healed almost instantly.
‘The wounds heal incredibly fast.’
They weren’t deep to begin with, and harpies probably have high recovery abilities.
Salome’s tanned skin now had three faint scars running from her chest down to her lower abdomen.
I smiled contentedly at the long scars.
Even without being told, I instinctively knew that this was a magical beast’s way of marking its territory on its female.
Comparable to a wedding ring or marriage certificate for humans.
Of course, I had no intention of marrying this creature and starting a family.
I was just excited and having a bit of fun.
━Salome, are you here? I can’t smell well because of the rain. Are you playing hide and seek?
Mao’s voice was getting closer. In response, my hips sped up to maximum, drilling into Salome’s body.
The option to stop had long disappeared from my mind.
In this situation, all I could think about was releasing inside her and impregnating her.
━Mmmph, hurry…!
Harpy Salome, freed from my palm, urged me to finish.
As the sound of rustling grass got closer, her insides tightened to the point of stiffness.
Flash.
A flash of light appeared before my eyes.
I thought it might be lightning nearby.
Soon after, a thunderous roar, as if pulling up from the axis of the stars, echoed through the Ancient Nest and the world.
Whether it was the loud noise or the pleasure of my member repeatedly hitting her cervix, Salome’s body bent like a bow and convulsed.
━Peee…!
She seemed to scream loudly, but everything was drowned out by the thunder.
Unable to hold back any longer, I released deep inside the harpy’s p*ssy.
━What’s this, you’re here. What were you guys doing? Already that close?
A large cat face suddenly pushed through the bushes.
I quickly moved away from Salome.
Still excited, I crouched awkwardly to hide the ferocious thing between my legs.
━Salome? Why are you lying down? What’s wrong? It’s raining. Lying on the cold ground will make you sick.
Mao tapped Salome’s cheek.
Salome, having reached a massive climax, seemed to have fainted, unable to move a finger, or rather, a feather.
━Ah, miss….
━Why are you like this? Did you two do something behind my back? Perhaps….
Grrr, Mao’s pupils narrowed.
Thinking I might have been caught, I averted my gaze, but Mao suddenly shouted brightly.
━You were playing hunting games without me! Harpy Salome is different from Sparrow Pepe; she gets caught easily if you bite her neck. It’s said her strength drains right out.
━Ah, yes. We were playing hunting games.
I nodded awkwardly with a smile.
It was fortunate that Mao was more oblivious than I thought.
To think that seeing Salome panting and convulsing, all she could think of was hunting games.
Perhaps she has no knowledge of s*xual matters.
Of course, that’s a good thing for me.
After one intense release, I entered a sage-like state, objectively analyzing my situation with Socratic clarity.
I had killed a magpie, eaten various fruits from the garden, including treasures Lao-Hoo cherished, and even had a tryst with a harpy who might be their subordinate or attendant.
The conclusion was clear: I needed to escape this place immediately without looking back.
━Uh, Mao. I don’t need any reward. I should head home now….
━Anyway, I’ve been looking for you guys for a while. Dad wants to see you! He said to bring you right away!
Mao jumped around happily in front of me.
Of course, my heart sank to my lower body at the words “Dad wants to see you.”
━Your father, is he the owner of the fangs at the entrance earlier?
━Don’t be scared. I told him you saved me! He said he’ll give you a big reward! Salome, you come too.
Mao licked Salome’s face, who was still lying on the ground twitching.
Salome struggled to open her mouth and convey her feelings to Mao.
━Ah, no, haa, miss…. My back is out, I can’t get up…. I need to lie down and rest a bit more.
━You’ve been working too hard. You’ve been saying you’re not feeling well lately, and you’ve been doing Magpie Johan’s share of work too. Hmm…, well, there’s no helping it. Let’s go.
Mao picked me up and placed me on her back.
Then she hopped away, kidnapping me to who knows where.
‘Well, I had a feeling this would happen. I need to revise my plan.’
I had already met two of the forest lords, who are said to be hard to meet.
Surviving after meeting them must mean great fortune follows me in the Ancient Nest.
Meeting one more wouldn’t be a big deal.
After all, they’re likely to be enemies when I get the Fruit of the World Tree, so meeting them in advance might not be a bad idea.
‘He’s a guest who saved his daughter; he won’t treat me badly from the start. I’ll make the most of this situation.’
*
━Hey, when are we getting there!
Mao kept hopping along, seemingly with no intention of stopping no matter how much I shouted.
━Hey, how much longer till we arrive?
I tapped Mao’s head with my front paw, and she finally spoke.
━Just a bit more! We’re almost there!
We had already been running at high speed for over ten minutes, but there was no sign of the journey ending.
At this speed, we must have covered at least several kilometers from the garden.
‘What’s with this distance from the garden to Lao-Hoo’s room?’
In movies and dramas, it’s often said that the rich have mansions where you need to drive from the garden entrance to the house.
I wondered if this was a similar concept, but the scale seemed too large.
‘This creature looks like a cat, but in size, it’s probably more like a tiger.’
I recalled a National Geographic documentary I used to enjoy.
A healthy adult tiger can cover about 20km in a day.
That means a single tiger needs about 400 square kilometers of territory.
Mao, Lao-Hoo’s daughter, who seems like a young child, is as big as a Siberian tiger.
I couldn’t quite gauge how big Lao-Hoo, her father, might be, but he must be enormous.
For him, 400 square kilometers might be a small figure.
No, does this calculation even make sense?
The creature I’m about to meet is the ruler of the west, one of the four who divide the endless World Tree Forest.
According to Leaf and the witch Eve, Lao-Hoo is the closest to the Fruit of the World Tree among the four forest lords.
Perhaps for them, this vast land is just a “garden.”
‘I was happy with a coffin-like stone house just the other day.’
After learning that I’m a legendary magical beast, my nose had risen a bit, but now it’s deflated again.
‘The gap between the rich and the common folk is endless here.’
Or perhaps, because this is the lawless wilds of the Ancient Nest, the gap is even more pronounced.
If there were rules here, they’d be cold words like survival of the fittest or natural selection.
━Hey, slow down a bit.
━Why, feeling nauseous? Should I lick your back?
━No, just slow down.
Mao slowed her hopping speed a bit at my request.
Of course, it was still faster than me running.
But it did buy me a bit more time before meeting Lao-Hoo.
‘I must survive at all costs. It’s not the strong who survive, but those who survive become strong.’
I quickly racked my brain, thinking about what might happen when I meet Lao-Hoo and what attitude I should take.
It was a moment when the old saying came to mind: “Enter the tiger’s den, but keep your wits about you, and you’ll survive.”
‘It’s different from my past life as a human. I have arms to climb up. There’s a ladder to rise in status!’
I didn’t forget to sharpen my claws and boost my confidence.
Repeatedly, in survival, it’s crucial to maintain a positive mindset in any situation.
━We’re here. Dad! I brought him!
Mao set me down in front of a massive cave entrance and started shouting.
From the dark cave, a pair of glowing eyes and white fangs shone brightly.
【So, you’re the white beast who saved Mao.】
A loud voice, as if resonating directly in my head, sounded.
It was a deep, thunderous voice.
【I’m grateful you saved my daughter, but I can’t just hand her over to a young man of unknown origin. Do you think you’re worthy?】
━Huh?
The honorifics slipped out on their own.
━Give me your daughter?
