I Was Transported to Another World with a Male-to-Female Ratio of 1:3000 and Made into a Breeding Pet for the Demon Lord’s Army - 122

Chapter 122: If You Think So, There’s Nothing to Fear

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“Don’t bring him back… You said?”

“—That’s right…”

When Fiilia heard those words, she blinked as if she were looking at something unbelievable. Her expression showed she couldn’t quite catch up with the meaning.

“I see. So that’s why you seemed oddly calm… I’m sorry, Arz-san. Luna-san must’ve hit her head and gone a bit strange it seems.”

“Not at all! I’m completely normal and not hurt anywhere!”

Fiilia reached toward me with her staff as if to cast a healing spell, so I grabbed her arm and tossed the staff aside.

“Actually, I’d been worrying ever since I saw the people in this mansion. I wondered whether our way of dealing with Ken-chan was still immature…”

After listening to Arz, I let out the dark thoughts that had been swirling in the depths of my chest. Of course, we cared for Ken-chan. But the feelings and actions the people in this mansion had toward Kushina were nothing short of remarkable.

They restrained their urges to attack and mate, and sometimes even sacrificed their racial pride—those weren’t things just anyone could imitate. If I had been in the same situation here with Ken-chan… Yeah. I would have definitely attacked on the first day. If mating scared him, I’d have practiced with him until he got used to it ♡ and squeezed every last drop out of Ken-chan.

“Um… I understand that Luna-san is being unusually remorseful, but how does that worry relate to giving up on rescuing Ken-chan exactly?”

“Think about it. Even Kushina, the male who had been treated more dearly than Ken-chan, ran away. Given that, Ken-chan probably wants to go home just as much… No, he must want it even more.”

When I thought back, I had accidentally scratched Ken-chan when I tried to pat his head, hugged him until he fainted, and more. Worst of all, we’d locked Ken-chan in a cage as a spectacle and sold his used clothes, underwear, photos of him sleeping, and even bath photos all over the demon world. Even though it had been under Demon Lord’s orders, perhaps having his private life exposed like that had been something he truly hated.

“After all, wouldn’t he be happier in a human nation where values matched his, rather than being bound in the demon world…?”

That thought kept crossing my mind. Were we demonfolk getting in the way of Ken-chan’s happiness? Did the very fact of being with him make things wrong? The thought squeezed my chest.

Arz had said that males sacrificed their bodies and hearts for mating…. But I couldn’t bring myself to want to mate at the expense of Ken-chan! If it came to that…

“—I will stop bringing Ken-chan back instead!”

This time I had made up my mind and my heart as I declared my intention strongly. Yes… That was right. This was the best way to protect him from other demons. I loved Ken-chan. Precisely because I loved him, I should leave him be!

“Haa… I thought Luna-san was kind of dumb, but you’re stupider than I imagined.”

“W-what did you say! I used my head I don’t normally use and thought about this desperately!”

Despite that, Fiilia coldly cut me down as if she was exasperated with me.

“It’s sad for me to part with Ken-chan too! Still, I decided that because I thought he might be happier that way!”

Just thinking about separating from Ken-chan made my chest feel like it would split into two, and I’d probably die from withdrawal because I couldn’t feed on Ken-chan’s essence. My body would immediately go all-out craving him and run wild, and in the end I’d die of hunger—that much was obvious. Even so, to call the resolve I chose—letting go of Ken-chan—“stupid” was something I could not accept!

“First of all… You’ve been talking as you please a lot until now, but tell me. Did Ken-chan say any of that himself?”

“He didn’t say it, but maybe he was too scared to say it, right…?”

“That’s really unlike you… Usually you’d say, ‘Ken-chan surely loves me!’ and be absolute about it… I’ll cast a healing spell anyway. And, just in case, I’ll give you resistance to mind-control magic too.”

A magic circle surrounded me and the healing spell activated. I’d thought she was joking, but she really did cast a spell to protect against brainwashing magic.

“Even if Ken-chan said he wanted to leave the demon world, I can’t understand why he would leave on his own… Well, Luna-san who doesn’t know the pain of losing someone important might not get it.”

She frowned in displeasure while casting the spell.

“I lost a human friend once.”

Fiilia gripped her necklace strongly as if remembering something. If I recalled correctly, it was the keepsake necklace she had sometimes mentioned, a memento from a human named Lilith.

“The day I more or less forcibly took her away from her human homeland, I stayed awake at night regretting whether it was the right thing to do. I wondered if, without me, she would have had calmer, happier days as a human—if she really wanted to return home…”

Squeeze…!

“But in the end, she smiled in the end! She entrusted me with it! Regardless of my guilty feelings, she told me I was her ‘most important person!’”

As she spoke fervently, pleasure and sadness mingled on her face.

“In the end, her wanting to go home was just my own delusion… So it’s cruel to worry on my own and let her go on my own! Ken-chan might think Luna-san is his ‘most important person’!”

Couldn’t you assume those convenient outcomes? That Ken-chan thought of you as his “most important person”?

To expect, cling, and fit him into my idolized image… Wouldn’t that make me the same as the females who had tormented Kushina?

“Then… What if we rescued Ken-chan and he rejected us? What if the moment we hugged him he said ‘I hate you’… Ah no.”

I pictured an imagined Ken-chan rejecting me and instinctively retched.

“If he rejected us, we’d talk it out, listen properly to his reasons, and improve things to make everything better… Ken-chan can talk now.”

“—Improve…?”

“Yes… I’ve been fixing things one by one even under Ken-chan’s nitpicky complaints like ‘don’t spoil the book for me’ or ‘always put meat in the herb soup.’”

Fiilia puffed her chest out proudly and spoke with pride.

“If you want to make someone happy, you build the foundation of that happiness yourself! Male or female, demon or human—those things don’t matter! Abandoning the foundation halfway is simply out of the question!!!”

Her voice held a confidence she never showed otherwise.

“So I intend to stay at Ken-chan’s side until I die… This is my final promise with Lilith! If Luna-san gives up, then go ahead and give up by yourself. I’ll be going to greet my future grandchildren.”

With that said, she quietly lowered her staff and stared at the map with a serious expression, thinking about where to begin searching to rescue Ken-chan.

“I also agree with Fiilia-sama’s opinion. We are constantly working to improve Kushina-sama’s comfort. So we’ll go directly to pick up Kushina-sama, confirm why he left the mansion this time and what was wrong, and persuade him to come back.”

“And what if… It was something that simply couldn’t be fixed?”

When asked, she showed a momentary gesture of thought, but she soon looked back at me resolutely.

“Even then, we will improve it. I… I’m hopelessly in love with Kushina-sama after all.”

“…I see.”

I probably had been unconsciously afraid. That was why I’d come up with this ridiculous idea…

Slap!

I slapped my own cheek hard, and a dry sound echoed through the room.

“—We will save Ken-chan!”

This time—this time I made a decisive, unwavering declaration! Yes! If it meant I could keep Ken-chan, I would offer my body to any extent! If Ken-chan disliked  the claws I was proud of, I’d have them shaved without hesitation. If my traditional fangs scared them, I’d pull them out! Ear, tail, coat—if it was for Ken-chan, I would give up nothing! Because I loved Ken-chan!

“That’s right. Luna-san is dumb, so you just need to act first rather than think. The smart thinking part will be properly handled by me!”

“That’s right. The ‘Moonlight Luna,’ an executive of the Demon Lord’s Army, is fully revived! …Hey! You just mocked me!”

“I didn’t. I only spoke the truth…”

Honestly, I had a mind to punch her, but she had woken me up, so I forgave her just this once.

“I’m relieved to hear Luna-sama will cooperate with the search. I don’t think the people who took Kushina-sama will simply return him to the human nation. In the worst case, they could even make him the breeding stallion of their organization.”

“Hmm… Now that you mention it, that’s true.”

Luring him back with the promise of sending him home and then imprisoning him—that was the most realistic scenario. Considering how much trouble they had taken to get them, nothing else made sense. Why hadn’t I noticed that simple possibility, I wondered!

“Yes, let’s help! Let’s help right now! Wait for me, Ken-chan!!! Your future brides are coming!!!”

“W-wait! Even if you’re rescuing him, we don’t know where to go…”

Grab!

Fiilia firmly grabbed my neck as I tried to leap energetically out the window.

Snap!

From behind, I thought I heard a light breaking sound and Fiilia’s noisy voice, but it was probably my imagination. Right now, Ken-chan mattered more than that!

“If only we could get even a small clue to pinpoint their location…”

“Indeed. If we at least knew the general area, all our beastmen could set out and use scent to track him down…”

Even if beastmen had keen noses, finding a single male in the vast demon world was impossible. No matter how strong Ken-chan’s scent was—even if it could force arousal—still… Hmm?

“Scent… That’s it! Everyone! Send letters to the castle at once! The contents will be—”

I set about writing letters to my castle and the Demon Lord’s Castle to verify something.

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