Master and Slaves

“Then, Muriel, shall we go.”

I spoke to Muriel.

“Yes, Master.”

Then taking Muriel with me I left the tent where Sheena was.

…

There countless tents stood crowded together.

We walked as if weaving through the gaps.

From behind Muriel told me the route, that way right, that way left, while we walked.

“So what happened after that?”

“Yes, it was terrible.”

Until we reached the tent where Yuki was waiting I asked Muriel about what happened after.

Even after I dashed out, the fighting between the Dule unit and the demonic beasts wrapped in people had apparently continued.

Then Julius, the general, seeing that powerful magic would no longer fly, ordered the knight unit to charge.

The knights trampled the ordinary townspeople infantry protecting the demonic beasts under their horses’ hooves and buried them together with the women and children pinned to the demonic beasts by swords and spears, they said.

Rosina and the healing unit who had been watching that ignored Julius’s standby order and dashed out, and treated the injured without regard for ally Dule units, enemy ordinary townspeople infantry, or the women and children pinned to the demonic beasts.

Even now that the fighting was over, no, precisely because it was over, they would be dizzyingly busy.

They had made time for my treatment in the gaps of that.

I had to be grateful.

For the time being we had somehow won, apparently.

As for damage, it was only that several Dules had died, they said.

Those too were immediately revived by their Masters.

When the war ended they tried to rest inside the town, but they could not enter that wretched state, so they pitched tents in front of the town gate and were resting.

And Dules had entered inside the town and were doing various “processing,” they said.

Through that Muriel and the others had come in worrying about me.

Fortunately no one had any injury worth calling an injury… ah, come to think of it Cathy had fallen.

She had scrapes on her knee and chest, but without minding that Cathy had apparently gone ahead.

According to Muriel her face was pale and she looked about to cry at any moment, but everyone had jabbed that Muriel was the same.

No, not only Muriel and Cathy, everyone had apparently been like that.

That was how much they had worried about me.

That was why they had come that far…

…I had to give Muriel and the others some kind of reward.

I suddenly stopped and turned around.

“Is something the matter?”

Muriel, who had been walking diagonally behind me, tilted her head slightly and made a dubious expression.

“No…”

While saying that I stroked Muriel’s head.

“Ma-Master!”

“Now then, let’s go.”

I left Muriel, who had turned red and was confused, and went ahead.

After a little Muriel also ran and caught up and followed behind.

…

When I entered the tent, all the Dules and Rine were there.

“””””””Master!”””””””

The moment they saw me the Dules swarmed me.

“Oh, sorry for worrying you.”

I stroked their heads one by one.

Each time, the face of the girl who was stroked turned bright red.

Rina was no exception. Only Rine alone was merely embarrassed.

And last was…

“Yuki…”

“Your right hand healed.”

“No, it still doesn’t move.”

“I see… for my sake… thank you…”

Yuki wrapped my unmoving right hand in both hands and held it to her chest.

“No, more than that, I’m glad Yuki is safe.”

I don’t remember when I lost this right hand, but correcting that would be tactless, so I accepted it as it was.

And I was glad that Yuki was safe.

However Yuki’s expression darkened.

“Can I call this safe…”

Yuki dropped the white cloth she had been wrapping herself in onto the floor and looked down at her own body.

Drawn by that I also looked at Yuki’s naked body.

Blue tattoos were carved over Yuki’s whole body.

That was a magic circle of magic amplification.

And piercings were attached to the key points of her navel, nipples, and clitoris, and they were connected by chains filled with magic.

Also from her nipples and clitoris she was connected to her limbs by chains, and when she stretched her limbs the chains went taut.

Those chains were also part of the magic circle.

“…Does it… hurt?”

“Yes, I’ve already gotten used to it. Now it… feels good…”

Yuki answered the question I had somehow squeezed out while hanging her head.

Her two hands were each toying with the chains connecting her navel to both nipples.

“…A shameful body, isn’t it. It suits me perfectly.”

“Don’t say that! …Don’t say that…”

I raised my voice and denied Yuki, who was putting herself down.

However that fizzled out.

Because I did not know how terrible the things done to Yuki had been.

“Hey… why had Hiroyuki forgotten about me?”

Perhaps trying to change the heavy air, Yuki suddenly changed the topic.

She had probably just wanted to ask, but from my side this topic also felt quite heavy.

“…I wonder why… I don’t know… lately I forget a lot…”

But I tried to act brightly somehow.

I meant to say the last words while laughing, but… I don’t know if I was smiling.

“I see… if I’m at your side… maybe you won’t forget…”

“…”

Yuki turned back to me with tears gathering in her eyes.

I could say nothing, but I looked straight at Yuki.

I opened and closed my mouth trying to say something, but words would not come out.

“…I don’t know… there are times when I stop being myself…”

Then I averted my face, and the words I said felt pathetic.

I had no confidence in myself.

Like a sleepwalker, I often noticed I was in a place I didn’t know.

Truly I forget a lot… as if I am not myself.

“…I see… then I have to be even closer to Hiroyuki. If you look like you’re about to forget me, say so. I’ll show you my face like this and say I’m Yuki~.”

Yuki sandwiched my face with both hands and turned it toward her.

Then she brought her face close enough that we could kiss.

There Yuki let go of both hands.

“Please… make me Hiroyuki’s Dule.”

Yuki said that looking into my eyes.

It was like a reverse proposal, but the content was completely different.

No, in a sense the same…

I also looked into Yuki’s eyes.

“Understood…”

I answered Yuki.

Then just as I was about to put my left hand on Yuki’s left chest I came to myself with a start and looked around.

There not a single Dule was present. Inside the tent it was only Yuki and me.

“Those girls… being considerate…”

“Ufufu. They’re good Dules. I have to learn from them too…”

Yuki wore a smile.

The first time I had seen Yuki’s true smile.

Somehow nostalgic.

Nn? First time…?

“…Yuki…!”

To me, confused looking at Yuki’s smile, Yuki suddenly kissed me.

Then she wrapped my left hand that I had held out with both hands and put it on her own left breast.

“My heart is pounding. Like the first time.”

The first time… meaning she was nervous?

“That’s right…”

“Hey, do you remember? The first time, Hiroyuki came inside without even putting on a condom. I was so surprised…”

Yuki told an old story with a smile.

However I… don’t remember.

I can no longer even remember the original world.

Only about Yuki I remembered just a little, truly only a little.

“…I see. You couldn’t remember… I’m sorry…”

While I was hesitating over what to say, Yuki apologized with a face about to cry.

“Yuki doesn’t need to apologize. I’m the one at fault…”

“Hiroyuki!”

I kissed the lips of Yuki, who tried to say something.

“So… I want Yuki to make me remember… and let’s make them from now on. We’re not just the two of us anymore, but… Yuki too together…”

“…Yes, that’s right… that’s right.”

She hung her head as if dwelling on something, then raised her face with a smile as if shaking it off.

“Yuki…”

“Hiroyuki…”

I myself pressed Yuki’s left breast with my left hand.

“Thou… will Yuki… become my Dule?”

“…Yes.”

The two of us were wrapped in a dazzling light.