Butcher Demon Chapter 125

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VOL. 3 Return of the Beast

Butcher Demon Chapter 125: Anthill Castle

 

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[TL's note]

There're the character illustrations (fanarts) in the previous chapter, in case you missed it. Some(most) of them are likely to be canon according to the Author, like the sketch with Abigail and Gevaudan and the colored one in the NSFW section were posted on the original chapter page.

　

It's the third night since I left Faymbaum.

　I stared at the green flickering light from the distance in the darkness, puzzled. I wondered what it was.

　--In the end, this trip to return Ferris turned out to be a week-long round trip.

　We were almost to the base, but it seemed that Ferrari, the red ant, couldn't travel at night, so we decided to rest and not strain ourselves.

　As I was gathering branches to build a fire, I suddenly saw numerous green lights in the distant mountains where the base should be.

　My heart jumped, wondering if we were being attacked by humans, but when I listened carefully, I didn't hear any sounds of battle, and there were no flames. It seemed that we were not being attacked or anything.

　In the end, I concluded that Titania would contact me again through the Miller if something happened, so I decided to wait for dawn.

　As I calmly looked at it, I noticed that its green luminescence was slowly flickering repeatedly. It was quite quaint. It was like a light in the urban city scene at night.

　Then came the dawn .

　Early in the morning, with the sun still low in the sky, I hurried to the Ferrari and looked at the mountain, stunned.

　--What the heck is this ......?

　That one phrase sums up my thoughts.

　What I saw in front of me, illuminated by the morning sun, was an unexpected sight.

　The original base cave should have been located on a mountainside in a valley, with a dense forest of trees covering the area.

　But what about now? Not a single tree remains, and the ground is completely stripped bare. The whole area has been transformed into a rocky mountain. The rough, uneven, reddish-brown surface of the rock was clearly different from the surrounding soil.

　And if I looked closely, I could see something - probably insects - crawling around on the surface. Only its head was big and brown, the rest of its body and legs were a pale white. They looked like termites, except they were bigger. The sight would make a faint-hearted person faint.

　As I was desperately trying to figure out this mystery, I saw a figure stepping out of the cave.

　It was Titania.

"Gevaudan," a lustrous voice echoed in the center of my brain.

　I'm home.

　After seeing me wave my hand, Titania smiled at me. Her hands crossed in front of her, her figure as elegant as ever. In addition, to my surprise, she was wearing a white dress this morning.

　It was so gorgeous. I wondered if it was made of the same spider silk, and with all the glittering glitter all over her body, she looked, how to say it, divine. I felt she's like a goddess.

　I got off the Ferrari.

　I quickly ran up to her and held her in my arms.

　The sweet scent of flowers rising from the nape of her neck made my head spin. She seemed to be happy as she rubbed her cheek against my thick chest. A touching reunion. Shall we eat?　A bath?　Or ----?

　--Just as I was starting to imagine.

　I saw the color drain out of her happy expression with a puff.

　She pulled her body away and started rubbing my body with her hands. Looking serious.

　Not knowing the meaning, I had no choice but to wait while patting her head.

　Titania's hair is smooth and silky through my fingers, yet it has a strange texture to it. Every time she moves, a nice scent rises up from her head. It's a mesmerizing black hair that I can stroke endlessly and never get tired of.

　After doing so for a while, she eventually stopped moving and quietly looked up at me.

　Titania softly utters the words "Gevaudan ......" and reaches out to take my arm. And the next moment--

　Crack!　

　And then, sparks flew like static electricity, causing her fingers to spring away.

　Titania reflexively pulled her hand away, and her face went stiff with surprise.

　From her mouth, I heard a tsk sound ...... a click of her tongue.

　--Now, for a moment, a very scary face appeared.

　I didn't do anything,......, but I was scared,.......

　Titania's golden pupils shine with a mysterious glow as she holds her hand out to me, just within touching distance of my frightened face. Her left palm was blazing hot with white flame.

　--Your hand is on fire, are you okay ......?

　In spite of my worries, she began to work on me, circling and fluttering around me. She examined my stomach, then my arms, then my back, then stretched up to examine my head. She was as eager as a police officer checking for a smuggler's goods.

　After checking my entire body, Titania finally put her hand against my chest and nodded her head.

　Hah. ......And she let off a one big, loud sigh.

　The next time she looked up at me, she had a look of disappointment on her face.

　Mmmm ...... It's the face of a wife who is disgusted by her douchebag husband's returning home from the brothel.

　No doubt, what Tiriel did to me has affected you. I want to make some kind of excuse, but I can't.......

　--No, I don't have any excuse.

　I remember Tiriel explaining some skills to me, but I actually wasn't really listening. All I could think about was how I was going to get into her ass and make love to her. This is the epitome of the dumbass at its finest.

　In general, the aliens are difficult to talk to. When they get into something complicated, they suddenly start talking too fast. I don't think that's good, difficult things need to be broken down and said slowly.

 

　Titania put her fingers to her temples in a worried gesture and paced back and forth ...... back and forth ...... for a while.

　It's not comfortable to feel like I have done something very wrong.

　However, It's not the time to beg for forgiveness by flirting with her like I usually do. She was in serious mode. That's why I stood still and quiet. I became one with the trees around me and became transparent. I waited in a state of nothingness. I'd like to be sentenced to no dinner, please. Please don't sentence me to ejaculation denial.

　After much thought, a resigned smile appeared on her face, as if to say, "Well, I guess it can't be helped."

　Finally, with a small sigh, Titania grasped my fingers and pulled me along with her, leading me into the rocky wall. The tense atmosphere I had felt earlier was gone.

　Foolishly not knowing what she was angry about or why she forgave me, I followed behind her with confusion in my heart.

　We were greeted by mantis-like guards standing on either side of the entrance, and we entered the place.

　Inside a huge stone barrier that had engulfed the mountainside around where our base was supposed to be was a dark, incredibly long, and intricate underground passage.

　When I touched the inner wall of the tunnel with my hand, I found it to be strange to the touch, made of a material similar to rough, granular concrete. The cross-section of the tunnel was round and semi-cylindrical. It was large enough for two or more people to walk through side by side.

　As I walked along the underground passage, I noticed countless green light sources glowing on the walls in the pitch darkness. It gave me a strange feeling as if I was walking through the green tunnel hovering in the darkness.

　I took a closer look at the light source and found that there were little caterpillar-like creatures attached to the walls and ceiling, and their butts were glowing.

　I wondered if it was a firefly. I remembered that both eggs and larvae of fireflies glow. It's the same color I saw yesterday.

　The light emitted by a single larval firefly is only as bright as phosphorescent light, but when so many fireflies are gathered together, they produce a fair degree of light. I guess these are the ones that made the light I saw last night.

　In the tunnel, we pass a number of large dog-sized termites and Ants. They seem to be at work.

　--I had an idea of what they were doing.

　It's an Anthill.

　While I was gone, the anthill had engulfed not only the base but the entire mountain. What a surprise.

　As I walked around, watching and scurrying with excitement, Titania saw me and took the time to show me the various rooms. She was huffing and somewhat proud of herself. How cute.

　Suddenly, I came upon a room that smelled strangely savory and delicious. It smelled so good that I was tempted to go inside.

　The room was warm and humid, and the floor and walls were covered with spongy lumps the size of soccer balls.

　I snatched one of them up and held it close to my nose. Sniff, sniff. It smelled just like the scent that came from the room. What is this?

　As I gazed at the lump, Titania snatched it up and held it out to Diamond, who was attached to my shoulder. Then Diamond happily gobbled it up.

　I realized that it was a mushroom.

　The ants are growing mushrooms in this room.

　Mushrooms are dangerous. Sometimes they smell good, but ninety percent of the time they are poisonous. What is non-toxic to humans is toxic to dogs, and vice versa. There is no easy way to tell the difference. In a Survival situation, it is a massive risk. Even in Fox, eating mushrooms was considered a no-no. I'd rather starve to death than eat some random mushrooms. It's much easier to die that way. Just because diamonds can eat them doesn't mean I can.....

　Yummy!

And what's on my tongue is protein. It's a nutritional powerhouse.

　--I see.......

　So it looks like Titania is planning to let the bugs live inside the anthill and feed them with the mushroom farm. amazing.

　There are many other rooms in the anthill, and not only the ants, but all sorts of insects are housed in these rooms. Caterpillar No. 5's room was as big as a last-boss room.

　The scale of the anthill was far beyond my imagination. The anthill was not just on the surface of the mountain but had been built by hollowing out the mountain itself and tunneling deep underground.

　--This was the scale of a castle. This is an anthill castle.

　Titania seems to have built this castle using the entire mountain. And it only took a week. The manpower of these insects is insane.

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