Chapter 41 – Episode 41- Accepting the Changed Fate Is the Duty

“Hoho, you’re holding up surprisingly well.”

There was a house on a hill reminiscent of a tortoise shell.
At the bottom of the hill, several houses resembling turtle shells were huddled together.

This is a village where the Turtles live.
Villages were formed at high altitudes in preparation for invasion by foreign enemies.
Fog covers the outskirts of the village through ancient artifacts, so no outsiders can easily enter the village.

The ancient artifacts that form the mist are managed by the head of the Turtle clan.

“Okay, then shall we go like this?”

The current leader, Akelon, is using the artifact at will for the purpose of harassing Advent.

“I’m kind of tired of the waves…Yes, you better make it rain.”

A small box made of wooden boards was placed in front of Akelon who made that decision.
The box was filled with fine sand, and surprisingly, it looked exactly like the Forest of Trials that Advent was challenging.
Achelon sprinkled sand over the forest of trials made of sand,

[Heavy rain after the waves! Such a rot!]

Advent reached the edge of the swamp, and an enormous amount of heavy rain fell over the head.
Akelon did not stop there.

Dozens of models of waves made of sand, which have been used many times, were placed in the box.
The place furnished is where Kang-rim is standing now.

After a while,

[Very different… Wow!]

A series of earth-colored waves attacking in all directions pushed Kang-lim away like a soccer ball that had lost its owner.
After being pushed around like that, I ended up returning to the starting line again.

[Use it, rotten baby turtle. Be sure to eat today.]

Advent sighed and walked back into the swamp, and Akelon watched the scene through a crystal ball.
Hearing that he was going to eat himself, Akelon laughed as if it were funny.

“Whoa, how are you going to eat me? Are you looking forward to something?”

The black-and-blue short-haired hag laughed at the other party like that.
She looks like a younger sister in her early twenties, not a single wrinkle for her haggar and her back unbent.

This is a characteristic of the tortoise family.

As they are a long-lived species, they also age slowly.
Because of her slowness, even though Akelon is now 100 years old, she has been able to maintain her fresh youthful appearance.
Considering that the average lifespan of the tortoise family is 300 years, she will be able to maintain her younger sister’s appearance until at least 200 years old.

It would be nice if he behaved decently according to his age.

“How is it, Sua. Do you feel good seeing this guy suffer too?”

Akelon asked Sua, who was sitting next to her and watching her.

“…”

Sua didn’t say anything.
She was able to wear clothes thanks to Akelon’s care, and unlike the others, she was not trapped in the cauldron, but strangely, she did not feel that Sua was fortunate.
Watching Kang-rim go through all her hardships now, she couldn’t help but raise the corner of her mouth.

‘Why is it so unpleasant?’

Something unpleasant
Rather than happy, I am strangely angry.
It’s like she’s mad at her own man being insulted?
Since she was forcibly enslaved by him, she should be happy to see him roll, but Sua didn’t feel that way at all.

Rather,

‘This old woman, should I boil it?’

The thought came to me spontaneously.

‘Yes, let’s do it. You’re not even wearing a shell anyway.’

Currently, Akelon is naked.
It is in a state of taking off the back shell that protects the body.
Kill me right now…

‘Wait, wait what am I thinking…’

Sua shook her head vigorously and denied it.

‘Why am I doing this? I really hate that guy…’

He is a guy who makes fun of himself whenever he has a chance.
He is a guy who massages his breasts like toys whenever he has a chance, forcibly sucks his breast milk, and forcibly commits crimes when he can’t stand it.
Even if there is a child in her stomach, she does it without hesitation with the absurd logic that the child will be happy too.
He doesn’t forget to feed nasty semen every day, even by mouth.

It’s only natural to hate such trash.
He deserves to be hated, for he is the one who made himself and his people his cattle.

As it should be,

‘Why are you offended?’

I am overcome by emotion, not hatred. It’s been a long time since Sua’s heart was occupied by emotions that were neither anger nor resentment.
Nothing overcomes the miasma created by those emotions and becomes addicted.
Sua is also getting drunk with the miasma, and it has gone to the point where detoxification is impossible.

Because she was poisoned by the miasma called lust, Sua couldn’t be happy when she saw Kang-rim go wild.

Because those who share their joy are being tortured.
Seeing her being tortured made her feel naturally displeased.

Sua is not aware of it, but he will realize it someday.

“As expected, Sua, you are missing.”

Akelon had noticed that from the beginning.
Sua was taken aback by the sudden remark.

“Pa, fall out. What are you talking about…”
“Aren’t you obsessed with that grid?”
“Bah, you sound stupid, why am I missing you!”

Sua denied it.

“What do I like about that guy, that guy…”
“Don’t deny it. We all know that your body and mind have already belonged to him.”

Akelon gave Sua a hug on her shoulder as if it was okay.

“Because I knew through the stars that you would be.”
“Bye, through the stars?”

Originally, the turtles have a habit of observing the stars often so that they do not get lost when heading towards the sea.
Thanks to that habit, even the tortoise family can roughly guess what will happen in the sky today and tomorrow.

Akelon can do more than that.
She can look at the stars and guess what’s going on.
She can even foretell what the future holds.
She gets it wrong sometimes, but mostly everything she saw was right.

Deep down, Sua wanted that to be wrong.

“Isn’t it wrong? Why did I tell him…”
“It’s not just you.”

Akelon hinted at the future she saw.

“I, you, and the other chiefs, as well as the other beastmen, are destined to become his slaves.”
“What, what?”
“That fate I see as the better.”

What Akelon said next made Sua startled.

“At first, it was said that we would all meet a terrible end.”

A black star, a symbol of ominousness, came to mind.
Stars symbolizing the people living in this world emerged around the black star, and all of them were dyed black.

Black means death.
In other words, they are killed by the black star called Grid.
That was originally the future.

That future has changed.

“I did, but it changed. The black star has changed to a purple star.”
“…”
“And all the stars that were around purple went from black to red.”
“…”
“You know what that means, even if I don’t tell you?”

The symbol of purple is domination. And the red symbol is conquest.
If we substitute the purple star for the grid and the red star for everyone living in this world,

There is a future where the grid enslaves all of them.
And that future is slowly becoming a reality.

Numerous beasts, such as the Nine Tailed Foxes, Rabbits, and Bisons, have become, or are in the process of becoming, Grid’s slaves.

“So, do you think this is good, Joe?”

Sua asked.

“Do you think it’s good for us to live off his livestock?”
“If that’s fate, I’ll have to accept it.”

Akelon affirmed.

“Because I saw all the stars turn red around that man’s star.”

Not a single word to deny that affirmation came out of Akelon’s mouth.

“There is no way to run away from fate, Sua.”
“Everything, you will be like me, but does it matter? Your granddaughter and your own people are the same?”
“If it must be so, then it must be so.”

Akelon did not object.

“For those of us who have dried up the seeds of men, clinging to that man named Grid is the only answer.”
“Does the man’s seed dry or dry?”
“Didn’t you think it was strange coming all the way here?”
“Ah…”

Now Sua realized.

‘Come to think of it, I couldn’t see any men.’

The Turtle Clan soldiers who captured them were all women.
Even after arriving on the island, not a single shadow of the male tortoise was found.
The Turtles did not even participate in the Beast Man Alliance, so where did the men go?
He would not have voluntarily left for the sake of the coalition.
Akelon informed me with a devastated feeling.

“All the men died from the plague.”
“Um, contagious disease?”
“Strangely, it was a strange disease that only men suffered from.”

One day, an epidemic suddenly broke out.
All the men who fell ill suffered and lost their lives, but the women were fine.
It was such a strange disease that even rumors spread that it was a curse from heaven.

“The disease is gone, but the way to preserve our species is completely gone.”

Even small children died.
Even the sprouts responsible for the future have all disappeared.
It’s fine now, but in a few hundred years, the tortoise species will disappear from this world.

So Akelon decided to test Advent.

“I intend to use that man named Grid as our seed dispenser.”

If you are destined to succumb to the conqueror called Grid anyway, use it.
Let’s use this guy’s seed to preserve our people.

With that intention, Akelon has now thrown Advent into the Forest of Trials.
She even staged a hostage situation where she would not be eaten.

“I’m rolling it like that to see if it can be used as an ejector.”

Pointing to the advent that was swept away by the waves again, Akelon explained that.

“Why bother?”
“Because I don’t want to receive the seed of an ordinary man.”

It was a very normal answer.

“Because only the seed of a strong man can save us.”

Suin-like, it was a very normal answer.

“If the price is cattle, he will accept us.”
“Is that fate?”
“Okay.”
“…”

No matter how much you accept your fate, shouldn’t you resist when you resist?
Aren’t you being too positive?
Sua thought so, but she had no way to change Akelon’s mind, who had already decided on her answer.

“If that’s what you want, I can’t help it.”

So Sua did not refute.

“As you said, I seem to be falling for him. It might be destiny. But…”

Instead, she asked.

“Is that okay?”

I know you want a strong man. But,

“I’m sure I’ll be able to go crazy and say I won’t let you go when I arrive, is that okay?”

Shouldn’t it roll moderately?
No matter how much the test is done, if you roll it so viciously, even a good-hearted person will have no choice but to explode?
In particular, it’s hard to predict how a guy who’s stronger than them will turn out.

“It’s okay, Sua.”

Akelon asserted with a tone that he wasn’t too worried.

“It’s still a long way to go through that place. Even if diarrhea comes, you’ll be so exhausted you won’t be able to eat me…”

It was then.

-Bang!

Suddenly the gate was broken.

“…”
“…”

Akelon and Sua silently turned their heads toward the door.
And I was astonished.

“I found it, you damn turtle.”

Grid, no Advent. Drenched in water, he strode towards Akelon.
The stick he received before challenging the Forest of Trials was broken or not in his hand.
Instead, there was one that he carried with both hands.

“Ha, grandma. I’m sorry…”

Just like Akelon, short hair mixed with black and blue.
Her pupils were silver, unlike Akhelon’s, which were gold.
Like Advent, the naked woman drenched in water apologized to Akelon.

Semen dripped between her mouth and her crotch.

“Eh, what is this…”

Having brought her own granddaughter with her so quickly, Akelon couldn’t keep her mouth shut.