The Hero Became a Succubus! - Chapter 31

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Chapter 31

Fixing the modest shop into a functioning state had cost them a pretty penny. Both Arenade and Edina agonized over seeing so much money leave their coffers. Between purchasing materials for repairs and hiring laborers who knew what they were doing, the total amount came out to 20,000 gold coins. All that just to make sure the place wasn't falling apart anymore, and so that people who were looking in wouldn't think a bunch of homeless bums were using it as shelter.

The shelves and display tables had been replaced, the entrance had a working door again, and the storage room was no longer infested with vermin. All they had to do now was set up shop.

"All that money… I could have spent it on some Arkesian wine or a nice dinner," Arenade groaned from the counter, clutching her head as she stared into the expenses bill charged for the repairs.

If it weren't for the fact that Arenade had acted to save Kanae's life from the gunshot, he would be teasing her for her own expenditures. Over by the shelves, Edina was using her undeads to stock the slime-turned sex toys, evenly spacing them out to make their store appear less empty. It was a hopeless act, because they only had twelve dildos and pocket pussies in total. The place was about as empty as it could get.

The door opened and jingled the bell. A beautiful, fair-skinned elven woman with hair tied to a bun entered and curiously looked glanced around with her slit-thin eyes.

"W-Welcome!" Kanae shouted from the back, the convenience-worker mentality from his previous life rushed forth. "How may I help you? Can I help you look for something?"

"Oh, might you be the new owners? I haven't seen anyone here since the last owners were booted for money laundering," the matronly elf said.

Kanae put a hand to his face and sighed. No wonder Renya and her people didn't need this place anymore.

"I'm Kanae, and this is Arenade and Edina. We're the new owners, and we uh… we sell sex toys…" Only now, as Kanae said that, did he realize how embarrassing it was to openly tell people what their merchandise was.

"Ara~ That is quite the selection you have on your shelf."  She giggled into her hand. "My name is Lina. I run the blacksmith next door with my husband Rog."

Lina stepped away from the door as it opened. A large, lumbering orc with little intelligence between those ears of his walked in. The other three backed away, eyes going wide. The orc was a lot more muscular than Manabe and looked like he could crush their heads just by squeezing.

"Me Rog. Nice to meet you," Rog grunted.

"Y-Y-Your husband is an orc?" Arenade meeked out.

"They say orcs are vicious, but Rog is just the sweetest thing. He only ever shows his bestial side to me when… we're in bed… ufufu~" Lina embraced her husband's meaty arm as both her pupils dilated and drool slipped from the corner of her lips.

"Wait a minute… I thought people like orcs weren't welcome in the city?" Kanae wondered aloud.

"Rog certainly receives odd stares in town, but he's been granted special welcome by Duke Kroenig thanks to his exceptional armor and weaponsmithing talents. Isn't that right, dear?" Lina smiled at her husband.

"Rog trained in Radevic. Good smith. Anything puny people need, Rog make good. Made gift to welcome new store." The orc handed one of Edina's skeletons an wooden signboard that had the words 'open' and 'closed' on each side.

When Kanae took a hard look at Rog, there didn't seem to be much more than grade-school level intelligence. How an orc with poor language skills managed to score a hot elven wife and learned a trade skill, he would never know. At least the interspecies couple seemed nice.

"Hey, try to sell something to them." Arenade nudged Kanae's arm. "Worth a shot, right?"

"W-Would you two like to buy something? Maybe something we have can spice up your sex lives?" Kanae suggested.

"Hmmm. Our sex life is incredibly satisfying already. Every night, Rog brings me to an orgasm over and over until I pass out," Lina said, causing the other three to swallow hard. The elven lady walked over to the stock and was unimpressed by the size of the dildos. She picked up one of the pocket pussies with a frown. "It might be fun to pleasure my husband with something like this, but we will need a much larger one."

This couple was a lot hornier than Kanae expected. Given that he had tasted orc and minotaur cocks before, it came as no surprise though.

"Unfortunately… What's on the shelves is all we currently have…" Kanae hung his head and sighed.

"That's too bad." Lina frowned. "We better get back to our store. Best of luck in your business, and if you ever come into possession of a larger toy, do let us know."

Their first customers left and the store had managed to sell nothing.

"For some reason… Feels like my back's been blown out just seeing those two…" Arenade shuddered.

" I'm no merchant, but Lina's onto something. We're going to need a lot more product than these if we're gonna make some sales," Edina said, thumbing over her shoulders to their sparse stock.

"I-I know it looks like crap right now, but this is just the start! Next, we'll go to take on a couple of slime quests and fill up the store," Kanae insisted vainly in trying to instill hope in their hopeless eyes.

So that's what they did.

There was no shortage of slime extermination quests because the dragon was still around and many dire beasts stayed in hiding. In fact, there were too many for even them to take on. Orturic had no shortage of fresh and mid level adventurers, so it puzzled Kanae that many of them were cooped up in the hall instead tackling the quests.

"Wow. Five whole notices of killing slimes. How come people aren't taking them for the easy money?" Kanae asked, flipping through each paper as they were heading to the first location. There were more on the board, but the maximum limit of quests adventurers were allowed to take was five.

"A lot of people don't care to kill slimes," Edina began. "They want the monsters that give them the most experience and reward. Even level 1s, stupid as it is, group for things that are higher level than them just to get a jumpstart."

"Other than getting them for your doomed-from-start dildo business, we don't have any other reason to kill slimes either. What we should be doing is getting the three hells out of town and finding a new zone to level up in soon," Arenade said.

The demigoddess wasn't wrong. Even if dire beasts were to return once the dragon was gone, all three of them had gotten to the point those monsters gave little to no experience. But Kanae didn't want to leave Oturic just yet, especially when he wanted to get close to Estaline while she was still around.

They came away with almost slimes from the five quests and the forest was still crawling with the low-level gelatinous monsters. On their way out, however, a figure in the shadow of the trees was moving toward them.

"What's an adventurer doing out here?" Edina squinted.

"Perfect. I could go for a meal," Kanae said, waving to whoever was approaching. "Hey! Are you alright? Do you need—"

They were startled by a monster emerging from the trees. The monster, which was like a human the size of a finger and swayed from side to side as it moved, had a single eye and many tentacles whipping about from the body.

"Uwah… That's a groper-roper!" Arenade cried, shielding her own body and backing away.

"A roper!" Kanae exclaimed with sparkling eyes.

Arenade and Edina narrowed their eyes at him.

"I-I'm sorry!" He pouted. "I can't help feeling excited about it!"

The roper grabbed Kanae with the many tentacles

"Kanae!"

"Don't mind me! I'm going to see if I can tame this— whoa!"

Kanae, his arms and legs entangled like in the fight against the tentacle urchin, was pulled up to the roper which stared at him with the one eye. Other tentacles slipped under his robes and another slimy appendage rubbed against his lips.

A groper-roper was what Arenade called this thing. Seeing how it was kneading and squeezing his breasts, squirming up his thighs, and caressing his entire body, the name was very fitting.

"Mmm… You're so much more gooey and sticky than slimes." Kanae grabbed two nearby tentacles and started jerking them off. "Charm!"

The monster tensed up, easily falling into Kanae's control. It was probably low-level, but slightly higher than the slimes. He could make use of something like this and considered bringing it back home. For now…

"Fuck me like this!" Kanae stuffed both tentacles into his pussy and began riding it. "Oh, god… yes, yes! Aahhh!"

The squelching sounds from their copulation was loud enough to echo through the forest. Having two penis-like members rubbing his insides was incredible, especially since they thrusted at different rhythms.

"Squeeze my chest harder, please! Hold me tightly!" Kanae pleaded. More tentacles obediently wrapped around his body. They pumped his pussy harder and with more vigor. He even opened his mouth to receive another tentacle to suck on.

It was like getting gangbanged but from a single entity.

"Sho good… Mmf… cumming!"

Kanae and the roper climaxed so hard that the monster went unconscious, but not before spraying him from head to toe with its juices. Lying on the ground, twitching from an orgasm, his two party members walked into view.

"Are you done?" Arenade asked, her face red as a tomato.

'Yeah… but I made sure not to drain it to death, so we're bringing the roper back with us…" Kanae panted.

No one batted an eye to them bringing the monsters into the city. After all, adventurers sold them as materials to certain vendors all the time. With the roper under Kanae's charm and a whole lot of slimes to use, they were ready to really open shop.

However, running a business was harder than any of them expected.

"No one's coming," Arenade said, resting her chin on her arms at the counter.

"It's been two days and we haven't gotten a single customer except the couple from next door. Maybe the roper's scaring potential buyers?" Edina sighed.

The roper was now part of the store's staff, going around with brooms to sweep the place and stocking shelves in their place.

Lina suddenly entered the store, glowing like the sun.

"Oh, hey!" Kanae waved. "Don't tell me you're here to buy more?"

"Well, not exactly." Lina shook her head. "The toy for my husband has been plenty enjoyable! Because of the translucent body, I can see just how much he cums and it really gets us going. What's even more incredible is that the slime core absorbs it all and cleans itself. I'm actually here to ask if you can make the same one, but in the shape of my vagina, inside and all? I think he would really like that. We will pay you handsomely if you can."

How would they even achieve something like that? Kanae would need to know exactly how Lina's vagina feels like to do so. Until now, he had been shaping random folds and bumps for the pocket pussies. Unless…

"Roper, come here." Kanae ordered. The monster quickly wriggled over, eager to serve. He grabbed one tentacle and squeezed, then noticed that the appendage retained the shape of the imprint. "We might be able to do that, but I'll need you to put a tentacle into yourself. That way, I can get the mould of your vagina."

Lina was more than happy to let it happen for her husband's pleasure. She inserted the roper's tentacle into her vagina for a few seconds. When they pulled it out, the tentacle retained the shape of all the folds and bumps of her insides. Without wasting time, Kanae used four slimes to form over it, successfully creating a large pocket pussy that shared Lina's shape.

"Damn. At this point, you can pretty much make your own slime girl." Arenade raised a brow.

"Wait… slime girls are real in this world?" Kanae asked.

"This is perfect!" Lina exclaimed. "I can't wait to try it with Rog. It will be like we're having a threesome. Ufufu~ Thank you so much!"

Lina paid them a handsome 1,000 gold which made Arenade and Edina's jaws hang open.

"Holy— fuck my squirreling ass! We really can make bank like this," Edina muttered.

"Guys, I think I know what we need to do." Kanae hatched an idea and grabbed two of the roper's tentacles, then turned to his party members.

Over the next few days, Kanae perfected making sex toys out of slimes. He even added breasts to the body-sized pocket pussies for more 'leverage'.

"Get a special deal here! Sex toys for sale! Why use your hands when you can have sex with adventurers you know? Take your pick of a cocky and busty high elf, or a cute and petite squirreling!" Kanae advertised outside of the store, where a long line of people had formed as they waited impatiently to get inside.

"I can't wait to try this high elf pussy when I get home. Guehehe…" The local fish merchant exited the store with his new sex toy all smiles.

Their product really took off on the third day. They were earning so much that sales were bottlenecked by a need to go out to hunt slimes. It probably helped to have samples, too. Kanae returned inside to see two men, banging away at the sample-only products at the corner of the room.

"Thank you for your patronage!" Edina flashed a smile after receiving a large sum of gold.

Meanwhile, Arenade was curled up behind the counter in the fetal position.

"What's with her?" Kanae asked.

"Dunno. Arenade's been like that since yesterday." Edina tapped the former demigoddess on the head. "Chin up. Everyone loves your product! Your body is making way more of a killing than mine."

"Gusu… This isn't the kind of worship I wanted! I don't need to know that hundreds of folks in the city are screwing a sex toy in the shape of my holy body!" Arenade wailed.

While Edina went back to making sales, Kanae sat down next to Arenade.

"What? Are you going to tease me, too?" Arenade moped.

"No," Kanae said. "I… haven't thanked you for what you did the other day. When Renya was here, I mean."

"Hmph. Don't get any wrong ideas, bud. I need you alive because you've got potential to defeat the demon lord. Besides, you were never in danger, and if you were, you probably would have used me as a shield anyway." She turned the other way.

"You'd be a lot more bearable if you were nice to us as you are with those kids. I'm not here to bother you, but I do have a gift." He pulled out from his bag a bottle of Arkesian wine.

Arenade snatched the bottle, popped open the cork, and sniffed the top. Her eyes went wide.

"How did you… I couldn't find a single bottle in the city!"

"I may have pulled a few strings using some of my natural succubus charm." Kanae grinned. "Besides, I know I've been treating you a little harshly. We're a party, so it's better if we're on better terms, right?"

"Pft. That depends on the succubus who charms my holy self on a whim. But I guess I can forgive all those transgressions. Although lately, I haven't been too opposed to it anyway," Arenade quietly said.

The two of them locked gazes. Kanae hadn't fully appreciated how beautiful Arenade actually was until now. They both leaned closer to each other. Their lips were only an inch apart…

"We may have a problem," Edina warned.

Arenade and Kanae pulled away, then glanced up at Edina whose eyes were fixed at the door. They got to their feet and saw that a group of guards had entered the store. A human man dressed in fine robes stood in front of them.

"This store has been operating illegally without a permit. Everything down to the last coin and merchandise will hereby be confiscated," he declared.