"I'm not entirely sure, but should I consider that female knight to have... potential?"
[Hehehe! Before I call her the sow I chose... may I ask your reasoning?]
The message window inquired curiously as I muttered to myself while inspecting the large feed container that supplied feed to the pigpen.
"You saw it earlier, right? That sow, ahem, the posture that the knight was taking... Damn it, look at these rats! Get out of here!"
Despite me shooing away the rats like flies, the message window paid no mind. It shoved an SD character [1]with a bright red face and a speech bubble saying 'No lewd stuff!' right in front of my nose, followed by a new message written below it.
[Ah, you mean that female submissive posture?]
"Depending on the media (?), it's also called the 'sow position,' but anyway, it's the posture she took when she was captured by those bandits or thieves or whatever."
It couldn't have been unaware. Until I reached for her chest and vulva, countless images of this SD character spraying noseblood were swarming my vision to the point I had to tell it to clear them away.
[Hehe, the moment she took that posture, with the keeper's lightning-fast wit, sealed the movements of that naughty sow...]
"I didn't do anything."
[Huh?]
"I said I didn't do anything. That female knight just stiffened up on her own and started babbling about me casting magic on her or something. I didn't write anything in our 'rules' except 'do not commit suicide.'"
[Whaaat? That can't be... Then perhaps that sow was trying to attack the keeper? That's why she couldn't move her body, just like when she was swinging her sword earlier.]
"Maybe. I still don't fully understand the principle, so I can't rule out that possibility. I'll need to test it more later. But that knight, in a way, entrusted her body to me, you could say. It was a bit strange, like seeing a female subtly flirting with a male."
Ever since I stroked her belly earlier, Eleonora's body had started trembling. To an outside observer, it might have looked like she was shaking with rage, but having touched the sow's body myself, the moment I felt that tremor, I suddenly felt my cock grow even more majestic.
It was like a female emitting pheromones with seductive gestures to attract a male.
'Perhaps she's a female who naturally emits strong pheromones.'
The earlier story fits too.
No matter what, knights invaded their very home, and the guards tasked with security just dropped everything and came running because Eleonora was stark naked?
Even if males have a brain in their head and a brain in their dick, it doesn't make sense for both brains to be completely captivated by a female.
[Who knows? Maybe she lied to warn you, like, 'I'm such a scary woman, so you better remember that.']
"Where in the story of being rescued by comrades while stark naked does it convey that she's a scary woman? Maybe 'I'm a woman who drives men crazy, so be careful not to fall for me,' but that's about it."
Moreover, when I prompted her to talk based on the assumption that she must have had experience taking that posture enough for it to be ingrained in her subconscious, her body trembled again.
Her inner thighs were so sweaty that my hand resting there was completely soaked.
And the female submissive posture that slipped out unconsciously, even if it was because I told her to do it.
The moment I saw it, my first thought was, 'Is the status window lying to me?'
"Let me ask you again, you're sure the status window doesn't lie?"
[Of course! It scans and compiles that sow's entire life and actions, so there's no way it could be false!]
I was ready to be satisfied with just the first step—the knight lowering her pride and engaging in lewd behavior with just an appropriate posture—but when it came down to it, she exceeded my expectations.
According to the status window, Eleonora is a pure virgin who doesn't know any men.
Yet, unconsciously, without even knowing it herself, her body, led by instinct, took that posture. Perhaps it was such a strong impact for her, or a moment of realizing something about herself that she didn't know?
I wondered if she was trying to lull me into carelessness, so I looked at her face, but the person in question herself didn't know why she had taken that posture. And seeing her unconsciously doing things I hadn't even explicitly ordered...
"She really might be a natural-born sow, just as you said. Your eye is good, indeed."
[Huh? Y-Yes! Ahem, of course! Who do you think I am? But... when did you gather all those?]
The items the message window was asking about were the Mithril chains that had been shattered earlier by Eleonora. Now, only their remains sat sadly in the bucket I held, like defeated soldiers.
"Can you smelt these chains into a different type of tool for me? Just half of them. I have a use for the other half."
[A different type of tool? Yes, it's possible... Since they're broken anyway, they need to be re-smelted... Huh? Why the welding tools...?]
The message window displayed a tilting-head SD character, puzzled as I suddenly laid out welding tools, steel plates, and the broken Mithril chains from the warehouse without any context.
"If the wrench changed, and everything in this farm has changed, then this welding torch must have changed too, right?"
A mere wrench for cutting pig teeth gave me the confidence that just holding it could cut the knight's sword, so there's no reason the torch wouldn't have changed.
But just in case, I pulled up the torch's status window, and sure enough,
[Farm's Flame]
I don't know about effects or anything, but its name alone had changed quite grandly.
.I didn't know if it was possible to weld this bluish-green mineral, something you'd only see in novels, with a torch that looked like it could be found anywhere, let alone the forges handled by dwarves in fantasy novels.
Slowly, I brought the face protector to my face and aimed the torch at the steel plate in front of me.
"This will be the preparation for tomorrow."
[Tomorrow? What about the afternoon? You're just going to leave her like that?]
As if I would.
Of course, I fiddled a bit with 'our rules' before coming out.
Even though Shin Seon had left the pigpen, Eleonora was still lying there, exposing her pale, naked body.
The moment he left, she managed to hurriedly retrieve her scattered clothes from among the pigs, but the moment she tried to put them on, her arms felt heavy again, and just like before, she couldn't lift them up.
"Kuh... I-I can't even pick up my clothes...!"
It was as if her hands... had ceased to be her hands.
No matter how hard she tried, her fingers wouldn't open.
"Is this some kind of trickery the villain employed...!"
When she was on all fours, with her hands on the ground, she had some degree of movement in her hands and arms. That meant he hadn't stolen control of her arms entirely. Then what was it?
-Oink?
-Oink oink?
-Oink oink?
"G-Get away!? I said, "Get away!"
Already utterly distressed, the pigs, now full-bellied and feeling leisurely, found the new sow in their pen, Eleonora, fascinating and began to gather around her.
Just a while ago, she had been shouting angrily at them, but now, strangely, they seemed familiar, as if looking at a long-lost family member, or perhaps seeing a fellow creature despite her human appearance. Whatever the reason, the arrival of this mysterious sow had suddenly made Eleonora the star attraction among the pigs.
Moreover, the pen she was in now was exclusively for castrated boars.
Even if they can't get it up (?), how could boars who haven't even seen a female resist?
Especially a sow that was strangely emitting a female scent.
They might have had their balls cut off, but did they cut off their noses? Their sense of smell was still excellent.
"I said get away, hngg! Wh-why are you sniffing there? I told you to get away?!"
Startled by the pigs pushing their flat snouts near her buttocks, Eleonora tried shaking her hips or emitting her killing intent like before, but...
To the pigs(?), she was someone they'd just met today, though they had been together for a while, and, more importantly, they were full from eating their fill.
The boars, now feeling quite relaxed, interpreted the killing intent Eleonora emitted as nothing more than a fussy sow trying to seduce them.
"Y-You bastards!? Are you mocking me!? Get away from me! Get away!"
-Oink!
-Oink oink oink!
Trying to shoo them away only attracted more boars, drawn by the plump, enticing buttocks swaying before their eyes and the female-scented vulva.
Eleonora had truly become the spectacle of the entire pigpen.
"Just you wait... I will absolutely never forgive you!"
In the end, all Eleonora could do was climb on top of her pile of clothes, lie flat on her stomach like a turtle, and try to shoo the pigs away.
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