Chapter 3

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Chapter 3: This is a fluffy beast

Translator: yuzu

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When you were reborn in this world, you were not blessed with a happy family or prosperous life. But fortunately you had an older sister who loved to take care of you, despite being a little careless.

Your sister is incredible. She became an intermediate swordsman at age thirteen, and established an adventurer’s guild1 with her swordsmanship teacher. Since she received a fixed salary, you didn’t have to wander miserably around the dark and humid alleys like the other orphans, fighting over a moldy piece of bread.

Even more fortunately, you also possessed a rare talent for light magic, despite the fact that magical energy is scarce in this era.

This meant that you would ultimately have more opportunities and choices than ordinary people.

Of course, you treasured this rare talent very much. Ever since you were small, you studied very hard, and graduated from the Imperial College of Magic with excellent grades at the age of sixteen. You declined the invitations from the royal court and military, and instead you joined your sister’s guild and became a promising young mage certified by the Adventurer’s Association.

Not only that, but as a Light Mage, you passed the Holy Church’s examination with the recommendations of your mentor and received a High Priest’s medallion, which symbolizes your status.

Official priests certified by the Holy Church obtain many benefits. Not only do they receive a monthly financial stipend, but the assigned tasks are also very easy. Every month, you only need to go to the public charity site designated by the Holy Church on the weekends, and help some impoverished people who have no money to see a doctor.

This way you can do good deeds while making money, which is a win-win situation for you.

Since you have twice the income every month, you are considered a high-income earner in this world.

You live a simple frugal life and have saved a small hoard of cash. If it weren’t for the fact that you have a sister who wastes who-knows-how-much money on the brothels every month, you owned enough to buy an exquisite western-style duplex apartment on the imperial capital’s bustling commercial street.

You originally thought it wouldn’t cost very much to reserve a male prostitute, but when you hear the price from the other party, you are completely stunned.

They actually want a quarter of your monthly salary!

Ordinarily, you haggle with the shopkeeper even when buying a potato. As you watch gold coins slipping from your hands, you feel like your heart is bleeding.

“Aiya, don’t you know that Dubin2 is our store’s number one requested host3, Little Miss? His fee is definitely much higher than other prostitutes. If you think it’s too expensive, I can recommend some others for you…”

Before the demon finishes speaking, he is given a cold warning look.

Of course, you are preoccupied by your heartache, so you do not notice their exchange.

After wrestling for a while, in the end you endure the knife-wrenching pain in your soul, grit your teeth, and pay.

Why do you have to do something so extravagant that doesn’t fit your personality?

The timeline must be rewinded to three days ago.

You are in your hotel room, busy preparing for the work assigned to you by the Holy Church over the weekend. At this time, your good friend Lizzy from your guild comes crying to you for help, her eyes puffy.

Lizzy is a bunny girl demi-human4. She has a pair of adorable rabbit ears and cute rabbit teeth. Her teary round red eyes are choked up and nearly about to cry, and she instantly strikes your weakness for fluffy things.

She even reaches out with her soft paws for you to hold.

While you are dizzyingly ensnared by the trap of her bunny ears and fluffy paws, the pitiful expression on her face suddenly stops. She smiles cunningly, and tosses you a sentence, “Then I’ll leave it to you. Don’t let me down~” And then she hops away. By the time you recover, you realize you’ve been fooled again.

In your previous life, you have always been a well-mannered yet indecisive person with an extremely weak temperament.

Even though you’ve been reborn in another world, you still can’t get rid of this bad personality trait that you’ve developed. In order to prevent others from discovering your true nature, you usually act cold and indifferent to keep others at a distance. You reluctantly play the role of a reserved and dignified mage.

But if you spend a long time with someone, you still occasionally reveal your true colors, especially since you are not a professional actor.

Lizzy, a keen observer, was the first to uncover your true personality.

Even though you try your best to restrain yourself, under her recurrent temptations, you keep falling hopelessly into the sweet trap of fluff and paws due to your low willpower.

But Lizzy is a good girl. She doesn’t blackmail you like this, and she only occasionally uses her body to lure you into helping her with a few affairs.

Since she has low fighting power, Lizzy isn’t a front-line fighter in the guild. Instead, she is part of the logistics department, and is generally responsible for recruiting new members or taking care of miscellaneous chores to the best of her ability.

You still like Lizzy very much, so you still indulge in her pranks even though you occasionally get some exasperating headaches.

But this time, you’ve learned your lesson, so you decide to be firmer in the future. You can’t keep running errands for her.

“What are you thinking about?”

Hearing the low and rumbling voice from the man’s throat, you blink blankly and look up at the male half-beast who had silently approached you when you weren’t paying attention. His lips are slightly open, and a soft growl with a nasal quality comes out.

This half-beast isn’t the same as other half-beasts you’ve encountered before. In terms of their species, most half-beasts you’ve met are smaller and resemble harmless chihuahuas or teacup poodles5. The larger ones weren’t any more intimidating than domestic dogs like golden retrievers or german shepherds.

But this half-beast has a mixture of werewolf and hyena genes. Compared to a docile and obedient dog, he gives you the feeling of a wild wolf or another large carnivore, with his ferocious nature thinly veiled and suppressed.

Very dangerous.

Not safe to approach.

You’d be torn to pieces.

Cornered by his oppressive aura, your relaxed attitude shrivels up entirely.

You gulp fearfully, and timidly speak up: “Um… Mr. Dubin…”

“Huh?” He lowers his head slightly, and he stares at you coldly with his ashen eyes.

Looking carefully, you realize that this half-beast named Dubin is quite handsome. However, he’s not the delicate kind of beauty, but more mature and sexy with the powerful atmosphere of an aggressive man. He’s somewhat wild, unpredictable, and deep like an iceberg6.

But for you, he’s still too scary.

You prefer the aesthetics of kind, gentle, harmless, and herbivorous men. You have difficulty appreciating this kind of tough, strong, tall, and muscular stone-cold beauty.

For instance, as he stares at you with his dark gray eyes right now, you find it hard to breathe.

“How old are you?” He suddenly asks.

You were thinking about the best way to invite him into your guild, and his words cause you to suddenly freeze. You respond reflexively, “Two months until I’m nineteen…”

“An adult…” The male half-beast mutters mysteriously, and his frosty tone of voice is strange. “But you’re so little?”

You know that you look very young with your baby face. It’s not the first time you’ve been mistaken as a minor, so you pout and retort unhappily: “Mr. Dubin, why does this matter to you?”

He seems surprised that someone so soft and gullible like you is angry. Raising his eyebrow slightly, an unexpected smile appears on his cold face. “Little child, is it your first time?”

“I’m not a child!” You’re really angry now, and you glare at him in dissatisfaction.

The corners of the half-beast’s mouth curl slightly. Instead of arguing with you over this silly question, he straightens up and takes off his shirt, revealing a well-defined chest and sexy abdominal muscles.

You are shocked speechless by his actions, but then you realize that your current interactions aren’t so innocent. It is really dangerous for the two of you to be sitting together on the bed so provocatively.

You suddenly realize why he asked how old you were.

With the television suddenly switched from a chatting channel to an adult channel, you feel like your brain is a total mess.

“Mr. Dubin, please wait…”

【 This is censored 】

“Mr. D-Dubin, can you please get off of me?”

At this moment, you suddenly remembered the ironclad rule of the brothel. If the guest is unwilling, the male prostitute cannot force the guest no matter how badly he wants it. After all, prostitution is an industry that serves the needs of the guest. If a customer has a bad experience, the prostitute involved in a complaint will be punished, and he may even be fired immediately if the issue is serious.

However, customers with a special fetish for being forced unwillingly can discuss it with the store in advance.

“Sorry, but I don’t want to do this with you.” You muster up the courage and declare this very seriously.

The gray haired and gray eyed half-beast suddenly stops. His dark gaze of burning desire slides downwards and he stares at you unrelentingly.

He might as well fuck it and keep going.

Dark and violent thoughts boil through the male half-beast’s cold mind.

You’re oblivious to horrible thoughts coursing through his mind, and you smile at him flatteringly. “Actually, I was looking for you today for something else very important. Are you available to listen to me for a bit?”

The male half-beast stares at your smile and pauses. After a while, he turns his head and faintly utters a “tch—”, and then releases his grip on you.

Half an hour later.

“You want to invite me to your guild?” The male half-beast is still shirtless, and he sits on the edge of the bed staring at you with cold gray eyes.

“Yes. Don’t worry, the pay in our guild is very generous, after all… you can’t keep working as a prostitute forever, so would you please consider it?” You make your request rather awkwardly.

It hurts your conscience to run to someone’s workplace in the middle of their shift to ask them to quit their job.

“I refuse.” Unexpectedly, the male half-beast refuses you without hesitation.

You freeze for a moment, and then look at his expression. It doesn’t seem to be a joke.

There seems to be a bit of disgust and frostiness in his eyes, which appears very adamant.

You sigh with disappointment.

Immediately, you think of the large sum of gold coins you spent in vain, and your heartache reaches its limit.

But it would be a shame to leave like this.

A somewhat embarrassing thought crosses your mind.

So you walk over to the male half-beast, bite your lips and whisper: “Mr. Dubin, earlier you said I can do anything to you, right?”

The male half-beast is stunned.

While he is distracted, you whisper that you’re sorry. Then you reach out with your hands and touch the one thing you’ve been lusting after this entire time… those animal ears!

They’re so fluffy… heavenly!

You don’t think you’ll be able to get rid of this fluff addiction for your entire life.

It seems like this is the half-beast’s first time encountering such a weirdo customer like you. His entire body freezes up, and even the wolf tail hanging behind him stiffens up like it’s electrified.

This is your first time doing such a bad thing, so you quickly withdraw your hand with a guilty conscience. You apologize to him once again and then escape from the scene in embarrassment.

Less than a moment after you leave, a small white figure appears at the door.

The cat-eared shota with a delicate face like a doll7 stares at the male half-beast sitting on the bed in a daze. He smiles innocently, and a pile of sweet yet vicious words spew out of his mouth. “Ai, it looks like the two of you didn’t do it. It looks like big sister despises lowly half-beasts like you too.”

The gray-haired half-beast returns to his senses, and glares coldly. “Do you want to die?”

“You should ask yourself that.”

The cat-eared shota doesn’t look the slightest bit cute, in contrast with what he is like in front of you. He grins and narrows his scarlet pupils, and a horrible twisted smile seeping with hatred and malice appears on his face.

“I won’t let you take Big Sister away from me. If this happens again…”

“I’ll kill you.”

…

Despite wasting so much money, you were still unable to complete the task you were entrusted. You feel frustrated, and you stand at the brothel’s exit sighing for a while. When you are about to leave, a girl with a sweet smile at the reception desk hands you a leaflet.

“Miss, there will be a free event at our store in a few days. If you’re interested, please bring your friends over to play.”

You take the flyer and glance at its contents curiously.

On the leaflet, you see a high-definition picture of a handsome blond man dressed like a human knight. His eyes are covered with a leather blindfold, his clothes are in tatters, and his hands are bound over his head with shackles and chains. Kneeling in a sinister dungeon with his legs apart in an unfathomable pose, his entire body is covered with brutal whip marks. You are rendered completely speechless.

In the middle of the flyer, there are two rows of eye-catching bold font written in the continent’s common language.

Cosplay scene!

Interrogate the captured enemy knight!

Translator’s notes:

Adventurer’s guild (佣兵团): Literally, “mercenary group”. I struggled with choosing the right translation here. The meaning of “mercenaries” here is similar to the “adventurers” in typical western fantasy stories, and I initially wanted to translate this as an “Adventurer’s Party”. However, the sister’s group is substantially bigger than a typical party, so it’s more like the size of a guild in an MMO.Dubin (杜宾): Dubin’s name is a play on words. Actually, a 杜宾犬 is the Chinese translation for a type of dog (Doberman), which are known for their aggressiveness. That said 杜宾 (dùbīn) sounds nothing like “Doberman”, and the characters in the story seem oblivious to the pun, so I’ve chosen to translate his name phonetically. Incidentally, several male characters in this story have names that are puns on dogs, so this seems to be one of the author’s recurring themes.Host: I’m struggling to find another synonym for “male prostitute” that doesn’t sound as vile. The main reason is that the term in Chinese (“cowherd”) is already a euphemism, and it doesn’t feel right to me that the men refer to themselves as “prostitutes”.Demi-human/Half-beast (亚兽人): Literally, “Sub-Beastman”. I use both of these terms interchangeably, and it mainly refers to beast people with mixed blood.Teacup poodle: A tiny variety of poodle. Google it! Iceberg (冰山型): This simile seemed odd to me, but the idea is a man who is frigid on the outside but on the inside they are deep and complicated (sort of like the tip of an iceberg).Doll (SD娃娃): In the raw, “SD doll”, which refers to the Super Dollfie brand of Japanese toys. The image on Wikipedia is a bit creepy, but if you google for images you’ll a bunch of cuter ones.

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