Chapter 35: For Research

So, there was a couple of things wrong. One, I was literally in a girl's body with a dick. Two, the dude was clearly intent on raping me but was being way too damn nice about it. And three-

He was actually okay to roll with this!

Well, people do have their tastes, I guess?

But I sure wasn't. So I transformed into a guy, ripping through my clothes, revealing my nice bulging muscles with a grin.

"Cl-cl-Claudia?"

"It's Clyde by the way," I said. "Mind break."

Nails.

I plastered his whole body on wood with long ass nails and kept on pinning them in him for hours! Hours to him. To me it was merely minutes. He pissed and pooped himself and went out cold. Of course, he was physically unharmed. Mentally though… he he.

Poor guy.

Still better than not having his head attached.

Anyway, I walked out of there without anyone even bothering to ask questions. They probably didn't even see me.

"I believe an armored lady came in here earlier?" I asked one of the guards. Apparently, the guards were far better people than rich guys.

"Oh, Mr. Bert took her to the back rooms. I'd hurry if I were you. He might have already started." Apparently, he was under the impression I was one of the guards?

"Oh, thanks."

As I was walking away though-

"Didn't he come out of the lord's room?"

"What? Nah, my lord's probably busy with that cute lady from before."

"Did we have someone that good looking here though?"

"Huh?"

I heard them, smirked and made way for the back rooms.

I knocked a couple of times and the door opened, revealing a guy on the floor and a girl on the bed. She had a frown but was otherwise unharmed. "What took you so long?"

"Enjoying myself," I said.

"You didn't like-"

"Of course not," I shrugged. "Come, let's go get his gems."

"So that's why you came here…" Josie mumbled but tagged along anyway.

Obviously, this place was going to be super guarded but, but I changed into an Arack spawn and thumped around. Soldiers were literally screaming for their lives and running like toddlers. Even Sen wasn't that afraid.

Anyway, we found the storage room and some coins but sadly no gems. He really was as poor as he claimed. "Well, that was a waste." He did have a weird statue of a gargoyle which I promptly pocketed.

Josie yawned. "Can we go now?"

"Yeah. We'll leave early so let's go and wake up the girls."

"What did you do to the mayor anyway?"

"Just knocked him out for a day or two."

"Huh…Won't they come after us and stuff?"

"Why? It's not like I left any wounds. They have no proof I did anything to him and since he wouldn't wake up anytime soon, means no one will even find out till morning, by then we'd have already left."

"If you say so." She walked quietly as we strode out of the place. "About my reward." Funnily enough, the guards outside were rather chill and didn't ask any questions. Kinda lax, don't you think?

Hardly any people around. Some tough looking guys were going about but they mostly stayed out of our way. Mostly, because some actually approached Josie for once.

"I'd love to take you out for dinner and have you," one guy said.

He reeked of booze.

"Unfortunately, she's my dinner, so fuck off," I said.

Casually strolling.

Josie snickered a couple of times; she was in a good mood?

Most guys backed up. But again, some didn't. Whom I kicked aside and made it back to our inn in no time. Sen was waiting, while the rest of the girls had probably gone back to their rooms.

"Reward you said," I addressed Josie before she left too.

"Yeah, I wanted to sleep with you tonight. You don't have to do anything to me if you don't want to but… but I kind of-"

"Hold on to that thought. If you feel the same way in a year, I'll sleep with you. For now, just live with this."

Mind fuck.

Five minutes.

She panted on a chair while me and Sen headed for our room. Yes, I still shared my room with her. And despite having two beds, she'd always sneak into my bed and make me a body pillow. Nothing really happened between us but I did enjoy groping her tail every once in a while.

 "You go in, I need to finish some business." Of course, the bulge was still here. Whatever that guy had used on me, was pretty strong stuff. My body was handling it pretty well though.

"I could help with that, if you want me to."

"No thank you."

***

The next day, we gave the newbies some jobs and money and left town just before sunrise. I'd come back in a week to check on things via the dungeon route. But if it was always protected, maybe I'd arouse suspicion from the guards?

We'll cross the bridge when we get there.

Come to think of it, I could shrink myself if I really meant to but… how much-

I transformed into a crow. A rather massive cow sized one and almost tumbled the carriage over but somehow didn't.

Shrink, shrink, shrink!

I shrank, and then shrank some more till I reached about the size of a dog; so roughly the size of a hawk. Not bad.

"What are you doing?" Sen asked.

The red sun. Kind of nice to look at. I felt like flying.

"Trying to see if I can shrink at will."

"Can you become large on will?"

"Probably."

"Would you be able to enlarge specific parts?"

"Most likely. Assuming I tried hard enough and expended a lot of mana." Even small changes were taking like 30-40 MPs. This is going to suck me dry.

"Maybe grow a bigger dick?" Sen whispered, stepped back and giggled.

What's wrong with a six-inch dick? I was about to shout but opted not to. Sen had seen me last night, and maybe from her perspective mine wasn't that big?

I kind of felt bad but at the same time, not really. I was fairly content with my size. I was definitely going to try out whether I could enlarge it or not though.

For research purposes of course.