"Agggghhh.. Ryyyu.. plsss dount stoopp!! Ahhh..." Dorothea was engulfed by another orgasm and this time. Interestingly she came this time with a cock in her asshole, not in her vagina. She didn't even know before today if this was even possible. Ryu jerked her head by her hair and pulled her down, and making her kneel beside another girl. "It's time for your rewards girls. Open wide." Only now Dorothea noticed who was the girl drilling her pussy with her fingers just a second back. "Sophia? Why did you..?" She was too ashamed to put it in words. Sophia looked at her and without saying anything, latched onto her lips. Like Ryu told they had found a solution to Dorothea's problem and she was really happy about it. The girl was too aggressive in her kiss, forcing he tongue deep into her mouth.
"Wait for a second Soph.. mhhhh..." She kissed her back, not allowing her to say anything. This continued for a while before Ryu warned "Get ready, it's coming." Only Sophia stopped her assault on her lips. But once again before she could register her protest, the girl squeezed her cheeks to hold her mouth open. "Open wide, aunt Dorothea. He cums a lot and you need to collect all of it." Just when her gaze turned to look at the monster cock on her face, it began spurting greyish liquid. First, spurt landed right in the center of her face but the rest were directed to her mouth. Once she got everything in her mouth, she can feel the thick texture of his semen. Ryu bent down to pat her head and then spat in her mouth. "Good job. Now keep swapping it between both of your mouths until I allow you to swallow it." Saying that he jumped to sit on the counter, looking at the sensual scene on the ground.
Sophia didn't waste any time, licking the semen off her face. Dorothea was speechless, to say the least. Was she the same girl she knew from years back? She was showing a different side of her today. She waited there with her mouth full of Ryu's jizz. This thing was tasting strangely delicious. This was not how a man's semen is supposed to taste and she was saying that with experience. Nonetheless, she got no time to mull over it when Sophia pressed her mouth against her and made her spit all the content into hers. Once done the girl seems to be playing with her puffed-up cheeks. Getting on top of her she began releasing all the semen back into her mouth in small quantities. Next, it was Dorothea's turn to do the same. Sophia opened her mouth wide waiting for her. She once looked at Ryu who was stroking his cock at those hot scenes before gathering all her courage and spit the cum in the girl's mouth.
This process continued many times and Ryu can feel himself get hard again. But the girls were already out of their excited state so he waited for a few more minutes before allowing them to eat it. Sophia let loose only half of his semen to Dorothea and swallowed the rest. "Come clean me off, both of you." She had done all the shameful things already today so the woman didn't feel much awkward now. She followed Sophia to get between Ryu's legs and began cleaning him off. While she was sucking the leftover semen from his urethra, Ryu took the opportunity to place a collar around her neck. She was befuddled by his actions. "Is this an ornament of some kind, little Ryu?" He gave her an innocent smile before replying "No, aunt. It is a mark that I just took you as my slave."
Dorothea was stunned by his declaration. She took it as the boy playing games with her "Haha... Ryu, you can just say if you want me to act as your slave." But he shook his head. "You don't get it, aunt Dorothea. I just brought you as my slave according to the rules set by the empire." Dorothea's face lost color. She knew what the boy was referring to. Under pressure from the mysterious organization named Dark Wings, the empire had to set a rule that whichever woman in their territory gets widowed, the Dark Wings had the right to claim them as their slaves, who they can later sell in the slave market to the highest bidders. That's how this organization became so big and powerful.
The only way to escape them is for the woman to officially marry another man. But most of them aren't able to do that because which woman will allow her man to marry another woman, with her around. Polygamy was not taboo but it was practiced very rarely. Ryu had collected all this knowledge from Sophia, yesterday night. Actually, this was the rule based on which her mother was captured by those guys from Dark Wings. Her mother was a stubborn woman and refused to marry anyone else after the untimely death of her husband.
There were many exceptions to this rule. Firstly, the organization should have definite proof that the woman's husband had died. Meaning that they can't capture any woman whose husband is missing. Secondly, they only operated in big towns and cities. The women from the villages were too malnutritioned, no one was going to pay any money for them. This they simply ignored the villages. The third exception was either the widows are too old or they are simply too powerful. Emily herself is a widow but capturing her would cost Dark Wings more than they could ever hope to recover. They can't risk losing one or two of their Grand Magus just for an old woman.
Dorothea can see right through them. She understood what they had planned for her. The smile on Sophia's face told her everything. Ryu's words from before echoed in her mind now. These kids must have come up with this yesterday. They knew that she would never come with them if they asked her nicely. She didn't know if she should laugh or cry. These kids were rather stubborn. How can she tell them that she got nothing to live for now. She just wanted to see Sophia for one last time. But she was not ready for this. These kids had trumped her. She had no answer to this situation. Gradually her eyes began watering up as she was unable to muster anything to say. Before long she began crying like a kid with both the kids in her embrace.
** A few hours later**
"Had you thought this through Ryu?" Jake asked his friend when he got to know what he had planned to do with Dorothea. "Yes. I just need to pay some amount to those Dark Wings fuckers and then get her registered as my slave. I love you are worried that they will take her away from me as soon as we enter Korua since I don't have any rights over her at the moment. Don't worry about it, sometimes it's better to make use of your family members. I just need to somehow bring my grandma into this." Ryu declared with a devious smile. Kyro was a bit concerned as he was not aware of the intricacies of the deal. It didn't feel right to him. Aunt Dorothea had been so nice to them, how can they take her as a slave?
"I hope that you agreed to this deal, Mrs. Dorothea." She gave him a smile with the collar still in her neck. "They left me no choice, little Kyro." Je nodded and the more he thought the more sense it made. Korua had limited resources they would never let a villager come and settle in their territory. If that was the case there would have been no villages all around. So the only way to bring Mrs. Dorothea with them was to get her as a slave. Now that she had a master who takes the responsibility for her, no one in the authorities can say anything. But he still had a doubt "But there is still Mr. Ron. What will he say if we take his wife away like this?" He remembered Dorothea telling them that her husband was on a trip somewhere. It was a genuine question but he didn't know why he got vicious glares from everyone except Jake, who looked just as clueless as him.
Dorothea fell silent for a bit and Kyro knew somehow he had managed to fuck up a cheerful atmosphere. Kira wanted to pull him aside and explain it but Dorothea stopped her. "I lied about it little Kyro. You see your uncle Ron has already left me a few months back. I didn't want to spoil the mood last time so I had to make that part up." She kept a small smile on her face while explaining. Kyro wanted to slap himself. He just had to open his big mouth on every matter. He hurriedly bowed his head in apology "Please pardon me, aunt. I had no idea." She waved her hand "It's not your fault child. I am the one who should be ashamed of lying and deceiving you guys." She was talking to Kyro but her words were meant for Sophia, who understood it and nodded.
Everyone cheered Dorothea up and once they were done with their breakfast, together they left for their destination, Korua. This time with an extra person with them. Half an hour passed when Ryu shouted. "Please stop." Everyone came to a halt. Ryu acted shy "I seem to have left behind a personal item of mine. Can you guys please allow me to go and fetch it?" Sophia wanted to scold the guy but stopped after realizing how much he had contributed to this mission. "Okay, go on then. We will slow our speed down and both of you can catch up with us." He said his thanks before Kira made the horse turn around and went back towards the village.
"You wait for me here, Kira. I will be back in a few minutes." She found it a bit odd that Ryu didn't bring her with him but she didn't think much about it, quietly waiting for him to return on the outskirts of the village.
A few minutes later Ryu came to a small child playing with his friends in the streets. "Hey kid, I think I saw a few Nida fruits dropped behind that hut. Did those belong to you? Here I brought one of them." He handed him the orange-colored fruit much to the stupefaction of the kid and his little friends. "Thank you, mister. But this does not belong to me I think." Ryu didn't know if these kids were born so honest or they were scared of him. It might be a bit of both. He ruffled his hair. "Okay. Then it's better to bring it to the notice of your parents. Go check I saw many of these fruits behind there." The kid nodded and decided to take a look. His friends followed behind him as Ryu took his leave from this place with a smile on his face. He can hear the shouts of the children behind him as they called for him. But he had already left the area.
Sometime later the same kid held onto the hand of a man, dragging him to a place. "Are you sure, little Eli? How can there be so many fruits?" Eli shook his head in response "No father, I told you the truth. You just need to come with me and you will see." The man of course didn't believe the boy. How could there be this many fruits in this god-forsaken place? Why would they live their lives in such desperation? They got to the small abandoned hut the little boy was talking about and he brought him behind that.
The man fell on his knees at the sight. There was a massive pile of orange fruits just as his boy had told him. The height of the pile rivaled his own. Tears began falling from his eyes as it took him many minutes to calm his heart down before he ran back to the center of the village and informing them about the discovery.
Ryu can't give them a tree but at least he can share the fruits with them. No one will be interested in a guy who drops fruits behind him as opposed to a guy who drops trees instead. Anyhow these Nidas were of no real use to him. He dropped all his stock of them and all the collected Virgos behind.
So, what are the incentives for a woman to marry in the first place? Unless there's another law that says unwed woman (of a certain age?) are also targets, marrying seems like a pretty big risk when you could just cohabitate as 'friends' instead. And what happens if they're widowed with young children/pregnant? Are they enslaved too? Orphaned/Abandoned? Seems kinda counter productive to the whole children are precious do to low birthrate thing. I'd also imagine this would give rise to people marrying others in their community just to protect them, especially if polygamy is allowed, there's really no reason not to; it's not like you would have to actually love each other or even live together.
Then there's the whole thing about getting men to willingly fight in an army or take risks with their life; kinda hard to be willing to die for your people/nation when you know your family is gonna get screwed over for it. Real morale killer there, and certainly encourages 'cowardly' behavior. And a whole host of other problems. Honestly, I can't see how they aren't constantly under threat of rebellion allowing this. Really only takes a pissed off child like Sophia to reach a certain threshold of power and start taking it out on humanity as a whole, doing things like burning down those plantations or something.
Also brings up some warning flags for the life of Ryu's dad (Jeff?) or Uncle, cause I'm not sure why this would even be in the story unless it's gonna be relevant to the MC (beyond this situation). Then again, I imagine the family of powerful people are probably off limits too, because if you wouldn't be wiling to fight to capture someone because the risk isn't worth it, then it also wouldn't be worth it to give them a reason to target you on their own. So being related to Emily *should* be enough of a deterrent, because why wouldn't she protect them? Or falling that, go all guerrilla warfare on them outta revenge, causing orders of magnitude more damage to their profits than any slave could possibly be worth.
Very deep analysis there. I had not taken these many complications into account but thanks for pointing them out. Maybe I will try to answer a few of them in the upcoming chapters.
@Slayer104 eh, I guess it depends on where you want this to fall on the story to po*n spectrum. Hentai logic means pretty much anything goes, no matter how illogical; people are reading it for the smut and smut alone. But if you want this to be 'plot' with actual plot, having the world lore make at least some sense becomes more important.
@kenshin135 I will try my best
That's why I dropped on this episode. This detail of worldbuild is like a fifth leg of a dog, completely ruined immersion.