"...Ahhh," I open my mouth and Zephyra quickly puts a spoonful of stew in, I bite and savor it while giving her a smile, my tail wagging slightly with excitement.
"Pandora, is this really right? Your master muttered some things and...well..." Zephyra asks as I swallow the stew in my mouth.
"Of course it is, my love. I don't have one of my arms and I'm too injured to..."
"Pandora, stop lying, you can already move," my master says without taking his eyes off the book. I give him a nasty look and click my tongue.
"Zephyra, ignore him! He doesn't know what he's talking about, he's not even good at healing, I know better about my own body..." I say quickly while looking at the stew that's almost gone with just a few more spoonfuls.
"Well..."
"Aw, dang...Zephyra, are you really going to let this cute little girl stay in bed without food?" I say with "sad" eyes while looking at the food.
"The food is cold and there's almost nothing left...I'll take this and get something new," she says, getting up and quickly leaving the room.
"Master! Why did you tell her?" I say irritated as I sit up on the bed with a slight pain.
"Pandora, it's been 4 days since you woke up, and all you've done is lie in bed and keep asking for food non-stop. I know you can already move, you should get out of bed and leave," he says, putting the book on the table.
"...Master, you're really cruel...but you're right, I'm a little better now..." I'm still missing an arm, but with 4 days of rest I've solved many of the problems I had.
'He's right...I need to leave...' There's a war going on and I've been gone for too long, I can only torture the heroes after the war is over since I'll have time to do it calmly.
But for now, I need to drive the humans out of my kingdom. Of course, I'll probably go torture the heroes before the war is completely over, but first I have to expel the humans.
'Well, Lilith, Aokitsu, Freya, Elena, and Calypso are taking care of what's important, I don't think I need to worry.' Lilith is literally the second strongest monster in the world, only below me.
And Elena is a good strategist who has a revive ability, so I think each side can handle their own problems.
"Well, master, as you said, I'm better. I think I'll leave tomorrow and go back to my castle..." I didn't want to show my troops that I lost an arm, I'd like to go with it already regenerated, but I think if I cover everything in darkness, no one will notice that an arm is missing.
"But my daughter, my wife, and Tsukuyomi will still be here, the war is still in my territory and I don't want to put them at risk," I say, getting up from the bed as my clothes dissolve.
"You're quite bold, aren't you? Why don't you get dressed?" He says, referring to the darkness clothes I was wearing when I arrived, which have now dissolved.
"I'm trying to grow back, that outfit doesn't grow with me, and besides, I have nothing to hide from you, after all, you're my master and you've seen me naked before. It's not like you'd like to see this anyway," I say, opening my arm.
This small body, despite its curves and exposed breasts, is not something I would call sensual unless the person likes someone very petite like that psychopath Grimm.
"Ah, but you also seem like a brat, did you get excited seeing your student naked?" I tease, trying to grow my size now that my wounds have healed.
Thanks to the master, I was able to recover from various injuries much earlier than I expected. Of course, I'm still injured and have almost no mana stored, but it's enough for me to return to my adult form instead of this small one.
"Don't play around like that, rebellious disciple," he goes to the door.
"Besides, keep an eye on your daughter, she's strange and makes equally strange requests, especially after seeing you injured like that," he says, oblivious to what Eclipsya feels.
"Let me guess, she asked for spells to trap people?" I say, momentarily surprising him.
"That's right, she seemed quite interested at first, but now she's completely focused on it. Also, I've heard her talking to herself, and I don't think a child should be muttering so much stupid nonsense."
"By the way, who's Azazel? Your daughter keeps muttering that name all the time when she thinks she's alone," he says, and I give him a smile.
"She's my other daughter, she's a sweetheart, but unfortunately not as smart to notice the signs," she is indeed a smart child, but not as genius as Eclipsya.
If I were to compare, Azazel is a smart child, no doubt someone who understands things, but still with a child's mentality, while Eclipsya is someone with an adult mentality and brilliant thoughts.
"...I don't even want to imagine what you teach your daughters, just don't let your daughter cause me any problems..." He says, but you can see the pride he has in having Eclipsya as his disciple.
"Of course, master, she won't cause you any problems." Eclipsya seems 100% focused on Azazel, so I doubt she'll try to trap anyone else for now. Besides, I also love Azazel, so I'll give her a certain degree of protection.
Although only until she's an adult. I firmly believe in rules and freedom coexisting, when my daughters are adults, they will have the freedom to choose what they want in their lives, so I'm only protecting Azazel from Eclipsya while the two are children, after that it's their own problem.
'I'm such a responsible mother! Other mothers would be jealous!' Certainly, I am very responsible, and no one can deny that!
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to return to my normal size and make a dress," I say, ignoring him and starting to stretch to return to my normal size.
"..." He leaves as I focus and start to force my body, it hurts a bit because I'm not fully healed, and as it grows, some wounds reopen and start to bleed, but I continue.
And in a few moments, I'm back to the normal form I have, I look at my body now dirty with blood again as some open wounds start to close.
"Ahhh...I missed these breasts so much," I hold my large breasts with joy, 4 days without seeing these wonders were really boring.
"Damn, my lust is only increasing, I want to have sex so badly!!!" Holding them like this only makes it worse.
"I think after the war I'll have my third child," I murmur, thinking about it. After the war, there won't be any significant threats to me, so as soon as I annihilate the humans, I'll stay "still" for a while, having a child, and after the child, I can try to massacre the elves and dragons.
"Hmm," I stretch, creating a new shadow dress for my body. I make it extremely tight to compress the wounds and help the regeneration close the points.
"10% of mana...too little for me to go to war," All my mana is constantly being sent to my recovery, so only a little is stored.
'I'll stay in the rear, just giving orders.' It doesn't make sense to go into battle being so weak.
"..." I spit up a little blood, my stomach still can't fully digest the food because of the wounds, but I don't care and just have a shadow shark eat everything to hide it.
"Yes...I'm fine and they don't need to know about this," I murmur, hiding any wounds, not even the master noticed that I'm not doing so well.
I can only seem fine because I'm using the [Shadow Sculpture] ability inside my body to "fulfill" many of the functions inside my body, otherwise I wouldn't even get out of bed.
It's a great luck that Shadow Sculpture doesn't consume mana, so I can do whatever I want with it without depending on something too costly.
"..." I try to create a shadow arm, I'll just lie that it's some kind of armor for the arm if they ask, the arm isn't perfect, it's larger and with plates to really look like armor, while inside it's hollow so my real arm can grow inside.
"..." I try to use it to hold the book on the table, but I can't without a lot of effort first, with the mana path damaged, I'll need practice to move it.
"I think that's enough," I go to the door, deciding to walk a little. I'll go see Zephyra and the others to say goodbye, then I'll use the teleportation circle of the flying island to go back to my castle.
'I'd love to have learned the telepathy spell, so I could ask Elena how things are going...' Looks like I'll have to wait to know more.
I leave the room and start heading to Eclipsya to say goodbye for now, I just hope the war ends soon so I can enjoy my time and get rid of the lust that's built up in a life-or-death struggle.
"Too bad I didn't bring a little souvenir to give Eclipsya." If I wasn't so injured, I would have brought some hero's weapon and given it to Eclipsya as a memento.
'I think I also need to make an announcement to humanity, showing that I've killed their heroes. If they just see an image of me being "well" after killing their heroes, they'll lose a lot of morale.' Not even the master noticed that I'm more injured than I show.
So pretending in front of the broadcast that I'm fine is totally possible, because in the broadcast they can't feel my mana or analyze my body even using artifacts or magic.
"Hmm, victory is so sweet...although the lack of time to savor it is really degrading and unpleasant," with pure pleasure in my voice during my murmur, I find my dear daughter coming out of a room and start to go to her.