In the northernmost region of Celesta’s Merchant Nation, lies Basson, a modest city not far from the Kingdom of Trot. Situated well away from the western border with the Afilum Empire—currently on its toes as the nation’s frontline defense—the small garrison town nearby hosts only a single battalion of one hundred soldiers. Worse yet, this lone unit is nothing more than a Crossbow Corps, deployed carelessly without any grand strategic purpose. They are specialists in large-scale combat support, but here they serve no real function.
The Northern Legion has no stake in the eastern or western frontlines, nor does it have any roots in the southern breeding grounds for elite troops. To be blunt, there’s little expectation that they’ll prove their worth in times of crisis; their heavy attrition during the Trot War was enough to dampen enthusiasm. Furthermore, since the old Trot Kingdom Army has largely been repurposed to cover its own northern front where defense is truly needed, Basson isn’t facing an urgent threat.
Consequently, this unit—sounded a bit flowery with “cherished reserve forces”—is really just a collection of upper management’s whimsical hobby troops and experimental units. They spend their days researching new tactics and engaging in mindless training regimens. Although the Crossbow Corps is widely known for its monumental contributions during the Trot War, it remains classified as one of these experimental units. And there’s nothing worse than having an experimental unit thrown out to idly fidget while their usefulness is questioned; when told something along the lines of “just stay and train casually,” they’re left completely unsure of what to do. Regular infantry or cavalry could push themselves relentlessly, sharpening their skills and showcasing their potential for becoming Ace Knights, but the crossbow’s handling is inherently simple and relies heavily on magical support. No matter how hard they try to bulk up their capabilities, there’s a ceiling. Best and worst described as units that only reach maximum effectiveness when wielded directly by a one-man leader who commands them at will.
As a result, Arnie Boyd (a 18-year-old male Ogre), unable to return home during this sudden long leave, spends his days in the barracks. After completing a decent archery routine in the morning, he doubles up by running back and forth between the barracks and Basson—a one-hour trek—counting it as marching training, all so he can squeeze in some fleeting romance with his beautiful human girlfriend, Sylvia (19-year-old female), claiming it’s “just part of the training.”
It’s true that Captain Ten of the barracks is watching over them all day and telling everyone to keep their heads down and train properly, but realistically, going to see her every day without issue isn’t the real problem. Arnie frets that while Sylvia works at a fried food shop from noon until dusk, him loitering around with a smug grin does nothing for his own discipline, so he ends up pushing himself hard in training.
“Arnie-kun, you’ve worked hard.” “Oh, y-yes! How do you do? See ya later, Sylvia-san.” Drenched in sweat, Arnie jogs along the ruts left by horse carriages. Sylvia waits for him with a bright smile in the grassy fields on the outskirts of town. Beside her stand a water bucket and several roasted whole birds, prepared since morning in anticipation of his arrival.
“Sylvia-san… I’m happy to eat the roasted bird, but isn’t preparing it every day a bit much?” “No worries, Arnie-kun! You caught a boar recently, didn’t you? Compared to that, this is practically free.”
It’s a hunting skill mandatory in Ogre colonies. Occasionally spotting boars or deer in the wild, he hunts them down and brings them back to Sylvia’s family home. Sylvia’s mother throws a tantrum of joy every time, while her father wears an awkward, difficult expression.
Arnie feels a bit disappointed thinking that he’s becoming slightly unpopular, but it’s common knowledge that human fathers rarely feel good having their daughters absolutely obsessed with a 277cm-tall Ogre like Arnie. Yet, Sylvia is completely and utterly head-over-heels in love with Arnie.
“Heheh! Today, I tried changing the herbs to marinate and the sauce a bit.” “Uh, uh… thanks, let’s eat then.” Arnie devours the roasted bird in one massive, very Ogre-like bite, “Mmm!” “This is delicious!” “So which one do you prefer? Yesterday or today?” “Oh, both are hard to give up on…” “Nope. You have to choose.”
Sylvia presses close to Arnie, tapping his large nose with her finger as she forces him to pick an answer. Arnie looks troubled and takes a small sip from the water bucket. For a human, the bucket is huge, but given Ogre scale, it’s roughly equivalent to holding a slightly oversized mug.
“Then… today’s one?” “Oh right. Yeah! I’ll work hard tomorrow too.” “I will look forward to it then.” After delivering lunch to Arnie like this, Sylvia heads off to the fried food shop for work. Meanwhile, Arnie jogs back and forth between the barracks and town several times. Occasionally catching sight of wild animals, he hunts them down while waiting for Sylvia to finish her shift, then uses their short walk home from the shop as a date. That’s how it always goes.
“So… um, Arnie-kun…” “Huh?” Arnie, already munching on the third roasted bird, had started wondering why Sylvia wasn’t returning to town yet. But suddenly, she smiled and hopped up onto his lap with a thud, making him skip a heartbeat.
“Actually, today’s a day off~” ”…Really?” “Yeah! So let’s go on a date this afternoon♪” ”…”
Arnie was utterly thrilled, though an ogre’s expression of such excitement isn’t always easy for humans to read. “O-Or is it… do you have any work duties coming up, Arnie-kun?” “N-No, there’s nothing like that… uh-ah!”
Dating. Not just some casual chit-chat date as usual; this was a luxurious affair consuming half a day. Arnie paced anxiously in his mind, wondering if he should rush back to retrieve the coat Kelly had given him, or perhaps find somewhere nearby to wash away the sweat—after all, humans must hate the smell of perspiration (though ogres, males and females alike, hardly mind it at all).
“Since we’re on a date, I-I’ll just… tidy up my appearance a bit.” “Eh? Then there won’t be much time left for the date itself!” “W-Well, then super-express mode… at least I need to knock off the sweat smell or something!” “I actually like you even if you’re sweaty, Arnie-kun?” ”…………Uuu…”
He wondered if it was okay to act this way; surely she must be holding back her own feelings too. Unable to resist Sylvia’s half-lidded gaze as she tugged on his short-sleeved shirt, Arnie drifted along helplessly in the current of emotion. ”…W-Where shall we go?” “Yay♪ Let’s go hiking!” “Hiking, huh? Alright then.”
Arnie had been worried that at an arena, other humans might frown upon his sweatiness, indirectly embarrassing Sylvia. But now he felt relieved. Such was Arnie—the timid sort who, once something crossed his mind, went overthinking it to a fault. It was precisely this delicacy in an otherwise imposing frame that made Sylvia utterly charmed.
Sylvia adored being carried on Arnie’s shoulders. Though carrying her like that usually meant crossing legs over someone’s shoulders, Arnie’s neck was too thick for a girl to straddle comfortably, so she settled herself onto one shoulder instead. “It’s high up, isn’t it, Arnie-kun?” “Of course—it’s an ogre after all.” “With such great height, humans must be tiny and easily overlooked by us, right?” ”…To be honest, I sometimes almost end up kicking children by mistake.” Once caught in an ogre’s stride, human kids wouldn’t fare well. He’d never actually done it, but within the barracks, Ogre soldiers had accidentally kicked a dwarf once, sparking a fight.
”…I’m really so tiny… To Arnie-kun, I must look like some kind of cat or something.” “N-No, that’s not it… Sylvia-san is more than that… you know, wonderful… ah!” “M-Mmph! Don’t say such embarrassing things just because we’re in the forest, Arnie-kun!” “Sorry, so sorry…” ”…But I’m happy.”
Ogre and human—shoulder above, body below. Though their scales differed, both flushed bright red. Together, basking in the afternoon forest’s gentle light, they awkwardly averted their gazes yet refused to break each other’s side. Unable to bear the silence any longer, they frantically racked their brains for something to say, anything to say. Just as lips parted to speak, Sylvia seized the initiative a heartbeat too soon. ”…So, Arnie-kun.” “Hmm? Y-Yes?” ”…How big do Ogre children grow up to be? Do you think I could even bear one?” “A-Ah, th-that… Well, babies are almost indistinguishable between ogres and humans, so you should be fine… uh oh…” “I see. I was a little worried.” “Uh oh, uh oh… My child… with Arnie… and Sylvia-san…”
“Arnie Boyd. My brain’s boiling over.”
Even though Sylvia had sacrificed her virginity to Arnie, he’s always so polite and restrained that they’ve never actually fucked again. But he already knows how good it feels—the moment he starts thinking about it, his junk reacts, swelling up with youthful vigor.
”…Arnie-kun.”
“Y-yes?”
”…This is deep in the forest. No one can see us.”
“T-truly, that’s true…”
“…b-but, I’m a guy, right?”
“…y-yes, I am a boy!”
Sylvia wrapped her arms around Arnie’s back of his head, biting down on her shame.
By Sylvia’s standards, this was her absolute best shot at seducing him.
She wasn’t even in the prime of youth anymore, but she certainly didn’t hate sex. In fact, every time they met like this, she found herself wanting to be hugged by Arnie.
But speaking those words out loud felt so embarrassing. It would be pointless if only she were into it; if Arnie himself didn’t feel the urge, there was no way anything could happen. That’s why she’d been waiting forever for him to finally express his desire for her.
“Well… Sylvia-san. Um, actually, uh… I don’t really know if it’s okay for me to say this, but… let’s have sex.”
”…You’re an idiot.”
“D-does that mean no? No, right? Um, haha…”
“No, that’s not it… I’ve been waiting forever, you know!”
“Haaahhh… e-eh?”
“You’re numb to everything!”
Gripping the back of Arnie’s neck, she swung herself around and lowered her body in front of him like a pendulum.
She kissed him once, then slowly began taking off her jacket amidst the dappled sunlight filtering through the trees.
“H-huh? Arnie-kun, take your clothes off too! Don’t make me feel ashamed alone!”
“Oh, oohhh!”
Panicked, Arnie started ripping his own clothes off in a rush.
Thus, amidst the forest, they faced each other completely naked.
“T-there… you’re beautiful.”
”…Thank you. You look wonderful too, Arnie-kun.”
Sylvia gazed lovingly at Arnie’s modest member—small for an ogre, yet still thrusting upward with lust as he eagerly desired her.
”…Arnie-kun. Do it again like last time.”
“E-e-eh? Ehh?”
“Let me grab you up with both those big hands of yours and pound into your hole hard… yank on my penis… until I shoot loads all over you… ♪”
Like a child begging for a hug from its parents, naked Sylvia spread her arms wide.
Arnie gently grabbed her body, lightly enjoying her breasts with his thumb before tilting her onto her back in front of him.
“Ohh, boobs… so sexy!”
“I-I’m sorry!”
”…Arnie-kun. As I keep saying, being lovers means it’s fine to be into each other like this?”
”…Yeah.”
“That’s why you shouldn’t apologize. …Only Arnie-kun is warmly welcomed in getting turned on by me. You must think that if you do something dirty to me, you’ll get disliked by me, right?”
”…Just a little bit.”
“I won’t dislike it. Absolutely not. …Though maybe people might get slightly annoyed if we take our clothes off or have sex in public… but only just a tiny bit.”
“Nope!”
“Okay, then you’ll never hate me! So once you’re sure no one’s watching, feel free to do all sorts of dirty things!”
”…C-can, I… can do that?”
“Yeah. You can hide in the tall grass and lick my breasts. You can let me get your cock licked while we’re hidden in the thicket, or you can rub my ass for as long as you want. If I bring you into the forest like this, it’s fine if you put your cock inside me too. Even if we go into an inn and you pound your cock deep inside me all day long—it’s okay! And if we end up with a Hornless Ogre baby together… you’ll take care of me, won’t you?”
“And even if we can’t have kids… as long as it’s with me, please marry me!”
“Yeah♪ …As your future wife, there’s no limit to the dirty stuff I can do for you, so give it your all, okay?♪”
“Y-yes!!!”
With a squish, he eagerly drove his member deep into Sylvia.
“Ahhh~♪”
Sylvia displayed her slender throat in rapture.
“Oh, Arnie-kun… you’re in me again…♪”
“S-Sylvia-san… I’m so turned on…”
He slowly pushed all the way to the hilt, then drew back out gradually. Carefully adjusting the brake of reason against the accelerator of beastly instinct, he began to pick up the pace.
“Arnie-kun… Arnie-kun, I love you so much~♪ …Being used by a man like Arnie-kun, being treated like a woman by you—it makes me so incredibly happy…!!”
“B-but, I do too… I love Sylvia-san so much! I’m stupid and can’t say it any other way, but I really, truly love you!! If I could, I’d want to stay doing this right now forever!”
”…A-aah… ah, ha… ah, Arnie-kun…?” While being rocked against her back, Sylvia smiled as if she was genuinely happy.
“I want your cock too… I want your cock so much…♪ …I want you to use me over and over again, all the time!!”
“Guh!”
Here in the heart of the forest broad daylight, an Ogre who could be asked by such a beautiful, naked exotic lover to do just that. Was there really anyone else so fortunate?
”…Kk-aaahhh!!” The moment he saw Sylvia’s pure yet filthy expression, filled with profound happiness, Arnie bit his lips and surrendered to the pleasure he had been holding back from. His restraint snapped instantly; he slammed his glans hard against Sylvia’s womb and erupted.
“Nn-haa, aa, aaaaaah~♪” “S-Sylvia-san!!!” He poured his thick sperm deep inside her. Sylvia continued to tremble violently in rhythm with the pulse for a while until his ejaculation ended, then she slumped weakly.
“S-Sylvia…-san…”
“U-un… Lying on my back makes my neck a bit tired…” She hadn’t lost consciousness or anything like that; relieved, Arnie began to lift his hips off… but Sylvia immediately showed signs of displeasure.
“D-don’t take it out yet!” “But—”
”…If you let me lie face-down this time, I could go on for a bit longer… Arnie-kun, you want to continue too, right…?” ”…Should we keep going like this?”
“Yeah… because I said I wanted to do it forever, didn’t I?♪” Lifting her heavy-looking face up, Sylvia smiled at him.
“One round doesn’t make ‘forever’, you know.” “Sylvia-san…”
”……Shall we♪ Since we’re two lovers who adore each other more than words can say♪” “Yes…”
That day, their tender whispers never ceased until sunset.
By the way, there were surprisingly many ogres whose horns had been snapped off and who spent the whole daylight hours getting absolutely ravaged by inter-species boyfriends.
“K-, Kate, Linne… uh, hey, how much of the day do you two actually spend clothed these days?”
“Hmm… we don’t know…♪”
“A new wife has no need for modesty. Kelly’s love is always waiting to be received—I’m ready to burn my underwear and discard them without a second thought.”
“No, calm down. If you start doing that, the Bull Ogre colony won’t have any backup clothes small enough for this situation. And if I walk around looking like this, everyone in the colony will think I’ve gone off the deep end socially.”
“Just change locations, and it’ll work out fine.”
“Therefore, here comes the dick-dick action!”
“Ah, you perverted wolf bastards! Absolutely no burning allowed! If my mom sees me like this again, she’ll glare so coldly I’ll start crying!”
Slightly special case.
This is part of Isaac’s arc from Side Story 2; both arcs were running concurrently during the original serialization.