My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1250-1252

Chapter 1250

A rumbling sound, followed by the ground starting to collapse caused the men waiting above to flee back down the tunnel. They ran in a panic, but once they were in the underground passage, they were relatively safe. The Wolf Pack and the mayor were deeply confused, but with the path behind them collapsed, they had only one direction to go.

As they reentered the hospital, slightly panicked, a portal opened up and I stepped out. Behind me was everything that was left of the dungeon turning into nothing but rubble. The last of the levels were collapsing and I shut the portal before the debris could fly through. There was no longer anything left of the laboratory. If I could, I would have taken the lore that man spent his life adding to and crushed it into oblivion.

Once I was through the portal, I took one look across the five startled men. When my eyes fell on the sickly children, an ugly expression fell across my face. I didn’t look in the mayor’s direction again as I started walking outside.

“H-hey!” he cried out as I passed by him, reaching out for my arm.

I turned back, and whether it was some invisible pressure or the look in my eye, his hand stopped in place and his lips froze. It wasn’t that I hated the man. Rather, I was pissed that he had acted completely innocent in all of this, even going so far as to seek my sympathy by showing me the children, yet he knew the sins of this village. He had even been complicit in them. Just because he hadn’t worked alongside the catkin, he had still shown himself worthy of scorn.

“You let them experiment on your families, your friends, your neighbors,” I spoke in a low, quiet voice that turned out to be more frightening than when I yelled.

He looked away. “They’re cursed. They’re sickly… and dying. The catkin tribe dealt with them for us, gave them a purpose, and put them to use. Gave their pitiful lives value. Then, they started coming for two-tailed, and three-tailed, foxkin not suffering from any ailments, but by then it was too late to object…”

The wolfkin gave the foxkin disgusted looks. Wolfkin were pack animals, after all. The pack mattered to them. They didn’t know the whole story, but they had heard enough. The idea of turning on each other was repulsive to them.

“The rabbit-kin working with you. Was that also a ruse?”

He looked away. “The rabbitkin hate our kind the most. Still, they sought us out with the hopes that we would help them, even after they looked down on us so much. It… it was always the catkin who gave us a chance. They were more comfortable with death than most of the other animalkin. That’s why we always supported them as the alpha tribe and tried to do as they asked.

“We truly thought we were doing the right thing. Some may have died, but they were dying anyway. We believed that this research would allow them to return to normal, to return home. A few lives to cure this curse. Was that really so bad? Most of them volunteered…”

“I’ve seen your kind of volunteering!” I took a step toward him, causing him to stumble back. “You push them into a corner, make them feel abandoned. Only when they have nothing left would they cling to that tiny olive branch you extended.”

“We made a mistake.” He lowered his head. “I truly regret-”

“You only regret that they started going after those you didn’t ostracize, those you considered healthy and normal.”

“…”

“I don’t care about the foxkin. Two tails, five tails… you’re all the same to me. You can betray, ostracize, and torture each other all you want and it’s no business of mine.” My expression darkened. “But you never should have sold out Miki.”

“She had figured out a way to keep living, so we thought that she would have the secret… that’s what the catkin told us.”

At that point, I noticed a rising group of voices outside. The mayor stiffened, his expression going white for a second. He then gave a worried glance in my direction, or more specifically at the sword in my hand.

I turned away and shoved the door open to find a large crowd of foxkin emerging on the small building. It wasn’t just everyone who had been in the inn earlier. Now, it looked like just about everyone in town had gathered. Several had weapons or torches. It looks like I had stirred things up in this small village a bit too much, and now they were planning to drive me out of town. Let’s see where this went.

Chapter 1251

When the mayor walked out and noticed his peers, he fell into silence. I noticed him stepping to the side as if to take his distance from both me and the crowd that was glaring at me. I could hear words of anger and derision, so there was no doubt what the crowd wanted.

After a few moments of mutters and wordless shouts, a man stepped out who seemed to be leading them. “You need to leave, stranger.”

Directly behind him was a woman who was clinging to his arm. She nodded her head enthusiastically, almost like she was goading him on. The pair looked terrified looking up at me who towered over them, but they were bolstered by the crowds behind them.

“You don’t need to worry. I plan to leave.” I spoke up, cause the mumbling to quiet. “I found what I wanted to know. I just never would have guessed the foxkin were such … animals…”

A wave of discontent swept through the crowd, the man huffed angrily. “You don’t even know what you’re talking about!”

I looked down at him with a frown. “I don’t? Aren’t you the ones who sold out your own families like cowards? I suppose I should have known better. After all, you were already selling them off to slavery so you didn’t have to deal with them. How could I expect such people to have any honor at all.”

I probably should have stayed quiet, but I was furious. Miki had never once spoken ill of this village. She had always treated it as a mutual understanding. Her family did their best, but in the end, she didn’t want to be a burden. She had always hidden the truth. They were just a bunch of cowards who sold off their families so that they didn’t have to struggle with things.

“They’re cursed people! Every day is a pain for them! They couldn’t bear to be in that pain anymore. We did what we had to so that their final days could be peaceful!” The man declared back defiantly.

“They couldn’t bear it? Or you couldn’t bear it.” I asked, snorting. “Miki was better than you. She was better than all of you!”

“She’s a monster!” The woman holding onto the man shouted. “She cursed us… she cursed me! She didn’t hesitate to ruin all of our lives!”

Her words were echoed by several more people. “She’s evil.”

“She’s destroyed us all!”

“That child should never have been born.”

“Curse…” I mumbled, and then my eyes widened as I began to realize what happened.

They all seemed to flinch with just that word. I looked back into the building behind me, and then out across the foxkin here. Within the inn, there had been too few to notice, but now seeing more of the village, I could see various people who looked paler and sicker than others. I couldn’t help but throw my head back and laugh. It was a harsh, unforgiving laugh.

“Master…” Alysia spoke quietly.

“That’s what is wrong with them. Their so-called curse.” I wiped a tear from my eye as the expressions on the foxkin turned increasingly ugly. “Before Miki left, she caused everyone to awaken their spiritual tails. She turned all of you into the very things you feared. She turned you into spirit foxes!”

Chapter 1252

“She had no right!” The woman shouted defiantly. “She took everything from us!”

“How many tails do you have?” I demanded angrily, causing her to cower behind her husband once again. “Three? Five? I guess the children, being so young, got hit with too much spiritual energy. That’s why they are so sick. As for the rest of you, you’re hardly affected at all.”

“A few who were unlucky enough to spawn too many tails died!” The foxkin man shouted. “Many of us are racked with pain every night.”

“So?” I asked, causing the man to blink in shock. “This is nothing more than your brethren had to deal with every day while you pretended to help them. The saddest thing about this all is that you’re not cursed at all. You’ve been given a gift, and you’re too foolish to even do anything with it.”

“You dare!” He snarled, taking a step forward. “You call it a gift? It’s nothing but a curse, a bane placed on the foxkin for our sins in a previous life. It only brings misfortune and death!”

I glared at him darkly. “It didn’t bring misfortune and death to Miki. She had controlled her power. She had been happy. When she came back here, she was looking to show you all another way, and instead, you tricked her and used her for your own purposes. You thought she’d be the answer that would get rid of the spiritual tails for good, and instead, she awakened them in all of you. Now, you must live with it.”

“Miki… never should have been born.” The woman responded darkly, her hand tightening on the man’s arm. “She was a mistake.”

The way she said those words caused a surge of anger to explode within me. I had not been planning to do anything with this group. Even if I hadn’t seen the good in them, Miki had never wished them harm. She had truly been too good to these people. They didn’t deserve it at all.

“Say that again…” I responded, my hand adjusting on the sword.

“Master…” Alysia whispered in my ear as the woman continued to cower.

“Say it…” I responded, causing the entire group of foxkin to make up a step.

“Don’t act so noble!” The man let out a snarl. “I know who you are. You’re the man who bought her. You paid for her like an object, just to play with her. Was using her like a toy worth it? This is your fault! If it wasn’t for you, she’d have been dead by now like she was supposed to. She would have been better off dead!”

I didn’t know when my hand had lunged out, but I grabbed his neck and lifted him. The woman that had been holding onto him let out a cry as she was shoved to the ground. Everyone else, rather than running to help, cowered back. Even here, they didn’t seem to care about protecting their own. They were happy to bully others when they had the upper hand, but they would just as quickly turn on each other when it was convenient.

“And what right do you have?” I screamed.

“Stop!” The woman cried out, the only one who got back up and started trying to hit my arm. “Leave him alone! We have every right!”

“And how is that?” I hissed.

“We’re her parents!”