I Must Create Every Monster Girl Myself Then!!!

“I haven’t explained the full extent of everything to you all… so I suppose now is the best time.” Henrek sighed as he slunked towards one of the maps strung up against the wall.

Utarou turned around in his chair, Julia was playing with the kids, Hope was anxiously watching what her husband was doing and Barney and May were still reeling from having been declared King and Queen against their wills.

“Starting from the beginning, I tried to arrange an official meeting with someone higher up in the church to try and call off Templar Adam, that was probably my first mistake.” Henrek sighed as he put a pin in a large peninsula to the south west of Oldser, it was the Avoisan Papacy, the city state that the entire church answered to.

“With Vicar John leaving and the public trial, everyone knew about the heresy going on, including the merchants. Especially the merchants who you’d been selling your… mystery meat to.” Henrek shuddered, Utarou hadn’t exactly been upfront with how he’d been paying off the taxes to King Oldser.

“Oh yeah, since I was locked up you wouldn’t have been able to sell my mince meat to the king. What happened there?” Utarou asked casually.

“Your what?!” Hope gagged as she realized what Utarou was saying.

“Oh good lord I ‘n nicked some of that…” May hurled. Julia subtly moved to block the kids from hearing what the adults were talking about.

“What?! Healing factor, you know I wouldn’t have any diseases!” Utarou retorted defensively.

“Ahem, needless to say I worked very hard to keep that secret. Unfortunately we ran out of our reserve almost instantly without the extra income, I tried to become a subject of King Oldsier again but that led to problem number 2.” Henrek continued, placing a pin on Richton, on this continental sized map it was just above Dracons.

“Turns out the former governor of Dracons had moved to the capital and took the liberty to change my message, I only found this out months later but by then it was too late. From the King’s perspective we’d just killed one of his Blessed Beings in cold blood. I think the former governor wanted to reclaim his territory but we were just declared ungoverned. Burtcons and Lolcons claimed most of our border territory but left the core lands alone.” Henrek explained, pointing to another map that was a map of the territory of Dracons, with pretty much every border village of any worth being swallowed, the hilly regions that surrounded Dryholm were untouched.

“What about the whole goblin and troll thing?” Utarou asked.

“Yeah, that is problem number 3.” Henrek sighed as he rubbed his temples.

“I uh, may have contributed to this part…” Hope offered meekly.

“No no, you didn’t do anything wrong.” Henrek rejected immediately.

“But if I wasn’t there then maybe-”

“Doesn’t matter, the whole world could burn for all I care, I’m not hiding you or Lilly ever.” Henrek replied, the vigor and passion returning to his voice.

“Well, what happened?” Utarou snapped.

“Ahem, right… I took Hope and Lilly to a meeting in Burtcons to try and establish some diplomatic ties. I hadn’t realized the Governer of Burtcons was an Aviosan fundamentalist so upon seeing their eyes he chased us out of the province and started funnelling their various goblin tribes into our lands, also blocking all traders from entering the unclaimed territory for ‘safety reasons’.” Henrek continued bitterly.

“Huh? Lilly as well… I thought you gave her a normal legacy skill?” Utarou asked.

“You haven’t noticed her eyes? They’re gnarly- I mean they’re an adorable shade of red!” Julia said, quickly correcting herself as she picked up her niece and stretched her over for Utarou to see.

“W-w-woah Julia are you sure that’s safe?!” Henrek panicked as he saw the concerningly thin arms holding his baby in the air.

The year and a half old girl had her fathers face, but her eyes were a piercing glowing red, almost identical to her mothers except for the colour.

“Fascianting, perhaps she has the potential to be a cat girl still…” Henrek nodded.

“Don’t talk about my baby girl like that.” Henrek demanded seriously.

“Fine, fine, not until she’s older.” Utarou smirked.

“Never.” Henrek reiterated.

“Fine.” Utarou rolled his eyes, he’d talk about his granddaughter like that.

“Ahem, anyway after a while of trying to raid Dryholm and failing, they started banding together to siege us. Terrible creatures. That’s about when you escaped.”

“Alright, doesn’t sound so bad so far, you’re still getting trade from Lolcons right?” Utarou asked.

“We were.” May growled as Henrek sighed.

“I tried to offer our territory to become a part of Lolcons. Turns out the Governor didn’t appreciate finding out we were responsible for all of the Wyverns migrating to his territory, and instead of offering to move us in no! No, he just blocks us from all trade!” Henrek shouted in frustration, looking towards the bottle of liquor on the table.

“That’s when he started the drinking and self isolating” Hope added.

“I wasn’t… doing too much of that.” Henrek sighed as he paced around the maps.

“Alright, so Goblin tribes attacking, no trade from north or south, and as far as you know Templar Adam is still coming to destroy everything.” Utarou reiterated.

“Pretty much. I’ve pretty much spent the last few months fighting against the siege, deploying my men on suicide missions to try and scare off the ring leaders and waiting for the inevitable visit from Templar Adam. The siege has calmed down as winter rolls in at least… but they’re gonna be back stronger when spring comes around…” Henrek sighed, collapsing onto the couch with Hope.

“There there, it’s all gonna be okay now…” Hope said soothingly.

Utarou nodded.

“We’re going to be attacked by Goblins on all sides in spring, Burtcons hates us because of the Monster Girl plans, they’re a no go, Lolcons hates us because of a problem we caused, there’s an angle there, and the church… Wait what’s going on with Vicar John?”

“He simply sent a letter saying that he could no longer help us and that unless we could get to the Pope, then Templar Adam’s heresy banding was absolute.” Henrek clarified.

“Easy then! I just need an audience with the Pope and you just need to sort out the Wyvern problem in Lolcons before spring!” Utarou declared.

“You make it sound so easy.” Henrek laughed.

“Don’t worry, we’ve got monster girl power now.” Utarou smirked, pointing towards Julia, who twisted her head back and gave a thumbs up, causing Junior to scream, which caused Lilly and Autumn to start crying.

“Oh no no no! It’s okay!” Julia cried as May and Hope came in to calm their respective kids.

“Ya a mad man Utarou, but the kinda mad I can respect! You go ‘n sort out this business with the church, I reckon with the blue lass here we can do somethin’ fierce with those Wyverns.” Barney declared confidently.

“Yeah… Yeah.” Henrek nodded.

“Alright! I hereby declare the start of the Winter Mission! We have 3 months to sort this out before those goblins start to siege again people let’s go!” Utarou declared, clapping his hands, causing the babies to start crying more.

“Utarou be quiet!” Hope hissed.

“sorry.”