No Beast Girls on the Western Front

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"In the army, you orcs were assigned to me. Do you think there was any element of free choice involved? Was it me who could choose you, or you who could choose me?"

"Do you think you liked me willingly? Just because I'm someone who likes orcs, and I treated you a little better than others, you mistook my gratitude for your help for affection..."

But Lacey's eyes widened immediately: "You gave me food and shelter, taught me fighting skills, were willing to accept me during my heat, and even saved my life. Aren't these reasons enough?"

Payne was about to say, "The orcs' needs are indeed very low," but then he thought again, even if Lacey were a person, after being hit by this combo, she probably wouldn't like him.

As for himself, it was no different: Lacey had also helped him a lot, saved his life on the battlefield, and the two of them had spent dozens of sweet nights together. His feelings for Lacey had long since become very deep.

This is a true case of love growing over time—in a double sense.

Before his time travel, Payne, who had no experience in love, imagined love as something very beautiful and pure, as if only emotions like "love at first sight" were worthy of the title "love".

After transmigrating and spending a year and a half on the battlefield, Payne felt that he was already old and didn't want to think about any profound questions anymore. In his spare time, as long as he could eat his fill, sleep well, and get sensory stimulation from his beast girls, that was enough for him.

But when Lacey asked him this question, after careful consideration, he realized that he still knew nothing about what "love" was.

Humans are truly amazing.

This world is truly amazing.

After a renewed sense of curiosity about himself and the world, Payne suddenly felt much younger.

This time, Payne took the initiative to pull Lacey into his arms. "Yes, although I liked you guys from the beginning, it's true that feelings develop over time."

"I'm sorry, you are all my most important comrades and family, so I can't rank you."

Seemingly embarrassed by those two short sentences, Lacey struggled gently in Payne's arms, her twitching ears tickling Payne's neck and chin.

“...Hmph, 'philanthropic' humans.” she muttered under her breath.

Such a shy, silly dog ​​is a rare sight, and Payne decided to take a good look at it.

Then tell her after her heat cycle has passed.

Chapter 165 CLXIV. Elevated Blood Pressure (Civil Engineering Edition)

Although the process was somewhat bumpy, Payne had a wonderful few days after calming down Shawn and Lacey.

Although the sheep and the dog were in late estrus and early estrus respectively, and neither of them were willing to have sex, every day as soon as it got dark, the two beasts would eagerly crawl onto the bed and stare longingly at Payne.

Once Payne gets into bed, the sheep and the dog will sandwich him from both sides.

However, given that the other four beasts were also in the shelter, and that he did not have Payne all to himself, he had to restrain himself and therefore did not take any further action.

Payne wasn't too disappointed about it. He'd been worn out by those two guys, so this was a good opportunity for him to get some rest.

It was early autumn, and it wasn't too hot to sleep with the two beasts in your arms. Combined with the factors mentioned above, Payne had been sleeping very comfortably these past few days.

He would wake up every morning when the first rays of sunlight shone into the trench, and the furry touch of a head resting on each of his arms would bring him great pleasure.

If it weren't for this damn war, this early-to-bed, early-to-rise routine and the current situation of having women on both sides would be both healthy and happy, almost the perfect ideal of life.

Several days after the sheep and dog had been appeased, on an ordinary morning, as Payne opened his eyes with the sun as usual, he heard Lacey say, "Master, you're awake?"

"Hmm... Lacey, you woke up even earlier than me today." Payne said, casually rubbing the dog's head.

“Yes~” Lacey’s tone was full of allure, “Because, I feel like the time has come~~”

Payne immediately opened his eyes, wide awake. "Really? Then let's..."

"Hey, I'm awake too."

Payne's voice stopped abruptly, and his head slowly turned to the other side, where he saw a somewhat resentful sheep's face.

His eyes darted around. "Uh... I remember sheep's post-estrus cycle is quite long, you probably haven't reached your next cycle yet..."

“Yes, it’s definitely not here yet.” Xiao En stared intently at Payne. “If it weren’t for Lacey making so much noise, I wouldn’t have been woken up.”

Then Payne felt two arms wrap around his neck, and Lacey's confident voice rang out: "So what? Beasts in heat have the highest priority~~"

Payne, however, was concerned about what Shawn meant by "making too much noise." He hadn't felt anything while fast asleep. "Lassie, what did you do?"

Lacey gave a sweet smile. "It's nothing. I just didn't want to wake Master, so I borrowed Master's finger for a bit~"

"...?"

Only then did Payne belatedly bring his hand up to his face and take a look—it was already somewhat wrinkled.

"She really made a huge commotion..." Xiao En muttered to herself.

Payne: "..."

Looks like I slept really soundly.

Payne's lips twitched, and he slightly raised his head to look around. Seeing that the other beasts were still fast asleep, he breathed a slight sigh of relief. At the same time, he rubbed the dog's head and the sheep's head, and said to Lacey:

"Then I'll keep you company tonight."

"Woo woof~"

……

Payne had thought the day would be tough because the work of modifying the trenches didn't require much brainpower, so now that he had recovered, he had plenty of time to think about how to play with Lacey that night.

Fortunately, the arrival of the legendary "expert" somewhat alleviated his torment.

At first, he heard a commotion coming from the trench not far away, but he didn't pay attention and continued digging.

But soon, Kermoris ran over to him and said, "Hey Payne, some new orcs have come over there. Aren't you going to take a look?"

"New orcs? Where?"

But just as Payne straightened up, he felt a piercing gaze from behind him.

Before he could turn around, he felt himself being embraced by a pair of strong arms, and he heard Lacey's voice in his ear: "Don't go~"

It seems that Lacey has really been through a lot of trouble lately, as she dares to openly go against him.

After making Lacey realize her place with a flick on the forehead, Payne led six beast girls in a grand procession to see who had brought which beast girls.

Soon, he saw two unfamiliar engineers walking in the trenches under construction, followed by ten tiny beast girls, barely taller than squirrels.

This scene is reminiscent of a teacher leading elementary school students across the street...

Looking at the group of tiny creatures with their uniform gray-brown hair, almost invisible animal ears, and flat, dark brown tails, he couldn't immediately recall what kind of animal they were.

It wasn't until he saw one sapper instructing five beasts on how to dig a drainage ditch, and another sapper telling five other beasts to bring back more wood, that he suddenly realized:

When it comes to civil engineering and water conservancy projects, beavers should be the first thing that comes to mind!

That's interesting. It seems the military is trying to get a large number of beast girls to do some technical work first.

However, generally speaking, beast girls are illiterate. Even with the help of their genetic instincts, could they do something like modifying trenches?

With this question in mind, Payne observed the engineering squad's operations for a while, and unsurprisingly, his blood pressure soared:

The group that reinforced the walls and floors with branches and planks was doing well; they had obviously gathered a lot of wood before they arrived, so all they needed to do now was process the raw materials a little before starting construction.

Although this job requires a certain amount of skill, and although the sapper leading the team has a rather fiery temper and scolded the beaver girls severely when teaching them, once they learn the skills, they can basically do it on their own.

The sapper leading the group digging the drainage ditch seemed to have some issues with the job, and his collaboration with the beaver girl was basically like this:

He would first hold up the blueprints and verbally explain how to dig, and then let the beast girls start digging;

Even without anyone teaching her, Beaver Girl could dig quite well, but then he would shake his head and say, "No, you're digging incorrectly," pointing to the diagrams and explaining it verbally again, at most gesturing on the ground with his hands.

After explaining, he would have the beast girls fill in the area they had just dug, then start digging again, and repeat the above steps continuously...

Does this guy have no idea that illiterate beast girls can't understand blueprints? You just gesture and don't even demonstrate it yourself, it would be a miracle if they understood how to dig!

Besides, they dug quite well! It's just that there were many places where they didn't follow the blueprints. Why did you make them backfill everything? Are you just dragging your feet?

What's even more commendable is that you don't change your method at all! If you can't teach it, keep making mistakes; if you keep making mistakes, keep reworking it; if you keep reworking it, keep teaching it...

Since these beaver girls hadn't been mistreated, Payne originally didn't want to get involved.

But considering that this trench was where their B Company lived, he ultimately decided to talk to this idiot engineer.

Chapter 166 CLXV. Beaver? Unfamiliar

After a brief conversation with the engineer, I learned that, like most people, he didn't have any particular opinion about beast girls. He neither disliked nor liked them; he simply regarded them as a group of talking animals that he could work with.

He was actually quite welcoming of the possibility that these beaver girls might take his place.

Whether it was reducing his workload or allowing him to be discharged and return to work, he accepted it gladly.

However, the problem was that when these beaver girls were assigned to him, he discovered that although they could complete projects such as building dams and digging canals relatively well under the drive of their genetic instincts, they made all the decisions and carried out the work independently, and could hardly follow the orders he gave.

When he asked the beaver girls to carry out the work according to his instructions, they seemed to freeze up, completely clueless about how to do it.

He had tried everything to get the beaver girls to obey his orders, including hitting and scolding them, and giving numerous demonstrations, but the results were far from remarkable; they were only minimal.

So, utterly speechless, he simply lay down completely.

He concluded that Beaver Girl was completely incapable of constructing military facilities like bunkers, but the response to his work report was that "the soldiers of the Empire will not back down so easily," so he couldn't just abandon his post.

The case is solved; he was just loafing around.

After several dozen days of this ordeal, he gradually became more and more monstrous, even harboring evil intentions. He wanted to make all the projects handled by the beaver girls come to a standstill, so that his superiors would realize that the orcs could not replace the engineers and would quickly take the orcs away to stop causing him trouble.

Therefore, the engineer showed extreme envy at the six beasts following behind Payne, all of whom were obediently working.

"How come the orcs you lead can understand what you want them to do, and do it all well?"

Payne immediately grinned smugly. "My specialty is studying orcs, so it's only natural that I can do this well. Want me to take a look at your beavers?"

The other person shrugged. "Go ahead and do as you please. I've completely given up on treatment."

However, just as Payne rolled up his sleeves, ready to get to work, he suddenly realized a problem:

He knew absolutely nothing about beavers!

He knows how to deal with animals like dogs, horses, cows, and sheep, entirely because these animals have been domesticated by humans in both his previous life on Earth and in this world, and are closely connected to human life.

Under such circumstances, humans naturally have a wealth of information to study their living habits. Relying on this readily available knowledge, Payne was able to understand their strengths and weaknesses and quickly build a good relationship with them.

Similarly, when German scientists were researching animal girls, they naturally started by researching and creating animal girls that were familiar to people, such as dogs, horses, cows, and sheep.

Although squirrels have little to do with human production and daily life, their cute appearance has led some people to study their habits, so there is no complete lack of information about them.

Moreover, the squirrel girl in this world has been working for a while now, and people know quite a bit about squirrels.

For example, Ruby picked fruit on a plantation before she joined the army.