He knew there was something inside him other than the Serpent’s Eye. He knew it was called Adam and he knew it was special just like Rapha had said in the library that one time.
But the battle over the Serpent’s Eye between heaven, earth, and hell had settled down recently and he was starting to learn how to control the Serpent’s Eye of his own free will. He had decided not to look into it further because he did not want to make waves. In a way, he had been turning a blind eye.
“The Serpent’s Eye is no more than a sign. It is known as a Demon Crest and it is something like a wound left in Adam’s genes.”
The answer rapidly approached him from an unexpected direction.
A tremor ran through his shoulders, but was it from fear or curiosity? Not even he knew.
“Adam’s power…no, power isn’t the right word. Adam’s very presence is meant to be suppressed, but it flows out through that wound. And when any human woman is exposed to that presence, she grows sexually aroused. It inspires an overwhelming craving to be fucked by Adam and have his babies.”
“Um, I believe Rapha-san told me about this.”
He had heard something similar before, but he had not understood what it meant at the time.
“But what is Adam’s power. Or his presence, I guess. Is that what it means to be the first man? But if so, why does it, um, have that effect on women?”
Mutsuki could not help but show interest in this.
The man chuckled as he pulled over his beloved tablet.
“To get back on topic, what do you think of this?”
He showed Mutsuki the page from before.
It was divided into 16 sections arranged in four rows and four columns. Each one displayed a different woman and they were all being fucked by men, sex toys, dogs, horses, or the slime-like Succubi that Mutsuki had seen a few times before.
He had grown accustomed to seeing these things over the past several days, but he frowned because he still did not enjoy seeing it.
“Do you think it’s an awful thing? I’m sure you do. Take this girl for example. She grew popular online for having one-in-a-million looks and once-in-a-millennium beauty and she is set to star in a movie soon.”
The man pointed at a girl strapped to a horse’s belly with something thicker than her arm penetrating her. It was far too large and she had probably been there for hours, so she had passed out with her eyes rolled back in her head.
She could not be any older than Mutsuki, yet this was essentially torture. Mutsuki looked ready to cry.
“But you’d be wrong. She chose to do this herself.”
“I don’t believe you…”
“See this woman here? The foreigner? She’s a judge for a certain film award in America. She loves horse-fucking, so letting her watch this guarantees that girl’s next movie a place at that film festival.”
“…”
“We make sure no harm comes to our products, so all the necessary preparations were taken care of and she will be cared for afterwards. Her pussy will be a little looser afterwards, but she just bought herself a future as a movie star.”
Mutsuki recalled his first day here when Riselle had told him the girls here went through a special training regimen and the only ones protesting were those serving someone who asked to rape a protesting girl.
He still found it hard to believe, but…
“All 16 of these are the same. They have been trained here and they are repaid in the form they desire if they please our clients. Whether it’s for fame or fortune, they all have some desire they refuse to abandon even if it means a looser pussy, bodily modifications, or literally eating shit.”
The man added “and even if they can never again be satisfied by the tame stuff found outside of here” under his breath, but it did not reach Mutsuki’s ears.
“Do you think they are insane?”
“…”
Firmly nodding was the only response Mutsuki could manage.
“I know why you would think that, but this how human society and human history were built. It is a perfectly ordinary way of doing business even in the modern age. If there are even two humans, they will instinctually compete to come out on top. With a hundred of us, there will be a clear split between those with power and those without.”
He operated the tablet to change the view. It now showed the men and women of all ages laughing in delight as they viewed those 16.
“Those with power can do what they wish with those without and those without can only escape it by gaining power themselves.”
He returned the view to the girls again.
“At this point, that form of power has become even more important to us than reproduction, which is supposed to be the most important thing for a lifeform. There are a lot of men and women who render themselves forever unable to have children in order to gain power.”
He switched to a close up of the giant horse cock penetrating that one girl. The size was clearly too much because there were signs of her vaginal walls having been sewn up a few times.
Mutsuki’s face had already gone pale.
Then the man tossed the tablet aside.
“But don’t worry. This sort of society will soon come to an end.”
“Eh?”
“In another century or two. …Although World War Three is probably coming before that, so there might not be any humans left on earth by then.”
“Wh-what do you mean?”
That second part had been accompanied by a cynical smile, but the first part had been deadly serious.
“What I mean is simple. Once we start prioritizing other things above reproduction, the human race’s reproductive power has already begun to decline.”
“But the human population is growing.”
“In the developing nations. The population continues to rise in developing nations where no one receives a proper education. But in the developed nations where the education standards have passed a certain point, the birth rate falls primarily among the intellectual class. Reduced sperm levels, ovum abnormalities…well, there are a variety of reasons, but haven’t you heard that the higher someone’s IQ, the harder it is for them to have children?”
“Well…”
“Japan even has an aphorism about the poor having many children. Although the relevance of that relies on it actually being true that the stupid tend to end up poor.”
Mutsuki was not familiar with any actual data on the matter, but he had heard about it before.
“It isn’t that unusual a thing when you look at all forms of life. In fact, mammals and even insects tend to fall victim to natural selection and fall in number when they grow too numerous. Too much reproduction means less food and less genetic compatibility, so it is avoided in the natural world. Have you ever seen that documentary about mice jumping into a river to commit suicide when there are too many of them?”
“…”
“Human adrenal glands are the same as mouse ones, so we share the same stress reactions. It’s thought a population control hormone within humans is responsible for the decline in birth rates. I don’t know what the DNA analysis says, but we and Miss A’s FeTUS think this tendency is a chosen effect by the Fruit of Knowledge. The further we develop our knowledge, the more of a threat we see in relying on others, so we begin to pursue only our own desires even if it means rejecting the chance to have children.”
“The Fruit of Knowledge?”
He had seen that term when researching in the library and heard it a few times outside of that.
In the story of Adam and Eve, eating that was what led them to be banished from paradise. It could be seen as humanity’s Original Sin, but…
“It is a theory as to how humanity developed intelligence far surpassing every other lifeform on earth. It is the black box that separates humanity from the apes. One theory says bipedal movement stimulated our brains, another says it was a genetic abnormality, and I quite like the theory that our brains were modified by Martians. Regardless, we have yet to find an answer to that question, so we defer to the Bible and simply say it is because we ate the Fruit of Wisdom provided by god.”