33 New Family

"Alright, alright... take a deep breath you two. Calm down..."

Gently extracting myself away from Clara's side, I watched as Crima draped a blanket over Lucille's body and made the Goatkin blink in surprise, before she took a step back when the Wolfkin smiled at her.

It was an interesting thing, being born from an egg overflowing with mana; their emotions were currently heightened and going all sorts of different directions, but they weren't going to 'change' much at all since all that was different about them currently was quite obvious.

They were horny because they had an excess amount of mana inside their bodies, but that would seep out of them soon enough since they were still growing now that they were outside of their eggs.

Clara stared at me in confusion for a few seconds, her round eyes fixated on mine as she tried to understand why I had let her go, only to make my heart melt a little when they watered up and her lips pursed slightly.

Pulling her back into a hug, I stroked her black and white hair and patted her cheek as I said "You're currently experiencing a mana high, Clara. That's why you need to take some deep breaths, alright?"

"O-Okay..."

"Mana high... been a couple months since I felt that. Helps newly hatched Demi Human's grow to full size quicker, and makes us stronger after that. If we started hunting some monsters I could get stronger, and after that, I could sire stronger children. Just saying~!"

Crima smirked at me, though she kept her hand on Lucille's shoulder despite the Goatkin glaring at her, clearly wanting to pull away and alleviate the 'pain' she was in, but that would be detrimental to her health if she did that... and it would be unethical, but technically not illegal..?

Though it practically is in every location besides the Frontier, so I consider it illegal...

"Well, we should get you two your clothes and take you outside to look around then! See your home in all of its glory and see what you'll be helping us with!"

Leading them inside, I began to show them the manor before opening the trunk filled with various articles of clothing that I had prepared for them to wear, albeit rather... bland and general pieces of clothing that weren't fitted for them entirely, which was evident when Clara pulled on her dress and stared down at her boobs, which were uncomfortably pressed together and threatening to spill out of the top if possible...

The hardships of a Holstein versus a normal Cowkin; larger breasts that were usually in a league of their own, and usually drew far more attention than they ever wanted... depending on the Cowkin, anyways.

Even I was a tad envious of such a glorious set of breasts, and I considered myself fairly well endowed woman - as did many others, with Crima being one such person who did.

But, it had to do for now, and when the airship arrived in a couple days to collect anything from me and take any orders that I might have, I could give them our sizes and request some cheap clothing that the Guild and Government had to provide for obvious reasons, so long as they were farming / ranching clothes.

Overalls, denim pants or dresses, boots, gloves, and wide brimmed hats all fell into that category, and I was obligated to two sets per person I had on my Ranch that worked on the fields, which...

Whilst they might not 'work' often in the fields, the Government had no actual idea that they weren't out here toiling for hours on end every single day that we worked, so y'know... free clothes.

I had no problems bending the rules in that regard, and as long as you weren't trying to be sneaky and smug about it, they didn't care that this got bent either since it was a sign of good faith between us and them; something small to help you and make you more inclined to accept taxes.

I mean... everyone hated taxes, but y'know, if my tax money kinda came back to me in the form of free clothes for all of my Demi Human's, as well as some other things that I don't get right now - like fertilizer and material 'supply drops' when I export a certain amount of goods consistently.

Anyways, now that they were clothed and slowly losing their heightened arousal, the two new members followed us outside - and allowed me to give the Sheepkin a little longer to incubate since it didn't look quite ready just yet - into the fields, where I began to show them the things we were growing.

Watching as words that they were just hearing for the first time registered inside their minds was always a heartwarming affair, since it felt like they were growing as a person and maturing right in front of my eyes.

"So... this is a Ranch, and our job is to work alongside you - Mistress - to produce various foodstuffs and goods to sell to other people..? Why?"

It was also moments like this that made me smile since it showed that despite being imprinted with so much basic knowledge upon birth, each Demi Human was unique in how they made use of that knowledge; Lucille wanted to know why we needed to provide, while Clara was nodding understandably and appraising the wheat and corn, taking it all in.

Neither were wrong in how they used their imprinted knowledge, which was what made it so special to explain to them why we did what we did, and why it was incredible to do what we did.

"Some people simply don't want to, or can't, or are doing something else, so they can't grow their own food or obtain the raw materials needed for their items; that's where we come in. We grow food for everyone else in the Empire, provide those raw materials, and make sure that they can do their jobs for everyone else!"

"But... why don't they do it? If it's so important, why are we doing it for everyone else?"

Lucille stared at me with crossed arms, her yellow eyes narrowed as she tried to understand this better, which only made me chuckle as I repeated "Not everyone wants to be a Rancher, the same way not everyone wants to be an office worker, or a warrior, or a guard or a trader. People have different desires in life, and mine is being a Rancher. If you don't want to-"

"I never said I don't want to, Mistress. Just curious is all..."

The way she snorted slightly and looked away was adorable, and when Clara hugged my arm and said "Mother, I wanna help too! Cowkin produce milk that everyone loves to drink, right? I'll make sure you have something to drink every day!"

Of course, whilst she meant well, and her round amber eyes were filled with innocence, I had to take a deep breath as I stared at Clara for a moment, before just smiling and nodding my head, allowing her wording to just... not do anything to me.

Not now, anyways...

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Don't worry, don't worry... I'm a smut writer but I have standards, alright? Trust me on that one guys... 

But also, do remember that they aren't Human, but instead Demi Human; different and all that jazz, but I will adhere to a few standards okay?

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