Warning & Exposition of story setting.

This a work of fiction.
All characters depicted in this story are FICTIONAL, and are not based on any real world individuals, living or dead. In fact none of them could be,
because they're not real!

This story contains scenes of an extreme and graphic natures, including, but not limited to: torture, death, blood, gore, rape, sex, cannibalism, slavery and etc.

The victims are all female, and some would be considered underage, if this wasn't total fiction, in a fictional world, with fictional people that have never existed, nor will they ever exist.

The author does not condone or encourage any of the actions portrayed in this story.

If you can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, you should not only stop reading this story, you should also seek help with your mental issues.
Seriously.
Get help!

This story takes place in a world like ours, but this one was devastated by a biological and conventional war that took place several centuries ago. In that war, many viruses was let loose that changed humanity in unexpected ways. A few attacked the worlds animals, killing off many species, included virtually all the animals that once fed the masses. Another targeted domesticated rice, wheat, corn and many other common grains. I could go on listing food plants, but I think you get the point. The only ones to escape were plants in the Belladonna family. (white and yellow potatoes, most peppers, tomatoes, etc.) All that would have been bad enough, easily enough to pretty much fuck humanity, but then a generation later, they found out about a final virus. This one was different than all the others. It was a retro virus that rather than killing, instead changed the human race.

It was almost fifty years before anyone realized what it did. The balance between male and female births had gone from roughly 50/50, to a point where today the ratio is one male birth for every thousand or so female births. People just didn't notice because they were just trying to survive. It took a few hundred years, but the world got past the whole “beyond thunder dome” faze and humanity got it's shit together... Kind of. The problem was that there was only one source of reliable protein left. I think you can see where this is going.

It didn't take as long as you might think for countries to start legalizing cannibalism, and by the end of the first century after the 3rd world war, the female half of the human species were stripped of all human rights and was universally declared as the new world's main food source. Oddly enough.

Most women excepted their new role in the world, surprisingly enough. The reason for this was believed by most of the new scientists to be a side effect of the same virus that had changed the ratio of births to favor the female offspring. The same reasoning was given to why the reduced number of men now born had few reservations about resorting to cannibalism, even against members of their own families. Of course that was really only a guess. As a result of the war, human society had been been returned to a state where science and technology had been pushed back to a point that we lost at least two hundred years worth of progress.

Some parts of the world were better off than others, when it came to technology. The islands of Japan were perhaps the most advanced, having gotten their technology back to a WWI level. Oddly enough, they were the only people to hold on to some of the more 'modern' conveniences like electricity and TVs, despite the rest of their technology being much lower. Many countries didn't fare so well. In fact, most had been thrown back to a pre-industrial era. Really, the only technology that had advanced in any significant degree was cooking technology.

Preparing and cooking humans (specifically female humans), was different enough from doing the same to other food animals that new methods and equipment needed to be researched and developed. Since we're talking about humans, a very sexual species, it's not really surprising that they wanted to introduce sexuality to cooking (often attractive) women. New medicines were invented. Some to mitigate shock. Others that reduced bleeding, or increased the libido of someone in pain. Ones that would kill all the gut biome and cause the evacuation of the bowels of the human livestock, making it safe to cook and eat meat that hadn't been gutted. Along with the drugs, many new designs for stoves, ovens and grills were invented, allowing a female to be cooked in multiple methods and positions.

This story takes place in one of those latter mentioned countries. The country in question is mostly at a medieval level, with of course, leftover tech from before the war, and items brought in from countries at a higher level of recovery.