Chapter 30
Hah.
In the dungeon, now silent in an instant, only Hans’s hollow chuckle lingered in the air.
No one present could have failed to hear the many emotions packed into that laugh.
At the very least, the Hero before him was darting his eyes around in confusion.
Seeing that, Hans felt foolish for having worried about the Hero’s party until now. He naturally lost his voice, too.
After all, what was he supposed to say after witnessing this scene?
Hans and Riella had braved all sorts of traps together, growing so close they were practically living side by side.
As a result, he’d naturally heard all kinds of little things about the Hero’s party from Riella.
The current Hero’s strength, Lady Yubel’s kindness, the touching story of how Riella herself had been saved from danger—and even the absurd rumor that Lady Yubel liked orc cock.
Riella’s chattering tales of her exploits were enough to make something deep inside Hans’s heart flutter.
Whenever Yubel came up, Hans listened even more intently.
Anyway.
As they were talking, a small monster let out a “Kyao!” from somewhere in the distance and seemed to be leading them somewhere.
On a hunch, Hans and Riella exchanged a nod, then followed the mysterious monster deeper inside.
After taking that risk, they were met with an unexpected sight. No, unexpected was putting it mildly. It was a truly horrific sight.
The Hero he admired, the Hero he firmly believed would save the world…
was pounding a woman’s bottom without pause as she sobbed pitifully with her head pressed to the floor.
And as for the woman’s outfit, her clothes, which had been perfectly fine before, were nowhere to be seen. Instead, she wore underwear that seemed to reflect someone’s tastes, along with the Hero’s leather tunic (pulled up to her chest).
“Hic……. Hah……. Huu……”
The woman seemed to be struggling to breathe, letting out nothing but breathless, heated moans.
Hans’s head felt like it was about to split open.
Most importantly, that woman was…
the mage of the Hero’s party he’d held dear in his heart.
“Se-on? Why were you hitting Yubel?”
Riella asked innocently, wearing an expression that said, ‘I don’t know anything.’
She seemed unable to make sense of the situation.
Hans was used to Riella reacting like that by now.
From what he’d seen while traveling with her, Riella seemed to have a somewhat childish mental age.
“Th-This isn’t because I wanted to…… Um.”
The Hero’s feeble excuse reached his ears.
At that, three snakes began crawling across Hans’s forehead.
They were the kind of snakes that appeared when someone saw something disgusting.
Hero, just how pathetic are you planning to get?
Meanwhile, Se-on saw the look Hans was giving him and fell silent.
Hans hadn’t said it out loud, but his eyes were sending a whole speech: Are you saying you didn’t want to do this? Then did Lady Yubel pull her clothes up herself and pose like a whore? And if so, did that ass turn red all by itself? In the shape of your palm, no less?
Se-on had no way to defend himself, so he lowered his head.
“Huh? What do you mean? The Hero started it. Come on, hurry up and keep hitting me. Like before.”
Yubel cut in, taking things a step further.
Then she shook her bottom at Se-on again.
Wiggle, wiggle.
Her bright red bottom and black panties began dancing in striking contrast.
Hans could no longer breathe at the sight.
Not just Hans, but Se-on, Riella, and even Eva, that little beast, had stopped breathing.
It was obvious to anyone that Se-on had trained Yubel into a horny bitch-slave like that.
Even so, there had to be limits to ruining someone. How could he turn a person into that?
Yubel seemed to have lost all sense of shame.
Did she really feel no embarrassment at all?
No.
Yubel knew how embarrassing it was to shake her bottom in front of other people.
But this was something she absolutely had to do.
The Hero had used a dragon to make Yubel leave the party, even if only temporarily.
Right after that happened, Yubel had thought it was because she didn’t have much standing in the Hero’s party.
So she decided she had to show off her newly discovered ability as much as possible and increase her value.
Wiggle, wiggle.
That was why Yubel kept shaking her bottom.
Now that the other party members were here, she figured this was a good chance and shook it even more.
She was sure she’d get the best reaction with more people watching.
Though to everyone else, she looked like a horny bitch trained by the Hero.
“How could you do something like this……”
Hans shot Se-on a look of contempt.
But Se-on couldn’t argue back.
For one thing, Yubel wasn’t wrong.
Had he been the one to hit Yubel’s bottom first?
Yes. He’d been unable to resist the sudden urge and had hit her.
Had he kept hitting her afterward, too?
Yes. Honestly, he’d even felt refreshed while doing it.
Even if Yubel had begged him, he could have stopped if he’d wanted to.
Se-on didn’t know it was a side effect of the potion, so he couldn’t help thinking that way.
That was why he couldn’t say anything.
Even if it meant ruining his reputation.
“……”
Hans watched the Hero, who didn’t even try to deny it.
Naturally, his admiration for the Hero turned to contempt.
“Haha…… I never imagined you were that kind of person, Hero……”
“I’m sorry……”
Se-on couldn’t raise his head.
Meanwhile, Yubel listened to the adventurer and the Hero talking and couldn’t believe it.
Hadn’t those two just spent the whole time in the erotic trap dungeon fucking Riella?
Were they having second thoughts now?
She couldn’t stand the sight of those pieces of trash who’d worked Riella so hard they’d earned a hundred skill points, blathering on.
I hope Riella wasn’t too shocked by this……
“Kyao! Kyao!”
A familiar cry came from behind Riella’s legs.
Of course, Eva was there.
“Oh? Eva, you’re back! Honestly, is it okay to wander off like that? No, it isn’t!”
Pounce.
Eva dashed over to Yubel and returned to her original spot.
To that soft, cushiony spot.
Yubel’s boobs are mine. Hehe.
“Eva? That’s her name? Wow, she’s soooo cute!”
Riella, whom Yubel thought had spent the whole day being gang-raped, spoke to them as if nothing were wrong.
Yubel was impressed by her inwardly.
She really does have amazing mental fortitude.
Or is she so lewd that it doesn’t bother her?
She’s practically a sperm bank.
“Yeah. This is Eva, and she’s the child I’m going to raise from now on. You need to grow up big and strong, okay, Eva?”
“Kyaooo!!”
Yubel planned to raise Eva as a tracking dog specifically for the Hero.
She figured that since Eva was a dragon’s child, she might be able to see through invisibility.
“I see! I want to raise her with you, too! I want to be a mom with you, Yubel!”
“Huh? Wh-What are you talking about? Our Eva doesn’t need a mom, okay? Shoo, shoo!”
“Aww…… Yubel’s so greedy……”
Yubel flatly refused Riella’s request.
Why would I let your lewd hands anywhere near our Eva?
Who knows what she’d learn from you.
“Kyao……”
Eva seemed moved by that and burrowed even deeper into Yubel’s arms.
But, does she not produce breast milk?
“……”
“……”
As the two beautiful girls cuddled Eva and bickered over her…
the two men were left awkwardly wishing they could disappear.
In Hans’s eyes, Se-on was trash trying to corrupt two beautiful girls, and Se-on himself thought he was trash for ruining Yubel.
Just as Se-on was about to strike out as a piece of trash…
-Kwoooooooar!!!!!
“Huh?”
At that moment, monsters began pouring out of the passage where Riella and Hans had appeared.
Word had spread that Behemoth had left the area.
Prey left in a place without an apex predator belonged to whoever ate it first.
One monster, then two, and before long, hundreds of monsters, large and small, had gathered.
“Ugh, what is this all of a sudden…… Everyone! Let’s get out of here first!”
At Hans’s shout, the Hero’s party nodded and ran off in the opposite direction from the passage the monsters had come from.
Rumble!
The sound of the monsters charging.
The monsters Behemoth had kept under her thumb poured out like a swarm of insects.
There were insect-type monsters among them, too.
“Eek! What’s that?!”
“Ahaha! Haaans!! Where are we going?!”
Yubel was terrified of the bugs, while Riella was enjoying the sudden footrace.
The contrast between them suited them surprisingly well.
“This appears to be the dungeon’s lowest level, so an escape room should show up soon! Just keep running like this until then!”
“Ahaha! Got it! I’ll try to buy us some time!”
Fwoosh……
The temperature around Riella suddenly rose a little.
It meant the spirit had responded to its user’s will and was ready to receive an order.
“Burn!”
Fwoosh, KABOOM!!
A wall of flames rose behind the group like the Great Wall of China.
The monsters charged at the wall like moths to a flame.
The insect-type monsters were incinerated.
“Riella! You really can come through when it counts!”
“Kyao! Kyao!”
“Hehe. I’m so happy Yubel praised me……”
Riella grinned from ear to ear at the praise from Yubel, who never usually complimented her.
A compliment from someone who didn’t usually give them had that much more power.
Even so, most of the monsters began breaking through the wall and surging after them.
“Then I’ll try this time! Hero! We should do what we always do, right?”
Yubel grabbed the hem of her leather tunic and slowly began lifting it.
“N-No! Waiiit!!!”
A sudden attempt to publicly shame Se-on descended upon him!
Fortunately, just before her panties came into view, Se-on grabbed Yubel’s hand with a snap.
“……”
Hans watched them with a worried expression.
The Hero’s reputation in Hans’s heart had fallen as low as it could go.
“Um, Yubel? Let’s save that for later, okay? Please, I’m begging you……”
“Huh? But I have to do it now……. I need to do my part, too……”
Se-on felt like crying.
He already knew from what he’d heard before that Yubel was so innocent she didn’t think flashing herself was strange, and that she did it because it felt good.
Why! Why on earth!! And why did she have to do that every time they fought?!
“Haha…… I can’t hear anything. Ah, all I hear is the sound of monsters—”
Hans gave up thinking.
It was hard for him to accept that the woman he liked was being shamelessly used by trash like that.
As they piled misunderstanding upon misunderstanding, they kept running to avoid the monsters and find the escape room.
Unlike their carefree start, both the Hero’s party and Hans were getting a little tired.
“Haaah, pant, how long are we supposed to keep running?!”
“Yubel, I’ll carry you…… Um, never mind.”
Se-on reached out toward Yubel, then lowered his hand again.
At that, Yubel’s expression crumpled beyond words.
What the hell is this guy doing?
I’m about to die from running, and he’s messing with me?
Of course, Se-on hadn’t meant it that way.
He couldn’t help it; Hans’s gaze on him was, well… not just a little, but a lot on his mind.
Maybe now, no matter what he did, Hans would see him as a vile sex criminal.
“Oh, huh? Guys, can you see that? Does that look like an escape room?”
After running for what felt like forever, sharp-eyed Riella spotted a small door just big enough for a person to enter.
<Escape Room>
The words were faintly written above the door.
“I-It really is! Everyone, just hang in there a little longer!”
“Aaaaah!!!”
“Kyaooo!!”
Why are you crying when you’re not even running!
Anyway, Yubel put on one last burst of speed and started dashing toward the door ahead.
Right now, she felt like a racehorse competing in a horse race.
Though she was obviously the horse running in last place.
Dash, dash, bang!
“Yahoo! We made it in! First place goes to Riella! Clap, clap, clap!”
“Haaah! Pant, pant, I’m in second……”
“I’m third……”
First place, Riella. Second place, Hans. Third place, Se-on.
Se-on was slower than Hans because he’d been looking after Yubel, who was running at a snail’s pace behind them.
A slow-running horse? Now that’s a strange thing to say.
She’d done her best, of course.
But then…
Keeeeng——
“Oh? The magic circle looks like it’s lighting up. It’s pretty.”
“What!? Could it have been set up to activate when someone entered the door? Is everyone here now?”
“Wait! Yubel hasn’t made it yet!”
Outside the door, a slow horse named Yubel was still running toward them.
She could barely breathe.
“Huff, gasp, hii! T-take me with you, you bastards!!”
“Yubel, run!! We’re out of time!!”
“Huh?”
Kiiiiing——
The magic circle was just about to activate.
Se-on tried to leave the magic circle to go get Yubel.
But…
Thud!
Se-on was stopped by an invisible wall.
“Ugh. Ugh, what is this?!”
“Once you enter a magic circle, you can’t leave it!”
Teleportation magic circles had a safety measure that prevented anyone from leaving once they were inside, since trying to escape midway could cut their body in half.
“Then what about Yubel……!”
Se-on looked at Yubel, who was still running toward them from dozens of meters away.
At that pace, she wouldn’t make it in time.
And Yubel wasn’t in great shape, either.
I can’t hear anything……
Am I not going to make it out of here?
You fucking Hero……
Just as her body reached its limit and she was about to collapse…
[Hehe, I’ll lend you a little help, you wretched thing.]
-BAM!!!
“Kgh, what is this!? Huh?”
Yubel had somehow collapsed on top of the magic circle.
“W-We’re going!”
Whoooosh.
***
“Ugh, I’m dizzy……”
When Se-on came to, he was already outside the dungeon.
Riella and Hans were nearby.
It seemed they’d made it out of the dungeon safely.
“Phew. It looks like we made it out safely.”
“Yay! That was thrilling!”
“Huh? Big brother? Members of the Hero’s party?”
Hans’s younger brothers appeared.
“Oh? You guys made it out of there!”
“Yes, big brother. We came out after realizing a lot of time had already passed. Um, but where is Lady Yubel? Why are only you all here?”
“What are you talking about, you idiots! She’s right here with us…… Huh?”
Yubel was nowhere to be seen.
She’d definitely been on the magic circle with them at the end.
And yet, the fact that she wasn’t there meant…
“D-Did she fail to get out……?”
Bang!!
“As if that could be true!!!”
Se-on exploded in anger.
“Hero, please calm down first…… We don’t know for sure yet—”
“Mmph! Mm-mmph!!”
“Huh?”
Just as Se-on was about to explode…
a familiar voice came from somewhere.
“Gasp! Lady Yubel, are you all right!”
“Mmph, mmph!! Pah! What the hell is this?!”
Yubel was stuck in a pile of slime corpses.
Even though she’d teleported with them, she was the only one to fall into this kind of mess. She had atrocious luck.
“Oh. We found some slimes earlier, hunted them, and piled them up there, sir.”
“Kyao……”
Eva had wound up in the slime with Yubel.
You got stuck with the wrong owner, kid.
“Ugh! My clothes are all sticky! What are you going to do about this!”
Yubel’s leather tunic was covered in sticky slime.
The feeling of it slipping between her clothes whenever she moved was absolutely awful.
Riella looked excited at the sight.
“Oh, right! Yubel! I found some clothes in the dungeon! I brought them because I wanted to give them to you!”
Riella puffed out her chest and struck an ‘ahem!’ pose.
She looked just like a puppy waiting for its owner’s praise.
Aww, adorable.
“Ooh! Really? Wow, Riella’s so pretty today!”
“Hehe, wait a sec…… Ta-da! What do you think? Pretty, right?”
Riella took some clothes out of the travel bag she’d gotten from the adventurer.
But the outfit was…
“Bikini armor?”
It was a black bikini that looked like something only succubi would wear.
It barely covered her private parts.
“Yeah! This should work, right? Hurry up and put it on, Yubel! It’ll look great on you!”
Flutter, flutter.
Riella waved the bikini armor in front of Yubel.
Fuck.