CHAPTER 61: I WAS HOPING TO LIVE COMFORTABLY IN THE REAR

The place where Lune and I first met was definitely far from the Elven Forest.

I’d been doing logging work not too far from the dungeon to begin with, and Lune said she’d wandered over somewhere she shouldn’t have been out of curiosity.

"So you fell from a tree and passed out, and this person... helped you?"

"Yes. That’s right."

Lune blamed our entire meeting on herself. I’d lied to Luna, and Lune played along with Luna’s words to make the lie somewhat plausible.

"Did something happen to you?"

"What do you mean?"

"You know... ahem."

Taking advantage of being an innocent child, Lune put her finger to her lips and tilted her head. But I knew better.

During the march back to the dungeon, Lune had wrapped her tongue around my thing and kissed it along with Lime, using those light pink lips.

"I see... That’s a relief then. But why ’master’?"

"Well, that’s..."

Lune hesitated and made a pitiful expression.

"...I can’t return to the forest anymore. I’ve already committed a taboo."

"...."

Luna made a troubled expression. And she glanced at me.

Lune had only committed the taboo of leaving the Elven Forest—if explained well, it was the kind of problem that could be forgiven.

"Ahem...."

But Luna, the moment she realized she wouldn’t fall after my tip touched her, had immediately and actively engaged in sex.

It was Luna who’d positioned herself and adjusted the insertion angle so I could pound her harder when I pressed down on her.

I didn’t know how far elven taboos could be forgiven, but at least in terms of the severity of breaking taboos, Luna’s was way worse.

’And my seed went inside her too.’

Damn sperm and damn system. Even so, settling in after just once—what the hell?

"Lune, if anything happens, make sure you tell me. Got it?"

"Yes. Don’t worry."

The one who had something happen wasn’t Lune, it was you. I hadn’t even gotten to the main event with Lune yet, but Luna might be killed on the spot once thirty days passed, let alone exiled from the forest.

’In that case.’

A wicked plan flashed through my mind. Meanwhile, the two were already wrapping up their conversation.

"Will you come back here, sis?"

"Yeah. I can’t come often, but I’ll stop by to see you sometimes."

"No, it’s okay. I can do well here. You don’t need to come all the way out here."

"Still, I can’t just leave a young elf who hasn’t even had her coming-of-age ceremony to an outsider. Lune, I’ll figure out a way when I get back. The Elder... we’ll keep it secret."

Lune saying not to worry and Luna insisting she would worry had a brief standoff. And I knew exactly what caused that standoff.

’She’s so damn happy she could die.’

One was scared of me being taken away, and the other was planning to eat me occasionally. I looked at the two elves holding hands and made up my mind.

’Creampie is definitely happening.’

Whether it’d just be cheese cream or chocolate mousse too—that was for later. Whether she knew my thoughts or not, Luna glanced at me and straightened her clothes.

"Well, I’m going. Lune, be careful. Okay?"

"Yes. Don’t push yourself too hard because of me, sis."

Luna left, warmly seen off by me, Lune, and the ghouls. She must have seen humans captured along the way, but Luna didn’t really care.

"...Set foot in our forest. Then everything ends."

Since she sided with neither the human alliance nor the demons, Luna left the forest with only a warning as a guardian who protected only the forest.

"Haa...."

"Master, I’m sorry."

Suddenly Lune apologized. I was grateful if anything, so I couldn’t understand why Lune was apologizing.

"I, I ignored your orders and came back to the dungeon...."

"Ah."

She did ignore orders. The result was good so it was fine, but if the invader had been someone like me instead of Luna, my head would’ve been chopped off by now and I’d have to watch Lune and Meri whimpering under that bastard.

"....Mm."

Even if Lune hadn’t entered the dungeon, things would have ended fine. So separate from Lune successfully hooking Luna, I had to punish Lune.

"Looks like I need to give you a punishment for disobeying orders."

"P-punishment?"

Lune squeezed her eyes shut like she knew this was coming. And I thought of a punishment that would be most effective for Lune.

’Should I really go for it?’

I didn’t know if this even counted as punishment, but whatever, I just went for it.

"This is your punishment for disobeying orders. You’re not eating my stuff until tomorrow."

"What?"

Lune’s face went pale.

"H-how can that be...! Then I’ll have to eat only slime again, hu, huaaaang!!"

Lune cried miserably. Even when she’d wet herself in fear when we first met, she’d never cried like she’d lost everything like this.

"Hueeeng, don’t do that, give me honey master, please, hueeeng."

"...."

I steeled my heart and firmly refused. Lune stopped crying and hung her head.

"...’Until tomorrow’ means I can have it tomorrow, right? Right?"

"...Y-yeah. You just can’t have it today."

If she could eat it tomorrow, I would’ve said ’starting tomorrow,’ but Lune’s expression was too scary so I backed down.

If I had to compare my current situation, wasn’t it like getting caught messing around with your girlfriend’s sister? No? Whatever then.

"...Then I’ll try to hold out just for today, sniff."

Thankfully Lune held back her tears. I patted Lune’s shoulder.

And so our night raid was wrapped up for now.

The path into the cavity was reopened by the slimes, and on the opposite side, the door was opened by slime troops airlifted over the cliff by Meri and the harpies.

"Everyone gather in the cavity for now."

I gathered all subordinates and prisoners in the cavity in case of emergency, and we all slept with ghouls stationed as guards.

It was already sunrise, but we needed to get some sleep first.

***

Clop clop, clop clop.

The Barony of Virgo’s scouts arrived at the village. Knight Gray, who’d arrived at the village leading a small number of scouts by the Baroness’s order, felt nausea rise at the village’s horrific state.

"This can’t be...!"

The village was destroyed, and there were no people. Only thick bloodstains on the ground hinted at what had happened here.

"F-find survivors right now!"

Sir Gray shouted at the soldiers. The soldiers who’d been joking that they were just taking a short trip to the slash-and-burn village realized the situation’s severity and began thoroughly searching the village.

"Sir Gray! Here...!"

One soldier pointed to the inside of a completely collapsed house. Inside the largest log cabin in the village lay a corpse that had died in a grotesque manner on the bed.

"Urk."

The man was dead, naked with his chest pierced through by a collapsed log. Sir Gray swallowed and carefully entered, wiping the man’s blood with his finger.

’He hasn’t been dead long.’

Judging by the blood, less than half a day. And outside, soldiers easily discovered various traces.

"Over here, there are traces of a corpse being eaten! Looks like those ghouls!"

"Here... urp. There’s only a lower body left. Judging by the dragging marks around it, looks like it was eaten by slimes, urk!"

"Sir Gray, human footprints here!"

"W-wait!"

Sir Gray was confused. Too much information was coming in at once, overwhelming him.

"Is there no sign of any attempts to erase traces?"

"...Pardon?"

"I mean, why are the enemy’s traces so easily discovered!!"

Sir Gray snapped at how easily the soldiers were finding traces. One soldier had even found an enormous number of footprints.

"Anyone can see these are traces of villagers being taken...!"

Sir Gray’s heart sank. The Barony of Virgo was far from the front lines and had been relatively peaceful, but monster traces had appeared in the forest’s slash-and-burn village not far from the castle.

’Is there really a dungeon?’

It was unbelievable. He didn’t want to believe it. But all the evidence pointed to one answer.

’Monsters came directly from a dungeon, attacked the villagers, and took them prisoner?’

Impossible. Monsters eating some humans and taking others prisoner was something that couldn’t happen by human common sense.

’Damn, I was hoping to live comfortably in the rear!’

Darkness fell before Sir Gray’s eyes. His instinct told him to follow the people’s and monsters’ footprints, but his reason urged him to avoid responsibility.

"S-Sir Gray. What should we do now...?"

The soldiers looked at the knight. As those who had to follow the knight’s orders, they’d have to pursue if Gray told them to follow the footprints right away.

"...I-it might be a trap!"

Sir Gray shouted in a trembling voice.

"The monsters taking people is definitely a trick to lure us! These wicked bastards! So we return to the castle first! We’ll report this to the lord!"

Sir Gray gave up making decisions and taking responsibility on the spot. It was an excuse to avoid responsibility, but the soldiers didn’t oppose it.

Oppose it? Follow the tracks full of ghoul footprints? Who would want to go there?

"...."

The soldiers just glanced at each other, and no one stepped forward. Sir Gray inwardly cheered at the fear and terror in the soldiers’ eyes but gave them a stern look and shouted.

"Soldiers of the Barony of Virgo! Pull yourselves together! What if you’re afraid in this situation when a dungeon might have appeared!"

"Th-then are we pursuing them?"

"No! We run to the castle! Our mission, the fate given to us by the Goddess, is to inform the Baroness of this information immediately!"

One person would’ve been enough, and the Goddess hadn’t given them such a fate. But the soldiers picked up on the intention behind Sir Gray’s words and agreed.

They didn’t want to die pointlessly by showing off here.

So let’s return to the castle. The knight and soldiers reached an agreement and hurried back to the castle.

About an hour after they left.

Drip.

Drip drip.

Rain began to fall from the sky.

***

"My back hurts like hell."

I barely managed to get up. My entire lower body ached and my body felt impossibly heavy. It was always heavy, but more so than usual.

’Did I get muscle pain from wrestling with Luna?’

I’d fought so hard I couldn’t remember when I’d used this much strength. Especially my junior, which had worked the hardest, was still limp even after sleeping once.

’I didn’t get to rest much.’

We’d gone out at midnight to raid the village, so I hadn’t slept properly the day before either. Coming back at dawn and then pounding Luna meant there was no way the fatigue would be gone even waking up well past noon.

’Need to do what I gotta do and sleep.’

The problem was there was too much to do. But I decided to take it easy.

’Estu said my growth speed was too fast.’

So much faster than average that the system couldn’t keep up. I’d only been trying to maximize efficiency, but unfortunately, the Demon King’s hip-thrusting speed couldn’t keep up with my dungeon’s development speed.

’Let’s take it easy.’

Do what I can raise right away, and what I can’t raise can wait until the conditions are met. Then what I needed to deal with immediately was the ’personnel’ problem.

Prisoners.

The quick-shooter who’d been repeatedly ejaculating inside Harpy Angel survived. According to Harpy Angel, he was a rapid-fire type.

The endurance guy who’d been comforting the women also survived. But since he still hadn’t ejaculated, his member was swollen like it might necrotize.

Four women survived besides Lily. They’d apparently made the guarding ghouls cum several times during the three hours I was dealing with Luna through sheer determination.

And Lily.

After being embraced by me first, Lily was already acting like the leader among the seven survivors. They’d all become slaves anyway, but Lily subtly positioned herself differently from the other slaves.

"Now it’s time to choose."

I brought all the humans out of the prison. Unlike the stud hunters, they were no longer beings who could live inside the dungeon.

"Will you become my dungeon’s slaves and live right outside the dungeon, or will you live as part of this dungeon?"

The latter needed no explanation. The two men and five women bowed their heads and volunteered to become slaves.

"Good. Then this is my first command as your lord."

I pointed at the ghouls and gestured outside the dungeon.

"Build houses."

"...."

I was really lucky the slaves were slash-and-burn villagers.