The succubus secretary, Lilith, noticed the poison.
The supply soldier Natalie did not.
Then, by all rights, I shouldn’t notice it either.
‘Make it look like a coincidence.’
Sometimes, when a person is lucky, they can even avoid an assassination attempt.
Originally, I had planned to put on an old-man’s lecture, but that lecture had coincidentally manifested as a phenomenon that allowed me to evade death.
‘If this keeps happening, the assassins will eventually figure it out.’
That guy sure is bizarrely lucky.
No matter how much they tried to assassinate him, they kept failing with all the usual methods.
...How many would die in the process, and how many times they would return after getting creampied, was anyone’s guess.
But it was fine.
As long as the secretary Lilith was more capable than I had expected, I only needed to make the most of her help.
“Trainer. I will report this to the chief aide immediately.”
The secretary Lilith growled, gripping the assassin Casey by the neck with a face that looked ready to kill her on the spot.
“Good. Do that. But shouldn’t we dig out whoever’s behind this?”
“Yes. I’ll pull out every last fingernail and toenail of this bitch right now...!”
“Stop.”
I grabbed Lilith by the shoulder and pulled her back.
“She tried to kill me. Even if she’s going to be interrogated, I should at least get the first chance.”
“.......”
“An interrogation is also a form of training in the end, isn’t it? There is a difference between turning her into a female and making her spit out information, but still.”
“You intend to extract the truth through training?”
“That’s right.”
I rolled up my sleeves.
When I made a gesture displaying my enthusiasm, Lilith quietly stepped aside.
“Understood. However, these restraints cannot be removed. Even though she belongs to the supply corps, she is still a demon.”
“Of course. I’d prefer it that way.”
The assassin Casey was bound at the limbs in the middle of the training room.
It looked almost as though an actress had been tied up in the center of a porn set, but the captive assassin Casey was displaying her true feelings without an ounce of acting.
I’m screwed.
Even so, her eyes darted about as she sought a way to survive.
“Natalie.”
Before dealing with Casey, I turned my gaze toward Natalie.
“Did you know there was poison in it?”
“I-I had no idea!!”
Natalie dropped to her knees before me and bowed her head.
“I’m innocent! I knew nothing about it!”
Where had the virgin succubus gone—the one who had been cursing at me even as I raped her just moments ago?
‘It isn’t that strange.’
She had enough sense to realize that the danger of losing her head was more pressing than having her virginity taken.
Naturally.
If things went wrong, Natalie herself was liable to lose her head alongside Casey for attempted assassination.
Especially—
“Are you telling the truth?”
Lilith glared at Natalie with cold, sunken eyes.
‘I know.’
I knew Natalie was genuinely innocent.
She had drunk the wine without knowing it contained poison.
But Lilith had no such information.
Therefore, if I simply took Natalie’s side, Lilith might instead grow suspicious of me.
—Are you taking her side because her pussy tastes good?
That sort of misunderstanding.
“Secretary.”
“Yes, Trainer.”
“Can that be used on Natalie as well?”
“Yes.”
“Do it.”
Clatter!
At my command, Natalie was instantly wrapped in chains.
“I’m innocent!!”
“I know, I know. But your suspicion hasn’t been cleared yet, so keep quiet and stay there for now.”
“.......”
“I don’t fully trust you yet, but don’t keep giving me reasons to doubt you. Understand?”
Natalie nodded heavily.
I had put as much of my true feelings into my voice as possible. I hoped she had understood them.
“I under...stand.”
Perhaps because of that—
Natalie also firmly shut her mouth.
She had been fucked by me only a few dozen minutes earlier, but now she was watching the situation unfold with great care.
“Then shall we begin the interrogation? In the trainer’s way.”
I turned around and lifted Casey’s chin with one hand.
“Who sent you?”
“.......”
“Choosing silence? Or have you realized that the time to cry out, ‘It wasn’t me!’ out of indignation has already passed?”
Apparently, she had reached a conclusion while I was restraining Natalie.
“Of course. If poison had been sprinkled on the food, she could be a suspect too. But the only person who could have put poison into wine with a cork still in place would be whoever prepared the wine.”
“.......”
“Or did you somehow insert a thin needle through the cork and push the poison inside? Or perhaps you smeared it beneath the cork?”
I still didn’t know exactly what the poison was.
“Secretary. What kind of poison is it?”
“It smells of Sandrake.”
“Sandrake?”
“It is a type of fire-element mandrake that grows in volcanic regions. Normally, it exists in liquid form, but the instant it touches a living creature, it transforms into a powerful acidic substance that attempts to dissolve the creature. It is a type of monster.”
“...It was a monster?”
Wasn’t it poison?
“Well, if it can be used for assassination, it doesn’t matter whether it’s poison or a monster.”
If it was used as poison, then it was poison.
“Then, Casey. Were you the one who put the Sandrake in the wine?”
“.......”
“Not going to answer? That’s fine. I was planning to listen to your answer with my pussy anyway.”
“Wha—”
“The body is honest.”
Squish.
“!!”
I immediately thrust my hand between Casey’s legs.
Even though I had done nothing to arouse her, two fingers slipped easily inside Casey’s pussy.
“W-What are you...!”
“Which legion do you belong to?”
“......!!”
She flinched.
Her pussy tightened.
Tensing up without realizing it, she clenched around my fingers and swallowed hard.
‘Not the Vampire Legion.’
One of the two possible answers had been eliminated.
Fortunately, it seemed that another faction within the Vampire Legion wasn’t trying to have me killed.
Then—
“The Beast Legion?”
Squish.
The reaction was weak.
She gulped and tried to relax her pussy as much as possible. The stubborn tension in her body suggested that she was consciously resisting with all her strength.
“The Undead Legion?”
Again, the reaction was weak.
Her eyes began to dart from side to side, as though she were considering some shallow trick.
“Then...the Demonkin Legion?”
Squish.
Her pussy tightened.
At the same time, her expression instantly turned pale.
“Trainer, surely—”
“So it isn’t the Demonkin Legion.”
“What?”
“You deliberately tightened your pussy.”
This wasn’t the distinctive reflexive clenching that occurred when a woman was nervous.
“You tightened it precisely in time when I mentioned the Demonkin Legion.”
“.......”
“At the very least, that means you aren’t from the Demonkin Legion.”
“.......”
Casey swallowed hard.
The momentary look in her eyes—roughly translating to What the fuck is this guy?—only made me more certain.
“To be honest, I did consider the possibility that you weren’t affiliated with any legion. But it seems this is still an internal factional struggle within the Demon King’s army.”
“......!!”
Lilith’s eyes widened.
She seemed surprised that the possibility I had considered—that the Vampire Princess’s sisters might have done something—had been ruled out.
‘That could happen someday.’
But not now.
Not yet.
“You have a pussy accustomed to men. You know how to tighten it on your own, too. But no matter how actively you clench your pussy, you can’t hide the distinctive tightening that appears when the body is tense.”
I knew.
I knew the difference between the way a woman clenched when she was genuinely enjoying herself and the way she clenched while pretending to please a man, moaning, “Oppa, I’m going to die.”
It had been the same in my previous life, but in this life I had come to understand it even more clearly. I could feel how the whores’ contractions changed after they had done it a few times and I started thrusting into them.
“Secretary. Are you recording this?”
“Ah, yes.”
“Write this down for now. A spy colluding with another legion attempted to assassinate the trainer. That’s all.”
“...Understood.”
Scratch, scratch.
The secretary Lilith quickly took out a notebook and began writing.
At the same time, she took out a communication orb and began setting something up.
‘A recording?’
I had once seen a crystal orb at the Adventurer’s Guild that could play videos. Did demons use something similar?
“Is that for recording?”
“Ah. No, this is...”
[Trainer Azazel.]
A familiar voice flowed from the crystal orb.
“...Princess?”
[Princess. You are the first person in this dungeon to call me that.]
The Vampire Princess replied with slight displeasure.
“I apologize, Master.”
[......Enough. I understand what the word ‘princess’ means to humans, so I will let it pass this time. But from now on, never call me Princess again.]
“......Yes, Master.”
Apparently, she had made a mistake.
But she had called her the Vampire Princess before—
‘Is Princess forbidden?’
What was the difference between Vampire Princess and Princess?
Did she only want to be called Princess in bed?
[I heard through your secretary. You intend to interrogate her through training?]
“Yes. That is correct.”
Lilith stared at Casey with irritated eyes.
The Vampire Princess had kept Lilith’s real name secret, only for Casey to expose it, so how could Lilith not be irritated?
[Interesting. You can make her spit out the truth through sex?]
“Yes. But it isn’t sex.”
[It isn’t sex?]
“No.”
Sex was dangerous.
My dick was at its limit, and I had already drained too much essence from Natalie to simply ram my dick into a succubus’s pussy and conduct an investigation.
“I intend to extract information solely through training. Sexual training.”
[How interesting. May I watch?]
“......If you wish. However, I plan to begin by trying several possible methods, so there may be some trial and error. Is that acceptable?”
[Until morning.]
The Vampire Princess set a time limit.
[I will leave that woman to you until dawn. Do not kill her. After that, I will hand her over to Arcamond.]
“Yes.”
I had already heard enough about how Arcamond treated human prisoners.
Casey would probably become Casey in pieces.
It wasn’t that I felt particularly sorry for her.
I was merely disappointed that the test subject I could use to expand my ‘means of training’ might disappear.
“Understood. Then, before beginning the training in earnest...since you are observing, I will proceed a little more comfortably.”
[Permission granted. I will only watch and will not interfere in any way.]
“Thank you, Master. Then...”
I held out my hand to Lilith.
“There’s one thing I’d like you to do. Cast a holy spell.”
“A holy spell?”
“Yes. A holy spell that transforms pain into pleasure.”
“.......”
“Is it possible?”
“It is possible, but...”
Lilith frowned.
She probably thought the opposite would be more effective.
“And one more thing.”
I rubbed my fingers together.
“Bring me a slime that’s reasonably intelligent.”
“A slime?”
“Yes. One whose bodily fluids contain an aphrodisiac.”
“.......”
Curiosity slowly began to kindle in Lilith’s eyes.
Pain transformed into pleasure.
A slime containing an aphrodisiac.
What was I planning to do with those?
If you were to ask—
‘The thing females find most agonizing and painful is, of course, childbirth.’