At that moment, in the barracks of the 7th Defense Unit of the Vampire Legion’s main dungeon.
“I cannot accept this.”
A heavily muscled orc with a potbelly shook his head fiercely as he spoke.
Unlike ordinary orcs, his skin was as red as blood.
“I cannot accept that we should have to work for mere humans. Is there anyone here who accepts that a human has risen to the same rank as me? If there is, step forward.”
The captain of the 7th Defense Unit, an orc chieftain who boasted considerable rank even among orcs, threatened the soldier orcs gathered around him.
The soldier orcs’ skin was not quite as dark in color, but they too had red skin like the orc chieftain.
“Is there?”
“No, sir.”
The subordinates answered in unison.
Though there were more than several dozen orcs, they replied with perfect precision and at exactly the same time, as though they had made an agreement beforehand.
It was not as though they were magically linked or anything.
They had simply been systematically trained to answer so naturally.
“Indeed. Ever since that human became an instructor, our 7th Defense Unit has been forced to capture every human who enters.”
And to add one more thing, the orc chieftain and his subordinates held the same opinion on this matter.
“Chief Adjutant Akamond ordered us to capture as many as possible. At the time, I thought he intended to use the humans as toys. I thought he was giving them to us as food for the [Blood Orcs].”
Blood Orcs.
Honored warriors of the Vampire Legion, said to be roughly three times stronger and faster than ordinary orcs in both strength and agility.
“We knew he enjoyed watching us beat humans to death, so we thought he was merely breaking them just enough to make them easy for us to play with, preparing amusement for us as he had last time. The amusement of chasing down fleeing humans and beating them to death.”
Though they had been branded “incompetent louts who could not even train humans,” they were specialists, at least when it came to beating humans to death.
“But that wasn’t it. Chief Adjutant Akamond is treasuring that pathetic human—someone who was even captured as a prisoner once.”
The orc chieftain bared his sharp fangs and ground his teeth.
“As if it weren’t enough that he had the nerve to act insolently during negotiations with humans, I heard that Chief Adjutant Akamond even lent him his clothes. And that pathetic human even did what none of us had, what none of us—!”
The orc chieftain’s eyes became bloodshot.
“He spoke with him, alone!”
Hrk.
The orcs simultaneously snorted, venting their fury.
“Those born in this dungeon, those who came to our legion from other legions and received the blessing of blood, even I, who entered this 7th Defense Unit after being defeated by Chief Adjutant Akamond—I have never done more than gaze at him from afar, and never once spoken with him! But what is that bastard, then?!”
As the orc chieftain’s anger continued to mount, all the soldier orcs began breathing harshly.
“We cannot accept a human as an instructor of the Re-education Corps!”
Someone might be thinking this.
The Vampire Princess had made a human an instructor. What could they do if they refused to accept it?
“We will reclaim our honor—not by simply beating every human who enters to death, but by—!”
Naturally, the orcs knew that much as well.
“Raping the humans on the spot!!”
They had reached this conclusion precisely because they knew.
“Before they can be handed over to the instructor, we will rape every human and kill them!”
“Woooooaaaahhh—!”
The orcs roared as one.
“We will show that we, too, can train humans! And thereby show the Master that one of us orcs can become an instructor! That our orc cocks are superior to human cocks! That we can make humans moan more passionately on our cocks than humans ever could!”
“Wooooooaaaahhh—!”
“And…!”
The orc chieftain raised his fist with a solemn expression.
“Though he was never recognized by Her Highness the Vampire Princess, for Orc-Raspu, the orc who was the greatest rapist among us all!”
“““For him—!”””
“Raspu! Raspu! Raspu!”
The orcs raised their fists in unison and began chanting someone’s name.
Perhaps if the secretary of the Re-education Corps heard that name, she would sneer, “Hmm, what’s this? Some violent prick who was never recognized as an instructor because he slaughtered every woman brought to the training room.”
But to the orcs, at least, he was the orc world’s sex master—the one who had taught them how to subjugate humans with their cocks.
“Presenting our departed brother, Raspu!”
A single orc quietly raised his hand.
“I have a question.”
“What is it?”
“The adventurers and knights who enter as enemies don’t discriminate between men and women, do they? In that case, are we supposed to rape the men as well?”
“.......”
The orc chieftain and the orcs fell silent for a moment.
They exchanged glances and tilted their heads as if asking, “Are we?”
“My brothers.”
The orc chieftain clenched his fist once more, his face resolute.
“I said we would rape the humans.”
“B-but that…!”
“We will prove to humans that an orc’s cock is the true cock!”
“W-whoooooaaaahhh—!”
The orc chieftain—
“But we are not gay.”
“Mm.”
“Isn’t that right?”
“Therefore.”
He raised his fist and shouted.
“We capture the men, then rape the women in front of them—!!”
“Wooooooaaaahhh—!”
“We will show the humans the majesty of the orc cock, and prove whose cock is more magnificent—!”
* * *
“I think I hear something insane coming from somewhere.”
“Some lunatics are merely spouting the ravings of lunatics. Instructor, please do not concern yourself with the nonsense of those lowlifes and devote yourself to resting.”
Lilith extended a handkerchief toward me and wiped the sweat from my brow.
“It’s fine. I’m not exhausted enough to collapse from this much yet.”
“You are quite tired. Please leave it to us…”
“I just felt like putting my body to work for once.”
I lightly tapped the shovel in my hand.
“You know, when you work as a porter, setting up various traps inside the dungeon is part of the job too.”
“You, Instructor, set traps…?”
“The illustrious adventurers rest around the campfire, while the porters set traps, stand watch, and keep an eye on the surroundings. We also dig pits and trenches.”
Being a porter did not simply mean carrying luggage.
“If adventurers were the combat troops, porters often had to take on the duties of supply soldiers, engineers, cooks, and even clerks.”
“........”
“It wasn’t exactly unfair treatment. Porters weren’t sent into battle against monsters, while adventurers risked their lives fighting them. If I had one complaint, it would be that the pay was miserably low despite making us do all that odd work.”
The work was as hard as working at a logistics center during kimchi-making season, yet the pay was worse than minimum wage.
There was no Ministry of Labor.
This was a medieval fantasy world, after all.
Forming a union?
If we tried that, our heads would be chopped off in an instant.
“Still, thanks to having done all that work, I can dig the ground this easily now, can’t I?”
I pointed toward the pit and traps I had dug.
Unfortunately, I had not been able to set them up in the hallway, but I had managed to install them in the area corresponding to the “room” of the training chamber.
“What do you think?”
“I believe they serve sufficiently as traps.”
Lilith nodded emphatically at the traps I had made.
“You installed a trap immediately in front of the door.”
I had placed the trap at the entrance, where one would step after opening the training chamber’s door from outside and inward.
“If they fail to notice it, they will fall straight down.”
“That’s right. Even if they watch the floor, their gaze will be drawn to what lies ahead, so they won’t be able to see the ground.”
I opened the door and stepped inside.
“Heh heh. I nearly fell for my own trap.”
The moment I opened the door, an unclothed female knight appeared directly before my eyes, bound by all four limbs and fastened to the wall.
“Secretary.”
“Yes, Instructor.”
“If there are any reasonably attractive women among the female prisoners, bind them to the wall so they’re visible the instant the door opens, just like Eris over there. What do you think?”
“They would certainly be startled by the sight immediately upon opening the door. Hmm…”
“Is there a problem?”
“Would it not be better to replace the door? One that splits in the middle and opens outward to both sides.”
“......You’re right. That way, the center would be visible first. Good idea.”
I opened the door, then leapt cleanly over the trap.
“In that case, while I train Eris—”
“Instructor.”
Lilith cast a fire spell with a stiff expression.
“Enemies have entered. It appears to be a fairly substantial force.”
“Oh? Is that so? Tsk. I was going to blindfold her and give her a gentle massage, but I suppose that will have to wait.”
I removed the blindfold covering Eris’s eyes and took out the earplugs lodged in her ears.
“Eris.”
“Ugh, are you telling me to watch you humiliate me with my own eyes?”
“That’s not what I want you to watch. More adventurers have entered the dungeon, you see?”
“.......”
The flush that had risen on Eris’s face faded slightly.
“You know, adventurers don’t all enter simply to raise their honor. Sometimes they come to rescue people being held hostage.”
I draped an arm around the back of Eris’s neck and lowered my hand to lightly cup her breast.
“If you notice anyone among those humans who seems to have been sent by Albatea, tell me. I’ll contact the person in charge and make sure they’re kept alive.”
“......And if they aren’t people of House Count Albatea?”
“You know what entering a dungeon means, don’t you?”
“…It means entering with one’s life on the line.”
Eris lowered her head.
“Eris. If you cooperate just a little more actively…”
I bent toward Eris and whispered.
“Wouldn’t we be able to stop the people who came to rescue you from House Count Albatea from dying needlessly?”
“.......”
“Look over there. See how the orcs went out and overwhelmed the adventurers right away.”
The sight was nothing short of violent—
“......?”
“......!!”
“Hah.”
Eris’s eyes went wide, and Lilith covered her face with one hand.
The orcs—
were raping the adventurers.
Unfortunately, the men had been forced down with their backs to the orcs, leaving them no choice but to watch the female adventurers being raped.
“.......”
Without realizing it, I turned my gaze away.
“.......!”
Was it a coincidence?
At that very moment, Eris also turned her eyes toward me.
“Um.”
Eris looked up at me with a flushed face and opened her mouth.
“Could you perhaps… send a letter to House Count Albatea?”