After retrieving Eris and returning to the trainer’s private room.
“Secretary. I’ll be using the aphrodisiac slimes produced at Juil Ranch as traps for the training corps. Is that possible?”
Now that the effects of the aphrodisiac slime pool had been confirmed, all that remained was mass production.
“It is possible.”
“How did the other succubi react, apart from Eris?”
“We have wings, so we weren’t especially surprised or anything. However, there were some succubi who fell into traps where the aphrodisiac had already worn off.”
“So the traps themselves are definitely effective. More than I expected.”
“Yes.”
Could it have been that the trap failed to work because Eris was a little dim-witted, or because she couldn’t concentrate?
That thought had crossed my mind, but it turned out that the trap itself simply had quite impressive performance.
Now that its effects had been confirmed, all that remained was to install them in various locations.
“Digging out the traps and constructing the facilities shouldn’t be a problem. Can you think of any other issues?”
“There is the issue of the succubi needing to feed them bodily fluids periodically....”
The aphrodisiac slime was a living creature as well.
It needed to eat periodically, and succubus bodily fluids were necessary if it was to continue producing high-quality aphrodisiac substances.
“Ask the succubi to do it.”
“Are you planning to have them enter directly?”
“Would the succubi dislike that?”
“Considering that they’re slimes, most likely.”
Demons had surprisingly strict hierarchies in matters like this. They tended to detest being subjected to something by a demon inferior to themselves.
“That’s true. Juil Ranch itself is already disliked less because slimes enter their wombs and more because of the perception that they’re being raped by ‘mere’ slimes.”
Even I would have difficulty putting the succubi directly into the aphrodisiac slime pool.
“Then should I tell them to masturbate above the aphrodisiac pit?”
“There may be cases where it would look unsightly, but that would not be impossible. Rather than removing the aphrodisiac slimes separately, we could install a device above the pit and have them masturbate there.”
“A challenge....”
“Pardon?”
“Try getting under the succubi’s skin a little. We’ll make it into a lighthearted competition.”
A clever idea had occurred to me.
“The aphrodisiac slime pit is wider than you’d expect, isn’t it? Tell them to masturbate above it and endure. Falling into the hole means defeat. If they reach climax from masturbating but remain above the pit without falling in, they win.”
“.......”
“Would that be difficult to introduce?”
“No. In that case, something other than masturbation would probably be more effective, though....”
“Something else?”
“Trainer, the most effective method would probably be a ‘lesbian game.’ Would that be acceptable?”
“A lesbian... what?”
What had I just heard?
“Succubi sometimes put their fingers or tails into each other’s vaginas and masturbate one another. They might do it as a prank between close friends, or they might engage in a sort of sexual imitation to compete over who can make the other climax first.”
“Oh....”
That was the first time I had heard of it—a good, no, an incredibly remarkable culture unique to succubi.
“They would do it above the aphrodisiac pit. There may be succubi who would consider falling into the pit extremely humiliating, though....”
“Tell any succubus who loses that she’ll be restrained in the wall-pussy room during the next prisoner training session.”
“That... might actually be a reward, wouldn’t it?”
“If she’s willing to become a wall-pussy even after losing to her comrades, I won’t stop her. Or how about this? The winner gets the chance to fuck the prisoners, while the loser gets the chance to be stuffed into the wall-pussy?”
“...That would certainly be an appropriate distribution. But, Trainer?”
Lilith cocked her head.
“You called them... people?”
“......Ah.”
I had let it slip without thinking.
“Is that not allowed?”
“No. It is not particularly a problem. Demons are people, too. It’s just that....”
“Just that?”
“It seems you have begun referring to the succubi as comfortably as humans refer to other humans.”
Lilith smiled brightly.
“You’ve become quite the demon.”
“It’s all for the best. There can be humans among demons, too. They’re simply not on humanity’s side.”
The fact that I could say something like that without thinking meant I had been influenced by the Vampire Legion of the Demon King’s Army to that extent.
“Anyway, encourage the succubi to hold such competitions. If any succubus causes excessive trouble during a contest, tell her that she’ll be punished by spending the entire day with her lower body inserted into an aphrodisiac slime, feeding the slimes.”
“That....”
“That’s right. It’s similar to Juil Ranch. The slime won’t enter her womb and lay eggs, though.”
If Juil Ranch was where serious criminals were dealt with, the aphrodisiac pool would become where minor offenders were handled.
“If a succubus makes a mistake within the training corps, we won’t send her to Juil Ranch. Instead, for minor offenses, we’ll put her in the aphrodisiac training pool and have her feed the slimes.”
“Understood.”
Feeding the aphrodisiac slimes did not mean killing the succubus so that the slime could dissolve and eat her.
If someone fell into the aphrodisiac slime pool, the slime would immediately coil around her lower body, licking her vagina and sucking out her bodily fluids like a man performing oral sex on a woman.
‘They’re something like the ridged suction cups in tentacle erotica.’
There were several kinds of tentacles.
There were cock-shaped tentacles that entered a woman’s body, but there were also broad, flat tentacles covered in ridges, like palms.
Unless it was the same type as the first aphrodisiac slime, which had been fucking Casey, the succubus assassin who had tried to kill me, most aphrodisiac slimes only altered their bodies enough to suck up bodily fluids.
‘There aren’t any slimes like that yet.’
It wasn’t that the Vampire Legion was too refined to have slimes of that sort.
Even when I had worked as a porter, I had never heard of tentacle monsters or anything like that.
I had heard stories of high-ranking slimes stripping the clothes from people and sucking out their bodily fluids, or growing ridges and thrusting them inside a womb to scatter eggs.
“Secretary. Remember this. The aphrodisiac slime pool is an important asset that can protect us during our standoff with Count Albathea’s territory.... Hm?”
Creak.
The door opened.
I tensed for a moment just in case, but fortunately, the person who entered was a familiar woman.
“Are you done with your shower?”
“.......”
Eris was wearing a white gown instead of a prisoner’s uniform.
She was wearing nothing but a white gown, one of the spares from the gowns I wore.
Why had she returned wearing only a gown?
Because before giving Eris a bath as her reward, I had planned to make her shower first.
There was a bathtub only in my room.
And while she showered by herself, I needed time to organize a report for the plans ahead with Lilith.
“I’ve warmed the water. Go in.”
“Okay....”
Eris blushed and scampered toward the bathroom attached to my private room.
“You didn’t put aphrodisiac in the bathtub, did you...?”
“Oh, come on. You really don’t trust me that much?”
“.......”
Eris quietly entered the bathroom.
Soon, the sound of water rushing came from inside. I paid it no particular mind and—
“Trainer.”
Lilith came closer, then snickered and whispered into my ear.
“That woman didn’t lock the door.”
“.......”
“Couldn’t that be a signal asking you to pounce on her?”
“Could it...?”
The bathroom definitely had a lock.
But Eris had only closed the door. She had not locked it.
“Secretary.”
I whispered as quietly as possible.
“You think so, too, right?”
“Judging from how she kept clinging to you and rubbing herself against you from the moment you brought her here, she seemed to secretly want to be fucked by your cock.”
“As expected.”
Eris was horny.
“So, will you go in and pounce on her?”
“......No.”
Not yet.
“Secretary. I have one favor to ask.”
I picked up several items from those kept in the private room.
“If I go into the bathroom in a little while, spray this through the gap in the door.”
“...A spray bottle?”
“That’s right.”
I winked at Lilith.
“When an aphrodisiac takes effect without the person realizing it’s an aphrodisiac, they mistake the resulting feelings for their own desires.”
* * *
Blub blub.
Eris sank into the warm bathtub until the water reached the bridge of her nose.
The intense heat.
A warmth that seemed to envelop her entire body.
She definitely could not feel anything resembling the effects of an aphrodisiac.
She had fallen into the aphrodisiac pool a little earlier because of her bad behavior, but she had somehow managed to suppress it while showering.
But now?
Slosh.
It was the sound of water.
Nothing else—just the sound of water.
“.......”
Making splashing noises, Eris reached a hand downward.
Her fingers touched the most secret place.
“.......”
It was dangerous.
This was the trainer’s bathroom.
Just beyond that single door, the trainer and his secretary, a succubus, were probably talking.
“Earlier....”
She had showered in the private room a little while ago and cleaned her body.
She had washed away the aphrodisiac as well, and, as she had been ordered, masturbated to cleanse something that had built up inside her.
But.
Why did her hand keep moving downward?
“.......”
Was it because of the aphrodisiac after all?
Eris pressed her lips tightly together. With one hand, she deliberately splashed the water, while the other began moving a little faster.
Slosh, slosh.
The water rippled in the bathtub.
No matter how much she tried to move only her fingers, even when she overlapped three of her slender fingers, they could barely reach around it.
It wasn’t enough.
Something was missing. Something was lacking.
Something her fingers could not satisfy—
Creak.
The door opened.
Eris hurriedly tried to pull her hand away, but before she could, her entire body went rigid at the sight of the person who entered through the open door.
“Wh-what? Why?”
The trainer.
“Why, why are you...?”
“I’m going to wash, too.”
He entered without the slightest hesitation and tossed off his gown outside the door.
“.......”
Thump, thump.
Eris’s gaze focused on the thing pointed toward the washbasin.
The sense of something missing.
Realizing where that missing thing came from, Eris found herself drooling.
Slosh.
Perhaps it was because she was in the bathtub.
Her fingers felt a little wetter than before.