S-rank adventurers.
They were people I had never once seen while working as a porter.
The Adventurers’ Guild itself awarded them diamond-grade cards.
For that reason, it would be more accurate to call them “diamond-rank adventurers,” but S-rank was not a title limited to adventurers alone.
Sword Masters. Archmages. Commanders of holy knight orders.
And heroes of the Holy Sword.
Those who would not seem out of place joining a “hero’s party” were commonly called S-rankers.
Just once.
I had seen a member of a hero’s party.
She was a female warrior who wielded a spear, and I had seen her single-handedly take on a fifty-meter-tall monstrosity sent by the Demon Beast Legion.
As the walls collapsed and mountains were crushed, the female warrior imbued her spear with mana, summoned lightning, and hunted down the colossal demon beast.
Monsters beyond humanity.
Beings who could also be called heroes.
Within the Demon King’s army, who could stand against these S-rankers through sheer force?
The Demon King.
And the Four Great Commanders.
In other words, within our legion, only the Vampire Princess could face one.
‘We’re fucked.’
I could tell just by watching the orcs fall like leaves before the autumn wind.
I knew the orcs were strong compared to the things they usually did, but to subdue them with movements that light?
“Secretary.”
“…The First Strike Posture has been issued.”
Lilith looked at me with a grave expression.
“From this moment onward, ‘everyone’ in the Vampire Legion is to confront the intruder.”
“……”
“This is an all-out battle, Instructor.”
Crack.
I could feel the weight behind the words “all-out battle.”
The seriousness of the situation was obvious from the way Lilith immediately assumed a battle stance.
‘Have I been taking things too lightly until now?’
A hero’s-party-level powerhouse had entered.
She might not be as strong as the female warrior who had fought the Demon King’s central army, but that diamond-rank elf was clearly skilled enough to provide support from behind.
“Instructor. I will not tell you to step forward and fight.”
Lilith sat me down in a chair with a solemn expression.
“The role of the Instructor Corps is… essentially to serve as meat shields. Since people without fighting ability are assigned there, it is only natural, in a way.”
“……”
Strength.
If I had strength, I would not be this worried about the appearance of the S-rank adventurer who had just entered.
I would have confidently stepped forward and subdued her myself.
But I was nothing more than a former porter who happened to be good at sex.
No matter what weapon I held, I was merely someone a little more skilled with weapons than Guard A of some rural village.
“Damn it…!”
If I could put restraints on the elf and have my way with her in bed, that would be one thing, but otherwise, now—
Creak.
“What is it?”
Eris came outside, pulling on a robe.
She had not had time to dry her hair, but she had wiped all the water from her body with a towel.
“……”
What should I do?
About Eris—
“…Orc Slayer Silberit?”
Before I could say anything, Eris recognized the intruder.
“……”
“……”
For a moment, the gazes of Eris, Lilith, and me met.
Clatter!
Lilith drew chains from a magic circle in midair and bound Eris.
“Urgh!”
Eris still had restraints on her hands, so she could not resist and was subdued by Lilith’s magic.
“Secretary.”
“What is your relationship with the intruder? Do you know her?”
Before I could even ask, Lilith began interrogating Eris.
She was an S-rank adventurer, so Eris probably knew her.
It was a story from some distant star that I had no interest in, so I knew little beyond the female warrior I had personally seen. But Eris was a fairly accomplished adventurer herself, so perhaps she knew her.
“……”
Eris did not answer.
A troubled look, as if she were trying to hide a secret, flashed across her face, and a possibility that flickered through my mind sent a chill down my spine.
“Fuck.”
Had she come to rescue Eris?
“Eris, do you know that elf personally?”
“……”
Eris squeezed her eyes shut for a moment.
“…She was an old colleague of my mother.”
That was her answer.
“……”
My head spun.
“Fuck…”
I had always wondered whether someone might eventually come to rescue Eris, but I had not yet spread any information that she was alive.
‘Do you have any idea how hard I worked to keep this hidden?’
I had gone so far as to make a fuss over Gilbert’s nonexistent bastard son, claiming he was alive or dead, pulling all kinds of tricks to turn human attention toward Jake instead of Eris.
And in the end, the crisis had arrived.
Death had arrived.
That was death.
And the biggest problem was—
“……! She’s running this way!”
Lilith panicked and stretched a hand toward the door.
In the scene of the vision spell, familiar things gradually began to flash past.
“…Fuck?”
“This way!”
The Instructor’s Room.
A gaze searching for something, ears pricked up.
Could it be…!
“!!”
I covered Eris’s mouth.
Eris would probably figure it out, but I had no choice.
“Mmph…”
Eris let out a short groan, but she did not scream or try to bite my hand.
She merely fidgeted with her hands, back and forth, as if tense and unable to make a decision.
[This way! Stop her!]
The succubi burst into the corridor all at once.
[How dare an elf come here!]
[Coming here alone? You’re one fearless bitch!!]
From the lower-ranking succubi to the higher-ranking succubi in suits, they ran forward with veins bulging in their necks, mana coiling around their claws.
Though they were succubi, their fighting style was quite similar to that of vampires.
[What are you talking about?]
But there was no time to notice such things.
[I thought I heard Eris’s voice faintly from around here. You’re in my way.]
The elf said that and charged straight into the succubi.
Slash.
The succubi were cleaved in two by the longsword in the elf’s hand.
“……!!”
The succubus who had begged me to let her enter the glory-hole, and the succubus who had come forward to protect me when I acted as the demon Dandelion—they were all cut in half by the sword.
Aura.
The mana flowing over the longsword was unmistakably the aura that symbolized a Sword Master.
“This…”
“……”
Grab.
Eris took my hand.
She pulled down the hand covering her mouth and looked at me.
Nod.
She seemed to be telling me something with her eyes.
Her gaze fell on her chains, then shifted forward.
Choose.
That was what her lips said.
She clasped my hand tightly with one of hers, showing a powerful resolve as she continued whispering soundlessly.
Prisoner. Together. Escape.
“……!”
I’ll keep your secret.
Eris furrowed her brows, urging me to choose.
The sounds of the succubi being slaughtered grew closer.
“Instructor.”
Lilith stood before the door and spoke to me.
“I’ll buy time until the Chief Aide or Master arrives, so please, Instructor, hide in the bathroom or somewhere…!”
“Don’t say it…!”
I whispered softly to Lilith, but—
Boom!
The door was smashed apart.
“This is the place.”
The blond, green-eyed elf grinned with her ears pricked up.
“I found it just in time. Isn’t that right, Erisi?”
“……”
The elf’s gaze turned toward Eris.
Lilith continued to point the whip she had conjured with magic at the elf—
“How dare you…!”
She swung it with all her might, but—
Slash.
“……!!”
Her neck was severed.
Before I could do anything, Lilith’s throat was cut by the elf’s sword.
“Run, I—”
Even at the end, Lilith could only tell me to run. Then she could not speak another word.
“……”
“Run? Did I hear that wrong? Why would a demon be telling someone to run…?”
The elf looked at me with cold eyes.
“I believe she was talking to you, the human holding hands with our Erisi as though protecting her, wasn’t she?”
“…Teacher Silberit.”
Eris stepped forward.
“This man is a human who was captured alongside me.”
“…Hmm?”
The elf tilted her head.
“He was captured with me, and we have barely managed to survive together until now. Teacher, for now—”
“He’s wearing nice clothes.”
The elf smiled unpleasantly.
“Erisi. You can’t see it, can you? Well, I suppose that’s because your mana is being suppressed.”
“……!!”
No way.
“My eyes can clearly see the sentence engraved on that man’s cheek, identifying him as a member of the ‘Blood Thirsters.’”
As expected.
“Is he a humanoid demon? A half-breed? Or an incubus born without wings or horns? It doesn’t matter. I can tell at a glance.”
The elf whispered.
“Have you fallen in love with that man through sex?”
“Teacher!!”
“Humans. I wondered if that might be the case, but I suppose I was right.”
“That’s not it! It’s a misunderstanding!”
Eris stepped in front of me and spread out both arms.
“He had no choice but to side with the demons in order to save me!”
“Hmm, is that so?”
The elf smiled leisurely.
“Let’s see what our little disciple has to say. How did you end up holding hands so tenderly with a human who became a demon’s dog?”
“T-that’s…!”
“You’re still terrible at lying. Let go of him. I’m going to kill the demon disguised as a human.”
“Teacher!!”
“Move.”
The elf grabbed Eris and shoved her aside.
Eris fell to the floor, landing on her knees.
“Hmm. You.”
The elf pointed her sword at my neck.
“You look weak, but you have some backbone. I suppose you must have something to rely on?”
“……”
Right before my eyes.
“Oh. Are you involved with that red-haired succubus? Wow, what a capable man~”
“Hey.”
I tore my gaze away from Lilith, whose eyes were still open.
“You fucking bitch.”
“…What?”
A crack appeared in the elf’s expression.
“Let me ask you one thing before I die, you bitch.”
“Y-you, right now…!”
“Are you a virgin or not?”
I moved my neck closer to the blade of aura held against it.
“Answer me. Depending on whether you answer or not, I’ll decide what to do with you.”
“Hah. What, if I’m a virgin, are you going to take it from me?”
“Of course. I’ll fuck you senseless. You said your name was Silberit, right?”
“Pfft.”
The elf, Silberit, smiled sweetly.
“Try dying first, then enjoy my virginity to your heart’s content, you insolent traitor to humanity.”
Slash.
“Azazel——!”
As my consciousness faded,
someone’s scream rang in my ears.
And at the very end,
my eyes met Lilith’s.
…
…
…
Splurt.
“……”
A familiar ceiling.
A familiar place.
“Um, excuse me…”
Right before my eyes.
Eris was there.
“Are you going to keep bathing with it inside me…?”
In the bathtub, my cock was inside her pussy.
“Ha…”
“If you keep leaving it in, then… that is…”
“For now.”
We could take care of what needed taking care of.
“Let’s keep having sex outside.”
“Huh? Ah, aaah!!”
Still buried inside Eris, I lifted her out of the bathtub and carried her outside.