Needless to say, Silberit would struggle to follow what I was saying.
Naturally.
Because even I didn't have a firm grasp on exactly what I was talking about.
"You're saying you'll negotiate with the elves?"
"Yes. If possible, I'd like you to serve as a bridge between our Vampire Legion and the elves."
"Are you trying to forge a peaceful relationship with the elves?"
"Even if it's not a peaceful relationship, at the very least, I hope we won't have to come to blows while dealing with each other's enemies."
Was such a thing actually possible?
"An absurd story."
That's right.
"Negotiation with the Demon King Army is an impossible story."
It was beyond common sense.
"Impossible?"
"Yes. Impossible."
"Impossible. That is nothing."
"......."
"I shall make it so. I, Main Azazel Dandelion, shall open that prologue."
My goal was but one.
"To that end, we wish to strike a deal with Count Albatea. We must prioritize those who can communicate, at the very least."
Buying time.
"Starting with Viscount Gilbert's territory, our Vampire Legion attempted negotiations with several factions. But we failed every time. Then, as it happened, we learned that Eris was the young lady of Albatea. If she refused to come to the negotiating table, we had no choice but to take a hostage and drag her to it."
Had such a thing actually happened?
It didn't matter.
What was more important than the truth was keeping Silberit from realizing.
"Our 'Vampire Legion' has no intention of making more enemies than necessary."
Steam.
"We merely wish to stretch our legs and relax in the place where we breathe and live."
Aphrodisiac hot spring.
"The Vampire Legion is different from the other legions. I don't know what the previous Vampire Legion was like, but as long as I am here, the Vampire Legion shall be reborn with an entirely new appearance."
Moisture touching the skin.
"That beginning may well be Count Albatea's territory, but if it's with the elves, it would be even more welcome. How about it, Lady Silberit. Will you trust me just this once?"
"What am I supposed to trust about you?"
Silberit slowly lowered her sword.
She did not dispel her aura, but slowly lowered the blade she had been gripping.
"You don't have to believe me right away. Trust is built from actions, forming into faith."
Simply because her wariness of me had lowered?
Not at all.
'She's aroused.'
I could see it.
Beyond her dress-like garments, I could see her chest slightly protruding.
Her face was flushed much hotter than when she first entered, and I could clearly see her skin glistening smooth from the steam.
"How about taking your time to find out?"
As time passed, the aphrodisiac components mixed into the steam were bound to touch the skin.
"It won't be too late to judge after witnessing our Vampire Legion's actions. Eris is alive; wouldn't it be fine to simply confirm that and return?"
"......What am I supposed to trust about you?"
"Do you wish to see the living Eris with your own eyes?"
"Isn't that obvious?"
Unlike Viscount Gilbert.
He had no desire to confirm, wishing his bastard would just die, but Silberit was trying to confirm because she wanted her to be alive.
"Very well. I shall have Eris brought here."
"......."
"Ah. Before that. Know that if you try to take her and leave carelessly, Eris will die."
"!!"
Silberit's eyes contorted.
'As expected. Not easy.'
She must have thought that once I brought Eris, she could eliminate me and immediately escape with her.
"A pity. Regrettably, magic has been cast on Eris."
"Magic?"
"Yes. You could call it a curse."
"If the magic power in my necklace is not periodically linked with Eris's necklace, Eris will go pop."
"......!!"
"Demonic, you say? I understand. But if you know we've kept her alive without killing her until now, you must also know such measures are necessary."
Silberit fell silent.
"To begin with, Lady Silberit, you didn't come here truly believing Eris was alive, did you?"
"No. I thought she was alive."
Silberit cut me off sharply and retorted.
"An adventurer's profession always carries death with it, but there is no one who wishes for their precious person to die."
"......."
Viscount Gilbert had been performing memorial rites with a look that said please just let the bastard die.
"If you have someone precious, you'd know?"
"I know."
They're all dead, gone, or no longer precious, but.
"I merely strive to obtain what I hold precious."
"......."
"I've rambled on long enough."
Though I felt it might need to go on longer.
'Can't drag this out anymore.'
Silberit was stamping her feet anxiously.
Even though she maintained the utmost composure on her face and expression, I could see her body's anxious reactions involuntarily showing at the tips of her toes.
"You said you wanted to meet Eris? Very well. I'll have her brought."
After steadying my breath.
"Secretaryyyyy!!"
I called for Lilith.
"Bring Eris here 'right now'!!"
"...Your voice is incredibly loud."
Silberit grumbled, pretending to cover her ears with her hand.
Her sword was still imbued with mana, but its tip was pointed not at me, but at the floor.
"More importantly, was what you said earlier true?"
"What?"
"...About the pact with the elves."
Ah.
So that's where her interest lay.
"The elves have a legion they face, and we too have enemies we must contend with."
"Those enemies, they're humans, right?"
"......."
Silberit twisted the corner of her lips into a sneer.
I fell silent for a moment, but decided to maintain that silence.
'If I consider the matter of Casey who assassinated me.'
The four great legions of the Demon King Army are 'factions' within the Demon King Army.
In other words, they are not bound by a strong blood alliance.
"So it seems to be true. Oh my, are the Demon King Army legions fighting amongst themselves?"
"What, are you offering to help?"
"...Seriously?"
"It's not out of the question."
Silberit gazed at me fixedly.
She seemed to be trying to determine if my words were true or false, but at least this one thing I could say clearly and with sincerity.
"I have firmly sworn to devote my full loyalty to the Vampire Princess who raised me to this position."
"......."
"When no one in the world acknowledged me, only the Vampire Princess gave me an opportunity. To me, she is faith, she is trust, a red light that shines brighter than any red in this world."
Silberit remained still.
Slightly disgusted, yet listening intently with perked ears.
"My liege, my master, everything in my life."
Hiss.
I took a light breath through my nose once.
Secretly checking the 'scent' without being noticed.
I'd never smelled an elf's before, but-
'Fruit?'
A fragrance impossible to find anywhere in this dungeon.
A fragrance different from the scent of women in the training room, yet one that made my cock leak precum endlessly just by smelling it.
'She's here.'
Finally.
The time had come.
'A bit more.'
The aphrodisiac hot spring's steam was still billowing up.
"Before she called my name, I was merely a living creature. When she called me Azazel, only then did I become an individual and a self."
"Ha...."
"If the Vampire Princess commands me to crawl on the ground, I shall; if she commands me to prostrate on all fours, I shall. And-"
More time.
"-if she commands me to kneel before her and lick her asshole, I shall gladly become a dog and offer her this tongue."
"A-are you crazy?"
Hooked.
A reaction.
"W-where did you say you'd lick? Did I mishear just now?"
"How can one claim to offer loyalty without even the thought of licking their liege's asshole."
I make her think.
I make her think sexual, lewd thoughts she had never considered before.
"To me, loyalty to her is akin to the pure devotion I offer a beloved woman."
"S-so...."
"If I cannot even lick the anus of the woman I love, how can it be called love!"
"......."
I deliberately spread my arms wide and raised my head proudly.
'I haven't actually done it.'
I'd actually given blowjobs many times, but ass-licking was just a figure of speech; I'd never actually licked an anus.
But if I went this far.
"...Really, a crazy Main."
Even if the other party gives up or refuses to continue out of disgust.
"Forget it. More importantly, when can I see Eris? Whether I turn this place into a bloodbath or retreat immediately, I'll decide after seeing Eris."
"......."
"What. Don't tell me you didn't call her?"
"Of course not."
Clap, clap.
"Secretary! Are you outside?!"
[Yes.]
Lilith's voice rang out.
"My secretary doesn't carelessly interrupt her superior, you see."
"You brought Eris, right?"
"Of course."
Now.
What to do now.
'I suppose I have no choice but to leave the rest to Eris.'
Eris is a perceptive woman.
Though her perceptiveness had only manifested when Lilith was dying and the end was near, she'd somehow manage to cover things up even if she had to lie under Silberit's interrogation.
"Good. Then, hoo."
At least, unlike before, the current Silberit
"Bring Eris. Immediately."
was slightly flushed as if aroused, and was tugging at her clothes up and down as if feeling stifled.
"Come in."
[Excuse me.]
Creak.
The door opened.
Lilith, dressed in a suit, opened the door with a stiff expression, and her eyes grew impossibly wide the moment she saw me.
"Secretary. Where is Eris?"
"......."
"Secretary?"
"You've worked hard."
Ah.
The moment I saw the black dress of the white-haired, red-eyed woman pushing Lilith aside to enter.
Splash.
I ended up pissing myself.
"......Huh?"
Silberit too, the moment she saw that vampire entering through the door.
"You...!"
She tried to swing her sword immediately, but-
"How dare you."
A red arc flashed, and Silberit's neck was seized.
"Kurk?!"
"It's been three years. Orc Slayer."
Silberit was slammed against the wall.
"Just thinking of the day three elite battalions were slaughtered by you still makes my teeth chatter. And yet...."
The Vampire Princess's one hand gripped Silberit's neck, while the other clutched the wrist holding the sword.
"You've grown weak."
"Y-you...!"
Shhhhk.
Chains of red magic power flowing from the Vampire Princess's hand instantly coiled around Silberit.
"Have you weakened over three years? No, no. Your skills have clearly grown stronger than back then. Your reactions were merely slow. The reason you couldn't react was...."
Grin.
"You fell to the aphrodisiac, wench."
"......What?"
At the word aphrodisiac, Silberit's face coldly sank.
"What do you-"
"Trainer Azazel."
"Yes, my liege."
"How did you accomplish this?"
"Well."
I quietly moved the towel aside.
"I released an aphrodisiac in this room."
"......."
Three gazes turned toward my cock, which looked ready to burst.
"My liege. Even now, aphrodisiac drifts through this room as steam."
Drip.
"Until an S-rank adventurer succumbed to the aphrodisiac."
Beneath the towel.
"She fucking endured and ran her mouth."
Pre-cum had been flowing in streams from the start.
"My liege."
"Speak."
"My apologies, but...."
I pointed at my cock, soaked in aphrodisiac and ready to burst.
"May I step away?"
I really thought I was going to die holding it in.