Vol. 3 Chapter 3.2

Translated by SoundDestiny Edited by SoundDestiny

On the other side of the door was a dimly lit stone corridor.

‘It’s like a dungeon from a subjective point of view. …… It would be interesting if it said 『Iroikkaizutsu』 or something like that.’

[イロイッカイズツThe Black Onyx RPG Game]

However, being able to think about such a thing, I may have unexpectedly become relaxed.

“That’s right.Torture, untie these girls.”

As if she just remembered, the princess gives the order and the sackhead lady comes towards us with a knife in hand.

I take back what I said before. I can’t afford it.. I’m so scared. Our faces twitch involuntarily.

But we were not cut down and with a light swing of her knife, all the red ropes that bound us were cut.

“Fuaa….. it’s untied.”

“Nnnn……my body is all bakkibaki!”

[aching]

When we are free for the first time in two days, the blood circulation must have been considerably reduced. Immediately my fingertips start to feel numb. Yes, after all, freedom is wonderful.

The princess nodded and looked back at the silver-haired maid after she saw that everyone’s ropes had been untied.

“Well then, Freesia, you take care of the rest.”

The princess then walked down the corridor to the right and entered the door at the end of the corridor. Before I realised it, the sackhead lady had disappeared as well.

As we gazed blankly at the door through which the princess had entered, the silver-haired maid spoke quietly.

“You are not authorised to enter beyond that point. If you do enter, you will be taken to….”

“Like going back into that room?”

“No, we will remove you on the spot. As you wish.”

We nodded, our cheeks twitching.

“Well, then, ladies and gentlemen, this way, please.”

We followed the silver-haired maid down the corridor a few metres to the left, and we saw a door in the wall on either side. The door was a very ordinary wooden door, the kind of door I would find anywhere.

“These two rooms will be your rooms for the time being.The two of you will occupy one room.”

When the silver-haired maid opened the door, we all let out an exclamation in unison[Waa……]

Stylish indirect lighting. Long-felted red carpet floor. The white walls are decorated with goldsmith’s work. In the foreground was an expensive-looking black leather sofa set, and beyond it, in the centre of the room, sat a large canopied bed that could accommodate up to five people.

The princess said it looked like a luxury hotel suite and it was true that all the furnishings looked expensive but as a commoner I could only think, [So this is what a suite room looks like].

“Um……how will the room assignments be?”

When Yui asked this, the silver-haired maid simply replied with a blank expression, [Be my guest].

“Well then, Shima-senpai. First years are fine with each other, aren’t they?”

“e, …..aaa, it’s fine.”

“Well, then, Shima-senpai and Takasago-senpai will be in this room. Me and Moribe-san will be in the room on the other side.”

Somehow, Yui is very lively. She always looks like she is about to die at competitions and never comes back after going to the toilet but doesn’t she feel pressured at times like this?

“We have two sets of clothes in the wardrobe. A loungewear and the inquisitor’s uniform but for the time being, please change into your uniform. I’ll be waiting for you, so please come back here when you’ve finished changing.”

“Y,yes…”

We were hurriedly separated into our respective rooms.

“….. they’re all really top-notch.”

As soon as I entered the room, Yui rubbed the sofa and let out a sigh of admiration. I don’t know if it’s a first-class product or not, but since Yui, a young lady from a good family, says so, it must be so.

“Let’s see, closets, closets…….”

She opens several rows of cupboard-like objects in sequence and finds clothes on hangers.

“Yui-chan,I found the clothes!”

“The doors at the back are the bathroom and toilet.”

“Bathroom? Then I’d like to have a bath before I get dressed….”

“We can’t. If we make her wait too long, I don’t know what she’ll do to us. Let’s get changed quickly.”

“Uh, ah, …… yes.”

I took out a set of clothes that had been hanging and laid them out on the bed.

First of all, the negligee is probably for loungewear. The problem is the inquisitor’s uniform.

“It’s…… Min〇suka Po〇ice~”

“It’s…… Minisuk〇〇 Police”

We wear a hat like the American policemen I often see in the movies and a tube-top undergarment. A short blue jacket, a tight mini-skirt of the same colour and thick-soled boots. The shorts they had on hand were string-like and had very little fabric. However, compared to being naked, it was a little better, as it hid any danger.

“I,it’s embarrassing, isn’t it?”

Despite saying this, Yui was posing in front of her appearance mirror after she had finished changing her clothes, as if she was not fully satisfied.

When I went out into the corridor, Shima-senpai and Takasago-senpai had already finished changing.

Shima-senpai has a slender, athlete-like figure and the Min〇suka Po〇ice uniform suits her well. The other side, Takasago-senpai, looks sleepy as ever but as the saying goes, children who sleep grow up well, for a person of her height, she has a very ample bust.

When I wear these clothes, it emphasises the fact that I’m the only one with an infant body shape, and it makes me very sad. I’m depressed.

“I see you’re all here. Now, please follow me”

The silver-haired maid urged us to walk a few metres further and I saw another door on either side. The silver-haired maid stopped in front of it and said simply.

“On your left is the dining room and on your right is the swimming pool.”

“A swimming pool?”

“Yes, you can use it in your spare time. We don’t have swimming costumes available but you are the only ones using it, so please, you can go naked.”

When she opens the door, it is a vast light blue space. The smell of chlorine leaks out. Behind the door was a magnificent pool of 25 metres and four lanes.

“…. are you sure we are free to use this at our leisure?”

Yes, of course.

“….. I wonder if this guy, the Confinement King, has a lot of money?”

The next moment after Shima-senpai muttered that in dismay, the silver-haired maid held a knife to her neck.

“Hee!!?　Hiiii……”

“For the time being, I’ll pretend I didn’t hear what you just said, but don’t call him Confinement King. Instead, please call him Confinement King-sama”

“I-I-I understand. Confinement King-sama! It’s Confinement King-sama!”

The mood that had been on the verge of slackening is now all at once tightened. What was I really doing to be so stupid? There should be nothing to relax about. Perhaps we are still walking on thin ice.

“Well, let’s have dinner. As it is this time of day, I have prepared a form of brunch for you.”

“……food.”

At the word ‘food’, Takasago-senpai reacts with all her might. With the pool in the background, the silver-haired maid closes the door, this time walking over to the door on her left and opening it.

The smell of delicious food tickles our nostrils and we gulp.

The table is rather large for four people. We could see that the food was laid out on the table.

“As this will be the first meal in a few days for everyone, we have prepared a variety of dim sum, with a focus on Chinese’s rice porridge, which is easy on the stomach.”

“ rice…..porridge”

“Food….”

Yui and Shima-senpai muttered in dismay, we looked at each other and hurriedly took our seats and reached for our food. I think I said something about the thin ice just a few minutes ago, but that’s not the point.

Can I describe it as a narrowing of vision? At least for me, I could only see the food on the table. We are starving, after all.

As soon as we were seated, we hurriedly scooped up the porridge in front of us with a bamboo ladle and put it in our mouths without regard to our manners.

“Hot! It’s hot, but it’s so tastyyyyyyyy!! It’s hopeless, It’s so delicious!”

“Ha-hafu, hafu, i-it’s so delicious!”

Shima Senpai and Yui are noisy. But it sure is absurdly delicious. I can’t stop eating. It may be due to hunger, but the porridge with beaten eggs is absurdly delicious.

If I look at Takasago-senpai, who always moves in a slovenly manner except when running, is also hurriedly bringing a lengua to her mouth. This is probably the first time I’ve seen her so agile.

[beef tongue]

Yui easily ate up the porridge, which was supposed to be hot, and then, without fear, demanded a second helping from the silver-haired maid, who, with the same momentum, reached for one dim sum dish after another, including shao mai and shrimp dumplings

The silver-haired maid, who had always been expressionless, smiled slightly at this.

“Don’t panic, we have plenty of refills and desserts for after dinner.”

“Dessert…..what?”

At the word [dessert], Takasago-senpai reacted again.

“It’s a thick custard pudding from Ginza Imaido.”

The silver-haired maid says casually. Immediately, everyone stops moving.

“You’re lying……”

“It’s not a lie.”

“…… is it for real?”

“It’s for real.”

I look at Takasago-Senpai, she is tsuー…… and quietly shedding tears.

It may seem exaggerated, but it is what it is. The thick custard pudding from Ginza Imai-do is a rare item, with a price of 2,000 yen for one and a limited daily production of 20.

For us students from regional cities, it is a legendary pudding that is only available on TV, and is absolutely out of reach.

Until now, the taste has been shown on TV in images of TV personalities fainting in agony as soon as they put it in their mouths, saying [N────!]. Now it is here.

We were stunned, but the silver-haired maid told us without a single expression on her face.

“It’s brunch, so it’s a light meal, but you can be assured that you’ll be getting more than this for the next three meals.”

“More than this……?”

The silver-haired maid’s mouth turned up a little at my question.

“Yes, you can count on it.”

When Shima-senpai said that and trembled, the silver-haired maid shrugged her shoulders.

“It’s normal. Because Confinement King-sama cherishes those who obey him.  The other side of the coin is that he has no mercy on those who disobey him. That’s all there is to it.”

“You mean he sees us as obedient?”

When Yui interrupted her, the silver-haired maid gave a small nod.

“Like it or not. If you work hard, the great Confinement King-sama  will surely reward you. For the time being, your tasks are to feed the pigs in the morning and evening and whip them a hundred times. Of course, this is not about flogging. It is a means to identify the biggest sinners. As soon as a major sinner comes forward, I can promise you that the treatment of the others will be raised from chattel to something more reasonable.”

“Does that mean…… Hatsu-chan will also be rescued?”

Shima-senpai looks at the silver-haired maid with an upward glance.

“Hatsu-chan? Oh, that person. Of course. Frankly speaking, it’s hard to understand why she opposed it so much when she could have saved the rest of the people if she could have identified the major sinners……”

“In other words, only us can save everyone in the club…… is that what you’re saying?”

When Yui-chan stood up, the silver-haired maid just smiled at her.

There’s something wrong with her. While thinking so, I could not put it into words, and just stared at everyone’s expression.

×××

“Fuaaa…..I–am–tired…”

As soon as I left Natsumi and the other four in Freesia’s care and returned to the 『Bedroom』 , I dived into the bed in my dress. Around the same time, Lili appeared in the air, spinning.

“Yes, yes,Oppai-chan, good work Devi.”

The first contact with the girls’ track and field team members started without Fumio-kun. I was nervous inside but we managed to pull it off.

“Hey……Lili, can I take this dress off already?”

“Okay Devi. The only work you have left to do today is to have dinner in the evening with the four people you have chosen as your Inquisitors. Until then, nothing special Devi.”

“Oh, my corset is so painful…..Lili, can you unbutton the buttons on my back?”

“Yes, Devi.”

“Oh, by the way, how was my performance?”

When I asked her this as she took off my dress, Lili smiled, showing her teeth, [Nishishi]

“Perfect, Devi. You really gave off the evil queen vibe, Debi”

“I’m glad. But you know what? The lighting in the back of the room was so hot…… What was that?”

“Good point, Devi. The theory is that if you want to overwhelm your opponent, you need a strong light behind you, Devi.”

“Really?”

“Yes, Devi. First of all, being dazzled is quite stressful for the other person, Devi. On top of that, they can’t make eye contact with you,they have to turn their faces away from you. If they are forced into a situation where they can’t read your facial expressions, psychologically they can’t be strong anymore.”

“Um…..but it was Tashiro-san, wasn’t it? That girl defied us, didn’t she?”

Lili shrugs her shoulders.

“Sometimes it happens, Devi. People who have an abnormally strong persona of what they think they should be like……”

“Persona? What is a persona?”

“In the case of that ponytail, she’s the leader, so she has to pull everyone else along with her. She has to protect. She has to be superior. Such a self-suggested acquired personality, Devi.”

“I don’t really understand but…it seems kind of troublesome.”

“It’s the opposite, Devi. Rather, it’s easy, Devi. If you take away her persona, she lose the support, Devi”

“Fuun….But I removed her from the inquisitor, but I wonder if it’s okay. You said she was the type that Fumio-kun likes, right? Tashiro-san.”

“Not at all, no problem Devi. If anything, from a Oppai-chan point of view, it would be better if we could get rid of FumiFumi’s favourite type of girl, wouldn’t it be Devi?”

Lili looks a bit mean.

“That’s not true. If it would make Fumio-kun happy, I would do anything for him. If Fumio-kun wants to hold this girl, I want to let him hold her, and if he’s happy with that, I’m happy too…”

“You became a good wife, Devi”

“However, I’m not going to give up the idea of having Fumio’s first baby with me, though.”

When I said that, Lili laughed.

“Then, since FumiFumi seems to be already back home, and since you didn’t have sex last night, you can ask him all you want.”

“Really?　Yay, I’m looking forward to it! Fumio-kun, I can’t wait for you to come home…..”

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