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Vol. 3 Chapter 4.4




Translated by SoundDestiny Edited by SoundDestiny
Morning comes even if you don’t want it to. It will come.
After breakfast, we headed to the breeding yard to feed the club members.
It is said to be a basic rule of discipline that pets eat after their masters, and I guess this is the same logic in this case.
After the second feeding, everyone knew what they were supposed to do and it went smoothly. There was even some sort of place-hunting, as if they were trying to avoid being next to Ota (big sister), a big eater.
As usual, Oatmeal for breakfast. I hear a few voices here and there saying, [That thing again?……], but no one openly complains.
Compared to starving, it’s better to be able to eat even if it’s not good. However, I wonder what people would look like if they knew that our meal this morning was all-you-can-eat eggs Benedict from a famous restaurant in New York, which cost 2,000 yen a plate.
The job of feeding is to wait for the feed bins to empty and then collect them. After that, it’s time for the whipping. That’s what I thought, but when the empty feed bins were piled up in the corridor, the silver-haired maid told us to gather in the mess hall.
In the dining room, the silver-haired maid took us to a table and opened her mouth.
“Burppp……”
Un…..What should a person who suddenly hears a loud burp act like?
“I’m sorry about that. I had a little too much food this morning…..Let’s get back on track and start the 『interrogation』 today. The whipping is from the end of the morning feeding until the evening feeding. During this time, each of you will be required to give at least one hundred lashes……Ugh, excuse me, burppp. However, there is no problem if you want to do a hundred whippings in the morning and have free time in the afternoon.”
The silver-haired maid’s complexion was pale. Even her pale skin was a bit pale. On the way, her eyes were black and white, as if she was desperately trying to hold back a burp.
In the midst of such an indescribably delicate atmosphere, Shima-senpai raised her hand in an indecisive manner.
“Can I ask a question……?”
“Please do”
“I have two questions. First, what should I do if I find out the four people in question, and second, how do I report that I have struck a hundred times……?”
“That’s a good question. There is a servant at the entrance of the menagerie. If you know who the deadly sinner is, please tell him or her. They will be immediately isolated in a separate room for a thorough interrogation. You may also inquire about the whip count with that person. The person will count it correctly”
I nod my head.
‘If they can find out through in-depth interrogation, why didn’t they do that from the beginning?’
The silver-haired maid then looked at me and Yui-chan and opened her mouth.
“Moribe-sama must have thought 『Why don’t I do a thorough interrogation from the beginning?』 and Kayama-sama thought, 『Let’s name Amemiya for now』…..”
“「「Hiiii!!」」”
Yui-chan and I unintentionally jumped up in our chairs.
“H-How? Can you read my mind?”
“It’s not that I can read your mind. It’s just that I can read your facial expressions. Maids need to know what their masters want based on the colour of their face…”
‘I don’t think it’s something you can read from people’s complexion….’
“I’ll return to the topic. I can only answer Moribe-sama’s question with the will of the confinement king-sama. In addition, I do not advise the content of Kayama-sama’s thoughts. If, as a result of a thorough investigation, it is discovered that the person had nothing to do with this, her position will be switched with you, so it would be better to wait until you are sure of the person’s name before revealing it”
“…..Another new pattern of falling into a pig”
Yui-chan muttered bitterly.
If we don’t organise it properly, it will be a disaster if we accidentally fall into a pig.
“Well then, I will hand out the whips”
The silver-haired maid says this and holds out a ring-bound whip in front of us, where she has taken it from?
A single whip woven from leather. It is also quite heavy. It must hurt a lot if someone gets hit with one of these.
“Uwaa……it’s a real thing, isn’t it? I thought it was the kind of thing they use in variety shows as a punishment game……”
“Those rose whips are loud, but they don’t hurt much.”
The silver-haired maid makes a face as if to say,『What’s the point if it doesn’t hurt?』
“But if they get hit a hundred times like this, they’ll die…”
“I have not overlooked that point. Every night  around midnight, the damage done by the whip will be completely recovered.”
“Recovered?”
“Recovered.”
“Recovered you say…”
“Recovered as if nothing had happened.”
I think it’s ridiculous, but there are so many unbelievable things happening here. Perhaps the maid’s statement is not a lie.
“Well then, I will be waiting in front of the breeding grounds, and when you are ready, you can start the 『interrogation』…..burrpp, excuse me. I would appreciate it if you could begin.”
When the silver-haired maid leaves the dining room and disappears from sight, we let out a collective sigh. The time has finally come. I thought I was prepared for this, but when I picked up the whip, I trembled.
‘Really, I’m going to whip them with this?All of them?’
“If the four people who disgraced….the favoured princess are found, I’ll tell them that everyone will be treated better and that I’ve been given a promise not to kill the four people who were found, and I’ll ask them to come forward voluntarily……What do you think?”
When I insisted, Yui looked as if she was taken aback.
“Moribe-san. Do you still think you can be a beauty on all sides at this stage of your life? Always, always caring about other people’s opinions.”
“That’s not what I meant……”
“Isn’t it good? Masaki-sama never said anything about killing the four of them from the start, did she?”
“Ee?”
“Don’t you Remember. When Captain asked what would happen to the four, Masaki-sama said. 『They will be stripped down over the next few years to the bare minimum viable organs, and then sent home by courier』.
Indeed. I misunderstood it because of the severity of the content, but she never said anything about killing them. In fact, she even said 『at the very least, you’ll live』.
“In other words, nothing has changed for the four of them. She didn’t say, 『I won’t cut them into pieces』.In other words……Shima-senpai said something unnecessary, and we just have more restrictions”
“….. sorry about that.”
Shima-senpai nodded her head helplessly.
I see… There’s no doubt that the four of them will be even more adamant if they hear that they’re going to be cut to pieces while the rest of us get better treatment.
Looking at me with a shrug of her shoulders, Yui-chan further strengthened her words.
“Moribe-san, you seem to be sympathising with the other members of the club, but how can you afford to do that? Our position is as similar as the others. In Particular, we have to hide the fact that we may be replaced. If I were in the position of a pig, I would try to switch places at all costs if I knew about such a thing”
“Well, it’s true. If the conditions under which the changeover occurs are known, they will set a trap…… Especially Shiratori, she is a devil of a bargainer and will try to kill you in one shot. Because both I and Hatsu-chan have never won a game against her……”
Shiratori-senpai is a long-distance runner, but although she is not very fast, she is a good gambler and has always been a good runner. I have never once seen her lose a bet between club members.
“But if one of us falls into a pig…… The whole thing will be exposed”
When I said this, Shima-senpai tapped me on the shoulder.
“That’s right! That’s why we have to support each other”
×××
A few minutes later, all four of us were standing in front of the door of the menagerie.
Of course, there was no need for all four of us to give the whipping at the same time, but none of us had the courage to go in here alone and give it.
“Are you ready?”
The silver-haired maid standing in front of the door asked, and we nodded nervously.
As soon as she bowed and opened the door, we all stepped into the breeding area at once.
The meeting in the dining room settled on the conclusion that we should first get used to pounding today. What this means is that we should just start pounding with vigour before we lose our resolve, which is really wild talk.
A noisy, dimly lit breeding ground. The members of the club are startled by the sight of us stepping in with a slam, and they all back away at once.
“Amemiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
Yui, who stepped in at the head of the group, suddenly raised a strange cry and attacked straight at Amemiya-senpai.
“Nah, nah……!”
The whip is swung down without hesitation at Amemiya-senpai, whose face twitches in confusion. Following the sound of the wind cutting, there is a sharp strike against the flesh. Before Amemiya-senpai, who was lying on her side, could raise herself, Yui’s whip struck her on the shoulder.
“Uaaaahhhh! It hurts!”
Amemiya-senpai, who turned her back and twisted around to escape, was whipped by Yui, determined not to let her escape.As if she was doing twirling jumps, she swung her arms to the right and left and cracked the whip at her senpais.
“Noooo, stop it! You bowel! You idiot!”
At the moment when Amemiya-senpai turned around and shouted at her, Yui’s whip struck Amemiya-senpai in the face, although she may not have been aiming for it.
“Gyan!!”
She writhed on the floor, moaning [Uu……uuu….] as she squirmed and screamed like an animal.
There is not a shred of lewdness, even though the girl is bound in tortoise-shell bondage and naked and the Mini〇uka Pol〇ce is whipping her. There is only gruesome violence.
“You!　You!　Amemiya!　Bitch!　Because of you!　It’s your fault!”
“Oh, no, don’t, don’t… …… ugh……”
Amemiya-senpai is left to do as she is made to do. If her hands were free, she would probably cover her head with her hands and curl up, but with her hands tied behind her back, this would not be the case.
Numerous red plaid patterns were already on her skin and blood was seeping from her torn skin.
The four of us should have talked about how to start whipping, but Yui’s this vigour left us just standing there, stunned, with surprised faces.
“It’s a good spook! Look! You’d better whimper!!”
Amemiya-senpai cried out, her face scrunched up, as she was exposed to the rain of whips that never stopped falling.
“Stop it!　It hurts, why only me!”
A blue streak instantly runs across Yui’s temples.
“You are so noisy! You ugly pigs!!”
And at the moment when she swung the whip down extra hard, there was a figure dashed into Amemiya-senpai’s body as if to cover it.
The figure is struck on the back and lets out a muffled exhale, as if to say [Gguh!] and a muffled exhalation, as if it were trying to hold back.
It was Captain Tashiro.
“Kayama! Stop, if you do this any more, Amemiya will die!”
When Captain raised her voice like that while covering Amemiya-senpai, Yui shouted hysterically.
“Don’t interrupt me!　How long are you going to pretend to be the boss, you cattle!!”
Completely thrilled, Yui-chan raised her whip and began to whip Captain’s back.
As soon as that happened, Shima-senpai hurriedly grabbed Yui-chan’s shoulders.
“Stop it! It’s not necessary to whip Hatsu-chan because she’s not a potential the great sinner”
However, Yui-chan glared at Shima-senpai and shook off her hand.
“Would you please stop acting like a senpai? You and I are equal inquisitors here. In fact, you were chosen as the captain’s alternate and I am in a higher position than you, aren’t I?”
“What did you say!?”
Ignoring Shima-senpai, who raises her voice and grabs her by the chest, Yui asks the silver-haired maid around the entrance.
“Freesia-sama, does whipping the inquisitor count?”
“No, it doesn’t. It’s something that the Confinement King-sama doesn’t want, so I will have to penalise you for it.”
“Did you hear what she said? If you don’t want to be punished by Confinement King-sama, let go of your hand”
“Freesia-sama….how much more do I have to hit?”
“Four more.”
“Oh, a hundred is a lot sooner than I think”
After finishing that sentence, Yui-chan started to look around and stopped her gaze at Konparu-senpai.
“Oh, you were the one who got along with the rotten Amemiya there, right?”
“No, stop it …… kyaaaaah!”
After whipping Konparu-senpai, Yui-chan said, [This is a hundred,] and carried the whip on her shoulder.
“Amemiyaaaa……you can look forward to tomorrow too.”
Yui-chan looked down at the sobbing Amemiya-senpai and twisted her mouth into a grin, then told the silver-haired maid.
“I’m going to take a bath. The smell of pigs is so unpleasant. Freesia-sama, is that alright with you?”
“Yes, of course.”
When Yui walked with her thick-soled boots and left the breeding ground, the club members’ voiced cursing words on Yui-chan, pushing aside the tearful voice of the sobbing Amemiya-senpai and the voice of the Captain, who was concerned about her.
Although there were some who were abnormally jealous of her comment about taking a bath, the majority of them were criticising her for the act of hitting Amemiya-senpai and her irreverent attitude towards senpai.
Yu-chan’s attitude was certainly not praiseworthy, and her attitude towards the senpai was almost always taken out on them. The unreasonable violence against Amamiya-senpai must have seemed like an unforgivable outrage from the point of view of those who were struck down.
However, as soon as the girls finish consuming the events that happened in front of them, they immediately go back to events that happened days, weeks or months ago and attach a tail and a fin to them, turning Yui-chan into a villainous person without a shred of good qualities.
When girls get together, this is scary. The way the negative sympathy grew, piling up words like 『I understand』, could only be described as ugly.
I cower helplessly at the thought that from now on I myself will be whipping everyone and directing such stinging malice at them.
‘I can’t…..do this, I can’t do this.’
The moment I spill such a weakness in my heart, a black cord suddenly flutters through the air in the corner of my vision.
The sound of the wind slashing. A crisp sound of a strike. In addition, a short scream echoed, [Kya!] A short scream rang out.
When I turned my head to look, I saw that Takasago-senpai was whipping the first-years who were crouched at her feet without changing her expression.
“That lazy slothful person….told me yesterday not to cut corners so much”
Shima Senpai gives a small cluck of her tongue diagonally behind me.
In the end, Takasago-senpai didn’t ask any questions, just silently finished beating the juniors in a matter of minutes, and turned sleepy eyes on the silver-haired maid.
“The end of …… can I go home?”
“Yes, thank you.”
Seeing Takasago-senpai’s back as she leaves the room with languid steps, Shima-senpai clicks her tongue abominably.
“The people hit by Takasago,they’ll be fine later.”
“W,well okay…”
Then, Shima-senpai looked at me, who smiled bitterly, and nodded, then shouted out to the club members.
“I’ll tell you something so you don’t misunderstand. We had a bit of an argument earlier. I’m not saying that Miss Bowe’s way is wrong.”
A small murmur escaped, mainly from the second-year students. Captain Tashiro stared intently at Shima-senpai.
“Our aim is not to whip everyone up. Our aim is to find the four idiots who caused us to become like this. But, well, even if we honestly told them to come out, they wouldn’t. That’s right. I know they’re going to give us a hard time. That’s why…”
Shima-senpai looked round at everyone and said,
“We have to whip you all up. We have to whip you guys up so badly that those four might as well come forward.”
She then stops to look at a second-year student.
Straight, shoulder-length hair, a bushy, glaring Buddha face that people frequently ask [Why are you angry?]even though she doesn’t mean that – she is Shiratori-senpai.
“But even if we don’t whip you, if you voluntarily find those four assholes, we won’t have to whip you……Do you now understand?”
A number of gulping and slurping sounds could be heard. Shima-senpai walked straight up to Shiratori-senpai.
“That’s why… We can’t just wait around for the rest of the day. For now, we’re going to hit the ones we think are suspicious”
“And you mean, it’s me?”
Shima-senpai does not answer that, and silently looks at Shiratori-senpai.
‘I see….. Even a casual comment like that would be an answer to a question. I would have answered it by accident. I still have to make sure I don’t speak at all……’
“You’ll have to answer our questions. Not the other way round. Do you know third-year student Mai Fujiwara……?”
“…..The one who was humiliated, right?”
Shima-senpai silently and with a snap, she swung the whip down on Shiratori- senpai’s thighs.
“Ow!”
Shirotori-senpai raises her eyebrows. But she doesn’t seem to be intimidated.
“How is it? Do you know her? Tell me honestly! If you don’t know, you’re going to take at least ten more shots”
“So unreasonable……Yeah, I know. My friend’s brother is a good friend of hers……and I heard she’s really rich.”
“Hee—, that black gal has a lot of money. It’s true that appearances can be deceiving…….And you, a money-grubber, tried to extort money from the rich gal, didn’t you?”
“Aren’t you being paranoid?”
“Shut up! Just answer the question!”
“I only know her from what my acquaintances have told me about her and I don’t even know what she looks like.”
Shiratori-senpai shrugged her shoulders as if she were making fun of her, while Shima-senpai was miffed and asked a series of questions.
“Who is this acquaintance of yours?”
“….a first-year student, Tachioka Kizuna. Sato is in the same class as her, though I had some talk with her.”
“….Hou,Sato..”
When Shima-senpai turned her head while saying this, Sato-san jumped.
“I, I have nothing to do with it!!”
“It’s noisy. Shiratori,Sato, Konparu and Adachi, the four of you, line up there.”
This time, Konparu-senpai and Adachi-senpai jumped.
“Why me!?”
“I’ve already been beaten by Miss Bowl! Isn’t that unfair!?”
“So noisy. Get in line, quickly!”
Shima-senpai whips them into a tailspin, shouting at them.
In the first place, Shima-senpai had said from the beginning that she would hit the second-year students. That is why she probably made the three second-year students, excluding Amemiya-senpai, plus Sato-san, the first-year student whose name was mentioned, her target for today for the time being.
“Alright. You guys turn your asses over here. Answer me honestly, will you?　Did any of you have lay your hands on Mai Fujiwara? If so, come forward!”
Of course, no one answered.
“They’re just ignoring us.”
“It means it wasn’t us.”
As soon as Shiratori-senpai said that in a tone of exasperation, Shima-senpai swung the whip down on her buttocks and there was a tremendous sound.
“U……uuu…..”
Shiratori-senpai, whose face was distorted and writhing. The whip marks on her buttocks gradually became redder and redder.
“O,oi…”
Just as Captain Tashiro was about to lean forward, Shima-senpai whipped the floor right next to her and quietly poke.
“Hatsu-chan, please be quiet. I don’t want to hit Hatsu-chan.”
In the end, the four of them and Shima-senpai said 『Fess up!』『 I told you I don’t know!』 She finished the hundred lashes while shouting at each other but none of the four came forward.
All four had swollen buttocks. Just looking at them, they seem to be in a lot of pain.
‘Since they endured to the end, can we exclude these four from the list of candidates for the deadly sinner ……? But if they are found out to be deadly sinners, they will suffer worse, well, that’s not entirely true…..’
As I think about this, Shima-senpai looks at Shiratori-senpai and opens her mouth.
“Shiratori….did you understand what I said?”
“How can you be so selfish…..after whipping people up so much?”
When Shiratori-senpai glared at her resentfully. Shima-senpai went out into the corridor, fluttering her hands.
And then, after seeing off Shima-senpai’s back, after a beat of breath, I suddenly realised. I realised.
‘I’m the only one left now!?’
What was I dilly-dallying about? I realised that I was the only inquisitor present.
Looking around, the gaze of Amemiya-senpai, whose eyes are bright red, hurts. The menacing gaze of Shiratori-senpai hurts. The only relief is the worried look from Captain, but the rest of the glares all hurt.
‘What should I do?’
I hurriedly turned to the first-year students and they said, [Oh? Are you going to do it?] They glared at me as if to say that.
‘I’m scared. It’s too scary……’
“An?　Moribe, you’re not going to hit us just because you’re Moribe, are you?”
“Don’t do it, Saori-chan, you shouldn’t force yourself. You’re shaking.”
Saito-san and Kishiro-san laughed out loud as they said this.
“Moribe, we’re friends. We’re the ones who pace you when you’re running, aren’t we?”
“Look, Saori, if you want to stay friends with us…..”
Omuta-san and Koike-san walked up to me from the right side.
“In the first place, it’s impossible for Moribe to do that”
“Don’t swing that whip, it’s dangerous, don’t let it come near me.”
Hotta-san and Mako-san peeked at me from the left side.
‘I can’t take it anymore. I want to run away.’
If these girls had not been tied up behind their backs, they would have been snatched up by the whip long ago.
“Sta, stay away from me …..”
I back away, helplessly.
‘I can’t do it, I can’t do it anymore. Maybe it would be easier to just give up and fall becoming pigs……’
As soon as I started thinking about this, the first-year students who had been coming up beside me turned their eyes behind me and said, [Hii!?] and retreated backwards all at once.
‘Ee? Eh? What happened?’
The next moment, someone gently grabs my confused shoulder. In my haste to turn around, I heard a soft whisper in my ear. It was the voice of a silver-haired maid.
“Moribe-sama, there is no need to be frightened. You are now a faithful servant of the Confinement King. The great Confinement King will not allow anyone to harm you. Please use your whip with all your might.”
“But, but…..”
“I am with you. I will punish anyone who harms you with a punishment worse than death in the name of the great Confinement King.”
“U,uuu,uuuuu….”
“Don’t worry. Believe in the name of the Confinement King-sama….”
“u,UWAAAAAAA!!!”
If I am honest, I was more scared of the silver-haired maids than the first years.
I was no longer torn. I raised my whip and swung it down with no aim and no momentum.
I barely remember the first blow. I remember hitting Koike-san’s chest. After that, I can barely remember anything else.
“You’ve passed the hundred mark. Do you still want to continue?”
I continued to swing the whip selflessly until I came to my senses when the silver-haired maid called out to me.
I don’t remember who I whipped and how much.
When I came to my senses, I found the first years, covered in red worm sores, staring at me with frightened eyes.
“I’m done …… for today”
When I told her so, the silver-haired maid politely said, [Thank you for your hard work.] And she turned to the members and continued.
“Now, if Moribe-sama leaves the room, you pigs will all be penalised.”
“Wha,WHY!!?”
The silver-haired maid shrugged her shoulders in dismay as Captain Tashiro stood up with an astonished expression on her face.
“It’s you. You. After all I said to you, but you interfered with Kayama-sama’s execution by protecting the bitch there”
Immediately, the members of the club voiced their condemnation towards Captain.
“Captain! You! You should just leave Amemiya alone!”
“What do you mean?”
“That attitude again? I’m sick of it……”
I don’t want to hear anything anymore. I covered my ears to the ugly arguments of the club members and ran out of the room.
“Uu…uuuu…gusu….”
Disgust swirling in my chest. Tears began to spill out in rags as I walked down the dimly lit corridor, and I dragged the whip in my hand with no effort as I walked back to my room.
When I opened the door, I saw Yui sitting on the bed.
She appears to have just finished her bath and is dressed in nothing more than a bath towel. Her wet hair, which is in the habit of being curled vertically, looks unusually heavy, as if she has not even finished towel-drying properly.
“You took your time.”
It has certainly taken a long time. It has already been more than two hours since Yui-chan left the breeding ground first.
‘Because, you know, I can’t help it. I’m not someone who can whip people with impunity like Yui-chan…..’
I walked into the room and sat down there on the red carpet in a heap.
“So, what are you crying about? By the look on your face, I suppose you couldn’t have whipped those pigs?”
I shook my head.
“Gusu…..ueee….gusu,zubi,gusu….”
Whipped. I whipped them properly. I whipped them and came back. I tried to reply to that, but I couldn’t get the words out.
I can’t stop crying. I can hardly breathe. My emotions are already a mess. Guilt, a sense of achievement, and other emotions that can be named are fine, but what is this feeling that is swirling in the back of my chest, engulfing them all? What is this feeling that’s so black, yet so proud?
Yui makes a dumbfounded face and asks me.
“What happened after that?”
[What happened after that]……after Yui had completed a hundred whippings and left the breeding ground a step ahead of the others.
When I finished speaking, faltering and sobbing, she smiled and squeezed my hand.
“But……you thought it felt good the moment you whipped them, didn’t you?”
I winced.
Thought. I thought that. I hate to admit it, but at that first strike, when I struck Koike-san in the chest, I did indeed feel a tingling, electric shiver down my spine, such a good feeling.
As I nodded my head, unable to say anything, Yui-chan whispered in my ear.
“I would like to serve the Confinement King-sama….. Why don’t we ask Masaki-sama together?”
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