Chapter 14
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 14
Chapter Title: Search and Subjugation Request (6)
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Piona.
From a young age, she had been hailed as a genius.
Born in a rural village on the outskirts, her parents were retired adventurers, so she grew up receiving excellent guidance and training.
- Piona, what do you want to be when you grow up?
- Me! I want to be a cool adventurer just like Mom and Dad!
- Haha. Yeah, go for it. Piona, you'll definitely become a much cooler and stronger adventurer than us.
Retired adventurer parents usually try to dissuade their children from becoming adventurers.
It's a dangerous job where death is always lurking nearby.
It's a profession that walks a tightrope between life and death, so parents who have felt the fragility of that rope firsthand don't want their children to follow the same path.
But Piona's parents were different.
They knew the dangers of being an adventurer all too well, but in contrast, they also understood the advantages.
Low-class adventurers don't have many perks, but the higher the class, the more money adventurers rake in.
Especially at the top tiers, unimaginable sums of money change hands.
Of course, the truly astronomical amounts come from S-Class and top-tier A-Class adventurers... but even those below them can make a decent living if they're skilled.
Beyond the money, they gain numerous benefits from adventurer guilds, and since it's a job that fundamentally tempers the body and mana, it opens many doors later in life.
So, they treated their daughter without bias.
Above all, Piona had a talent for the sword.
Especially daggers.
Combining her shining talent with hard effort, she picked up the sword at age seven and became an adventurer at fifteen.
She began proper adventuring around eighteen.
Settling in a nearby city after leaving her village, she started taking requests in earnest.
Without missing a single day, she trained her body diligently and pushed forward with requests.
Thanks to her rock-solid fundamentals, Piona had never once faced a crisis while carrying out requests.
- You handled this request flawlessly too. As expected of you, Piona.
- No, it was simple.
Monsters fell with a single slash of her blade, and pathfinding was her specialty.
Thanks to the tracking know-how passed down from her mother, Piona could handle requests with ease.
By the time she was thriving as an E-Class adventurer, she had teamed up with like-minded friends she often worked with.
Crisis never befell her. She had her own skills, plus her reliable companions.
This held true even up to becoming a veteran C-Class adventurer.
Reaching C-Class in your twenties earns you the title of genius.
There were cases of people becoming B-Class or A-Class at her age, but those were absolute outliers.
Lately, outliers like that had been pouring out of the Lily Guild, but it remained an inexplicable mystery.
People wondered how such young, ridiculously strong adventurers could suddenly appear, but they were simply swept up in the frenzy over their absurd feats and appearances.
Excluding those cases, Piona's talent and exploits placed her firmly in the top 1%.
She brimmed with overflowing confidence.
Her confidence was a well-founded conviction, rooted in her effort and talent.
.....
Until now.
"Ugh! N-no, I hate it! Stop it!"
"A-Amy!!"
Splash-!
Staring at Amy, whose limbs were bound by the monster and whose clothes had been completely torn away, leaving her naked, Piona screamed at the top of her lungs.
She could barely twitch a finger.
With her entire body paralyzed, she somehow squeezed out her voice.
'I got careless. Damn it, how did this happen...!'
A monster that uses poison? They weren't unheard of, but she never dreamed she'd encounter one in Luis Village, where only slimes were supposed to live.
This was carelessness.
'No, not carelessness...'
Piona let out a bitter, self-mocking laugh in her mind.
It was arrogance.
The moment she first faced the monster, she knew.
This monster was strong. Victory wasn't guaranteed.
Even without this paralyzing poison, hadn't she been purely overpowered by brute force?
Despite the instinctive warnings screaming in her head, Piona pressed the attack.
And this was the result.
Instant defeat, utterly helpless against the monster.
The adventurer guild even had a policy to prevent such incidents.
[If you encounter an unknown monster, retreat without fail.]
Based on accumulated data, the guild had records of every monster inhabiting every location outside unexplored regions and dungeons.
To prevent adventurer deaths and improve efficiency.
So, before heading out on a request, adventurers cram their heads full of data on the request site.
Sometimes monsters not in the data appear—about one or two times a year. And completely new species are discovered maybe three or four times a decade.
Rare as they are, all adventurers pledge to retreat upon spotting an undocumented monster.
Piona had broken that rule.
Because she'd always won until now.
She'd fought large monsters before and always triumphed easily.
Even against ones too much for her alone, she was confident she could win by holding it off while Amy blasted it with magic.
That confidence had turned to arrogance, now grabbing her by the ankle.
Squirm...
"N-no! Get away! Ah, not there! Ah, no...!"
The monster that had mercilessly shredded Amy's clothes soon tore off her bra and panties as well.
The tentacle that had been gagging her mouth was now removed. It was as if it had given Amy the chance to chant spells, but magic required focus. Maintaining concentration while enduring such horrors was no easy feat.
Amy's large bare breasts and dainty pussy were now fully exposed before the monster.
'Amy...!'
Guilt threatened to crush her heart.
If only she'd stayed calm and thought it through!
If she'd assessed the monster's strength and chosen to flee.
This never would have happened!
'Will Amy end up like that too?'
Piona's gaze shifted to a shadowy corner of the cave.
There lay a woman covered head to toe in semen, smeared with filthy, sticky fluids.
It was her.
One of the two missing people from the request.
The man was dead, but where was the woman? The monster had been relentlessly violating her in its lair.
She appeared to be sleeping, but she was far from unscathed.
Her slightly parted pussy oozed semen like a well, hardened in place, and the area reeked of urine stains.
Her sleeping face looked utterly relaxed, as if lost in pleasure, but she clearly wasn't in her right mind.
'How much torment and suffering has she endured?'
The thought of Amy or herself suffering the same made her tremble with rage.
No, she didn't care about herself. She just couldn't bear Amy suffering like that because of her.
"Let Amy go! You, you piece of trash!"
She shouted at the top of her lungs again.
The monster ignored her, wriggling its tentacles as it fondled Amy's breasts.
She hadn't expected words to work on a monster anyway. She just felt like she'd collapse from guilt if she didn't scream somehow.
Amy struggled and resisted against the revolting tentacles, but her strength was utterly futile.
"Rape me instead! Rape me!"
Piona yelled at the monster again.
Swish-
'Huh?'
Then, the monster suddenly turned to look at her.
Did it understand speech? It fixed Amy to the wall with something, then slithered toward Piona.
Piona flinched for a moment but quickly shouted again.
"Yes! Rape me instead! Me...!"
The monster stopped before her and used a tentacle to lift her prostrated face slightly.
Forced to meet its gaze directly, Piona felt an odd sensation.
It was as if it was asking: Are you sure? Can you really endure being raped in your friend's place?
"Pi-Piona...!"
"Amy, I'm sorry... We'll...! We'll endure and overcome this."
With those words, Piona mustered every ounce of strength she had left and twisted her body.
'This... If I just break this, Rosa will come rescue us...!'
Straining, she snapped the necklace around her neck.
It was the necklace they had all bought together upon promoting to C-Class.
Designed to signal threats, the three-piece set would all shatter if one broke.
Breaking it now would definitely alert Rosa too.
'It might take days... maybe even over a week.'
Piona decided to trust in herself once more.
She would endure the monster's rape with her sanity intact, then join forces with Rosa's rescue team to subjugate it.
All she had to do until then was withstand its disgusting violations while keeping her mind.
It saddened her to lose her virginity—guarded for twenty-one years—to such a vile monster, but it couldn't be helped.
The karmic retribution for her arrogant rule-breaking. She had to bear it.
Piona gritted her teeth, glaring at the wriggling tentacle monster.
'I wanted to have a happy romance with someone precious I'd spend my life with, like Mom and Dad...'
And give her first time to such a wonderful person.
But there was no choice.
With death on the line, her virginity was a small price. If it meant saving her life, it was a good trade.
If she were a man, her head would be gone already.
'You think I'll submit to a monster like you?'
She still had a chance now.
The woman missing for five days was still alive, so it seemed likely she'd be kept around for a while too.
As a sex toy, that is.
Piona steeled her resolve to easily endure the monster's rapes until the rescue arrived, glaring fiercely at it.