050. True Education (3)
050. True Education (3)
※ This chapter contains some fairly explicit illustrations. Please keep that in mind before reading.
"...What are you talking about?"
Rinne asked.
As if giving her a chance to take it back, in case it had been a slip of the tongue.
But Laika merely repeated the same demand.
"I want Rinne to get spanked by the Commander~ Pang-pang-pang-pang~"
Only then did Rinne's eyes flash venomously.
She started snarling at Laika.
"Who goes around demanding something like that!"
"Euhe? Laika isn't allowed to ask for that? It's my wish~?"
"No, you're supposed to make your wishes only to me! Dragging Oppa into it is cheating!"
For once, everything Rinne said was perfectly reasonable.
Laika, however, showed no sign of backing down. She smirked and countered.
"I'm not exactly forcing the Commander into it~? Because even without Laika telling him to, the Commander would want to smack Rinne's butt anyway~"
No, I didn't particularly feel like doing that.
Just before I could object, Rinne cut in with a smug expression.
"Well, that part's probably true. Oppa's a pathetic low-tier guy who'd never get a chance to lay a hand on a cute girl's butt otherwise~"
"Euhe? Is that so? Commander, could you be a low-tier guy?"
"That's what I said. In that sense, I'll specially take a spanking for pitiful Oppa's sake~? Oh, but only on the condition that Oppa can actually overpower and spank me."
Rinne glanced at me and giggled.
"Which a weakling like Oppa would ne~ver be able to do. Heuheuheung."
Hmm...
In the past, I would've gotten riled up, thinking, 'Look at the way she talks to her Commander.'
But now that I understood Rinne better, I knew what was really going on.
What Rinne had just said was, in fact, a form of expressing affection toward me.
...No, this wasn't like a battered wife blindly defending her abuser. I had numerical evidence. The phase resonance rate.
Rinne's phase resonance rate toward me had already surpassed 70 percent.
Objectively, and scientifically, Rinne held considerable goodwill toward me.
The reason she still acted that way was that Rinne simply couldn't express affection straightforwardly.
Instead, by deliberately behaving insolently, she was reaffirming the fact that 'you and I are close enough for this kind of behavior.'
So-called bratty-girl behavior.
And for some reason, that bratty behavior tended to intensify around Laika.
I suspected that because Rinne perceived Laika and me as close, she felt a psychological urge to flaunt her own intimacy by acting up even in front of Laika.
The same was likely true now.
Whatever the case, Rinne was her usual self.
In that sense, the one who truly baffled me wasn't Rinne but Laika.
Rinne had always been like that, so I could accept it, but Laika's state was subtly off as well.
Just look at her now.
"Commander~? Are you really just going to sit back and watch Rinne run her mouth? Is the Commander really weaker than Rinne?"
She was subtly provoking me like that.
"Laika, what's with you too?"
"What's with Laika~?"
"No, you're somehow different from usual..."
"Laika is her usual Laika."
After declaring that, Laika kept needling me.
"And Laika won the bet. If the Commander won't cooperate, then Laika won't cooperate anymore either."
Seriously, what was up with this one?
No, the fact that she'd dragged me into a bet between the two of them in the first place was a little strange.
What on earth was the reason? I thought it over for a moment.
Maybe, Laika.
'...Does she want to see me discipline Rinne?'
Meaning.
That she was dissatisfied with the current situation where only Rinne could act utterly insolent toward the Commander, and she wanted the Commander to step up and properly establish the hierarchy.
Going even further, could it be that she was acting this way out of a desire to see the Commander overpower Rinne?
It wasn't a completely baseless speculation.
Come to think of it, lately Laika had frequently voiced complaints about my relationship with Rinne.
The part Laika pinpointed as the cause of her dissatisfaction was partly Rinne's behavior, but even more so, my attitude in handling it.
In short, 'Even if Rinne's always like that, why does the Commander deal with it so leniently?'
And underlying that grumbling must have been the jealousy of, 'I'm barely holding myself back from wanting to be spoiled by the Commander too, so why does only Rinne get special treatment?'
That jealousy had piled up and piled up until Laika was now using this opportunity to demand that I draw a clear line in front of her, showing 'who the Commander is truly close with.'
If she had deliberately provoked me—her Commander—for that reason...
Then wasn't Laika, in her own way, just as much of an insolent brat?
Wasn't the one who needed disciplining not Rinne, but Laika?
"...Ah."
Suddenly, I thought of the cleanest way to resolve this situation.
"Alright. I'll give you a butt-spanking."
I declared in front of both Rinne and Laika.
"Who said I'd let you? Go ahead and try, you pathetic weakling of a Commander~★"
Rinne protested.
And Laika, too, standing a little distance away.
"Laika's not going to help you~?"
I knew she'd say that.
Rinne wasn't a military biodroid with extremely reinforced strength, but she was still a type of biodroid. Beneath her skin, she had a metal body and the output of a core, so subduing Rinne without Laika's help was impossible.
But.
I had no intention of subduing and disciplining Rinne in the first place.
Instead of Rinne, the one I hoisted up was—
the blue-haired brat beside her.
"Eu, euhe...?"
Laika floundered.
Ignoring her flailing, I sat down on the makeshift bed and laid Laika over my knee.
At this, Laika's stomach faced my knee.
That left Laika's back and butt completely exposed to me.
The meaning of that posture was clear at a glance.
Butt——
——Pang!
"Hiyang...!"
Laika let out a surprisingly girlish scream, nothing like her usual self.
A moment later, flustered, she asked:
"C-C-C-Commander~? Isn't there some kind of misunderstanding~? What Laika asked for wasn't to spank Laika's butt, but Rinne's butt...?!"
"I know."
I knew.
"But before that, I'm going to deal with you first."
"Eu, euhe?"
Laika let out another stupid sound.
Completely unbothered, I——
——Pang!
"Hyat...?!"
"I'd been meaning to set aside a day to straighten out the hierarchy anyway."
Not just Rinne.
Laika too.
——Pang!
"Euhet...! Wh-why Laika too...! Laika always listens well to the Commander...!"
"Listens well, my foot. You get jealous every chance you get."
——Pang!
"Hyang...! Th-that's because the Commander neglects Laika and only cozies up with Rinne...!"
"We agreed last time that you'd accept all that. Why are you complaining again now?"
——Pang!
"Euhyang...! B-but... but-but-but you let Rinne act up right in front of Laika...! Laika wants to mess around with the Commander like Rinne does too...! The Commander always indulges Rinne's whims...!"
"So, you're saying you have to make me worry myself sick too before you're satisfied? You mental case!"
——Pang!
"Euhit...?! C-calling me a mental case...! That's not true! Laika always tries not to cause trouble for the Commander...!"
"Tries, my ass! Just apologize! You troublesome mental-case biodroid!"
——Pang-pang! Pang-pang-pang!
I smacked Laika's butt wildly.
I wasn't joking around. It wasn't a pretense. I spanked her hard enough that the skin of her butt, peeking out beneath her dolphin shorts, reddened and swelled.
Each time, Laika let out a genuine cry of pain, flailed both legs in the air, and arched her back like a bow.
Yet she didn't try to get away from me.
It wasn't that I was holding her so tightly she couldn't break free.
Laika was a genuine military biodroid. If she had seriously resisted—no, even if she'd merely pretended to resist—it would have been easy for her to escape my arms.
It was simply that Laika herself had no intention of escaping.
That was because this very situation—being held in my arms, spanked, and scolded—was a great joy for Laika.
What was especially joyful was being able to flaunt this play in front of Rinne.
As proof, Laika launched into a WWE routine in a voice barely suppressing her excitement.
"Eu, euhet... I-I can't apologize...? Laika still isn't over her anger at the Commander...?"
Her anger had, of course, been long gone.
She was simply asking to be hit a little more.
Her aggravating behavior stirred up anger I hadn't even felt before, so I could spank Laika's butt without holding back.
——Pang!
——Pang! Pang-pang-pang! Pang-pang-pang-pang!
Eventually, around the time I thought her butt might actually bruise, Laika finally gave an almost sincere surrender.
"S-sowwy. Laika was wrong...! From now on, Laika will be a good Laika who doesn't get jealous and listens well...!"
"Really?"
"Yeah. Yeah-yeah... Really sorry...."
Laika, looking completely wrecked, apologized repeatedly.
Up to this point, it was a routine. It was consensual violence and consensual play.
Both Laika and I were aware of that fact.
That was the case for Laika and me, but there was someone for whom it wasn't.
Rinne.
Come to think of it, I hadn't mentioned what Rinne was doing while I was spanking Laika.
You might wonder if she'd gotten so quiet at some point that she'd left the training ground. But she hadn't. Rinne had been with us the whole time.
She was there, but—
She had been rendered speechless.
Because to Rinne, the sight unfolding before her eyes was one of sheer shock and horror.
It couldn't be helped.
Rinne had a tendency to mouth off even to Laika, but that was simply how her abrasive personality came out. She knew perfectly well that Laika was far stronger than she was.
And yet, the Commander had apparently subdued that powerful Laika as easily as twisting a child's wrist (not).
And spanked her butt.
As a result, Laika was completely subdued by the Commander without being able to put up any real resistance.
How such a thing was possible was beyond Rinne's understanding.
Even Rinne, imaginative as she was, could never have guessed that Laika was an extremely masochistic, emotionally unstable girl who willingly stayed subdued and offered up her butt.
She would only have thought this:
There was no way she could win against a Commander who could effortlessly subdue even the mighty Laika.
If she got caught and spanked like this for whatever reason, she'd end up defeated just like Laika had been.
Overwhelmed by the surreal sense of terror that came from that, Rinne had turned completely pale.
And that, in fact, had been my aim.
I figured that if I thoroughly disciplined Laika, the secretly timid Rinne would surrender on her own without me needing to grab and discipline her—and it seemed that's exactly what happened.
"...Heu, heuik...."
Noticing that my gaze was beginning to turn toward her, Rinne let out a breathy gasp.
That wasn't the end of it.
"S-sorry for mouthing off earlier...."
Good girl, Rinne.
To praise her for that, I reached out and gave her butt a light pat.
Rather than a smack! it was more of a tap, a single pat.
Even just that made Rinne flinch in fright.
Leaving her be, I spoke to Laika.
"Laika, as you requested, I've spanked Rinne's butt. So, you've got to be a kind and reliable senior now, right?"
"Uh, yeah... This unworthy Laika will do her best to guide her well...."
Laika nodded, still collapsed over my knee.
Of course, that wasn't the end.
Next, Rinne.
"Rinne. Laika here is your senior. So, from now on, you have to listen well to Laika, understand? Otherwise, who knows what might happen not only to the senior who failed to manage her junior, but to you as well?"
Maybe then I'd have to teach you a proper lesson too?
As I said that, I patted Laika's butt gently.
Laika, already utterly drained, reflexively trembled, and at that sight, Rinne let out a startled "Hiik!"
Then she said.
"O-of course. Please take good care of me too, S-Senior Laika...."
"E-euhehe... Same to you, Laika hopes we get along... Junior...."
And with that, the hierarchy was finally straightened out, albeit just barely.
Laika above Rinne.
And the Commander above them both.