Chapter 249: 43rd Floor: Let's See the Prisoners♡
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 249: 43rd Floor: Let's See the Prisoners♡
This was a type of monster I’d never seen before.
Fortunately, the details were written down in the file.
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[Augusper]
A tentacled creature.
Known abilities are unclear. Currently under research.
Communication is possible, though the method is somewhat unusual.
Extremely friendly toward humans and highly intelligent.
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The previous warden must have written this while injured. Perhaps that’s why only the bare essentials remained, stated so bluntly.
“It says here the creature is friendly to humans. Is that true?”
“Ah, you mean Mr. Gusper? Yes, he’s very kind. He helped out a lot during the last riot.”
A friendly tentacle monster… something seemed suspicious. I would have to see it for myself and make my own judgment.
When we descended to the 5th basement floor, I saw sticky slime coating the floor and walls.
“What is this?”
“I’m not sure myself. Mr. Gusper has this floor all to himself, so maybe we can ask him?”
“Have you communicated with it before?”
“Yes, I do it often. He looks strange, but he’s not that dangerous. You’ll see once you meet him, Warden.”
“Hmm…”
Is this guy brainwashed or something?
Malcolm was so friendly with the tentacle monster it made me suspicious.
Squish, squish…
The sticky slime grew thicker.
At this point, the 5th floor was practically its habitat. It was hard to believe it was even imprisoned.
“There he is.”
As we walked down a curved hallway, I saw an eyeball connected to a tentacle blinking in the distance. When it saw us, it seemed to welcome us, extending several more bundles of tentacles and waving them as if in greeting.
“Yes, Mr. Gusper, we’re here~”
He has no sense of tension at all.
I kept walking forward.
The area around the creature was completely consumed by a wall of slime, making it look like a cave. A few more steps, and I could see its main body.
“Hm… bigger than I thought.”
The creature occupied a large cell that could have easily held five people, and the inside was filled with unidentifiable fleshy organs. At the very front, a long tentacle extended out, a single large eye in place of a face, meeting our gaze.
I could see tentacles writhing in every direction. They passed through the prison bars so easily that the bars themselves seemed meaningless.
Gulp…
A strange thought flashed through my mind, but I shook my head to clear it.
I am Lee Do-hee, the Iron-Blooded Warden. I will not be swayed by mere tentacles!
I composed myself and spoke.
“Are you Augusper? You’re quite insolent for a prisoner. Who said you could leave your cell?”
At my cold voice, the tentacles that had been waving excitedly outside the cell went rigid.
As I continued to glare, radiating a fierce aura, the large eyeball seemed to adopt a sullen expression before retracting all its tentacles back inside.
“Hahaha… Mr. Gusper, this is the new warden. (Be careful, she’s much stricter than she looks!)”
Malcolm whispered the last part.
That wasn’t a bad approach.
The good cop, bad cop strategy.
I didn’t know if Malcolm was doing it intentionally, but if I played the role of the one who berated them while he gently soothed them, we might be able to handle the prisoners more easily.
“It says you can communicate with people. Do you know how?”
No matter how I looked, I couldn’t see any vocal organs on Augusper.
“Ah, communication? Just a moment. Mr. Gusper? Would you connect me?”
Malcolm brought one ear close to the bars and nodded, signaling that it was fine.
Connect?
Augusper’s large eye glanced at me nervously. When I nodded, it made a smiling expression and inserted a thin tentacle into Malcolm’s ear.
“This is how you can hear Mr. Gusper. He doesn’t have vocal organs, so he transmits sound directly to the eardrum through vibrations at the tip of his tentacle. Uh… um, Mr. Gusper? Hahahaha!! No, you can’t say things like that, heheh… Ah, Warden, would you like to try communicating with him?”
Whatever Malcolm heard from Augusper, he glanced at me with a slight smile before his expression froze and he began to walk on eggshells again.
“I’ll pass. If I need to communicate with it in the future, I’ll bring you along.”
Who knows what it might do to me… I guess I can think of it as a kind of earphone.
The usual me might have given it a try, but right now, I was Lee Do-hee, the Iron-Blooded Warden. I would not do anything that might lead to an unforeseen accident!
“Ah, what a shame. It actually feels quite nice…”
“Enough nonsense. Let’s head to the next floor.”
I had to be on high alert from here on out.
I’d been told that from the 6th floor down, there were prisoners who roamed free instead of staying in their cells.
Let’s see…
I checked the file.
Arachne?
The photo showed a creature with the upper body of a woman with long, black hair and the lower body of a spider.
The special notes section was empty; she was exactly the Arachne I knew, so there was nothing particularly noteworthy.
“I just need to put this one back in her cage, right?”
“Y-yes, that’s right. However, Arachne has also been acting as a guard, preventing the prisoners below from coming up…”
I glanced at the list of prisoners on the 7th basement floor. Most of them were large, mid-tier demi-humans.
Trolls, ogres… mostly mutants, it seems.
“It’s fine. I’ll just put them all back in their cells, too.”
I was given three days, but I planned to finish today.
“Are you really going?”
“What is it? Is there a problem?”
“W-well… it’s just that… I’m a little scared of spiders, you see… ahem…”
Malcolm suddenly started sweating profusely, refusing to take a step.
“Are you coming or not?”
Seriously, a grown adult…
When I raised a fist and glared at him, Malcolm sighed and followed.
“By the way, how do these prisoners live? Feeding them and cleaning up after them must be a nightmare. How was it handled before?”
“Ah, you don’t have to worry about that. This underground prison is a relic for a reason. There’s a function that sends food from the 2nd-floor kitchen to each cell. As for waste, a well-designed sewer system takes care of it.”
More plausible than I thought.
As we descended while I asked about the facility, we started seeing cobwebs everywhere.
I summoned my spear and cut through them as we advanced, and soon, spiders began to attack.
They swarmed not only me but also Malcolm, who was trailing ten steps behind.
“Waaaaaaah!! Spiders! Help, please help me!!!”
Malcolm’s face went pale as he screamed.
He must have a genuine phobia, because he scrambled up the stairs on all fours and was gone before I could stop him.
He seemed so terrified that I just let him go.
I didn’t think he was that scared…
It felt pointless to chase down someone who had already fled, so I continued down alone.
At first, they were small spiders, but soon they were the size of human heads. Then, they were bigger than people.
Of course, I split them all equally with my spear.
I coated it with divine power to kill them cleanly without getting any blood on my clothes.
As I carved a path through the spiders and webs, a shriek echoed out.
“My children… How dare you!! Keeeeeeaaaaaaah!!!”
Must be Arachne.
Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud!!
A woman with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a spider charged at me, her eight legs pounding against the floor.
She was quite large.
Her charge felt like being rushed by a modern tank.
But to me, she was just another prisoner.
“Silence!”
Smack!
I struck her across the face with the shaft of my spear. With a choked cry, she collapsed to the ground.
For all her bravado, she was knocked out quite easily.
“Let’s see, this bitch’s original cell was… 6-17.”
Grabbing her by the hair felt like it would rip her scalp off, so I grabbed her by her rear end(?) and dragged her to cell 17 before locking the door.
Clank.
Arachne, having regained consciousness, started screaming, but I ignored her, brushing the unpleasant stickiness from my hands as I walked away.
A shame the good cop isn’t here.
I considered going back to get Malcolm, but it was too much of a hassle, so I decided to just head down.
Basement floor 7.
I reread the file I had skimmed earlier.
The prisoners on the 7th floor could be summed up in two words:
Extremely hostile.
Just a bunch of idiots who love to fight.
And sure enough.
Even though I had arrived, I could see monsters trading blows, completely ignoring my presence. It seemed it wouldn’t have mattered if Arachne was here or not.
On the left was a mutant troll with six arms.
On the right, a two-headed ogre.
The hulking beasts were trading blows with surprising speed and agility.
Each punch sent out a massive shockwave, but both of them, trusting in their regeneration and defense, focused solely on hitting their opponent.
Wow… it’s been a while since I’ve seen such a brainless fight.
It was a fight so mindless it was almost admirable.
And indeed, other massive monsters(?) had gathered around them, watching in awe.
“You can do it, Grombash!!”
“Go, Kakulak!!!”
“Waaaaaaah!!!”
So there was a reason they didn’t leave…
It was because they purely enjoyed fighting and watching fights.
Finally, the two-headed ogre knocked down the six-armed Asura troll.
“I won!! Uwoooooooooh!!!”
“Nice one, Grombash! That’s 72 wins and 18 losses!”
“As expected!!”
I felt a little bad for interrupting their fun, but it was time to go back to prison.
“Everyone, halt. Playtime is over. All of you, back to your cells.”
“Huh?”
“Hmm? What’s this tiny little bitch?”
The giant mutant monsters, all between three and five meters tall, turned to look at me.
It was a rather terrifying sight, but Lee Do-hee, the Iron-Blooded Warden, would not be intimidated by something like this.
“I am your warden. Obey my orders quietly.”
“Hah, orders? I’ll listen if you can beat me in a duel!”
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A total of 18 hulking mutants.
Re-imprisonment complete.
It took a little while since I had to subdue every single one of them with my bare hands.
“Arrrgh, it’s so stuffy! Please, Warden, I promise I won’t try to escape, just let me out!”
“If you behave in there for a month, I’ll think about it.”
They wailed at the loss of their freedom to fight, but I gave them a bit of false hope and descended to the next floor.
To be honest, it probably wouldn’t be a problem to let them out, but it could get a little annoying if the research lab summoned one of them for an experiment, or if another guard ran into them on their way down.
When I got to the 8th floor, I found it was completely filled with water.
Unlike the other floors, this one felt less like a prison and more like an aquarium. The cells were built below.
Instead of iron bars, each cell was sealed with a transparent barrier.
I pulled out the file and read it…
“An electric eel?”
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An electric eel that emits an incredibly high-voltage current.
Possesses the ability to move at super-high speeds.
Under no circumstances should you go near the water or enter it.
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Apparently, during the riot, someone had lowered the barriers between the aquatic creature tanks. This thing had gotten loose and electrocuted all the other creatures to death.
But how am I supposed to find this bastard in here?
The ceiling was higher than the 7th floor, and the area was larger than a soccer field.
“Should I try raising the barriers for each section first?”
I pulled a manual lever, and transparent walls rose up, dividing the sections. Now I just had to find it and put it back where it belonged.
Spreading my senses, I detected something writhing in one of the tanks.
Found it. Bigger than I thought.
Its thickness wasn’t much different from a normal eel, but being a mutant, it was incredibly long. Maybe five meters in total? It felt more like a snake than an eel.
I couldn’t kill it, which meant I had to catch it with my bare hands and move it…
But my resistance to electricity is super high, right?
What could possibly happen?
“But I can’t get my uniform wet~”
I registered my precious uniform with Illusionary Garment and changed into a swimsuit.
It was a slingshot bikini, one meant for a viewer event.
“Ahem… I’m not doing this for you guys~”
Normally, I wouldn’t have done this, but there was no one else around. There was no need to keep up the Iron-Blooded Warden act.
Nothing bad will happen, right?
Even with the underwater penalty, there was no way I’d lose to a mere eel. Besides, my body could survive without breathing.
I dove into the water with confidence.
Splash…
The electric eel seemed to sense my entry and began darting around rapidly, crackling with electricity. But it was ultimately blocked by the raised barriers.
You little… get over here!
Even underwater, my speed was overwhelmingly superior.
I could feel the electricity, but it didn’t even sting. It was nowhere near enough to harm me.
After getting used to its movements, I calmly lunged!
Grab!
Gotcha, you little rascal!
I succeeded in catching the eel in one go…
But then a problem arose.
Sliiiip~!
Huh?
The eel’s slippery scales slid right through my grasp.
It was naturally slippery, but the main cause was that I had been controlling my strength, worried that I might crush the eel to death.
In a battle between the strong, a single failed critical attack often leads directly to defeat.
Of course, there was an immense gap in power between me and a mere mutant eel, but what if there was a single move that could close that gap?
Like right now!
Sliiiide!!
“Ngh!?”
Ah! W-where are you going now?
The electric eel slithered down my body and suddenly thrust its head between my legs.
W-wait…
Plunge!!
“Ngyak!”
It casually pushed my panties aside and shot straight into my pussy!
“Mmph…!”
Crazy bastard, where do you think you’re…
Fortunately, it didn’t have any special foreplay skills. So, when its head touched my cervix, I only flinched a little. I came to my senses and tried to pull it out, but…
The electric eel wrapped its tail around my body and used its ultimate move.
W-wait, that’s danger—
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!!!!
“Nngyaaaahhh!?♡”
The electrifying sensation shot straight to my womb, and I was instantly forced to climax.
Wh-what is this… h-how can this be…
My mind went blank in an instant, and my body trembled uncontrollably.
I couldn’t control my body at all.
“Uoooh!!! Ooooh!!”
An orgasm is, fundamentally, an electrical signal.
Normally, it’s a very faint current, but the electric shock from the eel just now happened to be at that exact level.
An electrifying signal rising from my womb.
My stupid brain, without a hint of suspicion, thought, ‘Her again?’ and issued the command to climax.
Unaware of this process, I could only tremble, feeling an orgasm from the eel’s pathetic electric shock.
“Uuugh…! Mmph!”
This is dangerous… I-I have to do something, quickly…
Bzzzzzzzt!!!
“Guooooh…! Glub, glub…”
The electric eel, as if it had discovered my weak point, sent continuous electric shocks.
Bzzzzzt!!!
“Nngaaaaah~~! Ah♡”
No, this is… my head is getting weird!
It was the first time I’d ever been forced to climax so suddenly without any foreplay, and I was panicking.
I flailed my arms and legs desperately, trying to resist, but my body, already drained of strength, wouldn’t listen.
If anything, my struggles only got me more tangled up, showing my weakness to the electric eel.
M-me, to a pathetic eel like this!
I couldn’t believe it.
The Iron-Blooded Warden, Lee Do-hee, was…
Bzzzzzzzt!!!
“Nngooooooh♡!!”
…being forced to climax.
It was as if my opponent had activated a cheat code. It did nothing but discharge electricity, yet I was writhing and climaxing.
In an instant, I had become the electric eel’s plaything.
The creature, now seemingly relaxed, would give me a little jolt every time I tried to move.
How dare you… how dare you do this to me…
Realizing it was toying with me, I tried to use a buff or do something, anything, but…
Bzzzzzzzt!!
A single shock was enough to make my mind go white and force an orgasm, my whole body trembling as if I’d been truly electrocuted.
The electric eel, sensing my resistance had weakened, proceeded to do what it had intended all along.
Thump, thump!
“Nnngh!!! Awoooobbbbb!!”
Don’t tell me, it’s trying to get inside?
Suddenly, I remembered the instincts of eel-like creatures.
Didn’t they like to enter holes…?
No way. R-right?
I struggled again, trying to stop that one thing from happening, but…
Bzzzzzzzt!!!
“Nngyeeek!!!♡ Oooouuunngh!!”
The electric eel instantly rendered me helpless and used its rotating body to pierce my soft cervix.
N-no… not my precious place, not to a pathetic creature like this…!
Squelch!!
Of course, there was no way I could stop it.
In an instant, the eel’s slippery body entered my womb.
Aah… my stomach, my stomach!
Finding the inside too cramped, it started bumping against my uterine walls, biting them, and even sending electric shocks.
“Nngooooooook♡”
But even after trying to widen the space, about half of its body still couldn’t fit.
Finally, realizing this place was unsuitable as a hiding spot, it began to pull out.
Sluuuuurp!
“Aaaauuuuungh!!! Hoooooh!!”
The sensation of the eel exiting my womb, as if I were giving birth, made me climax once more.
Th-this bastard… treating my body so carelessly…
My face flushed red with shame.
Even though no one could see me, the viewers were watching, and I myself was so embarrassed.
Just wait until my body recovers. I’ll slice you up and eat you…!
As I was grinding my teeth, the eel circled around me, and then…
Plunge!!
“Ngh!?”
This time, it attempted to invade my asshole!
N-not there!
Squeeeeze~!
It wriggled, digging into my rear.
When I resisted, it zapped me without hesitation.
Bzzzzzzzt!
It wasn’t a direct stimulus to my womb, so the jolt was weaker, but it was more than enough to make the already sensitized, pathetic me climax.
“Nnghghghghghgh…♡”
A single shock sent me into a light orgasm, and my body refused to obey me, as if it were broken.
Something slippery… is entering me from behind!
It was a sensation I’d never felt before.
A strange feeling, a mix of displeasure and pleasure…
I think I’m going crazy…
Something was filling my insides.
But fortunately(?), the eel seemed to decide this place was also an unsuitable hiding spot and pulled out.
Sluuuuuuurp…!
“Nngyeeeeeees!?”
Ah…
I felt a strange emptiness inside.
The creature, as if it was done with me, swam away leisurely into the deeper water.
Damn it…
Once the electric eel let me go, I dragged my trembling body out of the water.
“Hah… hah… I-I’m alive…”
It all happened so fast that I was still in a daze.
What just happened to me…
It was still so vivid.
The feeling of the eel coiling inside my womb.
The ecstatic sense of release as the eel came out, as if a part of my body was being expelled…
The feeling of my intestines being filled by an eel…
“Ugh… what a mess.”
Thinking back on it now, it was all so absurd. I swore to myself that I would never again enter the water to catch an eel.
I sighed and started to get up…
“Warden?”
I looked up and saw Malcolm standing there, his eyes wide and darting all over the place.
“Huh…?”