Chapter 264: 43rd Floor: The Truth of That Day
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 264: 43rd Floor: The Truth of That Day
"Malcolm?"
"Ah, my apologies. I just came to see if there was anything I could help with."
The man chuckled, an innocuous expression on his face.
"......"
Am I just imagining things?
"Do you know anything about the Demon King? Something specific."
"Hmm...? No. As I explained before, all I know is that he drove humanity to the brink of extinction. And since that was about a thousand years ago, I'm not even sure if any proper records remain."
"Is that so...? I see. For now, don't wander around by yourself. Stick with the others, like I said earlier. I'll handle things here alone."
"Ah, right. You're on guard for any potential spies from the research lab, aren't you?"
"That's right. And since you're the most suspicious one, don't try anything funny."
"Haha, me? Come on, you're joking~"
Malcolm, apparently taking it as a joke, chuckled again and walked away.
What's with that guy…
He was so overtly suspicious that I couldn't tell if he was just messing with me or if he was actually shady.
After confirming Malcolm had left, I returned to the Demon King Revival Plan.
The experiment had been conducted in stages.
First, the research lab tried to physically break the chains binding the Demon King or destroy the black rock he was bound to.
But, of course, they failed.
According to the report, no matter what physical methods they employed, nothing worked, as if some law of the world itself was restraining it.
For their second method, they secretly brought in mages and priests to experiment, but that also failed. They claimed that unless there was an intervention from a divine being, it was impossible to break the seal.
So, they came up with a third method.
Let's just extract his soul or consciousness.
Since the physical restraints couldn't be broken, they would try to imprison the Demon King's consciousness elsewhere.
But the report stated that this, too, ultimately failed.
Their plan was to transfer the Demon King's consciousness into the body of a slime. The soul transfer magic was executed successfully, but the slime itself remained perfectly ordinary.
"Hmm... In the final stage, they secretly used dark magic with dark mages who were scheduled for execution, without Headquarters' knowledge..."
I didn't know much about this world, but dark mages were almost universally taboo. And not only did they use them, but they tried to revive the Demon King?
Sure, their stated goal was to control the Demon King and use him as a trump card against the empire, but it was far too reckless. Could they have done something like this unless they were enthralled by the Demon King himself?
And more importantly…
It's all meaningless now.
I had wondered why they were all spying on each other and stealing information, but past messages exchanged between the Research Lab Director and his headquarters revealed the reason.
The empire, their common enemy, had self-destructed in a rebellion. The kingdoms no longer had a reason to remain allied.
While the treaty regarding this ancient prison was still officially in effect, the checks and balances against one another had grown, and a silent battle of wits had begun here as well.
The mutant monsters and prisoners here were especially strong—powerful enough to bring down a respectable kingdom. They were all maneuvering behind the scenes to claim ownership of this place.
Good. I can definitely use this to my advantage.
Come to think of it, hadn't I tamed these creatures more easily than the research lab had in its decades of work?
I... I tamed them all with... that! I can use that as an appeal!
Surely, my headquarters wouldn't cast me aside—me, the one who had perfectly tamed the monsters that were the age-old problem of this underground prison, the one who could even serve as the broodmother.
I tidied up the security office and locked it again. I had all the researchers and the director confined near the Orc Lord on the 4th floor.
Then, I returned to the Warden's office.
I began to write a long report to Headquarters, my final plea.
But I had no idea where to even begin, or how to effectively persuade them. If I just listed the facts in a standard report format, I felt like I'd get the "Trial Failure" ending immediately.
I needed something truly epic, something that would stir their very souls.
"Haa... Everyone? All you talented writers out there, please come help me."
But at that moment, something completely different from what I intended was happening in the chat window...
- Oh, you finally turned the chat on?
- About time you crawled out.
- EXPLAIN YOURSELF
- EX
- PLAIN
- YOUR
- 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- It's chaos in here lol
- SELF
- What the hell is going on
- EXPLAIN YOURSELF
- PLAIN
- EX
Something I had never imagined was happening.
A riot.
I didn't know what it was about, but my viewers were staging a massive riot.
"Huh? Hey, what are you all doing? What is all this?"
*
The incident had occurred about 15 hours earlier.
It happened while Lee Do-hee, having been pathetically overcome by the researchers' aphrodisiac, was enjoying a happy breeding time with various giant monsters.
Seeing someone mate with such massive monsters was a first for most people outside of hentai. The fappers in the audience, at first, furiously jerked off, but after the second or third time, the post-nut clarity hit them.
And a few of them began to think rationally.
- But was she really forcibly captured and raped? Didn't she get caught on purpose?
Their logic had some merit.
- A woman with Do-hee's level of Agility couldn't react to her breast being touched, even at close range?
- Wow that's so hot lol
- It's possible, I guess.
- Oof
- Besides, getting your breast touched doesn't completely incapacitate you, does it? Your muscles start to relax a bit, but you don't get totally wasted.
- ???
- Is that right?
- Wasn't it because she took an aphrodisiac or something?
- I'll fap first and think later.
At first, there wasn't much of a reaction.
It was hard for ordinary people to verify, and many were still too busy fapping to care.
But after a little time had passed, a post on Lee Do-hee's fan cafe changed the atmosphere.
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♡Lee Do-hee Fan Cafe♡
[Title: Just How Fast Are Lee Do-hee's Reflexes?]
[Content]:
First, let me identify myself. I'm someone who has fought Lee Do-hee directly.
I'm the rogue from the Kanghan-gil Guild. The one who used clone techniques during the guild merger battle before Do-hee went to the 40th floor.
Do you have any idea how fast her reflexes are?
Even when I, an Awakener who's cleared over 50 floors, fired a poison pellet from my mouth at point-blank range or threw a hidden dagger from between my toes, she reacted with incredible ease.
Gas?
She can disperse that easily just by releasing her divine power.
Me throwing a shuriken from 100 meters away is much faster than a normal person grabbing her breast from up close.
Lee Do-hee can see and block something thrown from 10cm away.
And you're telling me she couldn't react to that???
I can say this with certainty.
It's not that Lee Do-hee couldn't block it. She didn't block it.
ps: I love you, my perverted Guild Master Noona♡
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[Comments]
- What
- Dropping a serious red pill on us all of a sudden...
- Then all those times she got caught by normal people were...
└ Maybe she knew and enjoyed it?
- For real, something always felt off.
- Ah, I just thought it was typical Do-hee, the dumb bitch falling into another trap, but you're saying it was on purpose?
- It never really made sense lol
- But why are you telling us this?
└ To make fun of Do-hee.
└ Gotta tease that bitch Do-hee 'til her face turns red~
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From the viewers' perspective, why bother uncovering something that didn't really matter—or rather, was actually a good thing, like a blue pill?
- That fucking bitch let it happen on purpose all this time? Just you wait!
Honestly, they didn't really care.
Of course, some people cared whether the porn they watched was real or staged, but since it was real every time after the first, and it was hot, it wasn't even a controversy.
But now! Now they could make fun of Lee Do-hee, who they could no longer sway with money and who had been neglecting the chat while chain-climbing the Tower!
Teasing the pervert Lee Do-hee!
I can defeat a transcendentally powerful, gorgeous Awakener in the realm of the internet!
This was fantastic news for the fappers who were just sitting in their rooms, endlessly waiting for their turn.
*
- You got fucked on purpose? You're a total pervert?
- Wow, how can you get raped on purpose?
- EXPLAIN YOURSELF
- 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- So you really were a massive pervert lmao
Lee Do-hee stared blankly at the viewers' chat messages.
She was just trying to find a good writer, so what was all this? Was someone spreading false rumors about her?
- How dare this bitch get fucked on purpose?
- Staging a rape scene is going too far, I want a refund.
- I thought it was real!!
- Booo~ Lee Do-hee, who deceived her viewers, must apologize~
- EXPLAIN YOURSELF
- Was I the only one who was serious? Was I the only one who was serious about this high-level rape content?
- Booo~
- I can't believe it wasn't a real-life rape scene.
- Do-hee, you've been caught letting yourself get raped on purpose.
- How dare this bitch deceive her god-like viewers?
- I'm disappointed in you, Lee Do-hee.
No one was actually angry, but they all began typing as if it were a grave matter.
"What? Me...?"
But what if the words weren't false rumors, but a truth that would embarrass Lee Do-hee?
"I-I-I let it happen on purpose? What is this...? N-No... I didn't?"
- Huh?
- ;;
- Dude
- Wow
- lol
- lolololol
- Wow, her acting is terrible.
- Busted.
- For real, she got caught so easily, like a total slut;;
- So what happens to me, the guy who gathered dozens of pieces of evidence for this debate?
- Wow, all the points I prepared to debunk her are useless now ffs
- What even is this woman?
- Sooo easy~
- Is she for real confessing right away?
"Wh-What are you talking about!!"
Lee Do-hee's acting skills were not that great.
To be precise, she could act when she was getting into character for the sake of climbing the Tower, but she wasn't the type to lie well to people she knew in her daily life.
And it was even more pronounced when she was caught off guard.
"Hyeh...? N-No, w-wait a minute! Don't just jump to conclusions!! Th-That was!!!"
The viewers noticed Lee Do-hee's eyes darting around as her pathetic brain scrambled to come up with an excuse.
- Ah~ I wonder what the reason is?
- Is she gonna say it was to take over the research lab~~
- She wouldn't try to justify the result after the fact, would she~
- The viewers are always one step ahead of Do-hee.
- Nah, no way~
- It was all planned?
- Upvote if you think Do-hee's gonna say getting raped was part of the plan too lol
"Th-That's right! It was all part of the plan! Getting caught by the Research Lab Director... that was on purpose to make myself look weak! And this time, too... I sacrificed my body to gather evidence against them... That's what I did!!"
Right, if the trial wasn't like this, how else would I uncover the director's corruption and illegal experiments! This... this was all according to plan!
It all lined up perfectly, didn't it?
Of course, there was no way the viewers would believe her. But it wasn't a serious controversy to begin with, and if they pushed her too hard, the next episode of Lee Do-hee's porn might not come out.
- That's so obvious it's not even funny.
- Ah~ Is that so?
- Fine, we'll let it slide this time, you bitch lol
- Yeah, yeah, just keep getting raped a lot from now on.
- We have to let this go for the sake of the next porn video.
- LMAO
- Classic WWE lol
- The way she's making the exact excuse we thought she would is hilarious lol
- Ah~ So it was all according to plan~
- Yep, she says getting raped wasn't on purpose, it was strategic.
- Can you strategically get caught by me, too?
"Grr... You people... What do you know! J-Just stop it and help me write this report!!"
These guys are terrifying...
She briefly recalled the past.
That time when she was affected by the director's aphrodisiac and he touched her breast.
Right, my body could have reacted.
She could have easily slapped away the hand of a normal person reaching for her breast.
But... for some reason, she hadn't wanted to.
The viewers thought it was on purpose, but from her perspective, it was...
An... irresistible gesture.
It wasn't that she didn't react.
She clearly saw it, but she couldn't.
Yes... It wasn't that I didn't do anything, it was that I couldn't.
The moment I imagined him kneading my breasts, forcefully stripping my clothes, dragging me to the bed, and ramming his cock deep inside my pussy, I found it impossible to resist.
The pleasure of the sticky, violent breeding-rape-sex that would follow his hand grabbing my breast had flashed through my mind, and I was unable to fight back...
The aphrodisiac?
That was part of it, but it only served to break down my psychological barriers.
You know that feeling?
It's like when a guy says, "I'll be good, we'll just hold hands," and you know you're going to have a stormy night of breeding sex, but you still give permission, saying, "O-Okay... you promise you'll just hold my hand?"
The aphrodisiac was just like that—an excuse, a pretext to tell myself, "The guy who drugged me is the bad one. I couldn't help it..."
Anyone who heard this would say she had completely fallen into depravity, but thankfully, she was the only one who knew she had once been a man.
"......"
Honestly, until the viewers pointed it out so bluntly, I hadn't realized this about myself. Now that it was all laid bare, I understood it clearly.
A cock... being forcefully slammed into my pussy... I love it so much...♡
No, what am I thinking!
I shook my head again to stop the lewd thoughts and fanned my blushing face with my hand to cool down.
"Grr... Stop messing around, everyone, and help me with this writing."
- ???
- This bitch is turned on.
- What were you just imagining?
- Oh, for fuck's sake.
- This bitch is soaking wet right now lol
- So... you did let it happen on purpose, right?
- Crazy bitch lol
*
Still, even though they teased me, my viewers didn't go so far as to interfere with my Tower climb.
After I sent the heartfelt appeal, which was a product of the hive mind's power, it took a total of three days to get a response.
[A decision will be made regarding your disposition after an internal meeting.]
At first, my heart sank when I read this, but just as I expected, my headquarters didn't abandon me.
[Four days from now, gather the evidentiary data and send it. A final decision will be made upon review.]
How could they abandon me after I'd offered to become a breeding subject myself and even stated my willingness to actively cooperate in monster pregnancy experiments for the good of the nation?
In reality, I planned to clear the trial and run away before any of that happened, so I just had to say the right things.
Of course, it wasn't a message of complete approval yet, but I could tell.
This much meant that my words had gotten through.
"Phew... This is a month-long trial, but will this make it end sooner? There won't be any more trouble, right?"
- Let's just finish this quickly and go.
- Never seen a trial end early before.
- Did you get the true ending?
"I don't know... There's not really a 'true ending' for this one, but I might be able to get a hidden ending."
While waiting for supplies from Headquarters, I lived a normal life.
I pretended to be friendly with the guards while keeping an eye out for anyone suspicious, and I also kept watch over the Orc Lord and the research lab staff locked up in the prison.
And four days later.
The equipment for data transmission arrived.
Surprisingly, it wasn't a magical tool but a high-tech device like an external hard drive.
Seriously, you have stuff like this, but my room doesn't even have an electrical outlet?
In any case, I successfully sent the well-organized data, and two days later, the final directive arrived.
[You have performed your duties above and beyond expectations. Good work, Warden. In five days, a new warden will arrive to manage the facility. At that time, the research lab personnel and the director will be transported as criminals. Until then, ensure that no incidents occur.]
The change in tone suggested this message was sent not by the usual staffer I communicated with, but by a high-ranking official.
Five days.
If I can just hold out for five days without any trouble, the trial will be cleared!
The political squabbles between the kingdoms and the fate of Lee Do-hee Mk. 2, who would become a breeding subject later, were not my problem.
"Yeah!!! This is it! See, everyone? My method was right, wasn't it? I told you I got caught on purpose!"
- This actually worked?
- Lee Do-hee's way was really the right one;;
- Isn't this just a case of a blind squirrel finding a nut?
- Lee Do-hee! Lee Do-hee! Lee Do-hee!
- Cleared 7 days early?
- Grats grats grats
- Hmm... I feel like something's still left.
"Come on, what could be left? The report explicitly states that all attempts to revive the Demon King failed, I just need to give the vampire a blood transfusion or so... and now that the job is done, the spy is meaningless, right?"
- Hmmm...
- I guess?
- Something feels too easy about this.
- Sometimes B-rank trials can be cleared anticlimactically if you get lucky.
- Hmmm.
The viewers grumbled in dissatisfaction, but what could they do? I had cleared this my own way. Now, I just had to survive for five more days.
Pfft, what could possibly happen?