The morning of the third day after the undead horde led by Salome Ashra Unimia, the No-Life Princess, attacked the city of Inmanu, I, Hal Harem Von Raymond, was finally able to get out of bed.
More precisely, I had mostly recovered by last night, but Miralka, a former Demonkin and True Ancestor Vampire, visited my bedroom and ardently desired the “First Night Ritual.” I took my time with thorough foreplay, thoroughly moistening her, before proceeding with her virginity loss, which made me tired again.
In fact, Miralka, like Swan Hilda and Edele, was afraid of the situation where her vagina would be torn by my penis.
That’s why it was even more necessary to take my time and carefully break her virginity.
Because of this, I overslept more than I had planned for this morning.
Getting out of bed and washing my face with cold water blew away my sleepiness and fatigue.
As I tidied up my clothes and stepped out into the hallway, Alicia was walking towards me.
“Good morning, Hal. Are you well enough to get up now?”
“Good morning, Alicia. I’ve almost fully recovered, so I decided to get up starting today.”
“I see, that’s good.”
“By the way… could you call Miralka for me?”
“Miralka returned to St. Agnes Abbey early this morning after waking up Swan Hilda. She asked me to tell you thank you. You held her last night, didn’t you?”
“Well… something like that.”
Miralka was, how should I say it, a hurried girl.
Still, she seemed to have settled into the “Princess Harem” quite well.
I believe Miralka mentioned that as the elder of the young maiden former Demonkin, she was looking after her younger sisters.
Since she had completed the “First Night Ritual,” which was her original goal, she probably left quickly.
Well, I told her she could come anytime as a semi-Party Member of the “Princess Harem,” so she’ll likely come again if she feels like it.
“Good morning, Hal-sama. Are you well enough to rise now?”
“Good morning, Elise. I’m sorry to have worried you.”
“No, this incident was a mere honorable injury… I will gather everyone in the conference room shortly, so please report your full recovery. We also have reports from when you were bedridden, Hal-sama.”
“I see, please gather them. But I heard Miralka returned to St. Agnes Abbey, and Swan Hilda is also on her way back, isn’t she?”
“We were acting as a group, so it’s not a problem even if Swan Hilda is absent.”
“Understood, Elise.”
“I’m sorry to have worried everyone, but I’ve somehow recovered and will return to our usual routine from today.”
“Hal-sama, I am so happy you have returned. We truly need your protection.”
“As Ly-sama said, we were all very anxious.”
“I also was very worried because I coaxed the Elixir from the Sex Spirit Oedipus!”
As I greeted them about my return, Ly was the first to speak, followed by Liliana and Dietlinde, and then the other Party Members.
“Regarding our actions during Hal-sama’s absence, we all went to the Adventurer Guild…”
Elise, the sub-leader of the “Princess Harem,” then explained what happened while I was away.
Elise and the others had planned to explore the city of Inmanu freely, but when Liliana found a quest, they assigned it to Tirna and peered at the events from a distance.
The quest was to help a daughter of a low-ranking noble break off her engagement.
The young noble she was betrothed to was a lecherous man who kept three mistresses despite having a fiancée, and in the end, he fled disgracefully, thus completing the request.
However, for some reason, Tirna’s face was red.
Perhaps an unforeseen event occurred during the mission, but since Tirna herself did not report it, I had no intention of interrogating her.
The request was completed yesterday, and they received one gold coin (equivalent to 100,000 yen) and a [Treasure Map] (?) from the Adventurer Guild’s counter.
“Is this the [Treasure Map]? … It’s quite old.”
The [Treasure Map] received from Tirna, who had completed the quest, appeared to be very old. It depicted the location of the treasure on parchment, but some parts were smudged and undecipherable.
I tried to decipher it while examining it closely.
“We obtained the [Treasure Map], but we don’t know where it points.”
Liliana looked sleep-deprived, but she had likely been engrossed in deciphering it all night.
“Ah! I think I can somehow decipher it!!”
“W-where is it?”
“It’s that vertical shaft where those undead were swarming.”
“Ah, over there!”
Then, I happened to notice that by comparing the map of the Inmanu area displayed on the conference room wall with the [Treasure Map], the destination seemed to point to one of the vertical shafts.
As expected, Liliana was highly enthusiastic.
Upon further investigation, it seemed that this vertical shaft pointed to the place where the bodies of the girls turned into undead had been discarded.
“As expected, it seems we absolutely must investigate the bottom of that vertical shaft.”
“Hal-sama, to get to the bottom of that vertical shaft, we’d need Swan Hilda to carry us down with her sky-soaring… won’t that be difficult?”
“It’s alright, Astarotte. There’s likely a tunnel-like passage that connected to the lowest level of the underground ruins of the Prison Tower. I believe that horde of undead also probably poured out onto the surface through that passage.”
“So that’s what happened. I couldn’t understand how lower-ranking Girl Skeletons and Lady Zombies could suddenly reach the surface and attack the city of Inmanu, even if a command unit appeared.”
“Could Aeria not figure out such a simple deduction?”
“W-well… did Freya notice it?”
“There’s no way Freya would have noticed!”
“Elise, don’t say such cruel things!”
“Then, did you know?”
“……”
It turned out that most of the Party Members hadn’t realized it.
We decided to travel by carriage to the vicinity of the vertical shaft and search for the secret tunnel.
When we departed from Elgerblard Castle, the acting Count Elgerblard and his fiancée, Miss Eringye, who should have been busy with the inheritance of his title, saw us off.
“Somehow, we’ve reached a point where we can’t move forward… Even though half of the city of Inmanu is former Wahl Imperial Kingdom territory…”
As we were getting into the carriage, Ly muttered as she looked back.
Then we returned by carriage to the vicinity of the vertical shaft.
The surrounding area was a dense forest with thickly growing trees, and the vertical shaft had created a large hole a little distance from the Main Road.
“The undergrowth over there is disturbed.”
As we drove the carriage at a slower pace than usual, observing the surroundings, Kirika pointed out an anomaly.
“Indeed, the undergrowth is trampled. Let’s leave the carriage here and send out scouts. Mai, can you do it?”
“Mm… leave it to me.”
“I’ll go too.”
As Mai dashed off, Sharon also ran out in response.
Both of them have excellent physical abilities, and they disappeared into the dense forest in an instant.
We parked the carriage on the shoulder of the Main Road, taking care not to obstruct passing travelers and horse-drawn carriages.
Further down this road, the depraved “Great Lust Empire” consort Princess XIII, deceived by the Incubuses Bakoon, was indiscriminately beheading travelers, but since we eliminated them, the road had seemingly regained its function.
However, having been flooded with hordes of undead three days ago, I’m sure there were new victims, which pains me.
“Found it!”
“Hal-sama, we found it. It was a piece of cake this time. With the undergrowth trampled that much, it’s useless even if you try to conceal it with magic.”
After a short wait, Mai and Sharon returned, as if competing.
It turned out that this vertical shaft also had a secret tunnel leading to the bottom.
This time too, the entrance was cleverly concealed, but they said that with so many undead passing through, the undergrowth was trampled, creating a path.
The scale of the tunnel was about the same as the one we passed through in the Prison Tower. We could reach the bottom of the vertical shaft by carriage, but the trees growing along the way seemed to be an obstruction.
“It looks like it’s our turn. Aeria, please help.”
“Yes, Elise-sama.”
“I’ll cut them down with my Zantou too!”
Since the trees were an obstruction, I considered getting off the carriage and walking, but Elise called out to Aeria, and they began to cut down the obstructing trees with spells like [Water Cutter] and [Wind Cutter].
At the same time, Shera, transformed into Sister Shera, swung her Zantou, cutting down the remaining trees and undergrowth.
And thus, a path leading to the secret tunnel was created.
“I can only use Fire Spirit Magic… I, I regret this!”
Meanwhile, Dietlinde, concerned about the surrounding area catching fire, couldn’t use her Fire Spirit Magic.
Furthermore, her specialty, the rapier and bow, had no use here.
So to speak, she felt a sense of deep regret.
“Who was it that boasted that forests were the exclusive domain of elves? Gu-hu-hu-hu.”
“Grrr, this time I will definitely make sure you’re my arrow!”
Ignoring Elise and the others who were skillfully creating a path, Dietlinde grumbled, but suddenly Holy Spirit Serena, who had dispelled her invisibility, teased her, and their usual bickering began.
This is truly a headache.
Incidentally, the Vampire sisters were nowhere to be seen, seemingly avoiding anything related to the undead.
As the trees were cut down by attack magic and the Zantou, the sound of falling trees gradually diminished, and then became silent.
It seemed the path was cleared.
“Phew, I worked up a good sweat. I wonder how much weight I’ve lost♪”
“I’m exhausted.”
“I still have plenty of energy!”
After waiting a bit, Elise, Aeria, and Sister Shera returned, all smiles.
“I’ve caught you! What are you going to do with me…?”
“That’s Holy Spirit Serena over there, you know. If you insult her, you’ll be cursed for generations to come.”
“Didn’t the gods themselves wish to release this being and return her to a Holy Element Spirit?”
“Don’t strangle me. What an ungentlemanly and evil, insidious elf!”
*Gugu*
“It, it hurts, it hurts! Don’t strangle me! Hal-sama, save meeeeee!”
Meanwhile, the verbal sparring between Dietlinde and Holy Spirit Serena had also subsided. When I looked towards Dietlinde, Holy Spirit Serena, who had approached carelessly, was verbally abusing her in Dietlinde’s palm, but Dietlinde simply offered a cold smile.
Then, as Dietlinde was about to twist Holy Spirit Serena’s body, Holy Spirit Serena cried out to me for help.
“Hal-sama, we have successfully created a path to the tunnel, but the stench inside the tunnel was so bad it nearly made my nose wrinkle.”
Mai and Sharon, who had been listening to Elise’s report, blushed when their omission was pointed out.
Considering that a horde of Lady Zombies covered in decaying flesh had passed through just three days ago, it was only natural.
“Hey, Serena. You want to be saved, right?”
“O-of course, I do.”
“Then, could you purify the stench with your holy power?”
I asked Holy Spirit Serena, who was captured by Dietlinde, if she could purify the stench.
“That sounds like trouble… I-it hurts! Okay, I’ll stop!”
“Justice is on my side!”
However, Holy Spirit Serena did not comply readily. She shamelessly refused, saying it was troublesome, but when Dietlinde applied a little more pressure to her palm, she immediately reversed her previous statement and agreed.
Having obtained her promise regarding the purification of the stench, Dietlinde smiled and declared victory.
“…*pant*…*pant*…*pant*… The purification is complete. Now, not only the inside of the tunnel, but also the bottom of the vertical shaft has been purified, so the air is clean. Still, I went through such a terrible ordeal.”
And so, we were able to head to the bottom of the vertical shaft, riding in two carriages.
As expected, Holy Spirit Serena, who seemed exhausted, became invisible and disappeared after reporting the completion of the purification to me.
Thank you for reading.
episode44-8 [Treasure Map] Invites to the ‘Trial Room’
is scheduled for pre-release publication at 0:00 on June 30th.
