The morning came early for Rayos, the Information Officer of the Iron-class adventurer party, “Minamo.”
“…Mmph, morning. Fwaaaah.”
He sat up, stretching the stiffness from his shoulders.
The first thing he saw was the stained cloth from last night’s activities in the next room, a substitute for a bath to clean himself.
He placed the cloth in a basin of water, which he could reuse.
“…Are they asleep next door?”
He pressed his ear against the wall, checking the adjacent room.
He could barely hear their sleeping breaths.
The Information Officer took the stained cloth outside to dispose of it without the innkeeper noticing.
He drew water from the village’s well and scrubbed the dirty cloth.
“Sniff, sniff… It’s fine since it looks clean.”
It smelled like squid. The scent of semen vaporizing.
He couldn’t do anything about it since there was no soap.
He returned to the room and threw the cloth into the basin of dirty water.
This would mask the smell, at least somewhat. The innkeeper, perceptive as ever, gave him a knowing smile.
His next destination was the adventurer job placement agency.
This was decided by the party’s activity policy.
They were to gather information regarding the mass disappearance of orphans from the orphanage.
“Good morning. What brings you to the adventurer job placement agency today?”
“Good morning.”
The receptionist greeted him with an unfazed smile.
He returned the greeting and immediately began gathering information.
“I’m very sorry.”
It had been two days, and today was the third.
Since it had only been a short time, there was no information available.
Instead, they were given information about monsters that appeared in the depths of the forest.
“Thank you.”
“No, I’m sorry I couldn’t be of more help.”
He left the adventurer job placement agency and returned to the inn.
The other three members were waiting in the room.
“Mornin’!”
“Where were you?”
“Let’s go get breakfast!”
“O-Oh.”
The four of them found the private room cramped.
He sensed a peculiar scent from the two women and felt his lower body and cheeks react, so he exited into the hallway without being noticed.
The inn’s dining hall.
Lodgers were already finishing breakfast and chatting.
There were no recreational facilities in the village.
The gossip of outsiders was their entertainment.
The coachman who had brought the four of them was surrounded.
No one approached the four of them. There was an unwritten rule that adventurers were only approached with such talk after work in the evening.
Some requests had deadlines attached.
If a group surrounded them and they missed the deadline, only the adventurers would suffer.
This had led to many incidents where adventurers retaliated.
This unwritten rule was born from those incidents.
“Four breakfasts, coming right up!”
Breakfast was served at their table a few minutes later.
Munch, munch.
Once they had eaten their fill, the leader began to discuss their schedule for the day.
“We’ll definitely find a clue! We have to save the children!”
“Speaking of which, there’s no information at the agency. We did get information about the monsters that appear. Well, you could tell that by looking at the request form.”
While eating breakfast, they discussed going to search for clues about the missing children.
The only information they had was about the monsters that appeared.
The danger level was unknown.
The leader explained again to the three party members.
The three did not flinch.
They asked the leader when they would return from the forest.
“We’ll be back by noon. Bringing lunch would just add to our luggage. And it’s a hassle if the scent attracts tanuki and such, right?”
The discussion concluded. They finished their breakfast and checked their equipment in the room.
They vacated the room and set off towards the depths of the forest where the children had gone looking for Star Fragments.
Rayos watched the group of four, especially the bodies of the two women, with a covetous gaze.
Fufufufufu.
Adventurers. And women, no less!
I was worried that only men would become adventurers. That’s a relief.
It’s good that women can also be adventurers.
“Help me. Please.”
Foooooh.
Now I’m motivated!!
Rayos gave the orphans, who were creating bodies for him, some sweet tree sap to drink, a tacit message to not forget him while he was away.
He moved his Astral Body at light speed through the roots, then positioned himself by the four adventurers of “Minamo” near a tree.
He coiled the roots beneath the ground.
Just enough to fit two people each. He was creating a pitfall.
No, a cage to capture them. A cage for burying them alive.
The members of “Minamo” had already passed through the hole.
It wasn’t to drop them, but to push them in.
Rustle.
The branches swayed unnaturally, though there was no wind.
“!”
Something was on the tree… a monster?
The four prepared for a surprise attack from above.
However, to make the entity on the tree think they hadn’t noticed it yet.
“There are no children’s footprints here, are there?”
“No. If there are any, they’d be further in.”
“Then, let’s hurry up and go deeper.”
“That’s right. The children haven’t eaten anything for three days.”
Their eyes scanned their companions, but their attention was directed towards the treetop and the surrounding bushes.
Rustle.
Rustle.
The unnatural swaying of the branches seemed to be approaching from above.
“Is it coming?!” The four exchanged glances.
Plop.
What fell was a nut.
The sound of a squirrel chirping.
“…”
What, a squirrel? Don’t scare us.
Swish!!
Crash!!
The four let their guard down. It was just a small animal’s prank.
It was in the shallow part of the forest.
But that was a grave mistake. Carelessness. Letting your guard down is a no-go.
“What?! Vines?”
“What is this?! Where are you touching me///!”
The four had fallen for Rayos’s trick.
The squirrel that dropped the nut was a corpse that Rayos had possessed.
He had detached from a tree and repossessed it just to make them let their guard down.
He had actually prepared it as one of his contingency plans for escaping from very powerful adventurers.
Got the women—♪ Their well-trained thighs and asses transmitted through the vines.
I want to violate them right now~~♪
The two men were about to be thrown into the hole made in the ground.
“Damn it.”
The Information Officer vented his frustration at their life-threatening situation, along with the leader and the two women.
“What’s going on? Your pleas for mercy don’t sound genuine…”
Rayos, thinking he’d kill them soon anyway, listened to everything the Information Officer had to say.
“I’ve been enduring this all along! Every morning, I run around gathering information useful for our quests, while the leader and you guys are snoring away in bed!”
“That’s… that was our role division, agreed upon when the party formed, wasn’t it? I’ll do my best as the vanguard, and you, as the information gatherer. Right now, we need to get out of this situation…”
“Don’t joke with me! Those were the terms before my beloved was taken from me!”
“Wha?! I wasn’t dating you!”
One of the women interrupted the conversation between the Information Officer and the leader.
She seemed to recall Rayos’s past confession-like advances.
“Guh. B-But, you see…”
The Information Officer stumbled over his words. However, he regained the initiative, shouting to silence the woman and make her listen to his grievances.
The leader was married with two women, both in the same party. As a single man, he was suffering from sleep deprivation and growing anger every night from their activities. Why didn’t they introduce him to free women?
Even as fellow party members, why was he treated so carelessly? It wasn’t right. He, too, was dedicating himself to the party through information gathering, tears streaming down his face.
“…Sorry.”
“Saying sorry doesn’t cut it—”
The Information Officer’s twisted feelings grew even more upon being apologized to.
He recounted an incident during a past quest, a monster attack while camping.
The leader and the women didn’t emerge even when it was their turn for watch.
When he called out to the tent, there was no reply.
He had to peer inside the tent.
Deciding to do so, he approached the tent and was about to lift the cloth at the entrance.
It was then that he was attacked by a monster that had approached under the cover of darkness.
Fortunately, it was a small, low-level monster. Although caught off guard,
he quickly healed the minor injuries with a recovery potion and repelled it.
“If you had come out on time, I wouldn’t have gotten injured or needed a recovery potion! The reason my savings aren’t accumulating is all your fault! This situation, too. Yesterday, you were being so loud that I was sleep-deprived and couldn’t think straight!”
“You heard that?”
“The worst.”
A vein throbbed on the Information Officer’s forehead.
The leader, bound tightly nearby.
He had to endure a roar that threatened to rupture his eardrums, “DON’T SCREW WITH ME—”
The two women endured the shouting with all their might.
A ringing sound echoed in their eardrums, and they couldn’t hear the Information Officer’s voice afterward.
…That must have been difficult.
I’ve had similar experiences myself in the past tears streaming down my face.
Rayos empathized with the Information Officer’s words.
He even considered abandoning the idea of burying them alive.
That’s it! I’ll make this man my accomplice!
Accomplice:
One who cooperates with another in a criminal enterprise; confederate.
One who cooperates with another in a crime.
One who does something very bad.
I wonder if the definition of a criminal is the same in this world.
Rayos chose the Information Officer of the Iron-class adventurer party, “Minamo,” as his accomplice.
“Wh-What is it? Uwaaaah—Gah!! Stop—”
“Leader—!”
Only the leader was dropped into the hole as planned.
Instantly buried alive.
The remaining three trembled, thinking they were next.
The Information Officer, despite his own predicament and the fact that he had created it, requested cooperation from the two women.
“…Cooperate… but what do we do?”
They were dumbfounded. But he had finally returned to his usual reliable self as an information gatherer.
For now, they agreed to cooperate.
“Can you create a gap by struggling?! I think mine has loosened a bit?”
He lied to reassure the two women, but the vines restraining him had actually loosened, leaving him inwardly bewildered.
Rayos decided not to kill the Information Officer.
He would make him his accomplice. Customer service.
“Wh-What is it? Are you lifting me up to do something?”
The leader was slammed onto the ground with a jolt before falling into the pitfall.
And then he was shown being buried alive by the moving roots.
Am I going to be slammed down from a great height onto the ground without a pitfall? He was trembling.
But the two women were worried about him. Knowing that now, he would act with composure, no matter how pathetic his death might be.
Rayos restrained the Information Officer in a seated position on a thick branch.
If he untangled the vines, he might let the two women escape.
“Are you going to lift us up too?”
“I don’t think so. I wonder what they’ll do to us with the plants?”
They glared at the tree that was stretching its vines.
Rayos, possessing the tree, felt excited and attracted by the strong gaze of the women.
He bound the two women to the trunk.
Then Rayos used his roots to move at light speed to the depths of the forest.
He repossessed a different vessel body, not a tree.
The vessel body was made from several dead tanukis.
Its form was chimeric, as if it were a chimera. However, they were all tanukis.
“Guaaah”
A simultaneous growl came from the three heads.
He had preserved the vocal organs, but the amount of oxygen naturally resulted in growls.
If he encountered a real chimera, he could apply its body structure.
Wait for me, female adventurers~♪ I’ll come to pick you up—. Oh, and my accomplice, for now, I’ll make him subservient through fear. Once he realizes I won’t kill him, he might get cocky~?
If he does, I’ll need to discipline him a bit. I only want to torment men if it’s revenge, or for young boys…
He remembered the Information Officer.
Rayos’s tension plummeted, and he returned to where he had tied up the two women. The Information Officer, left on the branch,
became aroused by the sight of Rayos’s Tanuki Chimera sexually assaulting his two companions in turn.
“Monsterrrrrrrr!! I’ll definitely kill you♡! I won’t forgive you!! I’ll never give birth to your offspring!”
“Haa, haa… It’s okay! Other adventurers will come to help! They definitely will! Don’t give up! O-Oh///”
