Chapter 150: The Dark Elf’s Preference and Methods of Reward and Punishment

"What’s wrong?"

I looked around the entrance and asked Muriel who was standing in the center facing this way.

"Master, welcome home."

Muriel ran to me and bowed her head.

""""Welcome home."""" """W-welcome, home.""" "Welcome home."

Triggered by that the other Dules also each gave greetings.

Tiria standing in the center facing this way knelt on the spot and bowed her head.

Helma and Ilma standing by the wall also knelt and bowed their heads.

Cathy, Rina, and Yuki who had been holding shoulders in the corner of the room trembled, and Sara who had been standing as if shielding them also looked this way. Cathy and Sara each bowed their heads, Rina and Yuki knelt and greeted.

And Sophia who had been facing the other way turned around and greeted with a troubled face.

Rine was being hugged by Rina.

The owner of the crying voice was probably Rina.

And the dark elf in question, Yanica, while being held down by Sophia was glaring toward Cathy and the others.

"Master, that is..."

When Muriel raised her head she looked at Yanica with a confused expression the same as Sophia.

"Fuu. Well, looking I can tell. ...For now shall we go over there. Sophia, I’ll leave Yanica to you. The others... ah, stay in the dining hall or something."

I thought it better to separate Cathy, Rina, Yuki and Yanica, and because taking her to my room... would be something, I moved Yanica to the room where Rina and Sara spent the night.

Sophia also moved together.

"Let go! Dammit, to this kind of guy!"

At that moment Yanica tried to struggle, but Sophia lightly parried that.

"Sophia can pin Yanica down."

Yanica seemed stronger so I asked thinking it unexpected.

Even now she was walking wrapping an arm around Yanica’s neck and twisting her right hand up.

"That’s right, Yanica has surprisingly little strength."

"I use my head more than strength! If I rip the neck from behind I can kill without using strength!"

Yanica retorted vigorously even while being taken by Sophia.

"...Dark elves are born assassins. They vanish and approach. Then busu from behind. ...Cowardly."

"Kukkukku. You guys too. Trash who can’t do anything unless you swarm."

"What did you say!"

Perhaps angry at Yanica’s abusive language she raised the right hand she was twisting on Yanica.

"Itatata, it hurts, stop, stop it, it huuurts!"

Yanica immediately raised a scream.

"Come on, say sorry."

"Wh-who would, gya! It huuurts! I’m sorry, I’m sorryyy!"

The bluster lasted only a moment. Yanica immediately gave up.

Yanica puts on a front but seems to have no endurance.

While that was happening we arrived at the room and entered.

"Sophia, sit her there."

I had Sophia bring Yanica to the middle of the room and forcibly make her sit formally.

I stood imposingly in front of Yanica and looked down at Yanica.

"Now then, Yanica. What are you to me?"

"..."

Yanica glared at me and said nothing.

"Come on, your Master is asking."

Sophia urged Yanica to answer in unused honorifics.

No, she is also your Master, I will retort in my heart.

"Ku. A Du, Dule."

Perhaps cowed by the joint lock a moment ago Yanica answered honestly.

However...

"Wrong. A To-Dule."

I corrected Yanica’s answer.

This is to make Yanica know she is a lower rank even among Dules.

"I won’t say get along. At least don’t scare them."

"But! Because of those guys I had this happen to me! You guys too!"

Yanica shouted with tears pooling in her eyes.

"Well, that’s right. I have responsibility for that. Sorry."

I honestly bowed my head and apologized to Yanica.

"Cho, Hiroyuki..."

"Eh? Ah, no, that far..."

Sophia and Yanica rounded their eyes.

"Anyway. Don’t shift responsibility onto those guys. You used those guys. That the scheme failed is also you, right? And that it went that far when you only meant to threaten a little is my fault. Understand?"

"..."

Hearing my words said as if admonishing, Yanica hung her head with a face that looked awkward.

"So, how is it? Can you manage somehow? If you can’t I have to discard or kill you."

I cannot release Yanica from being a Dule, and I do not know how.

There may be none.

So Yanica was shouting kill me before, and this time too she might say kill me.

If I let her go she might run.

I thought that, but.

"...I-I got it. I-I’ll be quiet. That’s fine, right!"

Yanica shouted vigorously and looked at me from below.

In other words she will settle as my Dule.

"Then I have to give punishment for scaring the other Dules."

Yanica had received deranged torture until a moment ago, but to firmly teach her own position I should give punishment.

And originally I should do it in front of Cathy and the others, but now while she is being quiet might be good.

"...Understood."

When Yanica stood she turned her back with her face down and stuck her rear out.

Surprisingly obedient.

Looking sideways Sophia shrugged as if not understanding.

Well, being obedient is a good thing.

I stood beside Yanica and slapped Yanica’s rear with my hand.

"Hyaa! It hurts! Nnn! Hii! Aaan! Kuun!"

Yanica’s voice that had been shouting it hurts gradually became sweeter.

After slapping ten times I stroked the reddened rear.

Then just like that I lightly touched Yanica’s secret place.

"Kya!"

...She’s wet.

"...Hey, were you feeling it by any chance?"

"Th-that’s not! ..."

Yanica who turned around shouted that far and hung her head.

Her face was bright red.

"By any chance do you feel from pain?"

"...From then... My body became strange from then..."

Yanica muttered quietly.

From then, from that torture?

"Then that you immediately apologized when Sophia put a joint lock on you a moment ago too?"

"Being made to feel by this one is humiliation."

"And by me?"

"Y-you are my Master, so..."

She turned away bui.

""...Haa.""

I and Sophia beside me with arms crossed looked at each other and sighed.

Then looking at Yanica I grinned.

"Apparently if I do it it’s a reward not a punishment for Yanica. Then shall I leave it to Sophia."

"Understood. Prepare yourself."

Sophia also grinned.

"Au..."

Yanica hurriedly covered her mouth, looked at us alternately, and hung her head.

...After all Yanica seems easy to handle.

And so I’ll leave this to Sophia and go follow up Cathy and the others.

"Sophia, I’ll leave Yanica to you."

"Understood."

Hearing Sophia’s answer I walked toward the door.

"Eh? Cho, where are you going!"

"You will receive punishment from me here."

"Nooo!"

I left the room while hearing Yanica’s scream.

...

"There there, that was scary."

I stroked the heads of the four clinging to me.

This was the dining hall.

All the Dules except Sophia and Yanica were here.

When I entered here tension ran through the room for an instant, but when everyone’s gazes gathered on me a relieved air immediately flowed, and Cathy, Rina, Yuki, and Rine clung to me.

Oi oi, no need to cry that much.

""Hikku, hikku""

Cathy and Yuki hiccuped their shoulders.

"Eggu, eggu"

Rina, don’t wipe tears on my clothes.

"Chiin, chiin"

...Rine, stop blowing your nose on my clothes.

"Ahem. So I drove a nail into Yanica."

"Then from now on that dark elf and..."

Muriel asked me as representative of the Dules.

"That’s right. Sophia is also here so it should work out. I won’t say get along with everyone, but well don’t treat her coldly. Cathy and the others don’t need to be scared, if something happens tell me or Muriel or Sophia."

While saying that I stroked the four’s heads again.

Even so Cathy and the other four were looking at me with frightened eyes.

Nn, no help for it.

"Then shall we go take a look a little."

I took the four and returned to the room where Sophia was chastising Yanica.

...

"Sophia, I’m coming in."

Without knocking I entered the room.

Inside Sophia sitting in a chair was slapping the rear of Yanica lying face down on her lap with something like a table tennis racket.

Yanica was trembling her body with a frustrated face.

"Ah, Hiroyuki. Wait a little more. I’ll finish soon."

Sophia who stopped her hand only a little looking at me started slapping Yanica’s rear again.

Yanica who had been looking this way with teary eyes opening and closing her mouth opened her mouth large at the same time Sophia slapped.

She looked like she was screaming but no voice came out.

Come to think of it the sound of slapping the rear also could not be heard.

Sophia was probably using magic or something.

"Ten. Yes, finished."

Sophia slapped Yanica’s rear especially strongly.

Yanica also trembled her body largely then went limp on Sophia’s lap.

Tears were spilling from her eyes.

Cathy and the other four were staring hard at that state.

"Uuu..."

When Sophia snapped her fingers Yanica’s sobbing voice began to be heard.

"Now, show everyone your rear."

"Wh-who would..."

Yanica who slowly stood turned away from Sophia’s instruction.

"Fuu, apparently it’s still not enough."

"I-I got it!"

When Sophia threatened, Yanica trembled her shoulders biku and turned her back.

"Come on, make it easier to see."

Sophia pressed Yanica’s head and made her bend forward.

"Why... why..."

Yanica seemed to be muttering complaints, but ignore.

And looking at Yanica’s rear it had become splendidly bright red.

"This is Yanica’s punishment for scaring you."

""""Goku""""

The sound of the four swallowing could be heard.

If they are satisfied with this for now it is fine.

"Oh my, you came many times."

Sophia put her index finger on Yanica’s thigh.

There love juice spilled from her crotch had run.

Sophia scooped that love juice with her index finger and showed it to Yanica.

"! Nooo!"

Yanica shouted in a loud voice and sat down on the spot.

...

"Is this fine?"

"Un, that’s right. Then stretch the thread of magic into the sky."

I concentrated and created an image of stretching the thinly kneaded thread of magic into the sky as Sophia said.

It passed through the blue sky and stretched into space.

"...Amazing. Normally it takes years to become able to do this far."

Beside me Sophia muttered as if impressed, or rather as if fed up.

"No way..."

Yanica sitting further beyond Sophia also muttered quietly.

This was the backyard of the house.

Because it had not been tended for over ten years the plants grew messy. Muriel and the others cut weeds and tended it.

On the lawn that became clean from that I was doing special training in magic while asking Sophia to teach.

What I am practicing now is "Meteor Strike."

A constructed magic that summons a meteor from space and makes it fall.

If you drop a large meteor you can even break a sturdy castle wall.

It was also used in this royal capital invasion... apparently.

From the scale of that size it is called strategic magic and such.

Originally several assistant casters are needed, but if it is extremely small one person can also do it, apparently.

It is to the degree that quite a skilled user can somehow do it, they say.

"...Can I do it?"

"It’s fine. Hiroyuki’s magic has both density and amount more than me. If you practice many times you will definitely become able."

"Hun, there’s no way you can easily do such a great magic."

Ignoring Yanica who muttered quietly I started practicing ten minutes ago.

According to the talk even kneading the thread of magic takes years.

"So what do I do after this?"

"Ah, that’s right. Search for a convenient star. Search for a star Hiroyuki seems able to move with magic."