"You'll offer the villagers as sacrifice, so release you two?"

The chief and May made an insane proposal in many ways. Both bowed their heads to the ground trembling and pleaded to me, conveying their deal's gist.

They'd personally guide the way. They could do whatever they wanted with the villagers there, so please just turn a blind eye and let the two of them escape.

"Lune, what do you think?"

"I don't think there's a need to attack the village, but I don't like using villagers as scapegoats."

Lune answered honestly while held in my arms.

Due to elf characteristics optimized for just defending territory, she disliked leaving the nest, but showed considerable disgust at the two humans' actions of betraying nest companions and using them as sacrifices.

'Even the stud hunters showed antipathy.'

Still, as neighbors who'd laughed, chatted, and drank together until yesterday, they couldn't ask for mercy but asked to at least not make them kill neighbors with their own hands.

Instead I received a promise they'd keep earnestly working their lower halves. They'd become true studs.

'But these guys are definitely different.'

The chief and witch made different choices. Not satisfied with valuing their own lives, they were struggling to survive by offering others' lives without hesitation.

'Their will to live is strong, but won't they mentally collapse?'

Though the belly hadn't swollen tremendously yet, I was curious if they could maintain sanity and live even after birthing a monster's child—or egg.

'Maybe they'll just live.'

A witch with the cruel heart to secure her own life first while knowing her daughter died.

Her level and various things were tempting, but having a viper-hearted subordinate like this would only cause trouble.

Nevertheless, May would live as a member of the dungeon. Though I hadn't revealed it yet.

"Hmm... Even if you survive from here, can you two really live normally?"

I said while glancing at both, but the target was May.

"N-no!"

But rather the chief showed an intense reaction.

"E-even if we had acts with monsters, it's fine if no one knows! May will keep my secret for life! We won't come anywhere near here!"

The chief showed a strangely intense reaction. I couldn't understand why.

"Humans having acts with monsters is prohibited by kingdom law. Death penalty."

Lune solved my curiosity.

"The elders told me."

"What kind of education did the elders give elves?"

"Well... I think I've lived quite long compared to humans though."

Lune pointed out the part she'd been trying to ignore. 160 years old. In human terms—

'It's fine. The body's sufficient so no problem.'

Even if caught, Lune would be caught, not me. I was only 3 years old since being born in this world.

"Ahem. So you'll keep your affair with a harpy secret for life?"

"Yes, yes! In the first place, everyone gathered in our village—"

"Hey!!"

May screamed sharply trying to cut off the chief's words. The chief bit his lips thinking "oops," but I'd already heard he was about to say something meaningful.

"Everyone what?"

"People who fled after committing interspecies taboos gathered to make the slash-and-burn village."

"Whoa."

Not a slash-and-burn village but a bestiality village. I somewhat understood why the stud hunters pounded harpies without hesitation.

"Who'd you do it with?"

"A-a succubus."

The chief answered honestly, and May turned her head aside.

"May, you?"

"I didn't do it with anyone! The village I settled in while wandering because of my daughter just happened to be this kind of place!"

May showed an intense reaction and got angry.

"Hehehe."

I gently rubbed the buttocks of Lune held in my arms. May flinched and lowered her head.

"Right. Good. So since it's not a crime if no one knows, you'll hide and live?"

"Yes, yes! Eating other people will be much better than eating us two!"

"Is there a need for that?"

"Huh...?"

I called Lime who'd returned from clearing the sub-dungeon. Lime's level had already easily passed 27.

"The other slimes are... oh my, this one already hit evolution level."

The slime summoned by magic stone yesterday became a big slime today. It was probably our dungeon's fastest evolution.

"I can just find the village. Nothing changes whether you guide or not."

Therefore the chief would become the chief/stud. Unless he provided useful information.

"Is there a city near your village?"

"B-Barony of Virgo's castle is right nearby! It takes a full half day walking!"

"Really? Thanks for that."

I briefly put Lune on the bed and sat before the chief.

"So what's the size of the territorial army? How many soldiers mobilize if they form a subjugation force? How many knights? The number of mages? Is Barony of Virgo's funding sufficient? How much funding to hire mercenaries to attack the dungeon?"

"Uh, um, uhh..."

The chief couldn't answer. Since criminals avoided the provincial lord's eyes and taxes to gather living in a slash-and-burn village, he couldn't know plausible information.

"I-I know!"

And May quickly snatched the opportunity. May looked quite desperate.

"I'll guide you! I'll tell you everything! So please...!"

"Please what?"

"Release me...!"

May truly wanted to escape this dungeon. She didn't seem to even consider the option of surviving by becoming a subordinate like the stud hunters.

"That's difficult. I was going to accept you as a member of our dungeon."

"...!"

May's face showed great shock. As I expected, May apparently hadn't considered that possibility at all.

"I-I'll become a subordinate! But... I have a condition!!"

"Condition?"

"Th-that is..."

I knew without her saying. She definitely couldn't speak because the chief bothered her.

"Fine. I won't do 'that.'"

"Sob!"

May banged her head on the ground and cried.

[Recruitment: Recruited (May) as subordinate.]

May became a subordinate. I turned my head to the chief, and the chief opened his mouth blankly before repeatedly bowing to me.

"I-I'll work hard too! I don't need conditions!"

"You can't."

I firmly rejected the chief's submission.

"You have to do other work."

I called Lime and whispered small so the chief couldn't hear. Lime stared at me for a long time before nodding, then left the cavity with irritated movements.

"Why's it like that?"

"Um..."

Lune smiled awkwardly and scratched her cheek.

"After feeding the slime 50, it's annoyed why I'm increasing slimefolk again."

"Don't tell me it's jealous?"

It's not like there should only be one slimefolk route. No way.

'If it's real, I just won't do it.'

Just satisfying conditions, which way to evolve was my choice. I put the chief back in the cell and raised May's body bowed to the ground.

"Then let's go."

"Wh-where...?"

"Where else, your village. And."

I whispered in May's ear in a small voice the chief couldn't hear.

"Should we discuss here what 'that' you mentioned is...?"

"N-no!"

May refused to reveal her dirty deeds.

"Lune! Watch that while waiting. I'll briefly visit the village."

"Yes. Be careful."

Lune waved her hand greeting me, then grabbed her robe's hem and fidgeted.

"I'll prepare so you can eat as soon as you return."

"Alright..."

I'd planned to eat out, but better to come back quickly and eat home cooking. I grabbed May and left the cavity, then the dungeon.

***

May hoped to become a subordinate, but honestly I couldn't trust May. I hadn't given trust in the first place.

"If-if we turn more from there, hngh!"

I just tightly hugged May's breasts and thighs held in my arms and ran in the direction May pointed. The sight of one ungrasped breast bouncing back and forth was excellent, but I got sick of it after watching continuously.

"Hoo, hoo."

I reached a clearing and took one big breath. May said it was a few hours' walking distance, but running at full speed it was just over an hour.

"We're here."

Moving slightly forward from the clearing, a sheer cliff appeared, and below it was a small slash-and-burn village. There were no young children or elderly at all, and no sign of people was felt.

"Seems you weren't the only one thinking of abandoning villagers?"

"Ah, ahh..."

May's lips trembled in despair. Though she'd tried to live by offering villagers as sacrifice, those very people had all fled and disappeared.

"Th-this is..."

May rolled her eyes thinking up excuses.

Rather than being relieved people fled, thinking of her own survival first—I could glimpse a bit of May's nature.

"They definitely fled to the barony castle. I know the way."

"That's unnecessary."

It was really unnecessary. Though invisible to May, all living people were camping in a small clearing in the forest away from the village.

'Temporary camp?'

If it was some plan preparing for village attack, they were quite well-prepared.

'They'll flee if thinking total annihilation happened.'

They left the village empty and set up camp to immediately abandon the village and flee if monsters came out to plunder in case it was really a dungeon.

Hard to see well from far away, but there was definitely someone sharp-minded. They'd have dug traps in the village, which people would disarm when coming.

'Number of people roughly 30.'

Though the number was much more than before, their skills didn't look very good. The annoyance of the capture process seemed more bothersome than benefits from catching them.

"Hm?"

Something entered the village. One soldier who'd ridden in on horse checked the village's condition, then immediately turned the horse's reins and left the village.

"The barony's scout..."

May revealed the soldier's identity in a powerless voice.

"You're not wrong?"

"O-of course! He came often so I know well."

"How?"

"Th-that is..."

May fell silent, blushing. Only then did I realize how May settled in the village and how the slash-and-burn village was maintained in the forest.

"Now with no one here, soldiers will storm in."

I grabbed May's chest and shook. May frowned as if my touch hurt, but I didn't care and held May tight.

"We're going back. My scouting is done too."

I held May and turned my steps. May looked at the village for a long time before squeezing her eyes shut, and I slowly walked discussing our 'condition.'

"So May. As you know, in my dungeon—"

"The back."

May bit her lips and teared up.

"Th-the back is fine as much as you want, so the front please...!"

"Really?"

I immediately grabbed May's waist and twisted. May flailed her arms in shock as my member was placed on her buttocks.

"H-here...!"

"Hehe, scared? Don't worry. I'm not interested in your back right now."

I slapped May's buttocks and grabbed her to lift again. May exhaled a complex sigh mixed with relief and anxiety, trembling.

"Right. I'm not interested in your back."

"...?"

May struggled to understand my words' meaning but couldn't notice. May's lower belly had already swollen very slightly.

'Surely running like this won't cause problems.'

So I had to run a bit faster to return to the dungeon cavity.

[Harvest]

[May - 2 hours 24 minutes later.]

I had to run as fast as possible and restrain May. I kicked off the forest path I'd run and dashed.

'Plunder later.'

Having learned the village location, I could just gather forces and strike anytime, and attacking hunters on high alert with no countermeasures was idiotic.

'So I'll strengthen forces a bit more and target when they're off guard.'

No thought of missing them. I held May and returned to the dungeon.

Rustle.

"...?"

From somewhere came a fresh, delicious grape scent.

Slurp!

May's sweat-soaked chest tasted like fresh grapes.

***

"..."

In the bushes.

A long-eared blonde woman standing on a tree branch carefully descended. Thanks to holding her breath for several minutes and hiding, she could avoid being noticed by a very scary monster.

"I thought it was humans' doing..."

A new enemy increased. Elf Luna gripped the thick footprint in the dirt with her hand.

"An orc here...!"

Luna hurriedly flew her body and returned toward the forest.

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