(Chastity Reversed) I'm Sorry, My Lady. I Had Sex With Another Woman Again - Chapter 67: The Lovely Lady

The port city of Riscar.

This town, one of the demon country’s premier tourist destinations, contained one of the nation’s most renowned underground dungeons.

The three-person party of Suberia and her companions began dungeon attacking without much time passing since their formation.

“Two are breaking through! Watch out!”

The dark elf loli girl, Orca.

She wielded her sword at the front lines, cutting down the giant spiders charging toward them.

Most notable was the power of her blade wrapped in magical energy.

The spiders’ sharp claws that could easily gouge the ground—she severed them as casually as cutting vegetables.

“…Suberia-san, one is heading your way.”

The red-haired girl Caron intercepted the monster that had desperately escaped from Orca’s domain, now a monster-slaughtering zone.

She wrapped magical energy around her steel wire sub-weapon and delivered it to the charging enemy’s face.

The giant spider passed through it, then crumbled apart without even realizing it had died.

“Understood! …BLADE!!!”

…And the most fired-up girl among them.

The demon young lady with long black hair and golden eyes, Suberia.

With the perverted merchant Evon staying close while being separated from Simon, her beloved, she burned with indescribable impatience, displaced anger, and anxiety.

As if releasing all of that, she roared fiercely at the enemy before her.

An ice blade materialized extending from Suberia’s arm through magic. She thrust the ice blade straight into the spider’s head.

STAB!

The spider that received the devastating blow screamed, but—

“RELEASE!!!”

In an instant too brief to hear that scream, the spider’s entire body was frozen from within.

It would never move again.

Suberia, placed in a kind of extreme state, had become remarkably stronger in this short period.

Her eyes blazed like a scorching sun.

With inner flames dwelling in her eyes that shone brilliantly, Suberia turned to her companions and said:

“Let’s move to the next area immediately. There doesn’t seem to be any elixir in this location.”

“Right… Let’s do that.”

“…Understood.”

In terms of ability, Suberia should have been inferior to the other two. However, the intensity of her impatience-driven fervor was overwhelming enough to dominate both Orca and Caron.

Especially Caron.

Seeing Suberia’s fierce, desperate appearance, Caron had unconsciously forgotten. Forgotten her hostility toward demons.

She was bewildered by Suberia, a type she’d never encountered before.

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Let’s take a break for a while.

At Orca-san’s suggestion, we were having a meal inside the dungeon.

(…)

Even so, I didn’t feel like eating.

If I forced myself to eat something now, I would definitely throw it up.

I couldn’t bring myself to force food down while fighting nausea.

Chomp chomp, chomp!

But in contrast to me, Orca-san was chewing on dried meat she’d swiped from the mansion.

She really does eat well as always…

Though her only equipment was a single sword, she carried the most luggage among the three of us. The reason was surely for these meals. She’d packed her small bag full of food.

“…”

And the other person.

Caron-san, like me, was hardly eating at all.

She sat hugging her knees, staring at the ground with dark eyes.

“Caron-san, aren’t you eating?”

Perhaps I called out to her because watching Orca-san stuff her face was more painful than I’d imagined?

For some reason, I found myself talking to the red-haired girl who hated demons.

“…Eh? …No, well. Suberia-san isn’t eating either…”

With confusion and thin disgust on her face, Caron-san spoke in a voice that seemed ready to fade away.

I was clearly not welcome.

…Normally I would have given up here, but today I somehow felt like ‘whatever happens, happens.’

I continued talking to her without concern.

“Fufu, I don’t feel like eating. Is it the same for you, Caron-san?”

“…Yes.”

“You also have someone you want to save, right? Ichiko-san, was it?”

“…”

When I mentioned Ichiko-san’s name, Caron-san’s expression clearly changed.

(…?)

It was a face whose emotions I couldn’t read.

Not expressionless or anything like that, but a face whose emotions I couldn’t interpret.

She twisted her lips somewhat painfully, but rather than simple anxiety or impatience about a missing friend…

It seemed to me she had more complex, deeper emotions.

She tried to say something, but her voice was too small to hear.

Just when I thought she might cry, she buried her head as if hiding her face in her knees.

(Th-this is awkward…)

Silence flowed for a while.

I looked to Orca-san, devouring her food, for help, but she seemed to see only the banana in front of her.

Not knowing where to direct my gaze, I hugged my knees imitating Caron-san when she spoke to me again with her face still down.

“Suberia-san, you seem very impatient yourself. Do you want to save your companions that badly?”

“…”

At Caron-san’s words, I was stuck and thought for a moment.

What did I want to do?

In about one beat of time, the answer came immediately.

“I want to save them. Of course, they’re my companions. Shia, Ginny, Nico—they’re all precious to me.”

When I mentioned my companions’ names, Caron-san’s body jumped for some reason.

When she raised her face, she looked a bit pale.

I was worried seeing Caron-san make such an expression, but since she kept staring at me, I continued speaking.

“…But honestly, deep in my heart, I might care more about Simon-sama than them. So maybe that’s why I’m so impatient.”

“…Eh?”

“I want him to be happy. Can he be happy the way things are? It’s strange, isn’t it? In this situation, I keep thinking about such things. I want to help him, even a little.”

I shouldn’t say this.

Even saying it won’t change anything, I thought, but…

Perhaps because I’d been thinking about him constantly, putting aside the team.

I ended up telling Caron-san my honest feelings.

I felt my face growing hot.

Unable to bear it, I buried my face in my knees to hide my embarrassment.

“P-please forget that! I just said something strange…!”

“…”

Chomp chomp! Gnaw gnaw!

When I fell silent, Caron-san said nothing too.

Only Orca-san’s chewing sounds echoed around us.

Giggle…

But mixed with those eating sounds, I thought I heard an unfamiliar laugh.

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“This is about all we earned today…”

The three who emerged from the dungeon sold the materials and loot they’d acquired, converting them to cash.

The dungeon dive they’d undertaken risking their lives in a forced march.

After spending half a day, they’d obtained 500,000 in currency.

Whether this was little or much would vary by person.

“If we could have found an elixir, it would have been worth billions, but things don’t go so smoothly.”

The city Riscar,

The elixir—a rare item obtainable only from treasure chests in this dungeon.

They had hoped to obtain and sell that legendary healing potion if possible, but reality wasn’t sweet enough to acquire it in just one day.

“But with this much, we can do more. Let’s disband for now and dive into the dungeon again tomorrow. Sound good?”

“That’s fine with me.”

“Understood.”

The refugee team that had fought together in the dungeon temporarily disbanded, splitting up to act individually.

Orca, known by name in dark elf circles, attempted to contact communities existing in this town.

Suberia tried contacting people connected to the Phonecker family, or directly contacting her family home to see if they could come rescue them. She tried everything she could with her available funds.

Finally, Caron—

Used the war chest to head to a certain place.

“Caron, you… What’s wrong? Why did you come here alone?”

“M-Master. I apologize. I have a report to make.”

Black hair, black eyes. Long, narrow slanted eyes.

A round body with a plump face like a frog—a fat woman.

Kneeling before the woman called Master.

“‘That person’ is in a dangerous situation.”