Vol. 4 Chapter 3.3

Translated by SoundDestiny Edited by Kaepinned

The sound of a tub hitting the tiles echoed.

Yellow tubs piled up in the shape of a mountain. The noisy voices of the girls echoed off the walls decorated with Mt.

“Ugh……. that’s just unfair!”

Next to me, sinking into the hot water up to her mouth, Shima-senpai stretched out pleasantly.

“Uuun, Nnn! Well, Moribe-chan had a lot of work to do with that girl. It can’t be helped. I think you did a good job, my friend.”

“What do you mean?…… I fell into a pig at the last minute.”

“It’s a good thing it was at the end. I’ve been through so much, thinking I’d been beaten to a pulp, and now today I’ve been subjected to such…… embarrassment.”

Shima-senpai shook her head, as if remembering that situation all over again. Her face was bright red, and it was not only because of the heat of the hot water.

“…… that, how many times did you cum?”

“Why are you so curious? W-well…… after the third time, I didn’t know what happened. They were relentless. And after we were released from here, I couldn’t help but feel embarrassed.”

“Are we going to be released……?”

I turned to the four people who were interrogated as deadly criminals.

I didn’t know what they did to them, but the girls were still crying themselves to pieces. The four of them were huddled together at the edge of the bathtub, crying continuously while stifling their voices.

“Well, I don’t know.. But even if we could go back, the track and field club would be over. We’ve already seen each other’s dirty parts. I don’t think I can forgive Konparu either.”

“That’s true……”

I could only see a future where I would be bullied by everyone I whipped.

“The truth is…… if Hatsu-chan hadn’t been in such a state yesterday, I would have switched places with Shiratori.”

“Eh? Is that so?”

“The first day I whipped her, it was just to encourage me. She’s a smart girl. But she’s bluffing, so it’s hard for me to make a decision…… But still, she’s someone I can trust.”

“Someone you can trust? Shima-senpai, were you close with Shiratori-senpai?”

“Ahaha…actually, she’s my niece.”

“Eh…………? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!?”

“Don’t shout so loud. Everyone’s looking at you”

“No, but…”

“I’m the youngest of seven siblings, and she was the child of my oldest sister who married in Tokyo. She came here to go to college and now she’s staying with me.”

“I’ve never heard of it.”

“That’s because I never told you guys. But she’s one of my relatives, so I can believe her. Well, I’m sorry about it, Moribe. I hope you don’t feel bad about it. She’s just a competitive person.”

“Haa……”

While replying to the question, I remembered the exchange with Shiratori-senpai.

×××

“Aah, no…noot good..aahh,ahhn…”

While listening to Shima-senpai’s gasping voice surrounded by the pigs, I approached Shiratori-senpai.

‘…..if you’re scared, you’ll lose!’

As usual, Shiratori-senpai looked up at me with her usual glare. As soon as I stood in front of her, I swung the whip as hard as I could, no questions asked.

“That hurts!”

Shiratori-senpai’s face was contorted in pain, but she looked somewhat relaxed.

This made me feel helplessly anxious. I thought she might be up to something.

But I wanted to get information out of her. She told me that she knew who the four sinners were and that she had found out everything about them. If I could get her to tell me that, I might be able to end this whipping today.

“Is one of the great sinners, Konparu-senpai?”

“Do you think so, Moribe?”

I cracked the whip without replying. I wouldn’t play into her hands.

“What makes you think it’s Konparu?”

Shiratori-senpai still asked me questions. But I kept my mouth shut and swung the whip.

“………!!”

I didn’t think Shiratori-senpai also expected me to reply easily but was she planning to keep repeating the question and making me impatient?

“You don’t want it to end, do you, Shiratori?”

“I don’t like losing in a competition.”

What in the world was this person talking about? This was not a competition or anything.

She shrugged her shoulders as she looked at me, unintentionally letting her irritation show on her face.

“Well, okay. If you want to know,I’ll tell you in order from the beginning. First of all, what was the common denominator among the four of you chosen to be the Inquisitor?”

‘Common denominator?’

The first four chosen were Yui, Takasago-senpai, Captain Tashiro, and myself. What did the four of us have in common?

We competed in different events. We were in different grades. Even our personalities and friendships had almost nothing in common.

“You don’t even know what it is?　It’s the hair. Of the eighteen, twelve of us have short cuts. And yet, four of you are not all short-cut, so of course there must be a reason for that.”

‘It is true that……the captain of the club was left out, and the next one chosen was Shima-senpai, who has short cut hair.’

“I can see what you’re thinking on your face, you must think that Shima-senpai has short cut hair, right?”

I stopped whipping my hand and closed my eyes.

‘This is bad, she can even read my expression.’

Then, as I inhaled to take a deep breath, Shiratori-senpai spoke up.

“The fact that the Captain was out of the picture meant that it was unexpected for that side as well. That’s why they had to add someone on short notice. You saw how Shima-senpai behaved, didn’t you? That First Favoured Princess and Shima-senpai know each other. That person must have known that Shima-senpai was not included in the four deadly sinners. So it doesn’t matter that she has short hair.”

“I,I see, if you ask me……that’s certainly true.”

I opened my eyes, and before I knew it, she was on her feet, walking up to me and thrusting her face so close to mine that the tips of her nose rubbed against mine.

‘Hyiii!!’

I backed away in a hurry. She looked at me with wide eyes, and still poked me in the face.

“That brings up the next question, doesn’t it? The other two who don’t have short hair. Why weren’t I and Konparu chosen?”

I almost let out an audible [Eh] but I spun my mouth and I hastily covered my mouth with my hand. I didn’t think this would be enough to answer the question, but I felt that once I broke down, I would reply without a second thought.

“Because, I am right, aren’t I? If short-cut hair is a characteristic of those four people, why not me or Konparu instead of Shima-senpai?　Just because we know each other, there’s no need to go out of their way to choose the short-cut Shima-senpai.”

‘I wonder if that’s so…….If you say so, it seems like it. ……’

As I was puzzled, Shiratori-senpai suddenly twisted her cheeks in a hateful manner.

“The answer is simple. It’s because we’re ugly.”

For a moment, I had no idea what she was talking about.

“On the other hand, the interrogator has to be pretty in her own way. Once this search for the guilty is over, you will be able to see the Confinement King──”

When Shiratori-senpai had said that much, the silver-haired maid interrupted.

“It’s Confinement King-sama.”

“That means you’ll become the comfort of the Confinement King-sama…. And he has no use for ugly people.”

As for me, I could only be puzzled.

Aside from Konparu-senpai, Shiratori-senpai was not ugly. She just had bad eyesight and was unsociable. I thought her face itself was rather beautiful.

“What’s with that face?!”

“Hyii?!”

Suddenly, Shiratori-senpai shouted so loudly that I winced. I didn’t even know what kind of face I was making.

“You’re thinking like that huh!? Don’t get carried away! You think you’re prettier than me, and you look down on me!　Oh no, no, no. Pretty little brat. You act like you’re having a hard time with the whip, but when you step out the door, you’re laughing your head off. I bet you are. You black-hearted bitch, you horrible woman!”

Shiratori-senpai was in my face, hurling out words that I could only think of as backbiting. I didn’t have time to retort, so I simply backed away.

“Admit it!! You think you’re the cutest, huh?! Oh, I get it. I’ve figured it out this time. The truth is that the four deadly sinners were the first four chosen, right? That’s the kind of twist you see in movies. Tell me. It’s you, isn’t it? It’s you, right?”

As I backed away, Shiratori-senpai still kept coming at me. This person was so reckless. I meant, did it mean that this time she didn’t actually know who the deadly sinner was?

I almost shouted, [No!] but in my haste I swallowed my words and raised my whip.

Then Shiratori-senpai said in a sarcastic tone.

“Arara.., you whip me when things get inconvenient. Hee…… I mean, if it’s not convenient for you, aren’t you a deadly sinner after all? If you’re flogging me now, that proves you’re a big sinner. Everyone watch me! Because if she flogs me, she’s the big sinner!”

Her reasons and logic were muddled. But the momentum pushed me all over the place and I began to get confused. Still, if I didn’t open my mouth, I’d be fine. I repeated in my mind.

“What? Can’t you answer?　Are you scared?　You little fish!　Damn small fry!　It’s like you’re confessing you’re the biggest sinner of all!　Apologise to everyone!!”

‘Don’t say it back. Don’t talk back.’ But when she abused me this much as she liked, I felt frustrated and my eyes started to burn with regret.

‘Why do I have to be told this much!　I should be the one holding the whip!　It should be Shiratori-senpai who hurts when she gets hit!’

“Come on, apologise to everyone!”

‘No! It’s not me!’

The next moment, as if possessed, Shiratori-senpai suddenly returned to her usual muffled and unsympathetic face, and turned to the silver-haired maid and said.

“Maid-san. How’s this?”

“It’s …… out, isn’t it?”

“Eh? Eh? Eh? I-I didn’t reply!”

I was so distraught that Shiratori-senpai replied with a pouty look on her face.

“You guys were probably told you weren’t supposed to answer questions. I thought there might not be a binding 『with words』 there…….It’s called non-verbal communication. Even if you don’t verbalise it, if you indicate yes or no to a question, of course you’ve answered the question. So I tried to push Moribe until you unconsciously did that.”

“…w,what do you mean?”

“…You just shook your head as hard as you can”

I could feel the blood drain from my face.

I was too distracted by her words. I should have known that, but because I was pushed up all at once, I didn’t have time to pay attention.

I turned around and before I knew it, the headless sackhead woman was standing behind me.

“N-noo…. Stop…”

My resistance was futile and in an instant my clothes were stripped off, and my body was entangled into a bondage before I could even exhale.

When I was rolled on the floor in a tortoise-shell bondage, the sackhead woman walked up to Shiratori-senpai and untied the rope that bound her body.

“Fuu..so stiff…”

Looking up at Shiratori-senpai, who was snapping her neck as she said this, I was overcome with a sense of despair.

‘I’ve fallen. I have fallen. I’ll be whipped. I’m going to be beaten to a pulp like the captain…..’

When I thought of that, I was so scared and afraid that I burst into tears.

“….Uuu..Gusuu..uuu…”

Shiratori-senpai looked down at me and, as usual, with an unsociable face, spoke.

“Don’t worry about it. I’ll finish everything before Moribe gets flogged.”

“….. Eh?”

When I looked up at her in confusion, she turned to the silver-haired maid and said.

“The sinner are the four first-year students, Kishijo, Saito, Inui and Hotta.”

Instantly, everyone who had flocked to Shima-senpai stopped moving, and Yui turned her eyes towards the silver-haired maid with a look of surprise on her face. The only sound in the silence was the lustrous and bewitching breath of Shima-senpai.

“I understand. Now, those four people will be interrogated in a separate room. Torture, please take them in.”

The sackhead woman then took out what looked like a knife and urged the four girls to step out into the hallway, squaring their chins. As the four girls walked out, terrified at the sight of the knife, the silver-haired maid opened her mouth.

“I’m going to interrogate them now. I’m sure this will be over soon, so everyone please stay put.”

When the silver-haired maid left, a sigh of relief flooded the breeding ground. No one opened their mouths. Only Shima-senpai was bouncing her body with an ahegao face.

I boldly asked Shiratori-senpai.

“….. how did you know it was those four?”

“I think it’s rather strange that you don’t know…… Oh well. It’s a simple process of elimination. As I said before, the characteristics of a great sinner are short-cuts. In other words, the first four, plus the six of me and Konparu are unlikely. And Shima-senpai is also unlikely, as I said before. There is no way the Ota sisters could do something so insidious, and Amemiya is also different because she doesn’t have the guts not to talk after being beaten so much. Now there are eight of us left.”

To that extent, I could sort of imagine it.

“And if it was four of them who humiliated her, then it’s kind of unnatural for people who don’t usually work together to do that, isn’t it? That’s why Adachi, Koike, and Omuta who hang out with Konparu are unlikely. I don’t think Sato, who hangs out with me and Takasago-senpai, would be able to do that…… So that leaves four people: Kishiro, Saito, Inui, and Hotta. It’s not that these guys are always together, but…… you can think of one girl who treats all of these guys like dirt, right? The top student in the same short distance as these guys…..”

“Teruya-senpai!”

“Correct. I checked with Shima-senpai just to make sure, and she said that the person who was humiliated, Fujiwara-senpai, and Teruya-senpai are in the same class, so you can guess the rest.”

About 30 minutes later, the four girls in question returned, accompanied by a silver-haired maid.

Although they did not appear to be injured, the four of them were crying non-stop. They were sobbing and unable to speak properly, I wondered what kind of terrible treatment they had suffered.

Looking round at us, the silver-haired maid opened her mouth.

“Thank you all for your hard work. Now that we have confirmed that these four are the major sinners, I would like to inform you of all of your plans from here onwards.”

I heard a gulping and choking sound. Probably everyone was thinking the same thing. Whether we could go home or not.

We waited patiently for the silver-haired maid to continue.

“Tonight, the Second Princess is planning to host a dinner party, so I hope you will all enjoy yourselves there to the fullest.”

“Wh–what about the dessert?”

“Please look forward to it.”

When asked by Takasago-senpai, the silver-haired maid smiled.

“First, the inquisitors, Kayama-sama, Takasago-sama and Shiratori-sama, please go back to your rooms, and Shiratori-sama, please use the room that Moribe-sama is using. Please finish bathing before I come back later to dress you individually.”

The word [dress] caused a bit of a commotion. But the silver-haired maid didn’t seem to mind and looked around at us, saying.

“As for the former pigs, I will now take you to the large bathhouse created by the Second Princess. Your clothes will be prepared there, so please take your time and enjoy your bath.”

We were then untied and brought to a large bathhouse that, no matter how one looked at it, looked like a public bathhouse in the city and overflowed with the smell of the Showa period.

Apparently, the second favourite princess who produced it had a bit of a strange sense of style.

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