Episode 1: The Jobber Jailer Remembers
It happened one day.
A young human woman in armor was brought into the dungeon of the Demon Lord’s Castle, where I work as a jailer.
Apparently, she was a knight who had charged into the Demon Lord’s Castle alone and was defeated.
She was a breathtaking beauty with moon-like golden hair and sky-blue eyes, but her gaze was filled with hostility, shining sharply.
“Ugh, kill me!! I’d rather die than be humiliated by the likes of you!!”
“Hey now, don’t say such cold things. I was going to give you some special treatment,”
My senior at work stripped the woman’s clothes off, a lewd grin on his face.
I immediately understood what my senior was about to do.
However, no one stopped him.
Or rather, there were only two of us, me and my senior, and no other jailers.
The Demonkin society is based on absolute meritocracy.
Those who are defeated are to be killed, not captured and abused.
That’s why the usual jailers are called things like “useless eaters” or “cowards who ran from the front lines.”
Well, in reality, both my senior and I are cowards who were too scared of the front lines, so we became jailers.
I won’t deny it, and I don’t really care.
So why was this female knight taken alive this time?
It’s because the Second Demon Lord, who defeated this female knight, was an extreme sadist.
He has a hobby of tormenting those who defy him, and he ordered us jailers to torture this woman in every way imaginable.
My senior is taking advantage of that order and trying to violate the human woman.
Typical orc.
Among the Demonkin, they are known as walking lower bodies, their brains dominated by lust.
“Guhuhu, you’ve got a nice body.”
“Even if this body is defiled, I will never yield to you Demon Lord Army!!”
“Oho, I love a feisty woman.”
“Ugh, I’m sorry, Father!!”
The female knight, stripped of her armor, revealed her large breasts.
Whoa, they’re huge!!
I felt like I had seen this scene somewhere before, and then it suddenly hit me.
“Ah!!!!”
“Whoa!? W-what’s wrong, Lugas? Why did you suddenly shout?”
I remembered. I had remembered it.
No, calm down. First, let’s organize my name, job, and position in my head.
My name is Lugas.
I am a jailer in the dungeon beneath the Demon Lord’s Castle, and I am a minor antagonist in a certain game.
The name of that game is “Prison Heroine.”
Sometimes abbreviated as “PuriHiiro,” it’s a gentleman’s game where captured heroines are subjected to lewd and terrible things.
The scenario is very simple.
First, the player raises a beautiful girl character that they got from a gacha, and then sends her to challenge the Demon Lord.
If they win the battle, the beautiful girl Demon Lord is violated and it’s a happy ending, but if they lose, the heroine is violated.
Either way, a cute girl is subjected to terrible things, a work that gives a glimpse into the creator’s fetishes.
However, the problem is that after a certain amount of time, the heroine escapes from the dungeon and can challenge the Demon Lord again.
During that escape, a forced battle with the jailer soldiers begins.
In other words, the heroine has to fight me and my senior, who are jailers…
This is a guaranteed win event for the heroine.
My senior and I are always killed, we’re basically jobber jailers.
This is bad. Very, very bad.
It’s still okay since it’s the scene right before the heroine is subjected to terrible things, but if things proceed according to the scenario, we’ll be killed.
Even though she was defeated, she’s a female knight who challenged the Demon Lord alone.
Even if my senior and I tried our hardest and became stronger, there’s no way we could win.
Besides, we became jailers because we were afraid of fighting in the first place.
If that’s the case—!!
“Senior, senior.”
“What is it, Lugas? I’ll let you have her later, so let me go first.”
“No, it’s not that. I think it’s kind of pitiful, so why don’t we stop doing terrible things to her?”
More than anything, I don’t want to die.
My senior made a similar blank expression at my words.
“W-what are you saying? This is the Demon Lord’s order, you know? What will happen if we disobey—”
“Well, it’s an order to torment her, but rape is going too far.”
“D-don’t be ridiculous!! The reason I, an orc, became a jailer is for times like this!!”
Huh, is that why my senior became a jailer?
I thought he became a jailer because he hated fighting, just like me.
However, things are bad as they are.
Even if I’m the only one who’s kind to the heroine, if my senior, the other jailer, does terrible things, nothing will change.
To the heroine, both my senior and I will become hateful enemies who defiled her body.
It’s important to stop this first time.
“Well, I guess it can’t be helped. I didn’t want to use this hand.”
“H-huh? You wanna go, you punk!! A low-tier Demonkin like you against a mid-tier Demonkin like me!!”
Of course, I won’t fight my senior.
I’m the lowest of the low-tier Demonkin in the meritocratic Demonkin society.
There’s no way I can win against my senior, who is a mid-tier Demonkin orc.
So, I smoothly hand a piece of paper that I took from my pocket to my senior, who is getting ready to throw a punch.
“Huh? What’s this?”
“A ticket to be personally attended to by Queen Quina, a high-ranking member of the Demon Lord Army.”
“!? T-that’s, could it be, the all-you-can-do-it-with-Quina-sama-for-a-day ticket that’s booked up for the next hundred years!?”
“Yup. I won it in a lottery six months ago. By the way, today’s the day.”
“!?!”
When I showed the ticket, my senior was clearly shaken.
“What do you say, senior? A ticket to do it with Quina-sama that you might never get in your life. It’s free if you want it.”
“Y-you’ll give it to me!?”
“Yeah. If you swear not to do terrible things to that girl, or any girl in the future, this ticket is yours.”
“I-I understand!! I’ll never do terrible things to a woman again!! I’ll even make a contract with magic!!”
And so, the deal between my senior and I was made.
My senior left work with his crotch bulging with anticipation.
The female knight who was left behind glared at me.
“…What are you doing, you?”
“Don’t glare at me like that. I saved you, didn’t I?”
I know this female knight.
She’s the female knight who is subjected to terrible things in the tutorial of “PuriHiiro.”
Her name is Katiana.
She’s a starting character that you can get without rolling the gacha, but she’s a popular heroine with swimsuit and Santa costume versions.
I’m quite fond of her character.
And that popular heroine has had her armor stripped off and her breasts are exposed.
I silently offer her a blanket.
“Please, put this on for now.”
“?”
“Well, your, uh, attire is, a bit…”
“D-don’t look!!”
At first, Katiana tilted her head.
Then, she seemed to remember her current state, and her face turned red to her ears.
Katiana hurriedly took the blanket.
“I’m Lugas. As you can see, I’m a jailer in the dungeon of the Demon Lord’s Castle.”
“…I’m Katiana. I won’t thank you.”
Katiana glared at me again.
However, her gaze seemed less sharp than before.
Alright, it seems like her favorability has gone up a bit.
If I continue to be kind to the heroine, maybe I won’t be killed when she escapes.
I resolved to do my best.
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Afterword
A trivial side story
Author: “Kukkoro heroines are wonderful.”
Lugus: “Well, I understand.”
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