MagicalExplorer
Reborn as a Side Character in a Fantasy Dating Sim
I flopped down to the ground. I was exhausted.
“Are you okay, Kousuke?”
I saw Ludie come over to me.
“Y’know, it feels like you’re even prettier than usual today.”
“I’ve got dirt all over me, dummy. Thanks, though,” she said with a smile. From there, everyone rushed over to us.
“Master, are you all right? Wait, is this…?” Nanami said, placing a hand to my forehead. Then she gave it a sniff.
“…Translucent, yet viscous droplets of moisture. This optical permeability, the sensation that it will melt anything it touches, and this odor, pungent enough to make even an orc choke with tears; could this be…sweat?”
“It’s not some chemical weapon, okay?”
None of that applied to sweat, y’know. The hell was that bit about an orc “choking with tears,” anyway? You could probably take over the world with something that powerful.
“We must dispose of this dangerous substance quickly. Miss Yuika, please lick it all up.”
“Why would try to make me lick it after a description like that? If anything, you should do it.”
“What sort of thing has to be disposed of by licking, anyway? I’m a bit curious.”
Yukine wasn’t tired, was she? I mean, she had definitely worked the hardest out of everyone. Well, if she truly insisted on licking me, I suppose I didn’t have a choice. By all means, please.
At that very moment…
A large magic circle appeared directly above all of us.
Seeing this, I suddenly remembered something.
Oh, crap.
Yukine, Ludie and Claris were all surprised and went on guard, but Nanami and Yuika looked at me and seemed to guess what was going on.
“Isn’t this exciting, Miss Yuika?”
“Please tell me this isn’t happening.”
Just as Nanami and Yuika had surmised, this was an erotic event. Not only that, but a hardcore one, in many senses of the phrase.
“Hngh! Ludie’s in danger!”
I immediately made for where Ludie was standing. While I did, a magic circle appeared at her feet.
“Ludie!”
I rushed for her and used my Third Hand to pull her toward me. But I wasn’t able to completely stop my momentum, and I just barely slipped inside the magic circle.
A thick hand emerged. It grabbed me and pulled me down into the magic circle.
Fortunately, I’d ended up getting that role, thereby avoiding the worst outcome of all. Grimly smiling, I glanced at Ludie, who looked surprised. Then my vision immediately went white.
I was going to be taken to that room, wasn’t I?
But there was something I had failed to notice—there was also a magic circle on the very spot I had pulled Ludie back to.
Something smelled wonderful.
It seemed vaguely familiar, almost sickly sweet, but still comforting and pleasant. What was this fragrance again…?
I returned to consciousness and opened my eyes.
“Hwaaaaaaaaaaaah?!”
I thought I was going to have heart attack. There was an orc right in front of me. He was practically pressing his face up against me and oinking gleefully at that!
I tried to move my body, sensing I had to get away, but there was a loud clang. Something appeared to be pressing down on my arms and legs, making it impossible for me to move. These things often popped up in porn videos and adult comics… Restraints? And what was up with my outfit? A pair of boxers and a weird belt? I was basically wearing nothing but a belt here!
“Ngh, what’s going on?”
I looked around the area.
If I had to describe the room, I would say it was based on the color red. Next to me was a table with roller wheels, and on it lay a bird feather, candles, a whip, a ball gag, and a tool that—while touted as a massager—I had literally never seen used as a massager in my life, plus a string of connected balls seemingly meant to be put up the ass and some more direct type of rods that one would associate with a man.
Next to this was a bed where you could restrain someone with their legs opened up in an M-shape, and what looked to be an S&M wooden horse.
Additionally, there was a camera on a tripod right in front of me, with an expensive looking microphone right beside it. There was also a set of lights shining on me.
Then there was the orc, gleefully oinking as he looked at me. He wasn’t the only one, either. There were four. One wearing rimless round glasses, one who was super fat, another who was really muscular, and one who was the definition of cringe, leaning up against the wall with a cool look on his face, wearing an eyepatch, and bandages around his left hand. A real diverse (?) group of four.
For some reason, the orcs were all dressed in black enameled leather with spikes, as if they were about to tell me, “You’re already dead.” They also had ropes and candles in their hands.
My head was still a bit fuzzy, but I finally got a grip on the situation.
This was one of the game’s erotic scenes.
Generally, how it works in eroge is the most active characters or the characters who just experienced an event are most likely to get caught up in sexy dungeons or lewd traps. This was, after all, something the players of the eroge wanted in the first place.
In other words, since Ludie had awakened to her power, it was only natural she would awaken in other areas as well.
Ludie had been targeted for this sexy dungeon event at the brilliant direction of the game’s writers, but I felt relieved I had managed to save her. Anyway…
“Orcs, huh?”
What things came to mind when one heard the word “elf”? I figured, beautiful, tall, and long ears would be common answers. However, the erogesphere was a bit unique, and I surmised there were a large class of people for whom the word would also bring to mind orcs. Of course, I’m sure there were others still who would imagine the eroge company named after elves, too.
To put it simply, just as shounen battle manga have friendship, struggle, and victory, in eroge there are the traditional pillars of orcs, elves, and “j-just kill me!” (opinions varied on this point).
As such, it made perfect sense for orcs to be here. Originally, Ludie is supposed to be the one who gets captured, so the fact that I was here instead must have altered the event.
Gotta stay calm. For the time being, I thought back to the game and tried to predict how this would play out.
In the game, there are two possible variants of this erotic event.
Ludie is captured, and the orcs threaten to violate her. In order to save her, you and your companions go through a hot-and-heavy gauntlet.
Ludie is captured along with Iori. Then Iori is manipulated into putting Ludie through some S&M play while they both wait for their friends to save them.
These were the two patterns. Since I had been captured this time, I imagined the event would involve the orcs turning me into their bottom… Now then, would help actually come though?
Hm, wait a second. In that case… Sniff sniff! Did that mean the smell during this event was what I thought it was?!
“Oh, picked up on it, did you? Enjoying this Aluloona nectar-based aphrodisiac fragrance?”
The question had come from the orc in round glasses that made him look like a nerdy pencil-pusher. An aphrodisiac—I was right. In the game, it’s made from the Aluloon, not Aluloona, but they must have changed it to match up with me.
The orc approached me and lifted my chin with his rough hand. A horrible visual.
This was just a guess on my part, but this orc had probably had the Aluloona nectar sprinkled over himself, too. As he approached, an even stronger smell wafted into my nostrils.
“Do you understand what’s about to happen to you?” The nerdy orc smirked as he spoke.
“Heh-heh.”
I heard a cheesy evil laugh come from behind him. Every last orc, without exception, had a large bulge at their crotch.
Seeing this, I felt sweat drip down my brow. Of course, I knew damn well what was coming here.
“J-just kill me.”
Incidentally, while all the orcs were raring to go, the one with the hardest bulging flagpole was the cool eyepatch one leaning against the wall. From now on, your name is “horny edgelord orc,” okay?
“Skweeh-hee-hee, believe me, we’re fine doing it ourselves, but why don’t we make you feel even more hopeless? We’ve prepared someone extra horrible for you.”
Huh?! I looked over at the wall. Someone even worse than that horny orc over there?!
Just who the hell was coming here then? Whoever it was, there was one thing I could say for certain. No matter what, I… I…!
“I won’t give in! Y-you won’t get me to beg for death!”
“Skweeh-hee-hee-hee!”
The orcs around me burst into laughter, the horny edgelord one chuckling with a dark “heh-heh-heh-heh” that made him sound much more depraved. The horrible secondhand embarrassment was too painful for me to watch.
“I wonder how long that brave front will last…? Please, if the master could show us a demonstration.”
After the nerdy orc said this, a single elf stepped into the room with loud clacking footsteps.
“Huh?”
I recognized her. However, her outfit and expression were totally out of character.
She had on sexy black high leg cut bondage gear, and she looked down at me with a cold glare, as if I was garbage. Taking the whip from the nerdy orc, she loudly slapped it against the floor.