“O-ow, please it hurts. Um… I’m sorry. Oh, uh, o-oink oink.”
Nanami’s performance was incredible, but Ludie and Takioto were racking up points with incredible speed.
“They’re a formidable foe.”
Nanami returned, wiping down her body.
“I was almost able to earn quite a fair number of points. If only Yuika’s performance hadn’t been so disappointing.”
“Yeah, yeah, sorry.”
To be honest, both friend and foe alike were way too formidable.
“You should listen to my advice and redeem yourself.”
Yeah, and I was absolutely positive whatever she suggested would be awful.
She must have looked at my expression and realized how against it all I was. I mean, I had purposefully given her the ugliest look possible.
“It appears you may have forgotten, Miss Yuika, but Channel Nanami has over three million subscribers.”
“I know, I know. Fine, I’ll do it. Happy now?”
“What are we supposed to do?” asked Yukine.
“As a matter of fact, thanks to everyone’s efforts, I have been able to determine our viewer demographic.”
“Really?!” Claris asked, surprised.
I sorta had a vague idea myself at this point.
“It’s the hentai sicko demographic.”
“?”
Claris was baffled. Yukine wore a sour smile. She must have surmised as much for herself. I mean, the fact that our opponents were rapidly gaining points with their S&M fetish play made it obvious, didn’t it?
“That’s right. This AI is a pervert. I am guessing that SEAI likely stands for ‘Super Erotic AI.’ In other words the HENT-AI demographic.”
Claris looked shell-shocked. I could sympathize. Her brain was outright refusing to process all the information, wasn’t it? I figured everyone who experienced one of these weird dungeons for the first time felt something similar.
She finally appeared to fully comprehend what was happening, and her face turned beet red.
“Now then. At the moment, it appears the most important factors for our view count are…an element of the unexpected, and overall sexiness,” Nanami said, seeing that Claris had calmed down.
“I sort of get the sexiness stuff, but what’s the ‘unexpected’ part about?” Claris asked.
Now that I thought about it, Claris’s performance earlier had incorporated both of those.
“Consider for a moment, if you will: Miss Yuika lifts up her skirt for all to see with a totally blank look on her face, right?”
“Can you not phrase it to sound like it’s something I do all the time? This is just an example, to be clear. I’ve never done anything like it before, okay?”
Like I’d ever do something as indecent as that.
“I am sure that would pull in a fair number of views, but I cannot say that would truly grab ahold of their hearts.”
She wasn’t listening to me. Whatever, what else was new.
“So you’re saying it’ll still pull in views anyway! ‘Grab ahold of their hearts’? What does that even mean?”
“There are many ways to truly grab viewers, but one option is randomness, in other words, the unexpected.”
“Okaaay.”
“It being an accidental slip up makes it that much more compelling. Falling over and giving a glimpse underneath one’s skirt. You know what I mean, yes? If a trick of the wind flips up the skirt of a TV announcer with a pure and innocent persona, showing off the woman’s panties for all to see, the pervy nerds of the world are going to spread it like mad.”
“Not sure I like the idea of that…”
Yukine looked a bit put off. I mean, who wouldn’t be? Though, I sort of felt like I had actually seen this sort of problem get spread around in real life before?
“Miss Yuika, I am sure you understand. Now then, time to take off your thigh highs and panties.”
“There’s no ‘cute slip up’ aspect to that—you’re just going to get us kicked off the air!”
What, so I was supposed to stride into view with my butt hanging out?!
“Only joking, Miss Yuika. Here, I have a pair of panties I picked out for you.”
I took the underwear Nanami handed me.
“This is just two strings sewn together!”
I immediately threw them down to the ground. I was still putting my butt on full display either way here!
“Our viewers are perverts, Miss Yuika. If we don’t utilize racy tactics, we will never catch up to our opponents.”
“…Do I really have to do this?”
“If we lose, you could end up suffering the same fate anyway.”
The orcs had said something about a penalty. I didn’t want to do this one bit, but…
“Miss Yuika, if I remember correctly, we had a bit of contest once before, and you were handily trounced, yes? Do you remember what you promised me back then?”
“Hrngh!”
“Furthermore, did you see what happened on our opponent’s livestream just now?”
“…No, why?”
“Miss Ludie sliced up the orcs looking to further develop Master’s body. We will need to be victorious here in order to escape.”
“Huh?!”
We all looked over at the screen. Now that she mentioned it, the orcs weren’t anywhere?!
“Ludie?! What do you think you’re doing?!”
“Lady Ludivine is, erm… Even though there’s a chance she might not be able to escape…she looks so happy, doesn’t she?” Claris said with a conflicted look on her face.
I agreed she seemed very happy, and that she was very pretty and cute, but with the atmosphere in the room over there, it all seemed like very bad news.
“With all that in mind, Miss Yuika. Please, prepare yourself…!”
“Fine, I’ll do it. I’ll do it, okay?!”
Now that it came to this, I just had to go for it. I quickly changed and slung the school bag Nanami handed me over my shoulder. After that, Nanami adjusted everything for me.
T-time for me to charge straight into the fires of hell!
“I have finished setting everything up. Break a leg!”
“E-erm, Nanami? Don’t you think that’s, um, a bit much?!” Yukine spoke up. Thank you so much, Yukine. Please, let her have it.
“Have you not done something similar or even more extreme before?”
“…Good point.”
Couldn’t she have put up a bit more of a fight?
Urged on by Nanami, I walked on-screen exactly as instructed. What I was supposed to do was actually very simple.
“Big brooo, wait for meee!”
After saying this, I simply approached the camera and turned my back to it.
However, on my back side…
“Pffft! W-wait, what?”
I heard Takioto burst into laughter. I didn’t blame him. After all, my skirt was caught behind my back and flipped up, showing off my panties to the whole world. The scanty string kind of panties, incidentally.
“Hold up, you can see everything like this!”
I only just now noticed, but I wasn’t just giving “a peek” at all. Almost my whole ass was on display here!
Gaaaaaaaah, I was so embarrassed I wanted to die! Noooooooo!
Comments came flooding in such as, is she going commando? hm? and wooohoooooo! or dayyyyymn!
This was all just an AI, so no one was actually watching me, but it still felt that way. If I had to compare the feeling to anything, it was a bit like I was exposing myself outdoors or… Anyway, it was absolutely awful! I hated this!
“Where do you think you’re looking?!”
I heard Ludie, along with the crack of a whip.
“That was wonderful, Miss Yuika. However, while you scored quite a lot of points, our opponent is simply too strong.”
The chat seemed to be pretty fired up, too. Even then, our opponent’s point total remained high.
“Next…I have request of everyone. Claris, you will be the key to all of this.”
“Huh, what do you mean?”
“You said earlier you watch a lot of videos, yes? I ask you to serve as our director and main star.”
“Yes, but I only ever watch soothing pet videos.”
“Yes, yes, that is perfect.”
“U-um, there aren’t any pets here, though?”
“Whatever do you mean? There are three pets right in this very room.”
Three? Discounting Claris…that left Yukine, Nanami, and me, didn’t it?
Wait, did Nanami mean what I think she meant?
She explained everything to us from there, and I passionately rejected the idea. However, when she reminded us we might never be able to get out of here otherwise, I was left with no choice but to give in.
After we went into the dressing room to change, Nanami began to speak, ominously saying that were this plan of hers to fail…
“While it will have to be our final gambit, there is one more thing I would like to try. I’ll need your help when the time comes, Miss Yuika.”
I hated the idea, but I assumed Nanami would force me to do it, anyway.
—Takioto’s Perspective—
“O-ow, ow, Ludie! It’s hot, it’s too hot!”
“That’s Queen Ludie, to you!!”
“Yes, yes, my apologies! Queen Ludie!”
It seemed like Ludie was getting more and more into this. Her face was flushed red. She was breathing pretty hard, too.
In the chat, I saw comments like, this is wild; looks like it hurts real nice, lol; and god, I wish that were me, flowing by. Sorry, but I wasn’t about to let anyone take my place.
All that aside, however, why had things ended up like this?
Originally, the protagonist Iori is supposed to become the dom in this S&M situation. He is teleported here separate from Ludie, and the orcs hypnotize him into performing all sorts of sexy stuff on her. Then the rest of his party starts up the livestream battle to save their two companions.
While there was indeed a livestream battle going on here, I was on the receiving end of what was supposed to be happening to Ludie.
“Hee-hee, hee-hee-hee-hee-hee, hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!”
Ludie giggled, seemingly lost to madness.
If Ludie had gotten the same hypnosis treatment that Iori gets in the game, then she would grow more aroused the more she tormented me. That, and she would be stricken with an insane possessive streak.
“Hey, fatty, muscleman—carry the livestock,” Ludie ordered, using words very unbecoming of the imperial family.
Wait, who was the “livestock” supposed to be? That one was fatty, and this one was the muscular orc. Then there were nerdy glasses and horny edgelord. Huh?
This had to be a sick joke, but as I frantically hoped this was all a mistake, some comments popped up reading, the livestock’s looking all around, omg; and you idiot, she means you.
“Hey, pigs.” Ludie called out to the orcs, but they were slow to react.
Apparently, they were all watching Nanami’s stream. They must have gotten scared stiff watching Yukine’s so-called sleight of hand trick. By the way, Yukine truly was amazing. She was beautiful even when twisting a pipe apart. Though, I didn’t really think “sleight of hand” was the right thing to call it.