Volume 4 - CH 4.2

Part 2

Rem opened her eyes.

The flame of a lamp wavered.

When she tried to move her hands, she noticed that she couldn’t do that.

──I’m tied up with rope!?

Rem hand her arms and legs fixed to an Ｘ shaped post. She was placed on a crucifix.

「Wha!?」

「So you’ve noticed.」

When she looked beside her since she was called out to, she saw that Lumachina was also bound to a post just like her.

「Lumachina!? Th, this is……」

「Since I also noticed it just a little while ago, I do not really understand but……」

「……Is that so.」

Rem looked around at the surroundings.

The ceiling was excessively high. Enough that the light of the flames didn’t reach it.

Were they within a stone walled building?

It was cylindrical, and was quite spacious. It was large enough for the chapel to fit snugly in it.

There was a platform at the center of the base, and that was where Rem and Lumachina were propped up.

They were apprehended by Baduta. And, it seemed that he was performing sorcery.

──If that’s the case, we supposed to be sacrifices?

The muscles along her spine trembling was her imagination. There were large lamps all around them, and their flames swayed.

On the opposite side of the illumination, it was dazzling so she couldn’t see all that well but……her eyes gradually grew accustomed to it.

Something was moving.

And then, she noticed that she could hear the breathing of several things.

「……What could that be?」

「I do not know. However, I get an unpleasant feeling from it.」

Lumachina’s voice was stiff.

Rem concentrated her eyes on the other side of the flames.

It was a person.

The flames shined upon it, and she could tell that the figure of a person was moving. How many people were here? The races varied, and it appeared that there were more figures of people than she thought.

Moreover, a majority of them were naked.

Rem drew back her voice.

「Wh, wha……!?」

「Eh? What could they be doing here……?」

Maybe Lumachina’s eyes had grown accustomed as well.

A great number of men and women, enough to completely fill up the floor, were entangled with each other.

Rem reflexively turned her face away.

「……Is, is that, really……Could they really be doing that……?」

「What is it?」

Lumachina seemed like she truly did not know about it.

Rem felt not just her cheeks but even her ears get hot.

「…………I cannot explain that.」

「Eh?」

She was bewildered.

Nonetheless, even Rem couldn’t speak about it.

Just what in the world was the meaning of all this?

Gradually, the long breathes of the people became rough. The groans of the men, and the heavy breathing of the women filled the cylindrical building.

The sounds of flesh hitting flesh, and the splashing sounds of sweat and body fluids were made, and a beastly smell hung in the air.

Someone climbed up the staircase that was on the altar.

It was Baduta.

He was wearing clothes. Rem felt a bit relieved.

However, the women that he brought along were pretty much naked.

「Ah, you are……!?」

It was the long black haired maid, Shiiryuu. There was no trace of the maid clothes that she wore. She wore nothing on both her chest and waist. However, she was in a corset, and was wearing shoes.

Rem’s shoulders trembled.

「H, how shameless!」

Baduta laughed shaking his shoulders.

「So you’ve finally awoken. I was about to wonder what I should if it had become morning.」

「Kuh……How dare you deceive us!」

「If you are going to resent anyone, resent Lumachina. She should have known that her sense of justice would destroy her.」

Lumachina leaked out a powerless voice.

「I am sorry, Rem……I have dragged you into this.」

「……That’s not the case. This situation, is due to my mistake. I am terribly sorry for not being able to protect you.」

Rem had gathered experience as an Adventurer, but she fell behind many times in terms of weak points.

──Could it be that I am surprisingly “honest to a fault”? The idiot should be Shera’s role though.

While having a subtly harsh thought, she thought of methods of how they should escape.

However, the constraints on her limbs were lacking any slack to the point of admiration.

Rem ground her teeth.

「……What do you plan on doing with us, Baduta!?」

「A ritual.」

「Eh?」

「Adultery……Bloodshed……Gluttony……The time when people fall, divinity is lost, and plain evil is born.」

「A, a place……that makes people commit sin……?」

Rem once again surveyed the surroundings.

Certainly, it wasn’t just intercourse, there were also people doing other things.

*Zushin* A tremor was transmitted.

*Guragura* The cylindrical building shook. *Parapara* Sand fell.

Rem looked up at the ceiling.

──An earthquake?

Things became noisy above.

A door close to the ceiling opened.

Come to think of it, Lumachina did say that there should have been something underneath the ground. So this place was a basement.

Rem had a premonition.

The feeling of despair that filled her heart cleared up like the sky after the rain.

「……Diablo.」