Southwest Orlais.

We passed along a forest trail in the woods. It was man made and narrow that it could only fit a horse. Thus, we had our horses walk in a single line. We had to steer clear of the big road as to elude the enemies. 

It was still early at night and nine of us were creating a luminous queue. The cause of the omnipresent illumination was the torchlight each of us was holding. 

Undeniably, torchlight technology didn't exist in this medieval era we were living in. That's why the likes of Clarice, Gretel and Malty were thunderstruck when we first showed them and still agape until now. 

The rest of the girls had years of experience using torchlights. Torchlight was one of things I transmigrated into this world from my original world using my cheat ability. 

When other girls explained that those transcendental tools mysteriously came from me, the 3 new girls seemed to heed me with weirdly sparkling eyes. 

"It's near." Malty broke the silence of the night. 

Her horse was second in line, behind Reina. 

We finally reached a broad area without trees. 

Reina pointed the torchlight forward. 

It was rear entrance into a building. 

"It was a place known only to my family." She said.

We unmounted from our horses and tied them to poles along the wall. 

There was a metal door. Malty pulled it to no avail.

"It's became rusty. I haven't touch it for many years."

"Let me try." The strongest in the group, Irijina and me pulled the metal door handles. 

"One, two, three."

"One, two, three."

"One, two, three."

Finally it was successfully pulled open. 

Malty led us into a narrow tunnel, and exiting pass bushes. 

The secret entrance was actually hidden behind bushes and trees. 

We walked past several different lawns before reaching an area that looked like a rear compound of a fortress.

We crouched in a circle with Malty in the middle. She pointed upwards to something like to upper floor.

"The slammer is in there." She said.

I had been wanting to tell her this, but I kept my shut as we were still in the dark about the structure of her family's fortress. This should be the right time as everyone could see the building structure. 

"Wait "

"What, Your majesty?"

I took a breath and exhaled.

"Are you really sure your mother is in prison?"

Malty became agitated, "Wh..what are you saying? They declared to let my mother alive and punished her differently!" She scolded me in a hushed voice.

"From your story, the people who invaded your mansion were not knights, right?" They were just peasants who newly take up weapons."

"Yes. They certainly not knights. They were just bums who rebelled." Malty replied while furrowed her pretty eyebrows.

"You see Saxon-Fanoss relied mostly on bandits, and peasants. They don't know know the knights way of doing things. In fact, they killed everyone in the mansion. No one would be knowledgeable enough to utilise the jil facility." I argued persuasively and the girls nodded.

"And your mother was too beautiful in the eyes of lowly men. Peasants who suddenly became fighters had zero chivalry. They probably bring your mother to easily accessible place. They rape her there!"

The girls' eye widen and their bodies were trembling in anger.

I continued, "So we don't sneak and quietly take her away. What we do , we search her quietly but once we find her, we jump onto our horse and breakthrough while fighting." 

I already explained this to Mirai before, so she immediately teleported away to our horses.

She then teleported the horses here, one by one. 

"We just slowly walk on the horses until we find her."

***

We walked slowly with the horses. My prediction was true.

There were no guards stationed. The watchtowers were empty. 

"Our only option is to sneak in. Fortunately, the lookouts don’t look too vigilant."

According to Reina who had excellent vision in the dark, there were men yawning or chatting idly with each other, plus some of the men in charge of guarding were sleeping. The time before midnight was a period they felt more exhausted than late at night.

"They shouldn't know of our daring effort. They wouldn’t think people who sneak in, so we can get in as long as we’re stealthy."

Reina stopped and said, "Horses stopped here. To be safe, walk on foot from here."

Yes. The path forward were laid in bricks. Horse steps would be noisy.

Reina lowered her hips and ran in a half-bent over position towards the area with houses.

We followed quietly after her.

"Ooh, damn it’s cold...... for the daytime and nighttime patrols to work the same time period before changing shifts is so unfair."

"You said it. The only reward we get is a soup with almost no ingredients in it."

The two men approached while complaining to each other.

They were not directing any attention to their surroundings and simply walking around without thinking. We should be able to get past as long as we don’t move in front of them.

We laid on the ground waiting for the soldiers to pass by before advancing once again.

"Who’s there!?"

"Crap!"

For some reason, they found me out easily.

I instinctively jumped at him, closing his mouth before breaking his neck.

"W-who is......gugh!"

Irijina twisted the neck of the other one.

I stayed quiet for a while after, but didn’t see any increase in torches or hear any soldiers making a fuss.

Looks like nobody else noticed us yet.

"That was close. How did they find out?"

Sekrit teased me,

"It’s because some musclehead was glaring at them on all fours...... you were leaking out a strange murderous aura."

This was hard. I would do better next time.

We resumed moving forward.

"――you see, that woman was crying out pretty nicely again."

"I wish I could be there tooー"

The next two were stationary and leaning on their spears.

It looks like they’re slacking off, though they’re actually more problematic for us.

If they’re not going to move, then we had to move.

I held my breath and crawl on the ground, making a detour――

"Who’s there!!?"

"A ruffian!?"

"Crap!"

They noticed me again.

Mirai bounced up from the ground and ran at one of them, taking him down with a dagger.

Sekrit did the same with the other, slashing his neck.

When I lowered my voice again, I didn’t seem to sense anything strange.

"They found out again. What was wrong this time?"

"You make this scraping noise when you crawl. You’re just not good at silent maneuvers in the first place. Always assume they’ll notice you and be ready to pounce on them!" Sekrit criticized me and gave tips.

Then a man suddenly walked out from an opened door of a small house. It was then that the man’s head faced in the opposite direction of us.

"Uwah! Who’s that!?"

"Crap!"

For some reason, I was spotted again

Sekrit jumped at him and cut his neck.

The sound of exploding flesh could be heard.

We continued walking straight and delivered a kick with both feet to the door.

The wooden door was blown open and the path to the fortress is clear.

"Infiltration successful."

As the town welcomed the daybreak, the streets were deserted as expected.

That didn’t mean nobody was around as old ladies drawing water from a well and men carrying firewood back for cooking purposes could be seen scattered here and there.

"I was troubled thinking what to do if the city was filled with nothing but soldiers, now it seems likely the citizens will get dragged into the mix."

We brought our horses into the town as it seems safe.

The mansion was part of the town.

"Wait here. Both of us will do our job."

Mirai and Reina jumped onto the roof. They then leaped from roof to roof.

After about 30 minutes, both of them returned.

"I found her......" Reina told us.

That house Reina led us to was fairly large and appeared to be a typical residential house from the outside, apart from the windows still being tightly shut. Maybe they’re sleeping?

"There is a chief guard house." Malty explained.

I casually opened the window and looked inside.

As soon as I flipped open the shutters, I heard a woman’s scream.

It was the cry a woman makes when she’s getting violated.

Then, there was man's horny voices.

"It’s finally gotten around to my turn. C’mon, spread those legs."

"S-spare me...... my crotch is worn out...... it hurts......"

The woman in tears looked to be in her early twenties. Her semi-long red hair was disheveled as she pleaded the man hanging over her.

"Mother." Sekrit pressed her palm on Malty's mouth when she was about to call out to the woman.

So, she was Malty's mother.

She had an impressive body which leaned towards the plump side and fairly large breasts that stirred a man’s lust, having said that, all the bruises and small cuts on her body made me feel pained.

The man held her body regardless of its state while the woman sorrowfully covered her tear-stained face with both hands.

Her forcefully opened crotch was leaking out plenty...... probably several men’s worth of  semen.

Now was night and she was probably raped since today's morning.

Judging by how red and swollen her genitals are, she must have been raped countless times.

"Shut up. The reason someone like you from the feudal lord’s family is left alive is because you’re a woman...... it’s so we can do this!"

"Aagh!! It hurts――!!"

The man grabbed both her legs and pushed his hips forward. With a slap, the man’s hips bump against the girl’s fleshy ass.

The female’s body twisted in pain and she let out a cry of grief.

That could only be taken as a sad scream from being raped. She’s purely groaning in pain.

After the man penetrated the woman, I heard voices coming from the back of the room.

"How is it, it was the right choice to let her live, right? As expected, it’s better for girls to have a little meat to them."

"Agreed! Especially so you can do this...... fucking them against their will is the best! Her insides feel great!"

"Stop...... it hurts...... I’ll die......"

The man didn’t hesitate to ram his hips against the woman roughly while sucking on her breasts.

The woman didn’t put up any resistance and could only let out small shrieks with every thrust.

I could feel my own eyes sinking in.

It’s been a while since I’d felt such disgust from the bottom of my heart.

"I know I only just said it, but let’s pretend that I don’t understand."

"I thought so."

I stepped away from the window and walked towards the rear entrance. I was still rational enough to not punch from the side facing the street.

The rear door appeared locked, though it didn’t stop me from pushing it open.

If I used my full strength to push open the door of a residential building, I could open it regardless of it being locked or not.

"W-who the hell are you!? This house was confiscated by the Union! Entering it without permission leads to execution!"

A half-naked man jumped out with a bottle of alcohol in one hand.

Without saying a word, I placed my hands on the man’s head and twisted it around violently.

There was a dull cracking sound and then the man falls over with his head turned in the opposite direction his body was facing.

"What’s going on...... Jodi!? Y-you bastard, what have you done!?"

Another half-naked man rushed out, pissing me off even more.

I grabbed his throat with one hand and lifted him up.

"Ga...... gh......"

The man had a well-built body, though his weight proved no match for my right hand.

My goal wasn’t to choke him to death. I squeezed hard until I snapped his cervical vertebrae.

With his neck broken, I tossed the convulsing man aside, and then kicked down the door to the room I saw from the window.