You wake up itching and scratching all over. When you saw the stacks of hay in the dungeons, you couldn’t have even imagined that it was what the minotaur girl used for cushion everywhere! The few blankets that you have available to you do little good as you wonder if proper matrasses have been invented yet in this world.

The room your sister assigned you is barely an upgrade over the prison cells down below. The only thing your room had going for it is that it is slightly more spacious, there isn’t any water seeping through the cracks in the walls, and it is slightly warmer.

You’re still drowsy and it is impossible to figure out if its night or day outside. It’s a good thing you don’t have claustrophobia or you’d probably end up sleeping under the open sky. Still, you get increasingly worried about Beta and Alpha being in the same cell. The “bed” doesn’t help you fall back to sleep at all and eventually you just give in, get up and try to find the door to your room, without breaking your neck in the complete dark.

When you finally blindly stumble upon the handle of your door and turn it, you wince at the blinding light. The manager of this shoddy establishment is standing before you with a crystal in her hand. The rough crystal, responsible for blinding you as your eyes adjust is hardly shining brightly, but it’s one of the few sources of light you have to work with. For now at least.

“Impeccable timing, My Lord!” Ariadne says. Her voice and slightly wider than usual eyes imply surprise.

“Did you expect anything else?” You ask fighting back the rising yawn with all your might.

“Oh, I’m terribly sorry!” Your sister once again bows. “It’s just that your father used to say “a Demon Lord does as he pleases”. The sun will rise in forty-two seconds, so I came a little early just in case. But I-I’m honestly not used to such punctuality.”

How the hell can you tell when the sun will rise!? You almost exclaim, but instead, try to force out a cough and mask the yawn that rose the moment you opened your mouth.

“Let’s go!” You command and Ariadne, once again, follows you to the dungeons.

“Wake up! Please!” You hear a female voice before you even walk out of the staircase. As you approach the source of the shouting it gets louder. And more desperate “Chi-sama!! Delta!! Anyone!?”

You walk up to the steel bars and see Beta, crouching over the sleeping Alpha.

“You!” The bunny girl glares at you, full of malice and unleashes a killing intent so palpable, you can almost see the red aura around her. You’re having flashbacks to a particular anime you used to watch. Unfortunately for Beta, her killing intent is nowhere near strong enough to impair your movement in any way.

“I don’t have time for this!” You channel your inner badass raise your hand and cast [Submission]. “Count how many strands of hay are in that pile! Once you’re done, start all over and repeat it until I return!”

“E-eh?” Beta’s expression changes, but she does do as you say. She gets up, walks over to the pile of hay she used to sleep on and starts counting, taking the strands in her hand, one by one, and placing them in a new pile.

Alright, so she wasn’t as strong-willed as Alpha? You wonder. Or the spell is that much stronger? I can’t simply assume that [Ahprodisiac Mist] and [Submission] are equally as strong, but I still highly doubt it would’ve been this easy with Alpha.

Or is it due to the nature of the order? I pretty much confirmed that the spell works best when nudging their targets toward what they wish to do in the first place, basically reducing inhibition like drugs. Beta probably wouldn’t have been so obedient if I ordered her to kill her precious Chi-sama. Either way, it’s better to finish dealing with her later—I need to preserve my energy.

Then you see Alpha open her eyes. So eight hours have passed? You note to yourself but are far more impressed that Alpha basically put herself in a coma if Beta wasn’t able to wake her up all this time. Perhaps it is time to put her combat abilities to the test?

“Alpha, who do you obey?” you ask her.

“You,” she answers with the same expression you used to have when watching golf on TV.

“Good! Because if you disobey a single of my orders, Ariadne will lop your head clean off. Isn’t that right?”

“With pleasure, My Lord!” Your sister answers with a smile, bowing her head.

You still can’t get quite used to the fact that Ariadne would seemingly gladly execute anyone who isn’t useful to you. You open the cell door and say, “Alpha, follow me!”

She walks out with a deadpan expression and you lock the door.

When you reach the cell with Gamma and Epsilon, you find them sitting opposite of each other, literally twiddling their thumbs.

“You two enjoy yourselves yesterday?” You ask them through the steel bars.

When the sadistic bunny girls see Alpha standing behind you, their faces light up and their ears straighten up, seemingly harden, pointing up toward the low ceiling.

“Time for the both of you to do something useful,” you say and open the door.

“Epsilon go outside and guard the gates into the mountain! If anyone approaches that isn’t accompanied by me—kill them on sight! Go!”

“Yes, sir!” Epsilon salutes you and exits her cell. As she passes Alpha, she smiles mischievously at the smallest of the bunny girls, that doesn’t even bother to look back at her.

“Gamma, you’re going with us!” you command the other bunny girl. “Let’s find out if you’re just as good at hurting my enemies as you are at hurting your own comrades.”

“Huh?” Gamma tilts her head and puts her index finger to her lower lip as if she doesn’t understand what you’re talking about.

“Follow me!” You say and Gamma obediently leaves her cell.

Delta’s cell is nearby, and since none of the girls with you say a word as you walk, the sound coming from the cell is painfully obvious. The big-breasted bunny girl is crouching in the far corner of the cell, pressing her back against the wall, enjoying her lewd naked body.

The horny bunny girl doesn’t stop what she’s doing even when she finally looks up and notices a small crowd of four, watching her pleasure herself. In fact, her hand moves even faster when she looks away and keeps rubbing glistening clit faster and faster while massaging her big, soft breasts with the other hand. You recall how incredible they felt last night and get harder. Delta looks into your eyes and tenses up.

“Hhn!” The single suppressed moan is the only sound that Delta lets out as her whole body twitches.

Last night she wasn’t holding back, you think to yourself, now you have a raging boner, remembering how you ravaged the bunny girl’s tight throat.

“My Lord...” Ariadne speaks up after the show is over.

“Ahem, yes!” You clear your throat and try to concentrate on the task ahead. “Delta! Get dressed and go to the gates at the entrance into the mountain together with Epsilon! Unless they’re accompanying me, kill anyone who tries to enter... or leave.”

You open the cell door and turn around to head for the staircase, not waiting for Delta to find her skimpy outfit.

Your trip to the storage is uneventful, and, after Gamma took her two ludicrously large shields and Alpha equipped her rapier, you take the axes and the whip belonging to the other two bunny girls. There is nothing else here to take but dust webs. Even the spiders must have died from hunger.

Your stomach cries for sustenance, but you have a sneaking suspicion that you and your sister don't share the same diet. And judging by the fact that she is yet to offer you any food, you wonder if the previous Demon Lord ate anything at all. Maybe that's why he was so shriveled up? Wait... Did she starve him to death!? Trying to laugh off the idea as a bad joke, you head outside.

You don’t miss the fact that your sister makes sure to keep both of the armed bunny girls in her line of sight and within reach of her greataxe. And that is the main reason to split up the bunnies, even though it reduces your fighting potential. If something does go wrong and the bunnies get out of your control, you will only have two of them to deal with in the enemy territory.

And the worst they can do here is free their leader, Chi, and run away. This time, there is literally nothing to steal but hay, used up torches or the very stones the walls are made of. They could try to ambush you, but you already know how that fight goes even if all six of them are together.

When you finally see the bright morning sun, you can’t help but take a deep breath and smile. You’re not an underground dwelling dwarf after all! Epsilon is already here, standing guard. It is a good sign that both the bunnies obeyed your direct order to guard the gates without their weapons, not even asking for them. Though at the same time it also meant that you have to be careful with your wording if they take your orders so literally.

You still need your new guards to actually be able to put up a fight if the need arises, so you leave the weapons with Epsilon. Delta lags behind and only shows up after you are ready to leave. You’re convinced that she would’ve run out buck naked, had you not ordered her to put her clothes back on.

“Open the portal to the outpost,” you say to Ariadne and your party of four goes through the purple portal, returning to the bandit outpost.

Soon you find yourself on the edge of the very same oak forest you were in yesterday. Past an open field, you see the high wooden stockade and watchtowers overlooking the empty area between you and your enemies, guarding the enclosure below the stone towers, protruding from the mountainside.