Chapter 252: Talk with the Highest Judge, and Whipping a Cat Girl (2)

This was a punishment done so the bereaved would accept, not a punishment given to Lily herself.

Because of that, a punishment of giving pain or pleasure using the First Crest, hard to understand in appearance, need not be done.

And from the talk until now he had caught that I, Lily’s owner, wanted to treat Lily carefully.

I see. A well-made person.

And his head turned fast too.

"Understood."

"Hm, then let us start at once. Lord Freit, to the treatment place by the shortest is fine?"

"Yes, that is the intention."

"Good. The time... around when six bells ring is fine?"

"Right, that is good."

"Hm, if so, have the punishment start at five and a half. Is that fine?"

"Eh?"

Between Bonifatius and Freit the schedule was decided one after another.

I could not keep up, and still tried to keep up, and when suddenly turned to I asked back.

"Lord Hiroyuki, five and a half, that is eleven... is early? But by eleven thirty have the punishment done to Lily. Then at twelve head for the treatment place. It takes about thirty minutes. Then apply the treatment in about thirty minutes, and at thirteen leave the treatment place. Next return here, have Lord Bonifatius see Lily, and if no problem it ends there. While heading from here to the treatment place and from the treatment place to here, the bereaved will come to see this girl. During that, even if something is done to Lily, do not be moved."

Freit explained to me.

But there were several points that bothered me.

"Something done, what will be done?"

Surely not violated while moving by carriage.

"Well, mainly rotten eggs thrown, or tomatoes thrown."

"No need to worry. Stones and the like will not be thrown. Injure property without permission, and the bereaved become the assailants."

At least Lily would not be injured.

Mentally it would be hard, but if Lily’s feelings turned in a good direction by feeling the bereaved’s emotions, good.

I looked at Lily, and with a face gone pale she still nodded strongly.

She seemed all right, maybe.

"Understood. One more. After returning here and having Lord Bonifatius see Lily, if there is a problem what happens?"

"The treatment has to be applied once more. But well, that will not happen. Two years ago it functioned too."

Bonifatius answered this question.

Then no problem.

"Please."

I stood and bowed my head.

Lily bowed her head in a hurry too.

"Hm, it is not a special punishment. Well, a little light. So no need to bow the head. After that if Lord Hiroyuki manages Lily firmly it is fine."

Bonifatius touched his chin and smiled at me, only doing his own work.

...

"Now then, about time."

I flexed the base of the single-tail whip with both hands as if checking the whip’s strength, and declared to Lily.

Lily, restrained in front of my eyes, made a sound in her throat.

Lily had both hands spread and hung from chains extending from the ceiling, and both legs open wide and fastened to fittings on the floor.

Of course in a state wearing not a single thread, only the collar and the leather shackles restraining both hands and feet.

Two magic lights on the ceiling front and back with Lily between them illuminated that naked body without omission.

Face gone pale, yet swaying her body a little shyly and staring at me.

Here was one of several interrogation rooms in the basement of the assembly hall.

Of course tools for interrogation were set crowded by the walls.

The handcuffs, legcuffs, and chains restraining Lily, and the single-tail whip I held, were equipment of this room too.

I looked around the room, then turned behind.

There were the Dules, Muriel and the others, waiting beside the door, and Freit sitting in a chair.

"...Freit, why are you here?"

"As I said earlier, to see through Lord Hiroyuki disciplining Lily."

When I asked again Freit, who had brought a chair and entered at the same time as finishing restraining Lily, the same answer returned.

I did not want this sort seen by people much...

Lily was in an embarrassing getup too.

But there was no sign Freit would leave.

Did this have meaning too?

Having had various conveniences arranged by Freit, I could not say it strongly.

Muriel and the others wore faces of resignation too.

Look at Lily again, and she was embarrassed, but her face was pale.

Her tail peeked from between her thighs too.

...Wait?

"Hey, Lily. You have a tail."

"Eh? Ah, of course. I am a Bista."

Right, that was so.

"I did not notice..."

"I-is that so..."

Lily arched her chest proudly even while surprised.

Why had I not noticed.

"Bista can tell emotions at once from the tail. They do not seem to want to show it much."

Freit heard our conversation and explained.

Was that how it was.

Come to think of it, I had not noticed Ito’s tail either.

But Sophia and the elves showed emotions in their ears, and showed them.

...Because they were ears, they could not be hidden?

Hmm...

"M-more than that, do it soon."

While I was thinking, Lily said it with a terrified expression stuck on her face.

Ah, right.

The more one made her wait, the more the fear would grow.

Let us finish it soon.

I held the single-tail whip in my right hand and struck the stone-paved floor to check its power.

A larger sound than I thought echoed in the room.

"Hi!"

Lily, maybe surprised at that sound, or terrified imagining the pain after, raised a short scream.

The tail wound from her crotch stuck tight to her stomach.

I turned once more and looked at Freit.

"Put whip marks evenly front and back. If the appearance is flashy, no need to do the number."

Freit advised with a serious face.

I thought if the appearance was flashy I could use the Second Crest and make pain not felt, but for form it was punishment, so I had been cautioned not to do that.

There was curiosity too, but he was probably doing it for me too.

I sighed softly and looked at Lily.

"I am starting."

"Y-yeah."

Lily nodded at my words.

I, who had swung the single-tail whip large, swung it sideways from the right so it hit the stomach, careful of Lily’s tail.

The tip of the single-tail whip hit Lily’s waist, went around the back, and hit near the navel.

With that centrifugal force the power increased.

"Aah!!"

Lily raised a scream and tried to twist her body.

But the body restrained with both hands and both feet stretched did not have that much freedom.

The tip of the single-tail whip that had put one line mark from the left of the waist, the back, to around the navel on Lily’s body returned my way at the same time I turned my hand.

Using that momentum I flexed it back, then struck it into Lily’s body again.

This time it hit under the armpit, passed the back, and wound to the right breast.

"Igiii!!!!"

A second mark was put on Lily’s body.

Next the left side.

"Iiii!!!!!"

A whip mark was put between the first and second.

Once more, this time from the left so it hit the buttocks.

"Noaaa!!!!"

The tip of the whip that wound from the buttocks hit around the pubic mound.

This time I swung down from above so it did not hit the head.

From the right shoulder through the back it hit the buttocks.

"Gyaaiii!!!!!"

I had been careful not to hit the ears, but it went well.

Further I turned my wrist and hit from the chest to the stomach.

"Gaaaa!!!!"

A mark was put from above the right breast to the left thigh.

So, how much had I swung the whip.

Whip marks all over the body, to the arms and legs too, and when blood scattered after swinging the whip I recovered the whip.

I held the tip of the whip that flew this way when I turned my wrist, holding the handle yet grabbing it with the open right hand.

"Haa, haa, haa, guh, ugh, haa, haa, haa..."

"How is this much?"

While hearing Lily hang her head, breathe rough, and about to cry, I turned and asked Freit.

"Right, fine."

Having gotten Freit’s approval, I approached Lily, undid the leg restraints, then undid the hand restraints.

Lily, who could not brace and fell toward me, I hugged from the front.

The clothes would be dirtied with Lily’s blood, but I did not mind that.

"You did well."

"Uaaaaah!!!"

Lily raised a crying voice.

But this was not the end.

The real thing was from now.

...

Freit and I were rocked in the carriage.

A two-horse but luxurious box carriage, Freit and I sitting on the back side, two of Freit’s guards sitting on the side opposite us.

The driver was done by one of Freit’s guards, and outside Muriel and Rosina walked as escort.

And on the back side of the carriage, Sara, who held no weapon, and Sheena, who could not fight, minded Lily walking further behind.

As for that Lily, the leash extending from her collar was attached to the back of the carriage, hands bound behind, and she walked exposing a painful body.

On that body where whip marks remained, rotten eggs, fully ripe tomatoes, and further human feces were thrown from beside the carriage road with curses.

I looked at Lily walking behind, staggering at times, but I could do nothing.

"You must not. Until we return to the assembly hall."

Freit sitting beside me cautioned.

He looked straight ahead, but I could tell he was saying it to me.

"I understand. But I did not think it would be this bad..."