Reincarnated in a depressing erotic world but living a normal life (right?)
A twisted subordination

"Gahahaha!! Die, imperial scum!"

"Ugh...! Why are you doing this!!"

On the fierce battlefield, as the imperial soldiers retreated before the power of the small straw dolls after losing their confrontation, and taking advantage of the straw dolls' lack of lethal intent, which still avoided inflicting fatal wounds, a young and confident soldier found himself at the mercy of an enemy commander.

However, the young soldier was surprised to discover that one of the commanders, about whom he had received numerous past warnings, was not a stranger to him...

"Pffft! What, you wanna cry? Go ahead, whine, you pathetic excuse for a man!"

Because, after all, the face of the scantily clad woman who continued to brutally punch his face was the same one he had once admired and been motivated by, having been considered a heroine by the Valerius Empire.

"What... cough, cough... happened... to you?"

The soldier, raising his voice with difficulty while breathing irregularly and coughing up blood due to the wounds inflicted by his former idol, the war veteran Vespera, asked, using the last embers of his remaining strength to find out how the one-time heroine, renowned for her achievements and contributions on the battlefield, had fallen to adopt her current dishonorable appearance.

"Burp~!!... You wanna know...?"

Hearing his desperate question, Vespera responded with the same vulgar and brutal thug's tone she had been speaking with until now, scratching her exposed crotch and letting out a booming burp that made it hard for him to accept if he was truly facing the same person who, in his early days, had told him in a dignified and calm manner that he needed to strive harder.

"Since you're going to die here, it doesn't matter much if I tell you, does it?"

It was through those words that the young man began to realize the terrible truth of who he was truly facing.

That's how Vespera began to tell her story, going back to the past, to the time when she was still "Vespera."

"Hehehe... I finally got you, Vespera...! You're going to pay for what you did to me now!"

"Hmph, what do you plan to do now? If you think begging for my life, then you're making a grave mistake."

She began by recounting how she had been captured, subdued by an enemy soldier whom she had previously defeated and severed an arm in battle.

"... Let's see if you maintain that stoic attitude of superiority after trying this."

"A drug...? Are you underestimating me!"

"Medicine? No, no, no, of course it's not that simple. This is a laxative!"

"WHAT...?!"

"Oh, but make no mistake, this isn't just any laxative... In reality, this is supposedly a medicine that transforms and expels the soul of whoever drinks it as if it were excrement."

"Impossible...? Your country shouldn't have technology capable of something like that!"

"You're right about that, I got this from a mysterious fox woman who said she came from another world and gave it to me saying she wanted to test her new 'prototype' or something... and fortunately now I had a perfect candidate to test it on, didn't I, Vespera?"

"....It's a bluff."

"Find out for yourself."

After those words, Vespera recounted how she was forced to consume the drug and how she felt intense pain spread through her stomach while feeling an increasing urge to defecate, also telling how she had begged for mercy or how she would rather die than end up in such a degrading way, only for her soul, personality, and very essence to finally be expelled from her body in a pathetic manner, leaving her empty.

"Oh, oh... oh..."

"..... I never liked your serious and dignified appearance, so I like this goofy look you have now better! Hahahaha!"

"Oooooh...."

"Well, that was fun, now all that's left is to throw this garbage away, but... What will I do with this empty shell?"

"Hey, hey, boss, did the medicine work?"

"Oh, just in time! Now that I remember, this thing had another effect I can test!"

"Huh? What do you mean, boss...?"

"Hey... Do you want to try the chance to get a better body?"

At those words, the soldier had a terrible premonition of what was about to happen while Vespera continued narrating the events as if they were someone else's problem, saying how that subordinate consumed the same drug to excrete his soul, which was then put into Vespera's empty body.

"N-no... That's impossible...! If that's the case, then...! It means you're...!"

"Hehehe... That's right, I'm that lucky subordinate."

Still in shock from the revelation he had heard, "Vespera" decided to relentlessly continue her story, recounting past events and her experiences since she took over Vespera's body.

Talking about how they used the knowledge from Vespera's body's memories to benefit their cause and destroy the empire, and the fact that they masturbated without bathing for weeks, eventually reaching Vespera's hometown and showing off her fallen appearance as revenge.

Even worse was learning how the man impersonating Vespera later massacred everyone present there and how he revealed every moment of agony of Vespera's acquaintances, family, and friends with a smile on that very face.

"Enough...!"

"Oh, but I haven't even gotten to the best part yet, do you know what her younger sister said when I cut her?"

"Shut up, monster!!"

Feeling fury and despair at the story told about Vespera's fate, the soldier, gathering strength from somewhere, indignantly shouted these words at the figure in front of him.

"Wow, don't get all upset, that all happened when I was still young, you know?"

"Vespera" then continued his story, revealing how his former boss had betrayed him by allowing him to be captured by the empire, and how once trapped, he was subjected to extreme and continuous torture, which, ironically, he was able to endure due to the specifications of his new body.

"Throughout all that time, repeating that cycle of torture, I could only think of ways to kill the damn bastard responsible for my situation."

"Vespera" commented on how he was on the verge of collapse upon realizing that despite his loyalty and everything he had done for his boss, he had no problem abandoning him to his fate, letting him suffer such hell, showing an expression of pure hatred when mentioning it.

"...But everything changed with the arrival of the boss."

However, the moment he spoke about his encounter and how he met his new boss after her arrival at the dungeon, his expression changed, now showing a silly smile.

"When we met, she immediately shot me with a water hose while hitting me with an electrified frying pan~"

"Stop... Stop... Why... are you telling... me all... cough, cough... this?"

But before she could continue talking rapturously about something nonsensical, the soldier asked the reason for revealing all this, to which he received an answer before losing consciousness.

"....Because I deserve someone who knows the truth to hate me."

....The last expression the soldier saw before closing his eyes was not that of a vulgar woman, nor a laughing scum... it was the same that, though momentarily... reminded him of the old Vespera.