Chapter 141 - Chapter 138: Episode 136 - Demon King Lee Ye-na
Around the time the ritual was reaching its final stages.
The moment she closed her eyes against that blinding light.
She thought that soon, she would cease to exist and Sophia would take over her body.
Yena opened her eyes and checked her condition.
She tried moving her hands and feet.
They moved exactly as she willed, without any issues.
[Ha... I knew it... To think the ritual would fail...]
A voice echoed inside her head.
It sounded exactly as if she had spoken it with her own voice.
"Um... Mother?..."
[I didn't vanish as I had intended... but to fail at gaining control of the physical body... Well... it was a ritual that required three practitioners; perhaps it was too much for me to handle alone while in such an unstable state.]
"W-what are you talking about?"
[The ritual was only half-successful. Lee Yena. Congratulations... I am glad you did not disappear.]
Yena was shocked by Sophia's words.
The fact that she, who was supposed to take over her body and save Father in her stead, had failed the ritual.
She couldn't help but think that perhaps there was no one left to save Father.
"Then... what about Father?... What should I do?"
[I will teach you how to track Seon-ah, so do not be too disappointed... Besides, the amount of magic power dwelling in your body is enough for you to mimic me...]
Yena had no choice but to trust Sophia's words.
If not for the one residing within her, there would be no one else left to save her father.
"Please... tell me quickly. I need to find out where Father is... It has been quite a long time since Father disappeared..."
[I will tell you even if you don't ask, so focus. First, gather your magic power as much as possible, then spread it wide and pull it downward. Then, you will be able to feel the traces of magic power that react to yours.]
As she followed Sophia's instructions and spread her magic power as wide as possible, she began to feel the creatures with magic power around her and the traces they had left behind.
[How is it? Easy, right? Now, go to the place where Seon-ah disappeared and search using the method I taught you. You said it was urgent, so move as quickly as you can. I, too, have things I wish to say to Seon-ah...]
Yena nodded slightly and headed to the place where Seon-ah had disappeared.
It was a spot about 10 minutes away from Yu-ra's house.
During that time, Sophia kept chattering inside her head about this and that.
Since this was her first chance to talk to her mother, Yena engaged in conversation with Sophia.
"Why did you torment Father like that every night?... Mother, you usually cherish Father as if he were so lovely, so how could you do such things..."
Yena asked the question that had been bothering her the most.
[Hmm, hmm... There are things that young children cannot understand. You will know when you grow up.]
"You know that my original body is not that of a young child, right? You are the one who made it that way, so you should know better than anyone."
It sounded similar to the excuses her father, Seon-ah, would sometimes make.
They say couples grow to resemble each other... She was discovering an unexpected side of them in this situation.
Hearing Sophia's words, Yena puffed out her cheeks and spoke.
It was a childish, spoiled behavior she sometimes showed when she was with her father.
[This is the first time I've seen you make such a face. You still show such childish behavior. Even now, can you not trust my words, your mother?]
Sophia spoke as if she were her real mother.
A gentle tone, the countless things she wanted to teach her.
It was different from Yu-rin, who always treated her with kindness, but this was also the image of a mother she had longed for.
Yena felt her heart softening little by little.
However, her mother was the Demon King who had tormented her and conducted experiments bordering on vivisection.
Thinking that she shouldn't be deceived, she asked Sophia.
"Why are you suddenly being so nice to me? You, who treated me as nothing more than an object..."
After a long silence, as if she had steeled herself, Sophia let out a sigh and said to Yena.
[Whew... There is no need for that anymore, so it doesn't matter... I, too, wanted to cherish and love you. Ignoring you and treating you as if you didn't exist was merely an action taken to return the body of Min-ah, Seon-ah's mother... However, I know that the things I have done to you until now cannot be undone. I will accept whatever you say... I am sorry...]
"..."
Yena had also vaguely known the reason why Sophia had treated her so coldly.
She just wanted to confirm it.
However, this was the first time she had heard her true feelings.
Unexpectedly, Sophia had made a plain confession without hiding her true intentions.
Was it because of that one word of apology?
She felt complicated emotions toward Sophia, who had unexpectedly apologized to her.
Should she continue to hate her, or should she forgive her?
Countless emotions crossed her mind.
However, she didn't feel like forgiving her easily.
To gloss over the things she did to Father while talking so easily about her actions toward her...
It didn't seem like she would be recognized as a trustworthy mother until all the facts were laid bare.
"Mother. I still cannot believe what you have said. But... if you become a source of strength for the two of us... if you help us find Father again... I think I might be able to reconsider."
[That is a matter of course. Finding Seon-ah is something that must be done even if you didn't ask. Because to me, Seon-ah is the most important.]
"For now, that answer is enough."
Although she couldn't trust Sophia yet.
Yena had no choice but to rely on her.
To find her father.
After Seon-ah regained consciousness, he felt as if his penis was going to fall off from the pain.
He was terrified of inserting his own thing into that hole anymore.
He couldn't erase the feeling of his penis being crushed as if by a vise.
The penis hanging below his lower body was completely bruised.
Hyun-ah, who must have been watching him turn into this state, urged him from behind.
"Ha... Heal it quickly, or I'll just insert it while it's like that, okay?"
"St... stop... please, now..."
Seon-ah couldn't bear the pain and eventually clung to Hyun-ah's legs.
When he felt that sensation of being tightly pressed and fixed in place after insertion, he couldn't even move at all.
Ignoring that, she forcibly pulled and pushed his waist, making him insert it into the woman in front of him and perform the reciprocating motion; even though it felt like his penis was going to fall off, she didn't stop.
"Then you should have spoken when you came, just like I told you! Since you didn't do it properly, you're learning it again. Our Seon-ah can do it! Let's do our best and do it quickly!"
'You... crazy bitch....'
Seon-ah had only one thought as he looked at Hyun-ah.
'I don't want to... do this anymore... If only I had strength... If I did... I wouldn't be suffering like this...'
The memory from that time surfaced.
The day after he parted with Sophia and began living with Yu-ra and Yena.
The thought that he would no longer just take it from the women who toyed with him.
That thought was flickering like a candle in the wind in the face of the crisis that had come upon him once again.
To be honest, it felt like he was about to give in soon.
What good is it if I can use magic power, when I can't even fix it in place.
Fi... fix?...
Seon-ah recalled what had happened earlier.
The situation where Lee Shin-ah had a vaginismus spasm as soon as he inserted his penis, leaving him unable to move an inch.
His thing, blocked and tightly pressed by the meat wall made of flesh.
It felt like he had realized a clue.
He poured magic power into one of his hands and pulled it tightly, as if crushing the magic power on the outer part toward the inside.
Then, the magic power inside stopped in its tracks and stopped leaking out of his hand.
"Ah...."
Seon-ah had previously wanted the magic power to stop on its own by thinking things like 'Magic power, stop!'.
The idea of pouring magic power into his hand and watching until it stayed still had been wrong.
He realized that he had to change the direction of the magic power that was leaking out to the outer part, as he was doing now, and make it collide with the magic power on the inside.
As he pushed the magic power flowing on the outer part toward his inside, the magic power that was being pushed out returned in the opposite direction, and it no longer leaked out.
He had succeeded in fixing it.
Tears flowed from one eye at that joy.
Tears that suddenly spilled over at the joy of having gained the power to resist for the first time, despite being powerless.
It ran down his cheek to the corner of his mouth and confused his tongue, but it felt sweet, not salty.
'Now... since I have the strength... I can at least try to resist.'
Seon-ah had a determined look on his face, but Hyun-ah, who was trying to grab Seon-ah's waist and shake him again, did not see that face.
As light began to dwell in Seon-ah's hand, Hyun-ah watched it blankly.
She thought that after the light in that hand disappeared, Seon-ah's body would recover.
That thought was correct. As Seon-ah's body recovered, the various wounds from being tied to the chair and his bruised penis regained their original color.
And as a faint blue light began to surround Seon-ah's body again, she just watched, thinking he was recovering once more.
However, contrary to her expectations, Seon-ah.
Swung his fist toward Hyun-ah.
At a speed so fast that Hyun-ah couldn't even react...