Chapter 157 - Chapter 154: Episode 152 - Illicit Trade
Miel is muttering to herself again.
Is it an aftereffect of the torture?
It didn't seem like it.
Miel's behavior looked more like some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Listening to her mutter continuously while staring at the wall with those hollow eyes was enough to make me shiver.
She keeps shouting that she has to get Seon-ah back, and that if he falls into Sophia's hands, it'll be a disaster.
'If things keep going like this, I think I'm going to go crazy too... I don't even know how many times this has happened today.'
To break the mood, I clapped my hands loudly and called Miel's name.
"Hey, Miel! Snap out of it! If you keep spacing out and Sophia takes Seon-ah away, what are you going to do!"
"Yeah... Seon-ah... Seon-ah... huh...? Eonni?"
Perhaps because I clapped so loudly, she finally focused on me.
She had been shouting Seon-ah's name while lost in her delusions just a moment ago, and she looked startled to see me.
To be honest, the fact that the Demon King went mad and Miel ended up like this was largely my fault for forcing myself on Seon-ah.
In the past, Seon-ah would offer his body willingly even if I took him multiple times, so I had thought, 'It wouldn't hurt to have a taste just once.'
Besides, after the Demon King took my money and kept me under her thumb, I had nothing left to lose, so I just closed my eyes tight and did it.
I never imagined it would lead to this.
I feel a little guilty, but how could I resist after seeing that body that turns me on so much?
Thinking about the moment I forced myself on Seon-ah made my mouth water, so I carefully turned my attention back to Miel.
"So, did you get any word from Yu-rin? I told you to let me know if you found Seon-ah."
"That... the contact... I'll check right now."
"If you keep losing your mind like this, you're really going to face something you'll regret. Are you going to keep staring at the wall and wallowing in delusions?"
After hearing what I said, she made a blank expression as if she were shocked again.
I've seen Miel's shocked, blank expression more than ten times just today.
I clapped loudly once more to bring Miel back to her senses.
Only then did she realize what she was supposed to be doing and picked up her phone to check for any messages or calls from Yu-rin.
"There's... no contact from Yu-rin..."
Her voice dragged on, and she looked like she was about to cry sadly again.
"Ha... I'm really going crazy... I'm losing it... It's even worse today than usual..."
It looked like she was covered in every mental illness imaginable: OCD, panic, depression, schizophrenia.
Miel's condition looked that bad.
But to treat her by altering her mind was impossible, as everything was connected to Seon-ah; unless I erased all her memories of him, I couldn't fix her mental illness.
That was an impossible task.
Miel, being a succubus herself, was used to dealing with minds and memories.
If I ignored that fact and tried to erase her memories...
'She'd probably attack me in retaliation before I could even try to erase them.'
Honestly, I didn't have much of a connection with my youngest sister, Miel.
Since we'd been through thick and thin together on Earth because of the Demon King, I just kept her around to soothe my loneliness, thinking that as a fellow succubus and fellow demon, having kin nearby would help.
But that thought didn't last long.
Now, all I wanted was to get as far away as possible from Miel, who was acting like a madwoman with her mental illness.
Even so, there was only one reason I was cooperating with Miel and Yu-rin.
I missed Seon-ah's dick, which I hadn't tasted in a long time, but I also thought this was my chance now that Seon-ah was in a situation where he couldn't trust any woman.
I took out the bottle of medicine I had brought with me when I came to Earth and looked at it.
It was an aphrodisiac that nobles used when inflicting extreme punishment on sex slaves.
Once a human male drank this, he would clamor to be fucked, and eventually, when the effects reached his brain, he would go mad and be unable to endure even a moment without being fucked.
Originally, the plan was to use this on the man I liked most among those I met on Earth, feed it to him, and make him my husband.
Of course, that plan fell through because I didn't have enough time to leave the house due to the people from the Hwaryong Guild who visited every day and Sophia.
But after seeing Seon-ah, I was able to change my plan.
He was the best groom, so it was an even better choice.
'Of course, to make Seon-ah my mate, I'd have to feed him the aphrodisiac, kill Miel, and change the Yin Mark to my own design...'
Unaware of such dark thoughts, Miel just stared blankly at the wall.
Yu-rin, who had been discharged from the hospital, felt absolutely miserable.
Hearing what her mother had said to her left her speechless.
'I saw Seon-ah but pretended not to?... Did I really do something like that?...'
Was it an aftereffect of the drug, or was she so terrified that she would die if she couldn't forget Seon-ah that she refused to see him?
Either way, the fact that she couldn't see Seon-ah was real.
She had felt it for the first time in front of her own house, and the second time at Min-ah's house.
"What happened to me... It's strange... I don't know what kind of problem occurred..."
She was worried that something might be wrong with her brain, but more importantly, even if she ran into Seon-ah like this, she wouldn't be able to see him.
That was truly cruel.
With such thoughts, she could only suffer alone.
When the night became quiet, Yu-rin confirmed that her mother was sleeping with her pillow soaked in tears.
And in a very small voice, as if making a vow, she spoke to Yu-ra and moved her body.
"I'll be back... I'll definitely find Yena and bring her back today..."
Yu-rin had changed into comfortable activewear and had a hat pulled down over her head.
Knowing that the missing Yena wasn't by Seon-ah's side, she couldn't just sit still.
Thinking of the missing Yena, that young child wandering alone, made her heart ache.
Even though she knew she wasn't her own daughter, and her brain told her so, in her heart, she was no different from her own child.
Yena, who must still be wandering around in the middle of the night looking for her father.
Since Yena wasn't by Seon-ah's side the last time she saw him, it was obvious she was wandering around alone.
Honestly, since so much time had passed, she was so anxious because she didn't even know if she was alive or dead.
She had reported her as a missing child to the police station and searched with her mother during the day, but she felt that wouldn't be enough to find Yena.
That's why she was going out to search for Yena herself every night.
Since the last place Yena was seen was in front of their front door, they had searched the area thoroughly and knew she wasn't around here.
Then where could she have gone...
Yu-rin thought of the place where Yena had the happiest smile.
It was the zoo at the amusement park they had gone to together.
She hadn't missed it when Yena saw the red panda, a cute creature famous for being full of stripes and pretending to be fierce, and said with a big smile, "I wish Appa could have seen this too."
'Just once... let me check just once...'
Yu-rin tightened her shoelaces, went outside, and caught a taxi.
It was a cautious move, as her mother might have noticed if she had driven the car from the house.
She came to the amusement park thinking she might find Yena if she was lucky.
It was currently closed.
Because a Gate had appeared in the innermost part, it was blocked so no one could enter.
There were armed troops who looked like soldiers everywhere, perhaps in preparation for an emergency.
Yu-rin had been racking her brain for 30 minutes, wondering how she could get in there.
Just then, someone moved toward the two soldiers blocking the entrance.
Staring closely at that person, all she could tell from the back was that it was a woman with long, jet-black hair.
Because it was so far away, she couldn't hear a single word of their conversation.
Finally, after the two soldiers saluted and opened the entrance, the woman went in alone.
'She's going into a place where a Gate has opened, in the middle of the night, alone?'
She didn't know what connections she had used, but basically, you couldn't enter a Gate unless you were in a group of at least four, even if you didn't belong to a guild.
Yet that woman was able to go in alone.
Moreover, the face she saw when she looked closely was...
'It looked like Seon-ah's face... The eyes were very similar...'
She must have been hallucinating because she kept thinking about Seon-ah.
She had heard auditory hallucinations of Seon-ah before, and before Yena came, she had been full of delusions about him.
The probability that what she saw was a mistake was very high.
'But... even if there's a very small chance... shouldn't I check?'
You never knew.
It was possible that she had seen Seon-ah and mistaken him for a woman who looked like him.
She didn't know when the person who just went in would come out, but she planned to wait for now.
So Yu-rin stood in place, staring intently at the entrance where that person would come out.
That was when something strange happened.
"Kyaaack!"
"Gurgle..."
In the middle of this deep night, a loud scream rang out, followed by a gurgling sound.
The sound came from the entrance of the blocked amusement park.
Yu-rin saw a soldier's corpse with something stuck in his chest and another with a knife in his eye.
Yu-rin couldn't help but notice that the two soldiers who had been guarding the entrance while on alert just a moment ago were now dead.
And in the midst of it, a woman and four men suddenly appeared.
The men were tied up with ropes and their mouths were gagged.
"Ha... this is why I love stealth abilities... It's the perfect ability for illegal trade... Don't you guys think so too?"
She said, laughing as if it were funny, looking at the men who couldn't even speak.
The men were so terrified that they shook their heads as if their necks would break.
They didn't seem to have spotted her, so they looked around once or twice and then entered the Gate.
Her name was Seo Ju-ha.
She was someone who would have scared Seon-ah out of his wits if he had seen her.