Chapter 158 - Chapter 155: Episode 153 - Illicit Trade (2)
The Gate Lee Ji-ah took me to in the middle of the night had manifested right in the center of an amusement park.
This place, currently shuttered and abandoned, was a spot I had visited many times.
I knew this amusement park well.
Back when I was very young—even before I met Yu-rin.
It was a place my parents often took me for fun.
After I got to know Yu-rin, I stopped coming as often because I was always hanging out with her, but...
Remembering how often I played here was enough to stir up those childhood memories.
'Those were good times... But now that I think about it, it's such a shame I wasted all that time I could have spent with my parents because of Yu-rin...'
If I had known Father would pass away so pointlessly and that Mother would end up like that, I would have kept my distance from her.
Looking back at how our family life was ruined because of Yu-rin, I felt a deep, crushing regret.
"Seon-ah oppa? You can go in now."
"Got it. I'm coming, Ji-ah-ya."
Ji-ah spoke up after noticing me standing still at the main gate, lost in old memories.
As two soldiers opened the locked gate and saluted, Ji-ah gave a brief "Thank you for your hard work" and led me inside.
After walking for a bit, I saw a thick fog blanketing an area that looked like a zoo in the distance.
A boundary created by that fog.
It was obvious that inside that mist, the place had turned into a Demon Realm where monsters ran rampant.
"What rank do you think that is?..."
"According to our guild's measurements, it's about a C-rank Gate. There's no information yet on the monsters inside, but it's probably just Orcs or Kobolds, right?"
'Orcs... Kobolds...'
Those two species were the most common ones I'd seen in the Demon World.
Orcs, with their muscular bodies and feminine features—aside from their skin color—often worked as soldiers or mercenaries. I knew Kobolds as dog-headed beastkin; they had hairless faces, floppy ears like a puppy's, and tails that would either droop or wag wildly depending on their mood.
Most of the demons had become quite beautiful over the generations, but I never forgot the fact that they were ruthless rapists.
At first, seeing them die made me feel guilty and scared, as if a fellow human were dying, but that wasn't the case anymore.
The sight of them stripping me, pinning me to the floor, and gang-raping me without mercy was just too horrific.
The moment they forcibly milked me inside their muscle-filled Orc vaginas and slammed their ridiculously large hips down onto my pelvis to make me ejaculate was agonizingly painful.
Even when my cock was swollen and aching, the Kobolds would suck and lick it like real dogs, and in the end, they'd fuck me like dogs, too.
I could never forget the persistence of those demons hip-thrusting on top of me.
Whenever I screamed, they would only tighten their insides more aggressively, drenching my cock in even more love nectar, and slam their waists down hard while demanding I ejaculate—I'd heard that so many times it was practically burned into my ears.
The hatred and fear built up after being violated countless times would never be forgotten.
Although the emotions had been diluted to some extent because of Sophia, the bitterness remained deep in my heart.
As I was lost in thought, Ji-ah began to urge me on.
"Oppa? Let's go in. I don't think we should take too long. The Gate is actually quite large, you know."
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"Ah... Huh? Alright."
Seeing Ji-ah walk past the fog of the Gate, I followed her inside.
A moment later, someone witnessed the two of them entering, wore an amused expression, and began to walk slowly into the fog, leading the 'items' they had brought along.
The rebel demons consisted of Orcs, Kobolds, and a commander who was a Gargoyle.
On the back of the female, who had a feminine body and skin that felt like gray stone, were bat-like wings.
Stone skin, bat-like wings.
Those two things proved she wasn't human.
Judging by how she gave orders to the other demons, she appeared to be the commander.
The Gargoyle muttered to herself.
"It should be time for them to arrive soon... Should I wait a little longer..."
"Commander, two people are walking over there. One of them looks like a male. It seems the Scavenger has brought the goods."
"Just one?... That's way too few this time... I remember last time she brought over ten items..."
Was this where they opened the Gate and entered the middle of a city?
There were strange structures everywhere.
Structures that looked like a large waterwheel slowly spinning, a round building with horse-shaped sculptures rotating in one direction, and on the other side, creatures that looked like animals from Earth were trapped in cages.
The structures that were moving at first stopped functioning after a while, as if they were items that had run out of magic power, but the demons clearly remembered seeing them in motion.
Furthermore, since the number was far too small to be considered a place for raising livestock, it didn't seem suitable for keeping those animals for food.
I couldn't even guess what they were raising the animals for.
Thinking that they were keeping such a tiny number of animals in cages so inefficiently, I wondered if they were using them for experiments.
Staring at something I couldn't understand, I felt a sense of foreboding.
I thought perhaps this was a place for developing weapons and experimenting on creatures.
I had a terrifying thought that magic might suddenly be fired from those spinning structures, or that the animals from Earth currently trapped in cages might transform into monsters no different from mutated magical beasts after countless experiments, and that they might tear through the iron bars to attack us.
"Let's just get the goods and leave quickly... Honestly, this place is too unsettling."
To act on that thought, the Gargoyle approached the man and woman.
However, as they slowly approached, the woman holding a sword suddenly lunged forward and slashed the throat of the Orc that had been moving ahead.
"We are not enemies! We came to trade with the Scavenger. Stop right now!"
"I'm not a Scavenger? What are you talking about?"
Generally, hunters don't bring males into the Gate.
On top of that, knowing that hunters usually travel in groups of at least four, they were mistaking the two people in front of them for the Scavenger and the goods she had brought.
This was a misunderstanding by the Gargoyle, who was the commander.
"If I'm not mistaken, you said something strange... If I keep only you, who looks like the commander, alive, you'll spill everything, right? Don't you think?"
Hearing what I said, the woman realized I was trying to capture her alive.
However, if I lost all my subordinates, my standing as a member of the rebel forces' officer class could be in danger.
Although they were difficult enemies to deal with, I had to fight by joining forces to at least save a few of them.
Furthermore, if the male they brought wasn't the goods to trade with us, I thought that when we seized those goods, I could use them as a bargaining chip to negotiate with that woman.
As I gave orders to a few of my subordinates very quietly, they pretended to attack the woman temporarily and lunged at the male.
Taking advantage of that opening, I attacked the woman to prevent her from saving the man, blocking her path toward him.
A plan where over twenty subordinates and I cooperated to take a hostage.
Just as it was about to succeed, the woman shouted.
"No... No! Seon-ah oppa!"
It was certain that the man would now fall into our clutches.
I intended to kill the woman while pretending to use him as a bargaining chip and take the male away.
'For as many as that bitch killed... no... I'll make you create dozens, hundreds of times more children than that number... I'll make you pay for everything that bitch did with that body..'
Thud!
The man, who was clearly unarmed, punched the Orc that was lunging at him right in the solar plexus.
The Orc, vomiting blood and falling backward rapidly, looked as if it had been hit by a carriage.
Whether its internal organs were damaged by the massive impact, it shivered and didn't even seem to have the intention to move properly.
My subordinates also realized that because of what that man did, he was no longer a helpless hostage or an item for negotiation.
He was also a hunter, just like the woman in front of us.
Male hunters were extremely rare, but if we sold him as a seed-sower, we could get even more money than for regular males.
Because of his unique sturdiness that kept him alive even after being drained hundreds or thousands of times throughout his life, he could be used as a high-class sex slave, so his value was whatever price we named.
Perhaps knowing that fact, even after seeing an Orc get hit right in front of their eyes, the flames of greed were burning in the eyes of me and my comrades.
There was no longer any need to deal with this woman.
If we neutralized that man and took him to the Demon World, I would be able to rise beyond my current rank and even become a staff officer of the rebel forces.
Thinking that, I left the woman alone and headed toward where the man was.