Chapter 225 - Chapter 221: IF Side Story - Still Getting Devoured (23)
Ominous premonitions always seem to come true.
The search team that had picked out the house they thought was best to loot were now lying cold and dead, scattered across the living room.
The pristine white blade held by the woman in front of me was stained with the blood of those who, just moments ago, had scouted the house with faces full of anticipation.
Even if the soldiers currently lying on the floor weren't properly trained, they weren't so weak that a mere sentient being from Earth could handle them this easily.
This woman was undoubtedly a Hunter.
'They might be a ragtag bunch, weak enough to be easily taken down by Hunters, but they were troops given to me by Mother... I feel like my track record is already being tarnished.'
The happy mood I'd been in just a moment ago, grinning at the thought of gathering loot, had completely vanished.
Now, only rage toward the woman in front of me remained in my heart.
"You... you killed my subordinates... quite easily, didn't you?"
"I just killed the things that trespassed into someone else's home. If you back off now, I won't chase you. If you don't want to..."
"And if I don't want to, what then?"
"Then you die."
To think a mere human would say they'd kill a Succubus, a High Demon.
That human must have lost her mind.
I sharpened my claws and lunged at her, intending to slit her throat right then and there.
As I tried to drive my long, extended claws into her, the woman raised her sword to block me.
'She's trying to block instead of dodging? Then let's see if you can block this too!'
I used magic in one hand to create a massive ice shard and threw it, and the Hunter in front of me tried to deflect it with her sword.
"Stupid."
The moment that massive ice shard collided with the Hunter's sword, it burst, creating ice dust and water vapor from the explosion, and the shattered pieces split into hundreds of hidden weapons that embedded themselves everywhere.
"Ugh!..."
As the thick ice dust and vapor cleared, ice thorns were embedded all over her body, except for her face, which she had protected with a guard stance.
"Heh... you tried to block that with your body? As expected, humans can't do anything in front of magic."
The Hunter, with ice thorns embedded all over her, eventually dropped her sword and slumped to the floor.
"If you're a weakling, you should act like one and crawl on the floor... where do you get off spewing such pathetic nonsense? You there, cut this bitch's throat."
As Miel pointed at the Hunter slumped on the floor and ordered one of her subordinates to cut her throat, an Orc raised its sword and approached the Hunter without hesitation.
"No!"
Then, someone came out from behind the door behind the Hunter.
"From behind the door?... Ah... so you were trying to protect a male? That's why you couldn't dodge. Heh... hehehe..."
"Are you okay? Yu-rin, pull yourself together... pull yourself together!"
A loud explosion, as if a gas leak had gone off, occurred, and as Yu-rin made a sound as if trying to suppress a groan, Seon-ah kicked the door open and emerged.
The scene he witnessed with his own eyes felt so alien, so different from the world he knew.
The studio apartment of the naive rich girl who didn't know the value of money until just a moment ago was ransacked, and in front of him was a woman who looked like she was cosplaying as a Succubus, with green-skinned women behind her armed with weapons and armor.
He had felt something was off since the moment Yu-rin picked up the sword, but witnessing it with his own eyes made him even more confused.
"Ugh... ugh... Seon-ah... I told you... absolutely not to come out..."
"Yu-rin... wait just a moment... I'll call 119... no, I'll call the police, everyone... so they can take those weird women away... so please, stop moving... the blood... it keeps leaking out..."
"It's... no use... those are Monsters... Seon-ah..."
"Monsters?..."
As Seon-ah muttered the word 'Monster' as if asking about a term he was hearing for the first time, Miel looked at the two and said.
"Who are you calling a Monster? You should call us Demons, don't you think?"
'Monster... Demon?... I don't have my memories, so I don't know what's going on...'
"You can't take Seon-ah... we only just met again... absolutely not..."
With those words, Yu-rin tried to get up with a body that was leaking blood from where the ice shards were embedded.
"Yu-rin... don't move... you'll die if you do that... please..."
"Seon-ah... I will... protect you..."
Thud...
As soon as Yu-rin fully sat up, she seemed to go into shock, her body trembling once before she collapsed backward.
"A... no! Yu-rin, pull yourself together!"
Since she was already in shock, Yu-rin was just trembling uncontrollably.
Her eyes were open, but her pupils weren't focused, and she couldn't even look properly at Seon-ah in front of her.
"What are you doing? I told you to cut her throat. If a human male sees his own female's throat get cut, he'll understand the situation well enough. This is the best way to make him even a little bit obedient."
"A... no, you're trying to kill Yu-rin? Absolutely... I won't let you!"
Then, Seon-ah picked up the blood-stained sword Yu-rin had been holding and aimed it at the Orcs.
Since Seon-ah had never used a sword before, he just waited for the Orcs to come, ready to swing it mindlessly.
"Ha... look at him resisting, he's feisty, isn't he? Should I get a good look at his face?... Huh?"
As Miel approached the two little by little, she felt something strange.
It was obvious that there shouldn't be any familiar faces beyond the gate for someone like her who was on her first expedition, but that face looked somewhat familiar.
'Where... where have I seen him before?... Ah...'
As the distance closed to about ten steps from Seon-ah, Miel realized where she had seen that face.
She then took out the talisman she was wearing around her neck and pulled out the photo inside.
Holding it up with one hand, the face of the human male and the protagonist of the photo, who was the husband of Bianca-eonni and her own brother-in-law, were exactly the same.
From the mole under his right eye to his hairstyle, sharp eyes, and pretty face shape, everything was a carbon copy.
Then, the conversation from the day she acquired this photo, when Bianca was fighting a vampire, naturally came to mind.
"Ha... right... that's what it was... you sent your husband... to Earth. I never imagined it. What an incredible woman... how could she give up the man she took as her mate?"
"What... what are you talking about?"
"Heh... you don't need to know anyway."
'I hit the jackpot... Bianca-eonni must have been dragged off by a vampire and died... so I think it would be good to take this male, break him in, carve my Yin Mark on him, and make him my mate?... Of course, if that doesn't work and he's resistant to the end, it's still a profit to just sell him off to another Demon.'
Then, first, what ways are there to break him in?
Miel tilted her head and began to think of ways to make that male feel favorable toward her.
Miel, staring intently at the male, caught sight of the Hunter, who was twitching with ice shards embedded in her.
To gain his favor, it seemed like the priority was to make up for the thing she had done that would make the male wary.
"Oh my. That must really hurt. What a surprise, having thorns embedded in your body."
"...?"
Seon-ah felt suspicious of the fact that the Succubus's attitude in front of him had changed so hypocritically.
Then Miel said to Seon-ah.
"Shall I save that woman?"
"... What are you plotting?"
Seon-ah was wary when the Succubus, who was presumed to have made Yu-rin like that, suddenly changed her attitude and said she would help.
"Don't think of me too badly. I was just angry because my subordinates died. You'd be angry too if a subordinate you cherished died, right? Don't you think?"
"Don't make me laugh... this was Yu-rin's home. You're the ones who trespassed without permission and ransacked everything..."
"Well, that's true... but should we leave that woman like this? Don't you want me to save her?"
The woman who looked like a Succubus in front of him must truly be a devil.
When the woman with the appearance of a devil said she would save my only friend, Yu-rin, my heart was stirred.
"Save her... I'll do anything... I'll even give my life, so please save Yu-rin..."
As Seon-ah finally knelt and begged, Miel began to laugh excitedly.
"Heh.... hehehehe.. Hahahaha! Hahahahaha! Alright, good. But no backing out. Not that you could back out anyway since I'll be making a contract."
Seon-ah's body shuddered at the mention of a contract, but he had no choice but to accept it when he pictured Yu-rin trembling in his mind.
"Alright... but if Yu-rin dies... it's all over... you agree to that too, right?"
"There's a way to save her somehow... somehow, yes."
Miel took out a potion from inside her pocket, removed the ice shards embedded in Yu-rin's body, and sprinkled it on the wounds.
Then, the wounds on Yu-rin's body filled up in an instant, changing as if they had returned to their original state.
"Yu... Yu-rin."
Feeling like Yu-rin had recovered, Seon-ah tried to pick her up.
"Wait a moment. Her body hasn't recovered; I only stopped the bleeding. If you leave her like this, she'll die, so we need more means to recover her body."
"Th... then what should I do..."
"Where else would it be?"
With those words, Miel looked back and forth between Seon-ah and Yu-rin.
"In the Demon World."
Bianca, who was tied up while being tortured, was covered in blood and kept her mouth shut tight.
"Are you not going to tell me to the end where your husband is? You just need to tell me, right?... I'll take good care of him... in your place, since you're dead. How long do you think a human male can last alone in this Demon World?"
She talks as if she'll take care of Seon-ah, but that bitch's intention is definitely to take Seon-ah and use him for sex work.
Just like I did to Seon-ah a few months ago.
However, if Seon-ah were to fall into that bitch's hands, it was obvious he would wander in a hell from which he could never escape and then die.
'Anyway... as long as Seon-ah is on Earth, that won't happen... your prediction is wrong, Vampire... Seon-ah won't wander in the Demon World and die in agony... he'll live a happy life on Earth and die of old age in the arms of his family and friends...'
"Heh... hehehe... Pfft..."
Thinking that Seon-ah could be happy until the very end, a smile formed on its own.
Of course, it was a smile mixed about halfway with a sneer toward the vampire.
Whack!
"You fucking bitch, hurry... hurry and tell me where your husband is! I'm in a rush... I'm in a rush, I tell you... I need that blood... I need that semen! If I don't get it... I feel like I'm going to go crazy right now!"
I don't know what exactly she's in such a rush for, but the vampire seems to be treating Seon-ah like a drug.
"Lean your ear closer... I'll tell you one thing..."
The vampire, who really seemed to be in a rush, thought Bianca had finally given up, so she brought her ear close to Bianca's mouth.
Then Bianca whispered one thing into the vampire's ear.
"I'll absolutely... never tell you, so keep dreaming."
Whack! Whack!
The vampire, deceived by Bianca's trickery through the whisper, lost her mind and swung her fist without mercy.
"Give it to me... my blood... my semen... it's mine! Mine... hurry and give it to me!"
'I don't know the reason... but she seems to want Seon-ah... that she can't kill me because of the clues about Seon-ah... that she can't kill me because of Seon-ah... it's the same whether I'm dragged here or at home... it's truly ironic...'
After the vampire's sadistic violence and torture, Bianca recalled her longing for Seon-ah and lost consciousness.