Chapter 43 - Chapter 41: Episode 40 - Succubus Miel (4)
Miel had a dream.
She saw herself at age five, a gentle hand stroking her.
A middle-aged human man.
Her mother never said who he was, but Miel instinctively knew that man was her father.
He'd been her caretaker since she was very young, always speaking to her with respect, and she remembered fondly following him because she loved the way his hand would pat her head whenever she did something good.
But those happy days eventually came to a brutal end.
Her mother had grown tired of the middle-aged man who was her sex slave, and sold him to another noble.
The man she'd been with every single day. When her father disappeared, Miel started crying far more often.
And when she turned thirteen, she ran away from home.
She set out to find her father, who had vanished.
Having heard he was sold to the noble ruling the neighboring territory, Miel—who had been able to fly using her wings since she was thirteen—went straight to that noble.
Since her mother was a noble of higher rank than the one governing that territory, they treated her kindly.
But no matter how much she searched, the middle-aged man supposedly sold to that territory was nowhere to be found.
Human males were rare, so he was bound to be inside the lord's castle, but when she asked the maids, most said they didn't know.
However, one maid who had worked there for a long time told her what became of him.
She heard that a middle-aged human man had been executed years ago as a runaway slave.
The execution consisted of dousing him in all kinds of stimulants and aphrodisiacs, then throwing him into the slums and leaving him for the poor to rape as they pleased.
Most died from being violated.
Miel, her face pale, headed towards the slums.
The smell of rotting filth and garbage made her frown.
There, in a completely filthy state, drooling and loudly screaming for someone to please rape him, was a mad creature.
As it slowly approached me.
I could tell what it was.
The middle-aged man who had always cherished me and treated me with such affection.
It was her father.
But he didn't recognize me, having completely fallen to male corruption, not even recognizing his own daughter Miel—he just crazily begged for someone to rape him.
It was so agonizing.
After that, she cut off all interest in males.
Trash that turned exactly like that middle-aged man when drenched in aphrodisiacs and stimulants.
That was Miel's perception of males.
Until she met that Seed-sower...
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There was once a man.
He was an Earthling, but about thirty years ago, at the age of twenty-one, he was dragged to the Demon World.
Sold there by a slave trader, he was then bought by the Succubus Lord of a certain territory.
Thinking he would be brutally raped to death if dragged off by monsters, he was wary of the succubus, but...
She was a woman so ladylike you wouldn't even think she was a monster.
She only seduced him, never forcing herself on him.
When he asked why her behavior was different from the monsters he knew...
"The rule is that a succubus only fucks a man when he accepts her seduction. But you're still on guard, so how could I fuck you?"
The man fell for the succubus's ladylike mindset and gave his body to her.
And he had several children with the Succubus Lord.
Among them, the youngest daughter, Miel, was frail from birth, unlike her older sisters.
Her wings were so small they were nearly deformed, and her weight was so low you could call her a premature baby without exaggeration.
The man cherished his youngest daughter the most.
Whether it was a protective instinct to shield the weak, he treasured Miel above all others.
But the more time he spent with Miel, the more jealous the Succubus Lord became.
She had become a pathetic mother who was jealous of her own daughter.
In the year Miel turned five, the man who had been twenty-one was now a middle-aged man in his fifties.
One night, the Succubus Lord entered Miel's room.
Every time Miel went to sleep, the middle-aged man would lie beside her, telling her stories about the Earth he lived on or fairy tales, to put her to sleep.
But what she saw that day made the lord furious.
He was kissing the sleeping Miel's forehead...
'Goodnight, our lovely princess.'
Seeing him say that while patting her, the lord's jealousy exploded.
A succubus only takes one mate in their entire life.
There are succubi who take concubines, but they can only have children by sleeping with the one whose yin mark they bear.
Thus, by performing the ritual of carving their yin mark, they choose that person as their mate.
Furthermore, a mate bearing the yin mark shared pleasure and pain with the succubus.
It was literally proof that he was her other half.
Since the man had allowed the Succubus Lord to fuck him, he bore the Succubus Lord's yin mark.
The lord had not a single concubine.
Frustrated that her one and only man paid attention only to their daughter and no longer came to her, the Succubus Lord tried to force herself on him right there.
So their daughter would wake up and see.
It was meant to plant a warning not to touch her man, but when the man strongly refused, the Succubus Lord's rage finally exploded completely.
So she sold him to the noble governing the neighboring territory.
She wasn't afraid of not being able to have more children.
Because they had so many children between them.
From that point on, the Succubus Lord began to grow violent.
Every so often, when the pleasure and pain of her mate being violated coursed through her body, she would go mad with jealousy.
One day, maddening pleasure and pain began constantly racing through her entire body.
Then, one day, the pain was so immense her heart nearly stopped.
The Succubus Lord realized her mate had died.
When she asked the lord of the neighboring territory, he said the man had become a runaway slave, so they made an example of him with that execution.
When she asked why the man had run away, the neighboring lord said this.
The last words he managed to speak before the execution's aphrodisiacs and stimulants stripped away his reason were that he wanted to go back to his youngest daughter.
The Succubus Lord was furious with him for favoring Miel exclusively until the very end.
He was gone now, but she hated Miel so much for having stolen all the love that should have been directed at her.
From then on, the Succubus Lord began to torment Miel.
Killing her seemed too easy an end for the wretch who had stolen her love.
So she made her other daughters torment Miel.
She herself would subtly ignore her at times, but would scold her harshly for even the tiniest mistake.
Not only did she deliberately compare her to her other sisters, but she also made her own subordinates join in, aiming to crush her spirit.
When she went out to the Gate, she purposely sent only fresh recruit orcs.
She even gave her no more than sixteen, just two squads.
For her other daughters, she would mix in over a hundred orcs as a baseline, along with veteran ogres who could serve as adjutants or other staff officers.
She wanted her to come back seriously injured, so she could mock her for being crippled and humiliate her.
But she came back alive and unharmed.
However, since she lost all her orc soldiers, she got angry.
In truth, taking new recruits and returning with her body intact was an incredible feat.
Especially with such small numbers and it being her first time commanding a battle, it was even more remarkable.
But she didn't want to praise her.
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Because she was the woman who had stolen and devoured her man's love.
Besides, she said she brought back one prisoner, but there was no need to take it away.
Just because she got one Awakened toy didn't mean the torment from her and her daughters would stop.
Rather, she could just wait until that toy became important and snatch it away.
The Succubus Lord wore a vile smile, feeling that her rage towards her youngest daughter had still not subsided.
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Despite thinking she wouldn't be able to sleep, Miel was exhausted. The moment she collapsed onto the bed, she fell into a dream.
A dream that started so happy but turned into such a painful nightmare in the end...
It was absurd that she, who was also called a Dream Demon, was plagued by a nightmare.
Still, she felt oddly refreshed today.
She felt like being a little generous to that Seed-sower.
Constantly calling him 'Seed-sower' was starting to feel a bit awkward.
Trying to say 'male' just reminded her of that middle-aged man.
Ah...
The woman tied up in the room kept calling him Seon-ah, so Miel figured she might as well use that name too.
The name was easy to pronounce, and she liked the sound of it.
Since Seon-ah kept using that long-winded 'Succubus-nim,' which felt awkward, maybe she should tell him her name too.
Then that female would make a more amusing expression and get jealous, right?
Miel felt even more anticipation about going to the secret room today.