Chapter 52 - Chapter 50: Episode 49 - Apology
Yu-rin had finished the wedding and left for her honeymoon with Seon-ah.
On their first night at the hotel in Hawaii, she kneaded Seon-ah's pale skin like dough.
Seon-ah clung to her and whispered.
"Yu-rin-ah, you know? I'm so happy right now."
Yu-rin responded, her voice soft.
"Me too. Now... we'll be together forever."
"Yu-rin-ah... I can't hold it back anymore. Let's do it. Do it hard, like you're going to break me... I love you."
Seon-ah pestered her, desperate to have sex.
Unable to hold back herself, Yu-rin began stripping him, her movements violent, as if she meant to tear his clothes to shreds.
Seon-ah lay back, his face flushed, looking up at her with eager anticipation.
"Come to me..."
Even before the main event began, Yu-rin was breathing heavily as she lowered her hips.
Seon-ah's moans of pleasure filled the room, accompanied by the wet, rhythmic sound of skin slapping against skin.
But I didn't feel a thing.
There was nothing beneath me.
The sound was coming from beside me.
Over there,
"Miel... ha-eut... I love you."
Seon-ah was pinned under a blonde, brown-skinned succubus with sheep-like horns, letting out cries of pleasure.
He called out that woman's name instead of mine, continuing their intense mating as if I didn't even exist.
It was agonizing, but I couldn't look away, watching the act until the very end.
Finally, when Seon-ah ejaculated, Miel pulled away.
She turned toward me, lay back, and spread her pussy open with her fingers.
Seon-ah's thick semen dripped slowly from her, steam rising in the air.
She sneered, boasting about what was inside her as if showing it off on purpose.
Whether she tensed her stomach or not, a gush of semen spilled out from her belly.
Thinking it was a waste, I began to walk slowly toward her, and the moment I tried to bury my face in it...
I woke up from the dream.
Yu-rin realized it was a dream and remembered where she was.
This place, without Seon-ah, was hell.
She had experienced similar dreams hundreds of times over the last hundred days, but at least in those, there was the hope of being with Seon-ah.
After returning, she had been happy to be free from that pain at first.
Until she felt the void where Seon-ah should have been.
Her 'hope' was undoubtedly being toyed with by that succubus in that wretched place.
As she recalled Seon-ah's face, tears poured down her cheeks.
Her whole body began to shiver.
The liquid dripping down her lower body cooled, and as the wetness grew cold, the heat in Yu-rin's heart turned to ice.
She had lost consciousness while being beaten by Min-ah, Seon-ah's mother.
When she woke up, she was lying on the bed in her room.
Her body was a wreck.
She couldn't move a finger, let alone her neck.
She had no feeling in her feet, either.
When Min-ah had attacked her in a rage, she had shattered every bone in her hands and feet.
It was clearly to ensure she couldn't run away.
There was only one reason Min-ah had snapped and attacked her.
MnZBMElkRjFKc3ZCR0RiWklQRlA5U3ZCb3dHV0RHcG5FbWJMN0l4VnVtL1E5UHJjK014WkRBYUpiUFZpK2NmRw
When she claimed there was a way to save Seon-ah, Min-ah had accused her of "toying with her" and beaten her until she was nearly dead.
In fact, Yu-rin was the first person in the world to be dragged into a Gate and return alive.
Explaining how she managed to escape was a story that sounded like a miracle.
And when she tried to coax Min-ah with that information, Min-ah had flown into a blind rage, beating her to the brink of death.
Min-ah couldn't believe a word Yu-rin said.
Considering the ruin that bitch had brought upon their family, trusting her was out of the question.
She had only survived by pure luck, yet she was now spouting lies about having a way to bring Seon-ah back.
She must have been desperate to save her own skin, spewing such nonsense.
However, deep in the corner of her heart, she was desperate to save Seon-ah.
Even though she couldn't trust Yu-rin.
She decided to hear the method out.
She forcibly snapped her dislocated jaw back into place and focused on the rest of the conversation.
Filled with anger toward Seon-ah, she thought, "Please, don't die so easily."
Yu-rin felt someone enter her room.
It was Yu-ra, her mother, and Min-ah, who had beaten her so severely earlier.
An awkward silence hung in the air for a long moment.
Then, breaking the silence, Min-ah got straight to the point.
"So, what is the way to save Seon-ah?"
"High Demons find it easy to open and close Gates. We capture high-ranking monsters... and go to the world where those bastards live..."
"The high-ranking monsters we've encountered while closing Gates would rather die than try something like that. It's near impossible."
High-ranking monsters—High Demons—possessed immense pride.
They were intelligent and could speak, but they treated humans as inferior livestock.
They acted as if they wouldn't even deign to speak to cattle.
"Still... if we keep trying, it might be possible. There were some monsters who were afraid of losing their lives..."
In fact, among the patrons, monsters of a lower rank than the succubus would sometimes watch the succubus's mood. While serving as a slave in Miel's room, she had seen a maid who glanced at Seon-ah's body once beg for her life when Miel flew into a rage.
Of course, Miel had mercilessly cut her throat with her fingernails.
It wasn't a completely impossible story.
There was a slim chance that a High Demon with lingering attachments to life might cross over through the Gate.
Min-ah and Yu-ra looked surprised at the story.
Then, Yu-rin stated her condition.
"But the plan requires me. The Demon World is as vast as Earth. I'm the only one who remembers the place where the succubus lived."
In truth, finding such a place in a world as vast as Earth wouldn't be easy.
But if you knew the territory was ruled by a Succubus Lord, it changed things.
You could simply search the territories ruled by succubi in the Demon World.
Since Seon-ah would be imprisoned in the territory that matched Yu-rin's memory, it was more realistic than searching blindly.
Of course, no one knew how long that would take.
They would be in the middle of enemy territory, with no supplies and no idea what would happen if they were discovered.
Min-ah couldn't commit to such uncertainty.
Hyeon-tae's condition was so dire he could die at any moment.
Although her feelings about Seon-ah were complicated, she had to take care of Hyeon-tae.
"No... Seon-ah's father... Hyeon-tae is on the verge of death right now. I understand what you're saying, but I can't leave my husband to go save Seon-ah..."
"Is that so? Then, when Father's condition recovers... please come find me again then."
Yu-rin shamelessly called him "Father," but Min-ah couldn't bring herself to hit her.
It was partly because she said she would risk her life for Seon-ah, but mostly because no one but Yu-rin had any way to save him.
Only this bitch knew where Seon-ah was trapped.
Min-ah wanted to find a way to save Seon-ah once Hyeon-tae recovered.
A parent's heart was so great that she would even do as this bitch—whom she wanted to tear to pieces—suggested, if it meant finding her precious son.
Yu-ra tried to find a way she could help after hearing Min-ah and Yu-rin's words.
Something she, as the representative of the Hwaryong Guild, could do.
She planned to establish a large-scale project in the Hwaryong Guild to conquer that other world.
If they took on the task of recruiting personnel for combat and supplies, and capturing High Demons as discussed, they could proceed with Yu-rin's plan more easily.
No, they absolutely had to do it.
It was the only atonement she could make to the best of her ability.
Yu-rin received the position of a Duty Hunter and began her alternative service.
However, unlike typical Duty Hunters, she received a different assignment.
Typical Duty Hunters belonged to the Combat Support Team and only did work related to supplies or mopping up remaining monsters in the Gate.
The position Yu-rin received was as a regular combatant, even in the Vanguard Team, where casualties were frequent.
Normally, this would be a position she should refuse, but Yu-rin asked Yu-ra for it because she wanted to gain combat experience quickly.
She did it because she never wanted to feel the helplessness she had shown in front of Miel and Seon-ah again when they crossed over to that other world.
That was how Yu-rin was deployed to a Gate mopping-up operation for the first time as a C-rank Hunter.