Chapter 67 - Chapter 65: Episode 64 - Side Story) What the Two Have in Common
Four months had passed since Yu-rin and Miel lost Seon-ah.
They were holding a departure ceremony before entering the Gate, alongside the numerous Expedition Team forces.
The two recalled the events of the past four months, reflecting that so much had happened in that time.
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From the day Yu-rin returned after letting Seon-ah get taken from her like an idiot, Miel always looked at her with a cold gaze dripping with mockery.
That crazy woman might kill her if she got angry, but Miel didn't care.
The pain and pleasure she felt in her own body made it hard to hold onto her sanity.
Shortly after losing Seon-ah, these unpleasant sensations had begun to dominate her entire body.
All because of who?
It was Park Yu-rin's fault for making her lose Seon-ah.
Miel was so angry she wanted to tear that woman apart and kill her once she fully regained her strength.
Of course, even if she regained her power in the Demon World and fought Yu-rin, her chances of winning were less than half.
That much grief over losing Seon-ah had turned into rage.
Yu-rin seemed apologetic to Miel too, and whenever Miel said things like that, she just listened silently without a word.
Then Yu-rin brought up a hopeful story.
"When Seon-ah comes back to me, I'll keep him tied to me and take care of him forever. You'll be by his side too."
Miel had to correct that.
Because it wasn't hope—it was only a story of despair for Seon-ah.
"Why do you torment Seon-ah like that? If you love someone, it's normal to cherish them, isn't it?"
Miel asked as if she was genuinely curious.
There was a reason she made Seon-ah suffer.
There was pleasure in the process of breaking Seon-ah's mind and reassembling it, in savoring the deepest parts of his memories.
But after it was over, when his memories were sealed and she looked at Seon-ah's face as he acted spoiled, that expression of happiness when she treated him kindly was so wonderful.
In the end, to see Seon-ah at his happiest, she needed to drop him to the very bottom. She chose that path just to see that look.
They were just necessary steps to see Seon-ah at his happiest.
But this crazy bitch looks at Seon-ah with a sadistic expression, as if she only wants him to suffer.
To the point where she clearly sees him as an object for her own sexual desires and sadism.
Then Yu-rin answered her question.
Seeing there wasn't a shred of hesitation, it wasn't a lie.
"If you only cherish them, isn't that no different from treating them like an object? It's natural to give your feelings to that person and receive them back."
She wasn't wrong.
Because what Yu-rin said was no different from what she herself did.
Still, Yu-rin had a somewhat twisted sensibility.
"But then why do you get resentful looks after tormenting him?"
Honestly, she couldn't understand this woman.
She herself had a desire to dominate and conquer Seon-ah, but it seemed Yu-rin felt that most intensely when Seon-ah was in pain.
It was clear: she satisfied her desire to conquer and dominate by feeling that the person she loved accepted everything she did, even the things he hated most.
The mental state of this woman, who spoke as if everything was perfectly natural, wasn't normal from her perspective either. And when she had rummaged through Yu-rin's memories last time to find the succubus who kidnapped Seon-ah...
She wasn't normal.
Most of the emotions a normal human should have were barely there.
Only the emotions related to Seon-ah fluctuated violently.
Especially when something happened to Seon-ah or when he was in pain, the intensity of those emotions seemed fierce.
To this woman, Seon-ah was...
A means to amplify her own faint emotions.
That was her conclusion.
"Ha... Even in the Demon World, there probably aren't many freaks as twisted as you."
That was an expert's opinion.
Succubi had the ability to control minds and memories to a certain extent.
In fact, in the Arandel territory ruled by the Succubus Lord, there were cases where demons whose minds had been shattered by mental trauma or psychic attacks came for treatment.
She herself had done that kind of work until she kidnapped Seon-ah and Yu-rin.
Having read countless memories over the years while doing that work, even among demons who did rough jobs like mercenary work, very few were this twisted.
She had seen a few, but most of them had become twisted in their sexual desires or personalities due to mental stress.
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But this woman was different.
She was born twisted.
"Did you torment people around you even when you were young?"
Yu-rin recalled her childhood.
"Hmm... Now that I think about it, since I was in daycare?"
And it seemed to have stopped once Seon-ah entered the same daycare.
Back when she tormented other kids, there were things like Seon-ah letting her kiss him or touch his body the way she wanted.
Instead of tormenting others, she satisfied those impulses by touching Seon-ah's body.
Looking back now, she thought those impulses might have all turned into sexual desire toward Seon-ah.
However, Yu-rin didn't understand that because she could no longer control that sexual desire, the tormenting nature had surfaced along with it.
"As I thought, you're innately messed up in the head. Want to try getting treatment from me?"
Miel nodded once as if to confirm her thoughts, then looked at Yu-rin and spoke.
"I'll pass on that. Considering what you did to Seon-ah, why would I let you touch my head?"
Normally, Yu-rin would have said something like "Are you crazy?", but maybe because she felt a little sorry for Miel, she put it indirectly.
Looking at what Miel had actually done, she couldn't be trusted.
On top of that, it hadn't been long since Seon-ah was taken by that succubus.
Yu-rin couldn't trust the monsters called succubi at all.
Because every succubus she had seen was nothing but a scheming, deceitful monster.
Still, she could tell how Miel felt about Seon-ah from the way she acted now.
After all, Miel had done so many things to monopolize Seon-ah until now.
'Still, I have to work together with her until we get Seon-ah back.'
And so the two spent four months exchanging various conversations and getting to know each other.
Since both their interests were focused on the man named Seon-ah, once they brought up topics related to him, the conversation never ended.
Because once they entered the Demon World, they would have to fight back-to-back, they compromised for the sake of their goal.
In the end, they were love rivals who might have to fight over Seon-ah again once this was over, but for their current goal, there was no ally who understood each other better than this.
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When the day's ordeal ended,
Seon-ah used his healing ability on his own body one last time to recover.
His lungs, which had been struggling for air, stabilized, and his entire body, which had turned red in places, returned to its original white skin.
Then the succubi erased the characters written on Seon-ah's body.
This succubus, the one who had written on his body with a pen, would count all the '正' characters after each day's ordeal and record them in a notebook.
The Lord had said that later, when Miel returned, she would reveal the number of times he had been violated right in front of her eyes.
It was like a situation you'd only see in a manga.
He had been too out of it to notice until now, but this wasn't the kind of thing monsters would think of.
"Who the hell came up with this?"
Seon-ah said, looking at the succubus who had been recording in the notebook just moments ago.
"Oh, that? I suggested we do it."
Could this succubus also have had a previous life, like him?
"Where did you learn that from?... It's something you'd do in a manga..."
Then the succubus holding the notebook said boastfully,
"I learned everything from watching H-Tommy and P-Hub. When I was captured on Earth, you know."
And she kept chatting.
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The succubus proudly said that she was the one who had captured him.
Thinking back, he had been violated by that kidnapper, then passed out and woke up to find himself being passed around by the succubi here.
Gritting his teeth...
As he recalled that day, Seon-ah ground his teeth in betrayal.
He had been having sex with Miel just moments before, and then suddenly things turned rough. Miel moved aside, and that kidnapper was violating him.
Could Miel have not known?
The thought that he had been sold out to the kidnapper.
He was consumed by the thought that Miel had allowed that kidnapper to 'use' his body.
The woman he had thought was his wife had blindfolded him, deceived him, and done something like that.
It must have been the same the day before, when he was blindfolded.
At first, he thought, "Why?"
But now, only betrayal and sorrow filled his heart.
Even now, the reason he was being passed around by succubi might be because Miel had sold him out, and he kept sinking into depression with that thought.
He was trapped there, and now he was trapped here, being violated.
He felt a sense of wrongness, as if he had become a sex slave.
'A man being a sex slave instead of a woman.'
What he had learned since childhood was common sense: men, not women, were more vulnerable to sexual violence.
Yet somehow, it felt the complete opposite.
Had he been violated so much that common sense had been reversed?
That didn't seem to be the case.
It just seemed that his own values were different from everyone else's.
Moreover, he had a very faint feeling that there was a man and a woman who had taken care of him.
Like his parents...
That couldn't be.
He was an orphan, and he had dated an older woman named Miel, calling her 'noona' and living with her like family.
Seon-ah thought it was truly strange.