Chapter 297 - Chapter 295: Episode 295
I followed the Alraune Queen's escort out of the lush, deep forest.
Then, the Alraune escorts signaled that humans were directly ahead.
A few seconds later, I saw a familiar face leading the troops.
"...Lee Ji-eun?"
"Heh, found you. Secure the target and wipe out the monsters!"
"...Hey! Hey! Wait! Wait a second! These guys are on my side! They're my daughters! Wait! Just wait...!"
I waved my hands wildly to stop Lee Ji-eun and her troops from starting a fight.
The Alraunes didn't react much even as I stepped forward to join the humans.
Seeing no hostile actions from the Alraunes,
Lee Ji-eun stopped aiming her gun and gestured for her troops to lower their weapons as well.
"...Daughters? What are you talking about? Don't tell me... you...."
"...Ugh, I couldn't help it. ...I got captured and had to do this and that....
Anyway, there's a rebellion happening among the Alraunes right now, okay? These ones are on the side of letting me go....
Ah, I don't know. Let's just get out of here for now. I'll tell you the details later."
"Hmm...? Really...? Fine. Hey, you monsters over there. We'll take it from here.
Don't follow us. If you do, I'll assume you have other intentions."
As Lee Ji-eun shouted guardedly,
the Alraunes stared at me with sad, longing eyes, but they stayed put.
It broke my heart a little to see them standing there like statues, eyes welling up with tears.
Some of the Alraunes, perhaps having learned human greetings from the internet, waved their hands to see me off.
Escorted by Lee Ji-eun and her troops, we completely left the Alraune territory.
Then, Lee Ji-eun stopped me and told me to stay still.
"...Huh? Why? We need to get out of here quickly."
"More importantly..., there's one thing I absolutely have to do. Stay still. You'll get hurt."
Lee Ji-eun suddenly leveled her sharp sword at me.
"...Why, why are you doing this? Why are you pointing a sword at me...? ...Why, why are you doing this? ...H, huh? What is wrong with you, seriously?"
"Stay still. It'll be over soon."
- Whoosh, swish -
Lee Ji-eun swung her sword at me as if she were performing a sword dance.
The movements were so casual, like she was swatting a fly, that I wondered what the hell this bitch was doing.
At first.
'...Huh? ...Why is my height suddenly shrinking?'
But as my balance collapsed and my field of vision plummeted to the ground...,
and as excruciating pain began to radiate from both my shoulders and thighs...,
I realized this crazy bitch had used Sword Energy to attack me.
"...Kuh-ack! Gyaaaaaaaah!!!!!"
"Ah, I should've gagged you. I was in such a rush I forgot.
Uh-oh, Do-jin-ah, don't bite your tongue. Be careful. Let's try to stop the bleeding with mana first."
My limbs were cut off!
Lee Ji-eun, this crazy bitch, cut off my limbs!!
"I'll regenerate them perfectly with a top-tier healing potion when we get home,
so don't look at me with such resentment.
This is all for you and me.
I'm going to fake it so it looks like you really died here. Just hold on a little longer. Heh.... Hehehe....
If there are other girls chasing you,
they'll have to give up when they see you dead here. Just bear with it."
"...Kheu-eup! Keu-euk...."
The pain is so intense I can't even speak properly.
I feel like I'm going crazy.
My consciousness is fading.
I think I'm going to lose consciousness.
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"Did he pass out? ...Looks like the bleeding is perfectly stopped, right?"
"Yes, Miss. The target's bleeding, which you stopped, is perfectly controlled."
"Let's burn his limbs... and stage it like he was killed here. Anyone here good at this? No one?"
"""......."""
"I'll ask Mom to give you a bonus. How about a 100% bonus?"
"...U-um, I'm from the North Korean Infiltration Special Forces, so I've faked deaths a few times before..., I'll give it a try."
"...I, I also remember doing it a few times in the past...."
"Ahem, back in the day, I did some part-time work as a mortician and helped with a few Hunter autopsies...."
"Oh, great. You three, give it a go."
The goal was to leave traces behind using Kim Do-jin's limbs and then leave.
They lit something like a campfire and scorched and burned parts of the limbs.
They left traces on purpose as if he had died there, leaving parts of the limbs as evidence.
"It's done. This will fool them completely."
They made it look like the head and torso had been completely destroyed and vanished, while leaving some limbs unburned.
If someone comes here later, finds the human limbs, and checks the identity via fingerprints or DNA..., Kim Do-jin will come up.
Then people will think that Kim Do-jin, who luckily survived the shelling, unfortunately died here in the forest.
"Good. Now let's get out of here."
Lee Ji-eun smiled contentedly.
Everything had gone according to plan.
She shoved Kim Do-jin, who had become smaller in volume now that his limbs were gone, into a duffel bag she was holding with one hand.
And carrying that duffel bag, she felt very satisfied.
Lee Ji-eun and the troops she led began moving rapidly toward the rendezvous point where they had gotten off the helicopter.
A while later,
a rustling sound came from the bushes, and Azael appeared.
-Rustle-
"Hmm..., of all things, the most troublesome human female took him....
Still, cutting off her husband's limbs.... Her temper wasn't just fucking nasty.
She's cruel and bold. Using her head to avoid other pursuers.
But..., I had a feeling this might happen, so I hid and filmed everything. Hehe."
Azael's phone contained clear footage of what Lee Ji-eun had done.
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I woke up from my sleep and opened my eyes.
The first thing I checked was my arms and legs.
"...Was it a dream?"
My arms and legs were perfectly fine.
But where am I?
It looks like some kind of basement....
- Creeeak -
The sound of the iron door's hinges was creepily long.
Looking toward the sound, the thick iron door of the basement opened, and Lee Ji-eun was walking in.
"You're awake?"
She was smiling brightly.
What is she so happy about?
Come to think of it,
I remembered what Lee Ji-eun used to pester me with.
Didn't she say she'd lock me in some villa basement and make me her sex slave for life?
"...Am I going to be locked up here for the rest of my life and have to be your sex slave?"
"Probably...?"
"You won't let me go even if I beg you, right?"
"Probably?"
"But why aren't you binding me with chains or anything? What if I escape?"
"If that's your preference, I'll do it. But you're weaker than the dirt under my fingernails right now.
Thanks to you, I've become much stronger than I was before. Oh, did you know?
I had my Second Awakening. And I can handle both Chaos and non-attribute mana.
That uptight Ahn Seo-yeon told me I'd be able to graduate early easily?
But I think so too. With skills like this, early graduation is totally possible."
The gap in power is so huge,
I guess there's no need to tie me up.
"If you were going to try to commit suicide, I'd put chains on your limbs and a gag on you,
but you can't easily commit suicide anyway because of the suicide prevention function in your Yin Mark.
Oh, and I checked your Yin Mark, and your mana has increased a bit, hasn't it?
Did you eat a lot of good stuff in the forest? So I used all that excess mana...,
to upgrade the suicide prevention app function. Just in case you make a bad choice.
I went through all the trouble of bringing you here..., you shouldn't do anything extreme."
As soon as I heard her, I opened my character window.
[ Character ]
Strength : F+
Agility : C+
Stamina : F+
Magic Power : FFF- (Yin Mark applied. Enhanced Suicide Prevention + 5 others)
Insight : F+
Spirit : F+
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Charm : SSS-
Height : F- (Shota's Curse)
Physique : SSS-
Appearance : SSS-
Penis : SSS-
Virility : SSS-
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Bonus Stat Points : 2
Traits : Special Pheromone That Seduces the Opposite Sex, Femme Fatale
'My Magic Power decreased from FFF+ to FFF-, and the word "Enhanced" was added in front of suicide prevention....'
It's hopeless.
It feels like I'll never be able to escape Lee Ji-eun's clutches.
If I had known it would be like this, I would have stayed with the Alraunes.
I'm trembling in fear of how Lee Ji-eun will torment me.
"Why are you so scared? We haven't even started yet....
Seeing you so terrified and afraid already..., it turns me on so much...♡"
'This crazy psycho bitch....'
Lee Ji-eun is fondling her pussy while grabbing and stroking my penis with her hand.
Ah, come to think of it, I was naked....
I was so flustered and it was so familiar that I didn't even realize I was naked.
"Hey♡ Aren't you going to thank me? I used a top-tier healing potion to heal your limbs perfectly, you know♡"
"...Y, you were the one who cut them off. Lee Ji-eun, you were the one who cut them off...."
"That's that, and this is this. Do you know how expensive a top-tier healing potion is? I used it on you....
Hmph..., if you don't thank me, I'll cut your limbs off again or make them unusable like I did before. Hmph."
'What is this nutjob saying? And did she just say "hmph"? It's not like she's trying to act like a tsundere....'
I wanted to tell the crazy bitch to get a grip,
but I realized that provoking Lee Ji-eun right now would be a very stupid move.
It seemed best to just obediently submit to her.
"...Th, thank you."
"Hey. Why are you talking informally?"
"...Th, thank you very much."
"That's it♡ Good boy♡ If you talk informally again? Next time, it's a belly punch without warning, okay?"
"...Yes, yes...."