Being tied up by a monster does feel kind of pleasant.
A tingly, numb sort of feeling.
But even without doing anything, sweat poured off her until her dress was soaked through.
But Lonis soon realized that this monster didn’t just want to toy with her—it wanted to eat her!
Those toxins had only been meant to make her give up resisting. And soon…
“Ah… ahhh!”
A massive tentacle thrust straight into Lonis’s body—it mercilessly pierced the skin on the girl’s arm, greedily drawing out her sweet blood.
The pain hit her head-on. A wound like this was no less than death by a thousand cuts, far beyond what the girl could endure.
Cold sweat covered Lonis’s face. She wanted to scream for help, but the toxins had completely paralyzed her muscles. She couldn’t even make a sound.
Her legs and waist were bound tight. There was no way she could break free.
It felt as if someone had scrambled all your insides, thrown them into a pot, and mashed them together… The pain was so intense, it made you feel like your body wasn’t your own.
Despair, pain, silence…
Lonis had once been the Hero, but she’d never endured this kind of torment. Her mind shattered in an instant.
No…
Or maybe she had experienced it before?
Long ago,
back when I was just an ordinary young man, the feeling of my heart suddenly seizing up and collapsing onto the floor had been just as despairing.
If I’d gotten help in time, I could’ve been saved.
But I didn’t want to deal with other people, so there wasn’t a single outsider in my home.
Even if I died, no one would find my body.
I’d lie there in silence as time slowly rotted me away.
Heh… heh heh…
So,
I really wasn’t cut out to be a Hero, was I?
I should’ve stayed in that little hall a while longer. I should’ve at least figured out how this world worked before setting off on an adventure.
But I’d snuck out because I didn’t want to be treated like a slave or controlled by the system.
Wasn’t that a classic case of charging in without thinking?
A Hero…
I was just throwing my weight around with a power that was basically a cheat.
Maybe someone like me doesn’t deserve to live in this world…
Maybe all I’m good for is being a meal,
bound tight by a monster, swallowed bit by bit, broken down bit by bit.
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…
…
The blood wouldn’t stop flowing. There was nothing I could do.
My body felt like it had been torn into pieces. Countless tentacles had plunged into me, greedily sucking out my blood.
Under the assault of that unbearable pain, I’d completely given up hope of surviving. The only thing I couldn’t let go of was this cute female body.
A real girl would probably cherish it more than someone like me ever could, right?
Part of me wanted to pass out and never wake up.
But…
『I couldn’t pass out.』
To my horror, no matter how horribly the monster attacked my body, it kept trying to heal itself, trying to form blood again.
My consciousness didn’t fade in the slightest. The pain only grew sharper.
That was when I understood what kind of hell I was trapped in:
An immortal body. I couldn’t die.
I’d given my partner that “blessing” because I didn’t want her to die.
But how could the blessing of immortality be anything but a curse?
Even covered in wounds, I couldn’t escape the pain.
Even though her body was in pieces, the poor girl’s body kept trying to repair itself.
No matter how horrible the torment, it wouldn’t stop. I’d be trapped by the monster in its lair, enduring its torture like this forever and ever…
…
The moment I realized that, I broke down.
I struggled hysterically, screaming like a girl. I wanted to escape the monster’s feeding, to get out of this pitch-black cave.
But there was nothing I could do.
That overwhelming strength left me with no chance of breaking free.
Pain that went right to the bone.
Regret and self-reproach.
I didn’t know how many tears I’d shed. Blood was even running from my eye sockets.
I didn’t know how many times I’d tried to lift my fingers, but every time, I failed to break free of the fleshy walls holding me fast.
Drained, violated, whipped, bullied.
My will had shattered, and the pain spread through my body. I felt like I wasn’t human anymore, like I was about to become a lump of flesh, torn to pieces and scattered into countless scraps.
And yet,
just as my consciousness was about to collapse…
…
A flash of light pierced my vision.
Scalding blood splashed across my cheek.
The hideous monster was sliced open. And there, at the very edge of my consciousness…
stood an incredibly beautiful girl with black hair.
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…
I didn’t know how much time had passed.
A woman’s voice slowly came into focus beside my ear.
“Seriously, didn’t the Eternal Module tell you not to go wandering around before I woke up?”
I slowly opened my eyes. A black-haired girl was sitting beside me.
Her gaze was sharp as a sword. Her cool, flawless face had strikingly defined features, and her nose was straight. She was a girl, but clearly stood over 1.75 meters tall.
Her eyes were a deep red, like a pool of blood, and held an inscrutable air.
Possessiveness, command, dominance, reproach?
Maybe she felt all of those things.
She glared at me, clearly furious, and spoke through gritted teeth:
“Looks like ‘you’ really are a disobedient little masochist of a maid. You just woke up, and already you can’t control your desires—you want the ‘Abyssal Tentacles’ to torment you over and over.”
“…”
I didn’t even have the strength to open my mouth and defend myself.
“Don’t worry. Once you’ve recovered, I’ll use the toys left here to train you properly.”
“…”
I seemed to try to shake my head, but all I could manage was probably a pitiful, pleading look.
Seeing me like that only made the black-haired girl’s gaze even more “wicked.”
“I’ll train both your body and your mind until they’re completely mine. Whether you put on an act of resistance or secretly crave it, everything will become proof of your corruption… Look forward to it, you silver-haired little masochist.”
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Interlude: A Troubled Heart
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The black-haired girl watched the silver-haired girl drift off to sleep, then nodded with relief.
Thank goodness. ‘She’ had chosen the path of a masochist, but she’d also been smart enough to choose ‘physical immortality.’
Otherwise, before I could even reach her,
the abyssal tentacle monster would’ve torn her to pieces.
…
Still, there were things to regret. Even though I’d gone as fast as I could, I still hadn’t made it in time.
Lonis had suffered terrifying mental trauma, and my body was in terrible shape too, because I’d been brought into existence too quickly.
The entire ‘Underground Dreamland’ had also used up all its energy. It wouldn’t be able to start up again for a while.
“Sigh…”
The black-haired girl sighed and slumped against the silver-haired girl.
Her lips parted slightly as she silently thought…
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『Idiot. You used my name to name yourself, so what am I supposed to call myself?』
