episode_0110

*

Kunate was writhing on the floor, having lost even the strength to speak.

It was only natural, considering she had a needle spinning in her head, spewing out Holy Power, and had been thoroughly beaten with both hands full of Holy Power.

I didn’t like the way she normally snickered and said she enjoyed the pain, so I tormented her pretty hard this time.

Apparently, it was too painful for her midway, as Kunate briefly transformed into a cat to try and escape, but after being kicked by me and slamming into the wall, she meekly returned to her human form.

I coldly said, stomping on her head as she lay on the floor, drooling.

“When I told you to shut up, you wouldn’t, and now that I’m telling you to talk, you’re clamming up again. Seriously, what a ridiculous bitch. Really.”

“Ugh… ugh,”

“I’m tired too. Hitting people isn’t as easy as it looks.”

“Lies… Have you ever… seen your expression when you resort to violence?”

“Don’t you remember you are not a human? Devils are an exception.”

“You… were born to enjoy making others suffer… you were a dog of a human from birth.”

“You don’t enjoy pain as much as you seem to, do you?”

“You devil. Hell is the perfect place for you.”

“Hey, how can a devil say that to a human?”

I took my foot off her head, bent down, and grabbed her hair.

As I lifted her, Kunate let out a painful groan and struggled.

“Enough with the jokes. Now, I’ll ask again.”

“Agh, aaaaa…”

“Paolo, what did you do?”

“Why are you asking me? Didn’t you beat that trash? He must have been afraid of getting hit by your fist again, like I am now, so he ran away.”

“Ah, here we go again.”

I tightly gripped Kunate’s hair and slapped her across the cheek with my palm.

Unlike Kunate’s soft chest, the skin on the demon’s face that I hit hard felt like tough, dried leather, but my palm was full of Holy Power, so I wasn’t hurt.

The bright light of divine energy lingered between my tingling palm and the lines of my hand.

“Keuh-eok,”

“You said it yourself. You were holding me back, buying time.”

“Keuheuk,”

“That was so I couldn’t interfere, right?”

A few hours ago, after spending the night with Anna, I woke up late in the evening after sleeping all day.

At that time, Kunate came to me with a pathetic seduction.

But there was no way a demon’s seduction would work on me, and Kunate couldn’t have been unaware of that fact.

Ultimately, that nonsense wasn’t meant to seduce me sexually, but for another purpose.

In short, to buy time until Paolo was harmed.

“What kind of trick did you pull? Tell me the truth, quickly.”

Kunate glared at me with her eyes red, spitting black blood mixed with saliva on the floor.

The black blood stuck between her teeth cruelly emphasized her ominous smile.

Kunate said, baring those teeth even more with a sinister smile.

“Ah, Billy. Why are you so fixated on that guy? Oh, could it be, are you perhaps into men? The nuns are just simple playthings, and your true feelings were for a man?”

“You crazy bitch.”

“You should have told me sooner, I could have changed my appearance as much as you wanted. Come on, tell me, do you want a demon’s dick to impale you? Or shall I shove your magnificent thing into a demon’s asshole?”

“Hey, bite down hard.”

I sent my fist straight toward Kunate’s philtrum.

I felt as if the gums behind her philtrum collapsed.

When I withdrew my fist, she coughed up a massive amount of blood on the floor.

“Yeah, spill that blood, that’s the best thing coming out of your mouth. It’s much better than your bullshit and disgusting breath.”

“Y-you… Billy…”

When I released Kunate’s hair, her body fell limply at my feet.

Kunate trembled.

She tried to lift herself up by touching the floor with her hands, but her arms just trembled helplessly and couldn’t exert any real strength.

“You know you’re just going to get beaten without even resisting. Why are you so eager to provoke me?”

“I wonder… Could it be because seeing you pissed off… is so enjoyable…? You enjoy seeing me in pain too, don’t you…?”

“No, I don’t.”

“Liar.”

I put my foot under Kunate’s forehead, which was lying on the floor, and lightly kicked her head up into the air like a ball.

Then, I grabbed her by the neck and threw her onto the bed as if slamming her down.

I plopped down on a chair to meet Kunate’s gaze as she lay sprawled on the bed.

Kunate glared at me through her scattered green hair, gasping for breath.

“Where is Paolo?”

“Hehehe, surely that guy didn’t go to Heaven, did he?”

“Are you saying he’s already dead?”

“Heaven and Hell aren’t places you can go to alive, are they?”

I slapped her head.

“Answer me straight.”

“Keuek, hehe… Hehehe”

“You disgusting bitch.”

“Oh, you like me like this, don’t you.”

“Shut up and answer me, is that bastard dead?”

“I didn’t see his corpse, so I can’t really say.”

“Hey, are you going to keep being difficult?”

“He probably isn’t in a normal state. He’s either a corpse, a monster, or he might have survived by some stroke of luck, but it would be impossible with that miserable body of his after being beaten by you. Well, corpse or monster. Aren’t most of the people left in this world one of those two?”

It seemed Kunate had no intention of speaking nicely to me.

It also seemed that she was just becoming more defiant after being subjected to violence that was close to torture.

But according to Kunate’s words, it was at least certain that Paolo had left this village.

No… actually, even that isn’t certain.

Maybe Kunate is leading me to think that.

How could I possibly win against a devil’s eloquence in the first place?

I pressed down hard on my throbbing temples, took the rosary I had wrapped around my hand, and put it back on the side table.

“Yeah, there’s no point in asking anything, since you’re not going to tell me properly anyway. I’m tired of even talking to you now…”

“Then you’ll have to ask my body, you’re confident in mixing bodies anyway. Even last night, until morning came, you and Anna were…”

“Shut up, I don’t have any more questions.”

I sighed and continued.

“It would be enough if I could be sure that Paolo bastard is dead.”

“Hoo?”

“I need to know that to decide whether to stop the search or not. The nuns aren’t too happy about looking for that guy, so I don’t want to make them work in vain.”

Kunate said as if she was flabbergasted.

“No… so, you beat me up like this just to decide whether to have the nuns search tomorrow or not?”

“Haven’t you ever been made to do something pointless by your superiors? It’s really frustrating. Even more so if it’s something you don’t want to do.”

“This guy is completely crazy.”

“Really, that’s the last thing I want to hear from you.”

I sighed and ruffled my hair.

Yeah, Paolo.

That idiot must have died in the end.

Whether Kunate killed him, Lilith killed him, or he was attacked by a monster while wandering outside the village.

There’s no way for me to know.

Kunate doesn’t seem like she’s going to tell me either.

But the fact that he died was important.

Until now, I couldn’t give up on survivors, at least according to my conscience.

Of course, seeing that I feel a bit of liberation in the fact that he died, in the fact that I don’t have to go looking for that guy anymore, it seems that my conscience has already rotted away.

Even though it’s gradually being tainted, I don’t want to completely give up and stop trying to do good.

There’s a big difference between falling and gliding.

The former dies, and the latter survives.

Even if the conscience in my heart gradually falls, I hoped that at least a small spark would remain.

“Hey.”

When I called out, Kunate gradually sat up on the bed.

Still in pain, she couldn’t hold her head up properly and kept dropping her head to the side.

Her scarlet fingers swept back and tidied up her green hair, which was disheveled and scattered.

I beckoned to Kunate with my finger.

“Take out a cigarette, the one you were smoking earlier.”

“Oh, look at this, what about that herbal cigarette you were smoking?”

“My chest feels stuffy. Herbal cigarettes are literally herbs, so I just need a cigarette.”

“Shall we make a deal?”

“Yeah, you bitch. If you take out a cigarette, I’ll hold back my fists for an hour.”

“Hehehehe, very good.”

Kunate held out her palm to me and instantly made a luxurious leather pouch appear on her hand.

When she clicked the gold button, there were ten brown cigarettes packed tightly inside.

Kunate took out two cigarettes, put them in her mouth, and flicked her finger.

Green Hellfire blazed at the ends of the cigarettes, and she simultaneously sucked in the two cigarettes and lit them.

“Hoo… there’s no taste quite like smoking a cigarette after mixing bodies roughly.”

“Stop with the bullshit.”

“Isn’t this my freedom for an hour?”

“Ha, yeah, do whatever you want.”

Kunate, who exhaled cigarette smoke into the air, handed me one of the cigarettes.

I took the cigarette and put it in my mouth.

“Ugh, damn it, sulfur smell.”

“Ah, that’s right. Humans hate that smell, don’t they? Sorry, you’ll be able to taste the cigarette soon, it’s a famous cigarette for its strong scent.”

“I haven’t seen this cigarette before.”

“It’s from another continent, so you wouldn’t know, you humans haven’t made many ships strong enough to freely travel to other continents.”

“I’ve heard stories from merchants who occasionally come and go, saying there are all kinds of strange places… Actually, I thought most of it was a lie, so I didn’t really listen.”

“Well, there really are all kinds of places in the world. There are even countries that worship a demon as a native god.”

“… Disgusting.”

“Hehehe, keut, keuhi, hihihi”

Kunate chuckled and coughed dryly, clutching near her ribs.

I could tell that she was pretending to be relaxed, at least half-heartedly.

This was because her unique, infuriatingly sly smile, which made viewers angry, didn’t seem as relaxed as usual.

I didn’t bother to point that out.

If I scratched her slightly, that bitch would turn me inside out with her disgusting eloquence again.

I quietly closed my eyes and enjoyed the deep scent of the cigarette, as the scent of sulfur faded and gradually revealed its presence.

“How is it, Billy.”

“How’s what.”

“The taste… that I gave you.”

Kunate deliberately left out a word.

To create a strange atmosphere, or to tease me with that nuance.

I didn’t bother to point out that part.

I was tired of arguing, and in fact, I wanted to give my hand, which was swollen from hitting her, a little rest.

“Isn’t this our first memorable deal?”

“Don’t give it meaning, it’s not that great.”

“Heeung…”

Kunate smiled with satisfaction.

I forced myself to look away from that triumphant face and nodded.

“Yeah, not bad.”

“Not bad?”

Kunate looked slightly surprised.

“Just not bad? It’s on a different level than the ones in your country, the shape and color are like that, and the taste is incomparable.”

“Is it that much?”

“You don’t seem to have tried it very much.”

“I think I’ve tried it to some extent.”

“At most, you’ve only tried a cheap one or two.”

Hold back.

“I guess so.”

“Heeung, then, say it again.”

“…”

“It’s delicious, isn’t it? Among the ones you’ve tasted so far.”

“… Yeah, it’s delicious. Happy?”

“Hihhihihi.”

Kunate laughed, hitting the bed repeatedly as if something was so funny.

“Yeah, I’m happy.”

“Why are you like this.”

“I’ve never been praised by you, how can I not be happy to be praised for something like this.”

Kunate glanced somewhere out of the corner of her eye.

Following her gaze, I turned my head as well, but there was nothing there but a tightly closed door.

*

Lucia couldn’t close her mouth in shock behind the door.

Her ears were covered in a jet-black color.

It was the result of focusing even more strongly on the Ebony Wolf’s sensitive senses, especially hearing.

“The Priest…”

Lucia covered her mouth.

She was afraid that her small voice might be heard by the two of them,

She slowly stepped back, trying not to even breathe.

She had gone to bed alone because the Priest had refused to engage in sexual relations with her, but she suddenly heard a crashing sound from the Priest’s room and came to check on him, worried.

However, the content of the conversation heard from inside the Priest’s tightly closed door was shocking.

“The Priest is… with Kunate-ssi…”

A crashing sound.

Smoking a cigarette after mixing bodies roughly.

“P, Priest… Could it be…”

The Priest has finally crossed the line with the Devil.

Even more.

“More delicious than me… more delicious than Anna… the best so far…”

Lucia quietly stepped back and ran towards Anna’s room.