#2 Counterattack, Poor Demon-nim

Exorcists inherently possess resistance to sorcerous hypnosis.

Not only do they possess a certain degree of inherent resistance, but it is also a fundamental duty for an exorcist to maintain sorcerous defenses to constantly prepare for external sorcerous attacks.

However, Wolyeong, while receiving ‘education’ at that very mansion, had personally undone each of those sorcerous defenses.

Her resistance to hypnosis was forcibly lowered, and instead of resisting sorcery like hypnosis, her body was ingrained with the habit of accepting it without resistance.

Thanks to this, the current Wolyeong has become a worthless female, weak to hypnosis. She became an easy woman who would fall for even a light seduction using a Demon’s hypnosis.

‘But if it’s like this, she could fall for other guys, couldn’t she?’

Daom, who was responsible for all of this and had turned Wolyeong into a hypnotized worthless female, then thought.

After all this effort to cook her so deliciously, someone might suddenly butt in and snatch her away, couldn’t they?

Therefore, she took additional measures.

Through a month-long period of education, she ingrained in Wolyeong who her true master was.

Wolyeong is still a worthless female, weak to hypnosis.

However, no matter what hypnosis she falls under, no matter what situation she is in, Wolyeong’s fundamental awareness of her ‘true master-nim’ remains unchanged.

That takes precedence over any hypnotic suggestion ingrained afterward and will not disappear.

No matter what hypnosis she is subjected to, Wolyeong will forever be─the Chairman’s and Daom’s. That fact will never change.

* * *

The moment I regained consciousness, I honestly didn’t understand the entire situation.

But I could immediately recognize that I had fallen for some trickery, and that the man in front of me was an enemy. And that was enough to take action.

“Ryeong~ Are you okay?”

“…There’s no problem, but….”

I briefly checked my appearance. And Daom’s too.

We were both naked. There were also many traces suggesting it was right after sex. In fact, the man I had just sent flying was thrusting his dick into me.

…There was nothing strange about it. It’s natural and obvious for a male to thrust his dick into a female’s pussy. No, I’m not a female, though.

Anyway, that’s how I was educated at the mansion. So it’s not strange.

‘But the problem is, he’s an enemy.’

It’s not strange for a man and a woman to have sex. But if the opponent is an enemy that must be defeated, then having sex with such an enemy is strange. Or so it seemed.

『────!!』

As I was thinking that, a terrible shriek echoed from beyond the terribly collapsed wall, in the direction where I had just sent the man flying.

Rather than a groan of pain.

Neither this voice nor this aura was human. Nor was it merely that of a beast.

“…What is that?”

“Indeed, what could it be?”

“Why is there a──Demon here?”

Beyond the collapsed wall and the rising dust, its form became visible.

The man who had just been sent flying was covered in blood, and parts of his body were grotesquely twisted… but those parts were arbitrarily regenerating, and conversely, swelling and expanding with muscle.

His skin color also changed. Teeth sprouted, and his fingernails grew long and sharp. The swelling muscles looked like they would burst, and his body size instantly more than doubled.

No matter how you looked at it, it was a Demon. Above all, the clear Demonic Power and Demonic Aura emanating from this close proximity proved that he was undoubtedly a Demon.

“It could be a Demon that was in disguise, or perhaps a human who turned into a Demon. That ‘grace’ thing is suspicious… So what will Ryeong do? The opponent might be human, you know?”

The answer was decided. There was nothing to ponder.

As I lightly manipulated my Spirit Power, something was drawn into my hand as if sucked in.

A wooden stick, about a span long, made from a branch cut from a thousand-year-old peach tree.

Holding it in my hand, I lunged towards the enemy, who was slowly completing his transformation.

“It hurts, it hurts…! I won’t forgive you! I won’t forgiv──”

“What if you don’t forgive me?”

There was no mercy. No need for restraint.

With only the consideration of not damaging this house and building in mind, I quietly swung the wooden stick held in my hand diagonally downwards.

That was the end of it.

The Demon’s body split and tore apart. Not just into one piece, but into multiple pieces at once.

Furthermore, the cut and severed surfaces burned pure white with the flames of my Spirit Power. It was an Exorcism Flame that burned nothing else, only demonic existences.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah…!!”

The Demon screamed in agony, but before long, it completely burned away and vanished.

On the floor, only that necklace, which it had called ‘grace’ and tried not to let go of until the very end, remained.

* * *

After dealing with the Demon, I heard an explanation from Daom.

It seemed she, like me, had fallen into a trick, but had ‘accidentally’ regained consciousness.

“It seems they used some special drug. Thanks to that, we lost consciousness and were raped without being able to do anything, right? ☆”

She said ‘raped’ so easily. But I also accepted it very nonchalantly.

It wasn’t strange at all. Males with dicks naturally want to rape attractive women when they see them. So I was taught not to take it seriously. Or so I seemed to have learned.

No, of course, I’m not a woman, but anyway.

“…? Something feels strange….”

“What’s strange?”

“……No, nothing.”

I felt an inexplicable sense of unease. But looking into Daom’s eyes, it quickly didn’t matter anymore.

I see. So we were affected by a drug. In that case, it couldn’t be helped. If it was a physical drug and not a sorcerous one, even an exorcist would be helpless.

Of course, there are sorceries to discern poisons, and sorceries to build up some resistance… but there are also drugs that cannot be resisted no matter how much one tries to counter them.

Moreover, the drug used this time seemed to be an aphrodisiac, not just a simple poison… If there’s no threat to life, then the exorcist’s power is even more meaningless.

Anyway, we were saved thanks to Daom regaining consciousness from the drug first.

And thanks to hearing Daom’s voice, I was able to regain consciousness too.

And thanks to that, we were able to gather some information.

Should I call it good luck, or that things went well?

‘Sacrifice… that’s what they said. Kidnapping women, feeding them suspicious poisons….’

Perhaps other women who flowed into this place suffered the same fate that Daom and I had just endured.

As for the ‘grace’ or whatever they mentioned next, I honestly didn’t quite understand what they were talking about.

However, I clearly understood words like ‘sacrifice’ and ‘that person-nim’. And what meaning they held.

“They also talked about other exorcists, didn’t they?”

Daom added, confirming it. It was something I had definitely heard too.

-Your fellow exorcists, whom you are looking for, will also be there.

When I accepted the request, the Chairman had said that.

And with this, the credibility of the Chairman’s words increased.

There was a lot of information to sort through. It was an overwhelming amount of information to have obtained for merely the first day of investigation.

But this isn’t the end yet. There’s more information we need to know.

And the means to obtain that information also remains here.

“H-Heeek…!!”

The one groaning in fear was the remaining male follower.

Not the guy I defeated, but the damn bastard who was fucking Daom.

Daom, using some method, had knocked this man unconscious without harming him, and this guy, who had just woken up, had completely lost his will to fight upon seeing the broken and chaotic house and the remaining remnants of what used to be his comrade.

For now, I had sealed his movements with my sorcery, but perhaps due to fear, his appearance was halfway transformed into a Demon.

As expected, this man was also a Demon.

Daom and I looked at the man together. Daom was smiling brightly, but I wasn’t smiling. However, I felt endlessly cheerful.

“So, shall we interrogate him? Ryeong, you can do it, right? Or is it difficult since he’s half-human?”

“Of course not. Leave it to me.”

Human laws do not apply to Demons.

In other words, torture is free. Various tortures and torments that should never be done in the human world can be done to one’s heart’s content. Furthermore, there are also methods to inflict maximum pain, possible only because he is a Demon.

“It’d be good if you answered the questions early, but don’t answer too early. So I can enjoy it a bit… you know?”

As I picked up a few tools and approached, the restrained half-human, half-Demon male follower shrieked as if on the verge of tears.

But since I had already set up a soundproofing barrier, it didn’t matter how much he screamed. In fact, I wished he would scream more.

A Demon’s tormented screams are truly horrific to hear… but at the same time, they make my heart pound with pleasure.

* * *

I had a very fruitful time.

Not only did I enjoy myself, but I was also able to steadily gather information through the interrogation.

This was truly killing two birds with one stone, eating pheasant and eggs, cleaning a ditch and catching crayfish, a win-win situation… Oh, wait, not the last one? It doesn’t matter anyway.

“By the way, we can’t just sleep here, can we?”

By the time the interrogation was finished, it was almost sunrise. In fact, a faint blue light seemed to be rising outside.

However, due to the light being dimly diffused by the fog, it was impossible to tell if it was truly a sunrise.

At that time, just as I thought it was time to finish the interrogation and clean up, Daom said that while looking around the chaotic surroundings.

Following Daom, I also looked around the house.

Indeed, not only the wall I had broken, but also the traces of the feast left by the visiting cult followers, the discarded trash, and even the blood and flesh splattered around during the interrogation, seemed a bit too much to clean up entirely at this hour.

And I couldn’t comfortably sleep in a house like this. Of course, as an exorcist, I wouldn’t be picky about sleeping arrangements, but besides that, the fact that this base had already become known to them was also not good from a safety perspective.

“There is a place I looked into nearby. We’re definitely being watched, but if we pretend not to know anything, I think we can use it without a problem… What do you think?”

“……Shall we do that?”

There seemed to be no other way. And there’s also sorcery that prevents them from recognizing us as ourselves. If we use that, most ordinary people or minor Demons won’t recognize us.

Thus, Daom and I quickly packed our belongings, cleaned up, and after giving the interrogated Demon a quick ‘treatment’, we left the old villa.

The place Daom and I headed to after leaving the villa was a cheap inn located not far away.