104. Yume

104. Yume

[“…Are you sure you’re doing it right?]”

“Ah, yes! Of course! Naturally!”

Yume, who was watching young Skadi and Freya eat popcorn in her dream, replied with a start.

Even though the communication link connected to Freya could only transmit sound, she quickly erased the popcorn as if she had been caught by someone.

“Please wait a moment! I’ll be done soon!”

“…You’ve said that so many times already…”

“Really! It’s really not much longer!”

“…Fine. Don’t even think about doing anything foolish.”

Yume quickly moved her feet. She wanted to watch the interesting relationship between the sisters a little longer, but for now, protecting her own life was more important.

The moment Yume took a step, the dream changed.

“Ack?!”

It wasn’t something she did herself. Dreams were fluid and changed from moment to moment. Losing her balance due to the suddenly changed terrain, Yume flailed her arms a few times and ended up falling, hitting her head on the ground.

“…Ah!”

And the impact on her head revived a hazy realization from the past. Yume exclaimed.

“Right! No wonder it felt strange, there’s no way pure energy would be floating in the air!”

The pure energy that filled the space from the moment she first entered the dream. That was by no means ordinary.

There were only two cases where pure energy floated in a dream in its pure form.

Either the person was a harem king who had relations with dozens of people, or the person had a contract item containing pure energy. It was unlikely that a Grand Duchess would lead a promiscuous life, so it was naturally the latter case.

[“Why, what is it?]”

“There was something I had to do before we started!”

In cases where there is a contract item, mental magic does not work well. This is because the two minds support each other and prevent invasion. Therefore, to brainwash the dream owner, the contract item had to be defeated first. Either physically or mentally.

‘Heh heh… This way, I can get the pure energy too!’

She couldn’t touch the Grand Duchess, but it was fine to take the pure energy of the contract item. Freya wouldn’t say anything since she wasn’t touching her sister.

It was a win-win situation, achieving both brainwashing and obtaining pure energy!

Yume smiled and reached out her hand towards the air, feeling for the pure energy. By tracing the connection like this, she could find the contract item somewhere in the dream.

“Hehehe…”

The connection extended to the outer edges of the dream. Passing through the barrier separating the center and the periphery of the dream, the mansion that had been there moments ago disappeared, and the raw, colorful landscape of the dream reappeared.

Yume looked around.

“Found it!”

A fluffy cloud forming the floor of the dream, and a white-haired girl sitting calmly on it. The contract was pointing to her.

‘But her appearance looks so familiar…’

“Who are you!”

While Yume was struggling to recall the girl’s identity, the girl seemed to have noticed the intruder’s presence and turned to look at Yume.

Their eyes met, and after recognizing each other’s faces-

“Ah, that damned skeleton!”

“W-what.”

It was the Death Knight who had beaten her up! Yume still remembered.

Yume remembered how the Death Knight, who had been hiding as a student, had suddenly grabbed her, thrown her to the ground, and called her a whore. While it seemed to have said that after realizing she was a succubus, the subsequent violence was truly malicious because there was no apparent reason.

Yume shouted loudly and glanced at Ur’s appearance. Setting aside her small, child-like body of about 130cm, the cute maid outfit with frills caught her eye.

“Pfft, cough, sob, maid, outfit, pfffttt.”

The arrogant skeleton who had been boasting about its greatness had become so childish. Yume, who held a deep grudge against it, couldn’t help but laugh.

“Don’t laugh at Ur…! You dog-like slut!”

“Sob, sob, pfffttt hahah!”

Moreover, speaking in the third person and using honorifics? The ridiculous speech made Yume unable to hold back and burst into hearty laughter. Ur’s once white face turned red and blue from being teased.

“Ur told you not to laugh…! You dog-like slut!”

Enraged, Ur stood up and walked towards Yume. Although she looked cute due to her childlike appearance, the black evil energy swirling around her was quite threatening.

If only this wasn’t a dream.

Pa-ang!

“Huh, huh?”

“Are you trying to defeat a succubus in a dream? Did your mind become as young as your body?”

As Yume clapped her hands, the evil energy swirling around Ur instantly crumbled and disappeared. A flustered Ur reached out and waved her hand, but nothing happened.

“It’s a good thing you’re on the outer edge of the dream. If you were in the center, it would have been harder for me to manipulate you like this.”

“Just a moment…!”

Because it was the outer edge where the dream owner’s influence was weak, and because it was an ego sword without mental protection magic, Yume had absolute influence within this area. Erasing the evil energy was nothing.

“I have to get revenge for the humiliation I suffered back then, right?”

“Gk?!”

As Yume grabbed her hand, Ur’s slender arm was helplessly raised. Ur resisted, but with the strength of a girl her age, she couldn’t even budge her arm.

“Hehehe…”

“W-what are you trying to do…!”

Ur asked, sweating coldly. Yume let out a sinister laugh and then opened her mouth.

“Do you know how much it hurt back then? I almost died because all my stored pure energy ran out. So… I’ll make sure you suffer the same humiliation.”

“Hk?!”

Yume lifted Ur. It was like holding a baby. Ur struggled against the chilling premonition running down her spine, but she couldn’t escape.

“Hup.”

Yume gestured.

“…?”

The scenery didn’t seem to have changed much. Ur opened her mouth in confusion… and then realized.

“Munch munch…?!”

The existence of the pacifier in her mouth!

And in her arms, she was holding a cute rabbit doll, the kind that babies like.

“Munch munch!!!”

Ur struggled. She was already upset about being turned into a child, having her speech corrected, and being dressed as a maid, but now, of all things, a pacifier! It was a terrifyingly humiliating experience!

Ur tried to open her mouth immediately to spit out the pacifier.

“?!??!”

“You can’t spit it out, can you? Heh, of course not. You shouldn’t throw away what someone gives you.”

The pacifier seemed to be stuck to her mouth, and no matter how much she tried to spit it out, it wouldn’t come out. In fact, her mouth wouldn’t even open, as if it could do nothing but suck the pacifier.

“Doesn’t the doll suit you? Oh my, am I making you sad?”

It was the same with the rabbit doll in her arms. No matter how much she shook her arms, the doll was held tightly in her embrace, as if her hands refused to let it go.

“Munch munch!!! Munch!!!”

Ur began to shake her body violently, preferring death to being in this state.

“If you keep acting out like this…”

“?!”

“You’ll have to be disciplined, right?”

Her vision flipped. Ur, who had been held like a baby, was now looking directly at the floor. She realized she was being held by the succubus only after Yume’s hand flipped up the maid outfit’s skirt.

“Where did you throw away your panties? Your plump buttocks are completely exposed?”

“Munch!!”

“Here…”

Yume’s hand was raised high in the air.

And then…

Slap!

A sharp cracking sound, and at the same time, a hot sensation flowed down her buttocks.

Tears welled up in Ur’s pure white eyes. But before Ur could even process the situation, another sound echoed.

Slap!!!

Ur’s body convulsed. The weak, delicate, soft body of a child couldn’t withstand the succubus’s full-force spanking. It hurt. Tears flowed.

Moreover, when she was a skeleton, she didn’t feel pain, so the current sensation was unfamiliar and therefore painful.

If only she had been in sword form, she wouldn’t have suffered such humiliation.

“Munch…”

Deep regret lingered in Ur’s heart.

By now, Ur’s buttocks were bright red, just like the handprint. Her legs trembled from the lingering pain.

Yume gently placed Ur, who was reacting less, on the floor. Ur collapsed on the ground, clutching her throbbing buttocks, her body trembling.

When Yume leaned her head forward, Ur squeezed her eyes shut, avoiding eye contact. It was proof of her submission.

It was satisfying to see the skeleton that had tormented her reduced to this state.

“…Well, even if I remember it, the memory will disappear when I wake up from the dream.”

It was the center of the dream’s subconscious. Unless something special happened, no one except the succubus could remember what happened here. This also applied to contract items.

It meant that even if Ur was now submitting, with her face buried in the ground and her buttocks exposed and trembling, she would act as if nothing had happened when she woke up.

‘But it will be imprinted in her subconscious!’

Yume smiled broadly, imagining Ur developing a trauma from this incident without even remembering it. It was truly the best revenge.

Yume left Ur behind and walked towards the barrier leading to the center of the dream.

She had neutralized anything that would interfere with brainwashing, so only one thing remained.