Chapter 159

Ｒｅаđ ȯｎ​ ​КａｔȒҽａԁɩ​ｎģ​Сɑϝҽ

Content Warning

Read at your own discretion. There are extreme depictions here of Content Warning Lucia likes a lot.

Bloody foam rose up her throat.

She wanted to spit it out, but her mouth was gagged, so she couldn’t.

The bubbling blood was mixed with pieces of flesh.

She forced herself to swallow, but soon the blood surged back up.

“Ugh, ugh, ugh…”

The saw blade spun with a sharp, whirring sound.

Lucia’s soft abdominal muscles were torn apart.

The organs protected by the peritoneum were also crushed.

Chunks of flesh tumbled out in a messy heap.

The sound of them splattering on the floor was unmistakable.

“Ugh, ugh, ughhh…!”

Tears and hot blood soaked the blindfold.

How important is sight to a human?

People rely heavily on vision for most of their external information.

That’s why, when vision is blocked, humans become easily helpless.

The amount of information they receive drops drastically.

In return, the other senses become sharper.

Smell, hearing, taste, and touch become much more sensitive than usual.

In that sense, Astaroth was truly cunning.

By blocking her vision with a blindfold, she forced Lucia to focus on her other senses.

The darkness stimulated her imagination and amplified the pain.

The senses that vision would normally handle were now divided among the other senses.

“Ugh, ugh, ugh…”

The smell of burning filled the air. The smell of roasting meat. The smell of Lucia’s limbs being burned. The air she struggled to breathe was mixed with ash. 

These flames were hindering her regeneration. Even if she regenerated her burned limbs, the flames would quickly burn them again, leaving her stuck in a loop. Burning, regenerating, burning, regenerating—it was enough to make her mind go numb.

 But she couldn’t stop regenerating. If she stopped even for a moment, the flames would spread across her entire body.

‘It’s hot, it hurts, it’s hot, it’s agonizing, it hurts…’

They say burning pain is the most excruciating pain a human can feel.

Having experienced so much pain in her life, Lucia knew that wasn’t an exaggeration.

Her skin’s epidermis was boiling. The subcutaneous tissue was burning. Her bones were breaking, and her blood vessels and nerves were being severed.

It was literally the kind of pain that would make your eyes roll back.

If her mouth hadn’t been gagged, she would’ve let out pitiful sounds like “Gah, ugh, ahhh…”

“Ugh, ugh, ugh…”

The chainsaw spun relentlessly. Even as the flames burned her, it continued to tear her body apart. She couldn’t see it, but she could feel it. 

Chunks of flesh, bone fragments, and shredded organs were flying everywhere. Flowing blood touched her cheek. 

How much blood and organs had she lost by now? The floor must already be filled with what was once Lucia. It must be a pool of blood and flesh.

After thoroughly mixing Lucia’s insides and outsides, the saw blade stopped momentarily

She had long since lost her sense of time, but this brief respite was the only thing that reminded her that time was passing.

“Ugh, ugh.”

She forced herself to swallow the blood that threatened to burst out of her mouth. Since the gag prevented her from spitting it out, her only option was to swallow. 

The blood and flesh chunks slid down her throat with a gurgling sound. But her abdomen was wide open, and her stomach and liver had been shredded, so the blood she swallowed would just spill out of her body. 

It must be a shocking sight. Too bad she couldn’t see it.

“Ugh…”

She regenerated her abdomen with super regeneration.

The organs that had been crushed and lost their form and function also regenerated.

This break was given to allow her to recover.

A brief moment to regenerate her broken body.

Once her body was fully restored, the saw blade started spinning again.

“…!…!!”

She twisted her body, her buttocks trembling.

Crackle, crackle, it burned. Her brain was burning.

Even though it was her limbs that were actually on fire.

Her brain, protected inside her sturdy skull, was turning black and burning.

“Ughhh…!”

The rope tied around her neck tightened.

The rough rope scratched her neck, leaving wounds.

It didn’t stop there; it began digging into her flesh.

I can’t breathe…

She struggled, but her limbs were half-melted.

Starting from her lower abdomen, the saw blade spun and carved into her stomach.

The only thing she could do was twitch her waist.

‘I can’t… breathe… my neck… is breaking…’

Her consciousness grew hazy.

But the pain became even sharper.

The flames greedily burning her body.

The saw blade “dismantling” Lucia.

The rope strangling her neck.

In the darkness where she could see nothing, these sensations were her only stimuli.

She couldn’t breathe. With her mouth gagged, she desperately gasped for air through her nose, but her neck creaked as if it would snap. 

The oxygen left in her body was quickly depleted. It’s breaking, it’s really breaking, I’m dying, I can’t breathe, please, please let me breathe…

Crack.

Finally, her neck bone broke with a sickening sound.

She felt the sensation of the bone piercing through her skin.

The broken bone seemed to have burst out of her neck.

For a moment, her consciousness faded.

For that brief moment, it felt like she had really died.

She couldn’t feel the beating of her heart.

‘Heh, hehehe…’

It feels…good~♡

Even though it feels like I’m really, really dying.

Even though it hurts so much, it’s agonizing, it’s hard, it’s painful.

‘But it feels so good, so good~♡’

‘All I can think is that it feels good~♡’

Her body’s senses became even sharper.

She reacted more sensitively to external stimuli.

A brief moment of respite came.

The saw blade stopped, and the rope around her neck loosened.

At this moment, she used her super regeneration to recover her broken body.

Her mind, twisted by lust, was dull. Her thoughts were fragmented.

Still, she tried hard to organize her thoughts.

‘…The reason Astaroth wants me.’

The outline was roughly clear.

A woman resembling Belial’s vessel.

The need for powerful regeneration.

She frantically gasped for air as she pieced together the clues.

‘She wants to make me Belial’s new vessel.’

He probably made a deal with Astaroth.

In exchange for providing Lucia, she must have gained something.

Lucia barely held back a bitter laugh.

‘I really… won’t be able to go back…’

Becoming a vessel for a devil is like that.

The original personality of the body is assimilated into the devil’s personality.

And of course, a devil is a vastly superior being to a human.

The difference in their existence is on a completely different level. Literally, a different dimension.

If Lucia becomes Belial’s new vessel.

Her personality will be swallowed by Belial.

She’ll be digested in an instant and become a part of Belial.

If that happens, the individual known as “Lucia” will completely disappear.

It’s a good thing I said my goodbyes in advance.

She thought of Eugene and Alice and forced a bitter smile.

An ally turned enemy—Lucia hated that kind of cliché.

I just hope those two aren’t too hurt.

‘No, I can’t give up yet.’

Nothing is over yet.

If I endure, an opportunity might come someday.

Lucia is tenacious. If she doesn’t give up, there will definitely come a time when──

Whirrrr!

“Ugh!”

The saw blade crushed her chest.

The rotating blade ground through her ribs.

A beast-like groan escaped through the gaps in the gag.

She squirmed obscenely, twisting her body.

“Ugh, ugh, ugh!”

Her heart was crushed into a rag.

Blood, flesh, and bone fragments were scattered everywhere.

It hurts! A moan that couldn’t become a scream escaped.

As she thrashed her thighs, ash brushed against her nose.

Lucia’s supple skin lost its form and became mere chunks of meat.

Her eyes rolled back. The blindfold, having absorbed more moisture than it could handle, could no longer hold the liquid. 

Something hot streamed down her cheeks. She was unclear whether it was tears or blood. 

The saw blade that had been tearing through her chest and abdomen now shattered her spine and burst out through her back. 

She arched her back like a bow. 

‘My lower abdomen hurts. It throbbed. If I hadn’t been gagged, I would’ve bitten my tongue off.’

It hurts. It hurts so much. But it feels good~♡

My thoughts aren’t connecting. They keep breaking off.

What was I thinking about just now?

Wait, I was, um…

My stupid, lewd body can’t distinguish between pain and pleasure.

It treats them as the same thing, trembling with excitement.

I’m, yes, Lucia is a lewd pervert~♡

It hurts, it hurts so much I could cry.

But it feels so good. So, so, so good~♡

I’m sorry, I keep forgetting important things.

I shouldn’t forget, I shouldn’t, but my mind keeps going blank.

The current… the current keeps rushing through me, turning me into an idiot.

“Ugh, ugh, ugh…”

Whirrrr. 

The sound of the saw blade spinning echoed.

The crackling sound of Lucia’s body burning followed.

Crack. 

The rope around her neck tightened again.

Her consciousness became hazy, like in a dream.

The wave of pain (pleasure) crashed over her.

Unending, unceasing.

It kept trying to destroy Lucia’s mind and body.

‘Heh, hehe, hehehe…’

I’m happy~♡

It’s truly, horrifying~♡

It’s hell (heaven)~♡.

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“Hmm~”

Astaroth hummed as she stepped out of the torture chamber.

Her favorite loose black dress was ruined with dried bloodstains.

Not just her clothes, but the Red Fox Mask was also stained with blood, losing its original color.

“I should take a shower first.”

Taking off her opera gloves, which were no longer white, Astaroth muttered.

Five hours of continuous torture.

Lucia, who had endured and endured, finally lost consciousness.

Though the repetitive work was tedious, the way she twitched and convulsed was quite amusing.

The way she trembled like an electrocuted frog was so pitiful.

Astaroth let out a soft chuckle.

‘The effect is better than expected. Lucia really has talent, after all.’

Of course.

The “Needle of Causality” fixed the causality of the “Chosen One”.

In a way, Lucia is also a being chosen by the gods.

It would be stranger if she didn’t have talent.

She’ll show the expected growth within a week, or two at most.

“I’ll be busy for a while.”

The bait has been laid.

All that’s left is to shake the bait and guide the prey to move as intended.

There’s no need to rush. I’ll handle them one by one.

Astaroth removed the blood-soaked mask.

Her blue eyes, like sapphires, shimmered faintly through her black hair.

Like the full moon shining in the night sky.

Author Note

A/N (Author’s note):
After being tortured for 5 hours, Lucia fainted.

She is really pitiful, don’t you all think so?

Translator Note

T/N (Translator’s note):
Astaroth sure is responsible, making sure Lucia grows appropriately like that~