episode_0050

*

Anna was quietly gazing at the Priest’s face as he lay in bed.

The Priest showed no movement, not even the slightest twitch.

His breathing was so faint that she could barely hear it even when she strained her ears.

Because she had removed his top to check his wounds properly, she could see his chest rising and falling very slightly.

It was the only proof that his life had not yet been extinguished.

With trembling fingertips, Anna stroked the Priest’s abdomen.

Countless scars, too many to count, remained scattered across his upper body.

In the middle of his abdomen was a large scar, so big that it would have taken all the other scars combined to match its size.

Anna slowly exhaled between her trembling lips.

“The Priest… he’s going to be okay now… right?”

“That’s right, demons don’t play tricks with deals.”

“…”

Kunat sat quietly next to Anna, wagging his tail.

In exchange for saving the Priest’s life, Anna had decided to sell her soul to the demon.

She couldn’t let the Priest go like this, and Sola was too young to bear such a responsibility.

Besides, the reason the Priest was hurt was to protect the fallen Anna, so Anna willingly accepted the responsibility.

Having already been possessed by a demon once, she was very afraid, but when she thought of the Priest, who had risked even death for his responsibility, Anna couldn’t avoid her own responsibility.

However, one thing she was worried about was whether this demon would trick her.

Anna asked again in a low voice.

“I’ve never heard of a demon healing people…”

“Hmm? I think it’s quite a common case,”

“Demons can’t possibly have good intentions.”

“Who said anything about good intentions.”

Kunat chuckled and explained.

“Do you know? How many idiots beg to have their parents’ illnesses cured, when they only have two or three years left to live.”

“,,,”

“How many fools sell their child’s future to heal a child who has been seriously injured in an accident.”

“… Idiots… Fools.”

“It’s a very lucrative source of income for demons.”

Kunat whistled, wearing a wicked smile.

Anna felt that the expression was somehow familiar.

It was exactly the expression that low-quality blacksmiths would wear when selling poorly made, shoddy swords to naive country bumpkins.

Considering that inadequate equipment was a matter of life and death, demons and humans might not be so different after all.

Of course, considering Anna’s own case of summoning a Succubus with her lewdness, that might be true too.

Anna mumbled with her head bowed.

“That’s too much.”

“Well, it’s the demon’s job to skillfully coax their desperate feelings in the first place.”

“Is my case… like that too?”

“Not much different. Demons don’t make deals that lose them money. Saving the Priest and taking your soul is a very profitable business.”

“… You’re honest.”

Kunat scoffed and said.

“Demons are basically merchants, and most merchants are swindlers, and if you feel that such a demon is being honest, there are mostly two possibilities.”

“…”

“Either it’s still a deception, or there’s no need to lie to you.”

“Which is it now…?”

“Clearly the latter.”

Kunat stared straight at Anna.

It was a clearly threatening gaze.

A threat that contained not a warning to back off, but a disregard that asked, what are you going to do about it?

Kunat chuckled and said.

“Well, you don’t have any other choice, do you.”

“… Ha,”

“Or maybe? Maybe I was wrong, maybe you were greatly impressed by the Priest’s teachings of opposing demons, and you’ll give up the Priest’s life and refuse to become a demon.”

Kunat continued, speaking in an exaggerated, theatrical tone.

“Will you do that? Will you try to escape the demon’s temptation with your faith? Will you let the Priest return to the Goddess’ side?”

“That’s…”

Anna paused for a moment.

As he said, Anna, could not refuse this offer.

In fact, it was all too late now.

He had already healed the Priest’s body, and all that remained was for Anna to pay the price.

This time was merely a consideration, not a consideration, from Kunat, who was trying to enjoy Anna’s last moments before she lost her pure soul.

After stroking the Priest’s cheek one last time, and kissing his firmly closed lips, Anna slowly stood up and asked.

“The Priest will definitely come back to life, right.”

“Yes, you can believe it, I’ve even restored Lucia’s broken body before.”

“I thought the Ebony Wolf’s influence healed it.”

“That’s just a beast. If I hadn’t healed her, she probably would have run off like crazy with her broken leg and died of excessive bleeding soon.”

“…”

“That was Lucia’s price in the first place, she begged for her body to be healed in exchange for accepting the demon.”

“I see.”

Kunat laughed wickedly.

“Heeheeheehee, taking souls in exchange for granting wishes, isn’t this a very classic demon specialty.”

Anna looked back at the Priest one last time and asked.

“When… will he wake up.”

“Who knows.”

Was it because of Kunat’s curt tone?

A sense of foreboding flashed through Anna’s mind.

The opponent is a demon.

Perhaps he only roughly healed the Priest’s scars, and was plotting to keep him from waking up.

He said he would heal him, but he didn’t say he would wake him up.

What if he was going to make some kind of wordplay and try to make her give up Sola’s soul if she wanted to wake up the Priest.

With such suspicion, Anna tried to question Kunat.

However, Kunat, as if he had already anticipated Anna’s outrageous imagination, nodded and continued.

“You seem to think I’m playing tricks, right? It’s okay, it’s definitely smart to doubt a demon.”

“Answer me properly. When will the Priest wake up.”

“Anna… I’m not that much of a thug. Depending on the Priest’s vitality, he’ll slowly regain consciousness after about three days of recuperation.”

“You’re not lying, are you.”

“I swear that he will wake up within three days, or a week at the longest, and if I break this oath, I will return all the souls I have collected so far to the Goddess and enter the bottom of Hell myself. Are you satisfied?”

“…”

Anna hesitated for a moment.

If he said this much, she had no choice but to believe him.

In the first place, from the way he was stuck to the Priest like glue, she had somewhat guessed that the person Kunat was interested in was the Priest, not the Nuns.

To him, the Nuns were just a little something to entertain him or a small souvenir attached to the Priest.

And, if he had decided to toy with Anna, there was no possibility that she could escape from his grasp.

Anna slowly nodded and said.

“… Then, I’m ready.”

Anna slowly got up and turned around.

On the floor of the Priest’s room, wicked pagan symbols drawn by Kunat were densely packed.

It looked similar to the summoning circle that the Priest had used to summon Kunat in the past.

However, unlike the Priest, who had only awkwardly memorized pagan incantations, Kunat, being a native speaker of the Hell language, had drawn it in more detail.

Kunat guided Anna into a large circle made up of the language of Hell.

“I’ll tell you the precautions first.”

“… Yes.”

“In Lucia’s case, the possessing demon was a beast of Hell, and the Priest quickly subdued it, so nothing happened, but your situation is different,”

Kunat’s words might sound like he was worried at first, but his tone was not at all.

Rather, it was closer to an attitude of scaring Anna and enjoying her terrified appearance.

Kunat continued, adding a melody to each phrase, almost like a hum.

“The demon that will enter your body now is an intelligent being, and the Priest who can subdue the demon can’t even move a finger.”

“… What are you trying to say.”

“It means that unlike Lucia, you may not be able to take control of your body.”

“…!”

Kunat looked at Anna, who had stiffened up, and chuckled.

“Well, take a good look at the Priest’s face, you may never see it again.”

“…”

Anna clenched her fists tightly and trembled all over.

The fear of losing herself, which she had experienced before,

The terror of that day once again made her spine tingle.

But Anna didn’t look back.

“I don’t care…”

“Oh oh?”

“Thinking that you’ll be different, it’s the privilege of idiots and fools.”

*

Next to the unconscious Priest, a terrifying demonic ritual began.

Kunat spewed out disgusting incantations in the language of Hell, and blue smoke began to rise from the wicked magic circle drawn densely on the floor.

The smoke began to surround Anna, who was standing in the middle of the magic circle, in an unnatural manner.

Anna felt the blue smoke stick to her skin.

It was similar to being covered in dirt, with brown sand sticking all over her body.

However, no matter how much she tried to remove it, the sky-blue smoke stuck to her skin.

Rather, it seemed to penetrate deep inside her skin and become pigmented.

Gripped with fear, Anna scratched the arm that had been pigmented by the smoke, then suddenly arched her back as if flinging her hips forward and stretched her upper body back.

A hot burning sensation ran through her skin.

Not a burning pain, but a heat filled with arousal, like she was getting hot, was transmitted from her skin, which had turned blue.

Anna knew this feeling all too well.

That lewd heat that tickled her whole body and eventually made her reach for her privates.

The heat, which usually came impulsively, felt like it was being etched deep inside her body.

“Ah… Aah, no… Ah, this…”

“Hmm?”

“No… This demon… This feeling…”

“Didn’t I tell you?”

Kunat said as he watched Anna, who had started to twist her whole body with her back arched.

“What kind of demon would suit you best.”

“… Ah, ungh, aah,”

“Filthy seed. Lewd wings, slave of pleasure.”

“Ah, no…”

Anna slowly felt her pupils roll up.

Her vision slowly receded into the darkness inside her eyelids and was obscured.

And from below her eyeballs, new pupils began to appear.

Not her original brown pupils, but red pupils.

The demon’s pupils slowly rose like the sun.

However, Lucia’s pupils were an ominous red color reminiscent of blood, and Anna’s pupils had a voluptuous color with hints of purple and pink.

In the middle of Anna’s back, which was bent backward, thin, long rods protruded through the skin on either side of her vertebrae.

The rods bent as if they were snapping, then slowly unfolded their rolled-up bodies.

A pair of wings, resembling those of a bat, appeared.

The buttons on the Nun’s Habit that covered Anna’s breasts popped off as if they were being flung forward.

The skirt, which barely covered her full hips, couldn’t withstand it and began to tear.

“… Ah,”

The smoke cleared.

Her wildly disheveled hair became a deep navy blue that resembled the night sky,

Her skin was a vibrant blue color, like a fruit that should never be eaten.

The breasts that were revealed because the buttons had popped off, and the two legs that were torn from the hips down and revealed in a refreshing manner, looked very voluptuous and lewd.

Anna slowly spread her wings and leaned her back forward again.

“,,, Aah.”

Kunat, who had changed into a woman with red skin, said to Anna, who had blue skin.

“Long time no see.”

“Damn it, Nepeira…”

“Shh.”

Kunat said, putting his index finger to his lips.

“I’d like you to call me Kunat here.”

Anna, or rather, the blue-skinned demon, chuckled and said.

“That ugly bastard? Did you eat him too?”

“He was good enough to eat, what.”

“Your taste.”

“You slept with Piat too.”

“His tentacles feel good.”

“Your taste.”

The two demons grinned at each other.

The blue-skinned demon slowly scanned her body and nodded.

“This body… is Anna.”

“You were sad you missed her before.”

“I was back then, but now I shudder just thinking about it. Do you know how much I was beaten by that crazy Priest back then?”

“That Priest is sleeping over there now?”

“I know. That bastard. I need to give him some love sometime.”

“So, do you like your new body? Lilith.”

The demon called Lilith spat on the floor and slowly sat down in a chair, crossing her legs.

Even though it was an ordinary movement, it was a movement that somehow radiated voluptuousness and lewdness that captivated men’s reason.

“No, I’m in a mood to resent you for calling me in the first place.”

“I gave it to you after thinking so hard, why are you complaining so much?”

“Well, it’s because I’m fucked up thanks to you.”

“What do you mean?”

Lilith looked at Kunat and said.

“Nepe… no, Kunat, I know you ignore the other demons, but everyone has noticed. They’ve figured out what you’re up to.”

“Heh, really? They’re realizing it quite late.”

“The demons have formed an alliance. They’re very determined to catch you and kill you. To call me in that situation is like asking me to die with you.”

“Oh dear, I didn’t know. I’m sorry.”

“Oh, stop with the ridiculous lies. You knew everything.”

“… Was it obvious? Heeheehee.”

“Ridiculous, jeez.”

Kunat continued with a smiling face, unperturbed by Lilith’s grumbling attitude.

“This time, the monsters coming to the island are also from that alliance or something, right?”

“Yes, they said they sent them to kill that psycho Priest because he was getting in the way.”

“Ha, they’re quick to act. But they’re stupid.”

Lilith looked at Kunat and said.

“Kunat, stop being an asshole and let’s go back. Go back and apologize. Or we’ll all die. Really.”

“I don’t want to.”

“Ah, seriously, why am I hanging out with someone like you.”

“You’re talking like we’re friends or something? You’re under me.”

“… That’s why I came out willingly, but at least don’t expect me to use honorifics.”

“Heeheehee, yeah, Succubus are charming when they’re feisty.”

“Ugh, you bitch.”

Kunat said, resting his chin in his hand.

“So, when are those pathetic demons going to attack?”

“I don’t know.”

“Why are you like this, between us.”

“…”

“Tell me.”

“Haa….”

Lilith sighed, then slowly swept her hair back and replied.

“Probably tomorrow night.”

“That fast? Huh…”

Kunat said, looking at the Priest who was still lying in bed.

“Then… we’re screwed. Us.”