episode_0107

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“Why the long face, Billy? Why aren’t you saying anything?”

“…”

Kunat’s arms, which had been wrapped around my neck, seemed to slowly loosen before beginning to move around my body.

Her slow yet free hands caressed my back and chest, one hand resting on my thigh, the other tracing the line of my jaw before covering my cheek.

As her thumb, which covered my face, slowly caressed my cheekbones, her sharp fingernails naturally began to lightly scratch beneath my eyes.

Kunat chuckled, continuing to speak.

“Of course, I know what you’re thinking.”

“…”

“‘What nonsense is this crazy Devil spouting? What tricks is this bewitching Devil up to now?’”

“…”

“‘Could it be that this Devil genuinely feels affection for me…’”

“…!”

“You’re probably thinking something like that, right?”

Kunat was still looking down at me with eyes curved like sharp scimitars.

The ominous Devil’s eyes, visible through the gaps like cracks in the curtains, glowed with an eerie light, as if they were truly peering into my soul.

I felt as though a terrifying presence from beyond a veil that should never be seen was watching me from behind her eyelids.

Different.

An unparalleled terror and helplessness, unlike any other demonic aura I had ever felt, washed over my body.

“…Ha,”

No, it was I who had changed.

It was true that Kunat was different from other Devils, but the reason I felt so helpless now was that I had become vulnerable.

I had become vulnerable.

Corrupted by lust, succumbing to desire, losing my self-control, forgetting my faith.

And, no matter what choices I made or what actions I took, it felt as though I was being toyed with in this Devil’s palm.

My identity as a Priest was in disarray, and I was no longer the Father Theodore I once was.

I was nothing more than a foolish idiot with immense Holy Power.

“…Don’t you dare play me,”

I squeezed out courage that seemed like a candle about to be extinguished in a storm, and twisted my lips.

“You talk as if… you can read minds, Kunat…”

“Mind reading? Even without such trickery, I can see your transparent soul as clearly as if it were in broad daylight.”

“… What?”

However, my retort was easily subdued beneath her firm grip, which held my face.

Kunat twisted the palm she had placed on my face slightly, then stroked my lips with her thumb, which had brushed against the tip of my nose as it moved downward.

I quickly bit my lower lip to stop it from trembling.

However, Kunat’s red thumb lightly flicked the center of my lower lip, gently rescuing my lip from my teeth.

She continued, gently tapping my lips as if to soothe them.

“Ah, this isn’t me bragging, other Devils can see your soul as clearly as if they were looking into clear water. Your heart is so clearly revealed in your actions.”

“…”

“Isn’t that why the Devils feared you so much? Because they felt so clearly how much you hated them, how strong your murderous intent toward Devils was.”

Kunat sighed softly.

I didn’t have the insight to see through people’s hearts like Kunat, but I could still sense it now.

That sigh clearly contained mockery and derision toward me.

“Not just Devils, perhaps… I can guarantee that there are not a few humans who can see your unadorned soul.”

“… Don’t talk nonsense. There are hardly any humans who try to peek into other people’s souls as insidiously as you…”

“Perhaps, even the nuns can guess what you’re thinking.”

“… What?”

“Oh, Billy, my friend. Think about it.”

Kunat slowly lowered her giggling voice, whispering in a soft yet lascivious tone.

“How could Lucia and Anna have spread their legs for you so actively? Isn’t it because it was so obvious that you wouldn’t refuse!”

“…!”

“Seduced? No, you invited that seduction! Do you really think they wouldn’t have known that all it would take was a small pretext for you, who had opened your eyes to sex after having no interest in it in the past?”

“… Surely not, ah, no, what the hell are you talking about! Do you think all my girls are as treacherous as you?!”

“Hehehe, sometimes men are more innocent than women. Considering your age, you’re especially immature, but I won’t criticize you, considering your upbringing as an orphan and a Priest.”

“You son of a bitch…”

Kunat flashed her eyes again and brought her forehead to my forehead.

Then, she leaned her face so close to me that it felt as though our eyeballs were colliding.

Only her pupils filled my vision, and I felt her horns pressing hard on my head.

At the same time, her other hand, which had been resting on my thigh, slowly but surely began to approach between my legs.

“Kugh, get off!”

“Hmm, let’s see? If I spread my legs wide now, will you dominate me to your heart’s content?”

“Don’t, do… that.”

“Aha… I see it. I see, I can see your heart clearly…”

Kunat’s fingertips gradually approached the object between my legs.

However, just before they touched, she quickly pulled her hand back and shook her head.

“Yes, yes, not yet. You haven’t fallen far enough to put that thick thing between my legs yet.”

“…Hoo,”

“Sniff sniff, that’s too bad, my body is itchy and I need your touch, I wish your thick thing would scratch inside me…”

Kunat made a tearful face with a brazen tone.

It was a clearly different tone from the subtle attitude between seduction and confession that had been going on until just now, a tone that even felt vulgar.

Anyone could tell that she was toying with me.

“…”

‘Why is she doing this? Did I perhaps have some expectations?’

This bastard is always like this.

The moment the situation becomes even slightly advantageous, she immediately tries to make fun of the other person.

Is it because she’s a Contract Devil? She’s skilled at identifying advantages and trying to dominate.

My face flushed with the shame that enveloped my anger at the fact that Kunat had been toying with me.

“… You bastard.”

I slowly pulled my head back.

“Why are you running away? Billy, you’re backing away from a Devil! Are you perhaps embarrassed? Hehehe, our Billy is becoming an adult now…”

“Hey,”

“…?”

“Stay still.”

I tilted my head back as far as I could.

Then, I suddenly pulled my head forward as if slamming it down.

I rammed my forehead straight into her nose.

“Keuagh!”

Kunat clutched her nose and fell backward with a thud.

The force of slamming my head into Kunat’s head caused my body to fall forward as well.

I lunged at Kunat’s body, which had fallen to the floor, as if riding on top of it.

Then, I grabbed her neck and slammed it against the floor.

“You’re really dead today.”

“Hehehe, this kind of taste isn’t bad either.”

“Crazy bitch.”

“Ah, I missed it, your merciless violence.”

“Oh, you’ll get it.”

I slammed my fist, imbued with Holy Power, straight into her face.

The sound of something breaking echoed loudly throughout the room.

*

I relentlessly beat Kunat.

When my fist began to hurt, I wrapped the rosary, which had been placed on the bedside table, around my hand and frantically beat her with it.

However, Kunat only kept giggling, showing no sign of blocking or resisting.

Her appearance, as if she were mocking me, made me even more enraged.

I completely lost my self-control.

To be honest, even as I was beating Kunat, I felt that something was wrong with me.

From the surging affection for Lucia and Anna to the anger toward Kunat.

My emotions haven’t been controlled at all lately.

But, no matter how much I was aware of that fact, when I looked at Kunat’s twitching lips in front of me, I couldn’t bear it.

How much time had passed?

The scenery outside, which had been evening when I opened my eyes, was already beginning to darken again.

The rosary, completely soaked with Devil’s blood, was dripping sticky black blood, and Kunat’s face, which had taken my fist for so long, was so mangled that it was hard to recognize its shape.

I released Kunat’s neck, which I had been firmly grasping, as if throwing it away, and slowly swept back my face and the fallen bangs.

“What kind of trick was it this time, Kunat?”

“…”

“What kind of trick was it?”

Kunat whispered softly in a voice mixed with a small, barely audible breath.

“You… beat me… and you ask… what kind of trick…”

“Do I look like an idiot?”

I slowly unwrapped the rosary from my hand.

“I, who couldn’t even move because I was overwhelmed by your pressure just a moment ago, suddenly became able to move.”

“That’s right… you must have been very angry…”

“Don’t talk bullshit, this is your production. I don’t know what kind of trick you used, but it must be a Devil’s trick.”

“…”

Everything was a trick.

The mockery that I had fallen, the confession that she liked me, the bluster that she could see my soul.

All the other stories to scratch my nerves were nothing more than nonsense to shake me up.

Without missing the gap in my heart that had been created by being flustered by that nonsense, Kunat must have put some kind of hypnosis on me.

“You temporarily blocked my movements with hypnosis, made me anxious, then made me angry by mocking me… and released the hypnosis at the right timing.”

“… Heo,”

“You induced me to beat you up. Right?”

“… How admirable, you never fail to surprise me, as expected, a professional is a professional.”

Kunat, who had been speaking in a dying voice until just now, opened her mouth with a voice that had recovered as if nothing had happened.

This time, it was a voice that clearly felt genuine admiration.

I stepped on those abominable lips with my foot and said.

“But, I really don’t understand, so I’m asking. Why are you doing this?”

“Ugh, think about it with that brilliant head of yours… Isn’t it because I enjoy being in pain?”

“You really did this troublesome thing just because you wanted to be beaten up?”

“Hehehehehit”

“Speak, what’s the trick!”

“What trick…”

Kunat brushed my foot away with the back of her hand and said.

“I really enjoy pain, I was just having a little fun while dragging out the time.”

“Dragging out time?”

“That’s right, so that you can’t stop it.”

“Stop… what?”

Kunat shrugged her shoulders while lying on the floor.

“It’s not something you’ll dislike.”

“What did you do.”

“No, you could even say it’s something that will help you.”

“What the hell did you do!”

That’s when it happened.

I heard someone rushing into my room.

“Priest… Priest!”

“Anna?”

“You’re awake!”

“Ah… I’m sorry, I slept too much.”

“That’s not what’s important right now! Priest. Something terrible has happened!”

“Something terrible?”

Anna nodded and shouted.

“Paolo has disappeared! He was lying down, unable to move, until an hour ago, but suddenly…”

“… What?”

I hurriedly looked down at Kunat.

Kunat had already disappeared.

Only a dirty, damp bloodstain stuck to the floor remained in the spot where she had been lying.

I looked at the Devil’s blood, which had dried on my hands, and muttered.

“Kunat, you… what the hell are you trying to do.”