Chapter 20 (1/2)

Volume 1

Chapter 23: The Hero and Shuria, First Steps

“Ukh, AAH!”

Ah, it’s that same dream .

Despite knowing it to be a dream, the scenes happening before me were truly horrendous .

“Hey there, it’s time for your daily dose . Be still and don’t spill any now”

“Khu, this is, NOTHING!! I will never surrender to you fiends…!”

“Well, I don’t care . You also played a part in tricking me . That, is all that matters”

I could see around me, something of a dark cave . Lit by luminescent moss along the walls, I could see a large rock that appeared to have been cut flat across the top and used as a makeshift bed . And on top of this bed lay Sori .

Her arms and legs were bound in crude iron shackles like those of a slave .

And a girl, Shuria, as the dream would have me believe, was approaching Sori with a calm smile on her face .

But that Shuria looked all-together different from the one I knew . Her hair had gone from blond to a silver close to pure white, while her skin, that’d been ghostly pale, had been tanned brown like that of the people living in lands loved by the sun .

The only familiar features I could see were her face, that had maintained the same shape, and her deep, red eyes .

Every time I had this dream, I saw a black haired, black eyed boy, who somehow roused a sense of deja vu, by her side, along with what appeared to be a rabbit-kin girl with chestnut hair .

Shuria had forcefully plied open Sori’s mouth with a gag, and shoved a spoonful of yellow-green liquid into her .

And anticipating that the maid would choke it out, she would then close Sori’s mouth and make her swallow .

“Nha, oww, cough, cough!!”

The task done, Shuria violently pulled off the gag .

“Okay then, since we finished up your arms yesterday, let’s do, your left leg today”

“Here you are”

“Thanksies”

Shuria received a number of stakes from the rabbit-kin girl . These black stakes were hollow with a hole on the top and were of a design that let their sharp tips open to let things through .

I, truly wanted to avert my eyes from seeing the atrocity that I knew was about to transpire, but this dream didn’t allow me such an action .

“Hggghh!? Uuu, aaAAAAA!!!”

Sori’s beautiful leg was brutally pierced right before my eyes .

“Aahh, Nhh, UAah!!”

My beloved raised shrill screams as another 3 of those stakes impaled her .

Those screams, they almost sounded like the sweet moans she made as I played with her in the night .

“My gosh, Sori, are you actually feeling good from this? Such a pervert, you”

‘kusukusu’, Shuria laughed in ridicule .

“Nhh, haah, that’s, because of, the drug…”

“But it’s made so that you can still feel the pain you know . Which means that you’re clearly feeling more pleasure than pain from this . Okey, ready for the main event? Please be so kind as to not pass out like you did yesterday . If you aren’t suffering, all my time doing this feels wasted is all”

“Aiee!!”

Shuria now held a large bottle which contained a liquid, black something . This something that gave off a metallic sheen was, what I speculated to be, a magic creature, and this creature moved by Shuria’s commands .

She placed the bottle beside Sori, and slowly lifted its lid .

“Here, eat up dearie”

As Shuria called on it, that liquid black something oozed out of its bottle on its own, made towards the stakes freshly impaled into Sori, and entered through the holes on top .

“HNGGA!!”

This was likely when the tips of the stakes came open . The result was a new onslaught of screams .

“NnaaAAaA, Nggghh, Oooo, Aaanh, Nnh, Nh, Ah, Aaahh!!”

“You’re crying in so much ecstasy . You must be especially deplorable, gasping in sensual breaths while your bones are melting away”

“Yumis-sama! Yumis-sama!! YUMIS-SAMAAA!!!”

“The amount of pleasure she’s feeling should be just under what she feels as pain, so her poor head must be so confused”

“Oi oi, you make it sound like it’s none of your business, you made the poison”

“Oh geez, Goshujin-sama . Call it a drug, alright? She’d break so soon if all that was only pain . That’d be a waste”

While Sori screamed in mad agony, the black haired boy and the rabbit-kin girl were having a pleasant chat .

I wouldn’t spare a second to exterminate these three monsters if I could, but despite it being my dream, I was curiously unable to control my body .

Like always, I could simply watch, watch and do nothing as Sori moaned in pleasure and agony .

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“!? Hah, haah, aah, that, dream again . What a horrid way to start the morning”

I sighed as I raised myself from bed, feeling my forehead drenched in sweat . Looking at the clock told me that I had woken up slightly later than usual .

“It’s been 4 times already . Just what is happening to me”

That day, the demonic summoning stone had turned into one without the first two descriptors, and from that day, I kept having that dream . That same dream, night after night .

The dream where a transformed Shuria, along with a couple of strangers, would torture Sori .

I kept seeing that terrifying premise that felt too real .

“That demon, after breaking it’s own contract, did it perhaps put a curse on me?”

On the day I pushed Shuria into my trap and offered her soul to the demon, after I’d enjoyed bed play with Sori well into the day, I noticed that glimmering black demonic gem had turned into an ordinary stone you could find at any roadside .

I’d quickly made my way to the building where I’d built my secret dungeon only to find that the place had been sacked . There was no demon, not a trace of Shuria’s corpse, and no sight of all those experimental undead .

I couldn’t even explain how the bars of the cage at the far back had, what clearly look like to have been sliced up .

For an instant, I’d thought Shuria might’ve done something, but I quickly dismissed it . That little girl’s magic was all mine by then, and she’d been powerless .

Since she had strong elven traits, without her magic, she’d actually be weaker than human children her age . She couldn’t possibly do something against a demon in that state .

Which meant that the demon likely used some means to break the contract, take Shuria, not just her soul, and even stole away all my undead, before sealing itself in some other stone .

I seem to recall that after a demon’s contractual period ends, they can then go on to possess any stone of their desire anywhere in the world .

“Haah,” I sighed, “I must look terrible, I simply can’t let Sori see me like this”

To calm myself, I drank a cup from the pitcher of water I have kept nearby, which is when Sori entered the room .

“Good morning, Yumis-sama . Your breakfast is ready”

“Thank you, Sori . Now, what do you say we enjoy it together”

“W-We mustn’t, Yumis-sama . I am but a maid, to dine with my master would be improper”

“No need to worry about that, I’ve decided to have breakfast here in my room today, so you needn’t be wary of any eyes . Please have them give me larger servings and we’ll eat that together . I must admit, my appetite is a bit lacking today, so a little for me is fine”

I gleefully replied to my beloved maid .

I knew I was being a tad forceful, but Sori, after making a troubled expression, nodded, “I will bring it in immediately,” and left the room .

Today, I just wanted to be with her as much as I could . I hadn’t told her about my dreams of late . There’s the fact that I didn’t want to needlessly worry her, and also, these terrible dreams had no basis on reality .

Yet, there was an unfounded anxiety in me that I wanted to relieve even a little . Close to my goal I may be, I still needed a little more time for it to come to fruition .

“It really is too bad I couldn’t get my hands on Shuria’s eyes . And here I was, certain I could make those mana seeing Scarlet Eyes into an excellent magic tool”