The Turtle Astrologer Issues a Warning
Kang-rim hadn't expected to get his hands on the Turtle tribe so easily. In the game, they were depicted as a race burning with a thirst for revenge against Grid. They were set to sacrifice their lives to eliminate the man who had slaughtered their leader, their families, their friends, and their neighbors. Kang-rim knew well that the characters belonging to the Turtle tribe were programmed to attack Grid with a do-or-die mentality. When he was first captured by them, he had feared they would all be beheaded, but that never happened.
"As of this moment, we, the Turtle tribe, shall become the slaves of Lord Grid!"
Akelon, the leader, and every member of the Turtle tribe following her had surrendered to Kang-rim. They claimed it was because he had overcome their trials, and because their fate had been twisted. Having stumbled into doing what the protagonist Seol-hwa was supposed to do, Kang-rim had also ended up monopolizing the rewards meant for her. He had achieved the magnificent feat of swallowing an entire race without shedding a single drop of blood.
"That’s why I intend to mass-produce the Turtle tribe."
He had gained the best divers in the world. Using the Turtle tribe, who could freely navigate the bone-chilling waters of the Northern Sea, would be helpful for his conquest in many ways. While their numbers were small now, there were ways to ensure they multiplied abundantly. If Kang-rim, who still had plenty of stamina, continued to treat Akelon the way he was, they would be born in droves.
“You don’t mind, do you?”
“I, I don’t mind… hngh?”
Akelon replied as such.
“M-more than that, Master, there is something I must tell you… hnnngh!”
“Something to tell me? What is it?”
The woman with short, black-and-blue hair was leaning against the wall, her hips pushed back. Kang-rim held her succulent backside firmly, unable to let it escape. While holding her, he was thrusting his waist with great intensity.
He asked while thrusting.
“Go ahead and say it. I’ll listen.”
“Haaah! I will, so please, stop for a moment.”
Even on the verge of falling into pleasure, Akelon pleaded with a voice trying to hold on somehow.
“It is something you must know. So…”
“No, I don’t want to.”
Kang-rim refused and thrust his waist even harder.
“Haaah? W-why?”
“Because it ruins the mood.”
Kang-rim uttered a line that a true villain would say. “Does it make sense to stop suddenly when the mood is at its peak?”
“B-but…”
“Just talk in this state. It’s not like it’s something you can’t say, right? Or perhaps…”
“Eek?”
Playfully, Kang-rim suddenly wrapped his body around Akelon. He hugged the pregnant belly of the Turtle tribe leader with all his might and thrust his body even more vigorously in that state.
“S-stop. Please, stop. If you do this, the child, the child!”
“It’s fine. It won’t die.”
“Hk-aaah!”
“Only you will die from exhaustion.”
Kang-rim wore a smile that was no different from a demon’s.
‘A pregnant woman’s belly is so soft and round.’
Even though he had mingled with many pregnant women, this was his first time touching their bellies. Somehow, he had felt it was a forbidden area, so he hadn't touched them, but now, he felt it didn't matter.
“Hee-ik, hee-ik, hee-ah, haaaah!”
Whether he kneaded it this way, that way, or another way—
“P-please stop! If you do this, if you do thiiiiiis!”
It was too much fun. Seeing Akelon let out all sorts of strange cries the more he kneaded, Kang-rim couldn't let go.
‘Let’s keep kneading.’
Let’s knead more. The child in her belly is happy, so let’s knead more, more, more. Let’s keep thrusting while kneading. Until he plunges Akelon into a swamp from which she can never escape. Let’s not stop, let’s keep going!
Excited, Kang-rim thrust his waist even more forcefully.
“Hee-iiiik, hee-iiiik, y-you bad… ha-ooh, ho-oooh!”
Akelon had already been trained by Kang-rim once before. The commands Kang-rim had left in her body were still effective. Thus, when the stimulation became too intense, Akelon devolved into a sow left with only her instincts.
Akelon had tried to endure it somehow to relay the information she had learned, but—
“Hee-eh, eh-heh, eh-hehehe!”
In the end, she was consumed.
“Ah, ahaha! I, I have to tell you, I have to tell yooou!”
Infected with lust, Akelon couldn't think of anything other than sex. Even though she knew she had to speak, she had no choice but to bow her head to the clamor that sex was the top priority.
Akelon pleaded for him to hurry and release, to give the nutrients for the new life in her belly.
“Hurry, hurry and release. No, please release, Master! This Akelon needs your seed, Master!”
“Alright. But before that…”
Kang-rim, who was beginning to feel the urge to ejaculate, set one condition.
“Tell me. You said you had something you wanted to say to me.”
“I-if you release first…”
“No.”
Kang-rim smiled like a devil. That chilling smile seemed to be growing more and more like Grid’s.
“The talk comes first. I told you earlier, didn't I? Talk while we do it.”
“Huuuh, ah-huuuh…”
After parting her lips several times and biting them repeatedly, Akelon finally opened her mouth.
“I saw it. I, I…”
What she saw in the sky last night. Akelon revealed what that was right there.
“I saw another purple star, just like yours!”
“…Ha?”
At the unexpected answer, Kang-rim completely forgot even the moment of his ejaculation.
"B-be careful, Master..."
Exhausted, Akelon collapsed onto the floor. The floor where she lay was soaked with amniotic fluid and blood. She had given birth again. A new turtle that carried the blood of both Kang-rim and Akelon. He didn't know how many times this had happened, but it hadn't reached triple digits yet. Despite receiving Kang-rim’s ruthless assault, it was born safely and moved to the facility without incident. In about two weeks, he would be able to see a full-grown warrior.
Even though she had used up all her energy giving birth, Akelon told Kang-rim what she had seen.
"M-Master, stars like yours have appeared."
"Is it that dangerous that they appeared?"
“Yes, it is dangerous.”
When Kang-rim asked back, Akelon affirmed.
“The purple star is the star of the Emperor. Only one star of the Emperor can rise. Because it is the star that points to the master of this world.”
Akelon spoke fluently of the truth that had not appeared in the game.
“It is impossible for two such stars to appear besides yours. It is unprecedented.”
“Is it that serious?”
“Very serious. They are the ones who might hinder your conquest and kill you.”
“…”
"I do not know why the stars of the Emperor suddenly appeared. However, it is not a problem that should be overlooked."
"…"
“Please be careful, Master.”
Akelon warned.
“Because under the sky, there is only one Emperor…”
With those final words, Akelon lost consciousness.
“Two stars appeared when only one should have?”
At those words, Kang-rim furrowed his brow.
“I have a bad feeling about this…”
Akelon had once said that Grid’s black star, which symbolized death, had turned purple. And that the purple star was staining the surrounding stars red. This meant that Grid would become the Emperor and rule this world.
When he heard that, Kang-rim felt good. It meant his plan to twist fate and head toward a happy ending was proceeding smoothly. He had thought that if no problems arose, the purple star would turn all stars red, that he would be able to see the red night every day, and that if he saw that, it would be as if he had reached a happy ending.
He had thought so, yet two purple stars symbolizing himself had appeared. He could have brushed it off, thinking it was just a star and what problem could it cause, but Kang-rim couldn't do that.
This was a world inside a game. It was a fantasy world where he had to discard the common sense that the laws of reality applied. A disaster could strike just by having one extra star. If Akelon, the greatest astrologer, said so, he couldn't ignore it.
Then, who did the two purple stars Akelon mentioned symbolize?
Could they be people who possessed characters in this game just like him? Assuming the stars of the Emperor Akelon mentioned were real people who possessed characters in the game world, could two people have opened their eyes while possessing characters? Could they have started their activities in earnest like him, causing purple stars to appear in the peaceful night sky?
‘If my guess is true…’
Who had crossed over into this world? Like Kang-rim, who was reborn in the body of the villain Grid, whose body were they acting in?
There was one person he suspected.
‘I have a feeling it might be Seol-hwa…’
Seol-hwa, the protagonist of the game. The original protagonist’s actions were too questionable. She was acting so wildly that he wondered if she was really the protagonist. Just look at how she injected Black Light into Tie to turn her into a monster. If it were the original Seol-hwa, she would do that to herself, but she would never sacrifice others. Although the story had twisted significantly since Kang-rim was reborn as Grid, he still couldn't understand the things Seol-hwa had done.
Could someone have possessed Seol-hwa’s body? Could that be why she was acting in the exact opposite way?
If this guess wasn't wrong, what was her next goal? Where was she? In the Great Forest where the elves lived? Or on Ice Island where Perphone resided? Or the Nechia Kingdom? Or perhaps…
‘First, let’s find out where Seol-hwa is.’
Whether by putting out a bounty or setting a trap, he would mobilize every available means to find her. Find her, ravish her, and conquer her. If someone was a threat to him, he would crush them without mercy. It would be the same even if someone he knew had possessed her. Because he wanted to avoid the ending where he met a terrible fate like Grid.
‘I don’t know about the other one yet…’
He would find out eventually. If they wanted to survive like him, they would do anything. Once rumors spread about what they were doing, he would catch them then. Kang-rim decided to do just that.
-Ding!
It was then that he heard the sound of the timer he had set going off.
“Ah, it’s finished.”
Kang-rim turned his head. There, he saw a large turtle shell glowing red.
The door opened, and a naked woman, flushed red, collapsed onto the floor.
“Huuuh, uuuuh…”
She was the owner of short, black-and-blue hair, just like Akelon. Except for the fact that her eyes were silver, unlike Akelon’s golden ones, she looked exactly like the leader. Tega, the turtle granddaughter, looked up at Kang-rim with a face full of terror.
“P-please, s-spare me…”
The preparations to consume the turtle granddaughter were finally complete.