Consuming the Aphrodisiac and Ravaging the Lead Researcher
"What is that?"
I had a rough idea of what it was, but it was better to ask. As the saying goes, even a stone bridge should be tested before crossing.
Kang-rim pointed at the numerous small vials on the display shelf, each containing different liquids, and threw the question at Talia.
"It's an aphrodisiac."
Talia replied.
"It's the drug you ordered me to make. I didn't want to, but..."
"Really?"
Kang-rim countered her statement.
"That's strange. From what I know, you were expelled from the Magic Tower after you were caught trying to create a drug that controls people..."
"Ugh!"
"And I heard you were even permanently banned from entering the tower because of it..."
"Th-that, well, you see..."
Talia wanted to refute him, but she couldn't.
The reason was simple.
It was all true.
It was true that she had been expelled from her research institute after being caught trying to create a brainwashing drug to prove her hypothesis that people could be turned into dolls. It was also true that the Magic Tower had banned her for life once the news broke.
"And yet, you insisted you weren't wrong. You claimed you just wanted to prove your hypothesis. And I was the one who coaxed you, telling you that you were right, and you fell for that temptation."
"..."
"That aphrodisiac is essentially a byproduct of the process of creating a brainwashing drug, isn't it? So, saying you didn't want to make it sounds a bit contradictory."
"Ah, fine. Yes. You're right about everything!"
Talia conceded.
"If I can control people with that, then good for me. If I can prove that people are beings that can be easily manipulated, I can create anything. But..."
"..."
"What did you call it? You treated it as mere disposable junk. You treated me like disposable junk, too. Do you really wonder why I tried to run away after being treated like that?"
"Hmm..."
In other words, she had produced a quality result, but that damn Grid hadn't offered a word of praise and instead treated her like a disposable tool? Kang-rim felt a flicker of sympathy for Talia's rage.
'My damn boss didn't acknowledge me either.'
He had tried his best to produce results, but his wretched superior would always criticize him, asking if that was all he could do. Having experienced such things so often, Kang-rim could understand why Talia was venting her frustration like this.
He wanted to comfort her, but—
'That would be impossible.'
He shook his head immediately.
'If the guy who treated her like a toy suddenly started praising her, she'd think I'd gone insane.'
It was already too late for praise. If he had possessed the body before meeting Talia, perhaps, but at this point, after Grid had already heaped insults upon her, nothing would work.
Therefore, he had no choice but to push forward.
That was the only option left for him.
'Is there a large cup or something around here?'
Kang-rim looked around, searching for a tool to use while breaking Talia's spirit.
"Alright, let's use this."
"You, what are you trying to do?"
Talia felt uneasy as Kang-rim picked up a large, round flask used for making the aphrodisiac. She even had a premonition that he was about to do something insane.
That premonition was correct.
"What do you mean, what? I'm planning to make a boilermaker."
"A boilermaker? Wait, what are you..."
Before Talia could stop him, Kang-rim poured the aphrodisiac into the flask. Not just one, but several. He started dumping every single aphrodisiac on the display shelf into the flask. Talia was horrified by Kang-rim's sudden, reckless behavior.
"Hey, what are you doing? I said, what are you doing!"
"I told you, didn't I? I'm making a boilermaker. I'm just making it because I have good ingredients on hand. Why, is there a problem?"
"That's not alcohol!"
The concentration of the aphrodisiacs on the shelf varied.
As they varied, so did their effects.
What would happen if you mixed all those drugs with different effects at once? And who would that devil feed the resulting concoction to? The answer was obvious, wasn't it? Talia started to tremble.
"St-stop. Stop it. I said stop! Do you really have to go this far?"
"Yes."
Kang-rim affirmed in response to Talia's question.
"Is there any reason for me to listen to the words of a traitor?"
"Ugh..."
"Now, time to shake it up."
Having dumped every aphrodisiac from the shelf into the flask, Kang-rim sealed it with a stopper. And then, he shook it. He shook it violently until the mixture of all those colors turned into a murky black.
"It's finished."
"Y-you crazy bastard..."
Once the mixing was done, Kang-rim opened the stopper. A foul, pungent odor wafted out immediately.
"Ugh?"
Talia wrinkled her nose instantly.
"Ugh, why does it smell so rotten?"
Kang-rim felt the same.
"Hey, is this really an aphrodisiac? It smells like rotting seafood."
"You're the one who ordered me to make it that way! Don't you dare complain!"
"..."
That damn Grid. Did he think that since this was a torture device, it had to taste like garbage, even though such drugs should be made to taste sweet?
He hadn't noticed when it was in small bottles, but now that it was all mixed together, it was truly toxic.
It was so pungent that Kang-rim momentarily thought about just throwing this swill away, but—
'No, I can't give up.'
This wasn't poison. It wouldn't kill him if he drank it. It was an aphrodisiac to begin with; would Talia have put something toxic in it? If she had, people would have died long ago. And if that had happened, she would have already lost her life to Grid.
So, he would drink it.
He would drink it with the mindset of sacrificing his stomach for the day.
Everything was for his own happy ending!
Resolved, Kang-rim lifted the flask.
And then, he drank.
"Huh?"
Expecting him to force it on her, Talia was stunned to see Kang-rim drink the mixture himself.
"Haa, haa, haa... that tastes like absolute filth."
Kang-rim set the empty flask down on the floor. At first, the pungent smell hitting his tongue made him want to vomit, but—
"From now on, make all aphrodisiacs taste sweet, got it? Anyway, my body is getting strangely hot."
Once he endured that, his body began to heat up.
It was so hot that Kang-rim started to strip off his clothes.
As he removed his underwear, his member, which had been dormant, sprang out immediately.
The exposed member began to swell and grow.
"Gulp."
Seeing that, Talia swallowed hard.
"Is this the power of the aphrodisiac? I feel like I can't control my own body."
Kang-rim began to get increasingly intoxicated by the drug.
'My head is spinning.'
He had rarely ever been drunk before.
His vision was blurring, and he felt like he might collapse.
He felt like he might, but...
Why was Talia the only thing that looked so clear?
Unlike Artria, Sua, or Iris, she didn't have massive breasts, so why did they look so tempting?
Why did he want to see them? Why did he have the urge to strip away the clothes that covered her so tightly?
Why, why, why...
Why did he want to devour Talia so badly?
-Snap!
He heard something snap in his head, and—
"Eek?"
He lunged at Talia.
Tearing her clothes apart with brute strength, Kang-rim—
"W-wait. Hold... ughhh!"
He began to rape the lead researcher.
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"Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh!"
How did it come to this? Why did things turn out this way? Why, why?
With her lips forcibly taken, Talia was in a state of total confusion.
The fact that Grid had suddenly broken in, the fact that he had mixed all the aphrodisiacs together, the fact that Grid himself had drunk the mixture, and the current situation where he was raping her while intoxicated by the drug—she couldn't understand any of it.
"Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh!"
She couldn't understand, but there was one fact she knew for certain.
"Ugh, ugh... Puh-ha! St-stop, my tongue hurts so much, please, just... ugh?"
Grid's reason was currently paralyzed by sexual desire. He was in a state where nothing entered his eyes except for the act of ravaging a woman. And the only woman in the room was Talia.
In other words,
"Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh!"
It was her fate to be raped until Grid regained his sanity.
Talia had no choice but to endure, eyes wide open, as Grid explored her mouth while simultaneously thrusting into her with his member.
She tried to struggle to escape this cruel fate, but it was meaningless.
Her hands and feet were twisted behind her back, and she was even bound with rope. In such a state, there was nothing Talia could do.
There was only one thing she could do.
"Pl-please stop. Please! I, I was wrong, I'll never commit treason again, so please... ugh?"
She could only beg for forgiveness and try to escape this hell.
Of course, escaping was impossible.
"Why would I?"
Because Grid—Kang-rim—had no intention of accepting it.
"I'm not killing you, so why are you so scared? Don't worry. I'm different."
"How are you different?"
"I said I'm different."
He had drunk the aphrodisiac himself to break Talia's spirit. Thanks to that, he was so intoxicated by excitement that he would go mad if he didn't thrust into her. Of course, he wouldn't kill anyone like Grid would. He would only ravage her until she was full to the brim.
Because that was all he intended to do, Kang-rim had no intention of listening to Talia's whining.
"I'm different, so stop whining and just suit me, stop your crying!"
"Who's whining, this isn't—ugh!"
To tell her to stop screaming, Kang-rim covered her lips again and thrust his hips violently.
"Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh!"
Kang-rim didn't stop.
"Ugh, ugh, ugh!"
Even when Talia's belly swelled beyond the size of a full-term pregnancy, he didn't stop thrusting. Even when Talia reached the point where she couldn't move her tongue, he didn't pull his lips away.
"Puh-ugh, puh-ugh, puh-ugh, puh-ugh!"
Perhaps unsatisfied with just her vagina, at some point, Kang-rim began to thrust his member into her mouth. Until he reached the point of spilling his seed between her thighs, Kang-rim ravished Talia's mouth, over and over again.
"Ah, I, I was wrong. I was wrong. Please forgive me. I'll be loyal, I'll be loyal. Please, please don't kill me, please stop thrusting. I... Aaaah!"
Talia, completely terrified, begged for her life, but Kang-rim ignored her.
"Haa-ok, oh-ok, oh-ko-ok, oh-ko-o-ok!"
At some point, Kang-rim began to ravage Talia's anus.
"Ugh-weeeek!"
Kang-rim kept thrusting until she reached the point of vomiting.
"Forgive me, please forgive me. I don't want this anymore, I don't want it, I don't want it, I don't want it!"
Ignoring the lead researcher's desperate voice, Kang-rim continued to thrust his member.
He kept thrusting, and thrusting, and thrusting again until his desire to devour this woman had completely faded.
How much time had passed since he started thrusting like that?
"...Huh?"
Had he fallen asleep at some point?
Kang-rim opened his eyes, momentarily confused. He had clearly been ravaging Talia like a madman, but when he woke up, he was lying on a floor covered in semen.
Then, what had happened to Talia?
"Pl-please, save me, I don't want to die. Please, please save me, save me..."
Talia was lying beside him, twitching and muttering, begging to be saved.
"With this, Talia is out of commission, too."
The corners of Kang-rim's mouth curled up at the fact that his goal had been achieved.