Chapter 47
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 47
Chapter Title: Kingdom Mage Riley, Kina (5)
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The next day.
"Ughhh..."
I watched Kina rise unsteadily from her spot, her eyes hollow and shadowed from a sleepless night.
Riley hadn't slept properly either.
How could she, after listening to Kina's sobs until sunrise?
Every time Kina's cries reached her ears, Riley was reminded of her own intrusive thoughts, filling her with guilt.
Guilt tormented Riley.
Should she just give up now?
Her chest felt tight.
But reinforcements would come soon. If she could hold out for just one more week.
They definitely would.
The kingdom's administration might be frustratingly slow and sloppy, but they wouldn't ignore the disappearance of a kingdom mage.
"Ughhh."
Her entire body bound, her mouth sealed, Riley desperately sent encouraging messages to Kina with her eyes.
It was the only thing she could do.
The fresh, vibrant image Kina once had was gone. She stared at Riley with sunken eyes.
And from the lips of the ever-optimistic Kina came words I could scarcely believe.
"Must be nice. For you."
What?
"You just have to sit there tied up, doing nothing. No getting raped by the Demon King, no beatings until your ass stings, no living with weird slime stuffed in your butt."
"Mmph?!"
What are you talking about, Kina?
"Ha, still wearing that clueless look. Infuriating."
A sneer escaped Kina's lips as she glared at Riley with dead eyes.
"Did you think I wouldn't figure it out?"
No. Whatever you're thinking, that's not it.
Riley shook her head frantically.
But with no mouth to speak her mind or hands to gesture, all she could do was shake her head.
"The Demon King said it every day. That I'm suffering alone because you gave up. That he torments only me every day while you just sit in that chair watching, and it's all because of you... What happened when I couldn't get up? Did you really sell me out like he said? I'm falling apart here, and you just watch without helping."
Kina, beyond the bars, trembled as she stared at Riley.
She was looking, but not seeing.
She saw not the helplessly bound Riley, but a Riley who had already sold her soul to the devil.
No.
That's absolutely not it.
"Mmph!!!"
"It's that gag, isn't it? That's why you can't say anything to me? Right?"
Kina's face twisted horribly as she gazed at her with shattered eyes.
The Kina who always preached hope was gone now.
Why hadn't Riley realized that Kina felt the same deep helplessness, plunged into the same abyss?
She was trembling.
Terrified.
Overwhelmed by fear, unable to keep her sanity.
Unable to distinguish truth from lies.
Even knowing the Demon King's words were false, she believed them.
Deceived by illusions born of terror.
She was.
Kina was...
"So because you've got that gag in your mouth, you don't have to say anything to me, and you get to stay comfortable?"
Her eyes resembled those of the already-corrupted women.
"Mmph, mmph..."
Riley shook her head.
It was her only way to express herself.
"Yeah... You'd say it's not like that."
Meeting Kina's resentful gaze, Riley felt her heart tear apart.
She wanted to scream that it wasn't true. But the gag in her mouth stopped her.
Once again, Riley's will failed to reach her.
Kina sat down, pulling her knees to her chest, hugging them tightly, and burying her face.
"I'm going to talk to him today."
"Mmph?"
"I'll tell the Demon King I can't take it anymore. That I've lost, so free me from all these restraints... In exchange, I'll say I'll take your place, tied up and watching."
"..."
"You need to experience it too. How horrific and brutal what I've been through is."
Kina finished speaking and smiled.
Hee hee hee.
It wasn't the innocent smile that had melted Riley's heart and been her pillar of strength.
It was a smile laced with madness.
"Feel it for yourself. How hard it's been for me."
Ahh.
Kina...
I'm sorry.
I'm truly sorry.
All Riley could do was shed tears and drool as she watched her broken friend.
Thud. Thud.
The footsteps of dread approached.
"Time."
As always, Frederike hoisted Riley over her shoulder. Rebecca didn't restrain Kina at all. Kina didn't even think of running.
At that moment, Riley felt it.
The barrier blocking mana in the dungeon had vanished, and mana began flowing through their bodies again.
She must have felt it too.
Kina must have sensed this refreshing mana flow.
She would have.
More sensitive to mana than Riley, she would know.
This was the perfect chance to escape.
'Kina, this is our chance.'
Riley looked at Kina.
But she was trembling.
Shaking like a frightened child, unable to do anything.
I examined the potion Yulia had prepared for me.
An aphrodisiac that turned pain into pleasure.
Made with succubus fluids, one drop was enough for ordinary humans, two for those who could handle mana.
This would be perfect for the final stage.
"Here?"
I sat on the bed as usual, watching Rebecca and Frederike bring in the two mages.
Frederike bound Riley to the chair like always.
And Kina, who came with Rebecca...
"I-I'm sorry."
Knelt and bowed before me.
In prisoner rags, she knelt, the devil tail of her anal plug swaying gently.
"What for?"
"I-I dare to apologize for wounding Your Excellency the Demon King's noble body. I won't resist foolishly anymore, so please forgive my sins."
Riley's shocked expression was a sight to behold.
Her eyes widened as she stared at Kina.
She still hadn't broken.
Not enough with indirect shocks?
'But this one's definitely shattered.'
I might have played with her a bit too roughly.
Even so, I'd pushed only as far as Frederike could endure.
Thinking about it, surviving a week was impressive.
She hadn't collapsed completely, so with proper care later, she'd recover somewhat.
I wasn't doing all this just to add another broken plank to the bed.
"Hmm..."
"Eek!"
She flinched even at a sigh, that terrified.
"What do you want?"
"R-Riley hasn't suffered alone like a coward. She's using me as a shield to avoid Your Excellency's punishment and just watches as a bystander. So I beg you to switch our roles."
Ahh.
Abandoning her friend.
Riley's face twisted further.
The betrayal of a trusted friend, and the reality of being powerless.
Must hurt a lot.
But not enough.
"S-Since this worthless me wounded Your Excellency, please forgive..."
To a young horse whipped in pain, a handful of carrots feels like the greatest reward.
I approached Kina.
"Do you think I got angry over something so trivial?"
"Y-Yes? What do you...?"
I took her hand and pulled her to her feet from her kneeling position.
"I'm not some lunatic who torments talented people capable of wounding me just because I'm in a bad mood."
"Mmph!!!"
I ignored the interrupting noise midway.
The fear consuming Kina right now had all her nerves focused on me.
"B-But..."
"Do you really think I bound and tormented you to kill you? I captured you to draw out your potential, to help you find your true self and power. You who knew wrong knowledge and held misguided thoughts..."
I slowly reached toward Kina's face.
As my hand touched her, she flinched but bit her lip and endured.
I channeled demonic energy into my hand against her face.
The demonic energy flowed softly through her body.
Her body, mana-starved for so long, now open again, naturally accepted the demonic energy I offered.
"To show you the path to true knowledge you must find. To show rationality amid hardship and adversity, without losing your pride. Isn't that the true way of the mage?"
"Y-Yes... But why do we need to mix bodies with Your Excellency...?"
"Physical pleasure—that's the greatest obstacle blocking rational approaches. Human emotions are so sensitive; often, pleasure alone births feelings that weren't there. And reason becomes slave to those emotions... Maintaining true reason amid overflowing pleasure is another form of training, and joy itself. Don't you agree?"
It was utter nonsense.
Enduring pleasure to hone rational judgment?
But to the already broken Kina, even this absurdity worked.
"Is that... so?"
The thick demonic energy seeping into her was more than enough to reshape her thoughts.
"Yes. So I should praise you for enduring this far. Not scold you."
"Mmph!!!"
Riley thrashed, insisting otherwise.
Anger rose in her eyes as she watched her friend fall.
Yes.
Get angrier.
Rage at me for killing and ravaging your friends.
That'll make you taste even better.
"Praise..."
"Was it painful so far?"
"Yes... Very much."
"From now on, you won't feel that pain."
I took out the vial.
The aphrodisiac.
"Take just two drops. You'll understand what I mean."
Kina obediently stuck out her tongue.
She knew resisting here was pointless.
She's smart.
Yes, smart.
The thick, yellow viscous aphrodisiac melted on her tongue the moment it touched.
"Hnnng..."
She immediately let out a strange moan.
Clutching her lower belly, she writhed.
All the sensations that had tormented her were turning to pleasure.
"I'll show you. The reward I give."
Kina felt it.
A pleasure she'd never known.
The burning pain that scorched her brain for a week vanished, replaced by euphoria. The sensation of pain and despair turning to pleasure was a new kind altogether.
More than breaking through a new magical realm.
More than completing a new spell.
More than dining with Riley after a mission.
More than praise from the dean.
More than graduating the academy.
Like a drug addict, she indulged in the sensations stimulating her mind.
Shaking her hips, rubbing her sensitive spots.
Accepting the hand slapping her ass without resistance.
"Ahhnn!! So good..."
Letting out lewd cries herself, reveling in it.
Because this let her forget the horrific reality.
Riley watched.
"Haaah! Demon King! Yes! So gooood!!!!"
Her dearest friend, finally broken.
The kingdom mage tormented by his sexual torture was gone, replaced only by a whore vulgarly riding the Demon King, shaking her hips.
One who knelt to the Demon King to escape pain.
The friend she couldn't protect.
"Haaang!! Demon Kiiing! Your cock's too biiig!!"
With every shake of Kina's hips, the devil tail in her anal plug swayed.
"Mmph!!!"
The Demon King leisurely watched Kina but never forgot to glance at Riley.
As if declaring victory.
Creak! Creak!
She resisted.
Even knowing it wouldn't reach, Riley kept struggling.
To tell Kina.
I'm right here.
"Demon King... What are you looking at..."
Kina, now a slave to pleasure, seemed oblivious to Riley's desperation.
Instead, she started coquettishly vying for the Demon King's affection.
Shaking her hips more seductively, screaming moans to seduce him.
She.
She was no longer the Kina Riley knew.
Kina's head turned, following the Demon King's gaze.
"Ah, Riley..."
Kina called her name.
Has she come to her senses?
Right?
All this was just a ploy to fool the Demon King?
"Ignore that bitch and focus on me."
Kina ignored Riley's desperate struggles.
As if she'd forgotten her.
Then, the Demon King signaled.
And Amy slowly approached, removing the gag from Riley's mouth.
But.
"Ahh... ahh..."
With her tongue severed, she couldn't form words, and it never reached Kina's ears.
"Hnnng!! Yes!! Demon Kiiing!!! Haaang!!"
Kina's sweat-slick ass shook up and down, milking the Demon King's semen.
Splurt!
"Haaaahnnn!!!"
Kina collapsed atop the Demon King.
"Your seed... filling my womb... Feels good, right? Just like me now..."
Even with mana restored, Kina showed no intent to cast spells.
And from behind them.
"Uwaaaah..."
The tongueless mage, unable to cast, stretched her hand with all her might.
But no magic manifested.
And I saw it.
The lump of hatred in Riley's chest had grown beyond compare.
I shoved the collapsed Kina aside and approached Riley.
"How does it feel, watching the friendship you boasted of shatter?"
"Uaaah..."
She said something, but I couldn't hear.
"You've lost. Kina's broken, and reinforcements won't come."
"..."
"Mir hasn't dispatched forces to rescue you yet."
Which means.
"There's no way to beat me. If you want to survive, kiss me yourself."
Riley glared and opened her mouth.
I thought she'd given up, but.
Clack!
Her teeth clamped down as if to bite off my cock. I shook my head.
"Ahh waah."
Her eyes still burned.
Good.
This spirit.
Keep it burning.
If you do, you'll be reborn splendidly.
"We'll see."
Snap!
I untied the ropes binding Riley's arms and forcibly stripped her.
Unlike Kina, her massive breasts swayed before my eyes.
This'll be fun to devour.