As a Human, Irene 3
The scene of demonic beasts devouring human women was one Irene had never witnessed. She had wandered the warfields enough times to see such horrors several times and even felt rage at them.
Yet no matter how much she harbored revenge, eating human flesh still felt emotionally too repugnant and revolting to her.
She could never have imagined that Jae-hyun would actually command his subordinates to devour human flesh. Another question surged in her mind.
“Oppa, do you really eat human flesh?”
Irene was genuinely curious about that part. If Jae-hyun truly ate human flesh, she also worried that she herself—being human—might simply be viewed as food.
After ten years in hell, Irene had become even more dependent on the only person she loved left in this world, Jae-hyun, than before.
Just as Jae-hyun felt his emptiness filled whenever Irene was present, Irene herself sought the meaning of her existence in Jae-hyun’s presence.
If it had not been for him, she might have already taken her own life, but after recovering her self, she had stopped considering suicide to avoid saddening Jae-hyun.
It would have been quite bitter for the beloved woman she was to him to be seen merely as food.
Fortunately, however, Jae-hyun shook his head and answered exactly as she wanted.
“I don’t eat it. I haven’t even tasted human blood, let alone human flesh.”
It was the finest blood, one that the Vampire Queen Selina would have swallowed with great eagerness if she could have tasted it. Irene’s blood from her virgin days was unknown, but even her current blood—now past thirty yet still a virgin—did not fall short of or surpass the pure maiden’s blood of Lucretia.
Even so, Jae-hyun had only used a large quantity of Lucretia’s virgin blood for experiments; he had never drunk it.
Though his body had been remade with demonic blood after all human blood was extracted, he still carried his memories from human days intact. His emotions had shifted dramatically under the Demon King’s influence, but he had not viewed humans as food.
Since he did not deny his former self and accepted himself as he was, he had drawn a clear line and never crossed it.
“That’s good news.”
Irene smiled brightly. The fact that Jae-hyun did not eat human flesh or drink blood made her happy, thinking he still saw her purely as a woman.
Because she was still human, her emotions fluctuated greatly. Jae-hyun’s stable emotions stood in sharp contrast to the joy that immediately lit Irene’s face.
He felt happiness from her smile, yet he did not rejoice like he once had when Irene was human. His current joy came only when he witnessed the suffering of those he hated and bore grudges against.
Only then did he taste true, intense pleasure. When the filthy traitors who had betrayed him screamed in pain, a thrilling ecstasy of joy washed over him.
Still, the important thing was that he could feel joy from Irene alone. Because joy itself had become quite withered in him, he found it difficult to feel strong happiness even at small things the way he had as a human.
Since these were things he had personally experienced, Jae-hyun had aimed to preserve Irene’s human emotions when he transformed her into a demon.
He simply did not mention it aloud, instead stroking her head and adding softly, “But Irene, you smell truly sweet. If I hadn’t been completely ruling over my subordinates as Demon King, every demon and beast would have wanted to devour you.”
“……”
At Jae-hyun’s words, Irene lifted her arm slightly to sniff it. Of course, she still found it difficult to recognize her own scent properly.
She was also the martial artist who had reached the highest realm after Jae-hyun, yet she still struggled to perceive her own scent.
“Is my body really that sweet?”
At Irene’s question, Jae-hyun took a handful of her hair, brought it close to his nose, and inhaled while murmuring, “It smells incredibly sweet. So beautiful that it could ignite the limits of reason.”
Jae-hyun spoke calmly and honestly, but Irene found his words oddly familiar. Her cheeks flushed as she said, “D-don’t say things like that. It’s, it’s embarrassing.”
“Hehe…”
Jae-hyun covered his mouth with his hand, laughing at her reaction. In the ten years since becoming the Demon King, he had never once covered his mouth to laugh. Even he himself could not recall doing such a thing.
Doing it now because Irene was beside him, right in front of him, felt like a long-forgotten habit.
“Well then, you wanted to do something to Lucretia, didn’t you? Now that your new body has been created and is clean with no injuries, go ahead and do as you wish.”
Irene, who had been about to ask another question, dropped it and nodded. “Okay.”
When her gaze turned toward Lucretia, the saint flinched.
She now stood unsteadily, no longer looking up at Irene but facing her directly.
Because she was completely naked, the silver forest of pubic hair around her intimate area was fully visible. Under Irene’s gaze, Lucretia lowered her head and trembled.
After so much torment, merely being stared at caused her to fear endless agony. A beautiful woman naked should have felt shame and feared violation, but Lucretia had never known normal violation; she had endured suffering far beyond rape and now craved death.
Moreover, Irene, a woman, could not rape her. Lucretia knew Irene had no such preference, so she felt no sexual fear toward her.
Since Irene had already done terrible things to her and bore a grudge, she feared revenge.
Yet when Irene approached Lucretia, she did not make crude gestures. She simply spread the woman’s legs to check her intimate area, then spread her buttocks to expose the anus, and prodded it with a finger.
“Hwoo-!”
Irene’s slender index finger pierced Lucretia’s anus, producing a moan of pain mixed with strange pleasure. Lucretia, who had been reborn with a virgin body, had already experienced every possible sensation, including the impossible task of giving birth through the anus. Yet both holes below remained virgin, and her body still carried the pure virgin aura close to its original state.
Of course, it was not a perfect virgin. Having left the upper body unchanged while only regenerating the lower part, it was not a complete remake. It was a regeneration process, so the virgin aura was significantly weakened.
The aura of a virgin and a non-virgin differed. Even without receiving semen, if she accepted the aura from a penis, the result would be the same.
That aura spread throughout the body. The upper part being virgin meant the aura was inevitably being eroded and weakened by the non-virgin aura.
Jae-hyun’s foresight in extracting such large quantities of blood had not been in vain.
If they had tried to make it a completely virgin body, it would have been almost like resurrection, so she had no intention of advancing to that stage.
She did not plan to do so unless she was turning someone into a demon like Irene.
But in any case, what mattered was that the body itself had returned to its virgin form, allowing her to feel the pain a virgin should feel.
Right now, Irene’s anus was developed; a finger would cause no pain at all, only intense pleasure from arousal. Lucretia, however, would feel both pain and pleasure.
“Indeed, both front and back are virgins.”
Irene smiled beautifully. Lucretia thought that smile looked like mockery, but Irene quickly wiped it from her face and looked at Jae-hyun, saying, “Oppa, could you help me with something for a while?”
While speaking, Irene sent the plans she had made through message magic to Jae-hyun. When he received the message, he instantly checked its contents.
“I’ll help.”
The plan was not physical torture, but it would cause Lucretia significant suffering, so Jae-hyun accepted it immediately. If Irene had asked him to forgive Lucretia, he would have been furious. But there was no reason to refuse tormenting her in this way. They had never tried it before, and he could not have done it without Irene. It felt quite novel.
Jae-hyun snapped his fingers, and clothes appeared on the naked Lucretia.
A white tank top and blue hot pants—exactly the same outfit as Irene wore.
“Clothes?”
Lucretia, who had lived naked for two days, suddenly felt uneasy. Why clothes? And of the same type as Irene’s? What new torment would she suffer now? She had already prepared herself for constant agony no matter what, trembling in fear.
“It looks good.”
Jae-hyun suddenly spoke. At first Lucretia did not understand what he meant, but soon she realized she was standing right beside Irene in the exact same outfit.
The continent’s most beautiful maiden and the continent’s second most beautiful maiden stood together in identical clothing.
Irene, with her waist-length gleaming golden hair swaying, smiled at Jae-hyun. Beside her, the beautiful saint Lucretia, her silver hair shining just like Irene’s, stared at Jae-hyun with uneasy eyes.
Irene’s body in the tank top and hot pants was fantastic, but Lucretia’s figure was no less beautiful compared to Irene’s. Their contrasting golden and silver hair combined with matching blue eyes made the two beauties highly complementary.
Standing beside Irene in the same outfit, Lucretia’s beauty remained breathtaking even after ten years or ten more. Yet Irene’s true intention was not to praise Lucretia’s appearance.
Irene smiled at Lucretia. Lucretia could not understand the meaning of that smile, but it felt unpleasant.
The smile of the pure Irene from ten years ago would never have been possible; it unsettled her further.
Finally, Jae-hyun approached in front of Irene and Lucretia, reaching out a hand toward Irene.