Chapter 249: I Was Mistaken for a Rapist (2)[R-18]
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 249: I Was Mistaken for a Rapist (2)[R-18]
“Heek!!... Haa...! Heek...!”
It felt like her lungs were going to burst.
Her legs were trembling, and her entire body was drenched in sweat.
But she couldn't stop running.
Because behind her, that ‘beast’ was giving chase.
‘He—he’s not human...!!’
‘Red-Eyed Estelle’ practically tumbled down the stairs and reached the second-floor hallway.
If she got caught by him, it was over.
This time for sure, she would fall into that hellish pit of pleasure, and her very existence would melt away!
‘Where!... Where on earth... am I supposed to hide!!’
Glance! Glance!
After desperately scanning her surroundings, a weathered cabinet caught her eye.
Clatter!
Without a moment’s hesitation, ‘Red-Eyed Estelle’ yanked the cabinet door open and squeezed her body inside.
The cramped, dusty space smelled unpleasant, but she had no time to worry about that.
“...Kh-!”
‘Red-Eyed Estelle’ clamped both hands over her mouth to keep her breathing from leaking out, peering through the crack in the cabinet door.
Step— Step—
A moment later, heavy footsteps echoed through the hallway.
‘He’s coming! He’s coming! He’s coming!’
Step— Step— Thud!
“....”
The footsteps, which had been drawing closer, stopped right in front of the cabinet.
‘Please...! Don’t open it!’
Contrary to her desperate prayer, Ian’s hand moved toward the cabinet handle.
‘Agh-hiiiiiieeeek───!!?!’
‘Red-Eyed Estelle’ let out a silent scream.
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
It felt like her heart was going to leap out of her throat.
Crash!
Was this what they called a miracle?
Just before Ian could open the cabinet, the sound of something breaking echoed from a distance.
Snap!
Ian turned his head toward the sound and immediately ran in that direction.
Thump—! Thump—! Thump—!
Only long after the footsteps had completely vanished did ‘Red-Eyed Estelle’ crawl out of the cabinet.
“Ugh...!! What—what the hell is wrong with him?!!”
‘Red-Eyed Estelle’ bit her lip, feeling hot tears welling up in her eyes.
How did the ‘D■mon of B■lance’, who once commanded the Dark Age, end up like this?
“It’s all... because of that bastard!”
Yes, that night, instead of vanishing into the swirling abyss of pleasure, she had sworn absolute obedience to Estelle.
But she had a plan!
She thought she could wait for an opportunity to completely take over Estelle’s body, or if that failed, simply wait out the hundred-odd years of a human’s lifespan.
However....
Grit!
She never imagined that Estelle would steal her ‘Name.’
A name is the proof of one’s existence.
Once her name was stolen, it became impossible to accumulate power as the ‘D■mon of B■lance.’
No, if it had just been stolen, it wouldn't have been the worst-case scenario.
She could have just reclaimed it after Estelle eventually died.
The real problem was the ‘Renaming.’
‘Red-Eyed Estelle.’
A cursed name that had now become her new True Name.
Naturally, you couldn't just slap any random name on someone and have it become a ‘True Name.’
If that were possible, humans in the Dark Age wouldn't have needed to fear demons.
But the name ‘Red-Eyed Estelle’ was different.
As long as she possessed Estelle’s form and lived within Estelle’s body, it was a name she had no choice but to accept.
‘I’m slowly being assimilated into Estelle...’
As if she had swallowed a poison that dissolved her very being, her ego and values as the ‘D■mon of B■lance’ were gradually fading.
Specifically, that guy Ian was the problem.
Between ‘Estelle’ and ‘Red-Eyed Estelle’, who shared both body and mind, the only clear distinction was their feelings toward Ian.
Estelle, who loved Ian more than anyone, and ‘Red-Eyed Estelle,’ who loathed him.
This gap was what allowed the two entities to remain distinct.
In fact, this wasn't necessarily bad for ‘Red-Eyed Estelle.’
If she could somehow turn Estelle’s feelings for Ian into ‘hatred,’ it might be possible to seize control.
But...
“...Ah-kh-aaah-maaa-ahk?!!♥”
The problem was that every time they had sex, Estelle, unable to endure the maddening pleasure, would dump all that sensation onto her.
‘...If he’s your man, stop dumping it on me and handle it all yourself!!!’
Was the mind following the body?
Every time ‘Red-Eyed Estelle’ reached a climax from Ian’s cock, she felt her hatred being chipped away, replaced by a faint budding of positive emotion.
That was why she had desperately escaped.
Like getting soaked to the bone by a light drizzle, she felt that if she continued to be violated like this—no matter how faint the feeling—she would eventually be completely assimilated into ‘Estelle,’ and the ‘D■mon of B■lance’ would vanish forever!
Step—
Just then, footsteps were heard from the stairs once again.
“Hic!?!”
A hiccup escaped her lips involuntarily.
‘Red-Eyed Estelle’ hid back inside the cabinet and covered her mouth.
But...
Step— Step— Thud!
This time, too, the footsteps drew closer and stopped right in front of the cabinet.
Creeeeeak—!
‘Ah!...! Ugh!... Aah!!... N-No...!’
As if to prove that miracles don't happen twice, the cabinet door swung open...
“What... is this?”
Chloe Robelia appeared.
Immediately after the opening ceremony.
Chloe’s nose twitched.
‘Sniff... Sniff, sniff!... Inhale... I definitely feel it.’
At first, she thought she was experiencing hallucinations—or rather, phantosmia—because she missed Phantom so much.
But now she could say for certain.
This scent Chloe was picking up was no illusion!
She could clearly sense the mixture of her own pheromones, which had mutated to react only to ‘Phantom’ while using ‘Fox Charm,’ and the ‘Fox Following Scent’ she had planted on him.
‘Phantom... were you attending the Academy too?’
Chloe struggled to suppress the twitching corners of her mouth.
Well, it wasn't strange for ‘Phantom’ to be attending the Sacred Academy.
After all, Chloe herself had enrolled while hiding her identity as the ‘Nine-Tailed Fox.’
Of course, she had made the wrong choice by entering graduate school and had been tied down for far too long...
Regardless, if it was the Phantom she knew, he had more than enough talent to enter the Academy even while hiding his skills as a phantom thief.
‘Tsk... Should I have just unmasked him back then...?’
Chloe recalled her meeting with Phantom at the salon.
It had been the perfect opportunity to reveal his identity, but she hadn't.
Partly because she was out of her mind due to her heat, but also because she had confirmed Phantom’s feelings for her.
She believed that one day, Phantom would come to her and reveal his identity himself.
“Sniff... Sniff... Inhale...!... The scent... is getting stronger this way.”
Chloe followed the scent.
The trail that started at the Grand Hall led toward the old school building.
Step— Step—
As she cautiously entered the old building, Chloe became certain.
“Yeah, Phantom is here.”
Even without concentrating, the pheromones she had smeared on Phantom were asserting their presence intensely.
And along with that...
‘...Is that... the smell of semen?’
Chloe’s footsteps came to a dead stop.
Mixed with the pheromones was the thick, heavy scent of semen.
A fragrance that triggered the memory of a pleasure so scorched into her brain she could never forget it.
Twitch—
As if her body couldn't lie, Chloe’s lower abdomen involuntarily contracted and grew hot.
‘Phantom! What on earth are you doing at the Academy!’
As if possessed, Chloe followed the scent upstairs, but then she noticed something strange.
“...Huh?”
For some reason, the scent of Phantom’s semen seemed to be coming from two different directions...
And one of them was leaking out from that cabinet over there.
Step— Step— Thud!
Approaching the cabinet cautiously in this confusing situation, Chloe opened the door...
And an unbelievable sight unfolded.
“What... is this?”
Crouched inside the cabinet was a young girl, trembling and sobbing.
“Hi—hiieek!”
Her clothes were torn in various places, and her skin was covered in vivid red marks and bite marks.
Un-dried semen glistened on various parts of her body, and her tear-streaked face was filled with terror and despair.
‘H-Hwaaaah!!... She was... violated... Wait? It’s not... Ian?’
For a split second, a strange light flickered in ‘Red-Eyed Estelle’s’ eyes.
‘This is... an opportunity!! I can plant a horrible impression of Ian in this woman’s mind!... I can do this!!’
If she used this woman, she might be able to escape that monster Ian.
Furthermore, she wouldn't be breaking Estelle’s highest priority command: ‘Do not attack Ian.’
She would simply be telling the ‘truth.’
“H-huu...! Sob...!... P-Please... help me...!”
‘Red-Eyed Estelle’ spoke haltingly, pouring out tears with the most sorrowful expression in the world.
How beastly Ian had been!
How many times she and other women had been violated!
As she listened to the harrowing testimony, Chloe’s face grew paler and paler.
The state of Ian that Estelle described matched perfectly with what Chloe knew all too well.
Yes, the image of a male who had lost his reason and gone into heat after being hit by ‘Fox Charm.’
‘C-Could it be... because of me... Phantom...?’
Clenching her fists, Chloe realized she had taken her own technique too lightly.
‘Fox Charm’ was an incomplete technique that even Chloe hadn't fully mastered.
Her own ‘desire from the heat’ directed toward Phantom might have mixed in, turning him into a rapist.
No, that had to be it.
[Because I feel like if I have any more contact with you, I’ll truly start to want you.]
Otherwise, there was no way the gentlemanly, woman-respecting Phantom who said those words would ever commit such an act as ‘rape.’
‘I... I didn't mean for this to happen....’
No matter how much she hadn't intended it, the result was that she had turned Phantom into a ‘serial rapist.’
She had caused irreparable wounds to so many people, and most of all... to Phantom himself.
How much must Phantom have suffered, being forced to violate women he didn't even love!
When the only one Phantom truly loves is ‘Nine-Tailed Fox’—me!
Chloe’s fists trembled violently.
‘Right... this is all my fault.’
If so, it was also her responsibility to set this wrong right.
“Sniff... Sniff...”
“It’s okay, don't worry anymore. ...I’ll take care of it.”
Embracing the still-crying Estelle, Chloe made her decision.
To end this horrific tragedy.
To save her beloved Phantom.
‘Let’s fall into hell together, Phantom.’
She would accept all of Phantom’s lust with her own body, and then they would turn themselves in together.