A Secret Operation with the Butler (13)
A Secret Operation with the Butler (13)
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Yoo-jin's pitiable body. Snow-white skin and contrasting jet-black eyes. An overly revealing short maid uniform, elbow-length gloves on his hands, a garter belt and pure-white stockings on his legs.
An appearance that could captivate regardless of gender.
On top of that, he had loosened the maid uniform until it was nearly slipping off. Then there was his careless posture. The sloppy stance that had made Rebecca click her tongue had now become an opening that stirred a man's lust. But...
"Oh! Honored master! Are you going to rape me? Please, please have mercy!"
Rebecca clenched her teeth.
This awkward acting. It was a pitiful performance that could dampen even a thousand years of lust.
He was pouring out words with tremendous passion, but the more he opened his mouth, the more the mood deflated. Yet still, he didn't stop talking.
As if Rebecca wasn't the only one incredulous, Sivter also said nothing. But Yoo-jin kept spewing that terrible nonsense as if he believed his acting was working.
"No! Please! Benevolent master! You mustn't do this! I am still a pitiable little child!"
Rebecca was at the point of losing her mind. Where on earth had he learned such an awkward manner of speech? Come to think of it, he'd said he came from another world. Was this the kind of speech people used to seduce men where he lived? Was the culture of another world truly that different?
Sivter still said nothing, and Rebecca's worry began to grow. What if he realized this was a trap and called the other maids...!
She was debating whether to stop this pathetic farce, smack Yoo-jin in the back of the head, and flee when something near the back of Sivter's head caught her eye.
'...Telekinesis?!'
The test tube containing the pink slime they'd retrieved from Ariel was floating in midair, bobbing near the back of Sivter's head. But telekinesis? Yoo-jin himself had said his abilities were related to sex. Had he deceived them?
Rebecca was horrified by the sight that followed.
'Didn't you say we weren't going to kill him?!'
He had poured the slime onto the back of Sivter's neck!
Rebecca had known he would use the slime, but she hadn't expected him to use it this aggressively. If things went even slightly wrong, Sivter could be devoured by the slime.
As far as Rebecca knew, low-intelligence creatures like slimes acted purely on instinct. Random movement for the sake of absorption and reproduction was the sole behavioral principle of a slime.
If they left it like that, the pig would undoubtedly suffer grave injuries even if he didn't die. If that happened, much of Yoo-jin's plan would fall apart. How were they supposed to explain wounds inflicted by a monster?
Rebecca struggled to somehow calm her rising anxiety. Praying that he could properly control the situation.
'...'
As if her worries had been unnecessary, the pink slime clung to the back of Sivter's neck very obediently. Rebecca let out a sigh of relief, but simultaneously felt a twinge of doubt.
'How can he control a monster?'
Rebecca's doubts were interrupted by Sivter's groan.
"Grrrrrrrk....."
Aside from groaning, Sivter was muttering something unrecognizable.
At that moment, Rebecca's and Yoo-jin's eyes met. Now was the most crucial moment.
On the side of Sivter's face she glimpsed, veins bulged in thick cords, and drool flowing from his mouth ran down his belly and soaked the floor.
He was clearly in an abnormal state.
"Grrrrrk....I can't hold back!"
'A person can get that... excited...?'
Before Rebecca's doubt could take clear form, Sivter lunged at Yoo-jin! Was this the reason he'd been so confident while putting on that pathetic act?
-Thud!
At Yoo-jin's signal glance, Rebecca shoved the recording device over.
"Eek! No! I don't want this! Stop it!"
-Riiip. Riiip!
"Grrrrrrrrrk!!"
Yoo-jin screamed as he... furiously tore the bed sheets. And Sivter was floating in midair as if he'd been grabbed by the scruff of his neck.
"No! Noooooo!!!!!"
"Kreueeeergh!!!!!"
The sound of clothes ripping, as though someone were being violated, and Yoo-jin's screams, which had finally become convincing. Rebecca suddenly remembered his companion. The blonde priestess named Reni had screamed loudly enough to shake the mansion. Yoo-jin's screams sounded somewhat similar to hers.
"Good. Now be quiet."
"Kuek?!"
Sivter flinched in midair as if struck by something, then finally let out a few beast-like groans before passing out.
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"How about that? Seem usable? Honestly, I think I've got some talent?"
Yoo-jin looked delighted, but Rebecca let out a deep sigh.
"....I'm not sure they'll actually believe this."
"Why?"
"To be frank..."
Rebecca closed her mouth. It would be better for him to see for himself.
...
"W-well, at least the last part seems usable."
Yoo-jin muttered that, but his reddened face made his embarrassment obvious.
"...If it's really that bad, let's try once more tomorrow. The guy's memory will be wiped anyway..."
"..."
Rebecca was silent. She had no mental capacity to give such an answer. Rebecca simply pointed at Yoo-jin's lower half with a trembling finger.
"Rebecca?"
At the tip of Rebecca's pointing finger, Yoo-jin's skirt was tented outward. Yoo-jin, following the tip of Rebecca's finger, also had a look of horror dawn on his face.
"Y-You, don't tell me...!"
"N-No. No. It's not that. I don't know what you're thinking. But anyway, it's not that!"
"Being jumped by a man that repulsive....got you excited....!"
"I said no!!!!"
"Grrrrrrrk...."
"?!" "?!"
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"Grrrrrrrk...."
This wasn't the time for the two of them to be having an inane squabble. Sivter had risen and was glaring at them.
"Uh-Uh? He definitely passed out..."
Yoo-jin stared at Sivter, babbling stupidly... then clamped his mouth shut upon seeing his state.
Sivter's eyes were not normal. The whites had vanished entirely, his eyeballs completely black as if steeped in ink. He looked as if he were possessed by an evil spirit.
"Grrrrrrrk...."
Sivter's head creaked, and an alien voice spilled out.
"You wretches... you wretches... dare..."
Beneath Sivter's skin, something bulged and writhed as if dozens of snakes were crawling, but he didn't seem to care in the slightest.
Faced with this unexpected situation, Yoo-jin and Rebecca could only freeze.
Rebecca bit her lip reflexively. She couldn't afford to lose her wits at a time like this. Before she knew it, her favored daggers were in her hands.
"Step back. This is not normal."
"Huh? Uh..."
Fortunately, Yoo-jin didn't seem to be simply spaced out. No, rather, it was as if he had some inkling...
"Damn it... nothing's ever easy..."
As Yoo-jin muttered a small curse and drew a sword from thin air, the sword was engulfed in flames. But Yoo-jin looked confused instead.
"No, hey, what's wrong with you. What? Huh?"
Yoo-jin began to ramble. Had he finally lost his mind in this abnormal situation? Rebecca clenched her teeth. First, deal with Sivter, and then...
Upon seeing the burning sword, Sivter let out a blood-curdling screech.
"Kieeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!"
A scream that pierced the eardrums. At the same time, Sivter's clothes burst apart, and tentacles erupted from his back.
Rebecca was horrified.
Rebecca, too, was a resident of a city with a dungeon. Although she rarely had reason to go to a dungeon directly, she could pride herself on knowing more about monsters than people from other regions.
'But this is...'
It bore no resemblance to any monster Rebecca knew. The only similarity was that these tentacles possessed blood and flesh.
Something suddenly flashed through Rebecca's mind.
She had heard that in the Abyss of the Dungeon, there were nameless, amorphous chunks of flesh. Lumps of meat that had never quite become monsters. There was no other way to describe what was before Rebecca's eyes.
"Rebecca!"
At Yoo-jin's shout, Rebecca snapped back to her senses.
"Get outside, now!"
At Yoo-jin's shout, Rebecca smashed the window instead of replying. A good decision. Now that the enemy had tentacles of unknown nature, an enclosed space was dangerous. Thinking that, Rebecca jumped down together with Yoo-jin.
-Thud!
Sivter pursued them, using his tentacles like the legs of a spider. No, it was hard to call him Sivter anymore.
Rebecca gauged the length of the tentacles as she spoke to Yoo-jin.
"I've no idea where such a hideous monster came from. For now..."
"Hideous? I am hideous? You dare call me hideous, you ungrateful wretch?!"
Hearing Rebecca's words, Sivter bellowed.
"You lowly wretches... you have ruined everything!! Fools who willingly made yourselves slaves to breeding!"
Sivter screamed as black fluid leaked from every orifice in his body. Hearing that, Yoo-jin muttered, puzzled.
"...Slaves to breeding?"