The Haesam Brothers
"No... Master, your head is sharper than I thought. Wait, that's not what I meant...
Anyway, my constitution has changed...
I'm something more advanced than a regular incubus now... evolved... awakened... transformed... but even so...
I don't know if it's completely safe to mix bodies with you, Master...
Last time it really did feel... fantastically good...
But at the same time... it gradually felt like I was experiencing... something close to death..."
"When I think about it now, it scares me too...
I was just blankly... thrusting nonstop...
I lost all sense of time. I couldn't even tell how long it had been...
There has to be something going on here...!"
As expected, neither Shura nor Pungjin had the faintest clue what was happening.
"So for now, let's just enjoy it like this... at this level...
If you need anything, I'll take care of it all.
Just think of yourself as my real slave... and only listen to what I say..."
Pungjin displayed astonishing leadership and charisma!
Since this was the first time in his life he'd ever had a slave, it seemed he was overflowing with affection for her.
"No... even so... I've already received so much from you, Master...
Your semen... your torment... your yin energy... I've taken far too much...
Hic... hic...
If I can't even repay you properly... then my worth as an existence...
feels so insignificant... sob...
My self-esteem is dropping... waaah..."
The slave had begun to question her own value as an existence!
No matter what Shura said, Pungjin was exhausted and just wanted to sleep. He mumbled back half-asleep before drifting off completely.
"So stop crying and just go to sleep...
We'll talk about it later..."
Shura cried alone for a while. Once she confirmed that Pungjin had truly fallen asleep, her thoroughly experimental spirit flared up again.
She wondered if she should try slipping his cock into her pussy.
But then...
She remembered what had happened when he'd thrust into her before and instinctively shrank back.
It had been like dying and being reborn...
The process of transforming into the Succubus Princess...
At first she'd felt overwhelming pleasure, but afterward, with nearly all her yin energy drained, she'd been left in a half-corpse state...
And during the long hours she'd been abandoned like that, she'd been practically on the verge of death.
So Shura was just as terrified as he was.
"Still... I am the Succubus Princess, after all. Shouldn't it be different for me?
But what if it's exactly the same...? Once I get fucked... that feeling is so good...
I won't be able to stop myself... whoa...
Every time I'm fucked... my energy keeps draining... even though it feels like I'm going to die...
The pleasure is so intense that I unconsciously...
start shaking my hips first!!
Destroying and ruining myself!!
Burning myself alive...
Ugh!!!
Why... why does this turn me on so much...? Does this even make sense...?
Aah... ugh... I'm getting way too excited...
Maybe I should just... let him fuck me senseless... ahh..."
Shura's worries grew deeper with each passing day...
"Ah...!!"
"Oh! Monk Ilsim, I heard you didn't stop by the village last time because you had urgent business and left right away?
Thank you so much for coming all the way here... hehe..."
Ilsim couldn't stop thinking about the strange encounter he'd had with Hyerim that morning.
She had clearly accused him of trying to assault her even though he hadn't touched her at all...
Yet here she was, smiling brightly and thanking him with her clothes all disheveled and torn?
Was her mentality just that strong? Or was something wrong...?
Ilsim replayed the situation in his mind once more.
No matter how he thought about it, Hyerim's behavior back then had been strange.
Her tone, her appearance... now that he thought about it, she had a completely different aura from the Hyerim he'd just met.
What... what was going on...?
Ilsim was confused.
But he couldn't just ask Hyerim outright about what had happened.
Hadn't he sworn to the Ilwolseongsin that he would never speak of that incident again?
Had... had he been played?
Although he was a monk, Ilsim wasn't completely naive.
No matter how he looked at it, he couldn't shake the uneasy feeling that he'd been taken advantage of.
And so...
He began secretly circling around Hyerim, observing her every move.
Then, at one point...
"Yes, during lunch break... I'll go meet a friend and be right back."
"Sure~~ Go ahead."
It looked perfectly ordinary.
But to Ilsim's eyes, Hyerim's expression and tone seemed somehow suspicious.
Like she wasn't being entirely honest. Like something was off...
Like a child sneaking off to do something bad...
Convinced he'd found a clue, Ilsim secretly began tailing her.
Hyerim, who lived all the way in Mahari, meeting a friend during lunch break?
And not even an apprentice shaman from the temple?
It was definitely suspicious.
As he followed her, she entered an inn not far from the temple.
It wasn't that strange for people to eat at an inn, but before going inside, she'd ordered three portions of food for takeout.
That made it even more suspicious.
Was her friend staying at the inn...?
Suddenly...
His prayer beads... his holy relic... began to vibrate faintly in response to yin energy.
Certain that he'd been possessed by something before, he'd brought along this high-quality prayer bead that he normally didn't carry.
Not long after, Hyerim came back out of the inn and returned to the temple...
But no one came out with her.
He still had no idea who her friend was or who she'd met.
Ilsim quietly called over an inn employee he knew.
"Oh? Monk, what brings you here all of a sudden?
You already made a donation last time..."
The employee looked annoyed, clearly thinking Ilsim was about to squeeze another donation out of him under the guise of charity.
"Ahem... How dare you speak so carelessly about donating to the temple?
How truly disrespectful...
Ilwolseongsin above...
What should be done with one who does not fear the heavens...? Oh dear..."
"N-no, that's not what I..."
Ilsim immediately began pressuring the displeased employee the moment they met!
"The reason I'm here is because I've been sensing something strange about this inn lately...
Among the guests... have there been any suspicious individuals? People whose behavior seems off?"
Ilsim had officially begun his investigation!
"Ah, well... now that you mention it...
There's this incredibly ugly man who's always with a slender beauty. Isn't that suspicious?"
"That does sound quite suspicious indeed."
"Right? It's more than a little suspicious.
But just a little while ago, that apprentice shaman from the temple went into their room...
She stayed for quite a while before coming back out.
So I thought... maybe they aren't bad people after all..."
"Why would that make them not suspicious?!"
"Well... since they're acquainted with a shaman, they can't be bad people... right?"
"Goodness... The shaman might be getting deceived, you know.
For someone who knows how scary the world can be, you're surprisingly naive... tsk tsk..."
"In our neighborhood, the scariest one is you, Monk..."
"What did you just mutter...?"
And so, Ilsim had found a clue!
"Anyway, I understand. So... an incredibly ugly man and a slender beauty...
Which room are they staying in?"
"Well... these days with all this talk about personal information protection and whatnot...
It's not easy to just tell you..."
The wicked employee openly demanded a bribe, rubbing his fingers together in the universal gesture for money!
Having grown accustomed to squeezing donations out of people, this might have been his chance to get some revenge on Ilsim.
"Ahem... ahem... I see...
If it's difficult to tell me, then there's nothing to be done...
That aside, I haven't had lunch yet...
Could you prepare a meal for me?"
"W-wait... that's...!"
Instead of getting revenge, the inn employee ended up giving Ilsim information and even treating him to a free meal.
Nursing a deep grudge in his heart, he returned to the inn with Ilsim.
Grudges run deep, and firewood is always piled high in the mountains...
He swore to himself that one day he would repay this great "favor"...
In a corner of the inn's dining area...
Ilsim was happily devouring a delicious free lunch that tasted like dog honey.
But there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world...
At a table a short distance away, two vicious-looking men were devouring cheap food like starving ghosts.
His holy relic... the prayer beads... began reacting to them!
'Wait... those are two men. That's not the one-man-one-woman couple the employee mentioned...'
But their appearance itself screamed "suspicious individuals." Their behavior was unmistakably shady.
Their clothes were ragged and torn beyond repair...
Their faces were dark and gaunt, as if they hadn't eaten properly for days...
Their eyes were unfocused and lifeless, like they were on drugs...
Yet they carried swords at their sides, wore sturdy shoes, and had proper bags. They looked like adventurers with some experience under their belts.
'I asked about suspicious people, but he didn't even mention these guys...
Well, this town is overflowing with adventurers like them...'
In truth, there were so many people like them that they couldn't really be called suspicious.
But why was the prayer bead reacting to these seemingly ordinary people?
It meant that some evil aura... demonic energy... or perhaps yin energy... was emanating from them.
The vibration of the beads was so faint it was hard to notice, but Ilsim could clearly sense it.
There was something strange about those two men...!
After devouring their food like ravenous beasts, the pair soon stood up and left the inn.
Ilsim wanted to follow them, but he had duties at the temple and regretfully had to let them go.
Still, he'd memorized their faces. If he went to the Haoh Gate or used the temple's own information network, he should be able to find out who they were soon enough.
"If you're finished eating... honestly, you can't keep getting free meals every single time..."
The inn employee approached again, grumbling to the very end.
"Ahem... By the way, do you happen to know who those two men who just left are?"
"Ah, those two? They're the Haesam Brothers.
They're pretty well-known adventurers around here.
Everyone knows behind their backs that their behavior is terrible, but no one dares say it to their faces because of their nasty tempers... lol"
"I see..."
Now that he had their names, it was time to start gathering information.