Chapter 89
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 89
Chapter Title: A Smooth Path
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Kang Ihyeon had accepted Eclipse's proposal.
I couldn't understand it.
What the hell was he scheming?
His thoughts were impossible to read.
"But there's one condition."
"Condition?"
"He wants to meet you alone. Aira Petrovna."
"Me... alone..."
Aira's brow furrowed.
Meet alone.
At this point, with his intentions unknown, it was an extremely suspicious proposal.
Seeing her frown, Cheon Seo-eun pouted her lips and added,
"Well, that puppet or whatever of his was pretty finicky. You might worry about getting into some kind of trouble if you go. Gonna turn it down?"
"...No."
Aira shook her head firmly.
"I now have a rough idea of his level."
She recalled the surveillance logs from the past few days.
There were still many questions about his abilities, but she had accepted several guesses as facts.
The number of puppets he could deploy at once was limited, and each one's power was restricted.
She accepted the proposal.
She had to confirm his true intentions herself.
It was suspicious, but at the same time, an intense curiosity gnawed at her.
Before heading to the meeting spot, she glanced at the single photo hanging in her lab.
In it was her sister, who looked just like her but smiled much brighter and more innocently.
Her deceased little sister.
'Wait. Sister will bring you back soon.'
She gently traced her sister's face in the photo with her finger, then steeled her cold resolve and stepped out.
The meeting place was on the outskirts of Nocturne Town, in an abandoned warehouse district.
A damp, deserted spot. Perfect for a secret rendezvous.
When Aira arrived a bit early, he was already there.
This was the first time she faced him in person.
She had only seen him indirectly through her clone. But his presence up close was beyond imagination.
Objectively, he was handsome. Tall, with firm muscles visible even through his clothes, and an aura of a strong male.
But to her eyes, he was just 'data' to analyze.
Feeling no attraction or threat from him, she approached with emotionless steps.
"Pleased to meet you, Kang Ihyeon. I'm Aira Petrovna of Eclipse."
"Drop the formalities. We're about to be colleagues, right? Isn't that why you came?"
"Colleagues... I think it's too early for that. We know nothing about who you are or what kind of guild you want to build."
"Well, same here. What makes you think I'd trust your Eclipse?"
"We're a subsidiary of Black Sun. Information, funding, and even firepower. We can provide everything you need to start a guild... but."
She stared sharply into his eyes.
"You've already heard some facts through Cheon Seo-eun. Let's get to the point."
"Hey, what's the rush?"
Kang Ihyeon shrugged with a yawn, showing no fear.
He brushed off her sharp questions with absurd, deflating responses.
After a long stretch of pointless back-and-forth,
as if waiting for her to tire out, Kang Ihyeon finally got to the main topic.
"Alright. If you're this wary, no helping it. Then, as a gesture of peace and trust, I'll offer something first."
"...Something?"
He pulled out a tiny, ridiculous toy-gun-like pistol from his pocket.
Without even hooking his finger on the trigger, he casually pointed the barrel at her.
"Doesn't this look familiar?"
At that moment, her pupils dilated sharply.
That thing is...
"That's the thing the Maker Sect made to bind me back when I was with them... that..."
She tried to name it, but her words slowed.
A bizarre sensation, like time stretching like taffy.
And suddenly, her thoughts froze completely.
But something was off.
Her 'consciousness' had stopped, but her 'body' kept moving.
In her place, her body replied in a languid, lascivious voice.
"Yesss... I've... seen it... It's from the Maker Sect..."
Her body flushed red and slowly approached Kang Ihyeon.
Then, like reuniting with a long-lost lover, it hugged his firm body tightly.
"Whoa, you're being awfully forward, Aira Petrovna."
"Am I...? I don't think so."
Her body moved instinctively, drawn to his thick male scent.
Her consciousness could only watch like a spectator from a third-person view.
Kang Ihyeon held her embrace and lightly pressed the gun barrel to her temple with his other hand. Then he pulled out a data terminal.
It was the exact model she used most often.
And on the screen were unbelievable records of her unfamiliar actions.
Records of countless sex sessions.
Memories of being trained, tamed, and conquered by him over the past few days.
All meticulously compiled as 'data' in the exact format she used for implanting new personalities into puppets.
She reached a quick conclusion.
Kang Ihyeon had ultimately created her puppet.
And committed that unspeakable depravity with it.
'No, stop it. I have to stop...!'
Her body still wouldn't move.
"This is a memory you forgot. Now, remember it. How much you love me."
Her reason desperately resisted, but her body, her lips betrayed her will.
Slowly, she lewdly recited the shameful records from the terminal, accepting them.
"Experiment 3-B: Master's body measurements and milking impregnation trial..."
"Ceasing sensory blocker solution. Opening all senses to achieve experiment goal..."
"Induced bio-energy release via piston motion, total 7 successes..."
"Master's high-concentration mana catalyst injected, total 2.3 liters complete..."
And finally, the last words from her mouth.
"After those experiments, I... I fell in love... with you, Kang Ihyeon..."
'No!'
Perfect despair swallowed her consciousness.
That was when it happened.
In the silence of the dark warehouse, the click-clack of high heels echoed. A familiar sound.
From the shadows, a figure emerged. Cat-like graceful movements, her signature bored and irritated expression.
Cheon Seo-eun.
In Aira's frozen consciousness, a faint spark of hope flickered like a dying ember.
'Yes... there's still a chance. If Cheon Seo-eun just subdues that man...!'
But that slender hope shattered in the cruelest way the next instant.
"Come here, Cheon Seo-eun."
Kang Ihyeon released Aira's hair and called to Cheon Seo-eun in a languid, affectionate tone, like summoning a longtime lover.
She approached without hesitation, prim expression intact.
Right before Aira's eyes, she wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her lips deeply to his.
Mmm... slurp... smack...
The wet, explicit sounds of tongues entwining and saliva mixing filled the quiet warehouse. It wasn't a kiss of love. It was one female submitting to a stronger male, flaunting his dominance—a purely animal act.
After a long deep kiss, Cheon Seo-eun licked her swollen lips and smirked at Aira's vacant stare.
"Neat trick. Who'd have thought the haughty Aira Petrovna would end up like this."
She claimed his lips again.
Slurp... smooch...
"You're way more capable than I thought. Seeing this... kinda turns me on."
Cheon Seo-eun had betrayed her?
No, perhaps from the moment she appeared here, it was all a perfect script centered on him.
Her plans, her knowledge, her pride. All perfectly toyed with by this one man.
'Why... I don't even know what he did. He didn't use that tool. Just looking at it, and I'm like this...'
Aira's vision blackened into pitch darkness, devoid of any hope.
Cheon Seo-eun rubbed his hard cock through his pants while glancing at Aira and whispering,
"So, we eating Aira's pussy today? Honestly, not thrilled about a 3P with her."
"Nah. She has too many eyes on her. We can save that for after all plans wrap up."
He lifted Aira's chin again, peering into her empty eyes, and commanded.
"From now on, you're a spy for our guild, 'Arbiter'."
"......"
"Share all info on Eclipse and Black Sun for your true master, me. And explain your Seraphina elimination plan from start to finish."
At his order, Aira's body blushed shyly like a girl in love and responded.
Her lips parted on their own, and in an excited voice, she detailed the entire two-month plan.
"Yes, Kang Ihyeon. Step one: Over the next three weeks, artificially hype Instructor Seraphina's reputation in the Academy. Package you as the 'dropout who became a prodigy' and her as the 'true educator', gaining trust from all students, parents, and the Association."
Her voice lowered a tone.
"Then shatter that built-up fame in one go. Exactly six weeks later, I'll anonymously expose her minor past infractions. Start with small suspicions. But when public opinion boils and the Association's official probe begins, drop the decisive blow."
"Decisive blow?"
"Proof she's colluding with an executive from the villain group 'Ashen'. Photos and recordings of her secret meetings with the Ashen exec, collected by Eclipse over years. The moment that's revealed, she falls from Academy hero to heinous criminal overnight."
She paused and looked up at Kang Ihyeon.
"And... for you, Kang Ihyeon, we prepared another scandal. Spread rumors that you unauthorizedly made a doll of active S-rank Hunter Miyazaki Rena without permission and even did 'that stuff' with it. Sex scandals are the best bait for public attention. With all exposures hitting at once, Instructor Seraphina could never recover."
"Spreading such vile slander..."
She added the final plan.
"And in reality, we've already contacted active S-rank Hunter Miyazaki Rena. She's eagerly cooperating. At the right time, her guild will officially visit the Academy and sue you for 'portrait rights violation and sexual harassment'."
With those words, she showed her first sad expression.
"I'm sorry, Kang Ihyeon. This one... even if I cancel now, I don't think I can stop it. The contract with Miyazaki Rena is already done..."
"Oh."
Kang Ihyeon smacked his forehead.
"Sit here for a sec."
"...Yes."
She obediently knelt at his feet.
He sat on the floor and pulled out his massive, viciously erect cock.
Then, as if punishing her, he slapped her face mercilessly with the hot, hard flesh.
Slap! Slap! Thwack!
Due to its size, her pale cheek flushed red instantly.
Sticky precum smeared across her eyes, nose, lips, and cheeks. Even under the humiliation, she closed her eyes in ecstasy.
"Don't ever think of pulling that shit on me again. Got it?"
Under his reprimand, despite the degrading punishment, she looked even happier as she replied.
"Yes, yesss...! I'm sorry, Kang Ihyeon! I won't do such foolish things to hurt you ever again...!"