Lucy's Capture Route (3)
The basement of the club building.
Most people didn't even know the club building had a basement at all.
In that silent underground space, the breathing of a man and a woman could be heard.
"Hss. Haa."
"Mmph. Mmmph!"
Lucy lay on the floor with her entire body bound, and Felix was burying his face against the nape of her neck, drinking in her scent.
No matter how strong Lucy was, she was still only a promising cadet. She could never have handled Felix—a Fiend.
She had been subdued before she could put up any real fight and dragged down here.
There hadn't been much noise in the process, but there had been a little disturbance all the same, so he wasn't entirely free of unease.
Still, his only reason for infiltrating the academy had been Lucy. He had no regrets.
Once he was done enjoying her, all he had to do was run.
"Haa, Lucy. You have no idea how incredible you smell, do you?"
Felix sank his teeth into the nape of her neck as she lay there.
"Sweet. Sweeter than any woman I've ever tasted. A fragrance that drives a Fiend out of his mind."
"Mmph! Mmmph!"
A chill ran down Lucy's spine at the ghastly sensation against her throat.
"Did you know? The sweeter a woman's neck-sweat tastes, the prettier her moans sound. Especially the agonized voice she makes when you choke her while you rape her—that gets me so worked up."
"Mmmph! Mmmmmph!"
Felix drew closer to Lucy, his face rapturous.
She thrashed with her whole body, but the mana ropes only cinched tighter around her.
"Haa. You're so beautiful, Lucy."
Felix pulled back from her and began peeling off his clothes, layer by layer.
Then he felt something foreign in the pocket of his cadet coat.
"Ah. Right. This thing."
The receiver orb linked to Lee Ho-yeon. He'd been carrying it just in case, but things had turned out like this.
"Hmm."
Originally he'd planned to use that Fiend as a meat shield, but now it just irritated him.
The bastard who'd shaken Lucy's heart and forced him to do this the hard way.
Jealousy boiling over, Felix dropped the receiver orb to the floor.
Crack!
Then he crushed it under his heel.
"Even a corpse would be wasted on you."
Lucy was all his. From every strand of her hair down to her toenails.
Maybe he should use her cleanly and have her taxidermied?
"No, no. There's no time. Get a grip."
Felix forcibly suppressed the Fiend instinct that made him so quick to arousal and savagery.
It was a real shame, but he couldn't afford to linger at the academy any longer.
He was a Fiend, but he wasn't stupid.
"Haa. Haa."
Felix stripped completely naked.
Two horns had sprouted from his head.
As he released his power as a Fiend, the horns that had been concealed naturally grew out.
His filthy manhood dangled freely.
Lucy was on the verge of passing out.
Felix carefully tore her clothes away one piece at a time.
Making sure the mana ropes didn't loosen, making sure not a single wound marked her flesh—he poured his whole soul into crafting his masterpiece.
"Mmph! Nngh! Mmmph!"
Lucy writhed and glared at Felix with bloodshot eyes, straining with everything she had.
With her mouth sealed, all she could manage were muffled whimpers.
"Lucy. Crying like that isn't beautiful."
Felix didn't like the look of it. Lucy was supposed to be a more beautiful, more noble work of art.
"Hmm. Right. I want to savor you at your absolute finest."
He pulled a single orb from the pocket of the clothes he'd discarded.
When he poured mana into it, a vast hemispherical barrier bloomed from the orb as its center—large enough to fill the entire basement and then some.
"It burns through a lot of mana, but this way the two of us can enjoy ourselves in peace. Lucy."
Felix peeled the mana tape from her mouth.
"Pwah—you filthy bastard. Shit. I actually… trusted you!"
"Ah, yes. Those eyes. That expression. That face. I love it all. I love you, Lucy."
Step. Step.
Felix approached her slowly.
Bound to the floor, Lucy scrambled backward as hard as she could, but the moment Felix released his mana the ropes clamped down and pinned her in place.
"Nngh… G-get away! Don't come near me!"
"It's all right, Lucy. Everyone says that at first. But in the end, they all die happy. Soon the two of us will be lovers."
Felix's face was still the kind, easygoing one Lucy had liked so much.
That fact alone made her skin crawl.
"P-please. Felix. Don't come any closer. I'm begging you."
"Haa… Lucy. You're beautiful."
Felix finished tearing away the rest of her clothes.
"You—you son of a bitch…!"
With only scraps of fabric left where the mana ropes held her, Lucy couldn't even cover herself. Tears streaming, all she could do was scream.
Smiling, Felix drove his nails into her thigh and dragged his fingers all the way up to her belly.
"Kyaaaaah!"
A thin red line ran from her thigh to just below her navel.
"Ah, ah—scream more for me. More, more, more, more, more!"
Felix pulled his nails free, slipped them into his mouth, and savored the taste with a look of pure rapture.
"Delicious. Delicious… It's so delicious—!!!"
"Y-you're completely insane…"
After tasting Lucy's blood, Felix howled as if he'd abandoned all reason.
Caught between the shame of being naked and the pain running from her thigh to her stomach, Lucy couldn't think straight.
She should have trusted the right person.
She'd sworn never to trust men—so why had she trusted Felix like this?
It wasn't really her fault.
She'd been under the influence of his magic, and she hadn't even trusted him that deeply to begin with.
They'd just been studying together in the club room when he kidnapped her.
But Lucy kept regretting it anyway.
She could have been a little more suspicious.
Men were all garbage.
Suddenly, the face of a man who had suspected Felix flickered through her mind.
How had he known to doubt him?
"Ah…"
But Felix's movements cut her wandering thoughts short.
Savoring the scent of her blood, he poured mana into her body.
Thump. Thump.
As Felix's mana spread through every part of her, it brought a rising heat with it.
"Nngh, ah…"
The mana circled through her body, warming her, then began to gather at her most sensitive place.
"W-what the hell… are you doing to me…"
"You'll get used to it soon."
"Kh…"
Lucy felt pleasure welling up from deep in her chest.
Felix stroked her hair and whispered against her ear.
"It's all right… You can relax now."
Tears came. Tears of resentment—at being caught and violated by a Fiend like this, and at herself for slowly surrendering to the pleasure.
But the Fiend's unique arousal magic that Felix was casting couldn't be resisted in her current state, with the mana ropes suppressing her power.
"Y-you son of a… haa. Nnh."
In the end, Lucy began to let out soft moans.
"Haa. Yes. Now you're complete. Lucy. You're going to be the finest woman I've ever had."
"Haah, aaaah, nngh."
Felix approached her, his filthy manhood swinging.
The grotesque, bulging shape of it alone was enough to snap Lucy back to herself. She recoiled in horror and started thrashing to get away.
"Now it's time for us to become one. Aren't you looking forward to it?"
But Felix seized the fleeing Lucy tight. Then he poured mana into her again, right below her navel.
Exactly where her womb was.
Lucy felt overwhelming shame—and at the same time she couldn't hold back, gushing slick arousal as the heat took her.
She hated this situation so much, and yet her sex kept dripping. She would rather die than endure this.
But her body, already in heat, had lost even the will to bite through her own tongue.
For some reason, Lee Ho-yeon's face rose in her mind.
The man who suspected this Fiend before anyone else.
And stupid me said awful things to him without knowing a thing.
The man who offered kindness without asking for anything in return.
Even so, Ho-yeon had worked for their club in ways no one could see.
Just once. If she could go back to that moment just once…
She didn't want things to end like this.
At the very least, she wanted to apologize.
Please. Please, someone save me.
But ignoring Lucy's desperate wish, Felix's hands forced her legs apart.
"The floor is soaked, Lucy. That means we're ready to become one. Haa. What a waste. To have to ruin a masterpiece like you. What a real waste."
The proof of the purity she had guarded her whole life was about to be laid bare before a stranger—
BOOOOM!
"Gyaaaaah!"
"You fucking bastard—who the hell do you think you're touching."
With a tremendous crash, Felix's right arm went flying.
I'd gotten sick of scrolling through Everyday.
I was half-watching Liliana's stream, enjoying the sight of my balance getting fatter, when a message came in.
The sender was Mun Su-rin. Messages from heroines got answered immediately.
What was it this time? Something with the publicity department?
That caught me off guard. Had Liliana already gotten that famous?
Or was this just that woman's intuition? Either way, it was scary for no good reason.
Ouch. But she could cut me a little slack for my circumstances.
I'd barely ever texted a girl first in my life to begin with.
I was in the middle of trading messages with Mun Su-rin when a sudden crack! rang out.
"What was that?"
I checked the pocket of my cadet coat. There was a crack running through the receiver orb.
The orb had a rough radar for tracking location, and relative to me, the signal had been coming from the club building.
"…That doesn't sit right."
Of all places, the transmitter orb getting destroyed at the club building—unease hit me all at once.
There was a chance Lucy had been kidnapped.
Of course it might be nothing, but if there was even a slim possibility, I had to run over right now.
And it wouldn't hurt to arrange some backup.
I pulled on my cadet uniform and texted Mun Su-rin.
I set Mun Su-rin's messages aside for now.
In France with her family—I couldn't count on her help.
Next up, by necessity: Lim Sol.
No reply came.
I tried calling out of desperation, but Lim Sol didn't pick up either.
"Goddamn it. What the hell is this person doing."
Shockingly, I was out of people to contact.
I didn't have Kim Young-han's number, and Rumi would have her watch off for supplementary classes right about now.
She was a diligent kid about things like that.
I couldn't report it to the disciplinary committee or the police either. If it were people I knew, I could cover things up even if nothing was wrong—but not with anyone else.
Reporting a cracked receiver orb to begin with… I wouldn't even know how to explain it.
I'd just go check. For all I knew, nothing would be happening when I got there.
I linked my live location to Lim Sol with a message to come to me the second she saw it, then sprinted for the club building.
"So where are we going right now?"
"I already told you. We're going to fight a Fiend."
Liliana, hanging around my neck, kept grumbling.
When I'd been leaving the dorm, she'd asked where I was going. I'd told her straight that I was going to catch a Fiend, and she'd insisted on coming along—so I'd brought her, figuring she might be useful.
So why was she whining this much?
"If we were really going to fight a Fiend, I wouldn't have come! I thought you were lying and we were going to get something tasty!"
"…"
I ignored Liliana and ran for the club building.
The Nolza Club room was empty.
The coordinates from the receiver orb were pointing a little further down.
"Below… the basement."
I already knew about the hidden basement under the club building. It showed up in the game, after all.
"You said we were going to catch a Fiend—where are you going?"
"Be quiet for a second."
Zzzt!
Halfway down the passage to the basement, I slammed into an invisible wall that seemed to bar my way.
Crackle!
When I put my hand to it, mana rebounded and shoved me back.
"A barrier."
"A barrier?"
Liliana spoke as she looked it over.
"Yeah. Mid-grade quality, I'd say? Pretty high level."
"So what do we do?"
"What do you mean, what do we do. Smash it or dispel it—one or the other. Looking at it, it's a hemisphere, so there's no way around."
Barrier dispelling.
I knew the concept.
You traced the barrier's magic circle in reverse from the end, then released the core formula holding the whole thing together.
I'd read about it in a paper, so I remembered it—but I'd never actually done it.
"Want me to dispel it? If I go back to my original body, I could probably clear it in about fifteen minutes. No, wait—I'm weaker now, so more like thirty?"
Too long. Working under the assumption that something had already happened, thirty minutes was enough time for the whole incident to be over.
No choice. I'd have to try it myself.
Dispelling a barrier was normally an extremely complex, time-consuming process—but I had mana sensitivity. Releasing the core formula wouldn't be hard.
The problem was observing the magic circle. I had to find where it ended and follow the path exactly.
Insight
Fortunately, I had a method prepared for that too.
"Oh, what the—hold on. That's seriously cool. You?"
Ignoring Liliana, I started reading the barrier.
Slowly, I worked backward from the end of the magic circle. With every stroke I erased, the barrier's power weakened a little more.
"No, this doesn't make any sense… A barrier of this level isn't low-grade… How did you unravel it in one minute?"
"I told you. Talent."
Once I'd fully released the core formula, I felt the mana scatter.
The barrier was gone. Nothing stood in my way.
I bolted into the basement.
Thump. Thump.
As if foreshadowing the fight to come, my chest burned hot.
My innate authority, Combat Sense, was waking my body.
My senses sharpened all at once and caught the faintest sounds.
"Haa. Yes. Now you're complete. Lucy. You're going to be the finest woman I've ever had."
"Haah, aaaah, nngh."
A filthy man's voice and Lucy's moans brushed my ears.
I poured more mana into my legs and sprinted, arriving in front of a single door.
I pressed my ear lightly to it and focused on the sound.
"Now it's time for us to become one. Aren't you looking forward to it?"
"Hngh, haah. Mmph."
Lucy's moans came through.
An ugly possibility crossed my mind—but it seemed he hadn't gone through with it yet.
I quietly gathered mana inside my body.
The goal was a single-point breakthrough.
Since I was outmatched by Felix in pure skill, I had to deal as much damage as possible with the opening ambush.
"The floor is soaked, Lucy. That means we're ready to become one. Haa. What a waste. To have to ruin a masterpiece like you. What a real waste."
I would have liked to gather a little more mana, but the conversation coming through made me cut the condensation short.
I focused the mana into my fingertips.
My fingers ached as if they would break under the forced load of so much mana, but I endured it with sheer will.
And when every last drop of mana had gathered at my fingertips, I released it in an instant and completed the magic circle.
BOOOOM!
A single streak of flame shot from my finger and blew Felix's right arm clean off.
"Gyaaaaah!"
"You fucking bastard—who the hell do you think you're touching."
The basement's wretched scene filled my vision at a glance.
Felix, one arm gone, slammed back against the wall.
And… Lucy.
"W-what is that. Arousal magic?"
Lucy lay with glazed eyes, on her back like a flipped frog, rolling her hips uselessly in the air.
Every time her waist moved, slick fluid pattered down onto the floor.