Chapter 55
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Translator: penny
Chapter: 55
Chapter Title: Encounter with the Evil God
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The soft, cozy sensation that should have touched his skin every morning was nowhere to be felt.
"Uhmm..."
A chilling cold and faint dampness.
It felt like he was lying in a shallow puddle, not even reaching his knees no matter how deep it got...
Baek Jae-hyun, who had been asleep above it, struggled to lift his eyelids,
then sat up not in the bed where he had gone to sleep last night, but by the edge of a shallow lake.
"Ugh... There's no way I fell asleep in a place like this."
Even when he opened his closed eyes and turned his head, all he saw was pitch-black smoke everywhere.
Not a single building or person, not even a rolling object in sight,
just a shallow lake that barely wet up to his knees stretching out endlessly.
"You're finally awake? I was waiting forever because you wouldn't get up."
As he wandered around with a baffled expression, looking about,
an unfamiliar voice rang in Baek Jae-hyun's ears.
"Who is it...?"
It sounded vaguely familiar, but he couldn't pinpoint it at all.
Its eerie quality, impossible to peg as any gender or age, made it hard to recall even if he'd heard it before.
"What... Did you already forget my voice? That's kinda hurtful."
"That creepy voice and the way it talks... Only that guy would say stuff like that."
"Glad you remember."
The culprit who had brought Baek Jae-hyun, sleeping soundly, to this mysterious place.
Only the 'Evil God' he had chosen would act so strangely with that voice and manner of speaking.
"You were doing telepathy until now... So what's the reason for suddenly dragging me to this weird place?"
He had been sleeping blissfully surrounded by voluptuous, lewd bitches,
only to be hauled to this dank spot and forcibly woken up.
Of course, his mood was soured.
"If I didn't do this, I couldn't look you in the eye and talk to you directly."
'Look directly and talk...?'
- Shooooooo—
Right in front of him, where he had paused, black smoke began to bloom.
"Kuh...!"
Even Baek Jae-hyun, with his fine build and strength, was pushed back by the sheer force.
The power emanating from the smoke was utterly wicked and overwhelming.
"Ahaha...♥"
A bewitching laugh echoed from the pitch-black smoke that obscured everything ahead.
Unlike the previous creepy, unpleasant voice,
it was a delicate, silky smooth sound.
And soon after, the smoke began to dissipate gradually,
revealing a woman who smiled seductively from within.
"Nice to meet you. First time seeing you in person, right?
Well... Since I dragged you here by force, not sure if you can call it 'in person'."
Silver hair cascading down far past her ample hips,
crimson eyes harboring an endless abyss.
And... wings made of jet-black feathers, along with a pitch-black halo above her head.
It was easy to tell the woman before him was no human.
"You're... the Evil God?"
Baek Jae-hyun seemed shocked by the appearance so utterly different from what he had imagined.
With that somehow off-putting voice and speech,
he had pictured some bearded old man or a mischievous kid with a playful attitude.
"That's right. The being who shared its wicked power with you, a mere human...,
the Evil God born from human desire and pleasure."
Yet the Evil God standing before him was a woman of breathtaking beauty.
It didn't match his preconceptions at all.
"Maybe... you don't like how I look?"
A beauty that no single word like 'beautiful' could capture.
Even seeing her divine figure, worthy of the name 'goddess',
Baek Jae-hyun's odd reaction made the Evil God tilt her head slightly.
"No... It's not that."
To Baek Jae-hyun's eyes, the Evil God's form was dazzlingly beautiful.
He was simply flustered by the huge gap between imagination and reality.
"Hehe... Or maybe I'm so beautiful you're at a loss for words?"
"Well... Half right, half wrong."
The disconnect faded only after he lifted his head and looked at her face several times.
Agreeing that half of her words were spot-on—that he was surprised by her appearance—
he indirectly praised the Evil God's stunning beauty.
"Hearing you say that makes me really happy...♥"
Perhaps because she wasn't human, her face didn't blush,
but her lips curved up slightly in a faint, pleased smile.
- Splash... Splish...
The Evil God approached Baek Jae-hyun slowly, wearing a gentle yet chilling smile.
Shorter than him, the water rose right up to her knees,
yet she walked toward him as if strolling on flat ground.
"I can't visit your world directly yet, so I called you to this place.
For a divine being to descend to the mortal realm... it takes quite a lot of energy."
To manifest physically in the present world, a divine being required no small amount of energy.
After all, materializing a concept—that which was the reason for its birth and existence—was a miracle,
and performing a miracle wasn't easy even for a god.
"Embarrassing to admit, but... my power is far too lacking to manifest physically.
The world is filling up with insincere beings more and more."
Her primal essence and very reason for being: 'pleasure and desire'.
As society and technology advanced, turning the world into one where people moved like machines,
those living in it began to abandon their own pleasure and desires.
They lived formulaic lives, dying on the hamster wheel,
and the children born from them repeated the same cycle until death.
As this trend continued, the Evil God's power only grew weaker.
"That's why I create and send monsters to restore my strength.
In a chaotic world, people finally give in to their primal instincts."
"And the Magical Girls keep slaying them, making it all pointless."
Her expression twisted slightly at the words 'Magical Girl'.
"Because of that guy who creates those Magical Girl beings...,
I've weakened to the point I can't even descend anymore."
'That guy...?'
The Evil God had mentioned a 'guy' who created the Magical Girls.
Just as he had been chosen by her, an Evil God, to become her apostle,
perhaps the Magical Girls received their power from some divine being as well.
"Hmm... On second thought, no need to talk about that guy yet.
You'll find out eventually... but not now."
"Saying that just makes me more curious... but if you say so."
However, the Evil God brushed it off without further explanation,
and Baek Jae-hyun didn't press her, content with mere speculation.
Knowing such a being existed was enough for now.
"Still, thanks to your hard work, I could at least meet you like this.
Without you... I might have vanished like dust."
Before meeting Baek Jae-hyun, the Evil God had truly been on the brink of extinction.
In a cold world where desire and pleasure were fading,
even the monsters she painstakingly created with her dwindling power were being erased by Magical Girls.
It wouldn't have been strange if she had truly disappeared like dust.
"To show my gratitude to you, who proved my choice wasn't wrong."
The Evil God drew a bit closer to Baek Jae-hyun and bowed deeply at the waist.
"Mwah...♥"
She gently pressed her lips to Baek Jae-hyun's penis, standing erect with nothing covering it.
"Not getting shy proves you're my true apostle...♥"
His body twitched briefly at the incredibly soft, moist sensation,
but seeing he wasn't embarrassed or flustered, she nodded as if she knew it.
'No... This isn't the kind of guy she was before...'
Though it didn't show on his face... he was genuinely flustered.
Whenever she annoyed him with her playful, irritating speech,
for this supreme being, an Evil God, to speak so sweetly and even kiss his dick.
He almost doubted if it was the same entity.
But to the Evil God, Baek Jae-hyun was the grateful human who had saved her from oblivion.
Thus, treating him more kindly and changing her attitude was, from her perspective, perfectly natural.
"As one who passed the trial, you'll become a truly special being.
All bitches will fawn at your feet... spreading their holes wide open for you."
'Hearing her talk like that confirms she's definitely that guy.'
"Why? Doubting because I'm so different from what you imagined?"
"Come on... If you knew, pretending not to is kinda lame."
Reading minds was no hard feat for a divine being,
so the Evil God had known all along that Baek Jae-hyun was suspicious of her.
"I was just keeping quiet because it was fun."
"Yeah... Now I'm sure you're the same as that guy."
Not sure if 'person' was the right term for a divine being,
but Baek Jae-hyun was convinced the one he first met and the woman before him were one and the same.
"Anyway... Keep corrupting those Magical Girls like you've been doing.
Very secretly and quietly... in that place full of them."