Chapter 122
Chapter 122
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 122
Chapter Title: Starving Succubus
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“I'm so hungry... I'm gonna die like this...”
Someone wandering aimlessly through the streets.
Eventually, their legs gave out, and they collapsed.
They had come all the way to Kellerton chasing the source of that sweet scent, but it was all for nothing.
Even the blonde hair they had disguised to look human was reverting back to black.
“Ugh...”
They curled up against the endless hunger.
They were at the point of going mad.
“Why... I even posted lewds...?”
She was the gallery's Favor Nick, the wholesome and chaste one.
Her real name was Lilian, a succubus.
What was a succubus?
A race that fed on others' attention as their staple food.
“Why was I born a succubus...?”
The greater the attention, the better.
The stronger the desire beyond mere attention, the even better.
The problem was that Lilian was a total shut-in who loved holing up at home and scrolling the gallery.
Contact with men? She knew nothing of that.
She had survived by forcing herself to post lewds, but at some point, the hunger wouldn't go away.
“I can't... hold on anymore...”
A glance down at her hand showed that disintegration had already begun.
Lilian lay collapsing beside some unfamiliar warehouse, slowly dying.
Lilian felt like she could cry at her own plight.
How had she escaped that place? How had she gained her freedom?
Just as she was about to vanish filled with resentment and regret—
“Hey, who are you?”
A deflating voice rang out.
She weakly lifted her gaze, and there was the source of the scent she had desperately sought.
An irresistibly delicious aroma.
It was Judak.
*
The AK47 rampage incident.
Now complete with no bullets left.
- lol serves him right
- Time for the reward now, right?
- But what was that woman just now?
ㄴ Fr real, she vanished in an instant
It was none other than Favor Nick Dryer, who had tried to take the Dryer hostage only to get utterly wrecked in return.
The moment Dryer whispered something, the man collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut.
Thanks to that, the knights rushed in and subdued him in a flash.
Meanwhile, Dryer had slipped into an alley and vanished.
“But why was she blonde?”
No, it wasn't just the hair color.
It wasn't the Dryer I knew.
Her appearance was so different that she could pass for a complete stranger, but I recognized her by her eyes.
No one else had those bright amber irises except Favor Nick Wholesome Chastity.
“It was definitely Dryer.”
The gallery users seemed to think she was just some passing mage, but she couldn't fool me.
It was Dryer.
Absolutely not because I stared at her lewds so much they were burned into my brain.
- So what happens to that guy now?
ㄴ What do you mean what? lol
ㄴ Fr, making the queen hostage play look like a joke?
ㄴ Guillotine event incoming right away
The captured man's fate was sealed.
Execution.
Sure enough, a new concept post went up soon after.
[Title: The 41,214th Real-Life Nick Beheading]
Author: Lloyd
(Image of a flowering tree and guillotine)
The 41,214th Real-Life Nick Beheading
Kellerton Edition: Guillotine Festival Open!
However, since the event participant is a grave criminal who threatened Her Majesty's sacred person,
We won't kill him in one go, so please come watch plenty.
Host: Kellerton Royal Family
Date: Month X, Day X, 12 PM
Location: In front of Kellerton Central Square
[Recommendations 6632] [Disrecommendations 10]
- Finally, my thrill charger is up!!!
- (Farmer corn popping corn)
- (Over here! Executioner corn)
- He threatened our cute Tuna Can, so time for payback?
He had threatened none other than Kellerton's queen.
Public opinion demanding his immediate death spread like wildfire.
“Hmm...”
But I felt a bit uneasy.
It wasn't because I was a modern person averse to executions or thought all life was precious.
I usually didn't interfere in such matters, but this time was different.
- Judak*) Stop!!!
ㄴ ?
ㄴ Ah lol, "stop" is canon
ㄴ Can't help it lol
ㄴ But why tell him to stop?
ㄴ Fr, Lord Judak, don't hold back, come join us for a drink
“No matter how you look at it, that wasn't something said in his right mind.”
What was number one lacking that he threatens the mostly innocent Tuna Queen?
Even if it was to lure me out, it was weird.
There was no damage to me.
If anything, he should've benefited from the bounty, so no grudge against me, right?
- Judak*) Don't kill him yet, capture him first
ㄴ ? Why tho
ㄴ Lloyd) Do you suspect something, sir?
ㄴ Judak*) Feels like he was being used, his condition was off too
Plus, there was no reason to kill him right away.
He was already neutralized.
We could interrogate him, and if it seemed off, kill him then—no problem.
“But will they listen if I say not to?”
The problem was that the man was a sinner who threatened the queen.
From the kingdom's perspective, even executing him immediately might not sate their anger.
Maybe I was overstepping by meddling too much.
Or so I thought.
[Title: Lord Judak, I did as you said for now~]
Author: Lloyd
(Image of gagged and tied to a chair)
(Image of man with bloodshot eyes struggling)
What should I do next~
[Recommendations 6021] [Disrecommendations 12]
- lol this guy's doing whatever Judak says
- Benefited big time from Judak
- Adrian Knight → New Nation Queen's Knight
ㄴ Guy rides the lines perfectly lol
ㄴ That's how it should be
“No, he's not even hesitating over my words.”
But Kellerton was even more favorable to me than I thought.
Lloyd, the number two after the queen, was extremely pro-Judak from the start.
Without question or hesitation, he set up an interrogation room and posted anew.
The stage was set.
Lloyd: But this guy's not talking
Lloyd: Wonder if he'll properly confess...
Lloyd: Whatever it is, just say the word!
Judak*: Yeah then...
I paused the chat and looked at the shop.
[Pepper Spray] - 31p
[Capsaicin Spray] - 40p
“Let's start light.”
Won't talk?
No problem.
Do you know my capsaicin?
*
“Ptoo, you filthy dogs of the powerful.”
The man tied to the chair spat.
The spit landed on the interrogator's clothes.
“This bastard...”
The interrogator's forehead veins bulged as he was about to swing—
“How's it going?”
“Knight Captain!”
The interrogator bowed his head upon seeing Lloyd enter.
He was a skilled interrogator, but he reported with a troubled look.
“Well, he won't open up. This is the most stubborn one yet.”
“Is that so?”
“Honestly, I don't get it. He touched Her Majesty's person, and you're saying execution...”
“No, wait and see.”
Execution? That was what Lloyd wanted most.
But Judak said no.
So both the person involved, Evelyn, and Lloyd decided to calmly await Judak's decision.
“No reason for him to say that lightly.”
Following Judak never leads to loss.
Lloyd had once doubted him, yelled "betrayal," and tasted Albochil firsthand.
“Never doubt Judak.”
“Pardon? Y-yes...”
Lloyd, having experienced it himself, never doubted Judak again.
As a result, he rose to the kingdom's top knight.
He was just a bit curious.
“How does he plan to make this guy, who didn't crack even after nail-pulling, confess...”
As they awaited Judak's decision—
[Judak has shipped 'Pepper Spray 10ml x1', 'Capsaicin Spray 10ml x1'!]
Something fell from the sky.
Two small cans that fit in the hand.
“What's this?”
But he knew at a glance.
The ominous red canister—clearly something that would make him talk.
Judak*: Just spray it, no questions asked
Judak*: Then when he recovers, repeat three times go go
“Hmm...”
As Lloyd read the instructions—
“Judak's lackeys!”
The oblivious man yelled again.
“Someday I'll cut off Judak's head! I'll kill him no matter what!!!”
Yelling with veins popping in his neck, unaware of what awaited.
Lloyd shook the canister vigorously up and down, then approached.
“For now, once...”
- Pshhh!
About three seconds?
Lloyd sprayed long and hard toward the man for three seconds.
*
It had been half a day since capturing the man.
Surprisingly quickly, a new post went up.
[Concept Post: This Guy www Eyes and Nose a Mess www]
Author: Lloyd
(Image of body trembling like in spasms)
(Image of him screaming that he'll confess anything now that he's sane)
Used it about twice for now
One more time?
- ? What even
- Dude's gonna die lol
- What torture did they do?
ㄴ Lloyd) Not torture, just rubbing peppers in his eyes kinda
ㄴ You devil spawn bastard
ㄴ Hell nooo!!!
ㄴ (Knight staring straight ahead corn)
ㄴ (Devil this is a bit... corn)
The man screamed at first, but after two times, black smoke poured out of his body.
“Looks like he's snapped out of it?”
- Judak*) Nah nah, you can stop now
ㄴ Lloyd) Oops sorry haha
ㄴ Devil bastard;
ㄴ Never commit crimes in Kellerton
The now-sane man spilled everything before they could even ask if he'd get sprayed again.
“I-I remember! While bounty hunting, I met an Arachne in the forest.”
Arachne—the monster from Roman myth with a woman's body and spider legs?
A staple mob in games too.
“The Arachne cursed me with something, and when I came to, I was here.”
“Swear on it?”
“Eek! Y-yes, I swear on everything!”
Lloyd subtly waved the spray, and he nodded like mad.
The black smoke from his body was apparently some kind of brainwashing magic.
- Judak*) Remember the location?
“Uh, well...”
At the comment, the man looked troubled and bowed his head.
“Sorry. I don't remember...”
A magic beast that curses minds.
“Hmm...”
Lloyd: Checked with a contract spell too, doesn't seem like lies at least
A magic beast that curses was a first.
The problem was not knowing the location.
“Should I put a bounty on finding the Arachne?”
Didn't seem like something to brush off lightly.
As he pondered solutions—
- Thud!
Something crashed against the bunker entrance up top.
“What?”
No one comes to my house.
Occasionally officials for household registration or ID issuance, but that was over now.
“Who is it?”
Shotgun in hand, no answer.
Checked the pre-installed exterior CCTV again—no one at the door.
“Poltergeist?”
Even medieval has that?
Riot shield ready for anything and shotgun in hand, he cautiously opened the door.
There, gasping for breath and collapsed beside the open door—
“...Dryer?”
He spotted Dryer, half-unconscious on the ground.