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When Paeng Yuwol was young, she witnessed the men and women of her clan sharing intimate congress with her own two eyes.
- Aah, my lord! Harder, harder!
The first time she saw her own mother gasping and panting beneath her father, she thought her mother had fallen ill. She believed it was some kind of healing process, and she pitied her mother, who seemed to be moaning in pain as if dying.
- Mother, why is Father trying to kill you?
- Wh-what do you mean?
- But Mother... last night you said you were dying...
- That is different. Though it may be a little early, your body will soon come of age. I shall teach you.
Paeng Yuwol learned about sex.
- Once you grant your body to a husband, you must serve him with utter loyalty. This is the mindset a woman of this clan must hold.
Though born a daughter of a martial family, Paeng Yuwol had been expected from childhood to marry a rising star of another noble clan or the son of a powerful figure. She studied the decorum and etiquette expected of a proper lady more than martial arts.
- Your body belongs to your husband for life.
That was what she had been taught, and she had met her husband. A filthy, utterly repulsive man named Chu So-gwang had used demonic arts to try to force himself upon her, pulling every dirty trick.
She had to kill him.
She had to kill him, but—
"Ahng, haahng, huuuuhk...!"
She could not hold back her moans no matter how she tried. The member piercing her insides was impossibly, unutterably immense.
- A man's member? No bigger than a finger, my lady! A mere spear shaft at best!
The moment she returned, she would have that servant flogged. A finger? A spear shaft?
To call it a club—no, a firebrand—would still be an understatement. As if set alight on purpose, the searing phallus thrust roughly into her depths and scraped against her inner walls as it withdrew.
"Ah-haak!"
A scream burst out every time the curved ridge gouged her insides. By now, even Paeng Yuwol herself knew she could no longer blame the aphrodisiac alone.
"Hoo, hoo."
She had climaxed over and over under the man's heat as he spilled rough groans. Even after he had released his proof deep inside her, the man did not withdraw his member.
It was said that a man's vigor subsided after one release, yet this man's vigor, far from subsiding, had only grown harder.
"Heuh, tsk, exquisite. A body I would gladly claim for a lifetime and never tire of."
The man's coarse words slowly tightened around Paeng Yuwol's being. Had anyone ever desired her so ardently? Had any man ever proven himself like this for her—a woman treated as little more than a folding screen within her own clan, sold off practically to save the clan head's life?
'No, Yuwol! That bastard wields demonic arts! He's the man who struck you from behind and bound you by force!'
Steadying her wavering heart, Paeng Yuwol clenched her teeth. The rising pleasure of climax from below made her jaw tremble, but every time a moan escaped her, the man rammed his cock in more savagely.
As if she were a master of the Paeng Clan herself.
'Huh?'
Squelch. Squelch, squelch.
The member tunneling into her body kept a steady rhythm. It feigned bold, sweeping thrusts while shifting its tempo, and its straightforward in-and-out pounding resembled the martial arts of the Paeng Clan.
'Impossible.'
It had to be an illusion. A man unleashing martial arts with his phallus? A man applying the profound principles of martial arts to take a woman with nothing but his phallus? That would be an insult to the martial way, a being that should not exist.
And yet.
"Ah, haang, haaah..."
That sensation was not unpleasant. Far from it. The moment an unnamable sensation woke within her body and began to surge, Paeng Yuwol had already ceased to be a martial artist and had become a woman first.
'I can never go back to how things were.'
Deep in her heart, Paeng Yuwol admitted defeat. This is because of the aphrodisiac. This is all because of that man's dark arts and demonic arts.
"Ah, aaahng, haaaaang!!"
Repeating those words to herself, Paeng Yuwol of her own accord savored the bliss of coupling, still bound to the frame, even though the man had long since released her acupoints and restraints.
* * *
Chirp.
The songs of mountain birds echoed inside the warehouse. Poorly ventilated, the storehouse was saturated with the thick traces of man and woman. Freed from the frame, I stroked Paeng Yuwol's naked form as she lay upon a soft pallet of bedding.
"Burp."
Paeng Yuwol's womanhood was swollen bright red. Whoever had churned it so mercilessly to leave a virgin in such a state—what a wretched scoundrel he must be.
'From the middle on, she was shaking her hips because she liked it.'
Judging that she had fallen deep enough into pleasure, I had released her acupoints, wanting to switch things up from the missionary position while I still had her on the frame. Then I unlatched the shackles and restraints. The moment I did, she wrapped her arms around me and locked her legs around my waist, clinging on her own.
'Damn near broke my Body Transformation Art.'
She clawed at my Internal Energy Threads with her limbs, so I thrust into her more roughly to put her down. Ultimately, Paeng Yuwol reached the far edge of climax and fainted with her tongue lolling out, and only released me after I had spilled my seed inside her three times.
'If I keep going, she'll die, right?'
I could still go for much longer, but the body always breaks down if you overindulge. It wasn't as if this was my only chance, so I smoked a rolled leaf beside Paeng Yuwol and waited for her to regain her senses.
'Still, this one truly is remarkable.'
Her inner depths were remarkable, but as a murim warrior, she possessed a body with the potential to rank among the Top One Hundred Masters of the World. If I unblocked the blood meridian clogged around her pelvis, she could reach first-rate within a year even if she began training in earnest only now.
"Pelvis... ah."
I attained another realization. I understood why Paeng Yuwol had remained unremarkable in childhood and only made a name for herself once she grew older.
'A woman who bears a child experiences a twisting of the body and qi meridians during childbirth.'
Without proper postpartum recovery, a murim warrior's growth would be stunted or she would have to rebuild her inner energy from scratch. But for Paeng Yuwol, giving birth would become another opportunity.
"No wonder she was so desperate to conceive."
Her body seemed to know by instinct. That she had to receive a man's seed and bear a child to advance beyond her current stage. I readjusted the Internal Energy Threads disheveled by the grip of her legs, then tapped her breasts to rouse her from sleep.
"Where..."
"Are you awake?"
"Ah..."
Paeng Yuwol looked at me and frowned. But the moment her eyes fell on my lower body, still firmly standing at attention, the tension drained from her gaze. Remarkably easy to read, I thought, as I rose from beside her.
"Get dressed."
I picked up a length of cloth from the warehouse and tossed it to Paeng Yuwol. Naked and disheveled, she stared daggers at me for a long while as her mind cleared, then caught the garment.
"You... what are you?"
"You? You have words like 'my lord' and yet you address your husband like this? Heh heh, still, 'you' isn't so bad either."
"Ngh..."
Paeng Yuwol's face flushed as she fastened the clothes. I had already washed her soaked undergarments clean in the river, and the outer garment was of far finer quality than the one that had been torn.
I had also wiped her body, drenched in sweat, completely clean, so the only trace left upon her skin was my semen, now filling her belly.
"Today marks the start of our hundred-year vow. Are you pleased?"
"......."
Had her first experience not involved being violated with aphrodisiacs, Paeng Yuwol would doubtless be far more compliant now. The flush on her face was clearly not the shame of humiliation but the traces of bliss from becoming a woman.
"Right, right. I should give you this."
I took a thin jade ring, carefully stored in a case, and knelt on one knee before Paeng Yuwol. Her eyes widened at the sight of me kneeling.
"Paeng Yuwol. Your hand."
"........"
After a moment's hesitation, Paeng Yuwol offered me her right hand. I took her left hand and pulled it forward, holding it upright.
"Bear my child."
"...You're telling me to bear the child of a man who uses demonic arts?"
'Shit.'
Chu So-gwang, that son of a bitch. If he had just struck her from behind, I could have played it off as, 'I wanted to try something like that,' like an ordinary lunatic. But he used demonic arts, so now I'm stuck with no way out.
An excuse. I need an excuse. Something to get me through this moment right now.
"Demonic arts? Heh heh. Not demonic arts. It is a unique martial art of my family."
"Then what was that demonic energy?!"
"You were mistaken. Perhaps I frightened you too much? Keh heh heh. If so, I apologize. It was my first time with my woman, and I too wished to make it... distinctive."
"You insane..."
Though her words held contempt, the venom in Paeng Yuwol's voice steadily faded. Her eyes, half-doubting, half-wavering, still glared at me as if looking at trash, but they were clearly different from before.
"How can you... treat a woman like this..."
Her gaze flicked repeatedly toward my lower body. They were not the eyes of a woman regarding the man who ambushed her, bound her forcibly to a frame, and stole her virginity.
"...It's nothing."
Despite having suffered an act tantamount to drugged rape, Paeng Yuwol had utterly fallen for the phallus.
"Th-there is one thing I will ask you."
"Next time, don't announce it. Just ask."
"Did you want to hold me so badly that you would go this far?"
"......."
I stubbed out the rolled leaf and rose to my feet. If I were to ask the dead Chu So-gwang, there would be an obvious answer.
"Let's go back. Fix your clothes."
I gave my answer with my back. If it was an answer I did not need to speak aloud, there was no need to let it leave my mouth.
Step. Step. Step.
The moment I walked three paces.
I felt Paeng Yuwol rise from her spot and follow behind me. Perhaps due to the aftereffects of her first experience, she limped with difficulty as she walked.
"Take my arm."
"Ngh."
"Walking like that, do you think you can return home before the sun sets?"
"Home... Ah, the Heavenly Rejuvenation Pill!"
Paeng Yuwol, who had been about to take my arm, cried out like a scream and made as if to demand answers.
"Where is the Heavenly Rejuvenation Pill?! Look at my senses...! The pill!!"
"Here."
I slipped my hand into the valley between her breasts and mimed pulling something out. The Heavenly Rejuvenation Pill was already in my hand. A medicinal pill saturated with a blue aura, shaped into a taiji symbol despite being a mere pellet.
"A treasure meant for the great elder of your house—did you think I would leave it somewhere a thief could lay hands on it?"
I tucked the Heavenly Rejuvenation Pill into my inner pocket.
"Heh heh, it shall be a keepsake of the day you became my woman. Tomorrow, I will instruct the warriors of the Paeng Clan to prepare for departure."
"Y-you can't possibly mean...?"
"Paeng Yuwol."
I wrapped my arm around her waist and drew my face close. Paeng Yuwol flinched and tilted her head back, clearly repulsed, but the moment my member touched her lower belly, she only quivered and stole glances at my expression.
"I am a man who keeps his promises. Are you?"
"......."
Paeng Yuwol only watched my expression without answering. But even through the hesitation in her eyes, I could read her answer plainly enough. She needed time. Time to accept this complicated situation.
"Think on it slowly. Let's go."
"Yes... ng, w-wait a moment."
Paeng Yuwol released my hand, bowed her head deeply, and pointed toward the riverside.
"J-just a moment...!"
"Fine. Go ahead."
Paeng Yuwol darted away and hid herself by the river. The corner of my mouth twisted of its own accord at the thick scent of me wafting from her.
"Once we're back in the room, we'll keep going."
* * *
Squelch. Squelch.
"Huuuuhh..."
Paeng Yuwol slipped her hand into her own secret place. She crouched by the river and had to soak her undergarments and her inner flesh with wet hands, drawing water in.
"Uuugh... it keeps leaking out."
Paeng Yuwol's fingers were coated in the man's sticky traces. The raw, fishy smell, and a lingering heat in her belly from what remained inside her—if she walked back like this, her undergarments would surely grow damp and soaked with the man's semen.
"......."
Squelch. Paeng Yuwol inserted two of her fair fingers. And she gauged the size in her memory.
"Still... short?"
Paeng Yuwol carefully inserted one more finger. Even when she bound her index to her ring finger together and pressed them inside, it still fell a little short of the man's member.
"H-how..."
How had something so enormous moved in and out of her body? Paeng Yuwol's face flushed hot, and she could say nothing at all.
"...We'll keep doing this from now on, won't we?"
There was no turning back now. A man received into her body once must become her husband. That was what Paeng Yuwol had been taught, and it was the duty assigned to her. To be a man's woman—that was Paeng Yuwol's fate.
"......."
Was a fate that simply ended here even possible? In the heights of euphoric climax, while still joined with the man, Paeng Yuwol had dreamed. She saw herself as a heroic woman wielding the treasured saber of the Paeng Clan, boldly sweeping away the minions of the Demonic Cult with the forms of the Five Tiger Door-Breaking Blade.
"......Pfft."
If she had become such a master, none of this would have happened. She would not have been struck so pathetically from behind, nor would her first experience have been being violated while bound to a frame.
"That man, his tastes are truly awful... Haa. Must I keep doing this from now on? ...It's not bad, though. But if it must be so, perhaps a little rougher... haa..."
Paeng Yuwol washed her hands in the river and rose. No matter how much she scooped, she could not seem to remove it all. Paeng Yuwol touched her own lips with her damp fingers.
"......Huh? Did I... just...?"
Squelch.
"Could I... perhaps... no..."
Paeng Yuwol found herself once more feeling the man's presence rooted inside her body.