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Heavenly Demon Lee Si-a.
The greatest prodigy of the Black Path, she had killed her own eldest brother—nearly twelve years her senior—and succeeded to the position of Heavenly Demon. Before the age of thirty, she reached the realm of Transcending Demon.
Victorious in the succession war, she slaughtered all of the Earth Qilin Three Demons who had backed the Eldest Prince, and left only one of the Wild Three Demons alive. Then she appointed a new Ten Demons loyal to herself and reestablished discipline.
But the evils the Eldest Prince had already set in motion could not be undone simply by the birth of a new Heavenly Demon.
The source of the calamities that had befallen countless sects was, in every case, the Eldest Prince. And Lee Si-a, as his younger sister, his family, and the reigning Heavenly Demon of the age, had no choice but to ride that colossal current.
The Great Righteous-Demonic War.
In that war—triggered regardless of her own will—Lee Si-a stood and fought at the very front as the Heavenly Demon. She clashed with her archrival, the Murim Alliance Leader, exchanging dozens of blows, and ascended into an even higher realm through their battles.
Then later, when the Blood Cult rose to power, yesterday's enemy became today's comrade, and I—as a Blood Jiangshi—killed Lee Si-a.
I violated her, drank down her blood, and awakened the Heavenly Demon Divine Art. Thus, one of the Ten Great Masters of the World became engraved within my body: <Heavenly Demon Lee Si-a>.
I know every martial art she uses, without exception. I know exactly what kind of temperament she possesses.
"...Hmm? You're not curious?"
But the 'Lee Si-a' before my eyes was different. Even if this was the past of the Heavenly Demon in my memories, a past existence can never be identical to its future counterpart.
"This is unexpected. I don't think I've ever seen the Little Princess like this before."
"When it's just the two of us, it's Si-a."
The Little Princess puffed out her cheeks and aimed her chopsticks at me.
"Right now it's just the two of us, so call me Si-a. That is an order from the Little Princess, Bi-cheon."
"Orders aren't really meant to be used for things like this."
"Quiet. If the Young Heavenly Demon tells you to do something, you do it. You talk too much!"
"...Fair point."
I gently placed a dumpling on the Little Princess's—on Lee Si-a's—chopsticks.
"They say a man becomes a beast when he drinks, but it seems you've become a sage."
"Is that so? So am I drunk, or am I not?"
"The Heavenly Demon does not get drunk on mere liquor. But for you to show yourself like this..."
Two possibilities. Either she's pretending to be drunk, or she has truly released all of her Internal Energy and surrendered her body to intoxication.
"...You're genuinely drunk."
"Who knows? Am I really?"
"Honestly, either way, it doesn't particularly matter."
If it's the former, then she's playing the sly vixen. If it's the latter... then she intends to drive me mad. The daughter of the Heavenly Demon has essentially released her internal qi circulation because she 'trusts me completely.'
'If I were one of the Eldest Prince's men, what would she have done?'
She must have been suspicious. She must have questioned and doubted the identity of an unknown Lust Demon again and again.
But she trusted me and entrusted her personal safety to me. The woman who had been circulating her Internal Energy even when I lay beside her in bed—she got truly drunk in front of a beast like me.
"Even if you end up dead drunk, completely insensible, I will protect you. So set your mind at ease and enjoy the drink. It's the kind of liquor that'll be hard to come by once you're back on Heavenly Mountain."
"Tch. You're so full of yourself."
Lee Si-a filled her cup to the brim with Oryang Liquor, downed it in a single gulp, and set the cup on the table. The woman whose energy had been blazing and overflowing just moments ago spoke to me in a low voice.
"Bi-cheon. Do you truly want to have me?"
She didn't meet my eyes. Head lowered, she stared only at her empty cup.
"I am going to become the next Heavenly Demon. Do you understand what it means to want a woman like that?"
"...I'd become the target of a hundred thousand demonic practitioners. Becoming the first husband of a female Heavenly Demon is already a stretch—but trying to make a female Heavenly Demon one of many wives?"
"All of my followers will rise up. Countless demonic practitioners will rampage to tear me away from you. Can you bear that?"
"If it were something I couldn't bear, I wouldn't have started it in the first place."
I refilled Lee Si-a's cup.
"If anyone dares to covet what is mine, I will take even their life. Be it the Alliance Leader, the Heavenly Demon, or an immortal sage."
"Your resolve seems sufficient. ...Very well. Then the next question."
Lee Si-a rose from her seat and dragged her chair toward me. In an instant, we went from facing each other across the table to sitting side by side, close enough to feel each other's breath.
"Why do you want to have me?"
"Because you're beautiful."
A foolish question, a simple answer. A question that needed no asking required no explanation. I brushed my hand across Lee Si-a's face as she stared intently at me.
"A woman who has everything except a chest. If I don't claim such a being, who could? In this continent, in this world, only I can hold you."
"You're speaking rather impertinently, aren't you? I can still grow. Absolutely, I certainly can!"
"......."
The Heavenly Demon in my memories had been unwavering even as she lay dying. Out of sympathy, I refilled her cup.
"Let's drink."
"In moments like this, aren't you supposed to say, even just for courtesy's sake, that I could still get bigger?"
"Giving you vain hope would be nothing but hollow resonance."
Lee Si-a furrowed her brow and downed her drink in one go. Seeing her grip the cup with both hands, a sudden worry made me reach out and catch her waist.
"You'll fall."
"You're sneaking a hold on me."
"Killing two birds with one stone."
"You and the way you talk, seriously."
Thud. Lee Si-a rested her head against my shoulder and looked up at me. Her expressionless eyes, observing me, were piercing enough to see straight through.
"Bi-cheon, you're a very strange person."
"I know."
"But I need your strength."
Lee Si-a demurely clasped my hand where it rested on her thigh.
"I don't know much about your identity, your past, or what kind of life you've lived. But I only need two things. Your strength. And your loyalty."
"Lee Si-a."
I lifted Lee Si-a's hand and pressed a kiss once more to the ring finger of her left hand.
"I am the man who will become your husband. I can devote my entire strength to the mother of my child, but my loyalty is not something you can compel."
"Then, this is purely hypothetical, and I am asking under the purely hypothetical assumption that I become your woman—and there is absolutely no chance of this happening in reality—but as I listen to you, I find it so ridiculous that I must ask: if you have me, a peerless beauty of the Black Path who possesses everything, why are you fooling around with courtesans and getting involved with the Emei Sect Leader?"
"That is precisely because I cherish you so much."
She'd stabbed at the most painful spot, but I deflected Lee Si-a's blade with a shield I had prepared in advance.
"You are such a breathtakingly beautiful woman that if I don't purposely relieve myself elsewhere, I'm afraid I might pounce on you."
"So you intend to win my heart before you take my body? And that same man stripped me naked, kneaded my rear, and tried to sleep in the same bed as me?"
"All of that is a means to win your heart, you see."
"...Pfft, fine. I understand."
With those words, Lee Si-a buried her face against my chest. Flushed red all the way to the crown of her head, she pressed her forehead to my shoulder and whispered.
"I want to go back to the room and lie down."
"......."
I supported Lee Si-a and rose from my seat. The dining hall and our room were not far apart, and as it happened, no one but the waiter was anywhere near us.
Step. Step.
I walked forward with Lee Si-a's waist in my grip. She stumbled along, matching my pace.
Creeeak.
I opened the door and entered the room. The warmly heated room felt rather hot, perhaps because of the alcohol, and I laid Lee Si-a straight down on the bed.
"Nnnngh...."
Lee Si-a let out a moan and twisted her body. Through her disheveled clothing, skin white as jade was exposed.
"......."
Lee Si-a lay there in a disheveled position, defenselessly exposed. I heaved a great sigh toward the ceiling, then lowered my head to inspect my member.
'It burst.'
My pants had burst. Thanks to the alcohol, my simmering Yang Energy had surged into my member, and my pants had torn as it swelled and bulged upward.
'I drained myself and drained myself again, yet I'm still this hard.'
It struck me anew as strange. I had already taken Heavenly Demon Lee Si-a once, so why was my heart pounding like this?
Just because I would be taking a woman's virginity?
No.
Not 'just.'
'The Lee Si-a that I never knew.'
This was different from Sagong Hee's case. Unlike Sagong Hee—whose virginity I took in both the future and the present—I had given Lee Si-a my own virginity in the future, but I had never taken hers.
-Do you know who the most arousing woman in the world is? A woman you couldn't have and had to pass by.
'The virgin Lee Si-a.'
Throb. Throb.
I could endure no longer. First, I climbed on top of Lee Si-a and looked down at her. The steady, even breathing of the Heavenly Demon Deep Slumber Art proved that she had fallen asleep in that time.
"Haaaa...."
I could smell the thick scent of alcohol on Lee Si-a's breath. I—
-Taking a sleeping woman is one thing, but stealing a virgin while she's asleep is disrespectful. Especially if she's a woman who passed out drunk. If this were a woman you intend to hit once and discard, sure, but against a woman you want to spend your life with? Urgh, that's a bit.
The Blood Cult Leaders began to fight. Two Blood Cult Leaders clashed—one using the Blood Devouring Great Art and the other the Ghost Blood Asura Sword—their endless battle kept me in ceaseless inner conflict.
-She drank in front of a man and passed out! It's already settled!
-How many men have ruined themselves and brought disgrace on their families by touching a woman in that state!
-I'm living a life ruled by my cock anyway!
-Still, getting her drunk and taking her first night while she's unconscious is just not proper!
The conflict continued. The Lust Demon who must pursue lust and the Bi-cheon loyal to the Little Princess argued back and forth, unable to reach a clear conclusion.
'What would my master have said at a time like this?'
My master.
Though he was never eloquent, that man was always right.
'Master, if you are watching, tell me the answer.'
If he had seen this situation, he would surely have said this:
-How much longer do you intend to bring shame upon women?
"......!!"
In an instant, my mind went completely blank. The moral consciousness that had been tangling up my thoughts, the Sky-Soaring Lust Demon—all of it flew away, and only one woman remained in my vision.
Thump, thump.
Is she sleeping? No. She is not sleeping—she is pretending to sleep.
Did she get drunk on purpose? Yes. She drank to gather her own courage.
"Ha... this is insane."
Please, let my judgment not be wrong.
Based on my insight into the future Lee Si-a, I could only hope that the present Lee Si-a's actions toward me would lead to the best possible outcome.
-Taking a virgin while she's asleep... I trusted you!!
-Kekeke, your mistake was trusting a Lust Demon!
-Bueeeh, Daddyyyy!!
-Who got my daughter drunk and violated her!!
...Please, let none of these worst-case scenarios come to pass. I repeated that desperate prayer, then made my decision.
'I'll take her.'
Just like the day I agonized endlessly over whether to take Sagong Hee's virginity—only to lose to my own desire—I once again couldn't hold back.
"Little Princess, forgive me. I—"
"Fuck, I can't stand all this goddamn dragging it out."
"Huh?"
Grab. A hand shot up from below and seized me by the collar. The sudden grip sent me sprawling face-first onto the bed.
"Hey, lie down."
"L-Little Princess?"
"I told you to call me Lee Si-a."
Whisk!
In an instant, Lee Si-a and I had switched positions. Straddling my stomach in the blink of an eye, she smoothed back her hair and scowled.
"Do I have to explicitly tell you to pounce on me for you to understand? You're not some virgin bachelor, so how can you be this clueless?"
"No, it's not that I'm clueless. Between us, things should be a bit more—"
"Shut up. That's an order from the Little Princess."
I obediently closed my mouth. In the first place, no man could keep his lips open when a beauty like Lee Si-a was pressing them shut with her index finger.
"Honestly. You just stick your cock in my pussy, thrust hard, and finish—what's so difficult about it that you have to worry yourself sick?"
"......."
I felt like I was about to be overwhelmed by sheer audacity.
"We've seen each other naked, touching each other's bodies is routine, and on top of that we share a bed like this. Even a Shaolin monk would break his vows if things got this far."
"......."
There would be no point in protesting that the moment I finally resolved to pounce, she grabbed me by the collar. Saying I was about to speak a single word then take her—that would be nothing but an excuse. In the martial world, countless fates are decided by the thinnest of margins.
But if I stayed still like this, I'd be a fool who couldn't even eat what was handed to him—
"You. Just don't do anything. I'll handle everything myself."
'Fine. I'll be the idiot who couldn't eat what was served on a platter.'
This was my defeat—my attempt to project the Heavenly Demon Lee Si-a onto the Lee Si-a before me. The young Lee Si-a was far more direct in action, utterly unflinching.
"What? You won't take my body before you win my heart? Hah. Fine. Have it your way. I'll respect your opinion and honor it. However."
-Listen well. When a wife says she wants to do it first, it's something you must avoid without exception. But.
"Gulp."
"You are not taking me. I am taking you. Because you are my Bi-cheon. So...."
-When the woman who is not yet your wife wants to do it, what you need to raise is not your pride.
"You shut your mouth and just get your cock hard."
At Lee Si-a's overwhelming force, I obediently nodded.