Chapter 181
Chapter 181
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 181
Chapter Title: The Succubus Employee
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"......"
Prelia opened her eyes.
She gazed at her newly reborn self.
The only thing different about her body was one thing.
The pink lewd mark engraved on her lower abdomen.
The lewd mark that appeared on a succubus once she found her true master had been vividly etched onto her lower abdomen.
She touched her lower abdomen.
It was still hot.
The intense pleasure her master had imprinted on her lingered in her memory as clearly as the lewd mark itself.
The memory of him ravishing her.
'No. Get a grip.'
Prelia shook her head to pull herself together.
'A mere human can't be my master.'
She was a demon.
A noble demon.
A succubus demon who lived by seducing humans and feeding on their essence.
She had even once been an executive in the Demon King's army.
Even fellow demons had looked up to her.
For someone like her to think of a human as her master?
"Impossible."
His sex, his essence, had felt indescribably good, but that was only natural since she was a succubus.
She steeled her mind and focused.
"This is my chance."
She didn't know where this place was, but with Max away, it was her chance to escape.
'Bad matchup.'
The smart thing here was to back off......
That was when she thought that.
"What's your chance?"
A voice rang out, and there stood Max.
"Ah......"
"Didn't you just say something about your master after we finished having sex? And now you're thinking of running away?"
"Th-that's not......"
Play along for now.
She had to bide her time.
'If I pretend to give up, this human will let his guard down.'
Her opponent was human, after all.
A mage, no less.
Trying to beat him with magic had been foolish.
If she used her demonic body for a sudden ambush, even a skilled mage would have no choice but to show an opening.
So she would wait for that moment.
Prelia was a demon who would do anything to survive.
When the Demon King fell, she had hidden her body and survived somehow.
A humiliation like this was nothing......
"Hey."
"Yes?"
"What are you looking at?"
"What do you......"
"You've been staring down there. Even for a succubus, isn't that too blatant?"
Max pointed to his crotch as he asked.
Me, staring there?
No way.
While denying it, Prelia glanced at Max's pants.
The bulge of that cock sticking out from his pants......
'Am I crazy?'
Snap out of it.
I'm a noble succubus right now.
Not a slave to pleasure, but a superior race that uses pleasure.
"Whatever. This is where you'll be living from now on."
Max pointed to the room where she was sitting.
"Live here?"
"Yeah. This is your quarters. I renovated part of an unused warehouse in our shop. There's a shower room on the first floor, so handle washing up there."
Prelia couldn't believe what Max was saying.
Live here?
"I'm a demon. You know that, right?"
"Of course. Succubus, dream demon of pleasure. I know better than anyone that you're a dream demon."
Max continued calmly.
"I'm planning to hire you as an employee at our Illusion Magic shop. Your lower abdomen has the lewd mark now, so you can't defy me, and I get a skilled illusion mage as staff. Win-win, right?"
"Y-you......"
He plans to use me like that.
Work under a human.
Unthinkable.
"D-don't make me laugh! I'm a succubus...... Even if I lost to you, I won't accept this......"
"You're refusing?"
"Of course!"
"......Acting tough, huh."
Max's eyes narrowed as he looked at her.
"While you were out, I looked up more info on succubi in my study. And I found out more about the meaning of that lewd mark on your lower abdomen."
He approached her calmly as he spoke.
"Succubi regard the one who imprints the lewd mark as their master and obey their commands absolutely."
"......"
"Do I need to use the power of this lewd mark to make you obey?"
He knows.
This man knows everything.
The meaning of the lewd mark on her lower abdomen.
Her current situation.
Her plan to lure him into complacency and ambush him was crumbling.
"You knew?"
"Don't underestimate a mage."
"......"
No.
This can't happen.
But right now, she couldn't see any openings.
"One thing I promise you."
"What?"
"If you do your job well......"
Max, now close, pressed down hard on the lewd mark on her lower abdomen.
"I'll give you plenty of rewards."
Her body, which had already acknowledged him as master, reacted to that brief touch.
"Haa, haa."
"How's that?"
"I can't refuse anyway."
"Then the contract is successfully sealed."
It's fine.
I'm just lulling him into security.
I'm not truly submitting to this human.
I'll make him drop his guard eventually and strike at his weakness.
Despite her resolve.
"Ah, the scent......"
Prelia's mind went half-blank from the scent wafting from the nearby Max.
An inexplicable, intoxicating aroma was driving her mad.
This was weird.
She'd never felt like this before.
Her body felt floaty.
'Good.'
"Then I'll tell you your tasks first."
"Wh-what......?"
She barely clung to her senses and asked.
"Compile how to give illusions physical force. You know, that dream magic you use."
"......"
Prelia found herself unable to refuse even handing over her secret weapon.
The elven delegation heading to the Empire.
Reina, leading at the front and hastening her steps, read the flow of the air, then looked toward the Empire's capital with a shocked face.
"......It's gone."
"What is, Lady Reina?"
"A powerful demonic energy that had settled in the Empire's capital—it's vanished."
"Demonic energy...?"
"Yes. It was an enormous concentration. I could even feel it from the elven forest. And now it's gone in an instant."
The delegation's escorts murmured in disbelief at her words.
But no elf would doubt the word of a high elf.
Did the hero subjugate it?
He had killed the Demon King with the saintess, so it was possible.
"We need to hurry and check what's going on."
She gripped the reins toward the capital.
"......Brother. Just now......"
"What is it?"
"No, nothing. Did none of you other brothers feel the flow of power shift?"
Eirin, the saintess praying in the prayer room, sensed the change in energy flow.
It was a faint distortion of demonic energy, subtle enough that even she, sensitive to it, barely noticed.
'That succubus....... She's in the capital.'
She bit her lip.
The thought of the demon she had let slip away hiding in the capital made her anxious.
"Brother, assemble the holy knights."
"The holy knights?"
"Yes. I sensed faint demonic energy. Just in case, we'll bolster the capital's defenses."
"Understood."
Nothing bad will happen, right?
Eirin swallowed her unease and clasped her hands in prayer.
O God, please let it pass without incident.
Deciding to make Prelia an employee was because the lewd mark made her sufficiently safe.
-Dream demons imprint lewd marks on targets to turn them into minions. The immense mana in their genitals bewitches them, using the essence of those who insert to bind them.
-It was a deadly weapon against those weak to pleasure.
-It felt invincible, but it had a weakness too. Just as they could absolutely dominate, they could be dominated in reverse.
-Succubi obey the commands of the one who imprints the lewd mark on their body. Regardless of their own will, they must obey unconditionally.
-Any command.
Unconditional obedience.
That phrase had saved Succubus Prelia.
It wasn't just in one book.
Every book researching succubi said the same.
It was a conclusion inferred by reverse-calculating the lewd mark's magic circle.
However.
-No hero or warrior had ever imprinted a lewd mark on a succubus's body. So it's theoretical; no practical confirmation.
I hesitated inwardly.
Was it right to keep a demon alive?
Knowing how demons were treated in this world made me even more cautious.
Killing her outright would waste her abilities, so I wanted to hire her as staff.
'If control is hard, eliminate her.'
But multiple sources confirmed full control was possible.
So I decided to spare her.
For better illusion magic.
'And I needed hands soon anyway.'
I needed staff to handle customers I couldn't manage.
"Wh-what is this outfit?"
Prelia looked down at her clothes and asked.
"This is your uniform for work."
"B-but this is......"
She pointed to what she was wearing.
"Not a single inch of skin is exposed!"
To a succubus, the outfit she wore symbolized modesty.
A neat white shirt and a tight black skirt.
It went down to below her thighs, covering most of her body.
A shirt like a career woman might wear, with an H-line skirt.
Complete with black stockings.
It was my taste incorporated into the uniform.
Still quite sexy, but to a succubus who wandered nearly naked, it would feel like a hijab.
"H-how am I supposed to go out in this......"
"Your job is to satisfy customers. No sexual desire allowed in the process."
"......A dream demon without sexual desire?"
"No. I'll make it so the real you can't feel desire."
"......"
"And you don't need it anyway."
"What do you......"
"If you need it, your master will give you essence."
"Ugh......"
Prelia's brow furrowed.
A face that hated it but couldn't show it.
Her spirit wasn't fully broken yet.
I like that fiery will.
"When dealing with customers, never suck their essence. That's an order."
At the word "order," her lewd mark glowed.
"Hnng....... Y-yes."
Her body trembled as she blushed and nodded.
This lewd mark thing is convenient.