Chapter 14. Demons Cannot Be More Cruel Than Humans.
Chapter 14. Demons Cannot Be More Cruel Than Humans.
(Contains sexual depictions such as rape and cruel content.)
As we had agreed beforehand, we wore filthy clothes and blended in among the other survivors.
'That rat-faced bastard has to be the Advisor. He's clearly stronger than any Awakened I've seen so far.'
They inspected the warehouse, nodded, and started unloading the food they had brought.
"Our Representative himself is generously providing food for useless trash like you. So what's with the looks on your faces?"
He kept spewing nonsense about how they were the chosen ones, how they had evolved, and all that garbage.
"You still don't seem to understand me. I'll have to make an example."
His eyes swept the crowd and landed on a man and the woman beside him. The men who had followed him dragged the man out.
— Smack! Thwack! Wham! Crack!
The man they had dragged out was beaten by the surrounding thugs. And that rat-faced bastard started groping the woman with his hands, harassing her right in front of the man.
'You won't die a clean death. I'll make you beg me to kill you.'
Only then did he seem satisfied, throwing the woman aside and beginning to scrutinize the people like livestock.
At that moment, I cast an extremely weak Soul Subjugation Technique to make that rat choose us.
"We'll take that old man, the two women, and three men."
The others who had received the instructions dragged us off, loaded us into a car, and drove away.
"Heh, look at the tits on that bitch, insane, right?"
"You crazy bastard, don't you know we're dead if the big boss finds out?"
"Whatever, once you shove it in, a bitch like that can't do a thing. Might even enjoy it?"
The bastards spent the entire ride making vulgar, filthy remarks about Chaeyeon and Jia.
'At least they're only running their mouths. If they'd laid a hand on either of them, I would have torn their limbs off right here.'
Soon after, we arrived at the hospital. They walked us a surprising distance, probably to wherever they intended to lock us up. The disgusting scenes I witnessed along the way were beyond words.
— Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!
— Hrrk?! Hic, sob! Ngh...!
"This bitch, you pump her full of drugs and fuck her, and she doesn't even know what to do with herself~"
"Hey, hey, check this out. Let me try her back hole."
— Slap! Slap!
— Squelch! Squelch! Squelch!
"Aaah!! Stop... it hurts so much... please..."
"Don't worry. You'll feel better soon."
The women I passed were covered in the marks of repeated rape, bruises everywhere, and from between their spread legs, a copious amount of semen still leaked as if one round had never been enough.
Some who looked like lovers or couples had been stripped, the men tied up, and the women raped right before their eyes.
— Schlick! Schlick! Schlick!
— Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
"Heh heh, aren't we better than a pathetic little man like that?"
"Yeah, look—we're pounding every hole without stopping, right?"
"Pleash... shtop... it..."
She had reached her limit, tongue lolling out, face streaked with tears, eyes unfocused.
And the man staring at her had tears of blood streaming from his eyes, his lips bleeding from how hard he had bitten them.
I also caught glimpses of women tied up inside the bathrooms.
And then there was a scene that nearly made me lose control of my killing intent: in what looked like the hospital lounge, several men were tied naked to pillars.
Someone had drawn crude targets with a pen onto their stomachs, and the scum were laughing as they threw knives at them. Some had already died, and some were still alive.
We must have reached the place they meant to cage us, because they stopped in front of a door.
"Get in, you bastards. You saw on the way here—you're fucked the moment you set foot in this place."
"Kikik. The girls? If you serve us well and wholeheartedly, maybe we'll stuff you full. How about it?"
There is truly no filth quite like what these bastards were spewing. In my head, dozens of ways to kill them were racing through my mind.
Locked in the room, none of us spoke for a long moment. Then I broke the silence.
"On Titan, I witnessed things far worse than this. I've even tortured people for information. But... at the very least, I never killed anyone for fun. And..."
I finished with, "And those who did that sort of thing all died regretting they were alive," and looked at their faces.
"Do they still look human to you?"
"Now I see why you kept warning us about the looters... they're no different from demons, are they..."
I laughed softly, almost as if I had found some kind of weary detachment, and answered.
"Demons could never be this cruel. On the contrary, only humans are capable of this."
Their mana and internal energy were churning violently. It must have been hard to keep their emotions in check.
"Sihu... I'm really glad I met you. Even if I die, at least I'll die as a human being, right?"
"Thank you... sir."
"Sihu, after seeing this, I understand now. I have no reason to hesitate anymore."
"I know it's difficult to contain your emotions, but this is precisely when we need to stay calm. It'll be dark soon. I'll go out and assess the situation then."
Later, around dusk, two men brought us something that barely resembled food.
"Here's your food, scarf it down. You there, brown hair—if you give us a nice little service with that mouth, maybe you'll get something tasty?"
"Then I'll let you, next to her, work those tits until I get off, and you'll eat like a king."
Chaeyeon and Jia glared at them in silence, their faces twisted with utter revulsion.
"Keh heh... glare all you want. Soon enough you'll be moaning for more."
They kept up their dirty talk to the very end, then left the food and walked out.
"Phew... if they'd pushed it just a little further, I would've roasted those bastards alive."
"Chaeyeon, I had such a hard time holding back. I wanted to put one right between their eyes."
We threw away whatever that so-called food was and ate from our own subspace supplies instead.
When night fell and the raucous noise died down, I concealed my presence and slipped out.
I moved from room to room, planting a trace of my aura in the bastards still in the middle of raping women as I went.
'Eventually, their blood vessels won't hold, and they'll burst and die all over.'
I headed upstairs and noticed that the higher I climbed, the cleaner the rooms became.
They probably ranked people, moving the ones they favored to the upper floors.
By the time I reached the top floor, every room echoed with the sounds of intense sex.
— Slurp! Slurp! Slurp!... Smooch! Smooch!
"How is it, honey?"
"As expected, you're the best."
'That rat-faced bastard from the school earlier.'
"Should I put it in now?"
"Yeah, hurry up and give it to me."
— Sss... fup... sss... fup...
"Ahh~ stop teasing and put it in already."
The girl clinging to the rat swayed her hips like a whore, trying to tempt him.
— Thump! Squelch! Squelch! Squelch!
"Ohh?! Nnhh...!! I-I'm gonna come...!"
"Heh heh... that tight grip feels so good...!"
— Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
"Aagh!! Honey, w-wait... I'm coming right this...hh..."
Once the rat finished, he pushed the girl aside and lit a cigarette.
'What? Not all of them were taken by force?'
Most of the rooms were like this. Finally, I entered the room of the man with the densest mana in the hospital.
'So this bastard is the head honcho.'
The apparent boss was also in the middle of fucking a woman, and beside him lay two others who had already passed out. Once he finished, he called a subordinate to remove the women.
"Hmm... this will do. I'll have to expand our territory soon. Tsk, that woman who assists me passed out... damn it."
The woman he had been with must have been his secretary or something. He picked up papers that looked like reports and muttered to himself.
"As expected, once they're hooked on drugs, they have no choice but to offer themselves up. They're so simple-minded. Keh keh keh."
'So they get them addicted, then use the drugs as leverage to make outrageous demands.'
When ordinary humans face a situation they simply cannot overcome, they turn to religions they never believed in and cry out to gods. Or they escape reality through drugs.
'Right. That approach would work. But raping and killing people for fun and pleasure—that crosses the line.'
"It's about time we started drugging the leaders at the school too."
He organized the papers, then lay down on the bed, apparently tired, and fell asleep.
I returned to my group and filled them in on the situation: those who had joined voluntarily, the rat, and the boss.
Then I explained the changes to our plan. Originally, we had intended to move people out one at a time, but there were more than I had expected, which complicated things.
I could have done it using magic, but—
'If I was going to do that, I would have come alone.'
"Right now, while they're asleep and out of it, Chaeyeon, set fire to the ward farthest from here. That will draw most of them out to deal with it. I'll handle anyone left behind. The rest of you, gather the hostages in one place."
Everyone nodded, their faces grim and resolute.
"Chaeyeon, ready?"
She finished casting, stretched out her hand, and looked back at me. I nodded.
A fireball shot out, and then—
— BAAAANG!!!!
With a tremendous explosion, the flames spread all the way to the nearby parking lot and blazed on.
"Emergency!!! Everyone get the hell up, you bastards!!!"
"Is it an attack?! Quit sleeping and get out here!!!"
"Hey, you fuckers, the place is on fire!!!"
"Most of them have cleared out. I'll take care of the remaining stragglers—please gather the hostages."
Sensing that most had left, I moved immediately.
- Chaos Sword Technique: Formless
Using the stealthy Mind Sword, I killed every last one of them I saw as I climbed to the top floor. The Advisor must have gone to handle the commotion—he wasn't there. Only the boss remained.
"What the hell is going on... an attack? Who are these bastards?"
"What else? The bastard who came to kill you."