The Abyss's Temptation and the Village's Sacrifices
After the bloody rampage at the Slum Village Square finally came to an end, I collapsed, having reached my absolute limit, and lost consciousness. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself in that familiar abyss—a dreamlike world shrouded in hazy purple mist. But the sensation that hit me the moment I awoke was utterly bizarre. It was the dizzying pressure of my massive cock being forcibly crammed into something wet and impossibly tight.
"Ahh...! Haa, it's too big... it won't fit..."
A groaning moan tickled my ear. As I cracked my eyes open, a familiar silhouette came into view—straddling me, her hips bucking desperately. It was Asmodeus. But she no longer resembled the overwhelming Lord of Lust from before. Having had most of her mana and power stripped away by me, her body had shrunk to the size of an adult human. Her diminished frame simply couldn't handle my overwhelming girth. Even the head of my cock was barely squeezing in, her tight entrance stretched to the breaking point as she strained with all her might, stifling screams laced with pain and pleasure.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?"
My voice came out cold and sunken. Startled, Asmodeus flinched and slumped down, forcing the thick glans even deeper inside her against her will.
"Haaaaah...!!! Haaang!"
She let out a tearing scream and frantically pulled herself off my cock. Falling back on her ass, her face drained of color.
"M-Master...! N-No! M-Master! Y-You're awake...?"
"What were you trying to do, climbing on top of me like that?"
As I propped myself up and pressed her, she averted her eyes, fumbling for excuses in a panic.
"I-It was...! Y-Your cock... it looked so tempting, I couldn't help myself...!"
I let out a hollow chuckle at her obvious lie. When I silently reached out toward her, Asmodeus panicked and clutched the jagged stump of her severed horn with both hands. She must have been flashing back to that brutal "horn hole insertion" from last time.
"S-Sorry! I was wrong! I-I was just trying to steal back even a tiny bit of your power! Please forgive me just this once, Master!"
She flattened herself on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly, tears streaming as she begged. The great demon who had once tried to devour me whole was now a pitiful, adorable little thing, trembling at my slightest gesture, clutching her broken horn.
I gently stroked her shaking hair and smirked.
"You seem a bit smaller now...?"
Startled by my unexpectedly gentle touch, Asmodeus peeked up, deciding I wasn't about to kill her. She straightened her tiny frame, pouted, and shot back in her usual bratty tone.
"Hmph! This is just a humiliating contract state for now... but someday, I'll swallow you whole again!"
What she meant as a fearsome threat looked to me like nothing more than a child's cute tantrum. I chuckled and lifted her chin.
"Is that so? But if you pull something like that again, that severed horn stump might not stay intact."
At my chilling warning, her face paled, and she flattened herself to the ground once more.
"I was wrong! I-I won't act up again!"
I burst out laughing at her groveling, on her knees begging forgiveness.
"Just kidding. It won't happen unless you give me a reason, so don't be so scared. From now on, I'll call you 'As'."
Looking down at the now-relaxed As, I finally asked what had been nagging at me.
"As. How and why did you try to make a contract with me? Was it just because I have no mana?"
As glanced at me warily, her voice a meek whisper.
"Th-That too, but... that despairing, delectable malice boiling inside you drew me in so strongly. It was hatred so thick and sweet, even a demon like me drooled over it."
Her words stirred something strange in me.
"Even though you tried to take my body, I'm grateful to you instead. Thanks to you, I gained the power for revenge."
At my sincere words, As's cheeks flushed red. She seemed a bit shy at first, then yelled indignantly.
"Gr-Grateful, and you still shoved it in my horn hole like that?! Do you have any idea how rude you were to me?! A mere human daring to treat a great demon like... haaaang?!"
Before her arrogant outburst could finish, I plunged my fingers unhesitatingly into her now-tighter pussy.
"Either way, I'm your master now. Don't be rude, As."
As I stirred her slick inner walls, she wailed in ecstasy.
"Ah, aaah! Aaaang! Y-Yes...! I get it, Master...!"
Confirming her total submission, I withdrew my fingers and asked,
"How does this power grow? And does this abyss appear every time I fall asleep?"
As she trembled in the afterglow, catching her breath with a flushed face, about to answer—the air in the abyss froze cold. A vicious killing intent seeped in from the real world. My instincts screamed danger. Without time for her reply, I urgently snapped my consciousness back to reality and opened my eyes.
My vision snapped open to a gleaming blue dagger blade plunging straight toward my heart. Gripping it was the Village Chief's treacherous face, eyes bloodshot as he lunged to kill me, his fist hurtling toward my face.
"Die, you demon bastard!!"
I twisted my body on instinct and shot out my hand. Clang...! My iron grip caught the dagger blade barehanded. My demon-infused skin didn't draw a single drop of blood.
"Wh-What the...!"
The Village Chief panicked, trying to yank the blade free, but I sneered and smashed my free fist into him with all my strength. Thud...!!
"Gaaah!"
My punch crushed his face, sending his body flying through the air to smash wretchedly into the narrow room's corner wall. As I rose to finish him off completely,
"Kain oppa...!!!! Stop!!"
The door burst open with a desperate scream. It was Rina, pale-faced, clutching wet cloths in both hands.
The situation was this: After my blood-soaked revenge at the square, Rina had barely managed to drag my collapsed body to an empty house. The unconscious Village Chief had no choice but to be laid in the same room's corner. It was Rina's pure kindness, hoping I'd recover enough to leave safely—but the Chief had woken first and seized the chance to assassinate me.
"Rina! Get away now! Why the hell are you protecting trash like him...!!"
The fallen Chief spat blood from his nose, roaring in rage. I closed the distance in a flash, seizing his throat and hoisting him effortlessly into the air.
"Guhk...! Urgh..."
"Trash? If you hadn't divided people by mana, treating guys like me as bugs... the villagers wouldn't have died like dogs today."
Under my icy killing intent, the Chief's face turned purple.
"Please stop, oppa! Sob... please..."
Rina clung to my back, sobbing. I clicked my tongue at her tear-streaked face, loosening my grip and hurling him to the floor.
"If it weren't for Rina, your neck would've snapped already. Since you kept your life, stay the fuck down like the rat you are."
The sprawled Chief clutched his throat, coughing violently. But his eyes held not just fear or anger—deep resentment and injustice twisted within.
"What the hell do you know, you bastard!"
Pounding the floor with his fist, he began to wail, spewing blood and tears.
"Our village... it's just a powerless frontier! Under that massive territory's rule, we had to offer up mana-gifted kids once a year!"
My brow twitched faintly at his cry.
"Parents with mana-gifted children thought it a great honor to send them to the center—they rejoiced. But... no one knew if those kids lived or died, or where they went! Not a single one ever returned alive!"
The Chief's wrinkled face contorted in agony. Blood tears streamed from his eyes.
"That's why... we had to treat them even better! Those poor kids who might be dragged to slaughter someday—for them to at least hold some fake power called 'mana' in this tiny village, to comfort and console them! Do you understand a ruler's pain?! Do you know the heartbreak of sending child after child—like my own—to the jaws of death with a smile?!?!"
The shocking truth spilling from the lips of the man I'd thought bound only by hypocrisy and greed. His bloodcurdling lament hung heavy in the cramped room.