Chapter 174: Revenge
Chapter 174: Revenge
“Wh-What…?”
“What do you think? It’s right in front of your eyes, of course. What you did was murder, but we have no intention of becoming the same kind of monster as you. Still, even if we don’t take your life, I don’t think we’ll feel any better until we’ve trampled your dignity as a human being. So, lick it. And keep apologizing until you’ve licked up everything on the floor.”
Scattered on the floor in front of Pots was the semen he had just ejaculated.
“You fucking psycho! As a man, there’s no way I’d…!”
For the record, in this world, everything from the method of leveling up to religion made homosexuality a very strict taboo. If you ordered a man to lick semen off the floor, most would rather die than comply.
“Then should I just kill you here? No, no. I can’t let you die that easily. I know. First, I’ll strip Kate naked and have monsters rape her right in front of you, and then…”
“No! Please! Please, not that…!”
“Then lick it, you bastard. Hey. Let’s be frank. Shouldn’t you be grateful we’re even letting you live? So prove to me that you’re truly sorry by licking it yourself.”
“Th-Then Kate really will be… Promise me. If I do this, Kate will be…”
“Yeah, yeah, I get it. You’re so damn loud. Keep whining like that and I might not keep my promise. In the first place, do you really think you’re in any position to be making demands of us?”
Pots trembled, his eyes darting toward the semen staining the floor.
“What is it? Hurry up and lick it. Just lick that up, and I’ll be cool and disappear. Ah, right. I’ll wash my hands of both you and Kate completely. Then you two can go back to living your happy little life together.”
“R-Really… you mean that… you’re serious, right?”
Guwon smiled wordlessly and nodded.
Of course, I won’t touch you. But whether Kate will get back together with you is another story.
She was caught cheating, and what was her boyfriend doing? Jerking off while watching the whole thing.
Just how many women would get back together with a man after a situation like that?
But it seemed the possibility of their relationship being over hadn't even crossed Pots’s mind.
As if he’d made up his mind, he squeezed his eyes shut and licked his own semen off the floor.
“Your apology?”
“I-I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”
“Hmm… that’s still not enough. Repeat after me. I am a piece of trash and a murderer. I am a rapist driven mad by lust. I’m sorry for being born.”
“…I am a piece of trash and a murderer. …I am a rapist driven mad by… lust. …I’m sorry for being born.”
“Good. Keep repeating that until you’ve licked it all up.”
Pots, now with a look of complete resignation, continued to mutter the words.
“Good boy. You bastard. Looks like you really do feel sorry. Honestly, considering what you did, this feels like letting you off easy, but a promise is a promise. Now, just lick this last thing and I’ll let you go.”
“Huh…?”
Having licked up all the semen on the floor, Pots looked up at Guwon with a puzzled expression.
“Here, now lick this too.”
Guwon picked up a chair and moved it so that Pots’s face was level with Kate’s vulva.
“If you don’t hurry up and lick, your beloved Kate might end up pregnant with my child.”
At Guwon’s words, Pots began to lick Kate’s vulva as if his life depended on it.
“The words of apology?”
“I am a piece of trash and a murderer. I am a rapist driven mad by lust. I’m sorry for being born.”
“Good. Your sincerity is so touching that we’ll be on our way. Let’s make sure we never see each other again.”
Guwon took out a knife, cut through all the clothes that had been used to tie him up, and left the room.
Of course, this wasn’t the end.
Sara had said it earlier. She would see him utterly destroyed, down to the very last.
In that case, I had to see his end through properly.
Returning to their room, Guwon and Sara climbed back up to the ceiling and watched the room next door.
Pots still had his face buried in Kate’s vulva, muttering the lines Guwon had ordered him to.
“…I am a piece of trash and a murderer. …I am a rapist driven mad by… lust. …I’m sorry for being born.”
After muttering his apology for a while and licking Guwon’s semen from Kate’s vulva, Pots seemed to snap back to his senses. He looked around and pulled his face away.
But it seemed he hadn’t managed to lick up all of Guwon’s semen, as he began to poke his fingers into her vulva.
“Kate! Are you okay?! Wake up!”
Pots frantically shook Kate, and soon, she regained consciousness.
“Ugh… P-Pots?! What in the… ah.”
“Are you okay? Don’t worry. They’re gone now!”
Wow. Look at him go.
Anyone who didn’t know the situation would think he was a hero who had just defeated the villains.
And Kate, grasping the situation, reacted exactly as Guwon had hoped.
“Wh-What are you doing! Get away from me!”
Kate slapped Pots’s arm away and scrambled away from him.
“K-Kate?! What are you talking about? Now that…”
“What were you doing while I was asleep!”
“N-No. Kate, it’s a misunderstanding. It’s not like that… It was what that bastard Guwon left behind…”
“Ah…”
At Pots’s words, Kate looked down and checked herself.
“S-See? It was all…”
Pots tried to justify himself, but he trailed off when he saw the expression on Kate’s face as she looked back up.
After confirming Guwon’s semen on her vulva, Kate was smiling blissfully.
“K-Kate…?”
“…That’s right. Pots. Let’s get this straight right now. You saw it, didn’t you? What kind of relationship I have with Mr. Guwon now.”
“Y-Yeah. But you were forced into it, weren’t you?! That bastard forced you…”
“What are you talking about? I slept with Mr. Guwon of my own free will.”
Hearing Kate’s words, Pots’s face twisted into a grotesque mask.
“Wh-What are you saying? Kate, you were just…”
“…I’m sorry, Pots. I think… we’re done.”
“K-Kate! What are you saying! Think about it! We…!”
Pots grabbed Kate’s body tightly, but she flinched and grimaced.
“N-No! Let go!”
“K-Kate?!”
“You saw it, didn’t you? I cheated on you with another man. So you should just forget about a woman like me and…”
“I’m not the kind of man who abandons his woman just because she made one mistake!”
Pots clung to Kate desperately.
Can that guy not see the look on her face?
From where I was watching, the look in Kate’s eyes as she stared at Pots was clearly filled with disgust.
“One mistake? Pots. Do you remember that time you kissed me and jokingly said I tasted bitter?”
“H-Huh? Wh-Why bring that up…?”
“That was right after I’d swallowed Mr. Guwon’s semen. Of course it tasted bitter.”
“Wh-What does that…!”
“And remember that time you got all excited when you saw me leaking some white fluid, asking if it felt that good? That wasn’t my fluid. It was Mr. Guwon’s semen. I’m sorry, but I’ve never felt that way with you.”
…Wow. That’s harsh.
Kate was spitting out words far more cruel than Guwon had ever anticipated.
“Aaaargh! Aaaaaargh! Liiies! It’s all lies!”
Faced with Kate’s continuous revelations, Pots’s mental state completely shattered, and he started screaming.
“And you still have it in you to forgive me? …Fine. If you’re going to be like that, I’ll say it clearly. I have no feelings for you anymore.”
“Wh-What are you saying?! Get a grip! Right now, you’re just being manipulated by that bastard Guwon…!”
“Don’t you dare speak ill of Mr. Guwon! He’s a much better person than a man like you!”
“Ah, ahh…! Aaaaaaaaaah!”
“At the very least, he’s not someone who should be spoken of so carelessly by a man who just masturbates while watching his girlfriend cheat on him right in front of his eyes!”
Kate seemed to realize she’d gone too far and clamped her mouth shut, but the disgust in her eyes didn’t fade.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!”
And with those final words, it seemed the last thread holding Pots’s sanity together had snapped.
As if he’d lost his mind, Pots tore at his hair, screaming at the top of his lungs. Then, he suddenly looked around, spotted a bag against the wall, and ran to it.
He pulled a knife from the bag and stared at Kate, his eyes shot with crimson veins.
“P-Pots. You…!”
Kate stared at Pots, her face pale with fear.
Damn. This has gotten way more intense than I expected.
Guwon had predicted Kate would reject Pots, but the way she did it was far more brutal than he’d imagined.
And as a result, Pots had gone far crazier than Guwon had anticipated.
This is no time to just sit here. I have to go save her.
Guwon slipped out from the ceiling and hurried toward the next room.
He thought he heard Kate’s shrill scream on the way, which made him extremely anxious.
And when Guwon threw open the door, the scene that unfolded before him was, yet again, completely unexpected.
Pots had plunged the knife deep into his own ear.
To be honest, this was Guwon’s plan from here on out.
If Pots went crazy and tried to rape Kate, Guwon would burst into the room at the perfect moment to save her.
Then Kate would naturally throw herself into Guwon’s arms. He would subdue the crazed Pots who would charge at them, and then use the semen on Pots’s mouth to utterly ruin his social reputation.
Guwon would mobilize all his connections to spread rumors that Pots was a gay, attempted rapist, and attempted murderer. Eventually, no one would go near him.
To survive, Pots would have to enter the dungeon alone, and taking care of a solo adventurer would be no problem for Guwon.
Guwon had planned to make him experience a thorough hell, killing him only when he was so broken that he could no longer even feel the emotion of sadness.
But Pots had died just like this.
There were three things I had miscalculated.
First, that Pots’s mental fortitude wasn’t strong enough to survive today’s experience.
Second, that Kate had fallen for Guwon far harder, and come to despise Pots far more, than I had thought.
And third, that Pots had loved Kate far more than I had thought.
Even in his final, maddened moments, he couldn’t bring himself to harm Kate. Instead, to stop hearing the painful reality, he had plunged a knife into his own ear.
“Kate! Are you okay?!”
Guwon froze for a moment at the unexpected outcome, but he quickly came to his senses and approached Kate.
“Ah, ahh… M-Mr. Guwon… Pots…”
“Yeah… So this is the choice he made in the end…”
Kate had no idea what Guwon had been planning for Pots.
So, to ensure she would never realize she’d been used, Guwon put on a bitter expression and continued his act.
Even though her feelings for Pots had soured considerably, seeing him commit suicide right in front of her must have been a huge shock. Kate stared at Pots’s corpse with vacant eyes.
The cleanup was surprisingly simple.
When a dungeon city adventurer harmed another dungeon city adventurer, a record was left.
It seemed that system applied even when an adventurer harmed themselves.
Pots’s adventurer card clearly recorded that he had committed suicide. After a brief investigation by the Guild, his death was officially ruled a suicide following a lovers’ quarrel.
“Kate. Are you okay?”
“Yes. I’m actually not that shocked. In fact, there’s a part of me that’s relieved. Now there’s no one left to question our relationship. …Do you think I’m a terrible woman?”
“…No.”
He couldn’t possibly think that.
Kate had been used in Sara’s revenge for the simple reason that she was Pots’s girlfriend.
“So… what are you planning to do now?”
Kate had been adventuring with Pots. She obviously couldn’t continue on her own, so she must be at a loss now that he was dead.
“I don’t know. What should I do?”
Kate looked at Guwon with eyes that seemed to be pleading for an answer.
Guwon understood what her gaze meant.
In fact, from the moment he decided to use Kate, he had been constantly thinking about what to do with her after everything was over.
She had been, quite literally, used. He couldn’t just act like he didn’t know her now that her purpose was served; he wasn’t that much of a scumbag.
But on the other hand, should he do what she wanted and let her join the party? Just because he felt sorry for her, should he add a mage who was completely unnecessary to the party’s strength?
Setting Sara aside, there was no way he could convince Diana and Leia.
So, Guwon tried to think of a compromise that everyone could more or less accept.