Just Spread Them Once? (4)
"Gue… Guest! Please just hold still a little longer…!"
"Kyaaaah! Let go, you fuckiiing!!!"
In the end, Eun Yakbyeok used Aerial Object Manipulation to restrain Dokgo Ryeong, who had started rampaging with her saber drawn.
"Let go!! I said let go, fuck!! I'll bite my tongue off?!!"
"You still need to be able to talk, don't you?! Just stay still for a moment! You're a woman now, so why are you thrashing around like such a wild thing?!"
"Graaaah!!"
After pinning even Dokgo Ryeong's tongue with Aerial Object Manipulation, Eun Yakbyeok looked down at her and spoke.
"Honestly! Who's going to praise you for playing the virtuous maiden? Sooner or later you'll meet someone you love and give up your virginity naturally anyway—so why is a former man more obsessed with chastity than most women?!"
"Mmph! Mmmph-mmph!!"
"Be quiet!"
Eun Yakbyeok glared at Dokgo Ryeong.
"Keep this up and I'll transform into Young Master Wi's body myself and force you!"
"…"
"Huu… There. Finally settling down."
Seeing that Dokgo Ryeong's thrashing had stopped, Eun Yakbyeok came to a halt in front of her.
"Guest. Your Yin energy is so excessive that even staying around other women is becoming a problem."
"…"
"I've released your tongue, so do try answering."
"…Fuck."
Ignoring Dokgo Ryeong's grumbling, Eun Yakbyeok continued.
"Yin energy draws Yin energy, and Yang energy draws Yang energy. Yet here you are, carrying powerful Yin energy you can't even control, clinging to other women."
"So what the hell am I supposed to do about it?"
"If you truly refuse to spread your legs… then at the very least, stick close to Young Master Wi. And indulge in a little something lewd along the way."
"Are… are you insane?!"
"Does this look like a joke to you?"
Manifested internal energy rippled at Eun Yakbyeok's fingertips.
As her hand drew closer, Dokgo Ryeong's lower dantian throbbed once more.
Eun Yakbyeok stroked Dokgo Ryeong's hair as she spoke.
"See? Just having strong Yin energy nearby, and already your lust is boiling over."
"This is…!"
"I know. It isn't even natural desire, so it's harmful to your body as well. If you're going to go into heat, better to do it looking at a man."
"What the fuck do you mean, go into heat…!"
"Oh my. Are you truly so certain?"
Eun Yakbyeok breathed hot air against Dokgo Ryeong's ear and whispered.
"Hnn…!"
"Once you're held in a man's rough hands and feel that Yang spear thrusting into you… it can even be intoxicating, you know?"
"I… I am…!"
"You're a woman now, aren't you?"
When Eun Yakbyeok's tongue lightly licked Dokgo Ryeong's cheek, the girl shuddered all over.
"Hhk…!"
"Ah… I really shouldn't. Looking at you like this, I might develop a taste for women myself."
"You lewd bitch…"
"In any case—your progress in the Moon Shadow Divine Art, your health, reclaiming your strength… Young Master Wi is the answer to all of it."
"…"
The moment Eun Yakbyeok's energy vanished, Dokgo Ryeong collapsed onto the floor.
"…Fuck."
"Do you truly hate it that much? It's rather enjoyable pleasure, you know."
"You crazy bitch! I like it so much I want to—!"
Dokgo Ryeong realized her slip of the tongue and clamped her mouth shut at once, but Eun Yakbyeok did not miss it.
"Oh my."
"No, fuck."
"Oh my, oh my."
"I… I said no."
"Oh my, oh my, oh my!"
"You fuckiiing!! I said nooo!!!"
Watching Dokgo Ryeong claw at her own hair and thrash about, Eun Yakbyeok finally understood that strangely ironclad sense of chastity.
You were afraid!
Eun Yakbyeok nodded to herself.
Of course… Come to think of it, even as a man she lived like a monk, never taking a single woman. She wouldn't know the first thing about pleasure. So that sudden, overwhelming climax must have terrified her all the more.
Pleasure only becomes familiar once you've learned to enjoy it.
But Dokgo Ryeong, who had spent her entire life whipping herself forward, had only just discovered pleasure—and now she had no idea how to handle it, so she simply fled from it. Suddenly everything fit.
Hmm… Ideally she'd come to understand this little by little on her own…
She needed time—slow, gradual time—to discover it herself.
From what Eun Yakbyeok had heard, Dokgo Ryeong had even begun masturbating recently, so she was clearly tasting pleasure already.
But given the state of her body, there was no leisure to take it one careful step at a time.
Looking down at Dokgo Ryeong, who had exhausted herself into collapse from sheer rage, Eun Yakbyeok spoke.
"Guest."
"Hah… Fuck, I…"
"Pleasure isn't such a terrible thing, you know?"
"Fuck, this again…. That Lust Demon bastard used to spout the same shit."
"Why do you think pleasure is bad?"
"It dulls the edge of my blade."
"…"
Dokgo Ryeong spoke in a limp, drained voice.
"Un-yeong's daughter once handed me a piece of candy. It reminded me of my little sister who died young, and it made me feel good. That day, because of my good mood, a scar was left on that child's face."
"That wasn't your fault."
"No. It was mine. The bastard who came to kill me. My fault for not stopping him."
"…"
"It's always like that. Whenever something good happens, something bad always follows. Too many bastards want me dead, and too many bastards I want dead."
"Then when do you ever rest?"
"Resting after I'm dead is fine by me."
"…"
Listening to that coldly extinguished voice, Eun Yakbyeok once again recalled who the girl before her had been.
The Blood-Chasing Mad Demon, Dokgo Jin.
Her body had become that of a cute young woman, but she had once been the man who alone made the entire Murim his enemy.
As Eun Yakbyeok fretted over how on earth she might grant this person some peace, Dokgo Ryeong spoke.
"But fuck, this goddamn body keeps shaking me."
At those words, Eun Yakbyeok found a thread of hope.
"…How so?"
"Fuck if I know. My heart gets shaken… and it just makes me want to sit down and give up."
"Does it feel as though you're fading away?"
"Huh?"
"Your mind goes blank, no thoughts come at all, a pleasant languor settles over you, and a wistful ache rises in your chest—doesn't it?"
"Y… yeah."
"Don't you want to feel that again?"
"…It's so fucking awful I hate it."
She said that, but Dokgo Ryeong's flushed face and hair, which had turned pink, betrayed her true feelings.
She knows pleasure feels good, yet she's rejecting it with everything she has… What to do…
In cases like this, the usual solution was simply to make her spread her legs once, then have someone with supreme bedchamber arts show her heavenly pleasure until she fell right in. The thought had barely formed when something flashed through Eun Yakbyeok's mind.
In the end, it's Young Master Wi!
All she had to do was dump Dokgo Ryeong on him with a "Please enjoy," and the problem would somehow resolve itself.
Young Master Wi was the man with the finest night techniques in all the jianghu.
No matter how hard Dokgo Ryeong tried to run, once she was thrown to him he would melt her down into a puddle all on his own.
The problem is how to toss this stray cat into the bedchamber…
Looking at Dokgo Ryeong, still slumped and limp, Eun Yakbyeok finally made a grave decision.
Just once.
She would lie to Dokgo Ryeong.
"Guest."
"…What?"
"Then how about this."
"How about what?"
"You still have to practice the Moon Shadow Divine Art, don't you?"
"…If you're about to tell me to spread them again…"
"No, nothing like that."
"Then what?"
"From now on, sleep beside Young Master Wi every single night. Practice the Moon Shadow Divine Art right there next to him."
"Are… are you insane?!"
Dokgo Ryeong flared up, but Eun Yakbyeok had already expected that as well.
"Guest. The Moon Shadow Divine Art is originally easiest to master when cultivated at night."
"Fuck, so why the hell are you telling me to sleep with the Lust Demon?!"
"I told you earlier. Yin energy draws Yin energy. Conversely, if you're with someone who has Yang energy, that effect should lessen somewhat."
"…Ah, fuck. This feels like a lie somehow?"
Eun Yakbyeok flinched at Dokgo Ryeong's words, but the water was already spilled.
She pressed on with her argument.
Mixing in a little truth.
"Wasn't the problem that your Yin energy suddenly runs wild while you're circulating the Moon Shadow Divine Art?"
"…Yeah."
"If that alone is prevented, you can cultivate safely and your progress in the art will increase, won't it?"
"I… guess?"
"Exactly. If you stick close to Young Master Wi, his Yang energy will be right there even in the middle of the night, so your Yin energy won't boil over so freely."
"Is that… so?"
Just as Dokgo Ryeong was about to remember how her lust had gone berserk from merely holding Wi Ilcheong's hand, Eun Yakbyeok pressed the attack.
"Besides…! In a true emergency, he could even stabilize you, young lady!"
"No, fuck! I told you I'm not spreading them!"
"That's not what I mean! Th-that… Young Master Wi's Classic of the Plain Girl! You don't even have to do anything lewd!"
"…Huh? For real?"
"O-of course. Simply embracing is enough, they say?"
"…"
Dokgo Ryeong seemed to picture herself held in Wi Ilcheong's arms for a moment; her hair flushed pink.
Seeing that, Eun Yakbyeok delivered the finishing blow.
"Besides… you're traveling all the way to Tianzhu together, aren't you? There will be times when rooms run short!"
"…There will, yeah."
"Take this chance and share a bed!"
"D-does it really work like that?"
"You're a man anyway! Two men can share a room just fine!"
"Uh… uh? Is that right?"
Just as Dokgo Ryeong tilted her head, feeling the conversation was sliding somewhere strange, Eun Yakbyeok drew up her internal energy and began to play the seven-stringed zither.
Don't think about anything else! Just go quietly!
Operating her sound arts to erase stray thoughts and focus Dokgo Ryeong only on her words, Eun Yakbyeok said,
"Then first go and make an appointment with Young Master Wi for tonight."
"Do I have to?"
"Yes. Young Master Wi is quite busy at night, you know? It would be troublesome if Gwanyeong or little Sohyeon latched onto him, wouldn't it?"
"…"
Just as Dokgo Ryeong's thoughts began to drift in a strange direction again, the zither rang out fiercely.
"If you don't hurry, you'll be too late."
"…So I just go and say let's sleep together?"
"Yes, yes. That much is plenty. I'll handle all the other talk myself."
"…Fine. I'm going?"
"Yes, hurry along."
"…"
Dokgo Ryeong tilted her head several times as she walked out.
Watching her go, Eun Yakbyeok let out a long sigh.
Huu… First stage cleared, at least.
A rough explanation to Wi Ilcheong would suffice.
After that she only needed to set a plausible atmosphere—but nothing ever failed to happen between a young man and woman under the same blanket.
I should go see Young Master Wi.
Eun Yakbyeok still told herself she had not interfered in their romance.
She had merely left a man and a woman in one room.
The rest would take care of itself.
Rationalizing it that way, she followed Dokgo Ryeong out of the inner chambers.
Fuck…! Fuck fuck fuck!!! Something feels off about this…?
Cursing endlessly under her breath, Dokgo Ryeong headed down to the first floor of the pleasure house.
Spotting the Lust Demon sitting in the distance, she shouted,
"Fuck! Hey, Lust Demon!"
"Miss Dokgo… you've woken up."
"Th-that… fuck…!"
"…It's good to see you so lively. If one ignores the swearing, that is."
"O… tonight, let's sleep together!!"
Clatter.
"R… Ryeong Mae?"
"Anyway! I said it?! Fuck!"
Dokgo Ryeong spun on her heel and left. Wi Ilcheong and the remaining two sat there dumbfounded.
"Uh… Sohyeon Unnie. That was that, right?"
"…I think so?"
"…"
When Baekri Sohyeon and Eun Gwanyeong both looked at Wi Ilcheong, he waved his hands.
"I know nothing of this."
Just then, Eun Yakbyeok brushed past Dokgo Ryeong on her way out and approached.
"Young Master Wi, did you hear what was said?"
"…Sect Leader, did you perhaps do something…"
"Oh my. I truly did nothing at all?"
"…"
Eun Yakbyeok sat down naturally beside him and spoke.
"You remember Miss Dokgo's condition from yesterday, don't you?"
"…Yes. Why…"
"I'm afraid Young Master Wi will have to step in."
"Me?"
"Please accept Miss Dokgo's virginity."
"Is that Miss Dokgo's wish?"
"Pardon?"
Looking at the flustered Eun Yakbyeok, Wi Ilcheong answered.
"I made a promise with Miss Dokgo. Until I fulfill our contract, I will not take her virginity."
"Of course I know that. I'm simply asking you to move that timeline up a little."
"Which is why I am asking. Is this something Miss Dokgo herself desires?"
"…"
Faced with Wi Ilcheong's stubbornness, Eun Yakbyeok's brows furrowed slightly.
This… infuriatingly upright man!
In a voice laced with faint irritation, subtly releasing internal energy, Eun Yakbyeok said,
"If things go wrong, Miss Dokgo's life could be in danger."
"A woman's chastity is sometimes held dearer than life itself."
"…Are you truly going to take it this far? Simply sleeping together is enough."
"If it is merely sleeping together, I have no objection. Miss Dokgo herself said as much, so that is fine. However, I have no intention of taking her virginity."
"Going to start on about love again?"
"…"
Wi Ilcheong regarded the Hao Sect Leader for a long moment, then rose from his seat with a smile.
"I'll take my leave first. Miss Baekri, Miss Eun. Forgive me, but tonight I shall sleep with Miss Dokgo."
"…Mm, it's fine."
"Me toooo."
Watching Wi Ilcheong stand and walk out, Eun Yakbyeok sighed.
"…The two most stubborn mules in the entire jianghu have found each other."
"Pardon?"
"…It's nothing."
When Eun Yakbyeok clapped her hands, a Hao Sect disciple approached.
"You called, Sect Leader?"
"Tonight. There is a child who will put up her hair."
"…I shall make the preparations."
"She is a precious child, so spare no effort."
"Yes."
Wi Ilcheong was every bit as frustrating a man as Dokgo Ryeong.
But even his patience had its limits.
I'll make her so adorable that the moment he sees her, he loses all reason and pounces…!
Now that things had come this far, Eun Yakbyeok had no intention of stopping.
She vowed that tonight, without fail, she would make Wi Ilcheong take Dokgo Ryeong.