18. Sunset (8)
18. Sunset (8)
"Ha, haha!"
Lilith let out an incredulous laugh.
It seemed Jaina's provocation had hit its mark perfectly.
"Why do these stubborn bitches always say the same things? I was already annoyed because of that mosquito bastard."
Lilith channeled energy into both hands.
To Evernoir and Jaina, it was an infinitely ominous power, but to Lilith herself, it was the most beloved power imaginable.
And the fact that she was unleashing this power meant Jaina's provocation had truly gotten to her.
Of course, Lilith was aware of this too, but she decided to let herself be provoked just this once.
Partly because she was angry about that bitch saying the exact same thing as that Bloodius bastard, but mostly because that cute little thing didn't seem to have any hidden trump cards up her sleeve.
Well, it would be a waste to kill these two like this.
A damn, damn, damn shame.
They were such incredibly charming girls that she hadn't encountered in so long - she had no intention of letting them slip away like this.
She absolutely had to capture them and torment them into complete ruin.
Shouldn't they pay the price for daring to insult her beautiful self?
'Ahh, what kind of pretty screams will you make?'
Judging by the way she spoke, she seemed to be from some noble family.
How thrilling would it be to crush that lofty pride and watch her beg her to stop?
"Ah, ahh! Haaa. Just imagining it makes me feel like I'm about to come❤️"
As Lilith spoke—
As if she had very slightly let go of a water glass she was holding, she released her control over the power with a flick,
"Gguueuk?! Keuk, keuk!"
"?!"
One of the male knights behind them collapsed to the ground, bleeding from his scalp, eyes, nose, mouth, ears—every orifice.
It felt as if all life had been drained from him.
How should I put it—it was like his life had withered away.
It was a grotesque scene, but there was one strange thing about it:
"Huu, so delicious···. Am I really that pretty? My breasts are big too."
Beneath the knight's corpse, mixed with the pool of blood, was also some pure white fluid.
No matter how you looked at it, its identity was unmistakable.
"Oh my. How badly did he want to sleep with me····, hehe. How could he die while ejaculating so much?"
As if it wasn't her who killed him, but the dead man's fault.
Lilith's tone was quite playful.
'What is this, how did she do it?'
Killing a knight just by looking at him without any contact?
It's impossible.
And what that woman said.
The fact that the dead knight had wanted to sleep with her.
'Because she's a Succubus·······,'
Could she kill those who harbor lustful desires toward her?
If so, this battle was too dangerous.
The unit already had more men than women.
And if the knights were men, it was natural for them to feel sexual desire toward a Succubus.
Meanwhile, the Succubus Queen looked at one knight with curiosity and spoke.
"Oh my, you there, perhaps·····?"
"Mary···?"
Following the Succubus Queen's gaze, Evernoir's eyes stopped on Mary, a female knight who had always faithfully followed her.
Before Evernoir could say anything, the Succubus Queen had already made the first move with lightning speed.
"Hey, come here. It must have been hard hiding all this time, right?"
"Ah, aahk!"
Mary's mind echoed with Lilith's voice.
The demon's words began piercing into her brain as if being driven in.
Mary's instincts screamed that this voice was dangerous, but there was no way to resist.
Human ears were open, and even if she covered them with her hands, the voice wouldn't be completely blocked.
Ddulddulddulddul.
—Clang!
"Mary, snap out of it!"
Her comrades shouted at her, but Mary had already dropped her sword to the ground.
Losing grip of one's sword during battle was essentially the same as being dead.
But the Succubus Queen didn't kill her.
"Come over here, I can understand and embrace you, you know?"
"Ah, aah···."
Thud.
Thud.
Staggering, Mary began walking toward the Succubus Queen.
During this, the 2nd Knight Order could do nothing.
Because the fear that they could die at any moment if they moved recklessly had already seeped into their entire bodies.
"Kuk!"
This was a fear Evernoir was experiencing for the first time too.
The helplessness of knowing they couldn't possibly win.
And the gap in power between that being and herself felt insurmountable.
But even so, Evernoir didn't give up.
She tightened her grip on her sword again and began slowly erasing the fear that had seeped into her body.
It really came down to determination.
She simply hadn't been truly prepared to sacrifice her life.
Just as she finally managed to move again,
"Everyone, snap out of—"
.
..
"·····."
In that moment, when she looked around, the knights' eyes already showed they had given up on life along with their fear.
Evernoir couldn't say anything to them.
Because it felt like it was her own weakness that was causing them to die like this.
The situation was desperate.
No matter how hard they struggled, there was no sign of victory.
This was the overwhelming difference in power between a Legion Commander gathered to resurrect the Demon King and mere humans like themselves.
Finally, Mary who had approached the Succubus Queen sank into her embrace.
A human being embraced by a demonkin.
While it felt alien, my mind gave up on understanding it.
"Ahahat, ahaha! Do you like this mother more than those you've shared your life with? Hahahat!"
Lilith spoke to Mary seductively.
"That's right····, if you just follow my commands well, this mother will hold you warmly all day lo~ng."
Lilith stroked Mary's head while enveloped in ominous purple energy.
"Now, see your captain over there? Go kill that woman. It's okay if you fail. If you just somehow distract her and come back········, I'll personally torment you until you beg me to kill you❤️"
—··········Gulp.
Mary's gaze turned toward Evernoir.
Honestly, Mary herself had no confidence she could kill the captain.
The difference in skill was enormous, and she didn't know what kind of wanted posters might be issued if she killed a noble for no reason.
But, didn't her master just say.
—It's okay to fail.
Those words sank so deeply into her heart.
It was so completely different from the knight order that always demanded success and victory, or else losing one's life or honorable suicide.
"·····I'll do it, Master."
"········Mary?"
Evernoir's pupils shook.
She felt like she might drop the sword she was holding at any moment.
A comrade she'd shared her life with until now was now pointing her sword at her.
It felt like her heart was truly being torn apart.
"Mary·····, snap out of it!"
"I'm sorry, Captain. Please—"
Mary ran toward the sword she had dropped on the ground.
"—die by my hand!"
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—Clang! Kraang! Chang—!
"Now, then that side is settled~. So, how about it, miss? What would you like me to do with you?"
Lilith shifted her gaze to Jaina with a sneer.
Naturally, unlike Lilith, Jaina's expression wasn't very good.
"Tch. Don't use cowardly tricks and come at me."
Jaina's sword pointed at Lilith.
At that sight, Lilith's face contorted.
"Pfft, pffh. Ahahat, ahahahat!"
The reason Lilith's face contorted was none other than because she was busy holding back laughter.
At Lilith's behavior, Jaina's face contorted.
"Ahahat, ahahak! Puhuhu. That was truly an entertaining joke, miss."
Lilith wiped away the tears that had gathered at the corners of her eyes from laughing too hard.
"You still don't know your future? How can you be so stupid? Hey guys~ attack!"
"Kireuk?"
"Grureuk!"
As Lilith shouted, all the goblins around began looking in their direction.
The scene was so overwhelming that even Jaina felt a chill run down her spine.
There were about 60 to 70 goblins.
It was certainly a number they could handle.
But the problem was that the remaining knights were too paralyzed by fear.
Chang-! Kaduk!
"Kraak!"
Ssyaek! Pshuk!
"Keuk, keuk-"
Killing goblins was as easy as squashing bugs for the knight order members.
But even so, the knights' stamina wasn't infinite, and under the continuous assault, they began to tire.
"Hueok, hueok!"
"Her, Her Highness, it's too dangerous!"
"Huu, tch. There's no end to them."
The goblin assault continued endlessly.
Still, after persevering, they somehow managed to reduce the goblins to about twenty.
The only problem was that the Succubus Queen was still just observing the battle.
Even as the goblins died like this, she was only watching.
"Her, Your Highness···behind you!"
"Kieeek!"
"Hup—!"
Chwak!
"Haa, haa!"
By the time I turned around and killed the goblin, the stamina of everyone including myself had dropped immensely.
"Her, Her Highness·····."
The knights around me all began looking at me simultaneously.
Their eyes were asking for some solution to respond to this situation.
I understood their feelings.
Of course they would feel this way after watching a comrade die helplessly right beside them.
In a situation where they could die at any moment, they must desperately want to run away right now.
"The situation is desperate, isn't it, Princess? Would you feel like giving up if it gets even more desperate? How about it?"
"·····No matter what you do, this princess will not give up."
"Hmuung····, I'm really looking forward to seeing if that pathetic pride can be maintained even now."
With those words, the Succubus Queen finally took off her top.
From within mounds of breasts too large to be human, pink fruits were revealed to the world.