Chapter 29
Right after Behemoth left.
Yubel was playing a game of chicken with her life.
“……”
Even though she knew this was her only chance to escape, her life was on the line, so her feet wouldn't move.
Sss, can I leave now?
She's not going to come after me again later, is she?
I'm seriously freaking out.
She could only watch Behemoth recede into the distance, keeping up the same kind of pathetic, cowardly vigilance.
But then.
Squish.
“Kyaa!? What the!”
Someone was fondling her breasts.
And quite thoroughly, as if savoring the feel.
Yubel shuddered in utter revulsion.
Because the feeling and sensation seemed like they might draw out something in Yubel she didn't know.
Anyway, amid the brief commotion,
the flustered Yubel immediately realized who was behind this.
Yubel's indifferent gaze turned to Eva.
Who else is here besides you?
You little shit, Eva. How dare you.
“Eva, I told you not to do that!”
Bonk! A cute sound effect.
And Eva's head caved in.
“Kyaooo!! Kyao! Kyao!”
Eva wailed as if wronged.
Because she actually was.
But Yubel didn't know that, and her defiant attitude made her see red.
Oh, you little punk.
What are you crying for? What did you do right?
If you wanna touch my boobs, at least pay me!
Yubel felt that this rebellious animal desperately needed some proper discipline.
Won't listen to her owner? Then a good spanking is the answer. A loving spanking.
And so, Yubel and Eva.
They sized each other up for a moment before their own little battle began.
Rustle, scuffle!
Though I called it a battle, they were just flailing their arms around at each other.
The only result was a faint breeze if you stood beside them.
Ugh, you're too strong!
You little punk, I can't believe you're holding your own against me……!
As one might expect, Yubel's physical abilities were below par, so Eva was beating her handily.
Eva knew that, too, and was holding back as they fought.
Scuffle, scuffle.
Thwack!
“Aagh!!!”
Huh?
Along with a heavy sensation like hitting a banana, a man's scream came from beside her.
The bizarre phenomenon sent chills from the top of Yubel's head to her toes.
W-What?!
As she looked around, trembling.
“Kgh, it's me…… Yubel……”
She heard the Hero's voice.
“H-Hero? Where are you right now?”
“I'm invisible right now……. Could you follow me quietly?”
For a moment, Yubel doubted her own ears.
Invisibility.
It was a skill that cost a hundred skill points.
How could the Hero, who'd been crawling along using nothing but stripping skills, use Invisibility?
While Yubel was thinking that,
an invisible hand grabbed her arm.
Clear proof the Hero was using Invisibility.
“Already……? How is that possible……”
No way.
Even if the erotic-trap dungeon was a grinding spot, had he really gathered skill points this quickly?
And had he done it all with just Riella?
Yubel's face gradually paled.
She couldn't imagine just how hard he'd worked Riella.
Before long, he'd dragged her far enough that the nest looked small.
Of course, he brought Eva along too.
“Kyao! Kyao!”
“Eva?”
Scamper!
Eva jumped out of Yubel's arms and ran off somewhere.
What's with her?
Well, she'll come back eventually.
Yubel didn't pay her much mind.
She had to stay on guard around the Hero right now.
As Yubel watched Se-on, exercising the utmost caution,
something happened that she couldn't quite understand.
The Hero was gathering up the clothes thrown on the ground and putting them on.
From the perspective of someone hearing this, they might think, ‘So what?’
But to Yubel, who knew [Invisibility] made clothes invisible too, it was a very strange sight.
Was there any point in using it so inconveniently?
Yubel watched, puzzled, then
simply decided, ‘The Hero's a pervert with an exhibitionism fetish.’
He was the one with the exhibitionism problem.
At any rate, the Hero finished getting dressed and appeared.
But the Hero's appearance was……
Hongik Ingan?
In fact, the Hero's body was bright red, as if he were some red demon.
And a moment later, he clutched his chest and began to writhe in pain.
Yubel sensed something was wrong at the sudden change and approached him.
What's going on?
His body's getting redder and redder.
Is he using Gear Second or something?
Yubel found the Hero's appearance fascinating.
And she began to worry a little, too.
“Hero? Are you okay?”
Looking at his face, she saw his eyes were unfocused.
His pupils shook wildly, as though they couldn't settle in place.
At the amazing sight, Yubel grabbed Se-on's shoulders and shook him.
As she did, the Hero's blurry eyes suddenly fixed on Yubel. Like a beast that had found its prey.
Yubel shuddered at that gaze.
Oh, fuck.
Th-that doesn't mean I'm even a little scared, okay?
Fine, just! Those eyes……!
“I want to hit you……”
“Huh?”
The Hero's voice came in a whisper.
Hearing it, Yubel's mind went blank for a moment.
What was that supposed to mean?
He wants to hit me?
Has he gone crazy?
Just then, Yubel looked closely at the Hero's eyes and saw they were bloodshot.
He looked just like a rabid dog.
Yubel was unusually frightened by that.
“H-Hero? W-What do you mean……? I heard wrong, right? ……Kyaa!?”
In an instant, he shoved her by the shoulder and Yubel toppled onto the floor.
The momentum of the shove made the clothes Se-on had put on her ride up a little.
Yubel's luscious bottom and sexy panties were exposed in all their glory.
“Hngh……”
Meanwhile, the Hero gradually approached Yubel, who'd fallen.
Yubel clutched her head and glared at the Hero approaching from behind.
Even so, the Hero kept walking toward her without stopping.
Ugh, what the hell is this…….
You bastard, you're picking a fight with me……?
As Yubel tried to pull her scattered wits together,
“Eh?”
Yubel saw it.
The Hero raised his hand toward her……
Smack———!!!!
“Kyaaah!?”
She saw him bring it down.
And so, for the first time in her life, Yubel was spanked.
A slap delivered with all his strength, without holding back at all.
Yubel's pretty bottom swelled bright red, as if it might burst.
“Ah, ah……”
He'd hit her pretty hard, so the only future ahead of her was crying and clutching her butt.
“Huh? It doesn't hurt at all?”
Amazing.
Contrary to appearances, Yubel was completely fine.
Then the Hero seemed to run out of strength; after hitting her once, he collapsed.
“……”
Yubel felt good.
Why?
The more the Demon King's body took over Yubel, the more she acquired demonic traits.
Demons were a race that hid their hearts in the Demon King's Castle.
So they felt no pain whatsoever from injuries to their bodies.
If anything, getting hit felt kind of nice.
That left Yubel confused.
Wait, my hand hurt when I hit that orc before, didn't it?
Could I be immune to pain in my butt?
A steel butt. How strange.
Smack, smack.
Yubel tried hitting her own butt, but it didn't feel anything like when Se-on had just hit her.
Just in case, she tried hitting other parts of herself, too.
As expected, she felt no pain at all.
But people unconsciously hold back when hitting themselves.
Yubel knew that, so she needed someone else to hit her.
Someone like the Hero sleeping over there.
“Ugh, what happened just now…… Huh?”
Conveniently, the Hero woke up.
The guy who'd suddenly hit her butt.
But Yubel didn't really care that the Hero had hit her butt.
Because the Hero's standing in Yubel's eyes was literally rock bottom.
The bottom of the bottom.
Who would care if sewer trash from the lowest pit did something befitting him?
She just thought, ‘The Hero being the Hero.’
Wiggle, wiggle.
Anyway, to make the Hero hit her,
she stuck her butt out as far as she could.
“N-No……. No……!”
Se-on backed away, looking shocked.
Yubel couldn't believe him.
What do you mean no?
You were the one who started it.
Wait, come to think of it……
Just then, Yubel had a good idea.
A body that seemed immune to pain.
Could this be the perfect chance to show off to the Hero?
Even when she was in Behemoth's nest, Yubel had been afraid she'd be discarded like this because her abilities were lacking.
But now she'd found a way to make up for those shortcomings!
A mage who could tank, too? That's downright game-breaking.
Good. If I become an irreplaceable mage in the Hero's party, he won't think of throwing me away again, right?
A perfect plan took shape in Yubel's mind.
“Heeero…… c-could you do it one more time?”
Yubel asked, looking at the Hero with slightly teary eyes.
Watching her wiggle her bottom in a seductive way, she looked like a shameless bitch in heat.
Meanwhile, Se-on was trying to hold back the nausea threatening to burst out of him.
He still couldn't understand his own thoughts from just moments ago.
Wanting to hit Yubel?
Had I finally gone insane?
He found himself disgusting for even thinking that.
“Aren't you going to hit me anymore?”
Yubel thrust her butt toward Se-on.
Like some high-class courtesan trying to seduce him.
Se-on was more than a little shocked by the sight.
It was my fault.
I ruined Yubel……!
A sense of guilt crawled up his spine.
“I-I won't hit you……”
“Why? I'm sure I'm good at taking a beating!”
‘What?’
Yubel had meant to brag about her durability to the Hero, but it sounded a little different to Se-on.
She was confident she could take a beating?
Could it be that she wasn't just an orphan……
Had her parents abused her?
If a girl like that said she was good at getting hit, how much abuse had she endured?
Se-on's mind was already picturing a young Yubel suffering from abuse.
Kicked in the butt, slapped in the face, and having her horns yanked by the parents she trusted.
‘Ugh.’
Along with a sickening nausea, an unbearable rage began to boil inside him.
Regardless, Yubel was a little sulky because Se-on wouldn't hit her.
So she resorted to her last resort.
“Ughhhh…… If you don't hit me, I'm not taking one step from here!”
That was throwing a tantrum like a little kid.
Her level of thinking was truly childish.
Still, though Yubel said this, if Se-on really didn't hit her, she planned to give up.
She had to stop the Hero no matter what.
After puffing out her cheeks and ordering the Hero around like that,
Se-on was once again shocked by Yubel's tantrum.
“Please…… don't do that……”
Se-on thought Yubel's mental state was strange right now.
He was blaming himself, thinking he'd suddenly hit her and brought back the trauma of her childhood abuse.
‘What should I do now…….’
While Se-on was becoming increasingly worn down,
“Hurry up!”
Clap.
Yubel pulled Se-on's hand and placed it on her butt.
The gesture seemed to urge him, as if this were the only option.
Se-on felt that after such a smooth, natural gesture, there was no turning back.
‘It's all my fault.’
After that, Se-on quietly raised his hand.
“I-I'm sorry……. I'm really sorry, Yubel……! I'll, I'll finish quickly……!”
“Stop talking and hit me——”
Smack!
“Kyaah!”
As his hand struck her already slightly red bottom, Yubel's waist arched like a bow.
Watching the scene right before him, Se-on felt an indescribable emotion.
And then, it continued.
Smack, smack, smack!
Se-on's hand struck her butt uncontrollably.
“I'm sorry…… Please, please be satisfied with this!”
“Hngh, more! Hit me harder! It doesn't hurt at all yet!”
“Ugh, h-haa……! I don't want to do this……!”
While a fierce battle raged between the one who couldn't get enough and the one trying to satisfy her,
a bow fell with a soft thump behind them.
At that, Se-on's neck slowly turned.
Like a kid caught watching porn.
“Uh…… Se-on? Yubel? Ahaha…… what are you doing?”
“Kyao!”
“……”
Hans and Riella had arrived.