Chapter 5
“Ugh….”
With a groan, Dokgo Jin opened his eyes.
‘Fuck….’
A searing pain throbbed in his abdomen. Dokgo Jin raised a hand to check his injury.
‘Did I break a bone?’
He waved his arms a few times to check, but it didn’t seem like any bones were broken.
‘…At least that’s a relief.’
He sat up and looked around, but there wasn’t much to see.
A few campfires flickered here and there against the dark night sky. Beyond them was only the crude wooden cage holding Dokgo Jin prisoner.
‘Crazy bastards. They dare lock me in a wooden cage?’
Mad Demon Dokgo Jin had even broken out of a cage made of ten-thousand-year cold iron.
Thinking he could simply break this flimsy cage and get out, Dokgo Jin grabbed the wood—and quickly realized his predicament.
‘Fuck…. This damn useless body after the transformation….’
With this piece-of-shit body, even escaping this lousy cage was no easy task.
“Hngh…!”
No matter how hard he strained, the cage wouldn’t budge, let alone break, so Dokgo Jin sat back down on the floor.
“Ha, fuck….”
Was the great Mad Demon really supposed to suffer in a place like this?
As Dokgo Jin lamented his predicament,
someone approached.
“Huh? You’re awake?”
“Get me out of here right now, you son of a bitch.”
“…You’ve got a foul mouth for someone who looks like that.”
“…What?”
The bandit gave him an unpleasant grin, then turned around and shouted.
“Hey, Wang Bong! The girl you caught is awake! Go get the boss!”
“She’s awake?!”
“Yeah!”
As the bandits started talking among themselves and laughing at him, Dokgo Jin felt his fury flare up again.
“Who the hell do you think you’re messing with…?”
“Hey, miss. Don’t talk like that with such a pretty face. Just behave yourself, okay?”
“Haa…, fuck.”
CRACK!
Dokgo Jin clung to the wooden cage and shouted as if having a fit.
“Hey, you son of a bitch! I swear I’ll kill you! You bastard!!”
“Heh heh, I’m terrified. Sure, go ahead and kill me.”
As Dokgo Jin raved, feeling his long-vanished madness might return with his anger, several lights suddenly appeared in the darkness.
“…What’s that?”
“You’re here, Boss!”
“Good.”
“…”
A huge man appeared amid the many lights.
‘…There’s a guy as big as I used to be when I was a man.’
A man wearing a tiger pelt and carrying an axe as big as an average adult man over his shoulder stood in front of Dokgo Jin’s cage, wearing an unpleasant grin.
“Well, well….”
“…”
Though Dokgo Jin had been throwing a fit just moments ago, he fell silent when he saw the man with the axe before him.
His senses, sharpened since he’d become a woman, were warning him.
‘This bastard… He must chop people up like it’s nothing.’
Even as he took one step after another, the man’s pace and breathing remained steady.
A horrid stench of blood clung to the man and his axe.
He was in a different league from those lowlife bandits who’d been laughing at Dokgo Jin moments earlier.
“I heard you had a foul mouth, but you’re quiet now.”
“…I’m holding it in.”
“What are you holding in?”
“…”
Grit.
‘What do you think, you bastard? I’m waiting for the tiniest chance to kill you.’
Dokgo Jin believed that, given an opening, he could chop up a few lowlife bandits even with this frail body.
No—he was certain of it.
No matter how useless his current body was for a martial artist, she was a girl who had once been the Mad Demon.
The knowledge he’d possessed as the Mad Demon hadn’t gone anywhere.
But taking on the bandit chief standing before him was a different matter entirely.
The chief had a physique worthy of a martial artist.
Judging by his steady gait and breathing, he’d probably had the good fortune to learn martial arts—quite a stroke of luck for a back-alley thug.
‘If I make a careless move, I’ll die….’
Feeling the threat to his life right before him for the first time in ages, Dokgo Jin’s lips curled upward.
The bandit chief tilted his head at the sight.
“…Hmm?”
“What do you want from me?”
“Heh heh heh. Do you even know what position you’re in, girl?”
“I do. I’ll give you what you want, so let me out.”
“Heh…, heh heh…, hahahaha!!!”
The bandit chief burst into laughter, and the other bandits followed suit.
Even as they all laughed at him, Dokgo Jin kept glaring at the chief.
“Ah, heh heh. Hey, Wang Bong.”
“Yes, Boss.”
“You brought back an amusing girl. Here, take this.”
The chief untied the purse from his waist and tossed it over. The bandit called Wang Bong caught it and bowed his head deeply.
“Thank you, Boss!”
The chief waved his hand dismissively in response to Wang Bong’s thanks, then looked at Dokgo Jin again.
“You said you’d give me what I want?”
“Yeah.”
“What I want, huh….”
The bandit chief rested a hand on his chin and answered with a groan, pretending to think it over seriously.
“Hmm…. I want you, girl.”
“You mean you want me to sleep with you?”
“That’s right.”
“Haa….”
Dokgo Jin let out a long sigh.
“Can’t you ask for something else? I can give you money if you want.”
“No. I’m curious about you.”
The bandit chief grabbed the wooden cage and spoke, snorting through his nose.
“You caught my interest. At first, you just seemed like a pretty girl. The world’s full of girls like that.”
“…”
“But the moment you opened your mouth, I couldn’t hold back my curiosity.”
Creak. Creak!
The chief forcibly pried open the wooden cage.
“I wonder if you’ll be so bold when you’re lying underneath me.”
“…So you’re a crazy bastard.”
“Heh heh, exactly! That’s the look!”
The chief grabbed Dokgo Jin’s chin and licked his face.
His disgusting breath and the unpleasant, sticky sensation swept over Dokgo Jin’s face.
“A sharp-tongued girl like you is the kind I enjoy playing with in bed.”
“What have you been eating?”
“…Huh?”
“Your breath stinks like shit. Did you eat some from the outhouse? Was it tasty?”
“…”
The bandit chief’s face went blank.
“I’ve never tried it, so I wouldn’t know. Care to answer?”
“Heh…, hahaha!!!”
The bandit chief burst into laughter, then grabbed Dokgo Jin by the hair.
“Aagh!!”
Pain shot through Dokgo Jin’s scalp, and he screamed, but the bandit chief didn’t care as he dragged Dokgo Jin along by the hair.
“You’re amusing. Really amusing…! It’s incredible you can talk like that to my face!”
“Let go…! Let go, you son of a bitch!”
“All right, I’ll let go!”
The bandit chief threw Dokgo Jin aside.
“Heh heh, ah… seriously. I’ve been so worked up since earlier that it’s hard to hold back.”
“For all that talk, I can’t see a thing through your pants. I guess your dick really is tiny.”
“Hahaha!”
He burst into laughter once more, then—
SLAP!
“You crazy bitch…!”
“…”
He slapped Dokgo Jin across the face.
‘…Guess I hit a nerve.’
A coppery taste of blood filled Dokgo Jin’s mouth.
“Ptoo.”
“…Come with me, you insolent bitch. Let’s see if you can still talk like that in bed.”
“Pfft, heh…!”
Dokgo Jin let out a hollow laugh.
“That tiny… No, that little dick? You think you can do me?”
“…”
“I wouldn’t feel a thing even if you put it in. It won’t hurt, at least.”
“You…!!”
The bandit chief grabbed Dokgo Jin by the arm and forcibly dragged him away.
Just then, the bandit chief noticed the others looking over and muttered quietly.
“…What are you looking at?”
“Pardon?”
“Lower your eyes?!!”
CRUNCH!
When he swung his axe, a bandit’s head was crushed.
“Gah!!”
“W-We weren’t looking at anything, Boss!”
“We’re sorry!!”
With one of the bandits who’d stood beside them moments before now dead, the others trembled like leaves and slammed their foreheads against the ground.
“You fucking bastards….”
The chief grabbed Dokgo Jin again and growled as he headed for his quarters.
“You said earlier you’d do anything, didn’t you?”
“That promise doesn’t count when it comes to a guy with a tiny dick.”
SLAP!
The bandit chief slapped Dokgo Jin across the face again.
“Mention the size of my manhood one more time, and I’ll cut your head off.”
“Heh heh.”
Dokgo Jin rubbed the swelling on his cheek and said,
“Could you hit the other side next time?”
“…What?”
“Getting hit in the same spot twice… feels like shit.”
“…You really are a crazy bitch.”
“Figuring that out now?”
“We’ll see how long you can keep up that insolence.”
The bandit chief seized Dokgo Jin and hurled him into his quarters.
“Ngh…!”
“Huff… huff….”
Once inside his quarters, the bandit chief panted roughly and tossed aside his tiger pelt.
In a flash, he was naked, standing before Dokgo Jin.
Seeing him, Dokgo Jin struggled to stifle a laugh.
‘It’s buried in all that hair. You can’t even see it.’
The bandit chief really did have a tiny manhood.
Thinking that anyone with something that small would go berserk if teased about its size, Dokgo Jin held back a laugh. Meanwhile, the bandit chief placed a hand on Dokgo Jin’s head.
“…Suck it.”
“…”
Just as the bandit chief tightened his grip and tried to shove Dokgo Jin’s face into his crotch,
Dokgo Jin raised a hand and shouted,
“Wait!”
“…You still have something to say?”
“No. There’s something I want to ask.”
“Heh heh, go ahead. Want to beg for your life now?”
“I didn’t get your name.”
“Does it matter?”
“It does. I’m a virgin.”
“Oh….”
An intrigued smile appeared on the bandit chief’s face.
Not letting the opportunity slip away, Dokgo Jin continued.
“You might not care, being a man, but a woman has the right to know the name of the man who takes her maidenhood, don’t you think?”
“Heh heh…, you have a point.”
He pointed at the axe he’d set aside with his clothes and said,
“Blood-Axe Demon Jo Chang. That’s the name of the man who’ll take your maidenhood.”
“Blood-Axe Demon Jo Chang…. I’ll remember that.”
Dokgo Jin’s eyes gleamed.
The one chance Dokgo Jin had been provoking and rattling Jo Chang to create.
Dokgo Jin was certain that moment had arrived.
“As the name of the idiot who died drowning in lust.”
“…What?”
CLANG!
Dokgo Jin flicked his arm, and the flexible sword strapped to his wrist transformed into a supple blade.
Then, moving his arm with lightning speed, he thrust the blade toward one of the body’s death points: the Huiyin point between Jo Chang’s genitals and anus.
“Haah!!”
“Urgh…!”
Jo Chang shuddered as the blade pierced him.
The flexible sword the Lust Demon had lent him truly deserved to be called a peerless weapon.
Though Dokgo Jin wielded it without inner energy and with a frail woman’s body, the blade pierced into Jo Chang with little resistance.
“Guh…! You bitch…!!”
“Die, you idiot.”
Jo Chang summoned his last strength to try to smash Dokgo Jin’s head, but Dokgo Jin’s hand moved faster.
SHNK!
“Urgh…!”
Dokgo Jin gripped the hilt and twisted it hard, and the flexible sword tore through Jo Chang’s body once more.
“Gurgle….”
Jo Chang rolled his eyes back, spat up blood-flecked foam, and fell backward.
THUD.
“Haa… haa…. Fuck….”
Dokgo Jin pulled the hilt back, and the bloodstained flexible sword slid out of Jo Chang’s body.
“Ugh…, fuck. This is seriously fucked….”
Dokgo Jin swung the flexible sword a few times, but the blood wouldn’t come off the blade at all. He wiped it on the tiger pelt Jo Chang had taken off, then strapped it back onto his arm.
SHING!
‘…It really does deserve to be called a peerless weapon.’
It was sharp enough to pierce a trained martial artist’s body even with such little strength behind it.
It bent and flexed, yet was sturdy enough not to break easily.
And it could be concealed like a bracer when not in use.
‘I should ask if he’ll give me this too.’
Thinking the weapon was far too good for the likes of the Lust Demon, Dokgo Jin looked outside the quarters.
‘…Have all the bandits gone inside?’
Just as Dokgo Jin closed his eyes and tried to sharpen his senses to pinpoint the bandits’ positions,
“…Huh?”
Someone approaching at tremendous speed caught Dokgo Jin’s senses.
‘Incredible Lightness Skill…. He’s no ordinary expert. Could it be the Ice Palace…?!’
The moment Dokgo Jin opened his eyes, a master with astonishing Lightness Skill arrived.
With a thunderous crash that shook the earth.
KABOOM!!
“W-What was that?!”
“What’s going on?!”
Startled by the sudden noise, the bandits headed toward where it had come from.
‘Who is it…?’
Dokgo Jin listened carefully, trying to identify the master.
Then Dokgo Jin heard a familiar voice.
“Excuse me. I’m looking for someone. Have you seen a red-haired young lady by any chance?”
It was the Lust Demon, Wi Ilcheong.