Chapter 5 : Tearing Through the Darkness
Although the feeling of being bound by the monster's body was indeed somewhat comfortable.
Tingly and numb.
Just doing nothing at all, her body was drenched in sweat, soaking through her dress.
But Lonis quickly realized that this monster didn't just want to toy with her—it wanted to eat her!
Those toxins earlier were just to make her give up resistance, and soon...
"Ah, ahhh!"
A massive tentacle plunged straight into Lonis's body—it mercilessly pierced through the skin of the girl's arm, hungrily devouring the sweet blood.
Intense pain struck her head-on. This level of wound was no different from death by a thousand cuts, far exceeding the girl's limits of endurance.
Lonis was covered in cold sweat. She wanted to scream for help, but the toxins had completely paralyzed her muscles, and she couldn't even make a sound.
Whether it was her legs or waist, everything was tightly bound with no possibility of escape.
That feeling was like having your internal organs scrambled and then thrown into a pot to be ground together... Under such intense pain, you feel like your body no longer belongs to you.
Despair, suffering, deathly silence...
Lonis, who had once been a hero, had never experienced such torment, so her spirit collapsed all at once.
No...
Perhaps she had experienced it before?
Earlier than this,
When she was still an ordinary young man, that feeling of sudden cardiac spasms, collapsing to the ground—that was equally despairing.
If treated in time, she could have been saved,
But because she didn't want to socialize with others, there wasn't a single outsider in her residence.
Even if she died, no one would discover the body.
Just lying there quietly, rotting away bit by bit over time.
Heh, hehe...
So,
I really wasn't a qualified hero after all, was I?
I should have stayed longer in that previous hall. At least I should have figured out what this world was made of before starting my adventure, right?
But I secretly snuck out because I didn't want to be a slave, didn't want to be controlled by the system.
Such behavior—wasn't that having courage but no wisdom?
What kind of hero was I?
Just someone who acted recklessly relying on cheat-like power.
Someone like me probably doesn't deserve to live in this world...
I only deserve to be like a meal,
Completely wrapped up by the monster, devoured bit by bit, decomposed bit by bit.
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Blood flowing endlessly, helplessly.
My body seemed to be torn into several fragments, countless tentacles inserted into my body, wantonly sucking blood.
Under the assault of intense pain, I had completely given up hope of survival. The only thing I couldn't let go of in my heart was perhaps this cute female body.
If controlled by a real girl, she would definitely cherish it more than someone like me, right?
I wanted to just pass out and never wake up again.
But...
『I simply couldn't pass out.』
I discovered in horror that no matter how terrifying the monster's attacks on my body were, I could continuously try to heal, try to regenerate blood.
My consciousness didn't fade in the slightest—instead, that pain became even clearer.
Only then did I realize what kind of hell-like situation this was:
Physical immortality, unable to die.
Because I didn't want my companion to die, I had given her such a "blessing."
But wasn't the blessing of immortality also a curse?
Even with wounds all over my body, I couldn't escape the pain.
Even when torn apart, this pitiful girl's body still tried to repair itself.
No matter how terrible the torture, it would never stop. I would be imprisoned by the monster in its lair, forever, forever accepting this torment...
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When I realized this, I collapsed instantly.
I struggled hysterically, screaming madly like a girl. I longed to escape the monster's extraction, longed to flee from this pitch-black cave.
But it was futile.
That powerful force left me with absolutely no possibility of breaking free.
Pain that penetrated to the bone marrow,
Self-blame filled with regret.
I don't know how many tears I shed—even blood flowed from my eye sockets.
I don't know how many times I tried to lift my fingers, but each time, I couldn't break free from that fleshy wall's confinement.
Being drained, being ravaged, being whipped, being bullied.
My will had collapsed, pain spreading throughout my body. I felt like I was no longer human, about to become a chunk of meat, shattered into countless pieces of flesh.
However,
Just as my consciousness was about to collapse
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A ray of light pierced into my vision.
Scalding blood splashed onto my cheek,
The hideous monster was sliced open, and then appearing at the end of consciousness was...
The figure of an incomparably beautiful black-haired girl.
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I don't know how much time passed,
A female voice gradually emerged beside my ear.
"Really, didn't the Eternal Module tell you not to wander around before I awakened?"
Slowly opening my eyes, I saw a black-haired girl sitting beside me.
Her gaze was like a sword, her cold face flawless and highly defined, with a straight nose bridge. Though she was a girl, her height was clearly above 175cm.
Her pupils were deep red, like a pool of blood, filled with an unfathomable quality.
Possession, command, dominance, reproach?
Perhaps all these emotions were there?
She just looked at me with great annoyance, her mouth corners even saying viciously:
"It seems 'you' really are a disobedient masochist maid. Just after awakening, you couldn't suppress the desire in your heart and wanted to be repeatedly tormented by the 'Abyssal Tentacles.'"
"......"
Faced with her words, I didn't even have the strength to open my mouth to defend myself.
"Don't worry, after you recover your health, I'll use the remaining tools here to properly train you."
"......"
I seemed to want to shake my head, but what I could express was probably just a pitiful gaze?
And seeing my appearance, the black-haired girl's gaze became even more "evil":
"Whether it's your body or your spirit, I will completely train them. Whether it's your pretentious resistance or everything your heart desires, it will all become proof of your depravity... Look forward to it, you masochist silver-haired beautiful girl."
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Interlude: Melancholy Thoughts
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Watching the silver-haired girl in front of her slowly fall asleep, the black-haired girl nodded with relief.
Fortunately, although 'she' chose the masochist path, she was clever enough to choose 'Physical Immortality.'
Otherwise, before she could rush over,
she would have been torn into countless pieces of flesh by the abyssal tentacle monster.
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However, there were still regrettable things: although she had used the fastest speed, she still hadn't arrived in time.
Lonis had suffered extremely terrible mental damage, and she herself had a very poor physical condition due to accelerated birth.
The entire 'Underground Gensokyo' had also used up all its energy and couldn't be activated for a short time.
"Sigh..."
The black-haired girl sighed and collapsed onto the silver-haired girl.
Her mouth corners opened slightly, silently reciting in her heart...
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『Idiot, you used my name to name yourself, so what should I be called?』