Chapter 55 – 11. The Spirit of Delusion (5)
“If you answer, please do me one favor.”
“Hmm, that depends on how well you answer, right?”
She’s now asking me about stigmata.
I’m not sure how they mistook me for Goryusin, the real owner of the stigmata, but I was captured instead of Goryusin, who should have prevented the cataclysm.
So, how do we get out of here?
I think I should look for opportunities while calmly answering as many questions as possible.
The succubus is specialized in space movement and mind control, but her own power is close to that of an ordinary awakened person, so if there is no demon with whom she was talking earlier, she can escape.
Of course, before that, you should know where you are and decide whether or not to try to escape.
As if they didn’t touch their belongings, I can safely feel the touch of my phone in my pants pocket.
Fortunately, the critical shield that came out when I went out of the house is still well attached to my arm.
“Because there’s something I’m really curious about right now? If you answer correctly, I’ll let go of your limbs.”
“Okay, so just ask me quickly. I’m afraid my hand will be cut off.”
Despite my brusque tone, the succubus only slightly hardened his expression and did not show any anger.
I wouldn’t have worried at all if I had threatened to stop saying unnecessary things, but since he treats me kindly, I start to feel more anxious.
There is a saying that a human possessed by a succubus can never return to what it was before.
To that extent, it means that a demon called a succubus can deeply intervene in the human psyche.
It feels like the blood is already rushing to the lower part of the body just by simply breathing into it.
You need to stay alert and engage in conversation.
But what she said was completely different from what I expected.
“Are you human?”
“…What?”
“Are you human? Why are you pretending not to know? Do you think I misunderstood you?”
You seem to be misunderstanding something.
If I wasn’t human, then I wouldn’t have been so weak.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but if I wasn’t a human, there’s no way I would have been safe until I entered the academy.”
Although there is a non-human Seo Ju-ha, let’s make an exception for her.
Except for very rare cases such as cloakers, Arbadelin’s detection barrier captures monsters in most cases, so it is more difficult for parasitic monsters to penetrate than to pick stars from the sky.
But even though I answered truthfully, seeing the succubus not saying anything made me feel very uncomfortable.
Now that you’ve answered the question properly, you should at least ask him to loosen up his hands and feet. It’s tied so tightly that it rubs your skin too much when you move.
“I told the truth. If you are an intelligent race, keep your promise.”
“Heh, demons don’t always keep their promises. But for now… I’ll let them go, even if they’re uncomfortable with it.”
The strong ropes that had been tightly bound to her body loosened and her eye patch came off.
I looked around with my eyes narrowed by the sudden light, and the first thing I saw was a slightly narrow room.
It’s a cleaner place than you think.
I expected the same place with moss and dripping underground water, but it felt like an ordinary studio.
Still, I didn’t want to stay here for long.
You don’t know when another terrible demon might come to this place, and if it drags on for a longer time, Yu Seol-ah and Ha-yul may worry, so it’s first to escape quickly.
“How are you going to get me out?”
“What? Let them go? Haha, you see all the really funny people.”
“It’s not funny at all.”
“Listen carefully. Since we were brought here, you and I are not in an equal relationship. Even if you beg me to kill you a little later, what’s not enough? Sending you out?”
They freed me from being tied up, so I wondered if I had any morals, but it wasn’t at all.
It would have been nice if the words could communicate well, but it turned out to be a pity.
I had no choice but to use the method I had in mind from the beginning.
Total hypnosis ticket.
If it is an item that can hypnotize even those close to the strongest in the world, it will surely work for monsters.
Since there are only three cards, I originally intended to use all of them on Sanya Dominas, but it was an inevitable choice to get out of this situation.
And if you look at it positively, if you’re attacking a succubus, I think it’s pretty good that the succubus’s ability to move is so great that it’s not restricted by space.
Then, how many tickets would be most appropriate to use?
If you use all 3 cards, you won’t even have a chance to attack Sanya, so you can’t use 3 cards.
I think that Chapter 2 is also quite expensive to invest in one Demon, but it is correct to think of hypnosis as efficiently as possible with Chapter 1.
“What, why are you suddenly silent? Are you shocked by the fact that you won’t let go?
“The mouth is so frightening.”
“What, what?”
“Look at this and shut your mouth.”
A succubus’ physical ability remains at the level of an ordinary Awoken person.
That said, no bodily harm can be done to me until the moment I pull out my phone, turn on the hypnosis app, and tap the ticket icon.
As soon as I took out my phone, the succubus quickly tried to seduce me, but I was a bit faster than him.
When you press and hold the ticket icon, a white effect bursts out of the screen and wraps around the succubus.
It seems to be a success, seeing as the black eyes have completely loosened up.
“Whoa… Tentacles, succubus… Spectacular, really.”
I barely escaped from the monster and was lamenting my life gloomily, but then another monster attacked. It was a really absurd situation.
I think I heard another demon tell me to retrieve the king wigger, but if the tentacle was intentionally released by the demon, there might be some huge group behind it.
At least one powerful demon can be used as a bait for an operation, and there are beings that can invade the inner side of Arbadelin’s barrier without being noticed by humans…
Could it be [Pantagruel], A group that follows the apocalypse that appears in the second half of the original work?
A terrible group that secretly hides, finds and removes elements that will interfere with its purpose, and stands on the side of disaster and slaughter humans when a catastrophe occurs, flashed through my mind for a while.
It’s not yet certain, but it was a reasonable enough assumption.
If he were to attack the succubus, he would be holding a lot of meaningful information, so it wasn’t too late to guess his identity.
“First of all, hypnosis comes first, so I’ll try hypnosis first.”
The day after I got the Total Hypnosis Ticket, the instructions for how to use the ticket were sent as a message and I read it in advance.
As for the absolute performance of ‘complete hypnosis’, there were many limitations, but first of all, it was automatically used on the nearest target, and only one suggestion could be given per ticket.
Since one standard is determined by the discretion of the ticket, it was important to make a reasonable suggestion.
However, the most difficult restriction of all was the inability to ask ‘simple questions’.
There have been many situations in which I have benefited from hypnosis by using the basic information that was spit out when I asked a question to the other person after entering a trance state.
But right now, I don’t even know the name of the succubus properly, so it’s complicated in my head what kind of hints I should apply to escape safely from here and attack the succubus at the same time.
“The best thing is to obey my words unconditionally.”
The problem is that if you hypnotize me, you will end up in a state like a doll that moves without my command…
But now that I think about it, doesn’t it matter anyway?
Anyway, that succubus was also planning to imprison me for the rest of my life and then kill me, so if I thought that way, I had no reason not to.
Having made my decision, I immediately pressed the button on the hypnosis app and said a suggestion.
“[Unconditionally obey Lee Ji-hoo’s words.]”
Since they are demons that are hostile to humans more than anyone else, they will not be treated comfortably.
Get the information that is lacking in my current knowledge as much as possible, and then use it as a living body ona hole and teleport shuttle.
As I pressed the button, the succubus’s eyes slowly regained focus.
