Chapter 180 – 180. Subordination Contracts (3)
Randall and Lyra, who turned themselves into demons, are dead.
However, just because those who were the culprits died, it does not mean that her future life will be saved and her heart will be at ease.
Just as black magicians are rejected by all wizards on the continent, demons are even worse than black wizards.
If it were normal, Eunhyeon would have chosen to exterminate the demons without hesitation.
“…”
[Is the child worried?]
‘Honestly yes. Getting rid of all the demons is the right decision, but…’
In Lily’s case, she is the victim.
While retaining her human reason, she is deeply in despair at the fact that her mutated body is a demon.
Because she herself knew that there would be no more bright future ahead.
Lily was in such a state of disrepair that she thought it would be better to just kill herself here.
Even so, the reason she has endured without committing suicide until now is because of the young children who believed in her and followed her.
All people of the same age died without being able to withstand Randall and Lira’s experiment, and the only adult left in the prison was Lily, who survived the experiment and turned into a demon.
Other than that, everyone else had been sold here like himself, only children of a younger age.
Eun-hyeon also saw the image of a young boy who defended her demon, Lily, and tried to fight him, so she was hesitant to end Lily’s life in front of the children.
[Are you not doing what you want to do?]
‘Goddess…’
Being human by nature, and even being a victim, turning a blind eye to the existence of demons is a fundamentally different matter.
[I do not care. And… It’s a method I’ve never even thought of. Maybe it’s possible for a child.]
‘How?’
[Bind that demon through the ‘subordinate contract’. If that’s the case, no matter how evil he is, he won’t be able to act against the child’s will and cause harm to the underworld. Can’t we do this?]
Simply put, it is a proposal to make the devil his familiar.
It was absurd that none other than her own goddess had made the offer.
Even Eun-hyeon hadn’t thought of making the devil his underling, but in some ways, Belldandy was showing a more ingenious and absurd idea than Eun-hyeon.
‘… Are you serious?’
[Whoops, since the child is hesitating. Am I not suggesting a solution? When I see such a reluctant face, I feel frustrated. Isn’t the biggest part of the child’s worries because he is counting on the circumstances of the gods and keeping an eye on them?]
‘… The Goddess is really confident and hot at times like this.’
Even though she was a victim with a sad story, making the decision to accept the devil made Eunhyeon feel that her goddess was really great.
[I’m glad you complimented me.]
Belldandi smiled and stroked Eunhyun’s hair.
“Whoa…”
“… ?”
After Eunhyeon sighed, Lily felt strange at the change in his attitude.
“I will make a suggestion.”
“Proposal… ?”
“I will introduce you to a place where you and the children sleeping behind you can stay. The environment there is not so good either, but at least it is much better than this cold, hungry and barren prison. Furthermore… If you explain the circumstances, I will not reject you as a demon.”
“Is that really true? Not only me, but also the children… ? But I’m a demon…”
“Swear on one thing. For the rest of my life, I will not harm humans without my permission.”
For a moment, she put on an expression that she couldn’t understand what he was saying, but Lily looked at Eun-hyeon, who was proposing to her with a hard face, and realized that what he was saying was not a joke or a joke.
“I swear.”
“Good. Come closer to me.”
After hearing Eunhyun’s words, the distance between Lily and Eunhyun got closer.
Eunhyun immediately reached over the iron bars and grabbed Lily’s shabby rags and tore them.
“Eww… !? What is this… !”
As the pure white skin of her bare skin was revealed, the moment she tried to cover her breasts while glaring at Eun-hyeon with a shameful face.
Eunhyun’s hand penetrated Lily’s chest.
“Oh… !”
Soon, he feels an unusual amount of energy filling his body, and realizes that his body, which was weakening, is gradually regaining its health as before.
One of the main characteristics of succubuses is that they strengthen their strength by substituting the magical energy they have absorbed through ‘absorption’.
Although Lily lacked awareness of her own abilities as a succubus, Eun-hyeon used the magic directly channeled into her body to restore her body, further strengthening her state. It is like an instinct inscribed in her demonic body to forcibly create.
“Kyaaaaagh!”
Just by ingesting her magical energy from her Eunhyun, Lily’s poor body began to gain flesh, and her frizzy short bobbed hair regained its bright red color and beautiful luster, and she turned into long hair.
As a succubus, she screams in fright at the state of her own body, which is transforming into a bewitching body to seduce human men.
Lily, stained with shame, screams her back as Eun-hyeon tears off her clothes, covering the exposed vital parts of her body with both hands.
“What are you doing!”
“You healed me.”
“However, what if my clothes are ripped like this!”
“I’m not interested in your body, so don’t worry.”
“What…”
It was absurd to see Eun-hyeon’s attitude as she didn’t feel sorry at all for tearing off her own clothes and leaving her naked.
Watching the succubus nakedly revealing its erotic appearance to seduce a man and suck out all the vitality that exists in the man’s body, feeling ashamed and soaked in shame, Eun-hyeon laughed out loud.
Soon, staring at her head, Eunhyeon muttered.
“Hmm, it worked.”
“Yes?”
“Your head. Touch it.”
Lily put on her expression of not knowing what she was thinking, and she turned her body so that Eun-hyeon couldn’t see her own penis.
She raises her hand and strokes her own hair.
Realizing that the things attached to the sides of her head are gone, she puts on a surprised expression.
“Horns… It’s gone!”
Lily looked at Eunhyeon with an expression of hopeful anticipation and waited for him to open her mouth.
“Unfortunately, it’s not completely gone.”
“… Is that so?”
“Your case is a bit special. Since you were born as a human, I managed to turn a part of you back into a human with my own power, but that doesn’t mean you can break out of the mold of the demon species and become completely human. To put it bluntly, it’s like being half-man, half-demon.”
After hearing Eunhyeon’s explanation, Lily makes a suspicious expression.
“You are… Who the hell are you? How is this possible…”
“Do you remember the oath you made earlier? An oath never to harm humans unless I allow it.”
“Yes.”
Lily nodded her head.
“I signed a ‘master-servant contract’ with you through that oath. If I had to explain the relationship between you and me now, it would be easier to understand if I said master and servant.”
“Somehow I feel cheated. I can’t believe the person who tore my clothes was me right here…”
Thinking that it was unavoidable to have anxious imaginations, Eunhyeon smiled bitterly.
“No, I have no interest in your body at all. I apologize for tearing your clothes.”
“… I know you’re not out of the ordinary. Then if… If I break my oath and hurt people, what will happen to me?”
“Oh, that is absolutely impossible. Because that oath from earlier is imprinted in your soul. As the owner, you can never harm people without my permission. Are you actually respecting me now?”
“Ah… Surely…”
Since when?
The thought ran through Lily’s head.
When she first appeared in the prison, she was using short-spoken words against Eun-hyeon because of her hostility towards him.
As if meeting a being from a higher dimension, it was impossible to harbor any hostile feelings toward him, and it seemed as if he had been compelled to respect him.
It was a very reluctant feeling that Lily herself hadn’t noticed it until Eunhyeon pointed it out.
No, he would be right that he had no reluctance, rather a reluctance that he was feeling for granted.
“Like that, your instincts imprinted with the master/servant contract made through an oath cannot go against that oath. Well, there may be cases where you harm people unintentionally, but in this part, it depends on whether your self-consciousness detects malice toward humans or not. It cannot intentionally cause harm.”
A contract with a demon is in some ways similar to the elemental contracts animists make with spirits.
This is because the method of making a contract with a human, granting the human’s wish, and then receiving the price was similar to the cooperative relationship of mutual dependence, in which the magical power of the magician is provided and the spirit lends power.
‘Of course, in the case of the devil, the price is not the magical power of the magician, but the life itself of the contracted human being. Even though it’s fundamentally wrong.’
Moreover, the contract that Eunhyeon made with Lily right now is not a contract of mutual dependence, but a ‘master-servant contract’.
It’s even ironic that the ‘main’ part of the relationship between the two is not Lily, the devil, but Eun-hyeon.
“… I understand what you mean.”
“I never dreamed that the day would come when I would live and work the devil. I did commit it once.”
In her mind, Eun-hyeon thought of other people she was close with besides Illyana, Eleanor, and Erin.
Soon, he glanced at his goddess.
‘The persuasion of Eleanor or Iliana. Can you help me?’
Come to think of it, Illyana had never met Verdandi directly.
She was going to have a chance to introduce Belldandy like Eleanor sooner or later, but it feels a bit disapproving to Eun-hyeon to be introduced in this form.
[Of course. That I have allowed I also plan to help convince the child.]
As most of the people who have been directly or indirectly harmed by demons or have been hostile to demons through war, I thought that if I explained Lily’s situation and persuaded her, she would understand, but the process would never be easy.
‘Especially in Erin’s case, because she was played by a succubus and Elvin even became a warlock…’
While she was lost in her thoughts, Lily asked Eunhyeon.
“Jeon… What will happen now?”
“I won’t do anything. Just take the children and live quietly in the place I introduced you to.”
“That is… Is it all?”
It was so absurd that it was so absurd that Lily asked back with a face of disbelief.
“Ah, you may be reluctant, but learn how to handle demonic powers if possible. For now, I’ve hidden your demon horns with my own power, but this is a temporary measure, so I don’t know when it will be released. It would be better to have at least some means or methods to protect yourself.”
“All right.”
Learning how to handle the devil’s power was something that was very repulsive, but aside from that reluctance, Eun-hyeon’s requirements were very reasonable, and there was nothing wrong with Lily.
Eunhyeon glanced behind Lily and looked at the children who were sleeping on the floor.
The children’s races were very diverse.
Eunhyun muttered as she looked at the number of children, including beasts, dwarves, and even one half-elf, who had the largest number of humans.
“Did you try to collect them by race and conduct an experiment?”
“… I don’t know what their intentions are. I do not even want to think about it.”
Lily, who had been directly transformed into a demon through her experiments, replied with a frown as if she didn’t even want to think about her.
The slight trembling of her body as she subconsciously wrapped her arms around her own was a testament to what a terrifying experience she had been through.
Eun-hyeon summoned her sword and slashed her iron bars.
The neatly cut iron bars fell to the floor and went inside.
After imagining in her head a garment of her simple design, she summoned it and threw it to Lily.
“Put it on.”
“Oh, thank you…”
Sensing the material of the fabric, which is too soft for commoners to wear, Lily began to wear clothes with a dumbfounded expression.
“First, move the children and feed them something.”
“Where are you moving?”
“My house.”
“Yes… ?”
Lily asked back at Eunhyun’s words, which she couldn’t understand as if catching her floating clouds.
