## Chapter 120 – Chain of Corruption (1)
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It felt like sinking into a pitch-black swamp, struggling helplessly.
A nightmare where arms and legs wouldn’t move as desired, gradually being consumed by the swamp.
Within that nightmare, from which there seemed no escape,
Aquamarine awoke from her long slumber with the simple act of opening her eyes.
“Haa…”
No matter how difficult things tormented and pained her,
she had rarely experienced such a terrible nightmare.
“Ugh… what a scary dream.”
Magical Aquamarine is a hero of justice who always protects citizens with a bright and affable demeanor, but
at times like this, she showed a more girlish side.
“Seraphina…? Where’s Seraphina?!”
The first thing Aquamarine did upon opening her eyes was to look for Seraphina.
The two girls, who first met as test subjects in the lab, weren’t blood-related, but
after spending years together, they had become as close as real sisters.
In doing so, they came to know each other’s likes and dislikes,
and each other’s personalities.
Knowing that Seraphina often acted flustered or clumsy,
Aquamarine had made it a habit to take care of her.
“She’s not here… Where did she go?”
The bed Aquamarine was lying on wasn’t sized for one person,
and a few strands of Seraphina’s bluish-green hair were on the adjacent pillow.
“She woke up before me… and went somewhere else.
Did she go out to find out what this place is like?”
Since there was still a slight warmth in the bed,
she guessed that Seraphina hadn’t been up for long.
“I’m sure… I think I collapsed after being attacked by those guys who hunt heroes….
How long have I been out…?”
Her body was stiff, her fingers numb for a while,
and her fine sky-blue hair was dry and tangled.
For Aquamarine, who usually maintained strict self-discipline as a hero,
her stiff body and tangled hair felt very awkward.
“Okay… hair isn’t important.
Finding out where Seraphina went is the priority.”
Aquamarine roughly combed her tangled hair back with her hands,
and carefully got out of bed to avoid getting hurt or falling.
“Somehow… this place doesn’t seem like where you’d be held captive.
What kind of villain would bring a prisoner to such a nice room…?”
The room was too clean and luxurious to be a place for holding prisoners.
Aquamarine loosened her stiff body and slowly took each step,
beginning to figure out what kind of place she had been sleeping in.
– Squeak…
‘It’s huge and luxurious… Is it someone’s villa or something?’
A view of a luxurious mansion where wealthy people would reside,
or a villa where people would come for vacation.
While leaning against the wall and being wary of the strangely quiet atmosphere,
she couldn’t take her eyes off the luxurious and neat mansion.
‘Now’s not the time to be admiring this. I need to find Seraphina…’
She might be in the middle of enemy territory,
and the mansion was eerily silent.
Aquamarine, who had momentarily been distracted by the luxurious mansion, snapped back to attention,
rolling her eyes around and scanning her surroundings.
‘She’s not here… That room seems to be closed.’
She peeked through the slightly open door,
and if the door was closed, she put her ear to it and listened for sounds from inside.
“Haa…”
But Aquamarine couldn’t find Seraphina in the rooms on the floor she was on,
so she tiptoed downstairs, trying to make as little noise as possible.
“Smooch…♥”
‘Wh… What’s that sound…?’
While walking down the stairs and quietly looking around the hallway,
she heard a sound like someone sucking on something from somewhere.
‘It’s a person… It sounds like someone is sucking on a drink with a straw.’
As she slowly and quietly walked towards the source of the sound,
the sound gradually grew louder from inside a room that seemed larger than the others.
“Slurp…♥ Haa…♥”
‘This is… This sounds a bit… suggestive…’
The sound of slurping was accompanied by a suggestive female breath.
The door was only slightly open, making it difficult to see inside, but
Aquamarine could roughly guess what was happening inside.
“Haa…♥ It feels so good…♥ Master’s touch…♥”
A woman’s voice, sounding like she was sharing a sweet moment of intimacy.
‘Wait a minute…’
Usually, when people hear such lines, they react with embarrassment or awkwardness, but
Aquamarine was focusing on the voice rather than the words.
‘This is strange… That voice is so familiar…?’
The only reason she was focusing on the voice was that
the voice she heard more often than any other was coming from inside that room.
‘Seraphina…? There’s no way Seraphina would say such vulgar things… so casually…’
But Aquamarine found it hard to believe that the voice was Seraphina’s.
Most of the things Seraphina usually said outside of battle were complaints or whining.
Moreover, her tone wasn’t so docile, but rather a bit prickly.
“Aah…♥ I’m so glad Master likes my breasts too…♥”
Even after listening again and again, it sounded too much like Seraphina’s voice to deny,
and Aquamarine began to feel uneasy.
‘That can’t be… That can’t be!’
If the owner of that voice was Seraphina,
then Seraphina was being molested by someone unknown.
– Crash!
“Seraphina…!!!”
Because she cherished Seraphina more than anyone else,
Aquamarine lost her composure and calmness, and hurriedly pushed the door open.
“Ooh…♥ Right there…♥ It feels so good…♥”
The shocking and lewd scene that unfolded as the door opened.
Seraphina, completely naked without even a single piece of underwear,
was being groped by an unknown man with a highly excited expression.
And… with an expression that seemed so happy, overwhelmed with excitement.
“You’re awake. Magical Aquamarine.”
The unknown man was none other than Si-yoon.
After rapidly increasing Seraphina’s first stage imprinting to 100%,
he was making her his cute female slave, fondling her body.
“Wh… What’s going on…?! What did you do to Seraphina…!!”
Aquamarine, realizing that her worst fears had come true,
wore an expression of disbelief and couldn’t bring herself to look.
“What do you mean, what did I do…♥ Master is giving me a massage, okay?”
Seraphina, clinging to a man she had never seen before and calling him ‘Master.’
Aquamarine couldn’t hide her bewilderment and turned away, her face pale, but
the look in Seraphina’s eyes when she caught a glimpse of the scene was really strange.
‘Does he have some kind of mental ability…?
If so… are those guys who attacked us this man’s subordinates…?’
If Seraphina’s strengths were flexible and quick movements and reflexes,
Aquamarine’s strength on the battlefield was her adaptability and quick judgment.
‘The mansion is strangely quiet… but it doesn’t seem like there are any ambushes.’
She had carefully searched the third and second floors while coming to where Seraphina was, but there was no sign of anyone,
and no one jumped out when she burst into the room, so she judged that there were no ambushes.
But the biggest problem was Seraphina.
‘If Seraphina is in that state… it’s impossible to approach or attack rashly.
She might even try to attack me.’
It was clear that Seraphina’s mental state was not normal,
which meant that attacking rashly could lead to a counterattack.
‘As fast as possible… as quietly as possible… as powerfully as possible.’
One way to eliminate all those possibilities.
A technique that could subdue Si-yoon with a single attack, without giving Seraphina a chance to notice the attack and retaliate.
‘I don’t think my condition is that good yet… but I have to try…!’
A posture of stretching out her fingers as if aiming a gun.
And a single jet of water sprayed from the tip of her outstretched fingers with tremendous pressure.
‘Shooting from the fingertips… an ultra-high-pressure water jet.’
Aquamarine completed her perfect mental rehearsal,
and turned her head towards Seraphina and Si-yoon, whom she couldn’t even bear to look at.
And she pointed her finger at Si-yoon’s head.
“Uh… Huh…?”
But not a single drop of water fell from the tip of her finger.
