Myst, Might, Mayhem (Novel) - Chapter 253 - Ma (2)
Chapter 253 – Ma (2)
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Translated by Jinmu
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“I do not know about the jade throne, but you may truly be the human who is demon itself that I have been searching for. Ah, yes. The title that really suits you is Ma.”
Ma.
At the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox’s words, nothing else entered Mok Gyeong-un’s ears.
His thoughts were fixed solely on the fact that she knew his true name, Jeong.
‘What did she do?’
No matter how hazy his mind had become, it was unlikely that he had spoken that aloud himself.
Yet the fact that she had referred to Jeong meant
‘Did she… see my memories?’
There was no other answer.
As this thought crossed his mind, the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox caressed Mok Gyeong-un’s cheek and said,
“What do you think? Ma is a good title, is it not? If just Ma is too plain, should I add a surname in front of it? Something like falling from hea…”
Before she could finish, Mok Gyeong-un cut in and said,
“Did you see my memories?”
“My, you are quick-witted. Well, not all of them. One might say only part of them.”
At her words, Mok Gyeong-un’s gaze turned cold.
If nothing else, he was displeased that she had pried into his memories.
And judging by the situation, she had succeeded in forcing a relationship on him.
Or rather, more correctly, they were still in the middle of one.
-Clench.
The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox wrapped both legs around him even more tightly and, her face flushed, said,
“Haah. Since we have already started, should we not see it through to the end?”
“……”
Mok Gyeong-un did not answer her.
At this rate, he would be dragged along entirely according to the fox anomaly’s intentions.
Then whether it ended in ruin or not, he had to do something.
So Mok Gyeong-un drew up all the demonic aura remaining in his body and tried somehow to resist.
Then,
‘!?’
A strange light entered Mok Gyeong-un’s eyes.
‘My demonic aura has recovered. No, it has increased.’
The amount of demonic aura inside his body had increased to nearly twice its original amount.
It was a phenomenon he simply could not understand.
He was badly wounded, and had even lost consciousness, so how had his demonic aura increased by this much?
And that was not all.
For there was a vast amount of demonic power absorbed into his body.
It was incomparable to what he had absorbed from the monster raccoon, the Sea-Slaying King, and its purity was extremely high.
‘…There is so much that it would be difficult to fully assimilate it.’
The demonic power was so vast that even if he assimilated it, there would still be some left over.
If he kept carrying it inside his body, it might even become poison instead.
The corner of Mok Gyeong-un’s mouth twitched.
In that case, there was a way to make use of this enormous, highly purified demonic power.
Mok Gyeong-un closed his eyes.
Seeing this, the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox said in a seductive voice,
“Why? Do you dislike this appearance? Or shall I take that vengeful spirit’s appearance again like before?”
-Slide.
No sooner had she spoken than the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox ran her hand over her face and used her transformation art.
In an instant, her face changed into Blue Spirit’s.
“sentient being.”
Even her voice became exactly the same.
Then, transformed into Blue Spirit, she swayed her waist and whispered in Mok Gyeong-un’s ear.
“Haah. sentient being, open your eyes…!?”
-Flinch!
At that moment the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox turned sharp eyes toward Mok Gyeong-un’s right hand.
-Creak! Crrrk!
Centered around Mok Gyeong-un’s right hand, the veins across his entire arm bulged together with a vast amount of demonic power, then began turning pitch-black.
At that sight, the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox inwardly found it absurd.
‘That demonic power…’
It was her own.
She had expected that even though it had been absorbed by him, demonic power was nothing less than extreme poison to a human, so using it immediately without fully assimilating it would be difficult.
And yet he intended to use this demonic power right away without assimilating it?
‘This brat is really…’
He did not seem human.
Separate from whatever that existence trapped inside his mind was, this body was certainly human.
But she had not expected something like this to be possible.
The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox’s gaze shifted to Mok Gyeong-un’s neck.
If she moved her tail now and twisted his neck, she could destroy him before he ever brought that demonic power to bear.
Yet if this brat really was the human who was demon itself as prophesied by Jiang Shang, then killing him now would be no different from losing him before he achieved anything.
“Tch.”
In the end, the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox loosened her legs, seized Mok Gyeong-un with her tail, and hurled him down toward the floor.
-Boom!
Mok Gyeong-un’s body punched deep into the floor.
“Sigh.”
With as much demonic power as had gathered now, he could injure even her, so the only answer was to make him lose consciousness.
The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox clicked her tongue in regret.
She had thought she might properly satisfy her desires for the first time in a long while, but it seemed not yet.
‘Well, it does not matter.’
She only needed to keep him beside her and continue enticing him.
Because he was wicked enough already, rather than needing to corrupt him, would it not be even better if she simply made him hers?
Just as she was thinking that,
-Papapapapapak!
The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox hastily crossed four of her tails in front of herself like a shield.
At the same time, a black line flashed past and then
-Boom!
‘Khk.’
The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox’s body shot upward, blasting through the ceiling of Prince Gyeong’s residence.
Then someone dropped down through the hole above and landed on the floor of the residence.
-Tak.
That person was none other than Mok Gyeong-un.
-Drip. Drip.
Blood streamed from his grotesquely blackened right arm.
Looking at that right arm, Mok Gyeong-un exhaled rough breaths.
“Huu… huu…”
As a side effect of making the demonic power absorbed from the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox erupt through the Acupoint-Switching Deviant Skill, the blood vessels in his right arm had burst.
It was true that he had exceeded what he could bear without fully assimilating it.
But though it was only once, he had used the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox’s demonic power itself to strike with a blow that unified demonic sword intent, and its might was difficult even to measure.
-sentient being!
At that moment Blue Spirit, now half transparent, came hurrying over to Mok Gyeong-un.
And looking at his right arm, a bloodied ruin, she asked with obvious concern,
-Are you all right?
“Who knows. I suppose I will get better, will I not?”
-…What kind of answer is that? That hand and arm of yours…
Blue Spirit clicked her tongue as she looked at it.
The tremendous demonic power contained in Mok Gyeong-un’s strike just now was enough to amaze even her.
It was probably the energy he had absorbed from the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox.
Since he had tried to bear that monstrous force, even if only temporarily, it was only natural that his hand and arm had ended up like this.
Mok Gyeong-un ignored the limp state of his right arm and stepped toward Blue Spirit.
Then,
-Whirl.
Blue Spirit abruptly turned her head away in confusion.
And with reason, for Mok Gyeong-un was still completely naked.
Moreover, that part of him was still conspicuously aroused, making it impossible for her to look directly.
“What is it?”
-You… right now… the way you look…
At the sight of Blue Spirit unable to continue her sentence, Mok Gyeong-un finally recognized his current state.
“Ah.”
At once Mok Gyeong-un stretched out his left hand toward the left side of the residence.
Several of Prince Gyeong’s outer garments were hanging there.
There were no trousers in sight, so he tied the sleeves around his waist like a belt and covered his lower body.
Glancing sidelong to confirm this, Blue Spirit half turned her head and said in a sullen tone,
-You looked exactly like a beast in heat.
“……”
At those words, Mok Gyeong-un fell silent.
Ordinarily he would have replied without much thought, but the memory of what he had done moments ago with the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox, who had transformed into Blue Spirit, flickered dimly in his mind.
Even if he had fallen under the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox’s art, when he thought that he had done such a thing in front of the real Blue Spirit, it gave him a strange feeling.
Was this why Blue Spirit was acting like this as well?
So after staying silent for a moment, Mok Gyeong-un asked her,
“Are you displeased?”
-Displeased?
“Yes.”
-Why would I be displeased over something like that? I am a dead vengeful spirit anyway. What does it matter to me what women you sleep with?
Though she claimed she did not care, her voice had risen noticeably.
She was even stammering over her words.
So Mok Gyeong-un said it outright.
“Even so, that fox anomaly changed into your form, Blue Spirit, so it felt as though I did it with you. So perhaps…”
-Enough! Enough! Enough!
“……”
Blue Spirit cut him off sharply before he could finish.
The image had already been going around and around in her head, enough to drive her mad.
She kept repeating to herself that she was already dead, and that her only purpose remaining in this world was to resolve her lingering resentment.
But feelings did not work so neatly.
‘Damn it!’
The more that scene came back to her, the more conscious she became of Mok Gyeong-un.
Reason told her that the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox had done it to disturb Mok Gyeong-un’s mind.
But when she thought about it the other way around, it still bothered her.
She had watched him all along, and he did not treat women as women.
So when he had said that he had relations with Wi So-yeon, who resembled her and was the third disciple of the Lord of the Heaven and Earth Society, she had thought only that he had done it to use her.
‘…What in the world is this?’
Then why had he held out so well until the instant the fox changed into her form?
Thinking of this, even though she was only a vengeful spirit, she could not help but be bothered.
It was as if this brat sentient being
‘…Could it be that he sees me as a woman?’
Blue Spirit, clutching her head, stole a glance at Mok Gyeong-un.
After what had just happened, he was already looking at her again with the same gaze as always.
Seeing that made something inside her begin to burn.
Did it not feel as though she alone was the one making a fuss about it all?
Her feelings rose and fell and she could not control them.
Then, at that moment,
-Slide.
She felt something touch the top of her head.
The only one who could make her directly feel physical contact despite her being a spirit body was Mok Gyeong-un.
The instant she felt Mok Gyeong-un’s gentle touch, Blue Spirit’s cheeks turned bright red even as a spirit, and in confusion she hugged herself and shouted,
-D-don’t touch me!
“And if I do not, then what?”
-What?
At those words Blue Spirit’s eyes went wide.
What in the world was this brat talking about now?
Truly flustered, she hugged herself even tighter, retreated backward, and said,
-…Are you really a beast now? Like some vixen… no, well, she is a fox. Anyway, after doing it with a demon and monster, are you now so desperate to satisfy yourself that you even want a vengeful spirit too?
“……”
-You are positively burning up because you could not satisfy your desi…
“What are you talking about?”
-What do you mean, what am I talking about? sentient being, you to me…
“If you stay like that, your spirit body will scatter and you will be destroyed.”
-Huh?
“I was trying to give you demonic power, but it seems you misunderstood.”
-……
In that instant she could not help but feel embarrassed.
Looking at her, Mok Gyeong-un shrugged, stepped closer, and reached out his hand as he asked,
“I should have asked first. Is it all right if I pass some demonic power to you?”
-……
Unable to meet his eyes, Blue Spirit quietly nodded.
If her spirit body had not been so weakened, she would have wanted to crawl into a mouse hole right then.
The corner of Mok Gyeong-un’s mouth twitched as he looked at her.
Then he placed his hand against her spirit body and began to send in part of the demonic power he had absorbed.
The instant that demonic power entered through the head of her spirit body, Blue Spirit’s eyes trembled.
-Ah!
Even when she had received the Sea-Slaying King’s demonic power before, she had been startled by how pure it was.
But this was beyond even that comparison.
The instant it entered, her eyes opened wide, to the point that it felt as though they had awakened completely.
This highly purified and vast demonic power grasped her spirit body, which had been trying to disperse, and deepened its fading transparency once more.
-I told you… to do yourself… first…
“Even so, assimilating demonic power will take quite a while. So let us both do it.”
-……
“And once that is done, I think we will be quite busy.”
If what the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox had said was true, then among the Embroidered Uniform Guard there was someone bearing the scar, the mark that had remained on his dead grandfather.
That person too would hold some sort of clue, and had to be found.
Just then,
-Tak!
Someone lightly descended through the ceiling.
It was the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox.
‘Damn!’
Mok Gyeong-un shoved Blue Spirit’s spirit body behind him and drew up demonic aura.
He had gathered that immense demonic power into a single point and cast it into sword intent, yet he had not expected her to endure it.
She was almost perfectly fine.
The only difference was that one of her tails had been partly severed.
And even then only the tip had been cut away.
‘…Only part of a tail.’
True to the title of one of the Six Demons, and a Great Spirit Beast close to a divine beast, she was a being of an entirely different order.
From the very beginning he had not been able to match her.
The atmosphere grew heavy and the tension climbed to an extreme.
Then,
-Pak!
The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox, who had been wearing a savage expression, casually tossed away the severed tip of her tail and opened her mouth.
“For a moment I thought I might just kill you, but let us stop here.”