Myst, Might, Mayhem (Novel) - Chapter 80 - Dark Tread (2)
Chapter 80 – Dark Tread (2)
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Translated by Jinmu
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Dark Tread.
It was a secret organization created by the Alliance of Justice, which could be called one of the pillars of the righteous path.
Only a very small number of people even within the Alliance of Justice knew the exact time of its founding, and not many knew exactly what kind of work it did.
Those who knew of Dark Tread called them the shadow of the Alliance of Justice.
Because they took charge of missions that could not be brought to light, in unseen darkness, they could never step into daylight.
Even within this Dark Tread, there was a somewhat more special group.
Aside from the regular organizations, A Unit for internal audits, B Unit for intelligence, and C Unit for assassination, there was D Unit.
[Monsters.]
Even among fellow agents of Dark Tread, that was what they were called.
That included a measure of the strength of D Unit’s agents, but there was another reason as well.
It was that they differed from ordinary humans.
Neung Hwa-yang, vice leader of Team Thirteen of D Unit.
She too was one of them, one of the three D Unit agents deployed on this mission.
[This is a request from B Unit. Show them the skill of a D Unit agent.]
Corpse Blood Valley was a mission B Unit had failed at many times.
That was why D Unit had sent in agents this time, to score merit on the intelligence side as well.
Wiggling her finger, Neung Hwa-yang beckoned to Mok Gyeong-un in a seductive manner.
“Let’s have a conversation with our bodies.”
‘Mok Gyeong-un.’
They said seven of the agents sent in had lost their lives because of that bastard.
Because of this, the order had come down.
[Sever his meridians and cripple his dantian.]
It was not such a difficult task.
Up to now, the missions she specialized in had been assassinating key figures.
In particular, when it came to men, it was all the easier.
They would fall into her arms with just a little seduction, she could enjoy herself suitably, and then all that remained was to take their lives.
‘He’s fairly handsome.’
This was the first time she had seen him up close.
But looking at his face, he was not merely good-looking, but extremely handsome.
He was smiling, but there was a decadent beauty to him as well, the sort of face women would like in many ways.
‘What a waste.’
It felt wasteful to enjoy him once and then turn him into a half-cripple.
But for the sake of the mission, there was no helping it.
Not only had agents died because of him, he was also the factor most likely to hinder future missions.
Thunk!
At that moment, Mok Gyeong-un shut the room door, which had been slightly open.
Then, walking over slowly, he said,
“What exactly is a conversation with bodies?”
“Why ask when you already know?”
She sat on the bed, lightly crossing her legs as she spoke in a flirtatious tone.
At that, Mok Gyeong-un gave a faint laugh, approached, and said,
“I truly don’t know.”
“Are you pretending to be innocent? Or are you trying to make me ache for it on purpose?”
“Who knows.”
Mok Gyeong-un came to a stop right before her feet.
The corners of Neung Hwa-yang’s mouth lifted.
What man could endure not falling for a woman with such curves, standing there naked?
She judged that he, too, would be no exception.
Slide.
Neung Hwa-yang naturally stretched one leg out toward Mok Gyeong-un.
The tip of her foot was pointed at that place of his.
It was to stimulate him.
Just then, Mok Gyeong-un caught the tip of her foot.
Then he knelt down and gently stroked up from her ankle.
A strange light came into Neung Hwa-yang’s eyes.
‘So he isn’t inexperienced.’
No matter how handsome he was, he was still a boy who had not yet reached full adulthood, so she had thought he might be an inexperienced innocent.
If that were the case, it would be no fun.
If she was going to go so far as to use her body to eliminate or deal with him, she ought to get at least some pleasure out of it.
It seemed she could cast aside such worries.
“Haa.”
She deliberately let out a rough breath.
There was no way a mere touch brushing up her ankle would truly excite her, but making sounds like this was how she stimulated men.
Slide.
Mok Gyeong-un’s hand moved from her ankle, past her shin, to her knee, and then up to her thigh.
As his hand rose as far as her thigh, her eyes too became languid.
It seemed this would indeed be something she could enjoy properly.
‘This won’t be bad for you either.’
Being able to hold a woman like this before turning into a half-cripple, perhaps that could be called a kind of reward.
In a coquettish voice, Neung Hwa-yang said,
“You take your clothes off too.”
At her words, Mok Gyeong-un smiled lightly.
Then, stopping midway in his caress, he interlaced his index and middle fingers and walked them upward over her thigh.
At that, Neung Hwa-yang’s face gradually reddened.
This brat seemed young, but apparently he had some experience.
Most men knew no such thing as foreplay, and if she started undressing, they would simply lunge straight in.
But looking at him, this one seemed to know women.
In the first place, with her senses dulled as they were, it would have been boring if he had simply tried to force himself in.
As that was happening, Mok Gyeong-un said,
“You look delicious.”
At those words, she let out a moan and said,
“Haa… delicious? Then hurry up and eat me. You don’t have to hold back.”
You’re aroused, aren’t you?
Any man would go mad hearing something like that.
But while his two fingers continued to climb upward as though they were walking, Mok Gyeong-un said,
“One should savor a taste slowly. Beautiful things are most flavorful when made to heat up slowly.”
“Haa… you… I like you.”
“I feel the same. Just thinking of the screams that will come from your mouth once you are fully heated makes me tingle already.”
At those words from Mok Gyeong-un, Neung Hwa-yang was genuinely stirred.
This brat knew how to excite a woman.
Moving his fingers in such an interlaced way while speaking words that stimulated the imagination like that made her start to feel good for the first time in a while.
Slide.
Mok Gyeong-un’s hand, which had been climbing for some time, rose up to her smooth belly.
At that, Neung Hwa-yang smacked her lips slightly, as if something were lacking.
Was he trying to heat her up even more?
This brat was skilled.
‘Not bad.’
She had wondered how he would act, hearing he was a madman.
But it turned out that he was careful and knew how to treat a woman.
The hand gently stroking her abdomen was already moving toward her full breasts.
“Haa.”
She let out a deep breath.
To her, Mok Gyeong-un smiled and said,
“You heat up softly and nicely. I wonder what expression you’ll make when I strip off the skin of your entire body.”
“I’m already completely undressed, so what is there left to strip?”
Slide.
“It’s right here.”
Mok Gyeong-un pulled at her flesh.
At his words, Neung Hwa-yang frowned faintly for an instant.
What nonsense was this all of a sudden, after things had been going so well?
Did this bastard think words like that would excite her?
So Neung Hwa-yang said without showing it,
“You’re good at jokes. Hehehe.”
“I’m not joking.”
“…….What?”
For a moment, Neung Hwa-yang frowned as if dumbfounded.
To her, Mok Gyeong-un lifted the corners of his mouth until they nearly reached his ears and said,
“From the moment I first saw you, I wanted to peel all your skin off and see what was inside.”
“……..You think words like that are supposed to turn me on?”
“Don’t they?”
“Are you playing around with me?”
“Once, there was a fellow who kept his mouth shut, so I peeled off all his skin and made him look at his own insides, and he screamed until he nearly fainted. The sight of all those blood vessels and sinew-muscles tangled together was truly beautiful.”
‘!?’
Neung Hwa-yang’s expression stiffened.
At first she had thought he was simply trying to go a little too far with verbal foreplay.
But that smile overflowing with malice, and his eyes as well, were completely sincere.
He really did want to peel off her outer shell.
Shiver.
For an instant, a chill ran down Neung Hwa-yang’s spine.
All this time, like a queen spider, she had killed the men who crawled into her embrace, and she had always enjoyed the process.
Each time she killed a man in her arms, it thrilled her beyond measure.
When she saw them in pain, it felt as though her dulled senses came alive again.
‘Is this bastard… the same species as me?’
She had thought that no matter how mad he was, there must be limits.
But now that she was experiencing it directly, he seemed even madder than she was.
A beauty was seducing him naked, and yet he wanted to peel off her shell and look at her in pain.
Tremble tremble.
‘This lunatic.’
She changed her mind too.
She had wanted to see him happy in her embrace and then watch that happiness break, but now she wanted to see this mad bastard begging for his life instead.
Neung Hwa-yang smiled faintly.
“I think I should hear your screams too.”
Pak!
The moment she decided that, she wrapped both legs around Mok Gyeong-un’s arm like a snake.
Then she pressed on Mok Gyeong-un’s neck and back with both legs.
If he moved wrongly, his elbow would be broken in an instant, so he would not be able to resist.
Grip!
“You’d better stay still. If you resist for no reason, your elbow bone will jut ou…”
Kuguguguk!
‘Huh?’
What was this?
Mok Gyeong-un got to his feet with her still hanging on him.
She had used nearly sixty percent of her power with both legs in a grappling hold, though she herself had reached the peak state, and yet he was forcibly enduring it?
‘This bastard!’
She drew up even more power and tried to crush Mok Gyeong-un’s elbow.
But his arm did not bend at all.
Then,
Crash!
Mok Gyeong-un slammed her, still hanging from him, onto the bed.
The bed broke apart, and her body sank into it.
Yet she still did not let go, clinging to Mok Gyeong-un’s arm like a parasite.
With a nasty smile, Neung Hwa-yang said,
“It’s useless. I barely feel pain.”
Most of the members of D Unit, the fourth organization of Dark Tread, were made up of people who had either volunteered or been taken in as orphans and altered through numerous forbidden arts and experiments.
The probability of surviving those experiments was at most one pun.
Those who overcame not even one in ten, but one pun, gained bodies entirely unlike ordinary humans, and in her case, she had acquired a fundamentally painless body.
‘And.’
Kkigigigik!
Pupupuk!
The nails of her hanging hand lengthened and dug into Mok Gyeong-un’s wrist.
This was called Sharp Bone Claw, a power that let her conceal and extend beastlike sharp nails mutated through a special solution.
“What’s this?”
“Did you think being naked meant I had nothing on me?”
“An interesting bodily structure.”
“Interesting? Fine, enjoy it all you want.”
‘Because soon you won’t be able to move.’
The mutated component contained in the Sharp Bone Claw.
It was Mafei Powder.
The target pierced by the nails lost sensation centered around that place and became unable to move.
By the time one consciously tried to expel it with true qi, it was already too late.
Grip!
She drew up still more power into her thighs.
But then,
“This scent… quite familiar.”
“What?”
“Clove… white sandalwood… costus root… pinellia, roasted licorice, agarwood… raw monkshood… is it Mafei Powder?”
‘!?’
What?
What had this bastard just said?
He identified the ingredients in her mutated nails by scent?
For a moment, Neung Hwa-yang was dumbfounded.
Most people only started making a fuss after being paralyzed, asking what she had done, or panicking and saying she had used Mafei Powder.
But what was this bastard?
Was it even possible to identify the ingredients from such a faint fragrance?
And,
‘Why isn’t his strength fading?’
This was strange.
His arm ought to have gradually gone numb and weak because of the Mafei Powder.
Yet his strength remained exactly the same.
Why?
While she was thinking that,
Griiip!
Mok Gyeong-un suddenly made an unexpected move while still holding her up.
Crunch!
‘!!!!!!!!’
For an instant, she doubted her own eyes.
Mok Gyeong-un forcefully twisted his neck and bit into the opposite side of the knee with which she was constricting him, that is, the hamstring muscle.
Though she was painless, she could still recognize that teeth had sunk into her.
And the spot he had bitten was dangerous.
If it went wrong, she might not be able to walk.
Pak!
Neung Hwa-yang released the strength in both her legs and kicked Mok Gyeong-un in the head.
At that, his body was knocked backward.
After falling to the floor, she too let out a harsh sound and looked at the back of her knee.
Part of it had been torn away.
Wobble.
Judging by the way her left knee would not properly extend, it seemed the muscle had been torn.
“You son of a bit…”
Munch munch.
At that moment, the words caught in her throat.
She saw Mok Gyeong-un chewing the hamstring muscle he had bitten off from her.
After chewing with blood smeared around his mouth, Mok Gyeong-un finally swallowed it down his throat.
Gulp.
At the same time, Mok Gyeong-un licked the blood from his lips with his tongue and said,
Lick.
“Hmm. The taste of blood is fine, but it’s a bit tough.”
‘Th…this insane…….’
For a moment, Neung Hwa-yang was left without words.
Even within D Unit, she had been called one of the craziest bitches, and she herself had accepted it because of the grotesque tastes born from her painless body.
But this went beyond that range.
This was no longer a matter of being crazy, but more like an evil ghost or killing nature itself.
Feeling extreme terror in that instant, she involuntarily stepped back.
Then,
“Ahhh. No, that won’t do. Bind her.”
The moment he finished speaking,
Chwarrrrr!
Something coiled around her entire body and bound her so that she could not move.
“Wh-what is this…..”
Panicking, she drew up her power and tried to break free.
But Mok Gyeong-un raised a finger to his lips with a shh gesture.
At once,
“Mmph!”
She could no longer open her mouth.
When she found herself unable even to scream, her face turned pale.
As Mok Gyeong-un approached her, he said,
“Did you say you can’t feel pain? That’s good. There’s a bronze mirror here too. I was already curious what kind of reaction you’d show if you watched your own skin being peeled off one layer at a time.”
At the same time, the corners of Mok Gyeong-un’s mouth stretched all the way to both ears.
He wore the face of someone so excited he could die.
‘This bastard… he means it… he really means it.’
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
Her heart pounded violently and would not listen.
“Huff huff huff huff…….”
As she breathed harshly, foam soon formed at her mouth and her eyes rolled back.
“Huh?”
At that, Mok Gyeong-un looked disappointed.