Chapter 31: Affection (7) (All ages).

Love you.

Clunk, clunk.

“Ah, I’m in a hurry.”

After leaving the room, I tried to open the bathroom door on the same floor, but for some reason, it was locked.

I had no choice but to go up to the second floor, but it was the same here.

“Should I break it?”

Chayeon seriously considered it and put his hand on his wooden sword, but even if it was an abandoned building, he felt guilty about recklessly damaging property.

In that case, I should stop by the grand cathedral.

I have to hope that it’s open.

Because the buildings were all huge, it was quite a distance from the main entrance of the education center to the main entrance of the grand cathedral. Somehow suppressing the urge to pee, I entered the grand cathedral, and fortunately, the bathroom door was open here.

Now, I squatted down very skillfully, did my business, cleaned up, and left the bathroom.

Here, cleaning up meant wiping with toilet paper.

In the old days, when women said they wiped with toilet paper after going to the bathroom, I wondered if it was really necessary, but after experiencing it, I learned something.

It’s impossible to shake it off, so it gets on your panties.

Sometimes, at the end when the stream of water weakens, it would flow along my skin to other places.

Chayeon’s steps stopped as he was about to return to the education center.

“Hmm, I don’t want to go back.”

<<I agree.>>

All that awaited him was the burdensome trio and the extremely uncomfortable Sira.

It didn’t seem like they had found out that Heukgu was inside.

<<You were saying unnecessary things.>>

“Unnecessary things? Ah, about the child thing? Sorry, I couldn’t think of anything else to say, so I threw it out as a half-joke.”

<<………It’s done. I just have to hope they don’t take it seriously.>>

Anyway, what should I do?

Chayeon stood still and pondered.

There was nowhere to go, but he still didn’t want to go back.

Should I go back to the 5th floor?

He had ended up getting a free ride, but originally, Chayeon was supposed to be prepared for any possible situation on the 5th floor of this grand cathedral.

At first, he thought it was great to get a break, but now that he thought about it, it would have been easier to just stand guard.

Let’s go up.

I should go see how things are progressing.

With that decision, Chayeon headed to the 5th floor along the stairs.

The first thing Chayeon felt when he arrived was a sense of incongruity.

The air felt different.

The cool and refreshing air that transitioned from autumn to winter was nowhere to be found, and instead, there was an unpleasant sensation that felt sticky and tangled on his skin.

Chayeon had already felt this feeling before.

“This is…….”

<<It seems like uninvited guests have arrived. Chayeon, prepare yourself.>>

At the same time as Heukgu’s words, he drew the wooden sword from his waist.

“It’s a demon, right?”

<<That’s right.>>

At Heukgu’s confirmation, Chayeon unconsciously swallowed his saliva.

“Shouldn’t I manifest that weapon from last time?”

<<Releasing power risks being discovered by Baekgumiho. For now, I advise you to go in a direction that is somewhat dangerous but restrained.>>

From Heukgu’s perspective, Baekgumiho was much more dangerous than a royalty-class demon, which was considered a disaster if it appeared in the human world. Moreover, even without releasing his power, Chayeon was already more than a match for most demons with his body’s ability to adapt to Rubrum-Luna.

Chayeon also read Heukgu’s reasoning and silently agreed, carefully moving his steps.

As soon as he turned the corner, the anomaly was visible.

In front of the grand cathedral, there was something foreign that shouldn’t be seen inside the building.

A huge body, a lot of white fur. Blood-red eyes.

There was an animal that looked like a bear, a polar bear.

The only difference was that, no matter how you looked at it, it wasn’t the size of a normal polar bear.

It was so big that it wouldn’t have been able to enter if this place wasn’t so impossibly high.

And that beast also discovered Chayeon.

“Kuaaaaaah!”

An enormous roar rang out.

<<It’s a Class 3 demon.>>

At the same time as Heukgu’s words ended, Chayeon charged towards the bear, running along the wall.

One step, and another step, leaving only two footprints on the wall of the corridor, Chayeon’s wooden sword appeared next to the polar bear and was swung towards the bear’s head as it was.

Pow!

The bear’s head exploded, and blood, starkly contrasting with the pure white fur, splattered everywhere.

At the same time as Chayeon landed lightly, the bear’s heavy body fell to the side.

“This isn’t the end, right.”

<<There seem to be several inside.>>

Even if Heukgu hadn’t said it, Chayeon could feel it.

A terrible unpleasantness.

The sticky air and the fishy smell of iron wafted from beyond the door of the grand cathedral.

What happened to the people inside?

Why is a Class 3 demon standing outside the door?

Could it be that I’m already too late?

Chayeon took a deep breath and opened the door.

Repeating to himself not to lose his composure, in preparation for seeing an unexpected scene.

Even so, Chayeon couldn’t help but stop breathing.

The room was already filled with the smell of blood.

That man, who had been so flustered with Chayeon’s group just a moment ago, who had given them all of their water while feeling so sorry, was no longer alive.

It was something that had once been human, only a shape remained.

The six people who had been working on the sealing just a moment ago were now tragic corpses.

“Ugh!”

Unable to process the information that had entered his field of vision for a moment, Chayeon’s stomach churned as he belatedly recognized what he was looking at.

<<Pull yourself together!>>

Heukgu’s scolding cleared his blurry vision and he came to his senses.

Chayeon quickly wiped the vomit from his mouth with one hand and aimed his wooden sword.

The only living creatures that came into view now were five.

They all looked like humans, but he could tell at once without anyone telling him.

They are demons.

All of them are at least the same level as Rubrum-Luna from last time, or even higher.

One male and four females.

“Wow! Amazing!”

Next to the man’s corpse, a pink-haired girl held her cheeks with a blissful expression.

With rosy cheeks, she was looking at Chayeon with fiery eyes.

“Cute♡”

Following her, a woman with pigtails in a nurse’s uniform looked back from where she had fallen and muttered that.

“Hmm, it smells delicious.”

The only male-looking demon smacked his lips.

The halo above his head was reminiscent of an angel rather than a demon.

“Antinu, you’re heavy.”

The demon in the nurse’s outfit pushed the corpse away as it was and looked at Chayeon, while the silver-haired woman caught the corpse and complained.

Her appearance in a female student’s uniform with a ribbon amplified the grotesque feeling.

And finally, the gray-haired woman who was sitting quietly in the back by herself was staring intently at him.

Haa.

His breath quickened rapidly.

It felt like his lungs were filled with smoky air.

But that feeling was forcibly purified and disappeared.

His breath quickened again, and then calmed down again.

Heukgu was forcibly holding on to Chayeon’s mind, which was constantly trying to fall into panic.

“Hoo, f*ck.”

Chayeon, who had finally regained his composure completely, gripped the hilt of his sword tightly with his remaining hand.

“Who are you?”

The gray-haired girl in the center tilted her head and asked.

<<Don’t answer.>>

“I know!”

Do not be swayed by mind manipulation. Swiftly, quickly, each defeated individually.

Chayeon’s sword, which had lunged at the gray-haired woman in the center, was blocked by the angelic man who had appeared in an instant before it even reached the woman.

“Hoo, pretty fast?”

Ignoring the man who was licking his lips and saying that, Chayeon quickly twisted his body in mid-air and slammed the man’s head down.

The man’s head, hit in the back of the head by the heel of his foot, was slammed into the floor as it was.

Thud-

“Ait! Strong! I think I’m going to fall for you!”

Just as he heard the high-pitched voice of Kyaa Kyaa, the pink-haired girl’s knee arrived right in front of Chayeon’s nose.

“Cough!”

He barely blocked the almost-collided face with his sword, and the nurse’s soft chest caught Chayeon’s body, which was flying backward from the reaction.

“Now, baby~ It’s time for your shot♡”

At the same time as he felt a sharp needle being stabbed into his neck with a thud,

“Aaaaaagh!”

An enormous pain caused his limbs to tremble as if they had been electrocuted.

“Ughhhh…, th, ugh!”

While the pain felt unfamiliar, his head was forcibly cleared.

Feeling that, Chayeon quickly swung his sword backward, and the nurse’s head was shattered, and her body collapsed on the spot.

“Huk, huk, eugh, huk.”

He didn’t know what he had been injected with, but his vision was blurry and his breath was catching in his throat.

His heart was pounding like crazy.

He could see the nurse and the angel whose heads had been blown off wriggling and standing up again.

“Haa, ha, f*ck, is being resurrected your passive skill? Haa.”

He knew right away.

Each one of them is impossibly strong.

They are not demons that he can deal with in this state.

“Is he okay?” Antinu,

“I guess not♡ The nerves all over his body should be burning up.”

The girl in the school uniform was staring intently at him, already wearing her underwear.

His vision became increasingly dizzy.

“Dentula, should we test if it really doesn’t work♡”

“I like it.”

At the same time as those words, the nurse and the girl in the school uniform appeared in front of and behind Chayeon, respectively.

Chayeon quickly caught them and swung his sword, while also kicking backward, but that became a bad move.

Tak-

Crack.

The girl in the school uniform stomped down on the knee of the foot that Chayeon was using to stand on.

Chayeon, with his ankle caught by the girl in the school uniform and his knee stomped on by the nurse, collapsed on the spot due to the unimaginable leg strength coming from her thin legs.

“Augh!”

A scream leaked through Chayeon’s lips, unable to bear the pain.

Just as his body was about to collapse, the pink-haired girl flew in from afar and intervened.

“Me too, me too!”

The pink-haired girl’s foot, landing from the air, stomped on Chayeon’s face.

With a rough impact, the back of his head collided with the floor, blood gushed from his broken nose, and his front teeth shattered.

“Kk, kkeueuk….”

He couldn’t get his mind straight.

No, his mind was clear.

He could feel Heukgu constantly pouring power into him to restore his mind.

Even so, he could feel fear and pain constantly gnawing at his brain.

His breathing became rapid, and his limbs trembled with convulsions.

“Haa-euk!”

At that moment, he suddenly felt every single cell in his body screaming.

It felt like all the sensory cells in his body had been activated.

At the same time as a strange feeling came from his lower abdomen,

The outcry that had been blocked by the soles of his feet and never became a sound endlessly circled near his neck.

The broken knee, the crushed face, and the areas of his body that had been kicked and broken were all screaming until the pain was nothing.

“Amazing! I’ve never eaten anything that smells this delicious!”

“The medicine worked, I guess. I’ll give you a lot of love♡”

His body was burning.

Engulfed in flames from head to toe, he was being devoured by the fire.

Stop, it’s hot. What is this? It’s too hot.

Overwhelming pain that made him forget even the situation he was in.

Surrounded by demons, Chayeon gasped for breath and struggled.

“Well then, thank you for the meal~”

The pink-haired girl, with her mouth wide open, approached Chayeon’s neck, who was completely restrained.

<<Kh, this is not the time to think about the aftermath.>>

In the end, Heukgu released his power.