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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Silverriver
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The Truth Church headquarters, underground prison.
This place was where apostates who rejected the doctrines or faith within the Truth Church, or those who displeased the Heavenly Maiden, were confined.
All the rooms were solitary cells firmly closed with iron doors, numbering about 100. However, despite the scale, the number of people currently imprisoned was small.
The reason for the high vacancy rate was simple. Unless someone possessed truly unwavering willpower, it was nearly impossible to maintain any resistance while steeped in the pleasure of the Holy Water, a sensation that seemed to burn away the pleasure center itself.
Before the pleasure offered by the Holy Water, the prisoners, without exception, repented and confessed their sins.
And the one who presided over this process of repentance was only one person within the church: the Heavenly Maiden.
Considering her heavy workload, one might think she would entrust something like prisoner management to her subordinates, but the Heavenly Maiden never did.
There were two reasons.
One was compassion; she pitied the prisoners who defied her and the church without knowing God’s will and wanted to guide them to repentance herself.
The other, separate from the first, was that the Heavenly Maiden genuinely enjoyed and found fulfillment in the process of immersing the prisoners in pleasure and leading them to repentance—she was a perverse individual with unusual sexual desires.
“Haa… Haa… Haa…”
Therefore, the Heavenly Maiden always thought whenever she dealt with a prisoner:
Please, endure and resist as long as possible, and make me happy.
In that sense, Lee Ha-yeon, currently standing before the Heavenly Maiden, was a prisoner who, after a long time, made the act of repentance worthwhile.
“…Kahuk!”
Lee Ha-yeon shuddered, her shoulders heaving as she expelled the breath she’d been holding. A sweet scent wafted from the saliva dripping from her mouth. This was because her entire body was saturated with Holy Water, having drunk it practically like regular water.
Despite this, Lee Ha-yeon hadn’t repented yet.
With a mind clouded by pleasure, she barely maintained her sanity. However, she also seemed precariously close to collapsing with the slightest touch.
The Heavenly Maiden poked and prodded at Lee Ha-yeon’s rationality. Each time, Lee Ha-yeon swayed dangerously, but she ultimately held on, narrowly avoiding falling over the precipice.
Like a child savoring a delicious dessert, the Heavenly Maiden was slowly relishing the process.
If she wanted, she could make Lee Ha-yeon repent instantly. Even if she possessed a Possessed Spirit, if the Heavenly Maiden decided to start feeding her her own blood, Lee Ha-yeon would crumble quickly.
However, the Heavenly Maiden deliberately used a diluted Holy Water, slowly conditioning Lee Ha-yeon.
So that she wouldn’t completely lose herself to pleasure.
Just enough to moan from the tantalizing pleasure, and finally, driven by her own reason, crave that pleasure and prostrate herself at the Heavenly Maiden’s feet.
When she finally succumbed, the Heavenly Maiden wanted to savor the expression contorted by despair and desire. She gazed at Lee Ha-yeon with twisted desire and lust.
Lee Ha-yeon didn’t even lift her head. So, the Heavenly Maiden lifted her chin herself.
To appreciate the expression that would contort her face at the words she was about to utter.
“….!”
At those words, Lee Ha-yeon’s expression crumpled.
Confusion and shock, followed by anxiety and fear.
The Heavenly Maiden savored every single emotion that surfaced on that face, whispering to Lee Ha-yeon,
The Heavenly Maiden whispered to Lee Ha-yeon:
Because you two are strong, I’ll make you my special confidantes.
During the day, you’ll enjoy all sorts of power and authority as honored knights of the church.
But at night, as my beloved pets, you will be immersed in the ultimate pleasure that exists nowhere else in this world. Until your minds are filled with nothing but me and the church.
At the Heavenly Maiden’s declaration, Lee Ha-yeon’s eyes trembled before her eyelids closed. Sensing the deep resignation in her expression, the Heavenly Maiden realized that Lee Ha-yeon was almost at her breaking point.
It was a shame that this pleasure would soon end, but it couldn’t be helped.
A delicious meal must always end, and a beautiful flower must eventually wither.
The Heavenly Maiden stroked Lee Ha-yeon’s head and left the prison.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
The Heavenly Maiden’s footsteps echoed down the hallway and then dissipated.
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-Whoosh.
Finally, when the footsteps completely disappeared, Lee Ha-yeon, who had been slumped over, lifted her head.
‘Is she gone?’
She held her breath and listened, but no presence could be felt. Lee Ha-yeon, her eyes now completely clear, unlike before, exhaled deeply.
Lee Ha-yeon had deliberately feigned a powerless appearance in front of the Heavenly Maiden. As a result, the Heavenly Maiden had become careless. She was confident that Lee Ha-yeon had almost succumbed, but the will to resist was still burning brightly in her heart.
However, she couldn’t afford to be complacent. Therefore, Lee Ha-yeon wanted to escape as soon as possible.
-Clang. Clang. Clang.
Lee Ha-yeon began to strike the wall with her shackled wrists.
The force was incredibly weak. The magic engraved on the shackles drained Lee Ha-yeon’s vitality and stamina, leaving her with only the strength of an ordinary person.
However, even if her physical abilities were limited, her superpower was a different matter.
-Clang. Clang. Clang.
Lee Ha-yeon’s superpower was the storage and release of force.
Using that ability, she continued to store the impact inflicted on the shackles.
For what felt like more than half a day, whenever the Heavenly Maiden left, she repeated this process. And now, she was nearing the end.
‘This should be enough…’
Lee Ha-yeon muttered quietly, taking a deep breath.
“Release.”
-Crack!
With a sharp metallic sound, the shackle that bound her right wrist broke in half. Confirming that enough impact had been stored, Lee Ha-yeon released her power, destroying the remaining shackles on her arms and legs.
-Thud.
“Ugh… Uh…”
Freed from the shackles, Lee Ha-yeon collapsed to the floor, groaning. Red blood dripped from her wrists and ankles.
The amount of force Lee Ha-yeon had stored to break the shackles was almost equivalent to a small bomb. Naturally, her hands and feet couldn’t remain unscathed. Her skin was torn, her muscles ripped, leaving them in a state resembling tattered rags.
But she could still move. Enduring the pain radiating from her limbs, Lee Ha-yeon headed towards the iron door.
“……”
There was still no sign of anyone outside. Lee Ha-yeon used an unlocking spell to open the iron door. Fortunately, perhaps overconfident in the shackles, no separate alarm spell had been cast on the door.
-Creak.
The iron door opened, and for the first time, Lee Ha-yeon could take in the outside structure with her own eyes.
The long stone corridor was dimly lit, with only the incandescent bulbs on the ceiling emitting a faint glow.
No guards were in sight. If even Lee Ha-yeon had struggled to escape, the shackles alone must have been deemed sufficient for most prisoners.
As if to prove this, faint moans could be heard from all directions as she stepped into the corridor. Lee Ha-yeon briefly considered rescuing the other prisoners, but she shook her head.
The more people there were, the higher the risk of being discovered before escaping. Rescuing them was important, but escaping the church headquarters and reporting the church’s crimes to Kwon Tae-ho and the police took precedence.
‘I’m sorry, everyone. I’ll be back soon to save you.’
Silently apologizing to the prisoners beyond the iron door, Lee Ha-yeon quietly moved towards the stairs.
But then.
A familiar voice pierced Lee Ha-yeon’s ears.
The voice of Heavenly Maiden Roselia, a voice she had heard enough to be sick of since being imprisoned here.
“!!”
Had she already been discovered?!
Lee Ha yeon turned her head with a startled expression, but she was still alone in the hallway.
Just as she was about to wonder what was going on, Lee Ha yeon naturally turned her gaze towards the direction of the voice.
In the direction Lee Ha-yeon looked, there was an iron door with a small window. Carefully approaching the iron door and peering inside through the window, Lee Ha-yeon’s expression was instantly painted with shock.
‘The Heavenly Maiden?’
Inside the cell, a woman who looked exactly like the Heavenly Maiden was confined, just like Lee Ha-yeon had been moments ago.
No, upon closer inspection, it wasn’t the Heavenly Maiden. Her hair color and attire were identical to the Heavenly Maiden’s, like twins, but there were slight differences in physique and facial features.
The most striking difference was the color of her eyes, visible through the black cloth covering them. The Heavenly Maiden had red eyes, but the woman in the cell had blue eyes, similar to her hair color.
The woman inside the cell stared intently at Lee Ha-yeon, then spoke as if she had suddenly remembered.
“Ah.”
At those words, Lee Ha-yeon also recalled that day.
The day she ran into the Heavenly Maiden while fleeing the mage’s room after stealing the Holy Water.
Although she had clearly encountered the Heavenly Maiden then, when they met again later, the Heavenly Maiden acted as if she had never seen Lee Ha-yeon before. At the time, she simply dismissed it, thinking the Heavenly Maiden didn’t remember her…
‘But it wasn’t that she didn’t remember me; I met a different person altogether.’
Then who was this woman, who looked so much like the Heavenly Maiden, imprisoned before her eyes?
“Wh-who are you?”
The woman, who responded to Lee Ha-yeon’s question with cryptic words, seemed to ponder for a moment before speaking again.
“That depends on your answer. You haven’t answered my question yet.”
Who are you? Who are you to be imprisoned here, looking so much like the Heavenly Maiden? What is your relationship with the Heavenly Maiden?
At Lee Ha-yeon’s repeated questions, the woman answered with a sorrowful look.
“The dimensional rift…? Wait, does that mean you perhaps…”
As Lee Ha-yeon questioned her, the woman, Park Yoo-jin, nodded and added,
Lee Ha-yeon couldn’t immediately comprehend Park Yoo-jin’s shocking confession. However, Park Yoo-jin didn’t wait for her to understand, instead repeating her request.
With an infinitely desperate voice and an infinitely sorrowful gaze.
At Park Yoo-jin’s plea, Lee Ha-yeon pondered.
‘A returnee who went to the same other world as the Heavenly Maiden…’
Considering her resemblance to the Heavenly Maiden, her words sounded plausible. Did that mean the woman before her eyes also served the god of the other world, just like the Heavenly Maiden?
‘It’s not a… trap, is it?’
If the woman before her eyes were on the Heavenly Maiden’s side, there would be no need to imprison her.
-Creak.
After some deliberation, Lee Ha-yeon used an unlocking spell and entered the cell.
“Be careful. It might hurt a little.”
Lee Ha-yeon broke the shackles binding Park Yoo-jin’s hands and feet, using the same method she had used on her own. Unlike before, Lee Ha-yeon could now utilize 100% of her physical abilities, so breaking the shackles didn’t take long.
-Crack! Clang!
Park Yoo-jin touched her wrist as the aftershock of the broken shackles coursed through her. Just like Lee Ha-yeon, deep wounds appeared where the restraints had been, but immediately afterward, a golden light erupted from the wounds, healing them instantly.
“This is…”
Lee Ha-yeon felt a sense of déjà vu. Didn’t the Heavenly Maiden’s power also emit a golden light like this?
“You said a moment ago that you’re the only one who can stop the Heavenly Maiden, right?”
Having fought the Heavenly Maiden once, Lee Ha-yeon knew how powerful she was. The divine power wielded by the Heavenly Maiden was an unknown force that Lee Ha-yeon couldn’t find a way to counter.
Stopping the Heavenly Maiden would be impossible without overwhelming force like Tae-ho possessed.
Or, perhaps, by possessing the same kind of power as the Heavenly Maiden.
“Do you have a specific plan for how you’ll stop her?”
At Lee Ha-yeon’s question, Park Yoo-jin nodded with a determined look in her eyes.
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So, like, Red eyes maiden are now gonna be slappin’ with that 💜 purple text, giving off major btchy vibes. the blue one? We’re thinkin’ 💖pink, ’cause, duh, it’s iconic.
