“Why did things have to turn out like this?!”
After finishing her walk, inside the bathhouse behind the church, Suna was still trembling all over as she took off the collar from her neck, her heartbeat nearly at its limit.
So humiliating… so shameful… was everything that just happened real?
Suna desperately hoped that everything she had just experienced was a demon’s illusion, that it was all just a dream.
But as she shakily leaned against the wall to take off her shoes and socks, soaked with some indescribable liquid, she no longer cared whether it was a dream or not.
Because she had indeed peed herself.
Her inner thighs still felt a little cold…
“So that’s why that demon kept forcing me to drink water—it just wanted to see me in such a pathetic state!” Suna crouched down and began wiping her thighs and hair with a clean towel, her expression full of anger.
When she first came to the church, Suna had hoped Truth would speak some good words for her with the demon, hoping that with her restraint, the demon wouldn’t do anything too excessive.
But unfortunately, her luck was terrible today. The moment she arrived, Truth was possessed by a demon, causing the whole plan to fall apart.
At that time, Suna didn’t dare look directly into those blood-red eyes.
After forcing herself to stay calm and stating her purpose, the demon grabbed Suna’s neck, its hoarse and terrifying laughter echoing around her ears:
“How many times has this little dog come begging me now? Hehehehe…”
The demon agreed to Suna’s request without hesitation. As long as she behaved obediently, it promised to bring back the Fire Pattern Staff or even find a wand stronger than the Fire Pattern Staff.
A wand stronger than the Fire Pattern Staff? Suna was a little shocked. Could she really get a weapon of superior quality just by barking a few times like a dog?
Is this for real?! I’ll do it, I’ll do it!
Since there was no one else in the church right now, Suna thought she could bear barking a few times herself.
After all, she had already done it before; this deal seemed like a great bargain.
But just as she cleared her throat to bark, the demon’s dog collar suddenly snapped onto her neck:
“Huh?”
Where did this collar come from?
Then, with unreasonable strength, the demon roughly yanked Suna outside, nearly suffocating her. Only then did she remember what her elders had taught her since childhood:
Never ever make a deal with a demon!
Oh no, it finally hit Suna. After the Fire Pattern Staff was taken away, her feelings of grievance and anger had clouded her mind, and she had actually gone to make a deal with the demon again on her own!
“Wait, wait, wait… hold on!”
Suna tried to call off the deal, but the demon had already dragged her to a small decorative fountain outside the church:
“The little dog must be thirsty now, come, drink more water.”
With a tug of the demon’s small hand, Suna was pulled to the fountain’s edge.
“No, I…”
“Drink!” Truth said coldly, her blood-red eyes shining sharply in the night, scaring Suna into crouching down and cupping the water carefully, drinking it bit by bit.
Not bad, it didn’t taste like anything weird. Hopefully, I won’t get diarrhea.
“Tsk, tsk, is this how little dogs drink water?” The demon’s cold voice rang out again.
“W-what’s wrong?”
“You have to kneel and drink it properly with your tongue.”
“I actually have to lick it slowly with my tongue? This is just too much!”
In the bathhouse, just thinking about how she had knelt like a little dog in front of the fountain, licking the water for so long, made Suna feel utterly humiliated.
She angrily threw the towel in her hand against the wall, her chest rising and falling rapidly as she gasped for breath.
Every time she stopped, the demon would shove her head into the water, forcing her to gulp down several big mouthfuls.
Under the demon’s tyranny, Suna could only “whimper” and keep sticking out her tongue to lick the surface, tears streaming down her cheeks and dripping into the water.
Kuxi Xi…
Wulie Xi! Truth was also crouched beside her, propping her small face up with both hands, a satisfied smile on her lips as she enjoyed the scene.
Unlike Aisia and Elis, those two boring fools who did whatever they were told right away, only Suna’s mix of grief and unwillingness could bring her the best kind of satisfaction!
“Don’t worry, I won’t neglect you…” Truth gently stroked Suna’s already soaked head.
After feeding Suna enough, Truth resumed leisurely strolling around the park, humming as she walked slowly beneath the moonlight, her hands clasped behind her back, looking lively and carefree.
Suna, trembling all over, crawled forward on her knees, dragged along by the demon. Her shaking wasn’t from fear, but from rage!
How dare they… humiliate me like this!
Suna wanted nothing more than to pounce on the demon and explode, but she knew full well that doing so would only make the demon behave even worse. She absolutely couldn’t act on impulse anymore.
Her first deal with the demon was forced barking just to get to Snowveil City to study. The second deal was to get back the Fire Pattern Staff.
The plague power on that staff showed Suna a chance to defeat the demon.
She couldn’t let all that go to waste! Gritting her teeth, Suna kept up step by step with the demon’s pace, determined that once she had the Fire Pattern Staff back, she would leave for Snowveil City immediately! But before that…
“Um…” Near the neatly trimmed square hedge in the garden’s center, Suna suddenly stopped, clutching her stomach and pressing her legs together:
“I need to go to the bathroom…”
Because she had drunk too much water just now, only ten minutes had passed before she already felt the urge to pee. But this was exactly what the demon wanted to see:
“Tsk tsk tsk, shouldn’t a little dog just spread its legs and find a nice plant to relieve itself?”
“Ugh, no more memories!”
Freshly wiped down in the bathhouse, Suna violently shook her head, trying to shake off the humiliating memories.
After a while, she put on the priest robe that the junior priests had left behind.
But no matter how hard she tried not to recall it, the embarrassing image of herself losing control and wetting herself kept flashing in her mind.
She could have held it in! It was all because of that sudden appearance of the Sixth Saintess. She scared me so much I shivered, and then she said something like “I want to touch,” which finally made me lose control…
“What memories can you not recall?”
Suddenly, Truth’s voice sounded behind Suna, accompanied by the creak of a wooden door. The girl with cute pink pupils appeared before Suna:
“The Hermit said you were here, so I came to check on you. Huh? Why do you look so flustered?”
Hearing Truth’s voice, Suna quickly curled up in a corner and even covered her head with a wooden basin nearby, looking quite ridiculous.
But after confirming Truth’s identity, she quickly stood up and calmly changed the subject:
“Ahem, I just came to take care of some things. What were you doing just now?”
She absolutely could not let Truth or anyone else know about being walked around like a dog!
……
Just you wait, Hermit Demon. Thirty years on the east bank, thirty years on the west—once I have the Fire Pattern Staff back in hand, I will leave for Snowveil City at once. I’ll make you understand what it means to never underestimate a poor girl!
Everything you’ve done to me, I will repay you tenfold!
“Ah, the Sixth Saintess was just telling me some details about tomorrow’s Divine Selection Ceremony. She already left and said I could stay in the church tonight.
Suna, do you want to sleep with me?”
Truth made a sincere invitation to share the bed.
Suna decisively refused:
“No, no, no… I have to go back to deal with my dirty clothes, and I need to ask my father about things at Southwatch Fort. Maybe next time… we can sleep together.”
Afraid the demon would drag her out for another walk in the middle of the night, she exchanged a few more polite words before slipping out the back door.
“Tch, she’s pretty cautious. I even tried to seduce her and she didn’t fall for it.”
Truth clicked her tongue. She hadn’t expected Suna to show up tonight, especially when she herself had just gone to the restroom.
She was just closing her eyes, carefully sensing the Shadow Space. There was a sudden chase between an eight-level big fish and a Ninth Rank in Deya City’s Shadow Space. The Ninth Rank seemed to be an Elemental Mage.
Looks like my Divine Selection Ceremony is quite important to attract such high ranks. I’ll have to be even more careful from now on—who knows what treasures I might attract.
Continuing to investigate the status of Shadow Space in Deya City, maybe the chase had already reached a conclusion, so…
Truth closed her eyes again, sensing the Shadow Space that only those who could control shadow power could touch.
Then, three kilometers away, she discovered a huge black-blue big fish frantically swimming in Shadow Space, seemingly searching for something.
Because ordinary people in the real world couldn’t sense the Shadow Space’s existence, the fish’s enormous transparent body, marked by a fresh wound on its surface, constantly passed through the bustling crowd.
“Oh? That’s the eight-level big fish that was chased earlier by that Ninth Rank Elemental Mage.” Truth studied the fish’s body carefully.
But in the next moment, the fish’s palm-sized eyes turned toward Truth:
“Found you, Ninth Saintess, my assassination target!”
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