“[Punishment]?”
“Yes, punishment.”
The Evil God said all this lightly.
“Since [she] hasn’t replaced me right now, please let me continue to release some selfish desires. To be honest, if [she] didn’t like you, I would have already turned you into a puppet without self-awareness.”
“Yes, Master.”
“Hm.”
Seeing Gabriella’s obedient nodding, the anger in the Evil God’s heart dissipated by more than half.
However, there was still someone she cared about very much.
Before her revival, thanks to someone guarding her last power, entrusting everything to the [Evil Tree], protecting it until the last moment of life.
That [girl] was the key existence for her revival and reincarnation.
She wanted to know who was so loyal.
If that girl, by chance, was the one who corrupted the Silver-White Sword Empress, that is, the Divine Maiden—then she would have to thank that apostle properly.
Yes, only an apostle would be that loyal~ However, the apostles at that time should have all dissipated already.
This made that girl’s identity even more mysterious.
After leaving the dining hall, she began searching for the truth of the past.
She wanted to know who that girl was who had guarded the Evil Tree for millions of years.
But she found no conclusions.
Even in the afternoon, when she found books recording the history of the demons, she didn’t see any trace of this person.
It was as if, from the beginning of the demons’ birth, this girl had already died.
“Do you know who that [girl] is?”
“I don’t know.”
Gabriella answered straightforwardly.
She pretended not to know who the Evil God was referring to.
Moreover, as the her who hadn’t regained her memories, she had no right to say that the girl was herself—that would be too much for the Evil God who was bearing everything.
Gabriella couldn’t do it.
The Evil God’s eyes dimmed: “Yes, how could it be you? You betrayed me. Now, accept your [punishment].”
Gabriella lay down on the bed, her two arms held down by her.
A few thin pieces of fabric covered her light dress, as if they could be casually pulled away to reveal everything, displaying all her softness.
Hearing this, Gabriella also felt that the Evil God was quite pitiful.
Even she herself didn’t know what exactly happened back then.
But the crime of destroying the world fell on the Evil God’s head, and in the end, she was defined as evil by the human Heavenly Hammer Sage.
The Evil God was wronged.
With her personality, she would never do something heinous like destroying the world; it was mostly because of that love-brained nature.
Even the so-called punishment was so gentle.
Humans were wrong.
The Evil God wasn’t a terrifying existence wanting to destroy the world, but a fool craving love.
Even now, she could actively help wipe away tears for her enemy who made her cry.
Gabriella felt that if she wanted, she could even make the idiot Evil God count money for her.
“All this is because of me. I’ll take responsibility for everything the past me did wrong, so please [punish] me.”
Her knee gently nudged Gabriella’s thigh and slid down.
Leaning over, their cheeks were only half a finger’s distance apart.
It was at this moment that Gabriella suddenly felt an itch on her neck.
When she touched it, she realized the Curse Ring was faintly glowing.
Then, she felt a surging wave.
The Demon King’s gentleness went from her thighs to her lower abdomen, then to her chest, and finally her neck.
Her tail wrapped around the white soft flesh of her waist.
Her body moved forward, and Gabriella was forced to lift her head for a moment.
“Ah, uh.”
Completely unable to resist.
Because Master’s [command] is everything; I must obey.
It was like her brain received an even more shameful command.
Gabriella’s hand, interlocked with the Demon King’s fingers, gripped tightly.
Then she noticed that the Demon King’s tail had already left her waist.
“Master…… Uh♡”
No wonder she was suddenly so gentle to me; turns out she was preparing to toy with me.
So scary.
It wasn’t the Evil God; Gabriella felt that her current self was indeed very strange.
When realizing all this was happening, her first reaction wasn’t to resist, nor to worry for humanity or for herself becoming a demon.
She actually felt very honored.
What a hateful Evil God. I just met my mom, and she’s going to corrupt me into this state.
If she hadn’t promised to take responsibility, Gabriella would cry for the idiot Evil God to see right now.
“Ah, uh~ Master, why, suddenly……”
A bit of emotional color finally appeared in those cold eyes, like ice melting into snow water upon contacting the sun-like warmth of Gabriella.
“I have nothing to say to you, and then I’ll seek revenge on you later. The current you…… only deserves my punishment, humiliating submission.”
“Ah~♡ Yes, Mas…… ter♡”
The punishment process wasn’t long.
Or rather, Gabriella thought time passed quickly.
Although she said it was punishment on her lips, the Evil God just did the same things as usual.
Making the bed and her a complete mess.
However, she still stroked Gabriella’s hair, letting her come back to her senses from the earlier punishment, resting for a moment.
Next, the Demon King said a lot more.
She mentioned many past events.
When the Divine Maiden and she first met, they weren’t fated enemies like now.
They knew each other, even calling each other close friends…… Gabriella was the only friend who didn’t treat her as an enemy.
Gabriella had personally gone to the bottom of the abyss to find her, an area the heavenly oracle envoys dared not set foot in.
It was just later, due to various conflicts, the two turned against each other.
She even said that the Gabriella back then liked to bring her food, just like now.
Was she begging for my forgiveness, or giving reasons to punish me?
Gabriella didn’t know; she only knew the Evil God had become even cuter.
The Evil God was like a little beast that hadn’t been satisfied, frantically craving that warm depth to protect her, too shy to poke her head out.
She still remembered someone saying that contact with [shadows] would destroy a person’s sanity.
The Curse Ring began to flicker again, yet at this moment, Gabriella had completely lost her sanity.
She just felt the shadows lingering in her mind, as if dominated by the Evil God.
It didn’t matter; this was all a way to please the Evil God, to make her let go of her obsessions.
It was just that the idiot Evil God was really stubborn.
Was this still punishment?
“Aah, uh~♡ Aah, puh, uh.”
Wanting to let out that high-pitched gasp, yet her lips were blocked.
The earth-shaking stirring squeezed all of Gabriella’s reason out of her head.
After a long time, the Evil God gripped her hand.
Those eyes filled with love were full of indulgence:
“Bear my child, Divine Maiden. The curse you’ll never escape in this lifetime—that’s my [punishment] for you.”
“You’ll feel humiliated for this, pitiful Divine Maiden.”