Chapter 291: Astreya: Don’t… Stop!

Laxana held the “Asteria Brand Toy” right up to Wendy’s face, her silver eyes brimming with malice.

“That monster demihuman… turning adventurers into things like this… what exactly is it planning to use them for?”

Wendy’s Adam’s apple bobbed as cold sweat dripped down his forehead in steady beads.

He didn’t dare guess.

No, he didn’t want to guess.

Because the answer was just way too damn absurd!

“It seems my dear prince has already figured it out~” Laxana tilted her head, her ethereal voice dripping with a skin-crawling delight, “That’s right, it’s exactly what you’re thinking.”

“Those monster demihumans will thoroughly toy with these ‘personality toys,’ and once they’ve driven the adventurers’ souls to complete collapse, they’ll swallow them whole. Tell me, isn’t that just so interesting~?”

“I…” Wendy opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

He stiffly lowered his gaze to the thing in Laxana’s hand…

That Asteria who was now nothing but a torso and head.

The Witch Queen of this moment had lost all four limbs, with only her head and torso preserved, shaped like the “special” toys depicted in certain drawing books, especially the contours of certain particular areas standing out prominently… abnormally alluring.

Only, those magic eyes that once burned with purple flame now held nothing but a silver-gray phantom of their former selves, filled with terror, fury, and… humiliation.

“Laxana! You goddamn scum!!”

Asteria twisted her face into a snarl, shrieking shrilly, “You think turning me into this state will make me yield? Dream on!”

“That’s fine, you’ll soon understand what true submission means.”

Laxana giggled as she squeezed the “toy” in her hand.

“Heh, still got a sharp tongue.”

With that, she suddenly shoved Wendy down onto the bed!

“Laxana! What are you doing!”

Wendy struggled in panic, trying to scramble up, but Laxana merely pressed down with an effortless weight.

Her ghostly body passed through his clothes, pressing directly onto the prince’s waist.

Cold, unreal, yet so tangible it was suffocating.

“Why, of course… letting you two get nice and intimate with each other~”

“What did you say?!”

Wendy’s eyes flew wide.

The next second, Laxana directly pressed the miniature Asteria in her hand against a certain spot!

“Y-You you you! No, I don’t want this!”

Wendy scrambled backward frantically, desperate to get away from this hot potato.

But he discovered his body was bound by an invisible force, unable to move so much as a single finger. Fear and shame flooded over him in an instant, beads of cold sweat erupting across his forehead.

“Laxana! You bastard! Release me at once!!”

Asteria’s voice suddenly pitched higher, “Wendy, if you dare touch me right now, I’ll…”

“You’ll what?”

Laxana chimed in with a smile, “You don’t even have hands right now. What exactly can you do to him?”

Asteria’s voice cut off abruptly.

She realized Laxana was right.

In her current state, she didn’t even have the most basic limbs. The only thing she could do was rage helplessly.

“Wendy, listen to me.”

Laxana leaned down, her pallid face drawing close to Wendy’s ear, icy breath washing over his earlobe, “Now, do exactly as I say.”

“Give her… a thorough round of affection.”

“If you don’t…”

Laxana paused, a cruel glint flashing through her silver eyes.

“I’ll eat her alive.”

“Devour her completely.”

“Down to the very last scrap.”

Wendy’s entire body went rigid.

He looked at the helplessly struggling Asteria in his hand, then at the unconscious, alluring body beside the bed. A fierce war raged within his heart.

If he did it, he’d be completely reduced to Laxana’s puppet, toyed with at her every whim.

If he didn’t… Asteria would truly be torn apart, soul and all.

“You only have three seconds to decide~” Laxana held up three fingers and began counting down, “Three…”

“Two…”

“I’ll do it! I’ll do it, damn it!”

In the end, Wendy ground his teeth and roared out those words.

“Good boy~” Laxana smiled in satisfaction, “Then… let’s begin, my prince.”

Wendy closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

I’m sorry, Asteria!

Trembling, the prince slowly brought the “Asteria Brand Toy” in his hand toward himself.

“W-Wendy! I’m warning you! D-Don’t come any closer!!”

Asteria’s voice was already laced with an unmistakable tremor.

But the more she resisted, the more excited Laxana became.

Laxana enthusiastically directed from the sidelines, like an audience member enjoying the show.

“That’s right, just like that~ Let her really feel what it’s like to be controlled by someone else~”

Wendy gritted his teeth and followed Laxana’s instructions, beginning this absurd and humiliating “game.”

“Ah!! Laxana! I’ll kill you!”

Asteria’s soul let out a piercing scream.

But soon, her voice began to change.

From fury, to… trembling.

“Wendy… what are you doing… stop… stop right now!!”

Wendy noticed the abnormality too.

The “toy” in his hand was beginning to heat up.

That strange sensation rising from the depths of the soul, through the point of contact, came surging wildly into his own body.

This feeling… it was familiar.

It was just like the mysterious power he absorbed through “purification” every time he was intimate with the demonized Asteria!

Wendy’s eyes snapped open!

That’s right!

His constitution!

His special constitution could “purify” witch power!

Then… could he purify Laxana too?!

“Ugh… hmph… ah… y-you… you bastard… stop… I… I command you to…”

Asteria’s voice had completely lost its earlier dominance, devolving into incoherent babble.

On her face that should have been furious, an unnatural flush had unknowingly begun to spread.

“Hm?”

Laxana tilted her head, seeming to sense something off, “What’s going on? Her reaction…”

And then!

Wendy suddenly surged with force, gripping the “Asteria Brand Toy” tightly in his hand!

“Ooooh!!!”

Laxana covered her mouth with a gasp.

At that moment, Wendy closed his eyes, throwing his entire being into this “purification.”

“No… don’t… stop it aaaaah!!”

Asteria’s voice seemed to tear through her throat completely, shifting from stubborn threats to a trembling plea.

“I beg you… stop… I… I can’t take it anymore…”

On her proud face, dominance and majesty were visibly crumbling in real time, transforming into a sickly, depraved, heartbeat-quickening… foolish grin.

“Hah… hah… so… this is it…”

Asteria’s pupils began to go unfocused.

“This feeling… this… so… so good…”

Her voice grew softer and softer, shakier and shakier, until it was barely a whisper.

And at the same time, Wendy felt the “toy” in his hand undergoing a transformation.

That cold, witch-like aura was fading away bit by bit.

Laxana stood dumbfounded at the side, never having imagined things would develop like this.

“Wait… no!!”

She snapped back to reality and reached out to snatch Asteria back, “I haven’t had my fun yet! She can’t recover now!”

But Wendy abruptly released the “toy” in his hand and instead lunged forward to grab hold of Laxana’s ghostly body!

The death witch’s eyes flew wide, her entire form trembling as she cried out in terror:

“You! What… what are you doing?!”