Hearing the cries of his congregation as their bodies boiled up from the insides and morphed into demons, the king spared of the same fate, rushed through the secret tunnels under the colosseum connected directly to a random room inside his castle. But even as he passed in the safety of the guards, he could hear them groaning out in agony.
"UGHHHH!" One of the guards grunted out loud, and jumped his companions, trying to lead the king to safety.
With the element of surprise in his hands, he tore off through the helmet with ease and began bashing his head into the other guard until it was grounded to minced meat. The king, having witnessed all of it, wanted nothing more than to get away from any and all affected by the aggravating effects of the curse.
Even though his exposure to it had been limited to the early stages of conversion, he was smart enough to realize that their violet as well as other devious tendencies were being brought out to the max.
"Stay in!" Right as he exited into the castle room, Marquis blocked the guards behind him by toppling over a wardrobe right by the secret door. "First those commoners stripping naked, and now this?!"
Panting from the effect of his own unique curse, he clutched his heart tight as the pain inside his chest rejuvenated once again. Ignoring the violent knocks on the door, he decided to just power through the hurt and check up on his wife and daughter just as the clone had warned.
'Why the fuck do I have to deal with all of this?! I knew this was a trap by that bloody vampire, he must be conspiring with that demon!' Even now as he made haste to the throne room, his mind was filled with theories instead of genuine concern for his family. 'Wait a second…What if?!'
Coming to a false sense of realization, he stumbled upon the memory of his fight with Athena. The timing for everything that had played so perfectly well in the demon's hand felt a bit odd to him, almost as if he had some help from someone who could've helped him get out of the guestroom cell to set it all up.
"I did choke her, that too in front of Alice…" Mislead by his racing thoughts he stood motionless in a corridor, utterly devoid of any sight of life.
Breaking the ice, however, were the faint moans of a woman coming from behind the massive door up ahead. The voice, while familiar, felt foreign to him. They drew him in closer to hear in clearer and clearer, and by the time he was right by the door, the familiarity of the voice helped him click who it was in his mind.
'Athena? And…Alice?' The constant sounds of their moans were drowning him in a turmoil of emotions. He felt betrayed even though he'd betrayed her first, he felt cheated, even though he'd cheated her with kind words, and most importantly of all, he felt rage. Rage from the assumption that the two were already in arms with the demons before the night he fought with his wife.
Deluded by his own imagination, Marquis burst into the room without thinking another thought. Taken by scorn, he laid his eyes over to the woman he'd once considered his wife, giving the demons a deep-tongued kiss. Right by her, was his half-bred mutant daughter, riding on the throbbing dick of the demon.
In high rage, he had thrown all caution to the wind while marching towards the demon sitting on his throne. Peeking from the edge of his eyes, Haruki noticed the king walking closer, and to tease him further, he slapped his daughter's ass to make her give out a loud moan. Thereafter, the king stopped in his tracks hearing the groan, Haruki lifted her up to uncork her pussy and let his seeds pumped full inside of her drip down on her body.
"You're a monster, what have you done to them?!" Marquis exclaimed, his fists gripped tight.
Knowing full well that he wasn't a warrior, he somehow held back from attacking Haruki, as that would without a shred of doubt, ascertain his death. Ignoring the king's words a while longer, Haruki snapped his finger and moved Alice aside. Heeding his gesture, Athena said not a word, but simply got down between his legs and began cleaning his dick with her mouth.
"What have I done?" Glaring at Marquis while fucking his lost woman's mouth, Haruki let out a hearty chuckle. "I did hypnotize your wife in her dream, but it seems like you were already enough of a bastard to have them betray you."
"You're lying! They must be under a charm, otherwise, they would never betray me!" Marquis screamed as he lied to his own conscience.
Once again, just laughing in his face, Haruki was gloating joyously in torturing the corrupt scum. After all the time he'd wanted to kill Marquis, he just couldn't spare an ounce of sympathy for him, especially after he tried to sign off on his death a second time just a while ago.
'That reminds me, didn't he also add charges of me kidnapping demi-human girls to sell as sex slaves from a merchant?' Even back in his previous life, it was glaringly obvious that it was the king trying to write up one of his own blunders in Haruki's name. The unfortunate reminder at the moment was just about to make his suffering even worse by the second.
"He's not lying, father," leaving him baffled, Alice chimed into the conversation.
"Tell him, Alice, tell him what happened," urging her to go forward, Haruki strengthened his curse on Marquis so he couldn't try to do anything against her.
"This man here, he talked with Mother, and she trusts him more than she trusts you," walking closer and closer to the king, Alice had her razor-sharp claws hidden behind her back.
"This can't be happening, this must be a nightmare!" Incapable of comprehending the situation, Marquis grabbed onto his hair and started pulling on them in frustration. "He said he hypnotized you! Yes! THAT MUST BE IT! HE'S TRICKING YOU ALICE! DON'T TRUST HIM!"
"He said he only hypnotized Mother, didn't he?" Stopping right before her father, Alice glared up at him wishing to do what she should've done the night she saw him choking her mother. "I know what he did, and I'm glad he did it because even though she should've, she never could do anything to hurt you!"
The moment those words left Alice's mouth, Maquis was shell-shocked by the realization that she knew her mother was being manipulated. He tried to once again utter an excuse, but in the eyes of the silver-eyed demi-cat, the verdict had already been made.
"I hereby declare your death," hearing those words from Haruki, Alice drew her hand back and tore her father's heart right through his body.
"By the way," with Alice's hand still going through the hole in the king's chest, Haruki decided to rub in one last insult. " I ran out of mana when I came back to the real world from her dream, which in turn undid the hypnosis I had cast on her, but guess what? Your wife and daughter still agreed to do this."
'As long as I keep my promise to free her people from slavery, that is.' Purposefully taking out that part, Haruki made it sound even harsher.
"K-kill…me," broken to the very core, the king finally begged for his death. "KILL ME YOU FUCKING DAUGHTER OF A WHOR-"
Not letting him finish his last words, Haruki crushed his skull with a pair of shadow hands.
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