55. Encounter with the Evil God

 

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The softness and warmth that should greet his skin every morning are absent.

 

"Ugh…"

 

A sensation of coldness and slight dampness.

It feels like lying in a shallow puddle, no deeper than his knees.

 

Jae-hyun, who had been sleeping, struggles to lift his eyelids

and rises from the shallow lakeside, not the bed he fell asleep in.

 

"Ugh… There’s no way I fell asleep in a place like this."

 

Opening his heavy eyes and looking around, all he sees is dark smoke.

 

No buildings, no people, not even a stray object—

just a shallow lake stretching endlessly, barely wetting below his knees.

 

"Finally awake? I’ve been waiting forever."

 

While walking around, bewildered, a voice reaches Jae-hyun’s ears.

 

"Who’s there…?"

 

It sounds vaguely familiar, yet impossible to place.

 

Its eerie quality, indistinguishable by gender or age, makes it hard to recall even if he’s heard it before.

 

"What… Did you already forget my voice? That’s a bit hurtful."

 

"With that creepy voice and that way of talking… It could only be that guy."

 

"Good to know you remember."

 

The one who brought Jae-hyun, sleeping soundly, to this strange place—

only the 'Evil God' who chose him would act so oddly with such a voice and tone.

 

"Up until now, it felt like telepathy… Why drag me to this weird place all of a sudden?"

 

He was comfortably sleeping with voluptuous, sexy females,

only to be dragged to this dreary place and forcibly awakened.

 

Naturally, he’s not in a great mood.

 

"If I don’t do this, I can’t look you in the eye and talk directly."

 

'Look me in the eye and talk…?'

 

- Whoosh—

 

Black smoke rises in front of him as he pauses his steps.

 

"Ugh…!"

 

Even with Jae-hyun’s strong physique, the force is enough to push him back.

The power emanating from the smoke is overwhelmingly sinister.

 

"Ahaha…♥"

 

A seductive laugh echoes from within the pitch-black smoke.

 

Unlike the eerie, unsettling voice from before,

this laugh is delicate and soft, like fine silk.

 

Soon, the smoke begins to dissipate,

and a woman emerges, smiling alluringly, revealing herself.

 

"Nice to meet you. This is the first time we’re meeting in person, right?

Well… I dragged you here, so I’m not sure if ‘in person’ is quite right."

 

Silver hair cascading far below her voluptuous hips,

red eyes harboring an unfathomable void.

 

And… black feathered wings and a dark halo above her head.

 

It’s clear the woman before him is no human.

 

"Are you… the Evil God?"

 

Jae-hyun seems shocked, as this is nothing like the Evil God he imagined.

 

With that unsettling voice and playful tone,

he pictured a bearded old man or a mischievous kid.

 

"Yes. I’m the being who granted sinister power to an ordinary human like you…

the Evil God born from human desire and pleasure."

 

Yet, the Evil God standing before him is a stunningly beautiful woman,

completely unlike anything he’d imagined.

 

"What… Don’t like my appearance?"

 

Her beauty is beyond what the word “beautiful” can capture.

 

Even seeing such divine grace, Jae-hyun’s odd reaction makes the Evil God tilt her head slightly.

 

"No… That’s not it."

 

To Jae-hyun’s eyes, her form is dazzlingly beautiful.

He’s just flustered by the vast gap between his imagination and reality.

 

"Hehe… Or are you too stunned by my beauty to speak?"

 

"Well… Half right, half wrong."

 

It takes several glances at her face to adjust to the dissonance.

 

Half agreeing that her beauty stunned him, he indirectly praises her stunning form.

 

"That makes me really happy…♥"

 

Though her face doesn’t flush, being non-human,

the corners of her mouth lift slightly in a gentle smile.

 

- Splash… Splosh…

 

With a kind but chilling smile, the Evil God slowly approaches Jae-hyun.

 

Shorter than him, the water reaches just above her knees,

but she walks toward him as if strolling on solid ground.

 

"I can’t yet visit your world directly, so I brought you here.

For a divine being to manifest in the mortal world… it takes a lot of energy."

 

Manifesting a concept like her existence into reality is a miracle,

and even for a god, creating miracles isn’t easy.

 

"It’s embarrassing to admit, but… my power is too weak to manifest.

The world’s becoming filled with dishonest beings."

 

Her essence, rooted in primal instincts of 'pleasure and desire,'

weakens as society and technology advance, turning the world cold and mechanical.

 

People in that world increasingly forsake their pleasure and desires,

living and dying in repetitive, rigid lives, passing the same to their offspring.

 

As this cycle continues, the Evil God’s power has steadily waned.

 

"So, to regain my strength, I create and send monsters.

In a chaotic world, people are drawn to their primal instincts."

 

"And the magical girls keep defeating them, making it all pointless."

 

Her expression sours slightly at the mention of magical girls.

 

"Because of the one creating those magical girls…

I’ve become so weak I can’t even manifest."

 

'The one…?'

 

The Evil God mentions a being who creates magical girls.

 

Just as Jae-hyun was chosen by her to become an apostle,

he speculates magical girls might receive power from another divine being.

 

"Hmm… Thinking about it, there’s no need to talk about them yet.

You’ll find out eventually, but not now."

 

"Saying that makes me more curious, but… fine."

 

The Evil God brushes it off without further explanation,

and Jae-hyun doesn’t press, only speculating.

 

Knowing such a being exists is enough for now.

 

"Thanks to your hard work, I can at least meet you like this.

Without you… I might’ve vanished like dust."

 

Before meeting Jae-hyun, the Evil God was at a critical point.

 

In a cold world where desire and pleasure were fading,

the monsters she created with her dwindling power were defeated by magical girls.

 

It wouldn’t have been surprising if she’d disappeared entirely.

 

"To thank you for proving my choice was right, I’ll show my gratitude."

 

The Evil God steps closer to Jae-hyun, bowing deeply.

 

"Kiss…♥"

 

She gently presses her lips to Jae-hyun’s erect penis, uncovered and standing tall.

 

"Not shy at all… As expected of my apostle…♥"

 

Though his body flinches at the soft, moist sensation,

he doesn’t shy away or panic, and she nods as if she expected as much.

 

'No… She wasn’t like this before…'

 

Though it doesn’t show on his face, he’s genuinely flustered.

 

From her irritating, playful tone to now speaking kindly

and kissing his cock as an Evil God—it’s hard to believe it’s the same being.

 

But to the Evil God, Jae-hyun is the precious human who kept her from vanishing.

 

So, treating him more kindly and showing such gestures

are, from her perspective, perfectly natural.

 

"As a human who passed the trial, you’ll become a truly special being.

Every female will fawn at your feet… and spread their holes wide for you."

 

'Talking like that… It’s definitely her.'

 

"What? Doubting me because I’m so different from what you imagined?"

 

"You knew and pretended not to? That’s not fair."

 

Reading his mind is easy for her,

so she’s known all along that Jae-hyun was suspicious of her.

 

"It was fun, so I kept quiet."

 

"Alright… I’m sure now you’re the same one."

 

Though calling a divine being a “person” might not fit,

Jae-hyun is certain the one he first met and the woman before him are the same.

 

"Anyway… Keep corrupting magical girls as you’ve been doing.

In that place full of magical girls… quietly and discreetly."