World Isekai

Chapter 21: [Lilae]

Mori was slowly walking through the alleyways.

He encountered nobody besides the occasional nameless corpses of demonfolks.

The rotten smell was strong. It felt as if it soaked his clothes as he walked past them.

In the real world, homelessness was the highest it had ever been in history.

He had previously encountered corpses under bridges or in alleyways. However, it was the first time that he could do nothing about it.

Guards would obviously never help demonfolks, let alone clean up their remains, and if they were left there it was easy to assume their family or close ones couldn't do much more.

He was now walking past the third one.

The old Mori, Jack Law, would've had a hard time even walking past them.

The new Jack, on the other hand, was unbothered.

He looked at each corpse, making sure they would be on his mind the day he would deal with DiveCore.

"Took you long enough."

He had finally arrived at the designated place.

"You are terrible at giving directions," said Mori.

Lilae was sitting on a pile of boxes, a bit further down the alleyway he had turned into.

Besides backdoors, trash and puddles, there was nothing particularly concerning.

He couldn't feel anyone around, but since he wasn't an expert in recon, he kept in mind this could be a trap.

He turned the letter he had received with a pink heart into a tight ball, letting it fall to the ground as he approached the succubus.

"What do you want?" asked Mori.

"Well, for starters, apologies."

"I have nothing to apologize for. You deserved what you got."

"You left me there, after playing with my body, not even taking responsibility."

Mori's eyebrows shot up.

"You're... deranged. You're actually crazy..."

Lilae's hands trembled as she squeezed her breasts and bit her lips while staring at Mori.

"Oh yeah? What else am I?"

"...You degrading kink bitch."

"Oh yeah?"

She kept staring into his eyes, her face bright red.

The brand around her neck started sizzling, and the inscribed hex moved around, tightening.

Black smoke was coming out of it, while blood dripped down from the marks it was causing.

She kept staring at him; her face displaying degenerate pleasure. She ultimately broke eye contact as her eyes started drifting upward, her mouth wide open.

She dropped to her knees, her head knocking against the wall.

"h-ah," she barely said, "You- You'd better threaten me with death, instead of pain..."

Mori closed his eyes, while deeply exhaling. He grabbed his forehead while shaking his head, trying to control his annoyance.

Of course, it's the rotten-brained Succubus whose degenerate brain enjoys pain.

"Can- Can you do that again??" she asked between quick breaths.

Mori tightened his fist, ready to strike, but quickly stopped his motion.

"No, no, do it. Hit me, I deserve it."

He closed his eyes a moment, and inhaled.

"Hey! Stop! Come back," she pleaded on the ground, as he was walking away again.

He heard her stand up and take a few quick steps.

"Okay! Stop! I'll tell you, just promise me to activate this thing again..."

Mori turned around.

"I'm listening."

"The person in the sky was Asmodael, we're what's left of his royal guards."

Asmodael? So he is still around?

"Why was he up there? Why doesn't he take back this city, if he's still alive? I have yet to see any strong humans around."

"The humans who rampaged through our ranks are gone, sure, but the real problem is who they left behind, he's named Jeff."

Mori arched his eyebrows in disbelief.

"That guy? He's the one giving you trouble? Really?"

Lilae scoffed, "You should rethink that thought. For some reason, the human kingdom in the past 3 years has been uncovering an insane amount of artifacts everyone thought lost forever. We have no idea how they're doing it, but they just keep coming with new tools and weapons."

So that's what they've been doing. No need to keep your strongest warriors from the frontline if you can give artifacts to the average captain.

"What artifact does he have?" asked Mori.

"It's more a question of what doesn't he have. He's not high level, and he's not the smartest, but he would win against Asmodael."

That's... Problematic.