Chapter 336. Myne's Tale: Journey Through Darkness
Ayri's outburst was a minor episode that, except for Myne, no one took too seriously, not even her sister. Sylphy reasoned that Ayri, nearing adulthood, naturally developed a curiosity about mature topics. Since she hardly ever left her room and limited activities beyond reading, acquiring some foul language wasn't considered alarming.
Ayri was inherently a good and kind girl, and as she grew up, she would come to understand this. Sylphy herself was like this back then.
Myne, however, held a different opinion. As the "master of adultery staff" and avid reader of 18+ novels, he knew very well that this was just the start of a problem. If no one stopped Ayri or taught her the real meaning of those things, it wouldn't be long before curiosity killed the pussy.
"Jenny, huh? You dare to mess with my little sister. Let me see who can save you from me," Myne thought with a scowl. He was formulating a plan to teach Jenny a proper lesson that she wouldn't forget in her entire life when Myne's voice snapped him back to reality.
"What are you thinking so seriously? Continue your story, or are you planning to pretend to be dead so we won't know the bad deeds you've done in that dimension? After all, you've already given us two surprises. God knows what else you've done there," Maya said with a tired sigh and a shake of her head.
"You're thinking too much. Do I look like that kind of person who just thinks about women all day long, and wants to change them like clothes?" Myne spoke unhappily, but seeing everyone looking at him with poker faces while nodding their heads, he could only laugh awkwardly and continue his story.
"So, where was I? Ah, yes. When I saw Velvet forcefully enter the room, I instantly froze. Without thinking, I quickly hid behind the Town Lord's wife. Not because I feared that Velvet would misunderstand me and start beating me, but because what I saw was not Velvet, but an ugly, disgusting monster eyeing me.
The Town Lord's wife was clearly a big player, even though she knew everything, she started pretending to be scared and quickly changed position, hiding behind me."
"She then explained that this monster I was seeing was a creature that lived in that weird fog and was very dangerous. While we were talking, Velvet, who came out of shock seeing me having fun with an older woman, rushed toward us. She wanted to take me away, as she knew by then that the Town Lord's wife was not simple. But it was too late.
I was already fooled by the Town Lord's wife and shot a few fireballs at Velvet, seriously injuring her."
"You actually shot down your own girlfriend?" Maya asked with a weird, confused expression, looking at Myne as if she were seeing him for the first time. Others also had a similar reaction, surprised by such a turn of events.
"I had no other option. To me, she was an ugly monster, and what she said was just random nonsense that I couldn't understand. So when she rushed toward us, of course, I shot her with magic for my self-defence," Myne replied with a helpless smile, shrugging his shoulders.
"Wait since you didn't deny it, this means you are acknowledging that she is your girlfriend, not just a random friend, right?" Aisha, on high alert from the start, instantly seized on a key point, making Myne sweat. He sought to deflect with an excuse, but seeing the girls' grim expressions, he gave a weak nod.
"Then how did you find out that she is your girlfriend, not a monster?" Amy, who had the least contact with Myne and still wasn't at the stage where she liked him or cared about his love life, asked out of curiosity, inadvertently saving him from another beating.
"I saw something on her that only Velvet could have—her late mother's ring. That ring was very precious to her, and that monster's claw was so big that it's nearly impossible for it to wear such a small ring. After seeing that ring, I immediately understood that something was wrong, and memories related to Velvet returned. You guys won't believe it, I was frightened to death at that time.
Even the Town Lord's beautiful wife looked no different than a scary ghost to me, so I hurried rushed toward injured Velvet, picked her up, and jumped out of the window, leaving a dumbfounded woman behind. Later, I heard her angry scream, but alas, by then, I had already returned to the market. However, I was still very scared, so I ran to the other side of town, which was covered in darkness."
"I found a deserted house and took shelter there. Along the way, Velvet regained consciousness, but her injuries were so severe that I thought she would die the next moment. After confirming the house was empty, I placed her on a bed, sealed the entire house with my magic, and swiftly healed her wounds, pulling her back from danger.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
However, my healing magic isn't potent on others, so it took Velvet several days to recover fully and wake from her coma. I initially thought we'd flee after her recovery, but what we witnessed turned out to be a mere illusion."
"On the third day's end, a loud bell tolled across the town, and everything transformed. The clean, new-looking house where we sheltered became a haunted house in the blink of an eye. That was the beginning of my nightmare.
Seeing thousands of dead bodies littered through the town from the window was horrific enough, but what truly terrified us was when those damn dead bodies stood up and chased after us like crazy beasts."
"Believe me, you guys never want to experience getting caught by those rotten corpses, and a simple bite or scratch will turn you into one of them," Myne shuddered just mentioning the horrors, sending chills down his spine.
"Hmm, but to my knowledge, there are no documented cases of undead turning people through bites or scratches. I've faced many undead and seen people injured by them, but no one ever transformed the way you describe," Maya pondered, rubbing her chin thoughtfully, wondering if what Myne encountered was really undead or if they were some kind of bizarre biological experiment of that crazy demon. Experience new stories on empire
"Huh? But Alban said that... F*ck! That old pervert fooled me. I knew I shouldn't have trusted him. Damn it, if I catch him someday, I will surely take my revenge," Myne muttered angrily, hammering his fist on the soft bed.
"He is dead."
"What!?"
"If that old pervert in your mouth is the demon who was the ruler of that damnation, then he is already dead. I don't think you can even take revenge on him now," Maya said casually and explained how Alban summoned Stygian to deal with them but instantly dug his own grave.
"Anyway, I will tell you my side of the story later. First, finish yours. Compared to mine, yours is more interesting. There are quite a lot of elements in your story," Maya said with a mysterious smile.
However, she felt stiff from sitting in the chair for so long, so she pushed Myne aside, not caring if this might reopen his wounds, and comfortably laid down on the bed beside him, leaving everyone speechless. But as the eldest family member, she clearly had this privilege, and no one could say anything to her.
After wincing in pain for a few moments, receiving no sympathy or kind words, Myne sighed helplessly for his poor luck and continued. He told everyone how he and Velvet ran around the town for three continuous days without proper rest and later met Alban. He recounted how they bravely fought a horde of undeads and narrowly escaped from them before getting inside Alban's secret hideout.
However, when he mentioned Velvet getting possessed by a demonic entity turning into a nightmare for him, and beating the hell out of him girls finally showed some sympathy for him.
"Wait a minute, so you left your possessed girlfriend in that hideout to die and ran away alone? So cruel! I didn't expect you to be such a person, Lord Husband. If I had known about it earlier, I would have thought more carefully before deciding to marry you," Sylphy said with a fake fearful look on her face, which was no different then direct mocking.
She grabbed Aisha's arm as if worried that Myne's inner demon might come out and attack her.
Myne blushed slightly hearing Sylphy's teasing. Despite knowing she was joking, he still felt guilty for leaving his lover behind like a coward and running away.
"Shut up! She wasn't Velvet, but a doppelganger of her. Although she didn't show any kind of flaw and had almost all of Velvet's memories at the beginning, there were times she revealed some minor flaws. About which I only realized later. No one can perfectly copy another person. To confirm my suspicion, I asked something which she shouldn't know that I know.
However, when she calmly answered that question, I understood that she was fake and someone created her from my memories."
"I don't know how to comment on this. Just how bored must that demon named Alban be to go to such lengths to mess with you? Shouldn't he have more important things to do? This guy probably has given up on the hope of improving or promoting to the next level and is doing what most people do: eat, play, and wait to die.
Tsk, what a loser," Myne placed her hands behind her head with a disdainful sneer, exposing her giant breasts in front of Myne.
In order to tease or punish Myne, not only did she wear very thin clothes, exposing her curves, but she also didn't wear her bra, and while bandaging, she especially wrapped Myne's little brother tightly with bandages and tied it to his thigh, so when it became hard, Myne knew what it meant to make his Big Sister angry.
"So, how did you escape that dark fog?" Ayri asked curiously, finally returning to her innocent demeanour, to Myne's relief.
"It wasn't easy. I wandered through that desolate, foggy expanse for months, completely alone. The loneliness almost drove me mad. I had given up hope, seeing no way out... Then, I encountered my mother..."