<h4>Side Story Chapter 67 - Den of the Night Demons (4)</h4>


    "A-Aaaahh," Oh Kang-Woo groaned as he pulled on his hair. Intense fear that was permanently engraved in his mind took over him. "AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!"


    He screamed as he twisted and turned. He trembled uncontrobly like a vibrator and foamed at the mouth.


    "S-Subi...?"


    <i>Squelch.</i>


    Kang-Woo was reminded of the green tentacles covered in sticky mucus. He had seen the subi that served Lilith a few times during his days in Hell. Just like Lilith, they were nightmarish creatures that had likely crawled out from the worst of nightmares. Imagining a den of such creatures sent shivers down Kang-Woo''s spine.


    "Th-That''s correct! This is a space created by evil Subi!"


    "How many... how many of them are there?" asked Kang-Woo as he gulped.


    "Uhh... I-I''m not sure..."


    The man fell into thought as his eyes darted around. Kang-Woo raised his fist in silence.


    "Gaaaaaaaah!! W-Wait! Please wait!!"


    The man turned back to look at the copsed people as if begging for assistance.


    Another man who seemed to be hisrade quickly answered, "N-No one is certain about their exact numbers! B-But..."


    "But what?"


    "I heard that the Den of the Night Demons consists of at least three hundred Subi!"


    "THREE HUNDRED?!!"


    <i>''Did you fucking say three hundred?!!''</i>


    Kang-Woo was so shocked that his eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.


    "GYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" Kang-Woo fell to his knees as he screamed in terror.


    <i>''Three hundred Subi...?! I shouldn''t have fuckinge! I should''ve justzed around at home with my Darling! As I thought, it''s dangerous outside!''</i>


    Kang-Woo stepped back in pallor.


    Seeing a sliver of hope from seeing Kang-Woo trembling in fear, the man who had been beaten by Kang-Woo shouted, "N-Now isn''t the time to fight among ourselves!"


    "..."


    "We have to join forces to escape from this den of Subi!"


    A vein bulged from Kang-Woo''s forehead.


    "Yeah, makes sense," Kang-Woo answered.


    "R-Right?"


    "Yup, it makes a whole lot of sense for me to beat your ass."


    <i>''You should''ve listened to me when you had the chance.''</i>


    <i>Bash—!</i>


    Kang-Woo kicked the man''s stomach like a football.


    "Kurgh—!! Urgh!" The man clenched his stomach and coughed up blood.


    "Fuuu," Kang-Woo sighed as he looked down at the convulsing man.


    "Y-You fucking brat!!" The man who had proudly revealed himself as an apostle of Helya earlier red at Kang-Woo as he bared his teeth. "Fine! Kill us, motherfucker! We''re gonna die here anyway so it doesn''t matter who kills us, whether it be you or the Subi!!"


    "Alright. If you want to die so badly, I''ll kill you."


    "H-Hahaha!! You''ll follow us in death soon enough after once your life force is drained by the Subi!" shouted the man as he acted calm despite being terrified.


    Kang-Woo stopped in his tracks as he was walking toward the man.


    <i>''Draining life force, huh?''</i>


    If this was a den of Subi like the men said, the Subi woulde to them sooner orter to drain their life force. Kang-Woo had seen the process of Subi draining their prey several times. They wrapped their prey with dozens of tentacles and brutally squeezed out their life force to the veryst drop. He never wanted to see such a horrifying sight again.


    <i>''I could use these guys as bait, at the very least.''</i>


    It was not wise to kill them right away.


    "Th-Three hundred Subi... Ahem! What a predicament," said Balrog anxiously as he approached. No, his voice was filled with anticipation rather than anxiety for some reason. "Hah! My word! H-Hundreds of those beautiful and lewd demons?! Ahem! I''m worried they might fall for my burly muscles!"


    "What the fuck are you talking about...?"


    Kang-Woo''s expression immediately crumpled.


    "You have to agree, don''t you, my king?! What should I do if those Subi fall for me and try to seduce me bare naked?!"


    "Kill them all, obviously."


    <i>''Three hundred Subi trying to seduce us while bare naked... Fuck, I almost imagined it.''</i>


    Balrog eximed in shock, "H-How could you say such a thing?! Subi are rare, even in Hell! To think you would even consider eradicating a paradise of three hundred Subi..."


    From his perspective, a den of Subi was nothing but a paradise made up of only beautiful women.


    "PARADISE, MY ASS!!!" Kang-Woo shouted furiously.


    He felt nauseous just from imagining a gathering of those hideous tentacle monsters.


    <i>''Whatever the case, I have to get the fuck out of here fast.''</i>


    Kang-Woo needed to find a way out before the Subi came to feast on their prey.


    "Balrog, I''m destroying the tunnel."


    "M-My king?"


    They had no time to waste. The Subi coulde to suck the life force out of the copsed men at any second.


    <i>''Anything but Subi.''</i>


    Kang-Woo could confidently face any other demon but he couldn''t even bear the sight of one hideous tentacle monster.


    "Huup."


    <i>Whoooom!</i>


    Immense demonic energy, more than enough to obliterate the tunnel, gathered around Kang-Woo''s fist.


    Swoosh—!


    - Hohohoho!


    As he was about to swing his fist, pink smoke covered the ground. The copsed men trembled in terror as soon as they saw the fog-like smoke.


    "Gurghhh! W-We''re dead...!"


    "Th-The Subi are here—!!"


    "W-Were all gonna die!"


    Chaos spread like poison; the apostles of Helya and Ishvalda screamed in fear.


    "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!"


    Kang-Woo also screamed in extreme fear as he pulled his hair among the apostles. It was toote to escape.


    "Th-They''reing! Here they fuckinge!!"


    Kang-Woo trembled as he took several steps back. He could see a ck silhouette inside the pink mist walking seductively toward them. He wanted to shut his eyes tightly but he knew better than anyone else that it was meaningless due to his transcendental senses.


    "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Balrog cheered with his fists clenched.


    Unlike the terrified expressions of the others, only his face was filled with excitement and ecstasy.


    "Fufu. We have quite the feast today ?"


    "Haaaaaaaaah~ Such a thick scent of energy~ I''m already getting wet~ ?"


    "Oh? Why are they all copsed? Fufu, are they offering themselves to us?"


    Seductive voices as if they were born to seduce men echoed throughout the cave. The Subi revealed themselves from the pink mist atst.


    "GAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!"


    "S-SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"


    The apostles who could no longer move after getting beaten by Kang-Woo screamed in terror.


    "FUUUUUUUUCK!! THEY''RE HERE! THEY''RE REALLY HERE!!"


    Kang-Woo trembled in despair and panic.


    "Oh? There''s a cute little boy among them."


    "Kyaah! I call dibs on him!"


    "Fufufu. I''ll let you taste the greatest pleasure you''ve ever had, so why don''t youe here, little boy?"


    The Subi giggled bewitchingly as they approached the men. The beauty of the Subi who came out from the smoke lived up to their reputation of draining the life force of men.


    "Fuck off, damn tentacle mons— huh?"


    <i>''Why are they beautiful?''</i>


    Kang-Woo''s eyes opened widely in disbelief. They were tall and slender; not only were their breasts plentiful but their waists were narrow and their buttocks were thick inparison. The Subi who came out of the mist looked as if they were the culmination of every man''s hopes and dreams.


    "What the fuck?"


    <i>''What the fuck?''</i>


    "Why are they beautiful?"


    Kang-Woo stared at the Subi, his expression frozen. The Subi, who were wearing so little clothes to the point that there was no point even wearing anything, giggled as they posed like supermodels.


    "He''s asking why Subi are beautiful? Fufufu. Did youe here without knowing what Subi are, cute little boy?"


    "Hohoho. Don''t you worry. These olderdies here will teach you nice and well about what Subi are~ ?"


    "Hehe. That boy is cute, so let''s raise him as our pet!"


    The Subi giggled, havingpletely misunderstood the reason why Kang-Woo was shocked.


    "Oh..." Kang-Woo expressed.


    He finally understood everything— about why demons from the Nine Hells were targeting another world out of the blue, and why people of another Earth knew about this ce known as the <i>Den of the Night Demons</i>.


    <i>''These Subi... aren''t from the Nine Hells.''</i>


    Just like how there was another <i>Earth</i>, the Subi were also from another <i>Hell</i>.


    "A-Aaaahh."


    Kang-Woo''s hands shook. Something boiling deep inside his heart surged up to his brain. A zing emotion took over him,


    "MOTHERFUCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!"


    Intense rage burnt his sense of reason to a crisp.


    "WHY...? WHY THE FUCK IS THE NINE HELLS... IN THE NINE HELLS, THEY WERE...!!!"


    <i>''Subi from another world are so beautiful, but why are the Subi from the Nine Hells so...''</i>


    "FUCKING BITCHES! WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU TREMBLING IN FEAR FOR SUCCUBI THAT LOOK LIKE THAT?!" Kang-Woo screamed as he picked up one of the copsed men by the cor.


    "Kurgh! Urgh! Guh! Wh-Why are you—"


    Unimaginable frustration boiled inside Kang-Woo.


    <i>''If only...''</i>


    If only he had fallen into the other world''s Hell instead of the Nine Hells and rose to be the Demon King there, he would never have developed this wretched trauma.


    "Haaa, haaa," Kang-Woo panted heavily as he red fiercely at the Subi.


    "O-Oh?"


    "S-Such power...!"


    The Subi turned as white as a sheet after feeling the energy bursting from Kang-Woo and stepped back.


    <i>''They mustn''t exist.''</i>


    Kang-Woo clenched his fists. Beautiful Subi! Subi with no more than two eyes and no yellow pus! Subi without tentacles— no, those green wriggling trash!!! He refused to believe such beings existed.


    "Beings like you... cannot exist. No such beings can exist in this universe. I can''t... I can''t be the only one to experience such pain."


    As Kang-Woo was spending his days in agony with tentacles wrapped around him, beautiful Subi were giggling and frolicking in a Hell of another world. He refused to believe such a reality.


    "Yeah, you guys... aren''t Subi."


    Kang-Woo slowly raised his right arm.


    <i>Schwing!</i>


    A jet-ck greatsword appeared in his hand.


    "Balrog," he called.


    "BLEEEEEEEEEEGHHH!!!"


    "...?"


    All Kang-Woo got as a response was the sound of vomiting. Balrog''s eyes were bloodshot as he puked so hard that he could even vomit out his intestines. He red at the Subi.


    "Subi without tentacles...?" Balrog took off his pendant and red ferociously at the Subi. "HOW DARE YOU CALL YOURSELVES SUCCUBI WITH SUCH HIDEOUS FORMS?!!"


    Boom!


    A muscle-bound red giant with eyes trembling with rage appeared out of nowhere.


    "BEAUTIFUL SUCCUBI—!"


    "HIDEOUS SUCCUBI—!"


    The voice of the two demons ovepped.


    "MUST NOT EXIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST!!!"


    ***


    "Wh-What? Kang-Woo and Mr. Balrog entered a Gate?" said Han Seol-Ah anxiously as she grabbed Lilith''s hand in pallor.


    "The king is with Balrog, so there''s nothing you need to worry about. Besides, the king has regained much of his power."


    "But..."


    Seol-Ah lowered her head with a dark expression. She recalled the sight of the unconscious Kang-Woo after being attacked by Akart''s subordinate. She fell into thought for a while and then pushed back her chair as she stood up.


    "I''m getting too worried, unnie. Please tell me where the Gate that Kang-Woo entered is."


    Seol-Ah clenched her fist, her eyes filled with determination.