Hubbub. Hubbub.
As I stepped out onto the street, the town was buzzing with talk of yesterday’s demon subjugation.
Newspapers? News sheets? Peddlers were loudly hawking them, filled with testimonies from the client and participants of the subjugation force.
It’s thanks to the acting lord’s management.
He’s quite capable for someone so young.
The information manipulation and propaganda, whether it’s the acting lord’s or his subordinate’s work, is impressive.
I’ll use similar information manipulation for my revenge.
The izakaya that became the site of the subjugation force’s drinking party, the one I tried to pick up girls at.
The staff immediately recognized me as one of the customers they had taken care of last night.
“Before I got too drunk. Do you know who I was talking to?”
“Yes, I remember.”
The description matched my memory.
I need to find out the address of his inn, or his shared room.
“I was planning on getting that guy to drink some strong liquor too~”
“Is that so?”
Before entering the shop.
I “borrowed” a bottle from a box of empty bottles hidden in the shadows.
It was filled with water.
I showed it to the staff, succeeding in making them believe it was for revenge from last night.
Ah, last night, taking a girl home and all.
This calls for a thorough revenge!
○○ Tenement.
Room 305.
The rent was about the same as the inn I was staying at (10 days paid in advance).
Peeking into the room with my Astral Body, the guy and the girl were gone, leaving it empty.
I’ll wait! Using my Possession Ability, I unlocked the door.
I entered boldly and relocked it.
“Sniff sniff… You had quite the fun last night, didn’t you?”
A stench to my nose.
A stain on the bedsheets, dried and stiff.
As killing intent overflowed from my body, I realized my neighbors might sense it.
I reined in my murderous intent.
After confirming with my Astral Body that my neighbors were inactive, I decided to set up traps until he returned to his room.
He defeated me, and then he had fun with a girl.
How much did that anger me?
I’ll make him taste it with these traps.
Traps that can be set indoors.
I combined thread with items found in the room.
I made four traps that would provide restraint and a little pain.
I’d crafted half of them.
“Well then, hurry home already (in a low voice).”
Stretching my neck out of the door with my Astral Body, I waited for several hours.
*Click.*
“Haaah, hm? What’s this… thread?”
He returned home tired and stumbled into the room, already sticky with thread.
He didn’t notice the thicker threads, thinking they were just part of something else. He pulled the thread that activated the first trap.
*Pow.*
“Guhe?!”
A broom, with no lethal force, hit him squarely on the back of his head.
His reflex caused him to cry out in pain, and he stumbled forward, triggering another capture trap. A sheet, made to look like the ceiling, descended upon him.
“Uoooh?! What is this now?! Cloth? Why a sheet… Guele!”
His feet got tangled in the thread and the sheet, causing him to fall to the floor.
He still hadn’t triggered the one remaining trap, which was deliberately hidden.
“Honestly. Dance for me, more amusingly, right in front of me~?”
“Wh-who are you?! Why are you in my room?!”
“No need for such cliché lines. You had a good time with your girlfriend last night, didn’t you? I was made to get drunk (,,,),”
“…Don’t tell me you’re…?”
With my hints, he seemed to realize I was someone from the drinking party last night.
“What are you going to do to me…? You’re not going to kill me, are you? Huh?”
He removed the sheet covering his vision and faced me.
However, the room was dim.
While trying to distance himself from me, he pleaded for his life, trying to alert the neighbors to this anomaly.
It wouldn’t be a problem if someone came.
“What shall I do? If you tell me your girlfriend’s name and address, I might reconsider.”
“Really! I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you, so please spare me!”
I can always verify the truth later.
My goal is to buy time.
*Knock, knock.*
“Hey? What’s all the noise about?”
“You’ve been noisy since yesterday. Please be quiet.”
There was a knock on the door. It wasn’t locked.
“Help me!? It’s a burglar! I’m about to be killed!”
” “What!?” ”
The door opened, and the neighbors, realizing something was wrong, appeared.
It’s 1 vs 3. He’s entangled in threads and can’t move.
It’s 1 vs 2. You’re lucky, but it’s bad timing for you to try and alert others.
“You’re not some kind of hero.”
“Someone! Come quick!”
“A burglar! There’s a burglar!”
Muttering. Muttering.
Residents from the tenement and the surrounding area gathered, driven by pure nosiness.
The neighbors who opened the door didn’t enter the room.
As expected, their lives were more important. They wouldn’t risk their own lives.
“P-please help me!?”
“Too bad for you~”
“Wa-wait—*WHAM*—*Ptui*?!”
I got close without activating the traps.
I’ll give him a retaliatory blow to the face! I felt his nasal bone crack from my fist.
“Serves you right~! Now, I’m going to go confirm your girlfriend’s address. If it’s a lie, you know what will happen, right~?”
“Fugaa, gaaah!?”
He seemed to want to say something to me, but I ignored him.
Climbing onto the roof from the window, I disappeared from this area.
Changing my face and clothes, I peeked at the address with my Astral Body.
…It’s a lie.
“Let’s meet again soon~”
Next time, I’ll come with a blade.
Rayos, on a day when the men’s vigilance and the soldiers’ eyes were relaxed.
I will launch another assault, and this time I will get the address of the girl I hooked while trying to pick her up.
After turning the man into a mangled corpse, I will raid her bedroom while she’s asleep.
Rape.
Finally, I will insert a cylindrical object into her anus and aggressively stimulate her vagina and clitoris, making her wet herself.
Then, as she’s being strangled, she’ll die.
“It was the best~, ○○-chan~”
Taking the corpse, I set off for another town.
Thus, Rayos’ revenge was completed.
