Chapter 68
This made no sense. It was a method Violen utterly couldn’t understand. Perhaps not just Violen, but most demons would feel the same.
If yin energy is absorbed to the limit, the target dies. But it’s rare for an incubus to be able to prolong a dream enough to absorb yin energy to that limit. That’s why incubi only absorb yin energy and don’t kill their targets. They don’t spare them because they don’t want to kill them, but because they have no way to kill them. If they could kill them, it would be better to kill them. Because they could be revenged upon.
That could be seen just by looking at Heesu’s case. Heesu suffered at the hands of the incubus, and she harbored a desire for revenge. Up to that point, it was a natural course of events.
But in fact, that incubus could have killed Heesu. Yet, he let her go. He didn’t eliminate a being who could harbor resentment and seek revenge against him, even though he could have.
Moreover, Heesu’s magical power was an endlessly tempting meal for demons. Even though he had caught such precious prey, and had the chance to absorb all that magical power to become much stronger, he just let her go.
Of course, he did warn that he would come again. But there was no reason to take the risk and aim for a second chance in the first place. Nevertheless, that incubus did it.
Why in the world?
At Violen’s question, the incubus’s face became serious, and he shook his head.
“I don’t do that! Because I don’t want to kill.”
“What?”
Violen was even more dumbfounded. He would have been more convinced if the incubus had answered that he did it for fun, or that he was enjoying a game of his own.
But, the reason was to not kill his prey?
This truly made no sense. It wasn’t the thought process of a normal demon.
“Because I’m going to be an incubus who protects women!”
Regardless of Violen’s shock, the incubus puffed out his chest and said proudly.
“Protects women?!”
Heesu, listening from the side, looked utterly dumbfounded at those words.
“You, who seduces women in dreams and exploits their yin energy, what kind of nonsense are you spouting?”
“No, it’s actually a somewhat valid point.”
Violen shook his head and smiled wryly.
If he wanted to, he could have absorbed yin energy indiscriminately, regardless of whether women died or not, and become as strong as he pleased. Nevertheless, he had lived by repeatedly absorbing only a moderate amount of yin energy and letting women go, so as not to kill them. The amount he absorbed was merely a sip compared to the amount he could have absorbed. It was no different from just enough sustenance to not starve to death.
A carnivore at the top of the food chain did not devour the herbivore at the very bottom. Instead, it protected its life. From his perspective, he could reasonably claim to have protected them.
Heesu, being human, would naturally not understand such a way of thinking, but from the beginning, the incubus’s way of thinking was impossible in the demon world of survival of the fittest. He was truly an anomaly, like a mutant.
“If I had been born like you, I wouldn’t have lived that way.”
Violen spoke, half in awe, half in mockery. Both were sincere.
The memory of being trampled as the lowest-ranking demon in the demon world made him feel awe, and his nature as a demon, striving to become stronger and rise higher, made him mock him.
“If you had only wanted to, you could have become royalty, a king, not just a noble.”
If you can become king, you become king. Wasn’t that the basic desire of all demons?
But the incubus replied nonchalantly, as if Violen’s awe and mockery meant nothing to him.
“I hate that kind of thing, it’s a headache. I originally lived pretending to be crazy because I didn’t want to get caught up in useless succession struggles…….”
“You did?”
Violen was shocked once again. This was another unexpected revelation. The incubus continued his confession, his eyes blank as if recalling distant memories.
“But…… living like that, I gradually couldn’t tell if I was really crazy…… or if the crazy one was me…….”
“You really are a crazy bastard, aren’t you?”
Violen sighed and shook his head. And then he fell into thought again.
Thinking about it, this was no ordinary matter. All royal-class incubi had died in the war. There were almost no noble-class incubi left. In this situation, if the demon world were rebuilt, and the incubus kingdom were also rebuilt, whether he wanted it or not, there was a high probability that…….
The king of the incubi would be him.
“Well, it’s okay! Thanks to living as a crazy bastard like this, I met Master!”
The incubus, whether he knew it or not, smiled brightly and said with an innocent expression.
“B******t…….”
Heesu muttered indifferently. The incubus, with an ecstatic expression, looked at her, deeply moved.
“I love that side of Master so much. Please, continue to treat me like a worthless worm from now on…….”
“I’m not treating you like a worthless worm, you really are a worthless worm.”
“Haaah~~! I love it so much!”
The incubus gasped in ecstasy.
“My goodness.”
Violen shook his head in disbelief.
So, the one who might become the king of the incubi in the future was in that state.
Violen was genuinely worried about the future of the incubi. The guilt that he himself might have ruined that future was an added bonus.
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