Chapter 5. Faded Abstract

The voices of the choir, dressed in beautiful holy robes, echoed through the chapel.

From young children to quite elderly people, the voices of the choir of different ages were exceedingly sweet. Every time the rich harmony spread throughout the interior, the candlelight on the golden candelabra flickered gently.

After their turn ended, the Third Archbishop Beyson ascended to the pulpit and recited the main prayer. His voice, imbued with divine power, filled the interior with even more reverence than the choir’s hymns.

During the prayer, Renie was half in a daze.

Today, under the pretense of wanting to observe the service, the man had brazenly taken a seat in the back. Even if she didn’t want to see him, his physique, far larger than others, intruded into her vision without permission.

While everyone else had their eyes closed, only he and she had their eyes open. Unspeakable emotions passed quickly over their overlapping gazes.

“Beware of the false things that harm the natural order. Endure their sweet allure. Never be deceived by the devil.”

When the Archbishop uttered the three great commandments against the devil, the corners of Renie’s eyes trembled weakly.

Unable to face him any longer, she looked away first. Before she did, Khan gave a smooth, knowing smile, as if he had seen through her. His slick smile was repulsive.

Renie’s wandering gaze soon reached the stained-glass window in the upper part of the chapel. The night sky, once filled with stars, now showed clear weather as if the rain had never fallen. But she felt no joy at all.

She had failed to recognize the warning from God.

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The tranquility of night descended upon the eastern part of the temple.

Renie walked along the corridor. The hazy moon halo that spread eerily around her reflected her troubled heart.

Walking between the shadows of the pillars, Renie felt as helpless as if swept away by low waves. She looked so precarious that she seemed as if she would collapse if lightly touched. With each step, the cold wind brushed against her ruthlessly.

“Your Holiness.”

Suddenly, she heard a voice grabbing her from behind.

Light pooled in Renie’s eyes as she turned her body. At the edge of the darkness stood the Holy Knight, Reuben. Surprised by the appearance of someone she hadn’t expected, Renie blinked without any reply.

Reuben approached cautiously and bowed respectfully to her.

“I greet Your Holiness, the holy servant of God.”

“Raise your head.”

“I am Reuben, a First-Class Holy Knight.”

He quickly introduced himself, perhaps worried that she wouldn’t recognize him. Renie nodded, a weak curve to her lips.

“How could I not know you.”

Reuben, a First-Class Holy Knight.

He was a man who had achieved the honorable rank of First-Class after endless blood and sweat, despite his humble commoner status. Considering that First-Class was usually a rank only the children of royal capital nobles could receive, it was a remarkable achievement.

At the same time, he was Renie’s peer and a classmate who had once studied theology with her. Before Renie was recommended for the papacy and before Reuben received his knighthood, the two had been relatively close friends.

However, as time passed, their respective paths became clearer, and their relationship inevitably changed accordingly. Although a Holy Knight held a fairly high status in the Holy City, they were not comparable to the Pope, the ruler of this land.

By the oath of blood, Reuben was now a knight who had to dedicate his life to her. Renie was his direct superior and sovereign. Given their strict lord-vassal relationship, the past they had spent laughing together was just a memory to be buried aside.

“The animals you instructed us about earlier have all been buried in the forest outside the temple.”

It was about the animals that the Ferno delegation had slaughtered. Renie understood him without difficulty and replied with a sigh.

“Thank you for your hard work. Is that what you came to report?”

“And.”

Perhaps worried that she would dismiss him, Reuben opened his mouth hastily. But then he hesitated to speak the next words, only moving his lips for a while. The rustling sound of the wind brushing against the leaves filled her ears.

“......Have you been troubled by something lately?”

Renie’s heart sank.

“Your complexion has been consistently poor, so I am concerned. Perhaps something truly happened during the last intruder incident......”

First-Class Holy Knights were generally guards who stayed by the Pope’s side. Surely, Reuben had also been waiting outside the chapel on that dreadful day when she was violated by Khan.

Pretending not to notice his sharply probing question, Renie avoided his gaze.

“As I have already said, I do not remember that day.”

Renie vaguely glossed over the terrible incident, and the temple was currently investigating the matter. But no matter how much they searched, they wouldn’t find a speck of dust. It wouldn’t have been difficult for Khan, who had intended to rape her, to cover up such things.

It wasn’t that Renie didn’t want to tell anyone. Rather, she wanted to cry out to everyone. That a demon had stolen her purity and, not only that, had been manipulating her with vile threats.

But at the same time, that day’s events absolutely could not be known.

If it was revealed that she, the Pope, had been crushed by a demon and lost her chastity, and that she was the culprit who had no divine power from the start, whatever the case, revealing what happened in the chapel would only worsen the situation.

“So, even if you ask me, you won’t get the answer you’re hoping for.”

Even to herself, her voice sounded quite cold. Reuben clenched his fists with a heavy expression, surprised that the usually gentle Pope was acting so coldly.

“I sincerely apologize if I have unintentionally offended you. My heart is anxious at the thought that we missed the ruffian who harmed Your Holiness......”

Contrary to his sincere apology, Renie’s reaction was skeptical. Even if Reuben knew the identity of the ruffian, he wouldn’t be able to stand against him.

Because that opponent was a demon.

She imagined the brutal nature that had cruelly crushed her turning towards the Holy Knights. The prediction was easy. The Holy Knights, including Reuben before her, would scatter blood as profusely as the animals in the carriage.

The fear of the demon that resided in her heart was so great that she had a premonition that they would lose without even trying. The good she knew was powerless and weak against evil. No, evil was just that cunning and venomous.

As the unpleasant stench of blood seemed to brush past her nose again, she squeezed her eyes shut and then opened them. Reuben was silently gazing at her pale face.

“If you ever have any difficulties.”

He swallowed hard, his Adam’s apple bobbing, as if he was nervous.

“Please feel free to tell us at any time. Your Holiness is the most important thing to us.”

The moment Reuben’s voice brushed past like the wind, the ground Renie stood on shook. It was because her heart was swaying violently.

The weariness of everyone not noticing what had happened to her. The helplessness of being trapped in the demon’s grasp, unable to escape. The anxiety of constantly being on edge, not knowing when the truth would be revealed.

Reuben was the only one here who had noticed her complicated feelings.

In a lonely land, having someone recognize your pain was something that would always make your heart waver. Even knowing that Khan had approached her that way in the past, even knowing that it had led to this disastrous situation. To Renie, who was struggling in hardship, Reuben’s kindness was as sweet as honey.

For the first time, emotions tangled on Renie’s usually indifferent face.

Reuben clearly witnessed the sorrow reflected on her pale face. Even though she was standing firmly on both feet, she looked as if she would collapse.

Just as she, who had been hesitating endlessly, was about to open her mouth after a long while.

Suddenly, the flow of air changed. Renie flinched at the sudden chill that struck her as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her.

“Your Holiness.”

As if proving that the sudden unease was not a baseless worry, a heavy bass voice resonated through the space. The reverberation, like a single resonance, was the same as the one she had heard in the chapel as a child.

The back of Renie’s neck stiffened. She turned her head with a shudder.

Khan, who she didn’t know had arrived at what moment, was leaning against the wall, watching the two of them. His curved eyes were gentle, but the eyes within them were as sharp as blades.

“Don’t we have something we need to do?”

Khan, who had been treating her casually when they were alone, raised his voice as if conscious of Reuben’s presence. His polite demeanor was that of a benevolent foreign king considerate of the Pope, for anyone to see.

She was disgusted by his hypocrisy. Renie bit her lower lip hard enough to draw blood. Eventually, it burst, and a metallic taste spread on the tip of her tongue.

“I greet the King of Ferno. What business do you have with His Holiness at this late hour?”

Surprised by Khan’s silent appearance, Reuben was soon puzzled by the ‘business’ that came from his mouth. Only Renie reacted sensitively to that question; Khan merely crossed his arms and smiled calmly.

“Why don’t you ask His Holiness if you’re curious? He will gladly inform you.”

Khan gestured with his eyes towards Renie, who had stiffened like a stone statue. Renie was thankful that this place was shrouded in darkness. Otherwise, her deathly pale face would have been revealed without any disguise.

She said urgently to Reuben, “Sir Knight. It’s late, so please return. There is a matter I need to discuss urgently with the King of Ferno.”

Normally, it wouldn’t have been strange for Renie to reprimand Reuben.

Even as a First-Class Knight, he was just a knight. For such a person to question the meeting between the Pope and a foreign king, and even voice it aloud, was nothing but rash behavior.

But Renie was afraid that Reuben might find out about the secret between her and Khan, so she was eager to send Reuben away. She hated the thought of her lewd and filthy acts being discovered by this innocent person who shared past memories with her.

Reuben glanced back and forth between Khan, who stood like a shadow, and Renie, then realizing it wasn’t his place to interfere, he took a step back. Kneeling on one knee and bowing politely, Reuben slowly turned his back.

‘Don’t go.’

Words she couldn’t bring herself to utter gathered like a lump in her mouth.

‘Don’t go, Reuben.’

If she just said those words, Reuben would look at her again, but to do so, she would have to risk everything being exposed. Unfortunately, she didn’t have that courage, and Reuben finally disappeared into the darkness.

Renie was afraid to turn around. It was clear that the demon would be looking at her with his usual lustful gaze. That gaze would fiercely overwhelm her, scraping away at her mind and body until not even bones remained.

Silence brought fear.

Soon, a hand emerging from the darkness pulled her. It was instantaneous for Renie, who had been standing in the moonlight, to be swallowed by the darkness.

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The large man sat on the bed and unbuckled his belt.

Renie, who had been standing before him with a dazed expression, looked away as his fly opened and the man’s cock was revealed. She had seen it several times already, but it was an action she couldn’t help but perform habitually. The dark red, erect phallus was disgusting, like seeing the genitals of a strange animal.

Khan stared at Renie as if to devour her. The longer her hesitation, the sharper the edge in his blood-red pupils.

As if suppressed by that gaze, Renie slowly bent her knees.

It was mortifying and shameful to take a posture that should only be shown before God to a demon. But under the threat that this man could kill her at any moment, there was nothing she couldn’t do. Last time, he had viciously strangled her, and she had almost lost consciousness.

As she knelt between his legs, Khan gently pressed down on her lower lip. Khan, who had been looking hungrily at her mouth revealing her snow-white teeth and red mucous membranes, soon placed his glans between them.

“I hope you do well today.”

Along with his voice laced with laughter, his bloodshot cock was thrust in with a squelching sound. The tip, already quite tight, burrowed in as if to tear her mouth, causing her eyelids to flutter like a butterfly’s struggle.

She knew those words were criticizing her actions from yesterday.

Last night, he had laid her on the bed and shoved his cock carelessly into her mouth, and the act had been interrupted when she, startled by the suffocating threat, had burst into tears.

“Ugh, mmmph.”

“You’ll be punished if you bite.”

Unlike the hand gently caressing her earlobe, his tone was quite sharp. Renie herself couldn’t even think of attempting such insolent resistance. The ridge of his glans, wet with sticky pre-ejaculate, stabbed at the roof of her mouth, making it difficult to breathe properly. Her mouth was sore all over.

As saliva leaked, she instinctively inhaled, making a slurping sound like sucking on a delicious candy. A satisfied sigh came from above her head.

“You’re good.”

She glanced up slightly. Khan’s eyes were full of amusement. The way he then licked his lips was sensual.

Since his cock far exceeded the average size, just holding it in her mouth was a struggle. It hadn’t been long since she had taken it in, but her jaw was already throbbing. Renie, who wasn’t a whore and therefore couldn’t possibly have the skillful techniques to satisfy a man, was halfway through the act, at a loss for what to do.

“Are you showing me you haven’t used your upper hole much?”

Khan chuckled, his voice rumbling in his throat, and lowered his hand to grasp Renie’s breast. Her body, which had been limp like soaked seaweed, suddenly tensed up.

“Suck with your lips pursed. Like you’re swallowing it with your pussy.”

She didn’t quite understand the method in her head, but she had to do something. Otherwise, this weapon that was thrusting into her mouth might soon spread her legs and pierce her delicate inside. The fear of violent intercourse forced her to move.

Renie pursed her lips as he instructed. Because her mouth was stretched to its limit, her jaw muscles stiffened like rusty scrap metal, causing her quite a bit of trouble.

“......Hng.”

Just as she was about to take it in a little deeper, he sharply pinched her nipple. Her shoulders twitched, and she heard a chuckle above her head. That laughter fueled her anxiety.

Renie pulled herself together and pushed the cock in until it barely touched her throat. It was a self-tormenting act that felt like giving herself torture.

Slurp. Chuuup. The sound of her laboriously sucking the shaft permeated her breaths. She rubbed the cock, which filled her mouth tightly, against her mucous membranes to stimulate it, and occasionally, she timidly licked the glans with her tongue.

“I hear there’s a hunt scheduled for tomorrow.”

Perhaps pleased with her proactive attitude, the hand fondling her breast gradually softened. Renie’s body twitched at the ticklish sensation, but she didn’t stop moving her tongue. Her mouth was so sore that she wanted to quickly do as he wished, then spit out this huge cock.

“Was it called Sperr Mountain?”

He murmured casually with a flushed sigh.

Just as he said, a hunt was scheduled for tomorrow.

The royal capital was full of nobles who liked to boast about their martial arts skills, so hunting competitions were often held. They would taxidermy and display the animals they caught to show off their prowess. That act of recklessly slaughtering lives was a noble pastime exclusive to them.

In contrast, in the Holy City, where the majority of people were commoners barely making a living, such a pastime was unlikely to flourish. Rather, the Holy City tended to criticize the noble custom of capturing and killing animals simply for amusement.

In other words, this hunt was a schedule prepared solely for the Ferno delegation. It wasn’t the Holy City’s intention, but a directive personally handed down from the royal capital. It was like a forceful demand to ensure they wouldn’t find their schedule in the Holy City boring.

The torrential rain that had poured down four days ago had almost caused the hunt to be canceled. However, since the rain suddenly stopped and the weather cleared up, the schedule had to be carried out.

“A hunt......”

His murmured tone was significant.

“It will be a day where it wouldn’t be strange for someone to die.”

Renie’s heart hardened, and her fingertips grew cold. Her wavering gaze reached Khan’s face. He was looking down at her with one corner of his lips twisted crookedly.

It wouldn’t be strange for someone to die.

No matter how she heard it...... it sounded like he was saying he would kill someone under the guise of a hunt, making her chest feel desolate. Perhaps because he had already mentioned ‘killing’ once before, Renie became extremely afraid.

She worried if that target was her.

“Haa.”

Having uttered those chilling words, he nonchalantly enjoyed the fellatio. Khan, who had been gently stroking her head, finally slipped his other hand inside her clothes. Lines formed on her holy robes as he squeezed her breast.

“Rub the glans more with your tongue.”

A sultry heat began to permeate the man’s voice, which had been so relaxed. Renie, wanting to end this disgusting act quickly, hurriedly moved her tongue. As she gently licked the glans, which was split in half and oozing sticky fluid, a fishy taste filled the tip of her tongue.

“Hng, uhn, ugh......”

A shallow moan escaped Renie’s parted lips. It was because he had been fondling her nipples throughout the oral sex. Since he had been persistently touching them, Renie, who was kneeling, repeatedly lifted her hips.

After a long while of laboriously sucking and licking his cock.

Khan, who had taken his hand off her chest, suddenly grabbed her head and began to thrust his cock into her mouth.

“......! Mmph! Ugh, uhn, uuuh......!”

Renie hastily grabbed his thick thighs at the thrusting that burned her throat and threatened to make her gag. Khan completely stood up from the bed and used her mouth as a hole, violently pumping his hips. Because his glans rubbed against her tender mucous membrane as sharply as the tip of a sword, her eyes grew hot with tears.

“Hng, uhn......! Ugh, mmmph!”

She wanted to turn her head, but the hand gripping the back of her head strongly made it impossible. Unable to endure the man’s thrusting, Renie eventually fell backward on her buttocks, but he relentlessly followed, penetrating her mouth like a rutting beast.

Renie suddenly grew fearful at the anxiety that her throat might be torn. She urgently pounded and pushed against his thighs and abdomen, but Khan just smiled wickedly and pushed in deeper. Occasionally, he nonchalantly uttered lewd things, saying her upper hole felt hot and good, and telling her to use her tongue more.

Finally, he pulled on the back of her neck and made a dull, guttural sound. Renie had no choice but to swallow the hot fluid gushing from the glans that had penetrated the deepest. The disgusting fishy smell that followed was a problem for later.

He slowly pulled out what had been in her mouth. A whitish liquid stretched out like a silver thread between the tip of the withdrawing cock and Renie’s lips.

“Cough! Khuh, cough.”

Khan cupped her face, which was red from coughing so hard her throat stung, and lifted it so she would look at him.

Her unfocused pupils, flushed face, and the corners of her mouth glistening with his fluids were terribly erotic. His face was one of deep satisfaction. He leaned down and sucked on her lips. His soft tongue burrowed into her mouth, where the warm sensation of his cock rubbing lingered.

Renie, who had been half in a daze from the merciless piston-like movements, snapped back to her senses at the kiss.

“Uhn, hng......”

Khan, who had stirred his tongue deeply enough for the sound of saliva mixing to be explicit, pulled his lips away with satisfaction. He lifted Renie and threw her onto the bed. Renie immediately grabbed the sheet like a lifeline as her ankles were grabbed and her legs spread apart.

Khan tore off her white holy robes as if ripping them apart. Since she wasn’t wearing anything under the robes, her bare skin was immediately exposed. Naturally, it was the man’s instruction not to wear underwear.

From her luscious breasts to the triangle where her light-colored pubic hair resided, he scanned her with a sinister gaze. Soon, Khan discovered her sticky, wet crotch and chuckled.

“I thought you hated it, but your lower hole loves this so much?”

“Hng, no, no.”

“What do you mean no?”

His palm covered and rubbed her entire vulva. As her wet vagina and clit were unknowingly touched, Renie twisted her hips. He persistently rubbed her increasingly wet lower area and then suddenly slapped it hard. The love juice precariously pooled at her entrance splashed up, soaking Khan’s legs and the bedsheets.

“Haaah, ugh......!”

“While you’re squirting like this.”

He sneered as if looking at someone whose words and actions didn’t match.

Renie panted, her face flushed red. She didn’t want to show this reaction out of pride, but her body wouldn’t obey her will.

During the days she had been played with by him, it wasn’t just pain that existed.

At first, it was definitely only pain.

However, as time went on, perhaps because he didn’t enjoy pleasuring himself alone like a rutting beast, he began to heat her up to the same state as himself. One day, he had passionately sucked her clit before thrusting into her, and another day, he had mounted her from behind like mating dogs, constantly caressing her nipples.

Today was the same. Throughout the oral sex, he had persistently touched her nipples and ears. Those two areas were Renie’s most sensitive erogenous zones.

Renie’s body, which hadn’t known pleasure even when she was first raped, was now gradually, little by little, becoming aware of those frightening sensations. The more she became tainted by it, the more she understood why such lustful acts were forbidden to clergymen.

The exceedingly sweet and alluring act was so addictive that it could even push the Lord behind.

“Huuuhng......!”

He tightly pinched the protrusion above her vulva. Because he touched the sensitive spot where pleasure was concentrated, she trembled and arched her back.

“You’ll die if you fall into here, Renie.”

Khan, having confirmed that the sheets were getting wet, murmured in a voice filled with laughter. Renie bit her lip and suppressed a moan. Then, Khan firmly grasped her closed legs and rubbed his glans against her wet lower area.

“Hng!”

The hard tip gently stimulated the foreskin at her entrance. But the force with which it then burrowed into her hole was not gentle at all. The cock, which was difficult to receive even when her lower area was completely wet, entered her body again as if to split her in two.

“Heoeuk, haa, ah......”

“Hoo, you swallow better than you use your mouth. You need more practice with your upper hole. Shall I have my subordinates fuck you too?”

He whispered, biting Renie’s cheek. At the word ‘subordinates’, her entire body stiffened like a wooden log.

After realizing that his country, Ferno, was actually not a human kingdom but the demonic realm, Renie had been utterly despondent. That was proof that not only Khan but also everyone who had come with him to assist him were demons.

Demons invading this land, the land of the Lord, was nothing short of an ominous sign.

It was already killingly difficult just being tormented by this man, and her pride was crumbling so much, so how could she......

“Hng, no, no......!”

She shook her head hastily at the overwhelming revulsion. Khan, who had readjusted her legs, pulled back what he had half-inserted and then thrust it in deeply. As her vagina was stabbed, feeling hot enough to burn, pain and pleasure flooded her simultaneously.

“Haaahng!”

“But your pussy sucks it up so nicely?”

Unlike Renie, who was in a state of chaos, he, whose breathing wasn’t even slightly disturbed, leisurely began to rock his hips. His glans pulled out just enough to graze her vaginal opening and then thrust in deeply enough for the love juice to flow profusely, teasingly scraping against her inner walls.

Renie shook her head, trembling at the tingling thrill that ran down her spine.

“No......!”

“Then try to act a little better. Flatter me a bit. So I don’t feel like calling other guys.”

Khan pinched her nipple and chided her. Renie snorted, her eyes filled with tears. Squelch, squelch, the vulgar sound of their genitals grinding against each other endlessly echoed from below, but her head was so complicated that she couldn’t even register it.

Could it be, she wondered, what if he suddenly changed his mind and called other demons? Only that worry filled her mind.

What if she ended up being violated by all of them......

It was a terrible outcome she didn’t even want to imagine. Renie, trembling with fear even amidst the pleasure, had no choice but to kiss his lips. It was the best answer she could give to his request for ‘flattery’.

Khan, who blinked at the sudden, childish kiss, soon understood the reason for the clumsy attempt. He smirked and slapped Renie’s buttocks. He seemed to be in a good mood.

“You even know how to flatter?”

Khan, whose voice had become rougher than before, murmured and then slightly lifted their joined lower bodies and slammed down hard from above.

“Uhn, ahng, ah, ah......!”

With a squelching sound, sticky love juice streamed down her buttocks. The place he repeatedly struck happened to be the most sensitive part, so her heated nerves melted away in a tingling sensation. The hole filled to the brim with his cock repeatedly twitched.

“Hng, uhn, uhn...... Ahng!”

It was so heavy that her insides felt crushed, but the pleasure was just as vivid. Every time his thing roughly rubbed against her inner walls, an electrifying current ran through her nerves. Renie trembled as if fainting.

Every time his huge cock filled her so deeply her stomach felt bloated, her vision flashed. The knuckles of her hand gripping the sheet turned white. The splashing sound, as if stirring deep water, never ceased.

Then, as a surging need to urinate churned inside her, she twisted her pelvis this way and that. Displeased by her resistance, Khan slapped her plump buttocks hard. While twitching, she twisted her limbs in unbearable ecstasy.

“Ahng, stop, th-that...... Hng!”

“Please coordinate your words and actions a bit. You tell me to stop, but you swallow mine so deliciously.”

Khan, who had muttered mockingly, turned her onto her side and thrust his hips deeply. As he pulled his cock almost all the way out and then plunged it back in, his large palm slapped Renie’s buttocks in time with the thrusts. Each time, she instinctively tightened her buttock muscles, stimulating his cock snugly.

The moment his cock thrust in so deeply that it almost touched her cervix, she cried out and stiffened her entire body. At her climax, her inner walls clamped down tightly, and Khan’s cock likewise expanded even more firmly.

Renie, realizing that he was also close to climaxing, snapped out of her daze, gripped by anxiety, and hurriedly tried to stop him.

“No, not inside, haahng, uhn, please......”

But he didn’t even pretend to listen and finally released his semen inside Renie with a heavy thud. He tightly wrapped his arms around her lower abdomen so she couldn’t escape, locking their bodies together.

“I should cum here, so where else would I cum? Renie.”

He murmured, sucking on her earlobe, his breath ragged.

He watched Renie’s face flood with despair and laughed gleefully.

“You said you didn’t like other guys. So this is my exclusive hole.”

Khan lowered his hand and caressed her vagina, which was hot from the friction, as if cherishing it.

“Your upper mouth didn’t use its strength at all, so your lower mouth has to satisfy me, don’t you think?”

Khan slicked back his hair and, from that point, began to thrust his hips again.

His cock, which had released a thick fluid, was as large and hard as if it had never shrunk from the beginning. Before Renie even had time to feel anxious about the semen filling her inner walls, she soon convulsed again and had no choice but to cry out.

It was a night of painful ecstasy.