Player who Returned 10,000 years Later

"Hmm. You look surprisingly normal usually. I can’t believe you’re the same monster as back then.” Proserpine scanned Oh Kang-Woo from head to toe while licking her lips with her snakelike tongue.

She could no longer see the hideous monster that looked as if it had manifested straight out of a nightmare. Rather, he was faintly exuding golden light, as what one would normally expect from the Protector of Light.

‘But...’

Proserpine smiled widely. She knew very well that the monster had only become the Protector of Light by deceiving Gaia. She had seen with her own eyes the hideous and terrifying monster hidden under that unattractive human shell.

‘Really...’

Proserpine trembled. She couldn’t forget about it no matter how much she tried. The monster made of viscous mucus, and the countless mouths deep within the darkness... The image of the monster that looked as if it had been born from the Demonic Sea that the Demon God had searched desperately for back in the era of myths had been engraved into her brain.

"Haaa,” Proserpine exhaled heatedly.

She became aroused. Although she had been granted Deific Essence by the Demon God, she was a succubus in nature; one so powerful that she was known as the goddess of lust. She had been forgotten among the succubuses because she had been sealed by Seraph for a long time, but her instincts did not go anywhere.

‘I’m sure it would feel wonderful... if I make love to that monster.’

Succubuses charmed their prey with their unparalleled beauty and illusion magic to make their prey fall in love with them. The slow extraction of life force from the prey that was madly in love with them was how succubuses hunted. The stronger the prey, the more life force they possessed. Considering that, there was no better prey than the immortal monster in front of her.

‘I’ll be able to feast on high-quality life force for the rest of my life.’

Since the monster possessed abnormal regenerative capabilities, he would also possess infinite amounts of life force. Proserpine felt as if she had found an endless spring. She stared in arousal at the monster in human skin. She needed to make that monster fall in love with her to be supplied with infinite amounts of life force, and that was her specialty.

"Hmm. What do you think? This is my true form.” Proserpine swept back her black tentacles while smiling seductively. Kang-Woo frowned miserably. “Fufu. You seem to be lost for words at my beauty.”

“... I certainly am lost for words.” Kang-Woo grabbed his forehead as if he was having a headache.

He was left so whiplashed that he was lost for words.

‘Why tentacles again?’

Chilling fear traveled down his back as he recalled his trauma.

"Urgh!” Lilith bit her lip anxiously.

She had ridiculed Proserpine, but Proserpine was so blindingly beautiful that even Lilith was getting concerned.

Lilith pulled on Kang-Woo’s arm and said, “Master Kang-Woo. I can’t stand this.”

"Wh-What?”

Lilith proudly walked forward and turned back to her true form. Squirming green tentacles and eighteen eyes appeared.

“... Huh?” Proserpine stared at Lilith in bewilderment.

She had never expected there to be another succubus by the monster’s side.

"L-Lilith?”

"Th-That’s Lilith?”

Han Seol-Ah and Cha Yeon-Joo were left in shock after seeing Lilith’s true form for the first time. Lilith glared at Proserpine while covering her mouth with one of her green tentacles.

"How dare you covet my dear husband?” Lilith remarked.

"Hmph. I don’t know where a bitch like you came from, but this is none of your business. Why don’t you scurry off somewhere else?” Proserpine said back.

Their bloodlust clashed in midair.

“...” Kang-Woo was left with his mouth agape, dumbfounded. He groaned in despair. “Two tentacles...”

He trembled. Just seeing those sticky tentacles caused his heart to beat aggressively and leave him in pallor.

"Not one, but two...”

Kang-Woo wept while staring at Lilith and Proserpine confronting each other. He felt like he had come back to the Ninth Hell.

“... Kang-Woo.” Seol-Ah became teary-eyed while looking at Kang-Woo. “Was that... the case?”

‘What? What’s the case?’

"Was I... not your type of woman?”

‘What?’

"What in the world are you talking about?” Kang-Woo stared at Seol-Ah in confusion.

It was as if she was asking if his type of woman had been someone with tentacles this entire time.

"Of course n

"I’m sorry for hiding it all this time, Seol-Ah.” Lilith grabbed Seol-Ah’s arm in sorrow. She continued as her tentacles squirmed, “What Master Kang-Woo truly loves are... these tentacles.”

‘It’s not.’

"I didn’t have the heart to tell you all this time because you can never have them,” Lilith remarked.

"N-No way...” Seol-Ah slurred.

‘I said it’s not.’

"What the hell are you talking about?” Kang-Woo glared at Lilith in frustration. “When did I ever say that I liked tentacles?”

He needed to hammer the nail in the coffin this time for sure.

"I hate tentacles. Those multiple eyes and the pus coming out from all over your body are nothing but hideous to me.” Kang-Woo continued while grabbing Lilith’s shoulders, “So, please... Please stop. You’re far more beautiful in your Kurosaki Yurie form.”

“...” Lilith’s expression stiffened. She became teary-eyed and lowered her head. “R-Really?”

"Yeah.”

‘I swear on my mother’s life. I mean, I’m an orphan, but yeah.’

"Hmph, don’t lie.” Proserpine snorted.

"Excuse me?” Kang-Woo said.

‘Who are you to judge whether I’m lying or not?’

"This is nothing but a facade you’re putting on, isn’t it? There’s no way a monster like you would like the form of ugly humans.”

“...”

Kang-Woo remained silent and then looked toward Yeon-Joo. Lilith and Seol-Ah aside, Yeon-Joo barely knew anything about the truth.

“... Facade? What is she talking about?” Yeon-Joo asked while frowning.

"She seems to know about my past,” Kang-Woo replied without hesitation.

"Oh.”

She had completely forgotten that Kang-Woo had been a demon before he had become the apostle of the God of Heroes.

Yeon-Joo muttered as if she couldn’t even imagine it, “... Right. You spent ten millennia in Hell.”

Ten millennia was such a long time that she couldn’t even imagine what it would be like.

"But wouldn’t your tastes change if you lived that long?” Yeon-Joo asked while tilting her head.

Kang-Woo cursed unbeknownst to himself. Even if he were to live for a hundred millennia, the day that he would be into tentacles would never come.

“...” Seol-Ah’s face froze.

She replayed Yeon-Joo’s words inside her head.

‘If Kang-Woo has lived for ten millennia...’

It wouldn’t be strange at all for his values to change. He might find Lilith and Proserpine, whom Seol-Ah found to be hideous, to be beautiful beyond belief.

‘He was also married to Lilith.’

Seol-Ah’s doubts grew larger. Kang-Woo had spent almost a millennia with Lilith. There was no way that they would have been together for that long if he hated her. Seol-Ah bit her lip anxiously while having no idea about Kang-Woo’s circumstances back then. The fear of Kang-Woo being taken away from her by someone else spread throughout her body.

‘No.’

Seol-Ah shook her head in pallor. Just the thought of Kang-Woo ending up with another woman made her feel nauseous. Her vision blurred, and an unbearable thirst suffocated her. Seol-Ah slowly turned to look at Proserpine, and the light in her eyes disappeared.

‘She... has to die.’

Proserpine was trying to take Kang-Woo from her. She couldn’t be left to live. She needed to die in the worst possible way so that she could never covet Kang-Woo ever again. Seol-Ah needed to make her struggle under immense regret and despair.

"Well, whatever the case, I have no interest in you, so bring me the other guy,” Kang-Woo said while shaking his head.

It was true that he had no interest in Proserpine. Although she was a Constellation of Evil, she was the same as Lilith; she was not specialized in combat.

‘I guess there’s meaning in that I can absorb Deific Essence from her, but...’

She did not look appetizing in the slightest compared to the Constellation of Despair.

‘Anyway...’

Kang-Woo narrowed his eyes sharply. Whatever the reason was, a Constellation of Evil coming here of their own accord was something to welcome.

‘Since I’ll be able to squeeze some information out of her.’

Kang-Woo lightly rolled his feet. An immense wave of golden energy pulsed from him and surrounded everything. Even if Proserpine was not specialized in combat, a battle against one that possessed Deific Essence could level the entire imperial capital if he did not put up a barrier.

"Come on, what’s wrong? You’re scaring me,” Proserpine said seductively while winking at Kang-Woo. She turned to look at Lilith and said confidently, “Is it because of that succubus? Fufu, if that’s the case, there’s no need to worry at all.”

Lilith was also extremely beautiful, but she could not be compared to Proserpine herself. No, it wasn’t only an issue of looks.

"If you make love to me once... I’ll bestow you with pleasure that you’ll never be able to forget.”

Proserpine slightly lowered her clothes to show off more of her purple shoulders and cleavage.

“... Urp.”

Kang-Woo almost vomited out the kimchi stew that he had eaten this morning from Proserpine’s seduction.

‘Fuck.’ He couldn’t stand it much longer. ‘I’ll just apprehend her and squeeze all the information she has.’

Kang-Woo shook his head as if he was sick and tired of this and extended his right hand, turning the Key of the Demonic Sea into the form of Wrath. He grabbed the two-meter greatsword with one hand with ease.

“... Hm?” Proserpine’s eyes widened. She could feel Kang-Woo’s clear hostility toward her. “Hmm. You’re quite shy.”

Proserpine looked at Kang-Woo as if he was cute while smiling widely.

"Shy, my ass,” Kang-Woo responded.

He leaped toward Proserpine and swung the Key of the Demonic Sea down at her head. Proserpine’s head split into two.

“...” Kang-Woo frowned and clicked his tongue. “A clone, huh?”

There was no way he would be able to kill a god that possessed Deific Essence with one strike, nor would Proserpine be immortal like Kang-Woo when he opened the Doors.

“... I can’t believe you attacked me.”

Proserpine, whose head had been split into two, turned into black tentacles. Her face, which appeared amidst the tentacles, was dyed in shock, but only for a moment.

"Fufu. How interesting.” Proserpine licked her lips in delight and said ecstatically, “You’re the first man to ever reject me.”

She stared at Kang-Woo in anticipation as if she was thinking joyfully about how to make him hers.

"I’ll make you mine, no matter what.”

Proserpine burst into laughter. The black tentacles melted into the ground and disappeared.

“...” Seol-Ah stared at the disappearing clone while clenching her fists. “You’re going to... make Kang-Woo yours?”

Chilling bloodlust lingered around her eyes. She bit her lip while gritting her teeth.