Rahab looked stunned as I told him his true identity as Rahab, demon of the sea.
Then he closed his eyes and began to laugh in a maniacal way.
I hunched while sitting on the ground, watching him as I don't see the sense of running away as it would only make him more aggressive and predatory towards me.
So this is how a demon acts like in real life.
Now I understand the helplessness of a human when being confronted by a demon.
They are good in manipulating you.
It's not my fault. It's not MY fault.
I tried to assure myself in my mind as I used to blame myself for everything that happened with him.
Even if I hadn't died, it still would have ended up the same way as Rahab was trying to isolate me from the others, to the point that he is trying to use all kinds of methods like charming or intimidating me.
All for tasting and consuming my blood.
I seemed to remember him drinking my blood when I was dead in which I wondered, why did he decided to immediately drink my blood even if I am dead? There are plenty of creatures he can drink blood from.
I'm the only human in this world.
How did he know that my blood would taste way better than the creatures in this world?
To the point that he is doing whatever he can just to drink it.
Even when I'm dead.
Not many individuals know what kind of creature am I, much less than the quality of my blood being different than the creatures in this world unless....
Someone tasted my blood when I was being experimented on by the high council members.
Everything is starting to connect.
The demons that we found at the snowy mountains.
Rahab.
Something big is going on at the territory.
Demons are not supposed to exist here as they belonged in another dimension.
Unless someone brought them here or opened a portal that connected this world and the Netherworld.
Every universe has only one Netherworld dimension as far as I know.
Chaos will surely happen if they found out how I'm different than the creatures here as this world has no humans and humans are the main source of food of the inhabitants in the Netherworld, especially demons, like in my previous world.
This is getting dangerous.
Rahab who had been observing me, realized that I'm starting to get the grasp of the situation.
He then performed the same spell in which I can't tell anybody what I know.
I'm in trouble.
I'm the only one who knows the severity of the situation.
And also how my life is at stake.
Seriousness aside, it was amazing that Ahuizotl managed to copy my body that I remained a human despite having a new body. The spell that he used deserves to be forbidden.
Knowing that I'm more valuable being alive than dead, I'm terrified of the torments that I might receive as they made the demons increase their power and strength though my blood is more valuable than my sanity.
I'm in danger.
And I can't tell anyone, especially Lion.
Rahab commended me for being quick-witted, in which he decided to tell me his plans as I can't tell anybody anyway.
First, he introduced himself to me properly.
He is Rahab, demon of the sea and that he is living in this world for several centuries already.
He is still young as the Netherworld itself is younger compared to the world we are in.
His rank in the Netherworld is being one of the generals of its army.
Ah.
No wonder he is good in training the pack.
He is the creator of the guardian monsters except for Ahuizotl, that we fought earlier as he had been tasked to make them centuries before, making sure that nobody else will get the shards first as neither him nor any of his companions can get it without being destroyed.
He asked me curiously on how did I know all about the monsters and him when it was all a huge secret that only those from the higher ranks in the Netherworld knows all about it.
I simply shrugged and told him that I just had a good intuition and common sense.
Now is not a good time to tell him what I know, including where I came from.
No. He deserves not knowing anything.
With my life on the line, I should be more vigilant in telling what I know, trusting only a few individuals or else.....
Rahab laughed and told me that he knows already since a lot of them have seen inside my mind during the time I was being tortured by the high council members.
So, he WAS there.
Curses.
He told me that it was too bad that he wasn't able to copulate with me as he was being sent out on a task.
Maniac.
He suddenly licked my neck as he told me that he decided to take the magic stone for himself after reassembling the shards together, restoring it into its former glory.
It turns out that the shards are pieces of a magic stone that gives the power to cross dimensions.
Someone must have thought about the severe consequences that the magic stone might cause that they tried to destroy the magic stone into pieces and put a powerful spell protecting it, making it absorb magic energy and life force of the individual.
So that's why they needed me in this mission, same like the mission we had at the snowy mountains before.
Someone must have foreseen this.
Someone wanted to use the magic stones' power.
I didn't need the first magic stone in the first place.
But someone needed its power.
Rahab told me, as he forced me to lie down on the ground, that he wanted a rank greater than being a general in the Netherworld. But he needed more power.
As he held my wrists above my head with one of his hands while his other hand tried to make my legs open up, he told me that he decided to force me to become his mate as I will provide him everything he needed to increase his power, along with the magic stones.
I tried to fight him off, squirming and hitting him with my knees in which he took a huge bite on my shoulder and sucked the blood oozing from my wound.
I sobbed loudly, in which I kept asking Lion's forgiveness in which Rahab suddenly gave me a wicked grin, snapping his fingers loudly.
No!
No!!!!
Don't let him see me!
He then took a huge bite on the area above my breast in which I finally cried out loudly.
Stop it!
Please!
Don't let him see me like this!
I tried pleading with him as I sobbed in which he held one of my leg with his other hand as he positioned himself on top of me.
Suddenly, I heard several footsteps coming towards my direction in which I finally broke down.
No.
No.
I don't want to see him.
Please let me die instead.
I closed my eyes as I continued to wept.
I'm ashamed of myself.
All of them saw me like this.
Especially Lion.
Why?
Why me?
Why do I kept getting broken, just as I was finally healed from my past trauma?
Why?
Why?
....
I can hear everyone's growls and snarls in which loud sounds began to hit towards us with a thud in which I presumed that Rahab made some sort of protection bubble around us.
He taunted Lion, though I can't understand the language that he spoke, must have told him about everything that he did towards me as I heard Lion starting to lose his mind with rage as he kept attacking the bubble.
Not only Lion but the rest of the pack tried to break the bubble in which they tried to transform to their ultimate form in which Rahab laughed at them, telling them that they might harm me in the process of trying to destroy the bubble.
I can hear everyone's ferocious snarls as Lion screamed in frustration.
Lion, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry that I broke your heart again.
....
A magic rope tied my wrists together as Rahab bite my leg in front of the pack, licking the dripping blood as he gave the pack a malicious grin.
He forced me to open my eyes as he told me that if I kept on closing my eyes, he would prolong my torment.
I just kept on whimpering as crying loudly will trigger his unhingeness.
When he began to lick towards my lower self, that's when I finally snapped.
If I die, then I die rather than being humiliated like this in front of everyone, especially Lion.
I took a deep breath and using my remaining strength, kicked his jaw hard in which he lost his balance.
He must have lost his concentration as the bubble seems to weaken, in which Lion struck it hard using his katana.
The bubble began to crack in which Rahab hurriedly stood up and heaved me over his shoulder, flying away fast just as the bubble broke.
I can hear Lion scream my name as Rahab flew away in a speed so fast that I can no longer hear Lion's voice.
....
He suddenly stopped in which there was a huge pointed boulder in the middle of the sea.
There's no other island as far as I could see. Just endless sea everywhere.
Rahab mumbled something in which I think must have been frustration as his plan is starting to get awry.
I can feel tremors as a magic circle formed towards the boulder in which it rose up high, never stopping until it nearly touched the clouds.
I wonder what is he planning to do?
A huge chain appeared attached on the rock in which there was a cuff at the end of it.
Oh no.
He secured my wrists with the cuff in which I'm dangling, making me recall a certain myth about a princess being chained similarly like this.
Only, I'm not a princess.
But like the paintings in the depiction of the story, I was also naked, showing my entire body to anyone. My hair didn't do a great job in covering me even though it is quite long enough to cover up to my waist.
Ah yes. Now I recalled the myth.
I'M NOT ANDROMEDA FOR GOODNESS SAKE!
I'm not even a princess.
I'm just..
I'm just nobody.
While I was crying, Rahab placed a necklace around my neck in which there was an unfamiliar magic stone at the center of the necklace.
Ah. He finally managed to make the shards into a whole magic stone, restoring it to its former glory.
But why did he place me here anyway?
Wait.
I seemed to recall the legend of Andromeda and Perseus.
So I'm the inspiration?
Someone is watching right now from my former world?
Oh the humiliation.
But they made a mythical story out of it that became one of my favorite stories.
Now while I am waiting for my Lion to rescue me, I noticed that Rahab seems to be waiting for him too.
Um.
Just like in the myth.
I'm too exhausted to ask him what's his reason for waiting for Lion as he can just take me somewhere along with the....
You know what? Nevermind.
Let him wait for my Lion.
....
He tried to insert himself to me in which I tried my hardest to kick him everywhere that made him more aroused as he seemed to like being inflicted with pain as much as he likes to inflict pain towards me.
He is deranged.
A true demon indeed.
It seems that the arousal is getting unbearable for him as he placed a chain around my waist and each of my ankles, making me unable to move.
He gripped my cheeks hard with his hand, forcing me to open my mouth as he violently kissed me in which I bit his tongue hard when he tried to intertwine my tongue with his.
He seemed delighted on what I did as he looked towards me with a fiery manic gaze as he licked his blood that was staining his lips.
How much longer do I have to wait?
Just as when he is about to enter me when a fireball hit Rahab on his back.
Lion.
I started to sob with relief when I saw the pack on their way towards us.
Oh.
They saw me like this.
I bowed down my head, looking at the sea below when I heard a deafening roar in front of me
Rahab finally transformed himself to his ultimate form.
A mixture between a dragon and a serpent that was terrible to behold and much larger than the last guardian monster that we killed.
I can hear thunder and saw the sea becoming violent as he continued to roar.