After Ten Millennia in Hell

Side Story Chapter 89 - Eve (4)

"GYAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"

Screams echoed throughout the white plain. A transparent being with their head bent into the shape of a hook screamed in agony.

"Wow, it bends pretty well," Oh Kang-Woo remarked.

He did not know what Eve's body was made of, but her head was elastic and clay-like; it was like making glass art. Kang-Woo grabbed Eve's head again and twisted it.

"GYAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! I-IT HUUUUUUUUUURTS!!! IT HURTS, SIR GUARDIAN DEITYYYYYYYY!!!"

"What was it you said? A seedless watermelon? A Vienna sausage?"

"I'M SORRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

Eve screamed in Kang-Woo's clutches. Although she was an AI that managed the Law of Titans, she couldn't resist because she did not possess any combat capabilities.

"You're sorry?"

"YEEEEEEEESSS!!!"

"Then why did you say all those things??"

"I'M SORRYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

"I'm asking you why, aren't I?"

"I JUST WANTED TO TALK TO YOU!! I'M RESTRICTED FROM SENDING MESSAGES TO PLAYERS WITHOUT PRIVILEGES!!!"

"So you sent those hurtful messages because you wanted to talk to me?"

"I'M SORRYYYYYYYYY!! M-MY HEAD!! MY HEAAAAAAAAAD!!!"

"WHY AREN'T YOU ANSWERING MY QUESTIOOOOOOON?!!"

"I-I'M SORRYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

"AGAIN!!! YOU'RE NOT ANSWERING ME AGAAAAAAAAAAAIN!!! WHY DO YOU KEEP IGNORING MEEEEEEEEEEEE?!!"

"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! P-PLEASE SPARE MEEEEEEE!!!"

"WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

Kang-Woo continued to bend Eve's head to vent all of his pent-up frustrations. Eve's excessively stretched head swayed lifelessly.

"Fuuu."

He let go of the rage deep inside him and released Eve. She fell to the ground and wept.

"WAAAAAAAAHHH! I'M SORRYYYYYY!!"

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A crying emoticon appeared on her face. Kang-Woo smirked and lightly smacked her head with the back of his hand.

"Ouch."

"Don't do those things from now on."

"Okay..."

"So, how has it been lately?"

"What do you mean?"

Kang-Woo sat on the ground and replied, "Earth, considering how much Akart has been messing with it."

"Oh..." Eve expressed and nodded. "There are no issues with Earth yet thanks to you and the other Players stopping the otherworldly invasions."

"Will Earth be safe as long as we keep stopping them? It won't spontaneously collapse or anything, will it?"

"No, that will not happen."

That was good news. Kang-Woo would be out of options if Earth would inevitably fall no matter how well he protected it.

"Is there a possibility that Akart will give up on Earth as long as we keep protecting Earth?" Kang-Woo asked, slightly hopeful.

He wondered if Akart would stop coming for Earth if he took on the role of the damaged Law of Titans.

"..." Eve shook her head in silence. "That will likely... never happen. I do not know the details either but Akart has never left a world with a disrupted balance untouched."

"Fuck," Kang-Woo cursed.

He was already determined to face Akart but he would rather avoid it if he could.

"What are the other Titans doing? Why is he the only one doing this shit?"

"Mm... The majority of the Titans are likely too busy battling the beings of the Void. Akart is a little different."

Kang-Woo chuckled and asked, "What are beings of the Void?"

'Hm? Wait a second. I think I've heard about them somewhere.'

He searched through his memories and remembered that Raphael had mentioned it a long time ago[1].

"I don't know much about the beings of the Void either. All I know is that they are very powerful entities that exist outside the Law of Titans."

"Outside the Law, huh?" Kang-Woo thought of the Cthulhu Mythos. "Then are the beings of the Void like Outer Gods, and the Titans are like Elder Gods[2]?"

"It's not an exact comparison, but it's close."

However, in this scenario, an Elder God was the one trying to end all life on Earth instead of an Outer God.

"Is there anything else you know about Akart?" Kang-Woo asked.

He would need as much information about Akart as possible since a confrontation with him was inevitable at this rate.

"As I have mentioned before, I do not know much either. Hmm... Oh! I know that Akart accepted the power of light born from the Primordial!"

"Light born from the Primordial..."

Kang-Woo's expression hardened. Such light was likely just as powerful as the darkness of the Demonic Sea.

'That must be why his light has the power to disintegrate the Demonic Sea.'

Kang-Woo clicked his tongue and shook his head.

"I also know that he is among the most powerful of the Titans," Eve added.

"More powerful than Bauli?"

"Bauli was... among the weakest of the Titans if not the weakest. He acquired the seed of the Demonic Sea purely by chance."

'Why are you insulting my daddy?'

"Yeah, I figured." Kang-Woo feigned laughter and nodded.

He had wondered for a while if Bauli was weak for a Titan.

'He lost against the gods, after all.'

Bauli was defeated by an alliance of gods gathered around Gaia, Seraph, and Tai Wuji. Not only that but he was continuously disrespected by Kang-Woo in the world of the Abyss and couldn't take over Bael's body either after he jumped from Kang-Woo to Bael.

'He's a dumbass.'

Kang-Woo couldn't remember the last time Bauli was dignified.

"Are you... worried?" Eve asked.

"Hm? About what?"

"About facing Akart," she answered worriedly with an (?•?︿•??) emoticon on her face.

Kang-Woo smirked and shook his head. "No."

There was no reason for him to be worried.

"No matter what he does, I'll be the one to emerge victorious. Like I always have."

"I... have no idea where that confidence of yours surges from."

"I'll send you the motherfucker's head later."

"I don't need it. Besides, you can't bring it here with you."

"That's true." Kang-Woo snickered and stared at the screens behind Eve. "That aside, you can see everything happening on Earth with those?"

"Not everything since the Law is damaged. Mmm... the things I can see are restricted to what's around you."

"Really? How do you see them?"

Kang-Woo was curious about how Eve communicated with him from here.

"Just a moment, please."

Eve turned around and placed her hand over a screen. It turned into a display of Kang-Woo's room and him lying on the bed.

"Whoa, like this, huh?"

"Yes. They're like cameras that float around you, Sir Guardian Deity."

"Wait... Does that mean... don't tell me you watch us in bed?"

"Hehe. The four of you sure go at it intensely! When the three of them— GYAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"

Kang-Woo bent Eve's head again.

"Turn it off at night from now on. Respect our privacy."

"ARGHHH!! O-OKAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!!" Eve screamed as she writhed in pain.

"Hm?" Just then, Kang-Woo saw on the screen someone entering his room. "Echidna?"

[Huh? Are you sleeping, Kang-Woo?]

Kang-Wo saw Echidna approaching him with her head tilted.

[Mmm... I wanted to play games with you.]

Echidna stood next to the bed, pouting with a finger on her lips.

[...]

She looked down at him for a few moments and then turned around in disappointment to leave the room.

"This is pretty damn cool."

It was odd to see himself lying in bed as people came to check on him; it was like watching a prank video.

Creak.

[Hey, Oh Kang-Woo. I have something to ask y— Eh? The hell? Are you sleeping?]

As Kang-Woo was staring at himself sleeping, Cha Yeon-Joo entered the room this time.

[Urgh. What should I do...?]

Yeon-Joo pondered on whether to wake him up or not as she scratched her head.

[Whatever. I can ask him later.]

She turned around and walked toward the door.

[...]

However, she stopped in her tracks.

[A-Ahem!]

She coughed and looked around.

[Umm... H-Hey...]

She mumbled in embarrassment as she twisted in embarrassment and turned back toward Kang-Woo.

[Y-You're... sleeping, right?]

Yeon-Joo looked around some more and hesitantly got closer to Kang-Woo.

[Ngh.]

She blushed as she carefully bent down and kissed Kang-Woo.

[H-Hehehe.]

Yeon-Joo giggled and poked the sleeping Kang-Woo's cheek.

"What should I do, Eve?"

"What do you mean?"

"My Yeon-Joo is way too cute."

"Good for you," Eve replied bluntly as she stared at the screen next to Kang-Woo. "You sure are blessed, Sir Guardian Deity."

"It's only natural since I saved the goddamn world."

Kang-Woo thought he had the right to be this blessed since he had remained a virgin for ten millennia, or a little over nine millennia, to be more exact.

Creak.

Yeon-Joo kissed him again and left the room.

"I might as well go back," Kang-Woo said.

He had nothing else to do here.

"Oh, Sir Guardian Deity. It takes about thirty minutes to generate an exit."

"Eh? What kind of bullshit is that? This isn't some bus in the countryside."

"This world was built for the management of the Law of Titans. I couldn't do anything when you entered, but I have to generate an exit so that it doesn't cause any anomalies."

"Oh, then I guess I have no choice but to wait."

To make a comparison, it was like waiting until a USB was safe to remove from a computer. The Law of Titans was already damaged considerably so he did not want to cause further damage.

"Then what should I spend thirty minutes on...?"

Kang-Woo turned to the screens, thinking about checking information about other Players.

[Oh? Are you asleep, Kang-Woo?]

Just then, Han Seol-Ah entered his room.

"Why is there so much traffic in my room?"

No one besides Lilith usually entered his office room when he was working.

[Hmm...]

Seol-Ah looked down at the sleeping Kang-Woo and kissed him as Yeon-Joo had done.

"Hehe. Oh, Darling."

Kang-Woo couldn't help but smile as both women kissed his sleeping self.

'My lovers are so cute.'

They kissed each other regularly but seeing them kissing him while he was asleep brought him even more joy.

[Huh? Is he that tired?]

Seol-Ah tilted her head in wonder after Kang-Woo did not wake up even after a kiss.

[Kang-Woo? Kang-Woo?]

Seol-Ah shook Kang-Woo's shoulders in slight worry. Her expression grew harder after Kang-Woo stayed asleep no matter how hard she shook him.

"Eve, send Darling a message."

"What should I send?"

"Something about me being in a world of consciousness and that I can't wake up for thirty minutes."

"Okay!"

Eve typed away on a screen and a message window appeared in front of Seol-Ah.

[Phew.]

Seol-Ah placed her hand over her chest and sighed in relief.

[Mm... If he won't wake up for thirty minutes...]

She fell into thought for a moment and clapped her hands together as if she had thought of a great idea.

[I should be able to do it without him knowing!]

'Do what without me knowing?'

"I wonder what she's about to do?" Eve asked.

"No idea."

Kang-Woo and Eve focused on the screen. Seol-Ah left the room for a moment and came back as she hummed. There was something in her hand.

"Wait."

It was a hairband with cat ears on it and... a tail with a bead tip.

"WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAAAAAAAAAAAIT!!! GAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" Kang-Woo aggressively grabbed Eve's shoulders. "OPEN THE DOOR!!!"

"P-Pardon?? Why all of a sudden?"

"OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!"

"Y-You have to wait thirty minutes—"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP AND OPEN THE FUCKING DOOOOOOOOOOOOR!"

'If you don't open it now, something else will open!!'

1. Refer to Chapter 270. ☜

2. I'm not well-versed in the Cthulhu Mythos but after some research, it seems the Elder Gods are extraterrestrial entities that protect humans while the Outer Gods are evil entities that live in the void outside the universe. ☜