Lackey's Seducing Survival Odyssey

Chapter 1813: Created… Twisted… And Ultimately Shattered!!! Part-2

Wolf Man’s POV

“From now on, you are nothing more than a slave!”

“You deserve this shit!”

Those words struck my ears one after another, but I barely cared. I only shrugged, unable to understand what I had done wrong.

I had slaughtered a weak family.

That was all.

What was wrong with that?

The strong preyed on the weak.

That was how the world worked. That was how it had always worked.

And yet, in the Wolf Tribe, everyone acted as though I had committed some unforgivable crime. Even worse, what was with that Tribe Queen, wagging her tail over a human?

Utterly repulsive!

The worst thing had happened to our Wolf Tribe. Once, we had been proud hunters who stood above the weak. Now, we had become nothing more than pathetic weaklings who bowed their heads to humans.

Utterly repulsive!

“Oi, what are you staring at? Get to work!” My Master barked as he brought the whip down against me.

Crack!

The sting spread across my back, but I merely gritted my teeth.

With a begrudging expression, I returned to my daily work.

“Hmph! Losers think they can rule me…” I muttered, gripping the heavy crate in both hands.

“If you are a man, then fight me and face me like a man instead of hiding behind chains and enslaving me!”

Nothing but a bunch of weak dogs!

And there was a whole bunch of other weak slaves following orders around me. The entire place reeked of weakness.

“Just because I am their slave, that doesn’t mean I am weak! IN FACT, I AM STRONGER THAN ANY OF YOU LOSERS!!!”

I shouted furiously, my voice echoing across the filthy slave quarters.

“Is that so?”

The voice came from behind me.

It was so cold and emotionless that the hair along my arms stood upright.

That wasn’t my Master’s voice.

I slowly turned around.

My breath caught.

My Master was standing there, but somehow… he looked different. His appearance was almost the same, yet something about him was horribly wrong.

He didn’t have white hair.

He didn’t have those pure ice-blue eyes.

And, more importantly, my Master was a fucking loser.

This man standing before me was something else entirely.

He was handsome in a way that made my instincts scream at me to run.

“Oi,” he said, tilting his head slightly. “What are you looking at? Huh? Do you think you’re some strong shit?”

His lips curled into a wicked grin.

“Looks like I need to teach this doggy~”

He smiled.

Then his hand moved.

Clang!

A chain suddenly appeared in his grasp.

My eyes widened.

The other end was attached to something around my neck.

A collar?

I reached for it, my fingers trembling as they touched the cold metal.

“When did—!!”

The world disappeared.

Before I could finish the sentence, I was standing somewhere else.

The smell hit me first.

Blood?

Rotting flesh.

I slowly raised my head.

Bears?

Dozens of them!

They surrounded me from every direction, their enormous bodies looming in the darkness. Their fur was stained with old blood, and their mouths hung open as thick strands of saliva dripped from their teeth.

Their eyes were fixed on me.

Hungry!

There was nowhere to run.

“H-Hey… don’t come any closer.”

A claw tore across my other leg.

“AAAAARRRGH!”

My knee slammed into the ground.

I screamed until my throat burned.

One of them lowered its enormous head until its hot breath washed across my face.

It smelled of blood and rotten meat.

I recoiled.

“P-Please… don’t… ARRRRGHHHH!”

I collapsed as pain ripped through my back.

Chuccckk!

The bear’s teeth sank into my shoulder.

“AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!”

Then I saw the blood dripping from its mouth.

It chewed slowly.

My flesh?

My flesh was in its mouth.

I stared at it in disbelief.

“N-No…”

Another bear grabbed my arm.

Its claws dug into my skin.

“N-NO! W-WAIT!”

Its jaws closed around my forearm.

“AAAAAAAAAH! STOP! STOP! STOP!”

“P-Please…”

My voice had become barely more than a whisper.

“Please, just k-k-kill me.”

A bear crouched in front of me.

Its bloody muzzle was only inches away.

It stared directly into my eyes.

Then it smiled.

That grin.

That horrible, familiar wicked grin!

My entire body froze.

I knew that expression.

I had seen it before?

“N-No… P-Please… nonono…”

Blood dripped from its teeth.

The dripping red blood smeared across my eyes, turning my entire vision crimson.

“HEEEEEEEE—

“NNNOOOOO!!!”

I shot upright from the hay.

My entire body jerked violently as I gasped for air.

I blinked several times.

The slave quarters slowly came into focus.

The filthy walls.

The piles of hay.

The exhausted slaves sleeping around me.

My hands immediately flew to my body.

My arms.

My chest.

My face.

My legs.

Nothing was missing.

There were no wounds.

No blood.

No bears.

I was alive.

“Thank God…”

My breathing remained ragged.

That felt so realistic.

I touched my shoulder.

For a moment, I could still feel those teeth sinking into my flesh.

I rubbed my arm.

The phantom pain remained.

I could almost feel the bear’s jaws crushing the bone beneath my skin.

“Arrh…”

I clenched my teeth.

Why did it still hurt?

I slowly lowered my hands.

Every muscle in my body felt tense.

I was just imagining it.

It was only a nightmare.

That was all!!

!!!

Every slave around me suddenly stood up at the exact same time.

Their movements were perfectly synchronised.

They all turned toward me. In unison, they said,

“Come on. Let’s get to work.”

I stared at them.

“….Okay.”

Why did they look so strange?

I ignored the weird pain crawling through my body and stood up.

The moment my feet touched the ground, a sharp pain shot through my calves.

I winced.

“Arrh…”

Hours passed.

We continued unloading the goods without stopping.

One crate.

Then another.

Then another.

My arms grew heavy, my back ached, and sweat soaked through my clothes.

Eventually, I glanced toward the other slaves.

“Hey, aren’t you working too much today? We’ve been unloading these goods for almost seven hours nonstop.”

The other slaves looked at me and smirked at the same time.

“He is weak.”

“Useless.”

“Pathetic.”

“Hahah… loser.”

Veins bulged on my forehead.

“Assholes, don’t talk to me! I’m not weak like your asses!” I shouted at them.

“Is that so? Then do the work, bitch.”

“Show us what you’re made of.”

“Indeed… show us… hehe~”

“I want to see… hehe~”

Everyone giggled with uneasy smiles.

Why were they acting so weird?

I wondered about it for a moment, but I kept working.

My arms gradually became heavier, my breathing grew rougher, and sweat rolled down my face. Yet the others continued moving without pause.

“Huh… huff… hufff…”

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and looked around.

“W-Wait… how are you all still working? It’s almost the next day! W-We need to rest…” I asked in a confused tone.

I-I don’t get it!

Those slaves were weaker than me, and yet… they kept working nonstop.

What the fuck was going on here?

Then, all of the slaves suddenly stopped.

Every single one of them turned their heads toward me in unison.

Their eyes glowed with the same familiar ice-blue light.

A wicked grin slowly spread across their faces.

“Such a weak wolf.”

“Doggy didn’t work well.”

“Looks like we need to teach him how to earn his food~ Hehe~”

“Whomp! Whomp… Doggy feels tired already~ Whomp~ Whomp~”

“Hehe… Master is going to abandon him!”

“Yeah. Very soon!”

“He’s going to become a stray and get killed on the road like a pathetic doggy~ Hehehe~”

They sneered directly in my face as though they wanted to make absolutely certain that I heard every word.

“Such a loser…!”

“He thinks he’s above everyone~ Hehe~”

“Too bad~ Hehe… he is too weak!”

“Stop…” I shouted back.

“Weak!”

“Stop.”

“Weak. Hehe~”

“I said stop!”

Their faces began to blur.

Their individual features melted together until I could no longer distinguish one slave from another.

There was only one face.

And yet there were countless copies of it.

Every single one stared at me with the same wicked grin.

“Weak!”

“Weak!”

“Weak!”

“Weak!”

The voices echoed inside my skull.

Again.

And agai—

“STOP!”

I clutched my head with both hands.

Then—

Silence.

I remained frozen, my hands still clutching my head.

Slowly, I opened my eyes.

Someone was standing in front of me.

A white-haired man with cold blue eyes.

He stared down at me with a small smile.

“You talk about being strong, and yet…” His smile widened. “You’re just another pathetic, weak asshole.”

He leaned closer.

“And yet you run your mouth like it was rented to your mother’s pussy… hehe~” he said with a wicked grin, as if he were enjoying my torture.

“Right… you don’t need that mouth. Let’s give it to your father. He could use it… Hehe~”

He caught my lower jaw and tore off my mouth like peeling skin from the corner of the nail.

TTTRRRRR!

Blood splashed across my vision.

I felt everything.

Every movement.

Every unbearable second.

I couldn’t even scream properly anymore. My mind was drowning beneath the pain, and all I could see through my blurred vision was that man smiling at me.

“Hehe~”

But it wasn’t over.

The other slaves appeared out of nowhere and continued peeling me down as the nightmare dragged on.

Some of them grabbed my wolf ears and tail—

“Hufff!”

I shot upright on the hay.

I blinked rapidly.

“N-No… No, NO, NOOOOO!!!”

The pain, the sensations, the terror… everything came rushing back into my body at once.

“ARRHHHH!! NOOOOO!!”

Tears poured from my eyes.

“Please stop! Stop it… please!”

I begged again.

And again.

“Oi! You’re not the only one sleeping in this shed, asshole!”

The other slaves who had been sleeping looked at me with annoyed expressions.

“DON’T TOUCH ME!!!!” I shouted in fear.

A man with white hair.

He stood there holding a bundle of hay in his hand.

He looked at me with a small smile.

“Looks like we need to shut his mouth ourselves… Why don’t you guys help me?”

“Hehe~”

Everyone smirked instantly.

In unison, their heads turned toward me.

NOO—MMFFFFF!

“GAS—!!!”

I snapped awake.

I sat upright on the hay, gasping desperately.

My eyes widened in horror.

I couldn’t breathe.

My throat felt blocked, as though something were lodged deep inside it.

“Ghk…!”

I clawed at my throat.

No words came out.

No proper breath came in.

Tears filled my eyes as panic consumed me.

I needed air!

I needed air!!

“Okay, doggy~”

My entire body froze.

I slowly looked upward.

A huge metal rod hovered before my mouth—

“…”

I woke again.

My eyes stared blankly into the darkness.

I couldn’t move.

I couldn’t even tell whether I was awake anymore.

And yet…

“Hmm… looks like you need water.”

The sinister voice returned.

“No…”

Hands grabbed my hair.

“Wait…”

I was dragged forward.

My head was forced toward a container of filthy water.

“W-Wait!”

My face was pushed beneath the surface.

“WWWWOOOOOOBBBBBLLLLLL!”

The cold water swallowed my senses.

I struggled violently.

My lungs began burning.

I couldn’t breathe.

I couldn’t see.

I couldn’t hear anything except the muffled pounding of my own heartbeat.

Just when I thought I was going to lose consciousness, the hand pulled me back.

I burst upward.

“GASP!”

I desperately sucked in air.

“H-Haa… haa…”

I barely had time to breathe.

The hand pushed me down again—

“….”

I woke u—

Again!

Burned alive!

Again!

Drowned in slaves’ Pee!

Again!

H-Hanged alive!

Again!

H-H-Hayfork stabbed into my ass and hanged over field like… scarecrow.

Again!

Again!!

Again!!!

Again!!!!

Again—

“I… I… I don’t know… P-Please…” I curled into myself, trembling uncontrollably. “I-I am scared… M-Mother… F-Father… I… I am so scared…”

I cried until my throat hurt. Tears and mucus ran down my face as I curled tighter into my body.

I didn’t know where I was.

I had never seen this darkness before.

Was this a dream?

A nightmare?

Whatever it was…

Please.

Please, stop it—

“It’s all right, my child.”

An ethereal voice suddenly reached me.

It was soft and soothing.

Like a ray of light at the end of an endless darkness.

I slowly raised my head.

There, in the distance, was a brilliant white light.

It was brighter than anything I had ever seen.

“Come to me, child…” the voice whispered gently.

“I will protect you~”

I didn’t know what came over me.

The moment I heard those words, something inside me broke.

I felt that if I reached that light, all the pain would disappear.

Every moment of suffering.

Everything would finally end.

My body moved before I could even think.

I crawled toward the light.

And the closer I got, the more the pain began to fade.

The fog clouding my mind slowly cleared.

“Yes… yes, dear child…” the voice whispered. “Come to me.”

“Y-Yes…”

I crawled faster.

“Please… don’t leave me… I’m so scared…”

I looked at the light as though it were the only thing keeping me alive.

I couldn’t lose it.

I couldn’t!!

This was my hope.

The only hope I had left.

“Come closer, child…”

I stretched my hand toward it.

“Closer…”

My fingers were almost touching the light.

“Yes… yes… Come closer…”

“cloSeR…”

The light flickered.

My pupils shrank.

“…to DaDdY~ Hehehehehehe~”

My entire body froze in horror.

The beautiful white light flickered violently.

Then—

A gigantic, dark hand burst from within it.

“AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH—!!!!”

CRACK!

The entire darkness fractured like shattered glass.

Thin cracks spread across the black void.

Crimson light began leaking through them, flowing along the fractures like veins beneath broken skin.

Your (POV) all you could see was the cracked darkness stretching endlessly before you. Slowly, the view began to pull farther and farther away. More cracks appeared across the darkness, spreading in every direction as the black void seemed to fold inward.

Then, little by little, right before your eyes, the truth was revealed.

It was the face of the Wolf Man.

His entire body was covered in darkness, its surface fractured like broken glass, with crimson light leaking through the cracks like glowing veins…. as if he burned to a crisp!

His entire body was covered in darkness, his features barely visible beneath a fractured surface that leaked crimson light from within.

He looked broken.

Completely broken!!!

Standing before him was a devilish figure holding the darkened Wolf Man in one hand.

The devil sighed.

He slowly shook his head.

“I should have controlled it… Sigh…”

His voice carried a strange disappointment.

“He’s too broken. I need to control myself before over excited!”

For a moment, his expression almost looked pitiful.

Then his grin widened.

Far wider than it should have.

“Still…”

He lifted the broken Wolf Man.

MUNCH!

CRUNCH!

CRUNCH!

MUNCH!

Like an anaconda swallowing its prey, the devil swallowed him in a single motion.

His figure suddenly swelled to nearly twice its original size.

He froze.

Then his entire body began vibrating violently.

His expression twisted.

“…Ugh.”

His stomach churned as though whatever he had consumed tasted absolutely vile.

BURRRRPPPPP!

A tremendous burp shook the room.

The devil’s body gradually returned to its normal size.

The surrounding darkness began disappearing.

And the darkness finally revealed the devil’s handsome face.

A faint trace of ash remained at the corner of his mouth.

“Damn…”

He grimaced and wiped his lips.

“I feel like I just ate a bunch of charcoal. Fuck, that’s disgusting.”