"Nii...? Is that you?"

The beautiful demoness called out for him before coming out of her chambers.

Ukoku—ah, he should be referring to himself as Nii Jianyi now—bowed towards the demoness as he smiled. Nii Jianyi. It has been a very long time since he had called himself that name. Yes, ever since that time before he joined the monastery and was given the name Ken'yuu.

"Yes, my lady. I've returned from my brief trip to the western continent."

Lady Gyokumen just shrugged at that. "Travelling so far away... just for some so-called 'research', I trust that the trip was fruitful?"

Nii snorted. "Well... of course. But, while we talked about one's success in achieving their goals... don't you also have your own piece of good news?"

The lady laughed. "Ah? Did you hear about that on your way back here?" She smiled. "Yes, I did have a bit of good news."

Lady Gyokumen walked closer to Nii before grabbing the man into a half-embrace. "I did it!" she said as she let him go, but not before tracing her claws along the man's lean body. She grinned as Nii reacted the way she wanted him to make.

"I've broken the seal that has been placed on this castle for 500 years. I've retrieved my beloved Gyumaoh's body, and besides that accursed Rasetsunyo... I've released all of the demons that had been sealed here." The lady pouted her lips at him. "Since you were away, there's not much I could do by myself other than placing a spell to preserve my Gyumaoh's body to prevent it from starting to decompose."

"So tell me, did you find a way to really revive Gyumaoh and give him a new life?"

Nii made a face at her. "Not really... but I did learn a few other things."

Lady Gyokumen reacted to that statement as she grabbed the tie he was wearing before pulling it towards her.

"Ah, I need to punish you for that. We need to move this discussion to another more 'private' location."

The underlying meaning behind those words drew a big smile on Nii's face. "Sure... as you wish, my lady."

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"So..."

The lady's fingers slowly unbuttoned his shirt as her hand slithered excruciatingly slow towards the lower parts of his body.

"...the last time we parted ways, you said that you'll find a way to bring back my husband back to life. But if you returned here without any result, what's the point of you making the trip then?"

"Umm, it's not that... I haven't been successful—" Nii gasped involuntarily as Lady Gyokumen's hand slipped into his pants and grabbed his shaft. "—it's just that... the method was still unchanged. We do still need all of the Founding Scriptures of Heaven and Earth to make it work."

He shivered slightly as he felt his pants being pulled off and delicate fingers massaging his lower half. "So how has that been progressing, my lady?"

Lady Gyokumen made a distasteful face as she teased the small 'head' with her fingers. "Ah, that annoying thing! It seemed that it was hard to find any useful minions here. After that first success, those lower demons had been going after the second scripture that they didn't manage to get the first time. But the brat somehow eluded my men all these years. Some of those demons ended up dying as well."

She paused, between trying to make the shaft go hard and not really allowing it to—which just made Nii go crazy with arousal below her.

"I thought after unsealing most of the population in this castle I'd be able to send more assassins to take on that brat of a Sanzo, but many of those demons weren't quite taken to the idea. Especially since it came from me."

"Then, how about we gave them a bit of a push?"

Nii raised his head as he glanced over to look at the lady. "While I was at the western continent I've witnessed some pretty interesting things. The demons over there had been going on a rampage on the humans after being influenced by some 'minus energy'. Monsters, the humans called the demons over there. And in the midst of that chaos, this one powerful demon was able to take control of the lower demons to do his bidding."

"Because you see, the minus energy caused the lower demons to revert to their main basic desire—that is to devour in order to survive—and reawaken their demonic instincts to go wild. It was somewhat like a massive brainwash, and the bigger demon used that to its advantage to attack the surrounding population more systematically."

"Oh... that sounds like a delightful idea. We could certainly use that for our own purpose. But are you sure you wouldn't mind seeing those demons attacking your fellow humans?"

"I don't... CARE!" he cried, just as the lady took the chance to swallow him whole. "Whatever the consequences... as long as I can satisfy my curiosity... I'll do it!"

His hips start to jerk and shake involuntarily the lady kept on sucking and biting on his member. He could really feel himself going hard... and reaching the limits of his endurance. The lady pulled out, just as his mind was going crazy with all of the overwhelming sensations.

"That was certainly a very good finding and would be useful for our endeavour." She smiled, before climbing over Nii's body. "I certainly need to give you a worthy reward for that—" said the lady before kissing the man lying below her passionately.

As the two of them lay entangled on the bed, Nii rolled themselves around so that their position was overturned.

"My lady... may I?" he asked as the buzzing on his head became unbearable.

"Sure... you earned it," said the lady as Nii lifted her hips and thrust his hardening member into her. He kept on thrusting and pulling in a constant rhythm until he reached the edge. He collapsed over Lady Gyokumen as he ended up completely spent. The lady laughed at him.

"Aren't you the fragile one?" she asked as the lady turned around again. "The night is still too young for us to retire early..."

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Kougaiji frowned as he stared at the petrified statue of his mother. Somehow aside from her, Lady Gyokumen had released everyone else from the seal that locked everyone inside this castle including him. And he was sure that that woman had a plan to use his mother against him.

He was aware of it all, the plan that his 'stepmother' had been plotting with that human that appeared out of nowhere. They have set up some kind of fancy equipment underneath the castle in one of the larger rooms. It was for the experiments to revive his father, they said. Not that he cared much about it.

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He went out... afterwards since there wasn't much to do in the castle. And he hadn't the mood to keep his sister company with the dark thoughts he'd been having. So he decided to take a walk outside to breathe some air. So many had changed around him after 500 years. He couldn't help finding it surreal that 500 years had passed since the last time he came out here with his mother...

He stopped in his steps as Kougaiji found a man half-dying in front of him. He knelt over the man to see if he was still alive. It turned out that the man was also a demon like him.

"Oi... you still alive?" asked the boy as Kougaiji poked his finger at the man.

The man opened his eyes before reaching out to touch his red hair.

"Such... a beautiful colour. I'm sorry... lil' brother..."

The man passed out as Kougaiji took that cue to carry him back to Houtou Castle.