Chapter 165

What?!

Hinata harbored plenty of hatred for the Greed Demon in her heart. Because she wasn't actually stupid. She knew very well who was the real culprit behind her mother's death—besides the mistakes Hinata herself had committed, it was, of course, the fault of this Greed Demon.

Dr. Elio was merely the hands and feet of the Greed Demon.

But no matter how much she hated the Greed Demon, at this very moment, facing this madman who possessed such astonishing power, Hinata couldn't help but feel genuine fear rising in her heart.

"…What are you going to do to me?"

She tried her best to hide her fear, but she couldn't help asking, "Are you trying to corrupt me, make me fall…?"

But the Greed Demon just waved his hand nonchalantly: "I don't need to go to such trouble. All I need is the darkness in your heart."

What?

After speaking, as if to demonstrate, the Greed Demon began to do something strange.

He walked over to the Exorcist Fox Spirit who had collapsed on the ground, and suddenly kicked her hard in the stomach!

"Eeee-un-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo—?!"

In an instant, Tsuchimikado Hyougen let out a shrill, miserable scream. And her stomach, for some reason, actually began to swell rapidly, bloating up as if she had been constipated for a week!

"Push it out."

The Greed Demon calmly kicked her stomach again.

Now, the Exorcist Fox Spirit could no longer hold it in; her eyes widened, her mouth hung open, and she thrashed about like a fish on dry land, unable to say a single word, and then—

Squish-plop-sputter!

Her sphincter muscles lost control, her lower abdomen strained wantonly, and a black, mud-like gel sprayed out violently!

"Hoh-hoh-hoh-oh-oh-oh—oh-oh-oh—"

Tsuchimikado Hyougen finally let out a wailing scream.

With every inch of the black gel that was expelled, something of hers was also stripped away from within her body.

Not until the last bit of black gel was expelled did Hyougen's body completely collapse. The once jade-bright, beautiful eyes lost their focus, turning into a pair of hollow, lifeless stones, lying limp on the ground like a dead corpse.

Hinata Haruna could no longer describe this tragic scene before her eyes with words; she only felt an indescribable terror.

But this was only the beginning.

"Get up, Tsuchimikado Hyougen."

The Greed Demon commanded faintly, as if pronouncing a new name, "A brand new you has been born. From now on, you are—the Sunk-in-Depravity Beautiful Flesh Fox Spirit, Hyougen."

As soon as the words fell, that foul-smelling black gel immediately began to squirm and aggregate as if it had gained life, rapidly taking on a humanoid outline, tracing out a bewitching figure.

That was another Hyougen.

A more bewitching, and darker version of her; her fox ears and long hair hung low, her face was beautiful, and she knelt respectfully at the Greed Demon's feet: "Master… my body and mind belong to you."

What kind of terrifying authority is this?

Could this be the legendary [Personality Excretion]?!

Yes, and no.

The Greed Demon's authority could simply separate spirit and flesh, turning a personality into gel… but doing just that didn't have much meaning. Because the Greed Demon's authority was different from a [Dominator's], it didn't have the power of direct command.

So he changed his approach.

Everyone has a dark side in their heart, everyone has desires and evil thoughts, even if it's just a tiny sliver of desire. Unless one has cultivated to the level of Duke Cilianni, a transcendent being like a Bodhisattva among men, it is unavoidable.

The Greed Demon's silver coin authority could turn the desires and evil thoughts in a person's heart into a pool of foul-smelling black gel and expel them.

A person who expels their desires and evil thoughts will not die because of it. But having lost their desires, it is equivalent to losing their survival instinct, basically becoming a lump of empty flesh with neither consciousness nor any ability to act.

And that mass of expelled black mud—was what he wanted.

These evil-hearted black mud monsters could be used directly, or re-manifested into forms. The Greed Demon had ways to command and control them.

Those evil-hearted monsters that both Qi Xing and Lin had fought in the Northeast previously were clearly created only because the Greed Demon had made a deal with Yaobikuni at that time.

Furthermore, this authority of the Greed Demon actually had many other uses and many kinds of combination techniques.

"Do you understand, Magical Girl Soleia?"

He looked down at Hinata, his smile gentle yet chilling, "I don't need to go to any special effort to make you fall. You aren't worth that much."

"I only need the darkness in your heart."

For a young girl, this was absolutely a terrifying thing.

Hinata felt as if she had fallen into an icy abyss.

My soul is about to turn into a pile of… feces, and be excreted? That is absolutely unacceptable; even death, even being [redacted] by a monster, would be far better than this ending!

She didn't want to turn into a pile of shit! Damn it, damn it, isn't there anything she can do?!

"You said… the darkness in my heart…"

Racking her brains, for now, Hinata could only force herself to speak calmly to stall for time. Perhaps she could stall until some turning point… perhaps Master Leipu would arrive soon…

"What kind of powerful darkness could I possibly have in my heart?"

"You do."

The Greed Demon smiled slightly, his voice filled with extreme pleasure, "Soleia, if the hatred in your heart could be separated and projected onto Master Leipu, I think that would be very interesting."

Hatred?

Could her meager level of hatred really attract the attention of the Magic City Tokyo's Demon King?

Although Hinata truly hated the Greed Demon to death, even she herself didn't think her hatred was all that shocking or earth-shattering.

Facing the impossibly insane Greed Demon, Hinata even felt fear. This clearly indicated that the purity of her hatred wasn't high enough.

If a hatred could still waver and feel fear, it meant it wasn't "dark" enough.

But that was fine, the Greed Demon could help solve this problem.

As if performing a magic trick, he slowly produced a rather large wooden box from behind him and opened it slowly, as if teasing someone.

The object displayed inside that wooden box made Hinata's pupils shrink violently, and she went completely numb, almost losing consciousness.

Because what was placed inside the wooden box was—her father's head.

That face she had been intimately familiar with since childhood now bore an expression of incredible shock and pain, placed without any dignity in a box, his wide-open eyes not even closed yet.

"Soleia."

The Greed Demon's voice was still gentle to the point of mockery, "Do you know how cute the righteous path of your Tokyo is? They didn't even dare to notify your father far away in France, afraid that he would decide on his own to rush back and get involved in this war between good and evil."

He chuckled, as if recounting a pleasant prank, "Indeed, even I didn't have the time to leave Tokyo to go to France to kill your father—how could I have such spare time right now?"

"But I only needed one phone call to tell your father that you were in trouble in Tokyo and urgently needed family to return… and he believed it."

"Then he got on a plane and returned to Tokyo. And before he even left the airport, he died!"

"How do you feel about this?"

Hinata, collapsed on the ground, opened her mouth, but could no longer make any sound.

"Now—tell me, do you have enough 'hatred' in your heart? Is the purity high enough?"

The Greed Demon continued to examine her meticulously, his eyes filled with an interest bordering on that of a scientist, as if he could already see a pool of black sludge about to flow out from her heart.

"Offer this hatred to me; use it to hate, hate the person who started the war between good and evil in Tokyo and attempted to change the world."

"Because this is all his fault."

"—And then, you will become the sacrifice for Master Leipu, helping him become the true Demon King!"

Volume 4: Evil Magic, Magic City Tokyo: 154: Hand Over the Head

"By the way, don't count on Master Leipu happening to arrive in time to save you."

"My servants can at least hold him off for a few minutes, and you don't have a few minutes left; you will be excreted very soon."

Indeed, just as the Greed Demon said, Hinata could already feel that something was strange in her stomach. Her stomach was churning, her intestines were aching and sore, and an increasingly intense, strange sensation was spreading from the depths of her abdomen.

That thing wriggling like feces was not food residue, nor was it poison, but her "evil heart"—hatred, anger, unwillingness, fear, humiliation… all these dark emotions were condensing, expanding, and twisting into a pool of foul-smelling black mud.

Gathering in her intestines, very, very long.

"And then you will want to excrete it."

"As you push it out, the darkness in your heart will also enter the gel. In the end, your body will only be left as an empty shell, and your evil heart and desires will all turn into a pool of foul-smelling gel. But you won't die; you will just be turned into a pile of shit forever."

The Greed Demon looked very happy.

"What should I do? Magical Girl Soleia, should I give you a way out?"

"Perhaps if you voluntarily submit, it would trigger Master Leipu's nerves even more?"

What to do? What to do?

Hinata didn't speak, slumped on the spot, as if she had already been stunned into stupidity. Only the hatred and fear in her eyes showed that she was still alive and hadn't yet turned into an empty shell of flesh that had lost its personality.

—And the Greed Demon was actually thinking as well.

If he wanted to force Hinata to excrete the black gel right now, he only needed to kick her in the stomach, which would be easy.

But such a forced melon, an evil heart pulled out by force, if Master Leipu's Dao heart was firm and he remained unmoved, then the Greed Demon would be asking for trouble, and it would lack entertainment value.

It would be best, of course, to have her surrender herself, to have her choose to darken herself, so it could more effectively sting Master Leipu, right?

Or perhaps making her reveal her ugly state, making a huge joke out of her, that would of course be even better.

"I'll give you a chance, Magical Girl Soleia."

So the Greed Demon took out his phone and aimed it at Hinata, "Kneel, obediently be a bitch, express your hatred for Master Leipu causing the war between good and evil in Tokyo, and I won't turn you into shit."

"Time is running out, Soleia. You have ten seconds before you start shitting. Ten, nine, eight…"

Hinata's face was already pale. She didn't want to push it out. She didn't want to turn into that kind of thing. She didn't want to even in death! She really didn't want to turn into a pile of shit!

But her body was becoming less and less obedient. Stomach acid welled up, and cold sweat soaked her back. That pulling sensation pushed step by step toward her sphincter.

But Hinata also knew very well that a person couldn't hold back the urge to defecate forever. No matter how much she endured or struggled, in the eyes of this Greed Demon, it would only be a play that satisfied his perverted desires.

She really didn't want to turn into shit. How could she end it all by excreting her personality here?

Bitter tears could no longer be held back and streamed down.

"Seven, six, five…"

The sound of the Greed Demon counting in her ears pounded on her skull like the drumbeats of a countdown to a hanging. She really couldn't control it anymore.

Humiliation, shame, fear… all burned Hinata bright red like raging fire, yet her hands were trembling, her legs were twitching, and her stomach was moaning.

"I don't want to…"