I'm the Only One With a Different Genre - Chapter 184

Chapter 184

Time to Go Home.

In an instant, Lian was pushed back and knocked over by Jess, who had taken on the appearance of an adorable puppy. Although he had recovered thanks to the gag filter, his body, far weaker than his original one, was easily pinned down by Jess like a soft doll.

“Wa-wait, Jess! Ugh! Don’t lick my face!”

He tried to push her away, startled by her licking his cheek while wagging her tail, but she didn’t budge an inch. Lian lacked the strength to stop the overly excited large dog—no, the overly excited Jess.

Sensing this, Jess pressed her body even closer. When her full, warm chest pressed against his torso, Lian’s body froze, and he almost hiccupped in surprise.

If he hadn’t already trained himself (somewhat) through Noah, he might have fainted on the spot with a nosebleed.

“Huhuhu, Master…”

Her lips subtly brushed against his cheek, tickling him, and Lian’s frozen body snapped back to attention as if he had been thrown into molten lava. Just as he raised his hands to firmly stop Jess, she quickly grabbed them. Her fingers slipped between his, intertwining lightly.

Jess’s eyes, looking down at Lian, sparkled dangerously.

‘Something about this feels off…?’

Lian, who had been thinking of the situation as just a “puppy excited to see its owner after an unexpected reunion,” suddenly heard alarm bells ringing in his head.

As proof, Jess’s previously narrow pupils had dilated, giving her the look of a predator eyeing its prey.

Lian, trembling like a rabbit in front of a wolf, opened his mouth to try and calm Jess down.

“Jess, that’s enough—!”

Before he could finish his sentence.

Clang!

The firmly locked prison door rattled with a loud noise. A small window, used for conversations, opened, and a pair of eyes peered inside.

“….”

“….”

Jess, who was still on top of Lian, looked at the unexpected visitor. The eyes, which had been trembling as if they had seen something they shouldn’t have, soon regained their composure.

“…Hmm… No problem here.”

Clink, clack.

The small window closed, and silence returned to the prison.

The senior guard, who had rushed over after hearing from a rookie guard that a weak slave and a clearly carnivorous beastman slave had been locked up together, sighed in relief and walked away, reassured by the sight of the slave being “eaten” in a different sense.

“Wa-wait, this is a misunderstanding! A misunderstanding!”

Lian, who quickly realized what kind of cliché had just played out, shouted reflexively, only to meet Jess’s startled gaze. Seeing her cutely shake her ears, his scattered thoughts began to return to order.

“Haa… Jess. This body isn’t my real one, so don’t handle it so roughly.”

“Sniff sniff… Okay…”

Jess, who had been thinking she might never get another chance to devour him in such a private space, reluctantly backed off after hearing that it wasn’t his real body.

Only then could Lian let out a cautious sigh of relief.

“So—how did you end up here, Jess?”

At Lian’s question, Jess rolled her eyes upward as if recalling the past.

***

After Lian had disappeared in a burst of ominous flames, Jess began desperately searching for any information related to him.

She was certain Lian was still alive. From the moment she had started serving him as her master, she had felt an invisible connection with him, and that connection remained intact.

While she was frantically flipping through books in the library, a commotion erupted in the Duke’s household. Noah and Iris, who had been living like recluses, suddenly claimed that Lian was alive and insisted they needed to rescue him.

‘Master is in the Demon King’s castle?’

Amid the murmurs that Noah and Iris had gone mad or were victims of a mental attack from the Demon King’s forces, Jess was the only one who believed them.

‘…I should have slept more.’

Pouting her lips at the thought that her master hadn’t visited her in her dreams, Jess began preparing to storm the Demon King’s castle.

Charging into the Demon King’s army alone would have been a suicidal move, so Jess sought strength.

‘I need a pack.’

With the power of magic, it wasn’t impossible for an individual to wage war against a large force. However, doing so would take far too much time.

This was why Jess decided to form a pack. She immediately left the Duke’s estate and headed south, to the land of the beastmen.

The land of barbarians, no different from a wasteland, only welcomed the strong. Especially for a beautiful beastman like Jess, she was often eyed as prey.

“Bow your heads and worship!”

In less than a month, Jess had conquered and claimed the barbarian lands as her own. Every beastman tucked their tails and submitted to her.

By that time, the war between the Demon King’s army and the Empire had fully erupted. Jess, as if waiting for this moment, jumped into the battlefield and fought like a madwoman, earning the title “Slaughterer.”

Time passed, and eventually—Jess was captured and brought to the Demon King’s castle as a slave.

“Wait a second. You skipped a lot of details! How did you end up getting captured? You didn’t explain that at all!”

“I kept killing and killing, but it just wouldn’t end… So I figured getting captured would be faster. Hehe.”

“You…”

Jess, sensing she might get scolded, flashed a cute smile and rested her head on Lian’s lap, looking up at him with big eyes. Her large ears drooped as if to say, ‘Forgive me, please?’

Lian’s resolve melted at the sight.

“…Don’t do that again, okay?”

“Okay, okay!”

Though he lightly patted her head, the lack of any real remorse in her voice was evident. For a moment, Lian considered scolding her properly, but Jess’s happy expression made him give up.

‘What a cute little rascal.’

When Lian playfully pinched her cheek, Jess let out a small whine and flapped her ears. Finding her too cute, Lian continued petting her for a while. Jess, noticing that Lian was treating her like a puppy, slyly wrapped her arms around his waist, acting even more affectionate.

Lian, unaware that the physical contact between them was growing more intimate by the day, continued to stroke Jess’s soft hair.

Everything was going according to Jess’s plan.

After some time passed, Lian and Jess began to seriously plan their escape from the Demon King’s castle.

“I’ve already scouted out a location.”

“Wow…”

As a ghost, Lian could avoid traps and spells, allowing him to move freely and discover secret passages without issue. Finding an escape route had been a piece of cake.

As Lian smoothly explained the information he had gathered, Jess listened in awe, her mouth slightly agape. His intel was that good.

“With this much information, we can escape right away!”

“Right?”

“Master, you’re amazing!”

Not missing her chance, Jess threw herself into Lian’s arms, burying her face in his neck and indulging in her desires. In the past, Lian would have been startled, but by now, he was used to it and gently patted her back. He had learned through experience that coaxing her gently was far easier than trying to forcibly pull her away.

This too was part of Jess’s adorable scheme, but there was no way Lian could have known.

As the two fine-tuned their perfect escape plan, a foreboding presence was creeping out from another part of the castle.

“…Where are you?”

A chillingly seductive voice echoed through the walls and floors. Normally, the person behind that voice would have appeared with a loud bang, but they were nowhere to be seen.

“Stop playing around and come out.”

No sound or presence could be detected, and the Demon King’s eyes gradually grew emptier. Her red pupils lost their light, becoming eerily hollow.

“…”

She silently scanned the room. The space, which had once felt comfortable, now felt colder and more desolate than the northern snowfields. It was as if a part of her heart had been ripped out, leaving her feeling empty and suffocated.

“As I thought…”

She muttered with eyes clouded over in darkness.

“I should have made it so you could never leave my side.”

Forbidden spells filled her mind.

“No, it’s not too late… I can still find you…”

The Demon King.

“If I make even your soul mine, it’ll be fine.”

For the first time, the most violent and brutal king was being honest about her desires.

***

At the crack of dawn the next day, Lian and Jess were ready to escape.

Lian had already prepared to leave the Demon King’s castle as soon as he found his body, and Jess, having found Lian, had meticulously planned their escape.

Thanks to their preparation, they didn’t need much time to get ready and could attempt their escape immediately.

Rumble.

Lian activated a hidden mechanism on one of the prison walls, revealing a passage just wide enough for one person to pass through. Zone 0 had once been used as a storage area, and the passage in front of them had been built to quickly move between the storage room, kitchen, and VIP rooms.

According to the history books Lian had read in the library, the passage had collapsed long ago. However, contrary to what the books said, the passage was still intact. Only Lian, in his ghostly form, could have known this.

“Let’s go.”

“Yeah!”

It was time to go home.

End of Chapter