In the Golden Sycamore District, within a detached house surrounded by gardens and lawns, a beautiful dance tune was playing in the brightly lit hall.
The Nobles and gentry of Tingen's Conservative Party were dancing with their beautiful partners. But no one knew that the two most beautiful women in this house weren't on the dance floor, but inside an elegantly and quietly decorated bedroom on the second floor.
"What a beautiful body. It would be a waste to leave it unused!" Slender, pale-white fingers,like spring onions,slid across Trissy's smooth skin, stirring up a thin layer of goosebumps.
But as Madam Sharon's Beyonder ability activated, an indescribable sensation began to sprout in the depths of Trissy's heart, making her unable to resist letting out soft groans.
"My, what a naive child." Madam Sharon looked at Trissy, who was completely bound by spider silk, as if looking at an exquisite doll. Her smile was remarkably affectionate, but in the eyes of the limp and powerless Trissy, it was more terrifying than that of a vengeful ghost.
Suppreing the trembling of her body, she asked in a voice with a slight quiver, "What exactly do you want to do?!"
"Don't worry. I've chosen a veteran for you." Madam Sharon narrowed her eyes, speaking in a suggestive tone.
"Why?" Flames seemed to burn within Trissy's eyes, which were slightly small but carried a hint of natural charm.
"We are all daughters of the Primordial One. Only by drawing closer to the Primordial One can we obtain sanctification, grow stronger, find salvation, and... escape the final apocalypse."
"So you're going to make me..." Trissy gritted her teeth, avoiding accidentally letting out a sound that would please her captor.
Madam Sharon only smiled at her struggle, then suddenly withdrew her fingers, placed Trissy back on the bed, and slowly helped her change into an exquisite evening gown.
Seeing Trissy heave a sigh of relief, she suddenly giggled: "What? You think I'm letting you off? You truly are a naive little girl! You know, clothes are also part of the experience... tee-hee-hee..."
Knock, knock, knock... A soft knocking came from the door. Madam Sharon stood up as if she had expected it. Under Trissy's desperate gaze, she walked to the door and deliberately turned the handle at a very slow speed.
Then, just as Trissy's despair reached its peak, the door opened. Appearing at the door was a charming and lovely maid,
"Madam Sharon, the Master is looking for you."
"Alright. Inform the Mayor that I'll be down shortly." Madam Sharon responded in an elegant and proper tone. The maid nodded and left the door with small steps; throughout the entire process, she didn't even cast a glance into the room.
"Startled you, didn't it?" Madam Sharon looked amusingly at Trissy, who looked like a survivor of a disaster. With a gentle pull of her finger, Trissy's limp body sat up without warning, like a marionette being pulled by its strings.
"Look forward to your first experience!" Madam Sharon came to Trissy's side, lightly kissed her earlobe, and then said in a soft, enchanting voice, "Don't try to escape. Don't forget, I was once an [Assassin], an [Instigator], and a [Witch]. I know whatever means you have better than you do..."
Tread, tread, tread...
With elegant steps, Madam Sharon's figure gradually vanished from sight. Trissy sat stiffly on the edge of the bed. Even using the [Assassin]'s Beyonder ability to concentrate all her strength at a single point, she couldn't break free from this invisible restraint.
Just as Madam Sharon said, she had once been an [Assassin], an [Instigator], and a [Witch]; she knew every trick a [Witch] could perform, and she knew all of a [Witch]'s weaknesses.
'If only someone could come...' This thought rose in Trissy's heart, but she immediately tossed it aside. Madam Sharon surely would have planned for whatever she could think of. She was certain that even if she shouted at the top of her lungs here, no one would enter this room to give her a chance to use her [Charm].
Trissy lightly bit her lip. At this moment, if one were to observe with Spirit Vision, they would find that her current emotion wasn't despair, but struggle.
Because she wasn't completely without a way; it was just that the price to be paid might be even greater.
Must she truly let a man...
Trissy had even entertained the thought of "just treating it like being bitten by a dog," but the last bit of persistence in her heart made her uncontrollably resist this outcome.
In this moment, Trissy once again recalled the words that damn cat cautioned her with almost every time they met,
'You rely too much on Beyonder abilities.'
How many times had she merely treated it as mockery from someone of a higher sequence to one of a lower sequence? But the moment those words came from Madam Sharon's mouth, Trissy finally realized her fatal error in logic,
The only person of a higher sequence than her wasn't that dead cat!
Choose!
Pain, unwillingne, anger, confusion...
Countless thoughts collided in her mind, and then, a phantom-like, crisp cracking sound echoed in her head.
Her [Witch] potion had completely digested.
'Is a [Witch],who brings calamity to others,equally powerless when bound to a stake? But what use is understanding this now?' The mouth,the only part of Trissy's body capable of movement,curled into a self-mocking arc. Her eyes became ethereal and clear. The moment she realized the reason for the potion's digestion, she had already made a decision.
Ancient and arduous syllables issued from her throat. In the phantom realm, without the seal of a wall of spirituality, those whispering, declaring voices echoed continuously.
Ancient Hermes, capable of prying into natural Great Power, rang out in the room. Arrays of air currents were swept up by her voice, transforming into characters that pierced toward the sky.
"O Voyager from a distant spacetime;"
"You are the contradictory spiral of logic and wisdom;"
"You are the reflection of knowledge, the reverse side of truth."
"I pray for Your listening; I pray for Your gaze."
"I pray that You can grant me a way to resolve the current crisis."
[Translated and Rewritten by Shika Kagura]
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A/N: "Witch" (女巫) - Sequence 7 of the Demoness pathway. Trissy's realization of her own powerleue and the nature of "calamity" led to the complete digestion of her potion.
A/N: "Madam Sharon" (雪伦夫人) - A major antagonist in the Tingen arc of the original novel, here interacting with the "transmigrator influenced" Trissy.
T/N: "Golden Sycamore District" (金梧桐区) - A high-end residential district in Tingen, home to the mayor and other elites.
T/N: "Ancient Hermes" (古赫密斯语) - The language often used for rituals and prayers to deities and high-level beings in the LotM world.
T/N: "Contradictory spiral of logic and wisdom" - Part of Snow's custom honorifics, reflecting the Paradox pathway's nature.