Chapter 245: Usurp the throne of this world.

Usurp the throne of this world.

"So, how have you been?" Shin asked as he entered Carolina’s improvised jail.

The woman had finally woken up, so the succubus quickly went to tell Shin about it.

"Where are my items?" the woman asked immediately, her body tensing like a stray cat getting ready for a fight.

Shin smiled, amused, but he wasn’t worried. Carolina wasn’t strong enough to beat him, and she knew it.

"I don’t know anything about that," he said, lying bluntly. "My girls only found you. I believe they rescued you from inside a man-eating plant..." he commented, pretending to have trouble remembering.

"Yes, but I’m sure my bag of items was with me. I wouldn’t let it go!" she pouted, annoyed.

"Maybe some monster took it," he said with an ironic tone, not even trying to hide the truth anymore. "Who knows where all those valuable things ended up... Such a tragedy."

"Fuck you!" Carolina roared, sticking her tongue out at him.

"Shouldn’t you be more grateful? We saved your life," Shin shrugged. He wasn’t really angry at her antics, just amused.

Carolina’s obsession with money truly had no parallel. But Shin knew the reason behind it, so he could still sympathize with her.

"You already took my items, everything I risked my life over and over to get!" she replied angrily. "This is more than enough of a reward for saving my life."

Shin smiled and nodded. "You did find some good things. Especially that crown."

Carolina’s eyes shot open, as if he’d just mentioned something she’d been searching for a long time. She pointed at Shin and exclaimed accusingly:

"How do you know what items I got? I knew it! You stole my items!"

Shin let out a sigh and smiled ironically. He had never really intended to trick her. He was only having fun.

So he simply admitted that, in fact, he had taken all of her items.

Now what?

"I could have left you to die, so you should still be grateful," he argued. "And what are you going to do? Take your items back?"

To Shin’s surprise, Carolina actually attempted to attack him as soon as he said those words.

She lunged forward without hesitation, but Shin simply stepped aside.

Carolina’s fist passed harmlessly beside his face, and before she could recover her balance, Shin caught her by the waist.

"Wha—?!"

With a smooth movement, he redirected her momentum and spun her around, turning her sudden attack into something resembling an impromptu dance step.

Carolina’s eyes widened as Shin guided her effortlessly, one hand firmly around her waist while the other kept her from stumbling.

"Calm down," he said with an amused smile.

"I’ll kill you!"

"You’ll have to catch me first."

He leaned closer as he finished the movement, bringing his face dangerously close to hers. Carolina froze for a brief moment, her expression caught somewhere between outrage and surprise.

The man pressed her body closer, pressing her curvy body flush against his. Carolina could feel just how effortlessly Shin was controlling the situation.

Her face reddened, not from embarrassment, she told herself, but from sheer frustration.

"You..."

Shin raised an eyebrow. "Yes?"

Carolina glared at him. "Let me go."

"Are you going to attack me again?"

"Absolutely."

"Then no."

"You bastard!"

Shin laughed, his hands going lower and grabbing her huge and sexy ass.

"Okay, I may let you go," he said**,** groping her perfect butt. "However, if we do fight, I may end up touching you in places you don’t want... By accident, of course."

Shin played with her ass even more, proving how easily she was under his control.

"Okay, I give up," the woman said with a resigned sigh.

Shin smiled, but this time he allowed her to go, releasing the woman from his embrace.

Finally free, Carolina stared at Shin for a long moment. Her skill told her there was no risk in attacking him, probably because he had no intention of hurting her.

However, there was also no reward in doing so, because he was much stronger. She wouldn’t be able to escape, or even hurt him.

So she didn’t do anything useless, and sat on the ground.

"So, what is it that you want from me?" She let out a sigh. "You took everything I had, so could you at least let me go... or give me clothes."

She pointed to the precarious state of her clothing.

The succubus that found her rescued her basically naked. Her old clothes had been destroyed and torn apart during her many misadventures in the Demon King’s castle.

Then, not to leave her naked, some of the Succubi gave her clothes. But of course, they were succubus clothes, and they barely covered anything.

She was wearing a skimpy bikini that barely contained her curves, and left two obvious points for her stiff nipples.

"I like to see you wearing these clothes," Shin joked.

"Pervert!" Carolina complained, hiding her chest.

Shin laughed at her, and at the fact her boobs were too big to be properly hidden by only her arms.

"Just tell me what you want and stop messing with me!" The girl finally said, blushing as she screamed angrily.

Shin only found all of that cute and amusing, so he deliberately wasted a bit of time.

Shin finally stopped laughing. His expression became serious enough that Carolina immediately noticed the change.

"I think your obsession with money goes beyond anything reasonable," he said, looking directly at her.

"But I can give you wealth so vast that even if the entire world collapsed around you, you’d still have more than enough to live like a queen."

Carolina’s expression slowly changed. She had expected another joke, but there was none. Shin extended both hands toward her.

"If such a crazy amount of money is really what you want, then follow me. Become my ally... and my subordinate. I can’t promise you an easy path, but I can promise you that the rewards will be far greater than anything you’ve ever risked your life for."

Carolina stared at his hands without moving. What her skill allowed her to see in Shin’s eyes was something far more dangerous than any monster, dungeon, or person she’d ever encountered.

Her skill instinctively screamed at her that accepting his offer carried a risk greater than anything she had ever faced. Yet, at the same time, the potential reward was so enormous that even her skill seemed incapable of measuring it fully.

Her fingers trembled as she slowly reached forward and took his hands.

"What... what do you want to do?" she asked, her voice uncharacteristically shaky.

Shin smiled. "Usurp the throne of this world."

Carolina stared at him in silence. The words were simple, yet she had no idea what he meant by that.

But she understood one thing.

Whatever Shin was planning, it was going to change everything.