Crystal Palace from Infinite Anime

Lin Zhiyu looked at Ingrid with interest, his words full of teasing.

Ingrid said calmly:

"You haven't killed me, and you haven't done anything excessive to me so far. This means you most likely need me in some way."

"Hmm? This inference does make some sense, but you're wrong. I may indeed need your cooperation in certain matters, but why should I ask you for it? Can't I just coerce or intimidate you?"

Lin Zhiyu has never been a kind person, but he feels no guilt when talking about threatening others.

And then Lin Zhiyu called Ingrid to come to the window and look.

Ingrid stared at Lin Zhiyu's eyes for a few seconds, then walked to the window step by step, looked downstairs, and soon found Lina eating noodles in the noodle shop opposite.

"No matter what your purpose is, just target me! Don't involve that little guy!" Ingrid's eyes suddenly became more dissatisfied when she looked at Lin Zhiyu, but she still did not show anger.

Lin Zhiyu felt vaguely strange, but couldn't tell what was wrong.

At close range, he squinted his eyes and stared at Ingrid closely, then told Ingrid that it was actually Lina who followed him on her own initiative.

Without hiding anything, Lin Zhiyu told Ingrid everything that had happened since he captured her, including the seal, the battle with Astaroth, saving Lina's life from the "world's number one killer," and so on.

"Seal? Astaroth? The killer who almost killed Lina?"

Ingrid frowned at the information given by Lin Zhiyu, and her brain CPU usage was directly maxed out.

She tried to judge Lin Zhiyu's purpose based on the information he provided.

But Lin Zhiyu didn't give her time to think deeply and said bluntly:

"You don't have to guess why I chose to seal you. You won't be able to figure it out no matter how hard you try. Let's focus on Lina, shall we? You seem to care about her a lot, so even if it's to repay me for saving her life, or to put it bluntly, for her safety - I hope you can agree to one condition of mine."

"What conditions?" Ingrid asked immediately.

Lin Zhiyu stared into her eyes and said, "Your loyalty."

"..." Ingrid fell silent for a moment, then after a few breaths, she spoke again, telling Lin Zhiyu that she had already sworn allegiance to Black. As a knight, her chivalry wouldn't allow her to do something tantamount to betraying Black. If Lin Zhiyu insisted on threatening her with Lina's life, she would probably have no choice but to sacrifice herself.

"Is that so? What if Black dies?"

"???"

Ingrid's face darkened, and there was finally some hostility in her eyes when she looked at Lin Zhiyu.

"Your target is Lord Black?" Ingrid clenched her fists, and then said to Lin Zhiyu in a cold tone that whoever wanted to kill Black would have to step over her body first.

Lin Zhiyu had expected her reaction.

But Lin Zhiyu always felt that her reaction was relatively calm. Based on Ingrid's unwavering loyalty to Blake in the plot, her reaction should have been more intense, right?

What surprised Lin Zhiyu even more was that after he expressed his determination to "protect his master even if it means death", Ingrid actually kindly gave him some advice:

"Don't think that just because you've captured me, you and your companions can handle Lord Black! Lord Black's strength is ten times, if not dozens of times, greater than mine! I advise you not to seek your own death."

Although this seems to be alarmist.

But Lin Zhiyu could really feel the kind of persuasive intention in Ingrid's voice.

The Demon Knight, whose hands were stained with blood, was ambushed and captured by Lin Zhiyu, and Lin Zhiyu even threatened her with the people she cared about - even with this, she could still show an attitude of repaying evil with kindness?

"Something's wrong! Her attitude has been weird since I first walked in until now." Lin Zhiyu became suspicious, so he began to stare at Ingrid silently, just like when he entered the room before, Ingrid had stared at him silently.

Ingrid was standing next to Lin Zhiyu. She did not avoid Lin Zhiyu's gaze, but looked at him frankly.

After a while, Lin Zhiyu suddenly asked Ingrid, "You seem to have known me for a long time?"

Chapter 16: Demonic Brothel

"You seem to have known me for a long time?"

“…” Ingrid said nothing.

She didn't answer the question, and Lin Zhiyu didn't care.

But apart from not answering Lin Zhiyu, her expression remained unchanged in the face of Lin Zhiyu's sudden and unreasonable question. This made Lin Zhiyu feel concerned and convinced that there was something wrong.

It just so happened that Ingrid was looking into Lin Zhiyu's eyes calmly.

So Lin Zhiyu thought for a moment and activated the "life-seeing" effect of the Yata Mirror. Just like he had seen Bayonetta's past before, he now saw Ingrid's past.

Ingrid looked directly into Lin Zhiyu's eyes, and found that Lin Zhiyu's pupils suddenly turned into purple jade, and emitted a suction force that instantly sucked her consciousness into them...

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Hundreds of years ago.

In the demon world, there is an extremely chaotic city called "Casadog".

A dark-skinned girl who was born into an aristocratic family in the demon world, a noble humanoid demon who aspired to become a knight, was attacked in a premeditated manner while traveling, was knocked unconscious and taken to a brothel in the city of Casadog.

...The slightly aphrodisiac incense filled the room, which was lit with purple lights and had a chaotic atmosphere.

A beautiful mature woman wearing a black OL uniform, with nothing underneath, and a look of worldly charm between her brows, sits on a soft round bed, with her smooth and slender legs raised and a cigarette hanging from her hand.

When the dark-skinned girl with long pink hair was brought into the room, the beautiful mature woman exhaled smoke and said slowly to the girl who was only fourteen or fifteen years old and had already reached a height of 1.7 meters:

"Your name is Ingrid, right? Nice to meet you, I'm Erica, the owner of this brothel."

"..."

"No words? Haha, I knew it would be like this. A humanoid demon like you, born into a noble family, your identity alone is enough to attract many customers. And although you are still young, you have already grown into a beautiful figure. It seems that you really have 'unlimited potential'. After a few years of full growth, I am sure you will be a very useful tool for extracting gold."

"..." Ingrid, with her hands tied behind her back and her feet shackled, looked at the beautiful mature woman Erica who was criticizing her with resentment.

Although she is young, she was born in the demon world known for its chaos. She has witnessed all kinds of dark things and naturally knows what will happen to her now that she has fallen to this point.

"Hmm? That look is quite nice! Some customers like your fierceness..."

"boom!"

Suddenly, before Erica could finish her words, there was a loud noise on the roof.

Then, a dark shadow smashed through the ceiling, and pieces of rubble fell heavily into the room, right between Erica and the dark-skinned girl.

"what happened!?"

The sudden change made Erica, who was originally sitting leisurely on the edge of the bed, suddenly stand up, with a fierce look on her face.

Then, the door of the room was slammed open from the outside, and several succubi, holding tridents, with fleshy wings on their backs and curved horns on their heads, and wearing only bikinis on their plump white bodies, quickly rushed into the room.

Ingrid, whose hands and feet were bound, turned around and saw the succubi who had just rushed in from outside, and her face suddenly became even gloomier.

She still remembered that there were several such succubi before. They took advantage of her training to fight a powerful monster and took her prey and captured her.

All brothels that can operate for a long time in the demon world are, without exception, "evil forces."

These brothels even had their own slave-catching teams.

The slave-hunting teams would look for and capture high-quality women, bring the captured women back to brothels, and then use force or even brainwashing to train the captured women into prostitutes, which are what Erica just called "gold-extracting tools."

"Damn succubus..." When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous of each other. At this time, Ingrid tried hard to break free from the restraints, but the ropes and shackles on her body were specially made props, which were not only extremely strong, but also had the effect of suppressing magic power.

The succubi who rushed into the room didn't even glance at Ingrid. They were slave-hunting teams outside, and in the brothel, they occasionally acted as security guards for the prostitutes.

"Look what's going on! There seems to be someone there!"

Erica, standing beside the bed, pointed at the pile of rubble that had collapsed from the roof and gave orders to several succubi.

Several succubi then approached the rubble pile step by step, tridents in hand.

"Wow!"

Just as the smoke and dust cleared, Lin Zhiyu, who was wrapped in a full set of Kalia Knight armor, lifted the stone slabs that were pressing on him and slowly climbed up from the ground.

Then, under the gaze of a group of women in the room, Lin Zhiyu took off his helmet and put it into the system space. He turned his head and looked around at the situation in the room, his eyes focusing on the bound Ingrid.

"Who are you? Why did you suddenly fall from the sky and land in this brothel?"

Looking at Lin Zhiyu, whose true container Yu Bufan had been revealed, Erica asked while winking at a succubus very close to Lin Zhiyu. She raised her head slightly to glance at the gap in the roof, signaling the succubus to fly out and investigate the situation.

But the succubus had just flapped its wings and left the ground when Lin Zhiyu had an idea and flames immediately ignited on the succubus's plump body.

"what--!"

With a scream, the enchanting succubus and the iron trident in her hand were burned to ashes in just three seconds under the burning of the fire of destruction.

"this……!"

Such a horrifying scene made everyone else in the room change their expressions and shudder all over.

Lin Zhiyu then walked up to Ingrid and asked in a low voice:

"What's your name?"

"In…Ingrid."

"Well, okay, Ingrid, tell me, why are you here, and why are you naked and bound?"

While asking the questions, Lin Zhiyu just had a thought, and the power of fire invisibly burned the ropes and shackles on Ingrid's body, and did not let Ingrid feel the slightest bit of heat, only warmth.

"This gentleman..."

A succubus nearby saw that Lin Zhiyu had untied Ingrid, obviously intending to protect her, so she wanted to speak first and not give Ingrid a chance to tell the truth.

But as soon as the succubus opened her mouth, Lin Zhiyu glanced at her and a raging fire suddenly ignited on her body.

“Ah, no…!”

Under the burning of the fire of destruction, the succubus was burned to ashes in just three seconds, as if it had never existed in this world.

Ingrid stared at the scene in amazement and whispered:

"Okay, so awesome..."

Later, she realized that Lin Zhiyu was staring at her eyes, waiting for her to answer the question just now, so she organized her words and explained the situation to Lin Zhiyu as briefly as possible, so that Lin Zhiyu knew where this place was and why she was brought here.

"So that's how it is..." After understanding the situation clearly, Lin Zhiyu sighed softly, and his eyes swept indifferently over the remaining succubi in front of him.

The succubi that were already trembling with fear, after receiving such a glance from Lin Zhiyu, could no longer suppress the fear in their hearts and turned around to escape.

But without exception, after they turned around, flames engulfed their bodies, and they screamed, and were quickly burned to ashes by the flames.

After that, Lin Zhiyu turned around and looked at Erica, who was wearing a black OL uniform without any underwear.

"Tick, tick, tick, tick..."

As Lin Zhiyu approached step by step.

Erica trembled, her legs went weak and she sat back on the bed.

Her face was filled with fear, and she said to Lin Zhiyu with trembling teeth:

"Please forgive me, I can do anything for you..."

Before Erica could finish her words, Lin Zhiyu walked up to her and put his hand on her open chest.

Thinking that Lin Zhiyu was interested in her body, Erica immediately put on a flattering smile and even raised her hand to tear open the upper part of her black suit, revealing her soft breasts without any underwear underneath the suit.

"I only have less than five minutes left, and I don't have time to play with your rotten crotch." Lin Zhiyu said coldly.

The next second, the power of fire flowed from Lin Zhiyu's hand into Erica's heart and chest, and spread throughout her body.

"Ugh...you!"

Erica opened her eyes wide and stared at Lin Zhiyu with a painful look on her face, and her plump body disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Under Lin Zhiyu's deliberate control, Erica was instantly melted by the power of fire, but her clothes were not affected.

"Put it on."

Lin Zhiyu then threw the entire set of black OL uniform that belonged to Erica to Ingrid, who was naked.

"Oh, okay, okay." Ingrid was stunned for a few seconds after receiving the clothes, and then she put them on with swift hands and feet.

Lin Zhiyu walked back to Ingrid and looked at her, looking at her appearance as an urban beauty, but with her underwear empty, most of her breasts and pink nipples were faintly visible between her boobs. She couldn't help but sigh:

"This outfit is really sexy! I just didn't expect that this classic look actually originated from me..."

While saying these words that confused Ingrid, Lin Zhiyu's eyes were always fixed on the two pink spots faintly visible on Ingrid's chest.

"Please, please don't look at me like that..." Ingrid raised her hands shyly and crossed them over her chest.

In fact, she wanted to button up all the buttons of her suit, but her breasts were so big that the buttons on the upper part of the suit could not be buttoned up at all, and she had no bra underneath, so this look was really sexy!

However, Lin Zhiyu did not do anything excessive towards Ingrid afterwards.

"Don't worry, my time is almost up and I'll be leaving soon, so even if I wanted to, there's no way I could do anything to you."