Hikari silently watched the stray dogs eat Takahashi's little hotdog.
Another several minutes passed.
At this moment, Takahashi's face was as pale as paper, his forehead drenched in cold sweat, feeling as though countless agonizing centuries had passed.
He writhed in unbearable pain, repeatedly losing and regaining consciousness, the agony bringing him back each time.
He didn't know how long it had been before he noticed that the stray dogs seemed somewhat satiated, or perhaps disgusted by his foul taste, and had stopped eating.
Breathing a sigh of relief, Takahashi instinctively glanced down, only to roll his eyes in shock, nearly fainting from fright on the spot.
Hikari also looked down.
Takahashi's groin and the flesh on his thighs had been almost entirely gnawed clean by the hungry stray dogs, leaving only a horrifying skeleton.
However, as the orchestrator, Hikari naturally wasn't afraid. He even smiled and asked Takahashi: "How does it feel, Mr. Takahashi? Are you alright?"
"How about I use your hypnosis ring to hypnotize you and ease your pain a bit?"
Perhaps driven by the will to survive or the lingering effect of the energy drink, Takahashi managed to regain some clarity upon hearing Hikari's words.
Instead of answering, he began pleading incessantly.
"Hikari… I beg you… I'm begging you."
"I really know I was wrong, and I've been punished."
"I admit I did something wrong, but I don't deserve to die. Please spare me."
Hearing Takahashi's pleas, Hikari chuckled and shook his head.
He wasn't the kind to leave loose ends.
What he loved most was cutting the grass at its roots.
Especially for someone like Takahashi, a cuckold, he would show no mercy.
Allowing such people to live would only drive up the cost of rice.
Hikari first opened the door and let out the stray dogs, who might have suffered in his view but were likely satisfied after their feast.
Then he picked up a blanket and draped it over Takahashi's barely human remains, covering his skeletal lower body to spare Yukino from feeling disgusted.
After making preparations, Hikari called out to the door: "Miss Yukino, come in. You can begin your revenge now."
"Okay!" Yukino happily pushed the door open, flashing Hikari an excited smile.
Takahashi had often caused her trouble in the past.
Although Hikari had repeatedly helped her resolve these issues, Takahashi had eventually obtained a hypnosis ring.
If not for Hikari's presence, Yukino couldn't bear to imagine the consequences.
Thus, she harbored no small grudge against Takahashi.
After hearing Hikari's plan, Yukino decided to personally participate in taking Takahashi down.
Normally, seeing the stunningly beautiful Yukino would have thrilled Takahashi to no end.
But now, not only had he completely lost his manhood, but his entire lower body was gone.
Moreover, he now understood that Yukino was no ordinary person, and after enduring his recent torment, Takahashi trembled as if he'd seen a ghost the moment Yukino entered.
"I beg… I beg you both… Please spare me…"
"Miss Yukino… spare…"
"AH!!!"
Takahashi's words were cut short.
Yukino lightly waved her hand, and Takahashi immediately felt an icy chill on his right hand.
It was just like when Yukino had frozen his feet earlier, but this time, her intent wasn't merely to restrain him—it was to finish him off completely.
Takahashi turned his head to see his entire right hand encased in ice, frosty vapors rising visibly in the air.
As the ice darkened in color, Takahashi felt as though ice knives were slicing through his flesh—a pain comparable to slow slicing torture.
If being eaten by stray dogs was the ultimate psychological and physical torment, being frozen and sliced by Yukino was the peak of physical pain.
Takahashi couldn't bear it and cried out loudly for mercy:
"Miss Yukino! I really know… I know I was wrong… Please spare me…"
Yukino's face remained expressionless at his pleas.
She turned to Hikari and sweetly called out, "Hikari-kun~"
Hikari understood and approached Takahashi, lightly tapping his frozen arm with a finger.
CRACK, CRACK, CRACK…
Under Takahashi's terrified gaze, his completely frozen arm began to crack and shatter into thumb-sized ice shards that fell to the ground.
The severed edge of his arm was smooth as a mirror, with no blood flowing out—completely sealed by the ice.
The shattered pieces on the ground were bloodless as well, resembling fragments of an ice sculpture.
Although it didn't look like a real arm, the pain Takahashi experienced was excruciatingly real.
Even worse, under Yukino's apparent control, Takahashi could still feel the heat coursing through his veins despite the chilling cold. The blocked flow of blood caused a bursting sensation that was unbearably painful.
"AHHHHH!"
Takahashi wailed and wept in agony.
Seeing Takahashi's pitiful state, Hikari smiled and asked,
"Mr. Takahashi, weren't you calling yourself the god of the new world, an all-powerful kami-sama? Can't you endure this?"
"I'm not! I'm not! I'm sorry!" Takahashi repeatedly begged for mercy.
Hikari ignored him and glanced at Yukino.
She waved her hand again.
This time, Takahashi's remaining left arm experienced the same excruciating freezing and shattering as his right.
After Hikari flicked his finger, Takahashi was left as a torso.
The prolonged torment left Takahashi's mind teetering on the edge of collapse.
Seeing himself reduced to a human stump, Takahashi suddenly regained clarity for a brief moment, glaring at Yukino in shock.
"Yuki-onna! So you're the legendary snow woman."
At this realization, Takahashi remembered the name Hikari had called out when he first met Yukino.
But he also understood it was too late to make any difference.
With his fading consciousness, Takahashi desperately tried to evoke sympathy, sobbing and begging: "You're both monsters… no, you're both gods!"
"You two are the true gods; I'm just a mortal. Please spare me, great gods, I truly know my mistakes."
Hearing this, Hikari smiled faintly but said nothing. Instead, he looked at Yukino.
Yukino shook her head and turned her icy blue gaze back to Takahashi.
Soon, Takahashi's legs were entirely frozen solid.
Hikari tapped them lightly, and once again, shards of ice scattered across the floor.
Now, Takahashi was nothing more than a torso and a head.
Hikari smiled and said,"Freeze his head now and finish him off. Otherwise, he'll lose consciousness soon. We must see things through to the end."
[T/N: Punishments from MC is gonna get way worse in later chapters. Borderline gore type shii.]
"Okay!" Yukino cheerfully replied.
She activated her powers, encasing Takahashi's head in a solid block of ice.
Takahashi, who had been on the verge of passing out from pain, suddenly regained full consciousness as the icy chill swept over him.
But this wasn't a blessing; it was a terrifying curse.
Fully aware, Takahashi could only watch helplessly as his head became trapped in a massive ice block.
His body continued to send waves of unbearable pain, leaving him in utter despair.
His spirit finally broke completely.
Seeing Takahashi's rolling eyes and frantic gaze through the ice, Hikari decided he'd had enough of playing with this clown.
He lightly tapped Takahashi's frozen head, shattering it into countless icy fragments on the ground.
Thus, the once-arrogant self-proclaimed god was thoroughly destroyed, reduced to nothing but ice shards.
Yukino raised her hand to freeze the remaining torso for cleanup, knowing it was troublesome to leave evidence in human society.
But Hikari stopped her hand with a smile."Let me handle it."
He snapped his fingers, summoning a small flame symbolizing his cremation spell.
With a flick, the flame consumed Takahashi's remains and the icy shards, leaving nothing behind.
This thorough incineration also severed any connection between Takahashi and the two of them.
Although Hikari knew the neon police were incompetent in this otherworldly realm, it was better to be cautious.
Yukino was slightly surprised by Hikari's ability to summon fire and melt her ice with ease, but she wasn't too shocked.
After all, she had long sensed Hikari's uniqueness.
Moreover, after their first real battle, when she, a snow woman, was defeated, she realized Hikari might be more powerful than her.
Far from feeling disheartened, this realization delighted Yukino.
For her, being with Hikari meant no longer hiding her snow woman identity.
Her heart raced as she gazed at Hikari's upright figure, while he inspected the spoils he'd taken from Takahashi, including a bank card.
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