3. The Snake’s Copulation

“Uhh, ugh…”

Cheong-Ah groaned softly as she regained consciousness.

Her head still throbbed.

‘How long was I unconscious…’

The memories were not clear, but she remembered fainting upon seeing the snake.

‘It’s dark…’

Struggling to lift her eyelids, all she saw was darkness.

‘Am I still in the prison?’

Has it already turned into night?

Or is it just dark in the cell, and that’s why she can’t see anything?

‘They must have caused a commotion trying to find me by now…’

If it’s already night, and she was unconscious until sunset, the royal palace must have been in chaos.

General Ha mentioned he would come to her chamber in the evening.

Before that, a maid must have come into her chamber for her bath, expecting to find her there. But with her absence, they would have searched for her.

However, no one knows about this place.

If they couldn’t find her even after searching the entire palace, General Ha would likely be furious by now.

He mentioned coming to her chamber in the evening, but if she wasn’t there, they would probably have turned the palace upside down.

It’s likely that he’s burning with impatience by now.

Her absence means the excuse for him to become the king has disappeared.

Without becoming the queen, he has no grounds to become the king.

If he becomes a king relying only on military power without a legitimate claim, no one would recognize him as the king.

Even if he controlled the key officials, it wouldn’t be enough.

One must have a rightful claim, and she is the one who can grant that claim.

‘It’s amusing. I wanted to see his face when he heard the news…’

If only she could see General Ha’s arrogant and furious face in person, how satisfying it would be.

She thought it would be worth anything if she could bring down that arrogant and disrespectful man who didn’t even take off his muddy shoes in front of the queen’s court.

‘But mating with the snake…’

However, mating with the snake was something she had never considered.

‘How can one mate with a snake…’

At that moment, Cheong-Ah’s vision shook.

It wasn’t a hallucination.

Without a doubt, her vision shook.

More precisely, the darkness shook.

‘No way…’

If this was still the underground prison, there must be a snake here.

And now, Cheong-Ah realized that the shaking thing in front of her eyes was indeed the snake.

‘Huh?’”

However, something was strange.

Until a moment ago, she couldn’t feel it clearly because her mind hadn’t fully recovered, but now she felt it distinctly.

‘My clothes…!’

She felt a sense of emptiness, and her clothes didn’t seem to be there.

Instead of the sensation of wearing clothes, she keenly felt the cold and thick thing wrapping around her body.

‘No way…’

Cheong-Ah reached out with her hand.

Her palm touched something cold and slippery.

It was the snake’s skin.

Now, she was completely wrapped in the snake’s body, stark naked.

‘No way…!’

At that moment, the surroundings dimly brightened.

A faint glow emanated from the snake’s body.

Under the snake’s black scales, a faint light was flowing.

As if on a dark night, gravel underfoot twinkling, it was like that.

“I’ve been waiting for you to wake up.”

“Eek!”

At the whispering voice right next to her, Cheong-Ah was startled and screamed.

The snake’s head, coiling around my body, was right next to my face.

Yet, it was so dark that I hadn’t noticed.

“I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time.”

“Just, just eat me. Don’t do this. Just eat me.”

I wished for death, not mating. I never wanted this horrifying and insane situation of mating with the snake. I had never desired such a thing. I just wanted to die quickly without suffering and hope for the country to fall.

“That’s why you freed me. When you release someone who’s been trapped, you should have expected such consequences.”

I didn’t anticipate this outcome.

“Your father didn’t warn you that being trapped is dangerous?”

The snake’s tongue touched Cheong-Ah’s cheek, cold and damp.

“Seeing the commotion outside, it seems like they’re looking for you. Should I hand you over to them? Is that what you want?”

‘They’re probably looking for me, General Ha.’

I didn’t need to see it to know. General Ha would probably be searching for me, and if he found me, he would forcibly take me, trample on me, and I would lose my freedom forever, living as a scarecrow.

‘I have to make a choice…’

Snake or General Ha.

‘Yeah, the snake is better than General Ha.’

Rather than being plundered by General Ha, it’s better to mate with the snake.

That’s how dreadful General Ha was to Cheong-Ah.

“Yes, I’ll do it.”

Cheong-Ah, half-resigned, nodded.

“But…”

Unable to look directly at the snake, Cheong-Ah closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and said, “Please, make it painless.”

“Well, who knows.”

The snake’s long body slithered around Cheong-Ah’s calf and thigh.

“It’s up to you how it will be.”

The snake’s voice seemed somewhat delighted.

However, Cheong-Ah was not pleased at all.

There probably wouldn’t be anyone who could enjoy such a situation.

‘A snake…’

I had never thought that my first encounter would be with a snake in this way.

But now, there was no choice.

“Ah!”

As my thighs spread apart, Cheong-Ah exclaimed in surprise.

It wasn’t my will that spread them; it was the snake coiling around my thighs and calves that forced my legs open.

Due to being completely exposed, the space between my spread legs was clearly visible.

And as the defenseless private area was exposed, the chilly breath of the snake touched it.

“Ah! Ah!”

As the chilly breath brushed against me, I shivered for a moment. Then, the snake’s tongue opened my private area and pushed inside.

Moist and cold, the snake’s breath entered me. Startled, I trembled.

However, my waist, chest, and arms were completely entangled by the snake’s body. Now, I couldn’t escape or move my body as I pleased.

Currently, Cheong-Ah was no different from being completely bound by the snake.

‘It’s entering…!’

I never imagined the snake’s tongue would be this long.

The snake’s tongue, which opened my private area and intruded into it, continued to wriggle and probe.

“Ah! Ah!”

Cheong-Ah cried out as if her breath was running out.

“A bit slower…! Please, slower…!”

Having never experienced such a thing before, I couldn’t tell if this was normal. Was it normal to feel breathless, excited, trembling, and shaking in front of my eyes?

“Ah! Agh! Ah! Ah!”

Cheong-Ah yelled, asking for it to be done slowly. However, the snake’s tongue rapidly probed and tickled inside.

Every time it happened, Cheong-Ah keenly felt her lower body gaping open.

Due to the thighs spreading apart, my knees bent upward involuntarily.

With the knees bent, the spread thighs revealed my private area and rear entirely.

“Ah! Ah! Ah! Agh!”

Although it was called a tongue, it was not thin at all. It was thick, like adding a few more of my fingers, poking and prodding quickly inside.

“Ah! Ah! Please… please stop…! If you continue like this… Ahaugh!”

At this rate, it felt like my body would create a hole.

The snake’s tongue was persistent.

“Ah! Ah!”

I asked it to stop, but the snake, as if mocking those words, pushed its tongue even deeper.

It felt like everything below was about to burst.

“Ah! Aaa! Ah!”

Is this what intercourse is normally like, or is it because this isn’t regular intercourse but mating with a snake?

The lower half of my body felt like it was on fire, and the heat even rose to my head.

Now, even breathing became difficult.

“Aaaah!”

As the tongue pierced deep inside, scraping against the walls, it began to sweep across Cheong-Ah’s sensitive area.

The heat and moisture from the deep penetration provided a momentary relief from the pain.

However, that was short-lived. Something else, stained with the snake’s saliva, touched the marked private area.

Cheong-Ah realized that it was the snake’s tail.

“Don’t, don’t, don’t insert… Aaaah!”

Adding a tail when the tongue was already overwhelming?

The thought that my lower body might tear apart entirely if this continued made Cheong-Ah attempt to scream, but a different sound escaped her mouth.

“Huuaaang! Aaaah!”

As the area below opened, the snake’s tail pushed and wriggled inside.

The tail, much thicker than the tongue, forced its way inside, and the scales on the tail scraped against the walls, intensifying Cheong-Ah’s agony.

“Aaaah!”

Cheong-Ah’s vision turned completely white.

Even with closed eyes, everything appeared blindingly white.

“Aaaah! Ah! Ah!”

The snake, having forcefully inserted its thick tail, coiled its tongue around the swollen core of Cheong-Ah’s intimacy.

Enduring the heaviness of the widely spread lower parts was challenging enough, but the rough scales scraping against the walls, along with the tongue coiled around her engorged core, inflated the round flesh, squeezing and pressing. Cheong-Ah’s face flushed and her breath, exhaled in gasps, became feverish.

Cheong-Ah was on the verge of collapsing.

It was strangely unsettling that she felt on the verge of collapsing yet didn’t collapse.

“Ah! Aaaah! Haaah!”

Cheong-Ah’s throat was strained as she screamed, as if calling for the departure of the underground prison.

To scream this loudly and not have my throat tear is even more extreme.

Thud! Thud!

However, the snake’s tail mercilessly thrust into her widely opened intimacy.

With each forceful exit of the tail adorned with sharp scales, a piece of reddened flesh came along. Cheong-Ah couldn’t see it, but her current appearance was more lascivious than anyone else.

Her white body entwined with the sinuous serpent, the snake’s tail weaving through her wide-opened thighs, and the flowing secretions between the crimson flesh were an erotic spectacle. Her flushed face, drooling saliva that couldn’t be swallowed, all the way down to the chin, created a scene that was anything but that of an elegant princess.

“Ah! Aaah!”

With her head soaked, Cheong-Ah screamed.

Her belly reverberated, and her entire body trembled as if struck by lightning.

“Ahng!”

At that moment, the tail that was wriggling inside her belly finally slipped out.

Only then could Cheong-Ah open her eyes.

With eyes now ripe and reddened due to the heat, Cheong-Ah looked at the serpent coiling around her.

The snake was peering into her private area, as if savoring the moment.

Under the gaze appreciating her intimate place, Cheong-Ah’s face blazed with embarrassment once again.

Though she couldn’t directly see how her thighs were, she could roughly guess.

‘What is that?’

Then Cheong-Ah witnessed something unbelievable.

Something started protruding from the snake’s body.

Though it was clearly absent before, slowly emerging, it swelled up until it grew into something massive.

It was a fleshy lump covered with numerous black bumps.

Two of them rose up from both sides.

‘Su-surely…’

Cheong-Ah was astonished.

While she had never seen human genitals, she instinctively realized that what was protruding was the snake’s genitals.

“Are you trying to insert that…”

“Indeed, for it to be a union, wouldn’t it require this?”

The snake whispered.

“Th-there are two of them…”

“Don’t worry. I will only insert one.”

Is it true?

Will it really be just one?

However, now was not the time to doubt the truth of the words.

“Bear my offspring.”

Cheong-Ah shivered at the snake’s whisper.

‘I-I don’t want that…’

Bearing the snake’s offspring, that was something she wanted to avoid.

‘But after mating, I’ll probably bear the snake’s seed…’

It was a frightening thought, but it was only temporary.

One of the snake’s genitals touched her private part.

‘Th-this feels strange…’

It was a different sensation from both the tail and the tongue.

As the rough and bumpy protrusions pressed against her private part, spreading open her labia and pushing into the wrinkled inside, her inner walls tingled.

It felt as if hot lumps were entering.

From the protrusions, a slick secretion emerged, covering her inner walls, making them slippery.

“Aaaah!”

And the live, moving protrusions began to stick to her inner walls.

“Aaaah!”

The protrusion, crimson and slick, emerged between the rough bumps attached to the inner walls and pierced deeper into Cheong-Ah.

“Aaaah! Haaah!”

Cheong-Ah’s breath quickened.

It felt as if the fleshy mass, filling her body, reached the entrance of her womb.

And it began to move.

“Ah! Ah! Aaaah!”

Indescribable pain and pleasure intertwined.

The gigantic object wriggled inside her, protruding out and thrusting back into the deep recesses.

Each time, the protrusions adhered to the inner walls moved, flipping her insides upside down.

“Huuuuh! Aaaah! Aaa!”

The snake’s tongue danced around her nipples, and the snake’s fluids fervently flooded Cheong-Ah’s insides.

Snakes surrounded her from all directions.

The sinuous body of the mysterious snake wrapped around Cheong-Ah like undulating waves, obscuring her vision.

Now Cheong-Ah had reached a state where she couldn’t think of anything else. Filled with lascivious heat, her mind was incapable of entertaining any other thoughts. What dominated Cheong-Ah now was an overwhelming sensation of ecstasy bordering on madness. It felt as if her body had become a lump of carnal desire.

“Ah! Aaah! Aaa!”

Cheong-Ah’s eyes had already rolled back white. Despite her screams and moans, she couldn’t recognize the fluid bursting out from her wide-open genitalia.

Accepting the snake’s essence, Cheong-Ah remained oblivious even as the fluid streamed out, as if a dam had burst. With her hands caressing the snake’s body wrapped around her and feeling its scales in her palms, Cheong-Ah closed her eyes.

Her body was gradually being consumed by the snake. As consciousness plummeted into darkness, in that moment of descent, Cheong-Ah could feel a violent force spreading within her body – a cascade akin to a waterfall.

It was the snake’s essence.

* * *

“When Cheong-Ah regained consciousness, the snake was nowhere to be found.

‘Where did it go?’

Fumbling around, Cheong-Ah found her clothes and hastily put them on.

“Haah!”

Attempting to stand up, Cheong-Ah immediately sank back down. Her legs had lost all strength.

‘I really engaged in intercourse with the snake….’

She couldn’t believe what had happened.

Engaging in intimate activities with that enormous snake.

‘What do I do now?’

The traces of their intimacy were still vivid on her body.

As she put on her clothes, Cheong-Ah noticed the marks on her thighs and genitalia, remnants of the snake’s fluids. Every sticky residue on her skin was undoubtedly snake semen.

Moreover, every brush against her nipple caused pain and discomfort. Her genital area was also throbbing.

All these were the remnants of their intimate encounter.

‘I can’t go back to how things were.’

Once you’ve crossed a line, you can’t go back. Cheong-Ah knew this.

‘What happened outside?’

Now, she was curious about where the snake had gone and the current situation outside. Those were the things on her mind.

The irreversible events on her body were beyond her control. Now, only the snake remained as her hope.

‘Relying on a snake that could bring ruin to the country…’

Fortunately, the snake seemed to understand human speech.

‘That’s…’

Now, Cheong-Ah’s eyes had adjusted somewhat to the darkness, allowing her to distinguish objects to a certain extent. In the darkness, she recognized something familiar.

‘It’s my ball….’

Her lost ball from a long time ago was lying in a corner. It was the ball given to her by Yeon-ri.

A ball lost at the age of twelve.

“It’s still here…”

She had forgotten about this ball for a while and never expected to find it again.

‘This is still here too…’

Not only the ball but also the backpack she dropped here when she was twelve lay beside it.

The backpack, its oilcloth, and its straps were all intact. It seemed like they would catch fire if a flame were lit now.

‘These things too…’

What surprised Cheong-Ah even more was the pile of snacks accumulated in the corner.

Although covered in white dust due to their age, these snacks were undoubtedly the ones she had thrown into the hole.

The rice balls must have rotted away long ago, leaving no trace. The snacks, now dried and covered in dust, were stacked up.

‘It seems like they gathered everything here…’

Thinking back, it was hard to believe that a snake would eat human food. But then, why would it collect all these items like this?

‘I’ll ask when it comes back. But where on earth did the snake go?’

Cheong-Ah walked out of the cell towards the stairs. Even though her legs were weak, she carefully climbed the stairs, almost crawling while holding onto the wall. As she ascended, she noticed a glimmer of light.

It was moonlight.

‘It’s still night…’

She had lost track of time and thought it might be morning already, but it was still nighttime. A whole day hadn’t passed yet.

‘But it’s so quiet… Why hasn’t anyone come to search for me up to here? It was noisy earlier…’

Did General Ha give up on finding her?

If he believed she had run far away, maybe he hadn’t bothered to search this area. That would be fortunate.

‘But how exactly can a snake ruin a country…’

Cheong-Ah still couldn’t comprehend how a snake could bring about the downfall of a nation.

If it’s an allegorical expression, like if the snake escapes and the country gradually weakens, disappointingly, Cheong-Ah doesn’t wish for the gradual decline of the country but rather for a sudden, complete collapse. She wants to witness the worst and tragic end, where everything falls apart, and General Ha and Advisor Kwon suffer and die in agony.

The worst catastrophic ending.

That’s what she hoped for when she released the snake.

‘It’s refreshing…’

As Cheong-Ah emerged from the underground, she took a deep breath in the cool night breeze that brushed her cheeks.

The fresh wind, different from the damp air lingering in the underground, eased her breath.

‘How could the snake have been trapped underground for hundreds of years…’

Compared to the snake’s gigantic body, the underground was too dark and narrow. Yet, the thought of the snake living in there for centuries made her feel pity.

‘It’s not the snake that was bad, but our ancestors who broke the promise were bad.’

When she thought about it, it was obvious. The snake was deceived. Not only did the ancestors unilaterally break the promise, but they also confined and used the snake for centuries. To anyone, this seemed like the fault lay with the humans.

‘There must be a lot of resentment. Still, it doesn’t seem to have any intention of venting anger. It’s a good snake…’

Maybe it’s because they mated. She kept thinking favorably about the snake.

‘It’s a trace.’

At that moment, Cheong-Ah found traces of the snake passing through the grass.

The tall grass, grown up to her waist, was trampled and messy. Clearly, the snake must have passed through here.

‘Where did it go? Has it already started ruining the country?’

That’s when it happened.

‘There it is!’

Suddenly, a voice shouted towards her, and Cheong-Ah was startled, sitting down abruptly.

Soldiers were rushing towards her.

‘Oh, no…’

‘I shouldn’t get caught here.’

‘Where’s the snake?! Where could it be hiding? Could it have abandoned me?’

Various thoughts crossed Cheong-Ah’s mind in a brief moment.

‘I have to escape…’

Although she tried to crawl away due to her legs being powerless, she was soon caught by the soldiers.

“Let go! Let go, you bastards! Who dares to touch me!”

She resisted almost frantically, shouting, but the soldiers, loyal to General Ha, paid no heed.

“Let go! Even when I’m telling you to let go!”

Cheong-Ah’s screams echoed into the darkness of the night.