Demiurge - Compulsion

In response to their confusion, the woman called to the one like a man with a tail, who was standing next to her. “Demiurge!”

“You will bow down.” Suddenly Zaryusu and Shasuryu got down on their knees and plunged their heads into the muddy marsh. They couldn’t help but think it was the right thing to do.

Frigid, muddy water clung to their bodies, and the broken ice refroze.

They essentially couldn’t get back up. No matter how much strength they put into moving, they didn’t budge. Their bodies were robbed of all freedom, as if a giant invisible hand were pressing down on them from above.

“Don’t struggle.”

The moment this second command reached their ears, somewhere in both Zaryusu and Shasuryu a new brain grew—one that would listen to someone else’s orders—and they sensed themselves moving according to it.

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Volume 4, Chapter 4.3