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Ghastly knights who appear along with the sound of a trumpet heralding demise. Having a sickly skin color, sinister armor, and a horse, they glare at their prey with eyes shining darkly. Their very appearance, which seemingly embodies strife and turbulence, strikes primal terror into the hearts of those who face them. Their true nature is that of a monster resulting from mana binding with a “pestilence” that would have befallen mankind as a calamity. A dreadful miasma follows them about as if constantly serving at their command, causing pestilence to eat away at those exposed to it.
Each of these knights harbors her own respective pestilence, which is literally her itself. They also spread it among people. I’ll introduce some of the most well known of them. “Plague of famine” – removes the upper limits on euphoria experienced from sex and physical contact with one’s spouse. Unlimited euphoria actually makes time spent away from one’s spouse feel unbearable like starvation. They say women with a severe case of it will want to have their husband’s manhood constantly inside them and constantly filling their womb with fresh semen. “Plague of the berserker” - one’s spouse’s presence starts to feel terribly arousing to oneself. In severe cases, every little thing one’s spouse does will fan the flames of carnal desire. When both husband and wife are afflicted, eventually, they will come to ravish and violate one another whenever they get a chance day after day. “Plague of gluttony” – organs all over the entire body gradually convert into essence absorbing organs. In the case of women, they become able to tease their husband’s penis with all sorts of body parts and will experience ecstasy from having their whole body showered in semen. On the other hand, since the husband’s entire body changes so that his organs have no resistance to absorbing his wife’s mana, he’ll easily shoot out essence and become prey for satisfying his wife’s gluttony.
They’re driven mad by their own pestilence, so they become fixated on men who strike their fancy as prey, and keep expressing their love to such an obsessive degree that it’s sick. What’s more, they have the same nature and traits as the symptoms that occur in the afflicted. Due to that, they often fly into a fit and attack men. In most cases, a Pale Rider who’s determined her prey will suddenly steal a man’s lips as he trembles in fear, wrapping tongues and swapping spit in a deep kiss. The breath spilling from her lips is also miasma that contains concentrated high density pestilence. When a man’s body is filled with miasma on the inside from this passionate and persistent vow-sealing kiss, his whole body will instantly be stricken with the plague. They say that since they were originally a pestilence, they experience an insane degree of pleasure and ecstasy from spreading the plague that is the Pale Rider herself throughout the body of their beloved and eating away at it, and intensive mutual mucous membrane contact, namely sex, will cause the symptoms to progress remarkably. They’ll seek to progress the disease eating away at their husband’s body through frequent and lengthy intercourse. Also, they have a peculiar mentality of terribly hating it when their husband comes down with another disease besides their own. As if to embody that mentality, by nature, whenever their plague violates prey, they take in all other diseases, and in that case, any diseases that were originally afflicting the man will be completely cured, while the plague they cause tends to increase in severity.
Furthermore, as mentioned before, since each pale rider is a pestilence itself, the diseases caused are unique and differ on an individual basis. This means not only that no two individuals have the same pestilence, but also that throughout the world, the same pestilence doesn’t exist except for that particular individual. Once there was a plague that caused the body to turn black as symptoms worsened, resulting in an agonizing death, but it disappeared from the world with the appearance of a certain individual Pale Rider. In other words, the original diseases are eradicated as a result of monsterization, so the birth of a new Pale Rider means that another disease has vanished from the world.