Chapter 150: Deceiving the Heavens
Chapter 150: Deceiving the Heavens
By the end of that night's banquet, Lena had thoroughly engraved the mark of absolute submission into Jaejin. Though his masculinity had been ruthlessly trampled in a public setting, by the end, Jaejin was letting out nothing but continuous, blissful moans.
"Mistress Lena... more...♡ Please, do more...♡"
As if to broadcast to everyone that he was her slave, Lena treated him as such, forcing him through repeated climaxes. Jaejin eventually fainted, his face buried in the bedsheets as he reached his final, exhausted ejaculation.
After Jaejin fell into a miserable sleep following his release, Karin handled the cleanup, strictly ensuring that everyone kept their mouths shut and that no further issues would arise.
With Florence and Vivian seeing them off, Lena carried Jaejin back in a princess carry.
"Shall I carry him for you, Lady Lena?"
"No, it’s quite alright. I feel like... the two of us need some time alone anyway."
Despite Vivian’s offer to help, Lena insisted on carrying Jaejin back herself. She bowed her head in greeting to Nia, who had come out to meet them.
"I’m sorry, Nia. I don't think tonight will be possible."
"No, it’s fine. Don't worry about it."
Even though she wouldn't be receiving her "allotment" for the night, Nia brushed it off and studied Lena’s expression. It was a face that made it hard to believe she was the same Lust Demon who had just committed such acts in front of a crowd.
Swallowing her words, Nia placed a hand on Lena, and they traveled through the tree portal. After thanking Nia, Lena acknowledged the gazes of the other Lust Demons they passed with a simple nod.
Soon, Lena ran into Mari, who was coming out of Jaejin’s room, and asked if anything unusual had happened. Mari reported nothing out of the ordinary, other than having to change the bedsheets because they were worn out.
Mari walked down the hallway, stealing glances at Lena. She wondered what could have happened to make Lena look like she was on the verge of tears, but she distanced herself from Jaejin’s room to give them their privacy.
Jaejin opened his eyes about two hours later. The cozy feel of the bed and the warmth of the blanket over his body tempted him to fall back into a deep, restorative sleep to wash away his exhaustion.
However, the calming body odor drifting from beside him made his eyes snap wide open. With the events of the afternoon still seared into his mind and body, Jaejin immediately bolted upright and looked around, his eyes landing on Lena.
"I-I-I’m sorry... I was wrong, please forgive me..."
The public rape. It had left Jaejin with a lingering trauma that made the very idea of defying Lena unthinkable.
But seeing his reaction, Lena—who was still naked just as she had been before—showed a completely different response.
"I’m sorry... I’m so sorry, Jaejin."
"Huh...? Le-Lena? Are you crying...?"
Tears streaming down her face, Lena approached Jaejin and pulled his small, trembling body into an embrace. Because her body felt strangely small for the first time as she held him, Jaejin instinctively hugged her back.
It was a confusing situation for Jaejin, who had just woken up, but as he held her and thought it over, he felt a wave of relief. He realized for certain that what had happened that evening hadn't been her true feelings.
"I’m sorry. But I thought this was the only way... I was wrong."
"I-I don't know what's going on, but... I believe there’s a reason for everything you do, Lena..."
Jaejin had initially thought she was simply doing it for pleasure, but he hadn't been without his doubts regarding her suddenly escalated behavior.
However, Lena’s current state washed those doubts away. Jaejin stayed still, holding her quietly in his arms until her tears stopped.
For about ten minutes, they held each other's naked bodies. In that outpouring of emotion where lust found no room to grow, Lena finally calmed down enough to speak.
"I’ve... shown you a pathetic side of myself. I’m sorry."
She wiped away her tears and offered Jaejin a smile. Her flushed face and the tear stains that remained seemed to testify to her guilt.
"You asked me earlier, didn't you? Why I was doing such a thing... It was because I was powerless."
Having finally regained her usual composed demeanor, she slowly began to explain the hidden story behind the day's events.
"Regarding the incident at Capia Castle, we were able to suppress most of the information from reaching the human factions. That’s thanks to the Demon God Cult and Veled... she played a huge role."
Because of that massive administrative burden, Erdia had been buried in paperwork instead of enjoying the festival, and Karin had also been stuck in the basement the entire time, aside from presiding over Walpurgisnacht.
"But that was only for information spreading to the humans. We couldn't stop information from spreading among our own kind, the Demon Race.
Humans are easy to guard against because they are a different race, but it’s difficult to discern whether our fellow demons are spies for the Council of Elders or not."
Jaejin nodded. Even in his previous world, it was much harder to root out spies who shared the same race and language. Monitoring one's own kind was bound to be significantly more difficult.
"For the past two months, our actions behind the scenes at Capia Castle have been reported in detail. It’s unlikely there was a betrayal from within the Lust Demon Race, but the Demon God Cult isn't made up of only Lust Demons."
Lena could rule out betrayal among the Lust Demons or conflict between the Demon Lord candidates. As long as Jaejin was their focal point, the chances of those two groups betraying them were remarkably low.
Elder Cuthbert, who had presided over the Demon Lord Council, had declared neutrality, so he likely would have kept quiet about what happened in the royal capital.
That naturally left the Demon God Cult—a group where various races like Majin, the Three-Eyed Tribe, and the Snow Noble Tribe were all mixed together—as the primary suspect.
It was also impossible to completely rule out the possibility that a powerhouse, someone even Lena couldn't detect, had been dispatched to monitor them.
"In such a situation, if it were confirmed that you are the next Demon Lord, we would face threats that we currently cannot handle."
The Council of Elders, whose members all far surpassed the current Veled in power, could annihilate the existing Demon Lord forces if even one of them decided to take action.
Unless Jaejin could supply them with power over the next four months, Lena’s judgment was that they were currently no match for them.
Against that backdrop, Lena had to use a desperate ruse to erase the presence of the conspicuous figure known as Jaejin.
"Therefore, I decided I had to erase your presence in a public setting... and so, I... violated you."
"To keep them from finding out I'm the next Demon Lord...?"
"If I were to make an excuse, yes. I thought if I told you beforehand, we wouldn't be able to deceive them properly..."
Certainly, anyone who had witnessed the behavior of Jaejin and Lena there would never imagine that Jaejin was the next Demon Lord.
At most, they would think of them as having a master-servant relationship where his name just happened to be on the business card alongside hers due to his ability.
Lena felt a deep sense of guilt for treating Jaejin so harshly without a word of explanation.
Even as she told herself it was for the good of everyone, she couldn't deny that it must have been a great wound to her only lover.
Even if Jaejin’s heart were to turn away from her because of this, Lena was prepared to let him go with a heavy heart...
"I'm sorry! It must have been so hard for you. It’s because I’m weak and pathetic that I made you go through all that trouble alone, Lena."
Instead, Jaejin hugged Lena tightly, looking up at her to meet her eyes. Lena stammered, caught off guard by his words.
"N-No. It’s because we were incompetent..."
"No! Why are you blaming yourself when you worked so hard, Lena!"
Rarely, Jaejin even cut Lena off to negate her words. His eyes, filled with conviction, looked straight into Lena’s crimson ones.
"You didn't have a choice. It was the best option! Of course, it’s not like I wasn't hurt... but now that I hear why you chose to do it, I don't mind at all!!"
The clear, pure passion radiating from that small body warmed Lena’s heart, which had been terrified that she might lose him.
"Thank... you... I’m the one being saved again..."
Thick tears began to flow from Lena’s eyes once more. She didn't know what to do with the absolute trust Jaejin placed in her, despite her mistakes.
She hated herself for only being able to say thank you, yet she felt a renewed sense of gratitude toward the tender Jaejin.
She had thought she could brush it off easily, thinking it was just a bit of acting in public, but every time she saw Jaejin in pain, she found she couldn't bear it.
Lena realized that it wasn't him who was dependent on the pleasure she gave, but she who was dependent on this warm, small body.
"Jaejin... It might be inappropriate given the situation, but... would you hold me?"
"Yeah, you can hold me as much as you want."
She shook her head at his words and lay down on the bed. Because of the situation, they hadn't realized it, but the two of them had been talking while naked this whole time.
And now, Lena was desperate to share Jaejin’s body heat. The sexual desire she had suppressed all afternoon exploded, and her body heated up with affection for the partner who accepted her so completely.
"Hold me until I can't think of anything else... Fill me up with all of you♡"