Chapter 116
Chapter 116
The Reverse Butterfly Dream - 4
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Fwoosh—!
I opened my eyes to a noise as if the very fabric of space itself were being torn open.
Renia, who had burrowed into my arms, was still held in my embrace.
I was holding on to her fiercely, as if I would lose her.
I never wanted to feel the desperation of having to save a loved one within a time limit again.
It was a feeling that could be described as crossing over to hell in real-time.
“Eugg…. T-Tae-jin…?”
“Ah.”
I quickly released the hug.
Renia’s flushed face.
Her heart-shaped pupils, which had awakened from the fantasy and were emitting a clear light.
Above them, her goat horns showed off their dignified form, and her heart-tipped tail swayed seductively like a cobra.
I looked around to see if she had fully awakened, but it didn’t seem so.
Literally.
“We’re back at our house.”
[Our house]
Did that familiar and affectionate phrase lead us here?
We had arrived at our house, where I had first met Renia, where the connection with the noble queen who had then regarded me as a ‘mere human’ had begun.
She had awakened from the fantasy, but it seemed we were still in Renia’s dream.
“….”
Renia looked around the living room with complex and subtle eyes.
It was a look I had never seen before, containing both sadness and joy.
Renia, looking around as if searching for something.
Even though she had awakened from the fantasy, it seemed she hadn’t completely escaped the lingering feelings it left behind.
“Why?”
“Ah…. I came without even saying goodbye to our daughter.”
“…Daughter?”
‘Was there a daughter in the house?’
‘Wait, then was the wish Renia dreamed of forming a ‘family’ beyond just a ‘couple’?’
I was suddenly curious about what our daughter Renia had imagined would look like, but it was not advisable to dwell on a fantasy that had passed.
Because lingering attachment is a sadness that comes from a sense of loss.
However,
“Was she pretty?”
I didn’t want to shatter even the lingering feelings Renia held, so I asked.
And since she had fully awakened from the fantasy, she would naturally wake up from the dream when the neural connection was severed.
There was no need to rush, and it would be good to share the lingering feelings so that no regrets or attachments remained.
Fortunately, Renia smiled.
“Yeah. She was incredibly pretty. She looked exactly half like you and half like me. Especially when she smiled like you, she was so pretty, just looking at her made me smile, you know? My cheekbones started to hurt after a while. But do you know what? That cheekbone ache is such a pleasant feeling.”
Sometimes, it helps to turn away from unbearable sadness.
Because time is always on the side of the one who turns away.
But like now, it also helps to face the sadness head-on.
“I changed her diaper for the first time too, and her poop smelled fragrant, you know? When she called me Mama!, I felt so proud…. She ate really well too. I think she got her appetite from me… She didn’t need to inherit that part.”
Renia, who recalled that time with a bright smile as if she had never been sad, seemed to be enjoying the sadness.
Therefore,
I happily agreed with her.
“She was that pretty? What a shame. If I had known she was there, I would have at least said hello before coming.”
When I acted all disappointed, Renia covered her mouth and chuckled.
For some reason, she looked a bit mischievous, but just as Renia smiled at the baby, I couldn't help but smile along with her.
How worried I had been.
That I might never see that bright smile of Renia’s again.
So it would be okay to indulge in the luxury of enjoying a moment of leisure.
“Seeing her all by yourself, that’s cheap, Renia.”
“Hohoho. I saw everything~”
Renia, sticking out her tongue and teasing me.
Having been thoroughly teased, I bit that pertly stuck-out tongue with my lips.
…Though it was closer to a kiss.
Smooch!
“Heuep?!”
She quickly hid her tongue, but Renia’s sweet saliva was already on my lips.
“Wh-what are you doing…! Wh-what if it smells…!”
Renia, whining with a face as red as a carrot.
Far from smelling, I licked Renia’s sweet saliva with my tongue, savoring the taste, and said.
Teasingly.
“Mmm~ Did you have braised fish for lunch? The fishy yet sweet taste is exquisite.”
“Eek…!”
Renia tensed her shoulders and glared at me.
But soon, she let her shoulders droop and sighed.
It was a chuckle, with a hint of a real laugh.
“Geez… With you, I don’t even have time to be sad.”
“Because our time is too precious to spend on anything but enjoyment?
I said smugly and shrugged my shoulders.
“Shall we start heading back now? Everyone must be waiting.”
This was our house, and Renia’s dream.
And for the ruler of the dream, the Succubus Queen Renia, waking up from a dream would not be difficult.
But…
“Ah, um… Tae-jin?”
“Yeah?”
“I’ve made up my mind.”
“About what?”
“I-I. Th-that is…!”
“You can speak comfortably.”
“Breed, ah, no. Do you want to drink milk tea…!?”
‘What?’
‘Suddenly?’
‘Milk tea?’
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When she woke up from the fantasy, Renia felt dazed.
The feeling of waking up after a long, honey-sweet nap.
That feeling, a mixture of unexplainable freshness and unexplainable loss, was difficult to define.
Just.
She was glad to see Tae-jin again.
She was glad to have been able to wake up from the fantasy.
‘Chae-rin….’
She just repeated the name of her daughter, the only family left in the fantasy.
Of course, it was an illusion created by the fantasy, but the time spent with her daughter was real.
She was happy, and even happier.
But unfortunately, even if she conceived Tae-jin’s child, it would never be the lovely Chae-rin.
Due to the physiology of the succubus race, the gender would be female, but her appearance would have a stronger succubus color.
Just as she herself had been conceived in her mother’s womb.
Her mother had also said she had conceived her with the seed of a half-breed.
Therefore, in Renia’s vision, the face of Chae-rin, who had smiled brightly in a proper human form, was clearly drawn.
She was sad.
And, she was happy.
To be able to see her daughter in human form, even in a fantasy. To be able to see her dignified form without having to hide her identity through Polymorph.
She was sad and happy at the same time.
But she knew well that fate was not so sweet, so she tried to erase the image of her daughter that was at the end of her gaze.
Deciding to cherish the memories from the fantasy as good ones.
Hoping that someday, if a miracle happened, she could live with Chae-rin and Tae-jin in that watercolor-like house on the hill.
‘Goodbye. Our daughter.’
She erased that image.
For the sake of Tae-jin, who had risked danger to save her, she had to escape from the fantasy.
“Why?”
“Ah…. I came without even saying goodbye to our daughter.”
“…Daughter?”
However, she was disappointed that she couldn't tell Tae-jin about her existence.
“Was she pretty?”
Tae-jin asked.
She recited the answers that followed without even remembering how she had said them.
And in that moment, sadness turned into a memory.
“Seeing her all by yourself, that’s cheap, Renia.”
“Hohoho. I saw everything~”
The calm smile became laughter.
The sadness she thought would be hard to erase had melted away like butter the moment she faced Tae-jin.
And…
‘Right. I can come back. I can come back.’
In the place where sadness had disappeared, courage filled in.
The happiness in the fantasy she had tasted once became an excellent motivator.
And,
The happiness in the fantasy she had tasted once gave birth to a great resolution.
‘I want to have a baby.’
She would give all the love she couldn't give in the fantasy without limit.
Moreover, her breeding season had begun a few days ago.
It was a breeding season that came once every 100 years, and after it ended, the probability of conception would approach zero.
“Shall we start heading back now? Everyone must be waiting.”
“Ah, um… Tae-jin?”
She stopped Tae-jin, who was about to go back.
“Yeah?”
And…
“I’ve made up my mind.”
“About what?”
“I-I. Th-that is…!”
“You can speak comfortably.”
“Breed, ah, no. Do you want to drink milk tea…!?”
She had done it.
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‘Would milk tea drunk in a dream taste good?’
Renia had gone into the kitchen, saying she would make milk tea, and I, left alone in the living room, was killing time with such idle thoughts.
She must have asked because it would taste good.
She had said that a succubus’s dream was no different from reality.
Except for a few limited things.
But,
‘Milk tea, all of a sudden?’
It had been a long time since I had milk tea, so of course I welcomed it.
But the milk tea that appeared at a rather random timing was a bit bewildering.
It was strange.
Couldn't we drink milk tea after waking up from the dream? I had asked.
— You’ll regret it then.
Was the only answer that came back.
Thinking that maybe there was a special recipe she could only use in a dream, I agreed, and about 5 minutes had passed since she went into the kitchen.
Come to think of it, when I asked for the milk tea recipe, she said only succubi could make it, and when I asked how to make it, she only answered that she would show me someday.
‘Could it be that she could only make it in a dream?’
Aha.
So that’s why only succubi could make it, and that’s why she said she would show me someday when we happened to enter a dream like this.
‘But why did she go into the kitchen?’
I thought she might have gone to get the necessary ingredients, but it was taking a long time for that.
Just as I was about to get up, thinking something might be wrong.
“Ah.”
Just then, Renia entered the living room holding a small tray.
But…
“Where’s the milk tea?”
The tray she was holding was empty.
I looked at Renia with a puzzled eye, but Renia avoided my gaze with a flushed face.
‘What is it?’
Ah.
She did say she would show me how to make it.
Did it take 5 minutes to find the ingredients?
But even when I looked Renia over, I couldn't see any ingredients.
Plop—
Renia silently placed the tray on the table.
They say a master doesn't blame his tools.
So I thought she had brought an empty tray to work some magic.
Fumble, fumble!
But…
“R-Renia?”
Watching Renia unbutton her shirt, I felt that a master’s secret recipe was indeed unusual.
Watching her completely unbutton her shirt and move her hands behind her back to unhook her bra, I felt that the situation was unusual.
Watching Renia lift up her unhooked bra and expose her huge breasts, I was able to realize why she had hidden the milk tea recipe until now.
Renia, who looked at me seductively with a face flushed red as if drunk, and placed her two breasts on the empty tray.
Breasts as white as snow and as soft as jelly rippled like waves.
“…H-have some… m-milk tea….”
Watching that decadent scene, I realized.
That I had forgotten for a moment.
That Renia was a succubus, a race of seduction and temptation.
And,
The reason it took 5 minutes was for ‘mental preparation’.
No, was it breast preparation?
I don’t know.
The dizzying scene that suddenly unfolded paralyzed my reason, and I even had the illusion that I was now the one who had fallen into a fantasy world.
Finally,
“Th-then… after you… finish the milk tea….”
At Renia, who was swaying her tail and looking down at my lower half.
I was able to realize that if a succubus came at you with determination, no one could escape.
“P-please give me… milk tea too….”
Ah.
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