Chapter 150
Chapter 150
Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 150
Chapter Title: Happy Birthday, Astal -2
I could feel strange emotions whenever I saw Victoria after that incident in my childhood.
My heart kept thumping, and whenever our eyes met, my breath would catch and my mind would go blank as if painted white.
'Why do I feel like this…?'
Of course, this was because Victoria used her voluptuous body to perform provocative seductions, which young Astal's innocent rationality couldn't withstand.
The boy was too young to understand the emotion called love and too pure to be aware of sexual desire.
Because of this, young Astal didn't notice that his first love had at some point shifted to Victoria, and his ideal type had changed to an embracing older woman.
'Whenever I see Victoria noona, I feel weird… Like my body gets hot and my heart tingles….'
Young Astal was hiding at a distance, watching Victoria talking with Celine.
How could a person be that beautiful?
He knew she was pretty from the first time he saw her, but after their conversation about magic, his image of her had changed.
Unlike his peers who couldn't understand his stories, she was intelligent, smart, and a beautiful older sister.
It perfectly matched young Astal's preferences.
"So, what are your mother's thoughts on the matter?"
"Well… I think using magic to move people would be good."
*Glance.*
Astal kept finding his gaze drawn to Victoria's chest, so he alternated looking at the ground.
After yesterday's button-popping incident, Victoria was wearing loose men's clothes, but even that couldn't erase her sensual curves.
It was a sight too stimulating to forget the memory of those two large masses of fat shaking up and down, a sight that wouldn't lose out compared to a statue of a goddess.
And there was one person who noticed the boy's pure, bashful gaze more than anyone else.
"Oh my, Lord Astal. You don't have to hide and watch from over there. Would you like to come to this noona's side?"
Victoria flashed a bewitching, fox-like smile and beckoned to young Astal, who was standing far away.
Astal couldn't help but startle, feeling as if a soft, fluffy fox tail that didn't exist was swishing behind her back.
"……!!!"
Astal immediately hid behind the wall, but Victoria hummed a tune as if finding even that cute and approached him.
Her distinctive blue hair peeked out, reflecting in the sunlight as if asking him to find her.
"…Why have you been avoiding me since yesterday? You don't need to be embarrassed about something like a nosebleed."
Victoria spoke while looking at Astal, who was plastered against the wall trying not to meet her eyes.
His tightly closed eyes and mouth were trembling, and he stood still, silent as if one with the wall.
Perhaps he felt sorry or guilty for seeing her disgrace yesterday.
After all, the original Astal also showed consideration by covering her with a robe or shielding her with his body whenever Victoria exposed herself or played sexual pranks.
'This part is the same whether he's young or now….'
Seeing that cute side, Victoria's mischievous spirit was inadvertently triggered.
She also felt a desire to make him fall deeper for her, to the point where he couldn't spare a single thought for other women.
So, *mwah.*
"……?"
*Mwah, smooch.*
Victoria was deliberately making kissing sounds as she planted kisses on Astal's soft cheek.
While young Astal froze for a moment, unable to process the situation he was in, Victoria kept stubbornly kissing him.
Coincidentally, the place where Astal and Victoria were located was a blind spot created by the wall. It was also far enough that sound wouldn't reach, so there was no worry of Celine hearing.
"Wh-wha…?!"
*Blink, blink.*
Feeling the ticklish, soft sensation on his cheek, Astal couldn't help but open his tightly shut eyes.
Then came the situation assessment.
What on earth was happening?
The older sister he met just yesterday was repeatedly kissing his cheek, and even when their eyes met, she just smiled brightly and moved on.
"N-noona, what are you doing…! You can't do this! This is something you only do with someone you love…."
Young Astal tried his best to resist Victoria, covering his cheek with his hand.
"…But I like you? By any chance, do you dislike me, Lord Astal?"
It was futile against her, as she knew Astal better than anyone and had learned his weaknesses and how to tease him while dating him.
*Thump─!*
The first confession from his ideal type at such a young age was enough to swirl confusion inside Astal's head.
Of course, Astal had been called handsome among his peers and had received confessions and favors from girls before.
But unlike the pure love of children, an adult's love is as deep and fatal as poison.
"Y-you like me?"
"Yes, how could I possibly dislike someone as cute as you, Lord Astal."
Young Astal had no immunity to escape Victoria's grasp.
See, even now she brushed aside his objection that it's something only lovers do, framing it as an expression of liking.
It was clearly a different expression, but young Astal didn't have the capacity to distinguish between 'fondness' and 'love'.
And, surprisingly, Victoria knew that better than anyone. She had suffered alone, harboring an unrequited love for Astal for a year.
"Noona, you like… like me?"
"Yes, there's no one in this world who wouldn't like a cute, lovely… kind mage like you."
Victoria deliberately chose her words ambiguously, letting Astal misunderstand and nurture his own delusions.
She was the one who knew better than anyone that in love, the one who likes first and more loses.
She chuckled softly seeing Astal's expression after he thought deeply for a moment, met her eyes, and startled.
"Noona, you can't do this! Noona must have a cool boyfriend, and you definitely wouldn't like a kid like me─."
*Hoo…♡*
At that moment, Victoria exhaled a strangely hot breath near Astal's ear. She had made the first move, knowing beforehand that his ears were sensitive.
Truthfully, Victoria had no intention of quietly listening to young Astal's complaints or rebuttals.
Since he would become her boyfriend in the future anyway, she couldn't understand why he, even as a child now, was so desperate to push her away.
"Ah, noona, noona…, wait, it tickles, just a moment…."
Victoria teased the pure boy by poking his ear with her tongue or nuzzling it with her lips.
"Lord Astal, you're a pervert. A huge one at that. You were imagining strange things about me alone, right? Be honest. I'll overlook it just this once."
"I-I didn't imagine anything strange…."
Seeing Astal's increasingly reddening cheeks, roughening breath, and trembling body, Victoria couldn't help but feel a little anticipation about what reaction he would show.
Corrupting a pure boy as clean and innocent as freshly fallen snow was giving the saint Victoria her first taste of immorality.
'…If I keep this up, they'd really believe I'm the Succubus Queen.'
What reaction would he show if she revealed her naked apron look to the young Astal now, or pretended to be a succubus and lied about being a demon?
Would he truly mistake her for a succubus, a lustful demon? Or would he beg and plead for the pure Victoria noona to return?
Ah, this was too much even upon reconsideration.
Victoria quickly erased the wicked thought that momentarily crossed her mind.
"Noona, no matter what, you should cherish your own body. I know you like me, but…."
*Grab.*
And at that moment, young Astal grabbed Victoria's shoulders and spoke.
"…This kind of affectionate expression shouldn't be done unless you're truly in love."
A resolute expression and statement that seemed beyond his years.
Despite his rough breathing, disheveled face, and wavering eyes, his desire to cherish Victoria overcame his lust.
"…98 points, Lord Astal."
Seeing young Astal's determination, Victoria showed a satisfied smile.
How could he be so identical?
She actually wanted to give him a perfect score, but if she did that now, she felt he wouldn't develop the mindset to strive harder in the future.
So Victoria deliberately deducted 2 points for motivational purposes.
She was also looking forward to the Astal who would grow even more to seduce her later.
"Then, Lord Astal, could you try saying 'I like you, I love you' to this noona? Just as a test."
Victoria couldn't stop playing these mischievous pranks because the current Astal was so lovely and admirable.
"H-how could I say that to noona?!"
"Is there really any reason you can't? Unless you truly dislike me. It's just words, right? You told me to cherish my body."
From the start, Victoria had narrowed Astal's options to one and was watching what words would come from his mouth.
"I-I like you. Noo…."
Just as young Astal hesitantly tried to whisper the words of love.
"Good job, Lord Astal."
*Pull.*
Victoria buried Astal's face into her chest and hugged him with just enough pressure for him to breathe.
"……!!!"
"…This noona will hug you tightly as a reward."
Victoria deliberately cut off his answer before young Astal could finish, savoring the aftertaste.
"If you practice expressing your feelings like this with words, it will help you later when you really get a lover you love."
Victoria hid her rising smirk as she smoothly fabricated her words so Astal wouldn't see.
Since pure childhood love is hard to experience again, Victoria was savoring it sparingly, as if melting sugar on her tongue.
Moreover, it was a forbidden love that skipped through time. For Victoria, who had tried so hard to maintain her pure image as a saint, this was an extremely unconventional deviation.
"Oh my, Lord Astal. You've gotten a nosebleed again, how careless…? Since your clothes are dirty again anyway, shall we take a bath together and clean up?"
Victoria was steadily executing her plan to make young Astal a prisoner of love for the remaining time.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ Celine Caysaros watched from afar as her son and Victoria engaged in their affectionate antics.
Of course, it was six days before the demon army's attack, and she should have been preparing using magic or planning evacuation strategies.
'I might even get to see my grandchild early. That's fortunate, I suppose.'
Celine observed their situation with a bit of leisure.
If the future changed so that she didn't die here, she was curious how the story of those two would change.
In reality, the marriage age in this era was quite low anyway.
"If a dragon hybrid has a child with a human… would it be a quarter-blood, so the dragon traits would fade?"
The unique curiosity and inquisitiveness of mages, often called eccentric in the world.
"…I'll find out by watching from now on."
Celine Caysaros, Astal's mother, also possessed it.