Chapter 205
Chapter 205
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 205
Chapter Title: Hell - 5
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Thump, thump. Margarita struggled to suppress her heart, which was pounding like it was about to burst. Even though quite some time had passed since she lay down in bed, sleep refused to come no matter what.
‘Those two people... what in the world...’
The reason Margarita was in this state was entirely because of those two who had suddenly shown up in hell.
The woman who introduced herself as Cecilia was the emperor of the Iterum Empire, and the man who called himself Delta was the knight who served her—those two.
They had claimed to be lord and vassal, but they didn’t look anything like it. What knight in the world would treat their emperor like that?
He used polite speech and honorifics consistently, but the man’s attitude was miles away from the respect a knight should show an emperor.
Margarita might be from the Holy Kingdom, but she knew plenty about imperial etiquette. She was well aware that if a knight acted like that, it would give more than enough cause to have his head chopped off on the spot.
But the oddities didn’t end there. Right after Margarita had extracted the demon’s eye, the two of them had been practically clinging to each other. No, it was more accurate to say they were half-embracing.
The knight had his hand on the emperor’s side, slowly stroking her waist, while the emperor let out lewd moans and accepted the touch.
No one in this world, unless they had special feelings, would allow someone to treat them that way.
‘But...’
The man had stroked her side so naturally, and the woman had accepted it just as naturally, letting out moans as if forcibly holding back pleasure. Anyone could see their relationship was far from ordinary.
And considering the vast gap in their strength, it was even more so.
Delta was objectively and subjectively a fine knight, but he couldn’t compare to Cecilia, who had effortlessly sliced through hundreds of demons single-handedly.
If she wanted, she could have subdued the man’s hand at any moment and dealt him the appropriate punishment. Yet she allowed him to touch her without any resistance...
‘Tacit permission.’
Her head was bowed low enough that Delta couldn’t see, but since Margarita stood at a right angle to them, she saw it clearly.
The emperor’s expression, right on the verge of melting from pleasure.
Making a face like that just from having her side touched? A woman’s body wasn’t that easy. Which meant they clearly knew each other’s bodies inside and out.
But when Margarita asked, they insisted they were simply emperor and knight. It had to be a 100% lie.
‘They’re probably guarding against their secret relationship getting out.’
Margarita could more than understand. She and those two had met less than a day ago. It would be stranger if they spilled a secret of that magnitude in such a short time.
Margarita peeked just her eyes out from behind the curtain. Delta was leaning against a chair near the window, fiddling with his sword, while Cecilia had gone outside and still hadn’t returned.
Just as she wondered what could be taking so long.
—Hah...
‘Huh?’
Margarita’s ears caught a small moan. She froze in place, still peeking out. She wanted to believe she’d misheard.
—Hng, mmph...
‘...Insane.’
She hadn’t misheard. A moan so lascivious it could arouse even a man was filtering faintly through the curtain from outside.
The curtains were layered thick to block the red light, muffling the sound greatly, but her already sensitive ears picked it up without fail.
Guessing the source of that moan wasn’t hard at all.
‘...Outside? No, even if they can’t do it inside because of me... really outside? How often did they have to have been doing it before coming here?’
Margarita was inwardly aghast.
Even if they’d beaten down all the nearby demons so no one was watching, how could they be so brazen in the open outdoors? Did they get off on the exposure?
Barely recovering from the shock, Margarita cautiously directed a question at Delta, who was still calmly fiddling with his weapon.
“...Hey. Don’t you hear some weird noise from outside?”
Of course, she couldn’t outright say his lover was out there soothing her heated body, so she phrased it as carefully as possible.
“I don’t hear anything.”
Delta glanced briefly beyond the curtain and answered nonchalantly. Margarita was shocked once more.
‘Doing it outside isn’t even weird to him?’
A knight of his caliber would have exceptionally sharp senses.
Even she, rusted over from hundreds of years trapped here, could hear it clearly, so it was nonsense that this man, far superior to her, couldn’t.
“No, just listen more carefully. Really, you don’t hear anything?”
“...I really don’t hear a thing.”
Delta closed his eyes and focused for a long moment at Margarita’s urgent question, then shook his head as he opened them.
His face said, *What’s wrong with this human?* No doubt about it. He didn’t even consider the sound from outside strange.
Or perhaps he was deliberately pretending not to hear his lover’s self-comforting.
Margarita desperately wanted to believe the latter. The former would mean they were an unimaginable pervert couple.
“S-Sorry. I guess I’m so excited about being able to leave here that I misheard.”
“No problem. That could happen. I understand completely.”
After hesitating a bit, Margarita squeezed her eyes shut and added one last thing.
“Um... you know, if you go out and head to the cliff on the left, there’s a pretty big crevice? I lived there before building this house, and it’s fairly spacious and cozy. There’s room to lie down, and if you go deep enough, no sound leaks out.”
“I don’t know why you’re telling me this, but got it.”
Seeing Delta nod with a puzzled look, Margarita lay back in bed, admiring her own thoughtfulness.
Of course, lying down didn’t bring sleep. How could she sleep with those lewd moans continuing from outside?
‘...I told him, so why isn’t he going?’
When no movement came even after some time, Margarita couldn’t take it anymore and peeked out from the curtain again.
The moans kept coming, but Delta remained steadfast in his chair, not moving—and now he’d even closed his eyes. Clearly trying to sleep.
Leaving his lover’s desperate sounds unheeded was hard to comprehend.
As her doubts grew, the door creaked open. Margarita hurriedly lay down and pretended to sleep. The thick curtains would hide her anyway.
A faint peach scent wafted in too, but there was no time to question it. The moans were now coming through much clearer than before.
‘...No way, here?’
Thankfully, this time it was short. Margarita sighed in relief, her guess wrong.
Soon, the outside went quiet. Margarita, lying obediently in bed, couldn’t resist her curiosity and peeked out again.
She nearly gasped in shock.
Cecilia was straddling Delta’s lap, legs spread wide to either side. The emperor, perched on her lover’s thigh, stared intently at his peacefully sleeping face.
What thoughts were running through her mind while gazing at that serene face? Not a clue.
“What are you doing on top of me?”
A slightly low, resonant voice rang out. With the weight of a full-grown woman on his thigh, waking up was only natural.
At Delta’s voice, Margarita flinched and instinctively lay back down. Even though it wasn’t her caught, her heart pounded wildly.
‘No way... they wouldn’t do it here, right?’
Margarita seriously pondered, if only briefly, what to do if her worst fear came true. Pretend not to hear? Or give them a hint to go outside?
Lost in such thoughts, she couldn’t last even 30 seconds before peeking out again. Her curiosity was impossible to contain.
Having been trapped here so long that she’d gone mad and come back to her senses, and being human after all, it was inevitable.
Expecting her not to care about such antics right in front of her was practically impossible.
“This is...”
Cecilia spoke next, seeming to ponder deeply before answering the question in her usual stern, solemn tone.
“...Yes, punishment.”
“Punishment, you say?”
“Indeed. How dare a mere vassal toy with the imperial body at will. I shall personally punish this disloyal knight.”
“I never imagined being punished like this. What penalty are you planning to inflict?”
“You’ll see.”
Margarita unwittingly stuck her head out further. The mood was strangely charged. If they actually took it to the next level—
“I don’t know what Your Majesty is thinking...”
Black eyes turned toward Margarita.
Never imagining she’d be spotted here, Margarita froze in place.
“Is it alright to do this with someone watching?”
“...!”
At those words, golden eyes turned to Margarita too. Even in the world shrouded in pale red, they retained their pure golden hue.
*Gulp.* Someone’s swallow echoed.
I was walking beside Cecilia, who strode ahead holding her holy sword with a stern expression. Margarita trailed a bit behind, constantly glancing at us warily.
After my words shattered the mood, time passed vaguely until the sky regained its sunset glow, and we set off for the location of the next item.
Cecilia’s face remained impassive, but after she vented on a group of demons we encountered midway, I could roughly guess her feelings.
‘Serves her right for saying something unnecessary... No, she started the provocation first, so hitting back was fair...’
The reason Cecilia had suddenly acted that way was clearly because of what Floretta said.
She’d dressed it up as envy over a pure body, but her true intent was obvious. It was basically thigh-fucking right in my face, so how could my eyes not roll back?
Cecilia, who’d openly claimed me as ‘hers,’ wouldn’t bat an eye at lashing out like that in a fit of anger after seeing the pope’s behavior.
I’d deliberately ruined the mood last night to give Cecilia more time to think rationally.
“Um, we’re heading to get the materials, right?”
Margarita, hesitating from afar, cautiously spoke up.
“Yes. Why do you ask?”
“Nothing much, just wondering why this direction. Isn’t it a cliff if you keep going this way?”
“Yes. A cliff.”
“Then why...?”
I glanced at the spot on the cliff near the rocky mountain where the unactivated magic circle was.
“It’d take too long to walk around.”