Nox, the Spirit of Darkness and Night
On the way home.
"Well, then, shall I pick out a name?"
[Name...?]
No other thoughts came to mind.
I couldn't keep calling you "you" or "hey" forever, after all.
And I had no intention of overthinking names.
"What about Nox? It means night."
Under the black-tinged night sky.
I named it after the black clumps of clouds I saw.
Thinking about it, it felt similar to naming a stray dog from the countryside "Nureongi."
[Nox...!]
Surprisingly, he felt differently.
The black clouds began to ripple.
They trembled with pleasure, then thickened and glistened.
Flash!
"I am───Nox!"
"....Huh?"
Dark light burst forth from my entire body.
Wasn't "dark" and "light" supposed to be opposites?
But it looked that way to my eyes.
A dark aura surged in, then slowly stretched out like a person.
Arms and legs.
Short, bobbed hair.
Small and cute like a young girl.
Yet there was no hiding the maternal pouch that gave her away.
"The spirit of darkness. Nox."
Nox introduced herself calmly on the spot.
Naked body with not a single thread in sight. Translucent skin.
"I will speak on behalf of 'us'."
Her pink lips parted, and the words that came out between them were:
"This grace. I will never forget it, Papa♬"
"....Papa?"
That was impossible to ignore.
...
...
...
Humans becoming spirits.
It wasn't entirely nonexistent.
'The worst witch Morgan.'
Originally human, she was devoured by a spirit and became a calamity-class spirit.
Considering her case, turning into a spirit wasn't impossible.
"But it's not that easy."
If it was possible just by wanting it, the entire world would be filled with spirits by now.
Something about that felt off.
However, what truly stuck in my mind was...
'Not impossible.'
A child's soul is always pure.
Even souls like that piled up and became undead.
Probably it wouldn't happen in a normal woman's body.
But an A-Class Awakener body that continuously killed children without rest.
The karma from that.
And the fact that I, in particular, had given him a "name."
Wasn't that what led to this situation?
If I had received mana from Nureongi, accumulated the fetuses' will, and then sprouted by naming him──?
"For now, at least I can't breed."
I was an A-Class Awakener, not some ordinary trash.
Yet I had to turn that A-Class Awakener into a dopamine-addicted pervert with pills and liquor.
Wasn't that easy?
Just one was already tough; I had to hit triple crown or quad crown to make it work.
Honestly, even achieving one was hard.
Doing all of them? That was questionable.
'Nureongi did that difficult thing.'
Thinking that way, Nureongi probably had his own ways too.
It was convenient to just dismiss it as a lucky accident.
But...
"Spirit Union..."
The ultimate technique where a spirit merges with a mana hall to turn the Spirit Contractor into a pseudo-spirit.
However, this transformation had the drawback that it required the spirit's power.
But if I could turn into a spirit without any spirit's help, and there was evidence right in front of me...
"....No, that's not it."
I briefly had a strange thought, but it seemed wrong to pursue it.
Getting myself killed for no reason would be a pain.
I decided to drop the weird idea and fell asleep as I was.
[Papa....?]
"Nox?"
[If it bothers you that I'm a spirit, would sleeping next to me be fine?]
"Uh, yeah."
There was no problem.
A Spirit Contractor could sleep with a spirit, right?
It wasn't that strange, so I accepted Nox's request...
But...
'Why does her personality keep changing like this.'
Just earlier she had been like a four-year-old baby.
Now she was acting like a pampered young lady raised in some rich house.
"Papa?"
"Hic?! Whoa, you startled me."
While I was spacing out, Nox pushed her face right in front of mine.
Tilted her head, then slowly but carefully nestled into my arms...?!
'Her chest. That thing. Eh, eh...?'
Nox's chest pressed against my chest.
Soft and warm.
Without thinking, I tried to push her back, but Nox countered by reaching her arms around me.
"Papa....♬"
'Crazy.'
Why was her voice like that?
Feeling weird.
Somehow the area under my nose was ticklish.
My body temperature felt a little high.
My heart was beating irregularly.
It was like my heart from my academy days, that day with no sense, starting to race again.
Without thinking, I arched my back.
'Please. Not some other-worldly pervert.'
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A loli was one thing, a spirit another, but Nox was the combination of both.
If I reacted to her with any element other than paternal affection here...
"...Nox is fine."
"Hey?"
"Because this life is one where Papa saved me."
"Eh...eh eh eh....?!"
She climbed on top of me, completely.
Thickly nestled Nox was like dark light, sticky and secretly sinking into my body.
"If Papa wants it, Nox can do anything...♥"
"........!"
Swallowed.
Without thinking, I swallowed my saliva.
Her two eyes looking down at me.
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The wet, teary eyes full of strange color were no longer those of a child.
They were the eyes of a female who had finished preparing to accept a man.
Enchanted by that gaze, I slowly reached out my hands.
"What the hell are you doing right now?"
"........."
I couldn't even extend them.
They froze in mid-air.
"Even hot water has top and bottom. And here you are, a snot-nosed kid fresh off the line...
...introducing herself?"
"Huh?"
"From any angle, you look like a kid."
Nox gave a cold smile, crossed her arms, and said.
"It's not me. It's you, gum."
"...Right now, you disrespected this body?"
Nox's voluptuous chest swayed with her movement.
In contrast, Hecate was the natural loli type.
Caught off guard by the unexpected attack, Hecate froze, and Nox followed by grabbing my hand and placing it on her chest?
"Eh...eh eh eh?!"
"Papa's hand. Big and warm, feels good♬"
The sensation from the hand.
I wasn't completely unfamiliar with a woman's chest.
Back in the academy, there were times when I casually touched it.
Nari and Ji-yeon noona had hugged me and let me feel their chests with their whole bodies.
So I shouldn't be shaken by this anymore... I thought, but....!
"Papa feels good too...?"
"........shit."
My heart started beating irregularly.
Blood flow accelerated rapidly.
Reason blurred.
Body immersed in instinct.
Head slowly heating up.
I focused my mind on one point as if there was no turning back.
"So. What are you asking me right now!"
"Yes, giiiiiik?!?!"
Hecate's mana hall was forcibly dyed white.
No. Not dyed.
More like...
"No awareness as a spirit? Human seen as trash?"
"If you're asking gender, it looks like male."
"It really is trash, though!"
"Whoa, what the heck is this."
While the two spirits were cat-fighting on top of me, I quickly checked the state of my mana hall.
Hecate's mana hall dyed white due to her sudden action.
But other parts were also dyed black.
'So right now this is...'
When Hecate touched my mana hall, my head became calm forcibly.
Similarly, when Nox touched my mana hall, my head would become...?
"Haa. Ha aa. Really."
Thanks to Hecate, the darkness had disappeared, and the lust that had been rising earlier began to settle calmly.
Should I say it was absurd, or that it was fortunate?
At least it meant I wasn't some perverted loli lover staring at spirits.
"I can be with Papa. There's nothing else to it."
"Why would you think that would lower my status as a spirit? Idiot? Short-sighted?"
"That's your problem. Gum."
"....Can this body handle it?"
"Why are you angry? There's nothing to worry about for you."
"Worrying! It's mostly my eyes that are worried!"
'Hmm. Yeah.'
It was just adorable.
A warm smile as if looking at a small child.
With a Yes loli No touch mindset, I looked at the two spirits, and Nox smiled cutely, then nestled back into my arms and said.
"Then you be the spirit king. Being Papa's daughter is enough."
"Th...this...!"
Mutual nerve war.
In the end, what decided the winner between the two was:
"Sunwoo. This body trusts Sunwoo."
"Papa... you won't abandon Nox, right...?"
It was held in my hand.
"This body promises. I can take care of you far better than that dark one. If you want, I can even renew the contract terms."
"Nox doesn't need conditions. If Papa asks, I can do anything!"
"Sunwoo....!"
"Papa....!"
Intense eye confrontation.
I just smiled and closed my eyes.
"...Sunwoo?"
"...Papa?"
I didn't know anymore.
Now I was going to sleep.
Too many things had happened today.
My stamina had already bottomed out from all the thinking.
"Sunwoo! Stop pretending to sleep!"
"Ah, then Nox will sleep next to you♬"
"This brat...??"
"Hey. Papa is sleeping, so could you shut up?"
"───!!!"
Even after closing my eyes, several voices came and went, but I couldn't hear the rest.
"....O."
When I woke up again after falling asleep.
"This body... this body claimed...!"
"Papa...♥"
'Crazy.'
On both sides, the loli girls were sleeping with their arms around my body.
They hadn't even been married or had kids, but it felt like they knew exactly what paternal affection was.
By the way.
"....Sunwoo?"
'Crazy.'
I opened the door to head to the training center.
"Wait a second, Sunwoo! Just a sec! Five minutes is enough!"
Nureongi was waiting outside the door.