Chapter 805
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 805
Of course, it wasn’t as if I could do anything about it, no matter how my suspicions panned out.
In fact, even if Felicia really did like me, I’d have to pretend I didn’t know, so it might be better to remain in the dark.
Finding out would only make me needlessly self-conscious.
But the human mind doesn’t work so logically. Once the curiosity took root, it became incredibly difficult to ignore.
“Silvia.”
“Ye-Yes?!”
I had been sitting quietly, so when I suddenly called her name, Silvia flinched. She had been pressed flat against the wall in the corner of the carriage, trying to stay as far away from me as possible.
Don’t be so tense. I’m not going to eat you.
“You didn’t go to the palace while you were resting?”
“Yes?! Th-That is… I, I went….”
And just as I expected, Silvia glanced nervously toward the driver’s seat before finally confessing the truth.
She probably figured that even if she lied, Vanessa was there, so she’d be found out.
“And yet it seems you have business there again today.”
“W-Well… that’s…”
Silvia. Your eyes are darting all over the place.
The very picture of restlessness, Silvia desperately wracked her brain.
And the answer she came up with was…
“T-To be… wi-with you, Guwon…!”
As if she felt some unknown anxiety even as she said it, Silvia’s voice grew smaller and smaller.
But, if she put it like that, there was really no way for me to press her further.
Well, as Silvia herself seemed to sense, it was also a statement that dug her own grave.
“You didn’t want to be away from me that much? Here, come here. I’ll give you a hug.”
“U-Uuuuh… O-Okaaay….”
When I opened my arms with a wide smile, Silvia, with an expression that screamed I’m doomed, buried herself in my embrace and trembled, her eyes welling with tears.
There, there. Were you that happy you could cry?
Anyway, this made it clear that Silvia was going to the palace for some reason she didn’t want me to find out about.
And the fact that our cute Silvia was doing something she knew she had to hide from me meant it must have something to do with Felicia.
Otherwise, there was no way Silvia would do something so shady.
In other words, my suspicion was slowly turning into certainty.
Now, if I could just probe Felicia’s reaction a little, I felt I could be sure.
As luck would have it, I didn’t have to wait very long this time.
We had been in the dungeon for sixteen days, so compared to last time, this visit was happening very quickly.
No. Still, if she really does like me…
“Oh my, darling. You came back so quickly this time. Looks like that intense session we had last time really worked on you, huh?”
If Felicia really liked me, she’d want to experience again what happened last time, when I lost my mind and lunged at her, professing my love.
So even if I came a little early, she might pretend it was hard to hold back and let me smell that scent.
Last time, too, she had held it in well until everyone else had left and it was just me, then she released the scent.
I held onto that faint hope, but as expected, Felicia was not such an easy opponent.
Well, that made sense. Even if Felicia really did like me, the fact that a girl who was usually so open about her desires hadn’t revealed it yet meant she wanted to hide it from me.
So, expecting Felicia to do something so careless was absurd in itself.
“Of course. You think I’m crazy enough to go through that again?”
Felicia giggled, looking at me with a purely amused expression.
Staring intently at her face, I deliberately said something a little harsh.
“You were pretty desperate. ‘I love you. Let me kiss you. Please. I’ll do anything.’ Ahahahaha!”
But Felicia didn’t seem hurt by my words at all.
No. Far from being hurt, she just looked thoroughly amused.
Watching her lower her voice to imitate me and then burst out laughing like that, I started to wonder if maybe I was just being narcissistic.
“What’s wrong? Staring at my face so intently. Ah! Could it be… Hey, darling? Are you sorry? I appreciate the sentiment, but…”
“Sorry for what?! That’s not it! Why are you suddenly making it seem like I’m getting rejected?!”
“But you were staring so hard. I thought maybe you’d fallen for me.”
At my shout, Felicia stuck her tongue out slightly and smiled brightly again.
“As if. It hasn’t happened, and it never will.”
“Aah, so mean, darling. If you keep saying such harsh things…”
But when I deliberately said something harsh again, Felicia finally touched the corner of her eye with her hand and lowered her head.
“Are you hurt?”
“No. Not at all.”
“……”
Then what’s with that hand gesture?
Wondering if she was actually crying despite her words, I peeked at her face again, but as expected, Felicia was only pretending to wipe away tears; not a single one was actually falling.
No. In the first place, her expression wasn’t even sad.
And Felicia, who had been pretending to cry, glanced up at me, and upon seeing me staring at her face, she raised her head with a satisfied expression.
“If you keep saying such harsh things… Mmm. It’s nothing. Never mind.”
But Felicia, who had been about to say something with a smile, immediately shook her head and trailed off.
“…What? What were you going to say?”
“I said, it’s nothing. Don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about it.”
“No. Saying that just makes me more curious. What is it?”
Especially since I’ve been watching your reactions this whole time.
This was the first time today that she’d given a reaction similar to what I’d expected.
When I seized the opportunity and pressed her, Felicia sighed as if she had no choice.
“Fine. I was just going to say that if you keep being mean, I’ll tell Diana that we kissed. You haven’t told her yet, have you?”
“Of course not! Why would I say something so unnecessary?!”
“Because you’re being mischievous, so I wanted to be mischievous too?”
This girl, an eye for an eye, is it!
No. In the end, Felicia had stopped herself, and only answered because I pried it out of her.
“Besides, if you tell her, I won’t be the only one getting in trouble, you know?”
“But I only did it because you asked me to. Even though I refused so much, you persistently made me feel good with sex, melting my brain with your Saint’s techniques, and then clung to me so tenaciously when I was all dazed… knowing full well I’m weak to pleasure. You’re so naughty.”
This time, Felicia blushed like a shy young girl and murmured this while cupping her cheeks with both hands.
“That was because I was under the influence of your aura! What’s with the sudden shy act?! It doesn’t suit you, so stop making that face!”
“Ahahahaha!”
Well, she did stop as soon as I yelled and just burst out laughing.
“You just try telling Diana that!”
“And what will you do if I do? Punish me?”
I warned Felicia one more time just in case, but of course, she wasn’t the least bit intimidated.
Instead, she slowly approached me, reached out a hand to gently stroke my dick over my pants, and looked up into my eyes seductively as she spoke.
Come to think of it, she was into that kind of play, wasn’t she.
“No. From now on, when we have sex, I’ll make it boring. I won’t do anything else, just move monotonously to take care of my urges and then leave.”
I could have said I wouldn’t have sex with her at all, but I had no intention of using a promise I’d already made as leverage to threaten her now.
And I didn’t need to. For a hedonist like her, this alone would be effective enough.
Of course, it wasn’t as if she wouldn’t feel good just because I was half-assing it, but she was the type who believed that if you’re going to do something, you should make it feel the absolute best.
“……!”
Perhaps not expecting me to say such a thing, Felicia’s eyes widened slightly in surprise for the first time today.
Though she immediately followed it with a deep, amused smile.
“Darling, don’t you know me a little too well? Could it be you’re thinking of me day and night?”
“Aren’t you the one with a serious princess complex?”
“Ahahat. But since I’m a real princess, it’s not a complex.”
Felicia laughed like that once more before pulling away from me and heading to the bed.
“Well then, that’s enough talk, darling.”
She then lay down, seductively crossed her legs, and beckoned to me.
She might not be conscious of everything she does, but every single one of her movements is just needlessly seductive.
No. With her personality, she might be fully aware and doing it on purpose.
Well, either way, it suited the succubus race.
Anyway, just as Felicia said, we couldn’t just chat forever.
It didn’t seem like I’d get the information I wanted by talking any more.
My original plan was to subtly probe Felicia’s intentions while we talked.
As I thought, she’s too hard to read.
On top of that, the more I talk with her, the more exhausted I get, which makes it even harder.
“Yeah, yeah.”
I shook my head, took off my clothes, and slowly approached Felicia.
I grabbed Felicia’s seductively crossed legs to spread them and push my body between them, but for some reason, she wouldn’t open them.
Instead, she patted the space next to her with one hand.
“You want me to lie down there?”
“Yep. If I leave it to you, you’ll just go on about ‘sex filled with love’ or whatever, right?”
…Well, she wasn’t wrong that I was planning to do just that and subtly observe her reaction.
Last time, I wasn’t really paying close attention while we were doing it.
If I observed her properly, maybe I’d see fleeting expressions other than just her sobbing in pleasure.
“No. You liked it too.”
“Well, it felt good, but… you said it yourself. I like new things. Wouldn’t even a good thing get boring if you do it too often?”
Well, she might have a point.
But it wasn’t like that was all we did last time.
In fact, it was only like that for a little bit at the beginning. Later, I used my skills to thoroughly immerse you in pleasure.
You yourself were so overwhelmed you melted to the point you couldn’t even lift a finger.
“So, what’s the plan this time?”
“Today, I’ll take the lead.”
Felicia said, then seductively licked her lower lip.
And that sight alone had enough magic to make my dick swell with power.
This is what I mean. Everything she does is needlessly seductive.
No. Not just her actions, but her looks, everything.
Felicia must have noticed my dick getting bigger, because she glanced down and let out a small chuckle.
“You’ll take the lead? Isn’t that what you’ve done to death? When you’re with other guys, you always…”
I felt a little embarrassed that I was already hard when Felicia hadn’t even taken her clothes off, so I reflexively retorted.
And that reflexive retort, having bypassed my brain’s filter, came out far too blunt.
By the time I realized my mistake and stopped talking, it was already too late.
“After… after getting into this kind of relationship with you, I haven’t been with any other men…”
Felicia sat up slightly, lowered her head, and murmured this in a sorrowful voice that could make the listener’s heart ache.
“No. I’m sorry.”
I had definitely said that at first, but I changed my mind later and told her she could be with other men.
So, technically, it wasn’t really something I needed to apologize for, but I found myself apologizing anyway.
But despite my apology, Felicia didn’t lift her deeply bowed head.
“And when I’m with you, except for the very first time, I’ve almost never taken the lead…”
Huh? Wait a minute. Isn’t the flow of this conversation a little strange?
“So I just thought it might feel good to do it for the first time in a while… but if you’re going to reject a maiden’s thoughts so coldly, then this maiden… this maiden…”
No. Hey. Why does it feel like this conversation is going in a weird direction?
And why does your voice keep sounding so pathetic?
“No. I said I’m sorry.”
“So, if you’re sorry, won’t you lie down here and let this maiden take the lead for once?”
Felicia finally raised her head and looked me straight in the eye with a face that looked like it was about to burst into tears.
…Is she kidding me right now.
“Haaah…”
Tired of dealing with her antics, I decided to just lie down obediently next to her.
At that, Felicia’s expression immediately changed to a bright smile. She flopped back onto the bed herself and then rolled halfway over toward me.
“Yes, yes. Such a good boy, my darling.”
Then, propping her cheek up with her hand, she looked down at me and gently smoothed my bangs with her fingertips.
“Who’s your darling?”
“Oh, you. It’s just something I say. You won’t be popular if you nitpick every little thing a woman says, you know?”
“I’m more than popular enough already, so don’t worry about it.”
“Ahahat. Look at all that confidence. I think I’m falling for you.”
“Falling for me? Aren’t you someone who’s completely walled off from the emotion of love?”
“Yep. Right. I was. Now then, darling, look forward to it. I’m going to give you plenty of service today. A princess’s devoted service isn’t something you get to experience every day, you know?”
As Felicia said this, she turned more toward me, leaning her body diagonally across the upper half of mine.
But even as I savored the soft feeling of her body against mine, a different thought was running through a corner of my mind.
Hey. You were doing so well, why are you doing this again? This just makes me conscious of it again.
“I was” is past tense.