Chapter 859: The 5.5th Floor
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 859: The 5.5th Floor
“No. Just listen for a moment. I don’t know how much Sara explained, but here’s what happened.”
Earlier, I had tried all sorts of things to get Felicia to drop her mask, but I certainly didn’t want to see her make that face for this reason.
It felt a little strange to be making excuses to someone who wasn’t even my woman, but then again, our relationship itself was already strange to begin with.
Convincing myself, I tried to explain how much I had suffered in the Dungeon for the past two weeks.
But before I could, Felicia seemed to pick up on something in my words that bothered her.
“…You didn’t send her to explain everything, did you?”
“Huh? Oh, yeah. For some reason, she said she’d come herself. You secretly wanted to get closer to Sara, didn’t you? No matter how much you deny it, you can’t fool this Saint’s eyes. It worked out, right? Did you two get a little closer?”
“…I see.”
I didn’t know why she suddenly asked that, but I couldn’t kick away an opportunity that had rolled my way.
I tried to tease Felicia to lighten the mood, but she just mumbled as if she’d realized something, not playing along with my joke.
Isn’t that a bit unfair? I usually play along with most of your jokes, even when I complain they’re annoying.
Well, if that doesn’t cheer her up, I guess I’ll just explain the situation as originally planned.
I meticulously explained to Felicia everything I had endured in that hell.
Ugh. To think I’d be in a position where I had to vividly describe this nightmare, which I didn’t even want to recall, twice.
“That’s what happened. It was a hell that words couldn’t fully describe, but just hearing about it, you can probably guess how much I suffered, right? That’s why I was so incredibly exhausted.”
“……”
But even after hearing all my excuses, Felicia’s face showed no sign of brightening.
She might be annoying with her excessive teasing, but she’s not narrow-minded, so I thought she’d understand once I explained the circumstances.
Normally, if someone who wasn’t even my woman kept reacting like this, I’d eventually get tired of making excuses and just adopt a ‘I’ve explained everything, the rest is up to you’ attitude. But this time, I couldn’t bring myself to do that.
Again, it was entirely my fault that I had thoroughly trampled on the pride of this princess, who could be called a ‘lump of pride’ herself.
Even a piece of trash like me wouldn’t just brush it off as ‘too much trouble’.
“I was suffering mentally, and on top of that, I came here without any sleep. I was so exhausted that for the first time since becoming a Saint, my ‘thing’ didn’t even get properly hard. It’s absolutely not because you’re not attractive. I, who has the world’s most beautiful women by my side, can vouch for your charm. And you saw me cum the moment I put it in, didn’t you? You’re not seriously thinking I’m some premature ejaculator who’d just spurt like that even when I’m in top condition, are you? No, right? You know perfectly well I’m not that kind of guy, don’t you? So just seeing that, you can tell how much I…”
Honestly, I know it’s not good to praise her charm like this, especially after I just rejected her a while ago.
I might inadvertently give her false hope, or even if not, it could just sound like empty flattery.
But it was also true that I couldn’t think of any other way to resolve this situation, so I made my excuses, even mixing in some jokes.
But this time too, Felicia honed in on something different than what I expected.
“You didn’t sleep?”
“Yeah! Sil—”
Wait a minute. Isn’t this a bad turn?
No matter how close Silvia is with her, saying I stayed up all night with Silvia and then slept here…
“Ah… so you couldn’t sleep because of Silvia. That’s why you didn’t bring Silvia along either.”
But somehow, Felicia immediately mumbled as if she understood.
I only said ‘Sil’ and stopped, didn’t I?! How could she figure out the rest just from that?!
Seriously, why are there so many people like this around me?!
…Actually, maybe it’s not that my girls are good at reading my mind, but that I’m just an easy guy to read?
“Haaah…”
Felicia covered her face with both hands and let out a sigh deep enough to make the ground sink.
She remained still for a while, and when she finally lowered her hands from her face, the gloomy expression was already gone.
Even so, it wasn’t that her gloomy mood had completely vanished, but rather that she had regained enough strength to put her mask back on.
“Alright, honey. So, we’re meeting again tomorrow?”
“What? What’s that suddenly mean?”
“Oh, ‘suddenly’? It’s not sudden at all, darling. Did you forget? You were sleeping soundly in my bed, so I didn’t get any sexual release either, did I? You just got me even more worked up. Since you caused this, you have to take responsibility. Or, do you want to take responsibility today instead of tomorrow?”
As she spoke, Felicia pointed a finger towards one side of the room. Specifically, towards the window.
And only then did I realize that it was already getting dark outside the window.
I usually wake up before the sun rises, so I hadn’t felt anything out of place at all.
This is bad. How long did I sleep? I came here early in the morning, so… I’m really screwed.
Will they believe me if I just say I only slept?
“Ahahaha. You’re going to get scolded again when you go back today, aren’t you, honey?”
As I stood there, looking flustered and thinking such thoughts, Felicia burst into laughter beside me, clearly amused.
Th-this girl… I thought she was just wearing a mask. Look, she’s even laughing with tears in her eyes.
Could it be that she’s far more magnanimous than I thought, and actually cheered up after hearing I couldn’t sleep because of Silvia and just came here to crash?
“Hey… is this really something to laugh about right now?!”
“Ah, but, you’re just too funny right now, darling.”
“I’m not funny at all!? I’m leaving!”
“Wait!”
As I hastily tried to pick up my clothes, Felicia suddenly stopped laughing and seriously halted me.
“Wh-what is it?”
“So, your answer?”
“What? What answer?”
“The answer about coming back tomorrow. You’re not going to say that you just spurted once like a premature ejaculator and that’s it for this time, are you?”
No. Of course, my sexual urges wouldn’t be satisfied with just that, and I do feel a sense of responsibility, so I wouldn’t just abandon you.
“…Alright. I’ll just come back tomorrow. But.”
“But?”
But it felt unfair to just say ‘alright’ to someone who had been laughing so boisterously just moments ago, so I tried to act serious for a moment, just like Felicia had.
“If I’m still alive by tomorrow.”
“Ahahahahah!”
Well, all that did was make Felicia burst into laughter once again.
“I told you it’s not funny, you! If I don’t survive, you’ll be in danger too, won’t you?! So stop laughing and pray for my safe return here until I come back!”
“Ahahahah. Don’t you pray for the dead? Are you going to die, darling?”
“Shut up!”
“Ahahahah!”
Exchanging such banter, I quickly picked up the clothes I had thrown off and put them on.
Even as I spoke like that, honestly, I was secretly relieved.
Because I could finally talk to her in our usual atmosphere again.
Though I never dreamed the day would come when I’d feel relieved by her teasing.
…I wonder if my girls feel this way when I tease them?
“Anyway, I’m going! See you tomorrow!”
“…Okay. Go safely. I’ll be here praying for your repose.”
“Don’t pray! I’m not dying!”
“Ahahah!”
Exchanging such words until the very end, I left Felicia, who was waving her hand gently, behind me and immediately exited the room.
“Ahahaha… Haaah… Really.”
Trying hard to ignore the faint sigh I thought I heard from behind me.
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“Ahahaha… Haaah… Really. I want to cry.”
After Guwon’s retreating figure disappeared, Felicia sighed and wiped away the tears that had gathered at the corners of her eyes with her delicate fingers.
“Honestly, getting all excited by myself. How foolish.”
From the conversation they’d just had, Felicia had realized everything.
She had realized it, yet at the same time, a part of her had held onto hope until the very end.
What if, just what if, Guwon would say he’d take responsibility today after all, and stay?
The Guwon she knew was the type to want to resolve things immediately whenever a task arose.
Of course, such expectations were Felicia’s vain dreams, and Guwon left the room without any hesitation.
Seeing that, Felicia realized how futile her hopes had been.
Of course, when they met last time, Guwon had noticed Felicia’s feelings and rejected her.
But in that very act, Felicia had found hope instead.
Felicia, who prided herself on being better than anyone at reading people, was confident that she had mostly grasped Guwon’s personality during their time together.
Guwon was fundamentally the type to not care much about others unless they were ‘his women’.
While it wasn’t that he was entirely immune to affection, he also possessed a decisiveness that allowed him to firmly say no when it was necessary.
Yet, that Guwon had noticed her feelings.
Of course, as this was Felicia’s first time experiencing such feelings, it was true that she had occasionally hinted at them, hoping he might notice.
But even so, given the personality of Guwon that Felicia had understood, he wouldn’t have noticed that an uninterested woman liked him just from such subtle hints.
Especially since the person in question was Felicia herself, who until recently had claimed to have no interest in dating or love, only pleasure.
Her situation was completely different from that woman named Alicia, who Guwon had rejected.
It was said that he only learned of that woman’s feelings through someone else.
And apparently, on the very day he found out, he went straight to her and openly rejected her.
But she was different.
Guwon himself had noticed her feelings, and when he rejected her, he was careful not to hurt her as much as possible, even avoiding the direct phrase ‘dumped you’.
Seeing that, Felicia thought Guwon was unconsciously trying to leave room for them to be together.
And that wasn’t all.
If it had ended with just that, even Felicia wouldn’t have been so optimistic.
In fact, when she was indirectly rejected, she had been quite depressed.
But going even further, Guwon had even given her this command: to keep calling him ‘honey’.
Even though he was aware he had rejected her, he made such an unreasonable demand.
Moreover, when Guwon said that, he had an expression as if he himself didn’t quite understand why he was being so stubborn.
Seeing that, Felicia was convinced.
Although he was expressing rejection now, it was simply that Guwon hadn’t realized it yet; feelings for her were definitely sprouting in a corner of his heart.
Since Guwon always insisted that love was important in sex, he must have grown fond of her after spending so much time intimately with her.
Since she had always thought she’d never be able to experience love, she wasn’t going to dream of a romantic love’s beginning now.
The reason for growing fond didn’t matter. What was important was that this love had a chance.
Of course, the obstacle in Guwon’s and her relationship wasn’t just their mutual feelings.
Even if she and Guwon were to fall in mutual love, given her status, becoming a concubine was out of the question, making a union with Guwon nearly impossible.
But according to Silvia, he was now spending nights with his concubines in rotation, not just his three primary wives as before, wasn’t he?
In other words, the boundary between wife and concubine was breaking down.
Hearing that, Felicia even felt as if the Goddess herself was helping her with this love.
Perhaps the whole world was blessing this love.
I can be with Guwon.
She had been dreaming such dreams when she was suddenly startled and despaired upon hearing that Guwon had suffered critical injuries and fallen unconscious. But when he specially sent Sara to explain the situation only to her, that despair turned into hope.
As expected, Guwon thinks of me as special.
He was going to come straight to her the next day anyway, but he couldn’t bear to wait and didn’t want to make her anxious, so he sent someone.
However, in the end, it was nothing more than a delusion dreamt by a woman whose judgment was clouded by love.
Today’s events made it clear.
The fact that Guwon didn’t see her as a woman at all.
“This is why I shouldn’t have fallen in love.”
Feeling the tears that had gathered in her eyes now tracing paths down her cheeks, Felicia had to taste a sense of defeat she’d never known, and the bitter feeling of a broken heart, for the very first time in her life.