Cult of Self-Blame (3)
Cult of Self-Blame (3)
"I am not as righteous a goddess as you think, aninira."
Athena spoke with difficulty, clutching the hem of her dress with trembling hands.
"Perhaps I am even more vile than you can imagine..."
She continued in a pained voice, unable to meet her husband's eyes.
The Goddess of War, the Sword Maiden, the Admiral of the Invincible Fleet.
Those splendid epithets that referred to her stabbed at her conscience like a double-edged sword.
To a foolish wife who couldn't even keep faith with her beloved husband, those titles were far too extravagant.
"......But it's okay."
Just as Athena was writhing in guilt, Ion's warm voice momentarily pushed away the blades tormenting her.
At those soothing words, Athena reflexively lifted her head and looked at Ion beside her with softly glimmering eyes.
"I don't care what kind of goddess Athena is. ......No, you don't have to be a goddess at all."
As if unaware that Athena's eyes had widened, Ion continued quietly, staring at the floor.
"Because I like Athena herself as a woman. No matter what you look like now, or what you become in the future, I can keep loving you. So don't worry."
After a long while, Ion lifted his gaze from the floor and gave Athena an awkward smile.
And seeing that smile, Athena couldn't suppress the overwhelming emotion surging within her.
"Hmm, was that a bit presumptuous of me? Haha......"
Ion scratched the back of his head sheepishly and subtly shifted his gaze toward the clock hanging on the wall of the reception room.
"It's already this late. I should head back to the party now......"
As he said this and tried to stand up from the sofa, Ion froze in an awkward half-rise.
He had no choice but to stop.
Because Athena, who had been sitting quietly beside him, suddenly grabbed his lapels.
"Athena...?"
"I wish to rest a little longer, -nira."
Athena, her cheeks flushed as if drunk, showed Ion her moist eyes and parted her glossy lips painted with lipstick.
"So, Ion...... please assist me in my rest."
Her voice was so desperate that Ion flinched in surprise.
Even someone as dense as him could fully guess the meaning of such blatant words.
"......Athena."
After a brief hesitation, as if resolved, Ion called his wife's name and slowly brought his face closer.
"Ion......"
Athena closed her eyes tightly and waited patiently without avoiding him.
Soon, the distance between them became zero, and two lips—distinct in shape and color—merged into one.
The soft kiss that sought only each other's tenderness and warmth soon turned into an intense one where tongues and teeth clashed.
"Hah, Athena...!"
"Ion...!"
Her body heated by the increasingly fierce kiss, Athena raised her arms and wrapped them around his neck.
At the same time, she felt Ion's busy hands trying to remove her dress.
During the kiss, Athena shifted her body to actively assist the action.
The blue dress she was wearing soon loosened and fell beneath the sofa.
Once the dress was off, Athena herself removed her last remaining underwear and placed it on the table in front of the sofa.
"......."
Normally, she would have instinctively covered her breasts and crotch with her arms out of embarrassment.
But today, Athena did not do that; she boldly revealed her naked body to Ion.
Ion gazed at Athena's flawless, perfect figure and hurriedly took off his lower garments.
As his suit pants and then his underwear came down, the male organ hidden inside finally revealed itself.
Ion's penis, which was rather modest in size.
At that very moment, a memory Athena had tried hard to forget unconsciously surfaced.
That man's thing, so different in size and length from Ion's.
Richard's massive awl that had driven her to madness inside her...
'W-what absurd thought am I having right now?!'
Startled, Athena shook her head on the spot.
She couldn't forgive herself for unconsciously recalling Richard's monstrous cock upon seeing Ion's.
"Athena, are you okay...?"
Noticing Athena's sudden strange behavior, Ion asked with concern.
"A-ah, it's nothing, -nira."
Athena forced an awkward smile, trying her best to reassure Ion.
Then, without further delay, she lay back on the sofa and slightly spread her legs toward Ion.
Though her earlobes were flushed with embarrassment, she did not close her parted legs.
It almost seemed as if she was asking to be punished for having such wicked thoughts.
Ion swallowed hard at her fervent seduction, so different from usual.
Forgetting even the minimal foreplay, he pressed his body directly between Athena's shapely legs and placed his fully erect penis at her entrance.
"Kkeuk!!"
"Euh! Ion...!"
As the wretched object easily disappeared beyond the goddess's garden,
a lewd sound leaked simultaneously from the mouths of the man and woman fused together on the sofa.
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"Heut...!!"
Athena, sensing my penetration, made a seductive expression and soon wrapped her slender legs around my waist.
As if trying to erase the traces of the other man who had once occupied her insides with mine, Athena engaged in sex actively.
Watching her, I began to move slowly.
"Kkeuk, Athena...!"
"Haa, Ion, it feels so good, -nira..."
Athena, surrendering her body to pleasure, let out languid moans.
Her appearance gave me an indescribably strange sensation.
Jjigeok, jjigeok.
Clenching my teeth, I shook my hips vigorously to make the panting Athena feel even better.
"Euh! Ion, you seem more active than usual today!"
"Ah, it's because Athena looks more beautiful today...!"
Stammering for a moment, I answered Athena as she rocked on the sofa.
But it was a lie.
In truth, I had suddenly recalled the face-sitting Athena had performed last week, and my excitement had spiked.
'Richard must have done this to Athena too!'
I kept overlapping the current Athena mixing with me and the Athena from that day when she was violated by Richard.
But the reaction Athena had shown when Richard made her sit on his face was far from this level.
"I-Ion...?"
As I suddenly moved my hand toward her crotch while thrusting with all my might, Athena looked slightly surprised.
I wanted to draw out Athena's squirting, just as Richard had done that day.
"Athena...!"
I groped around her vagina where my penis was buried and lightly touched her clitoris just below the pubic mound.
"Ahh, Ion...!"
Each time, Athena let out excited moans as if to tell me how good it felt,
but the most crucial fountain showed no sign of gushing.
I tried to induce squirting by fondling not only her vagina but also her breasts.
Yet there was no result.
Instead, it only hastened my already short limit.
"Kkeuk...!!"
Frowning, I stopped my neglected piston action and silently ejaculated alone.
But Athena didn't even bat an eye at my selfish act; she accepted my pitiful semen deep inside her.
"Haa, that was truly wonderful, Ion..."
Athena, not a single bead of sweat on her naked body, whispered with a faint smile.
"......Me too."
I savored an indescribable sense of shame and defeat, then kissed Athena.
It was a kiss marking the end of a desperately pathetic union.
"We stayed too long. If we don't return before it's later, we'll arouse unnecessary suspicion."
Having finished the aftermath of the unexpected sex in the reception room, Athena put back on her underwear and dress.
I also retrieved my underwear and pants that were strewn on the floor and put them on.
"Ion?"
Seeing me standing stiffly in place with a strange expression after dressing, Athena sensed something odd and looked at me with suspicion.
"What is it? Is there a problem?"
"Well... actually, there's someone I want to introduce to you today."
"Someone you want to introduce?"
Athena blinked and tilted her head.
"Who on earth..."
Ttok ttok.
Just then, a sudden knock cut off her words.
Athena reflexively turned her gaze toward the entrance of the reception room where the knock came.
"......Come in."
Having a good guess who the visitor was, I gave permission to enter after a brief hesitation.
Soon, the reception room door slowly opened, and the person waiting outside revealed themselves.
"Excuse me."
The moment the mysterious visitor stepped into the reception room, the Goddess of War's eyes flew wide open like lanterns.
"Y-you wretch?!"
"It's been a while, Athena-nim~."
Seeing Richard enter with his usual relaxed smile, Athena's face twisted in shock.
I had never seen her so flustered.
"Have you been well?"
"How dare you set foot here!!"
When Richard greeted her casually as if forgetting his past misdeeds, Athena shouted in fury.
Then she urgently turned to me.
"Ion, what is the meaning of this! W-why is that bastard here?!"
Eyes wide, Athena demanded an explanation of what was going on.
But intimidated by her violent reaction, I could hardly get my mouth to move.
"Ion!"
When I kept hesitating and avoiding her gaze,
Athena, unable to hide her bewilderment, raised her voice again.
All I could do was say to her in a faltering voice,
"Sorry......"