Chapter 203

Chapter 201 – Hell – 4

“……”

I stood frozen in place, pondering what that remark truly meant. But nothing came to mind. I couldn’t grasp what intention lay behind those words at all.

Surely, it wasn’t some romantic thing about that Kaiquilia wanting to be my lover. From the start, her personality was miles away from anything like that.

“Did I… make you feel bad?”

When I cautiously asked, Kaiquilia’s expression became rather complex.

“Did it seem to you that I looked upset hearing that?”

“……No.”

Her expression was indeed quite intricate, but the fact that she didn’t lash out right there showed that she wasn’t angry at all.

If that were the case, Margarita wouldn’t have been safe immediately.

“If you understood my feelings, then for what reason would you say such a thing? You must choose your words carefully.”

I casually glanced at Kaiquilia’s face.

Her gaze was still quite stoic, but the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned. It indicated that she wasn’t upset by my question but rather seemed to welcome this kind of conversation.

If that’s the case, could it be alright to take a step further from here?

“What if I say it’s to understand the intention behind your question, Your Majesty?”

“Are you, a mere subject, daring to probe the intentions of your superior? How utterly audacious.”

While her words were fierce, the expression on Kaiquilia’s face was far from fierce. Her mouth was slightly smiling, and her eyes had softened a bit.

This meant that her purpose from the start was to engage me in conversation, or that I had inadvertently given her the answer she desired.

I felt a strange sense of nostalgia.

Back when I first met Kaiquilia in Aurora’s territory, and even when I was first summoned to the Imperial Palace, I struggled with how to handle such a wild hedonist.

But with this version of Kaiquilia, I felt like I could handle things without any trouble.

Now, she was a bit relaxed, having just wiped out a horde of demons, and once she returned to the Empire, she might revert to her wild personality.

“Very well. You are not one to beat around the bush, so I shall speak plainly.”

Her golden pupils sparkled with intrigue.

Our eyes met. To look directly into the Emperor’s eyes was something that could cost you your head, yet Kaiquilia didn’t tell me to avert my gaze or get angry.

After standing that way for a while, locking eyes, Kaiquilia suddenly opened her mouth.

“I like you, Knight Commander of the Dark Night Order. No, I will call you Delta now.”

“That is……”

For a moment, I thought it was a confession, but the words that followed denied that thought.

“However, don’t get the wrong idea. This is not at all a feeling of a woman liking a man. It means I see your usefulness and appreciate a well-crafted tool as a craftsman. Have I not said it several times? You are mine.”

Kaiquilia’s expression was one of great confidence. It seemed she spoke with no deceit in her words.

Seeing that expression ignited a spark of curiosity within me.

If it had been earlier in my relationship with Kaiquilia, I wouldn’t have dared to attempt such an action unless I had dozens of lives to spare, but now it felt possible. Having made up my mind, I opened my mouth.

“If that’s the case, what did the kiss you gave me in the Imperial Palace mean, Your Majesty?”

“……What?”

Her previously proud smirk trembled slightly.

“Your Majesty, you kissed me saying you could handle me on your own. I asked what that action signified. Was it merely for the Pope’s sake?”

“Oh, how impertinent……”

With a quirk in her eyes, Kaiquilia looked up at me. If it were the old me, the moment she made that expression, I would have been anxiously pacing, sensing trouble.

But now, it was different. Such thoughts didn’t cross my mind even for a moment. I was so calm that I found it a bit strange.

“Your Majesty. Don’t you remember? Before we were dragged into this hell, what we did.”

I took a step closer. Though Kaiquilia stood straight, I could sense her slightly flinch as I closed the distance.

“Don’t blabber nonsense, Knight Commander of the Dark Night Order. Even my patience has its limits.”

“May I dare to test the limits of that patience?”

To spit out such words while locking eyes with the Emperor, I would never have imagined doing such a thing before. But thinking that I had implicitly been allowed to act this way, I couldn’t stop myself.

If my actions genuinely displeased her, if I had truly crossed the line, Kaiquilia could have drawn her holy sword or scolded me right away, stopping me from doing anything more.

Yet, Kaiquilia didn’t do that.

With her eyes narrowed, she gazed fiercely at me while waiting calmly for my next move.

“You……”

Kaiquilia muttered something, but it was too quiet to hear. I stepped closer once more. Kaiquilia maintained her stoic demeanor until that point.

However, as my right hand brushed against her side beneath her suit jacket, it was a different story.

ㅡflinch!

Kaiquilia trembled just from that. I heard the sound of my fingertips brushing against the flesh beneath her shirt.scritch scritch

It got quiet as she stared daggers at me.

That was all. Her expression twisted up, and her teeth ground together.

She didn’t shove my hand away or genuinely get angry. She could have easily done something if she wanted to.

Instead, she merely shivered each time my fingers made contact with her side, almost allowing me to touch her body.

“……Don’t get carried away, Knight Commander of the Dark Night Order. How dare you─”

“You could easily subdue me with one hand. If you truly dislike my touch, you can do just that.”

I started to slowly caress her side with my fingers. Although my fingertips felt only the rough texture of her shirt, that was enough. My goal wasn’t to satisfy myself.

Kaiquilia initially seemed to try to maintain a fierce expression, but she couldn’t help but flinch involuntarily as my fingers continued to move along her side.

When my fingernail gently scratched from her side down toward her ribcage, a moan escaped through her tightly clenched lips.

“This, is outrageous…… huuuh……”

Her words got increasingly sporadic. Once her head hung low, I couldn’t see her expression, but I could roughly guess what it was like.

‘……Is her whole body really a sensitive area?’

Among all the women I had been with, Lize was on the higher end of the sensitivity scale. Just a kiss would make her dazed, or merely touching her chest would soak her dolphin shorts.

But even that Lize was nothing compared to Kaiquilia. Not to mention the Pope sisters or Aurora.

Even though I explicitly told her to resist if she didn’t like it, she didn’t. My hands grew bolder once again. I placed my palm firmly on Kaiquilia’s hip.

“Uuh…… Hah, kuuh……”

Kaiquilia let out a heated breath that slightly warmed my uniform chest. Her hands, which had nowhere to go, clenched into fists and trembled.

I pressed my palm against her hip and continued to knead her side. The well-defined body under the fabric was firmly composed of muscle.

Thud, Kaiquilia’s forehead came into contact with my chest. It was practically a declaration that she had no intention of resisting. As I reached for my other hand, just then.

“I’ve pulled your eyes out…”

From the side, a forgotten third party’s voice came through.

I turned my head. In one hand, Margarita held a dripping, bloody demon’s eye, and in the other hand, a blood-soaked sword. She was watching us, clearly at a loss.

“Oh, sorry. Should I wait a bit longer? I just wanted to let you know I finished the job. I had no intention of interrupting you. Really.”

Margarita, confirming the eye on her left hand, subtly glanced to gauge our reaction. Especially, she seemed to be more wary of Kaiquilia than myself.

I removed my hand from her side. Kaiquilia was panting heavily as she tried to regain her breath, completely unfazed by Margarita’s presence.

‘……Is this alright?’

I cautiously grasped Kaiquilia’s shoulder to straighten her up. Even when I grabbed her shoulder, she flinched and let out a light moan, “Hih.”

From the side, I felt Margarita’s piercing gaze.

“What happened to the demon?”

“It’s still alive. They’re basically immortal, right? It’s strange for you to kill them off so easily.”

True, the sword Margarita held was just an ordinary one, not imbued with a blessing, so she likely couldn’t finish off the demon with that. But how did she manage to poke out its eye like that?

“I’ll finish it off.”

I approached and stabbed the wingless nightmare right in the head. The four-winged demon twisted and finally lowered its head. That was the end.

“Now what’s next……”

“Ah, hold on. It’s about to be night. So how about resting for now and departing in the morning?”

“Even if it’s night, it’s still quite visible, right? It wouldn’t matter if we set off right now.”

Hell had its day and night cycle, indeed.

The time typically referred to as night here was when something blood-colored in the sky became even redder, and everywhere you looked, it appeared red.

“I’m sorry to delay, but I’m uneasy. I can’t be carrying this eye around all the time.”

“Ah, that’s true.”

I understood easily. It would be a bit troublesome to carry around the palm-sized, fragile eyeball, which seemed like it would pop if I applied even a little pressure.

We could find a way to go there ourselves, but there was a chance the demons might sense the smell of blood and come after Margarita.

“Then let’s wait until the blood color fades a bit before we set off.”

“Huuuh…… Hah……”

In the deep of night, amid a world blanketed in red, Kaiquilia sat trembling by a nearby rock, letting out lewd moans.

Since memories of the day kept resurfacing, she couldn’t possibly stay still.

The unprecedented event of a living human falling into hell might have overshadowed everything else that happened before and after, but what transpired couldn’t be disregarded either.

Simply having reached climax from a kiss, or trembling and struggling to suppress a moan from just touching her side—experiences like that while being utterly unable to resist.

Kaiquilia could not accept the fact that her body was this sensitive. What kind of woman would climax merely from a kiss?

“Ah……?”

Suddenly, a memory from the past surfaced in her mind.

The scent of the male filling her nasal cavity when their lips met, the transparent saliva pushing past her throat, the rough hands kneading her backside flooded her mind.

“Uah, kuuh?!”

As that memory struck her, her body flinched, and as the spasms lessened, Kaiquilia reached down between her legs with trembling fingers.

A faint moistness could be felt.

All just from imaginative thoughts, merely recalling that past act had left her in this state. She realized that something was seriously wrong with her body.

Kaiquilia gently traced the crevice of her suit with her fingers. No sensations were felt. There were no thrills; she could hardly feel her genitalia behind the suit. Something felt off.

When that man had touched her, not on her private parts, but merely her side…

“Urgh?!”

In an instant, stars exploded in her mind.

Her waist twisted involuntarily, and her hips wriggled uncontrollably. Despite trying to bite down and hold back, her desire increased, pushing her body into another wriggle.

The sensation of her mind going blank lasted a long time. Only when the light moisture between her legs came dangerously close to becoming liquid did she manage to retract her fingers.

She gasped, quickly rubbing her fingertips against the fabric of her suit to wipe off her unusual state. Her whole body felt limp. Finally calming her arousal, Kaiquilia lifted her body.

Or rather, it would be more accurate to say she suppressed it. Even now, one wrong move could send her spiraling into climax.

Kaiquilia, leading her tingling legs, returned to the rickety house made of dry wood. The interior was considerably less red, thanks to the multiple layers of curtains drawn.

Her golden pupils scanned the room. Behind the tri-layered curtains in the innermost part, Margarita would be sleeping on the bed.

The man in the black uniform was on the chair. Delta sat quietly with his eyes closed, his head leaned against the bookcase.

“Huuuh……”

Upon seeing that, Kaiquilia instinctively shifted her gaze to the man’s lips, recalling the sensation of their previous kiss.

With one hand covering her mouth, she bent forward, squeezing her thighs together and bracing herself against the desk to barely suppress the moan threatening to overflow.

She’s lost it. There’s no doubt about it. Was a woman’s body this sensitive? That could never be the case.

In the books Kaiquilia read, it stated that consistent stimulation was essential for a woman to reach climax. But what about her? Merely imagining those experiences put her in such a state.

‘That can’t be right.’

While denying the condition of her own body, Kaiquilia approached Delta, who emitted a rich peach fragrance with each step, her breath gradually overflowing with lust.

Before long, she arrived at her desired destination. Right in front of her was Delta’s body. She gazed down at the man beneath her, her vision spinning slightly.

As if possessed by something, she straddled his thigh, locking her gaze firmly on his face. And then, to his lips—

“What do you think you’re doing on top of me?”

All at once, Kaiquilia froze, as if struck by lightning, at the sight of those black eyes staring back at her.