The Demon Lord Is An Angel
Chapter 340: *Star Aligns*

Chapter 340: *Star Aligns*

Star held on to Ferro’s book as they slipped into the woods, holding it behind his back as his tail swished back and forth.

Ferro wasn’t as sensitive to mana as the demon, but even he felt that there was a pressure to the place that was getting more intense as they approached the Djet.

They stopped at a glowing pond, which had blue depths but a milky-white coloration to its shore and the waters closest to them.

"Hmm, this looks like a good spot," the demon stretched, letting go of Ferro’s book in a way that sent it flying at him. The catkin caught it, thankfully losing no pages because the worn-out text was wrapped in string around the remains of its cover. "Honestly, I don’t know what you see in that garbage, you’re well beyond the basics within your limits..."

"Thinking you’re beyond the basics is just willful ignorance," Ferro quoted. It was one of the mystery writer’s many quips that helped him keep going when the math got very tough.

"Ugh, don’t say it like that. Now you sound like Maledict."

"Do I finally get to learn who Maledict is?" Ferro asked. Over the last... uncounted years... the name had come up whenever Star was stressed, which was more and more often as they got deeper into the Duat.

"Just an old enemy... one I may waste a wish on destroying, if the legends about that tower are true." Star turned with a smirk. "What would you waste your wish on?"

"You’ve asked me that a hundred times. I want to save my sister."

"And a hundred times you prove remarkably consistent... if boring. But here’s a question I haven’t asked: What if she doesn’t want to be saved?"

Ferro bit back a protest that was half-formed in his mouth. What if she didn’t...

No... the sister he grew up with would never fully embrace the cruelty needed to succeed amongst slavers.

"Cat got your tongue?" Star asked when Ferro remained silent.

In response, Ferro steeled himself and approached, grabbing Star by the wrist.

"Let’s just get this over with," he snapped, seizing the demon’s other wrist and pushing him towards the sandy ground.

As he allowed Ferro to land him on his back, Star teased, "Oooh, feisty tonight. Well, it might be one of our last, so why not?" As soon as Ferro let go of his wrists, he started crawling his fingers through Ferro’s fur, pausing to tease the golden rings in the catkin’s nipples.

"You don’t have to toy with me," Ferro shivered as his skin was raked through his fur, Star bringing his hands down and around his hips before the demon’s fingers paused beneath Ferro’s tail.

A bit of magic, and he was ready as the incubus’ throbbing erection pressed against his hole. The sensation triggered a heat in Ferro that had grown more intense with each session he’d had with Star.

"Beg," Star ordered.

"Please..."

"Please what, kitten?"

"Please fill me with your mana... use your cock to fill me..."

"Mmm... no. I think I’ll have a bit of foreplay first..."

Ferro almost mewled with need as Star rolled, biting him hard on the neck and sending a fresh surge of precum leaking out of Ferro’s barbed rod.

At the same time, Star wrapped his tail around Ferro’s legs, one after the other, jerking them sideways so that he straddled the demon lower.

"Oohoo, that tickles... Mmm..."

Ferro’s tail was now curling around the cock between his cheeks.

Taking advantage of the new positioning, Star nibbled his way down Ferro’s body, wrapping his forked tongue around the left piercing and through it, tugging and teasing as Ferro tried to suppress his moans.

"There you are," Star chuckled, "I must say, I’ve grown a bit fond of you these last few... well, whatever counts for years around here."

In response, Ferro planted his palms on Star’s nipples, massaging the piercings there as he purred his encouragement.

"You could have this every day, Ferry..." Star seized one of Ferro’s cheeks and shifted, pressing the head of his cock against Ferro’s ring once more. He never had any trouble finding Ferro’s boypussy, even in the dark. "If you’ll be my kitten..."

"Just... just tonight..." Ferro moaned. "I need it..."

"Hmm, you always say that, but you’ve never taken what you need. That’s why I’m on top, even when underneath you-"

The heat in Ferro was unbearable, without waiting for Star to finish, Ferro sat heavily on the cock teasing his rear, his folds parting with familiar ease as his body shuddered into place.

His untouched cock blew its load all over Star’s smooth, violet-shaded body, the white glowing in the blue light of the forest around them.

A moment later, fire filled his body as Star orgasmed, spilling a jet of cum so rich in mana that it forced Ferro to expel his own mana for the sake of his safety.

The process felt like getting charred from the inside out, while boiled from the outside in as the foreign mana of the dungeon fought with Star’s to fill the space in his soul.

And the deeper they’d gone in the dungeon, the worse it felt, but at the same time, Ferro’s body was so used to transmuting pain into pleasure... he wondered if he would miss the feeling of utter annihilation-

Just like that, it was over.

Ferro came to, finding Star sitting on the shore of the pond, prodding at the white film that ringed its shore with a branch.

Something felt... different.

"It’s done," Star said without turning. "I think your gate is as wide as it will go..."

"What did... what did you do?" Ferro asked, wondering why everything looked so... different. There was a density to the air that hadn’t been there before. Like... he was seeing wind? But that was impossible without something like mist as a medium... but also the sky was clear?

He suddenly noticed a pain just above his crotch. Looking down, he saw blood-

"Don’t fret about the scars, consider that my final gift to you," Star continued. "A little thing I developed to increase the sensitivity of my lovers... But it also has the side-effect of anchoring your mind and body."

"I don’t... know what that means," Ferro sat up, spotting a pair of blobs in the shore, like melted glass, one armspan apart.

"You didn’t hurt me, you know," Star said, looking at where Ferro was gazing. "Put all that magic out right next to me, just like the time before that, and the time before that... Not that you could hurt me, even if you tried."

Pure, unformed mana tends to come out as light and heat. Ferro remembered the note from his book.

Trying to stand, he wobbled more than a little as his tails automatically fixed his balance-

Tails!?

The moment Ferro became conscious of them, he felt his heart leap. Had any rust cat ever achieved two tails? There were no stories... No tales.

"Congratulations, you’ve got an extra appendage. How about a ’thank you’ for the free mind-body-soul alignment and reification? Or was the next step after becoming a mundane mage not in that book you love so much?"

It wasn’t, actually. "Thank you, Star-"

"I don’t need your thanks. I need you to hold up your end of the bargain." Star stood, suddenly all business.

For a moment, the demon looked tired, his body scarred...

Ferro blinked, wondering if he’d really just seen... something underneath Star’s image...

"Of course," Ferro said, a bit embarrassed to be feeling the heat of the demonic seed still inside him. "When do you want me to..."

"The night Lanoch gets back. Fuck him, drug him, kill him- whatever you do, get me that key. And then we’re done. And if not, I’ll kill you."

"What about the tower?"

"What about it?"

"You said we would visit it together. That you needed me to use the key."

"I found another toy, so you can scurry out the long way if you want, or try to follow if you have the balls."

"We had a deal. We swore an Oath!"

"Power and safety in exchange for the key. But I never said I would take you to the tower in my Oath."

Ferro was incredulous. He stared for a long moment before finally finding the words to ask, "Why? Why now?"

"Because as interesting as you are, I know you will never be mine. I looked into your soul, catkin. It doesn’t matter how much I’ve broken you in. Or how much I can temporarily corrupt you... You somehow always return to what you are. And that..." Star’s fists tightened. "I can’t stand that."

"And what am I?" Ferro asked, as Star started to walk away. "What am I?! Star! Santina!"

At the sound of their true name, the demon turned.

"You’re unbreakable, Ferro, and I don’t like unbroken pets." Santina took in a long breath. "Get me that key, or I will kill you," he repeated one last time, before marching off towards the camp.