The Demon Lord's Bride (BL)
Chapter 81: What are you doing walking with such things out in the open?

Chapter 81: What are you doing walking with such things out in the open?

Mmh? Mmh?!

My hand paused as I looked down in surprise. The ever cool and suave Demon Lord had his cheeks and ears blossomed in flush. I pressed my lips and moved my fingers again, rubbing the length of his horns with my thumb, and Natha gripped the bedsheet with a quiet gasp.

...oh?

My fingers getting more eager now, moving in a strange feeling of excitement. My eyes, which focused on the horns earlier, were now staring at Natha’s face. The silver eyes were hidden beneath closed lids, and his parted lips were letting out a restrained sound of moan.

It’s almost like...

Yeah...it reminded me of my first night here, when I touched him.

With the memory of that night in my mind, I gripped the hard protrusions and yanked his head to make him face me, so I could see his flushed expression. The silver eyes flew open in surprise, and fluttered when I tightened my grip there.

"Haa—sweetheart..."

His voice sounded sultry and mellow, even with a slight growl behind it. With narrowed eyes, furrowed brows, and parted lips, Natha looked hot and erotic and...

Was the horn and tail of demons actually an erogenous zone?

Oh my God—that was so perverted.

If it was the me who just came to this world a few months ago, I would immediately let go and stepped back in a fluster. But this me that had been touched and had touched him back, who was already introduced to the fulfillment of carnal desire, only moved my hand more eagerly. Natha bit his lips in response and gripped my waist this time, looking warmer and warmer with each stroke that I made on his horns.

I wondered...did I look like this in his eyes that first time? Looking at his expression—the excitement and pleasure—made me feel excited too. I wanted to see him make this face again and again, and it translated into my hands, which moved even faster.

But Natha groaned and held my arms suddenly, prompting me to stop. I couldn’t see his slumped, bowed face—but I could hear his panting breath.

After a while, when his shoulder no longer shaking, he looked up with a wry smile and whispered breathlessly. "Some mercy...sweetheart," he pulled my hands down and laid his head on my lap.

I took a deep breath then, realizing that I almost got erect myself. I would be, if he didn’t stop me. I got too excited for a while there, looking at the rare display of flustered and flushed Natha.

"Did that satisfy you?" he asked after collecting his bearing again, lifting his head from my thigh. "Was that enough for your forgiveness?"

Oh—I actually forgot that I did this because I was pissed at him. Well, guessed that meant I forgive him after all.

"Yeah," I replied with a sheepish smile, brushing his slightly messy hair and tucking it behind his ears—just like how he usually did for me.

He let out a breath of relief then, but this whole situation got me itched for a question. "Umm...is...is that like your..."

"Yeah," he answered before I could finish my question. Well, it was obvious but...hearing it being confirmed like that actually made me blush.

"Like...down there?"

"...kind of?"

I slapped his shoulder in reflex. "Pervert!" he raised his brow at my reaction, so I added. "How could you leave something like that uncovered?"

Were you telling me you could get aroused when someone accidentally touched your horns? I mean...it was out in the open!

Wait...so this was why he told me that I shouldn’t touch other demons’ horns and tails?

Something seemed to click in his mind then, and he started to explain to me. "Ah, well...it was actually more like this place—" he suddenly flicked my chest, right on my nipple, and I flinched in shock. "—but slightly more sensitive."

"But...still—!"

"There are a lot of people walking around with their chests in the open, aren’t there?" he told me. "Also, there’s something you’ve misunderstood here."

I tilted my head then, waiting for another explanation.

"It’s not like I feel like this with everyone," he said rather defensively. "I only feel it because it’s you. With everyone else, I’d get pissed."

It sounded like bullshit, and my eyes narrowed in doubt. He sighed and chuckled slightly. "Alright, let me ask you then," he smiled before continuing. "If a stranger touched your chest, what would your reaction be?"

Hmm...I wasn’t a woman, but I think sex didn’t matter in this case. "Of course, I’d be annoyed!"

"Right?" his smile got wider. "Then...what if I’m the one who touched it?"

Like an instantaneous reaction, I blushed at the mere thought of it—especially because he was flicking mine just a moment ago. When I saw him grinning at my reaction, I slapped his arm again.

But I got it now. It also indirectly told me that I was that person—the one who would get him aroused with my simple touch. So much that he always flinched when I accidentally brushed against his horns before. Even with just my breath grazing it.

It was enough to make me forget about his careless words earlier.

"Why didn’t you tell me about that before?" I asked as he stood up to join me in the bed again.

"Hmm..." he gave me a smirk before replying in a whisper. "I felt like you’d play with them unconsciously if I told you," he chuckled as I frowned at his words. "Your hands are mischievous like that, especially when you’re asleep."

W-what is this sudden information?!

While I was blinking repeatedly, he slipped inside the blanket and added. "Do you know you always stroked my chest in your sleep?"

"I didn’t?!" I shifted my body away in response, but Natha pulled me close by my waist, laughing while doing so.

"Yes, you did. You’d fiddle with my nightrobe and rub my stomach,"

Which meant I was feeling his abs?

"And then you nuzzled on my chest, before sleeping on my shoulder,"

Oh, my Gods!

"Why did you think you always woke up in my arms?"

That was true but...that was true, right?! I buried my face in my palms and groaned, while Natha laughed and pulled me into his cool embrace, as if trying to reduce the heat on my flushed cheek. He peppered my flustered face with light kisses as I grumbled away my embarrassment.

"I don’t mind it, but you got me too excited sometimes, and it became hard for me to hold myself back," he patted my side as if calming a child, and I sighed against his collarbone.

Wow, Val, what kind of naughty shit were you dreaming of that you groped someone else in your sleep?

"I’m sorry..."

He laughed again while replying softly. "Like I said, I’m fine with it," and then his voice turned a bit sharper. "Although I hoped you only do that because it’s me."

"Of course I do!" I pursed my lips at that. "Do you think I’d just sleep with anyone?"

He smiled and ruffled my hair then, praising me as a good boy, and got me flustered again. So I shifted the topic back to the egg...seed...whatever it was.

"Who else knows about that...seed?" I asked while he fixed my hair again.

"Know...hmm..." Natha seemed to ponder for a while before answering. "Malta...and Opti should at least know about its existence, since they were the ones who came inside that room the most."

Well, that made sense, since the seed itself was as big as an ostrich egg, and the incubator-like tube where it was being kept looked eye-catching.

"But they probably only perceived it as a vague memory; like looking at a regular vase in the corner of the room," Natha said while combing my hair. "I remembered they asked about it a few times, and then the next time they saw it, they asked about it again, as if it was their first time looking at it."

Hoo...so it truly messed with people’s memory? I kind of wanted to ask both of them about it, just to test the effect.

"Maybe after a few times, they subconsciously ignored its existence and only perceived it as something that exists, without comprehending its importance."

Suddenly, something occurred to me. "Then...even if a thief comes inside, they would just ignore it?"

"Yes," Natha replied with a smirk, and I wondered if something like that had happened before.

"How conveniently safe," I commended with an appreciative nod. At least, aside from the censorship side effect, it didn’t give Natha any headache about the security matter.

"Yeah, that’s why I was surprised that you remembered about it even hours after seeing it," Natha said softly. "Not to mention...you were only unable to hear its name, but retained its existence in your mind clearly."

My eyes fluttered at the softness in his tone, and the glimmer of joy in his eyes. I realized that I might be gotten too emotional before, when perhaps...he was trying to say that I was the closest one to be that ’destiny’.

Probably.

Pressing my lips in embarrassment and happiness—and a bit of an uncomfortable feeling that I shoved down to the corner of my heart—I snuggled deeper into his embrace, burying my face in the crook of his neck.

"I’m glad that you know about it," he held me tighter then. "I’m glad it’s you," with that soft whisper, he kissed my forehead and caressed my hair, until I fell asleep while thinking if my mischievous hands would really targetting his horns this time.

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