Brightest Darkness – 3

“I, I don’t know…”

Her odd eyes, which had been sparkling gold and silver, gradually lost their vitality and began to become hazy. I pulled her wrist. Eclipse let out a small squeak.

I slightly brought my thighs together and sat Eclipse on them. Eclipse, with her legs spread wide, wrapped her thighs around my body and pulled my waist tightly. The distance, which had been about one person wide, instantly closed.

We were facing each other.

Eclipse looked down at me, and I looked up at Eclipse. Since Eclipse was also quite tall, my gaze naturally went to her chest.

A piece of cloth, which seemed like it would reveal the nipples inside with even a faint breeze, was placed right before my nose. Beyond the cloth, which was the same color as her eyes, a faint pink edge was visible.

However, it never revealed what was inside. Even now, the night breeze was gently blowing in through the window, but the piece of cloth faithfully performed its duty, diligently protecting its owner’s private parts.

I gently poked the area near Eclipse’s tailbone. As if understanding my intention, her pelvis came even closer. The space between my crotch and Eclipse’s legs became so close that they seemed to touch.

“You…”

Listening to her voice, filled with deep pathos, I released her wrist. As soon as her wrist was free, Eclipse wrapped her arms around my neck.

Her chest was pressed much closer than before. To the extent that if I extended my tongue, I could lick her cleavage right then and there.

The scent of skin mixed with a milky fragrance wafted over me. The trembling transmitted from the arms wrapped around my neck clearly showed what its owner was expecting.

I placed my left hand on Eclipse’s buttocks. Eclipse only flinched but offered no resistance whatsoever. Rather, she pressed herself even closer, as if to allow me to touch her more comfortably.

In that state, I began to knead her buttocks. The soft and smooth texture, like chapssaltteok, fit perfectly in my palm. Elastic buttock flesh pressed in between my fingers.

“Ugh…”

As I squeezed my hand hard, as if determined to leave a mark on her skin, Eclipse let out a faint moan. It was a moan containing clear pleasure, not pain.

With my left hand, I freely kneaded her buttocks, which, due to her attire, had not a single thread covering them, while my right hand slowly moved up along the indented line of her spine.

“E-e-eek?!”

Eclipse’s body trembled. Because of that, my nose was buried deep between her underbust and then came out. Even though it was only for a very brief moment, a very strong milky smell lingered around my nose.

My fingers, which had gone up to where the indented line disappeared, caressed her shoulder blade and then turned sideways.

The destination was her armpit. The armpit she had emphasized and shown me as if to welcome me. It was slightly open to embrace my neck, making it easy to touch.

I gently scratched her armpit with my fingers-it was impeccably smooth, soft, and exuded a sweet milky scent. As I did this, a silly question came to mind: ‘Is even a goddess weak in the armpit?’

“Heuk?!”

She was.

“Haa-eung…”

Ignoring Eclipse’s moans in my ear, I lowered my arm. My fingertips touched the area near her ribs.

Thanks to a moderate amount of flesh, nothing was visible on the surface, but when I stroked it, I could feel the bumpy texture of her ribs. Even these minute details were perfect.

“Hik?!”

As soon as my fingers supported her underbust, a violent reaction returned. Eclipse, startled, twisted her body this way and that, but I ignored her. I alternately flicked up both breasts with the back of my hand.

Her breasts continuously swayed up and down, boasting a weight comparable to her head, but the cloth covering her nipples absolutely refused to show what was inside. At this point, it was astonishing.

“Hmph, heuk…”

With my hand still kneading her buttocks as if squeezing them, and now her chest being touched, it seemed she found the stimulation hard to bear, and she bit her lip slightly. Even that sight was insanely beautiful.

Listening to her increasingly intense moans, my hand moved past her ribs and down to her waist. My fingers, tickling her side, reached her pelvis, which was nicely wide and drew elegant curves.

With my right hand, I stroked the line extending from her ilium to her buttocks. Eclipse twisted her waist this way and that, but it was definitely not an attempt to escape.

I moved my hand forward and kneaded her stomach. As with all other body parts, muscle and flesh were perfectly balanced and blended. It was neither too much nor too little.

“Hmph…?!”

After kneading her stomach as much as I wanted, I finally extended my hand to her lower abdomen. At the touch of my hand caressing the front of her uterus, Eclipse’s body stiffened.

I gently tapped her lower abdomen, which was slightly raised due to her uterus inside, with my fingers, then moved to near her navel and tickled around it. Eclipse, with a flushed face, recoiled.

How much time had passed, stimulating her lower abdomen and kneading her buttocks so persistently? The trembling suddenly intensified. It was a sight I had seen hundreds of times before.

I stopped my hand right before Eclipse reached climax. It might not be something to be proud of, but I was now able to easily predict when a woman would ‘go off’.

“Hmph… Ugh… Ah?”

As the stimulation disappeared without releasing her highly aroused body, Eclipse, who had bewildered eyes for a moment, seemed to understand the situation and looked at me with eyes full of earnestness.

Her eyes were asking why I wasn’t moving on. Seeing that, I could definitely tell who the popes resembled. If I tell Floretta and Luna this, they’ll like it.

“Y-you… why…?”

“I told you from the beginning it was a punishment, didn’t I? But if it feels good, then it can’t be called a punishment, can it?”

I only raised my index finger and poked Eclipse’s lower abdomen. Her body, which had become as sensitive as possible after stopping right before climax, seemed to accept even that as a form of pleasure. Her body trembled lightly.

“T-there are other punishments besides that, aren’t there…? Tormenting endlessly… never stopping even if I begged you to stop… a punishment that makes my mind burn white and unable to think… I’ve never experienced it, but it must be a truly, truly painful punishment… You won’t punish me even like that…?”

Eclipse rubbed her thighs together, breathed heavily, and clung to me, pleading with earnest eyes. Her palms, with no strength at all, patted my chest.

“I, I am a hopeless and incompetent goddess… So, I should receive punishment from you… Ow.”

With a ‘thwack’ sound, Eclipse’s head was pushed back slightly. Eclipse, clutching the spot that was hit, made a tearful face.

It was likely more because she understood that the flick was essentially a rejection, rather than because the spot where I flicked her forehead hurt.

“You brought me here… I should be punished…”

Even she must know that bringing me here wasn’t her fault, but seeing her fabricating faults that don’t exist and saying such things, the title of ‘God of the Holy Nation’ was certainly not wasted on her.

Nevertheless, seeing that I had no intention of going further, a dejected Eclipse pouted her lips.

“…You’re too much, you.”

“Anyone would think I’d done something terrible.”

“…You did do something terrible, didn’t you?”

“Isn’t it the opposite? I stopped before doing something terrible.”

“Hee-hee-eung…”

I supported the dejected Eclipse’s armpits and lifted her. Eclipse was lifted up floppily like a cat held by its front legs from behind.

When I set her down on the floor, she lay on her side like a mermaid princess and looked up at me with a very pitiful expression. Truly, anyone would think I’d done something terrible.

I approached Eclipse and knelt on one knee. I slightly bowed my waist to match her eye level.

“Yeosin-nim.”

“…Yes. You.”

“The reason I refused a relationship with Yeosin-nim right now is because there’s an important reason.”

“…An important reason?”

Question filled the space where pity had been. I bowed my head further. *Tap*, our foreheads touched. Her odd eyes, shining gold and silver, and her highly flushed cheeks were right before my eyes.

“Yeosin-nim is Yeosin-nim, after all. The goddess who rules the world. The final reward must be received after defeating the final boss. But we still have the final boss alive and well, don’t we?”

“…”

“So, I will receive the reward called ‘Eclipse’ after catching that lizard brat.”

“The reward, called Eclipse…”

The goddess’s eyes gradually became hazy again.

“Yeosin-nim only needs to prepare the reward for me and wait. Because I will certainly return.”

Of course, this was the superficial reason, but there was a real reason.

Don’t I still have unresolved relationships with women? If Eclipse got involved in this situation, no matter what I said, those girls would obviously be incredibly considerate on their own.

Shouldn’t I love the women I promised to take responsibility for equally? To do that, I need to push Eclipse’s turn back as much as possible. So she wouldn’t be intimidated by her status as a goddess.

I will make it so.

“Or, I could give Yeosin-nim a reward for waiting well. As Yeosin-nim said, a reward that makes your mind burn white and unable to think of anything.”

I gently tickled Eclipse’s lower jaw, just as I did with Nyx. Her expression instantly relaxed and became silly. Perhaps the reason Nyx’s personality became like that was because she resembled Eclipse.

Originally, the Soul Guardian of Brightest Darkness 3 that I knew had a rather cold personality. To the point where you could say it was a combination of Rije’s appearance and Luna’s personality at their first meeting.

I wondered what was going on when such a character crossed worlds and turned into a big cat, but I thought Eclipse’s influence was quite significant, besides her personality being split into two.

I will make it so.

“Yes, yes…”

Eclipse, her face flushed, carefully hugged her lower abdomen. No, why that gesture when nothing has even happened yet? Suppressing my bewilderment, I took my hand off her chin and stood up.

Eclipse also stood up after me, but her face was still flushed, and her hand in front of her lower abdomen showed no sign of moving.

“Then I’ll be going down now, Yeosin-nim.”

My questions were answered, and everything I had to say was finished, so there was no reason to stay here any longer. Eclipse leaned her body against me with a faint smile, as if to see me off.

“The current me is merely a fragile woman, a heavenly being, not even worthy of being called a god. But you are not.”

Her leaned face moved away. Eclipse looked up at me.

“Since you saved my world… my faith and belief will always be directed towards you.”

Her finger gently touched my chest.

“Even when you succeeded in accepting the mission of immortality, even when you killed all the twisted beings, even when you awakened for the second time, even when you awakened for the third time and sacrificed yourself, even when you came back here again, even when you cut away at least half of its essence. You always repaid my faith.”

The hand that had touched me moved away, and a bright smile appeared on Eclipse’s face.

“Therefore, you isiyeo.”

-May the sun and moon always be with the possibilities you choose.

I stepped onto the ground within a pillar of light. I had only thought about wanting to go down to the surface, and suddenly light enveloped me and sent me down.

The problem was that my eyes weren’t dazzled, but I couldn’t see anything in front of me either. So, even though my feet were on the ground, I was quietly waiting for the light to recede, just in case.

How much time had passed? The golden and silver light that had been poking everywhere began to disappear. I slowly started to see in front of me. I looked down through the gap. At least it wasn’t the middle of a cliff.

I walked out through the open gap.

‘…Huh.’

I met thousands of pairs of eyes looking this way.

In a corner of my vision, the Grand Cathedral of the Sun and the Grand Cathedral of the Moon appeared.