Chapter 10: Beyond Endurance

In the end, I couldn’t tell Lucia that I was a professor.

Understandably so.

“Really? I came here to study theology too. Iris, you’re also planning to just skate by on the exam day, huh?”

“Huh? Uh, uh…”

I didn’t want to say it.

‘She’s my first friend.’

Lucia was kind.

She was clearly a little strange, but there were so many people stranger than her around me.

More than anything.

She was the first person I could talk to without reservation.

Someone who spoke their mind freely.

I didn’t want to part ways with such a person.

‘If I lose even this…’

Would my mind be able to endure in this harsh academy?

Probably not.

Even if I get caught someday.

I didn’t want to lose this happiness now.

“More than that, you know. You read incredibly fast.”

“Huh?”

“It hasn’t even been 20 minutes since we sat down and talked. But you’ve already read three of those thick books.”

“Ah…”

She was right.

I was acquiring knowledge surprisingly fast, even to myself.

“Is that angel power?”

“Hmm… I guess so.”

“What do you mean, ‘I guess so’? Hehe.”

Lucia laughed softly.

After laughing for a moment like that, she soon turned her gaze back to her book.

She seemed to be seriously concentrating on studying.

‘I want to talk more, though.’

How long had it been since I had a conversation between people?

A comfortable conversation where I didn’t have to worry about pleasing others.

I glanced.

My face filled with disappointment as I looked at Lucia.

But her blue eyes no longer showed interest in me.

My heart ached…

Ha.

“…”

What was I doing?

To be upset because my friend wasn’t paying attention to me.

I wasn’t a child.

‘I should study too.’

No matter how fast I learned.

One week was far too short a time to become capable of teaching others.

[Rustle rustle.]

I quickly turned the pages.

The Imperial language, which I could read naturally since transmigrating into this body, came into view.

How I understood those worm-like characters, even I found it amazing.

However.

[Rustle.]

The speed at which I turned the pages gradually slowed.

‘I can’t concentrate.’

My gaze kept drifting to the side.

I hoped she might talk to me.

I glanced.

I didn’t know how many times this was, looking at Lucia out of the corner of my eye.

[Glancing repeatedly.]

Even without intending to, my eyes kept going to her.

[Wiggling fingers.]

I moved my fingers.

I wondered if I should talk to her, but I didn’t know how to start a conversation.

I wondered if my social skills were this lacking.

But.

‘Try living as a s*ave for three years.’

For someone who had lived only by reading the mood, starting a conversation with someone else was not easy.

More than that, I was a man.

I glanced.

I looked at Lucia once again.

Her blue hair, touched by light, sparkled like the sea.

Long eyelashes.

Her blue eyes, embedded like jewels beneath them.

Her straight nose rose like a mountain, and her plump lips were positioned below it.

[Slowly.]

Her head was slightly bowed, as if she was concentrating.

Some strands of hair tucked behind her ear flowed down.

‘She’s really pretty.’

Lucia was a beautiful woman.

Furthermore, compared to others, she was kind-hearted.

Beautiful people are also kind-hearted.

This theory was shattered into pieces in my heart by the Emperor.

However.

Lucia, like an adhesive, put it back together.

I glanced.

I looked at her once more.

It was at that moment.

“Do you have something you’re curious about regarding me?”

“……!”

Lucia’s blue eyes and mine met.

“Gasp!”

[Thud!!]

At that, my small heart sank abruptly.

I was so startled that my body leaped up.

Thanks to that, my chair tilted precariously.

And my body rapidly headed towards the floor.

It was at that moment.

“Gasp..! That’s dangerous, Iris.”

Lucia caught me, who was falling to the floor, in a princess carry.

“Hehe… Did I startle you unnecessarily? But I kept feeling your gaze.”

She smiled faintly.

‘Did she know everything?’

Everything I was looking at?

My face began to turn bright red.

There was embarrassment at being caught looking, but.

The biggest reason was still.

“Why? Is there something on my face?”

Lucia’s face, visible right in front of me, played the biggest role.

“Ah, no, it’s not that. But… can you let go of this…?”

“What’s the big deal? We’re both women, you know.”

Lucia said that and smiled faintly.

Yes.

To others, it would look like two girls playing around.

However.

‘I’m a man.’

When such a beautiful woman.

Holding me in a princess carry.

Speaking to me kindly at close range, my body reacts.

Of course, my face shows it.

“Let go, let go…”

My face was burning red.

I didn’t feel this sensation even when Ariella hugged me.

When she hugged me, it felt like my body was forcibly heating up from her voluptuous chest, but this…

How should I put it? My heart was pounding and also felt ticklish.

Despite what was going on inside me, Lucia smiled playfully and said.

“No. I’ll let you go when you tell me the name of the guy who cheated on you.”

“So… I can’t tell you that.”

It’s true.

First of all, I’ve never dated a man.

And even if I were to tell her, the one I wanted to kill was the Emperor.

If I said her name…

‘I won’t see good results.’

So, it’s not possible.

I kept shaking my head in Lucia’s embrace.

“Hmph. Alright. I’ll let you go now.”

With that strong refusal.

Lucia let me down on the floor as if she couldn’t help it.

“Hoo…”

Having barely escaped her embrace, I exhaled breath filled with warmth.

And then.

[Flap flap.]

I continuously fanned my face with my hands to cool down my flushed cheeks.

Lucia watched me and chuckled faintly.

“What are you so embarrassed about?”

“…I wasn’t embarrassed.”

“Really? But your face is really red.”

My body flinched at Lucia’s words.

She hit the nail on the head.

‘Surely… she won’t dislike me because my cheeks are red, right?’

That thought occurred to me.

At that, I quickly started making excuses.

“Th-This is…”

“It’s okay. You don’t have to make excuses. It’s a natural phenomenon.”

Because I’m a succubus.

“Huh… what?”

I didn’t hear her following words.

The sound was too faint.

If I had been paying attention, I would have heard it.

I missed it because I was thinking of an excuse.

“Uh-huh. It’s nothing! More importantly, I think I should go now.”

“What? Really?!”

I, who had been fanning myself, was startled and shouted.

“Hey! You two have been talking for a while! Be quiet!!”

Just then.

A man with a rough appearance frowned and spoke to us.

“So, sorry…”

“Anyway, these brats are so chatty and noisy.”

“…”

My lips pressed together tightly.

It was true that I was wrong for talking in the library…

‘Forget it.’

I can’t get angry at the person who is in the wrong.

Saddened, I turned my gaze back to Lucia.

“You don’t have to make that face. We can meet tomorrow, can’t we? I come to the library every morning.”

[Press.]

Lucia gently pulled my cheek.

“Cutie. I’ll be going now. Study hard!”

And then she skipped away.

“Uh, uh… Goodbye.”

I waved to Lucia like that.

Then Lucia smiled brightly and waved back.

Until Lucia left the library.

I stared blankly at her back.

“…”

‘It feels like a storm has passed.’

After she left, the library became quiet again.

I pulled the chair that had been pushed back and thought.

‘Friend.’

How much warmer my heart felt just by having that existence.

I realized it just now through Lucia.

As soon as she left.

My surroundings turned cold again.

‘I want to meet her again.’

She said we would meet again tomorrow.

‘Even for tomorrow.’

Pulling the chair and sitting down, I placed my hand on the bookshelf again.

‘Let’s work hard, even for tomorrow.’

I began to concentrate on the book again.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

Seeing Iris for the first time was truly a coincidence.

A sweet smell.

Dense Yin energy.

She had never seen anyone scattering such an intense scent.

“Hehe…”

Lucia licked her lips at the smell.

She was a hybrid born from a human and a succubus.

Her father was the human Duke Gracie, and her mother was a succubus.

This was a secret that even the Emperor didn’t know.

“Where could it be…”

Thanks to having human blood mixed in, Lucia, who had no tail, followed the scent and roamed the library.

And.

‘Found her!!’

She saw her.

The child wearing cute and pretty clothes.

‘Oh my god…’

To think such a cute child actually existed.

Lucia wanted to run up to her and bite her cheek tightly right now.

But what do you know?

The child was crying.

‘This can’t be!’

Lucia was agitated.

That cute child’s tears.

‘I want to lick them up!’

They would surely taste sweet.

No?

Perhaps they would taste even better than sweet.

This smell.

This scent.

This is the real deal.

[Gulp.]

Lucia swallowed dry saliva.

And then she approached.

It seemed like her boyfriend had dumped her.

‘Let’s comfort her.’

Lucia thought so and immediately put it into action.

“Phew…!”

Lucia let out a sigh of relief.

It was fortunate.

The child calmed down easily.

And when she saw the child’s eyes, now calm.

Lucia could tell intuitively.

‘She’s already taken a liking to me?’

She was truly a cute child.

To take a liking to her just for helping.

She was a friend worth sucking dry.

‘I don’t even need to spray pheromones…? But I should, right?’

Lucia subtly raised the temperature of her body.

At the same time, sweat began to bead up on her forehead.

A succubus’s sweat could make someone horny just by its smell.

It would make them take a liking to her.

The child’s face began to turn red.

‘Success!’

From then on, it was quick.

She found out her name.

And gained complete favor.

She even said she was an angel.

‘Heavenly Race Yin energy is this delicious!’

Lucia was happy.

How long had it been since she had sucked enough Yin energy to feel completely full?

It was satisfying.

She wanted to hold her and suck Yin energy all day in her heart.

However.

‘It’s time to leave!’

She couldn’t wipe away the sweat that had already formed.

If she gave off any more scent, the men nearby would definitely take a liking to her as well.

‘I f*cking hate men!’

She shuddered at the thought of men.

That’s why Lucia left the spot in a hurry.

‘I’ll eat deliciously tomorrow too.’

Looking forward to tomorrow, just like Iris.

“Haa…”

The cold night air welcomed me.

I studied without resting until night fell.

I only headed home when the moon was high in the night sky.

“I’m tired…”

I had been bowing my head for so long.

When I straightened my back, it cracked.

“Ugh…”

A groan escaped involuntarily.

I wanted to go home and sleep right now.

But.

“I still have something to do.”

I hadn’t healed my wings today yet.

‘Thinking of doing that work makes me tremble already.’

That sensation.

Truly a feeling of pleasure that was almost unbearable.

It was something I couldn’t forget even if I wanted to.

[Thump thump.]

My heart pounded.

At the same time, far away.

My house was visible.

My house was an old cabin.

It looked old and like an abandoned house, but.

There was nowhere else as comfortable for me as there.

[Trudge trudge.]

I moved my weary steps and entered the house.

Swift and decisive.

I pulled a chamber pot onto the floor.

“It’ll be trouble if it gets wet again.”

Based on my previous experience of the blanket getting wet, I planned to do the work over the chamber pot.

[Slowly.]

I took off my underwear and carefully stood over the chamber pot.

Then I tightly gripped the magic stone in my hand.

[Crackle!!!]

The magic stone shattered.

At the same time, black magic power quickly began to be sucked into my body.

“Ugh…!”

A stinging pain.

To not feel that pain, I had to pour out divine power.

[Flash—!]

Light burst forth.

Bright yellow divine power filled the room.

And was instantly sucked into my wings.

Along with that.

[Thump……!]

My heart pounded.

“Gasp…!”

As if electrocuted in my lower abdomen.

A stinging pleasure shot up my spine and ingrained itself in my mind.

This is just the beginning.

I must brace myself.

I can endure it.

[Thump……!]

My heart pounded once again.

Along with that, my eyes began to tremble uncontrollably.

This…

“I, I can’t enduuure it… Gasp… Haaahng!!”

This kind of pleasure.

There was no way I could endure it.

My body quickly gave out.

At the same time.

[Clatter.]

The door of the house opened.