The Grand Duke, Catsy (3)

There was no concept of time.
There was only pleasure.
But Yona, so immersed and soaked in that pleasure, was unaware of her current state.

That’s why she didn’t come to her senses even when a girl approached her bedside, squatted down, and poked her head.
Lying there, naked and covered in a viscous white liquid, Yona could only gasp for breath.
【Wake up, Saintess.】
Berbaria, in the form of Rubina, squatted by Yona’s bedside and poked her head.
She wanted to reach out and shake her awake, but honestly, she didn’t want to.
Even for Berbaria, that thick white liquid was something she didn’t want to touch.
“Ugh, uhh… st, stop… stop… please…”
Unable to open her eyes—or rather, because of the liquid clinging to her eyelids—Yona shook her head.
And looking down at her, Berbaria frowned slightly.
【After three days and nights of mating, it still wasn’t enough, that guy named Alec. He truly isn’t human. The Saintess’s body won’t be able to take it.】
“Stop it… I, I was wrong…”
Yona’s voice was pitifully weak.
Berbaria wondered what to do, but eventually reached out and slapped Yona’s cheek.
One slap didn’t seem to be enough.
Thinking so, Berbaria slapped her three times in a row with force.
There was no emotion.
“Ugh, oww…!”
It seemed to have worked because she hit her quite hard, Yona wiped away the liquid
Yona sat up, looked around, and finally made eye contact with Berbaria. After a moment of eye contact, Yona quickly covered her bare chest.
“Ru, Rubina…?! You, how did you get here…?!”
【Get a hold of yourself, Saintess. Are you still trapped in a dream?】
Berbaria said to Yona with a deeply furrowed brow.
Even though she knew that the stickiness she felt on her palm was not real, she still couldn’t get used to it.
“Dr, dream…? Ah, right. It’s a dream… it’s a dream. R, right.”
Yona said so and looked down at her body.
It was definitely an inn room, and she had spent a wild night with Alec—
But Alec, who should have been in the same bed, was nowhere to be seen, and the inn room was slowly changing its scenery.
【Are you coming to your senses now?】
“Uh… yeah. Right, I am.”
Yona answered absentmindedly, looking around.
Her last memory was of the encampment, but at some point, she and the others were all loaded onto a large cart.
A sturdy-looking iron cage that reflected the moonlight, seemingly made of iron.
“What happened…”
As she looked around, Yona made eye contact with Alec.
And at that moment, the enormous scene flashed through Yona’s mind.
It filling her mouth, it going down her throat, and, and, and—
“…ned…?”
Yona barely finished her sentence and quickly turned her head away from Alec.
Her face was burning hot.
Even though it was a dream, wasn’t it a bit too much to go at it so crazily, like an animal?
She did go at it without restraint because it was a dream, but she never thought that the memory would remain so vividly and haunt her like this.
“Y, Yona. Are you hurt anywhere…?”
Alec’s voice was also trembling unknowingly.
Yona couldn’t bear to look at Alec’s face because of the dream, and Alec also needed a great deal of courage to speak to Yona.
Neither of them could even imagine that they had the same dream, the same illusion.
“No, I’m not. So please take care of the others first… Ah, Alec.”
“R, right.”
As soon as Alec’s reply was heard, a black cat walked out from behind Berbaria.
The black cat, walking out so leisurely, stretched as if it didn’t care whether Yona was looking at it or not.
【I should explain this.】
“What is this?”
As soon as Yona asked, looking at Berbaria, the cat hissed at Yona.
With a rather fierce hiss, Yona looked at the cat again, and the cat said to Yona with a threatening growl.
【I am Catsy! One of the Demon Archdukes and a god who held power near the Katusia River! The god of illusion and water management, what do you mean by ‘what is this’ to me, Catsy! Before being a Saintess, you need to fix your manners!】
“…Hey, snake.”
【…Understand, Saintess. It is rude to ask if all Demon Archdukes are strange except for me.】
“I didn’t say that. But I was going to ask that. Why is everyone like this? Including you.”
Yona said with a frown.
But then, something in Catsy’s words caught her attention, and Yona glared at Catsy with a sideways glance.
“…God of illusion? And, a Demon Archduke?”
【That’s right!】
The feeling that something was amiss was becoming clearer.
Suddenly falling into a dream, and the chaos that ensued—well, it wasn’t really chaos, but anyway—the one who caused this sudden change was this guy.
Yona reached out without hesitation.
It was a good thing.
This insignificant creature that had fearlessly revealed itself.
The saying that curiosity killed the cat must be referring to this very moment.
“Sorcery, Dark Hand.”
A dark red sorcery power bloomed on Yona’s right arm, which was exposed due to the Saintess’s attire.
And at the same time, Yona’s hand grabbed Catsy’s scruff.
【Wha, what are you doing! Let me go right now! I’ll reveal my true form right now… …uh… wh… …at?】
Catsy’s words gradually trailed off and then faded away.
Trying to use his divine power to reveal his true form, Catsy instinctively felt that something was wrong.
To reveal his true form, he needed to use his divine power.
Like Berbaria, Catsy was originally a local deity, and although he had adapted to the demon realm, he still needed divine power to reveal his true form in the human world.
But the moment he was caught by Yona’s hand, he felt that his divine power was blocked. No matter how hard he tried, his divine power didn’t circulate, it was completely blocked and wouldn’t move at all.
【Wh, what did you do… wh, why… my true form…】
Now, Catsy was just a cat dangling from Yona’s hand, held by the scruff of his neck.
Catsy looked at Yona with a look of bewilderment in his golden eyes.
“Don’t be so threatening… you look weak.”
Yona’s orange eyes stared directly at Catsy.
“I don’t know what the sorcery in my hand will do. So confess, cat. Did you cast that pathetic illusion on us?”
Facing the orange, gleaming eyes, Catsy gulped.
‘Wh, where is she merciful? Berbaria, you lied to me…!’
Catsy cursed Berbaria in his mind.
She said the Saintess was merciful, but looking at those eyes, he couldn’t understand where the mercy was.
“I won’t say it again, cat. It’s good that you’re in my hand. You, submit to me. If you don’t want to be brutally killed here like Damian, submit to me.”
Yona’s hand, holding Catsy’s scruff, was still emitting a dark red sorcery power.
The sorcery power, rising like smoke, slowly began to penetrate Catsy’s scruff.
“I killed Damian. From the looks of it, you’re far inferior to Damian, but if you don’t want to die, submit.”
In truth, it was Bigrind who killed him.
But there was no need to add unnecessary words.
Yona stared intently into the golden eyes, holding Catsy by the scruff.
The trembling eyes seemed to reflect Catsy’s state of mind, and the more they did, the more fiercely Yona’s eyes began to glow.
Yona’s gaze, containing the power of both Berbaria and Damian, had long surpassed what Catsy could handle.
Catsy, who was merely a local deity worshipped for water management in the lower reaches of the Katusia River, could not withstand the pressure of Damian, let alone Berbaria.
【Al, alright—! I got it! Just, just let go of this…! It hurts…!】
Catsy didn’t have the courage to use his claws.
Scratching at Yona with his front paws as if to scratch her, Catsy finally declared his submission to Yona.
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“Sorcery, Saintess’s Domain.”
With a small murmur, the surroundings were surrounded by a black curtain.
Alevian had already blocked the perception of those around them, but Yona deployed the Saintess’s Domain within it to block perception once again.
“So, what did those lizards ask you to do?”
【Ugh, it hurts… it hurts…】
Sitting on Berbaria’s lap in the form of Rubina, Catsy grumbled as he scratched the back of his neck with his hind leg.
And to Catsy, Yona raised her hand as if to hit him and scolded him.
“Are you not going to answer?”
【I, I will! So, so…! Th, they asked me to cause a flood up to the front of the imperial palace…!】
“You can do that?”
No matter how you look at it, it’s just a cat.
In Yona’s world, the world she can no longer return to, cats are considered to be mystical creatures.
She could understand that a mystical creature could manipulate illusions, but flooding was beyond that scope.
【Didn’t I say I’m the god of illusion and water management… What do you think I am…】
“What do I think you are? I think you’re a cat.”
【…Anyway, that’s what they asked me to do. I was going to cooperate with Berbaria anyway, so I wasn’t going to do it… but…】
“But what?”
【If I knew the Saintess was this violent, I wouldn’t have cooperated!】
“You haven’t been hit enough yet.”
If she had to choose, Yona prefers dogs to cats.
Now that a cat has appeared, she was even thinking that the next Grand Duke might be a dog.
Catsy was already doing something she disliked, and now he was being even more annoying.
【Do, don’t hit me! I helped you wake up from that illusion! If I hadn’t woken you up, you would never have woken up!】
Catsy was startled and hid behind Berbaria, only peeking his head out.
【Besides, it’s not like the Saintess would have minded not waking up anyway! I saw that illusion too! I’ve never seen a human mate for three days—】
“Snake, get out of the way!”
【Sa, save meeeeeeee———!!!】
The commotion continued for quite a while.
In the end, Catsy was caught by the scruff of his neck again, and only after he nodded to Yona’s threat that she would twist his neck if he told anyone else about it, they were finally able to move on to the next topic.