Chapter 290: Black Cat and White Cat (4)

Chapter 290: Black Cat and
White Cat (4)

TLN:
This chapter is rated R18.

This
is not the surface of the mental world, but the center.

Since
Serif recognized them more clearly, the voices and actions of the
people were clearly transmitted.

Is
that why?

That
voice is strangely annoying.

“Serif.
Oh, please. Ah—”

I,
standing next to Serif, handed Serif a cookie cut into bite-size
pieces.

Serif,
who was looking at it with sparkling eyes, eventually coughed in vain
to save face.

“Huh,
huh. Balkan. A man putting a cookie in a woman’s mouth outdoors,
this is so manly—”

“Ah—”

“Ah,
ahh…”

-Yum.

Serif’s
expression, savoring the cookie I handed her in my hallucination,
spread happily.

Looking
at it, I felt a stuffy and unpleasant feeling welling up inside me
for some reason.

It
must be me too, but Serif’s smile turned to another man, so I
didn’t feel so good.

“That
guy. I think she wanted to do that with you too.”

Idelbert,
who was looking at me like a friendly noble lady and her butler,
poked my ribs and snorted.

I
couldn’t respond because of my complicated emotions, so I looked at
them silently, but this time, Idelbert in my hallucination moved.

“Little
sister. Eat mine. Mine.”

“Ugh,
big sister, if you force it in your mouth— um…”

Idelbert
in the hallucination, who was glaring at me giving Serif a cookie,
forced the cookie into Serif’s mouth.

In
the end, Serif, whose mouth was swollen like a hamster’s, barely
swallowed the cookie while drinking black tea.

“……”

The
real Idelbert, who had been giggling and teasing me, had a stiff
expression.

“That
bitch…”

“Do
you understand how I feel now?”

Idelbert,
who had cursed at herself, nodded immediately.

“I’m
sorry for teasing you. I just want to kill her. Roughly hitting
Serif’s cheek like that…I’ve never done that before…”

Idelbert,
who was gnashing his teeth with a cold expression, glanced at me.

“Disciple.
If we kill that guy, won’t Serif come out of the hallucination?”

“This
is a mixed mental world with hallucinations, so it’s difficult. If
it was the one who caused the hallucination, it would be possible,
but she’s already dead, and if we touch her rashly, it could get
worse.”

“Then
what do we do now?”

“We
have to wait. We have time to persuade Serif when she’s alone.”

-Hahaha.
Hohoho.

A
small laugh can be heard through the warm wind.

Under
the peaceful and warm sunlight, I, Idelbert, and Serif were happily
laughing together while drinking tea and chatting.

I
was convinced when I saw that sight.

‘Serif,
she stayed here of her own accord.’

Even
though they were on bad terms on the outside, she could face her
sister, who had feelings of love and hate inside, and laugh happily
without any worries.

The
man who had always tried to take care of her and protect her was also
by her side, escorting her.

This
place was no different from a paradise on earth where Serif could
achieve everything she wanted.

How
should I get her out of a hallucination that could not be realized in
reality?

‘I
just need to give her a huge shock that would crack her sweet
hallucination.’

A
happy shock that only an incubus could give, something that Serif, a
pure and innocent priestess, could never think of even in her
hallucination.

In
order to do that, we had to wait for Serif to be alone.

***

“…Stubborn.
How long are you going to stick around?”

Idelbert
grumbled in an irritated voice as she watched herself and Serif
flirting in her hallucination.

It
was understandable.

Even
though the sun had set and the moon had begun to rise, the two
hallucinations and Serif were moving together.

We
had been following them while trying our best to hide our presence,
but when our patience was reaching its limit, we finally had a
chance.

“Good
night. Sister.”

“Huh.
Good night. My little sister.”

The
two sisters who had finished showering together in the temple
purification room waved at each other and parted ways.

The
two women, who had parted ways with the hallucinations of me who had
washed separately, went into each other’s rooms.

We
stood on the support made with ice magic under the window outside
Serif’s room on the upper floor of the temple building and watched
Serif enter the room.

If
it were real, we would have been caught by the guards long ago, but
except for a few, the characters in the image, who were not depicted
in such detail, did not react to this.

“Haa…”

Serif,
who had entered the room, looked up into the empty space and sighed.

A
moment ago, when she was with Idelbert in the hallucination, she had
a pure smile like a child, but now it was closer to a forced smile
that was bitter and self-deprecating.

Even
the candles that dyed the room a soft crimson did not illuminate the
dark depths hidden beneath Serif’s expression.

When
Serif, who had been leaning against the door and bowing her head for
a long time, carefully raised her head his eyes met mine as I opened
the window and tried to go in.

“Eh—”

When
Serif’s mouth was about to open wide after going through stiffness,
confusion, and doubt, I quickly ran out and covered Serif’s mouth
as he tried to scream.

“Uuuup—
Uuuup?!”

Now
that I’ve reached level 51, I’m far superior to Serif in terms of
simple physical abilities.

Serif,
who was quickly taken by me, struggled in my arms with a bright red
face.

“Quiet,
please be quiet, Serif. It’s me. It’s Balkan.”

I
carefully whispered into her pure white cat ear and Serif, who was
struggling in a panic nodded while trembling.

I
finally confirmed that she had calmed down before I removed my hand
that was covering her mouth.

Tseuuup—

The
thin saliva on my thick palm stretched out.

I
wondered for a moment what kind of reaction she would show if I
licked it, and Serif turned around to face me and asked.

“B-Balkan…?
Why are you in my room at this late hour…?”

“I
came to wake up Serif-sama who is sleeping.”

“……I,
I am awake right now? I appreciate you waking me up, but tomorrow
morning—”

“There
is no tomorrow in an illusion, Serif-sama.”

Serif,
who had been trying to continue the conversation with an artificial
smile on his face at her calm answer, froze like a stone again.

Eventually,
she smiled awkwardly, having roughly figured out the situation.

“…How
many days have passed outside?”

“A
little over a week.”

“A
week… That’s slow. It’s already been a month here. … Would
you like to sit down for a moment?”

There
was no proper space to sit in the bedroom. She approached the fluffy
bed and tapped the spot next to her, so I plopped down on the edge of
the bed.

“It’s
fluffy.”

“Isn’t
it amazing? The sensations you feel here are so real. When you sit on
the bed or sofa, it wraps your body warmly, and when you eat food,
the sweetness and saltiness you feel on your tongue are exactly the
same as in reality.”

“That’s
why you enjoyed the snacks so much.”

“Ugh…
That, that’s when you were watching?”

“I
needed time to talk to Serif. The three of us, including me and
Master in the hallucination, were talking like that, but there was no
room at all.”

“Ugh,
I’m sorry…”

“It’s
okay. We can finally talk like this again.”

Serif
smiled slightly at my words, then carefully asked while tapping her
fingertips.

“Diana,
Idelbert…Are they okay?”

“Thanks
to the mental barrier Serif put on us at the end, we’re all safe.
If it weren’t for that, we would have been in danger.”

“Is
that so…… Thank goodness.”

I
said to Serif, who was mumbling in a voice so small that it was
barely audible to her ear.

“Now,
Serif, you just need to wake up.”

“……”

Serif
remained silent at that question.

Serif,
unable to even smile awkwardly, stared into space with a gloomy
expression of self-loathing.

“At
first, I ignored it.”

She
told the story of how she had fallen into this hallucination for a
month.

“Who
wouldn’t know that it was a hallucination when fighting such an
enemy? Of course I knew. However, that bad hallucination could be
seen even with my eyes closed and heard even with my ears closed.
That’s when I realized, ‘Ah, this is a hallucination that needs
to be confronted head-on and shattered.’”

Serif
glared at the hallucination caused by the envy worshiper, determined
to fight it.

What
Serif saw before her eyes, burning with such determination.

“…My
sister, Idelbert. She held my hand and left, smiling brightly with a
smile that I would never see again.”

Serif
was thoroughly dragged along by the unexpected shock, the
hallucination that had more power than she had expected.

They
ate breakfast together, worked together, had lunch and dinner
together, showered together, and fell asleep like that.

The
next day came to Serif, who could neither accept nor push away the
hallucination.

Today
was exactly like yesterday but it was definitely, subtly different.

The
next day came, and the day after that, without realizing that subtle
difference…It was only after three days that Serif realized.

This
hallucination was slowly taking over her.

An
unrealistic presence added to her peaceful day, her peaceful daily
life.

The
relationship with her sister, which she thought she would never be
able to return to the past, was now shackling Serif’s ankles and
stretching.

“…I
didn’t know. I had been hoping for such a hallucination.”

Serif
had called her sister a detestable traitor on the outside, but I knew
what Serif had in mind.

How
much she once trusted, followed, and relied on her sister.

The
longing for her only family since childhood still lingered in Serif’s
subconscious.

Serif
fell into the hallucination so helplessly.

The
hallucination added another character as if it would drown her in the
deep sea, and it was two weeks ago that I appeared in Serif’s
hallucination.

The
Paladin version of me that appeared to her, who was already in danger
just from the presence of Idelbert, was no different from checkmate.

“……I’m
sorry.”

Serif,
who had told her the whole story, covered her face with her hand and
bowed her head.

“I
know that these hallucinations are meaningless, I know that I
shouldn’t be doing this…! I can’t, I can’t … I can’t get
out of this hallucination.”

Hallucinations
are like mudflats. If you stay in one place for too long, even if you
try to move with the will to get out, you’ll end up buried in the
pearl.

Serif
was already completely immersed in the pearl of hallucination.

“You’re
being a jerk.”

Boom!
Idelbert threw open the glass window and came into Serif’s room
with a shit-eating expression.

“… Huh?”

“I
still haven’t gotten over my habit of only spewing out depressing
words when I blame myself.……little sister.”

Idelbert
clicked her tongue and looked at Serif, who was frozen by her
unexpected appearance.

She
tried to control the corners of her mouth that were about to go up,
so she kept slurring her words, but perhaps because of her good face
and body, she looked quite charismatic.

“… Uh…
“Huh, Idelbert?”

Idelbert’s
black cat’s tail drooped slightly when she saw Serif calling her by
her name instead of her sister, even though she called her younger
sister.

Regardless,
Serif’s eyes turned to me.

“No
way…”

“Yes.
I brought her with me.”

“Tsk—”

This
meant that Idelbert had also seen the morning tea party.

Serif’s
face instantly turned red as he recalled singing “Unnie” to
Idelbert in the hallucination.

I
looked at Serif like that and poked Idelbert’s side with my elbow.

“Master.”

“Tsk…I
was going to say something. Now.”

Idelbert,
who had been awkwardly confronting Serif with an awkward face,
scratched the back of her head and eventually bowed to Serif.

“I’m
sorry. Little sister.”

“Wh-what…?!”

Serif,
who was startled by the sudden action, stood up, and Idelbert spoke
with her head still bowed.

“I
thought you were my one and only family in the world, and I thought I
should protect you as my older sister at all times. However…I
didn’t think about how much the things I did because I thought they
would help you would actually hurt you.”

“……”

“I’ll
tell you everything. The things you’re curious about, the things
I’ve experienced, everything. I’ll tell you everything. So.”

-Knock.

“…Me,
again.”

Idelbert,
who had been clenching her fists and thinking for a while, extended a
hand of reconciliation to Serif.

“Can
you call me older sister?”

“……”

Serif
stared at her older sister, who had bowed her head to her, with her
lips tightly shut for a long time, and then carefully opened her
mouth.

“I…still
don’t know.”

At
those words, Idelbert trembled, but she still did not withdraw his
hand of reconciliation.

“I
have some guesses, but there are many things I don’t know exactly
because I have never heard the clear truth from anyone. Why did you
do that? Why did you abandon me and leave…?”

The
younger sister’s hand carefully held the older sister’s hand that
was asking for an apology. After a while.

“Tell
me. Tell me everything without leaving anything out. Things I didn’t
know. And…”

Another
hand that landed on the hand that was being held, covered it as one.

“……Things
that you, my sister, knew.”

Idelbert
hugged Serif, who smiled vaguely as if she didn’t know what
expression to make.

***

The
two sat on the bed in the hallucination and had a long conversation.

I
smiled happily as I watched the two sisters talking about the things
they had experienced.

The
greatest deficiency that Serif felt while watching this hallucination
was gradually recovering through conversations with her real sister.

This
was soon evidence that Serif was able to overcome the hallucination
on her own, but…

“…Why
won’t I come out of the hallucination?”

Serif
looked down at her hand with a puzzled face.

“Come
to think of it…Little sister, didn’t you say that while you were
watching my hallucination, my disciple’s hallucination appeared?”

“Uh,
yeah…Uh, uh, Sister…”

The
two, still awkward with the old title, nodded while looking at each
other.

I
also felt strange about that.

“Is
that so? The Envy Worshiper is already dead, so why is the
hallucination happening again?”

“That’s
right. I caught all of her remnants and put them in prison…”

“……”

At
the question I and Idelbert expressed, Serif remained silent, as if
she had remembered something that pricked her conscience.

“Do
you have any idea, Serif?”

“Ugh,
uh, net?! Oh, no— neeeet…”

Serif’s
lips, which were clearly about to say no, suddenly changed their
subject.

At
that sight, I remembered Serif’s oath to me a while ago that she
would never lie to me again for the rest of her life.

“Serif.
Do you know something?”

“…Ugh,
uh…neeeet…”

As
I approached Serif, who was sitting on the bed, and asked, she
collapsed on the bed, desperately avoiding my gaze, but unable to
tell a lie, she nodded her head.

“If
it’s something that’s really hard to talk about, you don’t have
to tell me, but it’s not good to be in this illusion any longer.
There’s a limit to how much help we can give you…”

“…T,
then… uh, uh, can I tell you first…?”

Serif
asked, looking at me with a face filled with extreme shame and guilt.

It’s
not like we’ve gotten that close already, and it seemed like it was
something that would be difficult to tell me directly.

I
suppressed the resentment that was welling up inside me and nodded as
if I understood.

“Okay………Since
that day…”

While
listening to the two sisters’ faint whispers from time to time,
Idelbert finally heard Serif’s words and nodded and gestured to me.

“Disciple.”

“Yes,
Master.”

“We’ll
go as planned.”

“Suddenly?”

If
Serif is struggling and can’t wake up from the hallucination, I can
force Serif out of the hallucination with pure rape pleasure sex.

However,
since Idelbert was ready to apologize, it seemed like I could wake
Serif up through conversation, and she even succeeded…Why do I have
to go back to the original plan?

“My
younger sister was in a hallucination, but she was calmly remembering
the memories of masturbating, and the next day, you in the
hallucination started seducing her.”

“Huh,
sis—?! I, I didn’t say something so vulgar— huh…”

Serif,
who faced me, swallowed with a bright red face.

-Thump.

The
moment I saw that face full of shame, I was naturally drawn to Serif.

“Ugh.
Ba, Balkan-sama…? I, I mean, uh, uh…”

As
I continued to approach Serif who was sitting on the bed, she
eventually looked up at me as she lay down on the bed.

“…Ugh…!”

We
stared at each other like that.

Fluffy
cat ears and tail.

Pure
white hair flowing down from underneath.

Unlike
her usual neat priest’s uniform, she was wearing only a white shirt
and panties as she was about to fall asleep after showering.

I
was filled with Serif’s eyes as she gradually resolved the
misunderstanding with her older sister and let go of the tension in
her heart.

Unable
to bear the awkwardness and shame of the situation, Serif
occasionally glanced in the direction of Idelbert, but her older
sister was already in the dark.

“If
you’re going to give my sister her first experience, do it
properly.”

-Kkuuk.

She
sat down next to Serif and grabbed my arm, forcibly moving my arm and
lifting Serif’s outer garment.

“…Hippup…!”

A
small hiccup sound rang out loud.